Magic Modified Huayu

No, to be precise, there is no slander, Director Wei is just telling the truth.

But the more this happens, the easier it is to offend the United States.

If Director Wei is really a high-level black fan, Americans may not take it seriously.

I'm afraid of those who tell the truth.

This makes it impossible for Americans to refute you, so they can only ban you.

Director Wei is a little worried. He is not afraid of being boycotted by the United States, but "Wonder Woman" is his work after all. Director Wei also hopes that the box office of his works will be as high as possible.

DC's top brass laughed at this.

"Wei, don't worry. 'The Great Contender' hasn't been released in the US yet, and we won't advertise that these Americans know even less about the South China Sea."

Wei Jun: “…”

can.

It is rare that China and the United States have reached a tacit understanding.

But this approach is indeed very American.

Americans rarely mention the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

If we can't win, we forget about it - this is the American approach.

This way, he can rest assured.

"Wei, you just need to help us open up the market and establish connections in China. We will handle the North American box office and other box office revenues ourselves."

DC executives are very confident.

However, Hollywood's global influence is not exaggerated, and they have reason to be confident.

Moreover, although DC has been beaten down by Marvel in recent years, it has to be said that DC's popularity in the United States is indeed not low.

Among superheroes, Batman and Superman are just as popular as Iron Man and Captain America.

To be precise, before the Marvel movies became a big hit, the DC Justice League's superheroes were more popular than the Marvel Avengers.

Iron Man's success was an accident.

Then he took Marvel to the sky.

Marvel was almost going bankrupt.

Iron Man saved Marvel.

It also ushered in an era where superhero movies dominated the screen.

All I can say is that good luck has arrived and it cannot be stopped.

Since the DC executives said so, Wei Jun felt relieved.

"Leave the Chinese market to me, and $3 million in box office revenue should be a sure thing."

It's a rare occasion that Director Wei made a promise.

For him to make a movie now, getting 20 billion yuan at the domestic box office is a basic operation.

This is not just Wei Jun's overflowing self-confidence, it is recognized by everyone in the circle.

In other words, Director Wei does not take on outside roles and basically only shoots films for his own company. Otherwise, with Director Wei's current worth, there would be plenty of people willing to hire him as long as they can ask him to pay a director's fee of 100 million.

Even DC has adopted various forms of cooperation with Director Wei, not just paying the director a salary. Director Wei has long passed that stage.

Director Wei's confidence was proven to be justified. "Wonder Woman" did more than just gross $3 million in China.

Instead, in less than a month, it swept up $4 million.

The 30 billion RMB box office in China caused a huge response when the news reached Hollywood.

DC executives were overjoyed.

At this time, Director Wei was guiding the acting skills of a new Hollywood actress.

"Anna, your muscles are still too stiff. You should smile and face everything with a laugh."

“As an actor, one should always be one with the character and be completely immersed in the drama.

I told you to treat me as your Father."

"Come on, call Dad."

Ana de Armas wanted to hit someone.

As a Cuban who came to the glamorous Hollywood to work hard, she was mentally prepared for some things to happen.

Americans who can make it in Hollywood may be naive and innocent. You can't deny that some people in this world have that kind of incredible luck.

But there is no way that foreigners who can make it in Hollywood are naive.

Because if foreigners want to gain a foothold in Hollywood, they cannot do it by luck alone.

It cannot be achieved by strength alone.

Sacrifice is necessary.

So, Ana de Armas is not that pretentious.

But she didn't expect that the person who made her less pretentious was not an American, but a director from China.

She also never expected that as the successor of a socialist country, Director Wei did not behave like someone who had been influenced by socialism.

It's even worse than Americans.

"Wei."

"Wrong call."

Guide Wei said.

Ana de Armas: "..."

"China and Cuba are friendly countries. You shouldn't treat me like this."

Director Wei smiled and said, "So I'm guiding your acting skills because I want to help you.

Anna, for the friendship between China and Pakistan to last longer, we should all work harder."

Ana de Armas admitted defeat.

She admits she is inferior to the shameless one.

However, Ana de Armas soon realized that the reason why this shameless director was able to gain a foothold in Hollywood was not only because of his noble character but also because of his strong box office guarantee. The box office of "Wonder Woman" eventually exceeded $10 billion and entered the billion-dollar club.

This rekindled the hope of DC executives that the Justice League could catch up with the Avengers, and even made Hollywood re-examine the potential from DC and the interests from China.

Under such circumstances, Director Wei's status in Hollywood also rose.

