Director’s Legend

October 14-16 is another three-day weekend. "The Expendables 2" was drawn in the last box office in Japan, with a total box office of 330 million U.S. dollars, surpassing the previous work and a great success. In this regard, Summit Entertainment and Stallone immediately announced that "The Expendables 3" has begun preparations. The new movie will invite Chinese martial arts superstars such as Cheng Long and Zhenzi Dan to join.

In the North American battlefield, "The Night Watcher: Reflection" once again achieved three consecutive championships with US$24.8 million. The total box office in North America was US$200 million, the overseas revenue was US$85 million, and the global box office was US$285 million. It was a hot mess. Becoming the most attractive movie in the off-season, word-of-mouth box office bursts.

The original investment of "The Night Watcher" was US$150 million and the box office was US$98 million. The investment of the new work is US$20 million, and the box office has been US$285 million, and praises are endless. In contrast, it's really a big difference!

From October 21st to 23rd, the much-watched "Smart: Ghost Record 3" was released, stealing the title of "Night Watcher: Reflection", but this week "Night Watcher: Reflection" still got 12 million US dollars , Ranked second at the box office. Overseas, it once again received 75 million US dollars, with a global box office of 375 million US dollars.

From October 28th to 30th, "The Soul", which was released one step earlier, was successfully finished with a global box office of US$316 million. Next week, Summit Entertainment's final highlight of the year "The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire" will be released simultaneously worldwide. And the acclaimed "Night Watcher: Reflection" got 6.1 million US dollars in box office in North America, and the global box office accumulated to 410 million US dollars.

It is moving towards the height of 450 million US dollars in the world, and the impact is firm.

On November 4, 2011, "The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire" was released on a large scale in 4560 theaters in North America, and the world was also released on the same day. The first "Hunger Games" was US$410 million in North America and US$640 million was harvested globally. It can be expected that this sequel will ignite this year's box office boom.

The highest domestic box office record in North America this year is the US$381 million set by "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2. "The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire" is aimed at the record of seven hits.

Three days after the war, the weekend box office was released.

"The Night Watcher: Reflection" will be released globally after this week, with a total box office of US$270 million in North America and US$462 million in the global box office, ending with such a perfect record. Counting the first "Nightman", the two films have invested 170 million US dollars in total, harvested 560 million US dollars, and still made a profit, and washed Shao Shuaijun's only failure record.

"Shao Shuaijun’s success is unparalleled. The only thing he lacks compared to Nolan is that he has never been able to have a movie that exceeds $1 billion at the box office. Regarding the changing style and quantity of movies, Nolan can’t catch up with Shao. The fastest and most popular director in Hollywood to make movies!"-"Time".

"A good director can turn decadence into a miracle, and Shao Shuaijun is undoubtedly one."-"Wall Street Reporter".

"In his seven years as a director, Shao's global box office generated by 13 films reached US$4.08 billion. This data put him in the film history record. He is second only to Steven Spielberg. The global box office of the film is 8.1 billion U.S. dollars, the global box office of James Cameron 7 films is 5.17 billion U.S. dollars, and the 9 Michael Bay films are 4.58 billion U.S. dollars. Currently, it is the fourth largest director in the global box office. -Mojo.

A single film is over US$300 million, including six Chinese-language films. If only seven films shot in Hollywood are counted, the single film is US$470 million. With such a high data, Shao Shuaijun is enough to be proud of the top of the martial arts.

What's more, Shao Shuaijun's biggest investment in a superhero movie "The Avengers" has also been completed and will be released next year. According to the forecast of the authorities, the Women's Federation also uses 1 billion US dollars as a conservative estimate. As soon as this data came out, Michael Bay was definitely surpassed, and Cameron was also very likely to be surpassed.

Of course, Cameron is a full-fledged director. He has made 7 films in decades. The total box office is not enough to show that Shao Shuaijun really surpassed the king of the world. Because Cameron's single-film box office has surpassed 700 million US dollars, when the sequel of the Avatar series is released, I don't know how high it will soar.

But in any case, the global movie circle has begun to worship Shao Shuaijun.

In the studio of "The Fantastic Drifting of Juvenile School", Shao Shuaijun accepted interviews with reporters from several investigative teams including Time.com.

The reporter asked: "Director Shao, with "The Night Watcher: Reflection", you successfully promoted to the top 4 billion directors. This is the most successful example of Chinese directors in the world. For your success, what do you think are the necessary factors for success? A director?"

Shao Shuaijun smiled and replied: "I don't know how to define it, but let me tell you what I learned from "The Night Watcher" to "The Night Watcher: Reflection". From the beginning, I felt that "The Night Watcher" "It’s a very good idea, but it was terrible after it was filmed, and then the movie was supplemented and it was successful again. It’s like, you deal with the movie, the movie will deal with you, you have found the trick to the movie, the movie Just use it for you. To make a movie, you must be able to make a movie. In terms of the overall situation, you can look at a movie. You can pursue the details, but the whole frame cannot be separated."

