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Another week.

at the movie market.

When "Tsunami Miracle" earned a total of 53.2 million US dollars worldwide, "Green Lantern" reported less than 9 million for that week, with a total of 131 million.

This is the second week of "Tsunami Miracle" and the third week of "Green Lantern". There is no doubt that the global ticket base of the Green Lantern project has been declining rapidly. Not only that, Warner has no more useful publicity. give.

Of course, the fact that Warner Bros.'s DC expansions have failed in the market isn't all that exciting, or anything.

Lehmann knew very well that they gave up so fast and even called it resolute, which just reflected that Time Warner Group was preparing for the DCEU in full swing——

There are far more resources to bet and the priority of project approval is higher than before, so they no longer care about a project that has already been sentenced to death. They just want to divert their energy and continue the next development, such as Superman .

On the other side, Marvel is carrying out the second wave with a clear pace.

The projects to be developed this time are "Iron Man 3", "The Incredible Hulk 2", "Sea King" and the second gathering node "Ultron Crisis" that has been paved, and continue to create and sort out the third wave of " A playbook for the events of the Civil War.

Compared with DC, Marvel is obviously busy and more directional. Kevin is screening the crew while cooperating with Marvel Entertainment to model new characters for the toy sector. The entire distribution system built around Marvel's copyright is in full swing.

Another day.

Kevin Feige was discussing with the screenwriting team how to reasonably arrange elements such as treasure hunting and growth into the framework set by the big boss for "Aquaman". As soon as the meeting was dissolved, the assistant came to report: "President, Director Marshall is here. "

"Well, invite him to my office, I'll be right there."

After a while, the two met.

After some courtesies, the writer and director have good qualifications, and the director, who was also the deputy director of industrial light and magic visual effects, expressed his eagerness to get the guide tube of "The Incredible Hulk 2".

No way. In 10 years, he wrote and directed the historical thriller "Centurion", which cost the British Magnolia Pictures 12 million production budget, and only got 6.89 million box office. Since then, he can only be honest I actually went to various TV stations to fight and become a diversity director, in order to return to the film circle.

The invitation from Marvel this time was undoubtedly a life-saving straw for him to save his film director career. No, it should be a very safe thigh to hold.

What strength does Mann Media have? Can a small company like Magnolia Pictures compare?

As for Kevin, the reason why he was selected after careful selection was that he was a professional and spent nearly 6 years at Industrial Light and Magic. He has the experience that a director of Marvel works that is more in line with his ideals. , Another point is to take a fancy to the kind of visual imagination that this person showed in the first entry into the circle, "Doomsday Invasion".

The works adapted from American comics still need a little imagination to shoot well.

"You have seen the outline of the shooting."

When it comes to business, Kevin also became a little serious, "I hope you have any ideas beyond the script to communicate with us first, you should understand what I mean."

Neil is white and plump and has a good personality, but when he heard that the other party really didn't ask him what he thought about the script, even if he had heard some of the other party's deeds in the circle beforehand, he was silent for a while, and immediately smiled again, "This is It's a big project, and I won't mess around."

"Well, we have communicated with your agent in terms of salary. What I want to say now is that if the movie box office meets expectations, we will also have a generous reward on top of the basic salary of 500,000." Kevin introduced, " Anyway, the more the crew does, the more you will get. Work hard."

"Can I bring a few people into the group myself?" Marshall asked.

"You said?"

"One cameraman, two artists, and an associate director position."

"We have already chosen the main photographer. Your one can only be the deputy. The others are fine. There is a shortage of artists."

"Then I...what is the shooting cycle of this movie?"

"The props and costumes are already being prepared, and the actors are also being selected." Kevin gave an approximate time, "So...the machine can be started almost a year ago. If you need any supplies, remember to confirm with the production team. ."

"I'm fine."

Neil Marshall greeted Kevin and left with interest.

When he left the building and looked back at the towering buildings, he was inexplicably lonely.

Even if he knew that Marvel's crew would not tolerate other directors, he had psychological construction and had no power to intervene in matters big or small, but he didn't even need him for the preparatory work. Is he also a director?

Ha ha.

It's so easy to be a director.

In the bustling street, a middle-aged fat man laughed for a long time, and he didn't know what he was laughing at.

