Mark is now in Los Angeles and New York, where he deals mainly with the film and television production side of the city, and in New York he deals with the business side of the company.

This time I returned to Los Angeles to participate in the celebration of "Transformers 2" breaking one billion worldwide (460 million in North Rice, 590 million overseas, and a total box office of 1.5 billion), which became MM's first global blockbuster to exceed one billion.

For this reason, MM held a grand celebration party for the crew of "Transformers" in the MM Center, Michael Bay, Mason, Megan Fox and David Ellison, among the four heroes, accepted everyone's cheers and congratulations, this is MM's first real super blockbuster, many people think that this record should be broken by Mark, Mark did it with "The Dark Knight", but it was Warner's work.

Now "Transformers 2" North Mi broke one billion in the world, if there is no accident, it will be the 2009 North Mi global box office champion, it is a big cut higher than the second place "Iron Man 2" and "Ha 6", the original king of the world James Cameron's "Avatar" will be a huge threat, the king of the world sharpens a sword in ten years, this is not a joke, but it is set for December 15, only fifteen days, even if it is powerful, it is difficult to break "Transformers" in fifteen days The record, its annual results, will be included in 2010, so now "Transformers 2" is a solo show.

The four giants of MM toasted together, which made Mai Copy's face flush with excitement, which is rare in the history of MM, and the photo of him with the big four also made headlines in major media and was touted as the new generation of box office kings.

Mason and Megan Fox are even more popular, and the limelight completely overshadows the combination of Kristen Stewart and Robert Burtinson to become the best on-screen couple.

Mason is a late bloomer, he joined the Mark Gang very early, second only to Blake, and was the second to sign up, but David Lee and others are so popular that he is only a second- or third-rate star, and he also plays a supporting role in "Grey's Anatomy".

Now he has been pretending to be dead for half a year, and finally became popular all over the world with the "Transformers" series, known as John Depp Jr., just like Depp, no one asked for ten years, and he became popular all over the world.

This year he was named the number one most beautiful man in the world by People magazine and is also the most popular idol superstar in Hollywood.

The good thing is that there was only one new film on the top 10 box office list in the United States last weekend, and that was the blockbuster "2012" produced by Columbia Pictures.

The film grossed $65 million at the opening weekend box office in the United States, and climbed to the top of the box office without any suspense. However, what makes Columbia Pictures even happier is that the film has achieved a much higher overseas box office than the domestic box office, reaching $160 million, that is, Roland Emmerich's disaster blockbuster achieved a global box office of $225 million in three days, and in the opening weekend global box office rankings, "2012" $225 million This result made it successfully ranked fifth.

Perhaps it is the old proverb that "it is difficult to get fat alone", although the box office of "2012" in the United States is not bad, but in the end, the total performance of the United States Film Market last weekend still fell by 5% compared with the same period last year. By the way, the same period last year was when "007: Quantum of Solace" won the championship, and the box office of "Quantum of Solace" at that time was 67.52 million US dollars, which was higher than today's "2012", not to mention that there was also a "Madagascar 2" at that time, so it is natural that the box office of the United States Film Market last weekend was not as good as last year.

"2012" was a success in the first game, and as soon as MM Pictures' $200 million film was released, no other new film dared to resist last weekend, except for Focus Pictures, which released the British film "Pirate Radio" starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in 882 theaters, which only ranked 11th with a weekend box office of $2.86 million, and had no ability to compete for the box office at all.

And "2012" is a big show, Columbia Pictures arranged for the film to be released in 3,404 theaters, and the weekend box office recovered 65 million US dollars, and the single theater box office was 19,095 US dollars, ranking first on the box office list.

First of all, in the November premiere weekend box office chart, $65 million ranked seventh, ahead of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" (102 million), "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (90.29 million), "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (88.35 million), "The Incredibles" (70.46 million), "Twilight" (69.63 million) and "007: Quantum of Solace" (67.63 million).

However, among these movies, the final box office of "Quantum of Solace" in the United States is less than 200 million US dollars, which is not very satisfactory for "2012", which already has a production cost of 200 million US dollars and spent a huge amount of money on publicity.

Secondly, on the box office list of the opening weekend of disaster-themed films, "2012" is now ranked second, below "The Day After Tomorrow", which was also directed by Roland Emmerich 5 years ago, the box office of the opening weekend in the United States was 68.74 million US dollars, and the final box office of the film in the United States was 186 million US dollars, which somewhat reminded Columbia Pictures and Emmerich to increase their efforts to "spur" "2012" on the next box office road.

