On May 5, five days after the release of "Iron Man".

North America, Marvel.

"What do you say? You repeat? $211 million global box office? Kevin Feige's eyes widened, his hands clutching his assistant's arm excitedly.

"Yes, BOSS, it took only 5 days for "Iron Man" to hit a box office of $211 million worldwide." His assistant repeated.

“OMG！！ OMG！！！ Kevin Feige grabbed the other's arms with both hands, and then grabbed the hair from his head with both hands.

In the past few days, since the premiere day of "Iron Man", Kevin Feige has not paid attention to the box office and warned his assistants not to report to him.

Because he is also afraid of getting an unacceptable number, once the box office fiasco, the Marvel Cinematic Universe plan may have a difficult birth, and even the danger of stillbirth is there.

Until today, Kevin finally couldn't help it and took the initiative to ask.

But the numbers he got were unbelievable, and he couldn't find the north for a while with good grades.

Hollywood and the film industry have exploded, and even Wall Street and the capital circle can't sit still, Bluestar Technology Group and Luo Sheng have dug up the treasure again, and once again conquered the world with unparalleled vision and vision.

Disney is about to blow up, and his intestines are all repentant, why didn't he make a move in the first place?

There is no doubt that another non-sequel comic book hero has taken off on the box office list, and this is the opening film of this year's summer season - "Iron Man" produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount.

From April 30 to May 4, it took only 5 days for Robert Downey Jr.'s new film to get $211 million at the global box office, which not only reborn Marvel Nirvana, but also ushered in a turning point in Downey's life.

Among them, the film grossed $114 million in North America and $97 million overseas, both of which greatly exceeded the forecasts and expectations of the distribution company Paramount and box office experts from major media outlets around the world.

For Hollywood, this achievement means more, as an industry insider commented during the first week of "Iron Man": "We just had a terrible spring season, but 'Iron Man' proves that audiences still go to the cinema." ”

Hollywood couldn't have gotten a better summer opening than this.

A senior Paramount manager made no secret of his ecstasy, responding to media interviews with the words, "Iron Man defeated Will Smith and Jesus." ”

He was referring to the fact that "Iron Man" had a premiere that surpassed Will Smith's "I Am Legend" and Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" last year, both of which were super-grossing, but "Iron Man" was even better.

The Paramount senior manager also said that at the Paramount meeting, several people boldly predicted that the premiere of "Iron Man" would be between $80 million and $90 million, and they were ridiculed by others.

Marvel is now in a carnival, and all the pressure is relieved.

The movie "Iron Man" gambled almost everything on Marvel, from the beginning of preparations in 2005 to this year, Kevin Feige and others have always been awake at night, always worrying about the tragic ending of the crash.

But all this changed with the box office explosion of the film, and the success of "Iron Man" undoubtedly gave Marvel unprecedented confidence, and now it is backed by an IT giant, which is a double guarantee.

Judging from the box office success of "Iron Man", Marvel seems to have lost a lot of money by selling itself to Bluestar Technology Group, but Avi Arad and other Marvel executives do not feel sorry, and Bluestar Technology also has to bear the risk of the film's failure.

It can only be said that some people deserve to make a lot of money, and as long as the grand plan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe succeeds, they will not lose.

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"From now on, I'm afraid that the projects you fancy will not be so easy to merge and acquire, because there will be many people who will grab from you, as long as you fancy it, you will definitely stick a lever, almost an alternative vane of investment."

In a break room of the Cote d'Azur company, Qin Weimu came here and sat down in the empty seat next to Luo Sheng, who was eating with a bag of snacks in one hand and swiping the laptop in front of him to browse the content of the page with the other.

Hearing Qin Weimu's words, Luo Sheng responded casually: "Do you want to be so metaphysical?" Dare to treat me like Buffett? ”

At this moment, he is paying attention to the news of Marvel and "Iron Man", the movie has been released for a week, which is not only related to the investment of 165 billion yuan in soft sister coins, but also related to the content ecology of the company's most important streaming video business, Luo Sheng is still quite concerned.

Qin Weimu, who was sitting next to him, glanced at him and said, "Didn't you watch the news?" Some people in the investment world have already commented that you are an investment genius born in the field of non-professional investment. ”

Luo Sheng smiled: "I reluctantly accept this title." ”

Qin Weimu couldn't help but smile.

