"Iron Man 2", released in 2010, compared with the first film, actually showed a trend of box office decline, and the global box office only tragically earned $600 million, which can't help but make people doubt the future of "Iron Man 3".

But this year's "Iron Man 3" has responded to all doubts with a dreamy start, with a box office result of 68.85 million on the first day and $175 million on the first weekend, allowing it to be the third in film history and parachuted to the top of the North American charts this weekend.

Here is an introduction, the current No. 1 film in North American first-weekend box office history is "Avengers 1", which also belongs to the Marvel superhero series, with a first-weekend box office of $210 million.

The second in film history is "The Hunger Games 1" directed by Li Mu, with $188 million.

Now a new third in film history is born, that is, "Iron Man 3" starring Robert Downey Jr.

However, in the face of such dazzling results, and on the eve of the upcoming global release of "The Hunger Games 2", the employees within Huashang Media are very calm.

Even many employees tease each other in a very relaxed tone when chatting in private:

"I watched the news for breakfast, well, very exaggerated, "Iron Man 3" swept North America! I couldn't help but be shocked when I saw this title, what a new and appalling record I thought, and it turned out to be 175 million dollars! It seems to be a big hit, but I thought about it again, "The Hunger Games 1" directed by Mr. Li and starring the proprietress seems to be $188 million in the first week in North America? Ha ha! "Iron Man 3" is actually okay! ”

An employee echoed: "In the past two years, there have been too many blows about Marvel, and it seems to be invincible, especially "The Avengers", which is like opening a new era of movies, but isn't the first week more than 10 million higher than our Mr. Li's "The Hunger Games"? Is more than 10 million a lot? ”

Some people said very proudly: "Who can compare to our Mr. Li in the pioneering era?!" "Gravity" has created a global 3D movie storm, and even "Avatar" has to go backwards! ”

Another person said quite confidently: "I estimate that "Iron Man 3", the third place in the first week of film history in North America, will sit for two weeks at most, and when our Mr. Li's "The Hunger Games 2" is released, it should abdicate and let Xian go!" ”

Li Mu also overheard the discussion of employees a few times, and he felt that his employees were too inflated? Good guys, is the $175 million in the first week of North America out of your eyes? Who gave you courage?

The so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and this atmosphere should be killed well!

took the time to tell Liu Siying about the situation, Liu Siying said: "The Hunger Games 2" is about to be released worldwide, and it is a good thing for employees to have confidence in their own movies, besides, isn't it a high probability event that "The Hunger Games 2" surpassed "Iron Man 3" in the first week?

After all, from the perspective of historical laws, the box office of the second part of a series of movies often surpasses the first one, even if the first part is the most classic.

In the end, Liu Siying also gave an example of Li Mu's own movie, saying that "Hurricane Rescue" is undoubtedly the first film with the best reputation, but it is the second film with the highest box office!

A situation like "Iron Man 2" that grosses less than "Iron Man 1" is a rare situation.

Well, it looks like it's going to be inflated by your own staff, at least for the time being!

In fact, it is not only the internal staff of Huashang Media that has swelled, but also ordinary netizens who have committed this problem.

As the release date of "The Hunger Games 2" is getting closer and closer, domestic netizens have also risen up to Versailles:

""Iron Man 3" is really a good movie, and it deserves to be a global box office hit, but it almost missed our Director Li's "The Hunger Games 1", come on! Strive for "Iron Man 4" to catch up with our Director Li in the future. ”

"No, I'll just say that it is still necessary for our domestic film protection month to exist? Why do you think Hollywood needs this thing now? There are really few who can fight! ”

"Liu Yifei's influence in Hollywood should far exceed Gong Li's, right? Although "Gravity" has a high box office, Liu Yifei has long surpassed Gong Li in the number of global hit films. ”

Some netizens also said that although the box office of "Iron Man 3" in the first week was not as good as "The Hunger Games 1", the quality of the film definitely crushed the latter, and he also felt that the higher box office of "The Hunger Games 1" in the first weekend was actually a shame rather than an honor.

Then, of course, it was refuted by a large number of netizens.

"Oh? That's right, Director Li's film has a very low gold content, yes, "Inception" IMDb score of 8.8 is not as good as the IMDb score of "Iron Man 3" of 7.2, yes, the lower the IMDb score, the better the film! ”

Then netizens began to turn on the mockery mode one after another.

"That's right, The Martian's IMDb rating of 8.1 is rubbish."

