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The difference is that there are particularly many commercial blockbusters released this year, which is the highest average investment and the craziest one ever.

Perhaps when you wait a few years later, when you look back, Hollywood industry insiders will find it incredible.

"Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" has been released, with a production cost of US$120 million. If the promotional expenses are included, the total cost will definitely reach US$200 million. This film set a new North American weekly box office record in the first week. In ten days, the box office in North America exceeded US$200 million, which seems to be a good start for the next blockbuster.

But is this really the case?

Even if professional institutions predict that the total box office in North America will exceed US$10 billion this year, the market will not accommodate so many large productions, some of which will inevitably become cannon fodder.

This is what Ryan thought after sitting on the plane and saw the list of movies that will be released this year.

Not to mention those art films and independent films that do not occupy much market share, but only those commercial films that cost hundreds of millions of dollars, even he is a little astonishing.

Let’s first take a look at the movies released by Disney this year.

"Superman Family", production cost of $100 million, will be released in early June.

"Spider-Man 2" has a production cost of $150 million and is released in July.

"X-Men 3: The Battle of the Wave" costs $200 million. In order to avoid the fierce competition in the summer, the release time of the movie was surprisingly postponed.

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" will be launched on Thanksgiving for a cost of $100 million.

The production cost of "The Day Afternoon" is $125 million, and it was released after "Spider-Man 2".

"National Treasure" costs $100 million to be released in early November.

This does not include a series of movies that have invested more than 100 million yuan, such as "Spy Shadows 2", "Escape from Tehran", and "Princess Diary 2".

This is just Disney, and the list behind it is even more terrifying.

Warner Bros.'s "Troy" costs $175 million. It will be released soon; "Alexander's" costs $155 million and will be released in October; "Polar Express" costs $180 million; "Catwoman" costs $100 million, and "Wonder Woman" costs $115 million...

There are other companies, "King Arthur", "Van Helsing", "Public Enemy of the Mechanical", "Garfield", "Happy Terminal", and so on.

The production cost of these movies exceeds $100 million. If you even count the promotional expenses, the average investment amount per movie will definitely exceed $200 million.

Among them, how many can succeed in box office? How many require late-term peripherals to achieve profitability? How many will it take years or even more than ten years to recover the cost? Some may still suffer huge losses in the past thirty years...

The most typical one is "Catwoman", which is already in North America. This big production led by Harry Berry has only recovered $40 million in box office. Warner Bros.'s first shot was silenced and he had to reexamine the DC comic hero.

At the same time, it also made Hollywood realize that it is very unwise to find a black actress to serve as the only protagonist in a commercial production.

At the same time, the main storyline is not clear, and each character can stop when clicking. Even Achilles, the main character, is not deep enough, and his mother flashes by and seems inexplicable.

Also, the essential vases in commercial films are not beautiful enough.

Perhaps it was improper makeup, lighting and lens use that could trigger a war, Helen, in both figure and appearance, looked pretty, and was probably two streets away from being beautiful. The girl Achilles fell in love with was incredibly like a sloppy slave, which made people have to doubt the level of appreciation of this epic hero.

Fortunately, the producers did not let the Greek gods come out to make trouble. If they were as loyal to Homer's original work as suggested by some film critics during the preview, it would really become a hopeless hodgepodge.

If the film's investment can be reduced by half, perhaps "Troy" will become a successful commercial film, but then again, if the investment is reduced, it is impossible to make such a grand production.

Perhaps these wars that have nothing to do with the Americans are really not favored by North American audiences. When Achilles played by Brad Pitt and Hector played by Eric, the audience in the back row actually burst into laughter with mocking laughter.

You should know that North America is a mature film market, and these whistle laughters are often treated only by bad movies.

Ryan's eyes swept past his side, and the several Warner executives who were sitting here with him looked very good, and the subsequent North American box office also confirmed this.

The result of more than $17 million per day for two consecutive days was pretty good, but on Sunday, the box office of this movie was the most important time, and the box office of "Troy" dropped to $12.05 million.

North America's first week's box office of $46.86 million, just a little more than the first week of "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith", and is far from the $100 million expected by Warner and Brad Pitt.

Although "Troy" has brought "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" off the throne of North American box office champion, the box office results are really a bit terrible compared to investment.

Of course, this is just the beginning. There are also movies in history that have made great efforts to achieve a big box office success in the later period.

For example, the previous life's Titanic had a box office of only a pitiful $28 million in the first week, and was unanimously ridiculed by critics. Later, like the Star Wars series, it crushed the critics' so-called vision and dignity, making Oscars bow their heads.

But will "Troy" be "Titanic" in the epic war movie?

The biggest competitor of this film is "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith", "Troy" has a box office of 32.61 million in the second week, and "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" has a box office of 34.45 million in the fourth week, successfully regaining the box office championship.

"Troy"'s North American box office of less than $80 million in two weeks is in stark contrast to "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith"'s $338 million in four weeks.

Just two weeks later, Warner Bros. was ready to not exceed the production cost of "Troy" in North America, and also understood that the movie would definitely not recover the cost of the box office.
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