Chapter 911 (1/2)
Malibu, daenerys studios.
It's April 12.
It's already the 12th day Peter Jackson arrived in Los Angeles. Yesterday, he was informed that Simon westwello would meet with him to discuss his film Ghost of terror and another production plan for the Lord of the rings series, so he didn't have a good rest all night and repeatedly weighed how to deal with meeting a young Hollywood tycoon.
The appointed time was 4:30 p.m., and Jackson arrived at danelis studios an hour in advance.
Being too early is not as pleasant as being late. In fact, Peter Jackson, who is very tactful, didn't ignore these details. After parking in the administrative district of danelis Movie City, he didn't rush to office building 1 directly. Instead, he sat down in the coffee room of a movie city in the administrative district, bought a copy of Hollywood Reporter, and read the latest time of Hollywood I spent the waiting time drinking coffee.
The Easter season in North America closed yesterday. This issue of Hollywood Reporter mainly summarizes the Easter season.
In addition to ”Batman vs Superman: Dawn of justice”, which has a domestic box office of more than 650 million US dollars, there are also two new films ”detective plane head 2” and ”morgue haunted event 2” produced by Denise entertainment.
On March 29, Kim Carey's new film ”detective plane 2” won $45.51 million at the box office in the first week, down 40% in the next week and another $27.27 million. Two weeks after the opening of the film, the sequel to ”the head of the plane,” which made Kim Carey famous two years ago, grossed $72.78 million.
According to the step-by-step accounting rules, danilisi entertainment easily recovered all the production and publicity costs of $50 million in two weeks, and realized a profit.
Then there was ”the morgue haunted 2” on April 5.
From April 5 to April 11, the box office performance of the fourth movie in the universe series was even better, with the same scale of production and publicity as ”detective plane head 2”, with a revenue of $51.69 million in seven days.
Another 100 million yuan box office club member is sure.
Although the commercial volume of daenerys Entertainment's evocation movie universe Series in recent years is far less than that of DC movie universe series, with the previous evocation, morgue haunted event and evocation 2 taken into account, the whole series of four movies in a row can achieve more than 100 million, which is also a miracle in Hollywood.
What's more, the cost of this series is low enough.
Even if the global box office of the first three films is in the range of $200 million to $300 million, it may not be as good as the local box office of DC movies. On the other hand, the production cost of this series, for example, mortuary haunted event 2, is only $30 million, which is also a fraction of the production cost of super Batman.
Danielis entertainment has a very good cost control over the production of the DC movie universe series. The budget for Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of justice is still $135 million, which is equivalent to Batman: the rise of the dark knight two years ago.
Looking at the news on the Hollywood Reporter, Peter Jackson, who is full of ambition in this circle, only feels the ups and downs of his heart.
It has been eight years since he ran to Melbourne and was hired as assistant director of Batman: the moment of war. The gifted teenager who was just born in Hollywood is now in a position that everyone can only look up to. Peter Jackson has not stopped his pace these years.
Both the evil fun ”crazy fat treasure variety show” and the recent fake documentary ”forgotten film” have made certain repercussions in the industry. Two years ago, ”angel of sin” also won the Venice Silver Lion Award.
If you really enter this industry, you can understand that there are thousands of films produced every year around the world, most of which can't even splash.
Therefore, no matter from which aspect, as long as your film can attract attention, it is a kind of success.
What's more, Peter Jackson can clearly feel that he has been in the attention field of danielis entertainment or, to be exact, Simon westero's attention all these years, from the original ”crazy fat treasure variety show” to last year's ”forgotten movie”, as well as the middle of the ”corpses over the world” and ”sin angel”, eight years, four movies Every time Denise entertainment is very active in contacting and cooperating with him, which makes it easy for many filmmakers to cross the funding threshold.
This is clearly true of a recent play, ghost of terror, and his proposal for the Lord of the rings series.
This time it's clearer.
Simon westero is going to interview him, and it's obvious that the other person hasn't forgotten the assistant director on the set of Batman: time for war.
Keep an eye on the time. At 4:25, Jackson arrived at Simon westrow's office on time.
Just waiting in the lounge for a while, a young man who had hardly changed his appearance over the years soon appeared, which made Jackson a little surprised by the punctuality of the other party. Hollywood circle, consciously has a position, whether it is a lot of studio executives or those big stars, unpunctuality is almost normal, a lot of people obviously do it on purpose, in order to take a stance.But Peter Jackson soon understood. Simon westlogan didn't need such an indecent little method. Compared with his current position, he can still do it, which is more admirable.
With that in mind, Jackson quickly stood up, smiling and holding out his hand to Simon as he walked by: ”Hello, Mr. westrow.”
Simon and Jackson shook hands and said with a smile, ”just call me Simon, just like the Batman set did. By the way, how are you doing? ”
Peter Jackson also smiles: ”not bad.”
It's not the usual way to ask the other person a question. It's mainly a kind of instinctive prudence to see the superior, and how's Simon westrow doing?
Simon also didn't deliberately exchange too much greetings with Jackson. After greeting, they entered the office and sat down together in the reception area.
A girl who followed in put two pieces of information in front of Simon and Jackson respectively, and another female assistant brought coffee to them, and then both quickly withdrew.
Simon turned over the materials in his hand and went straight to the topic: ”let's talk about the ghost of terror first, Peter. I read the memorandum of your production meeting about this project last week. You've positioned the film as another ghost hunt, which is a good direction. However, I found a problem that the scale between horror and comedy is crucial. Just like ”ghost hunting death squads”, although it is ”ghost hunting”, its positioning is fantasy comedy, not horror. The audience's overall feeling of watching this film is very happy. And the orientation of ”ghost of terror” is a horror comedy. You also describe a lot of horror scenes in the script. If you don't pay attention, there may be an embarrassing situation that is neither horror nor comedy. Have you ever thought about that? ”
Peter Jackson didn't expect Simon to be so direct. He almost couldn't keep up with his ideas, but he soon got up and said, ”of course, Simon, I've been discussing this with the team recently. It's confirmed that the film will tend to be comedy style, that is, comedy is superior to horror. Moreover, we have also paid attention to your question. We think that the key is to determine a suitable actor. We are all selecting actors these days. ”
In the original version of the ghost of terror, the hero is Michael fox, the star of the ”back to the future” series.
The film ends in failure. Although there are many reasons, the actor's failure in casting is indeed a factor. Although there are comedy elements in the popular series back to the future, the positioning of Michael fox is more inclined to be a teen idol star. In the mid-1990s, he is an old-fashioned idol star and does not have the potential of a comedian.