hollywood melon man

Chapter 299 Directors of Cantaloupe Studio

As he celebrated his thirtieth birthday again, little Gilbert didn't feel anything was different or wrong.

What may be a little different is that those who celebrate themselves are all a bunch of ghosts, with false smiles on their faces, lacking a trace of sincerity.

But this does not mean that there are no sincere people.

At the very least, the hostesses of the Melon Manor, Sophie Marceau who came specially from France, Verona Reid who no longer goes to the supermarket to steal things, and Scarlett who calls herself a goddess, their The eyes are sincere.

Also, the eyes of Disney and Warner executives such as Robert Iger and Doug Walt are sincere.

After all, whoever looks at the money tree will have sincere eyes.

After celebrating his birthday, little Gilbert paid a little attention to the performance of "X-Men".

Sir Ian McKellen plays Magneto in it. Sir's workload is quite heavy this summer.

Many people say that the rise of Marvel movies started with "Spider-Man", but little Gilbert believes that "X-Men" is the beginning of movies adapted from Marvel comics.

The successful first week of "X-Men" brought two changes.

For a B-level commercial film with only 3800 million US dollars, this box office performance is already quite outstanding, allowing Cantaloupe Studio to make a lot of money.

It is mainly to expand the content of the second part. Although Vin Diesel has a relatively big temper, he obviously does not dare to offend little Gilbert, so he continues to return in the second episode.

But in his chat with Robert Egger and Doug Walter, Gilbert Jr. felt that the analyst was being conservative. He believes the film will make $700 to $800 million at the box office, possibly more.

Let's pay attention to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". This film was completed in the UK in May this year and has officially entered the post-production stage.

And for this kind of film, the most important thing is always the peripherals, and the profit from the peripherals is the big one.

Many cartoonists and veterans who had left the company before came back one after another.

The day before the premiere of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," the North American box office of "The Fast and the Furious," invested and produced by Melon Studios and distributed by Warner Pictures, officially exceeded $100 million.

However, North America as a whole is facing a cold winter in the comics industry, and Marvel alone cannot change it. Although it was acquired by Gilbert Jr. and has no worries about its financial situation, Marvel basically loses money every year.

"X-Men" is not the most well-known superhero comic, but it gave superhero comic movies a good start at the beginning of the millennium.

That is, if "X-Men" is not adapted into a movie within five years, or the movie fails at the box office, the copyright will automatically return to Marvel.

But after Gilbert Jr. takes full control, this kind of thing will never happen again. Vin Diesel is just a starring role and will not have control over the project.

If Vin Diesel is not satisfied, it doesn't matter, there are two other bald heads to replace him.

The huge sales of "X-Men" have increased the sales of related comics.

At this time, the novel of The Little Wizard has become widely popular in the Western world. Not only has it become a household story, it has always topped the bestseller lists.

One is Sony Columbia. Preparations for "Spider-Man" have begun. The success of "X-Men" has made Sony Columbia Pictures feel that "Spider-Man" has great potential.

"X-Men" grossed US$5447.5 million at the box office in its first week, successfully becoming the top box office hit of the day and achieving quite good box office results.

Later, Vin Diesel returned, bringing the series back to life and allowing Vin Diesel to take the initiative in the project.

Such changes may be risky, but the failure of the previous "Fast and Furious 3" almost made this series disappear.

Although critics criticized it, ordinary movie fans still gave this superhero movie good reviews.

In fact, when the copyright was sold, there was a clause.

Another change is that Marvel Comics has finally stabilized its position and no longer takes care of its superheroes at will.

After discussing with Gilbert Jr., Disney and Warner Pictures plan to put the schedule of "The Matrix: Reloaded" in June next year.

This makes Disney and Warner Pictures full of confidence in the film and believe that the film will have a good performance at the box office.

In other words, the third episode of the previous life is gone, and the original fourth episode is now the planned third episode.

Since Gilbert Jr. became the new boss of Marvel, Marvel has actually escaped the financial crisis and turmoil of the mid-1990s.

Special effects are the key, for which Sony Columbia Pictures has a budget of $1.25 million. The film is currently in the process of script creation and actor selection, and is expected to start filming next year.

