At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 702 The Record-breaking "Exquisite Ancient City"

Four top female stars in Hollywood: Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Angelina Jolie and then Cameron Diaz.

They are all big stars with their own masterpieces. Cameron Diaz retired in 14 years, so many people don’t know about her previous miraculous performances, "Charlie's Angels" series, "I'm Crazy About Mary"...

Her global appeal is very strong. Basically, the global box office of the movies she starred in can be more than twice that of North America...

Julia Roberts, spokesperson for Chick Movie, "Pretty Woman", "My Best Friend's Wedding", "Notting Hill", and "Runaway Bride" are all works of word-of-mouth and box office for Double Harvest;
Sandra Bullock ranks first in stamina, but...out of the United States, not many people know her, and if there is not a "Gravity" in the later period, there will be even fewer people who know her!
Angelina Jolie is the most special.

Although there are also masterpieces, her staying power mainly accounts for the dividends of the Internet explosion.

For a star, attention is power, her personal life gets people's attention is her influence, she is indeed not very good as an actor, she is the most influential work.

However, she has been reducing production in the later period. From 10 to 19 years, only two films were released...

But... To be honest, Shen Xudong doesn't like these big stars...

It feels so far away.

And they're getting old...

Including Julie…

Shaking his head: "Angelina Jolie is still more suitable for action movies, I remember Jason said that he would make a few action movies, you can talk to him...

"Jason wants to make a few movies that can be released in mainland China. Horror movies are destined to miss the mainland market..."

"...No need, Fantastic Studios is to make movies that the American people like, don't think about foreign markets, global distribution is something that big companies only think about, our goal is only the North American market!"

Shen Xudong spoke again...

……

The mainland film market is similar to what Shen Xudong imagined. After the release of "Kung Fu Panda", it quickly attracted the audience's attention with its strong reputation.

3800 million in the first weekend, ten days of release, the box office has exceeded [-] million!
That's right, the box office of the film reached 6800 million in the second week, creating the best second-week score for an imported film this year, and becoming the first animated film in the mainland to have a box office of over [-] million.

According to many media reports: The next suspense is whether the box office of "Kung Fu Panda" can break through [-] million.

It's hard to say whether it will break 20 million, but "Back to 3" will definitely not reach [-] million...

No, it should be said that 2.5 million is very pending...

The box office in the first week was 7300 million, the box office in the second week was 8800 million, and I met "Kung Fu Panda" on the weekend of the third week, and the single-week reported 4800 million...

In the fourth week, "Kung Fu Panda" is the only one, and "Back to 20" only received 2300 million...

The cumulative box office was 2.32 million, and then, on July 7, "National Superman Hancock" was released!

Starring Will Smith.

Will Smith is at the peak of his career, able to carry the box office of various types of movies, one after another is a big hit, and without IP bonus, he can carry top-level original movies with his own ability to attract money , although there are but not many hit street works, before the spread of political correctness, Dai was loved by the whole people as a black actor.

"Independence Day" exceeded 8 million, the "Men in Black" series exceeded [-] billion worldwide, "The Rival of All People" had a global box office of nearly [-] million US dollars, "When Happiness Knocked on the Door" exceeded [-] million worldwide, and "I Am Legend" approached the global box office [-] million...

No one knows the name of Emperor Shi!

If I remember correctly, the global box office of "National Superman Hancock" seems to be 6.5 million US dollars!
It wasn't until "Return to Earth" that he stretched his hips.

Simultaneously released in China and the United States, "National Superman" won a box office of 4600 million in the first week...It directly broke the box office of "Kung Fu Panda"...

As for the filming of "Back to 20 Years Old", it was cut to less than 10%...

In addition, high-definition pirated copies have already flowed out.

At most, it is just over 2.5 million.

In North America, "National Superman" was released on Tuesday, July 7, and the box office exceeded 2 million in the first six days, surpassing "Twilight" - the box office of the latter was 5800 million US dollars in the second week...

Shen Xudong returned to China on July 7th, and was delayed by something—several private equity film funds were in contact with Wonderful Studio.

Fantastic Studios needs money for new projects -- and the film is too slow to recoup money.

From preparation to release, two years is an average cycle, and then it takes half a year to a year to settle accounts and divide accounts...

Can't all be sold to other companies?

This is too bad.

The price is too low, "Twilight" actually wants to buy out the overseas copyright for 6000 million US dollars.

It's not nonsense!
And the publisher, Paramount, will invest in the sequel...

Just leave them alone and continue to cooperate with Lionsgate.

Finally reached an agreement, Ingenious Media invested 3.5 million US dollars, five-year period, [-] films, the focus is to participate in the follow-up film development of the "Twilight" series of Wonderful Studios...

Bear more than 30% of the share...

In addition, Golden Harvest also invested 2 million US dollars to participate in projects in the next five years, and the proportion is 20%...

Everything was completed within five days, and Shen Xudong wanted to see the money arrive...

After all, he knows that the financial crisis is about to break out, and empty promises are meaningless!

Of course, the funds were injected into Wonderful Studios in batches, Ingenious Media’s first batch of funds injected 1 million US dollars, "Twilight Saga: New Moon" and "Fake Marriage" announced the approval of projects. In addition, there are five horror thrillers, including Wen Zi Ren's "Latent"...

These things are too important, after all, they are related to the money in North America, so Shen Xudong can't participate in the mainland premiere of "Exquisite Ancient City".

There is no need for him to participate, the first audience of "Exquisite Ancient City" are fans of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern"!

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The script of "Exquisite Ancient City" belongs to the traditional three-act drama, beginning, ups and downs, ending...

The difference is that the beginning part is directly zoomed in. Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang are hunting for treasure in Niuxinshan. In fact, they are tomb robbers. XJ's Chinese archaeological team...

Then we went into the desert, experienced a big storm, got trapped in the black desert, found a water source, and found a big tomb at the bottom of the well, which led to foreign tomb robbers...

I deliberately filmed the battle between the archaeological team and the overseas tomb robbers. Of course, the ending of the battle has nothing to do with wisdom or tactics—the foreigners strayed into the outskirts of Jingjue Ancient City, and the foreigners were bitten to death by fire snakes...

The next four 10 minutes are all Jingjue Gucheng climax.

Enter the temple, find the dark river, and the Queen of Essence appears...

The whole movie lasts 120 minutes, and the whole process is dizzying, with almost no time to breathe.

Except for some gags in the lines, there is no time for the audience to pee.

Gao Fenfen thinks it might be too tight, after all, the rhythm of a good commercial film is slow and urgent...

But...Shen Xudong thought it was pretty good, but the pace of "Looking for the Dragon" was too slow, making people drowsy.

As for the effect of the movie - it is not weaker than "Tongtian Empire", the use of special effects, mechanisms, and spectacle makes it obvious at a glance that this is a big production!

Xu Ke burst out with great enthusiasm.

The Xiangshan Film and Television Base cooperated in the whole process and built a bunch of wonders...

After the film was released, on the first three days, the box office was 1.014 million!
It directly refreshed all the records in the film history of the mainland...

(End of this chapter)