14 July 2002.

The box office data on the premiere day of the North American summer vacation file was released.

According to the most authoritative "Hollywood Entertainment News" in the United States:

The long-awaited Colombian "Spider-Man" by movie fans was extraordinary as soon as it was released in North America. On its opening day, it grossed $44.8 million, setting a record for the highest opening day for a new film released on Wednesday. At the same time, the actors in the film have also begun to emerge.

Previously, the highest box office record on Wednesday's premiere day belonged to Dream Entertainment's "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" released in 2001, which grossed $40.4 million at the time. In addition, the special show of "Spider-Man", which was launched at midnight on the 12th in a few American cities, has a cumulative result of 12 million US dollars. In this way, the film has accumulated nearly $60 million in box office revenue.

Some estimates suggest that the film is expected to surpass the $100 million mark this weekend, so the film will have $150 million to $200 million in its first week overall. This result is absolutely unbeatable, and there is no doubt that it will become the first blockbuster of the summer.

In addition, with the box office of "Spider-Man", the actors in the film have also begun to emerge. At present, the most star-studded is Tobey Maguire, who plays the superhero "Spider-Man". This actor, who has a baby face, now finally has a place to use. was originally a cumbersome "baby face", but he was given the opportunity to play the leading role. Recently, it was reported that he will be the new spokesperson of Coca-Cola, proving his full "star flavor".

However, despite gradually becoming a big star. But Maguire has no star show. At the time of the interview. He said he had made enough money for a lifetime. But he's never going to be idle. He said that he likes to be down-to-earth by nature and does not like the life of overnight fame. "Those who wear designer super big sunglasses look like insects and walk down the road with a bunch of bodyguards, which only makes them more eye-catching," he said. He believes that the best way to cope is to maintain a normal life as much as possible. Despite his current popularity, he does not intend to stay in the entertainment industry forever. He already plans to finish the remaining two episodes of "Spider-Man" and enter Cambridge University to study. "School life has allowed me to connect with real life so that I don't get out of touch," he says. What Maguire means is to re-plan his life after college. Maybe re-train in acting before re-entering the entertainment industry.

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It is undeniable that this report said two key points, first, Columbia's "Spider-Man" broke a record box office on the first day, and second, this drama is very popular and has become popular with the male lead!

In fact, whether a drama is good or not depends on these two points, whether the box office is good or not. The actor is not popular, and now "Spider-Man" has done it all.

And what about "Iron Man" who fights "Spider-Man"?! What about this play?!

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is also the most authoritative "Hollywood Entertainment News" report in the United States:

This time, it is known as the dream entertainment company known as the rising Hollywood. Successfully launched the famous director Yi Feiyang's new work "Iron Man", which caused a box office storm upon its release - this drama starring Hollywood's most controversial actor Robert Downey Jr. undoubtedly topped the North American box office with a box office of $28 million on the opening day, becoming another rare film in Hollywood film history.

The film was unveiled on North American screens yesterday, and the situation in its overseas markets is also very good. Although the box office of "Iron Man" on the opening day is almost 20 million compared to "Spider-Man", the number of theaters of the two companies cannot be the same. Among them, "Spider-Man" has more than 5,000 theaters in North America, while "Iron Man" has only a pitiful more than 2,000. In contrast, being able to get a first-day box office of 28 million is already very good, and it can even be said that it is "beyond people's imagination".

There is no doubt that judging from the current box office data, Dream Entertainment lost to most of Colombia, and Yi Feiyang, as Hollywood's most promising super director, is likely to encounter an unprecedented box office "Waterloo", and his box office failure will set off Sam Raimi's unshakable super director status.

In short, whether it is Yi Feiyang or his company, they are facing a very headache, that is, how to turn things around and save the current embarrassing situation, as for whether this drama can make money, it doesn't matter if it can make money, what matters is how much it can earn!

