Coquettish Rebirth

But even so, Jia Hongjian did not give up his attention to such a film. He still cared about the market response of this film—or to put it bluntly, it was the box office!As a businessman, our nature is to make our products sell well.As a film-related practitioner, Jia Hongjian's desire for the box office is almost as necessary for survival as food and water.Making such a film is just like Jia Hongjian making other products, he always wants to have a good response, and what's more, he also sold Cheng Long's face for this film. I got Cheng Long's son, Little House, into the movie, and helped Little House develop his talent in film and find his way in acting.Cheng Long is very grateful to us for this, and as a "good guy", we, Jia Hongjian, also hope that such a play can give The Little House a good reputation, so that we can show that we are helping, and Cheng Long will be more grateful to us no?

When it comes to the box office, Jia Hongjian checked this year's box office list before the movie was released.No. 1 is naturally our "Batman" series of movies. After our movies were released in June, the box office has really skyrocketed.With Cheng Long's help and Jia Hongjian's revision of the script, this Batman series of films is no longer like the trilogy that Nolan made in history. Batman's box office is not very high because of the foreshadowing, and the second part suddenly made the whole world feel bright. When it came to the third part, because he was not good at shooting scenes and the plot progressed too fast, resulting in In fact, the box office of the third part is not as high as that of the second part.

But it is different in such a time and space. With the assistance of Jia Hongjian and Cheng Long, after the "Batman" series was released this year, the local box office in North America alone reached 6 million US dollars within a few months. And many more crazy achievements!Although such an achievement cannot be compared with the American "home" movie Star Wars series, nor can it be compared with "Titanic", but as a movie in recent years, it is already very good!After all, how can you say that these are all comic-book adaptation movies, how many comic-book adaptation movies have a good box office?At least in the movie adaptation of comics, our achievements are astronomical!months down.The global box office of the "Batman" movie is basically settled.6.4 million US dollars in North America, 5.19 million US dollars overseas, add up to more than 11 billion US dollars at the box office!

And like the movie "Spider-Man", which is also adapted from comics, the box office is not bad.But it's far worse than our grades!They were released in May, and although they avoided the same category of "Batman", they encountered a positive PK of "Shrek 5".It turned out that "Shrek" fell short, and "Batman 3" took the tentative victory -- $3 million in North America and $3.36 million overseas.Adding up to nearly $5.54 million, the "Spider-Man" series has become one of the top comic-book adaptation films this year.As for Dreamworks' "Shrek 9", the results are not much worse. The box office in North America is 3 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is 3.22 million US dollars. It is also ranked at the top of this year's box office list with a score of nearly 4.76 million US dollars. Mao.

Seriously, although it might seem like "Spider-Man 3" is making more than "Shrek 3," it's actually not the case - first of all, "Spider-Man 3" is because, like "Batman," both It is a product derived from the intellectual property rights of other companies, so it must be shared by other companies.In the early 90s.Marvel has suffered an economic crisis, and life is really difficult.So he sold the copyright of the hero in his own home, sold it to Sony's "Spider-Man", and sold it to Fox's "X-Men" series copyright.So the two copyrights are given to each other, and they are both authorized with an unlimited date. That is to say, as long as the other party continues to use this copyright to make new films within two or three years, then this authorization cannot be withdrawn, but if they make a film, they must According to the agreement of the year, Marvel will be divided in proportion.Such an unequal treaty, like a contract of sale, was the very favorable terms negotiated by the two film companies when they saw Marvel's economic crisis and took advantage of the fire!And such a clause caused Sony to turn around and re-select the role after they finished filming "Spider-Man" 123.Then make another "Amazing Spider-Man" 123, this Marvel has no temper at all, and the copyright can't be recovered at all!Even in the future, after Sony finishes filming the "Amazing Spider-Man" series, it is not impossible to have another "Spider-Man Resurrection" 123...

In such a situation. The "Spider-Man" series has less money in the pockets of the film company than "Shrek".On the other hand, the different investment amounts of the two films also make the profitability of the two films different.For a movie like "Spider-Man 3", the investment is as high as 2.5 million US dollars!This is definitely a big investment, big production and big cost movie, but what about "Shrek 3"?Although 3D animation is more time-consuming to produce, the production cost is not as high as "Spider-Man".Only $1.6 million!This means that "Shrek" can actually make DreamWorks transfer more money than Sony!At least for film makers, "Shrek 3" is more successful than "Spider-Man 3"!

