Chapter 2206: Becoming a God (First Update)

Entering July, the summer season officially begins.

The North American market will always be the most important market in the world. Even if for a period of time, its single box office performance will be higher in China than in North America, the overall trend will not change.

As long as Western values ​​dominate the world, North American film and television will be number one in the world, and no one can shake it.

Therefore, even in May and June, Hong Kong's movies frequently hit the box office, but in North America, they still seemed a bit calm.

Even for an amazing movie like "Kill Bill", its performance in North America can only be said to be okay.

Of course, what most movie fans are looking forward to is a movie that they have been waiting for for 3 years.

Movie sequel.

its name is

"Terminator 2"!

This movie started preparations in January last year, started shooting in April, and finished shooting in September. Then it took another 6 months to do special effects. Now it is finally released to everyone.

Of course, it didn't hide until July before appearing in front of people.

As early as April, various promotional posters began.

The cold robot killer whose fingers turned into steel cones, the old robot who was in a state of embarrassment but bravely rescued the protagonist, the smart and energetic young man, the heroic mother who has been imprisoned for many years but never gave up on polishing herself...

These characters all appeared one after another, giving everyone a strong shock.

The most shocking liquid robot form is definitely hidden, and it should only amaze the audience in the movie.

Neither Yin Jun nor Truck Driver would do the act of putting all the exciting scenes in the trailer to trick the audience into watching a bad movie.

But even so, "Terminator 2" is also known as "a must-see movie in 1986."

Tickets for the Friday premiere in North American movie theaters, as well as for the midnight show, were all sold out three days before the release.

To this end, Kirin Cinemas also actively contacted major movie theaters and opened another one at 2 a.m., and the sales rate reached 60%, which is terrifying.

Together with the 7 movie tickets for Saturday the next day, they were also sold in advance, and the overall attendance rate exceeded 70%.

The attendance rate for Sunday's 7 games also reached 60%.

Such three-day pre-sale ticket sales reached a total of 120 million U.S. dollars, far exceeding the previous 82 million first-weekend box office of "Resident Evil" and setting a record for the highest pre-sale of any movie in the past three years.

Many critics also say that this is a great honor, but also a great pressure.

Once "Terminator 2" fails to meet everyone's expectations, or there are no big surprises, I'm afraid its best result will be a single week at the box office.

By then, director and producer James Cameron and screenwriter Yin Jun will be hit hard.

Yin Jun will not lose his title as the world's number one screenwriter, but it is certain that James Cameron will take off his magical veil.

But will The Ultimates 2 be a disappointment?

Definitely not!

Even if James Cameron was a little worried and called to ask about Yin Jun's attitude, Yin Jun told him firmly, "Get your champagne ready, we will definitely succeed!"

Don't laugh at the truck driver's lack of confidence. He's actually never been that confident.

Before filming "Titanic", he had already filmed super blockbusters such as "Terminator 2", "True Lies", and "The Order". He was already a super giant in the field of commercial films, but you see him promoting What was your attitude during "Titanic"? Look at him yelling "I am the king of the world" after winning the Oscar?

Isn't this a great pressure, a feeling of release in an instant?

And even after "Titanic", he produced "Avatar", who was the one who led the team to promote it all over the world for six months?

He’s not a small director, but James Cameron, the director who holds the world’s number one commercial film box office record! !

So you can tell from the subsequent performance that James Cameron doesn't have much confidence now.

If the pre-sale box office was not so good, he would not be so nervous, but the pre-sale box office reached 120 million US dollars, which really put him under great pressure.

Even with Yin Jun's affirmation, he just felt better.

However, no matter how much you resist, the test will still come.

Sitting in the cinema at the premiere, James Cameron carefully watched a movie he directed.

Just looking at it, he was already immersed in it, and slowly, his mind relaxed.

Even I think it looks good, so they should still accept it, right?

Cameron, who was immersed in the world of the movie and ignored the constant exclamations and applause during the movie, finally gained a little confidence after watching the audience's screams and thumbs up after the movie.

And in fact, just as Cameron thought, the audience liked it very much and bought it very much.

They were all shocked and conquered by the special effects technology when they saw the liquid robot that seemed to be invincible, and the villain in the first episode who actually became the savior of mankind in this episode.

