The Best Director

As the sports biopic "Invincible" won the box office championship in North America on August 2531, and then won the championship on September 17, the summer vacation of 2006 came to an end. It can be described as an ordinary year, in the wrestling battle among the filmmakers, Flame once again won a big victory!

"Ice Age 3", which was released as early as March 31, is only a passer-by this summer. It has just been released offline for 23 weeks and has received 230 million box office (North America/global), although it failed to enter 1 billion The Box Office Club is undoubtedly the most successful cartoon this summer, the most successful box office work of Flame and Blue Sky, and one of the most successful cartoons in film history.

When it comes to the ranking list of North American animation film history, its ranking is not high, only No. 8, let alone the top three "Shrek 2" (DreamWorks) with 441 million yuan and "Finding Nemo" ( Pixar)'s Shrek (DreamWorks) ... not far behind this summer's current 242 million Cars (Pixar, No. 7); but when it comes to global charts (not accounting for inflation), it's In the 1st place!

n.1: "Ice Age 3" 100 million, flame blue sky; n.2: "Shrek 2" 100 million, DreamWorks; n.3: "Finding Nemo" 100 million, Bowei/Pixar; n.4: "Ice River" Century 2" Flame \u0026 Blue Sky; n.5: "The Incredibles" 100 million, Bo Wei/Pixar...

"Time has proved how correct the upstart Snake Tunxiang of the flame movie was."

This sentence was mentioned again in the "Wall Street Journal" report. Back then, ff bought Lantian with 100 million yuan, and was questioned by the outside world as Wang Yang was crazy, didn't know what to do, and would regret it soon... Upstart (upstrt)! Now those voices have long since disappeared, and the feat of "3" taking the first place in animation film history really scares those who say "Is that enough?" How could it be possible? It is impossible for any one company to say enough.

Its prestige is due to the projection halls such as x giant screens and 3D screens, and of course it is also due to the overseas market that has attracted 694 million yuan. Children all over the world love this relaxing and interesting cartoon!

Looking at this comparison, you can probably understand something, "3"/"Shrek 2"/"Monsters Inc" Yiyi. 2001), the Austrian box office of the three films was: 13.5 million/4.89 million/2.45 million, the Finnish box office: 5 million/1.75 million/270,000, and the Norwegian box office: 12.59 million/5.57 million/3.1 million... "3" Some small ticket warehouses exploded into medium-sized ticket warehouses with a box office level of tens of millions, and large ticket warehouses in France, Germany and other countries reached nearly 100 million.

But "3" is not invincible. For example, UK box office: 56.8 million/88.27 million/53.33 million, Japanese box office: 7.31 million/22.43 million/74.43 million...

This is hundreds of millions, and that is hundreds of millions. Seeing that cartoons are so attractive, every film studio naturally wants to get a piece of the action. This year can be said to be a year of new works blowout!

Only counting films released on a large scale in North America,

There was only one in 2003, five in 2004, and how many in 2005? There are 13 films that have already been released and are scheduled to be released, involving 9 distribution brands.

However, this road is not easy to walk, want to share the cake? It's not that easy.

"Puppy Dogal" only had a box office of 7.41 million (Weinstein, released in 2006, 224, budget not announced), and failed; followed by Flame \u0026 Blue Sky's "Ice Age 3" with 100 million. No. 1 in film history; "Wilderness Survival" 37.38 million/80.52 million (Bowei, 4.14, 80 million production fee), failed; ; "Cars" temporarily 240 million (Bo Wei billion production fee), a success;

"Garfield 2" 28.3 billion (Fox, 616, undisclosed budget). Life and death are unknown; "Monster House" failed at 70.9 billion (Sony/Columbia, 72" and 75 million production fees); "Don't Mess with the Ants" 26.76 million/40.76 million (Warner Bros., 728,50 million production fees), failed.

Fox's "Basketball Heroes" will be released on September 15; Sony/Columbia's 85 million-cost "Jungle Comeback" will hit the screen on September 29; Diary" will debut on November 3; Warner Bros.' 100 million-cost "Happy Feet" will be on November 17; MGM's 86 million-cost "Arthur and His Kingdom of You" will be released in December. 29th.

Among the 8 films that have been released, only two new works of old brands have achieved great success; and in the future information library in Wang Yang's mind, in terms of box office alone, among these 5 films, "Happy Big" is worth 384 million yuan. "Foot" performed gratifyingly, and the others were 16.6 billion billion.

So this year's animation king is destined to be "3", and it seems that it will sit on the throne of the global film history champion for a long, long time.

But there is more than one "3". The "Hangover 3", which was released on May 12, went offline after 17 weeks of campaign, and finally took in 210 million box office. Compared with its 80 million production fee, it goes without saying whether it was successful or not. The total production cost of the entire series is 155 million, and the total box office is 100 million! In the R-rated youth comedy box office rankings, the top three are occupied by Drunk Corps 1, 2, and 3 in turn, and no one can shake it for a while.

