"Mr. Horner, after an accident that almost turned into an air crash, you came to Madrid on time for the premiere."

In front of a famous cinema in Madrid, the reporter's microphone was placed in front of Matthew, "What do you think?"

This was the premiere of American Sniper in Spain, and Matthew pointed to the thousands of fans gathered on both sides of the red carpet and said, "I don't want to disappoint them."

He said calmly, "We planned for this premiere for a long time, and the fans also responded very enthusiastically and waited for a long time. The other day was just a small accident. Since we had no problems, of course we can't disappoint the fans."

The reporter was also very good at making his way and immediately said, "Spanish movie fans like you very much."

Matthew nodded and said, "I just felt their enthusiasm."

The Spanish are enthusiastic and romantic. When he walked past the red carpet to sign his autograph just now, he almost couldn't come back in full clothes.

The premiere was grand and lively, and many stars from Real Madrid were invited to help, including Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the two most powerful players in the world.

Unfortunately, Matthew was not intimidated by the two heroes. Apart from saying politely, he did not talk to Ronaldo.

Just like in London, England, the premiere of "American Sniper" in Madrid was very successful, attracting the attention of Spanish media. It won 7.89 million US dollars in one weekend of release, creating the best war film in the Spanish film market.

Afterwards, Matthew and the rest of the crew's main creators visited cities such as Rome, Berlin and Budapest within a week, participated in many publicity activities, and cheered for "American Sniper".

This film is naturally rejected by some mainstream audiences in the overseas market. If you want to get a good overseas box office, you must make a lot of work in the market with high acceptance.

One thing is that even when Matthew lived on the other side of the Pacific, he had to admit that this was a world dominated by Western values. With the increasing global terrorism, "American Sniper", which is under the banner of counter-terrorism, has a large audience in the Western market.

In the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, New Zealand and Australia, "American Sniper" has created the best opening results in war-type movies.

When Matthew finished his overseas publicity and returned to Los Angeles, the overseas box office of "American Sniper" received a total of US$119.5 million.

This film remains popular in North America. After five weekends of release, the box office in North America easily exceeded the $350 million mark, with a cumulative amount of $361.28 million.

Moreover, in October, there was still a lack of competitive competitors in the North American film market. After winning five consecutive box office championships in North America, "American Sniper" is very likely to continue to dominate the North American box office championship.

Anyone can see that the box office of 400 million US dollars in North America can easily reach it.

At the same time, after winning $270,000 on the 26th weekend of "The Avengers" was completely removed from North American theaters. This superhero collection film finally stopped at $635.89 million in North American box office.

Overseas screenings have basically ended, with the global box office combined to as high as US$1.558.81 million.

This is also the third film after "Avatar" and "Titanic" that can surpass the $1.5 billion mark in global box office.

As investors, Matthew and Walt Disney were simply having fun.

Just by splitting the box office, Studio No. 13 is enough to recover the total investment in this film. The rest of the sharing of the TV broadcasting rights, DVD disc sales and online on-demand copyrights, as well as other peripheral authorizations are basically profitable.

Other copyright negotiations continue. After "Avengers" was removed from North America, the most important thing is to strike while the iron is hot to launch DVD discs.

After three days of its launch, the film sold more than 3.5 million CDs in various versions in North America, with sales exceeding US$100 million.

However, the highest-selling disc in North America this year, including the records of pop singers, is currently the champion of "The Hunger Games", which has sold 8.47 million sets, with sales of nearly $190 million.

Even Matthew was sighing that compared to the box office that was divided into layers, the profits brought by DVD discs were significantly higher.

Of course, such DVD disc sales are now shrinking sharply, and they can only be said to be hard to come by.

More importantly, any movie with huge DVD sales is also very popular.

Without the popularity brought by the release, a video's DVD disc or video tape can only be relied on time to accumulate sales slowly.

Up to now, the largest number of North American DVD discs sold is "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" starring Matthew and Johnny Depp, with a total of 27.6 million sets sold.

The second place is Finding Nemo, with sales of 23.6 million sets.

But the highest sales are "Avatar", James Cameron's super blockbuster, which has sold $380 million in film discs.

