Chapter 833： While preparations are in progress

"Prince Caspian" fell 58.2 percent this week because of "Crystal Skull," making people who were looking forward to the next weekend slumped after a weak opening weekend.

You must know that the next weekend’s account was 23 million, and the total North American score of “Prince Caspian” was only 91 million. Even the threshold of 100 million yuan is almost meaningless. It really shouldn’t be for a first-line sequel.

Is this... is it being held back by "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4"?

No, because last weekend was the Memorial Day holiday in the United States, and the audience base is larger. It is reasonable to say that it is normal to achieve a harmonious win-win situation, because the second place this weekend has earned more than 4,000 yuan for five consecutive years. Wan, that is to say, such a decline is not a problem of too fierce competition, it can only be that the movie itself is not bought by the audience.

Disney forced a smile, and Chuck Wayne, the vice president of Disney's distribution department, only "confidently" said in the face of media interviews: "Once more and more students are on vacation, they will turn into some serious box office... …”

But how could it be otherwise.

Disney has held many meetings about Prince Caspian's underperformance, and even proposed to freeze the "Kingdom of Narnia" series until a suitable "time".

All Hollywood practitioners are well aware that if "Prince Caspian" can't reverse a little bit against the market, then Disney's big production, which cost more than 300 million yuan, will only be labelled a "failure". .

Even if it reluctantly relies on strong peripheral development to make some profits, it is a failure, because it fails to show the value potential it should have.

Of course, also affected by the schedule is "Iron Man", which ranks third. This week, it fell by 36.7% again and recorded 20.1 million (almost surpassing "Prince Caspian"). In the envy of many filmmakers, The total domestic score has reached 286 million, the overseas box office has also passed the 250 million mark, and the global total score is 539 million.

As for Warner's big dud "Speed ​​Racer", the Wachowski brothers (ps: not sisters now) watched the film plummet by 53% again. Under the indescribably complicated feeling, "Speed ​​Racer" only The harvest is 3.87 million, the local total score is 35.48 million, and the overseas score is 24.6 million, which is a mess.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Bay Province.

In the Bay Province branch of avex holding company, Li Lie received an inexplicable high-level call early in the morning. After understanding the matter, he went straight to the home of an artist under her control.

......

"Roaring Squadron" needs an oriental-looking actor.

And Chinese male stars want to make a foray in Hollywood, the innate condition is to be able to fight - not to fight badly, but to be able to follow the line of action movie stars.

In other words, the only Chinese-language films acceptable to the American public have always been kung fu films that sold at the box office. From Bruce Lee, Jack Cheng, Jet Li, etc., almost all of them became famous in Hollywood by playing, and they were often excluded from the circle.

Cultural regional closure is like this. If you can't resist, you can only adapt.

But because it was a TV series, people with high salaries couldn't afford it. After thinking about it, Lehman thought of a certain actor who became popular with "Tang Yu Xiaobao", Peng Yuyan.

It is more appropriate that this person has lived abroad for a long time, and there is no problem with English communication, so he will not say that he cannot adapt to the rhythm of Hollywood.

The audition invitation was sent and the response was received quickly.

At that time, he had only starred in three movies, and there were not many opportunities to prove his value. If he could go to Hollywood to gild it, it would be better in the eyes of capitalists.

If there are no conditions, it is fine. Now that there is a role demand, of course, there will be no hesitation.

......

"Just choose him."

Lyman picked one actor from Kevin Feige's audition for Daredevil's male lead, Matthew Murdoch. "The temperament is very suitable and can play a leading role."

Kevin sat on the side, Wen Yan glanced at the photo resume a little more, and recalled: "The performance that day was okay, but will it be less popular."

"Do we still need actors to lead our drama?" Lyman joked: "Daredevil itself is popular, just pick one with similar temperament."

Kevin nodded, agreeing with this statement in his heart.

"Then this one is settled, Gabriel Macht."

Well, in the future, relying on the image of an elite lawyer in "Litigation Two Heroes", it will be well known by audiences who like to watch American TV dramas.

"Okay, you don't need to worry too much about the rest, just check the shooting situation occasionally." Lehmann laughed.

The preparations for both dramas are very fast.

The script is still being written, and the actors and directors are almost all set.

In the case of "Roaring Squadron", the director will be taken over by David Nutt, who has filmed "Dragon Tiger Youth Team", "Super Detective", and will be one of the executive directors of "Pacific War" in the future. 5 million salary + ratings incentives, Nick Fury + Peng Yuyan and other third-tier movie stars act as actors and creators, with an investment budget of around 40 million;

"Daredevil", the director is Jesse Vaughn, who is also invited to send out, the one who has been screened and recognized for his shooting style, who has filmed "Criminal Minds" and "The City", will know how to shape the breeding of sin the Hell's Kitchen community.

In fact, with the authorization of later generations of Marvel, the quality of "Daredevil" produced by Netflix is ​​quite good, but later the two parties had a conflict over the distribution of profits, and it also caused fans to petition every day not to cut the show... .

"Oh, by the way, what's going on at Universal?"

"The Incredible Hulk is scheduled to be released on June 13, and the related promotions have already been launched. Universal has some concerns about not having simultaneous global screenings, but they still guarantee that there will be no less than 4,000 openings."

Although the huge success of "Iron Man" has made Universal a little more confident, in order to avoid risks, they still conservatively chose to roll out in North America first, and then make the next decision after showing the situation. Maybe it's because I've been pitted once, so it's not wrong to be careful.

Because the overseas market can estimate the revenue based on the box office situation in North America, if it fails here, they will definitely not contribute to the promotion, and exchange some profits with the smallest investment, and then find the trouble of Marvel, from the split account Reschedule to make up for your own schedule loss.

In the past life, the two families were divided like this.

Anyway, this is almost the idea sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and resolutely implement the ability to see the wind and the rudder.

In addition to being funny, Lehmann has nothing to do with Universal. This was agreed by the two parties at the beginning, and they will definitely not take unknown market risks for Marvel.

Therefore, Kevin also said faintly: "I support the development of the Avengers plan, but I think the development of Hulk is to make a wedding dress for the world, and their share of the income is much higher than ours. After filming this part, Do you really continue to develop independent sequels?"

"But can you think of it the other way around? The popularity of the Hulk will be good for Marvel as a whole. Besides, there are still many places where Universal needs to be used."

As soon as Kevin heard this, he guessed that Lyman must have other plans.

After these days of getting along, he has long stopped seeing Lehmann as a pure and excellent director, but a leader who has a long-term vision, a high-level vision, can set the tone and think carefully, and takes one step at a time.

It's like he only vaguely had a little idea of ​​Marvel's development route, and it still needs to be verified by the market, but he got a very perfect development route here at Lehman, and the official confirmation of Fulian.