With the sports biopic "Invincible" winning the North American weekly box office championship from August 25 to 31, and then winning the championship from September 1 to 7, the 06 summer vacation file slowly came to an end.

Released as early as March 31, "Ice Age 3" is only a passerby this summer, it has just been released for 23 weeks, and has received 231 million/925 million box office (North America/Global), although it failed to enter the 1 billion box office club, it is undoubtedly the most successful CGI animation this summer, the most successful work at the Flame & Blue Sky box office, and one of the most successful animated films in film history.

If you talk about the North American CGI animation classification film history list, its ranking is not high, only 8th, not to mention that it is not as good as the top three "Shrek 2" (DreamWorks) with 441 million, "Finding Nemo" (Pixar) with 339 million, and "Shrek" (DreamWorks) with 267 million...... It's not as good as Cars (Pixar, No. 7), which is currently 242 million this summer, but when it comes to the global rankings (before inflation), it's No. 1!

No.1: "Ice Age 3", 925 million, Flame & Blue Sky, No.2: "Shrek 2", 919 million, DreamWorks, No.3: "Finding Nemo", 867 million, Bo Wei/Pixar, No.4: "Ice Age 2", 730 million, Flame & Blue Sky, No.5: "The Incredibles", 631 million, Bo Wei / Pixar, ...... "Time proves how right the nouveau riche snake swallows elephants in the Flame Movie back then. ”

"The Wall Street Journal" once again mentioned this sentence when it wrote an article and reported that FF acquired Blue Sky for 100 million back then, and was questioned by the outside world as Wang Yang was crazy, I don't know what to do, and he will soon regret it...... Now that those voices have long since disappeared, IA3's feat of winning the first place in the history of CGI animation really scares those who say, "Is IA enough?", how can any company say enough?

It is so majestic thanks to IMAX giant screens, 3D screens and other screening halls, and of course, thanks to the overseas market of 694 million, children of all ages around the world love this light-hearted and interesting cartoon!

Looking at this comparison, you can probably understand something, "IA3" / "Shrek 2" / "Monster Inc" (255 million / 525 million, 2001), the Austrian box office of the three films is: 13.5 million / 4.89 million / 2.45 million, Finnish box office: 5 million / 1.75 million / 270,000, Norwegian box office: 12.59 million / 5.57 million / 3.1 million ...... "IA3" exploded some small box office warehouses into medium-sized box office warehouses of tens of millions of box office, while large box office warehouses France, Germany and other countries are nearly 100 million.

However, "IA3" is not invincible, such as the British box office: 568.27 million/53.33 million, and the Japanese box office: 7.31 million/22.43 million/74.43 million...... This and hundreds of millions, that and hundreds of millions, seeing that CGI cartoons are so tempting, every filmmaker naturally wants to get a piece of the pie, and this year can be described as a blowout year for new works!

Counting only the films released on a large scale in North America, there are only 1 in 03, 5 in 04, 6 in 05, and how many in 06?

However, CGI is not a good way to go, and it is not so easy to share the cake.

"Doggy Dog" only had a box office of 7.41 million (Weinstein, released on February 24, 2006, budget not announced) and failed, followed by "Ice Age 3" with Flame & Blue Sky, 925 million, the first in film history, "Survival in the Wilderness" 37.38 million/80.52 million (Bo Wei, 4-14, 80 million production costs), failed, "Outside the Fence" 155 million/336 million (Paramount/DreamWorks, 5-19, unannounced budget), life and death unknown, "Cars" Temporary 242 million/418 million (Bo Wei, 6-9, 120 million production cost), success, "Garfield 2" 28.36 million/123 million (Fox, 6-16, unannounced budget), life and death unknown, "Monster House" 70.97 million/112 million (Sony/Columbia, 7-2175 million production cost), failure, "Don't mess with ants" 26.76 million/40.76 million (Warner Bros., 7-28, 50 million production cost), failure.

Fox's "Little Baseball Heroes" will be released on September 15, Sony/Columbia's $85 million "Jungle Offensive" will hit the screen on September 29, Paramount (DreamWorks)'s $149 million ambition "Wanderings in the Rat Country" will debut on November 3, Warner Bros.'s $100 million "Happy Feet" will be released on November 17, and MGM's $86 million "Arthur and His Mini Kingdom" is scheduled to release on December 29.

Among the 8 films that have been released, only two new works of old brands have been successful, and in the future information database in Wang Yang's mind, in terms of box office alone, these 5 films have a gratifying performance of 384 million "Happy Feet", and the others are 16.62 million, 197 million, 178 million, and 107 million respectively.

Therefore, this year's CGI animation king is destined to be "IA3", and it seems to be sitting on the throne of the global film history champion for a long, long time, and the majestic history of flame movies will inevitably continue to be admired and praised.

