In the past two months, the scandal between Lance and "Iron Man" has been spreading intermittently within Hollywood, and the news that Chaos Pictures and Marvel Studios have teamed up to create a superhero movie has indeed made many people excited, but it has not really made Hollywood boil, because most people are watching, watching the attitude of Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures, watching the attitude of the academy towards Lance, and most importantly, watching the summer prospects of "Fury Road". Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Chaos Pictures' upward momentum over the past three years has been unstoppable, but a small and medium-sized company like this can often lead to a complete collapse with a single fiasco. The overnight collapse of Diora Pictures last year is still fresh in my mind. Therefore, the lifeline of Chaos Pictures is still maintained on the "Fury Road", so how can the potential cooperation of "Iron Man" make people lose their minds?

Of course, maybe the actors are gearing up to work with Lance one by one, after all, the company is one thing, and the director is another.

What's more, in just two months after the release of "Mission Impossible", the entire Hollywood has been turned upside down for several rounds, and the summer of 2006 is becoming more and more confusing.

"Mission Impossible 3", stuck, although it has been on the North American weekend box office chart for two consecutive weeks, but since the premiere, the box office data in the same period has created the lowest in the series, and the cumulative box office in the eight weeks of release is only 130 million, which is really disappointing compared to the investment of 150 million, and even the overseas box office performance is far lower than expected.

"Poseidon" collapsed, if the performance of "Mission Impossible" was lower than expected, but the box office data was at least barely passable, then "Poseidon" was a disaster, the premiere box office was only 22 million, losing to the next week box office of "Mission Impossible", ranking second in the weekend box office list, and the cumulative box office so far is only 58 million, not even a fraction of the cost - the budget of this work is as high as 160 million.

"The Da Vinci Code", word of mouth fluttered, the box office exploded, although the opening weekend was not able to achieve a box office of 100 million, but 77 million still made Sony Pictures happy, so far the cumulative box office has crossed the threshold of 200 million, successfully become the box office champion so far this year, even compared to the cost of 125 million, this box office is also satisfactory. What is even more worthy of celebration is that the overseas box office has also exploded.

"X-Men", stupid, the series with a premiere of 100 million and 2 million hit a new high, which amazed the whole of North America, and the fourth work in film history to break 100 million at the box office with its premiere was born. However, the box office fell by as much as 66 percent the next week, and the high-altitude diving fell to the 20th Century Fox, and what is worse is that the word-of-mouth hit the street seriously affected the stamina, and the current cumulative box office in North America is 220 million, but the stamina is far inferior to the "Da Vinci Code", considering the staggering cost of 210 million, whether this investment is made or lost, we have to wait for the decision of the overseas box office -- but the current situation is not optimistic.

And then...... Then "Breaking Up Men and Women" became the biggest winners of the big melee of major film companies and became a comedy dark horse; "Cars" created a new low in the reputation of Pixar animation, but the box office performance was still good, winning two consecutive box office championships in the second weekend of this year's summer file; "Fast and Furious 3" completely collapsed, and the poor word-of-mouth and terrible box office made Universal Pictures almost stop its heartbeat; "Untouchable Lovers" is decent, and the word-of-mouth and box office barely meet expectations, but it is difficult to bring more surprises; The "remote control of life" is lackluster and invigorating, and basically maintains the level of Adam Sandler.

When June is coming to an end, people realize that there are some chaotic trends in the world this year's summer file, and "The Da Vinci Code" is the only surprise, in addition, "Cars", "X-Men", "Mission Impossible 3", "Life Remote Control" are all disappointing, these highly-anticipated works, almost none of them have been able to reach the expected heights, not to mention the "Poseidon", which can be called an epic disaster-level crash, is even more exciting than the movie itself.

Warner Bros. can't help but hurt internally, the disaster of the "Poseidon" will cost them at least $100 million, and the "untouchable lovers" are far from meeting their expectations, and this year's summer file seems to have been opened in the wrong way.

It is rumored that director Wolfgang Peterson was issued a ban order, the German director who won the Oscar for Best Film and Best Director nominations in 1981 for the war movie "Attack from the Bottom of the Sea", rolled in Hollywood for nearly 15 years, but because of the two works of "Troy" and "Poseidon", his career came to an end directly, and he left the United States in a huff and returned to Germany to start retirement.

