Rebirth In Hollywood

In the past life, although Sony Columbia's business has been bad, but with the "Spider-Man" as a life-saving straw, it can always turn the corner at a critical moment. In this life, "Spider-Man" only has the copyright of the TV series. Income must have shrunk considerably.

Among the traditional forces in Hollywood today, the worst is undoubtedly MGM. If you look up, you can see Sony Columbia Pictures.

Although they also heard the news that "King Arthur" was rejected by Ryan at Disney, the script was favored by many industry insiders, including many gold medal producers like Jerry Bruckheimer.

In recent years, epic movies have been on the rise, and Sony Columbia finally decided to invest in the film, and they had other things in mind besides confidence in the script.

"So can you know what their thoughts are?" Tyler blinked curiously and looked at Ryan on the opposite side.

In the garden of Jenkins Manor, Ryan was helplessly pressing the seesaw with her, and after sending the girl into the air, he said, "If "King Arthur" succeeds, Sony Pictures can not only make a sequel, but also split the Knights of the Round Table. Make separate series so they can have a series of movies that are guaranteed to make a steady stream of revenue.”

"The premise is that the movie premiering at night can be successful." Taylor reminded and patted the armrest of the seat, Ryan shrugged and let the girl press herself into the air, and continued, "There are too many epic movies released this year. , it is easy to cause aesthetic fatigue.”

"Especially "Troy" was released not long ago." Taylor was very smart, and immediately thought of another epic that was not successful. She looked at the time and said, "Let's go back, Charlie should be back soon, I'm from Australia brought gifts."

"All right."

After getting off the seesaw, the two walked towards the villa, Ryan asked. "Where have you been in Australia for so long?"

"East coast, west coast, and New Zealand and New Guinea." Taylor turned to look at the sun moving west. "Sony's premiere is about to start, right?"

"Darling, you care too much."

Hearing Ryan's words, Taylor wrinkled his nose in disapproval, "Don't forget what the film critics said, don't forget that they are targeting "Superman", don't forget that I'm still a member of the crew, although it's just for stealth The voice of the heroine..."

"Wait for tomorrow's movie review."

Without answering Tyler's words, Ryan walked towards the villa.

All advance forecasts,

Neither can represent the actual performance of the film, which is a mega-production with a production cost of up to 120 million US dollars. In the end, success or failure depends on the box office.

Just like "Superman Family", as of the release of "King Arthur", it has won nearly 95 million US dollars at the North American box office. Although the reputation is not as good as "Finding Nemo", no one will say that this is a failed work.

The film's first-week box office may have to wait. But soon after the premiere, many veteran film critics updated their reviews of "King Arthur" on their blogs for the first time.

"The film is well-made, the actors' performances are commendable, and the story can fully resonate with the audience."

This is Roger Albert's review, who not only gave the movie a thumbs up, but also gave it a nine out of 10.

"Fate and loyalty, heroism and duty. King Arthur easily evokes ancient and dark medieval scrolls and bloody war scenes, and an indispensable moving romance."

David Denby almost took this film to the sky, and he gave it a perfect score of 10.

However, the general audience who attended the premiere had a diametrically opposite view, on the websites and forums where ordinary movie fans gathered. Soon there were opinions on the epic blockbuster.

"The director's lack of control over the rhythm of the film makes the war scenes dull and mediocre; King Arthur's outline is frivolous and mediocre, and you don't even think this film is about King Arthur at all."

"With a lack of convincing acting and an even more unconvincing plot, the movie really lacks enough charm to keep you going."

"The overall feeling is very awkward. The scene is not grand enough, like a low-budget movie."

"An epic blockbuster that's more incomprehensible than 'Troy'."

"Childish, stupid, lengthy, a bad movie!"

While some said the movie was not bad, the general view of the general audience was that it was a very average movie.

