Made in Hollywood

"Eight hundred miles away, kill the devil's machine gunner with one shot! This is an example of the sturdy record of Skyeye!"

"But the combat characteristics of Tianyan are too strange. No matter what battle he participates in, Tianyan only needs to sit at home and shoot. √∟Vertex novel, this kind of fighting method of sitting on duty every day and leaving get off work on time, the leader sees this child and thinks whether it depends on relationship Did you come in? He didn't dare to say, he didn't have a good face anyway, it was quite miserable..."

Seeing this, Duke couldn't help laughing, but Tina Fei and Scarlett beside him didn't understand why he was laughing.

Shaking his head at the two curious women, Duke continued to look down.

"Sixth, the rope witch."

"One time when my grandfather went to lurking in the Japanese invaders stronghold, he found a woman **** by tricks. He couldn't help being impressed by the Japanese bandage culture. But he didn't expect that when the Japanese army approached her, the rope suddenly disappeared. Then crackling, ding ding dong dong, the Japanese invaders were all killed!"

"Later, my grandfather learned that her name was the Rope Witch. She was a mutant. Her superpowers could affect the thinking of others. When everyone saw her, she thought she was tied with a rope... I don’t know why, after joining the Avengers , The leader is especially willing to come over and see her if nothing happens..."

"About her life experience is a secret in the military, because she is a Japanese. Out of a humanitarian spirit, she came to China to fight devils. Her mother is said to be Muto Lan."

"Seventh, Feiyin."

"The young volunteers who came down from Mount Wutai, who had a superb effort and flew over the walls. They love to jump around every day when everything is fine. Among the Avengers, he is the most annoying. Two miles away, the devil sees something floating around. Go, and then know that he is here."

"Feiyin's most outstanding record. It was riding a bicycle into the sky and intercepting the devil's armored train..."

Looking at the introduction of these faintly impressed characters, Duke couldn't help but think of the era of the War of Resistance when the strange men were flying all over the sky. Are devils really enough to kill?

With so many heroes, there will naturally be villains.

"Of course the greatest enemy of the Red Avengers is the devils. As long as we maintain a patriotism that faces history and does not forget the national humiliation. I firmly believe that the countless devils in Hengdian will one day be wiped out by justice!"

"The future is good, but the road is hard. The Red Avengers have experienced countless hard battles. Next, I will tell you a devil that my grandfather is more familiar with. His name is: Oh, I’m going to go to the grass. What the **** is this. Because shouting such a long name on the battlefield is very time consuming, so whether it is our army, the Japanese army, the Japanese army or the puppet army, they are actually referred to as Ouchao for short."

"Ocso itself is actually a scum, but behind him there is a huge team, countless incarnations of small partners. For example, there are drivers and bodyguards who can drive a Volkswagen convertible. Anti-material sniper rifles, m4 assault rifles, and a laser-guided bazooka with a bazooka on his shoulder..."

"No matter how strong the individual combat capability of the Red Avengers is, they can't beat the gangster tactics of Ocao and his friends carrying so many advanced weapons, so the Red Avengers also need a more advanced hero. Come and help them."

"So the illusion was born."

"The Chinese captain gave psychological support. The Gunner gave his gun, the God of War took out the knife, and the eyes of the sky gave him sight. The Shaolin Giant taught him to lift his yin legs, and the rope witch tied him a rope. Then my grandfather flew Yin's textbook was shown to him for two nights."

"This is how the illusion was born!"

"How powerful is the illusion? You can throw grenades down with the wings of an airplane (the firepower of the gunman, the eyesight of the sky and the light power of Feiyin...

"You can carry the big red flag, hold the dynamite bag, and charge at the front line with a big knife (the courage of the Shaolin giant, the domineering spirit of the **** of war and the spirit of the Chinese captain...

"The most important thing is the illusion that a handsome guy in a rope-bound outfit bombed the Beijing-Hebei-Shandong-Henan-Henan-Shanxi-Gansu-Ningbo area. Countless people in the northeast and southwest wanted to see their bodies go crazy to Shaanxi.

"Although the Red Avengers are powerful, the enemy's strength is extremely strong. In order to win the war as soon as possible, our army decided to find the ultimate weapon in the legend-Infinite Pants. Crotch!"

"Is it necessary to introduce the stunt of hiding thunder in pants? The only thing that needs to be explained is that hiding a grenade in the crotch can blow up a Japanese bunker. If you can hide six different grenade, you can get the highest. The explosive power of... However, I don’t know how much it can explode. According to Grandpa, the infinite crotch that can hide six thunders is now missing..."

When Duke returned to Los Angeles from Shang Hai, the next weekend box office of "Avengers" was also delivered to him.

