Chapter 493 The significance of "The Boomstick"

Chapter 493 The significance of "The Boomstick"

Chapter 493 The significance of "The Boomstick"
"Gao Weiguang is so handsome!"

"He's in great shape!"

“This movie is so cool!”

“Christine is cool too!”

In movie theaters around the world, after the movie "Bad Boys" ends, the audiences who leave the theater often can't wait to start discussing the movie with their friends.

The male lead Gao Weiguang and the female lead Kristen Stewart...

Yes, the actress who plays the heroine "Flying Cat" Jacinta in "Bad Boys" is the new generation Hollywood actress Kristen Stewart.

She can be considered a top-tier actress in Hollywood. She was born in 90 and started appearing in movies at the age of 9, so she is considered a child star.

After that, she continued to appear in commercial and art films, playing many roles, and in 04 she successfully became the leading actress.

However, she really became famous after the release of the movie "Twilight".

This magical romance film released by Summit Entertainment in 2008 immediately pushed her to the position of a popular young actress in Hollywood as soon as it was released.

Especially her later romance with Robert Pattinson in the play made moviegoers and fans feel the reality.

However, in 2012, she was caught having an affair with the married director of "Snow White and the Huntsman" Lu Boshandas behind her boyfriend's back. Her reputation in North America plummeted and her subsequent resources in the industry were greatly reduced.

According to the established timeline, Kristen Stewart would later reveal her unique sexual orientation and then completely disappear from the circle.

However, after Galaxy Group acquired Summit Entertainment before Lionsgate in 2012, "Twilight" was acquired, and Kristen Stewart also entered the vision of Star Culture.

Yes, this girl's reputation in North America suffered a serious blow, but it's actually not that bad. After all, relationships between men and women have always been very open there.

Moreover, her subsequent decline in popularity was, to put it bluntly, only due to cheating on her husband. The main reason was her failure in transforming from an idol to a talented actress.

After filming "Twilight", she deliberately avoided the youth idol route and took on independent films such as "Into the Wild", "Personal Shopper" and "Spencer", challenging marginal roles.

Although this choice was recognized by film critics, by the time she had exhausted her popularity and wanted to make a comeback with commercial films, it was difficult to find suitable and high-quality projects in the highly competitive Hollywood.

It was at this time that Xingdou Culture extended an olive branch to it.

During these honeymoon years, in addition to deepening its presence in the domestic film and television market, Galaxy Group has also been quietly expanding into the North American market.

Sending Chinese actors and behind-the-scenes personnel to Hollywood is one means, and signing contracts to attract Hollywood actors and stars is naturally another means.

Although the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" is not as famous as the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" in Hollywood, it is already considered a world-renowned IP.

Faced with the olive branch thrown out by Star Group, with Summit Entertainment as its former partner, and the huge Chinese market, even though Kristen Stewart is now building a rebellious persona, she couldn't help but be moved by it.

Therefore, Xingdou Culture gained another general in North America, and also gave her "Flying Cat" Jiaxinna as a meeting gift.

To be honest, this role fits Kristen Stewart's current state very well, just as rebellious and full of fighting spirit.

Moreover, the role also fits her idea of ​​transformation. Although it is a commercial film, it is also an action movie role.

In order to play this role, Kristen even learned a variety of extreme sports at her own expense, and fell deeply in love with the thrilling feeling.

So much so that the North American branch of Star Culture had to impose restrictions on her in this regard to prevent her from having too much fun and causing accidents.

Now, judging from the feedback from the audience who watched the movie, Kristen Stewart's transformation attempt this time can be considered very successful.

At least her heroic and aggressive appearance in the movie successfully reversed the image established by the past "Twilight".

If she can continue this success in the Galaxy Cinematic Universe in the future, she may be able to transform into a female fighter like Gal Gadot.

Of course, her movie "Bad Guys" is definitely a success.

On the first day of the movie's release, it grossed 1.4 million yuan in mainland China.

Then it was released simultaneously in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea, and also became the first-day box office champions in their respective countries.

As for North America, the film also earned more than 4 million US dollars on its first day.

This result is already beyond expectations for a movie starring a Chinese newcomer and a Hollywood idol actress. The name of the "Galaxy Cinematic Universe" has played a role in achieving this result.

Fortunately, after the movie was released in North America, it received quite good reviews.

You should know that "Jurassic World 1" only scored 59 points on Metacritic in North America, while "Bad Boys" scored 68 points on Metacritic after its release.

And after the second day of its release, the score rose to 70 points.

Although the score soon dropped to 66 points, it is enough to show that the reputation of "Bad Boys" in North America is better than that of "Jurassic World 1".

Especially the extreme sports. Although the content about the first seven extreme challenges has been reduced to a certain extent due to the adjustment of the story rhythm, many wonderful scenes still make those extreme sports enthusiasts cheer.

As a result, the film's box office in North America increased slightly on the second day, which can be regarded as a preliminary foothold in the competition with "Jurassic World 1".

After that, the global film market throughout the end of June was in a state of fierce competition between "The Young and the Restless" and "Jurassic World 1".

In North America, "Jurassic World 1" has always been suppressing "The Drive", but in China, Japan and South Korea, "The Drive" came from behind and successfully surpassed "Jurassic World 1" in just two weeks.

By the end of June and into July, the global box office performance of "The Drive" was almost the same as that of "Jurassic World 6", and was also approaching the 7 billion US dollar mark.

Compared to the $9000 million production cost of "The Drive", this result is undoubtedly a huge profit, and the return on investment is even higher than the remake of the big IP "Jurassic World 1". After all, the other party had a cost of 1.5 million, and this undoubtedly once again proved the strength of Galaxy Group to the global capital market and Hollywood peers.

