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By the last weekend of November, the North American box office of "Cyberpunk 2077: Prologue" reached 3 million US dollars.

But unfortunately, this year's North American box office champion is not this movie, but "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay" starring Jennifer Lawrence, with a North American box office of 2 million US dollars.

Given that the film is still in theaters, its North American box office can continue to rise.

The second place is Marvel's "Iron Man 3", which has accumulated $3 million in North American box office. Currently, it is still showing in 9568 theaters, and it is not difficult to break through $4 million in the end.

The third place is "Cyberpunk 2077: Prologue" directed by Gilbert Jr. Although it did not win the North American box office championship, both Gilbert Jr. himself and Disney are quite satisfied with this result.

The only ones who are dissatisfied may be the fans.

Fans can already imagine that the haters are starting to use the North American box office as an excuse, even though the top two movies are both related to Gilbert Jr.

A sentence that Gilbert's fans often say: Gilbert no longer needs those honors to prove himself, but his fans do because they have to compete with him.

Similarly, after the failure of creating various topics about Little Gilbert's Waterloo in previous years, the haters also need Little Gilbert's failure to win the box office as a point of attack.

However, industry insiders obviously don’t see it that way, because the top three this year are all related to Gilbert Jr.

Scrolling down, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies at ninth place and Fast & Furious 6 at tenth place are also related to Gilbert Jr.

Among the top ten North American box office hits this year, five are related to Gilbert Jr.

It is said that 2011 is the year of Gilbert Jr., and six of the top ten movies in North America are related to him. But this year is no less impressive, and it feels like every year is the year of Gilbert Jr.

It would be fine if Gilbert Jr. was just a director, but his most impressive ability is his production ability.

He is not only an excellent director, but also a producer. This makes people admire Gilbert's ability and envy Disney's good luck.

But admiration is admiration, and envy is envy.

The North American market is so small that it has reached a bottleneck. If you take more, I will take less. Therefore, the most important task of each film company every year is to attack Disney and Gilbert Jr. in an attempt to regain the market.

But unfortunately, little Gilbert has become a golden brand now.

Even if you are not his fan, even if you are an ordinary passerby, as long as you see Gilbert Jr.'s name in the producer column or the screenwriter column, you will trust this movie.

And it turns out that most of the time, the films that Gilbert Jr. produces do not disappoint.

This magic has even spread to the whole world and accumulated a huge audience.

Looking at the global box office, although the ranking has been changed, the first place is still "Iron Man 3" produced by Gilbert Jr.

The film topped the global box office with $12 billion and is still accumulating box office revenue.

In terms of North American box office, "Cyberpunk 2077: Prologue" was not as good as "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay", but the film surpassed it in the global box office, ranking second with 2 billion US dollars.

The film "Cyberpunk 2077: Prologue" is very special. Although it is based on the original work and board game, its audience and number of fans are limited.

Although the series "EdgeWalker" later increased its popularity, many people are still not optimistic about the prospect of film adaptation.

Even after the film's box office success, some film critics said that if it weren't for Gilbert Jr., the film would have failed.

But the fact is that the film earned more than $1.08 billion in box office worldwide with an investment of $ million, and the peripheral products sold well. Of course, Disney also spent a lot of money on early promotion. Even if all this money is taken into account, it is only about $ to $ million.

One movie actually made back all the initial investment, and more importantly, Disney discovered that related peripheral products actually sold better than Transformers.

It is worth mentioning that with the support of Disney, Michael Bay has started filming "Transformers 4".

The peripheral profits of this film need to be shared with Hasbro, but Disney has already bought all the cyberpunk-related copyrights.

Just as the media was summing up the year, two things happened to Gilbert Jr. Veteran film critic Roger Ebert died of illness in a Chicago hospital, and Paul Walker died in a car accident.

Roger Ebert is an old friend of Gilbert Jr. He has been supporting Gilbert Jr. since his debut. It is reasonable for Gilbert Jr. to attend the funeral.

In fact, Roger Ebert's condition was already very bad last year. He was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment several times this year and eventually died in November this year.

Gilbert Jr. attended the funeral with Naomi Watts, laying a wreath and hanging out with Roger Ebert's family.

In an interview with the media, Gilbert Jr. said: "Roger is my good friend and he really appreciates my movies.

His contribution to Hollywood is indelible, and his passing marks the end of an era for Hollywood.”

What Gilbert Jr. said is true. The death of Roger Ebert marks the decline of the strength of the veteran professional film critics led by him.

Instead, there are new bloggers and film critics like Peter and Sexy Rebecca who rely on Internet platforms.

This is a trend and a change. In the past, there were only about 400 professional film critics in North America. In the 1990s, these film critics were able to influence the viewing choices of millions or even tens of millions of viewers.

But now, relying on the Internet, the number of film critics and bloggers has expanded rapidly, so that now almost everyone can be a film critic.

The more influential ones, such as Peter and Sexy Rebecca, have a wider range of influence than those traditional film critics and are more commercial.

For example, the movie "Iron Man 3" would definitely be criticized by traditional film critics. But in the eyes of Internet film critics such as Peter and Sexy Rebecca, it is a good movie.

It has grand scenes, dazzling special effects, and exciting plots. It is a good movie.

So it’s no wonder that Langley Carlyle, the film critic of the New York Post, was angry and said that today’s popular film critics have lowered the threshold of film art.

By the way, Langley Carlisle was a die-hard fan of Gilbert Jr.

Gilbert Jr.'s previous masterpieces, including the acclaimed "Saving Private Ryan", "Chicago", the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and the Oscar-winning "Gravity", were all criticized by him as worthless.

Relying on Black Gilbert, Langley Carlisle has a considerable amount of traffic.

In his own book "Film Light and Artistic Structure", the structure of Gilbert Jr.'s films accounts for one-third of the book's content.

Of course, none of the words in it are good, they are basically all criticisms, and every shot and every link is criticized.

Although the book only received a score of 2.1 from angry fans on Amazon's online bookstore, it did not prevent the book from selling half a million copies in the United States.

I can only say that it is really okay to eat black traffic. (End of this chapter)