Global monopoly of technology

On May 5, five days after "Iron Man" was released.

North America, Marvel Corporation.

"What did you say? You say it again? The global box office of $211 million?" Kevin Fitch stared wide-eyed, and grabbed his assistant's arm with both hands excitedly.

"Yes, BOSS, "Iron Man" only spent 5 days in the global box office of $211 million." His assistant repeated.

"OMG!! OMG!!!" Kevin Fitch opened his hands holding the opponent's arm, and then held his head with his head in his hands.

In the past few days, since the premiere of "Iron Man", Kevin Fitch 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 project may be difficult to give birth, and even the danger of stillbirth exists.

Until today, Kevin finally couldn't help it before asking.

But the numbers he got were unbelievable. The good grades made him unable to find North for a while.

Hollywood and the film industry have been deep-fried, and even Wall Street and the capital circle can't sit still. Bluestar Technology Group and Luo Sheng have dug up the baby again, once again conquering the world with unparalleled vision and vision.

Disney is about to blow up the hair, and the intestines are regrettable. Why didn't it make a move?

There is no doubt that another non-sequel comic hero has taken off on the box office chart. This is the opening film of this year's summer archive-Marvel Studios produced "Iron Man" released by Paramount.

From April 30th to May 4th, in only 5 days, Robert Downey Jr.'s new film won a global box office of 211 million US dollars, which not only brought the rebirth of Marvel's 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 U.S. dollars and the overseas box office was 97 million U.S. dollars, which greatly exceeded the forecasts and expectations of the distribution company Paramount and the box office experts of the world's major media.

For Hollywood, this achievement also means more. During the first week of "Iron Man", a person in the film industry commented on this: "We have just experienced an extremely bad spring time, but "Iron Man" It proves that the audience will still walk into the cinema."

It is impossible for Hollywood to get a better summer opening result than this.

A senior Paramount manager made no secret of his ecstasy and responded to the media interview: "Iron Man defeated Will Smith and Jesus."

He was referring to the premiere of "Iron Man" that surpassed Will Smith's last year's film "I Am a Legend" and Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ", both of which were super-gross films, but "Iron Man" is even more popular.

The senior Paramount manager also said that at the internal Paramount meeting, several people boldly predicted that the premiere of "Iron Man" would be between 80 and 90 million US dollars, and they suffered To the ridicule of others.

Marvel is now in a carnival for everyone, and all the pressure is relieved.

"Iron Man" is a bet on almost everything about Marvel. It started preparations in 2005 and kept people like Kevin Fitch awake at night, always worrying about the tragic end of the crash.

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

Judging from the box office success of "Iron Man", Marvel seems to have lost a lot of money by selling itself to Bluestar Technology Group, but Avi Allard and other Marvel executives do not feel regretful. Bluestar Technology also has to bear it. The 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 succeeds, they will not lose money.

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"From now on, I am afraid that the project you are looking for will not be so easy to acquire, because there will be a lot of people competing with you, as long as you are looking for it, it will definitely be a bargain. It is almost an alternative indicator of investment."

In a lounge of the Blue Coast Company, Qin Weimu came here and sat down in an empty place next to Luo Sheng. The latter was holding a bag of snacks in one hand and swiping the laptop in front of him to browse the content of the page with the other.

Hearing Qin Weimu's words, Luo Sheng replied casually: "Would you like to be so metaphysical? Dare to treat me like Barfit?"

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

Sitting next to him, Qin Weimu 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 barely accept this title."

Qin Weimu couldn't help but smile.

Luo Sheng has really not made many investments in terms of investment. The first one is to buy the hao123 navigation website, then the acquisition of TakeTwo, V agency and "Poland dumb donkey" three game companies, and then bought Blizzard. Entertainment, and then the acquisition of Marvel, and there is also an ongoing merger with MySQL. The company’s merger talks have gone to this month and are basically nailed down. The contract has been initialed, and the EU has been pass.

Côte d'Azur acquired MySQLAB, a Swedish open source database developer, at a cost of US$1.1 billion.

It can be said that Luo Sheng's investment mergers and acquisitions are only available, but the success rate is a bit scary. So far, no investment case has been classified as a failure, and they have all been successful. The only uncertainty is MySQL. The company is gone, this company hasn't seen the doorway yet, leave it alone.

That means that the success rate of Luo Sheng's investment mergers and acquisitions is 100%, and a merger transaction is better than those professional VC investors who have made 100 shots. This merger of Marvel is the most shocking.

Because of the completion of the merger and acquisition, "Iron Man" exploded within a few days, making countless VCs feel incredible.

Let’s just talk about Marvel. The current high box office of "Iron Man" comes from the good reputation of the film. On the IMDB voted by fans, this comic-based movie got an average score of 8.4. For a sci-fi action blockbuster, This is an extremely rare high score.

In contrast, the second highest-scoring episode in the "Spider-Man" series has only 7.8 points.

The information collected by the cinema is also roughly the same. Young audiences aged 18 to 24 gave the film a high A+ rating.

The picky 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. The well-received "The Bournemouth 3" hits the same level.

Generally speaking, super-grossing films have the best results on the first day of release. Last year’s "Spider-Man 3" was the case, and nowadays "Iron Man" has a North American box office of 35.13 million for the three weekends. U.S. dollars, 37.5 million U.S. dollars and 28.12 million U.S. dollars, the second day's box office was higher than the first day, indicating that it was the fermentation of good reputation that made the film's Saturday score higher than Friday, thus creating a good box office record throughout the weekend.

In addition to winning the box office title on the first weekend of May, "Iron Man" also squeezed into several other historical box office charts.

This film became the tenth largest weekend box office ever, and it was also the second-ranked non-sequel comic-based film, second only to 2002's "Spider-Man", and created the best live-action premiere of the distribution company Paramount Ying record.

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

In other box office markets other than the North American box office surprise, "Iron Man"'s total score of US$97 million came from 7,500 theaters in 57 countries, of which the United Kingdom contributed US$10.3 million, Mexico US$9.6 million, South Korea US$7.5 million, and France US$7.1 million, US$7.02 million for China, US$6.2 million for Western tooth extraction, and US$6 million for Brazil.

"Guess what email I received? Kevin Fitch sent me." Luo Sheng stared at his laptop work computer and clicked on a private email.

"what?"

Qin Weimu, who was sitting across from 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". Kevin wants to invite me to make a cameo in the film and make a few seconds of soy sauce. The plot is arranged. Yes, starred in his real name, had a few conversations with Tony Stark, and briefly talked about using Bluestar Technology to provide Stark Industry with big data center public cloud service support... I think I can agree to make this soy sauce."

Speaking of it, the "Iron Man" released in this world is a bit different.

The phone used by Tony Stark in the movie is no longer LGKU950, but the Azure smartphone with a more industrial sense of technology under the Cote d’Azur company, because in 2006 this smartphone with a perfect sense of technology and beauty was already It was launched, and "Iron Man" was officially filmed at the end of the same year. For this reason, the original script was slightly modified.

The Côte d’Azur did not advertise, but Marvel changed it itself, because as a science fiction movie, the mobile phone that appeared should also have a futuristic sense, and Azure mobile phone should appear in the film as it should.

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