...

"Game of Thrones" was completed in mid-November, and then slowly evacuated from Iceland.

After leaving the airport, Jason Momoa was feeling that the city was more suitable for him than the tundra, and the agent was already pulling him into the car anxiously.

"Where to?"

"Marvel Pictures."

"Ok?"

in the car.

Jason Momoa listened to the excited words of the agent, and was also flipping through some comic materials in his hand. After reading it, his mood was also indescribably complicated.

What's wrong with this world?

You said that I am a third-rate model and an actor, and I felt lucky enough to be selected as the "King of Horses" because of my ferocious appearance. As a result, just after filming a big drama, Marvel sent him an invitation for the role of "Sea King". ?

It's amazing.

...

When Kevin saw him the first time, he felt that the boss was right.

His appearance is very "recognizable" in the circle. Maybe he has just finished filming "The King of Horses", and he has been in the tundra and wasteland for a long time, and he still has a rough feeling.

"Does the tattoo on your arm mean anything?" Kevin chatted with him kindly.

Jason Momoa is 1.93 meters tall, with strong muscles, with a beard and hair grown from filming, and sitting a head higher than Kevin, but at this moment, the aura of the two is reversed.

"Uh... my grandfather is a native of Hawaii, and this is the symbol of our family's patron saint." He lifted his shirt, and there were many triangles tattooed on both sides of his ribs, like a tattoo of fish scales, "It looks like a shark's tooth, right? , the patron saint of our family is the shark."

"it's great."

When he heard that he had also studied marine biology in the Florida Keys, Kevin was even more satisfied, "You have a strong affinity with this character, which makes me wonder if there is any destiny in this world."

Kevin held his forehead and pondered for a while, "Well, I don't think I need to investigate anything. If you can play Mawang well, then it's no problem for this role. The performance directions of the two are very similar. Well, you still need to Keep building muscle."

"If there is no problem, I will negotiate with your agent about the remuneration, and you can prepare for fitness to join the group."

In this way, the starring roles of "Sea King" are as follows-

Male No. 1: Jason Momoa

Female No. 1: Olga Kurylenko (the 22nd Bond Girl, French-Ukrainian, not inferior in appearance)

Male support: King Aum, Matthew Goode (English niche, played Pharaoh)

Male supporting cast: Bolt King, Omar Shi (co-operated with Lehmann on "Untouchable", French-African descent)

Cast representatives: Morica Bellucci as the Queen of Atlantis; Temuera Morrison as the lighthouse keeper, the queen's human husband...

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Perhaps it was the good luck brought about by the smooth preparation of "Sea King". When Wen Ziren's Soul Conjuring universe node work "Hidden" came out, the market feedback was better than the stunning appearance of "Chainsaw", and it was affirmed by many audiences.

As an audience commented on Rotten Tomatoes: In this movie, there are a lot of ghosts, but only one person died, but this does not hinder the layered sense of the movie. Director Wen always haunts a kind of everywhere. It's all the fear of demons.

And this kind of fear brings the audience not the fear of walking a tightrope in the sky, but a lingering gray in their minds when they are asleep in the middle of the night.

Of course, compared to the establishment of The Conjuring Universe, the first-day results of this work taking 8.76 million in less than 1,000 theaters surprised some practitioners.

You must know that the production cost of "Latent" is only 11 million, and most of it is the basic salary of Wen Dao and Ray Warner. It is difficult for such a small cost to leverage the large film market revenue and become a hot topic in the circle. topic.

On the second day and the third day, the box office continued to climb. It was released on a small scale for three days, and it took the first weekend box office of 13.57 million. The accumulated momentum of the harvest soon exceeded the production cost.

For the audience, or for horror movie lovers, as the 2011 year draws to a close, the appearance of "Latent" is gratifying, and it also informs those who criticize Wen Dao because of repeated fried rice. , what is a surprise.

"Best horror movie of all time, bar none."

"It seems that director Wen Ziren is going to take over the title of the contemporary horror master. The angle of the camera and the way of creating the atmosphere are so subtle. Even if the rhythm of the first half of the play is a little slow, it is still powerful in the back. There's that awesome twist ending. Well worth watching!"