Behind "Spider-Man" and "Shrek" is a film like "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".After such a film was released at the end of May, the box office was really good. The North American box office was 5 million US dollars, and the overseas box office was 3.09 million US dollars. The total box office was 6.54 million US dollars. , that is "Batman", the final result is of course that Batman completely defeated the captain and won the victory in the middle of the summer.

When it comes to the later part of the summer, it is still the competition between DreamWorks and Disney-the competition between "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and "Ratatouille". Needless to say, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is definitely a best-selling film all over the world, and the final results are quite gratifying, with US$2.92 million in North America and US$6.47 million overseas, and the final US$9.39 million is higher than that of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Slightly weaker, but much better than "Ratatouille"!The North American box office of "Ratatouille" was only 2.06 million US dollars, and the overseas box office was only 4.17 million US dollars. The final result was only 6.23 million US dollars at the box office.Thanks to the good schedule, DreamWorks encountered an effect similar to Tian Ji's horse racing in the three stages. It can be said that DreamWorks has become the most successful film producer in the global film industry this year in summer!

And let's look at the Christmas schedule at the end of the year. First of all, at the end of 07, there really weren't any blockbuster movies coming out to grab the schedule.In the whole of November, there is only one film that is relatively well-known-"American Gangster". One day is only 11 million U.S. dollars. Calculated in a seven-day period from November 11 to 2, including Saturday and Sunday, the box office totaled 1500 million U.S. dollars, while the box office dropped sharply in the second seven days, only 1700 million U.S. dollars. million dollars!Looking at such a box office trend, Jia Hongjian guessed that the film's box office in North America was less than 1000 million, and a box office of 11 million US dollars is already very good!It turns out that by the beginning of December, the box office has basically stagnated at the threshold of 2 million US dollars and is approaching 8 million US dollars. It is estimated that when it finally goes offline, it will be very good if it can reach 5600 million US dollars!At the same time, it is estimated that the film's overseas box office will not be too high. According to DreamWorks' internal estimates, it is between 3100 million and 1.5 million US dollars overseas, so such an "American Gangster" can eventually reach a total global box office of 12 million. The dollar is already surprising.

In fact, to be honest, there are still quite a few masterpieces with well-known names this year, such as "Die Hard 8" in August.Such a movie is the sequel to the classic action movie shot by the old Bruce Willis. Jia Hongjian has seen the first episode of this movie!It seems to be a movie that came out in 4 or when. In the movie, it said that as the protagonist of the police, he took a plane to visit his wife who was working in other places, and then came to his wife’s company to attend a party at Christmas, but who knew that terrorists came in. , Kidnapped everyone to confront the police, but missed the protagonist. As a result, the protagonist fought wits and bravery with the gangsters inside the building, and then tried to contact the local police who were as stupid as pigs outside.Such a movie has evolved into what the main character is ordered to protect a little hacker, and it turns out that the little hacker is being chased and killed. After being rescued, it turns out that a criminal group is going to hack the US power grid, traffic lights, A series of networks such as the stock market will paralyze the United States anyway.

Such a thing sounds fantastic, because on the one hand, the stock market and the power grid and other networks definitely have N firewalls, and are even directly physically isolated from the outside world, especially the internal control network of the power grid!The so-called physical isolation means that the internal control network of the direct power grid is not connected to the Internet outside, and it is a large local area network!No matter how good a hacker is, there is no way to hack into an internal network that does not check the network cable and is not connected to the Internet at all!It can be said that this kind of attack may be possible, but it definitely needs the backing of a country that is much stronger than the United States, so that agents can be used. For example, the strength of the United States may be used to bully Iraq. Come out with this effect!Under such circumstances, a group of "free" hackers without the backing of a superpower want to play this kind of thing that has almost paralyzed the United States?It is simply a fantasy!

Don't say it's a commercial film, you can just talk nonsense and don't pay attention to rationality-the final box office results really prove that this nonsense makes ordinary Americans not willing to pay for it!With an investment of US$1.1 million, which is considered a blockbuster, the box office in North America was only US$1.34 million. It can be said that the box office in North America is really not enough for the filmmakers to recover their investment!The overseas box office is still making a living. It is not known how much of the 2.5 million box office is due to the sale of the copyright. Anyway, it is estimated that this film will still make Fox a small profit in the end, but it is definitely impossible to make a big profit. .

In addition, the only Christmas file that can be said to be Jia Hongjian's "Inception" opponent is Will Smith's "I Am Legend"...(~^~)