Chapter 332: Robert Downey Jr

The release of "Transformers" in the EU region can be described as extremely popular, with 100% attendance on the first day, 100% attendance on 5,200 screens, and 50 million euros, equivalent to $60 million.

The rating on IMBD is very high, giving it a direct 9.5 points. And on the viewing reviews, countless EU fans praised the movie for not disappointing them, full of popcorn, from beginning to end, and some funny jokes from time to time made people laugh until their stomachs cramped. In terms of 3D and special effects, most fans praised it as more shocking than "The Lord of the Rings".

However, it is not without shortcomings, the disadvantage is that the popcorn is too powerful, and it loses to "The Lord of the Rings" in the plot, but this does not affect its excitement at all.

Perhaps influenced by these high-scoring film reviews, the movie-watching craze in the following days continued the madness of the first day, all the way up!

The next day, it was still 100% attendance, with a daily collection of $60 million.

On the third day of the following, the theater side once again dialed 1,000 more screens for "Transformers", and although the attendance rate decreased, the box office rose instead of falling, reaching a height of $62 million a day.

As for the weekly box office and daily box office, there is no doubt that it will continue to be the champion.

In the days that followed, although the popularity waned and the box office began to slowly decline, it still dominated the majority of the box office share of the entire EU film market, leaving other films trembling under its iron hooves.

Coincidentally, "Harry Potter" also staged a movie-watching boom in North America, because the number of screens arranged was only more than 6,000, so with extremely high expectations. It reached 100% attendance for three consecutive days, grossing $70 million at the box office.

The other films all had surprisingly low attendance. The film market is in mourning, and the production companies of those films have to regret their blind releases.

And there was a problem with the release of "The Lord of the Rings" in China and India, and the evaluation in India was okay, and the attendance rate was also very high, but it hit a wall in China. Chinese fans don't seem to be as enthusiastic about this movie as "Transformers", and the evaluation is not as high as that of North America and the European Union, only 9.0, and they also think that its picture effect is not as good as "Transformers".

But in any case, with good word-of-mouth and publicity, it also wins super high box office every day.

By November 10, the professional box office statistics agency in North America began to count the box office of the three blockbusters that are now being released in 3D, this time more comprehensive and detailed than the Los Angeles Times ten days ago.

"The Lord of the Rings was released for a total of 53 days. At present, the global total box office is 1.48 billion US dollars, and it has completely entered the second place in the total box office in film history. There are still more than a dozen countries and regions that have not yet been released, and the expected total box office of $1.5 billion is ironclad. ”

""Transformers" was released for a total of 41 days, and it is currently $1.1 billion worldwide, which has surpassed the $1.02 billion of "Star Wars Prequel I: Phantom Crisis", which was the second highest box office in film history."

"Harry Potter" was released for a total of 25 days, and with the huge North American market, the box office was forced to reach 960 million US dollars, a little more than the original third place "Fast and Furious 2". It's not far from "Star Wars Prequel I: Phantom Crisis", and transcendence is certain. ”

"The top five positions of "Fast and Furious 2", "The Lion King", and "Resident Apocalypse 1" will definitely not be guaranteed, and they will fall below the sixth place. And "Star Wars Prequel I: Phantom Crisis" will be squeezed to the fifth position. ”

After this box office statistics report came out, many filmmakers without exception thought of the same place - "3D".

It's 3D that makes these 3 movies have such terrifying money-making abilities.

All of a sudden, 3D technology became the focus of the film industry.

All studios are putting aside the concerns of high costs and adding 3D film plans. However, when they approached Weta Data, Digital Domain, and Tianwang Special Effects, three special effects companies with mature 3D film technology, they were told that the 3D technology team had already been fully filled, and there was no time to make 3D for unplanned films in the next 1 year.

Because Paramount, Universal and other six Hollywood studios have smelled the benefits of 3D technology early. Therefore, we signed a 3D film production contract with Weta Data and the digital field early. The contract lasted for more than a year from the completion of the production of "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" to the end of 2010.

Among these new 3D film projects are "Lord of the Rings 2" and "Harry Potter 2", as well as "Alice in Wonderland" and "Shrek 4".