The reporter did not understand. Shao Shuaijun gave another example: "The frame can be picked up by a single line. What is this line. It can be emotional, it can be the main theme, it can be what you want to say, but it can't be ignored. This line talks about some other things.

In "The Night Watcher", one of my lines is the conflict between procedural justice and moral justice, but I deliberately pursued superheroes to be cool and broke this line. Therefore, the movie failed to pick up. "The Night Watcher: Reflection" is still the same line, I weakened the superhero, the line was not broken, so the movie was picked up.

For another example, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" directed by Yuen Li opened the era of Chinese blockbusters, but only one successful "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". why? Because Li Yu is very obvious that the line he wants to talk about is not a blockbuster or martial arts, so when you watch the movie, all the people who hang Weiya are exposed, but the line he wants to talk about firmly binds the movie.

Other blockbusters have beautiful pictures and martial arts, but you forgot this line, so you can't pick it up. Why are so many directors unable to get out of this small circle? It was because he didn't hold the line, and fell apart after shaking. Why can Hollywood blockbusters target markets with different cultural styles? Because they hold this line, no matter what packaging is changed, personal heroism remains the same, everyone has a heroic dream, so Hollywood swept the world.

Knowing how to be a hero, can success be far behind? In "The Night Watcher: Reflection", what I portray is not a hero of another mode. "

"Director Shao has made many successful films before, has he caught this line?" a reporter asked.

"It can be said that they all have their own lines, open lines or dark lines."

"The success of "The Night Watcher: Reflection", does Director Shao have anything to say, or he is numb. You already have too many successful hit movies."

Shao Shuaijun smiled brightly: "I am very happy this time. I think this is the most successful film I have made in the past 7 years of directing a film. This is not as simple as making up for regrets. When you achieve great success, once Frustration may affect you for many years. There is an old saying that "I was bitten by a snake for ten years and I was afraid of the ropes." This is the same for me. The failure of "Night Watcher" has been cherished for four years, if not Picking up this regret, I suspect that one day I will continue to fail and then collapse. So now I am very happy, the happiest moment in seven years."

"After "The Night Watcher: Reflection" and "The Avengers", do you have a new movie plan?"

"Not yet. I am now tinkering with Li Yu on "The Fantastic Drifting of the Youth Pie", and I will learn 3D technology systematically. It is very substantial, so there is no directing plan yet."

"Dream Dream Entertainment Group was reorganized into Dream Dream International Holding Group. How did you change your role in this?"

Shao Shuaijun thought for a while and said: "I used to arrange some movies that I valued for the company. From now on, I will no longer interfere with the company's operations. I am just a simple director. The company asks me to make movies, and I will take the movies. , And then calculate how much money is given to me, nothing more."

"Does it feel okay to stay away from the operation of the company?"

"Very well, I like this kind of life very much. I don't need to worry about more things. I can have more time to arrange my own private life. It's very good."

"The Night Watcher: Reflection" was a big success, and Shao Shuaijun finally proved that he is a qualified director. Therefore, the reporters came to interview today, and Shao Shuaijun was very cooperative and tried his best to answer questions that he could answer. The reporters also felt that Shao Shuaijun was very good at talking today. The questions were one after another. From noon to afternoon, it took a full three hours of interviews before they disappeared.

Shao Shuaijun exhaled a long suffocation from his throat that was about to burst into flames, and took Li Yu and the others to go for a drink to celebrate the box office victory.

Shao Shuaijun's life is chic and comfortable, and Summit Entertainment once again shocked Hollywood.

"The Hunger Games 2 Catching Fire" was eagerly anticipated and won the North American box office championship on the first weekend of November. On the premiere day, it jumped to the top with an overwhelming advantage of 70.5 million US dollars, creating the highest first-day drawing performance in the history of the North American film market in November, and also stepping on the 67.3 million first-day drawing performance of the previous film "The Hunger Games" .

A weekend score of US$161 million, which became the highest record for the opening weekend of film history in November. This score also broke the premiere week scores of many movies, and was only lower than "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 2 His first weekend score of US$168.55 million ranked second in North American film history.

It is also the first 2D movie in North American film history to open the box office.

With a freshness rating of 89 on Rotten Tomatoes, a theater rating of A, and an IMDB rating of 8.4, it is a top seller and its reputation is also crazy. This basically announced the official crowning of the "Hunger Games" series as another set of well-known super-gross series.

The success of the Hunger Games series has also allowed everyone to find a reason to worship Shao Shuaijun, with outstanding vision and wisdom! (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)