hollywood draw

No one is so stupid that he thinks that the current "Batman: The Dark Knight" can be copied. The reason why this movie has such a terrifying box office and achievements swept the world is that it has many and complicated reasons. Not to mention that Wayne has laid the foundation for DC movies and dark styles for several years and cultivated the audience's viewing habits, that is, the marketing of luck-added before and after the release of the movie is destined to be impossible to easily imitate.

"Batman: The Dark Knight" is indeed extremely successful. Perhaps this project will establish the glory of the DC series in Warner Bros. in the next few years, but who can deny that "Jurassic Park 2" was a failure?

Wayne and Steven Spielberg have used the fanatical atmosphere brought by the two movies to make countless media enter the box office carnival, and the same is true for companies in Hollywood. But Sony Columbia is different from other giants. They have been at the bottom of the six giants over the years, so some things seem particularly clear.

Oga Yuk deeply knows that although the movies of Wayne Greenberg and Steven Spielberg are often 300 million to 400 million in North America and 600 million in global box office, but in fact, in the entire Hollywood history, there are only a handful of movies with a box office of over 300 million in North America. Not to mention 300 million, but in the entire circle, who can guarantee that each of his films can reach a box office of 200 million US dollars?

In addition to Wayne now, even Steven Spielberg still has Waterloo, these great directors can only ensure a high success rate to a certain extent.

Therefore, whenever a film has achieved good results in the theater market, countless follow-up works will appear, and the so-called Hollywood assembly line production will appear, because only in this way can the profitability of the film be guaranteed to the greatest extent and the production company's investment will not lose money.

Imitation, analyzing the success factors of successful videos, and then copying them has always been the mainstream concept of Hollywood.

"Paul, I've studied it carefully."

Oga Yu relaxed his upper body, leaned on the sofa, staring at the North American local executives opposite him. He knew that among the entire Columbia Group, this was one of the few executives who really wanted to restore the company's glory, and other managers with various selfish thoughts still accounted for the majority of the company.

"From the Jaws that made Steven Spielberg famous in 1975, the Elf in 1984, and the Alien series later." Speaking of this, Okayama paused, stretched out his finger, and pointed to the box office news in the newspaper that was not very prominent. "Also, since the 1990s, the first part of Jurassic Park in 1993 and the second part of Jurassic Park that is now being released on a large scale, Monster Movies have never lacked a wide audience."

In fact, after hearing this, Paul has basically understood what the other party means. Obviously, "Batman: The Dark Knight" has indeed attracted the attention of the media, but if the box office of "Jurassic Park 2" is taken out separately, it can definitely be regarded as the most successful type in Hollywood.

More importantly, such monster movies are much better copied than those of "Batman: The Dark Knight" that perfectly combines art and business.

"Godzilla, I don't know if you've known it."

Without waiting for the other party to respond, Oga Yu began to introduce some of his special ideas. "This monster has always been the most popular monster in the book, and has a lot of fame in North America and even the world. We can make this popular monster with better special effects. I believe that the influence of this monster will definitely not be lower than that of the Tyrannosaurus Rex in "Jurassic Park"!"

These words made Paul frown and began to fall into thinking, considering the possibility of making the North American movie into a book monster. Perhaps the bookmaker, Ceo, in front of him, has a very deep understanding of Hollywood and the film industry, but there is one thing that the other party does not understand, that is, the land of North America has always had the highest xenophobic sentiment around the world.

So far, no imported movie outside of North America has been able to earn more than 100 million US dollars in this land, which shows a lot that even European movies with North American cultural attributes have not yet achieved any better box office results when they get this land.

You say that the ordinary people on this land are arrogant or the old man in the country, but the fact is that these ordinary people don’t care about anything except North America at all.

The advantage is that some of the cultures of the book have always been lacking in supporters in this land. For example, Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" also introduces a large number of cultural elements of the book.

It was not until five or six minutes later that Paul picked up the cold coffee and took a sip, looked at the book sitting opposite him, and said, "Godzilla wants to succeed in North America, but it won't work by imitating "Jurassic Park". We need to transform it so that this monster will be more in line with the aesthetics of this market."

He didn't say something clearly, but both of them knew what they meant, that was to make a major transformation of this monster and a localized transformation. Otherwise, it would be difficult for a monster from a notebook to attract the interest of audiences on this land of North America.

"I will propose this project at a later high-level meeting and personally promote the development of the project and enter the preparation period as soon as possible."

Oga Yu is different from the other party. He himself hopes to export some cultural attributes of his hometown to North America and even the world through the Sony Columbia media platform. This is also one of the reasons why Sony paid a huge price in recent years and acquired Columbia Pictures.

Now Sony Columbia has gradually escaped from the turbulent pain period, so even if the resistance is encountered, he will try his best to promote the completion of this project, which is a good start in his eyes.

"Do you want this monster to land in North America next year?"

As soon as he heard the other party’s meaning, Paul understood that the other party should have been planning this plan, and the "Jurassic Park" series proved the feasibility of the monster movie, so to some extent, it is indeed a very good time to make the movie as soon as possible. With the monster movie craze caused by "Jurassic Park 2", the audience will be much more accepting.

"Yes, it's next year."

Oga Yu nodded, stood up from the sofa in the lounge area, slowly paced to the wide floor-to-ceiling window, and looked at the bustling traffic downstairs outside. "Sony Columbia needs its own signature movie series, just like Warner Bros. DC superhero."

Paul looked at the other party's not tall back and shook his head helplessly. In fact, in his heart, this monster called Godzilla is definitely not the company's best top movie choice next year, and this monster may not necessarily help Colombia get out of the situation at the bottom of the six majors.

