"Give me a movie ticket."

"I want one."

"What, sold out?"

"No, didn't you say that no one watched World of Warcraft? I'm here to support it, you don't want to sell scalper tickets, I sue you, there is no door, I'm here to support "World of Warcraft" to break one billion, not to be slaughtered. ”

"I'm sorry." The conductor hurriedly said: "It's really sold out, all the tickets for today have been sold out, many of them are fans like you who come to support "World of Warcraft", they buy four or five tickets, so all the tickets are sold out." ”

"Why don't you go to another theater and ask?"

"Go to Mao, don't go, I originally came to support "World of Warcraft", and since it's sold out, I'll go back."

The crowd stirred for a moment, and soon dispersed.

They have already watched "World of Warcraft", and the reason why they came here was just to support "World of Warcraft" to break the box office of one billion, and now that the tickets are sold out, of course they will go back.

Click!

The camera was instantly frightened, and a reporter nodded with satisfaction, "The appeal of "World of Warcraft" is really not covered, and breaking one billion should be an ironclad thing." ”

"Tomorrow you can write a prophecy post, and use this photo to make a picture."

The next day, the newspaper wrote about 'World of Warcraft's final elegy, theaters were full', and then, in the afternoon, the International Film Association released box office figures.

The No. 1 box office in a single day is "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", a new work released by Twentieth Century Fox Films, which became the No. 1 in North America with a box office score of more than 80 million in three days as soon as it came out.

Then, despite the sharp decline in box office results, it still won the first place in the United States with a single-day 13 million US dollars.

In second place is Batman Begins 1: The Mystery of the Shadows. The $11 million box office is a global success, and so far, they have accumulated 460 million at the global box office. Breaking 500 million is basically an ironclad thing.

This also means that Time Warner's expectations for "Batman Begins 1: The Mystery of the Shadow" are basically completed, and Nolan has also become famous and become an upstart in the movie.

And the most surprising thing is that "World of Warcraft" ranked 4th in North America with a good score of 6 million in a single day, which was thrown out of the top 10 with a score of 2 million in a single day.

"The final outbreak, World of Warcraft, with the support of loyal fans, reversed the box office. broke the box office of one billion with a box office of more than $6 million in a single day and won the final victory. ”

The Hollywood Times gleefully reported, "This is a victory for fans around the world." It's also a Hollywood victory. ”

"Rejoice, the third film in the world to break a billion dollars has been born, and it's World of Warcraft." -- The New York Times.

"Two years ago, Peter. Jackson made the world's fans known with "The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings) 3: The Return of the King", a billion-dollar movie. In Hollywood. In addition to Spielberg and Cameron, there is also a Peter . Jackson. ”

And two years later, Peter. Jackson announced to the world with a "World of Warcraft" that the only commercial film that can compete with me is Cameron. ”

"Movie Weekly" praised Peter. Jackson, boast of him to heaven, but there is a reason for this.

As of 05, there are only three films that have exceeded the billion-dollar box office in the world, and the first place is, of course, "Titanic". It became the undisputed global box office champion and record holder with $1.8 billion.

And in second place is "Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", which is known as a fantasy classic, second only to "Titanic" with a box office of $1.1 billion.

And the third place is "World of Warcraft", which has just exceeded $1 billion at the box office.

Two of the first three movies are Peter. Jackson's. He has enough confidence to argue with Spielberg, of course, commercially, as for Cameron.

Forget the demon in "Titanic", the gap is really big.

What's more, "World of Warcraft" is supervised by Cameron, and it broke through the one billion box office, which also has Cameron's credit.

"The victory of the monopoly, if it weren't for the full support of Universal Movies and the gold medal theater chain in the Far East, this movie that has run out of momentum would have been fully drawn." -- The Los Angeles Times said sourly.

They had only recently despised Peter. Jackson, saying that "World of Warcraft" can't break a billion, and now "World of Warcraft" has broken a billion, this is simply a slap in the face.

"The breaking of one billion in World of Warcraft reflects the incompetence of U.S. regulators."

"I can't understand the idea of Universal Movies, and I spent tens of millions of dollars on publicity, just to count jù to look better?"

"A billion movie, not worthy of the name."

Previously disdainful of Peter. Jackson's newspaper frantically smeared "World of Warcraft" and refused to admit defeat.

