Time flies, and the 2007 movie summer vacation arrives in a gradually hot weather.

On May 4, "Spider-Man 3", with a production cost of 258 million, debuted, "Shrek 3", which cost 160 million on May 18, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", which cost 300 million on May 25, arrived, and the three blockbusters took the lead in bombing theaters!

"Spider-Man 3" dominated the North American weekly chart for two weeks, and it was crazy at the box office, and four weeks later it was 310 million North American box office/824 million global box office, and "28 Weeks of Shock", "Georgian Law", and "Three-legged Cat Force" in the same period were all blown to pieces, but as the last game in this series, it only had a poor 63%/41%/54% Rotten Tomatoes index. Roger Albert smashed 2/4 of a Rotten Tomatoes: "Too many villains, too many pale plots, too many romantic misunderstandings, too many conversations, too many street crowds looking at the sky here and exclaiming 'oooh!', then turning their heads over there and exclaiming 'aaah!'"

May 18-24 weekly champion "Shrek 3" is not much better in terms of ratings, with a Rotten Tomatoes index of 41%/48%/57%, and Roger Albert smashed a score of 2.5/4: "It uses the wrong slapstick thinking as a reason for fun." In fact, bouncing, energetic character stories are the easiest to write, because none of them are creative, and their actions are all set in stone. But so what?" really can't stop it, 15 days later, the box office of 227 million/250 million, a big overseas box office has not landed, and it is expected that 700 million will be no problem worldwide in the end.

When it ended on May 25-31, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" took over the weekly championship with 160 million without any suspense, with a total box office of 173 million/476 million, once again hitting the global box office of one billion for the pirate series. However, there is only a 45%/34%/74% Rotten Tomatoes index behind the scenery, Roger Albert did not write a comment, probably too lazy to watch it, and "The Detroit News's Tom Lang" smashed a C rating: "The film is nearly three hours long, and it continues the senseless atrocities of the second film, while at the same time completely missing the romantic charm of the first part." ”

Although none of them can break the crazy record of "Firefly", it is sure to be a very good hit! However, none of the three blockbuster blockbusters in May can make the film critics and even the fans and audiences applaud unanimously.

In this case, people are looking forward to the 140 million production cost of "Iron Man", this superhero comic book movie produced and adapted by Wang Yang, directed by Jon Favreau, starring Robert Downey Jr., Rachel McYaks and others, what will it be?

Previously, "Dead Silence" was hurriedly painted 5 weeks after its screening, and only received 26.28 million North American box office, and Universal lost a fortune; "Dead and Blind" is currently screened in 319 theaters, and has received 5.08 million box office, and it is estimated that it will eventually receive about 800-10 million, and Lionsgate has made a small profit; "The Green Hornet", which has been in theaters for 11 weeks, is still missing in 165 theaters, and it has collected 202 million North American box office and 514 million global box office, and Flame is another blockbuster classic.

FF proved its ability to make superhero films for the first time, which made Warner Bros. feel a lot more at ease, and also made fans look forward to more, "The Dark Knight" has started filming in early April, Christopher Nolan led Christian Bale, Heath Ledger and others to create a new Gotham Town crisis, "Firefly 2" started filming in late May, as early as half a month ago, the Tranquility was assembled in Vancouver again for martial arts training, etc., Jessica is naturally one of them.

However, she is very reluctant to leave Keke, even if it is uncomfortable to have video conversations every day and fly back to Los Angeles for reunions on weekends, and she is afraid that after a long time, Keke will not become the closest to her......

In order to make Jessica have the best working condition, and at the same time one of the screenwriters and planners of "Firefly 2", when the production of "I Am Legend" was completed, Wang Yang took Keke and Danny to Vancouver. Before the release of "I Am Legend", he was mainly involved in the promotion work on the one hand, and on the other hand, he officially started the substantive preparation period of the next 3D film.

