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Chapter 399 A Work for the Occasion
In addition to those reasons, there is also the outbreak of the US subprime mortgage crisis, and Wang Shu will speculate in stocks.

With the release of the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street", even if Wang Shu made a huge profit from stock trading, there are traces to follow.

It is undeniable that the filming of "The Wolf of Wall Street" started at a time close to the outbreak of the US subprime mortgage crisis.

But, it's shooting time.

Before filming began, there was a process of adapting the autobiography into a script.

Adapting stockbroker Jordan Belfort's autobiography into a film script can further prove that Wang Shu has "researched and understood" stocks.

That is, it is precisely because of such experience that Wang Shu can be so successful in the stock market.

Everything has a traceable path. It's not like someone like Wang Shu, who has a low level of education, suddenly learned how to trade stocks and became quite skilled at it.

If this is the case, it is equally incredible.

And when everything has a traceable path, no matter how "outrageous" he is, there is a reason to explain it.

It is undeniable that as long as he wants to, there are many movie scripts that can be filmed.

It’s just that, at this point in time, there are too many reasons to pull out The Wolf of Wall Street.

Even if this movie was only nominated for an Academy Award in the original timeline, it is still suitable to be filmed.

What’s more, in the original timeline, The Wolf of Wall Street grossed $3 million.

Now is the time when the financial crisis has broken out. If the film is released during this period, it may take advantage of this favorable situation and have higher box office.

It does not mean that the global financial crisis has caused an economic depression and the film industry will be affected and will not be able to achieve high box office.

Quite the opposite.

The economic depression caused by the global financial crisis has led to a downgrade in consumption, but the film and gaming industries have benefited instead.

Because of consumption downgrade, more people will choose relatively low-consumption activities such as watching movies and playing games rather than other high-consumption activities.

Facts speak louder than words.

For example, "Avatar", directed by Cameron at the end of 2009, grossed $29.24 billion worldwide.

Although the fact that "Avatar" earned $29.24 billion is closely related to its epoch-making special effects, it at least shows that during the financial crisis, a movie with a global box office of $29.24 billion was created.

However, after the financial crisis, there were no such high-grossing movies.

In addition to "Avatar", the North American box office of "Transformers 2009" in 2 was also 4.02 million US dollars.

Furthermore, news reports and data show that all the big bosses in Hollywood were smiling from ear to ear in 2009.

Because this year, the American film industry was a complete success.

Hollywood's North American movie box office broke the 100 billion mark for the first time, reaching an unprecedented 106.1 billion US dollars, an increase of 2008 percentage points over 8.

Among them, 30 films had box office revenue exceeding 8 million yuan, 4 of them had box office revenue exceeding million yuan, and the highest reached million yuan.

而在全球有48部影片破亿，7部影片破5亿，票房在7亿以上的巨片有5部。

Hollywood film studios made a fortune. For example, Warner and 20th Century Fox achieved unprecedented box office revenues of over $20 billion in North America and overseas, respectively.

Moreover, excluding ticket price factors, the 2009 North American film market is absolutely vibrant.

In 2009, a total of 14.1 billion movie tickets were sold in North America, and the number of moviegoers increased by 4% over the previous year. Although it is still far from the record of 2002 billion movie tickets sold in 16, it has created a 7-year high against the backdrop of the economic downturn. In fact, it was the first time in 7 years that movie box office sales exceeded DVD sales.

All these indicate that the financial crisis has led to a downgrade in consumption, which is actually good for the film industry.

"The Wolf of Wall Street" will be released during the financial crisis, and with the help of this favorable trend, it is really possible to achieve good box office results.

Although given Wang Shu's current position in Hollywood, he basically cannot enjoy any treatment such as box office share.

But, as long as "The Wolf of Wall Street" does well at the box office after its release and he is nominated for an Academy Award, he will be a big star in Hollywood.

As long as he can stand out, it means that his opportunities will become more.

And more opportunities means he can go further.

When he reaches a certain level in Hollywood and meets all the requirements of being in the United States, he can invest in making movies.

……

Matt Damon lowered his head and looked at the script in his hand. Although it was a traditional script, he knew that Wang Shu was a capable director. It was just that Wang Shu was a director from the East, not a native European or American director. He might not be able to adapt to the different culture, so he couldn't directly determine the quality of the script. He still had to take a serious look at it before deciding whether it was worth investing in to make a movie.

In the original timeline, "The Wolf of Wall Street" was a movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill and others.

Leonardo Dicaprio, also known as Leo.

Based on the biography of Jordan Belfort.

In 1987, 22-year-old Jordan Belfort joined a large securities firm on Wall Street as a junior clerk.

His boss, Mark Hanna, taught him the secret of success, but soon after, the company went bankrupt in the "Black Monday" stock market crash.

At the suggestion of his then-wife Theresa, the unemployed Jordan went to work at a small stock brokerage on Long Island. With his work experience on Wall Street, he earned a large sum of money, which attracted the attention of salesman Donny Azoff.

Donny is Jordan's neighbor. After chatting with Jordan, Donny quit his job and sold stocks with Jordan.

Under Donny's influence, Jordan began to try illegal drugs, and found some drug dealers to join in, defrauding investors by telemarketing low-priced stocks.

As the company grew, Jordan became a celebrity, with Forbes magazine giving him the nickname "The Wolf of Wall Street."

The whole story of the movie is about this stockbroker who once earned 1200 million US dollars in three minutes and had a billionaire fortune at the age of 31, as well as his career on the edge of the law and his decadent life lost in sex and drugs.

It won the 2013th Golden Satellite Award in 18 and was nominated for Best Picture at the 2014th Academy Awards in 86.

At the same time, it also won the 48th National Board of Review Awards for Best Adapted Film and Top Ten Films of the Year.

Three months after the film was released, the global cumulative box office was 3.05 million US dollars, making it the director's first film with a global box office of over 3 million US dollars.

Now it will be brought to the big screen by Wang Shu, and it is a timely movie released during the outbreak of the financial crisis.

Even if the global box office will not be higher than that of this version, as long as the box office reaches 3 million US dollars, it will also be Wang Shu's first movie with a box office of over 3 million US dollars.

Although Hollywood has produced many movies that have grossed over $10 billion worldwide, they are ultimately a minority.

In fact, a box office revenue of over 100 million is already a pretty good result.

Of course, this needs to be considered in conjunction with the production costs.

(End of this chapter)