Made in Hollywood

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

But Tianyan's combat characteristics are too strange. No matter what battles he participates in, Tianyan only needs to sit at home and shoot. This kind of fighting method of going to get off work every day and getting off work on time, the leader saw it and thought this kid came in through relationships? Say I dare not say it, I don’t have a good face anyway, it’s pretty miserable...

Seeing this, Duke couldn't help laughing, but Tina Fey and Scarlett next to him didn't understand why he was laughing at all.

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

Sixth, the Rope Witch.

Once when my grandfather was lurking in the Japanese invaders' stronghold, he found a woman tied up in tricks. He couldn't help but be impressed by the bondage culture of the Japanese invaders. But he didn't expect that when the Japanese army approached her, the rope suddenly disappeared. Then crackling, ding ding dong dong, all the Japanese invaders were killed!

Later, my grandfather found out that her name is Rope Witch, she is a mutant, and her superpower can influence other people's thinking, so that everyone who sees her thinks she is tied with rope... I don't know why, after joining the Avengers , the leader is especially willing to come and see her if there is anything to do...

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

Seventh, Feiyin.

The volunteer young man who came down from Wutai Mountain to fight devils, with extremely light skills, flew over the eaves and walls. He likes to jump around and play every day when he has nothing to do. He is the most annoying of the avengers. The devils see something floating around every two miles. Go, and then you'll know it's him.

Feiyin's most outstanding feat. He flew into the sky on a bicycle and intercepted the devil's armored train...

Looking at these indistinct and memorable character introductions, Duke couldn't help but think of the era of the Anti-Japanese War when heroes were flying all over the sky. Are devils really enough to kill?

With so many heroes, there will naturally be villains.

The biggest enemy of the Red Avengers is of course devils, as long as we maintain a patriotic heart that faces history squarely and does not forget national humiliation. I firmly believe that the countless devils in Hengdian will one day be wiped out by justice!

The future is bright, but the road is hard. The Red Avenger has gone through countless arduous battles. Next, I will tell you about a devil leader that my grandfather is more familiar with. What the hell is that. Because calling such a long name on the battlefield is very time-consuming, so whether it is our army, the national army, the Japanese army or the puppet army, they are actually called him for short-Okuso.

Ao Cao's own strength is actually a scumbag. But behind him there is a huge team, with countless incarnations of friends, for example, there are chauffeurs and bodyguards who can drive Volkswagen convertibles, for example, there are people who can use Anti-materiel sniper rifles, M4 assault rifles, and laser-guided shoulder-mounted rocket launchers...

No matter how strong the individual combat ability of the Red Avengers is, they can't beat the rogue tactics of Ao Cao and his little friends carrying so many advanced weapons. So the Red Avengers also need a more advanced hero Come and help them.

And thus, the illusion was born.

The captain of China gave him psychological support, the Gunner gave his gun, and the god of war took out his knife. The sky eye gave him vision, and the Shaolin giant taught him to lift his legs. The rope witch tied him with ropes, and then my grandfather put the flying Silver's teaching textbooks were shown to him for two nights.

That's how the illusion was born!

How powerful is the hallucination? You can grab the wings of the plane and throw grenades down (the firepower of the steel cannon man, the eyesight of the sky and the lightness of Feiyin...)

You can charge the front line with a big red flag, a pack of explosives and a big knife (the courage of Shaolin giants, the arrogance of God of War and the spirit of the Chinese captain...)

The most important thing is that the hallucinations of being handsome and tied with ropes exploded in the Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia regions. Countless people in the northeast and southwest wanted to see the figure and went crazy to Shaanxi.

Although the Red Avenger is powerful, the enemy army is extremely powerful. In order to win the war as soon as possible, our army decided to find the legendary ultimate weapon - infinite pants. crotch!

