"Police School" entered its third week of screening, and inevitably saw a slow decline in box office.

In terms of normal movie box office, it is already very good. Generally, the second week of the movie will be less than the first week, and the third week will fall sharply.

"Police School" is naturally better. The box office in Xiangjiang fell to 6.3 million, down about 16% from the second week.

The overseas box office was similar, closing at US$32 million, down 18% from the second week. The decline was very healthy, and it could even be said to be extremely dazzling and excellent.

But Yin Jun was still a little dissatisfied.

In his previous life, "Police School" won a super high box office of more than 80 million US dollars in the United States alone. Moreover, when Yin Jun was editing in this life, he specially edited a version of the movie clips from his previous life to target the American market. However, in this life, he only won a box office of 40 million US dollars in three weeks, less than half of the total box office.

This is because Yin Jun and Universal Pictures collaborated on "e.t." and then made significant profits. Universal and Lei Shidong contacted each other, and they arranged more than 400 screens in the United States.

Fortunately, "Police School" is a very good movie, and the plot is more in line with American values. So in the first week, the box office reached 10 million US dollars, which allowed theaters to actively increase the number of screens to about 800, and then ushered in a bumper harvest.

Originally, films that performed well for two consecutive weeks, if the normal situation is based on the situation, they can still add a little more screen in the third week, and it will not decrease in the fourth week.

However, "Police School" was not lucky and hit the blockbuster "Gate of Heaven" created by Lianyi this year, so the screen of "Police School" in the third week was already scheduled for "Gate of Heaven" and there was no way to add it.

"Gate of Heaven" is produced by Lianyi, one of the seven major Hollywood companies. The Oscar-best director Michael Simino, who spent 38 million US dollars in production and promotional expenses of up to 5 million US dollars. The number of screens premiered was 1,788. Five countries in Europe, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain were released at the same time. No matter how you look at it, they are all A-level productions that continue to receive both reputation and box office.

But Yin Jun couldn't help but feel a little gloating.

Only he knows that Oscar directors may not be able to master every drama well, especially those who have just won the Oscars, are most likely to not know what their surname is.

As expected, on Wednesday, November 19, after the grand premiere, early the next morning, everyone at Lianyi Company was shocked, and all the media reporters were shocked.

The box office of North America premiere was 330,000!?

What the hell is this!?

1788 screens!

There were two screenings last night!

Even if there are only 30 people sitting in each screening room every time, it will not be as small as 330,000, right? This is a big production by the Oscar director!

Is it a statistics error?

Everyone hurried to ask each cinema, but after a summary, they found that they did not make any mistakes. Some even mistakenly counted the movie tickets sold this morning.

I forced myself to call Europe, and their real-time box office was slightly more than 750,000 US dollars.

All right.

This is completely defeated.

You don’t have to wait for the next day or the weekend to know that "Gate of Heaven" is completely over.

In the next few days, by the weekend, the total box office in North America was only 1.6 million US dollars in five days, setting a record for the lowest box office of a blockbuster in a decade.

The theater has notified it and will be released directly in the second week without any negotiation.

Upon hearing this bad news, Michael Simino locked himself in the room and did not come out for three days and three nights.

Lianyi Film Company is even more covered with dark clouds.

Their investment has exceeded US$43 million!

Even if they add Shanghai's overseas box office share, they will lose 40 million US dollars!

At this time, which film company can pay 40 million US dollars in one go?

Originally, Lianyi Film Company's recent situation has been bad, and films have repeatedly lost money, and various diversified investments have also encountered many failures.

They originally wanted to rely on Michael Simino to regroup, but they didn't expect that Michael Simino gave them the heaviest blow.

North American entertainment media did not let them go, and they all started the mockery mode, comparing "Gate of Heaven" with "Erotic Eternal Eternal" in 1963.

"Egyptian Eternal Queen" almost caused the bankruptcy of 20th Century Fox, which shows how unpopular they are.

However, Lianyi is one of the top seven Hollywood stars, and there are three kilograms of nails. Most media think that Lianyi will definitely be seriously injured and will not be able to relieve herself for several years, but that's all.

However, there was a giant company hidden deep in the depths, staring at Lianyi Company with their hawk-like gaze.

"Didn't the person from Xiangjiang some time ago ask us to help acquire a Hollywood company? Will Lianyi be a better choice?"

"Well, Lianyi must be very large in scale, but I wonder if the people in Xiangjiang can afford it?"

"Don't worry about him. The dozen or so Transformers toys your son plays with are produced by his company. Jensen's annual profit valuation of Transformers toys has reached 200 million US dollars. If he is willing to sell all the copyrights of Transformers, anyone is willing to buy them for 1 billion US dollars."

"Also, I can see that he has great ambitions! He has bought a TV station in Hong Kong. Is he trying to learn from Warner, Paramount and Universal?"

"I don't know if his abilities are worthy of his ambition."

"What do you do if you care about so much? Hurry up and give Lianyi an evaluation report. If we can make more money from this, we will recommend Lianyi to him!"

"I understand. But there is another point, Lianyi may not be willing to sell itself."

"This is very simple. If you put more pressure on them or just let them go bankrupt, wouldn't it make them sell?"

"Haha, this is a good idea!"

...

Lianyi Company's crushing defeat was long as Yin Jun expected, so he did not devote more energy to paying attention.

