Movie sequels are difficult to make, and sequels are even more very difficult to make well. The biggest selling point of "Time and Space Warriors" is www.biquge.info the setting of six parallel time and space, when the truth of the six parallel time and space is revealed, the shock to the audience is no less than that of Morpheus telling Neo the truth of the world. However, in the sequel, this biggest suspense is gone, and it becomes very difficult to attract the audience.

Zhang Ran also knew this very well, and discussed it with Neil Blomkamp for a long time, and revised it many times before finally finalizing the script for the sequel.

On May 25th, after the world premiere of "Time Warrior 2" was held in Cannes, the media gave full recognition to the film, with a 74% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes and an MTC score of 65 points.

Of course, if a movie wants to be a big hit, it is impossible to rely on word-of-mouth alone, and it must be promoted with money. Film promotion is inseparable from the support of funds, and it is impossible to get good publicity results without spending money. Many people may say that "Blair the Witch" is a viral marketing, but the publicity fee for "Blair the Witch" is $20 million, of which $1.5 million was spent on online promotion. Therefore, if you want to achieve box office success without spending money on viral marketing alone, you can only exist in novels.

"Time Warrior 2" has prepared $120 million in promotional expenses, of which the North American budget is 60 million.

Good publicity, coupled with the good reputation of the first part, when "Time and Space Warrior" was officially released in North America on June 7, countless fans and audiences poured into the cinema. In the 3,643 theaters where "Time Warrior 2" was released, fans wearing "Maple Knife City" T-shirts can be seen everywhere, and some theaters and even all audiences are wearing "Maple Knife City" T-shirts.

The movie begins with Zhang Ziyi exploring a small town where strange things happen, Zhang Ziyi and Reeves soon discover that the six parallel spaces are supposed to be mutually influential, but now this boundary is being broken, the six worlds are merging, and the remaining five worlds are heading for destruction.

Reeves and Zhang Ziyi's idea was naturally to open the door of sentient beings and bring back the people of the other five worlds. However, their suggestion was rejected by the government, and the combined population of the other five worlds is tens of billions, if such a large number of people flock to this world, what will they use to feed them? Reeves struggled, but there was nothing to be done.

Soon after, Reeves witnessed the scene of an underground volcano erupting that caused a large number of people to die, which caused him to be so shocked in his heart that he decided to open the door to all beings and let people from other worlds return. However, just as he was about to activate the Gate of Beings, he was suddenly attacked. A man with the same abilities as him appeared, and that man was stronger than him.

What follows is the classic Hollywood discussion, being hunted down by the government department, starting to flee, and encountering the rebels. At the end of the movie, Reeves defeats the superpowers, single-handedly destroying the entire government department and opening the door to all beings.

After graduating from UCLA, Neil worked as a visual effects player in several films. For him, special effects are a good thing, and the cost of "Time Warrior 2" is as high as 150 million, so there is enough space for him to play his strengths. He didn't disappoint the audience either, and the special effects of the film were done brilliantly. In addition, the fighting scenes were wonderful, which also made the people present addicted.

During the screening of the movie, all kinds of exclamations in the cinema came and went.

Although the media evaluation of "Time Warrior 2" is average, the reputation of the audience is quite good, and the IMDB audience score is 7.7 points.

On the first day of its release in North America, "Time Warrior 2" achieved a box office of $36.4 million, which is 14.6 million higher than the first day of "Time Warrior" of 21.8 million.

In the next three days, "Time Warrior 2" continued to explode, achieving a box office of 30.3 million on Friday, 33.35 million on Saturday, and 23.5 million on Sunday, with a box office of $123 million in the first week, becoming the global box office champion of the week!

This result is more than double the 48.46 million in the first week of "Time and Space Warrior", which shocked everyone's attention!

Han Shanping, the boss of China Film, is very concerned about the performance of "Time and Space Warrior 2" in Beiping, because this film also has investment from China Film.

The last time China Film invested in "Time and Space Warrior", it did not participate in the sharing, but just took away the domestic distribution rights of the film, and in the end, China Film earned 100 million. However, Han Shanping calculated an account afterwards, if China Film participated in the sharing, the income would be 60 or 70 million more, and China Film would lose a lot.

This time to participate in "Time and Space Warrior 2", Han Shanping insisted on sharing. The film share is directly linked to the overseas box office, and North America is the largest box office, and the quality of the North American box office is related to the success or failure of the whole movie.

After seeing the box office of "Time Warrior 2" in North America in the first week, Han Shanping happily dialed Zhang Ran's phone: "Zhang Ran, do you see that the North American box office of "Time Warrior 2" is not, it is 120 million US dollars in the first week, this is terrifying!"

Although Zhang Ran knew that the box office of "Time and Space Warrior 2" would definitely explode, he didn't expect it to explode to such a point: "Yes, the prediction given by BOX is 100 million. That's a full 23.35 million higher than their prediction, which is amazing!"

Han Shanping said with a smile: "How much do you estimate the final box office will be?"

Zhang Ran thought for a while and said: "North America is estimated to be more than 250 million US dollars, and the world will definitely be able to exceed 700 million, which is similar to "The Matrix 2". ”

Hearing that the global box office could exceed $700 million, Han Shanping smiled even happier.

