Chapter 170 (1/2)
Staying in the peak mansion in Cannes, Simon has gradually sorted out the shooting idea of Batman these days.
In the preliminary plan, first of all, we will produce the ”Batman” single film trilogy, the name of which will follow Nolan's ”Batman: the moment of war”, ”Batman: The Dark Knight” and ”Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight”. However, in terms of content, Simon intends to adopt a completely different plot setting, through the appropriate interposition with the Superman series, to pave the way for the whole DC movie universe.
The opening of Batman's first film is very important if we want to realize the film universe plan.
Simon actually has a shortcut to success, which is to make the clown the villain of the first song. As Batman's biggest enemy, but also the most popular villain in Batman Series, in the original time and space, Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan's two major versions of Batman Series's top works all take the clown as the anti-1. The clown, Batman's lifelong enemy, has an irreplaceable popularity and status in both comic and reality.
However, after much deliberation, Simon gave up the idea.
To use the clown, the first song must have a matching atmospheric pattern. The starting point of the story is too high, the sequel is difficult to satisfy the audience's appetite, and repeatedly saving Gotham and saving the world is also easy to cause aesthetic fatigue. Therefore, Simon intends to put the clown as the ultimate boss of the trilogy in the final episode.
As for the beginning, Simon doesn't intend to spend too much time on Bruce Wayne's transformation into Batman, but starts from Batman's running in with the whole city after he begins to fight for justice.
A volunteer police officer suddenly appeared in the city of crime. The public, the media, the government, the criminals and other sectors responded and responded. At the same time, these branches will be surrounded by a high conceptual model of the story line of the victory of good over evil. The villain appears, Batman defeats the villain and begins to gain the recognition of the city. The story ends.
Simon is hiding in Cannes to write the script of Batman. In North America, this year's film summer season officially opened in May.
On May 13, paramount released the seventh sequel of the classic horror film series Friday the 13th, which made Simon envious of the scale of 1796 screen paintings, earning $9.8 million in the first week. Although the box office did not meet the expectations of the producers, paramount recovered most of the production and publicity budget in the first week, compared with the ultra-low production cost of only $2.8 million.
Besides Friday the 13th, the other two independent producers' new films did not set off any waves. When Harry meets Sally ranked second, which is also the official box office champion of next week after eight weeks of mass production of when Harry meets Sally.
In the 10th week of release, ”when Harry meets Sally” received another $6.13 million, with a total box office of $90.12 million, and continued to march towards the billion yuan mark without any suspense.
Although Hollywood has always admired Denise pictures for making its first box office movie in 1988, Simon is not satisfied with the result. Paramount can arrange nearly 1800 screens for a horror film with a production cost of only 2.8 million US dollars. During the whole release process of when Harry meets Sally, the number of screens failed to exceed 1500. In the first few weeks of the golden box office harvest, the number of screens of the film was just over 1000, which made Simon strongly feel that Hollywood's traditional forces have deep roots in the latecomers Tightily watch out for and hold back.
If ”when Harry meets Sally” can get enough screen resources, the box office of the film will certainly have exceeded the threshold of 100 million yuan, rather than stuck in the embarrassing figure of 90 million dollars. Although it's not difficult to break through 100 million in the next few years, with the arrival of a series of new summer movies, the release scale and subsequent box office of when Harry meets Sally are bound to shrink rapidly.
Next.
On May 20, the first big production film of the summer program, the chance of the wind and the wind, entered the cinema. This medieval magic film, based on Western fairy tales, was jointly produced by MGM and Lucas pictures, using the most advanced special effects technology of a large number of industrial light and magic Studios.
However, the 35 million dollar blockbuster film has a poor reputation. Variety magazine rated it as ”a medieval version of star wars with a lot of myths and fables. The story is old-fashioned and lacks innovation.”.
MGM, the distributor of the film, has only arranged 1024 opening screens for ”the chance of the wind and the cloud”, which is not as good as ”Friday the 13th 7”, not to mention ”Crocodile Dundee 2” and ”the first drop of blood 3”, which will be released soon. According to the public data of the distributor, the number of opening screens of these two heavyweight new films is expected to reach 2800 and 2500 respectively, This scale once again shows the complete arrival of the era of full distribution.
