hollywood draw

When "Batman: The Moment of War" retreated to second place in the North American theater market, the film officially entered a large-scale release in the overseas market.

In addition to opening the picture earlier in countries such as the Five English Friends, the film has also appeared in many remote areas in recent weeks, and the number of regional and national screenings has reached more than 70.

This kind of film that was first popular in North America and then screened on a large scale around the world generally achieves good results. North America, the world's largest ticket store, is the best market to test the quality of the film in this era.

At the current speed of network transmission, the overseas box office numbers of "Batman: The Moment of War" have always been statistically lagging, and a big company like Warner Bros. cannot solve this problem.

The latest box office has reached more than 350 million US dollars, which is just a conservative statistics, and the real box office number will only be higher.

Faced with films that have caused another craze overseas, entertainment media in various countries have mixed praise, especially European film media. They almost followed France to unify their caliber and collectively excluded this Hollywood masterpiece.

In order to protect the last piece of private land for European films, both critics and film colleagues are accusing Wayne of insulting the great film art with his superhero who is full of copper smell.

As we all know, since the release of "The Joker" and "Jurassic Park" a few years ago, the Hollywood film industry has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The birthplace of European film art has fallen to the bottom.

The only fig leaf that can be left behind is the so-called art film, so these European filmmakers must accuse every large-scale Hollywood blockbuster to preserve the last trace of decency of European films.

"Wayne Greenberg, a young director, wants to use the superhero movies of Americanism to be acclaimed fans all over the world!"

This is the entertainment headline of the well-known French media Le Monde. The whole report counts the logical flaws of the film, accusing the film of oversuppressing the dark core of the story.

"...A good movie can always bring happiness or insight to moviegoers, while Wayne Greenberg's film is too dark. If you count his works over the years, it is not difficult to find that almost all the themes are negative emotions, which is abnormal.

Not only does he expose negative emotions to movie lovers all over the world, but he also always uses inflammatory plots to promote the so-called great Americanism and save the world through superheroes to express this strange film spirit..."

However, no matter how these media and critics criticize them, they have failed to stop the enthusiasm of their fans to watch movies. In recent times, "Batman: The Moment of War" has always been the first movie-watching choice for fans.

At the same time, Warner Bros. is also using its own complete offline channels to start dumping movies overseas, including Batman's armor, masks, cloak darts and other things, all of which have achieved excellent sales.

Not only the periphery of the movies produced by oneself, but also the authorization of the film's image is also a very terrifying income. From a pen, a pencil case and a schoolbag, to various co-branded clothes and household appliances, all of which were labeled with the Batman icon when the film was released.

As time gradually came to mid-July, the main creators of the crew who had been flying around the world ended their promotional activities in Australia and were about to rush back to Los Angeles to enjoy the gains brought by the successful film.

Wayne also ended his whole-hearted vacation life. After saying goodbye to his parents, he returned to Greenberg Manor early to attend the grand celebration party prepared by Warner Bros.

The movie has not been offline from the theaters, and the surrounding and authorization not only allowed Warner Bros. to recover the investment early, but also easily make more profits. So this time, Warner Bros. was very generous and directly booked a beach villa in Malibu and invited a party company to start decorating the beach a few days in advance.

"How is it? Do you feel angry when facing the accusations from European media?"

On the afternoon of the same day when Wayne returned to Los Angeles, John Gray, who had been promoted to the production department, immediately ran to the manor, and also brought various news about the film overseas.

Wayne sat under the awning on the lawn, gently stroked the golden retriever's head while watching the European newspaper he brought.

Hearing John's joke, he curled his lips gently and said in a sarcastic tone: "Who do we know what the art in the mouths of these European filmmakers is? I'm afraid that the art they call is just a woman who takes off her naked?"

Facing the accusations from European film colleagues, Wayne really didn't care about it. Almost all of them did the decline of European films themselves. The film art in the eyes of these people has gradually lost its market even in their own country.

In his eyes, those so-called young shots, women who don’t wear clothes, and all kinds of perverted sex with men and women are basically nothing to do with art.

These old-school European directors seem to have no movies without long shots and large-scale passion.

