Chapter 1215： Marvel is the trend

Kevin Feige was only 26 years old when he entered the industry, and was appointed by Dunn as the assistant to the chairman of Marvel Pictures to assist Nina Jacobson.

At the age of 30, he was promoted to vice president of Marvel Studios.

This year, at the age of 33, he finally ushered in the peak of his career and was named the chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios!

With the release of Daredevil 2, he accepted an exclusive interview with The Hollywood Reporter, declaring that the behind-the-scenes hero of Marvel movies has come to Hollywood's most glamorous front.

When talking about DC Pictures, Kevin Feige said: "In fact, we are not really competitive, this 'relationship' only exists in the media reports. I think Jeff Johns is one of my My friend, we grew up together in this industry, so I applaud him for everything he's accomplished, and I'm going to appreciate his work from the perspective of a fan. Whether it's a Marvel or DC movie, if one of them gets the It will benefit both of us, and that's why I always support them."

Jeff Johns was originally an executive of Marvel Studios, but was hired by Warner in 2003 to serve as the creative director of DC Pictures.

When talking about "Batman 2", Kevin Feige also generously admitted: "Indeed, Batman and Daredevil have a lot of similarities, after all, they were developed in the hands of the same cartoonist. Kind of a continuation of the dark spirit. I don't think it's a repetition though. Daredevil 2 is a great movie and I wish Batman 2 well. For Marvel , the current focus should be on "Mission: Impossible 3" rather than "Batman 2"."

On May 5, Daredevil 2 was released.

On May 12, "Mission Impossible 3" was released.

On May 19, "Batman 2" was released.

In fact, most schools in the United States have a holiday at the end of May. Strictly speaking, the summer vacation is in June and July. May belongs to the "pre-summer period", and only films that are full of confidence will be released in May.

In a few years, Hollywood will advance this "pre-summer season" by another week, and blockbuster movies will begin to be released at the end of April, such as "Fast and Furious 8", "Avengers 3", "Avengers 4", this is the The performance of confidence is bursting, the publisher is confident and invincible, and it is necessary to set aside a better schedule for those blockbusters that are not so safe.

Of course, relatively speaking, the competition in May is smaller than that in June and July.

Don't watch "Daredevil 2", "Mission Impossible 3", and "Batman 2" all connected, but in the end only one blockbuster is released every week.

By June, the real peak season arrives, with at least two new films released every week.

The last question, the reporter asked: "Since "Spider-Man", Marvel's movies have always been light-hearted, humorous and family-friendly, including "Ant-Man", "Iron Man" and "Thor". However, Daredevil 1, Daredevil 2, including Ghost Rider, are deepening the inner world of superheroes, and it is a dark wind. These are two different routes. May I ask the future Marvel Studios ...Will you consider shooting an R-rated film? After all, the scale in the comics is quite large."

Kevin Feige said: "There is no doubt that this will be a possible option for Marvel Studios in the future. We are no strangers to R-rated films, such as "Blade" a few years ago. Many people don't even Knowing that the protagonist of this film is from Marvel Comics, because at the time, the filmmakers deliberately concealed his Marvel identity."

"Can you reveal something specific?"

"I think the combination of Deadpool and Spider-Man will be very interesting."

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There is no doubt that the "Mission Impossible" series is the mainstay of Paramount.

However, Tom Cruise is too dark!

In "Mission: Impossible 3", Tom Cruise made an offer of $25 million plus 25% of the box office! This means that once the film is approved, Paramount will definitely not make as much money as Tom Cruise!

This is simply darker than Spielberg.

Spielberg made a movie for DreamWorks, half of the profits belonged to him and his team, and the other half of the profits belonged to DreamWorks. But he's the boss of DreamWorks, he's what he says.

What is Tom Cruise? Let Paramount give him soy sauce?

It is bearable, but unbearable!

So two years ago, the angry Redstone personally instructed not to cooperate with Tom Cruise anymore!

But the "Mission: Impossible" series is different from the "Fast and Furious" series.

Vin Diesel doesn't have the copyright of "Fast and the Furious", so when he bids sky-high prices, Universal Pictures has more choices. The big deal is that they will break up in one shot and no longer cooperate! This year's "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift" does not have the role of Vin Diesel.