Do you need to introduce this special skill of hiding mines in the crotch? The only thing that needs to be explained is that a grenade hidden in the crotch can blow up a Japanese bunker. If you can hide six different grenades, you can get the highest level. Its explosive ability... However, I don't know exactly how far it can explode. According to grandpa, the infinite crotch that can hide six mines is nowhere to be found...

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

The box office of The Avengers in the first weekend is too terrifying, it is a height that has never been reached in the history of film, it is impossible to maintain a small decline in the second weekend, and there is Fast and Furious 5 that has quite Competitive films exist.

Fast and Furious 5 caused a typical high and low due to the serious lack of female audiences. The film earned $48.65 million on Friday, but fell to $29.27 million on Saturday, and fell again on Sunday, only earning $23.89 million. .

In the first three days of the weekend, Fast and Furious 5 earned US$101.81 million from North America!

Although it can only rank second in the North American box office rankings last week, such a result can be called brilliant.

Duke had a vague impression, as if only the latter two of this series had a box office of around US$100 million in the first week in North America, and Vin Diesel still played a huge role.

However, Vin Diesel did not explode like Heath Ledger. The all-round suppression of The Avengers from the announcement to the screening is the key.

The Avengers did not break out the brilliant results of over 40 million U.S. dollars in a single day in the following weekend, but it went relatively steadily. Take $33.84 million.

In the three days of the next weekend, The Avengers earned US$111.77 million from North America, and also set a box office record for the second weekend in North American film history.

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

In terms of global box office, The Avengers broke through the US$1 billion mark in just ten days, breaking through the record-setting US$1.17899 billion, and the crazy momentum cannot be stopped at all.

Similarly, in the global market, Fast and Furious 5 was also completely suppressed by The Avengers, and its box office was reduced from nearly 100 countries and regions including North America to about 320 million U.S. dollars in the first weekend.

Such a result is good enough. As for whether David Ellison will be satisfied, Duke is not concerned at all. After he returned to North America, he successively met with the high-level executives of Marvel and Warner Bros. to discuss the next movie. How to continue to expand the revenue of the Marvel series.

Superhero movies adapted from comics are not just a few films, but a huge set of cultural and creative industries that integrates from fiction to reality. This is not only a triumphant song played by 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 are flooding today's global village.

In fact, it's a BIG deal!

The current madness of superhero movies may also have something to do with humans' love of watching stories of good and evil, but Duke and other film companies must also have an insatiable appetite 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 exciting, how can you not be excited? Fans and audiences around the world were bombarded with this film years in advance.

As Duke told Forbes magazine back in Los Angeles: Since 2006, every Marvel movie has been made for this super movie.

Then, there are 24/7 advertising, as well as the partnership relationship between Marvel and various companies, including Wal-Mart, Acura, Harley Motorcycles, Hasbro toys, which are selling about 600 Avengers products. Target department store...

The audience simply cannot escape.

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

Take The Avengers as an example. This super superhero movie that gathers six comic book heroes 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. The TV broadcasts, online copyrights, etc., directly earned 1.2 billion U.S. 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 derived comics, dolls, toys, stationery, video games, playgrounds, daily necessities, Image endorsement and other industrial chains.

From another perspective, it is not difficult to understand why unprofitable investors like Duke and Warner Bros. spend huge sums of money to shoot and distribute superhero movies. When calculating the box office gains and losses, there will be losses from time to time, but they always enjoy it Take another shot when you are hungry.

Through image authorization for special business development, without spending too much resources on the production issuer, the related industries will naturally send sky-high authorization fees.

Therefore, when George Lucas produced the Star Wars prequel trilogy, he once said bluntly, I don't care about the box office at all.

Only after integrating theater box office, TV broadcasting, DVD and Blu-ray discs, original soundtracks, video on demand, toys and video games and other derivative product licensing and development, can it truly and completely reflect the achievements of Hollywood commercial films.

If you only look at the box office, it is simply a joke to estimate the value of Hollywood companies and systems. (to be continued ~^~)

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