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After attending an event on the TMZ website on Saturday morning, Matthew paid special attention to the situation of "Alien vs. Predator 2".

This movie is not ordinary bad.

"Alien vs. Predator 2" has an amazing reputation, with a freshness rating of only 12% on Rotten Tomatoes, similar to "The movie sucks, and you don't know why you want to watch it", "Slow action movie" , looks like a computer game." The reviews are all entry-level prices, and the sarcastic sarcasm of those film critics made Matthew feel that the film critics are still very good to him.

It doesn't matter if it's just bad reviews and a low score on Rotten Tomatoes. After all, Rotten Tomatoes is extremely bad, but it's not uncommon for films to sell well at the box office.

"The audience reputation of this film is also super bad."

In the lounge of the editorial department, Irina Boyar put a cup of coffee in front of Matthew and said, "You are really lucky, "I Am Legend" avoided the super pit of Francis Lawrence."

Matthew said casually, "Not necessarily, maybe he directed "I Am Legend", and it may be successful. "Alien vs. Predator 2" is only a medium-sized investment, Francis Lawrence has some say in the production, but in the On a big first-line production like "I Am Legend", he is also an on-site filming director, and with Akiva Goldsman there, his bad ideas don't have much room to play."

Irina Boyar couldn't help laughing, "Anyway, he's not as good as Guillermo del Toro."

"That's true." Matthew first nodded in agreement, and then said, "It's nothing to have bad reviews from film critics, but bad reviews from audiences doesn't help."

Elena Boyar said, "I got a piece of Cinema's on-site survey data, how can I say it? It's horrible. The theater audience is not even willing to give a 'B-' score, the highest is a 'C', Most of them hit 'D', and it can be said that the audience has reached the point where they can't bear it."

Speaking of which, she couldn't help shaking her head, "The box office of this film was only more than 3.3 million US dollars yesterday, which is not even a fraction of "I Am Legend"."

The two films are not comparable at all.

Regardless of the box office or the audience's word of mouth, "Alien vs. Predator 2" is not comparable to "I Am Legend", even if it is a typical B-level film such as "The Loch Ness Monster" released on the same weekend, the speed of reaping the box office is as fast as On top of Alien vs. Predator 2.

This weekend has just passed, and a large number of Alien and Predator fans have gathered under the Fox Tower in Century City, holding up signs in protest - don't let the Alien and Predator fight anymore, we can't take it anymore.

Even extreme fans of Alien and Predator set fire to the poster of director Francis Lawrence.

Jim Gianlopoulos, president of Twentieth Century Fox's film division, stood by his office window with a panoramic view of everything in front of Fox Tower.

"John Davis!" He said to the producer of "Alien vs. Predator 2" without looking back, "Have you seen the latest box office statistics?"

The man named John wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Look."

Jim Gianlopoulos turned around and said, "Only $9.1 million at the box office in the opening weekend! What do you think?" Without waiting for the other person to answer, he said sternly, "The production cost of $60 million, the announcement of $35 million. Sending a fee, this is the result you gave me?"

John Davis did not expect that the two most famous monsters in Hollywood, the Alien and the Predator, would be so bad at the box office.

"You recommended Francis Lawrence and proposed to give him certain powers." Jim Gianlopoulos knew very well that someone must be responsible for such a failure, "John, cancel the third installment of Alien vs. Predator."

"Okay." John Davis answered.

Jim Gianlopoulos continued, "All Twentieth Century Fox projects must no longer be directed by Francis Lawrence."

"Okay." John Davis answered again.

In fact, there is no need for Jim Gianlopoulos to say, and no one will casually use Francis Lawrence as a director.

Jim Gianlopoulos softened his tone a little, "You submit a report to the board yourself."

John Davis nodded lightly. He was the first producer of "Alien vs. Predator 2", and he also determined that Francis Lawrence was used as the director against all odds, and the responsibility could not be dismissed.

Who can blame this? He walked out of Jim Gianlopoulos's office, shook his head, and blamed Francis Lawrence for looking away.

With the start of the new week, the fate of many of the films that opened last weekend, some of which will be directed and starring in Hollywood, will have no future at all.

Francis Lawrence and Paula Patton are undoubtedly one of them.

"Alien vs. Predator 2" was released in more than 2,800 theaters in North America for three days, but it only received $9.1 million at the box office, ranking sixth in the latest North American box office rankings.

Not to mention compared with "I Am Legend", even "Juno" is a typical literary film in front of it.

In contrast, "I Am Legend" starring Matthew still performed well this past weekend. It won $49.5 million in three days the following weekend, and continued to lead the North American box office charts, followed by "Egypt". Irvin and the Chipmunks' $21.08 million, and the third is "Charlie's War" starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. The new films of the two superstars performed in average, with less than $12 million. account.

Fourth and fifth were occupied by "Juno" and "Nessie," which both grossed around $10 million.

"I Am Legend" leads the film market and the situation of one family's dominance is very obvious.

Two weeks after its release, the North American box office of this film exceeded 200 million US dollars in one fell swoop, with a total of 211.63 million US dollars, approaching the 300 million US dollar mark step by step.

At the same time, "I Am Legend" also spent its first weekend in more than 50 overseas markets. Stimulated by the North American box office explosion, the overseas box office was also excellent. In just a few days, it was close to 100 million US dollars. .

"I Am Legend" easily surpassed $300 million at the global box office, making it the biggest hit this holiday season.

There is no doubt that "I Am Legend" went further and further on the road to success, and "Alien vs. Predator 2" fell straight off the cliff.

At the beginning of the new week, the average filming rate of "Alien vs. Predator 2" dropped to less than 5% in an instant. Many theaters with fewer theaters even arranged to show only one screening a day, which was still in the morning when the audience was the least...

Cinema has once again released a public estimate that the North American box office of "I Am Legend" is expected to hit 350 million US dollars, and the North American box office of "Alien vs. Predator 2" will not exceed 30 million US dollars.

The failure of "Alien vs. Predator 2" will be unlucky from director to starring, and it will also affect 20th Century Fox's further development of these two monster series.

At the same time, some seemingly unrelated companies have also been affected.

Matthew gets a message from Zach Snyder when he goes to a Warner Bros. Christmas party.

Zach Snyder has been planning "Watchmen", and Warner Bros. talked to him several times about the feasibility of Batman and Superman fighting, but the failure of "Alien vs. Predator 2" made Warner Bros. immediately dismissed this The idea of ​​​​that the two classic characters are fighting together on the screen is too risky.

Hearing this, Matthew didn't say much, and could only sigh that Warner Bros. missed an opportunity.

Perhaps after the release of Iron Man in May, Warner Bros. will change its mind.

Matthew has had a lot of contact with the executives of Warner Bros. The executives of Warner Bros. also have lofty goals and outstanding abilities. There are also excellent producers such as Charles Rowan, but they can always make something that makes people feel stupid decision.

To this day, Warner Bros. is still the best-performing studio in Hollywood...

Such a position, do not know how long they can maintain.

In the words of Akiva Goldsman ~www.readwn.com~Warner Bros. management is sometimes too distrustful of co-producers and directors and too fond of directly interfering with filmmaking.

Although not very educated, Matthew also knows that the balance of power is an art, and if it is not mastered well, the results are often terrible.

2007 is coming to an end and 2008 is coming.

Just when Matthew got on David Ellison's private jet and headed to London, Hollywood was in chaos, and a writers' strike inevitably broke out.

As expected by Helen Herman, after the agreement with the Actors Guild and the Directors Guild expired, the Producers Union reached a new and mutually acceptable agreement with the two major unions before the two major unions launched a strike. A benefit sharing agreement, and a similar request made by the Screenwriters Guild, was rejected without hesitation.

As a result, the Eastern Screenwriters Guild and the Western Screenwriters Guild successively sent emails to their members calling for a strike.

Since 1988, there has been another writers strike in Hollywood.

The impact of the writer's strike is still obvious, and many projects have to be suspended, such as "Angels and Demons", "Quantum of Solace", "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", "The Hobbit" and "The Adventures of Tintin" in preparation. ” and other first-line major production projects have temporarily come to a standstill.

Although the two crews on Matthew's side completed the script, they were somewhat affected. Anyway, Christmas and New Years are coming, he and David Ellison simply gave the two crews a long vacation, and all work waited for the New Year. Do it later.

He and David Ellison came to London to watch the Victoria's Secret show.

However, before going to the Victoria's Secret show, Matthew first contacted Emma Watson, ready to visit the class.

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