You don't understand the happiness of the director

Chapter 265 The Aftermath of King Quan (1, Guaranteed Monthly Pass)

"Twilight 2" is almost 7.6 million in the end, not much more.

It's a pity that North America is not as good as "Twilight 2" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4". , the results have been fixed.

As for the current North American annual box office champion "The Dark Knight", due to the impact of "The Ninth District" and other high-profile new films, North America's breakthrough of 7.5 million has become a failure, but the global box office has reached [-] million, and there are several markets that have not yet been released. Maybe Warner is still in PR.

Therefore, the final ranking of these three films on the annual global box office list is really difficult to determine. The suspense lies in the Dark Knight.

This means that the box office in mainland China is not strong now, otherwise, with the appeal of King Quan, "Twilight 2" will definitely win the top spot.

Now there are only 3 movies with a global box office of more than 10 billion knives, "Titanic", "Lord of the Rings 3", and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", but there are basically a few movies every year in later generations, among which the Chinese market has contributed a lot .

But Dorothy is already very satisfied. Now that "Escape Room 2" has been released, there is no suspense that the box office performance will surpass the first one.

Although it was not directed by Wang Quan, the surprise resurrection of Wang Quan's girlfriend Gadot became a highlight of the film. Before the film was released, there was no disclosure at all, so the audience was surprised enough after seeing it. This trick was learned from the future Suji, but Resurrection is more reasonable.

After two years, the real-life escape room has become a popular game around the world. As long as the game is popular, they can eat this series as long as possible.

Moreover, in-depth cooperation with Boss Hou's offline game store saves a lot of promotional fees for the film and at the same time earns a lot of derivative income other than the box office.

Dorothy said with a smile that they can continue to eat this series, it can be regarded as the company's pension series, but how to shoot the third part is a little bit expensive for the screenwriter.

Wang Quan felt that the pension capital of the dragon was not enough. Recently, a new book called "The Hunger Games" appeared on the market, and he asked Lafite to buy it. Like "Twilight", he held the entire copyright of the entire series.

After I left, whether the dragon can keep his head up or not, this novel is very critical. Although there are still two years left, King Quan has already started to make preparations, and the two years will pass in a flash.

Illumination Entertainment is also an insurance that Wang Quan left for Long Hei. During this time, he went to Illumination Entertainment. The production of "Despicable Me" (Despicable Me) has passed halfway, and it is expected to be released in 2010.

The production cycle of animated films is generally very long. In order to allow Illumination Entertainment to release new films every year, Wang Quan agreed with Illumination Entertainment to launch a new project "The Story of Old Reese" before the results of "Despicable Me" were finalized.

Lighting is a good player in cost control, and the budget is basically maintained at 7000 to [-] million.

But even so, it is not something that this small company can afford independently, so the funds are basically provided by the king.

Although Wang Quan only holds [-]% of the company's shares, he can share more than half of the money he makes in the end.

Just at this time, Lehman Brothers, one of the four major investment banks, filed for bankruptcy, indicating that the subprime mortgage crisis has evolved into a global financial crisis.

Wang Quan's WT hedge fund followed his preset route and led the bigwigs on board to continue harvesting wealth. Wang Quan has more and more money in his hands, and it's time to find a way to spend some of it.

Most of the money can only stay in the United States, and it would be nice to be able to bring a small part of it back to China.

The part of the money brought back to China is now being turned into brand new theaters across Asia, the special effects base of Butian Films, and shares in some potential domestic companies, especially Internet companies.

These allow King Quan to make movies with peace of mind without any worries.

On the weekend, at an AMC movie theater, Wang Quan and Jia Duo were watching the new film "The King of Power" by the dragon. They not only saw the opening animation of the dragon, but also saw the logo of the long-lost Golden Harvest Films.

The director is the director of "Sin City", and it's not the first time he and the heroine Jessica Alba have worked together.

However, the movie mainly focuses on the male protagonist Dashi Johnson who has trained his muscles to the peak of his career, and the actresses are just embellishments.

Wang Quan almost forgot that he had slept with Jessica Alba, and wrapped his arms around Gadot and immersed himself in a beautiful love atmosphere.

This kind of feeling is really good. It is not in the "film library", and can only be watched in reality. At this time, Wang Quan will be more motivated to watch movies. As for other movies that can be watched in the movie library, he is more inclined to save time in the movie library.

