Chapter 675： Explosive shell

From the day when he appeared in Hollywood, all the movies directly related to Ryan, except for "The Pianist", have all achieved profitability. Some of them can even be said to be huge profits. These have brought him much-needed investment funds. , The most direct effect is reflected in the market.

In recent years, as films with large investments have encountered Waterloo one after another, Ryan has become the most trusted brand of theaters. They are willing to release the commercial films he participates in and actively maintain a sufficient rate of filming, because these can guarantee Theater revenue.

Although the profitability of cinemas is now moving toward the surrounding area, the same reason as movies is that if there are not enough audiences, the sales of other products will be out of the question.

In this way, after joining Ryan, Disney can always win enough theaters for its major production films, even for the highly competitive summer files, with Ryan’s name in the column of author, actor, and producer. "The Hunger Games" also won a super high of more than 4,000 theaters, and the box office brought by the film itself, presumably these guys will not regret signing the release agreement.

The second week of "The Hunger Games" is still 4187 theaters, and there are so many theaters and screens in North America, which indirectly caused "Escape from the Clone Island" to only be opened with 3122 theaters.

The heroine of this film is Scarlett Johansson, plus Spielberg’s personal invitation-the old Jewish man has promised to be the director of "Jurassic Park 3"-Ryan attended the "Escape from the Island" At the premiere, although Michael Bay took the initiative to say hello, he didn't say anything.

Everything has to wait until after this movie.

Of course, Ryan has no interest in DreamWorks, and he has taken away a lot of the best movies in his previous life.

This is not a typical bombshell movie, at least not in the first half.

The opening of the film can be said to be the most beautiful opening in the Bangbei movie. Beautiful bays, mountains, blue waters and ethereal music...

It is indeed a director who was born in filming mv.

However, the biggest problem with this movie is the inconsistency. If the style of the beginning of the film is continued, or if the film is a traditional explosive shell film. It must be better than this kind of film that is clearly divided into two episodes.

To paraphrase what a director in the previous life said, that is, all successful directors are paranoid, and Michael Bay is the same. His understanding of movies is somewhat similar to Ryan's, and tends to attract audiences and excitement. Adrenaline secretion is a prerequisite.

Bangbei's movies are always stubborn and violent. In the middle of the movie, the beauty and certain thoughts disappeared.

Michael Bay carefully constructed all the puzzles and suspense in the first half of the movie. Even the deductions about the value of life are replaced by a wave of explosions and car chases that resemble a wave.

Ever since, Ryan saw an alternative "Brave to Death Island."

In all fairness, of all the movies made by Bombshell, the car chase scene is definitely the best controlled "Escape from the Clone Island", which even surpasses his most acclaimed "Breathtaking Island".

The problem is that the style transition before and after the film is too abrupt, completely tearing up the illusion constructed by the film. In other words, the film is like the hands of two directors with completely different styles. It is completely impossible to blend together, which is one of the reasons why Scarlett Johansson is very awkward and always feels something is wrong.

Failed films often end if they don’t attract the audience’s liking. The problem with this film is not limited to this one. In the end, the transformation of the black supporting role is nothing short of a turning point!

According to Ryan's speculation, if nothing happens, this film will definitely follow the old path of the previous life.

If "Escape from the Island of Clone" fails, Michael Bay has two ways to go. One is to continue to work **** the connotation of the film and make a complete transformation; the other is to return to the original style and maximize the explosion and visual effects.

Of course, Ryan will push him on the second path, and there are countless directors engaged in literature and art in the world. The director who can shoot such a hot and exciting commercial film is just a few of them.

Although the success of the previous "Transformers" series. There are certain reasons for the brand effect, but the role of explosive shells cannot be ignored. Counting all the first-line directors in Hollywood, how many can do like him?

So far, Ryan still clearly remembers that in his previous life, when filming "Transformers 2", the producer gave 200 million US dollars, but the explosion shell cost less than 195 million US dollars, and the rest was returned.

For Hollywood-style filmmaking and first-line commercial directors, this is simply incredible, especially since the final effect of the film is still outstanding and commercial success.

By the time of "Transformers 3", Bangbei kept the cost within 200 million U.S. dollars, and even finished the production of the film ahead of schedule with only 190 million U.S. dollars.

Perhaps in terms of achievement and status, he is far from James Cameron and Steven Spielberg, but his ability to control costs is obvious to all, and he never overspends or overtimes filming.