Unfortunately, as one of the most popular new films in this summer program, ”vulgar novel” is expected to have only 1500 screens, and Simon has no choice, because this is the limit that Orion film can use.
Moreover, the film review reputation of vulgar novel has been constantly changing since its premiere in Cannes, especially in North America. Many well-known critics have criticized the film's excessive violence and Simon's plagiarism of various classic films.The reason for this situation is obvious, too many people do not want to see vulgar novel too successful.
Simon had no way to find out who was in the way.
The release date of vulgar novel is June 3. In the previous week, Paramount Pictures' ”Crocodile Dundee 2” and Columbia Pictures' ”Rambo 3” produced by Samsung brand were shown. In the same period, fox's ”flying over the future” and Warner's ”funny farm” were shown. In the following week, Disney's ”four daughters and two mothers” and Paramount's ”psychic” were shown ”Haunted by ghosts 3” by MGM.
In the past three weeks, only new films were released, and six of the seven major film companies came together. No matter how popular the schedule is, there is a certain amount of box office in a single week. If you score more, others will be less.
In this case, ”vulgar novel” happens to be the most eye-catching one among a lot of new films. Even Simon himself, if possible, will not hesitate to attack his competitors.
Aware of this situation, Simon is not so optimistic about the award results of this film festival. Whether Simon himself or Orion, it's obvious that they can't compete with the seven major Hollywood stars in terms of network resources. Others may just make a phone call, and there may be no awards.
In this way, it was not until May 22, the day before the closing ceremony of the film festival, that the organizer sent an application to the winning crew. Simon was completely relieved until he was really informed by the organizer.
May 23, Monday.
On the last day of the festival, the main activity of the day is the re screening of all the nominated films in the main competition units. At the same time, the detained crew information also appeared in Cannes local media.
Among the 21 main competition unit films, the crew of five films have been retained, namely Simon's vulgar novel, Clint Eastwood's rookie Park, kieselowski's short killing film, Fernando Solanas's south and Chris Mengers's isolated world.
Among the five films, the most popular one is kiyerslovsky's short killing film. Before that, the film has won the main competition unit of the fabissey award, which is a completely independent award from the International Film Critics Association, similar to a wind vane.
As for vulgar novel, among the six awards of Palme d'Or, jury award, jury award, best actor, best actress and best director, it is generally believed that Palme d'Or is unlikely to win the performance award, and the jury is unlikely to give the best director to Simon, a young man just 20 years old.
Then, the final result is likely to be the jury award or the jury award.
It's near seven o'clock in the afternoon.
Outside the film Palace on the seashore of Cannes, the closing ceremony is much colder than the brilliant star of the opening ceremony.
The crew of vulgar fiction received a notice of detention yesterday, and John Travolta, Samuel Jackson and Nicole Kidman, who had left Cannes, flew over from the United States again. Others such as Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Madonna and Sean pan did not attend the closing ceremony for various reasons.
In a word, this basic purpose is still for the journey of film promotion. Orion will definitely bear the expenses. Simon's private plane bill will also be sent to Orion in the future. Of course, Orion can't afford the mountain top mansion in lecane.
Simon and his party arrived outside the film palace. The red carpet ceremony of the closing ceremony was drawing to an end. This time, they quickly crossed the media channel and entered the rubiel Hall of the film palace.
Perhaps it is the special arrangement of the organizers that the seats of the crew of ”vulgar novel” are adjacent to the crew of ”fortune fair”. This special effects film dominated by Lucas pictures will be the closing film of this film festival.
However, Simon didn't see George Lucas. Only Lang Howard, the director of chance, Fang Kimer and Joanne Willie attended the ceremony.
After last Friday's opening, due to the word-of-mouth failure, ”Fengyun Jihui” only got $8.3 million box office in the first three days of the weekend, far lower than the producer's expectation. The film can only expect the subsequent distribution channels to recover the expensive production and publicity costs.
Simon has always been concerned about ”the chance of the wind and the cloud”. Such a film using the most advanced special effects technology of this era can provide him with a lot of reference for making ”Batman”.
What's more, Ron Howard, a commercial director who is one grade lower than Spielberg but with a wide variety, is also of great interest to Simon. They took advantage of the short leisure time before the ceremony and exchanged business cards.
Seven o'clock in the evening.