Chapter 237 232 MGM 2004 Sniper Plan

Chapter 233 MGM 2004 Sniper Plan

"Frozen" has been a year since it was handed over to DreamWorks, and MGM has invested $100 million in it.

It is famous enough. It was the annual box office champion in 2013, with a global box office of $800 million.

Because it was released in late November, "Frozen" was still in theaters at the end of December, and the box office at that time did not exceed the $100 million of "Iron Man 3".

Many people thought that the annual champion would fall on "Iron Man 3".

Who knew that "Frozen" continued to exert its strength and continued to make a lot of money at the box office in 2014, and surpassed Tony Stark in the New Year's Eve. In the end, Princess Elsa defeated Tony Stark.

Eric's task for Spielberg was to catch up with the summer season. DreamWorks has been working overtime this year, but the average cycle of animated films has always been longer than that of live-action films. Whether this goal can be achieved is still in doubt.

If it really can't catch up with the summer season, it can only be adjusted to the Christmas season.

But he still has several blockbusters expected to be released during the Christmas season, such as "The Hunger Games", "Inception", "Transformers 2", etc.

It is definitely not a good idea to crowd them together. Fighting each other will only result in a loss for both sides. If the schedule cannot be adjusted, it can only be arranged in 2005.

The production plans of "Captain America" ​​and "Iron Man" have also been announced.

Among them, "Captain America" ​​is directed by the Russo brothers. The latter Marvel's "Captain America 2" and "Captain America 3" were directed by these two brothers. "Avengers 3" and "Avengers 4" were also from their hands.

Last year, Eric asked them to direct "Happy Death Day". This time, he might as well hand over the entire Captain America series to them.

As for the script, Eric completed the outline, and then the Russo brothers and Stan Lee improved and revised it.

The original "Captain America 1" cannot be said to be a bunch of replies, but at least it is a mediocre work, a very bland and unremarkable movie.

If you only pay attention to Douban, you may be surprised by the score of more than 7 points, and think it is not bad, but this score is the result of various factors.

First of all, it was 2011, when the Chinese film market had just entered a blowout period, and a new generation of moviegoers had just become the main force.

This group of young people had not experienced the baptism of excellent superhero movies. Suddenly seeing a "Captain America", they were naturally attracted by the serum, magic cube, super soldiers and other elements in it, and thought that superhero movies should be like this.

Then the overall appreciation level of movie fans is indeed low. Any kind of bad movie can be popular and make a lot of money. The representative work is the "Tiny Times" series.

Feng Xiaogang's saying that there are many bad movies in China because there are many bad audiences has to admit that there is some truth.

In the final analysis, they have never seen good ones, their horizons are too low, and they are excited when they see something new.

This situation lasted for about ten years before it improved. The overall level of the moviegoers has improved, and bad movies are not so easy to cheat money, so there can be excellent works such as "I Am Not the God of Medicine" and "The Wandering Earth".

But looking back at the European and American audiences in 2011, the economic advantage made watching movies a daily pastime.

"X-Men", "Spider-Man", "Fantastic Four" and other superheroes are frequent visitors to the cinema, and everyone has seen too many of them.

Especially the Nolan version of "Batman", which has brought superhero movies to the ceiling level, and "The Dark Knight" directly ranked among the top 250.

They have already tasted delicacies from mountains and seas, and it would be a miracle if they thought the borscht served by Marvel was delicious.

There are also many aspects that have been complained about, such as the plot is dragging, and many literary scenes in the early stage are completely unnecessary and can be deleted.

You Marvel is not taking the deep path of DC, why do you have so many literary scenes? Joy and fun are the way you should go.

Don't learn from "Batman", whoever learns will die!

There are also too many war scenes. It should be limited by insufficient funds. Most of the war scenes are skipped. There is no big scene. How can you say it is World War II?

Compared with the war scenes in "Wonder Woman", it is far worse, and it is even more incomparable with professional World War II-themed movies.

The action scenes are also very bad. I don't ask you to fight beautifully, but at least the fight between Captain America and Red Skull should not be like a street thug.

Agent Smith, you have also participated in "The Matrix". Think about the fighting scenes in "The Matrix" and compare them with the fighting scenes in "Captain America". Even if there is no martial arts guidance, it should not be so lame.

Speaking of the villain, Red Skull is the most classic opponent of Captain America, but the characterization in the movie is too weak and is also disliked by the audience.

Due to the superposition of various factors, the global box office of "Captain America 1" did not exceed 400 million US dollars. Compared with the production and publicity costs of nearly 200 million US dollars, Marvel undoubtedly lost money.

This is also one of the few movies that made Marvel lose money. Another movie that lost money was "Thor 1" released in the same year. The plot is also terrible, even worse than "Captain America 1".

