Snowflakes drifted in the sky, falling on the faces of pedestrians on the street, feeling icy and cold, stepping into the 10 days of 2007, New York City finally ushered in the first snow of this winter, the latest snow in 129 years.

The 2006 distributor's North American box office list has naturally settled, and the 2005 champion Flame Movies still performed miraculously, releasing 9 new films/12 films, without a single failure, on the contrary, the amazing box office figures are enviable, FF continues to carry the banner of independent film companies!

Last year, 155 studios (+18) released a total of 610 films (+59) films, and it has to be said that last year's good market attracted more investors to enter the film market, although it did not look as magnificent as last year, the total box office in North America is on the rise, reaching 9.72 billion.

Among them, Bullz-Eye's unrated comedy "The Point" received $783 at the box office in one theater, becoming the bottom double of the year, while the average ticket price in '06 was $6.55, and the average number of people who watched "The Point" in front of the big screen was an average of 119.54 people who were not satisfied with it, and IFC Films, which made a name for itself with "My Grand Greek Wedding" in previous years, released 29/30 films this year, but unfortunately none of them were babes, they accounted for a total of 0.1% share, the highest box office is the documentary "Word Game" with 3.12 million.

A year on, a year later, the mainstream studios are still the same, and there are no supernovas.

Last year, there were 11 companies that received more than 100 million box office, 4 with a market share of more than 10%, and it was the four companies with 1 billion box office: Sony/Columbia with 1.560 billion, Flame with 1.426 billion, Bowei (Disney) with 1.412 billion, and Twentieth Century Fox with 1.079 billion.

Sony/Columbia continued to lead the list in terms of distribution with 26 new films/33 films, both of which ranked first, followed by 20th Century Fox (22/26), Warner Bros. (20/26), Broadway (Disney) (18/24), Universal (17/21), Paramount (17/20), Lionsgate (17/19), Weinstein (9/15), MGM/United States (13/13), New Line (10/13) and Flames (9/12).

Compared with 2005, the pattern of film companies has certainly changed, Focus, Fox Searchlight, and Warner Independent did not have a blockbuster and fell out of the 100 million yuan club; Miramax, who had undergone a huge change, suddenly fell to 16th place, and the nine new films only had a box office of 45.88 million, which can be said to have achieved no results; Weinstein gradually "returned" At the top, MGM continued to decline, and the new line became more and more difficult, DreamWorks and Dimen both closed their doors due to mergers and acquisitions, but Rogue-Pictures relied on "Jet Li's Huo Yuanjia" and "Lawless" and other four films to become a small nouveau riche, occupying the 12th place with a total box office of 65.44 million......

In the 365 days from January 1 to December 31 last year, Moth Butterfly Flame movie tickets were sold every day, and in terms of three old films, "Brokeback Mountain" with 86.32 million North American box office / 185 million global box office contributed 69.77 million in 06, "500 Days with Sammo" with 236 million/397 million was 93.82 million, and "Firefly", which was painted again after sweeping the Oscars, recorded another 3.05 million North American box office (653 million/1.820 billion).

The three old films are majestic, and the 9 new films are naturally needless to say, in the words of some movie fans, FF is a monster (Monster), and Magic Jan is a monster!

The joyful and interesting "Ice Age 3" is 203 million/923 million, the hilarious and crazy "The Hangover 3" is 214 million/528 million, the dancing and singing "Mamma Mia!" is 185 million/702 million, the crazy "Crazy Speed 2" is 216 million/635 million, "The Magician", one of the "two great treasures of Sundance in 05", is 95.54 million at the North American box office/68.09 million in the overseas market that has not been fully released, and the blood-spilling "Saw 4" is 98.75 million at the North American box office/ 192 million global box office.

There are also three New Year's Eve films that are still in theaters, "Little Sunshine Beauty" contributed 51.8 million, "Deadly Magic", which was screened for 31 days, brought 91.36 million, which was almost a foregone conclusion, and "The Dead", which was screened for ten days, received 103.5 million!

Throughout the year, FF was so strong that no one could stop it from collecting 1.426 billion North American box office! The highest single film was 216 million, with an average of 118 million per film, and an average of 140 million per new film! Excluding the cost of publicity and distribution, the total production cost of the new film in '06 (including the buyout fee for the buyout film) was 505 million, and a total of 1.26 billion North American box office was received!

Despite the fact that the annual champion is gone, the Flame actually maintained the peak level of '05, and it is definitely not a bad result to take second place in the distribution at the bottom of the mainstream companies, and it is an independent film company, how can it not be surprising and enviable!?