Later, when watching the robot played by Schwarzenegger actively destroying everything in order to eliminate his own existence, everyone was moved to tears again.

Cameron and Michael Bay are both super directors of commercial action movies. Why can Cameron be immortal, but Michael Bay can only be regarded as a master?

The reason lies in this aspect.

In Cameron's movies, you can always discover the tenderest human emotions and touches in the fierce fighting and action, so that you will never think that you are just watching an action movie.

Michael Bay is different. You will scream and cheer when watching his movie, but after watching it, you will not want to watch it a second time, nor will you recall how many scenes there are.

The difference between the two can be seen directly.

With a great reputation on the first day, "Terminator 2", which was released simultaneously around the world during its first weekend, exploded the box office like crazy, reaching a staggering US$270 million!

Among them, the remaining seats in North American movie theaters have further increased their attendance, and the final closing price was US$170 million.

Although this is due to the high ticket price of the IMAX screen, the fact that this movie is so popular still surprises many people.

The best results for Hollywood sequel movies are usually to be on par with the first episode, or to drop by about 20%.

Being able to surpass the first one by such a large margin, "Terminator 2" can be regarded as a sudden rise!

In the following second week, "Terminator 2" once again grossed US$230 million, reaching a box office of US$500 million in two weeks.

It is conceivable that it will definitely become one of the movies in the $1 billion club again.

Cameron relied on this movie to become a god in one battle.

Yin Jun was not surprised at all that he had such results.

Even Ye Linqinwa didn't feel that shocked.

The script was written by Yin Jun, and Cameron was just the executor. At least half of the credit goes to Yin Jun!

So after briefly reporting on the box office situation in the second week, Yelinqinwa calmly talked about the second thing, "Fei Xiang's opera in the UK has ended, and Bruckheimer wants to work with him again." What do you think about cooperating in a movie?"

Bruckheimer and Fei Xiang collaborated on "Top Gun". This movie brought both fame and fortune, and also gained Haix's great favor, which made him like Fei Xiang very much.

It’s just that Fei Xiang is an actor with great character.

After he starred in "Top Gun", he went to England and starred in the opera "Hamlet". In about a year, he toured 62 shows around the world and received great acclaim.

Fei Xiang's overall income from this opera is less than 1 million pounds, which is about 1.5 million US dollars - this is the highest in the entire crew.

But this number is less than one-third of the various income and dividends of "Top Gun".

This is such a waste of Fei Xiang’s talent!

Therefore, as soon as Fei Xiang finished his opera performance, Bruckheimer came to find him.

Fei Xiang and Yin Jun had an agreement that if he made a movie, he would have one year to do what he wanted to do.

Now that he has taken a break for a year and a half, it's time for him to appear in the movie!

Of course, the reason why Bruckheimer approached Yin Jun was not only to seize Fei Xiang's schedule, but more importantly, he also wanted Yin Jun to give Fei Xiang a good script.

Listening to Ye Linqinwa's words, Yin Jun also smiled and nodded. He searched in the huge safe in his office for a while and took out a script.

"Give this to Bruckheimer!" the young man said to Ye Linqinwa.

Ye Linqinwa took it and saw the name "John Wick" written on it.

She didn't know much about movie scripts, but she knew that as long as it was a script produced by Yin Jun, it would be good.

Fei Xiang is the first international superstar promoted by Yin Jun. He became famous all over the world with "Speed".

Naturally, Yin Jun won't treat him badly because he is such a one of his own, so this script must be a good one.

Ye Linqinwa was not wrong.

"John Wick" is a very good script.

It is actually a comeback for Keanu Reeves.

After Keanu Reeves filmed "The Matrix", he let himself go all the way. He was not interested in mainstream commercial movies at all, and he only took on those literary films.

But here, he still took over the filming of this low-cost production of "John Wick", and it was welcomed by the audience.

Not only was the first part amazing, but the second part also achieved breakthroughs in both box office and word-of-mouth.

In the video tape and DVD market, it is making a lot of money.

Thus, Keanu Reeves has re-entered the ranks of the world's leading action stars.

Fei Xiang, who is only in his twenties now, will undoubtedly continue to consolidate his status as a world superstar if he has a movie like this!