John Gray shrugged and ignored his ridicule of European films. "Okay, let's talk about the main business. You sent Jimmy to the company's new project "****", sure you won't direct it yourself?"

The investment budget for this project is as high as 70 million US dollars. In the minds of Warner Bros. executives, it is more appropriate to direct it by Wayne himself. Now it seems that blockbusters with investment of hundreds of millions of yuan are frequently released. In fact, the investment of 70 million US dollars is already considered a first-line production in Hollywood.

"No, I won't do specific work in this video." Wayne shook his head and gave a yes answer. "If you have any questions after you have seen the project, you can ask them directly."

"Okay, then I'll just say it." John Gray observed his face and said with some uncertainty: "The main problem is not investment, nor the conditions proposed by Jimmy, but we didn't understand the script at all. Your story is too philosophical!"

Originally, Warner Bros. had basically no way to block the review process for the project initiated by Wayne himself, but all the executives watched the script of this film in a foggy way, and the future was messy, making everyone not know what he wanted to say.

"But this doesn't affect the review of the project." John continued before Wayne explained the script. "Now someone has come up with an idea that Zach Schneider is fine to shoot, but you'd better be one of the directors and add it to the production of the film later."

John's meaning is very clear. The script was already a genius, and Warner Brothers really couldn't rest assured that he would let a novice director lead the film production.

This is a big-time science fiction film that invests tens of millions of dollars, not thousands of dollars.

Wayne thought about it and shook his head firmly. "No, I can't join the specific work, even if it's added later in the film, it's not enough. This video was produced by Greenberg Studio and Warner Brothers each invested 35 million US dollars. I will serve as the film producer to turn the control into the direction."

"Okay, I'll convey what you mean when I go back."

John nodded. He had thought of such a result for a long time, but he still had to try to communicate what he should communicate.

That's right, the first song of this "****" will be jointly invested by Greenberg Studio and Warner Bros., and will be released by Warner Bros. The copyright of the film belongs to Warner Bros. Greenberg Studio enjoys normal investment returns.

Warner Bros. is willing to accept this model because Wayne gave up the producer's remuneration and project initiation rewards and other large amounts of early funds, which also helps the film to use all its investment in production and ensure the quality of the film.

Wayne also has his own considerations. There is still $50 million in funds on Greenberg's studio. This money is too stupid whether it is investing in the stock market or repaying bank loans. Moreover, through such cooperation, he can also participate in other projects in the future.

Even if he is a shareholder of Warner Bros., he is very clear about such business matters.

Another very important point is that Warner Bros. wants him to take over the film production later, which will indeed save him a lot of working time and be able to use the name of Wayne Greenberg's movie to attract more fans to watch the movie.

But Zach Schneider had to consider his feelings. Of course, there are many benefits to doing this, but it was a kind of harm to the director who hosted the film.

Things like this were very common before Hollywood, but in order to protect the rights and interests of film directors, the emergence of the "Eastwood" rule has made such things much less.

It was made by the old cowboy Clint Eastwood. When he was filming "The West Enforcer", he was jealous of the heroine Sandra Locke and film director Kaufman.

So when the filming work was about to end, Kaufmann was not on the crew and finished filming the film by himself, he also worked with the producer to change the director's name to himself.

Afterwards, Kaufman said it was a pity, but in the end, the directors union couldn't stand it and introduced Eastwood rules, stipulating that after the film director was fired for any reason, the producer, the male lead, etc., were not allowed to take up the director position.

This kind of destruction gradually decreased a little, and at the same time, it also made the method of shooting the film, and adding the names of famous directors, gradually gained some taboos.

John Gray went back with Wayne's opinion. The next day, the "****" project officially entered the review stage, and Warner Bros. began the preliminary market research.

On July 15, just the day before the crew's main creator returned to Los Angeles, the animated feature film "The Legend of the Wind" produced by Walt Disney Animation Studio also officially landed in the North American theater market.

As soon as it was released, it successfully stole all the limelight from "The Elf" and "Batman: The Moment of War", and earned $25.7 million in the first day, officially igniting the war in July.