"Yes, Gravity has an IMDb rating of 7.8 and is not as good as Iron Man 3 with a score of 7.2."

"In fact, the IMDb rating of "The Hunger Games 1", which the landlord looks down on, also has a 7.3 IMDb rating, which is even higher than "Iron Man 3", don't you say it's annoying?"

There are too many of Li Mu's films with higher ratings than "Iron Man 3", so those who came to ridicule were quickly scared and didn't dare to come forward.

As the release date of the film approached, Li Mu, Liu Yifei, and other main creators of the film also started a global publicity journey, and the whole team traveled to many cities around the world in two weeks and held a number of premiere events.

During this period, "Iron Man 3" won the North American championship with a score of $75 million in the second weekend, and then on May 17, "The Hunger Games 2" was officially released worldwide.

Because of the time difference, the mainland will be the first to be released, and at this time, "Send You a Little Red Flower" starring Li Mu and Liu Yifei has still not been released, but the daily box office has fallen to about 3 million yuan, and its total national box office has reached 1.56 billion yuan.

In North America, the daily box office of "The Fault in the Stars" has fallen to about $600,000, and its global cumulative box office has officially exceeded the $350 million mark, reaching $351 million.

Then this year, another blockbuster work of Huashang Media, directed by Li Mu himself and starring Liu Yifei, "The Hunger Games 2" was officially released worldwide.

In the domestic market, the film was 113.2 million yuan on the first day, 133.5 million yuan on the second day, 118.4 million yuan on the third day, and the cumulative box office in the first three days was 365.1 million yuan.

There is still a distance between the results and "Send You a Little Red Flower", and it can't be said to be bad, after all, there are not many films that can have this result in three days of national premiere, but the production cost of "The Hunger Games 2" is completely crushing "Little Red Flower", and the box office performance is not as good as "Little Red Flower", which can actually reflect certain problems.

In other words, dystopian films like "The Hunger Games" from the perspective of European and American teenagers are indeed not very compatible with domestic audiences.

Compared with the rules in the domestic market, the performance of "The Hunger Games 2 Sparks" in the North American market is an eye-opener.

$86.73 million on the first day.

$63.72 million the next day.

$42.55 million in three days.

The cumulative box office in the first three days of the first weekend was 193 million US dollars, ranking first at the North American box office this weekend, and leading the runner-up "Star Trek 12" by as much as $62 million, and the third runner-up "Iron Man 3" by $94 million.

"The Hunger Games 2 Flames Burn the Prairie with the expected momentum to spread the flames around the world! The opening weekend box office of up to $193 million set a series of box office records, driving "Iron Man 3", which just topped the third place in North American film history last week, from the third place, making two of the top three works in the first weekend of North American film history from the magical director Li Mu of China! ”

What Li Mu didn't expect at all was that the IMDB score of "The Hunger Games 2" was even higher than that of "Iron Man 3", with the former scoring 7.6 points while "Iron Man 3" only scoring 7.5 points.

However, on Douban, the ratings of the two films are just opposite, "Iron Man 3" has a Douban score of 7.9 points, while "The Hunger Games 2" has only 7.6 points.

Obviously, the "Hunger Games" series is still somewhat unsuitable in the domestic market.

However, it was originally a work for the world market, and if it can achieve a good result in the world, it has already met Li Mu's previous expectations.

The distribution company of "The Hunger Games 2" in the United States is Walt Disney, and the cooperation between the two companies has become more and more frequent in recent years, gradually forming a situation where you have me, I have you.

In particular, the smooth release of "Frozen" has made both parties taste a huge sweetness. "Frozen" has a strong potential to attract money, especially after the film was released for only half a year, its peripheral derivatives sales are as high as 4 billion US dollars, and with the passage of time, especially "Frozen 2" or even "Frozen 3", which China has not yet invested in, the IP value of this series will reach an immeasurable level.

Not to mention that Huashang also has a large number of other high-quality animation works in his hands, and there are even as many as three animated movies in production alone.

Therefore, the cooperation between Disney and Huashang can be called full of sincerity, not only the common tricks of Hollywood will never be used by Huashang, but even there are greater concessions in all aspects.

Disney values the long-term interests between Disney and Huashang Media, and if Huashang feels cheated and terminates its cooperation with Disney, it is obvious that Disney will undoubtedly lose a lot at that time.

Therefore, in terms of North American distribution, Disney often offers the most favorable conditions to Huashang.

In order to make money and maximize profits, Huashang Media is also willing to cooperate with Disney.

