Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 631 Changing Angles
At the same time that "Kung Fu Panda" broke through [-] million at the North American box office in the second week, another film from Liangtianchi Films was released that week.

That is the second part of the low-budget horror film "Human Skin Inn", "Human Skin Inn 2", which created a box office success last year!
At the beginning of 2006, "Human Skin Inn" grossed US$4732 million in the North American New Year's schedule, becoming a well-deserved dark horse film at the box office.

So this year, Liang Tianchi Films launched its sequel "Human Skin Inn 2" while the iron was hot, hoping to make it an evergreen series of low-budget horror films like "Chain Saw".

It's a pity after the horror film "Bug" was completely ignored two weeks ago, and the thriller "Mr. Brooks" a week ago was lackluster.

The fate of "Human Skin Inn 2" once again confirmed the irrefutable fact that the summer film is by no means a good time for horror thrillers, even if it is a company that is good at running horror films like Liang Tianchi Films.

Compare the amazing performance of "The Inn of Human Skin" in early 2006 with an unexpected box office of 1950 million US dollars, overthrowing the two box office giants "King Kong" and "The Chronicles of Narnia" and becoming the top weekly box office champion.

"Human Skin Inn 2" opened with a score of US$875 million, which was more than half of the previous work, and only ranked seventh on the box office list.

Although the number of theaters released in the first film increased from 2195 to 2350, the average box office of a single theater dropped to $3723, which was less than half of the first film’s $8909.

Taking advantage of the prestige of the previous film, "Human Skin Inn 2" was released on a larger scale than the first film, and with the factor of rising ticket prices, even if it cannot surpass the previous film, it should not suffer from such a landslide.

It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. The lukewarm reviews of "Human Skin Inn 2", the summer audience, especially female audiences, reflexively avoiding horror movies, and the core audience such as teenagers were divided into half.

The leading star of the previous work, Jay Hernandez, relegated to a secondary position and other factors led to the collapse of the box office of "Human Skin Inn 2", but the main reason is piracy.

Although Liang Tianchi Films has been extremely careful before the release, it did not even hold a media preview to prevent the outflow of pirated copies.

However, the road is one foot high and the devil is one foot high. Half a month before the release, not only the detailed plot details appeared on the Internet, but also the movie version with very clear picture quality appeared, so that the opening of "Human Skin Inn 2" The weekend box office was badly hurt.

In this regard, Chen Hao can only helplessly, who the hell said there is no pirated version in the United States!
No wonder the major film companies in the United States are suing pirates one after another, and even video sites like YouTube are not immune.

In the eyes of film companies, piracy is really fiercer than tigers!

It's just that the matter has come to this point, and Liang Tianchi Pictures can't do anything about it. It is impossible to lose money in "Human Skin Inn 800" with an investment of 2 million US dollars, but it is probably impossible to make a fortune!

Nearly half of 2007 has passed, "Dead Silence" and "Human Skin Inn 2" released by Liangtianchi Films are far from meeting expectations, "Kung Fu Panda" was produced by Haotian Special Effects, fortunately Liangtianchi can make money issue fee.

In the second half of the year, Liangtianchi Films will have three more participating films released, namely "Transformers", "Pacific Rim" and "Saw 5"!
Among them, "Transformers" accounted for one-third of the investment, and "Pacific Rim" accounted for 20% of the investment. Unfortunately, it is a Chinese film, and it is destined that the box office cannot be too high.

"Chain Saw 5" was fully invested by Liangtianchi Pictures, but it is impossible for the final box office to reach [-] million.

Speaking of box office revenue, Smart is now more optimistic about "Transformers" and has high hopes.

Thinking of the huge debts to be repaid next year, the pressure in Smart's heart will never go away.

Even, Smart recently heard the news that a Hollywood giant wants to acquire Liang Tianchi Films, but this kind of news happens every year, and Smart doesn't take it to heart.

After all, Liangtianchi Films is far from reaching that point, and there is still Chen Hao supporting it, at least there will be no changes in the past few years.

……

The time came to the third week of June 2007. On June 6, Haotian Games released its second online game, the MMORPG "Zhu Xian" adapted from the novel of the same name!
This Xianxia online game launched by Haotian Games has received the expectations of many book fans and game fans since the day it was announced that it would make an online game.

In this era when the adaptation has not yet produced a large number of bad works, fans of "Zhu Xian" are still mostly looking forward to it.

