As the hegemon of the world's film market, North America has held this position for a long time, but due to the relatively early maturity of marketization, for a long time, the annual box office growth in North America has mainly relied on the increase in movie ticket prices, rather than the increase in the number of audiences, until last year, after breaking the all-time high in 2004, North America only had a total annual box office of 9.67 billion US dollars.

As we all know, the competition in the North American film market is fierce, and in addition to the six major film companies such as Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures, there are countless small and medium-sized independent film companies.

The annual box office has only exceeded $9 billion in recent years, and the competition is extremely fierce, so it is not difficult to imagine how difficult it is for a film company to break $1 billion in the North American market at the annual box office.

Not only is it unimaginable for independent studios, but it's not so easy for even one of Hollywood's six major studios.

This is clear only from the annual market share of North America over the years, taking 2000 as an example, in 2000, the two film companies, Sony $1.175 billion, Universal $1.06 billion,

In 2001, there was only one, and Warner Bros. was $1.224 billion.

In 2002, Sony Pictures was $1.571 billion, Disney was $1.187 billion, and Warner Bros. was $1.072 billion.

In 2003, Disney was $1.518 billion, Sony $1.196 billion, Warner Bros. $1.178 billion, and Universal $1.069 billion.

In 2004, there were four, Sony Pictures $1.336 billion, and Warner Bros. $1.213 billion. Disney $1.157 billion. 20th Century Fox $1.049 billion (including $119 million for "Huo Yuanjia").

Four in 2005. 20th Century Fox $1.417 billion (including $181 million for "Red Cliff"), Warner Bros. $1.381 billion, Disney $1.172 billion, and Paramount Pictures $1.027 billion.

In 2006, there were four companies, Sony $1.589 billion, 20th Century Fox $1.475 billion (including $208 million for "Painted Skin"), Disney $1.474 billion, and Warner Bros. $1.001 billion.

Six in 2007. Paramount DreamWorks $1.491 billion, Warner Bros. $1.417 billion, Disney $1.353 billion, Sony Pictures $1.245 billion, Universal Pictures $1.101 billion, 20th Century Fox $1.010 billion.

Although all the six major studios grossed more than $1 billion at the North American box office last year, it is not difficult to see how difficult it is to break $1 billion at the box office, and it is only the six major Hollywood studios that can do this, and no independent film company has been able to achieve this.

The closest are the new line in 03 and the DreamWorks in 04, when the new line contributed to the box office with films such as "The Lord of the Rings 3", "Christmas Elf" and "The Lord of the Rings 2". It ranked fifth in market share, with a total North American box office of $934 million. DreamWorks has relied on films such as "Shrek 2", "Shark Gangster", and "Murder with a Knife". It ranks fourth in market share and has an annual North American box office of $937 million.

After re-evaluating the box office of "Heartbeat", a group of box office experts and authoritative filmmakers suddenly discovered that the North American box office of Shuguang Film exceeded $1 billion this year, which is already a sure thing.

Looking at the films released by Dawning Films in 2008, the films that have been released include "Fatal Bend 2" for $51.06 million, "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" for $781 million, and "Heartbeat" for $60.17 million in the first week, and the cumulative North American box office alone has reached $892 million.

According to their assessment, according to the current trend, there is no surprise, and the North American box office of "Heartbeat" has every chance to hit the $200 million mark, and it is almost certain that with the box office of these three films alone, Dawning Films will become the first independent film company to break $1 billion at the North American box office in the year.

Next, there are three more films to be released in North America, one is "Fatal Bend 3" released on October 29, one is "Twilight" released on November 21, and one is the Chinese blockbuster "Painted Wall" produced by Lin Yuquan's Chinese film company released on December 5.

Among these three movies, "Fatal Bend 3" has the best box office prediction, according to the situation of "Fatal Bend 2", as long as the movie remains above the standard, there should be no problem with collecting $35 million at the North American box office.

"Painted Wall" is relatively difficult, with the release of a number of Chinese costume films in the past 2000, especially after the baptism of "Red Cliff" and "Painted Skin", which can be called the ultimate baptism of genre films, North American fans are inevitably immune to costume films and have become extremely picky, including "The City is Full of Golden Armor", "Night Banquet", "Wuji", and "Ink Attack" have all suffered fiascos, which is why after nearly a year, Summit Entertainment arranged the release of "Painted Wall". The lineup of "Painted Wall" is not weak, with Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi, two actresses who have good popularity in North America, in addition, Liu Yifei and Wang Luodan can also play a certain role in publicity with "Red Cliff" and "Painted Skin", plus this is a work supervised by Lin Yuquan, if it can maintain a high level and get a good reputation, it may be able to get good box office results in Chinese films in the past two years.

