Chapter 622 Pirates exploded in the first week
After achieving good results in the midnight screening, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" continues to make great progress, becoming the third movie this summer to have a box office of over 100 million in its first week.
On its first day on Friday, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" received a first-day box office of US$55.5 million, successfully surpassing the first-day box office of "Star Wars: Episode III" and becoming the highest first-day box office in film history.
Because of the continuous filming of two or three films, the relatively high salaries of stars such as Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, and the investment in special effects production, the investment in the second and third films reached as high as 500 million. Dollar.
On average, one movie costs US$250 million, which is even more exaggerated than "Titanic" back then.
With such a huge investment, there is naturally pressure to repay the capital. But as an old saying goes in Hollywood, greater investment brings greater returns222.
And this first-day box office is enough to satisfy Warner and Disney. The second part looks like it will be a hit.
Perhaps because it consumed too much fan enthusiasm on the first day, the film's box office declined on Saturday, with 47.23 million US dollars, which is still an excellent figure.
More importantly, the film's reviews were pretty good.
According to a report from a professional theater survey company, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" received a favorable rating of 91% from the audience.
In another survey report, out of 50,000 survey reports, 37,560 gave the film an A+, and less than 5,000 gave it a C or below.
IMDB opened the ratings on Saturday night. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" has been rated by 110,000 people, with a rating of 8.3, which is a pretty good figure among commercial films.
Although the ratings will drop later, it does not affect the fact that the film has a good reputation among audiences.
In most of the audience's comments, in addition to being attracted by Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, they also praised the special effects scenes.
Especially the giant octopus, as well as Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman, are all so lifelike that they seem to crawl out of the big screen.
It is estimated that next year's Oscar for Best Visual Effects will be the most competitive, after all, there are so many visual effects blockbusters this year.
After taking in $38.54 million on Sunday, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" became the second-highest opening weekend box office in North American film history with $141.27 million.
The top one is naturally Gilbert Jr.'s "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," whose first-week box office of $151 million shocked the world and almost broke the film history record of "Titanic."
However, looking at the higher first-week box office numbers one after another, it is estimated that the first-week box office record of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" will not be maintained for long.
With such a high first-week box office, Warner and Disney have already started popping the champagne.
During the movie's release, Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean theme park began a series of activities to promote the movie.
The actors who starred in this series of movies also made a surprise appearance at Disneyland in Orlando on Saturday to spend a happy time with fans.
With the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series and the good results of other films, Johnny Depp continues to consolidate his position as a first-line Hollywood star.
At the beginning of a new week, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" also begins its overseas journey, taking the lead in being released in Europe, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
However, it will be later in mainland China and will not be released until September.
At this time, Guo Fan, who had a relationship with little Gilbert, was attending an event on Hong Kong Island, so he watched "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" on Hong Kong Island.
After watching it, he was not excited about watching the movie, but felt the gap.
Starting from "The Last of Us", Guo Fan has watched films such as "Transformers" and "Iron Man" consecutively this year. What attracted him was not the excitement of the movies, but the technology behind them.
Perhaps because they had worked together in Hollywood for a while, Cheng Long still remembered this young man from mainland China.
After hearing that he was in Hong Kong Island, he immediately invited Guo Fan to his home on Hong Kong Island.
"Welcome, welcome..." Cheng Long politely welcomed Guo Fan as his guest.
Guo Fan was holding something in his hand: "Thank you for the invitation, brother. Here are some things I bought." "Come here, do you have anything else to bring?" Even so, Cheng Long still asked his wife Lin Fengjiao to accept it and returned it. Introduce his son to Guo Fan.
"Ah, this is Mainland director Guo Fan, known as China's Little Gilbert. You young people know each other."
Cheng Long's son has not been found to have any problems at this time. He behaves well in front of his father, but not necessarily behind his father's back.
After dinner at Cheng Long's house, Guo Fan and Cheng Long chatted together.
Cheng Long said: "I just came back from the United States two days ago and chatted with several Hollywood directors."
Guo Fan asked: "Have you met Director Gilbert Little?"
"No," Cheng Long replied: "Director Gilbert Jr. is currently busy with his own affairs. He plans to make a TV series."
It is a very strange thing for a film director to shoot a TV series in Hollywood, but whether it is in Hong Kong Island or the Mainland. Many film directors themselves also have a background in making TV series, so the two of them don't find it strange.
"It seems that Director Gilbert Jr. still has a grudge against that incident and has not been to China for almost a few years." Guo Fan said.
"Yes," Cheng Long sighed: "People can't put a grain of sand in their eyes, but something like that happened."
Cheng Long was quite angry. If he hadn't considered unity, he would have almost publicly criticized certain people. That incident made him passive in Hollywood, and he had to return to Hong Kong Island after the "Mystery of the Spell" series ended.
Guo Fan was also helpless: "There is no way, there are some things that we cannot decide. But I heard one thing, I heard that the radio and television are planning to launch an exchange program for young directors."
"Oh? Who told you?" Cheng Long was very interested.
"Mr. Han talked to me, and I was the first one chosen." Guo Fan said this with some pride.
"That's good," Cheng Long said regretfully: "It's a pity that we have no contact with the other side, alas!"
In the past two years, as the kung fu craze has subsided, Hong Kong cinemas, which used to be very active in Hollywood, have gradually become unpopular and have no choice but to return to Hong Kong Island.
And some people have completely integrated into Hollywood and become a member of Hollywood. For example, Heping Yuan's apprentice Tiger Chen is doing well in Hollywood.
Of course, some Chinese directors have also emerged.
Not to mention Ang Lee, there are currently three Chinese generals at Xianggua Studio.
Huang Yiyu from "The Pursuit", James Wan from "Saw", and Lin Yibin, who has made several small productions and was recently rumored to take over the "Fast and Furious" series, are all representatives who are developing very well.
But overall, the power of the Hong Kong film industry in Hollywood is declining.
The mainland has its own troubles, but overall it is still thriving as the market becomes bigger and bigger. Guo Fan directed two films, both of which achieved good results.
At present, relying on the coal boss Lao Wang, he has established his own company, attracted a group of film companies to invest, and is doing well.
After coming out of Cheng Long's house, Guo Fan has been thinking about where to go in the future.
To be honest, the things he took were not what he wanted to take the most. Ever since he saw "Iron Armor" in the cinema in 1994, which shocked him greatly, Guo Fan had planted the seeds of science fiction.
Now, it’s just waiting to take root and sprout.
(End of chapter)