Let's talk about an outlier in the play "Iron Man", that is, Robert Downey Jr., as the male protagonist, this famous Hollywood "bad boy", "addict" and "alcoholic", really did not pull Yi Feiyang's hind legs, on the contrary, he also helped this drama to shine a lot.

Yes, Donnie's wonderful performance has added a lot of points to this play, if China Yi plays special effects technology in the play, then the acting skills of everyone, including Donnie, are the biggest attraction of this play.

We can undoubtedly speculate that Downey will turn around with the help of this play, and the guy who was despised and ignored in the past will become Hollywood's hottest superstar again, and we look forward to it!

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The Hollywood Entertainment Newspaper's report is very true, and as Hollywood's most authoritative entertainment mouthpiece, their views almost represent the largest audience today. Through these two reports, everyone can find that Columbia's "Spider-Man" made a big splash with the help of a theater chain that is more than twice as high as Dream Entertainment, occupying the first place at the box office on the first day, far behind Yi Feiyang's "Iron Man".

In the words of the Colombian, "According to the current situation, it can make it easy for China to lose and take off its pants!" ”

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Indeed, after the premiere day, in the next three days, Colombia's "Spider-Man" continued to make efforts, and the box office directly exceeded 100 million by the weekend, reaching an astonishing $167 million!

Although the hard-working "Iron Man" has a good reputation, the theater chain is not as good as others, and the total box office is only 88.43 million US dollars on the weekend!

It can be seen from the data that the total weekend box office of "Iron Man" is only half of that of "Spider-Man!!

"Oh my God. China's easy box office fiasco! "Iron Man" was abused by "Spider-Man" and couldn't find the north! ”

"China's super director Yi's dream is shattered. Still can only be crushed at Samraimi's feet! ”

"Colombia is rarely powerful. Fantasy entertainment is bitter! ”

All kinds of negative public opinion came out, almost all of which were negative about fantasy entertainment. In this regard, even those fans who like fantasy entertainment and Yi Feiyang are helpless, after all, the facts are in front of them, and it is impossible to go against the sky!

Of course, among the many public opinions, there are also some more rational audiences. They commented: "Although the weekly box office of China Yi's new film is not as good as Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man", but looking at all his previous films, the highest weekly box office is only about 50 million, and now he has surpassed himself with the play "Iron Man", with a weekly box office of more than 80 million, which is a breakthrough in itself." ”

"Let's not be too embarrassed about China Yi, we have to see the facts clearly, this time he did not lose in the quality of the movie, but in the number of theaters. Yes, in the opinion of all of us. Yi's "Iron Man" is definitely better than Sam's "Spider-Man"! ”

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"Smack", inside the Columbia head office. Abbas slammed the newspaper containing the commentary onto the table.

"I don't know what to say!" Abbas said, "I wonder if this is the poor Chinese gunman, God, this way of comforting yourself is so pathetic!" ”

"Maybe they're not exagger......ating," Sam Raimi said, shaking his head and a little unconfident, "I've seen that Iron Man too, and it's really good." ”

"No, man, you say that? Do you think you can't compare to that China? ”

"It's not like that, I just want to say ......"

"Okay, okay, I know what you're trying to say...... Do you just pity him? Yes, a guy who was so held high was thrown down by us, and that unlucky look can be imagined. But man, now is not the time for us to act as God and show mercy, all we have to do is to take advantage of the victory to chase after it, so that that hateful China Yi will never be able to raise his head, yes, just like boxing, knock him down in a circle, and never be able to stand up! ”

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In the next half month, as Abbas expected, Colombia continued to achieve good results, and in less than a month, the total box office of "Spider-Man" has reached a staggering $578 million, and it is estimated that if nothing else, the total box office can exceed $800 million, or even $900 million, after the end of the summer vacation.

In contrast, due to theater restrictions and other reasons, the box office of "Iron Man" is unsatisfactory, and now the total box office is only about 252 million, barely able to recover the cost of filming.

