Made in Hollywood

While the Chinese box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is growing by leaps and bounds, the North American box office is relatively slowing down. Attendance rates are constantly falling.

Six weeks after its release in North American theaters, the North American box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" reached $1.08427 billion.

There is no doubt that this film has already sat on the throne of the box office champion of North American film history.

Due to the strength and popularity of the Chinese market, the overseas box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" also exceeded the 1.5 billion US dollar mark in one fell swoop.

As a result, the film's global box office total is close to 2.6 billion US dollars.

"The first director in history with a box office of 20 billion US dollars is officially born, and the whole world comes to worship Duke Rosenberg!"

Almost at the same time, the "Los Angeles Times" published such news on the front page, and the media in the United States and even the whole world focused their attention on Duke. This is something that no one has ever done since the birth of the movie. passed.

James Cameron can't, George Lucas can't, Steven Spielberg can't, Stanley Kubrick can't!

Perhaps in some people's eyes, Duke's films have nothing to do with art, but no one can deny that he is the leader of global pop culture!

Just one month after the first $20 billion box office director in history was officially born, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" took in nearly $300 million from all regions in North America and overseas, thus pushing the global box office past $2.9 billion.

"New York Times", "Time Magazine", "Los Angeles Times" and "Washington Post" have issued special issues for this.

"Duke Rosenberg has collected all personal box office records, North American single film box office records and global single film box office records. He has already stood at the pinnacle of commercial films!"

"Combining thousands of records, Duke Rosenberg created a miraculous brilliance!"

"Looking at the whole world, looking at the history of film, there is no other great film director like Duke Rosenberg!"

"The king of commercial films in the world, Duke Rosenberg is well-deserved!"

Most of the North American media took out all the most gorgeous words of praise, and directly piled on the name Duke Rosenberg.

Numerous facts in the past have also proved that Duke deserves their praise.

Just like what the North American media said, few people would object to Duke being the king of commercial films nowadays. As for those voices who said that the films he made had no artistic content, Duke himself didn’t care at all, and he never made films Aim for art.

Art has never been the deciding factor in the success or failure of a Hollywood movie.

It is undeniable that the box office performance is definitely not the criterion for judging a movie is good or bad, but the box office represents too much in Hollywood.

Although in the latest list of Oscar nominations, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" only won a few technical nominations such as best visual effects, in the important awards of best screenplay, best photography, best film and best director Nothing, but the film's insanely high box office numbers are already destined to be the most influential films of 2014 and 2015, and it is definitely not one of them.

As the old year passed and the new year passed slowly, the major media also took stock of last year's Hollywood and released films. In the "New York Times", "Los Angeles Times", "Washington Post" and "Washington Post" the United States three Among the top ten films of the year selected by major newspapers, as well as magazines such as "Rolling Stone", "Empire", "Entertainment Weekly" and "Time Weekly", "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has undoubtedly occupied the first place location of the name.

The media will always be biased, but in the voting for the best movie of the year launched by instant sharing, 18.76 million users participated in this vote. In the final statistics, a total of 14.38 million users chose "Star Wars: The Force" Awakening", which fully proves the status of this film among ordinary audiences.

Compared with the Oscar statuette who has no attraction to Duke, Duke pays more attention to the reactions of these ordinary audiences. After all, no matter how good the professional reputation is, those people will not pay an extra dollar for the box office and peripherals of the film, but Ordinary viewers are the ones who are really willing to spend money to consume this film.

"According to incomplete statistics..."

Tina Fey sat across from the desk at Duke, Warner Studios, flipping through a statistical report, and said, "As of last weekend, the North American box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" was close to breaking through 11. With an overseas box office approaching $1.9 billion, this weekend should be the first film in film history to gross more than $3 billion."

Duke's eyes kept looking out of the window. The sun outside was exceptionally bright, even a little blazing. This year's Oscar Awards Ceremony is about to be held. Although he also received an invitation letter, he has no interest in participating. More, but how to further develop the potential of the Star Wars series and the Marvel series, which is about to finish the second phase in May.

