Chapter 486： scream feast

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When filming the last scene, Ryan repeatedly filmed for a whole day, and almost didn't force Toby Maguire and James Franco to jump off the building.

Of course, jumping off a building is only a metaphor.

But this is what Ryan wanted, the almost crazy fighting scenes made him very satisfied.

Next, Ryan did not disband the crew immediately, but took people to New York to shoot scenes. It was not until mid-October that the crew was temporarily disbanded and fully transferred to post-production and special effects production.

Compared with the shooting plan of the film, the special effects production work of "Spider-Man 3" can only be described as slow speed and huge amount of money.

Fortunately, Industrial Light & Magic and the digital field have enough time to gradually improve the special effects production of the film.

On the second day after returning to Los Angeles, Ryan received an invitation from DreamWorks to attend the premiere of "The American Version of Midnight Ring".

This is a typical Hollywood remake of the original film, a classic Japanese horror film "The Ring at Midnight".

Although it is just a remake, the investment of the whole film is as high as 48 million US dollars.

It can be seen that DreamWorks has great expectations for "The American Version of Midnight Ring", and even has great intentions to set foot in the low-budget horror film market.

This can be seen from the release schedule. This "American version of Midnight Bell" was not released in September or early October, but in late October.

In this way, part of the release schedule of "The American Version of Midnight Ring" can be released within November, while avoiding competition with other large-scale commercial films.

At the same time, DreamWorks also held a large-scale premiere for the film, inviting many Hollywood people.

"The low-budget horror film market!"

Walking into the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Kylie-Jenner glanced at the crowd around her and whispered, "It seems that the situation of DreamWorks is worse than imagined."

Although the low-cost horror film market has a large box office capacity in North America.

However, Hollywood’s top second-tier film companies rarely focus on low-cost horror films. Only some third- and fourth-tier film companies will focus on low-cost horror films.

"Except for the rumored "War of the Worlds", it seems that DreamWorks has no major shooting projects recently."

Kelly-Jenner cryptically pointed out that DreamWorks should be in trouble with funding.

"This is normal."

Ryan greeted people, and said with a relaxed face: "The success of "Minority Report" and "Road to Perdition" cannot change the status quo of DreamWorks."

"Besides, both of these films were co-produced by DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox."

Speaking of which, this matter is very speechless.

The two films "Minority Report" and "Road to Perdition" co-produced by DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox were both successful.

The former "Minority Report" had a production cost of US$100 million, and it earned US$132 million at the box office in North America alone, and US$226 million at the overseas box office.

The film grossed $358 million worldwide, making it a blockbuster.

The global box office of the latter "Road to Destruction" is also as high as 181 million U.S. dollars. Compared with the production cost of 80 million U.S. dollars, this film can be considered a commercial success.

However, the box office of several films independently invested and shot by DreamWorks was not very satisfactory.

The investment in "Time Machine" is as high as 80 million US dollars, but the North American box office is only 56.83 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is not very good, only 66.89 million US dollars.

With a global box office of US$123 million, it is obvious that the investment cost cannot be recovered through the box office.

Another "Fantastic Tuxedo", an action movie starring Jackie Chan, had an investment of 60 million US dollars, but it only returned 104 million US dollars in global box office.

If DreamWorks wants to recover the investment cost, it can only rely on peripheral derivative copyrights.

In addition, there is also a love movie "Hollywood Ending" written, directed and acted by Woody Allen, which is also invested and produced by DreamWorks.

The North American box office of this film was less than 5 million US dollars, and the global box office was 14.56 million US dollars, which made DreamWorks vomit blood.

Although I don't know the production cost of this film, Ryan can be sure that DreamWorks will face at least tens of millions of dollars in losses.

"It is said that Paramount has always wanted to annex DreamWorks?"

Seeing that there was no one around, Kylie-Jenner changed her voice and mentioned Paramount.

In fact, Paramount is not the only film company in Hollywood that is interested in DreamWorks, but in comparison, Paramount is more familiar with DreamWorks.

In other words, from the first day Paramount cooperated with DreamWorks, Paramount was to swallow the entire DreamWorks in one bite.

"It's not that easy."

Ryan shook his head and said, "Stephen Spielberg, you won't give in so easily."

At first glance, several films produced by DreamWorks this year have encountered many setbacks and faced financial constraints.

Ke Ruien knew that DreamWorks was not at the end of its rope. The premiere of "The Bell at Midnight" in front of him and "How to Get Away with Law" released in December.

The original films did well at the box office and are expected to bring in valuable cash for DreamWorks.

In the previous life, "The American Version of Midnight Ring" had a box office of 129 million US dollars in North America alone, and 120 million US dollars in overseas box office.

Compared with the production cost of 48 million US dollars, it can be said to be a great success.

"How to Get Away with Murder" is even more of a hit, with DreamWorks earning a global box office of $352 million at a production cost of $52 million.

The real reason for DreamWorks' desolation in the previous life was not just the financial problem, but the split of DreamWorks Animation Studio, which made DreamWorks, which was already in financial difficulties, even worse.

In addition, the internal contradictions of DreamWorks became more and more acute, and Stephen Spielberg worked hard to support the entire DreamWorks alone.

This led to agreeing to Paramount's acquisition conditions.

"'Hollywood Ending' didn't fail."

In the interview area, facing the questioning of a group of reporters, Woody-Allen looked calm and said plausibly: "For me personally, this film has been a success, and it is very popular in France."

Listening to Woody Allen's remarks not far away, Jeffrey Katzenberg walked over with an ugly face, "Woody Allen, you should go to hell."

Of course, what Woody Allen said is right, "Hollywood Ending" is not only very popular in France, but also gained a lot of fame at the Cannes Film Festival.

