With the release of "Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part II)", in the North American film market, there are three films invested or starring Matthew at one time, although the other two have entered the final stage, but they cannot be ignored, because they have achieved a box office that can only be described as a big explosion.

"American Sniper", which was released in mid-September, after more than two months of screening, grossed as much as $389.56 million in North America alone, and the global box office added up to more than $700 million.

Another film, The Conjuring, also came to its fourth weekend of North American screenings, and after winning $7.2 million, the North American box office totaled $127.83 million.

The film has also been released in many overseas regions and is currently grossing nearly $300 million worldwide.

Compared with the production cost of $15 million and the publicity cost of the same scale, "The Conjuring" can be described as a big profit.

Of course, it is impossible to stop such a lucrative film, and James Wing has already begun to prepare for "The Conjuring 2" after getting Matthew's upfront start-up funding.

Nicolas Cage and Villa Farmiga are both confirmed to return.

Nicolas Cage, in particular, paid a special visit to express his gratitude to Matthew.

Matthew also roughly understands something, since Nicolas Cage accepted his suggestion to go to the other side of the Pacific to take over two bad movies at a high price, coupled with the positive effect of "The Conjuring", both debt and reputation are currently changing on the good side, and it is estimated that it will not take long to basically get out of the debt quagmire.

Of course, if you want to go back to his incomparably glorious moments in the nineties, that is impossible.

The era that belonged to Nicolas Cage is completely over, and there is no going to return.

Matthew also took time to go to the crew of "The Hunger Games 2: Spark in the Plain" to watch, this film has started shooting, as a sequel to the blockbuster movie, it has attracted attention inside and outside the circle.

Patty Jenkins' ability is fine, Jennifer Lawrence's character is very popular, and this series is worry-free for the time being.

In addition, Matthew also met with people from the Warner Bros. distribution department to determine the release schedule of "Sparks" as soon as possible.

It's definitely too late for next year's spring, even if it's a summer file, it will have to be placed in June and July, and a special schedule needs to be set up, Matthew simply suggested that this film be placed on the Thanksgiving schedule, after all, the "Twilight" series has ended, and for him, the Thanksgiving schedule is vacant, and "Sparks" can be stuffed in.

After the two sides talked, they exchanged phone calls several times and confirmed that "The Hunger Games 2: Sparks" will be released on Thanksgiving next year.

After the "Twilight" series, Matthew once again dominated the Thanksgiving schedule.

It can't be said to be a hegemony, it's just that it was announced that "The Hunger Games 2: Sparks" will be released the weekend before Thanksgiving, and this is a free and competitive market, and if you want to release a movie on this schedule, you can just come.

The first-line commercial blockbusters are concentrated in the summer file, and the big hit of "The Hunger Games" is in the front, and the film with a small scale will not be stupid enough to fight with such a sequel.

Warner Bros. released "The Conjuring" and "Latent", "Latent 2" is scheduled for next spring, and "The Conjuring 2" will continue to be released on Halloween.

Then there are the two films "Fast and Furious 6" and "Fast and Furious 7", Disney has already determined the schedule, which are the Independence Day schedule for next year and the year after next.

The "Twilight" series is officially over, and the fanfic derived from this series has also been put on the movie adaptation agenda by Matthew.

When the contract was first signed, Matthew got a fanfic license from Stephanie Meyer, although Stephanie Mayer was quite dissatisfied with the large scale of the online serialization with the names of Edward and Isabella as the heroes and heroines, but in the end he didn't say much.

Of course, this is also because Matthew promised her that the main character's name would be changed soon.

This fanfic is already using the names of Edward Cullen and Isabella Swan to rub off on the popularity of the "Twilight" series, and when it has attracted enough attention in its own right, the "Twilight" fandom will no longer bring much help.

As a result, this one, which was originally called "King of the Universe" on the Internet, has been completely revised by Matthew since the beginning of 2011.

The names of the male and female protagonists were changed from Edward Cara and Isabella Swan to Christian Gray and Anastasia Steele, respectively, and also renamed Fifty Shades of Gray.

As for the content, of course, it is a story of a super Mary Sue and a domineering president who fall in love with each other.

When an innocent 21-year-old female college student, Anastasia Steele, goes to interview Christian Gray, a handsome 28-year-old entrepreneur, for a report for the school newspaper, she meets a beautiful, intelligent, and intimidating person.

