Naturally, there were no problems with the casting of "Wild Wild: Battle of the Hundred Races", and it only took one day to end the casting of the new main characters, and then a one-day meeting with IMAX and Weta Digital's expert team to discuss the details of IMAX3D shooting, Lin Yuquan and Liu Yifei flew directly to Belle Island to enjoy the last vacation before the end of this summer.

When the time came to August 31, it was another week when the box office rankings were released, and on the latest North American box office charts, the "Death is Coming" series, which had never experienced the taste of box office champions, finally took advantage of the hot topic and the hitchhike of the summer file to get what it wanted in the fourth part of the series, beating "Inglourious Basterds" and "Halloween 2", which is also a new film, with a box office of 28.12 million US dollars, far exceeding the average premiere value of the first three parts of the series of 15 million US dollars, which makes people have to sigh at the box office magic of the summer file.

It was followed by "Inglourious Basterds" ($20.17 million), "Halloween 2" ($17.28 million), "The Expendables" ($11.06 million), "District 9" ($10.65 million), "The Hangover" ($8.92 million), "Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra" ($7.82 million), "Julie and Juliet" ($7.26 million), "The Time Traveler's Wife" ($6.58 million), and "Wishing Stone" ($4.35 million).

It is worth mentioning that Lee's new film "Making Woodstock" suffered a double defeat at the box office and word of mouth, collecting only $4.12 million in 1,278 theaters, but this was foreshadowed at the previous Cannes Film Festival, which is not surprising.

With the release of the latest box office rankings, the summer file has officially come to an end, and it is obvious that at the same time, the inventory of various summer files has also come one after another, the most eye-catching of which is nothing more than the inventory related to the box office.

Each country and region has its own inventory, but to say that the most concerned is obviously the first to recommend North America, the statistics of relevant agencies show that despite the general economic downturn. However, the 2009 North American summer movie box office still set a record ever, beating the same period last year led by "Wild Wild: Rise of the Apes" and "The Dark Knight" with $5.08 billion.

The reason for this situation is entirely due to the fact that compared with last year's "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" and "The Dark Knight", this year's summer file has achieved a win-win situation, and more films have achieved gratifying box office results.

If the statistics are strictly in accordance with the schedule of the summer file from May to August. "Transformers 2" finally became the highest-grossing film so far this year with a box office of $401 million, slightly ahead of "Immediate Rescue" with $395 million, followed by "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" ($292 million), "Flying House" ($291 million), "Star Trek" ($262 million), "The Hangover" ($236 million), "Ice Age 3" ($192 million), and "Wolverine" $184 million, "Night at the Museum 2" $173 million, "Fake Marriage" $158 million.

Of course, "Transformers 2" is the highest-grossing movie, and yes. However, when it comes to the biggest winner, it is obviously not it, although due to the subject matter and Chinese category, the North American box office of "Immediate Rescue" finally fell below "Transformers 2", but "Immediate Rescue" won $395 million at a cost of $86 million The remarkable record of the North American box office is far from being comparable to "Transformers 2", which cost as much as $200 million, not to mention that "Immediate Rescue" has a box office of "Transformers 2" in international markets outside North America, overall, The most successful movies in the summer file are well deserved.

Let's talk about "Spartan 300 Warriors" and "Fast and Furious. Love 4", the two movies are naturally one of the most successful movies in this summer file, but because a considerable part of the box office was closed in April, it did not rank among the top ten.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see it. If the box office of the two in April is also counted, then the box office of "Spartan 300 Warriors" of $272 million surpassed "Star Trek", ranking fifth among the top ten grossing films in this year's summer file. The $194 million box office of "Love 4" surpassed "Ice Age 3" and ranked eighth among the top ten grossing films of the year.

As a result, there are four movies related to Summit Entertainment that are among the top ten grosses, and they are undoubtedly the biggest winners of this summer file.

