hollywood melon man

Chapter 312 The emergence of follow-up works
Come December, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is still as popular as ever. With the arrival of the Christmas holiday, the film has reached 3.03 million US dollars in North America.

Although "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" set a first-week box office record, its subsequent box office trend was not as strong as "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."

However, this result is enough to satisfy all investors. It is expected that the film's North American box office will eventually exceed US$400 million.

The film has done well at the overseas box office. With its successive releases in many countries, The Little Wizard has become a global hit.

At present, the overseas box office has received a total of 5.33 million U.S. dollars, making the global box office of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" reach 8.36 million U.S. dollars, ranking second in this year's box office list.

The most critical thing is the peripherals. The Little Wizard peripherals have exploded with incredible energy. As of Christmas, peripheral sales in North America have totaled US$2 million.

It did well overseas, too, generating US$1 million in peripheral sales.

As time goes by, the proportion of peripherals will become more and more important, becoming the most important source of income for the film.

But no matter how brilliant "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is, this year is destined to belong to "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring."

After a difficult climb, the North American box office of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" finally exceeded 5.06 million, reaching a box office of million US dollars.

Along with the super high box office, there are also peripheral markets.

Although it was only screened on the outer Georgia Island and did not land on the Antarctic continent, it was at least within the Antarctic range.

Compared with box office, peripheral profits are what many Hollywood companies are greedy for. Unfortunately, this project belongs to Disney and Warner Pictures.

At this point, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" has completed the feat of being released on the last continent. Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, Oceania, and now Antarctica.

It's a pity that the weather in the Arctic Circle is relatively bad now. It's summer in the southern hemisphere and winter in the northern hemisphere. Otherwise, "The Lord of the Rings" would have landed in the Arctic.

Someone specifically went to the Tolkien Copyright Trust Association to inquire and found that all the adaptation rights for the "Lord of the Rings" series of novels, including "The Hobbit", were in the hands of Gilbert Jr.

After surpassing 500 million, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" was like a deflated rubber ball. The box office quickly fell, and the single-day box office dropped to about $100,000 per day.

The homepage of "Lord of the Rings" also published a scene of Antarctic scientific expedition members watching a movie together. More than 40 scientific expedition members from several countries near nearby scientific research stations watched the movie together.

As a result, unless little Gilbert is snatched away from Disney and Warner, other companies will have no choice but to despair.

These are all excellent publicity stunts as a means of continuing to attract the attention of moviegoers.

In fact, as long as they are shameless, there is nothing Disney and Warner can do against these companies. For example, in the previous life, "Pacific Rim" was a hit, and a third-rate production company immediately produced "Atlantic Rim."

The second one is to keep the popularity of the film going until next year, waiting for Oscar nominations and "The Two Towers."

Although everyone knows that "Atlantic Rim" is a copycat of "Pacific Rim", there is really no clear evidence to prove this, so "Atlantic Rim" followed and made a lot of money.

The number of movie theaters has also been rapidly reduced to more than 300. The reason why this number of theaters is still maintained is that the film can indeed reap limited box office.

Therefore, large companies not only control distribution resources in North America, but also have powerful distribution channels around the world, allowing their films to reach every corner of the world.

Relying on its excellent overseas box office performance, the total global box office of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" has reached 12.03 billion, becoming the second highest in film history, second only to "Titanic".

Although Warner has not made it possible for "The Lord of the Rings" to be available wherever there are movie theaters, at least it has arranged for its release and distribution in all countries and regions where it can be released.

A very interesting thing is that "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" came to Antarctica with the international scientific expedition team and was successfully screened in Antarctica.

The overseas box office is also impressive. The movie-watching frenzy set off by "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" around the world is no joke.

This is the confidence of major Hollywood companies. In addition to the strong domestic market, the proportion of overseas box office has become increasingly important in recent years, and has exceeded the proportion of North American box office.

However, just as the popularity in North America has faded, the film's popularity overseas has also gradually faded, and it seems difficult to exceed the 13 billion box office.

There is also the San Fernando Valley H version of the movie, which starts moving after an inexplicable plot.

To be honest, little Gilbert also watched the H version of "The Matrix" with Charlize Theron, but this version was criticized wildly by Charlize Theron.

She thinks that the porn stars in the San Fernando Valley are completely inferior to her. At most, their breasts and buttocks are a little bigger and exaggerated than hers.

Little Gilbert told the truth: "Sally, you have to admit that many men like this."

"Humph!" Charlize Theron was very arrogant: "What about you?"

"I like them too!" Little Gilbert said confidently, and then changed the topic: "But I prefer long legs."

"I've seen it a long time ago," Charlize Theron put her long legs on little Gilbert's waist and did some small activities: "Then my director, Trinity wants to sweat, and you want to sweat too. ?"

Charlize Theron was more charming than the porn star on the screen at this time. Little Gilbert immediately turned off the TV and finished the exercise with Charlize Theron.

