It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of "The Return of the Great Sage" in Europe, South America and other markets that Twentieth Century Fox, which is responsible for the distribution of the Great Sage in North America, has also increased its distribution and publicity efforts in North America, successfully released in 3458 theaters in North America, and grabbed 21% of the film schedule.

On the first day of Christmas, Dasheng grabbed $17.5 million under the attack of blockbusters such as "Unbreakable", "Enchanted Black Forest", "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies" and "Wonderful Night at the Museum 3", ranking first in the single-day box office and becoming the third-highest result of any Christmas Day premiere film in history, behind "Sherlock Holmes" ($24.6 million) and "Les Miserables" ($18.1 million), creating a miracle of Chinese-language films.

Angelina. Julie's new film "Unbreakable" was the runner-up with $15.592 million, followed by Meryl Streep, Emily. The musical film "Enchanted Black Forest" starring Blunt ranked third with 15.084 million, and "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", the final chapter of the Hobbit trilogy released a few days earlier, ranked fourth with $13.14 million.

In addition, the blockbuster comedy series "Wonderful Night at the Museum 3" ranked fifth with 7.34 million. Mark. Wahlberg & Jessica. Langer's new film "The Gambler" earned $5 million on its first day, ranking sixth. "Annie" ranked seventh with 4.6 million. Benedict. Domberbatch's awards-season hit "The Imitation Game" expanded its theaters this week, collecting $3.077 million in 737 theaters. "The Hunger Games 3: Mockingjay (Part I)" fell to 2.686 million and finished ninth.

The Great Sage became an instant hit in North America, giving all those who had high hopes for the Great Sage breathe a long sigh of relief.

In the next month, a whirlwind of Great Sage blew across North America. This superhero from China also did not live up to people's hopes for half a month of Christmas holidays. Daishing topped the list with $130 million and became the box office champion of the entire Christmas schedule.

Daishon's outstanding performance has not only attracted wide attention from public opinion throughout China. It also sent a shock to the whole of Hollywood, especially the CG special effects and 3D deep field technology of "The Return of the Great Sage" are almost a level higher than those of Hollywood's special effects companies.

The Hollywood Reporter commented in an article summarizing the world film industry in 2014: "In 2014, a phenomenal Chinese-language movie swept the whole world, and the Monkey King became the world's superhero. Today, with the rapid growth of the box office of Chinese mainland films year by year, Hollywood should be wary of the rise of the Chinese-language film industry, and the outstanding performance of Matrix Pictures in special effects technology shows that China's film industry has gradually grown into an important pole of the world film industry! ”

The Los Angeles Times interpreted the craze caused by "The Return of the Great Sage" in North America from a political perspective: "With the rapid rise of China's hard power, China's soft power has also blossomed and borne fruit around the world, and the Monkey King from China has become a superhero in the minds of children all over the United States." I think this will happen again in the near future. ”

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As of early February, the total box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" in North America reached 200 million US dollars, and the global total box office exceeded 700 million.

Combined with the revenue from other copyright channels, Matrix Pictures made a net profit of $250 million from the "Return of the Great Sage" project.

Although compared with the profits obtained by companies such as Matrix Digital, Matrix Electronics, and Matrix Semiconductor, the profit amount of "The Return of the Great Sage" is not too high, but it is enough to make those domestic film companies greedy.

For a while, in terms of special effects technology, the request for cooperation with Matrix Pictures flew like a piece of paper.

For these cooperations, Yang Lin did not directly intervene, but handed over to Gao Junru to be responsible.

Due to the great success of "Return of the Great Victory" during this time. Matrix Pictures has become one of the most influential film and television companies in China, especially Gao Junru has helped Matrix Pictures sign a first-tier movie star and two second-tier stars through her connections in the circle. and a dozen potential new stars who have just been in the entertainment industry.

In addition, Gao Junru also signed four TV drama directors with a good reputation in China, and is ready to increase investment in the field of TV dramas and online dramas.

As for film directors. It is still in the contact phase. After all, most of the first-line directors in China have their own studios, and the cooperation with film companies is basically on an equal footing. Gao Junru can only start with those second- and third-tier and potential directors.

On this day, Yang Lin was thinking about Feilong Aviation Industry Company in the office. The phone on the desk rang suddenly.

Yang Linlian hurriedly picked up the phone, and Bai Hua's cold voice rang on the other end of the phone: "Mr. Yang, Mr. Gao Junru and Mr. Gao ask to see you!" ”

Yang Lin smiled: "Xiaobai, let Mr. Gao come in!" ”

I don't know what's going on, last time I took Lin Qingya and Yang Ying to the south of Caiyun to play around, Bai Hua seemed to have guessed something, and after coming back, he didn't give Yang Lin any good looks.

But what's strange is that the relationship between Bai Hua and Lin Qingya and Yang Ying seems to be a lot better, every weekend, the three of them always get together, either go out shopping to buy clothes, or do beauty and SPA together, and the three of them even signed up for the same yoga club, which is like sisters.

Yang Lin could only shake his head and be speechless in this regard, let them solve the matter between women.

Gao Junru entered Yang Lin's office with a document, and said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, there is a cooperation, I can't make up my mind, I want to ask you to palm!" ”

During this period of time, the development of Matrix Pictures has been smooth, especially the record box office performance of "The Return of the Great Sage", which has shown that Gao Junru was prescient to join Matrix Pictures, and Gao Junru is naturally in a good mood.

Yang Lin was slightly stunned and said with a smile: "Mr. Gao, you are an expert in the film and television industry, I'm afraid I'm a layman won't be able to help much!" ”

Gao Junru said with a smile: "Mr. Yang, this is not necessarily, you can look at this fax first!" ”

Yang Lin was slightly stunned, took the fax from Gao Junru's hand and looked at it.

Soon, Yang Lin's face changed slightly: "What's the situation?" Doesn't it mean that the copyright of "Three-Body Problem" in Zhang Fanfan's hand has long been sold to Youzu? Why is he still asking us to cooperate? ”

Gao Junru said: "I don't know the specific situation, but I heard that Ali Pictures and Wanda Pictures have already intervened, and now they have sent us an invitation, Zhang Fanfan probably wants to sell at the price, Mr. Yang, you see our ......"

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Go, you go and talk to Zhang Fanfan, no matter what conditions the other party proposes, you must win the three-body copyright!" ”

"Okay, Mr. Yang!" (To be continued.) )