my movie years

Chapter 325 North American Premiere
Zhang Hao spent his 31st birthday in Los Angeles.

Warner threw a special party for his birthday, and invited Taylor Swift to sing him happy birthday.

Of course, Taylor Swift herself said that she is a loyal fan of Zhang Hao, that's why she came here.

On her social media, Taylor Swift showed a photo of herself and Zhang Hao.In the photo, Taylor leaned his head on Zhang Hao's shoulder, like a couple.

Taylor also wrote a text, wanting to write a song for Zhang Hao.

Of course, Zhang Hao didn't want this song. Everyone knows the song Taylor Swift wrote for her ex-boyfriend.

Zhang Hao is already married and has children.

Even in open European and American regions, cheating is an unforgivable thing, let alone relatively conservative domestic countries.

But the problem is not big, there are many actresses who admire Zhang Hao, and in the end only Da Mi Mi succeeds, and the others stand aside.

During the party, Zhang Hao accepted the blessings from the top executives of major Hollywood companies, and also received many invitations.

Shirley Lansing, president of Paramount Pictures, said bluntly: "Zhang, are you interested in cooperating with Paramount Pictures? We have the highest quality film projects. If you have you, what does China say?"

"It's even more powerful..." the assistant next to him echoed.

"Yes, Land Rover for one." Shirley Lansing's poor Chinese almost made Zhang Hao laugh.

Zhang Hao has always declined this kind of thing: "I'm sorry, Ms. Lansing, I still have a film contract with Warner Pictures, so I can only apologize."

"It's okay," Shirley Lansing insisted, "We can wait at Paramount, and Tom Cruise is also very interested in working with you."

"Let's talk about it later!" Zhang Hao was not tempted.

Not only Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony Columbia Pictures, but even Twentieth Century Fox Pictures, which was about to be acquired, contacted Zhang Hao.

The reason is very simple, ignoring the issue of skin color, a director of commercial films who can make money has always been a guest of major film companies.

As long as it can bring huge benefits to the film company, the film company doesn't care what nationality or skin color the director is from.

Today's Zhang Hao has this capital, and he belongs to the ranks of first-line directors in Hollywood.

The most important thing in the film and television industry is resources. Directors and actors are a kind of resources in themselves, and it depends on who has the most resources.

From the current point of view, Zhang Hao undoubtedly has strong and vast resources.

This resource comes from his own talent and strength, as well as from the huge market behind him.

So Zhang Hao is now a favorite in Hollywood, and everyone wants to win him over, including the hostile Disney.

After the birthday party, "Inception" will soon meet audiences in North America and Europe.Compared with "The Martian", "Inception" was released in the summer.

Before the release, Warner Pictures had full confidence in "Inception", believing that the film would achieve good box office results.

On June 3800, "Inception" opened in North America with [-] theaters, breaking the number of theaters opened by "The Martian" in North America.

The number of film schedules is also good, 25.6% is the best schedule that Warner Pictures has strived for.

As long as the box office is good, without the use of Warner Pictures' public relations, the theater chain will naturally increase the screening rate and increase the number of theaters.

In front of an IMAX theater in Los Angeles, several USC students were discussing what movie to watch.

"Rocky, I think it's good to watch "Despicable Me 3", which just came out today..." Ariel, who was blond and blue-eyed with long legs, suggested.

Rocky is the quarterback of the Southern California football team, and Ariel is his girlfriend and a member of the school cheerleading team.

"No," the black girl Nina disagreed, she said, "I think "Transformers 5" is good, go watch it!"

"Gosh, Nina, Michael Bay has ruined the series, I don't want to watch this again." Ariel firmly objected.

"What do you mean?" Rocky asked the boy wearing glasses, Thomas.

Thomas pushed his glasses and pointed to the sea report of "Inception": "Why don't we watch the works of this Chinese director?"

"My God, what kind of film can the Chinese make?" Ariel shook her head and said, "The Chinese are really terrible, remember the Chinese students in school?

It's too bad that they only know how to study and don't even party. "

"But Zhang is different," Thomas said. "He directed "The Martian" last year, which sold $11 billion worldwide at the box office. I think we can go and see it."

"Okay." It seems that Rocky is the leader of this small group: "Then let's watch "Inception"!"

Ariel's objection was invalid, so she had to follow.

The ticketing system of North American theaters has not changed much from ten years ago. After online ticketing has been basically popularized in mainland China, the mainstream way of booking tickets in North America is still offline or telephone booking. form.

Although there are also electronic ticketing websites, due to various reasons, theaters have never formed cooperation with electronic ticketing websites.

It's very simple, reforming the way of buying tickets will affect the interests of many people, and it's inevitable that there will be parades and so on.

Therefore, basically no one pushes this matter forward.

But it doesn't matter, the Chinese market is due to the large population and the large number of moviegoers, and the original way of buying tickets cannot meet the demand.

