How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 312 [X-Men 2] and [Fast and Furious 2]

On the red carpet of the premiere of [X-Men 2], Zhang Nan was so proud that she came to support her.

Because Bryan Singer, the director of [X-Men 2], entrusted Zhang Nan's Longbow Film and Television Fund to operate his director share contract in [X-Men 2].

Of course, there is a reason for Zhang Nan's friendship with Lenzinger in [X-Men 1], but after they did this, Zhang Nan had no choice but to come.

And if [X-Men 2] is another box office success.

Well, George Lucas's [Star Wars Prequels] trilogy series is about to end, Spielberg has begun to decline again, and James Cameron has begun to degenerate from a new beast to a decade-long grind. A sword-grinding beast.

Bryan Singer, who has built his reputation through two "X-Men" series, has the opportunity to share the resources vacated by a group of veteran directors when their energy is beginning to run out, and become one of the top players in Hollywood. Director status.

In fact, this is the path that Bryan Singer took in the original time and space.

[Superman Returns], [X-Men: The Last Stand], [X-Men: Days of Future Past], [X-Men: Apocalypse]...

These are super blockbuster movies with an investment of more than [-] million US dollars, and relying on these resources, Bryan Singer has indeed become a school of his own when Marvel Pictures did not rise, and even after Marvel Pictures rose.

Such a personal relationship is related to the director sharing contract of so many big productions, Zhang Nan can't help but think about it.

Moreover - although these movies directed by Bryan Singer are not pure multi-protagonist movies, each outstanding character is not just the protagonist, but also has many outstanding supporting roles.

Zhang Nan has a good chance of getting some film contracts just by relying on words.

Naturally, Zhang Nan himself couldn't use it, and even the supporting roles were a little less interesting to Wu Jin and Zhou Jie.

But there are still Yu Entai and Hu Ge in the mainland.

Even..., when the mainland's film and television industry continues to develop crazily in the future, the top stars and popular celebrities in domestic entertainment will make a lot of money.

For a film contract with a top Hollywood blockbuster, Zhang Nan felt that if he offered a price of [-] million, he was afraid that it was just not easy to sell, not unsaleable. After all, domestic entertainment at that time had a lot of ambitions to impact Hollywood.

Zhang Nan was thinking about his future money-making plans here. When he came to his senses, he found Odo Ryder, the president of Twentieth Century Fox, appearing in front of him.

After some pleasantries, Odolade saw the opportunity and said to Zhang Nan: "Zhang, you can't refuse the next guest appearance in the [X-Men] series."

Zhang Nan thought for a while when he heard the words.

The next [X-Men] movie is [X-Men: The Last Stand], which grossed more than 4 million U.S. dollars at the global box office, and his guest appearance is certainly worth it.

"Definitely, I will free up my schedule now." Zhang Nan replied politely.

After hearing what Zhang Nan said, Odolade felt much better. The two chatted for a while, and Zhang Nan found an excuse to leave.

Then a person next to Odolade said with some distress: "President, Zhang Nan's guest appearance salary is not cheap. The price has soared in the past two years, it is 2500 million US dollars a day, and there are two supporting roles." The film contract, if it were just a film contract, it would be close to 3000 million US dollars."

Odolade was silent for a while after hearing this. Apparently, she was also 'hurt' by the price of Zhang Nan's guest film contract.

But I also think that Warner Pictures currently has the [Harry Potter] series with a global box office of [-] billion US dollars, and Columbia Pictures has developed [Spider-Man], a series of IPs with a global box office of [-] billion US dollars.

Although the [Jurassic Park] series of Universal Pictures is no longer good, they have at least owned it; Paramount has recently discussed with Zhang Nan the release of [Doomsday Rebirth 2]; It's on a cartoon.

It can be said that among the entire Hollywood giants, only [-]th Century Fox has done nothing in the top-grossing series.

"I just told him not to refuse anymore, not that he must send out film invitations. Let's take a look at the box office of [X-Men 2] first. If it is still not ideal, then we will talk about it when the time comes." Slowly speak out your plans.
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Since it has just entered the summer vacation season, and [X-Men 2] has inherited the power of the previous [Spider-Man 1] comic book movie, it also has the fan base of the previous film [X-Men 1]. [X-Men 2] grossed US$4500 million at the box office in North America in its first week, becoming the top single-week box office hit during the North American summer vacation.

And due to the previous reasons, throughout May, there were few masterpieces to compete head-on with [X-Men 2].

Therefore, the whole of North America in May is considered to be booked by [X-Men 2].

But even so, the North American box office of [X-Men 2], nearly a month after its release, still stopped at nearly [-] million US dollars. It is estimated that the final North American box office will not be difficult to exceed [-] million US dollars, but there will be nothing higher. potential.

The global box office of [X-Men 2] is also quite satisfactory, similar to that of North America.

Therefore, the global box office of US$4 million is almost the final result of [X-Men 2].

This result cannot be considered bad. After all, compared to the cost of US$1.1 million, this wave of [X-Men 2] at least earned [-]th Century Fox nearly US$[-] million in profit.

But compared to [-]th Century Fox's idea of ​​turning the "X-Men" series into an IP similar to "Spider-Man" and other IPs with a global box office of [-] billion US dollars, it is still a bit behind.

……

[X-Men 2] is here until the end of May.

On May 5, Disney released Pixar’s latest animated film-[Finding Nemo].

On June 6, Universal Pictures released the sequel to the "Fast and the Furious" series that debuted as a dark horse at the box office in 3 - "Fast and the Furious 2001" on the North American summer vacation.

This film has guest appearances by Li Jiaxin and Xiao Jew, and Zhang Nan has received money from Universal, so he has to attend the premiere.

Then--

Although "Fast and Furious 8600", which cost US$2 million, did not continue to replicate the dark horse momentum of its predecessor, it also scored US$3200 million at the box office in North America in its first week, and the overseas box office trend is also relatively stable.

In the end, it should not be difficult for the global box office of "Fast and Furious 2" to exceed [-] million US dollars.

Zhang Nan, the most faceless guest guest, is actually quite satisfied with the box office results of "Fast and Furious 2".

Not so with Universal Pictures.

Because compared to the 1 million investment of the previous film [Fast and Furious 4600], the global box office was [-] million US dollars.

In the sequel [Fast and Furious 2], Universal invested almost double the production cost, but the box office situation did not change much.

Isn't this equivalent to spending more money, but getting the same thing done?

then--

Universal Pictures decisively announced that it will change directors again for the "Fast and Furious" series and sent invitations to directors across Hollywood.

After Zhang Nan heard the news, he directly sent Lin Yishan, who had already signed under his command, to Universal Pictures to start the relationship, and asked whether Lin Yishan could win the directing right of the [Fast and Furious] series, very confident.

Because in the original space and time, Lin Yishan started his career with the "Fast and Furious" series. At that time, Lin Yishan got this opportunity without his help. Now with his help, the probability of failure is very low.

(End of this chapter)