During this period, Ana de Armas, who has been with Director Wei, attending various occasions and meeting various bigwigs, quickly made many connections that she would not have been able to reach before.

What made her even more overjoyed was that Director Wei actually took out a script.

"Anna, your acting skills have improved by leaps and bounds in the past half month."

When Ana de Armas heard Director Wei say this, her pretty face turned red.

Her acting skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

But when she called Director Wei, who was younger than her, "Dad", she had already naturally given up struggling completely.

Of course, in Director Wei's view, this is getting into the role.

It illustrates her potential and plasticity.

Director Wei is a generous person.

So he decided to give Ana de Armas the movie that originally belonged to her.

Well, Director Wei is so generous to foreigners.

"I've written a script, and I haven't decided whether to direct it myself, but I'm going to give you the female lead."

Director Wei was talking about "Knives Out".

Since the era of superhero movies dominating the industry, Hollywood has actually entered a period of decline.

Especially original IPs... they are basically dead.

In recent years, it is not just the Chinese-language film industry that has been in decline.

Think about Hollywood before.

At that time, there were many Hollywood superstars who were well-known all over the world, both actors and actresses.

Tom Hanks; Tom Cruise; Will Smith; Brad Pitt; Leonardo DiCaprio; Angelina Jolie; Julia Roberts; Nicole Kidman...

very many.

Think about it again. Can you think of any newcomers with global fame in recent years?

Not only is the Chinese-language film industry getting worse with each generation, but Hollywood is also like this where the big brother does not laugh at the second brother.

Think about all the Hollywood movies that have been box office hits around the world: Top Gun; Saving Private Ryan; Avatar; The Lord of the Rings series; The Matrix trilogy; Titanic; Mission: Impossible series; The Bourne series…

If you use your brain a little, you can think of a bunch of excellent movies, and most of them are original IPs.

But what about these years?

Besides being a superhero movie, it’s also a superhero movie…

To be honest, the Chinese-language film industry has actually seen some progress in recent years, although there are more areas that have broken the bottom line.

But Hollywood's decline was even faster.

And Hollywood's hegemony is actually weakening.

The reason is also very simple.

For example, original IP movies such as "Titanic" and the "Godfather" series will still be regarded as classics and watched repeatedly by people 50 years later.

But special effects technology will definitely develop rapidly in 50 years.

By then, the current superhero IPs that are selling well at the box office will definitely not be able to keep up with the development of special effects.

It is conceivable that future audiences, especially those in other countries around the world, will definitely not be interested in the American superhero IP from 50 years ago, because movies that use special effects as a selling point will definitely not be liked by future audiences.

Just as audiences in other countries around the world are no longer interested in America's favorite Star Wars series.

Some things are nostalgic for Americans, but not for audiences in other countries around the world.

If it's good, it's good; if it's a bad plot, it's a bad plot.

Therefore, superhero movies are destined to have difficulty lasting.

Under such circumstances, Hollywood is certainly still the dominant force now, but there are already great concerns about the future.

Hollywood capital is not unaware of this crisis, but it doesn't think too much about it.

Anyway, superhero movies are making a lot of money now.

Why do they think so far ahead?

Make the money in front of you first.

This has led to the fact that the original Hollywood IPs are basically dead nowadays, and the space is extremely small. Even if there are occasional excellent works, they cannot show their excellence to audiences around the world and other countries. Nowadays, the most interesting Hollywood movies are always superheroes, and you can no longer think of other excellent original Hollywood movies.

This also means that the influence of Hollywood's new generation of stars is limited to the United States, and they are unable to become world-class superstars.

Although social networks are more developed now than before, Chinese audiences, for example, are still familiar with the superstars around the millennium.

This is not a good thing for Hollywood.

Director Wei certainly doesn't care about the life and death of Hollywood.

But Director Wei knows the appeal of a good original script to Hollywood's current investors and superstars. Knives Out is arguably the best and most influential original film Hollywood has produced since the advent of the superhero era.

In terms of box office and word of mouth, "Knives Out" broke through the siege of the superhero movie era.

"Knives Out", which was released in 2019, was rated as the "Best Suspense Film of the Year" and has received excellent reviews in countries around the world, including a score of 8.2 on Douban in China.

The original heroine of "Knives Out" was Ana de Armas.

Director Wei's move this time is to shift from exports to domestic sales, using other people's things to do favors, and the main reason is that the box office of "Wonder Woman" has exceeded 10 billion.

This also greatly increased Director Wei's reputation in Hollywood.