Chapter 344: Start to fight back and regain lost ground
A year later, the "billion-million era" was once again mentioned by major Hollywood media, and this word is finally no longer a word that Chen Tiandu enjoys alone.
Sony was so happy that Jeff Black, general manager of his global marketing and distribution department, said: "A year ago, when people thought the $120 million set by Speed was an insurmountable obstacle, Spider-Man accomplished the miracle on the first premiere weekend of this summer. Although it was still a bit different from Speed 1, I don't think it was a release record in film history that could not be broken."
A reporter asked him, "How did you see the difference between Speed's premiere of $123 million and Spider-Man's premiere of $114 million?"
Jeff Black said proudly: "Many people have discussed this matter. In my opinion, the box office of "Speed" is due to Chen Tiandu's reputation and a strong marketing strategy hailed as a classic promotional case. "Spider-Man" has a broader audience base and a good reputation. We should go further than "Speed".
This is regarded as a challenge to last year's annual box office champion "Fast and Furious", and the reporter wanted to find Chen Tian and responded, but could not contact him. Only some loyal fans of "speed" were sticking to it, "break the record, wait until "Spider-Man" breaks 400 million."
But no one expected that "Spider-Man" really had the potential to break 4.
The new member of the superhero family, released in 3,615 theaters, has an average box office revenue of $31,535 per theater. Compared to the films released in 3,000 or more theaters, this is a new record, surpassing the original record of $7,000 per theater set by Harry Potter.
"Spider-Man" also became the second movie to spend the shortest time to reach $100 million in box office, surpassing the original "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars Prequel: The Ghost Threat". Both movies took five days to reach $15 million in box office revenue.
The most mentioned thing along with the "billion-million-era era" is the superhero era.
A "era of superheroes" belonging to the comics may begin.
The popularity of "Spider-Man" has also made more people jealous, and more production companies turn their attention to other well-known American comic companies. But looking back, I suddenly found that several major comic companies have all belonged to them.
Even Universal announced the high-profile announcement that it had begun to create a live-action movie "Hulk". 20th Century Fox also announced that it would launch a sequel to "X-Men" and a "Fantastic Four" movie, which has been launched. It is seeking a suitable producer.
There are more and more speculations about comic superheroes, and filmmakers with a little bit of insight can see the future advantages of superheroes. It seems that it is predictable that in no time, the entire United States will no longer be the world of Superman and Batman, and there will be various superhero movies one after another.
The biggest regret among film companies is that Marvel was acquired by Chen Tiandu, who was keen on the keen eye in advance.
According to gossip, Disney finally reached a belated unified opinion and issued an acquisition offer to Marvel again, but this time it started with several small shareholders of Marvel and then issued an acquisition offer to Marvel's current boss matrix.
This is the second time that someone has issued a counter-acquisition invitation since the Matrix swept the banknotes at the beginning of the year.
The first time was Warner Group. It wanted to acquire the matrix once and for all, but Chen Tiandu refused. This time it was Disney, and even once offered $600 million to acquire Marvel. If the matrix agreed to the deal, they would make 200 million more after a change of hands. Disney also paid the price for its arrogance, which was nearly twice as high as Chen Tiandu's acquisition of Marvel.
As a popular item this year, the matrix is unique.
"The smartest deal, earning $200 million in three months." The Wall Street Journal relied on this acquisition invitation.
"After Warner's bid for the acquisition price of Matrix for US$1.3 billion at the beginning of the year, Matrix has once again become a hot commodity. After delisting, Marvel can no longer determine its market value, but it can still refer to the stock price three months ago. This offer is equivalent to three months after Chen Tiandu took over Marvel, and after three months of planning adjustment, the stock rose by 40%!"
"Christmas Chen has become a golden hand in film and television companies, making a half-dead old company rejuvenate in a blink of an eye."
"According to this quote, Chen Tiandu's assets in Matrix Movies have reached US$1.5 billion. Including the growing Google Shares, his total assets have roughly exceeded US$2 billion, becoming the most profitable Hollywood star in recent years! Especially since he is only 27 years old, at this age, history is nothing better than he does."
This report was widely reprinted by domestic media, Hong Kong media and Wanwan media, which are keen on pursuing digital.
Many Chinese people are seriously calculating, 2 billion US dollars = how much Hong Kong dollars? = how much soft sister coins?