Even a female warrior like Gadot keeps frowning when watching this movie, it's too bloody, too brutal, too...exciting!
When Dorothy supervised the post-editing, she was always worried that the movie would be rated as NC-17 (adult level, audiences under 17 years old are prohibited from watching), and she was even ready to be beaten back to cut some bloody scenes Intend.

Fortunately, in the end, it was successfully passed with an R rating (restricted rating), thanks to the fact that the director did not shoot according to the original version of the Hong Kong film. If it really slaps the brain and intestines, the reviewers may really kill it.

As a commercial film, the NC-17 rating is almost equivalent to the death penalty. Not only is it a problem that people under the age of 17 cannot watch it, but it is also almost restricted in terms of publicity.

The movie theater screening also means that it is impossible to release it on a large scale, and the derivative income after the painting is released in theaters is also very small, so NC-17 is something only artists are willing to do, and businessmen will never do this kind of loss-making business.

Since the grading system was established in North America, the highest-grossing NC-17 class is "Showgirls" in 95. In North America, it was only 2000 million dollars. No.2 "Love in Juneflower" was only 1000 million dollars, and there are no more than [-] million dollars below. of.

No.5 is "Lust, Caution" with 560 million dollars, and the world's highest-grossing NC-17 film is also "Lust, Caution", with a global gross of 6700 million dollars.

The largest market is of course the mainland of China, and the second largest market is unexpectedly, the country of kimchi, with a total of 1050 million knives, so it is not without reason that the country of kimchi likes Tang Wei.

After Wang Quan and Jia Duo watched the movie, the first weekend box office of "The King of Power" was released the next day, 1850 million, which is not too high, but it should be no problem to pay back (2600 million dollars budget), the key is that the word-of-mouth is quite good outstanding.

"Hollywood Reporter" commented that this movie is the most visually impactful violent movie after "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta", even worse. This is definitely the movie that lovers of plasma movies should not miss. I don't know the next time. How many more years to wait.

The "Los Angeles Times" believes that only Dashi Johnson can be convincing when he appears in this movie, and Johnson, who showed his bald head for the first time, is simply a woman's hormone. I would like to solemnly recommend this movie to women Audience, please enjoy your high nest in the cinema!
After the American version of "The King of Power" was successful in the North American market, it immediately began to be screened in Asia, and Xiangjiang translated it as "The King of Power".

As the box office performance of movies continues to rise, the share price of Golden Harvest Films, which is the co-producer, is also rising steadily.

When Wang Quan took over the offer, the total market value was only over 70 million yuan. Although Wang Quan now only holds more than [-]% of the shares, the value of this part of the shares alone is more than one billion yuan, and a lot of money has been taken in the middle.

"The King of Power" must have missed the mainland market, but before the National Day file, Qiankun delayed the release of "The Ninth District" in mid-September, which achieved a very high reputation and a good box office. Mainland audiences want to watch "The King of Power", Either wait for a pirated version, or you can only go to Xiangjiang.

Of course, the king of the National Day file is still a domestic film. "Painted Skin" starring Zhen Zidan, Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, and Zhao V easily broke [-] million, and [-] million is not impossible.

The mainland media said that they still have to be the four little stars. Although the post-85 Yang Mi and Liu Yifei are fierce, Yang Mi's "Crazy Supermarket" is less than 5000 million, and Liu Yifei's "I heard" is only more than [-] million.

"Their influence is mainly in the field of TV dramas, and their influence in movies is still insufficient."

Seeing this sentence in the newspaper, Yang Mi became angry, "Can this be the same? How much did you invest in "Painted Skin"? I only invested a few dollars in "Supermarket". What is there in Supermarket, and they are two heroines, if the two heroines are [-] million, it is equivalent to one heroine is only [-] million, it is not very strong, if I join hands with Sissy..."

Seeing that Yang Mi stopped in the middle of her speech, Concubine Liu Yi asked, "What will happen?"

Yang Mi, "If we join forces, I'll be the one!"

Concubine Liu Yi thought she was going to say something, so she said "Oh" indifferently.

But her assistant Zhuzhu refused, "Sister Mi, why should we, Sister Fei, bow down to you?"

Obviously Sister Fei is more popular now!
Yang Mi, "Because I am the capital, I will definitely invest in the movies I participated in. Isn't it normal for the funder's father to put some money in it?"

"Shouldn't it be decided according to the number of roles and importance!"

