hollywood draw

Just as Wayne and his group got off the plane, checked into the hotel, and were about to start their vacation, the North American theater market once again began to be dominated by a film in the same year.

The national movie viewing trend of "The Joker" is about to pass, and immediately this summer season ushered in a new bombshell. "Jurassic Park" landed on the weekend box office champion with a crushing trend.

The unlucky Sony Columbia is simply suffering. When it was released, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" encountered "The Joker" that crushed the same period, with a box office of nearly $80 million. Although it could generate some profits, it has been suppressed by "The Joker".

Finally, Tom Hanks' "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle" began to be released, and he successfully squeezed "The Joker" in the fourth week to second place, winning the first week box office championship, but then welcomed "Jurassic Park".

Only one company in Columbia is the only one who is in charge. Except for the big production of "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle", all major investments in the summer season have avoided "Jurassic Park".

After the release of this film, all films were greatly affected. The screening scale of "The Joker" has further shrunk, falling to 1,678 theaters. The box office began to decline significantly this week, with only earning US$7.6 million, but the cumulative box office in North America has successfully exceeded 320 million.

When the good-looking "Jurassic Park" began to rage the North American theater market, as time went by, "The Joker", which is popular in overseas markets, was also in its intensification period. In addition to the five English friends, the films also began to dominate the theater market in remote areas.

Because the Internet in this era is not yet developed enough, there is a serious lag in overseas box office statistics. However, through rough statistics from Warner Bros.'s overseas distribution department, the movie "The Joker" has won nearly $500 million overseas!

While reporting on "Jurassic Park", the entertainment media discovered that "Joker" had a global box office of more than 800 million US dollars. When he wanted to find director Wayne, he was already in Australia and started his vacation trip.

“This is simply so beautiful!”

The excited Naomi Watts stood up from the car, stretched out his hands, and his clothes were blown by the speeding car.

Wayne didn't have the courage to try that "Celestial Beach" after all. He didn't care about taking off naked when no one was watching, and he didn't even have any problems with taking off all the birds. But he still couldn't accept the fact that he was walking birds in front of hundreds of people, although most of the ladies on the beach.

After the excitement, the Australian beauty sat down and pointed to the newspaper in front of the car. "You are already a world-class director, Wayne! Even in Australia, the influence of "The Joker" is not comparable to that of any film. During this period, you have dominated the whole world!"

"Fit your seat belt, Nami!" The road here is very empty, and the speed on the road is relatively fast, but Wayne hasn't driven himself for a long time. It's still under the Commonwealth traffic rules. The cars are all right-handed, which makes him carefully adapt since he got on the road.

"You're driving so hard!" Naomi Watts gave him a blank look and still fastened his seat belt. "I've discovered that you are not only strong in hormone secretion, but also lustful, but also afraid of death!"

They set out from Sydney this morning and are now heading south to Victoria, preparing to enter Australia's second largest city. Then they flew directly from Melbourne to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania, and after two days of playing there, they flew directly from Brisbane on the east coast, and then drove back to Sydney from there.

This plan actually took about a circle of the southeast part of Australia. Although there was not even one-tenth of Australia, these places were already full of the essence of Australia. Except for the southeast part where people gathered, other places are mostly drought-free areas.

This country is definitely a vast territory, but unfortunately most parts of the country are not suitable for human survival. Almost all of its western regions are hot and dry deserts. The eastern region is a plateau, and only places close to the coastline can there be plains suitable for human life.

So, this country looks very big, but there are not many places to play, unless you are willing to go to a wide farm where you can take a vacation, see kangaroos and hunt.

"Hey, boy! Do you want me to drive? An old lady has surpassed you just now! You are so embarrassing." Naomi Watts was seriously dissatisfied with Wayne's driving skills. In addition to the assistants and security guards following behind, they were surpassed by one car after another.

"We came out to relax. Do you understand relaxing? I don't want to drive with others." Wayne has been driving for many years. It's not that he has poor driving skills, but the right-hand car is too awkward to drive, which makes him unable to adapt.

"Aren't you a genius? You don't live like a young man at all. Every day, Wayne, you have no passion when you are under 24 years old!" Naomi Watts was not honest either. She put two long, white and straight legs on the front of the car.

"fxxk! You'll drive it!"

