hollywood melon man

Chapter 480: Eventful Summer

As the new working week begins, the box office of "Wushuang" and "Van Helsing" inevitably began to decline, which is normal.

While the outside world was enthusiastically discussing the gap between David Ellison and Gilbert Jr., as well as David Ellison's interview and Gilbert Jr.'s book donation, the box office figures for several weekdays were released one after another.

After consuming too much enthusiasm of moviegoers in its first weekend, "The Greatest Show" grossed $1097.5 million on Monday, a good weekday box office.

"Van Helsing" declined quite sharply, closing in on Sunday at $432 million. Word of mouth was not enough to maintain a healthy box office curve.

Box office saw a small increase on Tuesday, the traditional day when movie tickets are half-price.

The two films "Warriors" and "Van Helsing" received $1203.8 million and $502.4 million respectively.

On Wednesday and Thursday, "Wushuang" earned $727.5 million and $821.3 million respectively, and the total for four working days was $3850.1 million.

So far, "Wushuang" has been released in North America for seven days, and the North American box office has easily reached 1 million US dollars, which is a very outstanding result.

"Van Helsing" earned $225.6 million and $301.9 million respectively, with a total of $1461.9 million in four working days, which is completely inferior to "The Invincible".

Although there are media outlets like The Washington Post that keep criticizing Gilbert Jr., saying that he has been getting worse every year since The Return of the King.

But fair media and the public don’t see it that way. A phenomenal movie like “The Return of the King” may take five to six years or even seven to eight years to appear.

What's more, although "The Return of the King" can be regarded as a classic movie in film history, it has benefited from the original work and its predecessor, and has accumulated a huge reputation and fans.

However, "Wushuang" is completely different. While the script is original, it is completely supported by the fame of the big director and several big stars.

If you had changed the director and the leading actor, "The Wandering Earth" would not have grossed $1.2 million in just seven days.

Besides, little Gilbert doesn’t have a normal brain. If you change the screenwriter and director, who can come up with such a brilliant story?

Another big surprise was the overseas market. Like North American weekdays, the box office of "Wushuang" on overseas weekdays inevitably dropped sharply.

不过影片却还是在四个工作日砍下海外7535.8万美元，使得影片的海外票房来到2亿1521.5万美元，全球总票房也来到3亿3524.1万美元。

Because of the complexity of overseas box office statistics, although an accurate number is given, due to the lack of box office statistics in various markets, the actual box office of "Wushuang" will be higher.

Such a crime movie is destined not to be as popular as "Titanic", "Jurassic Park" or "The Return of the King".

However, the global box office revenue of "Wushuang" in seven days still made Disney and Warner very satisfied.

The only downside is that the peripheral products of "Warriors" are not as good as those of the films directed by Gilbert Jr. in previous years.

This is normal, as the peripheral products of "Dynasty Warriors" are nothing more than various co-branded products, such as clothes, sunglasses, jewelry, and so on.

In addition, there are dolls and stuffed animals of characters. The sales of dolls and stuffed animals of Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron are very high, probably because they are both handsome men and beautiful women.

However, because their images will be used, they will have to share the profits from the sales of the dolls.

There's nothing much to say about this; it's Hollywood's traditional practice.

Later, Gilbert will still try his best to increase the selling points of peripheral products and long-term profits. For example, when publishing the DVD in the future, he can put in several other endings he filmed to increase the selling points.

In short, it is not a problem for "Wushuang" to make a profit through box office, and the peripheral products are pure income. More importantly, Disney and Warner will perform even better in the stock market.

This is the effect of a hit movie, which can improve a film company's performance on the stock market.

MGM United Artists' capital chain was broken because of the poor performance of "Windtalkers" and the new "007" series, which affected the stock market performance.

Today, despite opposition from many traditional Hollywood forces, with the help of Michael Ovitz, Prince Abdul from the United Arab Emirates officially acquired MGM United Artists on behalf of the Kingdom Investment Group.

Hollywood did not shrink from the seven major studios to six. MGM and United Artists received sufficient funding from the Kingdom Investment Group and no longer had to sell their assets at a low price.

This is one of the huge butterfly effects caused by Gilbert Jr. It was he who inspired Prince Abdul to enter Hollywood and introduced Michael Ovitz to him.

Later, it can be imagined that Michael Ovitz had a very pleasant collaboration with Sky Studios and Columbia Pictures.

Although this year's "Van Helsing" cannot be considered a success, at least it will not lose too much and will be able to recoup its investment and make a profit through long-term returns.

So Columbia Pictures has not lost confidence in Michael Ovitz and David Ellison and has signed a distribution contract with Sky Studios for three films.

MGM United Artists packaged the first project after Prince Abdul took over and gave it to Michael Ovitz.

After acquiring MGM United Artists, Prince Abdul held a celebration party and announced to Hollywood that he had arrived.

He invited many senior executives from film companies, including Gilbert Jr., since it was Gilbert Jr. who had instigated him to acquire MGM and United Artists.

