Chapter 413 The bottom line of Hollywood is that there is no bottom line
There is also "Terminator 3", but it was not directed by James Cameron.
and the superhero movie "The Incredible Hulk" directed by Ang Lee, but an arthouse director directing a superhero movie?
It can only be said that this choice is not good. Ang Lee is not suitable for such a film.
It is worth mentioning that during this year’s Valentine’s Day, 20th Century Fox released a “Daredevil” movie.
Unfortunately, the film received a mediocre response.
It was originally expected that this movie would achieve a big breakout in its first week like Sony's "Spider-Man", but reality dealt a heavy blow to 20th Century Fox. The film only achieved a box office of $40.23 million in its first week.
What's more important is that film reviews have not been good. Now "Daredevil" has been hastily canceled after struggling to exceed 100 million at the North American box office.
This movie also stars Ben Affleck. It turns out that Ben Affleck had already been involved with Marvel before starring in Batman.
However, the situation is not very good. In view of the poor performance of "Daredevil", 20th Century Fox announced that it has canceled the sequel plan of "Daredevil".
Previously, due to the continuous success of "X-Men" and "Spider-Man", many people believed that the era of superheroes was coming.
However, the failure of "Daredevil" has caused companies that hold superhero movie rights to calm down. This matter needs to be considered in the long term.
"Daredevil" failed to meet expectations, but the film's box office still ranked fourth in North America this year. It just so happened that the top three were romantic comedies, and the North American box office all exceeded 100 million.
Superhero movies waiting to be released this year include "X-Men 2" and "The Incredible Hulk" released by Universal Pictures and directed by Ang Lee, both of which belong to the Marvel camp.
In fact, both Warner and DC were a little anxious after seeing this scene.
Although "Daredevil" failed, everyone knows that this is temporary, and there is still a lot of potential for superhero movies to be tapped.
Previously, Warner Pictures wanted to restart the "Superman" series of movies, and also planned to produce a Catwoman movie, and invited Halle Berry to star.
Warner executives even hope that Gilbert Jr. can direct the "Superman" movie or the "Catwoman" movie.
However, Gilbert Jr. feels that Warner needs to stabilize his mentality. This kind of eagerness for quick success is more likely to fail, and it is better to be calmer.
But seeing other companies making money from Marvel's superheroes, how can Warner Pictures calm down?
Fortunately, Gilbert Jr. is now also a member of Warner's board of directors. Gilbert Jr. will not let Warner executives do such things that harm his own interests and destroy the brand.
Therefore, including the "Superman" reboot plan and the "Catwoman" independent movie, they have been canceled and replaced by a plan for a Justice League movie.
Gilbert Jr. carefully analyzed DC's superheroes and came to the conclusion that because Superman himself is too strong, Superman's combat power in the movie is not proportional to other superheroes, and there is some imbalance.
If you want to balance the abilities of superheroes, either weaken Superman or enhance other heroes.
Or simply make Superman a villain and have all the superheroes fight against him.
In the previous life, "Superman vs. Batman" took the path of enhancing other superheroes. "Justice League" makes Superman become a villain, and then awakens to join the decent camp.
How to do this still needs to be discussed.
But no matter what, it is not easy to make a series of movies, and it is not advisable to be quick and quick like Warner.
However, little Gilbert doesn't want to bother with this matter right now. He might as well shoot the "Dark Knight" trilogy as League of Justice Heroes, which would at least be more certain.
Compared to DC's melancholy, Marvel is undoubtedly much more relaxed and content.
The successful superhero movies of the past two years all have one characteristic, and that is that they are from Marvel. It’s just that the movie rights were sold, and Marvel got nothing but a little dividend.
Since being acquired by Gilbert Jr. in 1998, Marvel has now recovered, and its executives are full of ambitions.
According to Gilbert Jr.'s plan, the Marvel Cinematic Universe plan is also being carried out ambitiously, and the first choice is the superhero Iron Man.
It's just that when pre-production started in advance, Gilbert Jr. was still not satisfied with the current level of special effects, so he asked Marvel Studios to wait a little longer.
Nowadays, Marvel is basically little Gilbert’s word. If he says wait a minute, it’s hard for others to object.
Moreover, Gilbert Jr. is a super director after all, and Marvel executives have great trust in Gilbert Jr.'s vision and film talent.
Since little Gilbert felt the time was not yet ripe, that made sense.
Anyway, Marvel can't die now and won't go bankrupt. It's better to wait for the opportunity and wait for the earth-shattering moment.
In the production of superhero movies, special effects are the top priority.
Why is Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so unpopular? In addition to the weak plot setting, the stall is too big, and the correct influence.
The most important thing is that the investment in special effects has been reduced in the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Looking at the blurry picture is very confusing.
To be honest, if it weren't for the name of a Marvel superhero movie to attract fans to watch it, many movies would have been dumped on the market.
A very important reason why Gilbert Jr. postponed the movie plan of "Iron Man" is that if he wants to achieve the special effects level of the first movie in his previous life, the film will need to invest at least more than 180 million US dollars.
To put it bluntly, special effects are made with money. The more money you spend, the better the special effects will be.
Marvel executives also want to invite Tom Cruise to star in "Iron Man". With Tom Cruise's salary, the investment in the film will reach 200 million US dollars.
A new film company needs 200 million yuan to invest in its first film?