Luo Sheng really didn't make many shots in terms of investment, and the first one was to buy the hao123 navigation website, and then the merger and acquisition of Take Two, V Society and "Polish Stupid Donkey" three game companies, and then bought Blizzard Entertainment, and then the merger and acquisition of Marvel, and another merger and acquisition case is the ongoing MySQL company, the company's merger and acquisition negotiations are basically certain this month, the contract has been initialed, and the EU has passed.

Côte d'Azur acquired Swedish open-source database developer MySQL AB for $1.1 billion.

It can be said that Luo Sheng's investment and mergers and acquisitions are only a handful, but the success rate is a bit scary, so far no investment cases have been classified as failures, and they are all great successes, the only uncertain is MySQL company, this company still can't see the way, let it be.

That means that the success rate of Luo Sheng's investment and M&A case is 100%, and a M&A deal is better than 100 shots by those professional VC investors, and this acquisition of Marvel is the most shocking.

Because of the completion of the merger and acquisition on the front foot, "Iron Man" exploded in a few days, which made countless VCs feel incredible.

Let's talk about Marvel, the current high box office of "Iron Man" still comes from the film's good reputation, and on IMDB, which fans voted for, this comic-book adaptation of the movie got an average score of 8.4, which is an extremely rare high score for a sci-fi action blockbuster.

In comparison, the highest-scoring second episode of the Spider-Man series also scored only 7.8 points.

The information collected by the cinema is also roughly the same, with young viewers between the ages of 18 and 24 giving the film that high A+ rating.

And the discerning critics also issued almost unanimous praise for the combination of Jon and Downey this time, and out of nearly 200 film reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, "Iron Man" has a positive rating of 94%, which is on par with last year's highly acclaimed "Spy 3".

Generally speaking, the super-grossing films have the best results on the first day of release, as was the case with last year's "Spider-Man 3", and the current hit "Iron Man" had a North American box office of $35.13 million, $37.5 million and $28.12 million respectively over the weekend, and the box office on the second day was higher than on the first day, indicating that it was the fermentation of good word-of-mouth that made the film's Saturday results higher than Friday, thus creating a good box office performance for the whole weekend.

In addition to winning the box office title in the first weekend of May, "Iron Man" also squeezed into several other all-time box office lists.

The film became the 10th grossing weekend of all time, while also being the second-highest non-sequel comic book adaptation, behind 2002's Spider-Man, and also set the record for the best live-action movie debut by distribution company Paramount.

The only thing that makes Paramount unhappy is that the film has a huge disparity between male and female audiences, reaching 71% to 29%, which means that "Iron Man" is still not good enough to attract female audiences.

In other box office markets except for the North American box office, "Iron Man's total score of $97 million" came from 7,500 theaters in 57 countries, of which the United Kingdom contributed $10.3 million, Mexico $9.6 million, South Korea $7.5 million, France $7.1 million, China $7.02 million, West Tooth Extraction $6.2 million, and Brazil $6 million.

"Guess what email I received? Kevin Feige sent it to me. Luo Sheng stared at his laptop and work computer, and clicked on a private email.

"What?"

Qin Weimu, who was sitting across from him, looked at him curiously.

Luo Sheng stared at the email content on the screen, and said with a smile: "They have already started preparing for "Iron Man 2", Kevin wants to invite me to make a cameo in the film, play a few seconds of soy sauce, the plot is arranged, the real name starring, and Tony Stark have a few words of conversation, and the brief exchange is to provide big data center public cloud service support for Stark Industries with Bluestar Technology...... I think I can promise to make this soy sauce. ”

Speaking of which, the "Iron Man" released in this life is already a little different.

The mobile phone used by Tony Stark in the movie is no longer LG KU950, but the Azure smartphone with a more industrial sense of technology under the Cote d'Azur, because in 2006, this smartphone with a full score of technology and appearance has been launched, and at the end of the same year, "Iron Man" was officially filmed, for which the original script was slightly modified.

The Cote d'Azur did not advertise, but Marvel changed it itself, because as a science fiction movie, the mobile phone that appeared should also have a sense of the future, and the Azure mobile phone should appear in the film.

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