For a time, Galaxy Pictures' stock price soared, and at the same time, more Hollywood film and television companies began to express their intention to cooperate with [Eastern Galaxy Cinema Metropolis] and Galaxy Pictures.

In the information age, many things cannot be kept secret. With just a little inquiry, colleagues in Hollywood were able to analyze the situation of "Bad Boys".

This analysis and the secret of the success of "The Fast and the Furious" naturally became available on the desks of the heads of major Hollywood studios, forcing some white-skinned executives who originally looked down on Wang Hao, a young Chinese director, to adjust their attitudes.

According to their analysis, there are undoubtedly three reasons why "The Drive" beat "Jurassic World 1" in terms of return on investment.

First of all, the increasingly open Chinese market has shown greater potential.

You should know that the box office performance of "Jurassic World 1" in China is one-third of its North American box office performance and one-eighth of its global box office performance.

This ratio is already astonishing enough, and the box office performance of "Bad Boys" in China has reached half of its North American box office performance and a quarter of its global box office performance.

It can be said that the performance of "The Drive" is on par with "Jurassic World 1", and the Chinese market has made a great contribution.

In 2014, China's total national film box office was only 296.39 billion Chinese yuan, close to 50 billion US dollars, and the number of moviegoers was 8.3 million.

As a result, by July this year, just half a year later, China's film market had exceeded 7 billion. According to this trend, China's film market in 200 is estimated to exceed 2015 billion Chinese yuan, or more than 400 billion US dollars.

Compared with the net increase of more than 100 billion in box office revenue in the previous year, the growth rate can be said to be very significant.

So what about 2016? And 2017?

Given China's current economic development situation and according to the analysis and estimates of some Hollywood and Wall Street institutions, China's film market will continue to expand in the future. This will be a huge emerging market worth tens of billions of dollars and an important position in the global film and television industry that cannot be ignored.

Just looking at the competition results between "The Drive" and "Jurassic World 1" is enough to show its importance.

In addition to the expanding Chinese market, another winning formula of "The Drive" is its extreme cost control.

It is said that the disciple is better than the master, and there is also a saying that the back wave pushes the front wave, and the front wave is beaten to death on the beach by the back wave. Galaxy Group learned the film industrialization from Hollywood, but the result is that it has done better than Hollywood on the basis of its experience.

Of course, part of this is due to Galaxy Group’s good learning, and part of it is also due to the environment and policy conditions.

But no matter what, the cost of "Bad Boys" was only 9000 million US dollars, which is already extremely exaggerated.

You have to know that this is 2015, not 2005. Prices in Hollywood are also skyrocketing, and actors' pay has collectively risen.

According to calculations by the professional departments of major Hollywood studios, if they had been asked to produce "Bad Boys", the cost would have been at least $1.5 million. However, Galaxy Pictures only spent three-fifths of that, and the final result was extremely outstanding, almost as good as theirs.

This is enough to say that Star River Pictures is almost catching up with them in terms of technology and personnel quality. At least they are not reducing costs by lowering quality.

Upon further inquiry, the situation of [Oriental Galaxy Film City] naturally appeared in the report materials.

Lower labor costs, more skilled technical team, more relaxed environment...how can this not make people excited.

As for suppressing China's film and television industry, we should be wary of Chinese films and culture invading North America.

Yes, this is indeed something that many people in Hollywood know tacitly. They are indeed xenophobic and discriminatory against people of different skin colors.

But then again, who would resist money? As long as the profit is enough, they dare to sell even the noose to hang themselves.

You said that Chinese film and television companies and works will invade North America, but that is something for the future.

Now other film and television companies are cooperating with Huaxia to take over the market there, using their cheap labor to reduce costs and increase efficiency. If we don't keep up, we will not even have the present, and there is a risk of being overtaken by other companies. What future can we talk about?

Therefore, those big Hollywood studios quickly turned their attention to Galaxy Pictures and the Galaxy Group and Wang Hao behind it. After all, they are the third point for the success of "The Fast and the Furious".

The success of "Bad Boys" is definitely inseparable from the market and cost, but Galaxy Group's [Galaxy Cinematic Universe] undoubtedly also played a certain role.

In fact, with the rapid economic development of China, the co-production model is nothing uncommon.

After all, there have been quite a few Sino-US co-productions and other co-productions over the years, although not many.

However, only a handful of these co-productions can actually be released overseas and earn high box office revenue.

The Galaxy Group is the only company in China that has made money from its cooperation with Hollywood, and only the co-produced film and television projects under their name can achieve good box office results around the world.

This all started with the movie "Wushuang" shot by Wang Hao. At that time, he used the dual male lead model of one yellow and one white. Then came "Taken", and then "The Hangover"...

Of course, the most famous one is Wang Hao's "Inception". It was also from then on that Galaxy Group, Galaxy Cinematic Universe and Wang Hao began to gain a certain reputation around the world, which led to the continued success of "Bad Genius", "Limitless" and "The Mechanic".

Now, all these previous accumulations have been transformed into further support for "The Fast and the Furious".

At the same time, it also forced those Hollywood companies to start paying real attention to the Galaxy Group and officially put plans to cooperate with it on the agenda.

The Galaxy Group was also able to sense this change, but Wang Hao showed a cautious attitude towards this kind of cooperation, and conveyed this attitude to the production department responsible for overseas cooperation.

Yes, to be honest, this "The Drive" is definitely lacking in terms of plot, but its achievements even surpass Wang Hao's previous "Gravity" and "Wolf Warrior 2".

This is no joke. After all, although those two movies were also released worldwide, unlike "Bad Boys", "Gravity" and "Wolf Warrior 2" did not achieve very high box office results overseas, especially in Europe and the United States.

So if we really talk about the total global box office, the two are still far behind "Bad Boys".

(End of this chapter)