America: Starting with the acquisition of MGM

Chapter 325 323. Eric, we want to talk to you

Thanks to the influence of Iron Man, the American team has also received a lot of attention.

Most of the viewers who watched it said it was good. The movie completely showed the growth trajectory of Captain America without spending too much time on the details.

The long and hearty war scenes and hot action scenes are very enjoyable to watch.

Although it is not as deep as Iron Man, it is still an excellent commercial blockbuster.

More importantly, many viewers are aware that Marvel seems to be planning something big.

Iron Man has Easter eggs for Captain America, and Captain America has Easter eggs for Thor, constantly leading to the next superhero.

Moreover, they are brought together in an era or even a city, which is different from the DC superheroes who manage their own cities and have no intersection.

As we all know, Marvel's superheroes are active in New York City.

Who knows why New York can attract so many villains and heroes? Robbery, murder, violence, and crime are constantly being staged every day.

Theoretically speaking, Marvel's New York is the most chaotic city in the world, much darker than DC's Gotham.

And when Marvel brings these superheroes together, it will be enough to form a complete universe and open up a more ambitious chapter.

Come to think of it, that must be something really wonderful, not just for the fans, but for all the viewers.

Things developed just as many fans expected.

With the new week's box office results released, "Captain America" ​​unsurprisingly beat "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and "Rivals."

Will Smith?

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?

It doesn’t work, it doesn’t work at all!

What's more, the scandal between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been making waves all over the city some time ago, with all kinds of gossip and tabloid news flying around.

Why did Angelina Jolie step in as a third party and take the initiative to seduce Brad Pitt?

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have fallen out and the two have separated.

Jennifer Aniston caused a scene on set and had a fight with Angelina Jolie.

You must know that "Friends" has only ended half a year ago. Jennifer Aniston also starred in the hit movie "Marley and Me". She is very popular and is the goddess sweetheart in many people's hearts.

As a result, the reputation of the two became very bad, and many people hated them. Some people even launched an online boycott of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith".

If Fox didn't wade into this muddy water and delayed the release for half a year, it would have been coldly treated by then.

With the quality of the movie, it won't be a big problem to win a decent box office.

But who makes you confused? You have to follow Mickey Mouse. The audience is very angry, and it competes head-on with "Captain America". Who will die if you don't die?

As a result, "Captain America" ​​took in a box office of US$125 million in one week and became the number one movie.

Even in its third week, "Iron Man" still took in about 60 million US dollars at the box office, winning two weekly box office championships and one runner-up.

Will Smith's "Everyone's Lover" gained some traction, taking in $41 million at the box office.

The cost of this movie is US$70 million. If this trend continues, it should be possible to make a small profit.

The fourth place went to "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", which only received 22.6 million U.S. dollars at the box office, which was as big a death as "The Chronicles of Narnia".

Ranked fifth is Disney's only decent movie, "The Incredibles," with a box office of $19.3 million.

Then there’s “League of Assassins,” which is not much different at $16.6 million.

Mixed in the middle are small companies such as New Line, Dimen, Summit Entertainment, and New Regent.

"Inception" and "Spider-Man 2" have still not dropped out of the top 20 after more than a month.

"Inception" ranked 12th on the list with a box office of 8.8 million US dollars, while "Spider-Man 2" only had 4.9 million US dollars left, barely ranking 19th.

As for "Kung Fu" and "Napoleon", in the face of such fierce fighting, the scope of public screening has been reduced.

There are more than 600 of the former, and about the same number of the latter, all concentrated in first- and second-tier cities.

Among them, the North American box office of "Kung Fu" has reached more than 52 million US dollars, which is close to the 55 million US dollars of "Heroes".

It's not a big problem to surpass the other party, but it's definitely not possible to surpass "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" because the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is 120 million US dollars.

Unless there is one situation, "Kung Fu" will also win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but it is unlikely.

Having won another great victory, there was no need for any hesitation.

Marvel Studios and MGM jointly issued a statement that they will launch the "Thor" and "Ant-Man" projects as soon as possible.

