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Because of "Crystal Skull", "Prince Caspian" fell sharply by 58.2% this week, causing people who are looking forward to the next weekend to drop their jaws after the weak premiere weekend.

You know, with 23 million credits the next weekend, the total score of "Prince Caspian" in North America is only 91 million, which is almost the same as the threshold of 100 million yuan. It shouldn't be a sequel.

This...is it being dragged down by "Indiana Jones 4"?

No, because last weekend was a holiday on Memorial Day in the United States, the audience base is larger. It stands to reason that achieving a harmonious win-win situation between hello and me is the norm, because the second place this weekend has earned more than 4000 for five consecutive years. Wan, in other words, such a decline is really not a problem of too fierce competition, only that the movie itself is not bought by the audience.

Disney forced a smile, and Chuck Wayne, the vice president of Disney's publishing department, faced media interviews and only said "confidently": "Once more and more students are on vacation, they will turn into some real box office... …"

But otherwise, what can be done.

Disney has had many meetings on the performance of "Prince Caspian" that did not meet expectations, and even proposed to refrigerate the "Kingdom of Narnia" series and wait for the right "opportunity" to start.

Hollywood practitioners all know well that if "Prince Caspian" can't go against the market's reversal, then Disney will only be labeled "failure" for this large production that cost more than 300 million. .

Even if it reluctantly relied on strong peripheral development to make some profits, it would have failed because it failed to show its value potential.

Of course, the third-ranked "Iron Man" is also affected by the schedule. This week, it fell 36.7% again, and it was accounted for 20.1 million (almost surpassing "Prince Caspian"). In the envy of many filmmakers, The total domestic score has reached 286 million, the overseas box office has also passed the 250 million mark, and the global total score is 559 million.

As for Warner's big dud "Speed ​​Racer", the Wachowski brothers (ps: not sisters yet) watched the film plummet again by 53%. With an indescribable complex look and feel, "Speed ​​Racer" only The harvest was 3.87 million, the local score was 35.48 million, and the overseas score was 24.6 million. It was a mess.

On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Bay Province.

In the Bay Province branch of avex holding company, Li Lie received an inexplicable high-level call early in the morning. After the matter was clear, he went straight to the home of an artist under her hand.

......

"Roaring Squadron" needs an actor with an oriental face.

And the Chinese male star wants to break in Hollywood, the innate condition is to be able to fight-not to fight hard, but to be able to follow the line of action movie stars.

In other words, the type of Chinese-language movies acceptable to the American people has always been the only kung fu movies that have sold at the box office. From Bruce Lee, Jack Cheng, Jet Li, etc., almost all of them are famous in Hollywood by hitting, and they are often excluded from the circle.

This is the case with culturally closed regions. If you can't resist, you can only adapt.

But because it was a TV series, those with high salaries couldn't afford it. After thinking about it, Lehman thought of a certain actor who became popular with "Tang Yu Xiaobao", Peng Yuyan.

It is more appropriate that this person has lived abroad for a long time, and there is no problem with English communication, and he will not say that he cannot adapt to the rhythm of Hollywood.

The audition invitation was sent, and a response was soon received.

At that time, he only starred in three movies, and there were not many opportunities to prove the value. If he could go to Hollywood to plate a layer of gold, it would be great in the eyes of capitalists.

If you don't have the conditions, it's fine. Now there is a role demand, of course you won't hesitate.

......

"Just choose him."

Lehman selected one of the actors who auditioned for the male lead Matthew Murdoch for "Dare Devil" by Kevin Fitch, "The temperament is very consistent and can play a positive role."

Kevin sat on one side, looked at the photo resume a little more after hearing the words, and recalled: "The performance that day was okay, but would it be less popular?"

"Does our drama still need actors to drive it?" Lehman joked: "The Daredevil itself is popular, just pick one with a similar temperament."

Kevin nodded, agreeing with this statement in his heart.

"Then set this one, Gabriel Macht."

Well, in the future, relying on the image of elite lawyers in "The Litigation Duo" will be known to audiences who like to watch American dramas. It fits the personality of Matthew Murdoch's daytime lawyer, and the salary is cheap, and one episode can be done for 10,000 or 20,000 dollars.

"Well, you don't need to worry too much about the rest, just check the shooting occasionally." Lehman laughed.

Preparations for both plays are fast.

The script is still being written, and the actors and directors are almost all set.

For "Roar Squadron", the director was taken over by David Nutt, who has filmed "Dragon and Tiger Boys", "Super Sensible Detective", and one of the executive directors of "Pacific War" in the future, 5 million salary + ratings incentives, Third-tier movie stars such as Nick Fury + Peng Yuyan acted as the main actors and the investment budget is about 40 million yuan;

"Dare Devil"? The director is Jesse Vaughan, who is also invited to be sent out. The shooting style has been approved after screening. After filming "Criminal Minds" and "Sex and the City", he will know how to shape the breeding of evil Hell's Kitchen community.

In fact, the later generations of Marvel authorized the quality of Daredevil produced by Netflix to be quite good, but later the two parties had conflicts due to the profit distribution, which caused fans to petition daily not to cut the drama... .

"Oh, by the way, how about Universal?"

"The "Invincible Hulk" is set on June 13, and related publicity has been launched. The global side has some concerns about not engaging in global simultaneous screening, but they still guarantee that there will be no less than 4,000 paintings."

Although the great success of "Iron Man" gave the world a little more confidence, in order to avoid risks, they still chose to spread it in North America first and show the situation before making the next decision.Maybe it's because I was scammed once, and it's not wrong to be careful.

Because the overseas market can estimate the income based on the North American box office situation, if this side is smashed, they will definitely not contribute to the promotion, and they will exchange profits with the smallest investment, and then find the trouble of Marvel, from the split account Re-deline and make up for the loss of your schedule.

In the previous life, the two families split up like this.

Anyway, he almost got the idea, sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, and resolutely implement the ability to see the wind.

In addition to being funny, Lehman has nothing to do with Universal. This was decided by both parties at the beginning. They will definitely not take unknown market risks for Marvel.

Therefore, Kevin also said quietly: "I support the development of the reunion plan, but I think that the development of the Hulk is making a wedding dress for the world, and their income is much higher than ours. After filming this film, Do you really continue to develop independent sequels?"

"But can you think of it the other way around? The popularity of the Hulk has gone up, which is good for Marvel as a whole. Besides, there are many places where Universal needs to be used."

When Kevin heard this, he guessed that Lyman must have other plans.

After these days of getting along, he has long never regarded Lehman as a purely excellent director, but a long-term, far-sighted, toned and thoughtful leader, step by step.

Just as he himself only vaguely had a little idea of ​​Marvel's development route, and it still needs to be verified by the market, but he got a very complete development route here and the official confirmation of the reunion.