Heads Up Hollywood

Entering August, Twain's "The Avengers" was announced to be completed.

The film's script and preliminary preparation took one year, and the filming took another two years. For a "quick shooter" like Tang En, it was really slow work and meticulous work.

In July next year, the film will be released!

At that time, it happened to be the node of the new global IPO listing.

If there is no accident, this Marvel masterpiece assembled by heroes will boost the stock price of New Universal to rise steadily.

In August, this year's summer vacation is over.

There are as many as 7 blockbuster films with a box office of more than 200 million US dollars in North America! In the whole of last year, there were only 7 films with a box office of over 200 million US dollars in North America.

The Hollywood market is getting bigger and better.

The box office only accounts for 20% of a film's revenue.

A 10% increase in the box office is equivalent to a 50% increase in the film's gross revenue.

The situation is very good.

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The summer champions in the past few years are all films under the New Universal Group.

This year, a small change took place.

The last part of George Lucas' Star Wars prequel trilogy, "Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Sith", unsurprisingly leads the summer schedule!

Among them, the North American box office was 380 million US dollars, and the global box office was 850 million US dollars!

It's a pity that it failed to reach the super god target of 1 billion US dollars.

Although New Universal failed to lead, the second and third places did not run.

The runner-up of the summer file is Marvel's superhero movie "Iron Man"!

The North American box office of the film was 370 million US dollars, and the global box office was 780 million US dollars!

Such stats really slapped those who were generally not optimistic about Robert Twain Jr. in the face.

The third place is "The Da Vinci Code" starring Tom Hanks. The North American box office of the film was 220 million US dollars, and the global box office was 760 million US dollars. The overseas market is very powerful, mainly because it involves the secrets of Christianity, has a tendency to seek novelty, and has a wide audience.

Next, is Spielberg's painstakingly big production "War of the Worlds". This movie, Spielberg invited Tom Cruise, is heading for a billion-dollar box office.

It's a pity that Cruise is getting old, and the era of superstars is over.

The North American box office of the film was 230 million US dollars, and the global box office was 590 million US dollars.

Next, "Wanted" has a North American box office of 240 million US dollars and a global box office of 470 million US dollars. "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" grossed $210 million in North America and $470 million worldwide. These are all films under New Universal.

It is worth mentioning that 20th Century Fox's action comedy "The Secret Service" has achieved impressive results, with a North American box office of US$200 million and a global box office of US$480 million.

And this movie has never appeared in the previous life!

Twain snatched away a lot of film projects that originally belonged to the Big Six in Hollywood. As a result, they made a lot of "new films".

Tang En specially found a copy of this movie and watched it at his own movie theater.

Starring Samuel Jackson and James Franco, it tells the story of two amateur hip-hop singers who inadvertently cracked a murder case during a bar performance and were framed as murderers. What's annoying is that they didn't realize that it was the scene of the murder. They reached out and touched a lot of things that shouldn't be touched, leaving fingerprints everywhere.

For fear of being caught, they chose to flee.

While fleeing, while looking for the real culprit.

Many ridiculous farce stories happened in it.

The plot is rich and interesting.

Needless to say, it looks pretty good!

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After filming "The Avengers", Twain felt very relaxed.

When going out in summer, he went to Britain, Russia, China, South Korea and other countries successively, but he really couldn't spare time to go to Japan.

Those cute girls in Japan are a little cold.

Now that the task was completed, Tang En sent a plane to take them over.

Tang En's business in Japan is not small.

In addition to the 5 familiar faces of Aoi Yu, Nagasawa Masami, Sasaki Nozomi, Shinto Yui and Horikita Maki, there are also 5 relatively new faces: Kojima Haruna, Sato Yukari, Takahashi Minami, Itano Tomomi and Maeda Atsuko faces.

They are both members of the girl group AKB48.

However, AKB48 is about to officially debut, and they are busy training at this time.

The ones who were finally taken to Los Angeles were still Yu Aoi, Masami Nagasawa, Nozomi Sasaki, Yui Shinto, and Maki Horikita.

Seeing Tang En, he was naturally very happy.

They have been here several times before.

But Tang En never took them out.

This time, they begged Tang En to take them around, especially the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame.

This is the most famous sign in Hollywood. If you haven't visited here, you don't have to come to Hollywood!

After thinking about it for a while, Tang En decided to take them around.

But he was too flamboyant to show himself in public.

So I hired a makeup artist to do a complete makeover.

Wrinkles were drawn on the face, the eyebrows were trimmed, the nose was padded, the eyes were colored contact lenses, the lips were attached to the beard, and even the chin was decorated and raised.

Look in the mirror, okay, you look like a local tyrant!

It's almost like a different person.

"Well, good! Let's go!"