The North American box office Top-10 in 06, although the flames now occupy several positions, but they did not make it to the top three, the specific rankings are as follows: first, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", 423 million, second, "Cars", 244 million, third, "X-Men: Last Stand", 234 million, fourth, "The Da Vinci Code", 217 million, fifth, "Furious Speed 2", sixth, "The Hangover 3", seventh, "Ice Age 3", eighth, "Superman Returns" , 200 million, ninth, "Happy Feet", 186 million, tenth, "Mamma Mia!".

But when it comes to the global box office Top-10, the ranking becomes: first, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", 1.066 billion, second, "Ice Age 3", third, "The Da Vinci Code", 758 million, fourth, "Mamma Mia!", fifth, "Furious Speed 2", sixth, "Casino Royale", seventh, "The Hangover 3", eighth, "Cars", ninth, "X-Men: Last Stand", tenth, "Mission Impossible 3".

According to the analysis and prediction of the "Wall Street Journal" and other media, of course, there is no need to be wordy, and movie fans know that for a long, long time in the future, flame movies will be a huge banner of the film entertainment industry in the United States and the world, and grow with it, as for how long it can maintain this terrifying zero loss state, no one knows. Because it is a unique paranormal phenomenon, even an authority such as Forbes makes it difficult to make a definitive valuation of the Flame Group.

The 2007 release schedule of the Flame Movie is already full, and the long-awaited films will be released one by one, and the current 9 new films are: "The Green Hornet", "Iron Man", "I Am Legend", "League of Assassins 2", "Bridesmaids", "The Story of Hachiko", "Dance Out of My Life 3", "Saw 5", "Marley and Me".

"SNO!NO——!" There was a thin layer of white snow in the garden, looking at the snowflakes fluttering in the sky, Kekele smiled and reached out to shoot, this is the first time she has seen snow in her life, and she has also learned a new word.

The first snow was only for a short time, but there was a road down, and soon it was the second and third snow. There was also some snow in the spacious garden, and Danny slept lazily, and despite the drop in temperature, Coco was still not very heavily dressed, just a small pink coat and cotton pants, and a pair of black gloves to play in the snow. She ran around happily, and looked curiously at her father and mother not far away, not knowing what they were messing with.

"Honey, roll a little bigger. "Not enough snow. "Scrape the snow from the front yard too?", "Not much, I think we'll make a mini version." "Oh! what the hell...... Oh my God, Coco's first snowman. "We're going to Park City in a few days to play in the snow, and this year the U.S. has had a warm winter, and you know that the El Niño phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean is the main cause, and the Northeast is particularly affected. "Oh——! how do you know?", "Don't you pay attention to weather forecast shows?", "Don't you pay attention? haha......!"

Wang Yang and Jessica laughed and chatted as they piled up the few snowballs scraped back by the shovel into a mini snowman, and they must hurry up, otherwise they would melt and be gone. Keke, who ran over, looked at the snow-white little thing in front of him, and also stretched out his little hand to slap it, saying, "Hit, beat!" Wang Yang and Jessica both laughed, and he explained and laughed: "Light! It's a snowman, your new friend." Its name is ......" Jessica raised her eyebrows, and Wang Yang immediately had an idea: "Diane! Diane Jackson." ”

"Diane, Annie. Keke learned, but there was not much excitement on her little face, she didn't understand what this thing stacked with snow meant?

"It's not done yet, so don't spoil it. Wang Yang smiled and stroked the baby's head, and said a few words to Jessica, he and Keke were responsible for finding a few branches of trees for their hands and nose, and she was responsible for finding eyes, mouth, scarf and hat. When they parted ways, Jessica smiled incomprehensibly and asked, "Who is that?Diannie?" Wang Yang replied: "A British director, her animated short film "Snowman" is great, I remember winning the Oscar nomination for Best Short Film, but unfortunately, she died of cancer more than ten years ago. Jessica suddenly looked sorry, "May she be happy in heaven." ”

Soon after, it was done! There was a small snowman standing on the garden lawn, and Coco walked around Diane, who was a little shorter than herself, and when she saw the snowman smiling happily, she suddenly smiled: "Hahaha!" She seemed to have noticed some big surprise, looked at them, and then looked back at the snowman.

"Hehe!" Seeing Keke as happy as a bird, Wang Yang smiled and showed a mouthful of white teeth, this kind of feeling of making children happy is really wonderful! Jessica leaned on him, smiling like the snowman.