"It's hard for me to predict that World of Warcraft will break a billion." Cameron said on Oprah's talk show: "To be honest, the reason why I was executive producing this film was just that the movie 'World of Warcraft' was a new technology. ”

"imax-3D technology is a very advanced technology, but in the past, this technology has been used in movies very little, Hollywood film companies are not interested in imax-3D technology, occasionally so many film companies are interested in imax-3D, but only make imax-3D version, not imax-3D-based."

"World of Warcraft is the first film based on imax-3D technology, and I have great expectations for this film, but unfortunately, the imax-3D technology is not yet complete, and it cannot meet my requirements, and my new work may not be available to you for the time being."

Cameron spoke eloquently in front of the host.

He's known to be a tech freak who has always had a keen interest in new technologies, and in this regard, he's the opposite of Spielberg.

In Hollywood, Spielberg is not the only heretic. But it is definitely the greatest heresy, and the reason for this lies in Spielberg's rejection of new technologies.

He stubbornly believes that old technology is the best.

"New?" The host of Oprah's talk show immediately became interested, "Can you tell me what kind of story it is?" ”

"One about alien technology. Of course, I won't say more, spoilers are not interesting. Cameron smiled and said, "Okay, let's move on to the technology!" ”

"Nope." Unexpectedly, the host of Oprah's talk show rejected Cameron, "Let's talk about World of Warcraft, the audience may not be interested in your technology." Of course, if you're going to talk about how your technology is being applied to a new movie, then I think the audience should be very interested. ”

"It's a real headache. I haven't even perfected the script for my new movie. Cameron rubbed his temples and said, "Okay, let's talk about the new movie, but I'll say it first." What I'm saying at this point may be a little different from the final version. ”

……

Cheers!

Li Lin, McMohan, and Finkelstein sat in the villa. Celebrate with champagne open.

"World of Warcraft" has a global box office of one billion, and after deducting the money from the theater, they earned more than 700 million, close to 800 million. After Jackson's seven percent share, there is still about 700 million at the box office.

Of the 700 million, Universal Movies took 10% of the box office share, and the remaining 630 million still needed to deduct the 150 million investment of the producer. In the end, the profit for them was only $480 million.

The $480 million will be shared by Blizzard, Universal Movies, and Li Lin.

Among them, Li Lin alone earned nearly 300 million US dollars.

$150 million investment, $300 million in final income. Li Lin's investment has doubled in less than a year.

It doesn't sound like much, it's only 100% profit, but that's not including peripheral distribution.

A series of incomes such as DVDs, online on-demand, and TV station copyright purchases are shared by them, mainly because there are no big-name actors in the crew.

Hollywood's superstars are not the same as those in China.

The superstars of China get sky-high salaries, and a movie with an investment of more than 100 million yuan just breaks 10 million yuan of the superstar's salary, while Hollywood gets a share.

Generally speaking, when an actor's salary reaches 20 million, his salary will rise again in the salary + sharing model.

For example, 20 million remuneration plus 5% box office share.

And "World of Warcraft" did not choose Hollywood superstars, so a lot of savings were made in this regard.

And the other aspect is screenwriting.

According to the requirements of the Writers Guild of America, big-name screenwriters need to take not only a 5% share of the box office, but also a part of the DVD revenue, which is the result of the bargaining between all American screenwriters and Hollywood studios.

And "World of Warcraft" is handled by Blizzard's scriptwriter, and the scriptwriter is not part of the writers' union, so there is also a lot of money left in this regard.

"Cheers to World of Warcraft's billion-dollar box office."

"Cheers!"

"Cheers!"

"Cheers to our bright future."

"Cheers" "Cheers"......

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, and everyone felt a burst of happiness in their hearts.

Li Lin is happy that he holds a series like "World of Warcraft" in his hands, and his income will not decrease in the future no matter what.

And Finkelstein, the president of Universal Films, toasted because he made a lot of money.

Needless to say, the popularity of World of Warcraft has boosted the number of people online in World of Warcraft, and it has also helped to further increase the sales of Warcraft, and more importantly, Blizzard has made a lot of money on the World of Warcraft movie, and this income will be even higher in the future with the release of the sequel to World of Warcraft.

Don't think that Blizzard games are big hits and they're rich, that's not the case.

First of all, Blizzard belongs to Vivendi, and their profits need to be handed over to Vivendi, secondly, Blizzard's treatment is notoriously good, and in terms of salary, it costs a lot of money every year, and finally, Blizzard needs to invest a lot of money in developing new works, so their lives are tight.

"Cheers, it's time for us to talk about other things." Li Lin said with a smile. (To be continued......)