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Chapter 290 "Pirates 2" North American box office first week 1700 million

"Where's the car?"

"gone!"

"gone?"

Gao Damao nodded to Sun Yizhen, and then explained: "Well, let's go, Master Liu is in a hurry to bet on horse racing."

"If you like gambling so much, why do you still need to work? Call He Jing and ask her to fire everyone on the driver's line."

Jiang Liu finished speaking coldly and turned to Son Yejin: "Let's walk around Victoria Harbor to find a restaurant, feel the sea breeze on our faces, and enjoy the gorgeous lights."

Son Ye-jin, who was in love, naturally said what her lover said: "I think it's great, but Oppa, your expression just now was very fierce, I've never seen it before."

Jiang Liu nodded and said, "Gamblers don't deserve mercy."

Zhao Wenhong, who was walking side by side with Gao Damao, muttered unconsciously, "I won't talk about finding a lover." It was not a good thing, and Gao Damao could only pretend not to hear it.

Four awards may seem like a lot, but compared to the total of 16 award nominations for the two films, including Best Picture, they are very few.

"Have you found yourself afraid of heights in life?"

From an artistic point of view, Jiang Liu hopes that Son Ye-jin will not miss every scene in "Thieves", no matter whether it is dangerous or not.

The two co-productions he directed, "Monster" and "Apes", successively achieved high viewership in South Korea. The former is still the box office champion in South Korea.

It can start from personal feelings.

The two movies also had the potential to win awards based on their plots, but in the end the Blue Dragon Awards only gave "Monster" the Best Technical Award, the Most Viewers Award, and the Best Lighting Award.

There is a lot of food in the tea restaurant, but most of it is a variety of snacks, but they taste really good.

"I thought I could see you at the 24th Blue Dragon Awards."

Son Yejin shook her head: "Oppa, I will protect myself."

"Apes" only won the award for best screenplay.

It was getting dark early. The group of people walked not far and chose a nearby tea restaurant that looked quite high-end.

Son Ye-jin wiped the fine sweat from the tip of her nose, and said proudly and eagerly: "Of course I want to act. I have never filmed a dangerous scene with Wiia."

Son Ye-jin frequently praised "the rice rolls and pineapple oil are delicious." Jiang Liu and several grown men thought the pineapple oil was too sweet, and Hu Tianhai ate two or three bowls of wonton noodles.

Jiang Liu hopes that Son Ye-jin will use a stand-in as much as possible for dangerous scenes.

She is the female lead in "Thieves", but her salary is only 40 yuan, more than 7300 million won, so it is not worth fighting for her life.

After all, if a stand-in is used, the camera can only shoot the side face and the back of the head. In terms of film art and the director, the stand-in shot is disastrous and has no art at all.

"Oppa, you have such a good memory, you actually remember Sister Minshu."

After sucking the last piece of lasagna, Jiang Liu asked Son Ye Jin: "The assistant director said that you don't want a substitute and are going to participate in the Wia scene in "Thieves". Is it your personal idea or the suggestion of your manager Jin Minshu?"

"It's up to you." Jiang Liu nodded, picked up the bowl and took a sip of noodle soup.

"I did send an invitation letter to the Blue Dragon Award in December last year, but I was too busy and couldn't go." Jiang Liu said against his will.

After eating, Jiang Liu drove Gao Damao and others back to the hotel, so that he and Sun Yezhen could walk and eat more freely and intimately.

The reason for this is that Jiang Liu did not bother to attend the meeting and did not give face to Korean filmmakers.

The more essential factor is that Jiangliu is an anomaly.

The old proverb "Those who are not of my race must have different minds" are actually not out of date when it comes to the more popular concept of Blue Star Village.

If Jiang Liu were a Korean director, I believe that based on the audience's reputation for "Monster" and "Apes", winning the three major awards of Korea's Blue Dragon, Daejong and Baeksang would be a success.

As for the award targeting Korean filmmakers, Jiang Liu is not angry at all. He has no desire to win awards, and he just wants Korean audiences to continue to like his movies.