After "The Lord of the Rings" became popular, especially with so many beauties appearing in "The Lord of the Rings", the San Fernando Valley also started thinking about filming an H version. However, because the H version of "The Matrix" had a big impact on the original version of "The Matrix", Disney and Warner Pictures took precautions this time and sent people to warn the production companies in the San Fernando Valley.

This kind of thing needs to be taken seriously. The main thing is that the big Hollywood companies should take it seriously. The San Fernando Valley would not dare to offend the big Hollywood companies.

Other major Hollywood companies also want to be shameless, and this is the default unspoken rule in the industry. If this kind of imitation method is used, Pandora's box will be released, and there will be no bottom line for future competition.

As for those third- and fourth-tier and even not-so-reputable small production companies, there are so many of them, and many times they will follow the trend and make some imitations.

But most of the videos are shoddy, so there's nothing to worry about.

Although it is impossible to make an epic film similar to "The Lord of the Rings", there are many story directions that this type of film can tell.

After the success of "Lord of the Rings", many production companies followed suit and prepared epic movies.

Hollywood has always had a bad habit, that is, after a movie becomes popular, movies with the same theme will be launched one after another. And most of them are made in a hurry to make a quick buck without any project planning and preparation.

In fact, the film industry all over the world is the same. For example, after "The Wandering Earth" became popular, it immediately followed the trend and produced "Shanghai Fortress".

It sounds pretty good. We started script preparation in 2013, concept design in 2014, and scenery construction in 2016. It wasn’t released until the summer of 2019.

But as far as little Gilbert learned, almost at the same time that "The Wandering Earth" became a hit, "Fortress of Shanghai" was launched in a hurry.

For a big-budget science fiction film, even Hollywood must plan and prepare well, otherwise the project will not be able to proceed at all, let alone succeed.

Although Lu Han was criticized the most in "Fortress of Shang Hai", especially his bangs, his performance was also criticized. But in fact, in Gilbert's view, the director is not the person with the biggest problem.

The biggest problem is the film’s producer.

So sometimes, blindly following the trend is not advisable. If you want to follow the trend, you can do it. Zhao Dehan said it well, but you still need to be strong yourself.

If you can't be tough yourself, don't touch projects that you shouldn't touch.

Following the trend and plagiarism are two different concepts. If you insist on speaking, "Gladiator" and "Lord of the Rings" are both epic themes. "Gladiator" was released early, so we can't say "Lord of the Rings" was plagiarized!
The subject matter is the same, but different stories are told, but now this subject matter is very popular. If other companies follow the trend and produce a film with a similar theme, they cannot be accused of following the trend.

After all, everyone is doing this, and everyone has done it, so everyone is right...

But even following the trend is not that easy. Everyone has seen how much money and manpower was spent on "The Lord of the Rings".

Filmmaking has never been about the screenwriter or director having an idea, having a meeting with the production company, and then shooting it.

Without detailed and thorough early planning and preparation, even if Little Gilbert and James Cameron are combined, they will not be able to complete a major production.

For now, Ridley Scott wants to make a movie about the medieval Crusades, but he wants to get busy with Black Hawk Down first.

Several other projects related to Rome and the European Middle Ages have been established.

Even Christopher Nolan was moved. When he was chatting with little Gilbert, he said that he wanted to make an epic biographical movie about Napoleon.

However, Nolan never mentioned it again because of fraud incidents in Hollywood.

The cause of the matter is simple. A Frenchman named Robert Court claimed to be a count.

He said that his ancestors had a close relationship with the Bonabon family, and he planned to find a major Hollywood company to put Napoleon's story on the big screen.

The United States has always wanted to replace Europe and become the cultural and artistic center of the Western world, but it suffers from its short history, while Europe has a history of thousands of years, starting from ancient Greece.

As a result, the United States has always had a low self-esteem and cannot hold its head high in front of Europe.

Therefore, this has led to major Hollywood companies, once they film such subjects, they will either be fictional like "The Lord of the Rings", or they will film European history.

Among them, the story of Napoleon attracts Hollywood the most.

So this Robert Court carefully organized a huge scam by selling the concept of Napoleon movies, and many Hollywood producers and production companies were fooled.

This Robert Court also came to see Little Gilbert. If he could steal money from Little Gilbert, a billionaire, he would make a fortune.

But what Robert Court didn't expect was that Gilbert Jr., a famous Hollywood director, would be so rude and directly asked someone to kick him out.

The reason why little Gilbert kicked him out was quite simple. Robert Court had a sly look on his face and was staring at Scarlett Johansson at Melon Manor with evil intentions.

Of course little Gilbert was not happy, so he called for people to drive him away.

Fortunately, he was kicked out, otherwise little Gilbert would be the only one on the list of people who were deceived.

(End of this chapter)