"Mamma Mia!" debuted on June 16 "Sweeping the world with cheerful music and dance, after 12 weeks of screening, its box office pattern has already been determined, and the current score is 180 million. It is estimated that it will be close to 700 million when it is completely offline. This popular stage musical will shine on the big screen as it wishes!

After all, movie theaters are more popular than opera houses, and more people know about it! , I know the bb band. Driven by the movie version, the stage plays in Broadway and other places have become popular again. Judy Kramer and others are discussing plans for another global tour, but these are not related to ff. up. But look at "! "'s production budget: $65 million, no doubt a huge hit!

It never occurred to me that regardless of Disney, the producer of "Chicago" Miramax (now the team is in Wentans), "Moulin Rouge!" "Fox and other companies did not expect this emerging stage play to explode with such a huge energy! Even though Miracle Yang was optimistic, everyone thought "! "It would be great to receive 300 million. Think "High School Musical 3" is only 120 million. In recent years, "Chicago Billion, Moulin Rouge!" "57.3 billion, while "Phantom of the Opera Billions" (20041222, Warner Bros., pb: 70 million), "Rent" 29.07 million/31.67 million (20051123, Sony/Revolution. pb: 40 million).

Except for "Rent a Lucky House", which drama is not as famous as "! "big? Which of Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Emmy Rossum and others has more box office appeal than Streep and Amanda? However, the biggest hit was the hilariously slapstick Mamma Mia! ", even if some people don't want to believe it.

This is the highest-grossing movie of Meryl Streep's acting career, surpassing "The Devil Wears Prada" and entering the 600 million box office hall of fame in one fell swoop! The media fans have long exclaimed that under the magical power of Miracle Young, Streep ushered in a second spring in his career. What an old tree blooming. And on various North American charts, "! "Renewed a lot, in the category of musicals (from 1974 to now, only real people), it surpassed "Chicago" to take the third place, above it is "High School Musical" with 188 million "Hot Wave" and 100 million.

Among mother movies (1980-present), it ranks #1. The second place is the 1983 Oscar Best Picture "Mother and Daughter Love", the third place is "Hot Mom and Hot Girl" with 91 million yuan; in the wedding theme, it ranks third, "My Grand Greek "Wedding" and "Wedding Crashers" ranked first and second respectively...

"Fury 2," which opens on July 14, has only spent eight weeks in theaters, but popcorn flicks are coming and going more and more. Its box office results have basically been fixed at billions, just as crazy as the content of the film! In the North American ranking list of robbery/running for crime, it surpassed the previous work "Furious Speed", and "Ocean's Eleven", which ranked first, dropped to third; and in the theme of racing, it completely became the king , although "Cars" ranks first, the second and third are both Furious Speed.

The lifeless "Fast and Furious" series is gradually being forgotten, and "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift", which wants to have a new start, was first released on June 16, but Universal Company smashed it, and the director of "Training Day" Anthony Fuqua did not perform well, and there were problems with the style and positioning of the whole film. The global audience did not like it very much. It only had a box office of 51.3 billion. Since Universal did not announce its budget, the outside world did not know whether it lost money, but it certainly did not. How about it, Universal ォ is so low-key.

There is also a racing movie this summer, "Taladega Night" released on August 4th. This sports comedy with a cost of 72.5 million won the championship for three consecutive weeks in August, with 72%/72%/73% Rotten Tomatoes Index, box office For the time being, 139 million/overseas has not been released, which really makes Sony/Columbia awe-inspiring. It's a pity that this type of comedy is difficult to have a sequel, and it will lose money at any time when it is filmed, so it can't shake the racing market or anything.

The two "Speed ​​Fury" used a production budget of 170 million, and have swept the box office of 100 million US dollars worldwide! It has to be said that no company is more popular than Flame.

This summer, films such as "Mission: Impossible 3", "X-Men: The Last Stand", "Superman Returns", "Miami Vice" and other films have both profit and loss, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" has a global box office of 1 billion , "The Da Vinci Code" reached 700 million...

Counting from the 18th week (May 511) to the 35th week (September 17), Bo Wei (Disney) won the most weekly championships, and the runner-up Sony/Columbia is also ★★★ ★★, Runner Up Fire Movie ★★★, Next Universal ★★, Pyraén★, Fox ★, Warner Bros. ★.

Although it failed to win the summer championship, the total box office of the film was 520 million yuan, and the previous film was 925 million yuan. Based on the new film alone, Flame has received a total box office of 100 million yuan this year. With its strong overseas market appeal, it is quite Compared with the performance of the same period last year, it is not inferior. Who dares to say that it is going downhill? The media at this time are all busy singing their praises, besides being miraculous, it is still miraculous!

Next summer, Flame has already set three blockbuster films, "Iron Man", "I Am Legend", and "League of Assassins 2", as well as the previous "Green Hornet". How will it perform? Flame Shadow fans are looking forward to it.

And before that, the next flame movie "The Magician" will be available in North American theaters on September 15th. This is the first battle of the test ff at Sundance this year. Everyone is staring at it. Is the long-promoted fantasy film bought at a super high price of 25 million yuan gold or rubbish? ! .