And this expectation is also reflected in everyone's enthusiasm for the online game "Zhu Xian". 24 hours after "Zhu Xian" went online, the number of simultaneous online users reached 19.

This result is not far behind the highest online audience of 21 in "Wulin Biography".

And this is only the first day's data. If you look at the number of online users, by the end of the month, "Zhu Xian" may have a monthly turnover of tens of millions.

Moreover, with the online recharge system developed by UC Youshi, it is much more convenient for Haotian's major website companies to recharge. Haotian Games is obviously going to make money this month.

At the same time, Qidian Chinese Network also launched the physical novel and comics of "Zhu Xian".

The physical novel of "Zhu Xian" is sold on Douban.com, and the manga is naturally serialized on Qidian.com.

However, Qidian’s actions this year are not small. In addition to competing with Shengda Literature, it has also increased the development of other channels in order to bring more income to its authors and retain these well-known authors.

Physical publishing and comic adaptation are the focus of channel expansion.

Still selected "Zhu Xian", "Legend of the Little Soldier", "****", "How the Bad Guys Are Made", "The World of Mercenaries", "Journey to the Wind", "The Kind Death", " In addition to publishing the ten novels of Tianpeng Vertical and Horizontal, Blasphemy and Immortal Road Smoke and Dust as entities.

Qi Dian's comic network also launched the comics of these ten novels.

In any case, in the case of Haotian Animation, Qidian Animation will obviously have to exert its strength, especially when Haotian Animation is rumored to acquire the largest original animation base in the Mainland, which is Yaoqi.

And Qidian Animation can launch ten adapted comics at the same time, which is actually the corner of Haotian's special effects.

Qidian Animation hired a lot of animation talents from Haotian Special Effects, and there were some disputes between the two.

Fortunately, they both belong to Haotian, and in the end, under Chen Hao's nod, Haotian's special effects could only pinch his nose to recognize it.

Then, Haotian Special Effects could only recruit talents again and then slowly cultivate them. Fortunately, "Kung Fu Panda" has exploded now, instantly attracting the attention of special effects and animation talents across the country, so that Chang Hongsong will not be furious.

Another three days later, on June 6, the 15 Renhe Shining Happy Girls Finals came to an end.

Although the ratings are still down compared to last year, Happy Girls can always get the first place in the ratings at the same time.

After entering the national finals, the ratings of Happy Girls exceeded 2% from the second round, and the average ratings of the championship battle also reached 2.95%, almost breaking 3%.

However, the popularity and social effects of Happy Girls are far less than before, and the decline in influence and ratings is an indisputable fact.

Long Danny has already come to Chen Hao, and once again revealed that he wants to sell the remaining 50% copyright of the Happy Girls brand to Shonan Satellite TV.

After all, the influence of Happy Girls is still there, and it can be worth some money if it is sold early, and it may depreciate sharply in a year.

Chen Hao has no objection to this. After all, this is just to accumulate experience for the future era of national variety shows and make money by the way. Now that the value of this brand has declined, it is not a pity to sell it.

Anyway, I have a lot of variety shows in my hand, so I should make a new variety show.

……

Soon, the time of a week is fleeting, and the mainland film market has only three new films released in the new week, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", "Tapu" and "3 Weeks Later".

"Tapu" is a domestic feature film without threat, mainly Hollywood fantasy blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and sci-fi thriller blockbuster "28 Weeks Later".

These two films are the biggest threat to Kung Fu Panda's box office.

""Pirates of the Caribbean 3" earned 4500 million in the first week, beating "Kung Fu Panda" to become the top weekly box office champion!" --- Reported by Sohu Entertainment
"With another 3800 million yuan, "Kung Fu Panda" came in second, with a cumulative box office of 1.41 million yuan in three weeks!" --- Netease Entertainment
""Kung Fu Panda" has a box office of 1.41 million, which is only 3 million yuan away from the annual box office champion "Spider-Man 400"!" ---Movie 1905
……

In the new week, the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", a blockbuster blockbuster of the super-grossing fantasy series, is indeed on the mend.

And "Kung Fu Panda" won a box office of 3 million yuan in the third week, and the cumulative box office also reached 3800 million yuan!

This box office result is only 2007 million less than the 3 million of the current 1.45 annual box office champion "Spider-Man 400" in the mainland!
In addition, Chang Hongsong also accidentally became the sixth mainland director to enter the 6 million yuan club because of "Kung Fu Panda".