The third 3D special effects company, Tianwang Special Effects, is also taking over the task of "Transformers 2" at this time, and at the same time announcing that the task is full and will no longer be connected to external films.

At present, the top 3D technology is Weta Data, Digital Domain, and Tianwang Special Effects, so knowing that these three companies have completed their tasks, those companies can only sigh.

Just when they were disappointed, on November 15, a well-known film equipment company in New York, North America, announced that it had developed a mature film 3D technology that could be used in 3D production.

As soon as the news came out, many film companies were excited, and immediately sent people to New York to discuss film cooperation.

The success of this company is like opening a Pandora's box, and in the following month, several companies in the United States, Japan, the European Union and other regions have announced that they have successfully developed mature 3D film technology.

Huaxia also followed, and the three film and television alliances that got the 3D technology authorization from Yang Shou also quickly developed 3D technology and launched 3D film plans one after another.

In 2009-2010, more than 50 3D film plans appeared, and those film companies were stimulated by the crazy box office of the three films "Transformers", and they all wanted to share the big cake of the 3D film market without exception.

What they don't know is that the success of the three movies "Transformers", "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" is due to the chemical reaction of the two factors of "the first 3D technology" and "a large number of fans", which can have such a high box office.

After these three movies are released in turn, the freshness and shock brought by 3D will definitely decline, and the audience's appetite will be raised, and the slightly less good movies will become the object of spurning by fans. And even if it is filmed well, it is difficult to achieve such a high box office as these three movies.

This is also the charm of eating the first soup, and it is destined to eat only cold vegetable leftovers after the buttocks.

It's a pity that these film companies have been stimulated by the super high box office of more than a billion dollars, and even if they know that they may encounter Waterloo, they can't help but spend a lot of money to try it.

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Just when the world's film companies were making trouble for 3D movies, Wang Shang flew to Los Angeles with five movie scripts.

Because the headquarters of Tianwang Special Effects is in Los Angeles, when Wang Shang came this time, there were already subordinates who drove Savana to pick him up. Secretary Li Shuiyue had already arrived here two days in advance to prepare for Wang Shang's business trip.

"Donnie, is he here?" Sitting in the car, Wang Shang asked after a few minutes of pretending to sleep.

Li Shuiyue replied with a smile: "When Mr. Donnie received the call, he was very excited, and he couldn't wait to come over at dawn. ”

"Haha, huh? He's been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. ”

Although Robert Downey Jr. has had wonderful performances in movies such as "Biochemical Apocalypse" and "Transformers", and because of these movies, he has faded away from the previous image of a decadent drunkard and addict, and his stars have soared, but it has not been a smooth ride in the past few years, and several Hollywood movies have protagonists and supporting roles, but they are not very brilliant.

If the stars of the entertainment industry do not advance, they will retreat, and keeping their achievements is equivalent to regression, so Robert Downey Jr. can now be said to be sad. And just yesterday, he finally waited for a big opportunity, an opportunity that Wang Shang agreed to a few years ago.

When he heard the news, he was so excited that he almost jumped to the ceiling, and he was so happy that he hugged his wife several times and screamed for several minutes.

When Savana, who picked up Wang Shang, drove to the gate of Hollywood King Special Effects Company, Wang Shang saw Robert Downey Jr. coming over excitedly against the cold wind. After seeing Wang Shang get out of the car, he shook hands warmly.

"I know you're in a hurry, this is for you." Wang Shang took the four scripts from Li Shuiyue's hands, handed them to Robert Downey Jr., and said, "I have already contacted Disney Studios, and I will discuss the movie with the other party tomorrow, and you will be with you then." ”

"Thank you." Robert Downey Jr. felt the sincerity and trust in Wang Shang's eyes, and then thought about what he had experienced in the past few years, and his nose couldn't help but sour.

Robert Downey Jr. has not met any film company bosses and producers in Hollywood in recent years, and Hollywood's harshness is more cruel than the outside world imagines. And Wang Shang is the only one who is sincerely good to him, gives him many opportunities, and is also a Chinese. The huge contrast made him even more grateful to Wang Shang.

"Haha, no thanks, I believe you have this ability, so you deserve these things." Wang Shang put his arm around his shoulders and said with a smile......

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I'm tired today, first one chapter, tomorrow three chapters 9000+.