Time passes day by day, "The Dead" is already in its fourth week of screening, after it closed 44.82 million box office (-45%) during the New Year's Eve week from December 29 to January 4, and failed to win the North American weekly championship, only because "Wonderful Night at the Museum" collected 61.04 million in the next week (-22.8%).

Regarding the box office trend of "The Dead", the evaluation of the masterpiece + box office champion is actually -45%, which is the largest decline in the Top-12, and the theater owners are also quite helpless, the box office will always be saturated, and obviously Yang fans have gathered in the first week to watch it. However, in the third week, January 5-11, the box office of "The Dead" continued to -45%, and it became the least decline in the Top-12, but the box office of 24.65 million still could not prevent "Museum Wonderful Night" from 28.55 million to continue to win.

Three weeks later, "The Dead" has grossed 150 million at the North American box office, and at this rate, it is well on track to hit the 200 million box office club, especially if it can win the Golden Globes and Oscars. At the same time, it is also vigorous in overseas markets, especially in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, and the United Kingdom, with a total overseas box office of 184 million in three weeks and a total global box office of 334 million US dollars.

This also means that Pokémon Wang Yang maintains a magical record, with 100% of all 12 directed films breaking 300 million at the global box office, and the lowest is still 323 million for his debut film "Ghost Shadow".

"Rude, delicate, funny and rich in profanity, this is the result of an artist who understands what it takes to work unmistakably. —A+, Chris Vogner, Dallas Morning News; "The Dead" shows a brutal, deft understanding, Wang Yang draws some sharp lines, and he and his crew know how to play those punch lines. —4/4, Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post;" There's a great adaptation of The Dead, and it's become more exciting, more terrifyingly fun, and more nihilistic. This nihilism has a lasting impact. —4/4, Mick Russell, San Francisco Chronicle;

"Wang Yang gave the actors a wonderful ensemble, and Heath Ledger and Michael Pitt had their best performances. —4/4, Stephanie Zashak, Salon; "What makes a magical young film? It's not just a renovation, it's the director directing the actors, the positioning and the energy, directing his team and himself, and the themes it buried." Like I often like to say, a movie isn't about what it does, it's about how it does that. —4/4, Roger Albert, Chicago Sun-Times......

At the gates of the Kingsbridge Armory in New York, the "I Am Legend" crew was overgrown with grass, and the set in the state of filming was quiet, and the crew looked at Will Smith in the performance area, who walked by with Sam with an M-16 rifle.

"CUT ——!" At this time, Wang Yang, who was holding the director's microphone, shouted, he raised his other hand into a fist high, looked around at the crowd, and shouted with a smile: "We are legends! It's done! It's incredible!" Starting from July last year, then August, September, October, November, December, and now close to mid-January, it took more than half a year and six months to shoot, and finally finished!

"Whew!", "Wow, oh-" The set was already full of cheers and laughter, and everyone applauded or celebrated and hugged each other, it was like winning a war, blockade shooting + simultaneous shooting, it was not easy!

Looking at the smiling faces of Valey Pfister, Aziwa Gosman and others, and looking at the many crew members, Wang Yang thanked him: "Thank you, thank you—" When everyone quieted down to listen to his speech, he spread his hands and laughed: "I'm speechless, I don't know what you think, anyway, I want to get a good night's sleep." ”

"Haha!" There was a chuckle around him, and Will Smith breathed a sigh of relief that it was finally over! It was really no fun at all, it was very uncomfortable and more and more uncomfortable. Without a doubt, this was his most special performance, locking off famous attractions and emptying six blocks for filming...... Although he got a lot of middle fingers, he thought it was really cool, but it was cool because when the magic shouted "CUT!", he turned his head and could see thousands of people watching them from outside the distant barrier, it was not the end of the world!

But Will knew that the performance was very, very good, full of texture and emotion. In this regard, Gosman has helped him a lot, and more importantly, Marvel Young.

"Hey!" The two hugged each other hard, patted each other on the shoulder, and didn't need to say anything more, Wang Yang smiled: "Let's cooperate next time!" Will also smiled brightly: "That's what I want." After continuing to talk and thank each other with the many crew members, Wang Yang shouted: "In July! In the summer, everyone will see a movie that is so, so, so unique, yes, we!"

There was another burst of shouting and cheering on the set, Wang Yang smiled and handed the microphone to the assistant, ran quickly to the sidelines, picked up Keke and kissed her little face heavily: "MUMA!!" He put down Keke and kissed the toothy smiling Jessica, everything was silent.

Soon Wang Yang and his family have flown back to Los Angeles, the post-production of "I Am Legend" will return to Los Angeles to complete, and the 64th Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held soon.

(To be continued)