Chapter 775： Kingdom of Heaven

The Fox Tower, Twentieth Century Fox distribution and production departments are also very busy. As the weekend approaches, the production cost of "Kings of Heaven", which cost as much as 130 million US dollars, has reached the final preparation period before its premiere.

This epic war epic about Jerusalem, after Ridley Scott completed the editing, held two trial screenings, and the response and reputation were very good.

But Twentieth Century Fox was not satisfied internally, because Ridley Scott's director's cut version was too long, and the total length of the film was infinitely close to two hundred minutes.

This is crazy, and it is also unacceptable to Fox in the 20th century.

First of all, if the film is too long, the audience will get tired and impatient to watch it.

Secondly, and the most important point, too long a movie will seriously affect the film scheduling rate. Originally, a theater can be queued six times a day, but it can only be queued four times. The reduced number of shows also means the number of movie tickets available for sale. The decrease in the film’s box office results.

Even at the trial screening, the version submitted by Ridley Scott received an excellent response. From a commercial perspective, after the screening, 20th Century Fox asked the producer to convene an editing team to revisit the film. Clip.

"All the re-edited copies have been delivered." Bruce Dewan reported to Jim Pross: "The new edited version has been reduced from the original 198 minutes to 132 minutes, and each hall can be shown in two rows per day. Sessions."

Jim Prolos asked, "Where is Ridley Scott? There will be no comments, right?"

Bruce Dewan replied: "He has no opinion. There is a stipulation in the director's agreement. He has no final editing rights, and he is a bit crazy this time. He edited such a long film."

"It's not unreasonable for Hollywood to limit the power of directors." Jim Prolos doesn't think there is anything wrong with re-editing. Directors are crazy guys. If they don't restrict it, maybe they will edit a 300-minute version directly: "Many directors only consider film creation, not the market at all, and don't understand what pressure the production company will face."

Bruce Dewan smiled and said: "Ridley Scott is still good, at least he will not interfere with work beyond the scope of the director and the contract. Peter Jackson is a headache. I heard that Universal Pictures recently It was not a pleasant quarrel with him. They gave Peter Jackson the final editing rights. The first version of Peter Jackson lasted more than 200 minutes. King Kong only appeared more than an hour after the start of the film..."

Jim Prolos said: "Placement Ridley Scott, we are still cooperating with him on new projects, don’t let him have too many negative emotions, it will not affect the work of the new project."

He also participated in the trial screening, and he also saw the response from all parties, and he highly recognized the achievements of Ridley Scott's work on "The Kingdom of Heaven".

But recognition belongs to recognition, and the maximization of benefits meets the needs of 20th Century Fox.

Bruce Dewan said: "Ridley Scott is a good director, and he is more obedient to the command, not that kind of stingy."

Jim Prolos nodded slightly. Hollywood production companies like to work with Ridley Scott, and it’s not without reason.

Abandon the value of creation, no one likes James Cameron, I am the world's number one director.

"Get in touch with the theaters and control the schedule of "The Kings of Heaven"." Because of the excellent response to the trial version of Ridley Scott, Jim Pross is quite optimistic about the market prospects of "The Kings of Heaven": "Let the publicity department promote the promotion and marketing of the film as planned."

As much as US$70 million in publicity and distribution costs have been smashed, how can the film cause a global boom.

As long as there is a market response like "Troy", 20th Century Fox will be able to make a profit through online and offline operations.

This project was also a success.

Jim Prolos and Twentieth Century Fox are very optimistic about this.

Moreover, Ridley Scott has achieved great success in war epic films. "Gladiator" can be called a classic of this type. According to the response at the screening, the quality of "Kingdom of Heaven" is definitely not in "Gladiator". under.

After Bruce Dewan left, Jim Prolos no longer considered the reassuring "Kings of Heaven" for the time being, and instead considered the extremely troublesome "Fantastic Four".

This superhero movie is about to be released, but the situation is quite serious.

In the twentieth century, Fox has made too many efforts, in the media and various public relations promotion, but the initiative of the comics is completely in the hands of Marvel Entertainment, which is not as good as the direct expression of the magic in the comics. The content of the Four Heroes is impactful.

The second issue of Marvel Entertainment’s "Civil War" has been published, and the response is growing. The Fantastic Four is not only notorious, but also a stepping stone to another superhero team comic.

