How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 466 2009 North American Summer Vacation
Zhang Nan finally decided to let "Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2" compete with other movies in November.

Without it.

[Avatar] also stars him. He can't fight each other with his left hand and his right hand.

Once the big schedule is set, the next step is to work on the specific details, which is also the main reason why New Line and Disney Pictures asked him to be the broker for this schedule.

So in the next period of time, Zhang Nan began to coordinate schedules with film and television companies such as Universal, Paramount, Columbia, MGM, Warner... etc.

The coordination process with major film and television companies was smooth.

Because Zhang Nan can feel that if the intensity of competition is one, then the intensity of competition that other film and television companies feel for movies starring Zhang Nan is ten.

No one will be afraid of a billion-dollar project with huge potential around the world.
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In early November.

The terms of cooperation between Universal Pictures and Spielberg on the "Jurassic World 2" project have finally been negotiated.

The result was that Spielberg failed.

There is no way not to fail.

It is well known that the reputation of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has collapsed, making Spielberg eager to regain the box office appeal of his new work.

With this inherent disadvantage, it is impossible for Universal Pictures and Spielberg to lose when they pull together on the "Jurassic World 2" project.

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[Jurassic World 2] Inside the set.

After shooting a scene, Zhang Nan glanced at Spielberg. After he nodded after watching the playback, and after confirming that this was passed, Zhang Nan slowly walked to Spielberg's director's chair.

"Steven, I think you still haven't calmed down. How could you agree to $600 million?" Zhang Nan said in a somewhat resentful tone.

Yes.

After pulling failed.

Spielberg's director's salary for the project "Jurassic World 2" dropped from $2000 million to $600 million.

This is the penalty for failure and the rules of Hollywood.

When Spielberg looked at Zhang Nan after filming and talked to him about the remuneration, he felt very complicated.

Because Spielberg knows very well that the main reason why Universal Pictures pressed him so hard on the salary of "Jurassic World 2" is that Zhang Nan took too much money.

But the reason why Zhang Nan was able to get so much money was because of his continued success and his own strength. He really couldn't say anything.

"What if I don't agree? I urgently need a masterpiece to restore my reputation!" Spielberg said helplessly.

Zhang Nan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said thoughtfully: "You are in urgent need, and Universal is not in a hurry."

"What do you mean?" Spielberg is also an old man who has been in Hollywood, and he heard the hidden meaning in Zhang Nan's words.

Zhang Nan continued: "Aren't [Pirates of the Caribbean 3] and [Lord of the Rings: Sauron 2] finished filming? A few days ago, Disney Pictures and New Line Cinema asked me to be in the middle of the movie release with other movies. Zhou Xuan, please coordinate. I am very afraid that the movie will fail at the box office. This has never happened before.

I estimate that in this financial tsunami, Disney and New Line Cinema have suffered a lot of losses and are in urgent need of a major effort to make a comeback. And Disney Pictures, a famous Hollywood tycoon, is like this, so how can the rest be any better? "

Spielberg was stunned after hearing this, and then recalled the details of the process when he and Universal Pictures were involved, and his eyes twitched.

Spielberg felt a little uncomfortable losing $400 million.

"Zhang, you should have told me earlier."

"I wanted to say it, but you didn't ask me either."

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Early April.Chenglong's transformational work "Shinjuku Incident" is released.

However, due to the subject matter, it was not released in the mainland.

It was originally a transformational work, but it also lost its support from the mainland.

The result is self-evident - failure.

The global box office was US$546.1 million.

This box office performance cannot be said in a vague tone, saying that the transformation is not very successful, because in so many years, "Shinjuku Incident" is its lowest box office movie.

If it were the previous Chenglong, it would definitely be uncomfortable for a while.

But now that Chenglong has signed a contract with Zhang Nan and has no shortage of film appointments, he doesn't feel uncomfortable at all. Instead, he happily attended the mainland premiere of "Fast and Furious 4" on April 15. He was so bright. A phase.

However, the box office performance of "Fast and Furious 4" in the mainland is not very optimistic. In one month, it only took in more than 2000 million yuan, a total of more than 300 million yuan, or almost 400 million US dollars.

Fortunately, [Fast and Furious 4] performed quite well at the box office in North America and other overseas movie theaters. By the end of April, the cumulative global box office had exceeded 3.2 million.

But it’s almost a box office potential of more than 3 million U.S. dollars, because—the summer vacation is here.
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In early November.

[-]th Century Fox looked at Marvel Studios last year and made a lot of money with the single-player superhero protagonist model of "Iron Man" and "The Incredible Hulk".

Now it is also directly imitating the "Wolverine" from "X-Men", and fired the first shot of the 2009 summer vacation.

This shot works well.

The first day Friday was US$3443.3 million, the next day Saturday was US$2932.3 million, and the third day Sunday was US$2130 million.

It grossed over US$8500 million at the box office in the first three days.

It directly gave Twentieth Century Fox, which was severely slaughtered by capital during last year's financial tsunami, a good recovery.

Twentieth Century Fox made a prompt decision and changed the name of "Wolverine" to "Wolverine 1" and began preparations for "Wolverine 2".

When the other Hollywood giants saw that Twentieth Century Fox had discovered the market conditions of the film market, they couldn't help themselves.

5 month 8 day.

Paramount's "Star Trek" couldn't even wait a week and was released directly after "The Wolverine".

But it can only be said that the trend of comic-book superhero adaptations has slowly taken shape. Science fiction films with a bit of imagination like "Star Trek" are indeed a bit weak.

[Star Trek] only took in a meager $7800 million in its first week, which was one step behind [Wolverine].

Then another week later.

Tom Hanks has made a strong comeback to the North American summer season with the sequel to his previous year's second-highest-grossing "The Da Vinci Code" - "Angels and Demons".

Before it was released, everyone had great expectations for this sequel to "The Da Vinci Code" - "Angels and Demons".

After all, its predecessor's global box office of more than 7 million US dollars is real.

But the box office performance of "Angels and Demons" in the first three days was beyond everyone's expectation.

$4600.

It cannot be said that this first week's box office was not good. For a feature film, this is quite good.

But compared with the global box office of its predecessor "The Da Vinci Code" of US$7.62 million, it is a bit far behind.

(End of this chapter)