Chapter 319: Hollywood Walk of Fame

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"Tianluodiwang 1999", which was released on the same day, only earned 14.6 million US dollars at the box office in the three days of the first weekend.

Far less than "Rush Hour 2" earned $67.4 million at the box office in three days in its first weekend.

With the arrival of the first working day of the film, the box office will inevitably decline sharply. It earned $9.47 million at the box office on Monday, $8.83 million on Tuesday, $7.3 million on Wednesday, and $6.85 million on Thursday.

Adding up the four working days, a total of US$32.45 million was earned at the box office, including the US$67.4 million box office earned in the first three days of the first weekend, and the accumulated box office of the film in North America exceeded US$100 million.

"Rush Hour 2" is the second film released by Orion Films in the summer file, and it is also the second film in the summer file to break through 100 million US dollars at the North American box office within a week.

The North American media were stunned. It was a miracle that the box office of two films in a row exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars after they were released for a week.

However, the film company that created this miracle is not the traditional seven major Hollywood film companies, but Orion Films, which has only been reorganized for a few years.

I have to sigh, with the rise of Orion Pictures and DreamWorks, the traditional pattern of Hollywood has quietly changed.

Of course, "Rush Hour 2" is not "Inception", and the film's overseas box office performance is only average, far below the level of North American hits.

But don't forget that the investment cost of this film is only 40 million U.S. dollars. In less than a week after its release, Orion Films has already recovered the cost through the North American box office.

Next, it will bring an unimaginable income to Orion Pictures.

As for another movie released by Orion Films in July, "Inception" has already reached $256 million in North American box office.

According to the predictions of a number of Hollywood evaluation agencies, the North American lower-level performance of this film is likely to reach 300 million US dollars.

If the overseas box office is counted, even if it fails to reach Ryan Gosling's expected global box office of 800 million US dollars, the final box office performance will not be much different, at least 700 million US dollars is no longer a problem.

The second working day of the film came. On Friday, "Rush Hour 2" earned another US$10.3 million box office in a single day, and the North American box office increased to US$110 million.

If nothing else, "Rush Hour 2" will surely rank among the top ten, or even the top five, on the North American box office list this year.

As a result, the North American media once again exclaimed, including "Inception", two of the three films produced by Orion Films this year can be among the top ten in the North American box office rankings at the end of the year.

This can no longer be described as a miracle.

On Saturday morning, the Hollywood Walk of Fame was crowded with many media reporters and guests who came to watch the ceremony.

Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker each received a star for their roles in Rush Hour 2.

When the two made their handprints, there was applause from all around, and many local Chinese in Los Angeles showed excitement on their faces, and they couldn't help shaking their fists fiercely to express their excitement.

Hollywood finally gave birth to a Chinese star, even a first-line Chinese star.

Starring in two films in succession, the North American box office is a big hit. Even if he is a Chinese, Jackie Chan is worth more than $10 million in salary from Hollywood studios, or simply a basic salary of $15 million.

Not far from Jackie Chan and Jackie Chan, several Chinese standing on the sidelines watching the ceremony couldn't help showing envious expressions, "In seven days, the box office in North America exceeded 100 million U.S. dollars!"

Li Ang looked at the energetic Jackie Chan, and couldn't help sighing, "It's unbelievable."

As a Hollywood director, he is very clear about the impact of the North American box office exceeding 100 million US dollars in seven days.

It is absolutely possible to make Jackie Chan a first-line star in Hollywood, and he is the second star after Bruce Lee to be recognized by Hollywood film companies and movie fans.

Even, with the commercial value he showed, Hollywood film companies would not care about his skin color.

"Okay, let's go."

"According to the time, I should meet with the executives of Orion Films, and talk about the future release plan of the film." Li An took his eyes away from Jackie Chan, and walked outside.

The post-production of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is coming to an end, and the next step is to formulate a comprehensive distribution plan.

The distribution across the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia will naturally not encounter too many problems. The key is the release and distribution in North America, Europe, Latin America and other countries and regions.

Otherwise, based on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia, he doubts whether he can recover the US$10 million shooting cost. Moreover, this film is obviously different from traditional martial arts movies, and many people in the industry do not give it a very high evaluation.

Even the word-of-mouth of the internal screening room can only barely reach the passing level.