Of course, Gilbert Jr. was invited to attend. The North American promotional tour was not long, so he did not go to other places with Cameron Diaz, who was recovering from childbirth. Tom Cruise took Vera Farmiga and others to Central and South America for promotion, Charlize Theron went to Asia for promotion, and Tom Hanks went to Europe for promotion.

This weekend, the number of markets where "Wushuang" will be released will increase to more than 70, including the mainland Chinese market.

Therefore, it can be expected that although the box office of "Wushuang" will not explode like the first weekend, it will maintain a good curve.

Let’s take a look at the global box office of "Van Helsing". During the four weekdays, the revenue of "Van Helsing" was not as good as that of "The Invincible", but it still earned 2566.5 million US dollars in the weekday box office.

This brings the overseas box office of "Van Helsing" to 9301.2 million US dollars, which seems good at first glance, but it seems not good enough compared with "The Invincible Warrior".

In fact, when the first weekend of competition ended, David Ellison knew that his ideas were naive.

Without a production of excellent quality, it would be impossible to achieve the goal of approaching, if not surpassing, the film of Gilbert Jr.

Because little Gilbert never misses, he is so stable, like a robot.

Combined with the box office revenue of "Van Helsing" in North America on weekdays this week and the box office revenue of the first weekend, the global box office of "Van Helsing" reached 1 million US dollars.

According to media predictions, the final box office of Van Helsing will be around $3 million worldwide, while the box office of Warriors will be higher, around $7 million.

Don't think that $7 million is a small amount. You have to know that Tom Cruise has not had a movie that grossed more than $7 million so far.

When Far From Home grossed over $1 million worldwide, Tom Cruise had to hold a celebration party. But that was in the s, and the environment is different from today.

Although Tom Cruise and Gilbert Jr. collaborated on a movie called "Chicago", it was a musical after all and the global box office of over 300 million US dollars was already pretty good.

Even so, there are still people praising Tom Cruise for his strong box office ability. It is not easy to bring a musical film to more than 300 million US dollars worldwide.

Now Tom Cruise can proudly say: I also starred in a movie with a box office of over $7 million, hahahahaha…

It may seem a bit childish, but this is indeed what Tom Cruise really thinks. He said this to Naomi Watts when Nicole Kidman came to visit.

Tom Cruise and Gilbert Jr. will have another collaboration project next, which is the long-confirmed "The Last of Us", which will be launched after the first "Batman" movie.

Tom Cruise was looking forward to this collaboration, but as he had several projects on hand, he had to turn down Spielberg's invitation.

But Spielberg's projects are never short of superstars, and he once again found Tom Hanks to collaborate with him on this movie, "War of the Worlds."

Coincidentally, Tom Hanks also plays a father in this film.

It seems that after the collaboration in "Wushuang", the two Toms will once again engage in a tense competition.

In the same family relationship, the master and apprentice pair, Gilbert Jr. and Spielberg, also faced off. No one would think that Gilbert Jr. was worse than his teacher Spielberg.

"War of the Worlds" is adapted from the novel of the same name "War of the Worlds" published in 1898 by science fiction master H.G. Wells. The novel tells the horrific experience of aliens invading the earth.

This horrific story about the Earth being attacked by aliens and the tiny human beings being as vulnerable as ants has become a literary classic of a generation.

The novel is not only famous for its wild imagination, but also its accurate predictions about modern weapons are astonishing.

A 1938 radio drama adaptation of the novel caused panic in the United States, and then in 1953 the novel was adapted into a film for the first time.

However, due to the limitations of filming technology at the time, the film's expressiveness was somewhat lacking, so director Spielberg came up with the idea of ​​remaking the novel.

It can be said that this is an adapted film with a certain audience base.

According to several manuscripts revealed by Gilbert Jr. on his social media account, "The Last of Us" is an original story.

This is another original story, so fans are no longer surprised by this, after all, Gilbert Jr.’s screenwriting abilities are well known to be strong.

What the audience doesn't know is that this movie is also an adaptation. It's just adapted from the game story into a movie, and the game hasn't even appeared yet.

This is a bold attempt by Gilbert Jr. "Dynasty Warriors", a Hong Kong film adapted into a Hollywood movie, has already been a success, so there should be no problem adapting the game into a movie.

The movie "Tomb Raider" had already served as a demonstration for Gilbert Jr. Although it did not sell well, it was at least profitable and a sequel was made.

The film was originally intended to be directed by Gilbert Jr., and the lead actress Angelina Jolie promised that as long as Gilbert Jr. was willing to direct the film, she would let him do whatever he wanted.

However, Gilbert Jr. has no intention of getting involved in the dispute between her, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.

And given how chaotic Angelina Jolie's private life is, anyone she comes into contact with might be sick, and little Gilbert doesn't want to get infected.

If possible, Gilbert Jr. hopes that his film dynasty will last forever and he doesn't want to die early.

(End of this chapter)