Director’s Legend

() In two and a half weeks, the box office in Asia was 400 million yuan. This is not the end of "imax-3d Yupu Tuan".

It was released in Australia for a week with 1.1 million Australian dollars, setting a box office record for a Chinese-language film in Australia. There has never been a Chinese-language film in Australia with a box office of more than 1 million Australian dollars. It was released in Italy for a week, with a cumulative audience of 170,000 and a box office of 700,000 euros, undoubtedly setting the best record for Chinese-language films in Italy.

It was released in Russia for a week and a half, with 800,000 viewers and 120 million rubles, which is the undoubted box office champion of Chinese-language movies in Russia. It was released in New Zealand for a week, with a weekend box office of 156,000 New Zealand dollars and a cumulative box office of 180,000. It ranked third this week, setting the best opening score for a Chinese-language film in New Zealand.

France, Peru, Germany, Thailand, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Turkey, all regions where "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" was released have created considerable momentum.

Sweeping from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, blasting from the eastern hemisphere to the western hemisphere, under the impact of imax-3d, the film once again achieved a box office of 80 million yuan in Asia, and a total of 160 million yuan outside Asia. The global box office is ** billion yuan, which is about to break the 100 million US dollar mark.

A romantic film worth 100 million US dollars, before it was released, no one could believe it!

Even Shao Shuaijun opened his mouth in disbelief. The film investment is not small, but it is only ranked first in China, with more than 100 million yuan. It is placed in Hollywood and around the world. This is a shoddy imax-3d movie.

He knew that in the future, an "Avatar" with a mediocre plot would achieve the miracle of being the world's box office champion by relying on perfect viewing effects. But it was a super production that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. It took several years. It adopted the world's most advanced imax-3d technology and facial expression capture technology. It was shot and produced in a virtual studio. The picture is smooth, natural, clear and bright enough, and the effect is several times that of "imax-3d Yupu Tuan".

Although they are all called imax-3d, it looks like one is in the sky and the other is in the ground. If it is released after "Avatar", it will definitely be killed in seconds, but the problem is that the schedule of "Avatar" is determined to be this year's Christmas file. Without "Avatar" for comparison, "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" is the top version of the current viewing effect.

So, everything must be the first!

After being screened in various parts of the world, in mid-May, the prelude to the summer season in North America kicked off. Previously, "X-Men Prequel: Wolverine", which was released on May 1, continued to raze the box office. "Star Trek 11", which was released on May 8, also performed well. One series can have 11 sequels, which itself is a guarantee of box office.

On May 15th, "Angels and Demons", a sister chapter of "The Da Vinci Code", was released, which is also the time when "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" landed in the United States. Because of the reimbursement contract signed with imax, "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" will not only be screened in ordinary theaters in North America, but will also be screened in most of the imax theaters in North America.

"Bang Ran" basically bid farewell to mainstream theaters and handed over the baton to Fengyue Films.

Three days later, the box office came out.

"Angels and Demons" is not that strong with 46 million US dollars, but it still topped Zhou's box office champion. "Star Trek 11" continued to be popular in the second week, occupying the second place with 43 million US dollars, and the sequel with 140 million US dollars in two weeks was guaranteed again. And the two-week box office has almost caught up with the three-week results of "Wolverine".

This made Shao Shuaijun a little happier. Once the "X-Men" series stopped selling well, 20th Century Fox's enthusiasm for superhero movies would definitely decline. Twentieth Century Fox took the most of the superheroes under Marvel Comics, so it was relatively easy to get them back.

And the third place is "imax-3d Yupu Tuan", with 21 million US dollars, which is not so popular. But this is also the best weekend performance of Chinese-language films in North America this year. Of that, $8.2 million was provided by IMAX theaters. This also allowed the global box office of this romantic film to exceed 830 million yuan.

According to the latest exchange rate of USD 6.825, "imax-3d Jade Pu Tuan" has reached a total global box office of 120 million US dollars, surpassing "Pounding Heart", becoming the highest-grossing movie under the Chasing Dream Entertainment Group. Bai Jifei, the former Xiasan Road director, is a member of the Directors Club with a $100 million box office.

From May 22nd to 24th, the North American box office of "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" dropped by more than 60%, and the weekend box office was less than 9 million. Among them, 7.5 million is provided by imax theaters and 3D theaters. Ordinary audiences are not interested in this movie. After the first week, few people choose to watch movies. All the seats in ordinary theaters are empty, but for the imax-3d effect But it is very popular.

So, in regular theaters, the movie goes down after two weeks. The imax theaters will show them one after another for several months or even years. After all, there are not many imax-3D movies in the world.

In this way, on a global journey, Bai Jifei, who was proud of "imax-3", immediately proposed a second film plan to Golden Harvest.

He is going to start filming "imax-3d Jin Ping Mei"!