The box office of "Twilight" is unpredictable, it is a very typical fan movie, and the box office of fan movies has always been unpredictable, because no one knows what kind of power the fans will burst out, but almost everyone is sure that the film will not be bad at the box office. The strong influence of the "Twilight" series of novels is first, and second, the director Chris . Columbus is a world-renowned director with good appeal. Stewart has attracted worldwide attention with "Hurricane Rescue", fourth, the film has not yet been released, and its sequel has been filmed, which fully shows Summit Entertainment's confidence in the film, and fifth, the past period of time. Summit Entertainment has done intensive publicity for "Twilight". This series of factors makes "Twilight" have unimaginable box office potential.

How much will the Dawning movie eventually receive at the North American box office. What is the number one market share? This is of great interest to many box office experts and filmmakers.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Lin Yuquan, he devoted all his attention to the filming of "Immediate Rescue", only paying a little attention to the box office of "Heartbeat" after finishing work every day, and dealing with the affairs of various companies.

What made him rather sorry was to invite Judd. Apato's plan to direct "The Hangover" ultimately failed, not because the other party didn't take it, but because the other party couldn't spare his hands for a long time. "Male" became an instant hit. Judd. The last thing Apatou has on hand is a film shooting plan, and the presidents or production directors of various studios have waved checkbooks and invited him to produce or direct comedy films for their own companies, which will not pay for their lives, and they will not have time to shoot "The Hangover" anyway, at least next year.

However, neither he nor Summit Entertainment obviously couldn't wait that long, so they had to consider other candidates, including "Shocking Catastrophe", and the American drama version of "Sherlock Holmes" was also looking for a suitable screenwriter to create the script.

In Lin Yuquan's busyness, thanks to Lin Yuquan's appeal and the film's super good word-of-mouth evaluation, the global box office journey of "Heartbeat" has been like a bamboo, and every day of time has passed on behalf of considerable box office accumulation. And the time soon came to Friday, when new films are often released.

In the North American market this week, "Heartbeat" undoubtedly ushered in three extraordinary opponents. One is "Saw 5", the fifth member of the "Saw Horror" series, which has been the box office champion of the Halloween schedule for three consecutive years.

Just as "Valentine's Day" always reminds of romantic comedies, "Halloween" is like nothing if there are no horror movies, and the special status of the "Saw 5" series in the hearts of horror fans makes "Saw 5" inevitably the first choice for horror fans in this schedule.

Although the "Saw Horror" series has never been a box office hit, the steady performance of the previous three films at the box office of $30.5 million, $34.3 million, and $32.11 million fully illustrates the impact that the fifth episode of the series will have at the box office this week.

One is finally released in theaters "Youth Musical" 3, the Disney Channel's most successful series of original films, with cool dance and music, once launched in 2006, it broke the Disney Channel ratings record on the day of its premiere, and rewrote the highest ratings of original TV movies since the channel's opening with a record of 17.7 million viewers in the United States, and then a strong "Musical" craze began to spread around the world, not only winning 2 Emmy Awards and 3 awards in the American Youth Poll, the soundtrack became the national album sales champion in the United States that year.

After its sequel "Youth Musicet 2" was launched last year, the ratings quickly set a new record, almost 1 million more viewers than when "Youth Musical" premiered.

In view of this, Disney is no longer satisfied with the little achievements on the small screen, and at the beginning of this year, the original cast made "Youth Musical" into a big-screen movie, confidently airborne Halloween that has been ruled by jigsaws for many years.

3,627 theaters, Disney's intensive promotional offensive, like "The Simpsons" and "Desire. Looking at the city", which is a huge TV viewership group with active consumption, "Song and Dance Youth 3" is generally optimistic that it will win the box office champion this week.

There is also a 30 million dollar investment by Edward. Norton, Colin. "Dignity and Glory," starring Farrell and set to be released in theaters in 2011, has nothing to say about it, and may have done well at the box office, and no one thinks it will have a substantial impact on the box office champions.

With the joint release of the three, it is not difficult to imagine the fierce competition at the North American box office this week, and it is not difficult to imagine the grim situation faced by "Heartbeat".

Domestically, there are no new films that have an impact on "Heartbeat" this week, Lin Yuquan's box office appeal in China is unmatched, and there is no maximum limit on the cinema schedule, so naturally no film with high hopes for the box office will be released at this time.

"Cut, good, everyone rest." Assistant director Cheng Wenhui's voice sounded through the loudspeaker on the set.

Lin Yuquan suddenly had a smile on his face, and said to Huang Bo: "I played a good role just now." ”

"Fortunately, Director Lin, you also acted very well." Huang Bo smiled.

"Brother Yuquan, phone." Liu Yifei on the side shouted crisply.

"Oh. Good. Lin Yuquan responded. Hurriedly walked towards Liu Yifei: "Whose phone is it?" ”

"Director Huang Jianxin." Liu Yifei smiled.

