Chapter 755： Mecha and Godzilla

March is the off-season of the North American film market. There will be basically no heavyweight movies released during this period. A medium-invested comic adaptation film like "Hellboy" was specially selected by Embassy Pictures in March.

Compared with the huge production of real superhero comics, "Hellboy" is more like an anti-hero cult film, and its production cost is only 45 million US dollars.

Therefore, the special effects of the film are a bit rough, and it is quite difficult to use such a production investment to create a film with more than 900 special effects lenses.

Gilmour del Toro has strong knowledge in the use of special effects. In order to save the budget, after shooting several films in collaboration with Relativity Entertainment in the previous two years, most of the props and some of the sets were collected to shoot "Hellboy During the period, I used a lot.

Different from selling scraps such as props and scenery after the shooting of other crews, Gilmour del Toro has a habit of collecting these things.

"I hope to open a film museum in the future."

At the premiere of "Hellboy", Gilmour Del Toro said to Ronan: "These may be part of the exhibit."

Ronan said: "I support your film museum plan. You cooperate with Relativity Entertainment. The props used by the crew can be collected."

Many things are left and can only be sold as waste products, so it is better to give them out as a favor.

Gilmour del Toro was fat and short, and he almost couldn't even see his eyes when he laughed.

Ronan took the lead on the red carpet, came to the media area in front of the Emirates Stone Theater, and simply accepted an interview with the media reporter.

"I have always wanted to make a monster movie," Ronan talked to the media reporters, saying all kinds of nonsense: "The work of "Hellboy" has strange characters and fantastic monsters and settings, which can satisfy All my imagination of monster movies."

Seeing the actor Ron Pullman walk into the media area, Ronan gave up the stage in due course.

Lang Pullman is a very distinctive actor. In order to compete for this actor, Uvi Bauer and Gilmour Del Toro were in a quarrel.

In the end, Ron Pullman chose Gilmour Del Toro.

By the way, when facing these two, it is estimated that most actors will make the same choice as Ron Pullman.

According to Gilmour Del Toro’s nonsense that attracted media reporters during his propaganda, he got in touch with Long Pullman as early as when he started to write the script, saying that he was writing a movie for Pullman. Pullman naturally He was very excited. He liked the comic book character of Hellboy very much. In order to play this strong character, he had prepared for a year and had to train five or six days a week.

During the promotion, the Embassy Pictures even played the banner, saying that the Hellboy was the first comic character with an anti-hero image to be put on the screen!

This kind of propaganda rhetoric, just listen to it, and take it seriously.

For example, Gilmour del Toro also said that shooting "Hellboy" was his dream all the time. After he got the copyright, he couldn't find an investor, and finally touched Ronan.

Entering the theater, Gilmour del Toro sat down with Ronan and said, "I have some thoughts about "Hellboy"."

Ronan glanced at him: "Gilmore, just say it."

Gilmour del Toro whispered: "After the film, you can shoot and produce an animated feature film."

"You can consider it." Ronan certainly wouldn't agree in one word: "I will let Shahai Entertainment discuss your proposal."

How specific is, it depends on how the film responds.

Gilmour del Toro actually has a new film project design, considering the occasion and the upcoming release of "Hellboy", I decided to have time to discuss this with Ronan in the future.

Besides, the post-production of "Hellboy" was not very pleasant.

What Hollywood is like, Gilmour del Toro has had a personal experience in the past two years. The power of the director is too small. The two edited versions he submitted in a row were rejected by the producer Ronan. This released version is with him. The original idea has changed a lot.

Even so, if the commercial performance of "Hellboy" is not good, let alone the rest.

took a look at Ronan. His eyes fell on the special effects designer in the same row. During the shooting of "Hellboy", he saw a lot of gunpla from the island country during the shooting of Hellboy.

These mechas are like first love lovers at first sight, deeply into the heart of Gilmour del Toro.

What did the special effects designer say? Mecha is the romance of men!

is also from an island country, and the mecha is like a monster like Godzilla in the same movie. What will be the effect?

Gilmore del Toro was fascinated, as if seeing the mecha and Godzilla falling in love and killing each other.

However, before mecha and monsters, I have to fulfill my wish to make a Spanish movie.

The movie began to show, and Gilmour del Toro came back to his senses, no longer thinking about the romance of mecha men and Spanish movies.

