'Speed & Excitement. The premiere box office of "Love 4" broke the series record and occupied the box office champion strongly. ‘

On Monday, April 28, the new week's weekly box office charts around the world became the focus of entertainment media coverage, with the North American box office charts receiving varying degrees of coverage around the world.

In fact, as early as Friday's single-day box office, this week's North American weekend box office champion has already had results. After the box office and word-of-mouth of "Love 3" both suffered Waterloo, film critics thought that "Fast and Radical. The "Love" series has come to an end, and even if Lin Yuquan is the producer, it is difficult to be completely reassured, then when the box office comes out on Friday, all worries can turn into a cloud of the past. Later, in the expectation of countless people, on the following Saturday and Sunday, the film won $22.84 million and $20.18 million at the box office one after another, and finally the premiere box office reached a terrifying $68.48 million, surpassing the $60.1 million of "Cars" in 2006, creating the highest premiere of a racing-themed movie, which has to be said to be a miracle.

In this regard, while Universal Pictures is happy, it is also difficult to hide its depression in his heart, if it is not for the "Spartan 300 Warriors", according to today's momentum, "Fast and Furious. "Love 4" not only broke the $70 million debut box office, but even $75 million is also possible.

And for Summit Entertainment, this is naturally a double surprise, although the championship only sat for a week before changing hands, but the box office of "Spartan 300 Warriors" this week can still be described as strong and amazing, beating "Fascinated", "Underground Boxer", "Soloist", "Earth" and other new films released. With a box office of $50.47 million, it occupies the top position in the box office charts. And the box office far exceeds other films. So far, the total North American box office has reached $155 million in 10 days of release. At the same time, the overseas box office also reached $108 million during the same period, and with the release of more countries and regions overseas, there is great potential for overseas box office.

'Lin, what do you think our fifth part of the Rush should be filmed?' 'Lang. Meyer's tone was full of laughter, although there was some resentment, but it was $68.48 million. Unlike the other big five studios, Universal Pictures, which has always focused on comedy movies, has not had a film that has grossed more than 100 million in its opening weekend before, and the highest is "Jurassic Park 2" released in 1997, with a premiere box office of $72.1 million, in front of this box office, a box office of $68.48 million, which is definitely worth exciting.

In addition, while the North American box office is bumper, "Fast and Furious. "Love 4" also received a box office of 52.15 million US dollars in 36 countries and regions released overseas, and won the box office champion in many countries and regions, including the domestic box office of 48.28 million yuan.

'Lang. My idea is to keep fans and audiences enthusiastic about our films for a long time. We have to keep giving them a fresh feeling, and my initial plan is "Fast & Thrill. Love 5 uses IMAX, "Fast & Thrill. Love 6 was filmed in a 3D version, which is one of them; Second, the third part was filmed in Japan, the fourth part returned to the mainland, and the fifth part can move the story background to Europe, isn't there a mafia in Italy? It would be interesting to fight against the mafia; Thirdly, the effect of the joining of the rock this time is obvious, and in the next part we need to add new characters, interesting characters, which can be considered to be played by European, preferably Italian, actors; Fourth, the explosion and drag racing scenes should be further escalated. Lin Yuquan said confidently, in the next "Speed and Excitement. After the production of "Love", he already has a comprehensive plan for the direction of the series.

'Excellent! 'Lang. Meyer exclaimed without hesitation, and then said with some apprehension: 'Then Lin, how much budget do you think you need?' ‘

Bright. Meyer is naturally apprehensive, Universal Pictures is the best at concocting small- and medium-budget comedy genre films and monster genre films, and it is not that there are no ideas for big-budget films. Potter, "Wild Days", "X-Men" and other blockbusters have always had an unspeakable desire, but in recent years, Universal Pictures has invested heavily in several super-sized productions, all of which have a terrible reputation at the box office, such as "Fake Gods 2", such as "The Mummy 3", such as "The Amazing Hulk", such as "Pearl Harbor", such a failure naturally makes Universal Pictures extremely conflicted, on the one hand, desired, and on the other hand, extremely cautious.