At the same time, the scripts for "Iron Man 2" and "Captain America 2" will be put on the schedule as soon as possible.

The announcement made many fans happy, indicating that the speculation was correct and that a grand cinematic universe was being formed.

Maybe one day in the future, they can actually see the Avengers brought to the big screen.

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Before we knew it, it was February.

The quartet went to China to participate in this year's Spring Festival Gala. They performed a 5-minute song medley and gained a lot of popularity.

When they learned that Swift was only 16 years old, many Chinese viewers couldn't help but sigh that Europeans and Americans develop too fast.

A sixteen-year-old girl looks like she is eighteen or nineteen.

But this also depends on the person. Olsen is the same age as Taylor Swift, and she is still the type of petite and delicate. Even though Eric has cultivated her for so long, she still hasn't fully grown up.

During this period, Eric was busy attending various activities while busy filming Dragon Ball.

That is, China took a week off during the Spring Festival, because Xiao Liu had to take a holiday, and everyone else took advantage of it.

Generally, the crew would like to continue filming on the construction site for a day, because stopping for a day wastes a day's money.

Including venue fees, equipment fees, maintenance fees, props fees, etc.

But these expenses are not a problem for the Dragon Ball crew.

Everything belongs to MGM. Eric opens it when he wants to open it, stops when he wants to stop it, and is happy.

During this period, he participated in this year's Golden Globe Awards ceremony, and MGM was nominated for multiple awards.

"Million Dollar Baby" won five awards for Best Original Score, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Drama Film, and Best Director.

"Frozen" won the Best Original Song Award.

You ask why there is no Best Animated Feature Film?

Because the Golden Globe Awards did not set up this award at all, otherwise it would definitely be won by "Frozen".

"The Hunger Games" also won the Best Original Song Award.

"Inception" won six awards including Best Original Score, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Best Drama.

"La Vie en Rose" also won three awards including Best Actress, Best Musical Comedy and Best Director.

This is still in the film field. The Golden Globe Awards also include the field of TV series. In the drama category, MGM and HBO are competing against each other again.

With so many nominations, the result is that you can always see the MGM logo, always see the shots of Eric Cooper, and every now and then you can hear the acceptance speech thanking Eric and Mr. Cooper.

In the end, Nicole won the title of Best Actress with her super performance in "La Vie en Rose", and the strongest competitor Hilary Swank lost regretfully.

In fact, both of them have reached the peak of their acting skills, so it is normal to choose anyone as the best actress.

But who can blame La Vie en Rose, and many judges have already forgotten the memory of Million Dollar Baby.

In addition, Eric spent a lot of money to promote it, so it was hard for Nicole not to win the Best Actress award.

However, I don’t know if it was to make up for it, but Uncle Fuyuki took the Best Director award. Ron Howard should be very good.

It’s a pity for Martin Scorsese, who was nominated again as a runner-up, and his future in the Oscars is expected to be bleak.

Eric won the Best Screenplay Award for the umpteenth time with Inception, but he has too many of these things, and there is nothing new.

Fortunately, he also won the Best Picture Award. Although he lost the Best Director Award, it was also a compliment to the entire crew.

Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright won the Best Actress and Best Actor Award again after the Emmy Awards, and beat the Sopranos and Six Feet Under.

A Golden Globe Awards ceremony was monopolized by MGM for half of the time.

If the quality of the work was not really high, it would definitely be investigated for bribing the judges.

After winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, La Vie en Rose, which had been screened in a few hundred theaters, began to gain momentum, with the number of theaters showing it suddenly increasing to more than 1,300, continuing to build momentum.

On the contrary, the potential of films such as Inception and The Assassins has been completely exhausted in two months.

Iron Man has also reached its end, and its position has been squeezed behind by new movies.

In the end, Inception took $227 million at the North American box office and $705 million worldwide.

The results were somewhat different from what Eric had imagined. He thought that with such great efforts and more outstanding results, it could reach the original version's more than $800 million even after five years, but unfortunately it did not.

The Assassins took $121 million at the North American box office and $237 million worldwide, which is more than $100 million less than the original.