The roar of thunder sounded, and in the heavy dark tones, the Gothic picture style was abnormal. The son of Satan from **** was summoned to the world by Germany.

Satan can be described as frequent appearances in American comics, whether it is Marvel comics or the dc comics next door, there are **** and Satan.

"Hellboy" was written by Dark Horse Comics, the third largest cartoonist in the United States. It has a relatively short history and was first published in 1993.

The original comic is a typical steampunk style. The creativity is very interesting. It uses the power of black magic and technology to summon demons. The Allies discovered and destroyed this evil plan, and a demon child who has been summoned into the human world was cultivated as a slasher. A super hero who slayers demons and defends mankind.

The post-production of this film dragged on for a long time. After Gilmour del Toro completed all the production, the two consecutive edited versions submitted to Ronan were rejected by Ronan.

The reasons are the same for both times. The film tempo is too slow, more than 120 minutes is too long, and the scale of the action scene is too small.

In the beginning, Gilmour Del Toro submitted the pg-13 version. After several revisions at Ronan’s request, the film completely turned into a dark, gloomy, cruel and **** R-rated film.

Without affecting the narrative, the film length was also reduced to 102 minutes.

This makes the rhythm of the film more compact.

The main cut is the love scene of Chi Mo.

This seriously weakens the depth of the theme of the film, but this type of film requires the depth of the subject to do what.

However, Gilmour Del Toro also did a great job in many ways.

For example, he increased the cuteness of Hellboy.

As a male protagonist without a handsome face, Hellboy is a pure monster, rude and reckless, but in stark contrast to these, besides being rude and reckless, the film can make people clearly feel the contrast of Hellboy.

Especially Hellboy's various Tucao lines, paired with Shangron-Pulman's very recognizable voice, is quite powerful.

This film has created another heroic image. The protagonist in previous Hollywood hero movies, no matter how grotesque, is undoubtedly centered on the theme of handsome and mighty, but Hellboy broke this rule, and the protagonist from the perspective of appearance From the perspective of the above, it is a monster, and almost integrates all the necessary appearance elements of the negative characters in the movie.

But after watching the movie, you will find that the monster of Hellboy, except for the red skin and distinctive looks, is actually an ordinary person.

is different from the film that was heavily biased towards children, this version of "Hellboy" is more violent and bloody, and the r-rated rating also explains his audience.

In short, he is a typical American brainless hero. You don't need to think too much when you encounter any problems, just go over it at a fast pace.

Manga-based superhero movies are actually mostly of this kind of routine.

Correspondingly, the market acceptance of this routine is also extremely wide, with a large audience.

On the first weekend after "Hellboy" was released, it appeared in 3,602 theaters in North America. With a score of US$29.87 million, it beat the US$20.67 million box office of "Boys and Girls", which won the North American box office. The champion of the list.

But the film’s reputation is very general. Imdb users scored 6.9 points, and theater audiences rated it as "b". It is predicted that the box office in North America will be around US$80 million.

By the second weekend, "Hellboy" lost the box office championship.

US$15.62 million can only guarantee that "Hellboy" sits at the second place on the box office chart. The North American box office champion was snatched by DreamWorks' "Midnight Ring 2".

This remake of the film, the opening weekend in North America got a good result of 35.06 million US dollars.

After DreamWorks has its own distribution channel, , films have been selling at the box office one after another. Even the films that have lost the box office, due to their independent distribution channels, the losses can be minimized.

Today's DreamWorks has taken a completely different path from the past.

The most obvious thing is that DreamWorks has a stronger ability to resist risks.

Films that fail at the box office can get back as much as possible through online and offline distribution channels, and successful films can maximize their profits with the support of their own independent distribution system.

In addition to the distribution of self-produced movies, DreamWorks has begun to undertake external distribution business, which has lower risks and more stable income.

After experiencing painful lessons, DreamWorks seems to have a tendency to rise again.

With the current situation of DreamWorks, it is not necessary to sell oneself to survive because a movie fails.

"Hellboy" was released for two weeks, and the North American box office earned 51.2 million US dollars.

Compared with last month's "Devil Wearing Prada", the market response of "Hellboy" has been much worse. However, including future overseas and offline income, this project can still generate a certain profit, but The profit margin will not be very high.

It is not possible that every movie, like "The Devil Wearing Prada", can earn several times the investment income with a relatively low investment.

The profit rate of relativity entertainment investing in movies is already the highest in the Hollywood industry.