The Best Director

Wang Yang never stopped pursuing his dream of becoming a director and making movies that could amaze the world. However, the fate seemed to play a malicious joke on him. He got wrongly accused and expelled from USC. Fortunately, when God closed a door to Wang Yang, he opened a window for him. After a baby stroller hit him on the street, he began to be able to watch the movies from the future in his head! Since then, the year of 1988 was destined to be an extraordinary year. Besides the miracle written by “Titanic”, one of the most legendary directors in the 21st century was rising quietly…

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Chapter 200: The Rise of a New Independent Film Kingdom

On movie box office websites like BOX, the top 10 global box office films of 2002 were led by "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," a New Line Cinema production that boasted an impressive $925 million; second was Warner Bros.' "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" with $878 million, and third was Sony/Columbia's "Spider-Man" with $821 million, marking the three films that year to gross over $800 million worldwide.

Fifth was 20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm's "Star Wars: Episode II" with $649 million, eighth was Sony/Columbia's "Men in Black 2" with $401 million, ninth was MGM's "Die Another Day" with $400 million, and tenth was IFC Films' "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" with $368 million.

The fourth, sixth, and seventh spots were all taken by the same independent film company, described by Fortune Magazine as an "explosively expanding" Flame Film.

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