hollywood draw

"Hollywood never lacks directors who succeed by luck, nor does it lack the directors who succeeded in their first film in their life and then fell into a slump. It is obvious that the success of "Happy Death Day" was regarded as an accident by 20th Century Fox. 20th Century Fox was not willing to believe a young man who had just graduated, and of course he was not willing to continue investing in this newcomer.

After 7 years, this Hollywood 1990s dark film master chose to join hands with 20th Century Fox again after his success and fame to regain the rather regretful "sweet date" of that year. So, the project "X-Men" was born this summer.

In recent years, the name Wayne Greenberg has seemed to be closely linked to superheroes in the eyes of movie fans. The special appearance of this "X-Men" itself has brought a surprise and unexpected way to the summer season for fans who love superheroes.

"X-Men" officially landed in North America last Thursday night, earning $7.53 million that night, and the film performed very well. This result has shown the enthusiasm of fans for the film. The film was officially released in North America early on Friday morning, and the box office was 21.55 million US dollars that day.

According to the statistical rules of the North American theater market, the box office in advance was included in the first day's results, which made the first-day box office of "X-Men" reach nearly 30 million US dollars, up to 29.68 million US dollars, easily winning the championship of the North American box office that day.

It is worth mentioning that the number of movie theaters in "X-Men" has 2,818, and the film has achieved a box office of over 10,000 in a single museum. As the first day of the movie was released, on Saturday, the film's single-day box office once again closed at 25.5 million US dollars, and the market performance was very strong.

Due to the immediate reasons for the weekdays, the box office on Sunday inevitably declined, with a closing of 18.65 million US dollars on the same day. Three days after the release of "X-Men", the total box office in North America had reached 73.83 million US dollars, almost crushing the entire theater market, and easily won the box office championship last weekend.

The opening performance of "X-Men" far exceeds the expectations of the producer 20th Century Fox. According to the 20th Century Fox CEO Townsend Rossman, they said in an interview on Saturday that their first week of "X-Men" is about 50 million US dollars.

The film's first weekend's box office exceeded expectations, and the movie's reputation was also quite good. The latest data released by 20th Century Fox shows that the average score of fans is B+. Under the better reputation effect of fans, the subsequent box office of the film is likely to draw a very strong trend.

For the opening work of a film destined to be a series, "X-Men" is undoubtedly qualified. Last weekend, the strong performance of "X-Men" led to a strong rise in the North American theater market. The total box office of the North American market reached 141 million US dollars, which is the second highest market revenue since the start of this summer, and the Flash was released on the weekend.

"X-Men"'s strong performance beyond expectations once again proves Wayne Greenberg's ability to the superhero series. After 7 years, the date of Twentieth Century Fox has entered the sweetness from the beginning..."

The box office information about "X-Men", the stories behind the scenes, and some interviews with movie fans occupy the entire page of "Holly Door Reporter".

However, starting early Monday morning, the relevant information about "X-Men" appeared in all mainstream media. The Los Angeles Times also gave a very eye-catching title on its front page of its entertainment:

"X-Men" won the North American weekend box office champion, and Wayne Greenberg once again led the surprise to success after DC superheroes!"

The professional film magazine "Premiere" wrote in a special issue in the morning: "Wayne Greenberg is still seeking breakthroughs, "X-Men", a superhero that is completely different from the DC style!

Wayne Greenberg's works have an extremely strong and extremely strong personal style, but while constantly achieving success, they are still improving themselves. The first DC movie "The Joker" directed by him in 1993 is a monument that Hollywood movies cannot pass. In this movie, his perfect and unique style has begun to mature, and it is also an 18-forbidden R-level film.

In the following "Batman: The Moment of War" and "Batman: The Dark Knight", he began to restrain himself and his control over the film's scale is a textbook. Therefore, DC movies with a strong dark and depressing style began to gradually move towards the public.

When "The Flash" met with all the audience this year, it aroused countless controversies. Wayne Greenberg was still seeking breakthroughs. This time he completely abandoned his personal style to become famous and filmed the film like a gorgeous audio-visual feast. The box office results also proved that his breakthrough and changes have won more die-hard fans for DC in a step closer.

This "X-Men" is different from all the superheroes he produced before. Wayne Greenberg personally wrote and produced it, but he rarely handed the director to Bourne Singer, and did not interfere with the crew's creation at all.

The result is that the X-Men, which is presented to people, is different from the superheroes he made before, but it is also very good. Wayne Greenberg is still trying more possibilities, which is an extremely happy thing for movie fans..."

In Burbank, the media capital of Los Angeles, a black Cadillac sedan was parked downstairs of Warner Bros. DC Comics’ new executive president Jim Lee, sitting in the back seat of the car, flipping major mainstream entertainment newspapers one by one.

The eye-catching titles in the newspaper were turned over, and his brows slowly frowned. Even though the car had arrived at the destination, the new head of DC Comics did not notice it.

