The production cost of "Iron Man" is US$140 million and the promotional cost is US$80 million. Although some of the costs have been recovered through advertising sponsorship and other aspects, Marvel undoubtedly invested a huge amount of investment in this film. If it can only gain praise and the market reflects mediocrely, it can only be described as tragedy.

There is always only one standard for measuring commercial movies, that is, commercial benefits.

Fortunately, the North American box office on Friday day gave Marvel and Disney a reassurance. "Iron Man" earned $37.23 million in just one day in 4,150 theaters, which basically indicates that the North American box office in the first week of the film can sprint towards the $100 million mark.

Disney has also increased its publicity for the film, and even Ryan has taken part in it personally. When attending a charity party on Friday night, he sang praises to dozens of reporters for "Iron Man".

"Maybe in the eyes of some people, this is just a 'Hollywood-style' assembly line commercial product."

Like other commercial movies, Iron Man has been attacked by many veteran film critics. "But in my eyes, this is a video art that perfectly combines human body beauty and mechanical principles. The unique dynamics of Iron Man's movements cannot be simply shot. Shouldn't such an action art realm be known and touched?"

Everything was like the normal rules of commercial movies. On Saturday, the North American box office of "Iron Man" rose to $40.35 million, reaching the peak of a single-day box office, and the following day fell to $28.03 million.

In the first three days of the weekend, the North American box office of "Iron Man" successfully exceeded US$100 million, reaching US$15.61 million, which can be said to be a good start for the summer season of the entire North American film market.

In the next week, "Iron Man" did not meet an opponent of the same magnitude. In just ten days, the film's North American box office exceeded 185 million US dollars, becoming the hottest film so far this year.

Even though the overseas release has just begun, it is no exaggeration to say that "Iron Man" has achieved success.

As an important part of the entire series, the success of "Iron Man" not only brings money, but also preheating the Avengers, further laying the groundwork, and once again strengthening Marvel's confidence in its superheroes.

There are dozens of very popular comic characters under Marvel, and their continuous success naturally prompted them to want to send more superheroes to the big screen.

However, after Ryan communicated with Marvel's senior management, the two sides quickly reached an agreement that before the release of "Avengers", Marvel would not have too many actions for the time being.

Superhero movies require huge investments. If Walt Disney does not inject enough funds, the surprise side does not have enough budget to support excessive film preparation plans.

Although Marvel now has a very high degree of freedom, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walt Disney.

It was not until mid-May that "Iron Man" met a real opponent in North America. The thriller and suspense film "The Da Vinci Code" directed by Lang Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Rilis Howard was officially released in North America.

Because the novel has accumulated a large number of book fans, the position of ranking first in North America's bestseller rankings for more than ten consecutive weeks and the huge controversy in content has attracted countless audiences' attention and is even known as one of the most anticipated films in 2006.

Even though the audience's reputation in the movie version of "The Da Vinci Code" was a mess, it performed well in terms of business. The first week's box office of more than $77 million completely surpassed the box office of "Iron Man" of $32.83 million on the third weekend, which is also the second highest North American weekly box office this year.

As it turns out, those religious films with huge controversy always attract the audience's attention.

Despite being evaluated differently, this film can still have a grand box office start in North America, because there are countless curious eyes all over the world waiting to see what it would be like to adapt this novel with 40 million readers into a movie.

Also in this week, the North American box office of "Iron Man" exceeded US$200 million, reaching 234.2 million. Moreover, the film has been listed in several major overseas ticket markets for ten days. It is also the most popular movie in the local period, and the global box office of the film easily exceeded US$430 million.

Not to mention the rising global box office, the three versions of Iron Man alone sold nearly 3 million sets in the English-speaking area, creating a profit of more than 9 million US dollars for Walt Disney. Although the copyrights of DVD and TV are far from profitable, the peripheral products such as toys, images and comics sold more than 20 million US dollars.

If other world regions such as the Far East and the continent of Europe are included in the negotiation authorization, this income figure can be doubled.

However, these were completely unimportant to Ryan. After sending Charlize to Germany, he rushed to Lanai Island in Hawaii, waiting for the feeling of being a father for the first time in his past and present life.

