Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In a previous life, the film The Battle for Los Angeles received far more criticism than praise from film critics.Of course, this has something to do with the fact that the film critics and even the mainstream film industry look down on sci-fi movies, but in fact, "Battle of Los Angeles" itself has too many problems.The movie lacks a main plot, and it's fighting from beginning to end, and it doesn't have a big scene like Michael Bay.Originally, as a popcorn movie, no one expects you to have any amazing plot, but this movie that was supposed to be a big scene turned out to be full of street fighting scenes, which immediately made the audience feel like "my pants are tight" Take it off, you actually let me watch this?" feeling.

Now that Jed has served as the producer of the film, he naturally made major revisions to the plot.The first is why aliens invaded the earth. Jed asked the screenwriter to direct the disaster to NASA's alien detection program.Jed threw out the "dark forest theory" at this time, thinking that the universe is a dark forest, and all intelligent creatures actually treat other intelligent creatures with an "evil" attitude.As a result, in this universe, there was a silly kid named Earth who was yelling everywhere, so disasters came.Secondly, the whole story is how the US team rescued the earth bravely and bravely. At the same time, because its own combat power was suppressed, the battle could only be resolved through street fighting.But even so, Jed still arranged several large-scale battle scenes in the movie very generously.First, the U.S. Air Force and missiles fought against the aliens, then the U.S. warships fought against the aliens, and finally the Army mixed various artillery units to stop the aliens.

The three big scenes in the opening frightened most of the audience. Although the director Jonathan is not as good at controlling the big scenes as Michael Bay, the three scenes alone have shocked everyone.It wasn't until the aliens won and occupied the earth that the audience swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then couldn't help feeling secretly happy in their hearts.Where there is occupation, there will naturally be resistance. Los Angeles has become the last bastion of mankind, and how to defeat the aliens is in the hands of the army stationed in Los Angeles.

Compared with the navy and air force, the army doesn't have many large-scale weapons, so Jed began to ask Jonathan to fabricate all kinds of battle scenes.For a while, the streets of Los Angeles became more lively than the meat grinder of the year—Verdun, and bullet casings seemed to be scattered on the ground for free.Of course, defeating the aliens in the end is not as mentally retarded as the original version. Instead, it uses hand-to-hand combat to conquer the audience, and finally mixes some personal heroism, and sacrifices a few characters to sensationalize tears.After several revisions, what was originally a third-rate movie was modified into a qualified popcorn movie.

"How about this "Battle of Los Angeles"?" Secretary Jin asked the accompanying people, "Don't talk to me about the artistic value and shooting techniques, just tell me, if this movie is released in Korea, will it be successful at the box office? ? If the government and Yingxing do not make a move, is this movie very likely to beat all Korean movies? Also, with the current capabilities of the Korean movie industry, can we make such a movie? If not, we How many more years does it take to develop?"

Hearing Secretary Jin's question, several accompanying people looked at each other, and finally someone sighed: "If we compete with domestic films, unless we can come up with another "Taichi Flag Flying" or "Fish" Such a top-level work, otherwise we will definitely fail. We will not be able to shoot such a movie for at least another three to five years, and we still dare not use such a grand scene in the movie. It’s not that we can’t make it, but our The screenwriter and director didn't even dare to think about it."

Hearing this person's explanation, Secretary Jin's face darkened immediately, and it took him a long time to recover, "Forget it, let's go!"

With Jed's revised opinions, this version of "Battle of Los Angeles" really works much better.Although the film critics still dismiss this movie as a "popcorn movie" and "brainless movie", they have to admit that several big scenes and fighting scenes are still remarkable.However, the audience and fans think that this is the best movie in the whole spring season. It is a pleasant feeling for male fans to see such an adrenaline-burning movie in the theater in the originally sparse and cold spring season. matter.Of course, some theories about aliens put forward in film reviews have also sparked discussions in the scientific community, especially the saying that aliens are evil has also been supported by many people and sparked discussions in the media.

While triggering a big discussion, "The Battle of Los Angeles" also ranked first at the box office with a box office of 5300 million US dollars in its first weekend.This box office performance is twice that of the same movie in the previous life, and a movie with a box office of 5000 million US dollars in the spring schedule shocked film and television reporters and analysts. The "Los Angeles Times" praised, "Last year, Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group announced that 2011 would be their most important year, but no one cared. As a result, as the younger brother of the group - Summit Films, in the originally deserted spring The schedule brought us a "Battle of Los Angeles" full of various burning elements. Immediately afterwards, Summit Films will bring us a science fiction movie called "Source Code". According to Mr. Jason Stein In other words, "The Battle of Los Angeles" is external, while "Source Code" is introspective."