'140 million, an additional 40 million, 20 million to cope with the increase in actors' salaries, and 20 million to make big scenes. Lin Yuquan smiled slightly: "Of course, this is the most basic budget, and the budget can be raised to 150 million or 160 million when necessary." ‘

140 million, 150 million, 160 million, for the head of Universal Pictures, although this number is huge, it will naturally not make Lang. Meyer was intimidated, but of course, feeling the pressure was certain, and any big investment decision could affect his position.

'Okay, we'll make a decision as soon as possible, and then we'll start preparing.' 'Lang. Meyer was quick to agree.

Pressure is pressure, prudence is cautious, Universal Pictures doesn't have many choices now, it hasn't grabbed the popular comics, the highest-grossing movies are still "Jurassic Park" and "Alien ET" a long time ago, and there are very few blockbuster movies in the past ten years, "Spy" series, "Meet Your Father-in-law" series, "Christmas Grin", "Fake God", "Mamma Mia", "One Night Belly" is not only small, but also has a significant gap with other film companies' super-grossing movies at the global box office. It is no exaggeration to say that the most embarrassing of the six is Universal Pictures, for Universal Pictures, making money is still secondary, and the most important time is to throw away the embarrassing position of being a few big film companies at the box office in recent years.

"Okay, I'm waiting for your news, if you Universal Pictures are worried about investment risks, we at Summit Entertainment can take more investment risks." Lin Yuquan said with a deep smile.

Well, despite knowing that Lin Yuquan is joking, Lang. Meyer still smiled wryly.

'Congratulations, director! ''Congratulations to the director, it's amazing!'' "Congratulations to the director" is not only the crew of "Immortals", but also "Spartan 300 Warriors" and "Fast and Furious. The main producer of "Love", with the two movies winning one after another, Lin Yuquan naturally became the center of the topic, if Lin Yuquan left his own deep mark in the summer file with the crazy box office record of "Wild Story: The Rise of the Ape Race" last year, then this year, Lin Yuquan seemed to have staged a different miracle, and the extraordinary box office of the two movies almost announced the early arrival of the summer file.

And this is just the beginning, in addition to the "Immediate Rescue" directed by himself, "The Hangover" and "The Expendables", two movies produced by Summit Entertainment, will be logged in the summer file one after another, no one will know what kind of imprint Lin Yuquan will eventually leave in this summer's summer file, only time can give the answer.

'Boss, the acquisition of Kecai has been completed, do you think there is anything that needs to be added and modified? Ding's voice came from the phone.

'Very good, just go with the current plan. Lin Yuquan said happily.

After nearly a month of negotiations, Kecai was finally included in the bag as he wished, and the acquisition team's acquisition strategy for Kecai was very simple, that is, a simple and crude money offensive, starting from the initial offer of 150 million, and then raising the price step by step, and finally winning Kecai with 220 million.

'Is there any progress in the acquisition of Huace Film and Television?' After being happy, Lin Yuquan asked instead.

'Well, no, it's still the same, Mr. and Mrs. Fu Meicheng welcomed us to raise a stake and said they were willing to raise up to 10% of the shares, but they firmly refused to buy it. Ding Wei said helplessly.

'That's it! Lin Yuquan frowned slightly, originally thought that it would not be difficult to acquire Huace Film and Television, but he didn't expect that the bone of Huace Film and Television was so difficult to gnaw, with deep connections and mysterious backgrounds, Fu Meicheng and his wife obviously had great ambitions.

In this case, we can only choose to abandon the acquisition, and it seems that our expansion strategy in the film and television industry should be adjusted again, and then we will turn to absorbing talents in the film and television industry, especially screenwriters. ‘

Lin Yuquan made a decision after a little consideration, after the completion of the financing and acquisition of Huayi Brothers, Guangguang Media, Poly Bona, Xin Baoyuan, Baohong, Novel Reading Network and other companies, the layout of the film and television industry has basically been completed, but there is no need to focus on mergers and acquisitions, in fact, the acquisition of companies like Huace Film and Television, the most important thing is to target talent resources like Fu Meicheng and his wife, since the acquisition is difficult, the better way is to make full use of its own strength to absorb the talents that can be recruited.

'Okay, boss. (To be continued.) )