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Robert Downey Jr., standing next to him, was holding a champagne glass and wearing sunglasses, looking quite like Tony Stark.

It’s just that the plane belongs to Gilbert Jr. When filming the first "Iron Man", Gilbert Jr. lent his private plane to the crew for filming.

Hearing Scarlett's words, Robert Downey Jr. said, "As I recall, Gilbert Jr. is already the No. 1 box office star in film history."

"Yes, a long time ago, probably during the Pirates of the Caribbean era, I surpassed Steven and became the No. 1 in the total box office in film history.

Now the cumulative box office is probably over 20 billion US dollars!"

"It's more than that."

Scarlett is obviously more concerned about his box office performance than Gilbert Jr.: "It's almost over 30 billion US dollars. If The Avengers performs well, it will definitely be over 30 billion US dollars.

Including the movies you produced, the total box office has exceeded $50 billion.”

"Wow, thirty billion dollars, that's too much."

Robert Downey Jr. lamented: "Other directors will never be able to catch up with this data in their lifetime."

"You never know. What if there are other outstanding directors who can surpass me?"

Although this is what he said, even Gilbert himself thought it was unlikely to happen. Unless he entered the next era, his situation was obviously special.

What's even more exaggerated is that Gilbert Jr. still has a long career ahead of him and can continue to accumulate box office revenue. The vitality of the director profession is very strong. As long as you want to do it in your seventies or eighties, you can still do it.

Some people started a survey online, asking the question: Do you think Gilbert Jr.'s total box office during his career can exceed $100 billion?
In the vote below, more than 70% of netizens voted for "yes", which shows the netizens' trust in Gilbert Jr.

Let's calculate the revenue brought by Gilbert Jr. The total box office was 30 billion US dollars, while the box office usually only accounts for % of a movie's revenue.

With a simple calculation, Gilbert Jr. alone created more than 100 billion US dollars in revenue, a number that cannot be exaggerated.

However, according to industry insiders, $100 billion is actually a small amount. The intangible asset value that Gilbert Jr. brought to the film companies for the films he produced is immeasurable.

No wonder Disney’s market value has expanded rapidly. After the hit release of “Avengers”, Disney’s market value has exceeded 100 billion US dollars.

Robert Iger fulfilled his promise and brought Disney to the position of Hollywood's number one film studio and a giant in the media and entertainment industry.

But now Robert Iger's top priority is to acquire Marvel Studios, because Disney is only the agent for distribution rights, and Marvel Studios is now a private company owned by Gilbert Jr.

However, it is impossible to take it over now without paying a high price. Little Gilbert will definitely seek more shares and power, and there will definitely be people on the board of directors who oppose it.

In addition, the decoupling of Cantaloupe Studios and Warner is about to be completed, with most of Warner's shares in Cantaloupe Studios returning to Gilbert Jr., and a small portion in the hands of several investment funds.

In order to prevent the situation where Disney has to join forces with Warner again, Disney must take away the shares held by Gilbert Jr. and completely tie Gilbert Jr. to Disney's chariot.

These problems have troubled Robert Iger, the once glorious CEO of Disney. Although the group is full of internal conflicts, they can still unite in the face of huge interests.

"Disney can't lose little Gilbert!"

Robert Iger looked at the North American box office data for the first week and said: "Without him, Disney is as good as dead."

The difference can be seen here. For Gilbert Jr., although he and Disney had a pleasant cooperation, there were many film companies willing to cooperate with him. But Disney could not afford to lose Gilbert Jr., the price was too heavy.

As Robert Iger worries, the box office figures from overseas are also coming out one after another. The most eye-catching is undoubtedly the Chinese market, which once again cut 1 million RMB in box office on Sunday.

Combined with the box office revenue from the previous two days, the film grossed 3 million RMB in a single week, successfully breaking a series of box office records in the Chinese film market.

This box office is equivalent to 4842 million US dollars at the current exchange rate. There is no doubt that the Chinese market has become the largest overseas box office for "Avengers".

In this era when a Chinese-language film grossing over 3 million yuan is big news, the idea of ​​earning over million RMB in just three days in the first week seems like a fantasy to many Chinese-language filmmakers.

But it really happened, and they had no choice but to believe it.

After the shock, they started making excuses, saying things like the film director was Gilbert Jr., or it was a Hollywood blockbuster, or it was all thanks to special effects, and so on. The air was filled with an inexplicable atmosphere.

People in the Chinese-language film industry want to be Kong Yiji, but a few knowledgeable people have obviously realized that the era of vigorous development of the Chinese film market has arrived.

Guo Fan said to Liu Ji: "Just wait, next year there will be the first domestic movie with a box office of over 1 billion. As the market expands, our opportunities will also be greater."

The box office performance in other parts of the world was also good, with the UK taking in $2567 million in its first weekend, with the British royal family taking the lead by going to see the movie together.

French filmmakers once again called for a boycott of "The Avengers", but the loyal French people clearly love His Majesty Little Gilbert, with the film grossing $2235 million in France in its first week.

Germany and Italy cut US$2489 million and US$1653 million respectively, while the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa cut a combined US$6233 million, making for a huge win.

Latin America, including Mexico and Brazil, took in a total of $4072 million.

In the Asia-Pacific region, South Korea and Australia took in $2335 million and $1347 million respectively, but the island nation was a little lower, at $653 million.

The film was not shown in India, and the bizarre Indian Film Bureau even asked the crew to make a public apology. The Hindustan Times believed that the film not only insulted Indians, but also showed contempt for India.

How can you Americans save the world from such an invasion of the earth? It should be our Indian super talents.

From a certain perspective, what the Indians said is not wrong. The people of the world are represented by Americans.

The rest of Asia-Pacific region generated a total of US$3889 million, with the Chinese market creating a surprise by earning US$4842 million, making it the largest single overseas market.

As a result, the overseas first week box office has just been released, and it has grossed a whopping 3 million US dollars in the first week, which is so exaggerated that it takes one's breath away.

Including the North American box office in its first week, "Avengers" grossed $5 million in its first week, shocking the whole world.

Faced with this unprecedented box office success, almost all media, even seemingly serious media such as current affairs media, gave front-page headlines to "Avengers".

The world is also celebrating Little Gilbert's film, and amid the celebration, people are continuing to go to the cinema to watch this movie.

Gilbert's haters all lost their voices and started playing dead. They didn't dare to make any moves on his face during this period.

Record-breaking! Record-breaking! Record-breaking again!
Why? Why does little Gilbert never fail? Every time you think he can't do it, he tells you, I have something else, and it's a big one.

This surprise almost turned into a shock, making those who spared no effort to smear it look like clowns, and people laughed at them. (End of this chapter)