In the second week of its release, although "The Battle of Los Angeles" encountered the sniping of the recognized best film "Never Ending".However, the plot of this movie is too obscure, and the immature handling of the director made the actual screening effect of "Never Ending" not as ideal as expected.And the important thing is, which one will make you enter the cinema, a movie that is simple and crude but can make your blood boil, or a movie that is dark and obscure and full of various uncommon elements?The audience quickly made a choice with the box office. On the weekend of the second week, "Battle of Los Angeles" still beat "Never Ending" with a box office of 3500 million with a box office of 2000 million US dollars, and continued to be the weekend box office champion.In the third week, "Battle of Los Angeles" met the joint strangling of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Roderick's Law" and "Pretty Girl Secret Service", and "Battle of Los Angeles" finally ranked third with a box office of 1800 million US dollars , but only $100 million less than the runner-up "Pretty Girl Secret Service" at the box office. The final score of "The Battle of Los Angeles" made many critical film critics finally have to admit that they underestimated the film's popularity.

And in another week, "Source Code" directed by Duncan Jones and produced by Summit Films began to land in major theaters in North America. Although "Source Code" is a movie that is full of imagination and exquisite enough to be praised by film critics, but because of the interpretation of brain neurology and parallel universe views in the movie, many movie fans have a viewing threshold, so this movie It finished second at the box office with just $1500 million, losing out to the live-action animated film Save the Bunny.This achievement embarrasses the top and bottom, and also makes the major TV networks tease Jed a lot.However, there are also some film critics who believe that "Source Code" is a customer movie that pioneered a new style, and it also allowed Source Code to save a lot of character in the later stage.

Because Jed didn't have too high expectations for the box office of "Source Code", so more than a week after "Source Code" was released, Galaxy Animation Films released the animated film "Rio", which was produced by Blue Sky. An animated film full of South American flavor produced by the studio.The reason why it was not arranged to take over after "Source Code" was because the live-action animated film "Save the Bunny" was so popular that Universal Pictures was lucky enough to come across this film.Because it is the theme of Easter, and it hits the Easter schedule again, the cute Bonnie bunny kills everyone again, so it won the North American weekend box office for two consecutive weeks and won a total box office of 7000 million US dollars. Even Jed was a little skeptical of "Rio" Can Big Adventure hold it?And a week after "Save the Bunny", a "Killing Girl" co-produced by Britain, the United States and Germany will also land in the North American market.Jed decides to feint and push back Rio.After all, Jed attaches great importance to this series. You must know that the remaining value of the "Ice Age" series is almost the same. Blue Sky Studio urgently needs another profitable series, so "Rio Adventure" came into being.

On April 2011, 4, "Rio Adventure" produced by Blue Sky Studio and released by Galaxy Animation Company landed in major theaters in North America.This is Sherman Films Entertainment's largest promotional film before the summer, and it is also an animated film.Of course, no one would laugh at Jed's massive promotion of animated films as a waste. After all, the box office of "Toy Story 15" last year made everyone see a brand new future.Although this week, the classic horror film series "Scream 3" jointly released by Weinstein Pictures and Dimension Pictures will also be released at the same time as "Rio", but the genres of the two films do not overlap. Therefore, it is rare to see the Weinstein brothers not having a war of words with Jed.However, this calm did not last long, and soon "Rio" won the first-week championship with a box office of 4 million U.S. dollars, while "Scream 4000" was only a meager 4 million U.S. dollars.As a result, the grievances between the two parties were once again put on newspapers and screens by good reporters. Even if the Weinstein brothers were no longer angry, they were provoked by the reporters to be extremely angry at this time.

But Jed did not respond to these anger, but held a particularly important meeting with the top SBS executives in South Korea.When the Korean Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korean Communications and Broadcasting Commission announced that the news of the many channels given to sbs was made public, kbs and MBC were the first to attack; secondly, several newspapers that had originally received comprehensive channels also felt that they seemed to have been tricked; In the end, tvn and ytn, which will be directly attacked by sbs in the cable market, also jumped out to question the government's behavior.However, the South Korean government not only did not respond to these questions, but further announced that SBS will be qualified to hold and broadcast Baeksang Arts Awards, Seoul Music Festival and Asian musicals in the next ten years.The public opinion was even more uproarious. Many people did not understand what agreement the government had reached with sbs. For a while, sbs was more like the son of the South Korean government than kbs.At this time, Film Xinghui also received a cooperation invitation from the North American Film Distributors Club, hoping to participate in the Busan Film Arts Festival in the next few years and help the Busan Film Arts Festival to enhance its global (especially North American) reputation. Influence.Inside the Movie Xinghui, this cooperation invitation is regarded as a pass for Korean films to enter the North American market, especially because this pass was not obtained by selling the Korean film market, so the media began to change the topic to praise the movie Xinghui.