When Mark was a super dad at home, the North Mi Film Market in April ushered in the second super blockbuster "Pro Secret Service 3", the last one was "Ice Age 2", he won 70 million US dollars in the first week, becoming the first North Mi film of the year to break 100 million (the second week).

After the two consecutive championships of "Ice Age 2", it is the time for "Professional Secret Service" to show its talents.

As the opening blockbuster of the North American summer film schedule, Tom Cruise's thriller action film "Pro Secret Service 3" was released simultaneously in North America and the world's major film markets last weekend, but the film, which had been highly anticipated by the entertainment media and the projection industry, did not bring the expected surprises, according to the first Sunday estimate of the distributor Paramount Pictures, the total box office of the film in North America over the first three days of last weekend was about 48 million US dollars, far from the 60 million expected by its peers in the film industry.

The first "Professional Secret Service" was released in 96, the box office of the first weekend was 46 million US dollars, and the final box office was 180 million US dollars, and the second "Professional Secret Service 2" was released in 20000 years, and the box office of the first weekend was 57.8 million US dollars, and the final box office was 220 million US dollars, compared with the first two films, "Professional Secret Service 3" was not as high as expected, although it won 70 million US dollars overseas at the same time, but this is still not as expected.

Although Liang Tang has been ranked in the "20 million club" of Hollywood star salaries for a long time, since "Professional Secret Service 2", whether it is "Minority Report" or "Murder by Knife", or "World War" last summer, they all have large investment and small output, and the box office has failed to achieve the expected results. Cruise is all on the run, and the explosions are endless.

It's just that fantasy blockbusters and superhero blockbusters are popular in the market now, and the market for traditional action movies has shrunk dramatically, and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", which dragged so much last year, also stopped at 200 million.

"Pro Secret Service 3" won the weekly championship, but the box office of the first week far below expectations clouded its prospects, and it was very difficult to win 200 million in North America without breaking 60 million in the first week.

Moreover, a week later, on May Day, Mark's super blockbuster "Iron Man" was released, and Mark's record of never missing a complete victory terrified all opponents, and theater operators said that "Iron Man" would be the rescue work at the beginning of the summer file, followed by "Poseidon in Distress", and then the MM super blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code", Gen Tai will not leave them any gap, unless these movies pounce.

And "Professional Secret Service 3" fell by 20% in the second week, winning a box office of $38.4 million, which became the fuse for Liangtang and Paramount to fall out.

This is a $130 million action blockbuster, in addition to Abrams and Cruise, the two Hollywood golden signs, the film also brings together the new Oscar-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, black star Wen Remes, and Asian beauty supermodel Maggie Q, which can be described as star-studded.

It was shot in three countries, including on the Tiber River in Rome, the ancient town of Xitang in Jiashan, and the Huangpu Tunnel in the Jin Mao Tower, while scenes in California, Virginia, and Washington took up the majority of the film.

For Paramount, such a huge investment, such a box office, can be called a failure.

In Paramount's eyes, Liang Tang made a lot of money, first took away 20 million yuan of salary, 20% of the north rice guaranteed by drought and flood, Liang Tang swept away 50 or 60 million, and Paramount is such a huge company, it can't even earn back its hard-earned money, (the original version earned hundreds of thousands), it's really angry.

And for such a box office, Liang Tang is also not satisfied, he publicly blamed Paramount for not giving good distribution that caused the movie to not sell well, you look at the publicity momentum of Mark's "Iron Man", people advertise to go to the toilet, give free toys to children in welfare homes, and send hygiene products to girls in middle schools, how intimate? Can you not buy tickets for "Iron Man"? On the contrary, "Professional Secret Service 3", nothing has been done, and Mr. Fund Ge will save money, nothing will be done.

And the fund is not easy to mess with, "Professional Secret Service 3" did not sell well because of Liang Tang's neurosis of jumping off the sofa, who would be a superhero who does not believe in God and believes in cults? He also listed many reasons why Liang Tang's salary is super high and the share is unreasonably high, asking Liang Tang, Paramount's biological son, to reduce his salary and share and tide over the difficulties with the company.

In this way, the people of Scientology are unhappy, Scientology is a legal sect, this is slander and slander, dozens of them fanatics, came to Paramount headquarters, looking for a reason, almost made the famous president unable to step down, he believed that this was the mastermind of Liangtang, and the relationship between the two sides fell to a freezing point.