Tang En was in a good mood, and set off with this group of chattering girls. The only unpleasant thing is that there is something on the face, which is very awkward.

When they arrived at the Avenue of Stars, Tang En took the girls out of the car, and they all jumped up and cheered.

Tang En quickly warned: "Hold hands and don't run around. There are a lot of scammers and human traffickers here, and they only pick on Asians. Especially the items of the surrounding businesses, don't touch them."

"Ah? Why? Don't you have to look at the goods first if you have nothing?" Yui Aragaki expressed his confusion.

Tang En curled his lips and said, "That's for the locals and Europeans. You look like... you look like Asians who are here for tourism. The merchants are picking you to slaughter, and there will be strong buying and selling."

A warning is a warning, this place is really too busy.

As Hollywood's most iconic avenue, there are so many things to see here.

There are movie props, clothes, shoes, movie-themed postcards, movie posters, and simulated Oscar statuettes.

In addition to merchants, there are many entertainers on the roadside.

There are speed painters, demonstrations of street magic, and musicians of all kinds.

"Oudu-chan, who is he? Isn't he very powerful?" Yui Aragaki held Tang En's hand and saw a very talented singer singing.

After singing the song, his album will be sold.

Album Oh!

It's not something that ordinary singers can do.

This must be a well-known singer!

"Don't!"

Seeing Masami Nagasawa and Nozomi Sasaki holding hands, Tang En walked over curiously, so he hurriedly called them to stop.

Unexpectedly, it was still too late.

Nagasawa Masami reached out to pick up the CD curiously, and then the red-haired singer quickly took out a signature pen, wrote his name on the CD, and said, "50 dollars!"

With Tang En, naturally there will be no shortage of money.

Nozomi Sasaki reached out and took out a $100 bill foolishly.

Such large denomination banknotes are rare in the United States.

For ordinary Americans, the largest denomination they carry is 20 dollars, and the rest are some coins. The United States has long entered cashless credit card consumption.

The singer took the 100-dollar bill, his eyes lit up, a self-evident smile flashed across his mouth, and he said quickly: "I don't have any change here... Forget it, I'll sell you another album. Yes, it's not on the market yet!"

After finishing speaking, he swiftly took out a CD album in a different package from the pocket on his waist, signed his name involuntarily, and handed it over.

Japanese society is stagnant and lacks vitality, and the sales promotion of businesses is also very rigid. Where has Nozomi Sasaki seen such a scene? I thought it was very interesting, and happily accepted it.

After "buying" the album, Masami Nagasawa and Nozomi Sasaki each held a signed CD, ran back happily, and showed off to Tang En: "Oudou-chan, look! It's a signed CD!"

Tang En couldn't laugh or cry, "You two...know him?"

"I don't know him, he must be a very good singer. Look, there is an album here!" Masami Nagasawa shook the CD in his hand triumphantly.

A singer who can release an album is definitely not bad!

Tang En was speechless, and said helplessly, "Yami, this is America, not Japan!"

"What's wrong?" Masami Nagasawa saw that Tang En's expression was wrong, and the smile on her face restrained.

Nozomi Sasaki was also very surprised, and tentatively said, "Is it easy to release an album in the United States?"

Tang En coughed lightly and said, "No, it's very difficult."

"Isn't that enough?"

"The United States also protects intellectual property rights, but the strength is far less than that of Japan. Japan does not have piracy, but it does not mean that the United States does not."

"Huh? Oudujiang, are you saying that these two albums are pirated copies?"

Tang En shook his head, "First of all, the price of 50 US dollars is too high. For a normal music record, 20 US dollars is considered a high price. The cost of intellectual property rights in the United States is not as high as that in Japan. Secondly, if you buy a pirated version... that is all luck alright."

These few Japanese girls have never seen this kind of world, this is a completely different society from Japan.

Yu Aoi couldn't believe it, "Is piracy lucky?"

Tang En said: "In my opinion, these two CDs are very likely to be empty discs. Do you know how much the empty discs cost? It will not exceed 20 cents."

Nagasawa Masami and Sasaki Nozomi, who held the "album" in their hands, looked bitter.

Why is it happening like that?

"Isn't this a lie, I'm going to return the product!" Nagasawa Masami stomped her feet angrily.

Tang En laughed, and grabbed her little hand, "Okay, I'll learn a lot from it, and I'll just learn a little lesson in the future. It's not easy for people to cheat some money."

Nagasawa Masami and Sasaki Nozomi looked sickly, with their mouths pouted.

Tang En pulled the two of them one by one, and said to everyone: "Let's go, let's go over there and find the stars!"

"Star? Will the star come here?"

"No, it's on the ground."

"On the ground?"

The girls reacted immediately, and they were very excited: "Okay! Find a star!"

The most important thing about the Avenue of Stars is the stars of Hollywood stars framed into the ground.