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392 - Powerful People of the Year, Hollywood's Determinants: The Power Constraints

It has been a year since the release of "Batman: The War Moment", and the second part will be released at the earliest in the summer next year.

This ensures that after more than a year of short periods, the expectations of most movie fans have been reached to the highest point. As soon as the movie is released, Batman fans around the world will definitely burst out with enthusiasm far beyond the usual ones.

"Look, my little angel, your dad is going to make a lot of money again!"

A newspaper called "Los Angeles Daily Entertainment" was picked up by Naomi Watts and put it in front of the little guy in his arms. Regardless of whether she could understand it or not, the Australian actress just wanted to share this happiness.

The entertainment newspapers on the coffee table are full of news related to "The Matrix" and Wayne, and she always reads the reports on this.

"The Matrix won the North American box office championship without surprise last week, winning two consecutive championships since the opening of the painting. The Hulk, which had a poor box office record, became cannon fodder at the same time.'

This is the first film that became a victim of Wayne's crazy life after the start of this summer. When Naomi Watts thought of the media a few months ago and poured dirty water on Wayne's various smears and waters, Naomi Watts actually felt a little happy.

Her position has always been firm, and she only hopes that similar box office tragedies can continue to occur, so that she can use facts to tell those who have ulterior motives not to provoke this man easily.

‘No accident happened. The Hulk, which opened the second week, did not improve at all. The box office list this week was still dominated by "The Matrix". "The Matrix", written and produced by Wayne Greenberg and directed by Zach Schneider, has closed again at $40.5 million in three days this weekend after winning $86.82 million in seven days last week.

"The Matrix" scored $127 million, and temporarily ranked first in the North American annual box office list when the curtain of the summer season just started. Faced with the strong squeeze of "The Matrix", Universal Pictures invested $150 million in the big production "The Hulk", which performed extremely poorly in the theater market.

Due to its rapid collapse of audience reputation, after three days of the weekend, it only received $12 million, which was seriously unequal to the production cost. The box office in North America just exceeded 60 million. Among the latest forecasts released by many third-party forecasting agencies, the box office in North America is difficult to reach $100 million.

The performance of movie fans not buying "The Hulk" is destined to be difficult to reach the $150 million cost line in North America. "The Hulk" has begun to enter the overseas market on Friday. Universal Pictures can only hope for the overseas performance of the film to try whether it can recover the production cost.

Compared with the superhero movie "Batman: The Moment of War" released the previous year, "Hulk" is a very popular character, which is a disaster. Wayne Greenberg's Batman has maintained a strong box office trend and reputation from the start to the bottom, while "Hulk" is completely the opposite.

The box office performance dropped rapidly after the first day, and the audience's reputation was terrible. According to data disclosed by a third-party survey company, the audience scored by c in the theater was C. Most fans said that the film imitated Batman too much, and the story was filmed inexplicably, which made people confused.

The collapse of audience reputation is not an accident. At the same time, the media reviews of "Hulk" were also criticized. We collected comments from more than 50 entertainment media and opinions from more than 40 professional film critics, and the praise rate was less than 10%...'

Even if Naomi Watts is just an actor, it can be seen from the one-sided media reports that "The Hulk" has completely failed and it is impossible to pose a slight threat to "The Matrix". The two movies have a huge difference in investment amounts, and the effect they show is not like works on the same level.

From all aspects, it can be seen that Universal Pictures failed completely this time, and it can be said that it was a complete defeat. The terrifying investment of "The Hulk" will probably plunge into Universal Pictures' throat like a thorn, and it will hurt slightly whenever you think of Wayne.

"I deserve it!"

Naomi Watts spat at the newspaper, threw it aside with a smile on his face. He hugged Little Fendi and hummed an unknown song, and continued to enjoy looking through the remaining newspapers.

Of course she understood how much money the film "The Matrix" could bring to Wayne, but she knew the child's father's wealth. It can be said that after several years of struggle, she was not short of money at all. But making money was not the first priority. She overlapped with Wayne's channel, and what she wanted to see was the unhappiness of other companies.

"Wow, look, what did mom find?"

Naomi Watts pulled out two beautifully packaged magazines from under a stack of newspapers, one was the "Variety Show" of Hollywood's top film and television entertainment business information media, and the other was the "Premiere" film and television magazine that ordinary audiences are more familiar with.

The reason why these two top entertainment magazines were delivered together is because Wayne was included in their respective lists at the same time.

"What are you looking at, my dear."