The risk is too high. Even if little Gilbert has money, money will not be burned like this.
In addition, Gilbert Jr. also had objections to the choice of Tom Cruise. He and Cruise had a good personal relationship, but little Gilbert was deeply impressed by Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man in his previous life.
He really didn't know what it would be like to be replaced by Tom Cruise's Iron Man. Little Gilbert always felt that a superhero like Iron Man, who was a bit cheap, with a ruffian style, a playful smile, and a poisonous tongue, was not suitable for Tom Cruise.
Tom Cruise is too orthodox, and Robert Downey Jr.'s ruffian style is suitable for the tone of "Iron Man".
It's just that Robert Downey Jr. has just ended his imprisonment. He has fallen into the abyss from being a potential Hollywood star. Robert Downey Jr. is now at the trough of his career, which is undoubtedly very embarrassing.
Last year, Downey completed his five-year painful "anti-drug plan" and began to repair his acting career that had been suspended for six years.
His first job after his comeback was to be a stand-in for singer Elton John's song "I Want Love" and shoot the music video.
Some people lamented at the time: "The former Oscar-winning actor is now lip-syncing to a pop singer."
However, Downey didn't take it seriously and regarded this job as the first step to re-employment.
Robert Downey Jr. has appeared in several movies recently, all in supporting roles, and the response was not high. Once a rising star fell, Robert Downey Jr. witnessed the ups and downs of human relationships in Hollywood.
But Robert Downey Jr. was lucky. After he met producer Susan, Susan introduced him to many jobs.
In addition, Robert Downey Jr. also practiced Wing Chun in an attempt to use Kung Fu to detoxify. It is said that the effect is remarkable.
In fact, Robert Downey Jr. is just unlucky. Many Hollywood stars are drug addicts. Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves were once drug addicts.
River Phoenix even took drugs and died, which made the two realize the value of life and quit drugs.
Robert Downey Jr. was unlucky. Washington just announced an anti-drug plan, and he offended someone because he was young and ignorant, so he was arrested as a model.
If this were placed twenty years later in a world where marijuana was legalized and drug centers were even operating, Robert Downey Jr.'s problems would be nothing at all.
Of course, little Gilbert himself is firmly against drug abuse. He comes from a country with a strong anti-drug awareness, and he is also aware of the dangers of drugs.
Some people have said that these celebrities take drugs to relieve stress.
But little Gilbert thought it was nonsense. There are many ways to release stress, so why bother with such a way that is harmful to your body?
Little Gilbert himself can relieve stress by going on vacation, or asking Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon to go fishing, or hunting with Tom Cruise.
Even if that doesn't work, it would be nice to sleep with a big quilt or something.
Little Plum is a little more exaggerated. Last time he came here, he told little Gilbert about his participation in the silver party, and even invited little Gilbert to go with him.
This was heard by Charlize Theron and Scarlett, so DiCaprio ran away with his head in his arms and was kicked out...
The bottom line of Hollywood is that there is no bottom line. The luxurious and decadent lifestyle is not surprising to people. If you are looking for a perfect moral model, you have come to the wrong place.
As long as you continue to succeed, no matter how bad you are personally, you will still be popular in Hollywood.
And you will find that there will always be someone worse than you, and there is no lower limit to how bad you can be.
In comparison, little Gilbert felt as pure as a beautiful girl, even though he was a man and a man.
After leading the creators of "Pirates of the Caribbean" to appear on several well-known talk shows in North America, the film's early promotional activities have come to an end.
After April, on May 1st, "Pirates of the Caribbean" premiered at the Chinese Grand Theater.
It rained a little bit in Los Angeles that day, and when the premiere started in the afternoon, it was still raining heavily.
However, this cannot stop the enthusiasm of movie fans. Every summer there must be a Little Gilbert movie, which has almost become a convention.
Going to the cinema to watch Little Gilbert's movies every summer has also become a habit for movie fans.
This year's story is no longer the story of "The Lord of the Rings", but a brand new and original story. To be honest, if it were any other director, movie fans wouldn't have such expectations.
But the director of Who Called the Movie is Little Gilbert, the most popular director with the most fans on the planet.
Fans believe in Gilbert Jr.'s abilities and believe he will bring a good movie.
The red carpet in the afternoon was still very lively. It was the first time for Keira Knightley to walk on this red carpet. Such a battle surprised her as a newcomer in Hollywood.
"Are you nervous?" Little Gilbert asked.
Keira Knightley nodded: "A bit, there are too many people."
Little Gilbert smiled slightly and comforted: "Don't be nervous, just treat the fans and reporters on both sides as hamburger monsters."
Johnny Depp joked: "Keira, what was your first reaction when you saw the Burger Monster?"
"Hmm..." Keira Knightley tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Since it's a monster, should we avoid it?"
"ONONON," Johnny Depp shook his finger: "The monsters have already been turned into burgers, so why not eat the monsters."
"Hiss..." Keira Knightley was chilled by Johnny Depp's cold joke.
But when Johnny Depp did this, Keira Knightley's nervous mood was taken away.
"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for us to show up." Little Gilbert clapped his hands and said, "Don't make everyone wait too long, go and receive the applause that belongs to you!"
While talking, the main creators of "Pirates of the Caribbean" walked onto the red carpet in batches, instantly igniting the atmosphere of the entire red carpet premiere.
(End of chapter)