0300 【Leading a Trend】
In two and a half weeks, the Asian box office is 400 million yuan, which is not the end of "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan".
At $1.1 million in a week of release in Australia, it set a record for a Chinese-language film at the Australian box office, and no Chinese film has ever grossed more than $1 million in Australia before. In Italy, it was released for a week, with a total of 170,000 people and a box office of 700,000 euros, undoubtedly setting the best results for Chinese films in Italy.
After a week and a half of release in Russia, 800,000 moviegoers and 120 million rubles are undoubtedly the box office champion of Chinese films in Russia. New Zealand was released for a week, with a weekend box office of 156,000 New Zealand dollars, and a cumulative box office of 180,000, ranking third this week, setting the best opening result for a Chinese film in New Zealand.
France, Peru, Germany, Thailand, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Turkey, all the regions where "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan" was released have created a lot of momentum.
Swept from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere, under the impact of IMAX-3D, the film once again achieved a box office of 80 million yuan in Asia, and a total of 160 million yuan outside Asia. The global box office is 640 million yuan, which is about to break the 100 million US million mark.
A Fengyue film, 100 million US dollars, before it was released, no one dared to believe it!
Even Shao Shuaijun had to open his mouth in disbelief. The film investment is not small, but it is only the number one in China, more than 100 million yuan, in Hollywood, all over the world, this is a shoddy IMAX-3D movie.
He knows that in the future, a mediocre "Avatar" will rely on perfect viewing effects to achieve the miracle of global box office champions. But it's a super production that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make. It took several years to use the world's most advanced IMAX-3D technology and facial expression capture technology, and it was shot and produced in a virtual studio, and the picture was smooth, natural, clear and bright, and the effect was several times that of "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan".
Although they are all called IMAX-3D, they look like one in the sky and one in the ground. If it is released after "Avatar", it will definitely be killed into slag, but the problem is that the schedule of "Avatar" is determined to be in this year's Christmas file. Without "Avatar" as a comparison, "IMAX-3D Jade Putuan" is currently the top version of the viewing effect.
Therefore, you have to grab a first in everything!
After being released one after another around the world. Mid-May. The North American summer season kicked off. Previously, "X-Men: Wolverine", which was released on May 1, continued to storm the box office. "Star Trek 11", which was released on May 8, also performed well, and 11 sequels can be filmed in a series, which in itself is a guarantee of the box office.
On May 15, "Angels and Demons", the sister chapter of "The Da Vinci Code", was released. This is also the time when "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan" landed in the United States. Because of the reimbursement contract with IMAX company. "IMAX-3D Jade Putuan" is not only released in ordinary theaters in North America. It will also be released in most IMAX theaters in North America.
"Bang Heartbeat" basically bid farewell to mainstream theaters and handed over the baton to Fengyue Films.
Three days later, the box office was released.
"Angels and Demons" $46 million is not that strong. But he still topped Zhou's box office championship. "Star Trek 11" continued to be popular in the second week, with $43 million occupying the second place, and the two-week $140 million sequel is guaranteed. And the two-week box office almost caught up with the three-week results of "Wolverine".
This made Shao Shuaijun a little happy, once the "X-Men" series no longer sells well, Twentieth Century Fox's enthusiasm for superhero movies will definitely decline. Twentieth Century Fox took the most of the superheroes under Marvel Comics, so it was relatively easy to take it back.
And in third place is "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan", 21 million US dollars, which is not very popular. But this is also the best weekend result for Chinese films in North America this year. Of that amount, $8.2 million was provided by IMAX theaters. This also made the global box office of this Fengyue film exceed 830 million yuan.
According to the latest exchange rate of 6.825 in US dollars, the total global box office of "IMAX-3D Jade Pu Tuan" has reached 120 million US dollars, surpassing "Heartbeat" and becoming the highest-grossing movie under Dream Chasing Entertainment Group. Bai Jifei, the former director of the lower three roads, has proudly advanced into the 100 million dollar box office director club.
From May 22nd to 24th, the North American box office of "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan" dived, falling by more than 60%, and the weekend box office was less than 9 million. Among them, 7.5 million are provided by IMAX theaters and 3D theaters, and the general audience is not interested in this movie, and after the first week, few people choose to watch the movie anymore, and all the seats in ordinary theaters are empty, but they are very fond of the IMAX-3D effect.
So, in a regular theater, the movie is drawn two weeks later. IMAX theaters will continue to show for months, if not years, after all, there are not many IMAX-3D movies in the world.
In this way, on a global journey, "IMAX-3D Jade Putuan" got a total of 135 million US dollars, which not only allowed Summit Entertainment to complete the accumulation of IMAX-3D technology, but also made a lot of money. Bai Jifei, who was proud of the spring breeze, immediately proposed a second film plan to Dream Chasing Jiahe.
He wants to start filming "IMAX-3D Golden Vase Plum"!
However, Shao Shuaijun dispelled his idea, Dream Chasing Entertainment will no longer invest a lot of money in Fengyue films, this movie can be a big hit because "Avatar" has not been born, and it is unrealistic to follow the trend to shoot high-tech Fengyue films. However, although the IMAX-3D version was not passed, the plan of "3D Golden Vase Plum" was achieved.