The box office of 700 million US dollars, plus DVD revenue, plus various copyrights, the final income may be close to 300 million. If the film accounts for 10% of the shares in this movie, it can get 30 million US dollars, that is, it can get 240 million yuan!

It's not 24 million, it's 240 million!

With so much money, what a political achievement!

Han Shanping said with a smile: "The box office is so good, is the third part going to be put on the agenda?"

Zhang Ran said unhurriedly: "There will definitely be a sequel, but this matter can't be rushed, the key is the script." If the script is not good, it will be a smashing of your own signboard!"

Han Shanping smiled and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, don't forget that we will be in the shadow!"

In this week, the North American market ushered in a strong enemy "Fantastic Four 2", the same sequel, the same strong lineup, the same investment, although "Fantastic Four 2" media evaluation is relatively bad, but "Fantastic Four 2" is a comic book adaptation of the movie, there are a lot of fans, almost everyone thinks that "Fantastic Four 2" will have a great impact on "Time Warrior 2" and will divert a lot of box office.

However, this judgment is obviously wrong, after the release of "Fantastic Four 2", the audience was full of bad reviews, all of them thought that the plot was retarded to the point of exploding, boring enough to make people sleep, IMDB score was only possible 5.6 points, and only achieved 52.5 million box office in the first four days, and "Time Warrior 2" continued to soar, topping the list with 71.65 million, with a cumulative box office of 195 million, according to this word-of-mouth, 250 million US dollars is almost in the bag, and the final box office may be close to 270 million.

During this week, "Time Warrior 2" began to be released on a large scale around the world. In all regions where it was released, "Time Warrior 2" won the championship without exception. Adding up the box office of all regions, "Time Warrior 2" directly reached a total global box office of $183 million this week, winning the global box office champion for a second time!

When the news came, fans who followed the movie in China were all overjoyed.

"The pinnacle of the century is really awesome! The world box office champion for two consecutive weeks is really amazing! What does Hua Yi compare with others? It's a pity that we can't see it now!"

"yes, why can't it be released at the same time? Why don't you wait until July to release it in China?"

"That's right, it's obviously a co-production, why should it be released a month later than in the United States? I also went to Zhang Ran's Weibo to protest, but he seems to be very busy, and it took four or five days to update Weibo!"

"Zhang Jingchu's Weibo updates are more diligent, four or five updates a day, we will go to her Weibo to protest!"

"Okay, let's go protest together!"

In fact, the reason why it is not released in June in China, but in July, is mainly because students are on holiday in July. Students are the most important audience of sci-fi action movies, and if they can't get into the movie, the box office loss of the movie is very large.

Shortly after the movie was released, in Los Gaidos, Calif., Netflix's board of directors was packed with members, along with people from Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, Goodrich Rosati Law and LinkedIn.

The company's CEO, Hastings, slowly swept his grim gaze across everyone's faces, and his expression was very solemn: "Gentlemen, we have been preparing for today for more than three months, and now we are fully prepared. It's time for war! Remember, this is a war, either life or death! We have no way out!"

For corporate acquisitions, the most important thing is capital, if there is not enough capital to support, the so-called acquisition is just empty talk. Blockbuster has a market capitalization of 600 million, and it needs at least $1 billion to complete the acquisition. Netflix couldn't afford the money on its own, so after making up its mind to buy Blockbuster, Hastings approached Morgan Stanley and hired them as financial advisors for the merger.

After Morgan Stanley joined, they developed a detailed leveraged buyout plan, then began to raise capital, and started to act in the shadows. Now that all the preparatory wages have been completed, it is time for a decisive battle.

Netflix's board members all nodded: "That Chinese is very arrogant, but this time he will be beaten all over the ground by us!"

"Do it, Hastings!"

"Let's do it, I've been waiting for this day!"

Hastings said coldly: "Tomorrow morning, we will officially start!"

At the same time, Zhang Ran sneezed, and he was a little surprised in his heart, the weather was obviously very hot, how could he feel cold all over his body? He took out his mobile phone and dialed Zhang Jingchu's phone: "Daughter-in-law, do you miss me?"

Zhang Jingchu followed Yu Feihong to survey the scenery in Yunnan and stayed there for almost half a month. Hearing Zhang Ran say this, he thought he was thinking about himself, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and said: "Sister Feihong and I are so busy that we almost forgot what our surname is, where is there time to miss you, do you miss me?"

Zhang Ran said with a smile: "I want to think about it, I want to sleep!"

Zhang Jingchu scolded with a smile: "Hooligans!" She immediately added: "Jing Kan is almost done, and he will be back soon!"

At 8 a.m. on June 21, 2007, Netflix issued a statement on its website and on the NASDAQ at the same time, stating that as of June 20, Netflix and its controlling shareholders held a total of 10.5% of Blockbuster's shares through trading in the secondary market, and filed a beneficial equity declaration document with the SEC in accordance with the provisions of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Act.

In this document, Netflix admitted that the purpose of the purchase was a strategic investment, and it intended to gain control and gain a seat on BesTV's board of directors or influence the board of directors, and its intention to buy and acquire shares was clear.

The M&A war between the world's top and Netflix has officially kicked off!