Therefore, the head of Marvel Studios hopes that Gilbert Jr. can participate in internal meetings and provide them with some opinions and future development ideas.

For this film, of course there will be a requirement for a series.

This gave Marvel hope and decided to focus on superhero movies. As a result, Marvel Studios in Burbank became Marvel's core subsidiary.

After discussing with the film's producer Alexander Dotos, Gilbert Jr. decided to make an addition and subtraction from the previous "Fast and Furious" series.

This allows the superheroes who fly into the sky and escape from the earth in comics to be embodied through special effects technology.

According to Disney and Warner's distribution plans, the film is expected to be released during the Christmas period this year.

On the other side, the last two parts of "The Matrix" directed by James Gunn have been completed and are entering the post-production stage.

When it comes to the movie business, no one knows it better than little Gilbert.

Today's superhero movies have a huge advantage over the past, and that is the advancement of special effects technology that has come with the hardware revolution.

However, at this time, Gilbert Jr. was busy with the premiere of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." Marvel Studios had no choice but to send a senior executive, Kevin Feige, to attend the premiere to chat with Gilbert Jr. Have a chat.

The content of the third episode will be shortened at the end of the second episode to leave a suspense. All excess content will be deleted and directly connected to the content of the fourth and fifth episodes.

In Hollywood, nothing is irreplaceable, not even Little Gilbert himself.

Not only is Little Gilbert looking forward to it, but Marvel Studios, which has just been established, is also looking forward to the success of "X-Men".

Internal analysts believe the film will gross between $500 million and $600 million.

The third film, "The Matrix: Revolutions," was released in the summer of 2002.

Because Gilbert Jr. serves as the producer and has full control over the direction of the film, the subsequent two parts of "The Matrix" did not have the same situation as the Wachowski brothers, but instead moved closer to commercial films.

Although doing so will make it appear that the subsequent two parts are not as good as the first part in terms of content and reputation.

But this is necessary, because too advanced content is never popular in the summer season.

Moreover, Gilbert Jr. only serves as a producer. The director is James Gunn. He has little relationship with Gilbert Jr. and does not affect his own reputation.

In addition to Gilbert Jr., the three directors signed by Melon Studio each have their own work.

After Sofia was nominated for Best Director at this year's Oscars, her confidence has greatly increased. She believes that it is very feasible for her to pursue independent films, and she plans to continue on the path of independent films. Of course, little Gilbert supports his good friend. Not to mention his personal relationship with Sofia, the reputation of Sofia's father, Director Coppola, among the Italian gang alone makes it worthwhile for little Gilbert to support Sofia.

Independent films cost only a few dollars, and little Gilbert could afford it.

And independent films do not necessarily lose money. "Always Sunshine" is an example. After the Oscar, Melon Studio made a small profit through copyright.

Sophia is currently thinking of a story, as told by herself, about an old man and a young woman in Tokyo.

Christopher Nolan also made progress, and "Memento" was successfully completed.

This kind of low-budget film will be crushed to pieces in the summer schedule. Little Gilbert decided to put this film in the September schedule to see what Nolan can do.

After all, Nolan has proven himself in his previous life, so little Gilbert doesn't need to worry.

After making a few more movies, Nolan will be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility of looking for directing opportunities for some big projects.

Another one related to Little Gilbert is "Rush Hour 2" starring Cheng Long.

According to the original plan, the filming of the film should have been completed long ago and released this year.

However, Cheng Long was accidentally injured while filming "Glass Bottle" and lay in the hospital for several months, which delayed the filming plan of "Rush Hour 2".

If the stingy and harsh conditions of ordinary Hollywood companies were followed, they would probably have to file a claim at this time.

However, little Gilbert did not care about Cheng Long's delay in filming due to his injury. After all, this was a force majeure factor.

You can't punish someone for being injured because of their hard work in filming, right? This seems quite unreasonable.

Therefore, "Rush Hour 2" did not officially enter the preparation and filming stage until Cheng Long recovered from his injuries. Chris Tucker returns, and also joins Zun Lung, International Zhang known for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and others.

In view of the excellent performance of the previous film, this film will be put on the summer schedule to try out its quality.

Before filming started, little Gilbert also met with the main creators and chatted with Cheng Long, telling him not to work too hard, to pay attention to safety, and to use a stand-in when necessary.

