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Chapter 640 Disney Pictures: Another sneak attack, what a despicable neon man

Friday, January 5th.

Hollywood held two grand premieres, and [Pirates of the Caribbean 5] and [The Amazing Spider-Man 2] officially faced off.

The release of these two films is like a double-barreled shotgun-style starting gun, announcing the arrival of the 2014 North American summer vacation.

However, this double-barreled shotgun-style starting gun released in North America during the 2014 summer vacation has two barrels with different lengths.

Because Sony Columbia Pictures, the company behind "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", used the unique cleverness of the Neon Man to play a trick.

The premiere, which was originally scheduled to start at 5 pm, was moved up to noon, and "Pirates of the Caribbean " was released first. I took a big bite. The two families competed together to win the cake that had been promoted for so long. Leading edge.

Disney Pictures, which didn't react, was so angry that it almost jumped.

Although our authentic North American Stars and Stripes people are not of high quality, at least we gave Neon the weather forecast early on the day when the local temperature in Neon was the hottest (the core temperature in the core area was as high as more than 4000 degrees).

And what about you, Neon Man?

[Spider-Man 2]’s single-day box office of US$3516.7 million surpassed [Pirates of the Caribbean 5]’s box office of US$2356.7 million.

After the first week.

[The Amazing Spider-Man 2], with a Saturday single-day box office of US$3316.1 million, continues to overtake [Pirates of the Caribbean 2033.5], which had a Saturday single-day box office of US$5 million, but the cumulative box office gap between the two has come to an end. To about million US dollars.

The box office of the former [The Amazing Spider-Man 2] is still at a normal level, but the box office of the latter [Pirates of the Caribbean 5] is a bit high among the North American first-week box office of the world's top series.

But just like Moscow doesn't believe in tears (because of the low temperature in Moscow, tears cannot last long), Hollywood only believes in cumulative box office.

[The Amazing Spider-Man 2] has a cumulative box office of US$9160.8 million, and [Pirates of the Caribbean 5] has a cumulative box office of US$6298.1 million.

Why not reproduce it at Sony Columbia's headquarters, you ask?

But the matter has reached this point and is irreversible.

However, the single-day box office gap between the two is also constantly narrowing.

The third day of the two movies' release is Sunday.

The next day.

If you really want to control the decline, the latter [Pirates of the Caribbean 5] is better.

Capitalists will sell the rope to strangle themselves, but they will not strangle themselves directly.

First, there was the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and then it was released in advance. It was so rude!

This result made the executives of Disney Pictures regret that they did not have ultra-high temperature bombs, otherwise they would have to go to Neon's Sony Columbia branch to make another wave of reproductions.

After all, a movie that grossed more than one billion US dollars at the global box office would only earn 300 to 400 million US dollars at the North American box office.

But after Sunday, the last day of the first week, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" collected another US$2328 million at the box office, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 5" reported US$1907.9 million.

The reason is simple. Sony Columbia is headquartered in California, which is also the headquarters of Disney Studios.

In this duel in the North American movie market, [The Amazing Spider-Man 2] is already far ahead of [Pirates of the Caribbean 5].

no doubt.

……

So according to the first-week box office of North American movies, it is about one-third to one-quarter of the total box office. One-quarter of the US$7500 million box office is also million!

Your [Pirates of the Caribbean 5] only grossed US$ million at the box office in its first week. The gap is a bit big!

so--

It's not that the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series is so awesome and has such huge box office appeal and fans, but Zhang Nan's outstanding personal ability that made the three consecutive series of "Pirates of the Caribbean" have a global box office of over one billion? This kind of thinking appears in the minds of many executives of Hollywood giants who have cooperated with Zhang Nan.

Then there was a burst of joy.

Fortunately, I am just delaying the production of the series, and I am not as anxious as Disney Pictures.

Then after sighing for a while, the Hollywood giants who originally had projects to be released during the summer vacation began to think about how to beat the drowned dog ([Pirates of the Caribbean 5]).

After all, if you don’t beat a drowned dog, why beat him?

So May 5th.

Warner Pictures did a little trial and threw out a monster movie with an IP from Sony Columbia Pictures - a new version of [Godzilla].

And this wave of trials by Warner Pictures is very much imitating Sony Columbia Pictures' operation on "The Amazing Spider-Man 2".

Because the release days of Hollywood movies are generally Fridays, but Warner Pictures has scheduled the new version of "Godzilla" to be released on Thursday, learning from Sony Columbia's early release of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" Released.

They are also released in advance, [The Amazing Spider-Man 2] is released half a day in advance, and the new version of [Godzilla] here is a whole day in advance, and they are all old Sony Columbia brands - [Godzilla] and [Spider-Man] is also a Sony Columbia brand.

If we really compare the quality of the old versions of [Godzilla] and [Spider-Man], just in terms of cast lineup, the boss [Godzilla] is even better than [Spider-Man].

Because Zhang Nan was the protagonist in the old version of "Godzilla", and Zhang Nan's current role is undoubtedly the most popular.

Therefore, Warner Pictures does not have high expectations for the new version of [Godzilla]. It will be similar to [The Amazing Spider-Man 2].

then……

The new version of "Godzilla" has a single-day box office of 3841 million US dollars.

Perfectly responded to Warner Pictures’ expectations.

At the same time, the single-day box office performance of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" on the fourth day of the following week was reduced to US$356 million, and the single-day box office performance of "Pirates of the Caribbean 5" on the fourth day of the following week was also reduced to US$343.5 million. .

then……

The already hot summer vacation in North America has become even hotter.

20th Century Fox Pictures has moved [X-Men: Days of Future Past] from mid-to-late May to mid-May.

Tom Cruise has adjusted the schedule of his new film "Edge of Tomorrow", which he collaborated with Doug Liman, the founder of the "Bourne" series after "Mission: Impossible 4", from early June to mid-May.

Without it.

Although everyone knew Zhang Nan's box office appeal was terrifying in the past, no one had an intuitive understanding of it apart from other factors.

But the box office performance of [Pirates of the Caribbean 5] has achieved this, allowing everyone to really see this clearly.

Currently, the most optimistic box office forecasting agency predicts the box office target for "Pirates of the Caribbean 5", which is only US$1.8 million in North America and US$7 million globally.

Compared with the global box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2.3.4" starring Zhang Nan, which started at US$ billion, the gap is still a huge gap of US$ million.

Don't look at the difference of only 300 million US dollars.

But this difference is more like the difference between seventy points and one hundred points. Is that a thirty-point difference?

Movie box office performance is similar to test scores. It gets more difficult as you go further. The higher the level of difficulty, the harder it is than all the previous efforts.

So this $300 million box office gap is really a gap in actual terms.

And if nothing unexpected happens.

In early June, "Transformers 3", starring Zhang Nan and crossing this gap, will be launched in North American and even global movie theaters, and will start a crazy 'slaughter'.

Why don't you just run forward and squeeze the soft persimmon? What are you waiting for?

Waiting to die?

(End of this chapter)