Chapter 2468

In a twinkling of an eye, three-quarters of 2015 has passed. For Sisyphus pictures and Hollywood, this is undoubtedly a fruitful year. In other words, it is a year of shining appearance and overall strength, which has injected a new vitality into the North American film industry.

At the beginning of the year, "Earl and I and the dying girl" won the jury award at the Sundance Film Festival; After that, the "pop drummer" won the best picture award. For the first time in history, the same company won the highest awards of Sundance and Oscar in the same year.

At Cannes Film Festival in May, "lobster" won the jury award and best actor award, and "Carol" won the best actress award, which is the biggest winner.

At the same time, in addition to the awards, the box office revenue has also achieved initial results.

"Female spy" finally made a box office of 235 million US dollars worldwide. Although the cost of investment and production was as high as 65 million US dollars, it still made a profit of nearly 20 million US dollars. This is only at the box office level. After that, the follow-up revenue led by Cd and VOD is the main one.

However, the production cost of the low-key "it's behind" is only 2 million US dollars, but it finally reaped 14 million box office figures in North America, which is a surprise. It easily created nearly 3 million US dollars for Sisyphus pictures, but such data is not the key.

What's really important is that this low-cost horror film has won unimaginable praise among fans of genre films. It has become popular from evaluation to word-of-mouth, which not only means that the follow-up rental and on-demand business of "it's behind" has created preconditions; It also won the first group of die hard supporters for Sisyphus pictures——

It's not because of lenley, but because few companies are willing to invest in making good horror movies; And the supporters are not Don Quixote, but senior, fanatical and professional horror movie fans. The supporters of this group of obscure and minority movies are absolutely loyal.

For a small independent film company that just started last year, such achievements are not only brilliant, but also can be said to be born. The huge success makes other small companies cast envious eyes one after another, which reminds people of DreamWorks in those years.

What's more, don't forget that the box office figure of "pop drummer" in the world is 365 million US dollars, and it has also made more than 150 million US dollars for Sisyphus pictures. The production cost of this work is only 3 million US dollars, so can the market continue to expect "Earl and I, the dying girl", "lobster" and so on "Carol" three award season works also gain in the market level?

In short, in 2015, Sisyphus pictures did show a vigorous momentum of full speed rise, and so far, it still maintains an invincible aura - like Langley, the appearance of each work represents success.

When the "female spy" and "it's behind" were announced to be put into production, the common view of many Hollywood professionals was that "people are stupid and have more money". No one thought Sisyphus was serious, and no one thought Andre Hamilton was serious. But now it's a different face.

In addition, Sisyphus pictures has a "focus" and a "wild Hunter" waiting to be released at the end of the year, aiming at the award season.

Among them, the "wild Hunter" is undoubtedly the focus of attention. Originally, he was looking forward to appearing at the Venice Film Festival or Toronto Film Festival, but the post production has not been completed. Alessandro Gonzalez inarito is also a headache. He has been dragging on for a long time, but he still has not been able to complete the post production, This makes the whole Hollywood can't help but sweat for Sisyphus film.

According to industry sources, the production cost of "wild Hunter" is as high as 135 million US dollars, which means that Sisyphus pictures has made a desperate bet on this work. If it fails, all the previous profits of "pop drummer" will be gone, Not to mention the little profit of "female spy" and "it's behind us" - just like DreamWorks, the ups and downs of profit and loss make people have a heart attack.

Now the post production of "wild Hunter" has not been completed, which has also caused many doubts

Is the quality of the work unsatisfactory? Is the finished product far less effective than expected? Is there a disagreement between the producer and the director? Does it mean that the work might be... Messed up?

Sisyphus film industry is not in a hurry. After the Toronto Film Festival, it officially announced that "wild Hunter" will be released on Christmas day, just in time for the deadline of Oscar registration. This also means that they are still preparing for this year's award season and are ready to mess up.

But... Who knows? Maybe the "wild Hunter" is a time bomb. Whether it is good or bad can only be revealed by waiting for the movie to be released.

However, the attack of Sisyphus film still does not stop its own pace, at least, lenley is not ready to stop.

