hollywood melon man

Chapter 598 Big Melee

Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" has sold over 40 million copies worldwide. It can be said that the movie has a large group of fans of the original book.

As long as the film adaptation is reasonable, there will still be a large audience.

However, the film does not have the amazing scenes like "Transformers" or gorgeous special effects. It looks as bland as water.

USA Today commented: "The Da Vinci Code is a film that is faithful to the original novel, but unfortunately, the film does not bring any surprises to the audience."

The New Yorker also commented: "Without a code to decipher, The Da Vinci Code is a useless, dull, monotonous, and stupid adaptation of Dan Brown's suspense story."

When he was free, Gilbert Jr. also interacted with fans on his social media account and answered many of their questions about movies and new works.

When talking about the new work, he said on his social account: "I got the copyright of the Cyberpunk board game a long time ago.

But I hope to enrich the entire cyberpunk world and tell legendary experiences through a large number of original stories.

There are many fans around the world who are obsessed with cyberpunk culture, and I like it too. If you look closely at my films, you will find that they usually carry the symbols and labels of cyberpunk culture. "

A fan asked him to give an evaluation of the two movies currently being shown, and Gilbert Jr. said: "I have been to the premieres of both movies.

Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code is the holy grail of summer blockbusters, a powerful, tightly plotted thriller.

Tom Hanks' performance was great, I think he was the best actor to play Professor Langdon.

As for Transformers, Andrew Garfield is good and Megan Fox is hot.”

Gilbert Jr. did not mention a word about the robot transformation scenes in "Transformers". In fact, in his opinion, "Transformers" is almost the same as its predecessor, and even has Michael Bay's usual flaws.

But we are currently in an era of innovation in the special effects industry. Starting with "Transformers", it heralds that the Hollywood special effects industry has entered a new stage.

The special effects at this stage are something the audience has never seen before. There is no longer the feeling that the special effects looked a bit distorted as before, and it begins to make people unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

After the release of "Avatar", the concept of special effects plus 3D brought Hollywood to a climax.

In terms of fans and audience, "The Da Vinci Code" cannot be compared with "Transformers". In terms of picture performance, "The Da Vinci Code" also cannot surpass "Transformers".

Coupled with the many promotional activities that Sky Studios had previously carried out, which created quite a buzz, it was natural that "Transformers" defeated "The Da Vinci Code" in its first week.

On May 5, the two films opened in North America on a large scale. On the first day, "Transformers" earned 19 million US dollars, beating "The Da Vinci Code" with 2892.5 million US dollars, and won the single-day box office championship.

In third place is "The Last of Us," which was in its third week of release, and the film earned $662.9 million in a single day.

Caught between two commercial blockbusters, all the films that have been released are trembling. It is rare that "The Last of Us" can still maintain a good box office curve.

On Saturday, North American theaters welcomed a wave of movie-watching craze. Although "Transformers" has some minor shortcomings, its advantages are also outstanding, enough to attract many, many viewers.

It is worth mentioning that this movie evokes many people's childhood memories. The 1980s was the time when the "Transformers" animation was popular in North America.
This animation was even introduced to mainland China, where there are many fans of "Transformers".

Although there are considerable differences between the movie version and the animated version, this does not prevent those born in the 1970s and 1980s, who have become the backbone of society and the main consumer group, from experiencing "Transformers" in the new era and with new technologies with a nostalgic attitude.

The film grossed $3644.6 million on Saturday, once again taking the single-day box office crown, while The Da Vinci Code took in $2733.9 million and The Last of Us continued to take in $773 million.

Although the popularity of the film dropped slightly on Sunday, Transformers still earned $2881.6 million in theaters, and its North American box office for the first week was as high as $9518.7 million. The first-week box office was almost over million, and such a high first-week box office was achieved due to a series of factors.

First, Sky Studios developed a targeted strategy, using nostalgic means such as childhood memories to attract many fans of the Transformers series.

Secondly, unconventional promotional methods.

Although the trick of leaking the film source was despised by peers, it has to be said that it attracted many passers-by who were not originally interested in "Transformers".

Before the film was released, it had accumulated countless fans and audiences who wanted to see it due to various promotional methods.

There is a want-to-see list on the IMDB list, which marks movies that have not yet been released as those you want to see.

Before "Transformers" was released, a total of 280 million IMDB users marked "Transformers" as something they wanted to watch, which was enough to prove the audience's expectations for the film.

If the film itself was not disliked by some female audiences, and had problems such as messy editing and shaking cameras that made people dizzy, there would be no problem for the box office to exceed 100 million in the first week.

Even so, this box office is enough to make Sky Studios and the distributor MGM United Artists happy. And don't forget that the biggest profit point of movies like "Transformers" has never been the box office, but the peripherals.

Although "The Da Vinci Code" is not as good as "Transformers", it is not too bad either. It earned 1930.7 million US dollars on Sunday alone, and the box office in the first week reached 6732.2 US dollars.

For a plot-driven movie, this first week box office performance is actually quite good.

It's just that Sony Columbia Pictures is not very happy that "Transformers" has to come out when it can dominate the schedule. Although it had a good cooperation with Sky Studios before, they are now rivals.

During the first week of the two films' release, both sides mobilized their own internet trolls to stir up trouble online, and the fierce battle between the trolls made the Internet a mess.

This was especially evident on IMDB, where the two groups of trolls gave each other low scores. Later, when The Da Vinci Code couldn't hold on any longer, they pretended to be fans of Transformers and gave low scores to the other film.

"Transformers" also followed suit, pretending to be fans of "The Da Vinci Code" and going around criticizing other movies.

"The Last of Us" was accidentally affected, and its original score of 8.6 quickly dropped to 8.4, which made Gilbert Jr.'s fans very angry.

Movies such as "The Godfather" and "The Lord of the Rings" at the top of the ranking list were affected, so fans of these movies joined the battlefield.

For a time, IMDB was in a world war and it was in chaos, so much so that IMDB had to shut down the comment and rating functions and shift the war to other places.

Despite the noise, the two new films released performed well and also drove up the overall market, which contributed to the film market from a macro perspective.

"The Last of Us" earned $725 million on Sunday and took in $2330.9 million in its third weekend.

Including the box office for four weekdays, the film earned $3510.8 million this week, and the North American box office reached $1 million, which is a very good result.

The film’s overseas box office also began to decline. Although more than a dozen markets were added, the box office contribution from these markets was limited.

In overseas markets this week, "The Last of Us" earned $5358 million at the box office, bringing the global box office to $4 million.

The most eye-catching overseas box office this week is undoubtedly "Transformers".

(End of this chapter)