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Chapter 313 [Fake God] [Hulk] [Terminator 3]

6 month 5 day.

Jim Carrey's latest comedy masterpiece "Fake God" has landed in North America.

As the leader of North American comedy movies in recent years, Jim Carrey's "Fake God" has been widely sought after by movie fans as soon as it was released.

It grossed nearly 6000 million U.S. dollars at the box office in North America in its first week, making it even more popular than the previous visual effects blockbuster [X-Men 1.1] in which 2th Century Fox invested [-] million U.S. dollars in production fees.

You must know that "Fake God" includes Jim Carrey's salary of over 2000 million US dollars, and the total investment is only 7600 million.

And this also reflects Jim Carrey's appeal in comedy movies.

But Zhang Nan knows that this is Jim Carrey's final peak period.

Because Jim Carrey has been popular in Hollywood for more than ten years. Now he is the first 'member' in Hollywood's prestigious 2000 million US dollar fixed salary club.

In addition, comedy is a type of film that tends to put an artist's mentality into perspective. This can be seen from the fact that many comedy superstars are silent and depressed.

More than ten years of experience in the industry have taken a toll on Jim Carrey's talent and mentality.

And in the coming period, even if Jim Carrey can maintain the quality of his comedies, all of them will sell hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.

However, the movie trend in Hollywood has begun to change, and the magnitude of movie box office has also undergone major changes with inflation.

With a global box office of hundreds of millions of dollars, it may be able to rank among Hollywood's annual top ten before the turn of the millennium.

But after the millennium, it becomes a little more difficult.

……

If we say [X-Men 5] on May 2, it is the first shot of the North American summer vacation.

Then the outstanding box office performance of Jim Carrey's "Fake God" tells everyone that the North American summer holiday season has become hotter, like a charge trumpet.

then……

6 month 20 day.

A comic-book superhero movie jointly produced by Universal Pictures and Marvel - [The Incredible Hulk] has made its debut.

Seeing how popular the comic book movies of [-]th Century Fox are, Columbia, a follower of the trend, is even better than its predecessors, and Warner Pictures, which is around them, has also begun to get involved.

Naturally, Universal Pictures will not let go of this subject, and directly cooperates with Marvel, which is as famous as DC.

The director chose Li An, who had previously won many Oscar awards with "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

……

"Zhang, Universal Pictures and Director Li An have both sent invitations to the premiere. Shall we go?"

In the office, Old Luke took the time to ask Zhang Nan, who was discussing the plot of "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron" with Peter Jackson.

Zhang Nan heard this and asked: "I was invited to the premiere. Did you say hello to me when you turned on the show?"

"That's not it."

Old Luke shook his head, but then added: "I don't have any here anyway."

"That is, you want to use my fame for nothing, but you don't want to pay the price. Don't tell me about this kind of thing in the future, and you will refuse." Zhang Nan gave the final answer.

To be honest, as the investor and publisher of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Zhang Nan helped Li An a lot in the beginning, and Li An owed Zhang Nan a favor.

But Zhang Nan didn't get any information from Li An about the preparation, start-up, finalization, etc. of the entire [Hulk] project.

This can show that Li An wants to have nothing to do with Zhang Nan regarding the Hulk project.

The main reason is probably that Zhang Nan is afraid of inserting people into the Hulk project.

After all, Zhang Nan likes to stuff people into the crew, which is already an anecdote in Hollywood.

It can be said that Li'an's operation is a bit ungrateful.But fortunately, Zhang Nan had already understood Li'an's character and invested in the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon project just to share in its original success.

After all, it’s impossible for a guy who can turn a spy movie into a reed without being ungrateful.

But at the same time, Zhang Nan was also happy that Li An was ungrateful to him regarding [Hulk].

Because the box office results of this film were quite unimpressive.

……

a week later.

[The Incredible Hulk]’s first-week box office is out—3200 million U.S. dollars.

At first glance, this result seems to be not bad, similar to [Fast and Furious 2].

But the investment in "Hulk" was as high as 1.37 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office of more than 2 million U.S. dollars was simply not enough to recoup the investment.

and.

This is during the summer vacation, which is notoriously fiercely competitive at the box office.

This is not.

Seeing that the box office of [The Incredible Hulk] was not so good in the first week, Warner immediately moved the classic super masterpiece [Terminator 3] originally scheduled to be released in mid-July to July 7nd.

Therefore, "Hulk", which originally had average box office performance, suffered a heavy beating from "Terminator 3" the next week, and its box office fell directly like Waterloo.

Let’s put it this way, according to this trend, the total box office of [Hulk] in North America is lower than the production fee of [Hulk].

This is a very serious consequence.

What ended up happening was that the Hulk movie ruined Li An's reputation in Hollywood and made it impossible for him to survive in Hollywood.

……

7 month 9 day.

Disney's theme movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" to promote the latest project of its own park - Pirate Ship - was released.

The premiere was a big scene, and many people came.

However, many people do not have high expectations for the box office of this movie. After all, the subject matter is too biased.

What Zhang Nan didn't expect was that Wu Baige, who had been sitting around and motionless since the failure of "Wind Talker", actually came to the red carpet of "Pirates of the Caribbean" this time, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Old Wu, are you coming out?"

Zhang Nan asked with a curious tone.

Hearing this, Wu Baige smoothed his hair with his hands and said with a wide grin: "People, you have to look forward. Besides, this is not the first time I have encountered something like Waterloo. The reason why this time The main reason why I have been resting for so long is because I have been working hard for these years and I also want to relax and take a break."

"So are you ready to rest now?"

"It's time to rest."

"Then you have to start operating the contracts for the three TV series and two movies we signed!" Zhang Nantu said in an indifferent tone.

Wu Baige didn't care when he heard this, "No problem, after the premiere is over, I will go back and start preparing the project."

Seeing that Wu Baige was so passionate, Zhang Nan left quite satisfied, but he always felt something was wrong.

Because Zhang Nan had called Wu Baige two days ago. Compared with the current situation, Zhang Nan was completely different from the two people. Even through the phone, Zhang Nan could feel the low pressure and negative energy. state.

But Zhang Nan's requirements for Wu Baige were not high, as long as he could work, so he didn't think much about it.

(End of this chapter)