Chapter 353: Marvel (4th Update)

The screening of "Inception" entered its third weekend, and the winner undoubtedly belonged to "X-Men".

"X-Men 3" achieved a box office explosion in its opening weekend with a stunning score of $107 million, and completed the final battle of the trilogy beautifully. The record of more than $107 million in three days is second only to the "Spider-Man" series, "Star Wars Prequel 3: Heath's Revenge", "Shrek 2" and "Inception", which has just been released.

The performance of breaking 100 million yuan in the first weekend also made the previous "big words" of the previously sworn director Brett Lightner afraid to backtrack, and the so-called "X-Men 4", which "does not exist in my plan", is difficult to shoot or not.

With Hollywood's pee, there must be a sequel.

Unless it's not profitable, they'll shoot to the point where you want to throw up.

Seeing that "X-Men" is so popular, Marvel is becoming more and more popular. After all, there's a whole bunch of heavyweight superheroes waiting to make the scene.

Hu Yifei is still in close talks with Marvel, and has acquired nearly half of the shares, as long as more than 51% of the shares are acquired, the absolute horror of the company has been completed. But there are no stupid people in Hollywood, they borrowed money to make movies in the original time and space, and now although they are facing being acquired, they are still unwilling to let go easily.

It's just that with the popularity of Hu Yifei's new film, as well as many promises, many backbones, shareholders, and cores have begun to waver.

According to the latest news from the acquisition team, it won't be long before Hu Yifei can own the company.

The team leading the acquisition is a Wall Street professional firm that has never missed a miss. But the news Hu Yifei received was not so easy. A group of veteran employees, led by Stan Lee, confronted the company's acquisition team, even threatening death. Hu Yifei frowned, this old scoop is not a good thing, to put it bluntly, he is just worried about affecting his own interests.

Of course, Hu Yifei has time to slowly grind with Marvel, but recently Disney is seeking a way out for the company's follow-up.

He was worried about the extraneous complications, and once again gave Marvel a booster: he promised that after Marvel was acquired, he would invest no less than $500 million to help Marvel establish Marvel Studios and start building the Marvel Universe movie plan.

In addition, let Erica go to meet Stan Lee alone to convey Hu Yifei's goodwill.

This promise once again made a group of old employees who were worried about whether the Chinese would buy Marvel unpredictably, and if they had these 500 million funds, they could also avoid the embarrassment of continuing to be inferior to DC. Watching the Hulk, X-Men, and Spider-Man make money like crazy, but they can only become vassals, this feeling is enough.

"I agree to the acquisition." The old man Stan Lee, who has always been the core opponent, changed his tune unexpectedly a few days ago.

The acquisition is in the closing stages. Hu Yifei also breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that the more you worry about something, the more likely it is to go wrong. When the final closing was carried out, a Big Mac was unexpectedly killed again, and suddenly stirred up a muddy water for Hollywood.

Of course, that's just for later.

Getting back to business, "X-Men" surpassed the $54 million in the first episode, the $85 million in the second part, and the $107 million Godzilla-level premiere of the third episode, which created a lot of pressure on "Superman Returns", which appeared a month later, and also brought a lot of runs to "Inception", which was released in the third week.

Although the weekend box office result of $34.5 million lost to the $28.56 million of "X-Men" and lost the top spot at the box office, it still firmly suppressed the 33.5 million head of "The Da Vinci Code" and sat firmly in the third place. At the same time, the North American box office also reached $291 million in one fell swoop, surpassing the final North American box office record of Hu Yifei's previous work "The Hangover". And the $300 million mark will be broken just around the corner next week, which is bound to send Hu Yifei into the ranks of the $300 million club.

Looking at the whole of Hollywood, there are only a few members of the $300 million directors club.

Time Warner's media rejoiced at this achievement and were eager to spread it to every corner of the globe to build momentum for Inception, which was coming to overseas markets one after another.

And "Inception" has more than just the North American box office. The overseas box office has also been popular, winning the box office championship in many places. Word of mouth has also spread all the way, and the title of god is not only praised by Hollywood people. The global box office reached $617 million in the third week of its release, entering the 600 million mark, once again breaking Hu Yifei's previous personal box office record.

Last year, a global break of 500 million and another 600 million this year, this young man's record really made countless Chinese embarrassed.

At that time, Brother Chenlong went through several twists and turns in order to break into Hollywood, and if it weren't for the project "Rush Hour", I am afraid that he would still be hovering on the edge. Even now, after Hollywood took over a large number of bad movies, he had to return to China to develop. Make more good films like "Baby Project" in order to prepare for a return to Hollywood.

And in the entire Chinese film industry, the original record of Brother Chenlong has been praised by many media as an impossible record. In retrospect, it is clear that that was too early to be said.

And in the mutant frenzy set off by Wolverine, Storm Girl, Magneto, Dark Phoenix, Iceman, Flame Demon, Angel, Thor, Orcs, Assassins and other parties, "The Da Vinci Code" repeats the sluggish state of "Mission Impossible 3" last week. Although it quickly crossed the $100 million mark and still ranked third on the list with $33.5 million in revenue this week, the terrifying drop of nearly 60% is still a fatal wound.

In fact, the above-mentioned "premature ejaculation phenomenon" is not uncommon at the summer box office of "climax".

Having said that, Sony, which intends to promote controversial themes to all ages, and makes a lot of money with the hype of best-selling novels and various news gimmicks, still can't hide the strong excitement of the sudden drop in temperature.

The opening of more than $70 million managed to save face commensurate with the topicality of the novel, and people once regained a little confidence in Sony's distribution ability. But the tide of bad reviews in Cannes and the cold eyes of the media dragged down the box office.

Who can rely on this? The coarse and refined adaptation of the script, the half-tepid plot rollout, and the suspenseless reasoning process ...... the golden partner of "Howard + Gosman", who is also an Oscar winner, I don't know what I am thinking, the skill of creating a suspenseful atmosphere in "A Beautiful Mind" is gone, and the visual display technique of solving puzzles is old-fashioned and vulgar. In order to avoid the influence of religious controversy, the original work was arbitrarily deleted, and a story with N more points to watch was filmed so tedious and lengthy, it was really self-inflicted!

As the time slowly entered June, the North American box office of "Inception" fell unexpectedly huge after the fourth week of release, and after breaking 100 million in the first week, it only scored $34 million the following weekend. Fortunately, the cumulative box office in North America has reached $175 million, which is not a failure. It's just that compared to the fourth week of "Inception", there is still a weekend box office record of $23 million, which is undoubtedly dwarfed.

With the help of this week's box office impact, "Inception" also broke through the 300 million threshold without suspense and is climbing towards a higher record of 328 million US dollars.

Not to be outdone, the film's overseas box office exceeded $380 million, with a cumulative global box office of $708 million.

This is already one of the top box office results in the history of films, and even the media that previously criticized Hu Yifei and "Inception" have reversed the wind and begun to throw all kinds of praise words at his head.

"The most incredible young man, the miracle of soaring into the sky, the wise fox from the East - Hu Yifei." - Vanity Fair

"What others can't achieve in a lifetime, this young man has entered the $200 million club and the $300 million club in the first two years of his entry into Hollywood. The two blockbusters have already earned a billion dollars worldwide. Even Steve Spielberg, at his age, only deserves to eat dust behind his ass. β€”The New York Times.

"The next guess, when will Galenhu go to make an art film and march towards the Oscars?"

In the eyes of Americans, only the Oscars are the real destination of great directors. (To be continued.) )