As we all know, Liang Tang and John Travolta are both high-ranking Scientologists, and they are the kind with great power.

There have been testimonies that Tom Cruise and John Travolta were influential figures in Scientology, and that Scientologists believed that they were working for a big man who could save the planet with one hand, and that John Travolta was rumored to be in a position of leadership and that he was given the right to kill at will.

In Scientology, it's called ethical protection, and they also have a so-called protection of the leader, and no matter what the leader asks you to protect him, you have to do it.

And it's not the first time that the Scientologists and Pretty Tang have threatened this Viacom.

South Park, Season 9, Episode 12, "Trapped in the Closet", was hailed by Comedy Central as one of the "10 episodes of South Park that changed the world", which is a cartoon that satirizes Scientology and Soup, the world's most famous Scientology loyalist, threatens the Viacom Group with all promotional activities for the group's Paramount film "Pro Squad 3" if they dare to replay this episode of South Park.

So Jin Ge directly suggested to the parent company that he terminated the twelve-long contract with Liang Tang, and now the two sides are tearing up, and the media are openly ridiculing that the excitement of Liang Tang and Paramount is not under "Professional Secret Service 3".

In fact, this is a typical uneven distribution of interests, Liang Tang is an old courtier in the Shirley Lansing era, and he is proud of his talents, and the new boss doesn't like him for sure, and in the works that Paramount and Liang Tang have collaborated on over the years, they have earned less and less money, while Liang Tang has made a lot of money, in "War of the Worlds", he earned far more than Paramount, which has already made the parent company extremely unhappy.

Mark is getting the same salary as Liangtang, but Mark will only be divided when Beimi breaks 100 million, which ensures that everyone is profitable, but this Liangtang is to take 20 million first, and then take a share, he doesn't care about 3721, drought and flood to ensure income, which makes Paramount increasingly dissatisfied, with the requirement to revise the agreement, the contradiction between the two sides comes, everyone is looking forward to Liangtang's "Professional Secret Service 3" can make some money for everyone, but it is far lower than the expected box office revenue dashes hopes, intensifies the contradiction, and the relationship between the two sides is incompatible.

Like the contradiction between Colombia and Maguire, the same is true, nothing more than money, no matter how Maguire fights, the Colombian side insists on the original conditions, and any requirements will wait until the next part.

Maguire threatened to quit, and Colombia issued a lawyer's letter for claims.

Maguire didn't work, and Sam Raimi gave a stand-in and revised the script to disfigure Spider-Man, which made it easy to make a substitution.

Because there is a precedent for Liangtang, Mark and Columbia have reached a consensus that even if the project is stopped, the production copyright of "Spider-Man" cannot be attributed to others, and during this period, MM acquired B TV Network, and MM Group, which has its own national television network, has become a real media group, which is a big company that Washington wants to woo, and Maguire has stopped a lot.

Now the North Mi Film Market, because of the failure of "Professional Secret Service Team 3", has become an unprecedented depression and hunger, many theater companies began to sit and wait for "Iron Man" to save the market, Rainbow Media's AMC Cinema President publicly claimed: "If "Iron Man" also loses, the loss in the first half of the year has become a foregone conclusion, and the North Mi Film Market will continue last year's miserable depression, and layoffs have become a sure choice. ”

This also allows more theaters to join the first round of screenings of "Iron Man", and in this first round of screenings, 3,980 theaters have joined, and the momentum is directly close to last year's "Star Wars Prequel 3" and "Harry Potter 4".

And "Iron Man" also came to the last moment, "Iron Man" was scheduled for May Day, but because of the failure of "Professional Secret Service Team 3", and May Day was Monday, the traditional box office day, they chose to release it on April 28, and they held a grand premiere ceremony on the 27th.

In order to organize this premiere ceremony, MM mobilized all the resources and forces it could mobilize, and its male and female stars, empty groups, made the premiere a huge momentum, newspapers, television, and the Internet did their best to tout it, making it like a New Year's holiday, and the premiere ceremony of a movie made the headlines of major media and became a sensational entertainment news.

And in the midnight game that tested his strength the most, he won 7.8 million, second only to 16.9 million in "Star Wars Prequel 3" and 8 million in "Lord of the Rings 3", which was a good start and surprised many people.

You must know that both "Star Wars 3" and "Lord of the Rings 3" are sequels, and the first two are super bestsellers, accumulating a large number of fans and popularity.

But Beimi's cinema companies understand that perhaps the first phenomenal blockbuster of the year is coming.