Of course, if you continue to strictly follow the May-August schedule, the film company with the highest box office in North America is Paramount Pictures. With heavyweight movies such as "Transformers 2", "Star Trek", and "Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra", Paramount collected a total of $898 million this summer.

followed by Summit Entertainment, relying on movies such as "Immediate Rescue" and "The Hangover", which won $837 million at the box office. It was followed by Warner Bros. with $689 million, 20th Century Fox with $584 million, Disney with $572 million, Universal Pictures with $426 million, and Sony with $395 million.

But everyone knows that Paramount is just higher than Summit Entertainment's box office according to this statistical method, and it is far from becoming a real winner, and if you count the summer box office that detonated in advance, Summit Entertainment's $992 million North American box office is undoubtedly much higher than Paramount's $907 million.

In addition, Summit Entertainment released four films at a total cost of $319 million, while Paramount's production cost was as high as $635 million. Get a higher box office at less than half the production cost, and the input-output ratio of the two is clear at a glance.

This is only the North American box office, when it comes to the global box office, the top ten grossing films in the summer are "Immediate Rescue" with $1.093 billion, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" with $892 million, "Transformers 2" with $831 million, "Ice Age 3" with $801 million, "Spartan 300" with $588 million, and "Fast and Furious. Love 4 is $456 million, The Hangover is $418 million, Flying House is $408 million, Star Trek is $387 million, and Night at the Museum 2 is $397 million.

Summit Entertainment's global box office in this summer file is as high as 2.271 billion US dollars, compared with Paramount's global box office in the same period is only 1.582 billion US dollars, the two are far from the same, and in terms of input-output ratio, Paramount is even far less than Disney, Disney got a global box office of 1.487 billion US dollars at a production cost of 285 million.

In addition, Summit Entertainment also launched the box office hit "Fast and Furious. Love 4 accounts for 50% of the investment ratio, and the total profit is not only far higher than Paramount, but also the most popular among all film companies.

At this point, a series of summer records have also been born.

The most successful movie - "Immediate Rescue", the most successful film company - Summit Entertainment, the most failed movie - "Terminator 4", the most unexpected film - "Ice Age 3", the most stable box office dìng series - "Harry Potter", the highest North American box office film - "Transformers", the darkest horse movie - "The Hangover", the most successful director - Lin Yuquan and this series of records finally made Lin Yuquan and Summit Entertainment shine.

At a time when the media and fans and audiences are focusing on various box office inventory, Lin Yuquan himself does not pay much attention, the past is over, and he cares more about the future.

"Disney bought the comic book giant Marvel Comics for a total of $4.24 billion in stock and cash, and now has more than 5,000 character resources including "Spider-Man", "Iron Man" and "X-Men"

Seeing this news report, Lin Yuquan couldn't help but shake his head, today, superhero movies have become a pivotal force on the screen, and their amazing income is even more coveted by all film companies, and Sony's three "Spider-Man" films produced so far have generated a global box office of $2.487 billion.

As the owner of a film company, it is obviously impossible to say that he has no idea about superhero movies, but it is a pity that he did not catch up with the good time to get involved, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Paramount have all received amazing returns at a very small price, the former is now sitting on Spider-Man, Ghost Rider and other comic book characters, the middle is now sitting on X-Men, Fantastic Four and other comic book characters, and the latter is sitting on the distribution revenue of Marvel Studios' subsequent films, such as "Iron Man 2", which is in production or is planned , Thor, Captain America, The Avengers.

It can be said that since Marvel made up its mind to establish Marvel Studios to produce its own movies and reached a cooperation agreement with Paramount, he has lost a good opportunity to intervene, and now that Marvel has been acquired by Disney, it is completely out of play.

In this regard, Lin Yuquan has to regret that if Marvel can own it, Summit Entertainment and Dawning Movies will undoubtedly take another step, after all, they are not strong enough to take it into their pockets.

But he doesn't feel discouraged, superhero movies have huge box office potential, but they are only a part of the screen, and a very small part, not to mention that Disney and other companies have "Spider-Man" and "Iron Man" Yes, but they also have Xianxia, martial arts, and fantasy movies based on the stories and backgrounds of another world, "Wild Wild" is just the beginning, yes, just a beginning. (To be continued.) )