Global Monopoly of Technology

On May 5, five days after the release of "Iron Man".

North America, Marvel.

"What did you say? Say it again? $211 million at the global box office?" Kevin Feige opened his eyes wide and grabbed his assistant's arms excitedly.

"Yes, BOSS, it took 'Iron Man' only 5 days to make $211 million worldwide at the box office," his assistant repeated.

"OMG!! OMG!!!" Kevin Feige flipped open the hands holding the opponent's arm, and then held his head with both hands and grabbed the hair on his head.

In the past few days, since the premiere of "Iron Man", Kevin Feige has not paid attention to the box office and warned his assistants not to report to him.

Because he is also afraid of getting an unacceptable number, once the box office fails, the Marvel Cinematic Universe plan may be difficult to give birth, and even the danger of stillbirth exists.

Until today, Kevin finally couldn't help but ask.

But the numbers he got made him unbelievable, and the good grades made him unable to find Bei for a while.

Hollywood and the film industry are already in a frenzy, and even Wall Street and the capital circle can't sit still. Bluestar Technology Group and Luo Sheng have dug up the treasure again, and once again conquered the world with their unparalleled foresight and vision.

Disney is about to fry and regret it, why didn't they take action in the first place?

There is no doubt that another non-sequel comic hero has taken off on the box office charts, and this is the opening film of this year's summer season - "Iron Man" produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount.

From April 30th to May 4th, it took only 5 days for Robert Downey Jr.'s new film to get a global box office of 211 million US dollars, which not only reborn Marvel Nirvana, but also let Downey welcome Here comes the turning point of life.

Among them, the North American box office of the film was 114 million US dollars, and the overseas box office was 97 million US dollars, which greatly exceeded the predictions and expectations of the box office experts of the distribution company Paramount and the world's major media.

For Hollywood, this result means more, during the opening week of "Iron Man", a film industry insider commented on this: "We have just experienced an extremely bad spring season, but "Iron Man" Proof that audiences still go to the cinema.”

Hollywood couldn't get a better summer opening score than this one.

A senior Paramount manager made no secret of his ecstasy, responding to a media interview: "Iron Man beat Will Smith and Jesus."

He's referring to the fact that "Iron Man" outperformed last year's Will Smith's "I Am Legend" and Mel Gibson's "Passion of Christ," both top-grossing films, but "Iron Man" was even better.

The senior Paramount manager also said that at an internal Paramount meeting, several people boldly predicted that "Iron Man" would make between $80 million and $90 million in the premiere, and they were met with to the ridicule of others.

Marvel is in a frenzy right now, and all the pressure is relieved.

The film "Iron Man" has bet almost everything in Marvel. It started preparations in 2005, and this year has always kept people like Kevin Feige up at night, always worried about the tragic ending of the collapse.

But all this has changed with the explosion of the film's box office. The success of "Iron Man" has undoubtedly given Marvel an unprecedented confidence, and now it is backed by an IT giant, which is a double guarantee.

Judging from the success of "Iron Man" at the box office, it seems that Marvel sold itself to the Bluestar Technology Group at a big loss, but Avi Arad and other Marvel executives do not feel sorry, and Bluestar Technology also has to bear that. Risk of film failure.

It can only be said that some people deserve to make a lot of money, and as long as the grand plan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is successful, it will not lose.

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"From now on, I'm afraid that the projects you like won't be so easy to acquire, because there will be many people vying for you. As long as you like it, it will definitely be inserted horizontally. It's almost an alternative weather vane for investment."

In a lounge of the Azure Coast Company, Qin Weimu came here and sat down in the empty seat next to Luo Sheng, who was eating a bag of snacks in one hand, and swiping the laptop in front of him to browse the page content in the other hand.

Hearing Qin Weimu's words, Luo Sheng replied casually, "Do you want to be so metaphysical? How dare you treat me as a Buffalo?"

At this moment, he is paying attention to the news of Marvel and "Iron Man". The movie has been released for a week, which is not only related to the investment of 16.5 billion yuan in Soft Girl Coin, but also related to the company's top priority streaming media video business content ecology Luo Sheng is still quite concerned about the problem.

Qin Weimu, who was sitting next to him, glanced at him and said, "Have you not read the news? Someone in the investment community has already commented that you are an investment genius born in the non-professional investment field."

