At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 617
New Line is really worthy of Golden Harvest, opening 2280 theaters!
You know, when "Kung Fu" opened in 2503 theaters, the box office revenue of the first weekend was 670 million US dollars, directly setting a record for the lowest box office in 2000+ theaters...

Then, Hollywood no longer trusts Chinese films...

"Fearless" has only 1806 openings, and it is already the largest Chinese-language movie to be released!
"Taken 2" once again refreshed the opening scale, and most importantly, the box office is very good, with a single box office close to 4000 US dollars, and the word of mouth is also very good.

The final North American box office of the first part of "Taken" was 3900 million US dollars, and the global box office was 8400 million US dollars. It failed to beat "Golden Armor" and "Glory of the Tang Dynasty", but beat "Fearless" with a global box office of 7069 million US dollars ...No.3 of the year!

And the DVD is selling very well, with a total revenue of nearly 3600 million US dollars a year in North America...

Uh, no more than "Fearless" - last year, "Fearless" North American DVD rental revenue was 939 million US dollars, and North American DVD sales revenue was 3112 million US dollars.

Last year, the total North American DVD revenue of "Fearless" was US$4051 million.

However, the TV copyright of "Taken" has been sold a lot, and it belongs to the half-sell, half-free, low-price sale-New Line's strategy.

That year, "Rush Hour" was released, and the box office reached 3300 million in the first week. A large part of the reason is that "Who Am I" has been broadcast on North American TV stations for several rounds!
—— Golden Harvest boss Zou Wenhuai's real estate speculation encountered the Asian financial turmoil, and he owed a lot of debts. He sold a batch of more than 160 films produced by Golden Harvest to Warner Bros. in the United States.

Originally, with Jackie Chan's popularity in the past few years, "Who Am I" would definitely be released in North America, but Golden Harvest couldn't wait, so he sold the film's copyrights on North American TV stations and audio-visual products first, which meant that the film could not be released in North America. If it is released in theaters, otherwise, with the quality of "Who Am I", there will be no problem with the North American box office exceeding [-] million.

But it's not all bad. Before "Rush Hour" was released, "Who Am I" was broadcast on American TV three times in two weeks, which played a very effective role in publicity...

This time "Taken 2", New Line adopted this approach!
The effect is... not bad, "Taken 2" won the box office of 2178 million US dollars in the first weekend, in large part because of the promotional effect of "Taken"...

The point is that the audience's word of mouth is very good!
In terms of evaluation, 31458 viewers on IMDb scored 8.0, 11 film critics from Yahoo gave it a C, and 2076 movie fans gave it an A.

First look at the comments of film critics and the media, "full of conspiracy and bad cultural prejudice against Europe", "the plot of the film is so fragile that even if I go out to have a cup of coffee halfway, and ask for an hour to come back and watch the ending, it will not affect me. My understanding of the movie”…

Well, the plot is indeed a bit simple...

After experiencing "Taken", Wu Jing began to teach his younger sister Kung Fu, but the younger sister experienced the incident in Thailand, and she was always worried. Wu Jing simply asked for leave and took her sister to Europe to play, preparing to relax, and then... the Albanian gangsters behind the last incident Kidnapped, so the agent brother dispatched again,

Use the various professional skills you have mastered to start saving your sister, seeing people and killing people, seeing Buddhas and Buddhas along the way...

Well, from beginning to end of the show!

Guante in North America likes this model: "My heart beats fast and my blood is pumping. I haven't seen such an exciting action movie for a long time." "...

Uh, the "Taken" series is probably going to go the old way: earning a lot of praise from the audience, but not very pleasing to the film critics and the media...

However, it did not affect the global sales of "Taken 2" - it was released simultaneously in more than 70 countries and regions around the world, excluding North America, and earned more than 1800 million US dollars;

Among them, the mainland box office is 2900 million yuan, and the Hong Kong box office is 220 million Hong Kong dollars;
It does not account for much of the proportion, and the second-ranked box office in South Korea: 39 moviegoers were mobilized in the first weekend, and it won a box office of 2439 million US dollars;

The United Kingdom and France took home $270 million and $240 million respectively…

Uh... The Hong Kong film market has its own pride. Generally speaking, it is difficult for pure action films to achieve good results in the Hong Kong market...

At least that was the case until 2010!
Anyway, the place where Chinese action movies carry the flag.

Later, no matter the "Taken" series or the "John Wick" series, the Hong Kong box office is very high, even surpassing the local action film "Ip Man 4"...

Uh, that's another story.

However, after "Taken 2" was released, it sold well all over the world - the news that the first week's box office was 4000 million US dollars directly made the entire Hong Kong film and media circles boil!
What does this mean?
Action movies are back!

That is... "Taken 2" starred in the mainland...

——The director of the second part has been replaced by Lu Jianqing, and Zheng Baorui is the producer. He is going to direct "The Secret Service", starring Zhang Jing!
It's okay, the director and action director are from Hong Kong, you can blow it up!
……

"Taken 2" is a global bestseller, and Chinese-language action movies hit a new high! ", "After Jackie Chan and Li Lianlian, another action superstar is born: Wu Jing! "," Golden Harvest Announces: "Taken 3" has been approved! "

Mainland media also reported on "Taken 2" in various ways...

After all, it’s a global hit!
Shen Xudong is still calm...

It is estimated that the global box office of "Taken 2" will exceed [-] million at most...

The box office of action movies drops very quickly, unless it is the kind that is overwhelmed by word of mouth.

没看《尖峰时刻3》、《碟中谍3》开画都是5000美元以上，最终票房一个是1.4亿美元，另一个是1.34亿美元嘛！

Jackie Chan's appeal is not enough to make "Rush Hour 3" exceed 3 million US dollars worldwide. In comparison, the starlight of "Taken 2" is much worse...

Shen Xudong was walking in the park when he received Zhong Lifang's call.

"I'm more concerned about Golden Harvest's current market value!"

"...The stock price has soared by 270%, and the total market value has exceeded 30 billion Hong Kong dollars, and it is still rising..."

Shen Xudong thought for a while, and added: "You inform New Line that the third part will sign the split contract. In addition, they have to pay the advance payment for "Taken 3"..."

Zhong Lifang was stunned for a moment: "I can understand the advance payment... I have already signed the account sharing contract, why do I need to pay the advance payment?"

"...If New Line is willing to pay the US$2500 million advance payment for the third part, we can hand over the overseas distribution of "Taken 3" to New Line. Of course, we need to sign a bill-sharing contract!"

"Would that be too outrageous?"

"How outrageous? "Taken 2", New Line bought out the North American revenue for 1700 million US dollars. Guess how much they made? Tell them that 2500 million US dollars is the cost of making "Taken 3"..."

"Then what if they don't agree?"

"No? Then I'll go to Lions Gate or Fox... Don't worry, they will agree..."

Zhong Lifang asked again: "The production cost of the third film will rise to 2500 million US dollars?"

"Isn't this nonsense, Wu Jing's film salary must be raised to at least 800 million US dollars, the film salary has increased, and the production aspect has to be upgraded every year...I'm still worried that 2500 million US dollars is not enough!"

(End of this chapter)