Chapter 523 Three Billion US Dollars

When Jiang Heng was directing the filming of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", his new film was being screened in the global film market and achieved impressive results.

In the mainland market, after the film was released, it broke many box office records, including the first day box office, single-day box office, fastest to break 1 billion, fastest to break 2 billion, and fastest to break 3 billion.

As of a full month after the film was released, the box office in the mainland market had reached 3.89 billion yuan.

In order to hit the 4 billion box office mark, the film's secret key was extended for one month, and the box office results continued to grow.

In Hong Kong, this kind of Western-style science fiction theme is already popular, and it is Jiang Heng's special effects blockbuster, so the results will naturally explode, and the next drawing will be reported at 130 million Hong Kong dollars.

In Taiwan, the film's performance is also higher than Jiang Heng's mythological films.

In Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, the box office results have all broken the historical records of Jiang Heng's directed films in the local area.

How to say it, science fiction themes and special effects scenes are one aspect.

More importantly, the story of possessing "hyperspace travel" technology and using advanced technology to plunder alien civilizations is a relatively cool story for the people of most countries on Earth.

Although the film only shows "exploration" and "confirmation" and does not expand the narrative later, the audience can imagine it!

Especially some small countries that are aware of their strong "military power" really think that it is very "feasible" to break out of the earth through "hyperspace travel" technology and occupy a planet with firearms or cold weapons civilization.

So this movie is very rare to sell well in South Asia, the Middle East and other places, which was impossible in the past.

In Europe and North America, it has set off a movie-watching frenzy.

The bottom line is that in recent decades, countries around the world have begun to solidify their classes, and the entire society lacks upward channels.

Although the story of "Alien Divergence" is fictional, it is like a cool novel, which makes the audience feel happy and has a little more thoughts.

In the North American market, the film finally closed at $649 million, exceeding the 2012 "Avengers", lower than the $760 million "Avatar" in 2009, and lower than the $658 million "Titanic" in 1997.

Even so, such a result shocked the entire Hollywood.

Because according to the box office results that have been released so far, the global box office of the film has exceeded 3 billion US dollars.

It is just that many countries have not yet been released, and its final box office results cannot be determined, but the overall situation has been determined.

In Hollywood, many media newspapers have published articles, some praising Jiang Heng's new film for its groundbreaking nature, or creating a movie universe comparable to "Avengers".

Some have criticized it, believing that it is just that the original novel of "Alien Path" has a good setting and outstanding special effects.

As for the story level, it is really not well written.

The simplest question is, how big is the area of ​​Panda Country on the entire earth, and how big is the territory and control range of the United States? Why do aliens want to land in Panda Country?

He landed in Europe, Japan, South America and other countries and regions, and in the end, it was the U.S. army that dealt with the matter, right?

And the U.S. has more experience in dealing with aliens. How many times have they fought in so many film and television works?

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Once such a report came out, it really reminded a group of Hollywood film industry giants.

We can remake it, write that a Roxolan people landed in North America, Europe or Japan, and finally the U.S. army captured them, and then, after mastering the "hyperspace jump" technology, they killed them on alien planets.

Jiang Heng's film is very subtle, and there is no interstellar colonization plot, but we can, maybe the audience will like it more!

The only regret is that the film and television adaptation rights of "Alien Path" were bought out by Jiang Heng for a large sum of money.

The only way left for them is to pay money to obtain the remake authorization from Jiang Heng, or directly infringe on the rights and sue in the future.

Another way is to borrow the setting of "hyperspace jump" technology and make up a brand new story.

The bosses and executives of several major Hollywood film companies were so envious that their eyes turned red. With a box office of more than 3 billion US dollars, who wouldn't envy it!

The current situation is that everyone is showing their magical powers.

Columbia Pictures took the first action. CEO Sanford Panitch flew directly to Beijing to meet with Jiang Heng.

"Hi, my old friend, congratulations on becoming the first person in the world to have a global box office of over 3 billion US dollars for a single film!"

Sanford Panitch seemed very enthusiastic. When he saw Jiang Heng, he opened his hands and gave him a hug.

"Thank you, I guess this is my luck!"

Jiang Heng smiled and said politely, then asked Sanford Panitch to sit down and asked him why he came.

"Old friend, I think this story has great potential in the future, and I want to develop it with you!"

"Develop it together?"

"Yes, to be precise, it's a remake, just like the remake of "Infernal Affairs"!"

"You mean, you want to make a movie where alien generals are in the United States, and then...!"

"Yes, I think it is very necessary to make such a movie, because as far as I know, Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Disney, etc. are all recruiting script teams to prepare to "follow the trend" of this movie!"

Sanford Panitch spoke in not very standard Chinese. After thinking for a while, he said, "Yes, it's just following the trend, just like your once glorious Hong Kong movies. When a movie is very popular, a group of followers will come out immediately!"

Jiang Heng couldn't help but frown when he heard this. Follow the trend? This is really difficult!

After all, those big companies all have professional screenwriter teams, and they will definitely avoid risks to the greatest extent in terms of scripts.

Even if Jiang Heng wants to sue in the future, it will be difficult to sue.

And the North American lawyer team is also notoriously expensive.

After a lawsuit, both the plaintiff and the defendant lose money, and there are too many cases where the lawyer team gets fat.

Thinking of this, Jiang Heng suddenly pondered: "Since North American film producers can think of this, other countries...!"

There are many other countries that say that at least the special effects of the films in "Brother San" are still good.

Sue them? Forget it...

Jiang Heng really didn't think about these things before. After all, his is a special effects blockbuster. Following the trend is too costly and risky. Companies with weaker strength don't dare to think about this at all.

In other words, the global box office of more than 3 billion US dollars really made the Hollywood giants red-eyed, otherwise this kind of thing would not happen.

Jiang Heng thought about it and finally said, "Well, I'll think about this first and give you an answer tomorrow!"

Sanford Panitch didn't expect to convince Jiang Heng immediately. He smiled and said that he would wait for his good news tomorrow, and then went to Columbia Pictures' headquarters in the mainland.

Jiang Heng called Du Huan, Li Xiaoping and a group of senior executives of the company to discuss this matter together.

Being "followed" by a bunch of Hollywood giants, I have never encountered such a thing! (End of this chapter)