In previous lives, it is not unreasonable that Hollywood producers liked Michael Bay so much.

Besides, "Transformers" pays attention to what connotation is, the most important thing is to be exciting and to please the audience.

However, this "Escape from the Clone Island" is obviously not among the audience's favorite ranks.

After the premiere, Ryan also paid a little attention to the movie’s reputation and box office. Like the big events in the past, no accidents happened.

"An overly chaotic work, until the end of the movie, it will be discovered that it has been hypnotized to sleepy by the plot." This is what an ordinary audience said in an interview, "These 127 minutes are purely intermittent chaos. a feeling of."

Another fan’s blog wrote, “If you unfortunately walked into the theater of "Escape from the Clone Island", I only have one sentence to tell you—this money is wasted!"

These are very representative remarks among ordinary movie fans.

But what makes Ryan feel unbelievable is that the most famous film critic Roger Albert gave "Escape from the Island" a high score of eight, and rated it as an excellent, creepy science fiction movie.

It can only be said that as he grows older, the film critic's aesthetics and tastes become more and more strange; as his influence declines sharply, he is farther and farther away from the public and the market.

In fact, for a commercial masterpiece with a total investment of more than 200 million U.S. dollars, the taste, style, and evaluation of film critics have no meaning. The most direct and critical criterion is the box office.

"Escape from the Clone Island" was also officially opened on Friday. There are 3122 theaters. The box office in one day is not even the fraction of the box office on the first day of "The Hunger Games" last week. It was only 4.2 million US dollars, and the latter was released even for a week. However, the box office on that day was more than four times that of it-a single day's box office rose to 18.99 million US dollars!

In the following two days, the box office of "Escape from the Clone Island" showed no signs of improvement. After three days of the weekend, it only received $12.4 million.

The box office of "The Hunger Games" in these three days was as high as US$58.55 million, and the North American box office accumulated infinitely close to US$250 million. Among all the films released this year, the North American box office only lags behind "X-Men 3: Last Stand", although The latter's North American box office is as high as $275.55 million, but the growth rate can almost be described as a snail.

It seems that Disney is about to take away this year's North American box office champion.

This is the view of many people in Hollywood. After Walt Disney fell into the hands of Ryan, it became a behemoth. In terms of market value alone, among all media groups in the world, it is second only to Time Warner, which swallowed AOL, but The profitability of the latter is a question.

In the whole week that followed, "The Hunger Games" grabbed another US$46.23 million, and the North American box office officially exceeded US$300 million, while the box office of "Escape the Clone" was only US$9.7 million this week, let alone the "Hunger Games." By comparison, even the "Smiths" that was released four weeks ago had a score of 17.43 million US dollars, leaving it far behind.

Even the most optimistic assessment agency, even if all the possible benefits in the later period are included, DreamWorks cannot recover such a huge expenditure. One and a half of their feet have stepped out of the cliff.

Although Spielberg’s "War of the World" will be released in July, there is a lack of liquidity and huge debts. There are rumors in Hollywood that the Big Three are going to sell DreamWorks, Disney, Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox has been listed as a potential acquisition target.

Compared with DreamWorks, Ryan is more interested in the frustrated Michael Bay, but Bombshell also led the crew to work hard in North America. Ryan asked Scarlett to convey what he wanted to talk to him~www .novelhall.com~ also made a phone call in person, and turned his eyes back to his own movie.

As the first North American film to exceed $300 million at the box office this year, "The Hunger Games" still has great potential to be tapped. For example, the illustrated version of the novel released after the film was released sold more than 1.5 million copies in three weeks.

The mockingbird brooch has become the most popular accessory in North America this summer. Disney has launched a luxury brooch with Tiffany, and it has also released a variety of ordinary versions with more civilian prices. It is also three weeks time. This version of the Mockingbird brooch sold more than 4.7 million pieces in the English-language Five Friends Zone, bringing a net profit of US$12 million for Disney.

This film has a huge influence among young people. Various products printed with movie motifs have recently become best-selling products. Even some senior Disney executives are considering whether to add the "Hunger Games" area in Disneyland.

Of course, this is just an idea. Unless Ryan and Disney's management are crazy, they will invest heavily in creating other movie zones before the end of "Harry Potter".

However, the Hunger Games reality show held in Disneyland is very popular, and its TV stations are already organizing personnel to demonstrate the feasibility of becoming a reality TV show. (To be continued) ()