Yang Mi, "Then I'll ask the screenwriter to make my role more important, won't it be fine? Is this difficult?"

Zhuzhu was furious, "Sister, let's be capitalists too! Capitalists are so annoying!"

Concubine Liu Yi laughed, and put down the original English version of "The Hunger Games" in her hand, "I just don't want to cooperate with her, she won't be mad at me."

At this time, they were guests at Yang Mi's new home, and Yang Mi was very dissatisfied with her pretentious behavior of bringing books to read when she came as a guest, "My home is so beautiful, can you stop reading books?"

"Oh, I've seen more than half of it, and I'll finish it soon, I can't help it."

"So pretty?"

"Well, Wang Quan recommended it. By the way, don't you have to go to class today?" Concubine Liu Yi closed the book and wondered, it's Monday, why is she so free during the day.

Yang Mi, "The teachers in our school have basically asked for leave, and went to Shanghai to attend Director Xie's memorial service."

Concubine Liu Yi suddenly realized that Mount Tai of Chinese-language movies has fallen. Director Xie Jin passed away a week ago at the age of 85. This time, there is no Song Zude spraying manure. ", Director Xie walked very gracefully.

People he worked with, cultivated, influenced, and almost everyone in the film industry attended the memorial service. Party and state leaders also sent wreaths, and tens of thousands of movie fans organized to send him a funeral. Procedure.

Yang Mi said with emotion, "If brother Quan died, he should be able to be so beautiful."

Concubine Liu Yi shook her head, "He has never made a Chinese film, and he hasn't collaborated much with mainland actors. In theory, he is still a Hollywood filmmaker. Even if he dies, there won't be so many colleagues in China to send him off."

"Who says he's going to die now? Did Concubine Liu Yi curse my Brother Quan? I'm talking about the future, when he's in his fifties or sixties."

Concubine Liu Yi, "Who is cursing him? Isn't that word seventy and eighty!"

Yang Mi, "Don't they say that sex is a bone-scraping knife? I feel that Brother Quan's body won't last that long."

Concubine Liu Yi thought for a while, "It's not unreasonable for you to say that."

Then the two looked at each other and smiled.

Zhu Zhu was stunned when he heard it, did the two of you hate Director Wang so much, that you could already discuss what happened to Director Wang calmly?
Wang Quan also knew about Director Xie Jin's memorial service, and he entrusted his teacher Xie Fei to send his wreath couplet, like their generation of film students, who hasn't pulled "The Garland Under the Mountain" when they are filming? Dao Xie deserves the name of a master.

It's a pity that the time when Director Xie was active did not give him the opportunity to go out. When there are more exchanges between Chinese and foreign films, he will have passed the peak of his creation.

Wang Quan still spends most of his time in post-processing, spending weekends and evenings with his girlfriend and Dorothy, but Gadot is also busy during this time.

"007: Quantum of Solace" is about to be released, which will be a very important work in her acting career, a film that can spread her influence to the world.

This film will be released first in European countries such as Britain and France, and then in Asian countries. On the contrary, it will be released later in North America, just at the same time as "Slumdog Millionaire".

The media has already figured out how to hype it up, couples arena, couples PK.

But it’s not actually a PK. 007 is released on a large scale and is the top card in the November schedule. Although "Slum" has the box office credit endorsement of King Quan, but Boss Tao also thinks about the long-term flow, and while chasing various awards, he released it on a small scale Arouse the curiosity of the audience and judges.

So the two films are not actually competing at all.

Wang Quan sent Gadot away, and then he successfully completed the post-production work of "Twilight Saga 3", but Taylor was a little upset when he saw him during the recording of the episode. Maybe it was because of Wang Quan's announcement of his relationship. For this matter, Taylor Swift also completely gave up on him. Although she didn't tear her face, she also created a very good new song.

Next, Wang Quan can concentrate on "Inception". Some time ago, he produced a rough cut version with no special effects, no soundtrack, and green screens everywhere for trial screenings. The response was not bad, and the audience could understand it. What barriers to watching movies, then OK, you can fine-tune on the basis of this version.

Another very important thing happened during this period. The presidential election in the United States came to an end, and a candidate with half black blood was successfully elected.

On November 11, the sixth work "Slumdog Millionaire" directed by Wang Quan was released, and the box office hit 12 yuan on the first day!
(End of this chapter)