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Chapter 405 [300 Spartans] in Spring

When the preliminary preparations for "Rebirth 2" were on track, Zhang Nan gave up and returned to North America.

After Zhang Nan arrived in North America, the 2th Oscars, which had been advanced to February, also concluded successfully.

Once again, DiCaprio accompanied him on the run and passed by the actor's Oscar winner.

And compared to "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Brokeback Mountain", the last Oscar had a particularly high content.

The content of this year’s Oscars has plummeted.

Of course.

It doesn't mean that it is completely gone. If it is forced to be involved, it can be involved.

For example, "The Departed" is an adaptation of "The Departed"!
It also won a statuette for Best Director.

……

[Avatar] crew.

After Zhang Nan joined the team, he finished filming the character's personal scenes in two days.

It's not that Zhang Nan's performance was so good, there was no NG once. The main reason is that the entire "Avatar" movie focuses on the incarnation of the protagonist, 'Avatar'.

Then Zhang Nan entered the performance life wearing a green tights, with sensor patches on her face and body, and a facial recognition camera on her head.

The most important thing is that more than 90.00% of the scenes were shot indoors in front of a green screen, and Zhang Nan performed completely into the void.

This made Zhang Nan a little unbearable.

"James, these are all performances like this. You don't have to spend 2.4 million US dollars to hire me to be the protagonist. Just let me play a guest role as a human being. You can find this kind of dynamic capture and CG synthetic mimicry performance at will." A special effects actor is enough, but after post-processing, the face can’t be seen.” Zhang Nan complained to James Cameron after another performance.

These words may be of some use to others.

But for James Cameron, it was completely useless.

After all, James Cameron was the guy who spent huge sums of money to create original tableware when filming "Titanic".

really.

James Cameron shook his head seriously when he heard this, "No, if the same character is replaced by another person, the audience will be able to feel the difference. That would be irresponsible for the movie."

"But there is a difference between a human protagonist and an Avatar protagonist!" Zhang Nan continued to argue unconvinced.

James Cameron did not give in at all, "But the difference is not so big as to change a soul."

The two were arguing here, which attracted the attention of Jon Landau, the second producer of the [Avatar] project.

Yes, there are two producers on the [Avatar] project.

The first producer is naturally James Cameron, and the second producer is Jon Landau, an executive at [-]th Century Fox Pictures.

After experiencing the expensive sunk cost operation played by James Cameron on "Titanic".

Twentieth Century Fox Pictures no longer dared to put a movie entirely in the hands of James Cameron. It had to send someone to supervise it, and Jon Landau came into the team with this task.

Regarding the argument between Zhang Nan and James Cameron, Jon Landau didn't care at first, but his eyes lit up as he listened.

Because he found that according to Zhang Nan, it is really feasible to invite Zhang Nan to star in "Avatar" as a guest star.

After all, he was watching from the side when Zhang Nan was filming the scenes involving the protagonist.It only takes two days in total.

If we calculate based on Zhang Nan's current guest appearance price of 3000 million U.S. dollars for eight hours, then 6000 million U.S. dollars would be enough.

Compared with the fixed salary of US$2.4 million, that is a saving of US$1.8 million!

Moreover, the fixed remuneration is still a small amount, and the bulk of it is Zhang Nan's 40.00% box office share in the "Avatar" project!

But at this time, Jon Landau didn't say anything, but silently wrote down this idea, planning to mention this idea to the board of directors of 2th Century Fox Pictures when "Avatar [-]" is released in the future.

Yes.

Although [Avatar 1] has not yet been released, there are already signs of preparations for [Avatar 2].

Without it.

After all, the US$5 million production cost was actually spent. If it was just for one movie, [-]th Century Fox Pictures would never agree to it.

Therefore, when preparing for "Avatar", [-]th Century Fox issued an unchangeable hard condition to James Cameron - the male protagonist cannot die.

……

With the end of the winter season in North America, the spring season in North America has arrived.

3 month 9 day.

"300", produced and distributed by Warner Pictures and directed by Zack Snyder, was released.

To be honest, Warner Pictures has little confidence in "300".

After all, the trend of epic historical blockbusters in Hollywood started with "Gladiator" in 2000. After five years, it had already weakened by the time of "Celestial Kingdom" in 2005.

Warner Pictures spent 6500 million US dollars to invest in this "300", just to make a small profit. It hopes that through the success of "300", it can redeem some of the failure of "Superman Returns".

But the result was far beyond Warner Pictures' expectations.

On its first day of release on Friday, "300" grossed US$3103 million in 2810.6 theaters, with an average of US$9057 per theater.

The next Saturday, "300" once again made a single-day box office of US$2468 million.

When the time came to Sunday, [300] still scored a single-day box office of 1809.7 million US dollars.

The cumulative box office in the first three days exceeded US$6000 million, directly topping the North American single-week box office rankings.

The box office performance of "300" disappointed many people who felt that European and American epic historical movies were weak.

因为【斯巴达300勇士】这首周6000万美金的票房，将【斯巴达300勇士】的北美预测票房给烘托到了1.8亿至2.4亿美金之间，将全球票房给烘托到了3.6亿至4.8亿之间。

This figure is comparable to "Gladiator", which brought about the rise of European and American epic historical blockbusters, because "Gladiator" only had a global box office of US$4.65 million.

Warner Pictures is watching "300" take over the box office in the movie market with both joy and annoyance.

I am delighted that "300" has performed so well at the box office, but I am upset that "300" was not released during the summer vacation.

Because the spring season in March is different from the winter season in November and February, the box office limit for the spring season is locked.

After all, the winter season has absorbed a lot of box office potential, and there is still a wolf-like summer season waiting there, so it is naturally in a malnourished period.

(End of this chapter)