Chapter 723： Sandy's Godfather

"In addition to the visual effects, what else does "Jurassic Park 3" have? As far as the film itself is concerned, it is uglier than the feces pulled by the Tyrannosaurus in the film!"

The French newspaper Le Figaro opened fire violently after the global box office of Jurassic Park 3 exceeded 500 million U.S. dollars, and even interviewed the famous Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci for this purpose.

"3d technology will not bring any help to the development of movies, because it is essentially just a film technology that appears to satisfy the sensory stimulation, and has no meaning to art. This simple and crude special effects technology will only destroy the beauty of the film. "

This is just a microcosm of the European media. Since "Jurassic Park 3" swept the continental European film market, those European filmmakers who were ignored by the mainstream market have turned to European media that have not dealt with North America very well. "Jurassic Park 3" and 3D technology fired.

"A stupid dumb movie, after watching it, it will only make people feel sick."

"No matter how good the visual effect, no matter how high the box office is, it is out of the essence of the movie!"

"3D technology is just a deception of vision, poisonous candy for the eyes..."

Every large-scale explosion of new technology is always accompanied by countless voices of opposition, not only in Europe, but even in North America, there are many people who are uncomfortable with 3D technology.

"The 3d special effects are great, and the 3d movies are full of sensory stimulation, but the two best 3d movies so far, "Polar Express" and "Jurassic Park 3", are like circus juggling, with characters floating on the screen. And the scenery, boring and funny, just a falsehood to make the audience happy."

This is David Denby's comment published in the "New York Times", and echoed with him, in the "Chicago Sun", Roger Albert also put forward a similar view on 3d.

"Remember more than ten years ago, it was Ryan Jenkins who promoted "Jurassic Park" and "Titanic", which pushed Hollywood into the wave of big investment and production. Until there is no turning back, Looking back now, there are fewer and fewer films with profound connotations produced in Hollywood. The films produced by the Hollywood model he advocated are all reduced to the products of sensory stimulation."

"Every frame of the 3D movie shows us something that is not necessary at all. The box office success of "Jurassic Park 3" will once again bring very wrong guidance to Hollywood, even under the strong promotion of Ryan Jenkins. , Hollywood’s mainstream commercial films will become simple and crude visual effects accumulations, which will greatly damage the inherent quality of Hollywood movies. Hollywood and theater operators must treat 3D film technology with caution."

"I would like to remind you that 3D movies that are purely for the pursuit of commercial interests cannot survive in the market for a long time, and will only be reduced to money-trapping products."

However, every time a new technology is updated, people who cannot keep up with the trend will always be swept into the old paper pile of history, not to mention this is a technology that can generate tens or even tens of billions of dollars in annual output value in the future.

For European media and European film directors, Hollywood directly ignores them, except for those people who can speak sour words. It poses no threat to Hollywood movies. Their so-called artistic movies can only survive the cracks of Hollywood movies.

Does anyone care about a group of defeated soldiers who were beaten by themselves more than ten or twenty years ago and lost their pants?

In Ryan's view, it is described as defeated in the future. They are all compliments to continental European films.

As for the veteran film critics in North America, how many other companies in Hollywood care about their voices? The two films they criticized are the important promoters of Hollywood's globalization strategy. How many people in the Hollywood industry will deny the key role of "Titanic" in the globalization of Hollywood films?

Capital is always profit-seeking. 3d and imax technologies have allowed Hollywood and cinema companies to see new benefits, the success of "Jurassic Park 3". It also allowed them to see the expected future of such films.

"Jurassic Park 3" has not been offline, several Hollywood companies have announced their own 3d and imax movie plans.

The first to respond is undoubtedly Disney, using the wave brought by "Jurassic Park 3" to promote "Transformers" also using imax3d technology to produce, at the same time "Flying House Globe", "Toy Story 3" and "The Hunger Games" 2" "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and other movies will be produced using this technology.

What attracts people's attention is that these are not post-transformation films, they will be real 3D movies.

Then, more companies responded, such as "Despicable Me" and "Kung Fu Panda" in the preparation and production of DreamWorks Animation Studios, such as Warner Bros' Green Lantern, such as Sony Pictures' preparation to restart "Godzilla" and so on...

In addition, the most violent reaction is the major theater companies. The North American theater alliance, which is composed of many North American theater operators, announced at a press conference that the future 3D screen and imax theaters will be North America. Major theater companies have a long-term plan for the main development direction of the cinema chain.

