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A neighborhood in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

By the basketball court.

Four young men were talking: "Guys, let's go watch Supernatural after the game, I saw a lot of people recommend it on the Yahoo forums, it should be pretty good."

"'Superbodies'? It's the one starring Scarlett, and I've heard that she's showing flesh in it, hehe. I don't know how much she showed." Someone stared at him, as if expecting something.

"It's a good movie, it's a blast." Someone who knew, added, "Anyway, I wasn't bored at all when I went to see it the day before yesterday."

"Are you still going to see it then, Ronnie? I haven't even seen it, and I want to see it."

"It's okay to watch it again if you're tired of playing football." The one known as Ronnie, the only one of the small group who had seen the movie, said in support, "It's pretty good, not as bad as the papers make it out to be. Scarlett still has a ditch in it."

"Let's go, let's go, I'm so excited about this." Someone couldn't wait to urge.

"Let's go, let's go, I'm driving." Someone chimed in.

The four of them drove to a nearby AMC movie theater chain, and from a distance they could see a huge poster of "Supersoul" in front of the theater, and when they entered the ticket booth, they couldn't help but be surprised: "Are these people coming to see "Supersoul"? It's Wednesday, and it's quite crowded on a weekday."

"Probably, Supernatural has been out for a few days and is still on the weekly list, so of course quite a few people are noticing."

"You two get in line, Ronnie and I will go get some drinks."

After the task was assigned, the 2 people who were spotted lined up to buy tickets honestly, and all they heard was the discussion of "Supernatural".

"Is Supersoul really that good? It's not easy to get a day off from school, but I still want to see Matt Damon in "The Bureau of Destiny"."

"Don't worry, it'll be good, my classmates have been amped up at school how many times, it's interesting to listen to, on the contrary, the one you wanted to see my class said it was a bit boring." It's a pair of brothers.

"Two tickets to the back row. Susan, do you want fries with that?" Here's a couple.

"Let's have five consecutive tickets." This is the group.

"That's $43.50, here's your ticket, please take it." This is the hard-working conductor.

"......"

At a counter further inside, two staff members skillfully bagged popcorn or fries, stuck them in the microwave, and turned the timing knob.

The theater attracts a lot of audiences, the theater line also refers to the sale of this and drinks to make money, more profitable than ticket sales, but the premise is also a quality content to tempt the audience to come to the theater to spend.

......

"Luc Besson is pretty good too."

In Los Angeles, in the office, Fox president Jim Ganopoulos is also taking a closer look at the movie market.

The producer in the production department next to him echoed, "Yes, leveraging the exhibition market with a $40 million investment with several times the prospects is really something." He lamented, "Although sometimes they may fail, but the commercial films that have been successfully produced by producers are all surprisingly good value for money, and the investment risk is still small."

"Well, good at doing big things with little money." Jim nodded, "This one is the same, it knows how to play to the film's strengths, the whole film doesn't drag at all, the sense of progression created is also enough, plus Scarlett's popularity is at the right time, with similar fight scenes and a personal heroic ending, it can already please the audience."

He suddenly said: "As a structured commercial film, it certainly can't reach the height of the ceiling, but the revenue and profit are still very impressive, and he is smart enough to make a commercial film that doesn't explore grand issues to avoid imbalance. We should try to work with him once."

"But ...... Luc Besson used to work with Universal, and now he's close to Firefly, so it's hard for us to go between the two."

The producer was helpless. "Whatever we can offer, the other two can definitely offer, and it's pointless to ask too much. But in that case, we don't necessarily need him to direct it."

It's true, each has its own circle of directors to work with.

"Too bad." Jim shook his head. It was a casual mention, but he did appreciate the fact that Luc Besson was a "no nonsense" director with a lot of experience in a variety of subjects.

Well, it's possible that his successive successes have led him to unconsciously raise his opinion of Luc Besson's work.

Consider that, from the 1990s' This Killer's Not Too Cold to Liam Neeson's Hurricane Salvation to this one, which took Scarlett one step further with The Incredibles, the interval between worldwide grossing breakout films has not been long in his career.

It is also true that, with the exception of top industry talents like Spielberg and Lyman, most directors shoot a normal amount of films every two or three years, and from this point of view, what Luc Besson has achieved is quite impressive.

If we count his achievements more carefully, we can see that the box office market of the three films is close to 900 million yuan, and the cost of filming is less than 85 million yuan, which is close to 3.75 times the box office return - if we add the rights operation outside the cinema, we can get 7 times.

Alas, it's a pity that he's now on his own.

......

Many industry insiders attributed the success of "Super Body" to Luc Besson's "clever" approach to the audience, and many French filmmakers had similar ideas, and for a time, the Europa film industry was also very crowded.

However, many more film companies and directors were analyzing the success of the film "Super Body". They believe that as long as they know how to sell seats, the success can be copied. To put it in layman's terms, it is to follow the trend.

Hollywood is very good at following the wind as well.

But unfortunately, most of those who are ready to follow the trend are wrong in their analysis. They think that the success of "Super Body" is because of the decisive action scenes, followed by some action scenes, the protagonist's choice of beautiful women, but do not know that the essence of "Super Body" also lies in the soft science fiction that explains the mysterious extraordinary setting.

After all, if you look at the Hollywood market at this time, it is obvious that the superhero theme is on the rise and continues to prosper, whether it is Fox, Sony or Marvel, are making a lot of money, which also leads to the preference of the movie-going population tends to rapidly assimilate, the growth of the radiation surface is exaggerated.

Many people have overlooked a problem, the film market is not so afraid of homogeneous competition, many audiences are limited by demand, they are happy to watch a large number of similar masterpieces, just like the net, there is no director after watching one director, do not like other directors, or even said after watching more hungry, actively looking for the same type of theme.

From the beginning of the new millennium, "Blade Runner" average box office of more than 100 million, to the "X-Men" average box office of 200 million, 300 million, to the "Spider-Man" to break the flow of the surge of ultra-British records, to the "Dark Knight", "Fate" to break 1 billion, 1.5 billion achievements, it is obvious that the superhero theme of the film adaptation of the audience base has been expanding, the audience acceptance has been growing, which is the achievement of the three continued to make money on the basis.

The reason why "The Incredibles" was able to create a big movie-going frenzy in March against the market growth is that the teenage audience, which is the core group of the superhero genre, loved the "extraordinary" gimmick of the film and used it as a substitute for the three superheroes that were not released in theaters.

Is the action movie in decline? That's for sure.

It's not as good as "Super Body" where the action is just embellished. Maybe people's martial arts drama is more adrenaline inducing than "Super Body", but is it useful? The audience will lose interest once they hear about the muscles, so naturally the box office is not high.

What's more, a character template that resembles Black Widow and Scarlett's role will easily trigger memories of the audience of the film.

The original version of "Superbody," which screened in the summer of '14, withstood all the flaws of various additions by investors and the competitive pressure of other major productions, all got more than $43 million in its first week and eventually accumulated more than $400 million at the box office.

At this point, then, it would be no surprise if the box office potential was better carried and the results were even better.