But Tom Cruise owns part of the copyright of "Mission Impossible". Without him, Paramount couldn't start the project!

Precisely, Paramount is doing very badly right now. Except for the "Mission Impossible" series, it really can't come up with a decent "explosive model".

How to do?

There was no way, Lei Shidong had to swallow his anger!

Tom Cruise once publicly criticized Redstone, saying that he was too old, too stingy, and did not understand movies. As a result, Redstone finally retracted his order and allowed Paramount to continue filming "Mission Impossible 3" with Tom Cruise.

Redstone was teased by Dunn, even Tom Cruise couldn't handle it, he was a shame.

Anyway, after 6 years, in the midst of ups and downs, the "Mission: Impossible" series finally released a new work - "Mission: Impossible 3"!

On May 12, "Mission Impossible 3" will be released in the United States!

Friday, $16.63 million; Saturday, $18.41 million; Sunday, $12.7 million.

Counting the $2.84 million advance show, the $20,000 premiere...

"Mission: Impossible 3" grossed $50 million in its first week of release!

Compared with the film's production cost of 150 million US dollars, such box office results are really unsatisfactory. 2 on the weekly box office list.

Who is the first?

There is no doubt that it is the popular "Daredevil 2"!

In the next seven days, it scored 24.49 million US dollars, 20.86 million US dollars, 18.38 million US dollars, 16.46 million US dollars, 23.23 million US dollars, 28.27 million US dollars and 23.66 million US dollars respectively.

Although it was hit by the new film "Mission Impossible 3" over the weekend, the box office did not surge, but the strong word-of-mouth effect gave "Daredevil 2" a long-term box office basis.

After the first week's box office of 150 million US dollars, the next week's box office cut another 140 million US dollars!

What is the concept of $140 million?

According to the box office trend of "Mission Impossible 3" in the first week of 50 million US dollars, I am afraid that it will not get 140 million US dollars at the North American box office when it waits for the next stage.

On the other hand, Daredevil 2, which has swept $290 million in the North American market within two weeks of its release, already has an unstoppable trend.

This is likely to be the sixth North American grossing film after "Titanic", "Star Wars Episode 1: The Ghost Man Menace", "Spider-Man 1", "The Unsinkable" and "Spider-Man 2" billion dollar movie!

However, whether the global box office can exceed 1 billion US dollars has become a suspense.

Two weeks after its release, the overseas market has just broken through 100 million.

Of course, there are still relatively few overseas countries, but compared with the North American market, such overseas box office is still relatively deserted.

Daredevil 1 grossed $360 million worldwide, and only $160 million overseas.

From this point of view, the overseas box office of Daredevil 2 may hardly surpass that of North America.

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Marvel is really the trend.

"Daredevil 2" almost killed "Mission Impossible 3" in a crushing posture, and next, is a more difficult opponent "Batman 2".

Recently, Dunn got a report.

It is the income and expenditure statement of "Iron Man" released in early May last year.

The film grossed $370 million in North America, $410 million overseas, and $780 million worldwide. Among them, the North American share is 196 million US dollars, the overseas share is 176 million US dollars, and the total box office share is 3.72 US dollars.

Global disc revenue of $490 million!

This is second only to "Spider-Man 2" with $600 million and "Spider-Man 1" with $550 million in DVD revenue for Marvel movies! That's higher than both the $480 million Spider-Man 3 and the $450 million Ghost Rider!

The disc revenue of "Iron Man" is 490 million US dollars and the box office revenue is 370 million US dollars. It can be seen that now is the golden age of the video disc market!

The disc revenue is even higher than the box office revenue!

In addition, the North American TV revenue is 98 million US dollars, and the overseas TV revenue is 75 million US dollars!

Not counting peripheral derivatives such as clothing and toys, the direct income of the movie "Iron Man" reached 1.035 billion US dollars!

Of course, there are also a lot of expenses.

The North American publicity cost is 80 million US dollars, and the overseas publicity cost is 60 million US dollars.

$90 million in production ($140 million in production, $50 million in advertising).

Global video distribution of $42 million.

Shareholders, producers, actors and unions paid $56.4 million in dividends.

$23.8 million in investment taxes.

Total spending was $352 million.