Wayne was awkward and didn't dare to be distracted when driving. She put her two big white legs in front of her eyes, which made him unable to help but want to see it, and his mind kept thinking about the madness of last night.

In anger, she stopped the car and changed seats with Naomi Watts. Maybe she has been here since she was a child, so she drove significantly faster.

Before we arrived at the Great Ocean Road, Wayne had already seen the beautiful scenery mentioned by netizens in his previous life. These natural beauty scenery is on the highway, and a large area of ​​green grassland is one of them. In addition, there are various beaches and seaside cliffs.

Once she encountered such a beautiful scenery, Naomi Watts would stop the car and take Wayne to get close to enjoy the feeling of being in the painting. She knew that this man was under great pressure in the past two years, and this kind of place could best heal people's hearts.

Playing while playing, they are actually not very efficient in moving forward, but this is Wayne's purpose of leaving North America, avoiding the annoying media, removing all the pressure, and purifying as he pleases for a few days.

Until Sergei's car accelerated and overtook it, and after parked on the side of the road, the assistant lady ran over with a satellite phone.

"Boss, Jimmy's call from England."

This immediately brought him back to reality, took the phone and put it in his ear.

"Hi, Jimmy?"

The agent's voice came from the other end of the phone, but there was a little noise. "Wayne, I've done Tolkien's descendants! But things are a bit complicated!"

"You wait."

He took the phone down and pointed to the beach and the tall reefs on the side of the road. "Nami, will we camp here tonight?"

"No problem, you can do it first, I'll help Sergey and the others to set up a tent."

Just now Wayne accidentally swept a cave on the reef. It was a good camping spot and the view close to the beach was very beautiful. Seeing the three of them driving the other car over, he took the car and continued to put the phone in his ears.

"Jimmy, what's the case?"

"The Lord of the Rings has been adapted twice. In 1978, Ralph Barksey adapted it into an animated feature film. The investment of 400 million yuan was exchanged for a box office of 30 million yuan, and it actually made a lot of money!"

From this we can see that we must not make a decision by just a slap in our heads. Without the preliminary investigation, there is obviously a big lack of information Wayne knows.

Jimmy continued: "This year in Finland, "The Hobbit" has also been adapted into a mini-series, with a total of nine levels. So no matter what, at least the film and television adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" has indeed made money, and Tolkien's descendants hope to add the share clause!"

"How much do they want?" Wayne asked.

"It can be said about three to six percent, but the copyright in their hands is not all, and some of it is in the hands of the publisher."

Wayne heard this and reached out and scratched his head. It was indeed much more troublesome to do these things than he thought.

"Now the specific price has been set, $3.7 million. This number has been acquired at a premium, and it is divided into it..."

"Give them, but it has to be profit sharing, not box office numbers, do you understand? Jimmy!"

Nowadays, all books, or IP film and television adaptations are not expensive, so there is no need to be too much. Even if you make ten years later, it is impossible to buy such a famous book.

After thinking about it, Wayne said again: "After you get the authorization, go to the publisher to discuss it. With the same standard, take down "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit". If necessary, you can tell them that I will make this video myself."

"You want to film The Lord of the Rings?" Jimmy asked in surprise.

"No, this is just an excuse. This masterpiece has no value in hand-made production within a few years. With the current special effects cost, the investment will be astronomical!"

"Okay, I understand, that's it."

After hanging up the phone, Wayne sat in the car and began to seriously consider this matter. He intercepted the copyright of "Lord of the Rings" in advance in front of the fat man Harvey Weinstein, which also made Peter Jackson unable to find a new line investment.

If you lose such a series that can affect film history and independently operated by New Line Film, you will probably be much sadder. You will not wait until 2007, and you may be forcibly merged into Warner Bros.

"The Joker Returns" was also filmed by himself. Just pay attention to the horror film master in the future and extend an olive branch in advance.

After getting the copyright, Wayne will definitely not make any noise. He is going to be silently pinched in his hands for a few years. When the time is right, he will directly find the fat man in New Zealand. The trilogy will be filmed together. He is the director who was born for this film.

This Oscar-best director seems to be unable to make movies as long as he leaves the "Lord of the Rings" series. Apart from "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", Wayne seems to have no other successful works.