After the premiere of "Inception", Nanaya and Lily actually went to see the night view of London.
Of course, it's just a night view.
Nanaya never did anything to Lily that went even a little bit beyond normal friendship.
Lily originally wanted to take advantage of the midnight snack opportunity to get Nanaya drunk.
Unfortunately it was not successful.
However, Lily was still very satisfied (in her opinion) to be able to have a date with her brother-in-law in the evening.
After attending the premiere of "Inception", Nanaya and Lily separated.
One of them was going back to North America to promote "Avengers", and the other was going to Paris to attend the local premiere of "Inception".
To be precise, it should be a screening event similar to a premiere.
After all, "Inception" has been officially released in several major countries and regions in the world.
The performance of "Inception" was indeed very outstanding. Its global box office revenue in the first three days of the weekend was comparable to that of popular adapted films.
Although it is slightly worse than Nolan's best film "The Dark Knight", it is even more incomparable with Nanaya's "Madoka Magica" and Cameron's "Avatar".
But when making movies, you can't expect every movie to be a huge hit, right?
Or in other words, every new work of a director should surpass its previous one.
This kind of thinking is unrealistic in the first place.
If this were really the case, then Titanic's box office record should have been surpassed by other movies long ago.
Why did it take until 2010 for a new movie to break through?
This can be seen from the fact that "Inception" grossed $65.4 million in North America in its first weekend and its global box office revenue exceeded $100 million.
After becoming a god through "The Dark Knight", Nolan has not fallen from the altar, and even has the potential to become a superstar.
After all, there are really not many directors these days who are willing to stick to original films and achieve success.
As "Inception" became a box office hit, so did the stars who played roles in the movie.
Especially actors Leonardo Dicaprio and Lily Wettin.
They have once again proved their worth as actors with their commercial achievements.
In fact, Nanaya and Washimine really hope to work with Nolan once.
He is currently at the peak of his career as a director. The movies he makes are both critically and commercially successful. He can be said to be a rare talent.
Of course, film companies would like such directors.
Unfortunately, Washimine does not have any suitable projects to invite Nolan to shoot.
The script of FGO is basically a linear narrative, which makes it difficult to bring out Nolan's characteristics.
Nolan's own films are all produced in collaboration with Warner, and the two parties have signed a long-term cooperation agreement - this is one of the conditions for Nolan to obtain the final editing rights.
In this regard, Nanaya and Shion could only express regret.
After a brief contact with Nolan, Nanaya gave up the idea of cooperating with him.
Although "Inception" was very popular, the film only stayed on the box office chart for two weeks before being pushed off the charts by another film.
Judging from the box office performance, "Inception" is performing very healthily.
The collapse in performance was not caused by any sudden reasons.
It's because one of the movies was so overpowering that it directly dethroned the popular "Inception".
The name of the movie is "The Avengers", a movie that almost everyone knows will be a big hit.
Ever since the first official trailer of "Avengers" was released on the [See Moon] website, the whole United States has been in a frenzy.
After five movies including "Iron Man", fans' expectations for "Avengers" have reached their peak.
This excitement was directly released the moment the movie was released.
After all, The Avengers is so special.
The first part of the film adopts a storytelling method that was previously only unique to comics - [big events].
This is something that no superhero movie has ever done before.
It can be said that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a miracle in the history of commercial films.
Although Nanaya's Type-Moon film and television universe has always emphasized the unity of the world.
But whether it is Fate or Tsukihime, even if connected to FGO which is currently being filmed, they can only be regarded as relatively isolated stories.
Perhaps at the end of the chapter, all the servants will gather together to achieve the effect of "Avengers".
But at this moment, Marvel is undoubtedly breaking new ground.
The story of "Avengers" is very simple, so simple that compared with "Inception", the script of "Avengers" seems like a composition written by an elementary school student.
But who watches "Avengers" for the plot?
Everyone is here to watch the superheroes team up to fight a dungeon!
The center and brightest star of the team - Iron Man Tony Stark;
Team commissar and tactical commander - Captain America Steve Rogers;
The main output of the team and a good brother who loves his younger brother deeply - Thor;
Among all the big-breasted monsters, the team's main tank has the biggest chest muscles - the Hulk;
The only flower in the team, the female warrior responsible for stimulating male hormones - Black Widow Natasha;
And the man with the aura of Old Six—Hawkeye Patton!
