Chapter 248: Wave after wave of box office
Two hundred million!
When "Super Body" hit a box office of 200 million US dollars in North America, the movie was close to going offline, and it was the eighth week of the release of "Super Body", and Shao Yingying finally stepped into the 200 million club of Hollywood Chinese directors at this moment!
Suddenly, there was a wave of discussion about the Shao Hero phenomenon in the United States, and almost every media outlet was discussing what was so special about this Chinese who broke into Hollywood alone.
"Incredible, really incredible, this is the first time to see a Chinese director direct a film starring a Chinese person to break through the box office of 200 million, fortunately there are not many directors of this level in Huaxia, otherwise the North American market will become a money-making tool for Chinese. Congratulations, Shao, you won the first battle with the Hollywood press with a "Super Body"! - VARIETY (Hollywood entertainment newspaper)
"Lost? I couldn't believe my eyes! I never thought that the Hollywood media would lose to a Chinese, but this time Shao Yingying won beautifully, just two trailers and a roar at a press conference let people know his means, Shao, next time you won't win so easily. - Hollywood Variety
"200 million, Shao Yingying, you are a Chinese director who shocked us after Wu Yusen and Li Amine, but in the context of the economic downturn in the entire United States, it may be difficult to hit such a high box office again at the end of the year, Shao, this bet starts now." -- The Hollywood Reporter.
When "Super Body" went offline, the North American box office of 200 million completely shocked the Hollywood media, and several major Hollywood media reported the incident from various angles. At the same time, they also sounded the alarm for Shao Yingying. The 200 million box office of "Super Body" is indeed beautiful, but the US economy has not improved in any way this year. In this case, the next film wants to completely surpass the previous one, sorry, but it's really a very difficult task, even an impossible one.
And the box office in Europe is also completely out at this time, the whole of Europe contributed a total box office of 98 million to "Super Body", and Asia alone Huaxia contributed 340 million RMB to the box office results of "Super Body", plus South Korea, Japan and other countries. In the end, the total box office performance of Super Sports reached 380 million at the moment of going offline, for example, the box office of "Super Body" was slightly lower.
But this result is enough to satisfy Shao Yingying, after all, "Super Body" is not directed by the sci-fi master Luc Besson, who filmed "The Fifth Element". He Shao Yingying has never made a film like "This Killer is Not Too Cold" that can still be seen as a classic movie twenty years later, in this case, the results of Super Body can definitely not be said to be regrettable, in fact. The same cannot be said for the overall score of the superbody.
The movie "Super Body" was just becoming popular. Harry Sloan sold the rights to make and operate peripheral products for 15 million dollars, and a food company bought the rights to make blue drugs for 8 million dollars, and turned this blue drug into blue transparent rubber candy, which is said to be very popular in North America; A toy manufacturing company bought Scarlett and Fan Bingbing's 'super body' for seven million dollars, and Scarlett's full-body frost possession and Fan Bingbing's flame shape have become toys, and the company also co-produced the doll prototype represented by the two images with Barbie doll manufacturers, and the sales are also very good.
In terms of audio-visual rights, MGM has made even greater profits, and the audio-visual rights of "Super Body" have sold for $60 million worldwide. This is also the result of scattered sales in several ticket warehouse towns, which is interesting. A Russian audio-visual product company was willing to pay a high price of $5 million, and Japan, South Korea, and other countries also sold $5 million, but the mainland simply did not sell it, because of the problem of being released at the same time, the pirated version of "Super Body" has been flooded in the mainland, and it cannot be sold.
If this is calculated, the profit of "Super Body" has completely exceeded the original box office results, and the income is definitely not lower than that of "Super Body" in history.
A movie not only achieved Shao Yingying's reputation in Hollywood, but also created that in addition to the Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, Fan Bingbing, who is very queenly, has been invited to be the judge of the next season of "American Supermodel Competition".
However, Fan Bingbing is definitely worthy of Shao Yingying, and Shao Yingying determined that from July to October, "Or Become a God?" After the filming time of "Die or Die", Fan Bingbing actually pushed down the two Hollywood movies (small cost) to be filmed at this stage, vacated the entire schedule, and concentrated on the next play, as for the rest of the time, Fan Bingbing was really full, in a call between her and Shao Yingying, Fan Bingbing said: "I want to accompany you to the beach in Hawaii to see the sea; I want to accompany you to Las Vegas to see the Magic; I want to secretly accompany you to 'Xiaosan Village' to buy a house and be a happy woman exclusive to you, really, I especially want to, but unfortunately, my sister doesn't have time. The lifeless show-off Jin Ying hung up the phone directly to Shao Yingqi, he is not stingy, and he can't see his woman become famous, but as soon as he becomes famous, he will call back to the angry people, so he has to add and serve.