Ryan didn't pay much attention to the release of "Rush Hour 2". As a sequel film, as long as it is released according to the normal plan, there is almost no possibility of failure, and there will be a special person in charge of the subsequent publicity.

His main focus is on the post-production of X-Men.

"Jack, the special effects should be brighter."

In the digital field studio, Ryan looked at a section of special effects that had just been produced, "The positions of the third lens and the fourth lens are slightly staggered, and the scene when the special effects are scattered is not strong enough."

Looking at the picture in front of him, Ryan gestured and said: "It should give people a feeling of being bright, even shocking."

To put it bluntly, the biggest highlight of a superhero movie, apart from the superhero characters in the movie, is mainly focused on various special effects, so that the audience can feel a sense of shock at first glance.

For this reason, I also deliberately summarized several superhero films produced by Warner Bros. and DC Comics, and watched them one by one.

Warner Bros. put more emphasis on the plot of the film, and did not pay much attention to special effects.

Obviously Ryan will not take the route of Warner Bros. The plot of "X-Men" is very simple and there will be no complicated plots.

In other words, the plot in the whole film is not the selling point, but chooses to focus on restoring the special effects of comic characters and use special effects as a selling point.

Jack carefully remembered that the special effects production plan for the entire film was planned according to Ryan's requirements, and Digital Domain and Industrial Light & Magic were only the executors.

"Next."

Ryan continued: "Jack, I want to see the most outstanding CG special effects technology in the digital field, don't care about time and cost, you and Industrial Light & Magic have sufficient time and funds."

After listening to Jack, he secretly sighed, apart from Ryan in front of him, there is no other director in Hollywood who can say such a thing.

He can even imagine that the special effects production cost of "X-Men" may exceed the budget.

Ryan doesn't know Jack's thoughts, but one thing is certain, he would rather the film's special effects production costs exceed the budget, but also achieve the desired effect.

"X-Men" is the beginning of the whole plan, and Orion Pictures will not consider profit too much.

Just like the Avengers plan of Marvel Pictures in the past, except for the two films "Iron Man" and "Thor", the box office of the remaining few films is not very satisfactory.

"Invincible Hulk" did not recover the filming cost. With an investment of 150 million US dollars, the global box office of the film was only 264 million US dollars.

However, Marvel Pictures didn't care about the gains and losses of one or two films. Their real goal is to complete the assembly of the Avengers on the big screen.

The same is true for Ryan and Orion Pictures' plans at the moment. "X-Men" is just the beginning. In addition to sequel films, they will also prepare to shoot "Wolverine", "Deadpool" and other films.

The original "X-Men" filmed 12 series of films, that is to say, even if the special effects production cost of the first "X-Men" was too high, Orion Pictures could not get much profit.

But the next dozen or so films will continue to bring a lot of income to Orion Films.

To put it bluntly, as long as the first "X-Men" is released successfully, then in the next ten years, the "X-Men" series alone will be enough to support a new Hollywood giant.

What's more, in addition to "X-Men", Ryan also intends to personally direct the "Spider-Man" series of films.

You know, in the previous life, as long as the performance of Sony Pictures declined, they began to prepare for the filming of "Spider-Man". Every time "Spider-Man" was released, Sony Pictures, which was in a trough, could be rejuvenated.

Ryan clearly remembered that in his previous life, Sony Pictures filmed a total of six "Spider-Man" films, among which the one with the lowest global box office was more than 700 million US dollars, which was even more dazzling than the achievements of "X-Men".

"Marvel Pictures intends to hold a banquet and invite some of the more well-known film critics in North America to participate."

Sofia Coppola walked in a long time ago, and didn't step forward until she saw that Ryan and Jack had finished talking, "It seems that they want to build a good relationship with a group of film critics."

Public relations banquets like this ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ are staged almost every day in Hollywood.

Critics!

Ryan looked up at Sophia and said, "Cancel, just say what I mean."

"'X-Men' is a commercial superhero movie, and it's hard to get the approval of film critics."

"Also, film critics don't have as much influence on the box office as they see."

For example, when the first "Star Wars" was released, countless film critics in North America gave negative reviews, belittled the creativity of the film, and thought it was the most failed film.

But "Star Wars" has achieved success, a box office result that is enough to silence the critics.

Also, "The Shawshank Redemption" was highly praised by film critics, but the box office of this film was pitifully low, and it hit the street to the extreme. It is estimated that the production company and distribution company have not recovered the cost until now.

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