Nine Hundred and Thirty-Two. Lin Husheng's Doubts

Although "Mad Max: Fury Road" cannot be said to be perfect, it is indeed difficult to surpass.

This point, the Mina Group and Matsumoto Universal, don't you know? Of course they do.

But they still want to make this movie into a series.

It is impossible to surpass, but they are still very sure of making money.

After all, the first Mad Max: Fury Road was such a success.

And Wang Yifan didn't want to make a sequel, and they weren't too surprised, because many directors are like this, and most directors don't want to make a sequel, especially when the first film is extremely successful, unless they are really at the end of their rope, or It's really short of money, otherwise, most of the time, I wouldn't be making sequels to my own series of movies.

However, they also know that if they want to serialize "Mad Max Fury Road", it is impossible for them not to bleed a lot.

You know, although "Mad Max: Fury Road" has only been released for less than two weeks, the box office performance has caused those box office forecasting agencies to change their forecasts repeatedly.

After the first weekend, in the next four working days, although the box office of "Mad Max: Fury Road" will inevitably drop, the box office drop is very healthy, with a drop of less than 50%. On weekdays, it reported a receipt of 13.2 million, and in four working days, it got 56.68 million US dollars. The North American box office easily crossed the threshold of 100 million US dollars, reaching as much as 136.74 million US dollars.

At the same time, although "Mad Max: Fury Road" was not released in Huaguo, the second largest market in the world, the film was released in Europe, Asia and other regions successively, and its performance was even better than that in North America. The popularity of the show, the overseas box office was released for a full week, the box office surpassed the North American box office and won a box office of 180 million US dollars, pushing the total box office directly past the 300 million US dollar mark!

And that's only the first week.

The previous agency predicted that the North American box office of "Mad Max: Fury Road" should be around 250 million, but now, obviously, 250 million is definitely not the limit of this movie.

Sure enough, the following second weekend.

"Mad Max: Fury Road" was almost crushed due to the overwhelming reputation of the audience, the excellent publicity, and the movies of the same period. It can be said that there is no movie that can fight, so " Even if "Mad Max: Fury Road" is an R-rated movie, even if it's not a family movie, the drop in the next weekend surprised countless people.

In the three days of the next weekend, "Mad Max: Fury Road" actually won a box office of 58.66 million, a decrease of less than 40% compared with the first weekend of the same period!

The North American box office of "Mad Max: Fury Road", which was released in North America for ten days, is close to the 200 million mark!

In terms of the global box office, it also performed quite well. In Europe and Asia, it is almost the local box office champion, and this is actually created by an R-rated film.

It was released around the world for ten days, and the total box office reached more than 450 million.

It made many people jealous!

This is also the reason why Matsumoto Universal and the Mina Group are eager to serialize this movie!

Because, it is too much money!

And the most important thing is that this movie not only has a strong box office, but also has a strong sales of peripherals.

Wang Yifan has no interest in the sequel, and even intends to directly transfer the copyright of the sequel.

But Lin Husheng couldn't sit still on the domestic side.

In his opinion, Wang Yifan is completely surrendering the chicken that can lay golden eggs to others.

Where can this work? Therefore, Lin Husheng flew to North America in a hurry, hoping to avoid talking with Wang Yifan, and at least put an end to Wang Yifan's idea of ​​selling the series copyright of "Mad Max: Fury Road".

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Wang Yifan also bought a manor here in North America, which is not a top-notch manor. After all, it is impossible for Wang Yifan to stay here for a long time.

Moreover, to be honest, Wang Yifan is quite uncomfortable with the habits of the people on Laomei's side.

As soon as Lin Husheng got off the plane, he ran non-stop to see Wang Yifan.

"Yifan, what do you think? The first part of "Mad Max: Fury Road" was such a hit, the second part is definitely a sure-fire deal. Is it necessary to give up this series?" Lin Husheng was really puzzled.

Especially now that "Mad Max: Fury Road" is not only a hit in North America, but also a hit in word-of-mouth, and it is also a hit in the world at the same time. Serialization of such a movie is definitely a chicken that lays golden eggs properly. A gold mine, he really couldn't understand why Wang Yifan didn't like it?

"Come, drink tea." Wang Yifan poured a cup of tea for Lin Husheng calmly.

Well, in fact, there are servants in the manor. In North America, many of them are used to being served by others, but to be honest, Wang Yifan is not used to it.

Although there are nannies in China, most of the time, nannies do things such as renting a house and cleaning.

For things like making tea, Wang Yifan thought it would be more interesting to do it by himself.

Seeing Wang Yifan like this, Lin Husheng had no choice but to take a sip of tea before continuing to ask, "What are you thinking?"

Wang Yifan smiled and said, "Director Lin, what do you think of "Mad Max: Fury Road"?"

Lin Husheng was stunned for a moment and said: "Absolute! This is well-known, this movie is awesome!"

Wang Yifan smiled and said, "Then do you think it is possible for the second part to surpass the first one?"

Lin Husheng pondered for a moment and shook his head, "It's unlikely, but even so, it doesn't prevent the second film from making money. With the first film as a base, the box office of the second film will not be bad, right?"

However, Wang Yifan shook his head and said, "That's not necessarily the case. It's not like there are no series of movies hitting the street."

"Of course, the main thing is that the loss outweighs the gain. First of all, the story of the first film "Mad Max: Fury Road" has actually been finished. How to continue this story with the second film? According to Mina Group and Matsumoto Universal It means to continue telling Firosha's story. After all, Firosha is the most popular character in this movie.

But, have you ever thought that in the first part, Ferosa has already achieved the ultimate, how can the second part break through? If you can't break through, can this character still be so popular? Afraid it will backfire? "

Lin Husheng nodded, then shook his head and said, "Even if that's the case, at least two movies can be made, right?"

Wang Yifan was noncommittal, poured another cup of tea, took a sip and said, "Yes, at least two movies can be made, that's right, even if the second movie's reputation is rotten, the box office shouldn't be too bad."

"Then why..." Lin Husheng didn't understand, really didn't understand.