By the way, why is the sixth person in a team always so inconspicuous and easily forgotten?
Cough cough.
In short, "The Avengers" allows comic fans around the world to see what it would be like when the characters they have loved since childhood appear on the big screen at the same time.
When the Avengers gathered, all the audience in the theater cheered.
The plot and story no longer matter.
At this moment, the audience's dream finally came true.
Naturally, after "Avengers" was officially released, it seized all the film markets around the world in an almost robbery manner.
Apart from Japan, the graveyard of superheroes, "Avengers" directly shattered all previous box office speed records.
In North America alone, "Avengers" first won $22 million in the midnight show, then $102 million on the first day, and then $250 million in the first weekend...
"Avengers" has been making great strides, and breaking previous box office records is as easy as eating and drinking, with almost no suspense.
Even in China, where Marvel culture is not very influential, "Avengers" has achieved results that no previous Marvel movies have ever achieved.
In North America, Marvel's homeland, "The Avengers" has exploded with such crazy popularity.
Whether it's "Titanic", "Avatar" or "Madoka Magica", although the single-week performance of these movies is excellent, they are far from top-notch.
The main reason why these three films achieved impressive box office results is that the box office curve is super stable.
But "Avengers" is different. This work, which brings together 5 movies and 4 superhero series of movies, directly shows the charm of the movie universe to the outside world in a blowout way.
In just 23 days, "Avengers" broke the $500 million North American box office and approached $1.3 billion worldwide.
For superhero movies, box office success is always just the prelude.
Those peripheral products account for the bulk of the movie's profits.
From comics to toys, to all kinds of daily necessities.
Washimine Entertainment spent $500 million to acquire Marvel that year.
And now, all the money has been earned back just from the first month's revenue from the movie "Avengers".
This made Nanaya very happy, and he even had a smile on his face when he slept.
At the same time, Washimine Entertainment was also very satisfied with the performance of "Avengers".
Since last year's "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", Washimine's stock price has been soaring, and now with the monster-level movie "Avengers", it's really great.
On the other hand, the negotiations between Washimine Entertainment and Lucasfilm officially ended, and it was announced that Washimine would acquire Lucasfilm in full.
Influenced by these two good news, Washimine Entertainment's stock price once again soared to a new height.
Correspondingly, Washimine Entertainment's proposal for [See Moon] to enter the MPAA became a natural thing.
If the series of events that happened between Fox and News Corporation in June was a vicious cycle, each one getting worse than the last.
However, the situation was completely the opposite for Washimine Group in July, with good things happening one after another.
It even made Shion have the extravagant question of what she should be happy about first.
But soon, Shion no longer had such worries.
After suffering a series of blows, the exhausted old Murdoch finally came to the door.
The media emperor certainly didn't come to fight, but to negotiate.
It would be more accurate to say that they came to surrender.
After experiencing so much negative news, even a strong company like News Corporation finally couldn't hold on.
To this day, anti-News Corp forces continue to attack it from all sides.
This not only made News Corporation's media infamous, but also caused News Corporation to completely lose control of the situation.
As a media emperor, old Murdoch is indeed good enough, but he is too old to withstand the hard work.
After he stepped in, the situation at News Corporation not only did not improve, but became even worse.
Old Murdoch is old, but his mind is still clear.
He knew very well that if he wanted News Corporation to survive this crisis, the first thing he had to do was to stop the outside attacks on News Corporation.
This is also the reason why old Murdoch came to visit this time.
Only when the leader Washimine stops attacking News Corporation can he proceed to the next step and slowly revitalize News Corporation.
Shion also knew very well the purpose of old Murdoch coming to see her.
She wouldn't mind letting News Corporation go if Murdoch Sr. was willing to pay a price that satisfied her.
After all, after experiencing such turmoil, it will certainly be very difficult for News Corporation to rise again.
After all, for those working in the media, word of mouth is the most important thing.
With a bad reputation, the media's credibility will naturally be gone.
Of course, Shion only let News Corporation go.
As for James Murdoch, Shion thought it would be better to let him stay in prison for two years and pick up soap.
"I heard that Nanaya wanted to give him two bars of soap with green oil added in it?"
Shion whispered to herself while leaning back in the boss chair.
"Do you want me to give him two bars of soap with enema applied? That way I can give him more choices?"