hollywood melon man

Chapter 622 Pirates' First Week Explosion
After achieving good results in the midnight show, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" continued to advance, becoming the third movie of this summer's box office to exceed 2 million yuan in the first week.

On the first day on Friday, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" earned $2 million on its first day, successfully surpassing the first day box office of "Star Wars: Episode 5550" and becoming the highest first day box office in film history.

Because the film was shot in two or three parts back to back, and the salaries of stars such as Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom were not cheap, and there was investment in special effects production, the investment in the second and third parts was as high as US$5 million.

On average, each movie costs 2.5 million U.S. dollars, which is even more exaggerated than "Titanic" back then.

With such a huge investment, there is naturally pressure to recoup the investment. But as an old Hollywood saying goes, the bigger the investment, the greater the return.
The first-day box office was enough to satisfy Warner and Disney, and the second film looks like it will be a big hit.

Perhaps because the enthusiasm of moviegoers was consumed too much on the first day, the film's box office declined on Saturday, earning 4723 million US dollars, which is still an extremely outstanding figure.

More importantly, the film received quite good reviews.

According to a report from a professional cinema survey company, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" had a 2% audience approval rating.

In another survey report, 37560 out of 5000 reports gave the film an A+, and less than gave a score below C.

IMDB started rating the film on Saturday night, and already 2 people have rated it, with a score of 8.3, which is a pretty good number for a commercial film.

Although the ratings will drop later, it does not affect the fact that the film has a good reputation among the audience.

In most of the audience's reviews, in addition to being attracted by Captain Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp, they were more praising the special effects scenes.

Especially the giant octopus, Davy Jones, and the Flying Dutchman, they are all lifelike, as if they would crawl out of the big screen.

It is estimated that next year's Oscar for Best Visual Effects will be the most competitive one, after all, there are so many visual effects blockbusters this year.

After earning $3854 million on Sunday, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" became the second-highest opening weekend movie in North American film history with $2 million.

The highest-grossing film was naturally Gilbert Jr.'s "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", which had an unprecedented first-week box office of $3 million and almost broke the film history record of "Titanic".

However, looking at the first-week box office figures that are higher than each other, it is estimated that the first-week box office record of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" will not be maintained for long.

With such a high first-week box office, Warner and Disney have already started popping champagne.

During the release of the movie, Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean theme park launched a series of activities to promote the movie.

The actors who starred in this series of movies also made a surprise appearance at Orlando Disneyland on Saturday and had a happy time with fans.

Thanks to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series and the good performance of his other films, Johnny Depp continues to consolidate his position as a top Hollywood star.

At the beginning of a new week, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" also began its overseas journey, first released in Europe, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

However, it will be released in mainland China a little later, in September.

At this time, Guo Fan, who had some relationship with Gilbert Jr., was attending an event in Hong Kong Island, and took the opportunity to watch "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest" in Hong Kong Island.

After watching it, he was not excited about watching the movie, but felt the gap.

Starting with The Last of Us, Guo Fan watched Transformers and Iron Man this year. What attracted him was not the excitement of the movies, but the technology behind them.

Perhaps because they had worked together in Hollywood for a period of time, Jackie Chan still remembered this young man from mainland China.

After hearing that he was in Hong Kong Island, he immediately invited Guo Fan to visit his home in Hong Kong Island.

"Welcome, welcome..." Cheng Long politely welcomed Guo Fan as his guest.

Guo Fan was holding something in his hand: "Thank you for the invitation, brother. These are some things I bought." "Just come, why bring anything with you!" Despite saying that, Cheng Long still asked his wife Lin Fengjiao to accept them and introduced his son to Guo Fan.

"Ah Ming, this is mainland director Guo Fan, known as China's Little Gilbert. You young people should get to know him."

At this time, no problems were found with Cheng Long's son. He behaved very well in front of his father, but that was not necessarily the case behind his father's back.

After having dinner at Cheng Long's house, Guo Fan chatted with Cheng Long.

Cheng Long said: "I just came back from the United States two days ago and talked to several Hollywood directors."

Guo Fan asked, "Have you seen Director Gilbert Jr."

"No," Cheng Long replied, "Director Gilbert Jr. is currently busy with his own things. He plans to shoot a TV series."

It is a strange thing for a Hollywood film director to shoot a TV series, but whether in Hong Kong Island or in the Mainland, many film directors also started out as TV series directors, so the two did not find it strange.

"It seems that Director Gilbert Jr. still has a grudge about that incident and has not come to China for almost a few years," said Guo Fan.

"Yeah," Cheng Long sighed, "People can't tolerate even a grain of sand in their eyes, but something like that happened."

Cheng Long was very angry, and if it wasn't for the unity, he would have criticized some people publicly. That incident made him passive in Hollywood, and he had to return to Hong Kong Island after the "Mystery of the Talisman" series ended.

Guo Fan was also helpless: "There is no way, some things are not up to us to decide. But I heard one thing, I heard that the radio and television side is planning to launch a young director exchange program."

"Oh? Who told you that?" Cheng Long was very interested.

"Mr. Han talked to me about it, and I was the first one to be selected." Guo Fan felt a little proud when he said this.

"That's good," Cheng Long said regretfully, "It's a pity that we don't have much contact with them, alas!"

In the past two years, as the Kung Fu craze faded, the Hong Kong Island cinemas that were once very active in Hollywood gradually became unpopular and had to return to Hong Kong Island.

Some people have completely integrated into Hollywood and become part of it. For example, Tiger Chen, a disciple of Heping Yuan, is doing well in Hollywood.

Of course, a number of Chinese directors have also emerged.

Not to mention Ang Lee, one of the three Chinese generals of Cantaloupe Studios.

Huang Yiyu from "The Pursuit", James Wan from "Saw", and Justin Lin, who has filmed several small productions and is recently rumored to take over the "Fast & Furious" series, are all representatives who have developed very well.

But overall, the influence of the Hong Kong film industry in Hollywood is declining.

The mainland has its own troubles, but overall, as the market grows, it is still thriving. Guo Fan directed two films, both of which achieved good results.

Currently, relying on the coal boss Lao Wang, he has set up his own company and attracted a group of film companies to invest, and is doing well.

After leaving Cheng Long's house, Guo Fan has been thinking about where to go in the future.

To be honest, none of the things he shot were what he wanted to shoot the most. Ever since he saw the extremely shocking "Real Steel" in the cinema in 1994, Guo Fan had planted the seed of science fiction.

Now, just wait for it to take root and sprout.

(End of this chapter)