The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 437 Global Box Office [-] Million
The box office growth period of "Taken 2" is mainly in the first two weeks. The box office in the mainland is 700 million in the first week, and [-] million in the second week. The two weeks add up to [-] billion, almost [-] million. .

In the third week, the box office is not so good. Most passers-by movie fans have seen it, and the new movie is released.

On Valentine's Day, February 2th, there are three romantic films released in Hong Kong Island in the Mainland, namely "Introduction to Architecture", "Affordable Love", and "Love Borderline".

Among them, "Introduction to Architecture" is a film co-produced by Lee Sing Yew and Chai Zhiping, with Hu Ge and Guo Biting as the leading actors.

"Affordable" is a co-produced film in Mainland Hong Kong Island, with Chen Bolin and Leung Wing-ki as the leading actors.

"International Line of Love" is a Chinese-foreign co-production film, which invited Hollywood actress Vanessa Blanche and Dong Yanlin as the leading actor.

Vanessa can only be said to be a third-rate actor in Hollywood. She has a cameo in "Pirates of the Caribbean", and her more famous role is Karen in "Lost".

These three movies are all aimed at the Valentine's Day schedule.

With its excellent and solid story, "Introduction to Architecture" undoubtedly exploded.

If "Architectural Probability" hadn't been released, maybe "Taken 2" could make more money at the box office.

But it doesn't matter, in Li Shengyao's mind, it is not bad to have 2 million in "Taken [-]" in the mainland.

Similarly, "Taken 2" in the beautiful country also harvested the box office in the first two weeks.

It got 700 million in the first week, and dropped to 6000 million and [-] million in the second week. The current total box office in North America is [-] million US dollars.

It will be more difficult later, the main reason is that the new film will be released in February.

During this period of time, films such as "Star Wars Fandom", "Friday the 13th", "Aliens Upstairs", "The Werewolf", "International/Organization" and so on have been released.

Under such circumstances, it should be difficult for the follow-up "Taken 2" to get a high box office.

Of course, such a result was enough to satisfy Li Shengyao.

In his previous life, the North American box office of "Taken 2" was 1000 million, but now he might be able to make [-] million more dollars.

Both Cheng Long and Warner were very satisfied with the result, and they kept calling Li Shengyao to urge Li Shengyao to go to the beautiful country, celebrate together, and discuss the future cooperation by the way.

At the same time, the Oscar side also invited Lee Sung Yew to participate, as the award presenter of the evening.

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Just after Valentine's Day, Li Shengyao left Yanjing for the beautiful country.

Originally agreed with Chen Xun to stay with her for these two months, but Chen Xun didn't want to go to the beautiful country, she said it was not safe, she wanted to go back to her hometown to see her parents, so Li Shengyao went alone.

On this night, a bright crescent moon hung in the sky of Los Angeles.

There is a faint smell of spring breeze in the air.

In Cheng Long's villa in Beverly Hills, Li Shengyao, Cheng Long, and Toby Emmerich raised their glasses together and had a drink.

Toby raised his head slightly and drank it all in one gulp.

He turned his head slightly and glanced at Li Shengyao, seeing that he just took a sip, but he was not angry, but smiled and poured some red wine for himself and Cheng Long.

As long as you can make money, don't say you don't drink, even if you shine your shoes or peel your apples, it's a trivial matter.

The box office of "Taken 2" far exceeded the expectations of Warner executives.

Not only in the beautiful country, but also mainly in Europe. In just two weeks, the total box office statistics of European countries are almost [-] million.

In other words, in just two weeks, the global box office of this movie has exceeded 3 million, which is even stronger than "The Bourne [-]".

"Taken 2" is so popular in Europe that many Hollywood experts are exclaimed, and everyone studies it one after another.

In the end, I summed up three points. Compared with Hollywood blockbusters that have no sense of substitution and rely on scenes to win.

"Taken 2" embodies the love of a father, the growth of a daughter, and the handling of immigrants from Albania. It can be said that it perfectly hits the G-spot of European audiences.

Fans there hate immigrants from poor places very much, and fatherly love, as well as women's growth, can make them take part in it.

So "Taken 2" is so popular in Europe.

Now many Hollywood companies are planning to imitate such a script, and then go to Europe to reap the box office.

Warner also tried, and they also want to cooperate with Cheng Long.

However, Cheng Long refused. Cheng Long said that Lee Seung Yew had a suitable script and would continue to cooperate with Director Lee.

When Toby heard this, it was like a shark smelled blood, and hurried over without saying a word.

This time he still wants to cooperate with Director Li.

As long as it is a movie that Lee Sheng Yew wants to distribute globally, he will invest whether it is directed by Lee Sheng Yew or not.

Toby is middle-aged and still has a future. As long as he maintains such a performance, he may not have the opportunity to become the No.1 of Warner Pictures.

"Li, I heard that "Taken 2" did well in Southeast Asia?"

"It's not bad, it should have a box office of around 7000 million."

The unit is people/renminbi/currency.

