Chapter 1920 1922 [Salted fish turned over]

  The movie released in July is "Lethal Weapon 3" starring Xiang Nan, Daniel Grove and Halle Berry.

  This is the final chapter of the "Lethal Weapon" series, telling the story of Martin and Roger getting involved in an arms theft and thus fighting a criminal group led by corrupt Sheriff Jack Tevez.

  Because the enemy came from within and was the immediate boss, Martin and Rogge faced greater crises and more dangers, and survived several times. But that is also the case, the joy of victory is also extraordinarily sweet.

   Moreover, Halle Berry's role in this film has also greatly increased. In the first two films, she only appeared as a supporting role, and her roles were not considered important.

  In this film, Rong was promoted to be the female lead, and while the number of scenes increased greatly, the relationship with Xiang Nan also made progress. The end of the movie is her and Xiang Nan's wedding ceremony, which can be regarded as a perfect end to this series of movies.

  After the release of "Lethal Weapon 3", the box office became a big hit. The box office in North America was 180 million US dollars, and the global box office was 420 million US dollars, which once again proved Xiang Nan's box office appeal.

   With this film, Halle Berry once again snatched the crown of the most popular African-American actress at the box office from Whoopi Goldberg.

  …

  In August, the movie released by Universal Pictures is "The Heroes of the Dead Mountain" starring Sylvester Stallone.

   Entering the 1990s, Stallone's stardom has declined a bit.

  The movies he starred in have rarely been among the top ten in the annual box office list.

In 1990, his masterpiece "Rocky 5" had a North American box office of only 40 million U.S. dollars; in 1991, he starred in "Finger Dragon", which cost 35 million U.S. dollars and had a North American box office of only 2,000 U.S. dollars. Eight million US dollars; in 1992, he starred in "Mother and Child Veyron", which cost 40 million US dollars, the North American box office was only 28 million US dollars, and the global box office was only more than 70 million US dollars...

   Moreover, "Mother and Son" was shortlisted for the Golden Raspberry Award for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and several other awards, which shows that Stallone has lost the favor of the audience.

   On the one hand, it is because his acting style remains unchanged throughout the year, which makes the audience lack freshness.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger started filming "Dragon Brothers" and "Kindergarten Cop" and other movies, trying to blend action and comedy, Stallone was still repeating the previous play, continuing to play the unsmiling, gritty tough guy. Audiences have been watching it for more than ten years, so they will naturally get bored.

  On the one hand, it is also because the latecomers are all fierce. Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, and Kevin Costner all performed vigorously, and all of them walked the tough guy line, which took a big piece of cake.

   Therefore, "The Heroes of Jue Ling" is his turning point. If the film is successful at the box office, it will continue his luck for a few more years. On the contrary, I am afraid that he will no longer receive big productions, and can only gradually become a second- and third-tier movie star.

   Therefore, Stallone attaches great importance to this film, and has been running around to promote it since June, trying to gain attention for this film.

  …

   "The Heroes of Jue Ling" tells the story of a group of gangsters hijacking a plane transporting huge sums of money and making an emergency landing on a snow-capped mountain. The rescue team members who went to rescue were taken hostage by them.

   At a critical moment, the hero played by Stallone stepped forward and went to the snow mountain for rescue. In the end, not only the gangsters were eliminated, but all the teammates were also rescued.

  The filming location of "The Heroes of the Absolute Mountain" is located in the Veneto region of Italy. It was actually filmed on snow-capped mountains, so the filming process was very difficult.

   During the period, as many as 100 staff were injured due to frostbite and falls. Even Stallone almost fell off the snow cliff, which can be said to be quite thrilling.

  But Stallone regards this movie as his own turnaround, so he is naturally willing to take risks. No matter how difficult he faced, he never backed down, and he was full of Rocky's spirit.

   And the hard work pays off. After the film was released, the audience's evaluation is still very good.

   One story was filmed on snow-capped mountains, making the picture very spectacular, majestic, shocking, and refreshing; the second story is also very thrilling and exciting, with climaxes one after another.

  So in the end, the movie earned $84 million at the box office and $250 million worldwide. The success of this film also made Stallone stand up again, consolidating his status as a first-line Hollywood star.

   It is not easy.

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  In September, the sci-fi action film RoboCop 3 starring Bruce Willis was released. This is also the final chapter of RoboCop.

  The story routine is basically the same, they are all about the story of Robocop Murphy punishing **** and eliminating evil, and fighting criminals. However, due to the development of special effects technology in recent years, the picture effect of "Robocop" has been improved a lot.

   In addition, because the first two movies made money, Universal Pictures has also invested heavily in it, making its action scenes bigger and the visual effects look even more shocking.

   Therefore, the box office performance is not bad, with more than 40 million U.S. dollars in North America and 130 million U.S. dollars in the global box office, which is considered a relatively blockbuster.

  The success of this movie can be regarded as a perfect ending for the "RoboCop" series.

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   In September, the new season of "Friends" officially launched.

  When this show aired last year, the ratings were very good, ranking first in the same period, with an average rating of more than 19 million people.

  After the launch of the second season of this year, the ratings continued to boom, and it was still the first in the same period, and the ratings also rose slightly, at around 23 million.

   Such ratings are considered very good.

  In comparison, another drama "X Files" invested and produced by Xiang Nan, after it was broadcast, the ratings just approached 10 million people.

   Such data made Fox TV a little dissatisfied.

   They originally bought this TV series because of Xiang Nan's name. They wanted to get a lot of praise like "Baywatch" and "Friends".

   But I didn't expect the ratings to be so sluggish, which caused Fox TV to call out to cut the show.

Naturally, Xiang Nan also knows that the first two seasons of "The X-Files" did not have high ratings, and it was even the bottom of the ratings list. Thanks to the rise of the Internet, the popularity of this drama has greatly increased through online discussions. This affects offline ratings.

  So Xiang Nan immediately ordered the distribution department to increase the online marketing of this series.

   Prior to this, although the Internet has been born for several years, it has never received people's attention.

  People even once believed that the Internet, like video recorders, tape recorders, and CD players, is a product that will be eliminated within a few years of its birth.

   Therefore, the distribution department of Universal Pictures has never had the concept of online marketing, but now that it is in danger, it has to take some action.

  (end of this chapter)