However, with Cheng Long's character, unless he can't do it himself, or the effect of the action is not good-looking, he shouldn't use a substitute.

It was the first time that International Chapter met the rumored director Gilbert Jr., and he was very excited.

She had long heard from the National Master about the magic of Director Gilbert Jr., and also knew about the popularity of this Hollywood director in mainland China.

Although I didn’t appear in one of his movies this time, I at least appeared in a movie in which he was the producer, so I can be considered to be related to the great director.

If he could be favored by little Gilbert, Jiji Zhang wondered if he could replicate Gong Huang's success or even surpass Gong Huang.

However, the international chapter was unable to take action because the person accompanying little Gilbert was also a Chinese woman. She also knew that woman, Xu Qing.

"I didn't expect that you have invested in so many movies, and there are actually Chinese starring." Xu Qing expressed her surprise.

Little Gilbert raised his eyebrows and said: "This is not surprising. The last "Rush Hour" brought quite good profits to the studio, so we naturally have to develop a sequel plan."

"But isn't it said that Hollywood is very xenophobic? Especially Chinese people. Are you afraid of getting into trouble by doing this?" Xu Qing asked.

She also knew something about what was happening in North America. After little Gilbert finished filming "Lord of the Rings" in China, he left behind too many high-end equipment for the Chinese film and television industry.

These devices are nothing in North America, but they are very important to the Chinese film and television industry.

Because of this, some hostile media were very suspicious of Gilbert's motives. If little Gilbert was not wearing white skin and was not a squid man, it would be time for Fobler to come to investigate the case.

Although Fobler did not investigate him, the media's doubts are inevitable.

Little Gilbert's explanation for this is that China is too backward, at the level of North America in the 1930s and 1940s, and they can't use the equipment they are given.

Moreover, the equipment was damaged and it was not worth bringing it back for repairs. There were better ones in Hollywood, so they were scrapped where they were.

Presumably those Chinese people can't study it either, so there's nothing to worry about.

Little Gilbert is quite capable. He tells lies with his eyes open, but the key is that many people still believe him. In their perception, except for Europe and North America, the rest of the world is backward and ignorant.

What little Gilbert said fits the stereotype.

I was skeptical and went to interview those Chinese who came from China to study or work, or who immigrated to North America. As a result, these Chinese people all said that what Gilbert said was correct.

Now there is no doubt, unless those doubters also go to China to have a look.

Little Gilbert found it a bit incredible to see the North American people believing his words so easily, but this was a good thing, so he didn't say more or expose it.

Thanks to decades of unremitting efforts by the elite and the North American media, an information cocoon has been successfully created, and people under happy education have less ability to think.

Therefore, except for a few people, not many people would think about whether Little Gilbert was lying.

And those smart people who know that little Gilbert is lying will not expose little Gilbert. In the final analysis, although little Gilbert is telling lies, those smart people still instinctively despise the country on the other side of the Pacific.

This cannot be changed overnight. This is a prejudice accumulated over hundreds of years.

It is also because of this that the rapid development of the other side of the Pacific more than 20 years later has made it difficult for the elites in North America to believe and accept it.

After Xu Qing came to North America, she learned about this, so she was very worried that little Gilbert was in danger.

Little Gilbert smiled and stuffed ten dollars into Xu Qing's hand and said, "Miss Xu, don't worry, in North America, money is the passport to everything.

As long as I unite everyone and form an interest group with me as the center, which will be too big to lose, and even affect the operation of the entire North American society, no one will dare to touch me. "

"Aren't you afraid that they will send someone to assassinate you?" Xu Qing knew the history here and knew that several bosses had died in assassinations.

Little Gilbert said: "Then let them not dare to kill me."

"Really?" Xu Qing doubted whether little Gilbert could do all this.

After hesitating for a while, she said: "If you are in danger here, you can go to China and we will protect you."

"Is this your personal commitment, or does it represent you?"

Xu Qing nodded solemnly and said: "It's not only for me personally, but also on behalf of us..."

"Very good," little Gilbert just nodded without a clear agreement.

There is no need for it now, and even if it is necessary, it will be a long time in the future.

(End of this chapter)