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Hollywood Draw 699 - Get Things Done

"Hollywood has never lacked directors who succeeded by luck, and there is no shortage of directors who succeeded in their first film in their lives, and then failed. Obviously, the success of "Happy Death Day" was regarded as an accident by 20th Century Fox. Century Fox is not willing to trust a young man who has just graduated, and certainly is not willing to continue investing in this newcomer.

After a lapse of seven years, this Hollywood master of dark movies in the 1990s chose to join hands with 20th Century Fox again after he became famous, and regained the regrettable "sweet date" that year. Thus, the "X-Men" project was born this summer.

In recent years, the name Wayne Greenberg has been closely associated with superheroes in the eyes of moviegoers. And the special appearance of this "X-Men" itself has brought a ray of surprises and surprises to the summer season of superhero fans.

"X-Men" officially landed in North America last Thursday night, and it earned $7.53 million at the box office that night. The film performed very well. This achievement has already demonstrated the enthusiasm of fans for the film. The film was officially released on a large scale in North America on Friday morning, and it received $21.55 million at the box office that day.

According to the statistical rules of the North American theater market, the box office in advance is included in the first day's results, so that the box office of "X-Men" on the first day came to nearly 30 million US dollars, reaching as high as 29.68 million US dollars, easily winning the North American box office that day. .

It is worth mentioning that the number of theaters opened for "X-Men" is 2,818, and the film has achieved a box office of over 10,000 in a single hall. As the first day of the film's release passed, on Saturday, the film's single-day box office once again reported 25.5 million US dollars, and the market performance was very strong.

And because of the reasons brought about by the working day, the box office on Sunday inevitably declined, and it received 18.65 million US dollars that day. "X-Men" has been released for three days, and the total North American box office has reached 73.83 million US dollars. It almost won the box office champion last weekend by almost crushing the entire theater market.

The opening result of "X-Men" far exceeded the expectations of the producer, 20th Century Fox. According to 20th Century Fox CEO Townsend-Rothman, in an interview on Saturday, they said that they have no interest in "X-Men". Police is expected to gross around $50 million in its first week.

The film's opening weekend box office exceeded expectations, and the film's reputation was also quite good. The latest data released by 20th Century Fox shows that the average rating of fans is B+, and the film's subsequent box office is likely to show a fairly strong trend under the effect of better fans' word-of-mouth.

For the opening film destined to be a series, "X-Men" is unquestionably qualified. Last weekend, also because of the strong performance of "X-Men", the North American theater market rose strongly, and the total box office of the North American market reached 141 million US dollars. Second high market income.

The strong performance of "X-Men" exceeded expectations, once again proving Wayne Greenberg's ability to superhero series. After 7 years, 20th Century Fox's date with him has been sweet from the very beginning. …”

Box office information about "X-Men", behind-the-scenes stories, and some interviews with fans have occupied an entire page of "The Hollywood Reporter".

However, starting early Monday morning, information about "X-Men" appeared in all mainstream media, and the "Los Angeles Times" also gave a very eye-catching headline on its entertainment front page:

""X-Men" won the North American weekend box office champion, Wayne Greenberg, after DC superheroes, once again led the surprise to success!"

The professional film magazine "Premier" wrote in an early special issue: "Wayne Greenberg is still looking for breakthroughs, "X-Men", a superhero that is completely different from the DC style!

Wayne Greenberg's works have a strong and unusual personal style, but while continuing to achieve success, they are still improving themselves. The first DC movie "Joker" he directed in 1993 can be described as a milestone that Hollywood movies cannot cross. In this movie, his perfect and unique style begins to mature, and it is also an eighteen Banned R-rated films.

In the following "Batman: Hour of War" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", he began to restrain himself more and more, and his control over the scale of the film was a textbook. Therefore, DC movies with a strong dark and depressing style began to gradually move towards the public.

When "The Flash" met with all audiences this year, it stirred up countless controversies for a while. Wayne Greenberg is still looking for breakthroughs. This time, he completely abandoned the personal style on which he became famous, and shot the film like a A gorgeous audio-visual feast. And the box office results also proved that his breakthroughs and changes have won more die-hard fans for DC.

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And this "X-Men" is completely different from the superheroes he has produced before. Wayne Greenberg wrote and produced it himself, but rarely handed over the guide to Bryan Singer, and completely There is no interference with the creation of the crew.

The result is that the X-Men presented to people is different from all the superheroes he has made before, but it is good-looking. Wayne Greenberg is still experimenting with more possibilities, which is a great blessing for fans..."

In Burbank, the media capital of Los Angeles, a black Cadillac was parked downstairs in the Warner Bros. Building. Jim Lee, the new CEO of DC Comics, sat in the back seat of the car, flipping through major mainstream entertainment newspapers one by one.

The eye-catching headlines in the newspaper were turned over, and his brows slowly wrinkled. Even if the car had reached its destination, the new head of DC Comics did not notice it.

Jim-Lee rolled up the newspapers in his hand, all the information about Wayne flashed in his mind, and he slowly fell into a dazed state while sitting in the car. After a long time, he let out a helpless sigh and murmured softly.