"Okay." Lin Yuquan smiled and nodded. After taking the mobile phone, he calmly connected the phone: "Hello, Director Huang!" ”

"Hello, Director Lin, didn't disturb your shooting!" Huang Jianxin said heartily.

"No, Director Huang, you must have called because of the commendation conference!" Lin Yuquan said with a smile that he and Huang Jianxin had no contact in private, and the only contact was about the affairs of the Directors Guild Commendation Conference.

"Yes. Just now, there was news that the list of nominees for the Golden Horse Awards will be announced next Thursday, and the award ceremony is scheduled to be held at Taichung Zhongshan Hall on December 6, so I would like to ask your opinion, when will the list of nominees for our commendation conference be announced? Huang Jianxin said.

When he heard the announcement of the list of nominees for the Golden Horse Awards and the time of the award ceremony, Lin Yuquan's eyes suddenly lit up, and then the corners of his mouth turned up slightly: "Of course, it will be announced next Friday, so that the other party can't wipe his face and take the initiative to change the time of the award ceremony, and on December 6, we should also fully start the preparations for the award ceremony." ”

"Okay. But Director Lin, you have to be prepared to be scolded, I estimate that there must be a lot of people who scold you. Huang Jianxin said with a smile.

"Scold, scold. I was trying to see who came out and scolded me. Lin Yuquan's eyes were full of smiles: "In fact, the biggest headache at that time should be the directors and actors who were shortlisted for our commendation conference and the Golden Horse Awards at the same time, they must give up an award ceremony, it depends on their choice." ”

"Hah, that's right." Huang Jianxin laughed and said, thinking of the distressed appearance of those directors and actors, he couldn't help but be full of anticipation, and at the same time he was quite sympathetic to the Golden Horse Awards, who is not good to suppress, why do you have to suppress Lin Yuquan!

The week of October 20-October 26 quickly came to an end, and the newly released box office charts once again focused the attention of countless people, followed by huge exclamations around the world.

$38.16 million, not "Youth Musical" 3, not "Chainsaw 5", not "Dignity and Glory", Lin Yuquan's little fresh love movie "Heartbeat" unexpectedly won the box office first.

The newly released three received $37.78 million, $30.11 million, and $6.82 million at the box office respectively, ranking second, third, and sixth in the box office rankings respectively.

"Saw 5" maintained the box office of the previous three films in the opening week of more than $30 million, which fully proves that the "Chainsaw" series is Lionsgate's veritable number one money printing machine, with one film per year, a fixed release date, and endless money, and the horror is that the cumulative cost of its five films so far has not exceeded $40 million.

The $30 million investment only reaped about one-fifth of the cost at the first-week box office, and the dismal results of "Dignity and Glory" can be seen in general. Norton swallowed the bitter fruit after the summer performance of "The Incredible Hulk", and smashed the pot on the three heavyweight works of "Alexander the Great", "New World" and "Miami Storm". Farrell isn't good news either.

Disney is undoubtedly disappointed to lose the box office champion by a narrow margin, but they have high hopes for "Youth Musical" 3, in their estimates, the premiere box office of "Youth Musical" should have crossed $40 million. Farrell gave the answer, but it's a pity that "Youth Musicet 3" met "Heartbeat", obviously, teenagers who should have been part of the movie-watching group of "Youth Musical" went to watch that fresh and unspoken love movie.

Of course, not too many people care about the defeat of "Youth Musical" 3, and more people care about the fact that after this week's box office journey, the cumulative box office of "Heartbeat" has reached $122 million, and for "Heartbeat", the North American box office of $200 million is really not a problem.

Domestically, after hitting the box office of 105 million in the first three days, "Heartbeat" continued to make efforts, collecting another 131 million in a single week, and a cumulative box office of 236 million in two weeks.

and "No Man's Land" closed 28.42 million at the box office this week, with a cumulative box office of 269 million, getting closer and closer to the 300 million level.

In addition, "Heartbeat" maintained a gratifying box office situation in other countries and regions, and in the end, except for North America, it collected another $147 million in a single week, a slight increase, and a total of $426 million in the global box office in two weeks, well, although it is far less than the original "Wild Story: Rise of the Apes" of $848 million, but everyone knows that the next target of "Heartbeat", which originally thought that it would not be possible to break the global box office of $500 million, will be $600 million.

Such an amazing box office naturally caused a lot of shock, although there have been examples of non-action, sci-fi, and magic movies like "The Lion King", "Finding Nemo", and "Shrek 2" achieving extremely high box office, but such a box office still seems so incredible for a small fresh love movie, and it is completely a mythological reproduction.

In summing up this week's box office of "Heartbeat", box office expert Paul. Farrell lamented: "'Heartbeat' can be said to be a timely meeting, Lin Yuquan's series of mythological performances staged intensively in the past period of time have created a new myth, such a myth is difficult to replicate. (To be continued......)

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