So, in the past year of operation, "Iron Man" made a profit of 683 million US dollars!

It's just a direct benefit of the movie.

Counting the indirect benefits of the surrounding area, it is even more.

In the past year, of course, the best-selling merchandising was "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", with merchandising sales exceeding $3 billion, the highest in the Star Wars series.

"Iron Man" is the third-ranked film after "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", with sales of peripheral products reaching 900 million US dollars, creating a profit of 440 million US dollars for New Universal. (Products sold vertically by Universal Store have high profits, and products licensed to other manufacturers have low profits)

In the past year, "Iron Man" has created a total of more than 1 billion US dollars in profits!

At the end of the "Spider-Man" trilogy and "Spider-Man 4" is far away, Marvel has launched a new hero - Iron Man!

Of course, there is also Daredevil, whose popularity has continued to rise recently.

"Daredevil 2" was a hit, and the popularity of the female villain Erica also continued to rise. The actress Penelope Cruz, who played "Erica", has also become a Hollywood man for a while.

By contrast, her sister, Monica Cruz, has suffered a bit of a setback in her career.

She was disheartened.

I want to go back to Spain to develop.

Affected by Dunn's relationship, she also got some opportunities. The most representative one is "The Lover of All People" which she cooperated with Will Smith last year. She is the heroine.

With a cost of $70 million, the film earned $368 million at the global box office and was a huge success.

Monica Cruz got a heroine, so she became famous and got some opportunities.

However, after a long time, it will not work.

Her English accent is serious, and her Latino identity doesn't quite fit the mainstream image of a vase. Most importantly, she looks so similar to her sister Penelope Cruz, which will greatly affect her performance.

After more than a year of development, she has figured it out. It is better to go back to Spain to become a big sister than to seek opportunities in Hollywood.

Of course Dunn has no opinion on this.

Now, Penelope Cruz is really popular, and Monica Cruz is going to return to China. This pair of sisters... should also be disbanded.

Speaking of which, it's almost time.

Penelope Cruz has been with Dunn since 2001, which is 5 years. There is no credit, there is hard work!

She is 32 years old this year. In addition, she has achieved great success in her career. It is time to think about her future life. That's not the case to follow Tang En with no name and no points.

Dunn was very arrogant, and directly wrote a check of 5 million dollars to the Cruz sisters and beauties, and wished them happiness in their future lives.

Unexpectedly, the Cruz sisters refused.

"I've already taken so much money from you, but I can't ask for any more." Monica Cruz firmly refused.

Tang En was a little surprised, don't you want any money?

Monica Cruz said very movingly: "Dawn, I've known you for the past two years... In any case, you are a noble person in my life. I want to thank you, thank you for the rest of my life!"

Penelope Cruz also agreed: "Yeah, if it weren't for you, maybe... We are just small characters on the edge, struggling at the bottom. I know the living conditions of the actors at the bottom."

Tang En smiled, "Okay, we're all friends, so there's no need to say these polite things It's not that we won't communicate in the future, maybe I'll miss you in the future, and I'll make an appointment with you."

Monica Cruz chuckled, "I'm going back to Spain, what should I do?"

Tang En said: "So what? I'll send a plane to pick you up!"

Monica Cruz couldn't help but giggled.

Taking a private jet to Los Angeles to go on a date with Dunn?

It feels both luxurious and absurd.

Penelope Cruz pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Well, that's it, you have to keep in touch with us, otherwise, I don't know when my personal movie "Erica" ​​will come out."

In the planning of Marvel Studios, there is indeed a plan to launch the female superhero movie "Erica". However, there are many disputes and great risks. There are differences on whether to mount a horse or not.

Of course, if there is Tang En's hand-picked, all obstacles will be swept away immediately.

Tang En said righteously: "That's not the same. A date is a date. This is our personal friendship. Filming is a business affair, so it shouldn't be confused."

Monica Cruz threw a wink, "I don't believe it!"

Penelope Cruz chuckled, "I don't believe it either!"

"I'm leaving tomorrow, why don't I get him tonight?"

"I'll see it!"

Tang En waved his hand, "I can't do it at night, I don't have time! It's better to hit the sun if you choose another day. Let me see it now! Let's see what your sisters can do!"