Martin said: "Are you sure? When "Top Secret Flight" is released, you will regret it?"

The other party said: "Maybe, maybe, it is also possible to lose, if I were you, I would get rid of it as soon as possible while it was valuable." ”

Martin said, "You think I can't find a buyer?"

The other party said: "You have all driven them away, you will beg them with your own mouth, don't be stupid, the other five in Hollywood will not quote again." The implication is that this piece is listed as meat by the other four major investment banks, and the meat can only rot in trouble.

Martin hung up the phone directly, "Extreme Agent 2" was even worse the next week, and it was a question of whether it could exceed 30 million, this was a certainty, there was no chance of a reversal, and the shareholders blamed him again.

It's not just Columbia and Paramount who have lost so badly, but also Twentieth Century Fox's annual blockbuster "Heavenly Dynasty" has hit the streets, this superstar's big production, which was cold when it premiered on May 6, and the box office in the first week of three days was only 19 million US dollars, and Scott, who once made an epic ancient war blockbuster, planted a big somersault in "Heavenly Dynasty", and such a result could not earn back the investment of 160 million in any way.

The huge fiasco made the big director who made "Alien", "Blade Runner", "Black Hawk Down" and "Gladiator" full of criticism, and the overwhelming accusations made his sentence: "I didn't cut it!" was completely drowned out and ignored.

It is worth mentioning that "Crash" was released on the same day, which made a box office of $9 million, and it will also shine at next year's Oscars.

Three consecutive A-level blockbusters hit the streets, making the film market depressed and unprecedentedly hungry, but fortunately, there is still "Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith" to look forward to.

On the day of its premiere on May 19, "Star Wars 3" broke four box office records: the midnight premiere box office (the original record holder was "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", $8 million), the total box office on the opening day (the original record holder was "Spider-Man 2", $40 million), the single-day box office (the original record holder was "Shrek 2", $44.8 million), and the Thursday box office (the original record holder was "The Matrix 2: Reloaded", $37.5 million).

After its premiere on Star Wars Day in Cannes on May 4, European critics said that the film alluded to the policies of the current government, in which Anakin said: "If you don't stand with me, you're on the enemy's side." And Bush said after 9/11: "If you don't stand with us, you're on the side of the terrorists." ”

However, George Lucas flatly denied this, because the framework of the film's story was formed during the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration, when the Iraq problem did not exist.

This super blockbuster has a super ability to attract money, sweeping the box office all over the world, and in the United States, Battlestars has become a kind of popular culture, and during the release of "Star Wars Prequel 3", the time off rate in many places increased by 20 percent, and they took time off to go to the movies.

The movies in the "Star Wars" series are very popular, the box office frequently breaks records, movie activities are endless, and derivatives are endless, what is the charm of this movie series, which is still enduring after 32 years but is becoming more and more popular?

In the 32 years of Star Wars, such a long time, various Star Wars peripherals have led a trend of culture, and cooperated with major brands to launch items covering character figures, themed assembly, and even derived from all aspects of life, such as kitchenware, furniture, office supplies, etc.

Before it became the most lucrative and well-known film series on the planet, "Star Wars" was almost seen as a joke, and Francis Coppola, who was making "The Godfather" at the time, kept mocking: "That kind of movie? Hehehehehe...... Even if the film's financier Twentieth Century Fox, only the presidents Alan Ladd II and Spielberg supported George Lucas, a cutting-edge director whose last film was still losing money.

Until the filming was over, no movie theater dared to show the film that looked like it would lose money. After unremitting efforts, there are finally movie theaters willing to release "Star Wars" in a "bundled screening", that is, the audience buys tickets to watch a movie and enjoys the additional film "Star Wars" for free.

As a result, on May 25 of that year, "Star Wars" was released, and the jaws of those who watched the joke dropped: the global box office was as high as 800 million US dollars! This movie not only saved the 20th Century Fox, which almost went out of business, but also attracted the attention of movie fans around the world, and the music of "Along time ago in a galaxy far, far aay" made everyone boil.

Many people were shocked by this movie, and there were long queues at the doors of theaters all over the world, just to watch this film, and many people watched it over and over again, and then lined up to buy tickets for the next one! It can be called an epoch-making blockbuster, James Cameron, the king of the world, James Cameron was 23 years old that year: "I was so surprised to see 'Star Wars' that I peed my pants, I jumped out of my chair, oh my God! Who did it? I told myself: I'm going to make a movie like this! I quit my job as a truck driver." Seven years later he directed "The Terminator" and seventeen years later he made "Titanic."

