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The heat of the war of the century has gradually faded, but the box office journey of "Avengers: Age of Ultron" continues.

In the four working days of the following week, the film grossed a total of 4123 million US dollars, and retained the North American weekly box office championship with 7746 million US dollars the following weekend.

This helped the film gross $3 million, which is a pretty good momentum.

The overseas box office continued to maintain its strong performance, taking in a total of US$2 million this week, pushing the film's global box office to US$1085 million.

Gilbert Jr.'s highest-grossing single film was "Avengers 1", which grossed $24 billion worldwide and ranked second in the global box office.

This time, "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" is coming with great momentum, but it is not as strong as "Avengers 1".

However, Marvel Studios was quite satisfied with this. The film's overseas response even exceeded that in North America, which was beyond their expectations.

You have to know that the overseas market doesn’t actually have a strong superhero complex, which is different from North America.

But it sounds incredible that the film was able to quickly accumulate a huge fan base overseas.

But this is not surprising. As early as the 1980s and 1990s when Hollywood dominated the global film market, films that were popular in North America were already popular all over the world.

Even some films don't do well at the North American box office, but can be popular all over the world.

The "Transformers" series is such a movie. The North American box office of this movie hovered around 1.8 million US dollars and its reputation was not very good.

However, each film in the series can earn an average of around 700 to 800 million US dollars worldwide. Add in the surrounding markets, and the films can still make a lot of money.

Since the closure of Sky Studios, the copyright of the "Transformers" series has been transferred to Disney, and the fourth film last year achieved good results.

Originally, Disney wanted to strike while the iron was hot and release the fifth film, but was stopped by Gilbert Jr.

He told executives at a high-level meeting: "Although the film is still profitable, we have to consider the market's reaction. The audience is tired of machine life forms, so we have to stop for a while."

Later, Gilbert Jr. found Michael Bay and discussed the prospects of this film with him.

"In terms of visual effects, the Transformers series is no longer able to shock audiences around the world. Now we have even better visual effects blockbusters that are constantly bombarding the audience's eyes.

I hope you can think carefully about the future of the entire series, starting with the movie itself, and give Transformers new vitality. "

Michael Bay pondered: "What should I do?"

"You can find some screenwriters to plan the entire series. These are some of my suggestions," said Gilbert Jr.

The Transformers series can be said to have basically no story, but a movie cannot be without a story. No matter what the story is, at least there must be a story.

After finishing work on Avengers: Age of Ultron, Gilbert Jr. went on vacation.

However, he did not travel abroad this year. He basically stayed at the Cantaloupe Manor as a stay-at-home guy, tending to the flowers and plants, and going fishing with Leo or Tom Cruise in his spare time.

That day he was returning from a visit to Tom Hanks's house and the accident happened when he was passing Melrose Avenue.

A pickup truck suddenly rushed from the intersection and hit his car directly. Fortunately, the Chinese driver reacted very quickly and turned the steering wheel quickly, thus avoiding the disaster.

Little Gilbert was still in shock and wanted to get off the car immediately.

Several bodyguards following the car came up quickly, and the head bodyguard Paul waved his hand quickly: "Boss, don't get out of the car."

"What's the matter?" asked little Gilbert.

Paul looked serious: "I suspect this was not an accident, but intentional. It would be bad if there were ambushes and robbers lying nearby."

This Rolls-Royce is a specially customized bulletproof model, so you can hold out for a while without getting out of the car.

Paul immediately contacted Gilbert's private security company and the Los Angeles Police Department to come and maintain law and order. Several security guards used the car as a shelter to protect Gilbert.

The pickup truck crashed into the store, scaring the pedestrians around and causing them to flee. Of course, some brave people took out their mobile phones to take photos and videos, and then posted the incident on the Internet.

Within a few minutes, the Los Angeles Police Department arrived first and checked the condition of the pickup truck driver, who had died on the spot.

Afterwards, little Gilbert’s security company also arrived quickly, escorted little Gilbert back to Cantaloupe Manor, and strengthened security alerts.

Naomi Watts, Cameron Diaz and other women in Los Angeles were terrified when they heard that little Gilbert had met with an accident, and they hurried back to the manor.

"How is it? Are you okay?"

Little Gilbert waved his hands and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I just got a little scared."

Jennifer Connelly held Gilbert's arm with a worried look on her face, fearing that he would leave her side. Naomi Watts and Cameron Diaz asked the security chief Paul about the details.

Paul briefly introduced the situation: "When we were crossing the intersection, suddenly a pickup truck ran a red light and rushed over from the left.

Although it looks like an accident, I don’t think we can rule out the possibility of human intervention.”

Cameron Diaz acted decisively, and she immediately said: "Let the Los Angeles Police Department investigate the cause of the accident as soon as possible, and security work must be strengthened recently.

Honey, who do you think did this?"

Little Gilbert thought for a moment and said, "Our enemies are just those few, but there is no need for them to do that."

Ivanka, who rushed over after hearing the news, recalled one thing: "Last month, an organization invited you, and I saw that it was a very extreme organization, so I helped you reject it.

Is it possible that one of their people did it?"

"What organization is it?"

"It's a Zionist group. They're always in need of funding and support from the super-rich. You're the one they're courting."

Gilbert fell into deep thought: "It's not impossible, Ivanka, call those people and ask them what they think.

Also, I need to speak to Pyrgus."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements right away."

If an ordinary person encounters such a thing, it may be an accident. After all, it is unlikely that an ordinary person will form a life-and-death feud with others.

A super-rich man like Gilbert Jr., a leader in his field, naturally has enemies.

When he heard that Gilbert Jr. was in trouble, Disney President Robert Iger called him immediately. He was relieved when he heard that Gilbert Jr. was fine.

"If you need any help, just let me know," said Robert Egger.

"no problem."

After that, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Tom Cruise, Spielberg, Steve Jobs and others also called to express their condolences.

The incident in which little Gilbert was almost hit by a car also became a hot topic in the news, causing an uproar in public opinion across the United States.

Fox News urgently broadcast the incident live and invited experts to analyze the incident. Although it was very likely an accident, the experts all felt that it was a premeditated accident.

One expert said: "Before trying to interpret this, we have to understand that Gilbert Jr. was more than just a film director.

He is also the world's richest man, a super-rich man, a leader in Silicon Valley, and half of Hollywood.

Nothing that happens to such an important person can be simply attributed to accidents.

So I think this incident was a premeditated murder." (End of this chapter)