China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 277 1.93 billion US dollars in the first week, the trend of the Hunger Games prairie fire
"Iron Man 2010", which was released in 2, has shown a downward trend in the box office compared to the first one. The global box office only tragically earned 6 million US dollars. This makes people doubt the prospects of "Iron Man 3".

But this year, "Iron Man 3" has responded to all doubts with a fantastic start. The box office performance of 6885 million on the first day and 1.75 million US dollars in the first weekend allowed it to airborne to the top of the North American list this weekend as the third in film history.

Let me introduce here, the current No. 1 film in North American box office history in the first weekend is "Avengers 2.1", which is also part of the Marvel superhero series, with a box office of [-] million US dollars in the first weekend.

Ranked second in film history is "The Hunger Games 1" directed by Li Mu, with 1.88 million US dollars.

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

However, in the face of such impressive results, and the eve of the global release of "The Hunger Games 2", the employees of Huashang Media were very calm.

Many employees even teased each other in a very relaxed tone when chatting privately:

"I read the news for breakfast, um, it's very exaggerated, "Iron Man 3" swept North America! I couldn't help being shocked when I saw the headline, I thought it was a shocking new record, and it turned out to be 1.75 million US dollars! It seemed to be a big hit, but I changed my mind and thought again, "The Hunger Games 1" directed by Mr. Li, starring the proprietress, seems to have 1.88 million US dollars in the first week in North America? Haha! "Iron Man 3" is actually not bad!"

Some employees echoed: "In the past two years, there have been too many bragging about Marvel, as if they are invincible, especially "The Avengers", as if they are talking about creating a new era of movies, but the first week is not just that. Is it more than 1000 million more than Mr. Li's "The Hunger Games"? Is it more than 1000 million?"

Someone else said proudly: "Who can compare to Mr. Li when it comes to creating the era?! "Gravity" created a global 3D movie storm, and even "Avatar" has to go backwards!"

Someone else expressed quite confidently: "I guess, "Iron Man 3", the third place in North American film history in the first week, will sit for two weeks at most, and when Mr. Li's "The Hunger Games 2" is released, it will also be released." Abdicate to Xian!"

Li Mu accidentally heard the employees' comments a few times. He thinks that his employees are a little too inflated?Good guy, is the $1.75 million in the first week of North America no longer in your eyes?Who gave you the courage?

The so-called arrogant soldiers must be defeated, this trend should be killed well!

I took the time to talk to Liu Siying about the situation, and Liu Siying said: "The Hunger Games 2" will be released worldwide soon, and it is a good thing for employees to have confidence in their own film. Besides, it is not a big deal that "The Hunger Games 2" surpassed "Iron Man 3" in the first week. Probabilistic event?
After all, from a historical point of view, the box office of the second film in a series often exceeds that of the first film, even if the first film is the most classic one.

In the end, Liu Siying gave an example to Li Mu's own film, saying that "Taken" is undoubtedly the first film with the best reputation, but it is the second film with the highest box office!
It is a rare case that the box office of "Iron Man 2" is lower than that of "Iron Man 1".

Well, it seems that at least temporarily let the staff expand!

In fact, it's not just Huashang Media's internal employees who are inflated, even ordinary netizens are also guilty of this problem.

As the release date of "The Hunger Games 2" is approaching, domestic netizens are also getting up to Versailles:

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

"No, I'm just saying, is it necessary for our domestic film protection month to exist? Why do you think Hollywood needs this thing now? There are really not many who can do it!"

"Liu Yifei's influence in Hollywood should far exceed that of Gong Li, right? Although "Gravity" has a high box office, the number of Liu Yifei's global blockbuster films has already crushed Gong Li."

Some netizens also said that although the box office of "Iron Man 3" in the first weekend is not as good as that of "The Hunger Games 1", the quality of the film definitely crushes the latter, and he also feels that the higher box office of "The Hunger Games 1" in the first weekend is actually a shame, not an honor , Li Mu seems to have a high box office and strong strength, but in fact the gold content is very low.

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

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

Then netizens began to start mocking mode one after another.

"Yes, The Martian IMDb rating of 8.1 is rubbish."

"Yes, "Gravity" IMDb score 7.8 is not as good as "Iron Man 3" 7.2."

"Actually, the IMDb score of "The Hunger Games 1" that the author despises is 7.3, which is even higher than "Iron Man 3". Don't you think it's annoying?"

There are too many films under Li Mu whose ratings are higher than "Iron Man 3", so those who came here to ridicule them were quickly stunned and dared not show their heads.

As the film's release date approached, Li Mu, Liu Yifei, and other main creators of the film also embarked on a global promotional tour. The entire team traveled to many cities around the world within two weeks and held many premiere events.

During this period, "Iron Man 3" won the North American championship with a score of 7500 million US dollars in the second weekend, and then on May 5, "The Hunger Games 17" 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 is still not released, but the daily box office has dropped to about 300 million yuan. The box office has also reached 15.6 billion yuan.

In North America, the daily box office of "The Fault in Our Stars" has dropped to around US$60, and its global cumulative box office has officially broken through the US$3.5 million mark, reaching US$3.51 million.

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

In the domestic market, the film's first day was 1.132 million yuan, the next day was 1.335 million yuan, and the third day was 1.184 million yuan. The cumulative box office for the first three days was 3.651 million yuan.

There is still some distance between the results and "Send You A Little Red Flower", and it cannot be said that it is too bad. After all, there are not many films that can achieve this result in the first three days of the national premiere, but the production cost of "The Hunger Games 2" To completely crush "Little Red Flower", the box office performance is not as good as "Little Red Flower", which actually reflects certain problems.

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

Compared with the mediocre performance in the domestic market, the performance of "The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire" in the North American market can be regarded as an eye-opener.