Ron Howard was also twenty-three years old that year: "When the movie ended, I didn't say a word, walked out of the theater, stood in line for another hour and a half to buy tickets, and watched it again. He later became a disciple of Lucas and directed films such as "Cocoon", "Apollo 13" and "A Beautiful Mind", and is one of the famous directors of his time.

Star Wars Episode III was released in 115 countries and territories around the world, and in North America, 2,900 midnight premieres brought back $16.5 million in revenue for the film, compared to a total of $50 million on the day of its premiere.

According to the statistical results, except for the seventh and eighth days slightly surpassed by "Spider-Man 2", the film held the record for the total box office of an American film in the first twelve days after its premiere, and after the third day of release, "Star Wars Episode 3" grossed more than $100 million, and "Spider-Man", "The Matrix: Reloaded" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" became the only films to gross more than 100 million in three days.

On the fourth day, the box office reached $158 million, breaking the four-day total box office record of $134 million held by "The Matrix: Reloaded", and on the eighth day, the box office reached $200 million, which was basically the same as "Spider-Man 2", and on the thirteenth day, it earned $250 million, surpassing "The Wedding Oak" to become the highest-grossing film of the year.

The box office reached $300 million in 17 days, surpassing the original record of 18 days held by "Shrek 2", and "Star Wars III" finally ranked behind "Shrek 2" and "Spider-Man" in the competition to reach $350 million at the box office.

The super box office hit made Lucasfilm overtake MM and become the most glamorous and high-profile film company in Hollywood, and its blockbuster variety of derivatives is unmatched by any movie.

Mark knew that George, a movie strongman, was afraid that he would have the intention of retiring at this time, so he sold his property to Disney seven years later.

Mark was thinking that if I hadn't gone bankrupt at that time, I would have had to fight for selling pants.

The emergence of this blockbuster made no A-grade blockbuster released after mid-May, and after it exceeded 250 million, the popularity dropped significantly, which led to the release of DreamWorks' animated film "Madagascar", which is an animated film, with different market positioning, no competition, and good first week results, but surprisingly, "The Longest One Yard", which was released two days earlier, actually achieved 58 million US dollars in the first week, and Adam Sandler proved his good appeal.

The film was a project cooperated by Paramount and Columbia, but Martin died by selling it to Paramount at a price of 10% higher investment costs.

The media commented on Martin: "This genius investment master has less vision for movies than one-tenth of his financial aspects, garbage is treasure, treasure is garbage." "Become a laughing stock for a while.

After the beginning of June, blockbusters were released one after another, on June 10 was Lionsgate's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", on the 15th was "Batman: The Time of War", on the 22nd was Disney's "The Emperor Penguin's Diaries", on the 24nd was Disney's "The Golden Beetle", and on the 29th was Spielberg and Soup's "War of the Worlds" and Colombia's "Top Secret Flight".

After Mark set up the M&A team, he delegated power to Egger and led the operation by him, and he was quite relieved, because this time David accompanied the supervising army, and their M&A team prepared sufficient funds and manpower, ready to go.

And they're still quite low-key, not ending up with Martin and the media like other buyers, and they've kept enough mystery that even many in the M&A team don't know who they've prepared so much manpower and material resources to.

Iger set aside a floor of their rented six-story office building for them to use as a merger headquarters, while Mark was busy promoting the new film "Batman: Time to War", which was agreed in advance and related to his income, in this film he has a 15% share of North Mi, of course, it will not take effect until North Mi breaks 100 million.

Not only him, but even Xiao Lizi, who had been drunk and dreaming of death after Oscar was disappointed, was caught by Kevin and started a promotional journey, allowing this goods to drive the extremely cool Batchariot and appear in various places for publicity, which has aroused crazy pursuit among fans and fans.

Warner attaches great importance to the reboot of Batman, and the advertising is overwhelming, because of the explosion of "Wedding Proud", the fame and appeal of Mark, David Lee, Rachel and so on have risen again, which is a surprise for Warner, which has a huge fan base since then, coupled with a number of popular superstars to join, Warner's confidence in him is second only to "Harry Potter" in December.

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