You can't deny it just because he is the director of an animation film!
There is no suspense that "Kung Fu Panda" has surpassed "Spider-Man 3" at the box office, and even "Pirates of the Caribbean 3," which beat "Kung Fu Panda" last week, may not be as high.

"Kung Fu Panda" has broken various box office records of the first day, the first week, the single week, the second week, the third week, and the fastest breaking [-] million for animated films in mainland film history since its release.

There is no doubt that "Kung Fu Panda" will forever be included in the history of mainland movies.

While Chen Hao was having fun watching the box office of "Kung Fu Panda", he suddenly received an overseas call from Smart.

"Chen, it's about the casting of Iron Man," Smart said.

Chen Hao frowned slightly upon hearing this, "What's wrong?"

"That's right, Kevin Fitch has some objections to the selection of Iron Man's secretary," Smart said.

"Well, let's talk about it specifically." Chen Hao nodded.

Kevin Feige can be said to be the person who knows the heroes and systems of Marvel the most. If he has objections, then there may really be a problem.

"Kevin Feige said that the role of the secretary will always exist, and may even become a female Iron Man in the end, so according to the Marvel superhero movie universe plan temporarily formulated by Marvel Entertainment, this role must exist for at least more than ten years .

The few female star candidates you gave before are basically born in the 60s and 70s. Now they seem to be in their prime and full of style, but after more than ten years, they are all at least in their 50s.

With their physical condition, I'm afraid they will be old by then, but in the Marvel superhero movie universe project, they are not so old.

Either it will be replaced at that time, but this will still have a certain impact on the movie itself, it is best to use the original cast.

Therefore, Kevin Feige thinks that the list of candidates you gave is not suitable, because they are too old. ’” Smart explained.

Chen Hao was taken aback when he heard the words, but after thinking about it, it was true, it seemed that he was a little hasty at that time.

"But the crew has already issued an invitation?" Chen Hao asked.

"There was indeed an invitation, but we never finalized it." Smart laughed. "It's also thanks to Marvel's current notoriety."

Chen Hao laughed when he heard the words, and then remembered Nicole Kidman's playing hard to get, could it be because he was not sure, so he didn't see the rabbits and didn't stalk the eagles, right?
"Kevin Fitch's thinking is right, I didn't notice this before." Chen Hao admitted his mistake, "Now it seems that we have to find an actress born in the 80s!"

"That's right, fortunately, post-80s actresses are already in their early years, enough for you to choose." Smart laughed.

After Chen Hao heard the words, he thought about Hollywood post-80s actresses, and Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Gal Gadot, Natalie Portman, Megan Fox, and Anne Hathaway jumped out of his mind.

Jessica Alba is excluded first, Scarlett Johansson is also excluded as a widow, and Natalie Portman is the future female Thor, so there are only 3 left.

"Well, you go to contact Anne Hathaway, Megan Fox and Gal Gadot." Chen Hao said.

"Megan Fox? Gal Gadot? Who are they?" Smart was taken aback when he heard this.

He knew Anne Hathaway, but this was the first time he had heard of the latter two.

Chen Hao was also taken aback when he heard this, thinking that Megan Fox became famous because of "Transformers", and the movie has not yet been released, and the heroine was taken away by Fan Yaojing.

So Megan Fox is not famous in Hollywood at this time.

And Gal Gadot is famous because of the "Fast and Furious" series, but it is "Wonder Woman" that is really famous all over the world, but that is all ten years later.

It is not certain whether Gal Gadot has come to the United States now, so it is not surprising that Smart has never heard of it.

"How about Eva Green? Or Amanda Seyfried? Ashlee Simpson? Mischa Barton?" Smart suggested.

Chen Hao heard that only Eva Green was familiar with it, and Amanda Seyfried seemed to have heard of this name, but the other two were not.

"Then contact Anne Hathaway, Megan Fox and Eva Green." Chen Hao thought for a while.

The other two are well-known and easy to find. Although Megan Fox is not well-known, but they belong to the same industry, but the actor union will definitely find it.

"OK, listen to you!" Smart replied.

After negotiating, Chen Hao bowed his head and began to deal with the company's work.

Then, on June 6, Haotian Special Effects completed the special effects production of "Pacific Rim", and Weta Digital also completed all the post-production work at the end of the month.

Then Chen Hao worked overtime, and finally produced the final version of "Pacific Rim" in early July!

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