If he wants to make a decision, he will take out "Spider-Man" as soon as possible, and then use all the useful relationships and powers, and give a sky-high price to invite Wayne Greenberg to supervise the production and planning as 20th Century Fox.

Compared to the big monster produced in the notebook, "Spider-Man" is the real popular monster. Even if the film and television results cannot be compared with "Batman: The Dark Knight", the box office results will not be much worse because of its own popularity.

In particular, Wayne Greenberg is invited to supervise and plan, which will give Spider-Man a good start. Even if the profit of this movie is the most important thing, what if the other party takes away the profit? As long as it can have a good start and subsequent sequels work, it is enough to proceed step by step.

But within the senior management of Sony Columbia, there have always been doubts about the little spider's plan. The facts have been proven by Universal Pictures. In this circle, Wayne Greenberg is the only one who can temporarily guarantee the success rate of superhero movies. The other party's shooting style is exactly the most incomprehensible in the entire Hollywood.

Unfortunately, Paul proposed to make Spider-Kids several times, but was rejected by doubtful executives and shareholders. Everyone was waiting for a second production company to succeed in superhero movies outside the DC series. Otherwise, there would be no possibility for them to easily make Spider-Kids movies.

No, it has never been a secret in the circle of Warner Bros. In the entire crew, except for Wayne, the accident that he received a high salary, even Christian Bale and others also received a reward that was not in line with their reputation because of the movie contract they signed earlier.

This has resulted in the relative transparency of the investment amount. It can be said that as high as 200 million US dollars, more than 80% of it is used for film production. With such a huge production cost, if the power cannot be guaranteed, even a production company of such a large size as the six giants will still feel pain.

When producing such a project that belongs to the core of the company, no one is willing to introduce external funds. Even the six most commonly used methods of making money by making money, they will never be willing to use it on such projects, in order to avoid the huge benefits brought by the success of the movie, being targeted by others, and causing headaches.

Similar to the conversation at Sony Columbia Pictures, because the box office results of "Batman: The Dark Knight" swept the world are happening continuously in various production companies. No company is not jealous of Warner Bros. The benefits that can be generated under such an unprecedented box office scale can be basically calculated as long as the big companies in the circle.

With the end of the weekday, almost everyone in the circle knows that with the arrival of a new weekend, "Batman: The Dark Knight" is about to usher in the last schedule to dominate the theater market.

During this week's working days, although the box office of "Batman: The Dark Knight" dropped to less than tens of millions of dollars a day, it can still be said to be stable and terrible compared to the box office trends in the previous two weeks. As of Friday, the total box office in North America had risen to $433.94 million. No one dared to assert whether this film can reach an unprecedented North American box office of 500 million in next week.

Compared with "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Jurassic Park 2" still maintains a relatively weak momentum in the media, but in the theater market, the traffic volume has always been remarkable. After the full week of screening time, it quietly won $135 million in box office.

Universal Pictures doesn’t want to change this situation, but in the face of the popularity of "Batman: The Dark Knight" in the media, Ron Mayer is really powerless. The only thing that makes him feel a little comforted is the steady flow of people and box office trends of "Jurassic Park 2".

With the arrival of this weekend, the film will also be launched on the overseas theater market simultaneously. He is now extremely looking forward to the film's full explosion in the overseas market to save more and more votes of distrust in him on the board of directors.

At the end of May, a new weekend comes, and another carnival for movie fans. According to the rules of previous years, every weekend after the start of the summer season is a place where major film companies must compete for in-depth land. Every weekend of this season is a valuable in-depth land, and no company is willing to miss it.

But this year is obviously different. Time has come to the end of May. The themes in the theater market are still "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Jurassic Park 2". There is no production company that is stupid and willing to arrange for the release of the films when the temperature of these two films has not yet disappeared to be a victim of these two films.

So this weekend, there were only two new low-cost movies that plunged into the theater market. Compared with the screening rate of "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Jurassic Park 2", the opening scale of the two films "Los Angeles Secret" and "Sky and Earth Breaking" is pitiful, with only a few hundred screens in hundreds of theaters.

The reason why these two films are willing to be released in this schedule is that they know that even if the schedule is moved to the next two months, the situation they face will not be much better than now.

The former "Los Angeles Secret" distribution company is also Warner Bros. The film is directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Kevin Spacey and Russell Crow. Due to the starring's own fame and Warner Bros.'s intentional or unintentional bundling marketing, the situation this film faces in the theater market is even easier.

As for the later movie "The Sky and the Earth" was released by Universal Pictures. The idea can be said to be the same as Warner Bros. This is also a conventional marketing method for the distribution company. They all hope to use the strong performance of their own films to try to empty the pockets of every movie fan in this period without competitors.

The situation caused is the choice given to fans this weekend. In fact, it is just the videos released by these two companies. From the perspective of the distribution company, this is their regular operation, that is, no matter which movie fans choose to watch, the probability of profiting in the end is one-half of them.

In theory, this is correct, but the actual situation is another matter. Friday is strictly considered a working day. The traffic in the theater has not increased significantly compared to Thursday, but as the sky gradually darkens, the traffic in the theater begins to increase significantly.

After a day passed, theater companies and production companies received data reports on the movie viewing situation at the same time. It showed that the first choice for movie fans to watch is still "Batman: The Dark Knight", followed by "Jurassic Park 2". In fact, the two new films released this weekend are very pitiful in the ticket purchase ratio of movie fans.

This is also a true portrayal of the three days of this weekend, with basically no changes. When the three days of the weekend passed again, the latest box office data was pushed to all North America through the media, and the result was also explained through the box office. The ones that firmly occupy the first and second place in the weekend box office rankings are still "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Jurassic Park 2".