The highest-selling audio-visual products also come from James Cameron, the CD, soundtrack and video tape of "Titanic", which sold and rented, and made a full $1.2 billion.

In fact, it is not difficult to find that if you want to sell audio-visual products such as discs to sell well, the box office is very important.

However, there are some peripheral films that are often difficult to pull even when selling well at the box office.

That is related comics, such as "Avengers" is a super big sale. According to the inherent thinking, comics related to the six Avengers should be sold well.

But in fact, what was the sales of the comic before, and what was basically what it was after the release of "Avengers".

It is recognized in the industry that the role and mechanism of American comic adapted movies and TV series in promoting comics is not obvious. For comics that are not well-known, the original sales of adapted movies or TV series can increase by more than 10,000 copies after the broadcast of the original work. Those superhero comics that are well-known in the United States will have little profit.

When Matthew saw the data obtained by Walt Disney through market research, he found that there were certain deviations in his past cognition.

The conversion rate between movie audience and comic consumers is not high enough, and some comic authors even think it is a negative conversion. Kevin Feige once gave an example like this. A thirteen-year-old Thor fan had to choose between spending $13 to buy Thor comics and watching Thor movies with friends.

The adaptation of superhero movies is very large, and people who are attracted by the movies to buy original works in bookstores. Seeing that the story plot is seriously inconsistent, it will affect sales even more.

Another point is that there are too many types of American comics, so it is too complicated. Just talking about comic superheroes, I guess Marvel itself can't tell how many superheroes there are.

While taking advantage of this time in Los Angeles, in addition to focusing on investing in movies and work, Matthew also did a lot of things.

Since he had confirmed his girlfriend, he had no intention of wandering around for the time being. He called or sent an email to several actresses who had in-depth contacts, indicating that the friendship between the two sides was eternal and that in-depth communication would be stopped.

People like Nina Dubov and Jennifer Lawrence have no objection to this, after all, they have been a deal from the beginning.

What Matthew didn't expect was that Emma Watson, who had a purer physical relationship, rushed from Brown University to Los Angeles after receiving his email and asked him to meet him.

"What an unexpected surprise."

In the cafe's booth, Emma Watson played with the white porcelain coffee cup in his hand, "I didn't expect you to have a girlfriend all day."

Matthew smiled and said, "I'm a normal man too."

Emma Watson inexplicably curled one corner of his mouth and showed an iconic smile, "Margot Robbie? I'm very curious, what's special about this Australian woman?"

"Nothing special." Matthew picked up the coffee cup and took a sip, and said, "a normal girl from rural Australia and a little wild."

This is the truth. Margot Robbie is not as beautiful as the top in Hollywood.

Emma Watson was even more curious, "Then why did you choose her?"

Matthew thought about it and decided to tell the truth, "She appeared at the right place at the right time."

If it weren't for the shooting club and the two times on the plane, he wouldn't have felt extraordinary about Margot Robbie.

Emma Watson frowned, sighed softly, and said, "We're over?"

Instead of answering, Matthew said, "We are still good friends."

Emma Watson scoffed at this, "Do you think we can still be normal friends?" She lowered her voice, emphasized, "Matthew, you are irresponsible!"

"Uh..." Matthew was stunned for a moment. Why did he become irresponsible?

Didn’t it be explained clearly at the beginning?

Emma Watson continued, "What do you want me to do in the future? What taste will you taste there? Where can I find it?"

Matthew was speechless. How could he take the blame for this?

"I'm a good man!" he murmured in his heart, "I'm a good man."

"Adapted to the super-strong scale and intensity." Emma Watson was a little lost, "Why are you interested in other things?"

This made Matthew feel a strange sense of accomplishment, but he still couldn't take the blame. Otherwise, if so many women would have to take all the blame?

"Emma, ​​I believe in one thing." Matthew said solemnly, "You will find true love like me."

"I hope." Emma Watson glanced at Matthew.

Matthew nodded, "Come on, don't stop, you still have a career."

Emma Watson stood up, "I'm leaving." She turned around and wanted to leave, suddenly turned back, and said, "By the way, I'll greet your girlfriend for me... Well, just say Emma Watson wishes her a happy breakup in advance."
Chapter completed!