Jim Lee rolled the newspapers in his hand together, and all the information about Wayne flashed in his mind. He sat in the car and slowly fell into a state of dazedness. After a long time, he let out a helpless breath and muttered softly.

"How much publicity and distribution expenses has Twentieth Century Fox invested in "X-Men"? All mainstream media are related information, and the momentum is so great..."

“More than $50 million!”

Unexpectedly, the secretary who had been sitting in the co-pilot always gave an answer immediately after hearing his soft gurgle.

This sentence also made Jim Lee wake up from his stunned state. He looked at his secretary in surprise. "Sandy, how do you know?"

The secretary sitting in the front row turned around. "I have a classmate working at Twentieth Century Fox. According to him, the promotional and distribution expenses invested by Twentieth Century Fox in the X-Men have exceeded 50 million US dollars. This part of the expense does not include investments from Fox Cable, Fox's local TV stations, and Fox's many entertainment newspapers."

He nodded thoughtfully, Jim Lee had roughly understood, that is to say, the money spent by 20th Century Fox on other promotional channels has reached 50 million US dollars. If the virtue of Hollywood Film Company is included in the part where its media left and right are behind, they dare to claim to invest 100 million in promotional and promotional.

"Twentieth Century Fox is really willing to......"

Shaking his head slightly, Jim Lee held a rolled stack of newspapers in his hand, pushed open the car door and walked out of the car, raised his head to look at the Warner Bros. headquarters building in front of him.

When the secretary walked out of the car with his briefcase, he lowered his head and checked his clothes, buttoned the suit top, and took the lead in walking into the building.

Five minutes later, Jim Lee knocked on the door of CYO's office and sat silently between the two Warner Bros. It was obvious that both of them were waiting for him in the office, especially CYO Jeff Robinoff, who narrowed his eyes thoughtfully after seeing the newspaper in his hand.

"DC Comics did a survey."

After sitting down, the executive president of DC Comics said directly with a serious expression on his face: "The box office of the X-Men in the first weekend exceeded 70 million US dollars, but at least half of the box office was contributed by Wayne Greenberg fans and DC superhero fans! Jeff, Bruce, you should know what I mean!"

Jeff Robinoff and Bruce Rosenblum looked at each other, and the two almost frowned together.

"Twentieth Century Fox, this is through Wayne Greenberg, sucking our blood and consuming our movie reputation! I suggest..."

"Hey, Jim, listen to me."

Seeing that the new DC executive president was still chattering, Bruce Rosenblum couldn't help but interrupt the other party and said seriously: "We all know that this situation is inevitable. Can anyone limit Wayne's freedom of work? Who will go? You? Me? Jeff? or the board of directors?"

"Well......"

Faced with the replies from the Warner Bros. distribution director, Jim Lee was stunned for a moment.

Yes, Hollywood has been like this since ancient times. Twentieth Century Fox played his life and also used Wayne’s name as the focus of film marketing. Isn’t it just to attract Wayne and DC movie fans in a short period of time?

In some ways, Twentieth Century Fox did not do anything outright. They spent a lot of money to invite Wayne to the box office results of "X-Men"?

Everyone knows that at this time another superhero appeared on the market, or a superhero with the name of Greenberg production, would inevitably consume the reputation accumulated by DC over the years. Even in the eyes of most movie fans, Wayne's name is inseparable from DC superheroes.

"X-Men" has a box office of $70 million in the first week, and at least half of it was called by Wayne. It seems normal on the surface, but you can't think about it carefully. Because if you think about it more, you can figure out that this is the 20th Century Fox, which is invisibly taking advantage of Warner Bros.

What is even more helpless is that no one can limit Wayne's freedom of work, right? He can make DC movies, and of course he can also make surprises. No one can say anything from a legal or moral level. What's more, he did not direct it himself, but only exists as the producer of "X-Men".

"Jim, I suggest you put all your thoughts away."

He threw a cigar over and although Jeff Robinoff's expression was casual, the warning in his words was quite obvious. "What DC Comics has to do is to cooperate with Wayne's movie universe plan. I suggest you talk to your ex Diego Harris. As for other messy ideas, you are completely asking for trouble."

While speaking, Warner Bros. Ceo reached out and took photos of the various newspapers brought by the other party, making two muffled sounds of "bang" and "bang".

However, it is obvious that the new executive president of DC Comics is quite different from his ex. Jim Li shook his head slightly, not continuing to say anything, but just tilted his head and lit the cigar with a spray gun.

"Jim, let's talk about the serious business."

Seeing the atmosphere in the office falling into a dull state, Bruce Rosenblum said patiently: "In about two to three weeks, Wayne will get out of the promotion of "X-Men". Let's think about it in advance how to talk to him about the opening of Superman and the opening of Wonder Woman."

Warner Bros.'s expectations from senior management to the board of directors and even the entire DC Comics are consistent, that is, this year, the movie opening of these two super popular characters is opened to seek preparations for "Justice League" as soon as possible.

