Chapter 690： "Rage Attack"

In the office building of the Lionsgate headquarters, the lights are bright, the employees are working hard, and no one slips away early.

Since the acquisition banner was held high, the management has changed every few days, not to mention the employees below, everyone is avoiding becoming the next person to leave.

In the office, Jon Feilermei sat in the boss chair, without any pretense of being an executive, holding a market document, asking questions to several subordinates while looking at it, occasionally giving a few words of praise, releasing him. Closeness, which makes the conversation atmosphere is relatively harmonious.

The attitude of the leader outside the major shareholders of the board of directors made the few people sitting on the sofa on the right relax a lot.

These are all managers who entered the Lionsgate system from the original company in the recent acquisition to expand the company's territory. They are still very unfamiliar with the new environment, new colleagues, and new bosses, and inevitably have many scruples.

It turned out that I was still thinking about how to get along with Jon Feilmei. I didn't expect the boss to take a stand first, and I felt some kind of feeling unconsciously.

Of course, for Jon Feilermei, this time the conversation is not important, but the people.

After all, every acquisition, disbanding a part, absorbing a part, how to reassure the hearts of these new entrants, still needs to spend some thought.

Man, I feel a little overwhelmed at a new company, and it's normal for him to be unsure. What he has to do is to make these people have confidence in the company's future and work steadfastly.

Lionsgate's foundation is still very solid. Although there are not so many theater resources, some are subject to the market, and they do not dare to rashly launch high-risk high-investment projects, but the small cost of about 10 to 20 million is produced one after another. .

In fact, they are also in a period of pain right now. In order to develop overseas channels, they are still hiding their ambitions.

Moreover, the current Lions Gate seems to be very loud, but for the Sixth Congress, it is not a threat, and it does not pay attention at all.

Just like on September 1, Lionsgate's new work "Anger to Heart" was released.

12 million US dollars of investment, less than 1,300 screen canvases, typical B-level production, directors Mark-Neverdai and Brian Taylor are also screenwriters, with relatively low qualifications and little reputation, the whole crew is the main creator, can get it It seems that only the actor Jason Statham has been shot.

At a time when action movies are not very mainstream, come up with an action movie that doesn't have a big scene, and make it clear that it's good to make a fortune.

For the Big Six, B-level production is the most marginal project with few resources, but it is the mainstream production in Lionsgate. Who would pay attention?

Of course, this project is cost-effective.

It's a film that reduces risk and captures a specific audience.

If you have to summarize the plot, "Anger Attack" is a bit of the shadow of "Life and Death".

It's just that "Speed ​​of Life" is about a car being loaded with bombs, and "Rage" is that the killer played by Jason Statham is poisoned. As long as the heart beats slower than expected, he will die - what a silly setting Certainly.

That's right, the mobile "powder magazine" that automatically explodes into pieces once it drops below a predetermined speed. Now ten years have passed, but a madman whose structure has been changed by a deadly poison has taken over the baton of speed, but this time, compared to the endurance of mechanical gasoline, the poison is on the body, and it is a human being who is exhausted at any time.

Therefore, Jason Statham is often seen jumping up and down inexplicably in the film...

Therefore, for such a trouble-free low-budget movie, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes dropped to 61% as soon as the drawing started. Of course, if the reason for passing the film is to put aside the unreasonable poison settings for the rationality of the plot, Jason Statham The cold humor is a plus.

The crew still chose a good actor - after the older generation of action stars either transformed or went silent, Jason Statham has become a tough guy on the screen with a better audience.

And in the first weekend, "Anger" actually won $10.46 million, which is also a small surprise for Lionsgate.

You must know that they have invested less than 2 million US dollars in the early stage of the announcement of this film. It can be said that they are left to fend for themselves. They only put up posters in the movie theaters where they are showing and nearby, and they don’t even bother to cut the trailer. only one edition...

Of course, Jon Feilemay, who was holding the report, was very satisfied with the performance of "Rage", but looking at the weekly ranking with 8.23 ​​million, it has been screened for three weeks, and it can still rank third in the fourth week. "Little Miss Sunshine" is the envy of my heart.

——Everyone is also a low-cost movie. My family’s works exploded, and if they died, they would have a potential of 30 to 40 million yuan. ...

In fact, this is also the general view of the industry on the work "Little Beauty in the Sun".

If Disney's "Dancing Out of My Life" is a chance to seize the resurgence of musical films, and the plot especially caters to young audiences and has achieved a dark horse-level market performance, then "Little Miss Sunshine" is somewhat unpredictable .

Did you shoot well? The quality has indeed withstood the test of the market, but the subject matter is not the mainstream of the blockbuster - it is literary and artistic, it is rare to be able to sell at the box office without losing money, which is why Focus Pictures gave up shooting "Little Sunshine" after several thoughts The proposal was finally picked up by Firefly.

When the results of "Little Miss Sunshine" came out in the first week, the complication of the executives of Focus Pictures was not to be mentioned.

This is like "Breaking Bad" relying on word-of-mouth ratings to grow against the trend, HBO, CBS and other TV stations that have rejected the series also have a different kind of experience...

After the purpose of the conversation and communication felt almost the same, Jon Feilmei signaled slightly that he still had work, and the others got up and left voluntarily.

Alas, looking at the series of figures on the report, Jon Feilermei frowned unbearably.

He is in charge of such a big business, and the company's production is not too strong - compared with Firefly, it is naturally not good, but in fact, it is very good. In recent years, it has been profitable, and it is still in the case of spending money to deploy overseas.

......

At this moment, in the office of Blue Butterfly Pictures, Lyman and Liam are also chatting.

It's just not for personnel matters, but for schedule arrangements.

"Fatal Magic" directed by Christopher Nolan was completed at the end of April this year, and it was busy until mid-August, and the final film was completely completed.

When Lehman went to try it, he also praised Nolan.

Of course, this film is not a mainstream theme, it is an experiment, experimenting and exploring the shooting style.

It can be said that the path of the second "Dark Knight" can be found in many places from "Deadly Magic".

From the time the film was confirmed, the issue of schedule was quickly brought up to the business arrangement of Blue Butterfly Pictures.

In the original time and space, Nolan joined the Warners camp, so this film was arranged by Warners in the later part of October, mainly to cooperate with the Christmas Eve harvest market to fill the theater resources vacated during this period.

But for Firefly, Christmas Eve is at the end of October and the beginning of November. It is more suitable to choose a movie that can squeeze into Christmas by relying on the follow-up trend of the market. Sparta is more suitable than Deadly Magic.

Because "Sparta" is more mainstreamDeadly Magic" suspense and more dark film images at night, the plot has magic filled with various details that require patience to know, for the audience, it is a bit too brainy , it will not be visually comfortable,

Why most films prefer to use lenses with richer colors, such as soft yellow, bright red, light blue... It's because the human visual system is more receptive and able to hold the impression of these colors. On the contrary, " At the time of "Mystery of Xia Ying", some audience members were not happy with the large number of night scenes in the film.

Then, "Deadly Magic" is Nolan's filming of "The Mystery of the Shadow", and further exploration for this image style. It is conceivable that this film does not have Batman as the biggest attraction and suspense, and the audience's acceptance level It will definitely be lower.

Of course, as for movies, some people like them very much, and some people can't accept them at all. The more mainstream ones that can be recognized and given a passing score are the most stable commercial works.

Obviously, "Fatal Magic" is not mainstream enough and not stable enough.

Therefore, Nolan is not so unacceptable that his work should make way for "Sparta".

After all, sometimes movies can be very popular, and sometimes they are very small...