Chapter 702 The Record-Breaking "Fine Ancient City"
Four of Hollywood's top female stars: Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie and then Cameron Diaz.
They are all big stars with their own masterpieces. Cameron Diaz retired in 14 years, so many people are not aware of her previous magical performances, such as the "Charlie's Angels" series, "Crazy About Mary"...
Her global appeal is very strong. Basically, the movies she stars in have a global box office that is more than twice that of North America...
Julia Roberts is the spokesperson for chick flicks. "Pretty Woman", "My Best Friend's Wedding", "Notting Hill", and "Runaway Bride" are all works that have achieved double success in terms of reputation and box office;
Sandra Bullock ranks first in staying power, but... not many people know her outside the United States, and even fewer would know her if it weren't for the later film "Gravity"!
Angelina Jolie is the most special.
Although she also has representative works, her staying power mainly accounts for the dividends of the Internet explosion.
For a star, attention is power, and getting people's attention to her personal life is her influence. She is indeed not that outstanding as an actor, but she herself is the most influential work.
However, she has been cutting back on production in the later years. From 2010 to 2019, only two movies were released...
But...to be honest, Shen Xudong doesn't like these big stars...
It feels so far away.
And they are all over the age...
Including Julie…
Shaking his head: "Angelina Jolie is more suitable for action movies. I remember Jason said he wanted to make a few action movies. You can talk to him...
"Jason wants to make a few movies that can be released in mainland China. Horror movies are destined to miss the mainland market..."
"...It's not necessary. Wonderful Studio just makes movies that the American people like. Don't consider foreign markets. Global distribution is something that only big studios will think about. Our goal is only the North American market!"
Shen Xudong reiterated again...
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The mainland film market is pretty much what Shen Xudong imagined. After "Kung Fu Panda" was released, it quickly attracted the audience's attention with its strong reputation.
38 million in the first weekend, and within ten days of release, the box office exceeded 100 million!
That's right, the film's box office in its second week reached 68 million, setting the best second-week performance for an imported film this year and becoming the first mainland animated film to have a box office of over 100 million.
According to many media reports: The next suspense is probably whether the box office of "Kung Fu Panda" can exceed 200 million.
It's hard to say whether it will break 200 million, but "20 Again" will definitely not reach 300 million...
No, it should be said that 250 million is too high...
The first week's box office was 73 million, the second week's box office was 88 million, and the third weekend saw "Kung Fu Panda", which reported 48 million in a single week...
In the fourth week, "Kung Fu Panda" was the dominant one, while "20 Again" only received 23 million...
The cumulative box office was 232 million, and then, on July 2, "Hancock" was released!
Starring Will Smith.
Will Smith is at the peak of his career. He can handle the box office of various types of movies, making them hits one after another. Without the need for IP bonus, he can handle top-level original movies just by relying on his own ability to attract money. , although there are street works, there are not many. Before the spread of political correctness, Dai was loved by the whole people as a black actor.
"Independence Day" has more than 800 million US dollars, the "Men in Black" series has more than 1 billion US dollars worldwide, "Rivals" has a global box office of nearly 400 million US dollars, "The Pursuit of Happiness" has a global box office of more than 300 million US dollars, and "I Am Legend" has a global box office of close to 400 million US dollars. 600 million…
Everyone knows the name of Emperor Shi!
If I remember correctly, the global box office of "Hancock" seems to have been US$650 million!
It wasn't until "Back to Earth" that he stretched his hips.
Released simultaneously in China and the United States, "Superman" earned 46 million at the box office in its first week... directly breaking the box office record of "Kung Fu Panda"...
As for "20 Again", less than 10% of the filming was cut...
In addition, high-definition pirated copies have been leaked.
At most, it’s just over 250 million.
In North America, "Superman" was released on Tuesday, July 2, with a box office of over 100 million US dollars in the first six days, surpassing "The Twilight Saga" - the latter's box office in the second week was 58 million US dollars...
Shen Xudong returned to China on July 8th, but something delayed him—several private equity film funds were approaching Fantastic Studio.
Fantastic Studios needs money for new projects—movies are too slow to recoup their money.
From preparation to release, two years is an average cycle, and it also takes half a year to a year to settle and split accounts...
You can’t just sell everything to other companies, right?
This is too much of a disadvantage.
The price was so low that "Twilight" actually wanted to buy out the overseas rights for US$60 million.
Isn’t this nonsense!
And the publisher, Paramount, also wants to invest in the sequel...
Just leave them alone and continue working with Lionsgate.
Finally, an agreement was reached. Ingenious Media invested US$350 million for a five-year period and twenty films, focusing on participating in the development of subsequent films in the "Twilight" series by Fantastic Studio...
Bear more than 30% share...
In addition, Jiahe also invested US$200 million to participate in projects in the next five years, with a proportion of 20%...
Everything was done within five days, and Shen Xudong wanted to see the money arrive...
After all, he knows that the financial crisis is about to break out, and there is no point in making a blank check!
Of course, funds have been injected into Wonderful Studio in batches. Ingenious Media has injected US$100 million in the first batch of funds. The projects of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and "Fake Marriage" have been announced. In addition, there are five horror thrillers, including Wenzi Jen’s “Lurking”…
These things are too important. After all, they are related to the financial future of North America. Therefore, Shen Xudong cannot participate in the mainland premiere of "The Ancient City".
There is no need for him to participate. The first audience of "Jingjue Ancient City" are fans of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"!
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The script of "Jingjue Ancient City" is a traditional three-act play, with beginning, ups and downs, and ending...
The difference is that the beginning part is directly zoomed in. Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang are hunting for treasure in Niuxinshan. In fact, they are robbing tombs. They meet Zongzi and return to the capital to meet up with Da Jinya. From him, they learn that a female Chinese American funded the formation of a team to go there. XJ’s Chinese archaeological team…
Then he went into the desert, experienced a big storm, was trapped in the black desert, looked for water, and discovered the story of a large tomb at the bottom of a well, which attracted foreign tomb robbers...
I specially filmed the battle between the archaeological team and overseas tomb robbers. Of course, the outcome of the battle had nothing to do with wisdom or tactics - they strayed into the outskirts of the ancient city of Jingjue, and the foreigners were bitten to death by fire snakes...
The next forty minutes are all the climax of the ancient city.
Entering the temple, finding the underground river, Queen Jingjue appears...
The entire movie lasts for 120 minutes, and the entire movie is dizzying, with almost no time to breathe.
Apart from some gags in the lines, there was no time left for the audience to urinate.
Gao Fenfen wonders if it might be too compact. After all, good commercial films have slow and urgent rhythms...
But... Shen Xudong thought it was pretty good, but "The Secret of the Dragon" was too slow and made people sleepy.
As for the effect of the movie - it is not inferior to "The Empire of Heaven". The use of special effects, mechanisms, and spectacles makes it obvious at a glance that this is a big production!
Xu Ke burst out with strong enthusiasm.
Xiangshan Film and Television Base cooperated throughout the entire process and built a bunch of wonders...
After the movie was released, the box office in the first three days was 101.4 million!
Directly refreshed all records in mainland film history...