Due to the high and low-key secrecy, the media don't know what information about this film for the time being, but it is rumored that "Magic Yang intends to make a 3D sci-fi film", and their shots are focused on "Iron Man" and "I Am Legend", which is also the effect that Wang Yang and Flame want.

On June 1st, the second film of this summer will be released! The long-publicized superhero blockbuster "Iron Man" has landed in 4,154 North American theaters and entered nearly 60 overseas markets at the same time!

I probably think that "Iron Man" may be miserable, or it will not be so domineering, and the later films such as "Ocean's Thirteen" are not docile at all, the premiere week of the three blockbusters in May is a large-scale release of their own films, but in the first week of June, there are three others: the comedy "One Night Big Belly" (PD30 million) in 2871 theaters, the thriller "Mr. Brooks" (PD20 million) in 2453 theaters, and the sports film "Football Girl" in 1164 theaters (PD9 million).

War is on the verge of breaking out!

"Well, I haven't spoken like this for a while, so I just read it. On the big screen, Tony Stark looked at the packed audience, took out a transcript, and began to read: "Some people suspect that I have something to do with the accident on the highway and the roof of the company...... when the female reporter Christine suddenly interrupts him: "Sorry, interrupt! Mr. Stark, do you really think we will believe the phrase 'armored bodyguards falling from the sky'? and ......"

Tony interrupted her as well: "I know it's a little incredible! It's one thing to be skeptical of the official explanation, but it's another to insinuate that I'm a superhero and condemn me." The female reporter laughed: "I didn't say you were a superhero. There was a burst of laughter in the screening room, and Tony muttered to himself, "No? that's good, because that's weird and ridiculous...... I am obviously not a hero, I have a lot of shortcomings, and I have made many mistakes......" Colonel Rhodes next to him reminded him: "Read according to the script." Tony nodded.

He lifted the script and continued: "Actually, ......" he said but stopped, the flash was still shining, he didn't want to evade responsibility anymore, and said lightly: "I am Iron Man." ”

"Wow-" All the reporters Huo Di got up and rushed up, the voice recorders and cameras were busy, and the gossip questions formed a murmur. In the close-up, Tony's calm face on the big screen freezes and turns into a comic page, and the end credits are lit up one by one: "Director: Jon Favreau, Screenwriters: Wang Yang, Mark Ferggs, Hawk Osterby; Producer: Wang Yang, Susan Downey......"

"Huhuhu-" accompanied by the passionate ending song, the screening hall fell into a boil, and the audience was as sensational as the reporters, and they spontaneously applauded and applauded, it was so funny and shocking! Another masterpiece! Another superhero masterpiece!

The film was screened for two hours, from the bohemian and arrogant genius prodigal son in the opening stage, to the tense excitement of the disaster, and then to the return ...... Until the battle and finale, audiences all over North America were fascinated, almost two hours passed in the blink of an eye, handsome to the explosive Downey, spicy and calm Rachel, all of them, superb performances, fascinating stories, humorous and interesting lines, gorgeous and real special effects, wonderful and smooth action fights...... Everything is brought out to the fullest!

Maybe "Iron Man" is not the best movie of the summer, because of "I Am Legend", but there will be no doubt that it will be the most enjoyable and exciting film! The audience Austin Ashkin thinks that the action scenes of "Spider-Man 3" are very good, but its writing is long and boring, especially the lines are too didactic, and "Iron Man" is too cool! "Transformers" will be better? Maybe, it belongs to "Iron Man" now!

"Wow-" The smiling audience was amazed, cool, handsome, refreshing, and adrenaline-pumping...... It's a crazy movie!They started getting up and leaving their seats, laughing and talking to friends and even strangers: "Unbelievable! Magic Young won!", "Favreau didn't disappoint, Donnie played it fantastic!", "Wow, I really like the opening paragraph, I've never seen it before!", "Wang Yang is that kind of person, right?", "I love Magic Young!!......