The box office success of "Spider-Man" made Abbas, who was in charge of the show, so happy that he got carried away. The heart that was originally hanging was put down, and now, he doesn't have to be wary of anything Yi Feiyang anymore, he doesn't have to worry about being won anymore, he needs to relax, yes, relax well!

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"Huaichun met, and in a few words, the warbler was red. Holding the boba in his hand, it was stormy last night. The corners of the skirt are flying, and the mandarin ducks are playing in the water and the waves are rising. It's weird, it's weird, the man is gone~ the soul is fragrant at night. ”

As the acting president of Columbia and the president of the North American Film Association, Abbas is known to like to go to all kinds of private parties, and as a hot cow in the American entertainment industry today, there are also a lot of lovers, just like during the Cannes Film Festival, Abbas did not forget to go to have fun after work.

Now, his new movie has finally beaten Yi Feiyang at the box office, Abbas is naturally complacent, and while accepting the cheers of the upcoming victory, he is not willing to be lonely, first ran to New York to participate in a bowling party, and then sang and danced to mingle with countless hot and glamorous women, those paparazzi reporters will not let go of this exciting news, especially as a loyal partner of Dream Entertainment, "Entertainment Xintiandi", which is very clever to secretly take his photos.

In the photo, Abbas, whose triangular eyes exude a light that is usually invisible, always has a blonde beauty boba in his arms, looking quite proud.

In several pictures, the two are hugging each other, and the happy Abbas unceremoniously strokes his big hand on the waist of the hot beauty, and his expression is proudly happier than the box office hit. And it is not difficult to find that this blonde beauty is obviously also very interesting to Abbas, and her tender hand has been placed under Abbas's back when taking pictures. The skin is also a healthy wheat color. The sleek double ~ milk is compact without exaggeration. The small vest is properly pushed out of a groove of the golden section line, so that Abbas, who has an obvious height advantage, can have an unobstructed view, and the beautiful scenery in his chest is naturally a feast for someone's eyes and ready to move.

In addition to this blonde beauty, there were several hot girls who stuck to Abbas, and one of them, a young woman in a white tights, directly cocked her plump thick buttocks against Abbas's waist. Abbas, who was already holding the blonde beauty in one hand, smiled from ear to ear. It seems that after the bowling game, Abbas is going to start other shooting exercises.

As the saying goes, paper can't hold the fire, and as soon as these scandalous photos of Abbas came out, they immediately caused an uproar!

No one would have imagined that this amiable old man of the Film Association, who has always taken the gentleman's route, would be so attentive.

In fact, Abbas has always been a master in love, and only a master of masters like him. can hide the extramarital affair so deeply. While remaining married to his wife, Abbas had a relationship with an older woman a few years earlier. and has always kept in touch, and did not forget to give birth to an illegitimate child, and now this matter has also been dug up by the reporter of "Entertainment Xintiandi", and then exposed to the world. What followed was the repeated disclosure of Abbas's ups and downs outside, and then people gradually learned that this honest-looking old guy turned out to be a complete old pervert!

In fact, Abbas is different from many men in terms of women's hobbies, because he likes women older than himself, and perhaps Abbas feels that experienced women can make him feel secure. After all, some people just like to be with mature women, in addition to the mother-love plot, experience is still a very important point.

The Sony boss behind Colombia was dissatisfied with Abbas's extramarital affair outside, and soon, Akio Morita gave Abbas an ultimatum, "Don't spend any more time drinking, you must know that we still have strong opponents!" ”

To this, Abbas's answer was very simple, "Now that the overall situation has been decided, that Yi Feiyang is like a poor Chinese monkey who can't turn over the palm of my hand!" ”

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End of August 2002.

The North American summer vacation is about to end, and the box office war about this summer vacation is about to come to an end.

