Chapter 809： planning chaos

"It was agreed that the sale of the disc would pay off, but Mickey Mouse turned out to be the strongest!"

One thing that needs to be admitted is that whether it is Marvel or Disney, they must have a stronger plan in the movie business than Warner to rise on it.

Many people say that Marvel is too entertaining and Disney is too naive, but have you ever thought that this impression is caused precisely because they are too prominent, they clearly know which part of the audience they want to please, so they give up another part of the audience.

Compared to this, Warner's main problem may be that they don't have a reliable commander, they don't have a long-term plan for the future of the movie, and the internal conflicts are too serious to be able to use it in one place.

There have been screenwriters who broke the news on the Internet, saying that Warners has a lot of superhero movie scripts and shooting plans, but their choice is to stack these scripts together, and progress is still slow.

why?

There are too many people pulling their backs, and this is also scruples, and that is also scruples. When the slaps are over, Marvel seems to have failed several movies at the box office, but it has never given up and continued to develop and continue to follow the road.

"The Incredible Hulk" lost so badly, it was a normal procedure to leave Warners 100% frozen, and to walk one or two executives to give shareholders an explanation.

To sum up, of course, Marvel’s management will make mistakes and miscalculate the market, but their tactical planning is clear, and even if they fail, it will not affect their continued decision-making.

In other words, how some commanders who don't understand DC can develop DC has always been a problem.

If nothing else, when DC was in decline, Warner's production business was not that bad, and other works sold well, which shows that their production and distribution capabilities are not the influencing factor.

Joseph was patient after all. After chatting with Qiao Sen for a long time, he was not annoyed if he didn't get a specific answer.

Of course, as soon as he left, Qiao Sen came to the spirit and carefully calculated whether "Watchmen" really has the potential to be a hit.

After thinking about it for a while, my attitude changed a little.

Maybe even Qiao Sen himself didn't think of it, but because of Lehman's too strong production ability, he subtly made him a little sensitive.

Lehmann has a reason for doing so.

In the original time and space, "Watchmen" was jointly produced by Legendary Pictures, Paramount, and Warner. Warner did not invest much and also accounted for most of the distribution rights, so the failure of this project did not make Warner executives feel pain, at best pity.

The reason for this is that they felt psychologically that "Watchmen" was unreliable, so they pulled two allies to do it together.

In this time and space, Legendary Pictures didn't get on Warner's boat, but went to hook up with Universal, but it didn't mean that Warner couldn't find other investment bank capital.

But what Lehman wanted to try was to see if revealing Firefly's intentions a little bit would attract more attention from Warners, and then increase their own investment. When the project failed and the losses were too great, a good project was urgently needed to make up for it.

At that time, if I go to Warner again, will I get some good things, such as further development of the Joker image, which will lead to the cooperation of other DC projects.

The main reason is that the two sides of the Batman trilogy seem to be working together, and the distribution of interests has not been discussed once or twice in the middle. If you want to find something from the DC gold mine, you will really be stared at.

In other words, Warner won't let go of the projects that Lehman is optimistic about. In this case, they must cheat on Warner and let them understand the difficulty of DC development. Maybe they encounter a failure like Superman again. It is estimated that the change in mentality will become Favor some of the fireflies.

Of course, this may also be useless, but you won't lose anything if you try it.

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After more than half a month of preparation, "Cry in the Lonely Castle" was successfully launched.

The choice of actors are all third-tier and children who want to make a lot of money and were sent to the film circle by their parents early.

Among them, there are three local Hollywood actors, Barbara Hirsch (often playing the role of an old witch, a villain professional, characterized by being old, looking like a bad guy, rich in acting experience, and paid in general), Angus- Sampson, Ty Simpkins;

Others, it is worth mentioning only that Director Juan has taken a fancy to Belen Ruida, who won the Spanish Goya Award for best actress with "Eternal Sleep" in the heroine selection, and the future child star debut. Roger Prince.

These actors and creators cost a total of 400,000 US dollars, and they still pay half of it first, 200,000 US dollars.

Director Juan was full of energy and energy. After pulling up the team, he quickly rushed to Spain to shoot.

On the other hand, the filming of "The Incredible Hulk" is still the same, there are occasional disputes, but they are very restrained. If Li is allowed to evaluate according to his own heart, the atmosphere is still good.

Earlier, he cooperated with Universal on "The Hulk", and the right to speak on the set was pitiful. Let alone disputes, it should be called a unilateral compromise.

Gradually, Lehmann also has more energy to focus on the projects he is preparing.

The Incredible Hulk set.

The shooting ended earlier today. Lyman, who went back to his room to write and draw, found that Thomas had already come over.

He called Thomas some time ago, but the product was not in the United States, but now he has come back.

Lehman looked at him, and there was nothing he could do if he was not very professional.

Apart from his films, Thomas seldom took on foreign films, and after filming his films, he took a break to play around.

Thomas himself doesn't think it's anything. He has such a personality. He has never been poor since he was a child, and he doesn't like spending money lavishly. He has saved quite a lot of income for the crew over the years, except for changing the car and giving Sony's new camera. The lens cost a lot of money, and there is basically no big cost.

However, after a little free time, Thomas will miss the tight life on the set, but he doesn't want to be so busy every month, full and full, and relaxation is still needed.

In addition, he is still willing to pay attention to his own hobbies, and has continued to improve since he met Lehman. Of course, he was only particularly interested in Lehman's films.

You know, apart from working with Director Zha once, he has basically never filmed with other directors...

Then a few days ago, Lehmann came up with a new idea and asked him to familiarize himself with the shooting style of documentaries.

But the name of the project is quite strange, called "Ninth District".

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District 9 is an underrated movie.

In the original time and space, South African rookie director Neil Blomkamp only spent 30 million to tinker with this sci-fi and thriller screen classic.

With the plastic feel of a B-grade film and a rough composition, it won 118 million in the United States, nearly 200 million in the world, and 37 million in the first week of that year's schedule (not much publicity, relying on online tap water and the huge Yahoo community. More praise)) "Special Forces: The Rise of the Cobra", which produced more than 170 million US dollars, became the box office champion of the new week.

Later, many people praised this style as postmodern aesthetics-disorder and ugly.

But director Neil Blomkamp said in an interview that when he was making this film, what he worried about every day was not how to shoot better but how to save money to finish the film.

In other words, the postmodern aesthetic may be there, but it's definitely not a plastic-smelling costume and a risky shoot in a South African slum because the crew doesn't have the money to build the location in a safe place.

Think about it, a 30 million sci-fi film still tells the story of aliens. Throughout the history of film, is there such a low budget?

In order to save money, not only the pictures are sacrificed, but even amateurs are mostly used in the actors, because these people are cheap and cheap means the performance is immature, and several scenes are the result of immature personnel positions.

Moreover, as a sci-fi film, there are not many special effects scenes, and the alien spaceships and weapons and equipment are even more crude and messy. , how to say, are the shortcomings of this movie.

To put it bluntly, this film can be made because of the director's desperate efforts to save money. After it was released like this, it was successful. It was nominated for four awards at the Oscars, and the word-of-mouth box office had a double harvest, which shows the charm of "The Ninth District" - oh , By the way, that year just happened to encounter "Bomb Disposal Expert" and "Avatar", mixed with two famous film history, "The Ninth District" with a budget of 30 million.