Iron Man surpassed the original version's $580 million and took a terrifying $830 million at the global box office, of which North American box office accounted for 44%, and the marketing effect was quite outrageous.

In the office at MGM headquarters, Eric looked at the latest analysis report.

"Eric, this combines the data of various analysis agencies, box office, our internal market research data, etc."

"We have made a comprehensive summary of the situation in the past year. 1 billion US dollars, we have lost at least 1 billion US dollars in box office."

"This is a terrible number. Although the money has to be divided and will not all flow into our pockets, it is still a terrible number."

Pah!

Throwing the report on the table, Eric looked at Judy: "What about the Big Six? I lost 1 billion US dollars, and they are not doing well either."

"Well, this is a game without winners. The more you invest, the more you lose."

"Like Paramount, who is waving flags and shouting behind us, 500 million or 600 million US dollars."

"Universal, Sony, and Fox have lost at least 700 million or 800 million US dollars."

"Disney and Warner are the most active in sniping us, and the losses are also the greatest. They are already heading for 1 billion."

"The most intuitive reaction is the total box office for the whole year. Last year, North America was 11.56 billion US dollars, and this year it is 12.38 billion US dollars."

"However, the corresponding number of movies is 25 less than last year, because companies such as DreamWorks and Lionsgate have withdrawn their films in large areas."

"With so many major productions released, the gap should not be only US$800 million."

"This number should be at least 3 billion US dollars to be reasonable, but it is not. Where did the lost box office go? We all know it in our hearts."

Hearing this, Eric crossed his legs and said, "It does sound scary, but I don't care."

"Anyway, Lionheart has made back the money it lost. Not only is it enough, but it is also very rich."

"But Lionheart is your personal asset, and MGM is a listed company. It is the asset of countless people. What you do is equivalent to benefiting yourself at the expense of others."

"Then what do you want me to do? Give up?"

"Of course not, am I that kind of person? I'm showing you this report to let you know that everyone is uncomfortable."

Boom, boom, boom.

Carol opened the door and came in with a happy look on her face.

"What's wrong? It looks like something good has happened to you."

"Boss, the Nasdaq has just opened. Our market value has officially surpassed Disney and become the largest film and television company in Hollywood."

"Ah? Really?" Judy asked in surprise.

"Really, it has surpassed Disney by one level and is more than 2 billion US dollars ahead of the other party."

"Great! Wait. Someone is playing tricks on me."

Eric stood up, not surprised by the result.

If the six major players hadn't joined forces to attack them this year, this goal might have been achieved half a year ago when the summer vacation came to an end.

Movies are a storytelling industry, and MGM’s stories are told beautifully.

Especially this major counterattack during the Christmas season has allowed the market to see the fangs and claws of this lion.

I'm driving the future, can I still beat you?

"There was no foul play, this is what was supposed to happen."

As he spoke, he suddenly laughed: "Carol, make an internal announcement that all MGM employees will receive an additional bonus of US$10,000 this month."

"This is an encouragement to everyone. We can't get back our position without everyone's joint efforts."

"Yeah! Thank you boss, boss, you are getting more and more handsome!"

"You can wait until there are more people to shoot the flattery, and prepare an announcement to release to the public. The content will be mainly about this incident. I have to make those old people angry!"

"Understood, execute immediately!"

As soon as Carol left, Judy suddenly pounced on him and pushed him onto the table.

"Ouch, what the hell are you doing! Fortunately, I have been exercising my akimbo muscles."

Bo!

"Um?"

Well.

After a passionate kiss, her mouth was filled with Judy's fluid, and then she pushed Eric away suddenly. After saying this, I got a little excited and turned around to leave.

"Damn it, what's wrong with you!"

Bah bah!

Wet.

bell! ! !

Eric's personal phone rang, and the caller ID showed a familiar yet unfamiliar number.

Familiar because he knows the person, strange because he has not had direct contact with them for a year.

"What's wrong Gray, it's rare that you called me."

There was silence for a moment: "Eric, we want to talk to you."