After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

With the title of Kevin's most loyal dog-legged film critic, although he is notorious in the circle of film critics, no film critics are willing to deal with him.

But he did not accept the invitations from the film company and the manuscripts from the newspaper.

Over the past few years, he has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars, changed his car and house, and even changed his children's schools. It can be said that he has reached the pinnacle of his life.

Chapter 244 Global Release

Driven by countless forces, Spider-Man's box office did not drop much in the next four days after three days, and gained another 4000 million US dollars in box office.

Within a week of its release, Spider-Man won an astonishing box office of 9000 million. According to the normal commercial film cycle, Kevin can still earn three weeks of box office money.

There is no way, in the special time of summer when time is money, even if Spider-Man is released for a month, it will be the best.

On the eighth day, the box office began to see a significant decline.

The single-day box office fell below the 3000 million figure, and only 960 million box office was obtained.

The theater chains began to reduce the number of films and adjust the proportion of accounts at the same time.

The promotion of Spider-Man has also begun to slow down.

Next, we can only rely on the previous publicity, as well as various word-of-mouth from the audience and film critics, to slowly exert our strength.

However, Chenxi Movie, after recovering the cost, can look at the next box office data with a smile.

At the same time, they also began to communicate with overseas channels. As a big-selling movie, it is different from ordinary movies that may be screened in the evening for a month or two.

Time is money, and the sooner it's released, the better.

With this North American data, Dawn communicated with MGM's various channels, trying to release it globally as soon as possible.

Of course, the channel fee will also be distributed to MGM normally.

As a listed company, MGM's every move is subject to supervision and cannot do whatever it wants, but overall, for Kevin, most of the funds are left-handed and right-handed, which makes no difference.

While the company was running, Kevin also started his vacation again.

At present, all the businesses of the company can operate normally on their own, and Kevin only needs to grasp the general direction.

Spider-Man is making efforts in the overseas market, and Marvel is also stepping up its progress, taking advantage of this wave of popularity, to promote the spread of Marvel's other IPs.

At the same time, MGM's promotion of Harry Potter has not stopped.

From the beginning of IP creation to casting, the overall hype has lasted for a full year, and it has also pushed the little magician of Harry Potter in front of people all over the world.

People outside the English-speaking countries may not know Harry Potter very well, but they have heard about this project from various media reports.

In English-speaking countries, Harry Potter is known to be noisy because of casting activities.

Indirectly spreading the reputation of the Harry Potter IP, it cost at least 3000 to [-] million US dollars in marketing expenses.

For the Harry Potter project, both MGM and Dawn Films have done their best.

As a listed company, MGM has been questioned by some shareholders.

President Leiter was put on the shelf.

If Harry Potter fails in this project, there is a high probability that he will be blamed.

However, as a project promoted by Steve Kevin, Leiter is still full of optimistic thoughts.

Kevin said hello to Leiter, and two months later he started filming Harry Potter, and then he started his retreat trip.

As for why not start shooting right away and rush to the Christmas file.

In addition to the tight time, it is easy to affect the quality.

It is also very important that the Titanic's schedule is in the Christmas file.

This Christmas file is destined to have only one king, and everyone else will be its cannon fodder. Kevin has no idea of ​​joining in the fun.

And the results of the Titanic, only he knows.

At present, investors, including investors, are not optimistic about the movie Titanic.

There is no way, romance films are indeed easy to produce classics, but it is very difficult to make a big hit at the box office.

Even for those classic romance films, compared with real commercial masterpieces, the box office is far behind.

Having said that, I have to talk about James Cameron's chicken thief.

First, use a medium cost to attract investors.

When the shooting starts, the money is almost running out, so I'm sorry, let's invest more.

If you don't add it, it means that all the previous investment is scrapped. In desperation, the investor has to bring other people to invest together to share the risk.

This kind of thing can only be done by great directors.

There is no way, little director, the producer will control you tightly, there will be no chance of exceeding the budget at all.

Great directors are also considered privileged.

But even so, James Cameron's behavior is too outrageous.

It can be expected that once the box office of Titanic fails, James Cameron will inevitably be blacklisted by these big film companies.

To know Titanic, the investors at this time are Fox and Paramount, two giant film companies.

Among them, Fox chose to let Paramount enter the investment because it was not optimistic about the Titanic.

Share the risk.

Of course, in the future, how much Fox regrets this is another matter.

But in short, although the Titanic has already started to set the promotion in advance, but in view of the general situation that romance movies are popular but not popular.

Other studios aren't afraid of it.

And the Christmas schedule lacks the movies of their most feared enemy, Steve Kevin.

If you don't take advantage of this Christmas schedule to take a breather, you will have to wait until next year's summer vacation to be ravaged by Steve Kevin's new movie again.

Just thinking about it, these film companies' scalps are numb, and they are all preparing to put their important works on the Christmas file, so as to make up for the various losses caused by Spider-Man's domination of the summer file.