The exchange rate of US dollar RMB in 2002 was 1:8.5, equivalent to 16 billion soft-grand money, and these do not include the growing real estate and theater companies in other countries.
"Oh my God, is it so easy to be a rich man? It's only $2 billion in just a few years."
"What a shit Forbes, why did my great god's ranking not rise last year? Where did your data come from?"
Forbes also complained that $2 billion is definitely overestimating its value. After all, the three major companies in Chen Tiandu’s hands have not been listed yet, and assets cannot be simply converted into US dollars. Moreover, China’s national conditions are complex, and Matrix Real Estate is too open, making it even more difficult to count the invisible income. They also invited Chen Tiandu’s father Chen Yonghe for an interview, but they were rejected without any suspense. They could only roughly estimate it, but they still didn’t expect Matrix Company to be so popular, which caused the two giants to quote them high prices this year, and they were rejected.
The outside world seems to have begun to recognize Disney's offer, a business that is stable and profitable.
However, this offer was rejected by several Marvel shareholders. As insiders, they knew very well that the "Marvel Universe" movie plan has officially started. Chen Tian owns 80% of the shares, and the remaining 20% of the small shareholders share, which is basically a one-man show.
Especially after the acquisition, he invested $150 million to launch the "Marvel Universe Plan". Other shareholders have invested money and it is really no benefit to deal with major shareholders. Unless they really plan to sell their shares. But when they held a shareholders' meeting and learned about this plan list, they were very happy. They are all optimistic about this plan. How could they ignore the long-term for the short-term benefits in the middle?
Wall Street is also talking about Chen Tiandu’s acquisition of Marvel, which is really far-sighted.
He is talking about him, movies, companies, scandals, girlfriends, etc. Chen Tiandu is not in Hollywood now, but Hollywood always talks about him, and he feels a sense of coolness that "there is not in the world, but there is still my legend in the world."
However, the stage still belongs to "Spider-Man", and there are no other blockbusters released this weekend and next weekend. "Star Wars" will be launched on May 16. "Spider-Man" also has a broad stage to show off his skills.
The other two new films released last weekend have average results. The street gangster drama "The Wild Devil" starring Matt Dillon ranked 7th on the box office rankings with a box office of $2.7 million. The film was released in 1,480 theaters, and the average box office revenue of each theater is less than $1,824.
The big director Woody Allen, who wants to marry his daughter, ranks 10th on the list with "The House of Trembling". The film was released in 765 theaters and achieved a total of $2.2 million in box office revenue, with an average box office revenue of $2,876 per theater.
The results of this list are equivalent to the top 12 films, which have achieved a total of US$153.3 million in box office revenue, almost making "Spider-Man" account for three-quarters of the box office revenue of the top 12 films.
——It’s really amazing!
The ubiquitous marketing and the comic readers group established over the past 40 years are pleasing to the eye-catching action arrangement and visual effects, coupled with an extremely ordinary legend and an alien young man, which makes "Spider-Man" attract fans around the world. Jeff Black said: "The ratio of male and female audiences and audiences around 25 years old is roughly halfway."
"This is a very common story that everyone can be involved in. He is a completely misunderstood guy. No one can recognize him. He just wants to do something good. He is not a hero from Krypton planet, but just an ordinary member of us."
The success of "Spider-Man" heralds the prosperity of Hollywood throughout the summer. It has lived up to expectations and once again plundered $130 million in the next week, becoming the box office record that surpassed "Speed" the next week. In the third week, the latest Star Wars film "Star Wars Prequel 2: The Clones' Attack", which won $116.3 million in four days after it was released, becoming the third fastest film to reach $100 million after "Speed" and the fastest box office after "Spider-Man".
"Spider-Man" fell to second place on the box office list in the third weekend after its release, but still achieved a good result of $46 million. The film has achieved a total of $286.5 million in box office revenue in 17 days since its release. By the next weekend, "Spider-Man" will launch an impact on a $400 million box office result and is expected to squeeze into the top five box office revenue in film history.
This result has come from behind, surpassing "Fast and Furious", causing countless "speed" fans to fall into a resentful but helpless conflict. Because "Spider-Man" is a superhero who has grown up with them since childhood.
As time officially entered the summer vacation, Chen Tiandu finally took action and regained his own country.
"The Matrix 3: The Matrix Revolution" is here, and as the ending song of this series, it has officially entered the ranks of publicity and will officially land in the global film industry on May 30.
Chapter completed!