The box office of the first weekend of "Avengers" was too scary. It is a height that has never been reached in film history. It is impossible to maintain a small decline next weekend, and there is a very competitive film like "Fast and Furious 5".

"Fast and Furious 5" caused a typical high-open and low-movement due to the serious lack of female audiences. This film took 48.65 million US dollars on Friday, but fell to 29.27 million US dollars on Saturday. It fell again on Sunday and only gained 23.89 million US dollars. .

In the first three days of the weekend, "Fast and Furious 5" won US$111.81 million from North America!

Although it can only be ranked second in the North American box office rankings last week, such results are also impressive.

Duke was vaguely impressed. It seemed that this series only had the next two North American movies at around $100 million in the first week, and Van Diesel still played a huge role.

However, Van Diesel did not break out like Heath Ledger, and the all-round suppression of "Avengers" from the announcement to the screening was the key.

"Avengers" did not break out a single day of over 40 million US dollars in the next weekend, but it went relatively stable. After winning 38.77 million US dollars and 39.16 million US dollars on Friday and Saturday, the next Sunday Take 33.84 million US dollars.

In the three days of the next weekend, the "Avengers" took 110.77 million U.S. dollars from North America, which also set a box office record for the last weekend in North American film history.

The film's North American box office has also reached 461.74 million U.S. dollars, which is also the fastest breaking record of 400 million U.S. dollars and 450 million U.S. dollars in North American film history.

In terms of the global box office, the "Avengers" broke the $1 billion mark in a record time of just ten days and collected $1,178.99 million, and the crazy momentum could not be stopped.

Similarly, in the global market, "Fast and Furious 5" has also been completely suppressed by "Avengers". In the first weekend, it converged from nearly 100 countries and regions including North America to a box office of about 320 million US dollars.

This kind of performance is good enough. As for whether David Ellison will be satisfied, it is not in the ranks of Duke's concern. After he returned to North America, he successively met with the senior management of Marvel and Warner Bros. to discuss the next one How to continue to expand the revenue of the Marvel series.

Superhero movies adapted from comics are not just a few movies, but a huge set of cultural and creative industries that integrate the virtual to the real. This is not only the triumph of popular culture, but also a highly developed and pervasive capital. Operational victory.

From big screens to mobile phone screens, from t-shirts to rice cookers, virtual, physical, and omnipotent superheroes flood today's global village.

In fact, this is a big deal!

The madness of current superhero movies may also be related to humans' love to watch the opposite of good and evil, but Duke and other film companies must also be greedy for high returns.

As we all know, superhero movies not only sell movie tickets, but also bring in various sources of income, such as pay TV, toys, video games, overseas distribution rights, and so on.

"The Avengers" is very exciting, how could it not be? Fans and audiences all over the world began to accept the bombardment of this movie years in advance.

Just as Duke returned to Los Angeles to accept what he said to Forbes magazine: "Since 2006, every Marvel movie has been made for this super movie."

Then, there are advertisements every day, 24/7, and Marvel’s "partnership" relationships with various companies, including Wal-Mart, Acura Motors, Harley Motors, Hasbro Toys, which are selling about 600 "Avenger" products, Target Department Store...

The audience can't escape.

Over the past decade or so in the new century, Hollywood has produced more than 60 real superhero movies, accounting for less than one percent of Hollywood's total production, but their market share has exceeded one tenth.

Take "Avengers" as an example. This super "superhero movie" with six comic heroes now not only has a global box office of more than 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, but also uses toys and other licensed products as well as sales TV broadcasts, network copyrights, etc., directly earned 1.2 billion US dollars!

This actually embodies the greatest significance of superhero movies. They are not only movies, but also the most vivid and effective commercials, which can drive a long series of derivative comics, dolls, toys, stationery, video games, playgrounds, daily necessities, Image endorsement and other industrial chains.

From another perspective, it’s not difficult to understand why unprofitable and early investors like Duke and Warner Bros. spend huge sums of money to shoot and release superhero movies. When calculating box office gains and losses, there will be "losses" from time to time, but they are always happy. Shoot when you are hungry.

After "image authorization" for special operation and development, it does not cost the issuer too much resources, and related industries will automatically send sky-high licensing fees.

Therefore, when George Lucas made the Trilogy of Star Wars Prequel, he once bluntly said "I don't care about the box office at all."

Only by integrating the licensing and development of derivative products such as theater box office, TV broadcasting, DVD and Blu-ray discs, soundtrack, video on demand, and toy video games, can the achievements of Hollywood commercial films be truly and completely reflected.

If you just look at the box office and estimate the value of Hollywood companies and the system, it is basically a joke. (To be continued.)

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