"Twentieth Century Fox has invested in "X-Men", how much publicity and distribution costs, all mainstream media are all relevant information, and the momentum is so big..."

"Over $50 million!"

Unexpectedly, the secretary, who had been sitting in the co-pilot all the time, immediately gave an answer after hearing him whisper softly.

This sentence also awakened Jim-Lee from his stupor. He looked at his secretary in surprise. "Sandy, how do you know?"

The secretary sitting in the front row turned around. "I have a classmate who works for 20th Century Fox. According to him, 20th Century Fox has invested more than 50 million US dollars in advertising and distribution expenses for "X-Men". In this part of the cost, Fox is not included Investments in cable networks, Fox's local television stations, and many of Fox's entertainment newspapers."

Nodding thoughtfully, Jim Lee has probably understood, that is to say, the money spent by 20th Century Fox on other publicity channels has reached 50 million US dollars. If Hollywood movies are used The company's virtue, including the left-handed and right-handed part of its media, they dare to claim that they have invested 100 million in publicity.

"Twentieth Century Fox is really willing to..."

Shaking his head slightly, Jim Lee held a rolled up stack of newspapers in his hand, pushed open the door and got out of the car, looking up at the Warner Bros. headquarters building in front of him.

When the secretary got out of the car with the briefcase, he lowered his head to check his clothes, buttoned up his suit jacket, and took the lead in walking inside the building.

Five minutes later, Jim Lee knocked on the door of the CEO's office and sat silently between the two Warner Bros. executives. Obviously, both of them in the office were waiting for him, especially CEO Jeff Robinoff, who narrowed his eyes thoughtfully after seeing the newspaper in his hands.

"DC Comics did a survey."

After sitting down, the CEO of DC Comics said directly with a serious look on his face: "The box office of X-Men exceeded 70 million US dollars in the first weekend, but at least half of the box office is Wayne Greenberg. Contributed by fans of Grid, and fans of DC Superheroes! Jeff, Bruce, you should know what I mean!"

Jeff Robinoff and Bruce Rosenblum looked at each other, and the two almost frowned together.

"Twentieth Century Fox, this is through Wayne Greenberg, sucking our blood and consuming our movie word of mouth! I suggest..."

"Hey, Jim, listen to me."

Seeing that the new DC executive was still chattering, Bruce Rosenblum couldn't help interrupting the other party's words and said seriously: "We all know that this situation cannot be avoided. Eun's job freedom? Who goes? You? Me? Jeff? Or the board?"

"Uh......"

In the face of the rhetorical question from the director of distribution at Warner Bros., Jim Lee was stunned for a while.

Yes, Hollywood has been like this since ancient times. Twentieth Century Fox's life-threatening publicity also made Wayne's name the focus of movie marketing, not just to attract fans of Wayne and DC movies in a short period of time. .

In a way, 20th Century Fox didn't do anything out of the ordinary. They paid a lot of money to invite Wayne, didn't it just because of the box office results of "X-Men"?

Everyone knows that when another superhero appears on the market at this time, or a superhero under the name of Greenberg production, it will inevitably consume the reputation accumulated by DC for many years. Even in the eyes of most movie fans, Wayne's name is inseparable from DC superheroes.

"X-Men" grossed $70 million in North American box office in its first week, at least half of which was called in by Wayne, which is normal on the surface, but it's hard to think about it. Because if you think about it, you can also understand that this is 20th Century Fox, which is taking advantage of Warner Bros.

What's even more frustrating is that no one can limit Wayne's freedom of work, right? He can make DC movies, and of course he can make surprises, and no one can say anything, legally or morally. What's more, he did not direct himself, but only existed as the producer of "X-Men".

"Jim, I suggest you put all your thoughts away."

Throwing a cigar at random, Jeff Robinoff's expression was casual, but the warning in his words was quite obvious. "What DC Comics has to do is to fully cooperate with Wayne's plans for the Cinematic Universe, and I suggest you go and talk to your ex, Diego Harris. As for the rest of the mess, you're asking for trouble."

While speaking, the CEO of Warner Bros. stretched out his hand and slapped twice on various newspapers brought by the other party, making two muffled sounds of "bang" and "bang".

However, it is clear that the new dc comics CEO is quite different from his predecessor. Jim-Lee shook his head slightly, and didn't continue to say anything, just tilted his head and lit the cigar with a spray gun.

"Jim, let's get down to business."

Seeing that the atmosphere in the office was dull, Bruce Rosenblum said patiently, "Wayne will be out of the promotion of "X-Men" in about two to three weeks, we still think about it in advance , how to talk to him about the opening of Superman and the opening of Wonder Woman."

The expectations of Warner Bros. from the top management to the board of directors, and even the entire DC Comics are the same, that is, this year, the film of these two super-popular characters will be opened at the same time, in order to prepare for the "Justice League" as soon as possible.

