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"Selling discs to pay back, the result is still Mickey Mouse the strongest!"

One thing that needs to be admitted is that whether it is Marvel or Disney, they must have a stronger plan in the film business than Warner to rise on it.

Many people say that Marvel is too entertaining and Disney is too naive, but have they ever thought that this impression was created precisely because they were too prominent. They clearly knew which part of the audience they wanted to please, and thus gave up another part of the audience.

Compared to this, Warner’s main problem may be that they don’t have a reliable commander, they don’t have a long-term plan for the future of the film, and the internal turbulence is too serious to be used in one place.

There have been screenwriters who broke the news on the Internet, saying that Warner had a lot of superhero movie scripts and shooting plans, but their choice was to pile these scripts together, and progress was still slow.

why?

There are too many people pulling their hind legs, and they are also scrupulous about this and that. When it is finished, Marvel seems to have failed several movies at the box office, but has never given up on continuing to develop and continue to follow the road.

"Invincible Hulk" pays such a miserable loss. It is a normal procedure to take one or two executives to give shareholders an explanation. The MCU will not have this role...

In summary, Marvel’s management will of course make mistakes and misappraise the market, but their tactical planning is clear, even if they fail, it will not affect their continued decision-making.

In other words, how some commanders who do not understand DC can develop DC has always been a problem.

In addition, when DC was in decline, Warner's production business was not that bad, and other works were still selling well, which shows that their production and distribution capabilities are not an influencing factor.

Joseph was patient after all. After chatting with Jonson for a long time, he didn't get a specific answer.

Of course, as soon as he left, Johnson came to his mind, carefully calculating whether "Watchmen" really has the potential to burst.

After thinking about it, his attitude changed a little.

Maybe even Joson himself didn't expect it, but Lehman's too strong production ability made him a little sensitive in subtle ways.

Lehman did this for a reason.

In the original time and space, "Watchmen" was jointly produced by Legendary Pictures, Paramount, and Warner. Warner did not invest much, and still accounted for most of the distribution rights. Therefore, the failure of this project did not make Warner executives feel painful, at best. unfortunately.

The reason for this is that they felt that "Watchmen" was unreliable psychologically, and they brought two allies together.

In this time and space, Legendary Pictures did not get on Warner's ship, and instead ran to hook up with Universal, but it does not mean that Warner could not find other investment bank capital. If Lehman did not intervene, there is a high probability that this would still be shared.

But what Lehman wants to try is to see if he can reveal Firefly's intentions a little, and can he get more attention from Warner, and then increase their own investment. When the project fails, the loss is great, and there is an urgent need for a good project to find compensation.

At that time, if you contact Warner again, will you get some good things, such as the further development of the clown image, and facilitate the cooperation of other DC projects.

The main reason is that the two parties of the Batman trilogy seem to go hand in hand, and there is no one or two wrangling about the distribution of benefits in the middle. If you want to find something from the DC gold mine, you are really stared at.

In other words, Warner will not let go of projects that Lehman is optimistic about. In this case, Warner must be pitted to let them understand the difficulty of DC development. Maybe they encounter another failure like Superman, and it is estimated that the change in mentality will become It is good for fireflies.

Of course, this may also be useless, but you will not lose anything if you try it.

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After more than half a month of preparations, "Lonely Cry" started successfully.

The choice of actors are all third-line children and children who want to make a lot of money and are sent to the movie circle by their parents early.

Among them, there are a total of three Hollywood native actors, Barbara Hirsch (often acting as an old witch, a professional contradictor, characterized by old age, looking like a bad guy, rich acting experience, and extra pay), Angus- Sammpson, Ty Simpkins;

In addition, it is worth mentioning that only director Juan was fancy in the hostess selection, Belen Ruida, who won the Spanish Goya Award for Best Actress with "Deep Sea", and the future child star debut mixed. Roger Prinsep.

These actors and actresses added up to 400,000 U.S. dollars, and still pay half of it first, 200,000 U.S. dollars.

Director Juan was full of energy and enthusiasm. After pulling up the team, he quickly rushed to Spain for shooting.

On the other hand, the shooting of "Invincible Hulk" is still the same. There are occasional disputes, but they are very restrained. If Li is evaluated according to his own heart, the atmosphere is still good.

Earlier, he cooperated with Universal in "The Hulk", and the studio had very little right to speak. Let alone disputes, it should be called a unilateral compromise.

Gradually, Lehman also has more energy to focus on the project he is preparing.

"Invincible Hulk" set.

The filming ended early today. Lehman, who went back to the room to write and paint, found that Thomas had already arrived.

He called Thomas some time ago, but the product was not in the United States, but now he has rushed back.

Lehman looked at him, and there was nothing he could do if he wasn't very ambitious about this guy.

Except for his movies, Thomas seldom takes on foreign scenes, and he rests for a while to play around after filming his movies.

Thomas himself doesn’t think it’s anything. He has such a personality. He has never been poor since he was a child, and he doesn’t like spending money lavishly. He has saved a lot of crew income over the years, except for changing a car and giving Sony a new camera. A lot of money was paid for the lens, and there was basically no major expense.

However, after a little free time, Thomas will miss the compact life on the set, but he does not want to be so busy every month, full and full, relaxation is still needed.

In addition, he is still willing to pay attention to his own hobbies, and since meeting Lehman, he has continued to improve.Of course, he was especially concerned about Lehman's movies.

You know, apart from working with Director Zha once, he has basically never filmed with other directors...

Then a few days ago, Lehmann came up with a new idea and asked him to be familiar with the documentary shooting style.

But the name of the project is rather strange, it's called "District Nine".

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"The Ninth District" is an underrated movie.

In the original time and space, South African newcomer director Neil Blomkamp only spent 30 million to create this sci-fi and thrilling screen classic.

With the plastic feel and rough composition of the B-level film, the U.S. won 118 million, and the world has nearly 200 million. In the first week of that year’s schedule, 37 million were harvested (not much publicity, relying on online tap water and Yahoo community giants). Many praises)) "Special Forces: The Rise of Cobra" produced with more than 170 million US dollars became the box office champion of the new week.

Later, many people praised this style as postmodern aesthetics—disorder and ugly.

However, director Neil Blomkamp said in an interview that when he made this film, what he worried about every day was not how to make it better, but how to save money to finish the film.

In other words, there may be postmodern aesthetics, but it is by no means a plastic-scented service, and taking risks to shoot on-site in the slums of South Africa, because the crew has no money to build location scenes in a safe place.

Think about it, 30 million sci-fi movies still tell stories about aliens. Throughout the history of filming, is there any such low budget?

In order to save money, the sacrifice is not only the picture, but even the actors are mostly amateurs, because these people are cheap, and cheap means immaturity in the performance. Several piercing shots are the result of the immature staff positions.

Moreover, as a science fiction film, there are not many special effects scenes. The aliens’ spacecraft and weapons are even more crude and messy. It feels not as advanced as the earth’s technology. As a result, aliens can travel between stars, similar contrast. , How should I say, it is the lack of this movie.

To put it bluntly, the film can be made thanks to the director's desperate efforts to save money. After it was released, it was successful. It was also nominated for four awards at the Oscars, and the word-of-mouth box office has a good harvest. By the way, that year happened to encounter "Bomb Disposal Expert" and "Avatar". The "Ninth District" with a budget of 30 million was mixed with two famous film histories.