Just as Naomi Watts was concentrating on flipping the magazine, Wayne took Nina in and sat on the sofa. In the eyes of the two of them entering, the picture in the living room was quite funny. A beautiful woman hugged a little girl and looked down at the magazine together.

Two pairs of eyes were staring at the page attentively, while the smaller one was still drooling unconsciously. Don’t worry about the little guy’s understanding, at least her eyes were wide open and she was observing the world with curious eyes.

"Premiere" and "Variety Show." Naomi Watts picked up the child and stuffed it into the man's arms. He opened two magazines and walked around half a circle so that the other party could see clearly.

"The Premiere puts you at the sixth place in the Hollywood annual "power list" in the previous year, and they have a very high evaluation of you. Coincidentally, "Variety Show" also puts your name at the fifth place in the annual "power list" list. The circle has a very high recognition of these two authoritative entertainment media, which shows... "

"What does this mean, Nami"

Wayne didn't care about the two so-called Hollywood power lists of authoritative entertainment media, the two lists that best represent the power status in the circle, and at the same time ranked him in the top few, which did have some basis and persuasion, but compared with the little guy in his arms, he obviously cared more about the latter.

"Hey, boss is someone who can ignore Times' annual cover character. Is these two lists more convincing than Times' annual cover character?"

Nina moved to Naomi Watts, picked up two magazines on the coffee table, and joked with the Australian actress in a teasing tone. "There are so many people in Hollywood who are looking forward to entering these two lists but can't get in. They just put the boss in the top few places. This is a huge waste of public media resources, isn't it?"

"Nina, your bonus is gone."

Wayne didn't even raise his head when he heard the assistant lady's teasing. He held a handkerchief in his hand and focused on wiping the saliva from Xiao Fendi's mouth. However, as soon as he said this, he obviously hit the other party's fatal hole.

"No, don't do this, please!" As soon as he thought of leaving him with a large bonus, Nina immediately changed her tone of speaking. "I swear, boss, these two lists representing power in the circle definitely underestimate your influence. They should put you first!"

Wayne tilted his head and glanced at her, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Okay, I think so too. Congratulations, your bonus is back."

Most people generally believe that in Hollywood, any kind of relationship is determined by power. Although power affects various relationships throughout society, these relationships are more obvious and prominent in Hollywood.

Just as Wayne has now acquired, power is often a determinant of various cooperation and decision-making, and a determinant of the entire working model of Hollywood.

The annual "power list" of the film magazine "Premiere" and the annual "power person" of Hollywood's top film and television entertainment business information media "Variety" are both manifestations of this phenomenon.

In these assessments, a person's power is usually determined by his past performance or achievements in recent years. Wayne has learned that the most common thing is that in Hollywood, a film company lawyer calls his own competitors and asks them to check the producer's "historical records".

In addition to the meaning of antitrust, everyone in the circle has a consensus that your past achievements will directly affect your future value, as well as the rights, status and rewards you will receive in the next project.

"Is there any other news?" Wayne turned to look at Naomi Watts. He knew some of the bad things about this woman and especially liked to read various reports about his videos every day.

"The Matrix has exceeded $120 million, and now these entertainment media are singing praises, praise you, Quazak Schneider, Qu Lee and Charlize Theron, and praise everything about the Matrix. There is nothing new, isn't it?"

Just as Naomi Watts said, although the main creative team of "The Matrix" went to Europe and wanted to travel to two cities in one day for the promotion of the film, taking advantage of the film's box office and the media's one-sided momentum, Warner Bros.'s various publicity and marketing in North America are still bombarding intensively.

This film has caused a lot of topics and controversy, but they are still creating topics so that more passers-by can enter the theater as soon as possible, hoping to squeeze out all the value of "The Matrix" before "Tornado" is released.

"The Matrix, Greenber's R-grade film, has regained its summer season, with a box office of over $120 million in two weekends!"

"The 1996 annual box office champion was born, and Zach Schneider's first film "The Matrix" successfully topped the top in just over a week!"

"He is not just a big director! The science fiction film "The Matrix" produced by Wayne Greenberg is showing a trend of crushing everything as soon as it opens. It successfully defends the weekly box office champion. The film received a box office of 127 million US dollars in ten days of release!"

Various eye-catching topics and news have been continuously released by Warner Bros. on Monday, using its media channels and the parent company Time Warner's media channels, which has caused the beginning of the summer season, and the Matrix is ​​dominant in public opinion.

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