hollywood melon man

Chapter 599: David Ellison is triumphant
"David, good news, the overseas box office statistics are out too."

On Monday morning, Michael Ovitz rushed into David Ellison's office with a happy face. David Ellison, who was about to touch his sexy female secretary, was frightened and immediately collapsed.

He zipped up his pants and asked nonchalantly, "Really? How many?"

Michael Ovitz pretended not to see it. After the sexy secretary left, he said, "Last week, the film opened in 70 markets simultaneously with North America, and we earned a total of $1 million in box office."

David Ellison was delighted when he heard the data: "Oh my God, it seems that Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are still very popular in overseas markets."

"And there's one thing you'll never guess." Michael Ovitz said mysteriously.

"whats the matter?"

Michael Ovitz didn't keep it a secret: "The film earned 4650 million RMB in its first week at the Chinese mainland, setting a record for the first week box office of English films in China."

Michael Ovitz knew that David Ellison had always been keen to break Gilbert Jr.'s various records, but the various records set by Gilbert Jr. in North America were too exaggerated to be broken.

The $3 million opening weekend record set by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is outrageous, but breaking a few small records is an achievement.

David Ellison was indeed happier when he heard the news: "Arrange some media to hype this up and say that I have surpassed the record set by Gilbert Jr."

"Of course," Michael Ovitz said, "I have arranged for several online media to hype it up.

In addition, Hasbro also has good news. The sales of Transformers peripherals in the first week reached 8500 million US dollars in North America, and overseas sales also contributed 6000 million US dollars. "

David Ellison's eyes lit up. Although he still needed to share the profits with Hasbro, the peripheral products had always been the biggest source of profits for the movies. Now the box office performance of the movie was good, and the peripheral products were also doing well. It was simply great.

David Ellison couldn't wait: "Let's publish this data so that everyone can share our joy."

His main purpose was to show Gilbert Jr. his achievements in Transformers as a producer and to show off. Transformers can now be said to be David Ellison's most successful project since he entered Hollywood.

Soon after, Sky Studios announced the film's first week box office and peripheral sales results on its official account.

After the announcement, David Ellison received many congratulations from people he knew and didn't know. He had never felt so proud in his life.

David Ellison and Michael Ovitz decided to hold a celebratory party at the end of the second weekend.

David Ellison said: "Be sure to invite little Gilbert to come and let him witness my success."

Gilbert Jr. certainly knew about the huge success of Transformers, Scarlett told him right away. But Gilbert Jr. was not surprised at all, as he had known the film would be a big hit.

After all, there have been so many films released later. In Hollywood, if the first work fails, there will be no follow-up.

Although "Transformers" changed the male lead from Shia LaBeouf to Andrew Garfield, Andrew Garfield's effect is much better than Shia LaBeouf.

"Do you regret now that you didn't act decisively to acquire the copyright?" Scarlett asked.

"I do have some regrets," Gilbert said, "but it's useless to say these things now. We did use some tricks, but Transformers was still a success.

If it's lost, it's lost. Don't dwell on it too much."

Little Gilbert never thought that everything belonged to him and that others could not touch or steal it. The Transformers incident was a lesson for him to learn and he should be more careful in the future.

After a hot first week, "Transformers" continued to maintain its strong performance on weekdays, earning $3593 million in four days in North America, and the North American box office easily reached $1 million. "The Da Vinci Code" was almost there, earning $3112 million in four days, and the North American box office reached $2258 million.

The box office gap is a bit large, but it is not difficult for "The Da Vinci Code" to achieve profitability through the box office. The next Langdon universe can continue to be developed, and Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" can be put into filming.

And just this week, 3th Century Fox's new film "X-Men : The Last Stand" was released.

Perhaps feeling the pressure from Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox launched the third film in the superhero movie series "X-Men".

The superhero movies to be released this year are all from Marvel, while DC is still doing poorly.

It’s not that they’re giving up, it’s just that DC’s previous plans were very confusing, and they’re still trying to figure it out.

What is certain is that Zack Snyder will shoot a new "Superman" movie after finishing "300 Spartans".

Christopher Nolan is planning to bring Watchmen to the big screen after the completion of District 9.

The project "District 9" is very interesting. When Gilbert Jr. and Charlize Theron went to South Africa and saw the slums there, they thought of this story.

After the two returned from South Africa, Gilbert Jr. finished the script, and then the script has been lingering in the script library.

It wasn't until Christopher Nolan came across this script when he was bored that he was instantly attracted by this unique science fiction story.

He took the script to Gilbert Jr. and asked if he could direct the film.

Little Gilbert actually forgot that he also had the script for "District 9", but thought that since he was busy, he might as well let Nolan do it.

So in March, Christopher Nolan went to Johannesburg, South Africa for inspection, and did not return until the eve of the release of "X-Men 3: The Last Stand".

As soon as he came back, he took Jonathan Nolan to Gilbert Jr.'s home to discuss the project with him.

“The story of District 9 is very similar to Kafka’s Metamorphosis, and it also alludes to many stories about racial discrimination and the Holocaust. I think its spiritual core is quite great.”

Gilbert Jr. talked about his experience of going to South Africa with Charlize Theron: “I saw with my own eyes in South Africa that the slums were segregated and there were frequent water and electricity outages.

Even those in power will deliberately massacre innocent civilians, which makes me feel deeply touched. "

Christopher Nolan agreed: "Indeed, during the few months I lived in Johannesburg, I also felt the serious racial discrimination there."

"So, if we replace humans with aliens," Gilbert Jr. said, "and humans discover that although aliens have high technology, they have low intelligence and no organization, what will they do?"

"It will go from fear at first to contact, then discrimination, and finally to plundering alien property and using aliens for experiments," Jonathan Nolan concluded.

"Yes," Gilbert Jr. said, "the whole story is based on this logic. I think this is a science fiction story worth thinking about, and it is also a humanistic story."

Christopher Nolan said: "I want to do some surgery on the script, I hope you agree."

"Of course," Little Gilbert nodded and said, "Since I've given it to you, I won't interfere with your creation. But one thing is for sure, the commercial element is always the most important."

Christopher Nolan smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I will know how to handle it properly."

(End of this chapter)