And planned at the same time, there are also "3D All the Way West" and "3D Yupu Tuan 2", these two Fengyue films, one is a modern urban theme, and the other is a sequel. However, while relying on Fengyue films to make a lot of money, Dream Chasing Jiahe has inevitably suffered a lot of criticism from the society.
For this reason, Shao Shuaijun compromised.
Under the banner of Dream Chasing Golden Harvest. A leather bag company has been set up, and a 3D technology film innovation trend entertainment production company has been established. This company will independently complete the production of all Fengyue films, and Dream Chasing Golden Harvest is just an investment. In fact, it is just a change of thinking and wearing a fig leaf, and there is no change in essence.
If it is said that the filming of "IMAX-3D Yupu Tuan" in the past, it is a little bad taste of Shao Shuaijun, plus in order to reserve IMAX-3D technology. Now that he is filming again, it is not Shao Shuaijun's will, and the directors of the company are crazy to invest in it. Shao Shuaijun is not easy to object.
April and May passed. "Heartbeat" and "IMAX-3D Jade Pu Tuan" each delivered perfect answers.
In June, another movie "Dance Out of My Life 3" under Summit Entertainment was released. At the same time, the postponed release of the 2009 Forbes Global Billionaires list was announced. Because of the subprime mortgage crisis, Forbes postponed the release of the list. The original March release was postponed to June.
Forbes actually lists the world's richest people with assets of more than a billion dollars every year. This year, the subprime mortgage crisis is rampant. As a result, the assets of many wealthy people have shrunk, and the number of people on the list has shrunk from 1,125 last year to 794 this year. Bill. Gates is once again the richest man in the world with $40 billion.
Warren, the god of stocks. Warren Buffett's $37 billion was the runner-up, and Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos. Slim. Elu came in third with $35 billion.
And Shao Shuaijun landed on Forbes for the first time. That is, with 9.8 billion US dollars, equivalent to 66.8 billion yuan, ranking 40th. This figure ranks the third richest person in China after Hong Kong's Li Chaoren's $16.2 billion and Hong Kong's Kwok family's $10.5 billion. However, Forbes also noted in the list that Shao Shuaijun's assets are only valuations, because Shao Shuaijun's holdings in Summit Entertainment and Dream Chasing Golden Harvest have undergone a series of complex conversions, and it is difficult to define how many shares he occupies.
In order to balance the data, Shao Shuaijun, at the suggestion of his sister, crossed and weakened his shares by registering N offshore shell companies, and became not so conspicuous in the entire Dream Chasing Entertainment Group. No matter how he makes money in the future, his total assets will stabilize at the figure of 10 billion.
Neither conspicuous nor too modest, won the golden mean. In fact, his stake has not been weakened too much, and his total assets are estimated to be $15 billion.
In the words of the media, it was originally expected that Shao Shuaijun would become the richest man in China, but he didn't expect it to be so much worse. If it weren't for the economic crisis in the real estate industry, Shao Shuaijun's title as the richest man in the mainland would not have been retained. However, if you can hide the data, you can't hide it from the eyes of professionals, and many financial institutions don't believe that Shao Shuaijun's wealth is worth so much, but they can't provide evidence to prove that Shao Shuaijun is rich.
In the words of financial people, Dream Chasing Entertainment Group is a relatively concentrated company among all listed large enterprises. Whether it is the holding of Dream Chase Golden Harvest or Summit Entertainment, it has not gone through too much trading and circulation, and the market value of these two listed companies is about to reach 100 billion yuan, which is the best performing enterprise in the economic crisis, why did Shao Shuaijun's assets suddenly evaporate?
Among them, there are cats, financial people sighed.
However, the data is here, and the suspicion is useless, Shao Shuaijun is only 9.8 billion US dollars.
The rich turmoil has just passed, and the North American summer box office in June has entered a white-hot stage, the box office of "Dance Out of My Life 3" is the same as the previous two, North America won more than 40 million US dollars, more than 100 million US dollars overseas, the cost is low and there is a lot of money, the plan for the sequel is naturally put forward with persistent efforts, and the summer file will come again next year.
Then, one of Summit Entertainment's most heavyweight movies of the year, "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse" began to be planned for release. Compared with the previous few films this year, which can only be more than 100 million small fights, the set goal of "Lunar Eclipse" is to have a global box office of no less than 600 million US dollars!
On June 25, 2009, Shao Shuaijun was in his villa in Santa Monica, sorting out the weeds in the courtyard with Li Xiuxiu. A piece of news came and cast a gray shadow over the world.
The king of pop music, American singer, dancer, performer, philanthropist, musician, humanitarian, pacifist Michael . Jackson died suddenly at the age of 50 after a personal doctor overdosed with sedatives.
At this moment, Jackson is the sole focus of the global media!
"MJ's departure is a loss to the world and a heavy mourning." Shao Shuaijun made a regretful statement on his neck. (To be continued......)