The first day was 8673 million US dollars.

$6372 million the next day.

4255 million US dollars in three days.

The cumulative box office in the first three days of the first weekend was 1.93 million U.S. dollars, ranking the North American box office champion this weekend, and leading the runner-up "Star Trek 12" by as much as 6200 million U.S. dollars, and ahead of the third runner-up "Iron Man 3" by 9400 million U.S. dollars. For this reason, the American media commented:
""The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire" with the expected momentum of the prairie fire, burning raging fires all over the world! The first weekend box office of up to 1.93 million US dollars took advantage of the trend to break a series of box office records. The third "Iron Man 3" knocked off the third throne, making two of the top three works in North American film history in the opening weekend, both from China's amazing director Li Mu!"

让李沐完全没有想到的是，《饥饿游戏2》的IMDB评分甚至也要高于《钢铁侠3》，前者7.6分而《钢铁侠3》却只有7.5分。

However, on Douban.com, the scores of the two films are just the opposite. The Douban score of "Iron Man 3" is 7.9, while "The Hunger Games 2" is only 7.6.

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

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

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

In particular, the smooth release of "Frozen" has allowed both parties to taste a huge sweetness. "Frozen" has a strong potential to attract money, especially after only half a year since the film was released, the sales of its peripheral derivatives have reached as high as 40 billion US dollars. 2" or even "Frozen 3", the IP value of this series will reach an incalculable level.

Not to mention that Hua Shang still has a large number of other high-quality animation works in his hands, and there are even as many as three animation films in production.

Therefore, the cooperation between Disney and Huashang is full of sincerity. Not only will the tricks common in Hollywood never be used by Huashang, but there are even greater profit-making actions in all aspects.

What Disney values ​​is the long-term interests with Huashang Media. If Huashang feels cheated and suspends its cooperation with Disney, Disney will undoubtedly suffer heavy losses.

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

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

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

In China, the internal employees of Huashang who were still inflated before the film was released will lose the initial expansion and calmness.

Before the film was released, these people also said: "The 3 million "Iron Man 1.75" is not bad, but according to our boss's "The Hunger Games 1", it is not close."

Now "The Hunger Games 2" is released, and the box office of the first weekend is still the same as everyone predicted before. It really surpassed the first one. As a result, the whole company was directly fried.

"The results are out? Are the results really out? 1.93 million? I'll go! Our Li is always awesome!"

"The "Hunger Games" series alone accounted for two of the top three films in North America's opening weekend history? Has it been confirmed? Has anyone verified it?"

"It's unbelievable that it actually exceeded 1.9 million!"

Everyone was so excited, where was the calmness before the movie was released?
Even people like Liu Siying and Chen Zhixi were agitated and completely lost their usual poise.

Both Li Mu and Liu Yifei received a large number of congratulatory text messages on their mobile phones, many of which were heavyweight figures who stomped their feet and shook the whole circle. For these text messages, both of them tried their best to reply.

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

For some domestic netizens who have been following Li Mu and Liu Yifei all the time, "The Hunger Games 2"'s first weekend's results are huge, which does not mean that Li Mu has made another popular movie.

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

Some people have calculated before that the current global box office champion is director Spielberg. Remember that his total box office figure was 82 billion US dollars?

So what about our director Li Mu?
I remember that "Frozen" has reached 70 billion US dollars, and later "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Send You A Little Red Flower" were released. Although these two films have not yet been released, the approximate box office The potential has been basically determined.

The conversion of "Little Red Flower" is about 2.3 million U.S. dollars, while "The Fault in Our Stars" has a high probability of 3.55 million U.S. dollars.

70 billion plus these two films, probably less than 76 billion US dollars, plus the current global box office of "The Hunger Games 2", it seems that it is already 79 billion US dollars, almost 80 billion?

That is to say—after "The Hunger Games 2", director Li Mu will officially surpass director Spielberg and become the world's number one director?
Now many netizens are not calm - Li Mu, the world's number one director and the world's most box office appealing director!

Is it very hanging?
Even many websites have begun to report on this headline.

"The world's number one director may change hands. Director Li Mu really wants to become the world's number one?"

"A symbol of the rise of Chinese films, the world's number one director is about to fall to Huaxia!"

"At the moment of witnessing a miracle, how did Li Mu become the number one in the world in nine years!"

However, these media couldn't keep themselves happy for long, because they were quickly slapped in the face by careful netizens.

According to statistics from netizens before, the global box office of director Stillberg is indeed 82 billion US dollars, but you are allowed to shoot one movie after another, and director Spielberg is not allowed to make a few new movies. Movie?
"After that statistics, Spielberg has successively released three films directed by "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn", "War Horse" and "Lincoln", okay? The cumulative box office of the three films is 8.61 million US dollars. Directed by Spielberg, the global box office is already 91 billion US dollars, okay? After "The Hunger Games 2", Li Mu can only reach 85 billion US dollars at most, and the probability is less than this figure. Yes, it is indeed very close to the director Spielberg. However, it is still difficult to overtake Spielberg and reach the top of the world in a short period of time.”

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

It’s not a problem if the global box office fails to catch up with Spielberg. Director Li Mu is still young, and it will be a matter of time before he catches up with him and becomes the number one in the world. But Spielberg has already made $91 billion at the box office?

Doesn't that mean that he may break through the tens of billions of dollars at the box office at any time?It doesn't really matter if you can surpass Director Spielberg in a short period of time, but you must not lose the title of the world's first director with tens of billions of dollars!

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

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

"Director Li, now netizens are very concerned about whether you can be one step ahead of director Spielberg and achieve the achievement of a director worth tens of billions of dollars. What do you think of this?"

(End of this chapter)