Chapter 316： gear

"The competition for the summer slot is fierce, and our Saw 2 has absolutely no advantage at all."

Benjamin Joseph, the executive director of Firefly Pictures, said with a smile: "So, what Paramount is saying is, let's wait until the end of summer, late June or mid-July, or later. "

Lehman looked at some information about the theater and didn't say much.

For the North American market, the importance of the summer vacation naturally goes without saying.

In particular, none of the Hollywood Big Six will miss out on this war.

The first week of May is Universal's "Van Helsing."

In the second week of May, "Troy" hits strongly; in the third week of May, DreamWorks' "Shrek 2"; in the fourth week of May, 20th Century Fox's masterpiece, "The Day After Tomorrow" also starred in Eva "will be released...  

Just looking at this list shows just how fierce the competition is.

Even if the results of the previous work of "Chainsaw" have been somewhat guaranteed, the reason why Paramount still dare not take risks.

Compared with funds, among these works, the least investment is "The Day After Tomorrow", but the shooting cost of "The Day After Tomorrow" is 130 million, and the book cost of "Troy" with the highest investment is a full 180 million .

On the announcement, the Big Six are going to blow their minds out.

The newspapers are full of news about these new plays.

"Van Helsing" was not well-received by film critics, and even put aside the group of film critics to publicize how hard Hugh Jackman worked for the filming, or to heat up the scandal of the cast starring.

Don't expect any kind of integrity from the studios these days.

You have invested so much money, you can't go to waste.

Poor Uncle Wolf tried so hard to be consumed.

Who made "Van Helsing" really bad? Universal's monster stew series failed at the beginning.

Uncle Wolf was also exhausted by the market reputation accumulated by "X-Men" in a blink of an eye.

Unlucky also Kate - Beckinsale.

Some time ago, the role of "Escape from Clone Island", which was painstakingly pursued, was finally given to Scarlett Johansson by "Exploding Shell".

After that, "Van Helsing" received a lot of bad reviews as soon as it was released - the girl is really miserable, and I don't know if the agent's film selection ability is too poor, and he can always receive works that hit the streets of the year. I won't talk about the previous "Pearl Harbor". It's not too bad. It's not easy to rely on "Bad Guy" to get back to the blood, and then encounter "Van Helsing".

Alas, it is estimated that the actor's career has to fall to the bottom again. This is Hollywood, market theory.

As the competitors of this film, seeing that their peers are not very good, the behavior of getting into trouble has soared.

Constantly hyping up "Van Helsing" is how far it goes.

But even so, some small-budget films of the same period still could not escape the massacre.

The box office results of the opening in the first week also received 31.26 million US dollars.

However, audience reviews were also poor.

From the beginning of the next week, the box office market continued to decline. Even if Uncle Wolf and the crew worked hard to promote and appear on the show, it could not save the word of mouth that was collapsing day by day.

Followed by Warner, its epic masterpiece "Troy".

I am also happy to see such a scene, and I easily take advantage of the global downturn to vigorously promote my new film, and constantly attack opponents.

Brad Pitt even spoke out about the poor performance of "Van Helsing" in a show.

Oh, by the way, Pitt starred in "Troy", and the studio he opened even participated in the investment.

Let's ignore Pitt's character for the time being, but the "charismatic man" character created by others over the years is still successful. Many fans.

Moreover, he still broke the news during the release stage of a competitor's film, and he thought with his toes, he knew that it was Warner's instigation.

Movie propaganda? Sometimes the black opponents just praise themselves, and the effect is the same. Although "Van Helsing" is indeed easy to be hacked.

Not to mention Pete, the publicity is very hard.

At this time, the first-line stars, to be honest, are very cooperative with the promotion of the movie.

In order to create a gimmick, fake marriages, gossip offensives, high-profile sales, filming injuries, dedicated efforts, everything can be used to make a fuss.

Warner is even more aware of this.

Before "Troy" was released, it was already revealed that during the filming, several leading actors were all in a coma from heat stroke, and Pitt fell off his horse and suffered multiple fractures. He still insisted on not using a substitute.

Is this an exaggeration to not evaluate first, but do not need a stand-in, insist on real shooting, are you sure it is serious?

If so, is it still Pete?

At this point, Pitt is by no means as dedicated as Tom Cruise, but he has to be compared with anyone else. Generally speaking, Pitt has a good attitude in filming.

On the contrary, in terms of personal life, he has been criticized all the time. Of course, people are not picky themselves, what can outsiders say?

In contrast, watching the confrontation between Warner and Universal, as well as a bunch of film companies that are not too big to watch the excitement and incite the flames, UU Reading Paramount, as a distribution giant with many resources, seems to be the successor. Powerless. During this time period, there is no big production that can be taken.

It is very difficult for a giant like Paramount to participate in the summer season, which is a great market.

But there is no way, the production ability is really worrying in recent years.

As for winning DreamWorks, the conditions are good, but they have not let go, and they still want to fight to the death to see if they can regain their momentum.

To put it bluntly, Spielberg still does not want his own efforts to be acquired by other film companies.

Although Paramount wants to supplement its own production department, as long as the Big Three DreamWorks does not have the final nod from Spielberg, DreamWorks will not be included in the business of film production by Paramount.

Shirley Lansing had no choice but to keep in touch while waiting for the situation inside DreamWorks to deteriorate.

As for Lehman, he also agrees with Paramount's release strategy, and does not plan to use "Chainsaw 2" as cannon fodder in the most intense competition in the summer season.

After discussing it for a while, it was decided to release it at the end of October.

Going for Halloween.

North American audiences generally have a tradition of watching horror and thrillers on Halloween, which is very suitable for "Chainsaw 2".

And Wen Ziren also went to the production crew of "Ride to New York" after the production of "Chainsaw 2" and served as assistant director and art director.

This guy is so bored, he just wants to see how Zha Dao makes movies and learn from his experience.

He also stated that he would no longer be directing the next sequel after filming.

Also, making sequels all the time is a very boring thing for directors, and there is not much room for improvement.

Lyman respected his choice.