"Wang Yang + Robert Downey Jr. is this movie. —4/4, Richard Rope, Ebert & Roeper; Iron Man may not be a member of the first echelon of Marvel Comics, behind Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, but he may be a movie superhero we can rely on. —4/4, Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter; For many years, there have been only a handful of outstanding superhero movies, and "Iron Man" is one of them. —4/4, James Pladinari, Reel Vies; "It's a summer bombshell that does its smartest job, no bombardment." —3.5/4, Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune;

"It inherits all the personal charm of Wonder Young, except for the attitude towards women, a discredited playboy completed by Robert Downey Jr., who has a past. —3.5/4, Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune; Despite some adrenaline-pumping moments, Favreau and Downey remain focused on the true story of the perfect script, a man who learns to take responsibility for his actions. All of its firepower and CGI are so well made that it really makes Iron Man fly. —3.5/4, Frank Levis, Newsday......

Rotten Tomatoes includes 205 film reviews, 98% of the freshness of popular film critics, 95% of the freshness of well-known film critics!95% of audience liking (259639 of participating users)!IMDb network 8.6 points, the film critics and the audience were impressed and fascinated, the whole world gave a thumbs up, and the perfect evaluation response!

"Rapid, fun, extremely exciting entertainment. —3.5/4, Carrie Ricky, The Philadelphia Inquirer;" "Iron Man" has officially turned summer hot, and other films hardly dare to compete with the competition. "—3.5/4, Peter Travers, Rolling Stone;" "Iron Man" is really a great escapist entertainment! It deserves to be the first 07 summer bombshell dropped by Wang Yang. —4/4, Bill Jurken, Chicago Sun-Times; "Iron Man" is bound to be one of the most memorable blockbusters of the summer of '07. —3.5/4, Peter Howell, Toronto Star......

If The Green Hornet is an unconventional action comedy, Iron Man is the most traditional and unique summer blockbuster!

The opening day champion without suspense, the weekend champion without suspense...... When June 1-7 passed, "Iron Man" became the weekly box office champion in North America without any suspense! How could the three new films think that they had a chance to share the box office with "Iron Man"? Movie fans sighed one after another, it was so stupid!

Picturehouse, an independent filmmaker that gained fame and fortune last year with the release of "Pan's Labyrinth" (PD19 million, box office 37.63 million/83.25 million; 2/6 Oscars), has lined up 8 new films in one go this year, but "Football Girl", on which they had high hopes, only had 1.93 million box office in the first week (average single library $1,666), 60%/50%/61% on Rotten Tomatoes , the portrait house was completely stupid by this huge blow, what's going on!!

"Mr. Brooks" made MGM sigh for a long time, it grossed 10.68 million in the first week (average $4,353 per store), 55%/47%/75% on Rotten Tomatoes, and another loss.

Originally, "One Night Belly" was a model film that was a blockbuster, but the development and pattern of today's comedy, R-rated comedy, and pregnancy-themed comedy have long been different, under the impact of many hilarious films, "One Night Belly" has not changed much to become that kind of ordinary film, which is quite funny, but there are no surprises, it has a good Rotten Tomatoes index of 2%/75%, and the box office in the first week is mediocre 26.22 million (average single library $9,132).

And the first ...... The report of BOM is titled "Iron Man Ignition and Takeoff", which is magical and terrifying! The fourth blockbuster this summer, crazy! It collected 162 million North American box office in 7 days, with an average of $3 per museum! and 327 million global box office!

"Flame Films has created another miracle, producer and Flame Chairman Wang Yang said: 'It's a fantastic start, but it deserves this. ’”

Brandon Gray's report reads: "A new milestone has been erected, and the roaring Iron Man has made a sensation. Its opening weekend (130 million) is the second-best film adaptation of Marvel Comics in history, behind the best record "Spider-Man 3" (151 million), and it is the best in the first game in the series.

