"Titanic" has earned $1.8 billion at the global box office, and it seems like yesterday's wonder.

It's only been three years, and Sid, who has only been a director for four years, has broken the box office records and status of Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" (910 million) and George Lucas's "Star Wars Prequel 1" (920 million).

In recent years, with the development of the film industry, commercial blockbusters and special effects films have developed faster and faster, but the box office records that a film can achieve are still sluggish.

Although there are countless promiscuous people who want to challenge and follow the pace of "Titanic", the vast majority of people can't even break their big words, just like this year's "Pearl Harbor".

And it seems that only the older generation of filmmakers such as Spielberg and George Lucas have the strength to fight, but even they, not to mention challenging Cameron, seem to be unable to connect with the box office record of "Titanic".

So far, no film has crossed the $1 billion mark.

It's as if this is a moat, a natural gulf between the king of the Cameron world and the others!

But this shortcoming is over today!

After six months of continuous theaters, Sid's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has also increased at the box office as it has expanded its global screenings, although there has been a period of decline due to 911.

But with Sid's own actions in a series of affairs such as charity concerts and singles, it seems that the attention and box office of "Harry Potter" have once again revived.

In this season when Nolan is not out and "Avatar" is far away, the shock that a movie that breaks $1 billion can cause is absolutely subversive!

If you want to make an analogy, you can refer to "Batman: Heroes Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" that made Nolan a real god "in history".

Although it was rare to break $1 billion at that time, the top three in the box office list of film history at that time were all masterpieces that broke $1 billion - "Titanic", "The Lord of the Rings 3" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2".

But even in this case, Nolan's "The Dark Knight" turned out to be the fourth film to break $1 billion at the box office with $1.004 billion.

subverted the entire Hollywood, and even the world's perception of Nolan in one fell swoop, and also made him officially step into the threshold of the big directors club with one foot.

And now "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is stepping on the head of "Star Wars Prequel 1" and officially ranks second at the box office in world film history.

This immediately sparked a mountain shake in Hollywood!

A 20-year-old young director has created the world's second film to break $1 billion, which is more subversive than "historical" Nolan.

Critics and media outlets who were still debating whether "Begin-Again" and "A Beautiful Mind" were better or worse, and even whether "Moulin Rouge" had been overlooked, suddenly threw these awards season darlings aside.

For Hollywood in this matter, breaking the box office of 1 billion has become a fantasy, and a young man who is only 20 years old will scare their hearts out to achieve it.

But the numbers don't lie, and after issuing a joint official statement with PricewaterhouseCoopers, no one has questioned this fact.

You must know that if a director can make a movie that breaks $1 billion, he will immediately be praised by Hollywood, not to mention that Sid is only 20 years old!

All the TV media, journalists, and even the paparazzi immediately surrounded Sid's Sunset Villa.

Fortunately, Sid has been preparing one after another in the past few years, buying all the mansions in the Hollywood Hills on the side of him, and then letting Rem and others supervise the construction of special walls and gates to keep these reporters and paparazzi out.

But that didn't stop the enthusiasm of the media, who even hired helicopters to fly over Hollywood to shoot the sunset villas. Even if there is a maid or maid running out of the villa, it can excite them for a long time.

At the same time, they were not idle, and all the entertainment news and newspapers and magazines made a big fuss about it.

The four major TV networks even made albums for Sid in surround sound throughout the day, some people made Sid's director's album, some people also added Sid's prodigy part, and some people directly made a skewered album about what Sid had done since his debut.

It's not that they don't want to dig up Sid's past, it's just that Sid once again made early preparations, and after negotiating with the federal authorities, he sealed all the files before his life in the welfare home, and asked Scorpio's technical team to block and delete all relevant information on the Internet.

Under Sid's tight defenses, his past has become a mystery among the media.

But again, this can't stop the enthusiasm of the media.

If I can't dig up your past, then I'll make it up.

Although serious newspapers and television media would not do this, gossip magazines did not care about this, and all kinds of gossip and vinegar were flying all over the sky for a while, and a photo of Sid seemed to have become a luxury item that was hard to find.