As long as Goldman Sachs is not a fool, it will definitely recommend Lianyi to itself.

By then, my first goal in Hollywood will be successfully achieved.

What he is busy with at this time is to arrange and deal with the two actors.

"Police School" has been screened for the third week, and it has been a big hit at the box office and its influence has swept the world. It is already unquestionable.

Therefore, Li Xiuman, who had been in Hong Kong for more than a month, was about to return to South Korea.

His agent has called him 75 times in the past week, all of whom asked him to return home to participate in activities, movies and small concerts.

Before Li Xiuman came to Hong Kong, he was not very famous in South Korea, but just a newcomer in the singing and hosting industry.

Now let alone him, even a famous Korean actor is just a second-rate and third-rate feeling in Hong Kong.

Before 2000, the Korean entertainment industry could not raise its head in front of the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

So Lee Soo-man came to Hong Kong to shoot movies and participated in such a big production. It was definitely a very good gilded trip for him, and it was also promoted as a glorious trip in South Korea.

The result is just as everyone imagined. "Police School" is so popular all over the world. Although Li Xiuman's squad leader role is a bit dull and stupid, he can be regarded as showing his face in front of fans all over the world with the film.

In the eyes of Koreans, the meaning is even more different.

With "Police School", Li Xiuman became popular all over Korea and vaguely became the No. 1 star in South Korea. Therefore, his agent was so anxious that he asked him to return to South Korea and quickly struck while the iron was hot to consolidate his fame.

The overall situation of "Police School" has been completed. Li Xiuman felt that it was meaningless to stay in Xiangjiang, so he came over to say goodbye to Yin Jun.

Later, no matter how the mainlanders criticized the Koreans, they still agree with their etiquette between superiors, seniors, juniors, elders and juniors. This ancient ritual that was passed down from China was actually well passed down in Japan and South Korea, but gradually disappeared in China. It is really a pity.

Li Xiuman, 28 years old this year, is 10 years older than Yin Jun, but Li Xiuman admires Yin Jun, a genius, and admires him from the bottom of his heart.

"June!" This title is standard Hong Kong dialect. Next, Li Xiuman spoke in English, "I will go back to Korea tomorrow. Thank you for your care for me this time. Thank you! After I return to Korea, I will definitely work harder! Welcome to come to Korea to play when you have time!"

"Oh, that's it." Yin Jun nodded, took out a document from his drawer and handed it to Li Xiuman, "Brother Man, there's nothing to give to you. You can take this song!"

Li Xiuman was surprised and said, "This... the song you wrote for me by Mr. Jun?!"

He is a singer, so he naturally knows that in addition to being a genius script writer, Yin Jun is also a genius songwriter.

He has heard and learned all the Chinese, English and Japanese songs sung by Zhang Guorong and Deng Lijun.

As a result, Li Xiuman admired Yin Jun and felt that there was no more powerful songwriter in the world than Yin Jun.

Because it is easier for a songwriter to write popular songs in his own language based on the influence of his own culture, but it is not so easy for you to transcend one language and write songs in other languages.

This is not as simple as asking someone to write lyrics after the composition is completed. The songs produced in this way are just assembly lines and cannot be said to be classic at all.

Only when the lyrics and music are perfectly integrated and can arouse the heartfelt recognition of fans in this language, is a classic and good song.

Of course, there are also talented lyricists who can write songs in two languages, but they are definitely a minority among the few.

Like Yin Jun, he wrote songs in three languages: Chinese, English and Japanese, and each of them is such a touching songwriter. In Li Xiuman's impression, there is no second one.

Korean singers like Li Xiuman who are not yet civilized in entertainment are dreaming that Yin Jun dares to write a song for him, but his agent has half of the phone calls this week to encourage him to write a song for Yin Jun.

Lee Soo-man's agent dared not say that he asked Yin Jun to write a Korean song. He was looking forward to Yin Jun giving an English song, thank God. If it really doesn't work, a Cantonese song is OK. Anyway, Hong Kong's TV series and songs are very popular in Korea and are also popular.

Li Xiuman firmly stopped this kind of behavior that did not know the height of the world and had no sense of hierarchy. He had never told Yin Jun at all.

But unexpectedly, just when he said goodbye before returning to China, Yin Jun suddenly took out a song and gave it to him, which made Li Xiuman feel surprised and so flattered that he was extremely overwhelmed.

After taking the song score tremblingly, Li Xiuman became even more stunned when he saw it.

"Korean song?"

"Well, this is the first time I've made a Korean song. You can try it. If you don't like it, forget it. I'll give you another English song." Yin Jun said.

"No, no, I didn't mean that..." Li Xiu's face was flushed and she said in panic: "I'm just too excited! I didn't expect that Jun Jun, you wrote a Korean song for me personally. I don't know how to thank you... Thank you..."

As he spoke, Li Xiuman's eyes turned red.

In Li Xiuman's opinion, the difference between him and Yin Jun's identity is the difference between heaven and earth.

Not only did Yin Jun look down on him, he also changed a more suitable role setting for him in the movie, encouraging him to act well, and now he has written a Korean song for him. What kind of care is this!

Li Xiuman had nothing to be watched by Yin Jun, and he was about to return to China. Because of his poor acting, he did not have much chance to come to Xiangjiang to shoot a movie again, so it was basically the last time Yin Jun and him met him in private, which was the rhythm of being a passerby in the future.
To be continued...