Everyone doesn't want to drag on for another year. Now the popularity of the DC series of movies is hot enough, and the foundation of the previous movies is strong enough. Now they all hope that they can pass the "Justice League" as soon as possible and detonate the accumulation over the years.

"Jeff, I heard that the Warner Bros. Film and Television production department is interested in creating an unplanned new character, Catwoman?"

No one expected that Jim Lee would bring up this matter after spitting out a large cloud of green smoke. As soon as he said his words, Bruce Rosenblum's face changed immediately.

"It's there."

Facing the CEO of DC Comics, Jeff Robinoff did not hide it, no one knew what he was thinking, but said in a calm tone: "But the plan submitted by the film and television production department is now being pressed on the review process. , there is little hope of passing it in a short time."

"Jeff, DC Comics, can give some support to the film and television production department."

Staring at Jeff Robinoff's eyes, Jim Lee's upper body slowly leaned back into the sofa, without even looking at Bruce Rosenblum, whose eyes were already on fire.

"You should know what I mean, Jeff. Inside Warner Bros., within DC Comics, all rights shouldn't be handed over to Wayne Greenberg all the time. We might try to start another character series!"

"Jim, is this your personal opinion?" Before Jeff Robinoff could speak, Bruce Rosenblum's gloomy voice rang in advance. "Or the idea of ​​the entire DC Comics executive?"

Turning his head, Jim-Lee looked at the director of distribution at Warner Bros., and found that the other party was looking at him with a half-smile, and he suddenly felt uncomfortable. For a moment, he felt like a frog being targeted by a cobra, an illusion that made him annoyed inwardly.

"Is there a difference? Bruce."

"Of course, the difference here is quite huge." Bruce Rosenblum smiled uncharacteristically. In less than a minute, it seemed that the anger in his eyes just now disappeared.

"Bruce, I'm the CEO of DC Comics, this is the board of directors..."

"No, no, no, maybe, not soon."

Bruce Rosenblum's expression was relaxed, and he even straightened Erlang's legs, raised a finger, and shook it back and forth between the two. "Who's to say that, Jim."

Putting the cigar pestle into the ashtray, Jim-Lee ignored the sparks, tilted his head and asked, "Threat me?"

The director of distribution at Warner Bros. shrugged, spread out his hands, and mocked, "hey, hey, man, you're too sensitive. This is just a little joke of mine, just a little joke."

"It's not funny at all, Bruce."

Jim-Lee pouted, made no secret of his attitude, and stood up directly from the sofa. "Jeff, I think it's better today. I'll go back to rest first, and I'll come over and talk to you tomorrow."

After speaking, he stopped looking at Bruce Rosenblum and walked out of the office with his legs raised. No one would have imagined that it was just a simple small-scale meeting that would end up unhappy in the end.

At least Jeff Robinoff and Bruce Rosenblum have never given much thought to DC Comics' attitude before. For so many years, DC Comics has basically wanted Warner Bros. for Yuyu, and it has long been used by Warner Bros. executives from top to bottom.

"Bruce, you're in such a hurry."

When only the two of them were left in the office, Jeff Robinoff shook his head gently and said, "There is absolutely no need to confront him face to face. It can be seen that Jim is different from the previous CEO. Want to change the status of DC Comics."

"He can't change anything!" Bruce Rosenblum smiled, but it was full of sarcasm. "He underestimated Wayne's energy, and he underestimated the power of DC Comics CEO!"

Maybe Jim Lee meant to change the status of DC Comics, or maybe he just wanted to change the situation where the entire DC series was controlled by one person, but no matter what his original intention was, he had already touched Bruce Rosenblu Mu's red line.

In a way, he and Wayne were tied to the same boat, just like Jeff Robinoff before him, only when the Warner Bros. CEO had a retirement plan, UU read www.uukanshu. com everything has changed a bit.

Dangdang, there were a few light knocks on the door, the door of the CEO's office was pushed open, and Jeff Robinoff's secretary walked in.

"Boss, Jim Lee, the new CEO of DC Comics, left the office and went straight to the floor where the film and television production department is located."

"I know, you go out first."

Jeff Robinoff nodded expressionlessly, and after the secretary left, the corners of his mouth began to lift up slowly, as if he had heard a bad joke.

"Look, Jeff."

Bruce Rosenblum stood up, buttoned his shirt, and joked: "Well, our new CEO, Mr. President, seems to really want to make some achievements."

"I'll talk to him later." I couldn't tell what Jeff Robinoff was thinking, he just kept a sly smile and muttered in a low voice.

After leaving the CEO's office, Bruce Rosenblum raised his head and glanced at the floor of the film and television production department.

Everyone said that he was a cold and poisonous snake. He was middle-aged and still maintained the fierce way of doing things when he was young. But Bruce Rosenblum knew best himself that the old Jewish guy who was sitting in the CEO's office, who was calm in everyone's eyes, was the viper who really hid in the darkness.

The CEO of DC Comics, I am afraid it is difficult to get the desired result. He knows that since Jeff Robinoff wants to start a decent retirement after this term, he will never want someone to do things before he retire...+Bookmark+