Yi Feiyang and Sam Raimi, who are two generations of heroes on the battlefield, have handed over their best answers to each other, not to mention which of them can win in the end, judging from the total box office alone, whether it is "Spider-Man" or "Iron Man", they are the box office monsters of this summer vacation.

So far, without strong competition, the sci-fi action film "Spider-Man" produced and distributed by Colombia has accumulated a staggering $920 million at the global box office, entering the top 15 of Hollywood's all-time highest-grossing films. According to the calculation of 630 million US dollars for this drama in the previous life, it can be said that Colombia has changed the trajectory of history, and the box office is nearly 300 million higher than that of the previous life!

Fantasy entertainment is stressful!

Yes, it's stressful! 、

Up to now, the total global box office of Dream Entertainment's "Iron Man" is 769 million US dollars, which is far behind Colombia's "Spider-Man".

Just when Colombia was about to happily announce the victory of the summer vacation file and show off its might, another data came out, and as soon as this data came out, it immediately shocked the entire Hollywood and even the whole world!

What data?!

Profit data for watching "Iron Man" online!

As mentioned above, before the release of "Iron Man", Yi Feiyang secretly signed experimental online paid viewing contracts with major websites in the United States, Europe, Asia and other regions.

And it was this inconspicuous, seemingly experimental contract, that turned the world upside down at this moment.

Why?

Because that's a staggering statistic – 817 million!

In other words, Yi Feiyang's "Iron Man" has won an astonishing 817 million box office just by relying on online viewing on the Internet!

To be precise...... Online Box Office!!

An unprecedented online box office!

That's right, it's the online box office!

In his previous life, Yi Feiyang found that many Hollywood blockbusters would be publicly watched online on the Internet two or three months after their release, and many of them were listed as VIP movies and supported paid viewing.

It is for this motivation that Yi Feiyang designed this unprecedented "online synchronous paid viewing", note that it is "synchronous viewing", not two or three months late.

For this experimental strategy, Yi Feiyang didn't dare to bless much hope, which was a ridiculous behavior for the outside world.

"Oh my God, if you can watch movies online, what do you need a movie theater for?" This is a mocking perception.

"If you want to rely on the Internet to make box office, is China easy to go crazy?"

"Blockbusters are only cool to watch in the cinema, watch them online? Joke! ”

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In short, the outside world was not optimistic about Yi Feiyang's cooperation project before, and even his opponent Colombia ridiculed after learning the news: "China Yi seems to really regard himself as a Hollywood tyrant and is driving the movie theater to a dead end!" ”

Yes, everyone is not optimistic about Yi Feiyang's bold plan, or a ridiculous plan.

In their opinion, Yi Feiyang made two big mistakes.

First, the Internet can never replace the cinema, and there is no such comfortable audio-visual effect.

Second, watching "Iron Man" simultaneously on the Internet will only weaken his real-life movie box office.

But the opposite is true!

After the premiere of "Iron Man" was watched online, those lazy young people who like to stay at home can directly open the video and pay a much lower price than the actual ticket price of $2, and they can watch the show very comfortably. For them, watching movies and videos at home is more free and comfortable than in the cinema, and they can avoid the crowds and enjoy their favorite movies alone.

Of course, after all, online video is not as shocking as watching in the cinema, and the audio-visual effect is not comparable, but it is better than a "warm" and "comfortable". In addition, many fans who like this drama, after watching "Iron Man" on the Internet, were moved by the content of the story and shocked by the scene, and in order to feel a more real audio-visual feeling, they even went to the movie to watch it a second time!

In this way, online viewing not only did not weaken the box office of the drama "Iron Man" in reality, but on the contrary, it also helped him gather more audiences and obtain more box office. And this is why the box office of "Iron Man" will get better and better in the later stage, and the distance between it and "Spider-Man" will continue to shrink.

In a word, Yi Feiyang has created another miracle, and it is a shocking miracle with a box office of more than 1.5 billion! (To be continued......)