But maybe because he is more popular than Captain America, and the Protoss is more attractive to the audience than the Humans, the box office finally reached $400 million.

If this mediocre work does not change the plot, it will definitely fail in the next year's competition with "Batman".

So Eric made a lot of changes. In response to the audience's complaints, he reduced the number of literary scenes, expanded the war scenes, and made the war scenes more realistic, following the shots of "Wonder Woman".

The ending of the villain Red Skull was also changed. He was killed and went offline. Damn the space teleportation.

Marvel might have wanted to lay a foreshadowing back then. Keeping Red Skull alive might be useful someday.

But then they forgot about it. After seven or eight years, when they were filming Avengers 3, they suddenly remembered that there was such a character. Why not bring him out and take a walk? At least it can attract a wave of sentiment and earn a few more cents at the box office.

This approach is purely a waste of resources. There is no logic or foreshadowing. There is no need to arrange this plot abruptly. It's so awkward.

Eric changed all the boring plots like this. He just told an exciting and action-packed hero origin story honestly, which guaranteed that the box office would not lose money.

Chris Evans played the male protagonist Steve Rogers, and the villain Red Skull continued to choose the Elf King Smith Hugo Weaving.

Eliza Dushku successfully auditioned for Agent Carter. The popularity and commercial potential of this role are too low. Marvel only released a TV series for one season and gave up. It doesn't matter who gave it to.

Eliza Dushku is beautiful and has rich acting experience. She has participated in some popular TV series such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "The New Kids Are Here" and "Wrong Turn". It is no problem for her to be competent for this role.

As for whether she experienced unspoken rules in the process of getting the role, Eric doesn't bother to care.

Another important supporting role, Bucky the Winter Soldier, was taken by Luke Evans. The original actor of the Winter Soldier has not debuted yet, and there is no place to find him.

Eric didn't pay attention to other roles with fewer roles. It doesn't matter who he loves, they are all cannon fodder with few roles.

After the release of this cast list, it received a lot of praise. The most controversial point is Chris Evans' figure.

In order to play Sam, he lost weight and muscle. Now he has to play Captain America. Some people think that his figure is too weak and doesn't look like a super soldier.

In response, Chris Evans and his fans threw out the stills of the campus big guy he played before, saying that he is confident that he can play Captain America well, which can be regarded as shutting up these people.

The script of "Iron Man" does not need to be changed. It presents the growth arc of Tony Stark, which is already excellent.

But it is hard to imagine that this script was actually written by the director and the screenwriter on the spot.

As Marvel's last gamble, "Iron Man" should be fully prepared before starting, but I don't know why the 400 million investment was messed up in the early stage.

Every day when everyone arrives on the set, the first thing is to wait for the director and the screenwriter to communicate, flip through the comic books to find inspiration, and then write two pages of the script.

After the temporary script comes out, the director gives an order and everyone starts shooting again.

This blockbuster that opened the prelude to the superhero era, if it were not for the director Jon Favreau's ability to control the overall situation and Robert Downey Jr.'s strong ability to hang up, this movie would be 100% a failure.

If the subsequent "Captain America 1" and "Thor 1" failed, Marvel would have gone to the grave in advance, and the subsequent DCEU would not appear.

So Robert Downey Jr. can get hundreds of millions of dollars in salary, and Marvel is not wronged.

However, Iron Man 2, which was still directed by Jon Favreau, was a bummer, and both fans and passers-by were disappointed. The right to direct Iron Man 3 was also given to someone else.

Unfortunately, Iron Man 3 was also very ordinary, and fans' reputation was worse than the second one, but passers-by's reputation was improved.

The Iron Man series was at its peak from the beginning, and it was all supported by the first and several Avengers. Fortunately, except for the second one, the Avengers were all well-made, otherwise this superhero would have collapsed.

Tony Stark was played by Robert Downey Jr., who has been constantly apologizing and repenting since his comeback in Shake It Up. Although there are still many people who question it, Downey's public image has been reversed a lot.

Pepper Potts chose Jennifer Lopez, a beautiful woman with both popularity and acting skills.

Nick Fury continued to hire Samuel Jackson, and the villain Iron Monger was still the veteran actor Jeff Bridges.

Except for Robert Downey Jr., who was criticized by some people, the overall casting was satisfactory to fans.

In "The Hunger Games", Gadot plays the main role, and Liu Yifei plays the role of the little fox in the original District 5.

This character is very smart, and Eric added that he is very good at fighting. If Chinese stars want to gain a foothold in Hollywood, they must be able to fight. Liu Yifei's one-year training will come in handy.

The male lead was Andrew Garfield, who was originally Eric's ideal candidate for Sam, but unfortunately he did not participate in the audition of "Transformers" at that time. He finally made his debut this year.

The British trio also arranged a blockbuster each. Tom Hardy's "Inception" is needless to say. This movie attracted great attention from the outside world when the cast list was announced.

Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Charlize Theron, Heath Ledger, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Morgan Freeman

Except for Tom Hardy and Heath Ledger who are a little immature, the others are either Oscar winners or nominees, and the worst is the best supporting actor.

Coupled with Eric, a director who is both commercial and artistic and also the best screenwriter, the Oscar-level lineup is too scary and dazzling, and many people have labeled it a must-see.

James Yimei also got the leading actor this time, and MGM plans to start filming "Wanted".

Or another more famous name, "Assassins of the Assassins", where the bullets can turn and contributed to the famous scene of Star-Lord's teeth flying.

In the original time and space, he really made his mark through this play. This time, it's back to him, and I hope he can soar to the sky.

In addition to "Assassins' Alliance", he is also the male lead in a low-budget thriller "Split".

The racing movie that stole the idea of ​​"Fast and Furious" is about to start shooting, and "Fast and Furious 5" is chosen as the masterpiece that truly promoted the series to a first-line IP.

If you have Vin Diesel, I will invite Dwayne Johnson to compete.

If you have Paul Walker, I will choose Michael Fassbender with a beard.

Anyway, the configurations that "Fast and Furious" has, I also have "Furious", with beautiful cars and beautiful women speeding at lightning speed.

The story of a group of car thieves racing in Rio de Janeiro is definitely much better than last year's "Fast and Furious 3 Tokyo Drift".

After a year, the new 007 series should also be launched. The previous "No Time to Die" was sold to Universal due to MGM's poor management, which made them a lot of money.

Eric will not give in this time. Since Bruce Pierce has stepped down as 007, global auditions have already begun, and finally British actor Daniel Craig has been finalized.

We are used to seeing his 007, and no one is more suitable than Craig.

So this movie is naturally finalized, and "Casino Royale" has started shooting.

MGM has also obtained the film and television adaptation rights from the Queen Copyright Management Association, and is about to launch the musical biographical film "Bohemian Rhapsody".

This movie is an absolute example of the high integration of commercial art. It has grossed more than 900 million US dollars at the global box office, won multiple Oscar nominations, and won the Best Actor trophy.

Eric personally invited Joaquin Phoenix, the uncle of Phoenix, who readily agreed after reading the script, but it would take at least 3 months of preparation time, and he had to learn the singing method of Queen in depth.

For such a dedicated actor, Eric naturally agreed.

If Eric hadn't traveled through time, Joaquin Phoenix should have filmed "Walk the Walk" next year, which is also a music biographical film and has won numerous awards. Therefore, he is the best choice for the male lead of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

In addition, the casting of "Twilight" has also begun. The male lead Robert Pattinson has not been found, but the big superhero Henry Cavill has been found.

He has just debuted for a year, and his body is not as strong and masculine as the Superman period. He can play a vampire with makeup, and his age of 20 is also suitable for the character.

It is even more impossible to find Kristen Stewart as the female lead, who is only 14 years old and has not grown up yet.

Blake Lively was lucky to get the role. At the age of 17, she is very suitable for this role with her proud face and temperament.

These are just part of MGM's 2004 plan. In addition to big productions, there are many small and medium-cost movies.

Million Dollar Baby, Mean Girls, A Quiet Place, The Conjuring, Paranormal Activity, Napoleon, Juno, Wedding Crashers, Brokeback Mountain, Barbershop 2, Saw 3, Happy Death Day 2, Hold Your Breath 2

In addition to Sharknado and The Purge, AK Films is preparing to start filming the Machete series.

The newly established BK Films, temporarily led by Pemahadi, will focus on low-budget horror films in the future.

This year, it plans to shoot Hostel, Human Centipede, The Invisible Man, Pearl, etc.

This is just movies, not counting TV series and variety shows.

Compared with last year, the production density this year has increased significantly.

The reason for shooting so many is, on the one hand, to divert traffic to Lionheart.com, and on the other hand, to snipe other companies.

The day for Lionheart.com to go online is getting closer, and the time for MGM to become the target of public criticism is getting closer.

The most common means for film and television companies to compete is movie sniping, aiming at your schedule and using blockbusters to suppress your box office.

As long as several companies join forces, you will be on the line this month, I will be on the line next month, and he will be on the line the month after next.

They may lose money, but the targeted companies will definitely die miserably.

There is only one exception, that is, my movies are all very competitive, even if you use blockbusters to suppress them, at most we will both lose, and no one will get any good.

Only when these guys are hurt and scared, and they lose money to the point of heartache, and their stock prices plummet, will they finally admit defeat and recognize the status of streaming media.

This is Eric's plan, so he found Peter Jackson to book a contract for 30 movies, and 30 is still conservative.

You should know that special effects are not only used in blockbusters, but also in small-budget movies. The only difference is the number of special effects.