hollywood melon man

Chapter 555 Complex Problems

In an abandoned hangar far away in Nevada, the crew of "Iron Man" was filming here.

The interior of the hangar has been converted into a cave, and the scene where Tony Stark built the Mark I was filmed here.

Three cameras were set up in different corners, focusing on the decadent man with a strange light on his chest.

He was seen holding a hammer and repeatedly hitting the metal block in his hand. At this time, not to mention terrorists, even if God and Satan came together, they could not stop him from making Mark I.

Robert Downey Jr.'s experience is similar to Tony Stark's in some ways.

As Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in the 1990s, he was perfectly suited to the role.

"Looks good," Jennifer Connelly said after finishing the promotion of "Batman Begins", she took a break and occasionally attended commercial events.

Taking advantage of my free time, I came to Nevada to visit the set and watch the first movie produced by Cameron Diaz without Gilbert Jr. as a producer.

Cameron Diaz said: "He should understand that this opportunity is rare and the scenes in the cave were very tiring, but he didn't complain."

Jennifer Connelly thinks this is normal: "Yes, it's a rare opportunity. This is a big production with an investment of 1.3 million US dollars. It doesn't happen every day!"

After the morning scenes were over, Jennifer Connelly had lunch with the crew. Both women didn't eat much, just a vegetable salad and some fruit.

In order to maintain my figure, I hardly eat meat, at most some fish or something.

The two chatted while eating, and Jennifer Connelly said: "Batman Begins has earned 2 million U.S. dollars in North America, and it has reached the end.

The global box office also reached 6 million US dollars, which met the expectations of Warner Pictures. "

"But it didn't meet the media's expectations," Cameron Diaz continued. "I guess The Washington Post will say that the bastard has gone downhill again. It's ridiculous."

Little Gilbert, collectively known as that bastard, is the nickname that women privately give to Little Gilbert.

A section of the media is indeed acting as Cameron Diaz said, once again promoting the argument that Gilbert Jr. is on the decline.

But anyone with a clear mind knows that "Batman Begins" cannot be called a failure in any way, it is even a huge success.

Why do I say that? Because before Gilbert Jr., the series was stagnant. It was Gilbert Jr. who revived the Batman IP. Otherwise, it would take many more years for Batman to enter the audience's field of vision again.

而2亿9442万美元这个票房，也暂时位列北美年度票房第二名。第一名是取得3亿8300万的《星战前传3：西斯的复仇》，暂时没有影片可以威胁到他的地位。

Other films released this year include The Chronicles of Narnia, King Kong and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

"The Chronicles of Narnia" stars Anne Hathaway, "King Kong" stars Naomi Watts, and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is produced by Cantaloupe Studios. They are all films worth looking forward to.

Far away in China, the joint delegation of Disney and Warner reached an agreement with the local authorities in Shanghai and signed a contract. Starting next year, Disney-Warner Theme Park will be officially built in Shanghai and is scheduled to open in 2010.

This is the world's first Disney-Warner Park, and it was Gilbert Jr. who drove the project and plan.

Because of Gilbert Jr., Disney and Warner Bros. have a very close cooperative relationship with each other, and have now reached an agreement on the theme park project.

Disneyland is undoubtedly a well-known brand all over the world. The large number of copyrights and well-known animation characters owned by Disney are also the reasons why Disneyland is so popular all over the world.

In comparison, Warner is much inferior, but it is not nothing either.

At the very least, if Disney wants to build a Harry Potter Magic Town, it cannot do so without Warner's consent. And Warner Pictures also has the copyrights of many well-known characters and IPs, which are also valuable. So after a long period of tug-of-war and negotiation, the two sides finally reached an agreement to jointly build a Disney-Warner theme park to see the effect.

The address of this first theme park is in Shanghai.

At first, senior executives from Disney and Warner were skeptical whether the Disney-Warner Theme Park could make a profit in Shanghai. After all, consumption in the theme park is not cheap and the surrounding areas are also expensive.

Can these stingy Chinese people spare so much spare money to spend?

But Gilbert Jr. dispelled the executives' concerns, saying that the economy was developing and Shanghai was not much worse than world-famous cities such as New York and Paris.

Moreover, China's economic strength is growing at an exaggerated rate. I cannot say about other places, but there are definitely many people in Shanghai who can afford to consume.

Besides, the purpose of a theme park project has never been to make a profit through the theme park.

The Disneyland in Paris has been making losses for years, but Disney has not closed the park. Instead, it continues to increase investment, which is puzzling.

Ultimately, it is because of the brand effect and the promotion of surrounding products.

This may not be very useful in China. There will be a brand effect, but there is no hope for peripheral products that are flooded with pirated copies.

The main topic of this negotiation was the issue of piracy. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to control this issue, and the Chinese side also had some concerns, so the results were not very good.

Sometimes, the people over there are quite defensive.

For example, Hollywood has been committed to establishing a film rating system there, rather than relying entirely on the will of the big scissors, and it is unclear what the standards are.

As the market there expanded, calls for reform grew louder, but they remained unmoved.

Minister Tian did reveal something during his conversation with Gilbert Jr. Some people believe that once the rating system is implemented, some unhealthy works will be imported and affect Chinese audiences.

This is indeed true, but from Hollywood's perspective, they naturally hope that there will be no censorship and that Hollywood movies should be allowed to be released freely.

All I can say is that the butt determines the head, and sometimes little Gilbert is also annoyed by the review of the big scissors.

He was also worried about whether "The Last of Us" could be released there. After all, it was a post-apocalyptic movie where morality and law collapsed.

According to Lao Tian, ​​since it is the end of the world, doesn’t that mean we are gone too? This is absolutely unacceptable.

Based on such absurd reasons, it is very likely that The Last of Us will not be able to enter the market there. If this is true, it is probably the first time that Gilbert's film has not been able to enter the market there.

Although the box office contribution there is limited, a small amount of money is still meat.

Moreover, audiences need to be cultivated. Without more movies released, more audiences will not recognize him.

However, there are some things that cannot be influenced or changed by human power. The movie has already been filmed, and little Gilbert can’t change the plot on the spot!
You know what, if it was filmed the way they did, it wouldn't be a father-daughter relationship, but a very sci-fi story of all mankind uniting to face the virus together.

Ellie and Joel said goodbye painfully. Ellie accepted the experiment for the sake of the overall situation. Joel would not save her for the sake of the overall situation. Losing Ellie was just like losing Sarah.

The world is big and movies are small. Little Gilbert just wants to tell a simple story and doesn't want to think about too complicated issues.

(End of this chapter)