Jurassic world, the biggest box office blockbuster of this summer's program, is firmly set to break the record of North American film history and enter the threshold of US $800 million for the first time when it enters October. The whole of North America is waiting for the moment when the historical record is born, which also means that Langley will write history again.

Does anyone remember the news when lanli signed a contract with universal pictures to play in "Jurassic world"? It was also a time to make history.

At that time, Andy Rogers won a contract for Langley to surpass Disney "grand theft one": 20 million dollars, plus 8% dividend.

From the perspective of digital books alone, Langley still can't surpass Johnny Depp or Robert Downey Jr. to create a new record. The final film payment still needs to be determined according to the actual box office figures, which is far less than the ease of direct pocketing. However, the 20 million club has dividends on top of it, which really ushers in a new era, The proportion of film remuneration of all actors in Hollywood has also been adjusted accordingly.

Now, people finally understand what "8% box office bonus" means to blue Lee.

According to the analysis of professionals in the industry, lanli's box office bonus has exceeded 65 million only by virtue of "Jurassic world". Combined with the guaranteed film payment, lanli's revenue has also reached 85 million US dollars, easily exceeding the 65 million when Robert Downey Jr. took over "Avengers 2", It has created the highest film remuneration for a single film in the history of the film industry and re written the history of the industry.

It's a staggering figure of 85 million dollars. More than half of Hollywood's film projects may not get such a budget.

But as we all know, this should be the most cost-effective expenditure in the history of Universal Pictures:

At the box office level alone, "Jurassic world" has reaped 550 million US dollars - 85 million of which is used to pay for bluely's film, which is still the highest revenue of Universal Pictures since the millennium; What's more, it's just box office revenue, and there will be peripheral revenue in the future. All those revenue will belong to Universal Pictures, which is the big head.

Now the bigger problem is:

Does universal regret not signing the trilogy in one go“ After the great success of "Jurassic world", what price should the sequel pay to keep lanli? It must be noted that lanli has never played in sequels before, so what should we do now?

For the time being, Universal Pictures is still focused on Sisyphus pictures.

The great success of "Jurassic world" for Sisyphus film is not due to the pay check of lanli, but to the fact that lanli has once again proved its box office appeal and market driving force, which makes hall venture capital win many favor again. The figure of Andre and Arthur flying around the world is the best proof, This also makes Sisyphus pictures once again have more operating capital, which can be fully invested.

Following the "Strange Tales" and "the night of sin", the "soul Hunter" has been officially put into production. In addition, four series, including "London life", "big and small lies", "the world to hell" and "crown", have passed the audit and are entering the preparatory stage. They will be officially launched as early as November and January next year at the latest.

At the same time, as many as ten film projects have been officially approved. Although the progress of discussion is slightly different, and the progress of production is even more so, we can still see the ambition of Sisyphus pictures. The plan for the full launch is quite different from a year ago, showing a strong momentum.

Now it can be officially confirmed that the blueprint that Sisyphus pictures is looking forward to is far more magnificent than imagined, at least not inferior to DreamWorks.

Among them, "the city of Philharmonic" has undoubtedly attracted much attention. As Damien chazere's new work, many people in the industry are paying close attention to the trend of the project. It has been rumored that 20th century fox, Lion Gate, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers and other companies have tried to take over Damien's project, but all of them were rejected, Damien is still waiting patiently for lenley to join.

"This is my work for lanli.".

This is Damien's original words. He is waiting for the end of the production cycle of "soul Hunter", and then the project will be started by blue Lilly.

However, after the New York Film Festival, the situation of "Philharmonic city" has changed subtly. A few top agents have been informed by the crew that Damien needs to find a series of suitable actors, including two important male roles, and even contacted Ryan Gosling's agent.

What's going on?

Is it true that Langley hopes to cooperate with Ryan, and the two male gods will finally be combined? It's a pity that these two close friends haven't cooperated with each other so far. Moreover, both lenley and Ryan don't mind playing supporting roles. They can play for each other. It's bound to be very interesting.

With the advance of time, the preparation of "the city of love" has attracted more and more attention. Just relying on the titles of Damien and Langley is attractive enough, and no one wants to miss it.