Therefore, Shao Yingying felt a particularly big brand launch site in New York, and he waited in the hotel until two o'clock in the second half of the night, and finally saw Fan Bingbing who had returned.
So, Fan Bingbing took advantage of Shao Yingying's distress: "Help me pinch my legs, it's ...... sore."
The family law has been changed to massage.......
When the media was amazed by the results of "Super Body", "The Hangover", a film made and completed by MGM, premiered almost without anyone seeing it, and the same movie that did not even have a test screening did not get any attention from the media at all, but when the box office came out in the first week, the entire Hollywood and even the entire people of the United States were completely dumbfounded!
At that time, the fierce rival of "The Hangover" was "Flying House", and it is estimated that this non-cartoon movie did not regard "The Hangover" as an enemy. Instead, he appeared straight in the summer file, but no one expected that Harry Sloan, who was rejuvenated and ready to devote himself to Hollywood because of "Super Body", burst out with all his promotional enthusiasm. Harry Sloan almost treats this movie as if it were his own son!!
Due to the cost of publicity, Harry Sloan found a Hollywood actor who resembled the obvious face of the big news name in the United States to come up with a trailer that shocked the Internet, this trailer is very creative, it is completely broadcast in news mode, in the context of the news host's habitual appearance, the video appears that very cheap celebrity face imitator, he broadcasts the news on TV very seriously: "According to the news from the Los Angeles media. The three local groomsmen found out that they had lost the groomsmen after their last single party duì hangover sobered up, uh. Then the three groomsmen began their journey to find the groom, please see the report......"
When I saw this video, I thought it was really news, but who knew that after the camera switched, it turned out to be the movie trailer of MGM's new movie "The Hangover!!!
When the ridiculous trailer finishes. The news host also said solemnly to the camera: "There is news that the groom will appear at the premiere of "The Hangover" on June 2. And accept media interviews to restore the real situation at that time, if there is a discoverer, please contact this station as soon as possible, the "hangover" ticket booking phone number is ......"
The comment section of this trailer reads, 'Why did the movie trailer make the news?' Okay, you guys are really creative';'The hilarious scene that popped up in the news was a trailer for The Hangover?' What movie is The Hangover? Why is it so funny? ’。
The trailer was reposted by a large number of video sites, and netizens called the "Hangover" the advance army of the movie, so, on the day of its release on Friday, with little media attention. "The Hangover" actually won $13 million in one day with the power of online publicity!
Rumble!
When this box office result appeared, the media was dumbfounded. The reason why Shao Yingying can confront Hollywood is because he has already made a name for himself in China, just like Wu Yusen, but "The Hangover"? Who are you?
Before the media could react, netizens on major websites had already begun to rate, and the online rating of the movie "The Hangover" once again made many media people smash their glasses, because the online media actually gave the movie a rating as high as 73 points, and the Internet user rating was 8.6;
There are also many users who are arrogant in the message area after giving the media's 'no connotation' evaluation: "I admit that "The Hangover" is a movie with no connotation, no depth, and no discussion of the meaning of life and the formation of the universe, but it is funny, is there a problem? ”
Under this choking, The Hangover North America box office results came out in the first week, which was a full $1 million higher than "Super Body" and won the box office result of $45 million in the first week!!!!
When Harry Sloane saw this result, he was left with cheers, and at a certain time he forgot to deal with the major theaters that frequently called the company to increase the number of films, and he had to be reminded by his secretary to remember that he seemed to have forgotten something.
In the second week, "The Hangover" increased from 2,654 theaters to 3,355, and under such a strong promotion, the print media have questioned the rise of the dark horse of "The Hangover", but these doubts did not prevent "The Hangover" from winning the box office of 42.5 million in the second week!!!
When Harry Sloane showed off his exploits to Shao Yingying, he looked at Shao Yingying with a terrifying gaze before he could say anything, he thought that the fire of "The Hangover" was entirely his own credit, but just now I remembered that this movie was made by Shao Yingying and asked him to invest, what kind of eyes does this guy have??
At this moment, the total box office of "The Hangover" in North America of 238.2 million completely surpassed that of "Super Body", MGM went around wave after wave of high-tides, and the total global box office of "The Hangover" was as high as $400 million.
At the same time, the media in the United States seems to have found the answer: What are the people of the United States lacking now? There's a lack of movies that will make us stress and laugh out loud, and if you think there's something wrong with what I'm saying, tell me what the hell is going on at the box office of The Hangover! (To be continued......)