The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 355 Star Wars Victory
As June approaches, "Star Wars" officially lands in major theaters in North America.

The movie, which could hardly be released in the previous life, has become the flagship work of 20th Century Fox this summer because of Xu Guanwu's strong support.

Not only was it advertised on TV stations, but at the same time, print media, radio stations, magazines, etc. all launched intensive publicity campaigns, to the point where almost everyone knew about it.

Therefore, it achieved a huge breakthrough at the box office on the first day of its release, with a box office of 270 million US dollars on the first day, which suddenly broke the first-day box office record in the United States, and aroused a lot of admiration.

The movie "Star Wars" has a grand world setting, perfect special effects scenes, and wonderful storylines, all of which deeply attract young audiences today.

Compared with the previous generation of audiences who prefer traditional themes such as romance, literary, and comedy, today's young audiences are more willing to watch science fiction, horror, and popular action movies.

They despise the kind of lukewarm literary romance films, or comedy films like clowns.They like simpler, shallow storylines; hot, exciting action scenes; and those beautiful, handsome male and female stars.

And all of this can be found in "Star Wars".Its story is simple enough to be summed up in one sentence.The characters are opposed to good and evil, with very clear positions, and you can easily distinguish between good guys and bad guys; the action scenes are grand, especially the special effects produced by Industrial Light and Magic, which are really lifelike; the male and female stars are indeed beautiful enough, and the starring Harrison Ford was once named the best A sexy male star; and Princess Leia, played by Carrie Fisher, was once the object of many male sexual fantasies in the 80s.

In the American comedy "Friends" that is popular all over the world, Ross once mentioned that Princess Leia is the object of his sexual fantasies, and Rachel finally satisfied his fantasies, but was accidentally destroyed by Chandler.

With so many advantages, "Star Wars" naturally won the enthusiastic pursuit of young people as expected. Many people lined up at the entrance of the theater overnight just to watch "Star Wars" again.

It became the hottest movie of the summer, bar none!No film can cool this one down, and even after two weeks of its release, it climbed to $8000 million at the box office and still shows no sign of cooling down.

People couldn't help exclaiming, could it be that the sky-high box office record set by "Jaws" will be broken again after only two years?

and many more!

The investor of "Star Wars" looks, seems, seems, seems to be the same person as the investor of "Jaws"? !
Oh my god!

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As expected, Xu Guanwu became popular again in the United States, and the news that the box office of "Star Wars" was approaching the [-] million mark was spread back to Hong Kong early, which made the filmmakers in Hong Kong envious.

The box office of just one movie surpassed all the movie box office in Hong Kong for a year, which is really amazing.

As an investor, Xu Guanwu knows that the box office of "Star Wars" is far from reaching its peak.The movie grossed $[-] million in the U.S. and nearly $[-] million worldwide.Where is the box office at this point? !What a fuss!
Sure enough, as Xu Guanwu predicted, "Star Wars" was released for three weeks, and the box office broke through the 4000 million US dollar mark, reaching an astonishing [-] million US dollars.But now its popularity has not cooled down, and it continues to be shown in nearly a thousand theaters across the United States.

However, the films that competed with "Star Wars" in the same period encountered Waterloo without exception. They were all shrouded in the glory of "Star Wars" and became complete cannon fodder, which is quite sad!

With the popularity of "Star Wars", peripheral products related to "Star Wars" have also been frantically sought after.Laser swords, dark armor, commemorative t-shirts, mugs, dolls...all the peripheral products related to "Star Wars" are very popular.

Even adults will buy a laser sword and COSPLAY the Jedi Knights in the movie with their friends, not to mention the children who are inspired by the heroes in the movie.They wear the "Star Wars" samurai costumes and hold laser swords, and then jump and jump in the park and in the courtyard, imagining that they are warriors with superb martial arts and superpowers.Although it looks a little funny, it is a favorite of children.

And the phrase "May the Force be with you" in the movie has also become a catchphrase, and someone can often imitate the emphasis of the protagonist in the movie and say this sentence.When people thought this sentence was cool and used it frequently, "Star Wars" had penetrated into people's lives as a kind of culture.

The popularity of "Star Wars" and the sales of Star Wars peripheral products have also created a steady stream of huge profits for Xu Guanwu.He can get nearly [-] million US dollars from the box office alone, not to mention the copyright income from peripheral products, as well as follow-up video tapes, TV screening rights, and so on.

Until now, Richard Zanyuk, David Brown, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg knew why Xu Guanwu was so generous and gave them the dividends first.

People can make hundreds of millions of dollars with this movie, so throwing out a few million dollars is just a drop in the bucket for them.Fortunately, I was so moved that I was about to shed tears. I really have never seen the big world.

When "Star Wars" was released for a month and a half, and the box office exceeded [-] million US dollars, Richard and David hung up the phone to Xu Guanwu together, and on the surface they said congratulations and congratulations on the New Year.

But in fact, Xu Guanwu also understands their thoughts very well, they just want to get more dividends.Xu Guanwu had already prepared for this. David Brown, Richard Zanjuk, and George Lucas each received a dividend of 1000 million US dollars, which was definitely a huge sum of money at the time.