No one wants to continue to delay for another year. Now the popularity of the DC series of movies is already very popular. The foundation laid by many movies in the early stage is already strong enough. Now they all hope to use "Justice League" as soon as possible to ignite the accumulation over the years.

"Jeff, I heard that Warner Bros. Film and Television Production Department is interested in opening up an unplanned new character, Catwoman?"

No one expected that Jim Lee would mention this after spitting out a large cloud of green smoke. As soon as he said that, Bruce Rosenblum's face immediately changed.

"It's something."

Facing DC Comics' executive president, Jeff Robinoff did not hide it. No one knew what he was thinking. He just said in a calm tone: "However, the plan submitted by the film and television production department is now being pressed on the review process, and there is little hope of passing it in a short period of time."

"Jeff, DC Comics, can provide some support to the film and television production department."

Staring at Jeff Robinoff's eyes, Jim Lee's upper body slowly leaned into the sofa, but he didn't even look at Bruce Rosenblum, whose eyes were already on fire.

"You should understand what I mean, inside Jeff Warner Bros., and inside DC Comics, we should not give all rights to Wayne Greenberg all the time. We may try to start another character series!"

"Jim, is this your personal idea?" Before Jeff Robinoff could speak, Bruce Rosenblum's cold voice rang out in advance. "Or the idea of ​​the senior executives of the entire DC Comics?"

Turning his head, Jim Lee looked at the director of Warner Bros. and found that the other party was looking at him with a smile. He felt uncomfortable. At a certain moment, he felt like a frog staring at by a cobra. This illusion made him feel annoyed in his heart.

"Is there a difference? Bruce."

"Of course, the difference is quite huge." Bruce Rosenblum smiled abnormally. In less than a minute, it seemed that all the anger in his eyes had disappeared.

"Bruce, I'm the executive president of DC Comics, this is the board of directors..."

"no, no, no, maybe, it's not going to be soon."

Bruce Rosenblum's expression relaxed, and even raised his legs and raised a finger, swaying back and forth between the two. "Who is right, Jim."

He put a cigar into the ashtray, Jim Lee ignored the splashing sparks and asked with his head tilted, "Threat me?"

The Warner Bros. distribution director shrugged, spread his hands and teased, "Hey, hey, man, you are so sensitive. This is just a little joke for me, just a little joke."

"It's not funny at all, Bruce."

Jim Lee curled his lips, without hiding his attitude, and stood up from the sofa. "Jeff, I think I'll forget it today. I'll go back and rest first. I'll come over to talk to you tomorrow."

After saying that, he stopped looking at Bruce Rosenblum and walked out of the office. No one expected that it would be a simple small-scale meeting that ended up in a bad mood.

At least Jeff Robinoff and Bruce Rosenblum have never considered DC Comics' attitude too much before. For so many years, DC Comics has basically been tempted by Warner Bros., which has long been accustomed to the top-down senior management of Warner Bros.

"Bruce, you're in a hurry."

When the only two of them were left in the office, Jeff Robinoff shook his head gently and said, "There is no need to conflict with him in person like this. It can be seen that Jim is different from the previous executive president. He wants to change the status of DC Comics."

"He can't change anything!" Bruce Rosenblum smiled, but his smile was full of irony. "He underestimated Wayne's energy and also raised the right of the executive president of DC Comics!"

Perhaps Jim Lee wanted to change the status of DC Comics, or perhaps he just wanted to change the situation where the entire DC series was controlled by one person, but no matter what his original intention was, he had already touched the red line of Bruce Rosenblum.

To some extent, he and Wayne were tied to the same boat, just like Jeff Robinoff before, but when the Warner Bros. Ceao had a retirement plan, everything changed a little.

Dang ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ceo office door was pushed open, and Jeff Robinoff's secretary walked in.

"Boss, the new executive president of DC Comics, Jim Lee, left the office and went directly to the floor where the film and television production department is located."

"I understand, you go out first."

Jeff Robinoff nodded expressionlessly. After the secretary left, the corner of his mouth began to slowly raise upwards, as if he heard a cold joke.

"Look, Jeff."

Bruce Rosenblum stood up and quipped while buttoning his shirt, saying, "Well, our new executive president, Mr. President, seems to really want to achieve something."

"I'll talk to him again when I look back." I can't see what Jeff Robinov was thinking, but just kept a calm smile and muttered in a low voice.

After leaving the CEO office, Bruce Rosenblum raised his head and took a look at the floor of the film and television production department.

Everyone says he is a cold poisonous snake. He is in middle age and still maintains the intense methods of doing things when he was young. But Bruce Rosenblum himself knows best that the old Jewish guy sitting in the CEO office and everyone's eyes is the poisonous snake that is truly hidden in the dark.

The executive president of DC Comics is probably difficult to get the desired result. He knew that since Jeff Robinoff wanted to start his retirement life in a decent manner after this term, he would never want anyone to cause trouble before he retired...