But there is more than one "IA3", "The Hangover 3" released on May 12 was painted offline after 17 weeks, and finally took away 214 million/528 million box office, compared to its 80 million production fee, it goes without saying whether it is successful or not, and the total production cost of the entire series is 155 million, and the total box office is 1.768 billion! In the R-rated youth comedy box office list, the top three are occupied by the drunken army 1, 2, and 3 in turn, and no one can shake it for a while.

Debuting on June 16, "Mamma Mia!" swept the world with upbeat music and dance, and after 12 weeks of screening, its box office pattern has long been determined, with a current score of 184 million/657 million, and is expected to be close to 700 million when it is completely offline.

After all, movie theaters are more popular than opera houses, more people know about Mamma-Mia!, know about the ABBA band, driven by the movie version, the stage version of Broadway and other places is hot again, Judy Kramer and others are negotiating plans for another world tour, but these are no longer about FF, but look at the production budget of "MM!": $65 million, there is no doubt that it has been earned!

I didn't expect that Disney, the producer of "Chicago" Miramax (now in Wentans), "Moulin Rouge!" and other companies did not expect that this new stage show would burst out with such huge energy! 179 million, while "Phantom of the Opera" 051 million/154 million (2004-12-22, Warner Bros., PB: 70 million), "Yoshiya Rental" 29.07 million/31.67 million (2005-11-23, Sony/Revolution, PB: 40 million).

Except for "Yoshiya for Rental", which play is not more famous than "MM!"? Which of Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Amy Rosen and others is not more box office appeal than Streep and Amanda? However, the most grossing is the joyous farce "Mamma Mia!", even if some people don't want to believe it.

This is the highest-grossing movie of Meryl Streep's career, surpassing "The Devil Wears Prada" and entering the 600 million box office Hall of Fame in one fell swoop! Media fans have long exclaimed, under the magic of Miraculous Young, Streep ushered in the second spring of his career, and it is really an old tree blooming. In various North American charts, "MM!" has set a lot of new records, and in the musical category (1974 to the present, only real people), it surpassed "Chicago" to reach No. 3, above 188 million "Hot Prodigal" and 201 million "Youth Musical".

In the mother-themed movies (1980-present), it ranks first, the second is the 83 Oscar Best Picture "Mother and Daughter Love" (108 million), the third is 91 million "Hot Mom and Hot Girl", in the wedding theme, it ranks third, "My Grand Greek Wedding" and "Wedding Proud Guest" are the first and second respectively...... "Rage 2", which was released on July 14, only spent 8 weeks in theaters, but the popcorn film is getting more and more rushed, and its box office results are basically fixed: 213 million/605 million, just like the content of the film! In the North American list of robbery/running for crime, it surpassed the 195 million of the predecessor "Rage Speed" and ranked first, and "Ocean's Eleven" with 183 million fell to third; The third place is all furious speeders.

The lifeless "Fast and Furious" series is gradually forgotten, and the "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift" with a new start will be released first on June 16, but Universal smashed it, "Training Day" director Anthony Fuquaa has no good performance, and the style positioning of the whole film is problematic, and the global audience doesn't like it very much, it only has a box office of 51.32 million/126 million, because Universal has not announced the budget, the outside world does not know whether it has lost money, but it is certainly not good, Universal is so low-key.

There is also a racing movie this summer, "Talladega Night" released on August 4, this 72.5 million cost sports comedy won the championship for three consecutive weeks in August, 72%/72%/73% Rotten Tomatoes index, and the box office is temporarily 139 million / not released overseas, which really makes Sony/Colombia majestic. It's a pity that there is no sequel to this type of comedy, and it will lose panties at any time when it is filmed, so it can't shake the racing market.

The two "Furious Speeds" have used a production budget of 170 million yuan and have swept 1.162 billion US dollars at the global box office!

In this summer, films such as "Mission Impossible 3", "X-Men: Last Stand", "Superman Returns", and "Miami Vice" have both losses and gains, joys and sorrows, while "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" has soared to 1 billion at the global box office, and "The Da Vinci Code" has soared to 700 million...... From the 18th week (May 5-11), as of the 35th week (September 1-7), Bowei (Disney) won the most ★★★★★ weekly championships, the runner-up Sony/Columbia is also the ★★★★★, the third place is Flame Movies ★★★, followed by Universal ★★, Paramount ★, Fox ★, Warner Bros ★.

Although it failed to win the summer championship, the total box office of the movie was 528 million, 657 million, 605 million, plus the previous 925 million, with the new film alone, the flame has received a total box office of 2.715 billion this year, with a strong overseas market appeal, it is not inferior to the performance of the same period last year, who dares to say that it is going downhill? At this time, the media are busy singing praises, in addition to magic, it is still magical!

Next summer, the Flame has already set the three blockbusters "Iron Man", "I Am a Legend", and "League of Assassins 2", as well as the previous "The Green Hornet", what kind of performance will it have?

And before that, the next flame film "The Magician" will soon land in North American theaters on September 15, which is the first battle to test FF's harvest at Sundance this year, and everyone is staring at it, this long-publicized fantasy film that FF bought out at a super high price of 25 million, is it gold or garbage?

(To be continued)