And the 1000 million US dollars did satisfy the greed of the three people. They actually thought that if they could knock out a few million US dollars, they would be lucky.

The reason why Xu Guanwu gave so many dividends was that besides the fact that he had earned a lot this time, he also wanted to appease these people.Lest they see it but not eat it, and turn away from themselves, the loss outweighs the gain.

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"Star Wars" was released in the United States for two and a half months in total and swept a box office of 2000 million US dollars. Such an amazing box office result is jaw-dropping.The sci-fi movies, which have not been valued by Hollywood filmmakers, have also become the focus of people's attention.

Subsequently, Paramount Pictures first announced that it would bring the science fiction series "Star Trek" to the screen.The series, previously shown on NBC, was a popular sci-fi show at the time.Later, Paramount bought its film adaptation rights, but due to the sluggish box office of sci-fi movies, it has not been shot.

Now that the popularity of "Star Wars" has spurred the craze for sci-fi films, Paramount Pictures moved out the "Star Trek" script that was dusty in the script library, and then seized the time to recruit people to shoot this movie Come.

With the help of the sci-fi trend led by "Star Wars" and the loyal audience accumulated by "Star Trek" on the TV screen, this movie immediately attracted the attention of many parties when it started shooting, making it popular before it was broadcast, and it opened a very good head.

Seeing this situation, many film companies in the United States have begun to invest in science fiction movies, or movies like this kind of wilderness fighters against evil.And "Conan the Barbarian", which Edward Pressman had been unable to sell before, also attracted the attention of some film companies through this shareholder style.

Universal was interested in the movie, but it didn't plan to pay more.Edward Pressman originally hoped to get 2000 million US dollars, but Universal Pictures only agreed to pay 500 million, and he didn't quite approve of the script of this movie, so he asked Edward Pressman to find another famous artist. re-write.

But getting investment is better than nothing. After Edward Pressman got the first funding, he immediately started looking for a screenwriter to write the script of "Conan the Barbarian".

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Richard Zanjuk was very dissatisfied with Universal Pictures' decision to rob him of his favorite script.However, he also knew that even if he got the script of "Conan the Barbarian", he would not have enough money to invest in it, so after being depressed for a while, he completely forgot about it.

Moreover, like Paramount Pictures, he stabbed the "Alien" he was preparing to shoot to the media.The first movie that connects science fiction and horror, the ferocious and bloodthirsty interstellar monsters, and a concept map of aliens make young audiences excited.

And "Superman", invested and shot by 20th Century Fox, is also a masterpiece of sci-fi action movies.In particular, the comic hero image of Superman has already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so it attracts more attention than Paramount's "Star Trek".

After being reported by the media, it immediately became the focus of people's attention.However, the previously popular "Star Trek" fell into the inferior position in comparison, which caused Paramount Pictures to suffer a dull loss.

As for Paramount Pictures' investment in "Star Trek", the happiest person is actually not the TV fans of "Star Trek", but Redstone, the president of National Entertainment Corporation.

He invested all his wealth in Paramount's stock. Now that Paramount Pictures announced the shooting of "Star Trek", the stock price has also risen after the attention has increased greatly, making Redstone a fortune.

Lei Shidong couldn't help secretly rejoicing that he didn't sell the stock at that time, so he naturally thought of what Xu Guanwu said before.I couldn't help but trust Xu Guanwu again, and my idea of ​​cooperating with him to make money became more firm.

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Because of the release of a "Star Wars" in Hollywood, the entire United States was disturbed.Relatively speaking, Hong Kong is undoubtedly a lot more dull.

Xu Guanwu, the behind-the-scenes investor of "Star Wars", is now enshrined on the altar again.The investment of nearly 2000 million U.S. dollars has recovered hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars within two years, and the annual profit rate has doubled tenfold.Definitely an insane number.Ordinary companies are crazy if they have a profit rate of 2%. Foxconn, which is an OEM for Apple, only has a profit rate of [-]%.If it is more than [-]%, it is necessary to burn high incense and worship Buddha, and if it is more than [-]%, you can look at people with your nostrils.More than ten times... If you buy Karma, it is definitely a myth.

The embarrassment brought to Mrs. Xu by Zeng Zhiwei's departure before is now gone.The news that Xu Guanwu made hundreds of millions of dollars was reported all over Hong Kong, and the words and sentences were full of envy and hatred.No one cares about the news about Zeng Zhiwei or Golden Harvest. They spend at most 2000 million Hong Kong dollars a year, but Xu Guanwu spends [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars, which is not an order of magnitude at all.

And Xu Guanwu's "Oriental Phantom" once again obtained the exclusive interview right. After its release, the sales volume increased by [-]%, and many magazines, newspapers, etc. bought the news copyright.Even Western newspapers and magazines have issued applications for purchase.Although they are world-class media, Xu Guanwu still doesn't give face.If you want news, go to my magazine to buy it!

Seeing that Xu Guanwu once again became the headline figure, and was dubbed "the light of Hong Kong", "the god of management", "the golden hand" and "the hand of God" by many citizens, many hostile companies really gritted their teeth and hated him. Zeng Zhiwei also couldn't help but reflect, was it a fool's trick to leave Xu's and switch to Golden Harvest? !
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