However, Shao Shuaijun dispelled his idea. Chasing Dream Entertainment will no longer invest a lot of money in Fengyue movies. This movie can be sold well because "Avatar" has not been born, and it is unrealistic to follow the trend and shoot high-tech Fengyue movies. . However, although the imax-3d version was not passed, the plan of "3D Jin Ping Mei" was reached.

In addition, "3d All the Way West" and "3d Yupu Tuan 2" are planned at the same time. Of these two romantic films, one is a modern urban theme and the other is a sequel. However, while relying on Fengyue movies to make a lot of money, Chasing Dream Golden Harvest will inevitably encounter a lot of criticism from the society.

For this reason, Shao Shuaijun compromised.

Under Dream Chasing Golden Harvest, a leather bag company has been specially established, a 3D technology film innovation Chao stream entertainment production company. The production of all Fengyue films will be done by this company, and Chasing Dream Golden Harvest is just an investment. In fact, it is just a change of thinking, wearing a fig leaf, and there is no change in essence.

If it is said that the previous filming of "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" was a bit of Shao Shuaijun's bad taste, and in order to reserve imax-3d technology. It is not Shao Shuaijun's wish to shoot now. The directors of the company are crazy about it, and Shao Shuaijun can't object.

April and May passed, and "Pounding Heartbeat" and "imax-3d Yupu Tuan" each handed in perfect answers.

In June, another movie "Dancing Out of My Life 3" under Summit Entertainment was released. At the same time, the postponed release of the 2009 Forbes Global Billionaires List was announced. Because of the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis, Forbes postponed the release of the list, which was originally released in March and postponed to June.

"Forbes" actually lists the world's richest people with assets exceeding one billion dollars every year. This year's subprime mortgage crisis has led to the shrinking of many rich people's assets. The number of people on the list has shrunk from 1,125 last year to 794 this year. Bill Gates once again became the richest man in the world with US$40 billion.

Stock god Warren Buffett came in second with US$37 billion, and Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim Helu came in third with US$35 billion.

Shao Shuaijun landed on Forbes for the first time, ranking 40th with US$9.8 billion, equivalent to RMB 66.8 billion. This data ranks the third wealthiest person in China after Li Chaoren in Hong Kong with US$16.2 billion and the Guo family in Hong Kong with US$10.5 billion. However, Forbes also noted in the list that Shao Shuaijun's assets are only valuations, because Shao Shuaijun's holdings in Summit Entertainment and Golden Harvest have undergone a series of complicated conversions, and it is difficult to define how many shares he holds.

In order to balance the data, Shao Shuaijun, under the suggestion of his elder sister, registered his shares in n a number of offshore shell companies, crossed and weakened many times, and became less conspicuous in the entire Dream Chasing Entertainment Group. No matter how he makes money in the future, his total assets will be stable at the figure of 10 billion.

Neither conspicuous nor overly modest, he won the golden mean. In fact, his shares have not been weakened too much, and his total assets are estimated to have reached 15 billion US dollars.

In the words of the media, it was originally expected that Shao Shuaijun would become the richest man in China, but he did not expect to be so far behind. If it weren't for the economic crisis in the real estate industry, Shao Shuaijun's title as the richest man in the Mainland would not have been maintained. However, they can hide the data, but they can't hide it from the eyes of professionals. Many financial institutions don't believe that Shao Shuaijun's wealth is so small, but they can't produce evidence to prove that Shao Shuaijun is rich.

In the words of financial people, Chasing Dream Entertainment Group is a company with a relatively concentrated shareholding among all large listed companies. Neither Golden Harvest Dream nor Summit Entertainment's holdings have gone through too much trading and circulation. The market value of these two listed companies is about to reach 100 billion yuan, and they are the best-performing companies in the economic crisis. How can Shao Shuaijun's assets Just evaporated suddenly?

There is something tricky in it, financial people sighed.

However, the data is here, and the suspicion does not work. Shao Shuaijun only has 9.8 billion US dollars.

Just after the storm of rich people, the North American summer box office in June has entered a white-hot stage. The box office of "Dancing Out of My Life 3" is the same as the previous two. But there are not many, the plan for the sequel is naturally put forward persistently, and it will come again next summer.

Then, Summit Entertainment's most important movie of the year, "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" began to be scheduled for release. Compared with the previous few films this year, which only cost more than 100 million yuan, the stated goal of "Eclipse" is to have a global box office of no less than 600 million US dollars!

On June 25, 2009, Shao Shuaijun was cleaning the weeds in the yard with Li Xiuxiu in his villa in Santa Monica. A piece of news came that cast a layer of gray on the world.

The king of pop music, American singer, dancer, performer, philanthropist, musician, humanitarian, and pacifist Michael Jackson passed away suddenly at the age of 50 due to an overdose of sedative administered by his personal doctor.

At this moment, Jackson is the sole focus of the global media!

"Mj's departure is a loss for the world, and I mourn deeply." Shao Shuaijun expressed regret on the scarf. (To be continued.)