A whole top medical team in the United States and the equipment they need were transported to the island by yachts early and at any time.

In the quiet corridor, Ryan walked around anxiously, and Taylor and Lily Mosin's eyes, sitting on the chair, also swayed back and forth with him. This situation lasted for almost half an hour.

"Hey, hey, hey..." Taylor finally couldn't help it, jumped out of the chair, pointed to the door of the delivery room and said, "Ryan, if you are anxious, you can go in."

"Dear." Ryan had no choice but to stop, "I was kicked out by Nicole half an hour ago."

He also wanted to be inside, but after Nicole glared at her eyes, she had to come out. Now even the old guy God said, Nicole's opinion was not important.

"Poor Ryan." Taylor couldn't help but shake his head.

"godfather……"

Suddenly, a little hand pulled Ryan, but it was Lily Mo Xin, the little devil, she looked much more sensible than Taylor, "Don't worry."

"Okay, Lily." Ryan took her back to the chair, "I'm not worried."

Ryan also understood that he could not help much except waiting for such things, so he simply sat next to Lily and pointed at Taylor next to him. This guy who had grown to five feet and eleven inches and sat down obediently.

The delivery room and even this floor have been rebuilt in the past six months, with very good sound insulation. Apart from vaguely hearing the familiar cry of pain, Ryan basically couldn't hear any other sounds, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

It is definitely fake to say that he is not worried about this moment. Even if he doesn't believe in any religion at all, he secretly cut a few crosses on his chest.

Father, a feeling that I have never experienced or expressed.

If Nicole and the others can be safe, I will definitely convert to Catholicism tomorrow...

Just as Ryan was thinking this, the door of the delivery room suddenly opened, and several female nurses pushed Nicole lying on the hospital bed and walked out. Ryan immediately met and reached out and held one of Nicole's hands.

"Dear..." He followed closely by the pushing bed, his slender fingers gently stroked Nicole's sweaty cheeks, "Thank you for your hard work."

"Daughter..." Nicole said softly.

"She..." Ryan's eyes couldn't help but sweep across all the nurses, "Where is she?"

"Mr. Jenkins."

Probably the head nurse's woman spoke, "The child is very healthy, the doctor is doing some basic care and will be sent here soon."

Although he had almost zero understanding of this, Ryan nodded, held Nicole's hand tightly, and walked into the ward that had been prepared long ago at the end of the corridor.

"Godmother..."

"Nicole..."

The nurse had just put Nicole in place, and two girls, one big and one small, came over.

"Don't worry." Nicole nodded slightly to them and Ryan, "I'm fine, I'm very happy."

After gently kissing the back of Nicole's hand, Ryan held the hand between his hands, and in a prayer posture, he recited a few words that no one could hear clearly.

"What are you talking about?" Nicole couldn't help asking strangely.

"Pray for you and our daughter."

As he was speaking, the door behind the room opened, a middle-aged woman walked in with a baby in her arms, "She is very healthy, congratulations, Mr. Jenkins, Miss Kidman."

"Thanks!"

Nodding, Ryan made a gesture to Elsa on the other side and handed over the subsequent arrangements of the medical team to the butler.

The little guy was placed at the head of Nicole's bed, and seemed to be sleeping soundly. Ryan walked over and was about to reach out, but he was stared at him, "Can you hold the child? Have you practiced before?"

"This?" Ryan couldn't help scratching his head, "Then let me see if my daughter can do it?"

"She's so young." Lily Mo Xin lowered her voice, "Sister, she's so young."

"Idiot Lily." Taylor nodded her head, "You were no bigger than her when I first met you."

"You two." Nicole's eyes turned over and made a shut-up gesture, "Quiet!"

The newly born little guy is not very beautiful now, nor can he tell whether he looks like his father or his mother. With Nicole here, Ryan just leaned over and looked carefully for a while. After coming to this world from the other side of the Pacific Ocean, he still left a lot of things, and now he even has his daughter.

Father, now he could fully experience the feeling. The one lying next to Nicole was his angel...

The room was quiet, and all eyes were gathered on the newly born little guy until Taylor made a sound to break the silence.

"That..." Taylor stuck out his tongue mischievously, "We can't always call her 'her', right?"
Chapter completed!