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Chapter 302 [Deadly Cradle] A somewhat outrageous premiere

For such a 'big production', Zhang Nan is naturally grateful and grateful.

"Brother Chenglong, it's really not me who refuses. The main reason is that in the second half of this year, I will be really busy here."

After expressing a tactful attitude, Zhang Nan began to introduce his work schedule to Chenglong for the second half of the year.

Cameos of two derivative films of the [Martial Arts] series, New Line's derivative films of The Lord of the Rings - Sauron, Roland Emmerich's cameo of The Day After Tomorrow, Matt Damon's cameo of The Bourne Shadow 2, [ The cameo of Harry Potter 3], the cameo of [Spiderman 2]...

Seeing all kinds of top blockbuster movie appointments that kept coming out of Zhang Nan's mouth, Chenglong fell silent.

"I really didn't expect that it's not even February, it's still the beginning of the year, and your schedule for this year has been properly arranged."

Chenglong was a little emotional, but felt that what he said seemed a bit wrong, so he quickly changed the subject and said: "But you have to save a schedule for me next year!"

next year?

After [Eighty Days Around the World], you probably won't be able to use it anymore!

But even though he thought so in his heart, Zhang Nan nodded quickly on the surface and said: "No problem, absolutely no problem."
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2 month 1 day.

The first-day box office of [Devil Noon 2] is out - a single-day box office of 617 million.

Not to mention how outstanding it is, it can also be considered a bit unexpectedly low.

After all, [Devil Noon 2] was released on Friday.

Judging from this trend, its first-week box office in North America is estimated to not be higher than 2000 million US dollars.

If calculated according to the general situation, the total North American box office of [Magic City Noon 2] will be between US$6000 million and US$8000 million, and the total global box office will be between US$1.2 million and US$1.6 million.

Compared with the US$2 million production fee of "Magic City Noon 5000", this result is enough to break even, which is not bad.

But for Cheng Long, whose last movie was "Rush Hour 2", it feels like he has fallen behind as a superstar.

But this situation is just the box office trend of [Magic City Noon 2], which follows the normal trend.

But the actual situation is - even more tragic.

[Magic City Noon 2]'s North American box office in the first week only scored 1923 million US dollars.

The next week's box office experienced an unbearable drop. The single-day box office of the non-weekend three days has fallen below one million US dollars, and the weekend three days only climbed to the single-day box office of 300 million US dollars.

It closed at 1187 million U.S. dollars in seven days the following week.

This can almost declare that [Magic City Noon 2] has failed at the box office in the North American film market.

The final box office result is not to mention 8000 million US dollars, it is estimated that it is not even 6000 million US dollars.

What makes it even more difficult for Chenglong to accept is the fact that the worldwide box office feedback of [Magic City Noon 2] is even worse than in North America.

Under such circumstances, Chenglong couldn't sit still anymore, and began to run publicity in major film markets around the world.

But when the time came to the end of February, everything was settled.

Because the lifespan of an action movie like [Magic City Noon 2] is long, but the situation in the first month is basically [-] to [-]% of the total box office.

And "Devil Noon 2" has a box office of 5500 million US dollars in North America and a global box office of 7900 million US dollars.It is impossible for the global box office of "Devil Noon 2" to exceed 2 million, which is a heavy pour of cold water on Chenglong after the success of "Rush Hour [-]".

That is to say, Chenglong is different from Li Lianlian, and he still has the series of "Rush Hour" to save his life. Otherwise, with the result of "Magic City Noon 2", Chenglong would have to learn from Li Lianlian and go back to Asia to avoid the limelight and take it easy .
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end of February.

During this month, Zhang Nan originally planned to cut the knot quickly and make appointments for a lot of guest films that had to be shot but did not have many roles, such as "Spider-Man 2" and "Harry Potter 3". ……etc.

As a result, things backfired, and a sudden situation came, which was entangled by George Lucas.

[Star Wars Episode 2] has a global box office of more than 6 million. For other directors, that is good and cannot be better.

But it made George Lucas sleepless at night, for fear that he would follow in the footsteps of Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" series.

After all, the box office of [Jurassic Park 1.2.3] is going down according to the trend of more than 9 million, more than 6 million, and more than 3 million.

But after more than a year of hard thinking, George Lucas still hasn't come up with any good ideas.

So Zhang Nan's door was blocked.

After all, Zhang Nan has become more and more prosperous over the years, and the box office of the movies he starred in and directed is even higher.

But... Zhang Nan is really not interested in the theme of "Star Wars", which is a bachelor's play.

In the end, after reluctantly giving George Lucas a few suggestions, he got away with the premiere of Wu Jin's "Deadly Cradle".
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2 month 28 day.

The Huaguo Theater on Hollywood Boulevard was once again booked out and became the stage for the premiere, and many big names came, such as Roland Emmerich, Will Smith, Nicolas Cage...etc. Zhang Nan is doing well, and they are all here.

In fact, according to the grade of "Deadly Cradle", it is a bit unworthy to have a premiere at the Huaguo Grand Theater, and it is impossible to recruit such a superstar and famous director.

After all, in terms of the amount of funds, the total investment of the project is only 2500 million US dollars; in terms of celebrity status, the starring Wu Jin and the director Andre Bakovia are only second-tier in Hollywood.

But I can't stand it. Wu Jin is an artist under Zhang Nan's banner, and is under Zhang Nan's cover.

For Zhang Nan's face, Warner was more or less willing to give it a face, and made a decent premiere of the B-level movie "Deadly Cradle".

And all the superstar and famous directors are not here for Wu Jin and [Deadly Cradle], but for Zhang Nan.

Sure enough, after Zhang Nan's appearance, not only the paparazzi on both sides of the red carpet were excited, but all the famous superstar directors who came to participate in the premiere also looked over and started to move their feet.

While smiling, Zhang Nan walked through the routine red carpet waving his hands. Just as he walked into the screening hall, he saw Wu Jin greeting a group of celebrities in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

It's not that these big guys have a bad attitude towards Wu Jin, the main reason is that there is a big gap in the ranks of the two sides, and it seems that Wu Jin's hospitality is a little flustered.

Fortunately, Zhou Jie also came to help, making the scene enjoyable and not so embarrassing.

After all, there is a "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with a global box office of 3.2 million U.S. dollars and a "Tian Zhao" with a global box office of 4 million U.S. dollars. Zhou Jie is almost as good as Will Smith and Roland Emmerich. Qi's coffee is almost equal.

But when Zhang Nan appeared, everything changed.

"Jin Zi, Ajie, go greet the others, just leave it to me."

Zhang Nan aggressively pushed Wu Jin and Zhou Jie aside, and said to a group of famous superstar directors who came towards him, but no one refuted.

(End of this chapter)