hollywood melon man

Chapter 617 Global Popularity
Another interesting thing about the production is that Gilbert Jr. sent a special crew to the Chinese mountain city to shoot the scene.

At this time, the mountain city had not yet reached the psychedelic cyberpunk style of later times, but it already had a rough outline and was considered quite qualified as a filming location.

There is also a Chinatown in Night City. A neighborhood is created by integrating the style of a mountain city, and Chinese gangs will also participate.

While busy with the preparations, Gilbert Jr. would also gather the actors, ask them to read the script, and then talk about their thoughts.

After reading the script, Andrew Garfield said that he really liked the role of David Martinez.

"Director, what you wrote is absolutely right. David Martinez lived a great life and died gloriously." Andrew Garfield was very excited.

"I've already started to imagine what it would feel like if I wore a prosthetic body."

Emma Roberts expressed her love for Rebecca, especially the ending where Rebecca died tragically at the hands of Adam Hammer. She liked it even more.

This is not because Emma Roberts is perverted, but because she sees the potential of this role. Although she is the second female lead, maybe she can steal the limelight from Lucy.

As soon as Scarlett finished reading the script, she threw herself into little Gilbert's arms and cried, "Why, why can't David and Lucy have a happy ending? Why can't Rebecca survive? Why does everyone have to leave?"

Little Gilbert sighed and said, "Scarlett, this is the world of cyberpunk. There is only one way to become a legend, and that is to die in a spectacular way."

Scarlett wiped her nose with Gilbert's sleeve, then raised her head and looked at Gilbert with tears in her eyes and said, "Then I want to play V. I want to kill Adam Sledgehammer."

"What?" Andrew Garfield came over after hearing this: "So Adam Sledgehammer can die? Director, do you think I can die?"

Gilbert looked at all the actors who were looking over and said, "Guys, if you want to see Adam Sledgehammer die, you have to work hard to finish this series.

Only if the series is successful will we see the death of Adam Sledgehammer."

Everyone told little Gilbert to rest assured that Adam Hammer must die.

No wonder after watching the "Edgewalker" animation in the previous life, many players chose to return to the game and beat up Adam Sledgehammer. This is really unbearable.

Although Gilbert Jr. has focused all his work on "EdgeWalker", he is still keeping a close eye on the situation in the summer season.

"Iron Man" has achieved three consecutive weekly box office championships in the North American market, and is the only movie to achieve three consecutive weekly championships this summer.

As of July 2, the fourth weekend after the film's release, the North American box office has reached 8935 million US dollars, temporarily ranking second on this year's annual box office list.

The first thing I learned about Transformers is that the North American box office has reached 3 million US dollars. However, the popularity of the film has passed, and it can only rely on time to slowly accumulate box office revenue.

The global box office of "Iron Man" has reached 8 million US dollars, which is much better than the previous one. And the film is still reaping the global box office, and the box office accumulation speed is not slow.

The reasons for the film's overseas popularity have been analyzed by various media outlets, with Empire magazine believing that it was mainly because the film's amazing special effects shocked overseas audiences.

In the last century, superhero movies were very popular in North America, but received mediocre responses overseas. However, since the beginning of the new century, with the development of the special effects industry, the effects have become more and more realistic, and the viewing experience has greatly improved.

Without any traces of the comic book originals or fan sentiment, today's superhero movies have become an excellent subject for big-screen entertainment.

This is also why the Spider-Man series and the X-Men series have performed well overseas, with good viewing effects and high entertainment value. Watching movies is essentially a luxury entertainment consumption activity, and superhero movies that can bring good viewing experience and entertainment effects naturally become the only choice for audiences who like popcorn movies.

This year's "Iron Man" and "Transformers" have taken special effects technology to a higher level, bringing even more shocking effects.

Even the well-informed North American audiences were impressed by the special effects scenes in the two films, not to mention the vast number of overseas audiences who have not been baptized by special effects blockbusters.

Think about it, a new audience in China has never walked into a movie theater to watch a movie before. In the past, they used DVDs to watch those Hollywood blockbusters, but the performance of these blockbusters on DVDs was just so-so.

One day he had a sudden idea and decided to go to the cinema. It happened that the movie he was watching was "Iron Man" or "Transformers" or even "The Last of Us". What would that movie-watching experience be like?

He will probably be shocked by the unparalleled viewing experience on the big screen and stunned by the amazing special effects scenes.

At this point, no matter how educated a person is, after watching such a movie in a cinema, they would probably only say one thing: "Fuck, that's fucking awesome!"

This is the shock that Hollywood blockbusters have caused to the Chinese market, which is constantly generating new audience groups. This shock began with the first imported movie "Real Steel" in 1994, and has continued for more than a decade.

The same is true for other parts of the world. The North American market has long been saturated, but Hollywood's real journey to globalization actually began in the early 1990s.

After more than a decade of development, there is great potential in the markets including Central and South America, Southeast Asia, China, and even West Asia and Eastern Europe.

As for Africa... in Hollywood's eyes, only places like Morocco in North Africa have certain market development value. In sub-Saharan Africa, there is only South Africa, and the rest are not worth mentioning.

In fact, there are potential audiences in many places, but these places are struggling to make enough food every day. Who has the time to care about movies?
Hollywood is not a philanthropist, and there is no need to support a market that cannot be helped.

Having said all this, you can understand why "Iron Man" is a global hit.

Because Hollywood globalization has now reached its peak and will continue for many years, until the world gets tired of the Hollywood model, and then a diversity issue comes to destroy Hollywood.

"Transformers" also did well at the box office, it could even be said to be a huge success, making Sky Studios proud.

Currently, the global box office of "Transformers" has reached 9 million US dollars, temporarily ranking first in this year's global annual box office list, which is eye-catching.

Hollywood finally understood why Gilbert Jr. regretted missing out on this project. To borrow the words of some insiders, even a pig would have succeeded in this project.

But David Ellison probably wouldn't admit it. He took all the credit for himself and made frequent appearances during the period when "Transformers" was a big hit, feeling very proud of himself.

The common excellence of the two movies, "Transformers" and "Iron Man", is also in the peripherals.

Hasbro's toys sold well, with sales reaching $4 million during the movie's run. Meanwhile, Marvel's comics sales soared as Iron Man became a hit.

The sales of peripheral products increased rapidly. The Markle No. 4500 model sold 2100 million US dollars in North America alone, and the Black Widow doll with Scarlett Johansson achieved sales of million US dollars.

All other peripheral products combined generated sales of more than 4 million US dollars, which is quite exaggerated.

This year, the movie "The Last of Us" directed by Gilbert Jr. himself is obviously inferior to the two movies in terms of box office and peripheral business.

(End of this chapter)