"The puppet scene is full of chainsaws and deadly feel, and it's terrifying enough, plus the twists and turns of the plot, and a reversal ending... Anyway, to me, it's a great horror movie that hasn't appeared in a long time, even if it's around the daylight. All of them were watched together, and the sudden few ghost shots scared my heart racing, and the other is the ingenious linkage, and these designs even gave me an experience that I could personally enter this ghost world."

"As the film party advertised, Conjuring Universe, Wen Dao will play."

"There is too much foreshadowing in the early stage, and the rhythm is not very smooth. The only drawback."

"I hope The Conjuring Universe will get better and better. ps: As soon as Mary-Xiao appeared, the exorcist drove her to help Jack enter the soul world to save the child's soul. I thought she had surrendered, but at the end there was a reversal. Jack Being possessed, killing the exorcist, the turn of the plot here is really subtle."

"Perfect score. The design of the conjuration is absolutely amazing, it gives me a feeling of the three laws of robotics."

On IMDB, "Latent" scored an average of 7.1, and more than 10,000 people participated. The high score is not high, and the low score is above 6 points, indicating that most people's judgments are very pertinent.

It belongs to the kind of classic small theme masterpiece. If you want to say how classic it is, it is not.

...

"Hahaha, the mesh narrative is indeed more helpful for the audience to form an atmosphere of dependence and follow-up. The spiritual project can finally be implemented."

In the office of Blue Butterfly Pictures, Liam happily said to Wen Ziren, "By the way, are there any plans for the follow-up shooting?"

"I had a little idea, but Ryman called me the other day to tell me there was a project, and I might focus on that movie next year."

"It's okay, it's okay, the boss's projects are given priority, and it's better to let the concept of conjuration settle down."

...

The original version of "Latent" spent nearly 100 million dollars worldwide with a pure shooting cost of 1.5 million dollars. Now, after Lehman's polish, the whole frame unfolds more continuously, and the audience is more immersed. More than $50 million has been harvested in more than a dozen regions.

According to the speculation of some forecasting agencies, it is conservatively estimated that it will win 130 million globally.

After all, the distribution capability of Blue Butterfly Pictures is no longer comparable to that of the past, and it can directly communicate with distributors from all over the world.

And even at the box office level of 60 million in North America and 70 million overseas, after deducting taxes and messy expenses, there will be more than 68 million left.

Mann Media integrates production and sales, and takes all the profits from production and publicity, and then calculates the expenses allocated to Wen Ziren's studio, and there is still about 56 million yuan left.

After deducting the production cost, Firefly has made a profit of more than 45 million from the box office revenue, which is higher than the accumulated funds of many A-type projects that cooperate with big factories.

Of course, movies are not the same specification as movies.

The main revenue of "Latent" is the box office and DVD, which has nothing to do with the secondary copyright market, and no one will be interested in buying its peripherals, which has no development value.

In this regard, in addition to the exclusive authorization of Amber for the streaming media business, Blue Butterfly, who could not spare the energy to run a horror film for a long time, simply asked Lionsgate to help operate it.

The output of Lionsgate this year is not high, the manpower and energy are not tense, and they are happy to do it and earn some pocket money.

As a result, Liam gave the other party the dominance of the global audio and video distribution except North America and the negotiation of the introduction of the film library with overseas TV stations, with a price of 30 million.

In this way, "Latent" earned more than 45 million at the box office, and overseas channels returned 30 million in advance, not including the most cost-effective US market.

In a word, the business of "Latent" is quite cost-effective, and the output ratio is as high as 10 times It also has more connections with Lionsgate in disguise, so that it is convenient to negotiate with it when the time comes. Covenant question.

...

The movie market is constantly exciting, and Lehmann, who is shooting in New York, doesn't have a lot of new things to talk about.

He has been here for 2 months since the first day of filming, and about two-thirds of the filming has been completed.

The reason for being a little slow is that he became the "King of Torture", and once he got to Gyllenhaal's role, he NG many times, and sometimes it took a day or two to get his shot.

This is also a very distressing thing for the actor himself.

Of course it is a good thing for the director to take it seriously. Everyone is for the quality of the final film, and it is really not easy to be in that kind of morbid psychology. He needs to talk to people many times to vent his annoyance... …

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