Indeed, with his current wealth and status, he can choose to retire early and live the rest of his life easily.

But anyone who knows a little bit about him will know that this is definitely not Duke's choice.

In Duke's eyes, life is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.

Besides, he was only in his forties, far from retirement.

Withdrawing his gaze, Duke turned the swivel chair slightly, returned to the desk, looked at Tina Fey, and asked, "What about the surrounding area? Do you have the latest statistics?"

"Sales growth in peripherals is also slowing down..."

Tina Fey's words did not surprise Duke. It is already late March, and the single-day North American box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has fallen below one million dollars. Although the weekly sales of peripheral products are not as good as The box office has been falling all the way since the beginning of March, but it has gradually declined since November last year.

Of course, even if the peripheral products of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" can no longer be sold from now on, the sales that have been generated are quite a terrifying figure.

"As of last weekend..." Tina Fey never stopped talking, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens' peripherals and licenses have achieved about 2.3 billion US dollars in revenue in North America alone, and various overseas peripherals Combined with licensing revenue, it’s close to $2 billion.”

Although these peripherals and authorizations also include parts of the Star Wars trilogy and the prequel trilogy, the pulling effect of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is beyond doubt.

Duke was obviously in a good mood, tapping his fingers on the table, "How is the negotiation with the actors going?"

"It's going well overall." Tina Fey said after thinking for a while, "Charles has already negotiated the salary with Daniel Wu, and Daisy Ridley has basically reached a consensus..."

Compared with Walt Disney in the past, the new Star Wars trilogy that Duke obtained the copyright will be released at a rate of three years, although "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is far from being released. The preparatory work of the film was put on the agenda by Lucasfilm, and the first thing to be done was the salary issue of the new iron triangle of Daisy Ridley, Daniel Wu and Oscar Isaac.

In the "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" crew, Harrison Ford's salary is dozens of times that of the three new actors. After his character was killed by Duke without hesitation, this situation will no longer happen. And after experiencing "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", Daisy Ridley, Daniel Wu and Oscar Isaac are no longer the unknown people before, especially Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu, it is not an exaggeration to describe him as popular nowadays.

Daisy Ridley and Daniel Wu's new contracts have increased their salaries by a full six times compared to their previous salaries of less than half a million dollars. This is unavoidable. After all, filming is a commercial collaboration .

"And..." Tina Fey said again at this time, "Harrison Ford seems to have some problems with you and Lucasfilm."

Duke waved his hand indifferently, "Don't worry about him."

In "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", Duke killed Han Solo due to salary reasons. Harrison Ford actually had some opinions on him, and the cooperation between Lucasfilm and Harrison Ford is not only the planet The Great War series, and the Raiders of the Lost Ark series.

After Star Wars was restarted and achieved great success, the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series was naturally put on the agenda by Lucasfilm, and the core characters of this series are undoubtedly Dr. Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford Almost the voice of Dr. Indiana Jones.

For the same reason, Harrison Ford will certainly not let go of the lion's opportunity to speak up, which is also his right, but the rejuvenation of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series is an inevitable trend, and it also meets the requirements of the market trend.

So, it's not a big deal that neither Duke nor Lucasfilm used Harrison Ford's idea, and the new Raiders of the Lost Ark series could be about some of the young adventures of Dr. Indiana Jones story.

Duke personally finalized the new Dr. Indiana Jones actor - Chris Pratt.

As for what Harrison? Ford will think and say, Duke and Lucasfilm will not give a damn.

The latest decisions have been transmitted to all aspects of the Duke industry through the hands of Tina Fey, especially the film and television industry, such as the Marvel series, Star Wars series, Raiders of the Lost Ark series, etc., will continue to develop their own money-making journey.

Finally, when Tina Fey stood up and was about to leave, she suddenly remembered something, opened her handbag, and put a beautifully wrapped Tiffany gift box on the desk, "I almost forgot, this is just sent by Tiffany .”

Duke took it over and looked at it, "Is the ring set?" (To be continued~^~)