This means that another surprise hero is in the limelight on the big screen, and the flame film with the film franchise resurrects a superhero who has been hidden in the snow for many years, CEO Mark Slunt said, 'We are fortunate to have this strong brand, it represents quality family entertainment, and it has proven that audiences of all ages love 'Tony Stark', and now, we can confidently launch a full creative launch.'"

In the face of the recent drought of highly-rated films, "Iron Man" is an oasis with the box office performance of superhero films in the upper echelon. Previously, only the most popular superheroes reached such heights, namely "Spider-Man", "Batman", "Superman", "X-Men", while the second echelon "Fantastic Four", "Hulk Hulk", "Ghost Rider", "Daredevil Man" was in the middle tier. In the commercial, Iron Man is a smart and funny figure and shows the character's characteristic personality, and who doesn't love the latest, witty, happy superhero?

According to the Flame Films' Exit Data Poll, 65% of viewers are male and 55% are over 25 years old. What's more, audiences seem to enjoy the film as it received an 'A' in both CinemaScore and Mojo user polls. ”

A middle-level superhero is put on the big screen, and it is even more popular than Superman and Batman! Xinline, one of the investors, is very happy, this achievement is amazing; Xinxian is very sad, beating his chest, oh my God! Why did the copyright of "Iron Man" sell to the flame movie! Why! Why......

But then again, why can such an underappreciated and broken project as "Iron Man" have such a huge charm and explosion? If it weren't for Magic Young, who knows what would have happened? Anyway, no one dares to question whether his decision is correct or not, facts speak louder than words, and Jon Favreau's work this time is no worse than any big Hollywood director, or even better!

"Weapons of mass destruction in Hollywood: Wang Yang, Robert Downey Jr., previously undiscovered: Jon Favreau. —3.5/4, Claudia Pugh, USA Today; A trendy, best-written, and best-directed superhero movie. It joins the summer movie season in a brilliant way. —4/4, Lu-Luminique, New York Post;" Superheroes with as many brains as muscles appear. —3.5/4, Chris Vogna, Dallas Morning News; Even though "Iron Man" fulfills the obligations of the genre, it surpasses other films. —3.5/4, Christopher Orr, The New Republic......

When June 8-14 passed, "Iron Man", which swept the world, won the North American weekly championship with 72.57 million (-55.2%)! The total box office was 234 million/474 million! The whole earth quickly blew a steel storm!

The runner-up "Ocean's Thirteen" only disappointed Warner Bros. with a first-week box office of 50.7 million (average $14,223 per venue), a Rotten Tomatoes index of 70%/59%/74%, and an all-star cast that failed;

"Iron Man" naturally established its important position on the screen in one fell swoop, but Paramount's heart was beating the drum with anxiety, is this the evil result of "The Amazing Director"? Will the robot market be eaten up first? "Transformers" on July 6!! And they are very worried about how many fresh tomatoes Michael Bay will receive, even if the producer is Spielberg, especially if it has to face a bizarre blockbuster like "I Am Legend".

"What about me, what about me?" The new line over there was happy and sad, and the Warner Bros. executives here were like a candy kid, how they wished that "The Dark Knight" would have the momentum of "Iron Man"! But Alan F. Horn and the others were certainly not stupid people, and seeing that "Iron Man" was booming, what else was there to question? The word miracle was designed for Wang Yang! They really changed their attitude, showing favor to the Nolan brothers and currying favor with Wang Yang, and they didn't mention the wordy words before.

Wang Yang did not forget his original promise, he wrote on his blog: "Hi guys, have you watched Iron Man? Jon Favreau, they have done a very good job!!Robert Downey Jr., you are half as handsome as me!LOL, Rachel McAdams is too spicy! By the way, those old guys who bet on it badly, have you read it? How do you feel? Give me a reply. ”

Most of those who questioned it disappeared, and there were only occasional hard-mouthed "Iron Man is disgusting!" in the praise of the blockbuster on the reply message board, which was not as much as the courtship of Yang fan female fans.

