How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 744 [The Great Wall] [Wolverine 3] [Kong: Skull Island] [Beauty and the Beast]

In fact, Zhang Nan also understands what Universal Pictures is thinking, which is that they don't want to give "The Great Wall" a good schedule.

After all, the Hollywood giants also know very well how Huaying has operated the imported Hollywood blockbusters in recent years.

Of course.

Even if China Film did not suppress Hollywood blockbusters imported from the mainland, these Hollywood giants would not have a good attitude towards foreign language films.

But this is human nature and happens everywhere.

The reason why Universal Pictures still wants to take off its pants and fart is mainly because it has seen the current surge in the size of the mainland film market and does not want to make its relationship with China Film Group too embarrassing.

But Zhang Nan would definitely not agree to be such an offending intermediary.

After some fruitless discussions, Universal Pictures had no choice but to give up, and did not dare to push Zhang Nan too hard. After all, Zhang Nan still holds the two core series of Universal Pictures - [Dwarfs]. World of War] and [Fast and Furious].

……

2 month 17 day.

It’s still the original time and space schedule.

"The Great Wall" directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Matt Damon and Liu Tianxian instead, was released in North America.

The result~
Naturally, it is similar to the situation in the original time and space.

On its Friday premiere in North America, it only took in $588.4 million at the box office.

The next day, it fell sharply on Saturday, but it only took in a box office of US$702.3 million.

However, on Sunday, the third day, it immediately returned to its original form, reporting a single-day box office of US$556.1 million.

In the end, [Great Wall] achieved a 'good result' of more than 1800 million US dollars in its first week in North America.

But this is normal.

After all, compared to the original version, the entire film replaced the heroine Da Tiantian with Liu Tianxian. Both of them have the same lack of acting skills and box office appeal.

What makes Zhang Nan feel that it is a pity is that after the wave of "The Great Wall", Zhang Yimou's reputation and future as a director in North America have been completely ruined.

Because Zhang Yimou once had the opportunity to enter North America.

After all, as a director who has won awards at the three top international film festivals, Venice, Berlin and Cannes, he still has some reputation in Hollywood.

And in 2002, it also filmed "Hero", which grossed 2.5 million yuan in the mainland, 5371 million U.S. dollars in North America, and 1.82 million U.S. dollars globally.

Don't think that a movie with a box office of more than 100 million US dollars is nothing at this time, but at the beginning of the millennium, it was still okay.

But in the follow-up, Lao Mouzi himself became a little distracted, and made some money-making works such as "Ambush from Flying Daggers", "City Full of Golden Armor", "Three Guns to Surprise"... etc., which completely ruined his reputation in the industry. International reputation.

Of course.

Zhang Nan just felt a little pity. After all, one's own path is also one's own.

……

Although "The Great Wall" took in a not-so-dazzling box office of more than 18 million US dollars in its first week in the North American movie market.

However, Universal Pictures did not reduce the North American screening scale of "The Great Wall", and still maintained the scale of the premiere in more than 3,300 theaters. It can be seen from this operation of Universal Pictures that the cooperation between Universal Pictures and China Film regarding "The Great Wall" should be a bit stalemate.

And "The Great Wall" was also screened in this environment. After winning the first week in the North American movie market, it relied on the scale of screening in more than 1635.9 theaters in the next week to maintain a single-week box office of million US dollars.

But when the time came to the third week and entered the March schedule, the box office of [The Great Wall] took a big dive, and the single-day box office began to decline towards less than one million US dollars.

Without it.

There are still two months before the summer vacation. Many North American film projects that feel they can't stand the competitive environment of the summer vacation but can't wait for the Christmas season have chosen to release them in the early part of the summer vacation in March and April.

This resulted in a high-density film arrangement in North America in March.

On March 3, 3th Century Fox Pictures brought Hugh Jackman's "Wolverine 3" to North American film and television.

Moreover, 3th Century Fox Pictures’ current wave of gimmicks for [Wolverine 3] is quite big. It directly designated [Wolverine ] as the last game in the [X-Men] branch series, and also invested a lot of publicity. cost.

For a time, Hugh Jackman's "Wolverine 3" was so popular that it seemed like Robert Downey Jr.'s "Iron Man 3".

No, it's even worse, because when Marvel Studios was working on "Iron Man 3", they didn't put any effort into the final game.

And with such vigorous publicity, [Wolverine 3] indeed delivered a satisfactory answer.

The first day's box office on Friday was US$3300.5 million, the next day's box office on Saturday was US$3131.5 million, and the last day's box office on Sunday was US$2409.1 million.

finally.

[The Wolverine 3], with its boo-boo of Wolverine’s Last Dance, took home a box office of US$8841.1 million in its first week.

Then next year's [Deadpool 2], Wolverine, who has finished his last dance, will return again.

However, [Wolverine 3] had just made nearly million U.S. dollars at the box office in its first week. The box office immediately began to decline sharply the next week, and the single-day box office dropped to less than million U.S. dollars.

One of the reasons for this is that the first-week box office performance of "The Wolverine 3" was mostly hyped and not solid.

On the other hand, Warner Pictures, with its superhero movie universe that imitates Marvel Studios, has created the second movie in the monster movie universe [King Kong: Skull Island], which is scheduled to be released on March 3 and has started. The large-scale publicity directly suppressed the popularity of [Wolverine 10].

In this version of [King Kong: Skull Island], Da Tiantian is no longer around.

Because Da Tiantian has already entered Marvel Studios' superhero movie universe plan through the Dutch version of the "Spider-Man" series under Zhang Nan's arrangement, it is completely unnecessary to go to the next monster movie universe plan.

However, although [Kong: Skull Island] lacks the blessing of Da Tiantian’s box office poison, its box office performance has not improved, but has remained at the same level.

The first day was US$2014.3 million, the second day was US$2388 million, and the third day was US$1700.2 million.

It only took in a box office of more than 6500 million US dollars in the first three days, which was more than 3 million US dollars less than "The Wolverine ".

Then [Kong: Skull Island]’s box office the next week copied the trend of [The Wolverine 3].

No, it's even worse.

Because following "King Kong: Skull Island" is another animation-adapted live-action film project that Disney Pictures restarted after the failure of "Alice in Wonderland 2" - "Beauty and the Beast".

And this wave of Disney Pictures also found the real heroine of the [Harry Potter] series - Emma Watson to play the beauty in [Beauty and the Beast].

(End of this chapter)