But in North America, the market has reached its peak, and there are no growth points.Ten years ago and ten years later, the only change may be that the screen has been changed, movie tickets have increased, and nothing else has changed.

After buying movie tickets, as well as Coke and popcorn, the four of them began to wait for the movie to start.

Ariel noticed that there were quite a few viewers who bought movie tickets for "Inception", but most of them still came to watch "Despicable Me 3" released today.

As far as the subject matter is concerned, it seems that the two films are very similar. After all, one steals and the other steals, and both are thieves.

Being a thief is nothing more than planning how to get the target item, and then without anyone noticing, what new tricks can you play?

Ariel doesn't know, but she sees no difference.

Ariel has never seen the media's praise of "Inception", and she doesn't know what kind of movie it is, and she didn't have any expectations in advance.

She planned to do some favorite things with Rocky after entering the theater, so as to pass the boring time.

However, when she walked into the movie theater, Ariel realized that she was wrong, and she was wrong too much.Since the film's first show of a dream within a dream, her eyes have been inseparable from the big screen.

And Rocky Thomas and Nina, like all the audience in the movie theater, opened their mouths wide, and all kinds of words such as gift crab, shet, and cool emerged in their mouths endlessly.

Even Rocky has learned the C language of Chinese students studying abroad. When he saw the scene of Paris being turned upside down, he couldn't help blurting out a sentence.

After watching the movie and leaving the theater, the four of them looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Rocky, do you understand?" Thomas asked.

Rocky blushed, to be honest, he didn't understand.

But the stubborn Rocky didn't admit it, and asked instead, "What about you?"

Thomas was honest, shook his head and said, "I don't understand..."

"Then, why don't we watch it again? I also don't understand many details." The movie conquered Ariel, and she immediately suggested watching it again.

"it is good……"

So the four bought the box office for the next show again, and watched "Inception" again.

In fact, this year's summer holiday season is a bit sluggish compared to previous years, and the blockbuster movies released always seem to be short of breath.

In particular, "The New Mummy" starring Tom Cruise hit the market since June, and other films have not met expectations.

That is to say, "Wonder Woman" can stand up and set a record for female superhero movies.

The subsequent "Transformers 5", a big bad movie, did not arouse expectations at all.It seems that Michael Bay also understands that "Transformers 5" can only rely on overseas markets.

But this situation has slightly changed in "Inception" and "Despicable Me 3".It can even be said that these two films really detonated this year's summer vacation.

"Despicable Me 3" was released on June [-]. It is the sequel to the classic cartoon "Despicable Me", and its derivative work "Minions with Big Eyes" is also a well-known animated film.

On the first day of its release, the film earned 2900.5 million at the box office, which is a good result. On the second day, it earned 2433 million US dollars at the box office, and on the third day it won 1909.8 million US dollars at the box office.

In its first week of release, "Despicable Me 3" grossed $7243.3 million.

This result is quite good for a sequel animated film, and it is difficult for an animated film to achieve a box office record of over [-] million in the first week like a live-action film.

The characteristic of animated films is that they are durable and can maintain a good box office curve for a long time.

However, this result still did not meet the distributor's expectations. According to previous expectations, the film should be able to win a box office of 9000 million US dollars.

So what factors influenced "Despicable Me 3"?That's right, it is "Inception" by Zhang Hao.

After years of management, and last year's "The Martian" broke [-] million in North America, Zhang Hao's influence in the North American market has reached its peak.

Such a performance is that the film "Inception" reached the top in North America with unexpected results.

June NO.30 was released on Sunday, and the film slashed 3241.2 million US dollars. On the second Saturday, the box office continued to rise, cutting 3859.1 million, and 2213.4 million on the third day.

In the first week of the film, it slashed 9043.7 million US dollars, making it a strong contender for the North American weekly box office champion.

As soon as the box office record for the first week came out, the media all over the United States, no, the whole world were shocked.

Whether you admit it or not, the center of the world's film industry is in North America.A little trouble here can attract the attention of the whole world.

The fact that "Inception" reached the top of the box office in North America has a greater impact than imagined.

After the first week's box office was released, Disney's media included a cartoon in which Zhang Hao became the tyrant of Satan.

"He - the evil movie tyrant from China..."

The media under the Warner Group celebrated together: "Zhang, a movie genius from the magical kingdom of the East, with unparalleled talent."

It is easy to understand that Disney has a feud with Zhang Hao, and "Inception" was released by Warner Pictures.

The other media are people with fun mentality. Seeing the achievements of "Inception", I feel jealous and envious, and more of them are shocked.

Moreover, the film not only created the best first-week box office performance of a foreign language film in North America, but also created the best first-week box office performance of an original film.

More importantly, the film didn't suddenly explode at the box office, but also exploded in terms of word of mouth.

In terms of IMDB, it goes without saying that the film scored as high as 8.9. When the film was released in the Mainland, the score was as high as 9.2.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 90.00% 90.00, and the popcorn index is [-]% [-], which is enough to prove the super high reputation of the film.

(End of this chapter)