It seems that the "history" of Britney being "hunted down" by the paparazzi has not yet been reproduced, and Sid has become the target of the paparazzi first.

And even apart from the enthusiastic "news" of these gossip tabloids, the relatively formal media has not given up on Sid's pursuit.

"Vanity Fair" even threw out the shocking and sensational headline "Sid Leon has one foot in the door of the big directors' club!" as the cover title of the current issue.

The idea of the big directors' club has been around in Hollywood for a long time, but it has always been a private term, not a publicly recognized evaluation standard.

Professional media such as "Hollywood Reporter", "Variety" and other newspapers will also release some lists such as "the world's most influential XX directors" every few years.

Spielberg, Cameron, and Lucas are the biggest favorites to alternate tops.

As for other well-known directors such as Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Ridley Scott, Robert Zemeckis, and Quentin Tarantino, who is still a newcomer compared to them, are also regulars on the list.

But none of them are under the age of 30, and except for the top three "great gods", no one dares to say who among these well-known directors is, and who is not a member of the big directors club.

Especially in recent years, Francis Coppola and Robert Zemeckis have entered a semi-retired state, and Woody Allen is more popular in the European film industry than in North America, and Ridley Scott is a typical representative of cooling down for N years.

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But Sid doesn't like these boring false names, well, it's not boring, he is so famous all of a sudden, and he is also secretly happy.

But the other half of his body is calm and vigilant to him, how to make better use of the national effect this time is the key, the first of which is to strengthen the cooperation between Fire Lion Pictures and major theaters.

Among them, Sid, Shirley and Jon Philheimer value the most cooperation with a wider range of sub-theater operators in addition to AMC Cinemas.

In particular, major mainstream cinema chains such as Cinemark, which has the largest cinema chain in Latin America, Carmike, which specializes in small and medium-sized city cinemas in North America, and Cineplex, which has the largest cinema chain in Canada, are eager to re-sign distribution agreements with Fire Lion!

This has greatly improved the theatrical distribution capacity of Fire Lion Pictures in North and South America, and the penetration ability of small and medium-sized cities in North America has also been rapidly strengthened, which are the subversive effects of "Harry Potter" and the real benefits it has bringed.

The new distribution agreement gives Fire Lion Pictures the ability to premiere in 3,000 theaters in North America independently. In terms of distribution capacity in North America alone, Fire Lion Pictures is not much different from the Big Seven.

Not to mention that it still needs to be affiliated with the seven major dream factories that distribute films, even the fallen MGM is not as good as the rising Fire Lion Pictures.

It didn't take long for the Wall Street Journal, with a keen sense of smell, to write an analytical article with the headline "MGM is old, the fire lion rises!"

Since it is written by the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper of the financial and economic giants, of course, the content and direction are different from those of entertainment media and gossip magazines.

They pointed out that the success of the "Harry Potter" series of movies has given Fire Lion Pictures a stronger autonomy in publicity and production, which is a treatment that small and medium-sized filmmakers never dared to think of before.

And this is just one side of the rise of the Fire Lion, after their detailed investigation, the rapid development of the Fire Lion Group in the field of TV and music has long exceeded most people's imagination.

The unprecedented success of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" not only made Sid famous, but also made more adults who were not originally interested in him interested in it for a while, and more people poured into the cinema in a resurgence, causing a short-term box office recovery of the movie.

And this phenomenon is not only in North America, but also in the world, especially in those countries and regions that are relatively late in theaters, which also makes the box office performance of "Harry Potter" further rise.

In addition to the box office effect, the derivative peripheral market of the movie has also been completely detonated!

For a while, the toys and peripherals of "Harry Potter" seem to have become the best children's gifts for Christmas in Europe and the United States this year, and this linkage effect has of course extended to "Harry Potter".

Worldwide, several Harry Potter books have been published and have become popular gifts and reads.

Sony is happy, and the Fire Lion is even more happy.

The spark has already started a prairie fire!