The popularity of the Fantastic Four is a bit old. The audience in the earliest popular period is already old, and it is too early to the stage of liking superhero themes. Now the main audience young people are not particularly familiar with the original Fantastic Four. After understanding, I found that these were four disgusting bastards...

The decent Fantastic Four movies are bound to be affected.

Jim Pross knows very well that 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment have had a chance to compromise, but out of practical interests, especially related to the interests of the "X-Men" series, 20th Century Fox cannot and cannot compromise. In the end it can only be so.

The prospects of this "Fantastic Four" movie are not optimistic. Twentieth Century Fox is ready to fail.

But failure will not waver to his own position. Tom Rothman, who has been eyeing for the top position, will not have a chance in a short time.

The power struggle within the Murdoch family has temporarily had a result. James Murdoch became the biggest winner with Rupert Murdoch’s favor. It will not take too long. The 20th Century Fox will inevitably belong to Under James Murdoch's control.

As a close friend of James Murdoch, Jim Proceeds thinks he is sitting very firmly.

It’s no big deal for a "Fantastic Four" to fail. "X-Men" is about to develop many derivative series, which involves the interests of this aspect, and 20th Century Fox will absolutely not let go.

As for Marvel Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox has nothing to do with them for the time being. The other side is relativity entertainment, which is very difficult to deal with.

To be more specific, I will wait until James Murdoch returns to Los Angeles from London in the future and personally controls 20th Century Fox.

The North American premiere of "The Bournemouth 3" was a huge success, and the overseas markets in Europe, Australia and Latin America that were released in the same period were also very popular.

In the first weekend overseas, "The Bournemouth 3" took away US$92.1 million in film markets in more than 30 countries and regions.

Over time, this film will appear in cinemas in more than 90 countries and regions.

The plot of the film is not sensitive. The only real negative character is the CIA of the United States. It doesn’t even care about the CIA itself. It also dispatches retirees to the crew to serve as special technical advisers, and pre-screening reviews in most countries and regions. "The Bourne Shadow 3" is very easy to pass.

Even Russia is sure to introduce and screen this film on a large scale.

Although it is a pity that Paul Greengrass ended his cooperation with Relativity Entertainment and turned to create niche political films that conform to his own wishes, for Ronan and Relativity Entertainment, cooperation with any director and actor is always possible. The end of the day.

In the future, similar situations will continue to appear.

Relativity Entertainment is also exploring new projects. New directors and new actors will come and go. This is a virtuous circle.

The summer file is still going on. This weekend after "The Bournemouth 3", there are also many new films to be released. Ronan's most attention is undoubtedly "The Kingdom of Heaven".

This film once had a serious polarization of word of mouth, but it was not a polarization in the traditional sense.

Because people who gave bad reviews basically watched the theater version, most people who gave good reviews watched the Ridley Scott edited version.

Ronan has received the news that 20th Century Fox is dissatisfied with the length of the Ridley Scott director's cut version which is close to 200 minutes. The producer has reconvened the manpower to work on the basis of the Ridley Scott version. A fine cut was made in order to shorten the length of the film as much as possible and increase the film arrangement rate during screening.

Frankly speaking Twentieth Century Fox’s choice is understandable. If you change to relativistic entertainment, you will generally make similar choices.

After all, a movie with a length of more than 3 hours is really crazy, and it is difficult for the audience to bear such a long time.

Not to mention the box office revenue involved.

What is the re-cut version? Ronan didn't see the movie and couldn't tell.

But regardless of the success or failure of "The Kingdom of Heaven", Hollywood continues to restrict the director's final editing rights, and there will be no doubt.

Once, this war epic was criticized by many people on the Internet as a typical failure of Hollywood producer-centric system.

As far as "The Kings of Heaven" is concerned, there is no problem with this statement, but it is also necessary to restrict the power of the director.

Not to mention anything else, as far as Michael Bay is concerned, if he does not restrict him, but puts all power in his hands, what kind of movies will eventually come out?

Explosion, explosion, explosion...

No matter how long the film is, Michael Bay dared to blow it up from start to finish.

It just so happened that the next weekend after the release of Kings of Heaven, Michael Bay’s sci-fi production "Escape from the Clone Island" will also be fully released in North American theaters.

This is Michael Bay’s first film after he escaped from Jerry Bruckheimer’s restrictions. The latest chapter of the best entertainment era is here: