Chatty Hollywood

? However, no matter how well the pre-publicity pre-heating work is done, the film's performance is still good or bad, after all, it depends on the box office to speak.

-Even after entering the 21st century, the box office revenue of Hollywood movies accounts for a smaller and smaller proportion of the overall movie revenue.

However, box office revenue is still the best proof of a movie's revenue potential.

—After all, a movie with negligible box office revenue on a three-day theater tour, and it’s very difficult for you to expect its offline income to be against the sky.

Of course, it is not without such an example—

For example, "This Man Comes From Earth", which was hailed as a magical film by many people on the Internet in the past, is a typical example of almost never entering the theaters and relying on offline DVD revenues to go against the sky.

However, such a case against the sky is really rare, and the odds are comparable to winning a lottery.

If most people don't have the usual luck, they might as well just buy a welfare lottery.

At least, if the lottery is not won, you can still treat yourself as donating money for charity...

Moreover, even if it succeeds occasionally, this kind of success is difficult to replicate and cannot be repeated.

Let’s take "This Man Comes From Earth" as an example—

Charlotte's original time and space, ten years after the success of "This Man From Earth", the film director filmed the sequel to this movie, "This Man From Earth 2: The New Era".

—This is completely a dog-tailed mink.

Because of exploring the mystery of magic, Charlotte has done research on many history and myths.

This breadth and depth of knowledge made him find the speculative philosophy and theological discussions in "This Man From Earth" is very interesting.

However, in "This Man Comes From Earth 2: The Holocaust", he didn't feel these things at all.

-Although the director tried his best to replicate the successful elements of the first film and wanted to add more commercial elements, the result was nothing.

In this world, after shooting a lot of movies with the "copy and transformation" method, Charlotte has a better understanding that if a movie wants to achieve high box office by purely relying on plot and performance without sufficient cost investment, How difficult it is.

Occasionally.

—This sentence is probably the best description.

Even if it is Charlotte who is open-ended, he doesn't have much confidence in this aspect.

That's why he stopped shooting low-cost movies after "Fatal Bend" and "Happy Death Day".

—After all, there is no reason to not do things that have a higher success rate and greater profit, but to gamble on luck.

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However, these complicated things, as Disney follow up the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, Philip Bierman is not interested.

Today is the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", he did not go to the scene, but stayed in the office of Disney headquarters.

-He is going to stay overnight so that he can see the box office data for the midnight show of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" as soon as possible.

"It shouldn't be necessary?"

His immediate boss, Robert Iger, who is also very concerned about the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, couldn't help but said.

"With Charlotte Booth as a quality assurance, plus the billion-dollar box office record of "Pirates of the Caribbean", there shouldn't be any problems with this sequel, right?"

"It should be so right!"

Philip Bierman nodded.

"Moreover, I also watched the film in advance, and it was really good-the feedback from the internal preview was also very good."

"then you-"

"I'm just a little worried!"

Philip Bierman smiled bitterly.

"There have been several internal auditions before, and the feedback was good each time, but every time the fellow Charlotte Booth was not satisfied-he changed the editing plan several times and even made some additional shots. This makes me a little uncertain, whether this guy is pursuing a pure obsessive-compulsive disorder, or is he finding something wrong."

"I see!"

Robert Egger nodded.

"Fear when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful-Buffett's words are also very suitable for Charlotte Booth!"

"what!?"

Philip Bierman obviously did not keep up with the rhythm of his own boss. In desperation, Robert Iger had to explain,

"Don't you notice that Charlotte Booth has a completely different attitude towards sequel movies and original movies?"

"You mean—"

"He has the courage to try and innovate in original films, and he is very confident. But he is very cautious about shooting sequels, filming sequels that our production companies generally find safer—"

Robert Iger gave an example,

"The most direct proof is that before the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, he had never made any sequel movies at all—even the original adaptations of "Hell Detective" and "Harry Potter" are very suitable for film adaptation. ,is also like this."

"It seems to be so!"

Philip Bierman nodded, and Robert Iger continued,

"I've asked Charlotte Booth once on this question before-guess how he answered it?"

"He said that the sequel is actually harder to shoot!"

Before Philip Bierman asked, Robert Iger gave the answer.

—An answer that is completely contrary to the current mainstream view of Hollywood.

"I was just as surprised as you were."

Robert Iger smiled and said to Philip Bierman,

"However, Charlotte Booth did convince me with some reason—"

"He said that as long as the first film is successful, it is not difficult to shoot the film into a trilogy from a commercial point of view-as long as there is no serious miss, it is generally profitable."

"However, this is only from the perspective of commercial profits."

"From the perspective of a director like him, if you want to make a successful trilogy, you must ensure that the three films have their own characteristics—"

"Especially the second film must be more successful than the first one, and win better word-of-mouth and box office. Such a trilogy film can be called a true success."

"It's like the "Star Wars" series-although George Lucas's first film is groundbreaking, what do you think of the most classic lines in this movie?"

"Of course it is "Iamyourfather (I am your father!"

Philip Bierman complained in his heart. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com

Of course, in the face of his own boss, he can't say this line straight.

However, he also understood the meaning conveyed by the other side.

"It is precisely because of the sublimation of this series by Irving Kershner's "Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back" that solidified the foundation of the Star Wars series and made this purely commercial production a classic among the classics— So, the reason why Charlotte Booth repeatedly tossed "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Soul Gathering Coffin" was to create a classic?"

"I guess so!"

Robert Egger shrugged.

Philip Bierman couldn’t say anything about this—or rather, he expected it to be the case.

"Then let us wait and see!" ()

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