"My boyfriend loves this kind of thing the most, so he forced me to watch every superhero movie so far. I must say that "Iron Man" is one of the rarities, it has incredible fun and a full entertaining story, and it is enjoyable!" – Saskia, four stars; "One of the greatest superhero movies of all time, Wang Yang + Robert Downey Jr. is the best, Captain Marr is a genius modern version. —DreamExtractor, 5 stars, "Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! A powerful shock! Can be enjoyed by non-comic book fans. —Richard P, five stars;

"Iron Man is scary to other superhero movies! It makes them seem very childish! Brilliant movie, 'I'm Iron Man. —Owen D, five-star; "Amazing movie, Tony Stark, Pepper is portrayed so perfectly, miraculously great." "How else can you praise Marvel Young? Incredible! Brilliant acting, great action, full of witty lines and a tense and exciting perfectly scripted story, you'll just love it, it's as delicious as jam! It's the best superhero movie, epic, I haven't seen it in years." —Simon O, five-star......

Robert Downey Jr. is another classic screen image, which can be described as adding fuel to the fire, who is the brightest A-list superstar in Hollywood right now?

There is no doubt that one by one audition invitations and one film contract after another were sent to Downey's brokerage team, but this former prodigal son, now a happy man, is the number one partner of Flame Movies, in addition to the currently filming "Firefly 2", the future "Iron Man 2", "Due Date", he will star in a new flame film.

Bringing Lionel Wigram's comic book "Sherlock Holmes" to the screen! This project was proposed, established and led by Lin Wei, vice president of production, and it is expected to be filmed in the fourth season next year and released at the end of 2009. This is also Lin Wei's promotion, if "Sherlock Holmes" can be a big success, he will be promoted to the president of the production department and get a partnership share. At the same time, Susan Downey, who has credited "Firefly" and "Iron Man", has officially joined the flames as co-president of the production department, and she will also be the producer of "Sherlock Holmes".

"Iron Man is an unusual superhero movie, high-concept popcorn. —4/5, -Scott, The New York Times; This gadget is absolutely dazzling. Too much exhilarating action, flashing comedic fun provides a huge amount of dramatic energy. —4/4, Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal; A super confident, well-made entertainment. It's destined to accelerate the obsolescence of other summer blockbusters. —A, Tom Charlotte, CNN;"Iron Man did something I didn't expect, it made this yesteryear inferior man look like a superhero with integrity like God." —A+, Ethan Ott, Giant Magazine;

At the end of the day, Iron Man lifted off and broke away from most other superhero movies. —4/4, Roger Albert, Chicago Sun-Times......

Time passed in a hurry, and the box office of the superhero masterpiece "Iron Man" is growing day by day, striding towards 600 million and 700 million!

In this case, "Fantastic Four 2" (PD130 million), which has a Rotten Tomatoes index of 37%/34%/55%, although it took over the weekly championship with 67.45 million (average single venue $17,037), looks like a big surprise, which proves how wise Rachel is not to return to play Invisible Woman and switch to Pepper.

If 20th Century Fox frowns at the box office performance of "Fantastic Four 2" and is tolerable, at least the global box office will probably be able to recover the production costs, promotional copies and other expenses in the later stage; "Fake Gods 2" (PD175 million) made Universal cry from ear to ear, with a box office of 45.53 million in the first week (an average of $12,635 per museum), and a Rotten Tomatoes index of 23%/8%/56%, no Jim Carrey = finished; Entering the theater, the former won the weekly championship from June 29 to July 5 with 80.51 million, and this summer has entered July.

In order to cope with the brutal main battlefield, "Transformers" has already rescheduled its release date to July 6, and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" has also been postponed by two days to Saturday, July 13.

What makes them so messy? On July 6, "I Am Legend" will be released worldwide!

(To be continued)