However, these can't change one thing, and DreamWorks needs to face losses of at least tens of millions of dollars.

Jeffrey Katzenberg took a deep breath, calmed down as much as possible, pointed to Gore Verbinski and introduced, "Gore Verbinski, the director of this film."

"Hello, Mr. Gosling, I'm very glad that you can come here in person." Gore Verbinski greeted warmly.

"Nice to meet you, Director Gore." Ryan looked at Gore-Verbinski in front of him, and a strange look flashed in his eyes.

Ryan was very impressed with Gore Verbinski, even compared with Woody Allen, Gore Verbinski is the director that Hollywood film companies like.

In his previous life, Gore-Verbinski directed many hit films, and "The Bell" is just one of them.

The three most familiar films should be "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", and "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End".

Put him directly among the top commercial directors in Hollywood.

"If you have time, we can sit down and have a cup of coffee together." Ryan said half-jokingly and half-invitingly.

Seeing this, Kylie Jenner took out a business card with only a phone number printed on it, and handed it to Gore Verbinski.

Looking at the business card in front of him, Gore Verbinski's eyes flashed with joy, he reached out to take it, and put it in his suit pocket.

Jeffrey Katzenberg glanced at Ryan, then at Gore Verbinski, and couldn't help but smile.

He could tell that Ryan was interested in Gore-Verbinski.

However, Gore Verbinski didn't stay long, and when he reached the door of the lounge, he said his goodbyes and left.

Now was obviously not the time to talk, and whatever Ryan or Orion Pictures had planned, it was a good opportunity for him.

"You seem to like Gore a lot."

Walking into the lounge and sitting down, Jeffrey Katzenberg looked at Ryan and said, "Paramount is also in contact with Gore, interested in letting him direct a comedy film."

"William Beasley, the person in charge of this project, also plans to invite Nicolas Cage to play the role."

Paramount!

Comedy movie!

Nicolas Cage!

Ryan couldn't help but think of a film name, "The Weatherman", a low-cost comedy film with a budget of only 22 million US dollars.

What makes him unforgettable is that this film is one of the many blockbusters starring Nicolas Cage.

"Paramount!" Ryan didn't care much about Paramount's contact.

Not to mention that he hasn't figured out whether to invite Gore-Verbinski to direct Orion Pictures' new project.

Plus, Gore-Verbinski is an easy choice to make over a low-budget comedy.

After all, the project planned by Orion Films has an initial investment of more than 100 million U.S. dollars. This is a real Hollywood large-scale commercial production.

Jeffrey Katzenberg glanced at the time on his watch, and said very seriously: "Some time ago, Pixar Animation Studios and Disney held an internal audition. ", the prospect is very promising."

Next year's summer holidays will be particularly lively. In addition to "Finding Nemo" produced by Pixar Animation Studios, "Ice Age 2" by Blue Sky Studios and "Sinbad of the Seven Seas" by DreamWorks Animation Studios will also be released.

The selected release time of the three animated feature films are all summer files.

In this way, there will be an inevitable competition.

Among them, "Finding Nemo" does not need to say much, it is only the name of Pixar Animation Studio, and no one dares to underestimate it.

"Ice Age 2" is a sequel animated feature film. The first "Ice Age 1" was released, creating Blue Sky Studios, one of the three major animation studios in Hollywood.

"Sinbad" produced by DreamWorks Animation Studio is only a traditional animation feature film, and the production cost is only 60 million US dollars. No matter how you look at it, it cannot compete with "Finding Nemo" and "Ice Age 2".

"I will try to convince other DreamWorks executives to postpone the release of "Sinbad of the Seven Seas" until Christmas."

Jeffrey Katzenberg sighed and continued, "I need the cooperation of Orion Pictures."

The overseas distributor of this animated feature film is Orion Pictures, and the North American distributor is DreamWorks.

"No problem." Ryan nodded and agreed.

Hearing this, Jeffrey Katzenberg breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Well, I'll go to the screening room first and talk to Stephen."

Ryan waved his hand, indicating that he would go over in a while.

After a while, Ryan and Kylie-Jenner left the lounge and headed to the premiere screening room.

In his previous life, Ryan hadn't watched the American version of "Midnight Ring" but had watched the Japanese original version of "Midnight Ring", a classic horror movie.

So he is somewhat looking forward to this "American version of Midnight Ring".

Especially Naomi Watts' acting.

The actors originally selected by the crew were not Naomi Watts, but Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Beckinsale, who all played Rachel. Candidates.

Unexpectedly, the crew chose Naomi Watts unexpectedly.

Of course, anyone who is familiar with Naomi Watts will not be too surprised. She is very suitable to play the scream queen.

For example, she contributed an Oscar-level screen scream in "King Kong".

It's a pity that as her salary continues to increase, few horror film crews will be able to afford Naomi Watts in the future.

In addition, this Friday, in addition to the large-scale release of "The American Version of Midnight Ring", there is also a film produced by Paramount and directed by Stephen Scat, "Never Give Up".

This film tells the story of a person with congenital cerebral palsy who is unwilling to be a failure and hopes to achieve success in life through his own efforts.

Soon, three days later on the weekend, "The American Version of Midnight Ring" beat "Never Give Up" which was released at the same time, and easily won the championship of the North American box office chart.

In the first weekend, the box office was 15.01 million US dollars, and it has a good audience reputation.

As can be expected, this is a very successful horror film.

"During the nearly two-hour screening time, Naomi Watts dedicated a screaming feast, and her performance in acting is also very satisfying."

This can be said to be a very fair comment.

"Harry-Potter 3: The Prisoner of Azkaban", co-produced and filmed with Warner Bros., chose to release it in December.