How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 256

David Morris's eyes lit up after hearing Zhang Nan's words.

It's not that David Morris agrees with Zhang Nan's spin-off cooperation.

After all, the original film [Harry Potter] has only just been released, and we don't know if it will be successful. It's a bit too far to think about derivative films now.

But David Morris felt that if Zhang Nan's words could be sent out as headlines by his reporters.

Let alone true or false, it doesn't matter whether others believe it or not.

This is a topic that can serve as a hot topic in publicity.

Then David Morris became more and more excited as he thought about it. After chatting with Zhang Nan for a while, he handed over the matter of greeting Zhang Nan to director Chris Columbus.

"Zhang, Julia mentioned you to me."

Chris Columbus was the first to talk to Zhang Nan. After all, the premiere was his home, but the two had no direct contact, so they found Julia Roberts, who had worked with both of them, and threw it out. .

But Zhang Nan was taken aback when he heard what Chris Columbus said, and then he thought about it in his mind before he understood.

In 1998, Chris Columbus and Julia Roberts, who had just been picked up by him with "My Best Friend's Wedding", collaborated on a "Stepmother", but the movie's box office was average.

Taking advantage of this stubble, Zhang Nan also recalled Chris Columbus and his development in the following years.

It made two more movies, but the box office is not tepid.

You ask why Chris Columbus performed so well, and Warner Bros. dared to hand over the $1.3 million investment [Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone] to him?

The reason is simple, because Chris Columbus is the top director in this genre of movies featuring young actors.

Or to put it more clearly, the first two parts of the [Home Alone] series were directed by Chris Columbus.

In 1990, Home Alone 1 grossed 5.33 million dollars worldwide.

In 1992, "Home Alone 2" grossed another US$3.59 million worldwide.

You must know that it was the early 90s, and it was very good for a movie to break the box office of [-] million. Breaking [-] million or [-] million is basically the same as today's box office breaking [-] billion.

So even if the movies directed by Chris Columbus in the past two years are a bit hip at the box office, but the deep foundation cannot be eaten in a year or two.

Moreover, in the past two years, Chris Columbus has basically produced movies with adults as the protagonists. Although the movies failed, their status in the genre of movies with young actors as the protagonists has not been affected.

So Chris Columbus took the lead in talking, and Zhang Nan naturally didn't hold it up, and said the same thing, "Julia also mentioned you to me, saying that you took special care of her during the filming process."

The two chatted back and forth for a while until Zhang Nan walked into the screening hall.

Not long after Zhang Nan was in the screening hall, the red carpet process outside was almost done.

Then, after the routine pre-screening operations were over, the premiere of the premiere ceremony officially began.

Zhang Nan sat quietly in his seat, watching with admiring eyes.

In fact, Zhang Nan watched "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in his previous life. Although he didn't watch it many times, he basically just watched it once, but he is very familiar with the plot in it.

On the one hand, it is because the story of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is not complicated.

On the other hand, it is also because of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" directed by Chris Columbus, the overall style is more of a children's fairy tale type, and the rhythm is relatively slow.

After all, people in their 30s and [-]s, if you read a fairy tale, you need to watch it repeatedly to remember the general plot.

So either there is something wrong with the number of people, or the story is somewhat esoteric, so it cannot be regarded as a fairy tale.

Looking at "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" again with the eyes of an appreciator, Zhang Nan can only say that Chris Columbus's level of directing fairy tale-style movies for young actors has basically not regressed.

Throughout the story, even Zhang Nan, a special premiere second-screener, was basically immersed in the illusory world constructed by the movie.

It can only be said that without the fame accumulation of the previous work, only relying on the publicity of Warner Bros. and some fans of the original novel, [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] was able to be released in 2001, and it hit 9.74 million US dollars worldwide, close to 10 billion The box office results in US dollars, its own quality is really top-notch.

"Zhang, what do you think of [Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]'s box office prospects?"

The premiere ceremony had just ended, and Zhang Nan, who was busy returning to Longbow Studios to continue filming [Rebirth], was stopped by David Morris, president of Warner Bros. Pictures, in front of the media.

Obviously, David Morris wanted to use Zhang Nan's reputation as box office mascot and movie box office insurance to fuel the promotion of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

"I've just finished watching the movie, and it's very exciting. If I didn't rush to go back and continue filming [Rebirth of the Doomsday], I would have booked out the whole night and watched it a few more times. If I were to give a box office forecast—"

Zhang Nan paused, and gave David Morris a friendly look, and David Morris quickly returned a look to the assistant beside him.

Then Zhang Nan saw David Morris's assistant took out a check and handed it to Old Luke who came with Zhang Nan. Old Luke looked at the amount on the check and nodded heavily to Zhang Nan .

So Zhang Nan continued to speak: "This year's global box office list will be number one!"

In order to cooperate with the speech, Zhang Nan also raised a finger.

Zhang Nan's explosive reply naturally made the surrounding media tremble with excitement.

As for David Morris, who was still a little bit heartbroken about the hemorrhage just now, after hearing Zhang Nan's answer, he immediately felt much better.
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on a private jet.

Old Luke handed Zhang Nan the check he had just received from Assistant David Morris.

"One hundred thousand dollars, no wonder you nodded so heavily just now." Zhang Nan looked at the amount on the check and said tut-tsk.

Old Luke didn't care much about Zhang Nan's check when he heard the words, but said in a curious tone: "Zhang, aside from the influence of the $[-] check, you are really optimistic about this [Haha] Libert and the Philosopher’s Stone] can reach [-] million U.S. dollars in global box office, or is it fake?”

When did I say $[-] million at the box office?

Hearing this, Zhang Nan turned his head to look at Old Luke in astonishment, and in the process, Zhang Nan suddenly realized.

Because until now, the highest box office of a movie released in 2001 is only "Shrek" with a global gross of 4.84 million US dollars.

He just predicted [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] to be number one in the global box office list, and in the eyes of old Luke, it was almost [-] million US dollars.

But Zhang Nan didn't intend to correct Old Luke's thinking. After all, he didn't have any suitable reasons, so he just nodded in affirmative response.

(End of this chapter)