At present, it seems that the problem is not big.

As soon as the winners of the Blue Dragon Awards came out in December last year, there were a lot of young Korean viewers who expressed their dissatisfaction with "Monster" and "Apes". The Blue Dragon Awards jury was under a lot of pressure and almost apologized for this.

With the sea breeze blowing and chatting about the interesting and embarrassing things that happened to the two of them in the past few months after their separation in Los Angeles, Jiang Liu and Son Yejin returned to the hotel with excitement.

There was no excitement this evening.

The filming cycle of "Thieves" is three months, and Son Ye-jin's scenes were filmed for at least one and a half months, which was enough for the two of them to get tired of it for a long time.

Son Ye-jin even prepared a set of disguises, including a baseball cap and sunglasses, in order to successfully enter Jiang Liu's room and go out with Jiang Liu in the future.

She is also famous.

Her last film "Out" grossed more than 30 billion yen at the box office after landing in Japan, nearly 2000 million U.S. dollars, which was almost the same as "Apes". It broke the box office record of Korean movies in Japan and made her one of the most popular movies in Japan. The most famous Korean popular actress.

The next day, the first day of March, it was a good start.

Jiang Liu led Yan Yan and other behind-the-scenes crew members, as well as Tony Leung Ka-fai, Son Ye-jin, Gao Yuanyuan, Hu Ge and many other film creative staff to Aberdeen to burn incense and worship the four gods. The movie "Thieves" was secretly filmed.

I didn’t dare to invite the media.

The media in Hong Kong and the paparazzi are more annoying than the media in the mainland. If they don't do it well, they will be beaten by Jiang Liu.

But Bernard came unexpectedly.

"It's arranged, why are you going to James Cameron's set?"

Jiang Liu said: "Don't worry, we'll go after filming "Thieves"."

20th World Fox, Cameron couldn't wait to beg for an interview, wasn't it because he saw how much money he had in his hand.

"Avatar" was only released at the end of 2009, more than three years before it was released. He jumped into it at this time and wondered how much money he would have to invest in Cameron.

When it comes to investing, it is natural to maximize the benefits of the least amount of money. The longer it is delayed, the more benefits he will extract from 20th Century Fox.

Bernard was dumbfounded: "You can't fool people like this."

"Don't worry, I will definitely vote for Cameron, but you have also seen it, I am very busy."

"I'll give you a script. If you're satisfied with it after reading it, will you support Cameron with some money?"

"Yes, yes, but I have to raise money slowly. The U.S. dollar to RMB ratio is close to 1:8, which is a lot of money." Jiang Luming nodded while evading.

"Jiang, let's be honest with each other. Even I know that you have a lot of money in New York."

Bernard said, baring his teeth and saying: "'Pirates: Fountain of Youth' sold 1700 million US dollars in its first week in North America. Disney is going crazy, and so am I."

"I was the one who brought "Pirates" to North America, but now I don't get a share of the box office, god! Columbia Pictures is worthy of being the goddess of failure. That bastard Shore will definitely be kicked off the board of directors by Columbia investors this time just like he kicked me. "

This news is new enough.

Even Jiang Liu heard it for the first time.

The news he received before flying to Hong Kong was that the North American premiere of "Pirates 2" was doing well at the box office. Unexpectedly, it grossed US$1700 million in the first week.

An absolute surprise.

The success of "Pirates 2" in North America not only proves that Jiang Liu took the right path in making "Pirates" in the past few years, but also effectively blocked Disney.

Sony Columbia Pictures' "The Legend of Zorro" suffers blood loss.

20th Century Fox's "Kingdom of Heaven" failed at the box office and is still stuck in the quagmire of "Avatar."

Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean" also has problems.

With such support, the box office performance of Water Pictures, the North American branch of One Heart, which has released "Planet of the Apes" and "Pirates 2", has become more and more eye-catching.

If the North American film industry wants to make money, Xiangshui Pictures should open its arms to Yixin and let Yixin enter the North American film market.

(End of this chapter)