Luo Sheng smiled: "I reluctantly accept this title."

Qin Weimu couldn't help but smile.

Luo Sheng's investment in investment is really not that many times. The first one is to buy the hao123 navigation website, then the acquisition of Take Two, V agency and "Poland Stupid Donkey" three game companies, and then bought Blizzard Entertainment, and then the acquisition of Marvel, and the ongoing acquisition of MySQL, the company's M\u0026A negotiations are basically done this month, the contract has been initialed, and the EU is closed. has passed.

Côte d'Azur has acquired Swedish open source database developer MySQL AB for $1.1 billion.

It can be said that Luo Sheng’s investment and merger cases are few and far between, but the success rate is a bit scary. So far, none of the investment cases have been classified as failures, and they have all been great successes. The only uncertainty is MySQL It's a company, and this company can't see the way out, let alone.

That means that the success rate of Luo Sheng's investment and M\u0026A is 100%. One M\u0026A transaction is better than 100 shots made by professional VC investors. This time, the acquisition of Marvel is the most shocking.

Because the front foot completed the merger, "Iron Man" exploded within a few days, making countless VCs feel incredible.

Speaking of Marvel, the current high box office of "Iron Man" still comes from the film's good reputation. On the IMDB voted by fans, this comic-adapted film received an average score of 8.4. For a sci-fi action blockbuster, This is an extremely rare high score.

By comparison, the second highest-scoring episode in the Spider-Man franchise also had a score of 7.8.

The information collected by the movie theaters is roughly the same, with young audiences between the ages of 18 and 24 giving the film that high A+ rating.

The critical film critics also gave almost unanimous praise to the combination of Jon and Downey this time. Among the nearly 200 film reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the positive rate of "Iron Man" is as high as 94%, which is the same as last year's popular review. The well-received "Bourne Bourne 3" is on a par.

Generally speaking, super-grossing films have the best results on their first day of release, as was the case with last year's "Spider-Man 3", while the current hit "Iron Man" has a North American box office of 35.13 million over the weekend and three days. USD 37.5 million and USD 28.12 million, the second day's box office was still higher than the first day, indicating that it was the fermentation of good word of mouth that made the film's Saturday's score higher than Friday's, thus creating a good weekend's box office.

In addition to winning the first weekend of May at the box office, "Iron Man" also squeezed into several other all-time box office charts in one fell swoop.

The film became the tenth-grossing weekend-grossing film of all time, while also being the second-highest non-sequel comic book adaptation, behind 2002's Spider-Man, and making distribution company Paramount's best live-action debut. Screening record.

The only thing that makes Paramount less satisfied is the disparity between the male and female audiences of the film, reaching 71% to 29%, which means that "Iron Man" is still not strong enough to attract female audiences.

In other box office markets except the North American box office, the total score of "Iron Man" $97 million came from 7,500 cinemas in 57 countries, of which the United Kingdom contributed $10.3 million, Mexico $9.6 million, South Korea $7.5 million, and France. 7.1 million US dollars, 7.02 million US dollars in China, 6.2 million US dollars in West extraction, and 6 million US dollars in Brazil.

"Guess what email I got? Kevin Feige sent it to me." Luo Sheng stared at his laptop and opened a private email.

"what?"

Qin Weimu, who was sitting opposite him, looked at him curiously.

Luo Sheng stared at the content of the email on the screen and smiled: "They have already started preparing for "Iron Man 2", and Kevin wants to invite me to make a cameo in the film. After a few seconds of soy sauce, the plot is all arranged. Yes, I acted under my real name, had a few conversations with Tony Stark, and briefly communicated that Bluestar Technology provided Stark Industry with public cloud service support for the big data center... I think I can agree to make this soy sauce."

Speaking of which, the "Iron Man" released in this life has been somewhat different.

The mobile phone used by Tony Stark in the movie is no longer the LG KU950, but the Azure smartphone with a more industrial and technological sense of the Cote d'Azur, because in 2006, this smartphone with a perfect sense of technology and appearance It has been launched, and "Iron Man" was officially filmed at the end of the same year, for which the original script was slightly revised.

Cote d'Azur did not advertise, but Marvel changed it by itself, because as a sci-fi movie, the mobile phone that appeared should also have a futuristic sense, and the Azure mobile phone should appear in the film.

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