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Kevin's vacation does not affect the popularity of Spider-Man.

Half a month after it was released in the United States, Spider-Man began to land in the world one after another.

First of all, the basic set of Hollywood, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, as well as a series of EU countries, Spider-Man was released very smoothly.

These countries, eroded by Hollywood movies, have long been distorted from their original appearance and become the shape of Hollywood.

Basically, movies that sell well in Hollywood can also achieve good box office results in these regions, especially commercial blockbusters.

The second is the box office granary of Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

Although the overall size of these countries is small, their economies are taking off rapidly. With a small market, they can break out box office results that are no less than those of big countries, which is a must for Hollywood.

Of course, after so many years of development of MGM, these channels have already been opened up.

This is the biggest reason why Kevin bought MGM.

For overseas channels.

Without these channels, even if Spider-Man can earn more than one billion US dollars at the box office, most of the profits will be divided by theaters and channels.

But now, if you go through your own channels.

If Kevin can achieve a box office of one billion dollars, Kevin can get half of the profit. This is actually an exaggeration, and the cost has been reduced to the lowest level.

Chapter 245 Taking Over and Superman Released

In the end, it is the mainland.

It coincides with the summer holiday season. Although the mainland has not yet cultivated the concept of schedule, some filmmakers also instinctively choose to send their films to theaters during this period.

During this period, when Hollywood movies entered the mainland, they were subject to strict censorship.

In terms of the ideas expressed by most American movies, it is actually very difficult to pass the censorship. The elements shown by Americans in the movies are too out of place in the mainland.

But Kevin's Spider-Man, once sent for review, passed as quickly as possible.

After confirming that there are no elements that are not suitable for children, and some private goods, Spider-Man directly entered the mainland in just three days.

This inevitably surprised many filmmakers, who wondered if there was any special preferential treatment for Kevin.

With this special preferential treatment, although the person in charge of communication didn't know exactly what happened, they also grabbed 50.00% of the film schedule among the current theaters.

This amount of film schedule will be adjusted later according to the specific film attendance rate, word-of-mouth, etc.

But obviously, with this amount of films scheduled, Spider-Man is destined to dominate the mainland this summer.

This is exactly what Continental gave to Kevin.

The mainland can be regarded as buying horse bones with a lot of money. Through the profit sharing, more American directors will know that they can earn more dollars by pleasing the mainland.

It can also be regarded as one of the strategies of external publicity.

After entering the mainland market, it means that Spider-Man has begun to be released globally.

Chenxi Film Company is also constantly collecting all the data.

The situation is very gratifying.

Relying on the confidence of being a big hit in the United States, Spider-Man's box office can be said to have swept the world, occupying the current box office champion in every place.

Chenxi Film Company, it can be said that it is about to count the money until the hand cramp.

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a few days later.

Inside Warner Bros.

Robinov called the meeting as usual.

The theme is how the movie Superman Reborn can take advantage of the popularity of Spider-Man.

The astonishing box office of Spider-Man once again made Warner's people drool crazily.

If it were any other film company, I would be envious if I were envious. If I want to remake it, there is no such condition.

Only Warner is different.

You must know that although Spiderman is very famous in the United States, he is no bigger than Batman and Superman.

Compared with Batman and Superman, Spiderman is a younger brother.

Watching Spider-Man sweep all the movies in the summer block.

Looking at the Superman that had been filmed in their hands, they couldn't hold it any longer.

"Everyone, the promotion of Superman will start soon."

"Spider-Man will be released in a week. With the popularity of Spider-Man, it is also a superhero movie. The theaters are very interested in it. They are going to wait for Spider-Man to be released, and then they will use the empty film schedule. , Most of them are handed over to us.”

The executive responsible for communicating with the theater had a joyful look on his face.

Although Superman is also a big IP, he has disappeared from the market for nine years. Except for comics, TV series and movies have not seen him for a long time.

In addition, although the director is also well-known and has directed several movies with good box office, it is obviously not comparable to Steve Kevin.

They originally planned that it would be great to be able to release the film with a 30.00% schedule.

Unexpectedly, the big sales of Spider-Man made the theaters very optimistic about Superman, and they were going to let Superman directly inherit most of the films that Spider-Man retired.

Coupled with a theater chain owned by Warner Bros., the total film schedule can easily reach 60.00%.

Judging from this film schedule, Superman with an investment of [-] million US dollars.

As long as you can get half of Spider-Man's box office results, you can make a lot of money. At this time, no matter which executives at Warner, they are very optimistic about whether Superman can succeed.

Before this time, they were not idle.

Carefully dissected all the successful elements of the Batman Dark Knight, and then reproduced these elements into Superman.

Together, the Batman films have grossed over a billion dollars.

They don't have high requirements, half of Spiderman's, a global box office of [-] million US dollars is enough, that is, a box office score slightly lower than that of Batman's single movie, it is considered a success.

With good expectations, the promotion of Superman before the release has once again intensified.