But Hollywood pundits don't have time to savor the chaos as the most high-profile box office battle of 2006 is about to take place; Warner Bros. also didn't have time to regret their unfavorable summer schedule, as their 2006 top priority, Superman Returns, was about to be released.

The release of "Superman Returns" is not only an important step for Warner Bros. to open the curtain on the DC Comics adaptation of the movie, but the success or failure of the work will directly determine the company's follow-up strategy; It is also an important weight for Warner Bros. to suppress Chaos Pictures, fight against "Fury Road", and teach Lance a lesson.

The whole Hollywood finally began to boil, especially the silence of the previous two months, and there was no imaginary explosion, which also means that the box office potential of this year's summer file has still not been tapped, will this become the precursor to the outbreak of "Superman Returns", "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", and "Fury Road" Armageddon? Does this indicate that the entire box office market is preparing for this showdown? Does this mean that the history will be constantly refreshed in the future?

Everyone will be waiting to see.

On Wednesday, June 28, this is not only the last weekend of June, but also the first weekend of July, and this year's Independence Day schedule, "Superman Returns" was released in 4,000 and 97 theaters across the United States, making its debut with the third largest scale in film history.

In the presence of more than 130 special guests, 1,200 onlookers and more than 300 journalists, the North American premiere of "Superman Returns" became the most lively in three months, and the scale and popularity were not inferior to the Oscars, and the premiere lasted from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. the next morning.

After the premiere, more than 300 comic fans stayed at the entrance of the Chinese/Chinese Theater, singing, carnivaling, and even imitating Superman's scene on the Avenue of Fame, which also became one of the premiere jokes.

All indications are that Warner Bros. not only held a successful premiere, but also that the quality of the finished product of "Superman Returns" seems to exceed expectations, which is undoubtedly good news for the summer season - because the battle will be more intense, more exciting, and more unpredictable.

The next day, the media comprehensive evaluation, theater scores, and Rotten Tomatoes scores were opened one after another, and this work directed by Brian Singer successfully continued the praise of his previous two "X-Men", and the media comprehensive evaluation was as high as 72 points, although it was not as good as last year's "Batman Prequel: The Mystery of the Movie", but for a popcorn movie and a comic book hero movie, this achievement is bright enough, and it can even be called commendable.

For reference, Sin City's media rating is 77 points.

When Warner Bros. saw the media comprehensive review, they couldn't help but open champagne to celebrate, which was the second best score in this year's summer file, second only to the 73 points of "Car Story". Warner Bros. can finally breathe a long sigh of relief, the grievances of the previous "Poseidon" fiasco have been swept away, although word of mouth is not equal to the box office, but at least it means that "Superman Returns" has been recognized in terms of quality, which also clears the way for the movie to create good results at the box office. This is definitely the best news since the opening of the summer file.

Not only that, the freshness index of Rotten Tomatoes is also as high as 76%, and the score of 258 mass media has reached 7 points, both sets of data are very gratifying, it can be seen that the mass media and professional media have basically maintained the unity of opinion, and "Superman Returns" has been unanimously praised by professionals, which is really rare for commercial films, especially in the first two months of this summer, when they fell into a scuffle, it is even more exciting.

But surprisingly, the theater score that the audience is responsible for scoring is only "B", which can be said to be a drop for popcorn movies, you know, popcorn movies that have achieved good box office results, the theater score is generally higher, even if you get "A", it is not surprising; Especially when the theater scores are compared with the critics' reviews, it seems that the fans who have been in the revelry after the premiere are only a small part of the audience's opinion, and more viewers are not interested in the film.

This contrast suddenly made Warner Bros. faintly uneasy.

For a commercial film, whether it wants word-of-mouth or box office, ask a hundred people, and the answer of a hundred people is the latter. A commercial film is a failure if it can't win the box office, and no amount of praise is empty talk. If it could, Warner Bros. would even be willing to replace the theater score of "A" with the result of the 20-point media review, but ...... It's impossible.

Strangely, "Superman Returns" seems to be caught in an elusive predicament.

In the last week of June, "Superman Returns" grossed $52.5 million at the box office over three days of its opening weekend, causing an uproar and a "Poseidon"-style nightmare reappearing. (To be continued.) )