However, in the face of this opening box office, Emmerich should also be happy for himself, after all, his work "10,000 Years Before History" failed at the box office last year, with a box office of 35.86 million US dollars in the opening weekend, and finally failed to recover even 100 million US dollars at the box office in the United States, and now the opening result of "2012" of 65 million US dollars has somewhat saved his face.

Layton of Colombia has come out to praise Emmerich, saying that this achievement proves that Emmerich is a super director, "2012" amazing pictures, shocking special effects and touching stories, Emmerich has set a new benchmark for the industry, this is estimated to be Leiden said after seeing the overseas box office of the film's premiere 3 days, the world premiere box office of 160 million US dollars, has made the film a second major after "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (236 million), "Spider-Man 3" (231 million), " Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The End of the World (216 million) and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (193 million dollars) are the 5th largest films. The overseas box office of 160 million US dollars proves that Hollywood blockbusters have a better ability to collect money overseas than at home, which is also proved by Emmerich's last "10,000 Years Before History", the total box office of the film in the United States at that time was less than 100 million US dollars, but the overseas box office was 175 million US dollars, with the support of the people of the world, who dares to say that Hollywood blockbusters are not as good as in the past?

Another interesting phenomenon is that in the United States, the enthusiasm of ordinary young people for "2012" is not as good as that of adults, and the male audience does not like the film as much as women. According to statistics, among the viewers who watched the film 3 days ago over the weekend, 55% were over 25 years old, and 52% were female viewers, and I don't know whether this represents Emmerich This has broadened the audience base of disaster films, or whether it represents the loss of the inherent audience base of disaster films, in short, we must continue to pay attention to the next box office performance of "2012", and we cannot be blindly optimistic.

32 media outlets in the United States gave "2012" an overall score of 51.

As for word-of-mouth, it is a mixed reputation, but it is more inclined to "ruin", and the comprehensive score given by 32 media in the United States is 51 points (IMDB netizens currently give a score of 6.7 points, and the number of votes is 7246).

The San Francisco Chronicle gave it a perfect score of 100, with the former commenting that "in the genre, this film is almost perfect, and Emmerich's 2012 gives every angle you can think of, but it's all much deeper than you think." ”

The Washington Post thinks it's a good scene and a deep one.

The Chicago Sun, Variety, and Slate gave ratings of more than 80 points, all of which were stunts.

However, this is the end of the good words, and 7 other media outlets such as "Entertainment Weekly", "Hollywood Reporter", "Time" and other 7 media outlets have given more than 70 points, and the "New York Post" thinks that the lines of this film are too vulgar. "Time" believes that "any audience with a little experience of watching movies can easily see through the various lame suspense made by the director in the process of watching this film, but it can also bring you joy from time to time." ”

Seven media outlets, including "Village Voice Weekly", gave 50 points, and the opinions were summed up in only one sentence: the special effects are good, and the script is a disaster. ”

Five media outlets, including the New York Times, gave a rating of more than 40 points, and also bluntly said that the film was a disaster. If you think these comments are too vague and general, well, check out the review of "Rolling Stone" critic Peter Chavez, who gave the film 25: "Beware of 2012, this movie has quite implausible miracles and a Transformers 2-like story, and the whole movie is cynical, biased, brain-dead, a waste of time, a waste of money, soulless, and a stupid theme." "It's kind of a good scolding.

However, compared to the opinions of film critics, perhaps the comments given by IMDB netizens are more interesting.

At present, IMDB netizens are playing a follow-up game "100 Things to Learn from "2012", expressing their dissatisfaction with the film in the spirit of entertainment.

Here are a few items: 1. If you want to survive the end of the world in 2012, you must first take a few courses in flying an airplane. 2. Migrate to Africa. 3. When choosing animals to go to the boat, don't pick cows, sheep or pigs (anyway, don't pick any animal that can provide food or clothing for humans), choose giraffes, rhinoceros and the like, and let them return to their home African ...... after the disaster.

The remaining 9 movies on the top 10 list are all old films. Last weekend's box office champion "A Christmas Carol" improved at the box office last weekend, the box office fell only 25.7%, with an income of 22.32 million US dollars, ranking second, and the total box office of the film in the United States is 63.28 million US dollars, which is better than the 10-day 51.46 million US dollars of "Polar Express", but the biggest weakness of "A Christmas Carol" is that the production cost is too high, with 200 million US dollars, Disney Pictures wants to rely on "A Christmas Carol" to make a profit, and it has to work harder.