To put it in a descriptive otherworldly, innocent Anna is surprised to realize that she wants this man, and despite his mystery, she still longs to get close to him.

And the male protagonist Gray can't resist Anna's quiet beauty, wisdom and independent spirit, and Gray misses her too much.

Gray's taste is peculiar, though......

The content is actually very bad, but because of some special descriptions, when it was serialized on the Internet, it attracted the attention of millions of people, and after the book was renamed and published as "Gray's Fifty Shades", not only did it not have a negative impact because of the name change, but attracted more readers.

The reason is that one of the paragraphs is a relatively small scale description, which can be seen.

"No use of fire, no excrement related to any acts, no bleeding such as needle, knife insertions, etc., no use of children or animals as props, no permanent scars on the skin, no restriction of breathing ......"

To put it simply,This is a book that has been trained in detail、S and M、Sex and sexuality and the like.,As for the specific plot.,Don't mention it.。

Matthew's own cultural accomplishment is very limited, he has no ability to write, and the female gunman he hired at the beginning is not very good, otherwise he would not be a gunman who doesn't even have the copyright, but this female gunman has an advantage, she completely brings herself into the role of Isabella or Anastasia, not only using first-person descriptions, but also taking the trouble to describe those sensitive content.

Taboos bring curiosity, and curiosity often forms the desire to buy.

The book is also divided into a trilogy, with the suffixes "Femdom", "Bondage" and "Freedom" added to "Fifty Shades of Gray", and will be fully published in May this year.

It's no exaggeration to say that this set has cast a boulder on the turbulent world map.

On the first day of their release, the three films sold 300,000 copies in Los Angeles and New York alone, and a month later, they sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.

That's a pretty scary number, even surpassing the sales of the Harry Potter franchise when it was only three installments.

No one could have imagined that such a book would create such a result, and even Matthew did not expect this result, because it was so amazing.

Not surprisingly, the ghostwriter of the gunman sued Matthew in court, claiming that he had used fraudulent means to infringe copyright, but this lawsuit came and ended quickly, how could someone like Matthew, who looks at the world with the worst eyes, not expect such a reaction from the other party?

The gunman was just an otaku who liked to write intimate articles about women on her blog, not a member of any organization related to copyright or book unions, and the copyright buyout ghostwriting contract signed by the two parties was not a private contract, with the endorsement of a barrister's firm, and there was clear justice, and there was even a public video of the ghostwriter signing a resource to sell out the copyright.

This is destined to be an easy win for the copyright company.

Matthew did not hesitate, and capital did not need to hesitate in the face of profits, after all, the two parties had signed a complete and clear agreement before.

To some people's eyes, the ghostwriter's demand for 15 percent of the copyright proceeds does not seem excessive.

But just over two months after the publication was published, Universal Pictures and Focus Pictures jointly financed Matthew's purchase of the film rights to the "Fifty Shades of Gray" trilogy, and they bid as much as ...... 80 million dollars!

The single book almost reached the cost of Sony Columbia Pictures to buy the copyright of "The Da Vinci Code", and the publication of "The Da Vinci Code" was so sensational that Sony Columbia Pictures claimed that the copyright cost was 140 million US dollars.

Actually, of course, there are not so many, more than 30 million dollars are there, Matthew has worked with Aziva Gosman many times, and Aziwa Gosman alone is paid as much as six million dollars as a screenwriter.

However, Matthew declined Universal Pictures and Focus Pictures, and the change in this series may not be particularly high at the box office because of the existence of movie classifications, but the restrictions on DVD discs are much smaller, and the release of DVDs is very likely to create high sales that have rarely been seen in recent years.

The series has gathered a large number of readers, and even now, in North America, it can sell a trilogy in an average of two seconds, conquering the top 3 on the Amazon bookstore list, the New York Times best-seller list, and even beating the "Hunger Games" series to occupy the first place on the best-selling list for a long time.

At present, the book sells nearly 100 million copies worldwide, bringing in an average of 76 percent of the profit per copy, and excluding the fees paid to Random House, Matthew's studio earns more than 40 percent of the profit for each copy sold.

The price of a single book is $25 and the set is $59.9, not to mention the movie, the sales brought by it alone are an astronomical amount of income.

Matthew also asked Helen Herman to help him keep an eye out for the right writers and directors.