How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 783 Dwayne Johnson: Never get paid Vin Diesel:...

3 month 30 day.

When the three movies "Pacific Rim 2", "Tomb Raider: Origins" and "Black Panther" competed for more than two weeks, they all showed decline.

Spielberg is back with his new game "Ready Player One".

Because of the project "Ready Player One", it not only has Spielberg's personal box office appeal, but also has various world-renowned IPs.

So for a while, [Ready Player One] made a lot of noise.

And Zhang Nan also played a role in the copyright issue of [Ready Player One].

Not only did he get some share of the movie, he also got a Neon latest generation car from Neon.

It's easy to eat and get, and the connection is so deep, Zhang Nan naturally attended the premiere of "Ready Player One".

However, although "Ready Player One" has great momentum, the data reflected in the box office is a bit ugly.

On its first day in North America, it only took in a box office of US$1194.6 million.

It is not as good as the box office of 8569.06 million yuan on the first day in mainland China, which is about more than million yuan and close to million US dollars.

It can only be said that Spielberg, who is already in his seventies, is indeed a bit stretched in terms of box office appeal.

Then the Mainland Film Market is fine.

We didn’t take advantage of Ready Player One’s lackluster first-day box office numbers to add insult to injury.

"Ready Player One" was still given a two-week independent screening environment in the mainland - of course, there is also the reason why March and April are the original film introduction period.

But North American film markets are not as particular as mainland film markets.

Seeing the decline of "Ready Player One", a horror movie - "A Quiet Place" was immediately released the week after "Ready Player One".

And we haven't even waited for "A Quiet Place" to be released for two weeks and "Ready Player One" to be released for three weeks.

Another movie "Rampage" starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, it will be released in the two major movie markets of Mainland China and North America at the same time.

It can be said that throughout late March and early to mid-April, the mainland and North American film markets seemed quite chaotic.

But this is normal.

Because summer vacation is about to begin here in North America.

As for this year's North American summer vacation, there are already three films that have the potential to gross a billion dollars in global box office: "Fast and Furious 8", "Avengers 3" and "The Legend of Sauron".

Then Tom Cruise restarted "Mission: Impossible 6" after the failure of other projects.

Faced with such a strong summer vacation package, producers large and small in North America are not very willing to get involved.

But the project in hand needs to be screened as early as possible, so naturally I will do it when I get the opportunity.

……

[Fast and Furious 8], which was originally scheduled to be released in early April, was postponed to mid-April.

The reasons for procrastination are complex.

Mainly due to the efforts of Marvel Studios, "Avengers 3" has completed the simultaneous release of Mainland China and North America, the world's two major movie markets, on May 5.

When Universal Pictures saw Marvel Studios engaging in this kind of operation, they started to act like cats and tigers.

将【速度与激情8】也给弄成了内地和北美两大影市同步上映，并且在时间上还早了【复仇者联盟3】的5月11日一步，提前到了4月21日，弄的漫威影业高管们气的够呛。

Such changes will naturally delay some schedules.

The secondary reason was the hard lobbying of Dwayne Johnson, one of the important supporting actors in "Fast and Furious 8".

After all, "Rampage" starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is also scheduled to be released in early April.

If this were to happen with "Fast and Furious 8", Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson knows very well that it would be a complete match.

However, despite Dwayne Johnson's hard lobbying, the release date of "Fast and Furious 8" was only postponed from early April to mid-April, only one week later than "Rampage".

Fortunately, this week is enough for [Raging Behemoth].

Because "Rampage" has not replicated the momentum of the previous "Jumanji: Jungle Fight" with a global box office of nearly one billion US dollars. The single-day box office of the first three days exceeded 10 million US dollars, with a total box office of more than 35 million US dollars.

The single-day box office of "Rampage" in North America the following week dropped to one to two million US dollars.

Such box office results will not have much influence on [Fast and Furious 8].

After all, it is just like the test for poor students. No matter how difficult the test paper is, the result will not be much different.

However, the box office performance of "Rampage" cannot be said to be a blockbuster.

Because based on the box office of more than 3.3 million US dollars in the first three days in North America and the box office of 4 million yuan in the first three days of the mainland movie market, the global box office of "Rampage" will probably be around million US dollars.

Such achievements, for a project like "Rampage" with a production fee of only 1.2 million US dollars, which can reach an A-level million yuan production, it has already paid back its investment and made a small profit.

……

4 month 21 day.

[Fast and Furious 8] held its premiere.

However, [Fast and Furious 8] did not only hold its world premiere in the mainland like [Voldemort 3], but held premieres simultaneously in the mainland, North America and Europe.

Zhang Nan doesn't know the magic of clones, so naturally he only attended the Mainland premiere of "Fast and Furious 8" which was the most convenient and most suitable for his status.

However, what Zhang Nan did not expect was that Dwayne Johnson did not attend the premiere of "Fast and Furious 8" in North America, but traveled across the ocean to attend the premiere of "Fast and Furious 8" in the Mainland.

Oh!
Not only The Rock is here, but Vin Diesel is also here.

“Big Rock, congratulations.

First there was "Jumanji" with a global box office of over 900 million US dollars, then "Jumanji" which is about to reach over 100 million US dollars, and finally "Rampage" which will probably have a global box office of 400 to 500 million US dollars.

Now if I want to find you to star in a project, I'm afraid it won't work if you don't have a salary of 20 million US dollars! "Zhang Nan took the lead and said to Dwayne Johnson who came all the way.

After hearing Zhang Nan's words, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson first smiled broadly, and then hurriedly said: "Zhang, that's how you treat others. For your project, I can always get zero pay."

Vin Diesel on the side was stunned when he heard what The Rock said. He was obviously shocked.

Without it.

At the beginning, Vin Diesel did not want to attend the premiere of "Fast and Furious 8" in the mainland. He planned to attend the premiere of "Fast and Furious 8" in North America.

This is also human nature. There is no way to seek the far away at the expense of the near.

But Vin Diesel accidentally saw the box office of "Rampage", and thought of the fire of "Jumanji: Jungle Fight", so he wanted to go to the North American premiere of "Fast and Furious 8" with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson The red carpet of the wedding ceremony, grab some heat.

As a result, I called and learned that Dwayne Johnson did not plan to attend the North American premiere of "Fast and Furious 8", but decided to attend the mainland premiere of "Fast and Furious 8".

For this unconventional answer, Vin Diesel is not stupid either.

In an instant, he guessed Dwayne Johnson's purpose - he wanted to make a bright appearance in front of Zhang Nan.

It would have been okay in the past. Even if he knew The Rock's purpose, Vin Diesel wouldn't have any ideas.

But now...

Dwayne Johnson, a latecomer to the "Fast and Furious" series, has already relied on Zhang Nan's guidance to first star in "Jumanji: The Jungle", which grossed more than 900 million US dollars worldwide, and then starred in "Fury", which is currently gaining momentum. Behemoth].

How could Vin Diesel not have some ideas, and even feel a little enlightened, and immediately decided to follow Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to the mainland premiere of "Fast and Furious 8".

But what Vin Diesel didn't expect was.

He asked himself how often he had seen people who flattered others in the vanity fair of Hollywood.

But I never thought that a person as skilled as Dwayne Johnson could say such flattering words.

Always zero pay.

If you put more effort into flattering others, you would at least gain a few more pounds of muscle and your career would be even more prosperous.

Oh no.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's career is so popular now, it seems that he just shot the right person.

(End of this chapter)