"Taken 2" was the box office champion of Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand during this period, with a total of 7000 million, which is a very good result.

In fact, Shaw Brothers helped release it, and it was also No.1 in the box office list in Annan, but although the population in Annan is large, the people are too poor, and the box office list is No.1, with only more than 500 million.

"Wow, the global box office of this movie is very promising to reach $[-] million, which is great."

Cheng Long was also a little emotional when he heard this.

If it reaches US$2 million, it will surpass "Rush Hour [-]", and it will be regarded as a new highlight of his career.

Li Shengyao nodded with a smile.

He can take [-]% of the profits as dividends, and [-]% of the later streaming media copyrights, video rental and sales income, adding up, this movie should give him [-] million US dollars in revenue.

Not as high as The Hangover, but he's satisfied.

For $[-] million, he can buy a building and build a studio.

Or save money, buy a building with dozens of floors, and use it as Fenghua headquarters.

"Director Li, cheers."

The three drank another glass.

After chatting, Cheng Long and Toby talked about the entertainment news of the beautiful country, and Li Shengyao talked about domestic affairs.

Entering 2009, there are quite a lot of things going on in the beautiful country.

For example, "Face Changing" actor John Stavor's son passed away, and two Bahamian people actually wanted to use this news to blackmail him.

For example, Rihanna and her boyfriend fought each other on the street, and the queen of the cave was beaten black and blue.

For example, Tiger Woods fell into the mistress's door, and his wife returned to her natal home with her child.

For example, Michael Jackson is planning a comeback tour. It is said that all big cities in the world hope to see this superstar.

When Toby said this, he was a little emotional, "I think it's a bit difficult, his body is not very good."

He went on to say: "He will regret it, he should have come out and done these things long ago."

Lee Sing Yew knew what happened next to Michael Jackson, the concert tour was unsuccessful, and then he passed away.

Of course, even if he knew, it had nothing to do with him.

His movie was a hit, he was in the right mood, and he didn't want to think about these things.

"Director Li, what are your thoughts on the new movie?"

Cheng Long also didn't want to hear the word "regret". When he got older, he didn't want to hear such words.

When Toby heard this, he immediately looked at Li Shengyao, with a look of anticipation in his eyes.

Li Shengyao smiled, letting Toby come over tonight is to let Warner participate in this project.

After all, without Warner, they would have to find other partners for global distribution.

Anyway, if you don't make it for Warner, you won't give them room to make money.

Warner is responsible for the investment and distribution.

He then took out two scripts, one for Cheng Long and one for Toby.

Both are scripts of the same movie, one in Chinese and one in English.

This movie is "Air Rescue".

He started writing the script after receiving a call from Cheng Long.

Now instead of writing by hand, I use a computer to type, which is much faster and can be done in a week.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, Liam Neeson was the leading actor in "Air Rescue", with an investment of 5000 million, and the final global box office was [-] million US dollars, which must have made money.

Cheng Long immediately took over the script and read it.

Toby is a little gentler, but there is still excitement in his eyes.

Lee Sing Yew told the story of the movie in detail.

The "Rescue" series of movies starring Liam Neeson did not have a high investment, at most 5000 million. Then, relying on the word-of-mouth accumulated in the "Taken" series, it easily won a box office of about [-] million US dollars worldwide.

Under such circumstances, it is easy for the investor to recover the cost, and the subsequent streaming media copyright and video income are pure profits.

This is why Liam Neeson is so popular.

Li Shengyao felt that Cheng Long should take this route and not invest too much, just like "Rush Hour 3", investing [-] million, it is really courting death.

Investing 5000 to [-] million US dollars, carefully polishing the script, and relying on Cheng Long's influence to make [-] million US dollars, that is not a comfortable way to make money.

This kind of production mode, hello everyone.

Two hours later, Cheng Long and Toby finished reading the script. Both of them were a little surprised. They thought they would save the family this time, but they didn't expect to be the one who rescued the entire plane.

But this story is still very exciting, with constant reversals, and finally the real villain is found.

"Li, why didn't you rescue your family?"

"We can't always rescue the family, it's easy to be aesthetically fatigued like that, later, this movie ends, and then the next movie, but it's time to rescue the family."

Regarding the family rescue series of movies, it's really not that Director Li is boasting, and he can copy seven or eight movies casually.

Toby nodded, "This movie is very good. On behalf of Warner, we are willing to invest in this movie."

Cheng Long nodded immediately, "Me too, I can act."

Li Shengyao nodded, "Very well, then let's discuss the investment ratio."

Regarding film investment, there has been an example of "Taken 2" before, and it is easy to reach a consensus.

The total investment is 5000 million U.S. dollars, Fenghua 500 million, Warner 500 million, and China Film 1000 million.

After the film is released, Fenghua will get [-]% of the dividend, Warner will get [-]% of the dividend, and China Film and Cheng Long will each get [-]%.

In addition, Fenghua [-]% and Warner [-]% of the later copyright video income.

(End of this chapter)