Now, the first weekend box office results of "The Hunger Games 2" are out, and Disney has undoubtedly become one of the two winners.

In China, the internal employees of Huashang, who were still inflated to the point of not being able to do it before the release of the film, will lose the expansion and calmness at the beginning.

Before the release of the film, these people also said: ""Iron Man 3" 175 million is okay, but according to our boss's "The Hunger Games 1" is still bad." ”

Now that "The Hunger Games 2" has been released, and the box office in the first weekend was the same as everyone had predicted, it really surpassed the first part, and the whole company directly fried the pot.

"The results are out? Are the results really out? 193 million? I'll go! Our Li is always really good! ”

"Of the top three films in the history of the first weekend in North America, the "Hunger Games" series alone accounted for two, right? Is it already confirmed? Has anyone verified it? ”

"It's unbelievable, it's really more than 190 million!"

One by one, they are excited, where is there still a little bit of calm energy before the release of the film?

Even Liu Siying and Chen Zhixi were excited, and they completely lost their usual stability.

Li Mu and Liu Yifei's mobile phones all received a large number of congratulatory text messages, many of which were heavyweights who stomped their feet and had to shake the whole circle, and they both tried their best to reply to these people's text messages.

There are also a large number of people whose names are not even known by name, but since they can send congratulatory text messages to their mobile phones, it shows that they still have a certain strength in the circle, but because there are too many such people, the two did not reply one by one.

For some netizens in China who are always paying attention to Li Mu and Liu Yifei, the first weekend success of "The Hunger Games 2" is not just as simple as Li Mu making another popular movie.

How many people in the circle are staring at Li Mu's total box office figures!

Someone has calculated before that the current global box office champion is director Spielberg, remember that his total box office figure was 8.2 billion US dollars at that time?

So what about our director Li Mu?

I remember that after "Frozen", it has reached 7 billion US dollars, and later released "The Fault in the Stars" and "Send You a Little Red Flower", although these two films are still not released, the approximate box office potential has been basically determined.

"Little Red Flower" is about $230 million, while "The Fault in the Stars" is likely to be $355 million.

7 billion plus these two films, it is probably less than 7.6 billion US dollars, plus the current global box office of "The Hunger Games 2", it seems that it is already 7.9 billion US dollars and almost 8 billion?

That is to say - after "The Hunger Games 2", director Li Mu will officially surpass director Spielberg and become the world's No. 1 director?

Now many netizens are not calm - Li Mu, the world's No. 1 director and the world's most box office appealing director!

Is it very hanging?

Even many websites have started to report on it.

"The throne of the world's No. 1 director is about to change hands, and Director Li Mu really wants to become the world's No. 1?"

"A symbol of the rise of Chinese films, the throne of the world's No. 1 director is about to fall into China!"

"Witnessing the moment of miracle, how did Li Mu become the world's No. 1 in nine years!"

However, these media did not last long, because they were soon slapped in the face by attentive netizens.

When netizens counted before, the global box office directed by Stielberg was indeed 8.2 billion US dollars, but if you Li Mu is allowed to shoot one movie after another, is it not allowed to make a few new movies directed by Spielberg?

After that count, Spielberg released three more directing films in succession: "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn", "War Horse" and "Lincoln", okay? The three films have a cumulative box office of $861 million, and now the global box office directed by Spielberg is $9.1 billion, okay? After "The Hunger Games 2", Li Mu will have a maximum of 8.5 billion US dollars, which is likely to be less than this number, yes, it is indeed very close to director Spielberg, but it is still difficult to surpass Spielberg to become the world's No. 1 in the short term. ”

This account is clear, but netizens are even more uneasy.

There is actually no problem that the global box office has not caught up with Spielberg, director Li Mu is still young, and it is only a matter of time before he catches up with him and becomes the world's No. 1, but Spielberg currently has a box office of 9.1 billion US dollars?

Doesn't that mean that he could break the $10 billion box office mark at any time? It doesn't matter if you can surpass Spielberg in a short period of time, but the title of the world's first 10-billion-dollar director must not be lost!

So when Li Mu and Liu Yifei promoted the movie offline, many reporters came up to ask relevant questions.

"May I ask Director Li, how long do you plan to start filming the third part of the series after "The Hunger Games 2"?"

"Director Li, now netizens are very concerned about whether you can take a step ahead of director Spielberg and achieve the achievement of a 10 billion dollar director, what do you think about this?"

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