At the same time, they also announced their short-term goals. In the next six months, with the support of equipment vendors such as imax and Dolby, they will add 500 3D screens and build about 40 imax cinemas.

With Hollywood's content support, the theaters naturally don't want to miss a good opportunity to attract more audiences into the theater.

Compared to "Jurassic Park 3" with imax3d as its biggest selling point, it was released a week earlier, and "Superman Returns", which is known as the most expensive movie in history, can't help but seem a bit tragedy.

This mega-production, which cost as much as US$270 million in production alone, was shown on 4,100 theaters in the first week, and only received US$76.03 million in the North American box office.

As of last week, the single-week box office of this film, which was released for more than three weeks, has fallen to more than 7 million US dollars. The North American box office has only accumulated more than 170 million US dollars. As its direct competitor, "Jurassic Park" "3" appeared a week later, but the North American box office was close to $260 million.

Although there are many reasons why "Superman Returns" did not perform as expected, many people believe that "Superman Returns" did not use 3d technology and launched a 3d version, which is an extremely stupid decision-making error.

Of course, this can only be regarded as a rumor, and Ryan knows this very well.

"I went to see the imax3d version of Jurassic Park 3." The speaker was James Cameron.

The afternoon sun was extremely bright. Ryan and him were sitting under the umbrella in Nicole's Garden. The two talked a lot about the imax company, and the topic gradually turned to the movie side.

"I believe that technology is no longer a problem."

Beckoning to another umbrella, Nicole gently shook Sandy’s crib. The mother and daughter did not see his gestures at all. Ryan had to turn his gaze back to James Cameron. "Jim, I have been waiting for too long."

The two are not only old friends, but the past cooperation is also very pleasant, James Cameron stretched out a hand. All five fingers came out, "Five hundred million dollars!"

"How much?" This number surprised Nicole on the other side.

"In terms of production costs, I initially estimated that 200 million US dollars would be enough." James Cameron explained to the two at the same time, "The rest are promotional and marketing expenses. We are not only shooting movies, but also the company's promotional videos. ."

After the previous life "Avatar" was released, companies other than the producer, distributor, James Cameron, etc. can be said to be one of the biggest beneficiaries.

Now, the largest shareholder of this company is Ryan. The second largest shareholder is James Cameron.

"Are you planning to start preparations now?" Ryan thought for a while and asked.

"Yes." James Cameron drank half a cup of black tea. "After this talk, I'm going to call in people."

"All right." Ryan made a relieved gesture to him. "I will promote Disney through this project as soon as possible, and the initial funds will be available soon."

"Ryan Jenkins and James Cameron join forces." On the other side, Nicole grabbed Sandy's little hand and shook it gently. "Don't say Disney, I'm afraid all Hollywood companies will generously sign out checks."

Ryan and James Cameron both laughed.

these years. There are not a few companies looking for James Cameron to re-emerge. Unfortunately, only a few people such as Ryan understand that he is obsessed with making imax3d documentaries. I am preparing for the next big production. Now the development trend of 3D technology and North American theater lines has obviously surpassed the previous life. This studio tyrant is finally about to start that time-consuming and labor-intensive super-large production.

The two then briefly talked about some details. For example, in addition to him and Cameron himself, another executive producer would invite Jon Landau, who had been happily working with "Titanic"; such as the studio shooting of the film. Put it in Australia as much as possible so that you can get preferential conditions such as tax rebates and sponsorships.

After talking about the business, James Cameron turned his eyes to Nicole's side, looked at Sandy who was lying on the crib, and seemed to be asleep, and asked, "I remember the little guy has no godfather yet." ?"

"Yes." Ryan laughed. He faintly guessed the purpose of this set tyrant Frankly speaking, Jim. "Nicole joked deliberately, "I don't think you, a grumpy guy, will be a qualified godfather." "

"As long as Sandy considers me qualified in the future." James Cameron walked to the shaker, "that's enough."

"What do you mean?"

Nicole looked this way, Ryan shrugged, and she nodded and said, "Well, Jim, you can now give Sandy a given name."

"Professional name?"

This set tyrant couldn't help holding his chin, and after thinking about it for a few seconds, he said, "Re, Ruth, what do you think?"

"Sandy Ruth Kidman Jenkins?" Nicole muttered, and then said, "Not bad."

Ryan has the urge to cover his forehead. How much does James Cameron like Jack and Ruth? If you remember, the actor in "Avatar" is also called Jack... (to be continued...) ()