hollywood melon man

Chapter 632: Excellent Summer Season
The best performing movie in this year's film market is undoubtedly "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", released by Warner and Disney and produced by Cantaloupe Films.

The North American box office of this movie has easily reached 3 million US dollars, and it is soaring towards 8300 million US dollars. There are no competitive films after that. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" has basically locked up the North American annual box office champion.

Of course, it is not just the annual box office champion in North America.

The global box office of $10 million is enough for the film to secure the title of the world's annual box office champion. More importantly, the film is still in theaters and can still reap box office rewards.

The second best performing film at the box office was "Transformers," produced by Sky Studios and distributed by MGM and United Artists.

The film grossed $3 million in North America and $3855 million worldwide. Except for a few regions where it is still being shown, it has been taken off the screen in most major markets.

It is indeed a pity for the film that it failed to break the billion dollar box office.

However, Gilbert Jr. thinks this result is very good. In the previous life, this movie was produced by DreamWorks and the global box office was only 7 million US dollars.

Now it has reached 9.6 million US dollars, Sky Studios has made a fortune.

What’s more important is that during the period when the movie was popular, "Transformers" generated $5 million in peripheral sales worldwide, and the sales are still growing.

Compared to the movie box office, the peripheral products are the bulk of the film's revenue.

The outstanding performance of "Transformers" has, to a certain extent, proved David Ellison's production ability, which has become quite excellent after several years of training.

The third most outstanding one is "Iron Man" produced by Marvel Pictures and distributed by Disney.

The film grossed $3 million in North America and $1019 million worldwide, which was also better than its predecessor, and marked a good start for Marvel Studios.

Currently, Marvel Studios' films such as "Captain America" ​​and "The Hulk" have already been put into production, and "Thor" and "Iron Man 2" are also on the agenda.

Scarlett Johansson appears in all of these films, connecting the first phase of the Marvel Universe.

Before the emergence of female superheroes such as Scarlet Witch and Captain Marvel, she could be regarded as the only blooming flower in the Avengers.

The outstanding performance of "Iron Man" has once again driven the pace of superhero movies forward. "Spider-Man 3" will be released next year, and "X-Men" will also continue to move forward.

As for Warner, Warner had previously followed Gilbert Jr.'s advice and had not been in a hurry to develop other DC superheroes.

But perhaps influenced by recent rumors of suppressing Gilbert Jr., Warner no longer listened to Gilbert Jr.'s opinions and directly started developing "Superman".

Warner Bros. originally approached Christopher Nolan, but Nolan was busy with District 1 recently, so Warner Bros. approached J. J. Abrams to direct the film, with an investment of $2000 million.

Although Gilbert Jr. was a shareholder of Warner, he did not object given the tense situation.

And in Gilbert's opinion, it would be best if the movie lost money. Only if it lost money could he prove his words, and this would be the result if he didn't obey.

However, Warner was kind enough to leave the next two "Batman" films to Gilbert Jr. After all, Gilbert Jr. did a good job in the previous film, and changing directors rashly might be more risky.

As for other companies that don't have superhero copyrights, they can only watch helplessly. Some people who heard the news even hoped that after Gilbert Jr. was done, they could divide up Marvel Studios.

But just as little Gilbert did not expect to achieve his goal in one battle, it would not be possible to finish little Gilbert off in a few years. We can't just expect little Gilbert to wait for death without resistance!
The fourth most successful movie this year is "Cars", which did not perform as well as "The Last of Us" at the North American box office, earning $2 million, and its global box office was only $5200 million.

But the film's peripheral performance is much better than "The Last of Us". In terms of commercial success, the film ranks ahead of "The Last of Us".

The rest of the films, including "X-Men 3", "The Da Vinci Code" and "Mission Impossible 3", performed very well and together contributed to the prosperity of the 2006 summer season.

Also because there are so many big-selling movies this year, this year's summer season has become the best performing year in history, and is called the strongest summer season by the media.

The overall market is about 20% higher than last year, which is a considerable improvement.

Coupled with the huge success of Sands globalization, some media outlets, not afraid of being embarrassed, have already shouted the slogan of another golden age of Hollywood.

This weekend, Martin Scorsese's new film "The Departed" was released, and Gilbert Jr. also took time out to rush back to Los Angeles to attend the premiere. Everything in Hollywood seems to be calm, but in fact, undercurrents are surging inside, and countless transactions are going on under the water.

Martin Scorsese warmly welcomed Gilbert Jr., who said to him, "If it weren't for your father, I might not have been able to enter Hollywood as a director.

How is your father doing?"

"He's doing fine. He's recently settled in China permanently and is a visiting professor there," Gilbert Jr. replied.

"That's good," Martin Scorsese said with a smile, "This old guy has a keen sense of danger. You can be less cautious when he's not around."

Little Gilbert also laughed and said, "Yeah, he left as soon as he heard about it."

Martin Scorsese patted Gilbert on the shoulder and said, "No matter what, it is most important to protect yourself."

"Thanks……"

After talking to Martin Scorsese, Gilbert talked to Leo and Matt Damon. Both of them had heard some rumors recently, but they didn't know what they were talking about.

Little Gilbert said, "Don't ask around. It's not good for you to know too much.

"Okay," Leo patted his chest and said, "Buddy, you know I always support you. If you need help, let me know."

Matt Damon: "Me too..."

Little Gilbert said with a smile: "Don't worry, guys, we won't make it difficult for you. We will continue to make movies and cooperate as usual. It won't affect us."

The two of them also breathed a sigh of relief: "I knew you could handle it."

In fact, if we look at the list from the previous life, it seems that Shi Shusi is on the list. He also likes to attend some parties, so it is hard to guarantee that he will not get to know some of the other party's people.

However, people's trajectories can change. The previous Leo was not Leo from the beginning. According to Gilbert, the current Leo seems to have been with Madonna for a while.

Moreover, that person sacrificed himself to protect his good brother from disaster. They were close friends.

Of course, according to Leo, Madonna is more skilled in martial arts, so overall it was quite enjoyable.

In a previous conversation with Tom Cruise, the Cruise couple also clearly expressed their support, perhaps because the two families have a close relationship.

Except for the Italian gang and Squid, the attitudes of other actors are very clear.

Of course, this is news that only the top actors know. The lower-level actors have no idea that Gilbert Jr. is being targeted. They still regard Gilbert Jr. as one of the best directors in Hollywood and dream of working with him.

"Infernal Affairs" is a remake of the Hong Kong police and gangster film "Infernal Affairs". Unlike Hong Kong films, Martin Scorsese made a lot of localized adaptations.

For example, Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon use a lot of obscene words like "fuck" in the film, and the gangster boss played by Jack Nicholson is like a devil and a little scary.

Overall, this adaptation is quite successful. It can be seen that Martin is full of confidence and is once again striving for an Oscar.

The film grossed $2637 million in its first week, not counting the sales, but Martin's films have always been box office-friendly, making sure they don't lose money.

This is also the biggest reason why Martin Sr. failed to win awards time and time again, but was still able to get investment to continue shooting new films.

In Hollywood, commercial performance determines everything. As long as the commercial performance is excellent, there will be no shortage of films to shoot, even if you never receive awards recognition.

On the contrary, if you win great awards but have poor commercial performance, you still won’t get many opportunities.

(End of this chapter)