As a result, in the first two days after the premiere of "King Arthur", a very strange situation occurred. The well-known film critics of the old brand unanimously applauded, but most of the audience thought that the film was not very good, and even very few watched professional film critics and walked into the theater. of people think they have been fooled.

"Their tastes are just too far from the average audience."

An audience in his fifties was interviewed by a TV station reporter when he walked out of the theater, and said, "I don't understand, what is there to brag about in such a movie, they are completely out of this era, I will later No more choosing movies based on their reviews."

"what?"

Later, another audience member in his twenties was interviewed, "Choose movies based on film critics' reviews? Sorry, I never watch those things, and neither do the friends around me. We like the movies we like, no It needs some people who don't know what to say."

Sony Columbia invested 120 million US dollars in the production cost of this film, plus 80 million US dollars in publicity expenses. Naturally, they wanted to get rich returns. The unanimous praise of the film critics was beyond their expectations, but they were also happy. accept.

After all, with the support of these people, the movie may be more popular than expected.

However, they quickly understood that Ryan's past sayings that the era of film critics being able to profoundly influence movies is over is really not mixed with much water.

Because such a movie that is so popular with famous film critics, the box office results are terrible.

Sony Columbia's first-week box office expectations are not too high. Their psychological bottom line is 40 million US dollars. It should not be difficult for such a large-invested movie to get such a first-week box office result.

What's more, there are so many professional film critics unanimously applauding before the release.

It was not until the first week of box office release that the almost desperate Sony Columbia executives understood one thing, why Ryan has drastically reduced his spending on film critics and public relations after entering the new century.

$15.19 million!

This is "King Arthur," this is the movie critics touted, and this is the first three-day box office result of the movie that many hoped to discredit Ryan Jenkins.

Those people in Hollywood who were waiting to watch the excitement shifted their targets in an instant. They quickly checked whether their film company was ready to invest in the projects that were rejected by Ryan. If you have invested some money, then find a way to get the money back.

And those film critics, they don't seem to have seen the box office of "King Arthur" in the first week, and they never seem to have made those comments. Just like when "Star Wars" came out, they selectively forgot those words and turned to the follow-up. in the movies shown.

As for the bitter fruit brought by "King Arthur", it will be slowly tasted by Sony Columbia Pictures.

At the same time, "Superman Family" is still aggressive and aggressive. In the same three days this weekend, it won a box office of 50.35 million US dollars in North America. The box office of "King Arthur" in the first week is not even comparable to its one-day box office accumulation.

By the next week, "King Arthur" had plummeted to $7 million at the box office, and everyone knew that the mega-production was going to be lost.

Disney's management, especially Touchstone Pictures, felt fortunate at this time that if Ryan hadn't vetoed the project, they would now be the ones who would lose a lot of money.

There is a saying, I don't know where it came out, it quickly became popular in Hollywood, and it was even regarded as one of the unwritten industry rules.

"The movie project that Ryan Jenkins rejected has no value in Hollywood!"

As a result, the movie projects that Ryan cancelled in recent years have been turned over by Hollywood sources and listed as untouchable blacklists in Hollywood.

Of course, this situation inevitably affected some other people, such as an actor who was released by Ryan from the contract of the two movies. He could not find a role in a short time and had to return to the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

Ryan didn't know this, and even if he did, he wouldn't care. The thing he cared about most now was undoubtedly the two invitations he just received.

He got a call from Warner Bros. Gerald, who invited him to the "Wonder Woman" audition, and Natalie sent her friend's invitation to participate in the same audition.

"You don't care about my thoughts."

Sitting in the small garden of her villa, Natalie put down the script of "The Hunger Games" in her hand and said seriously, "I'm just in charge of spreading the word, you decide whether to go or not."

"Why not?" Ryan knew that Natalie still had some friendship with the actress from Israel.

Although she did not go to Jerusalem to study in this life, Natalie's stance towards Israel is very obvious. She has revealed this view in several interviews, but there are few Hollywood movie stars who are really from Israel.

He also really wants to see this movie. There are very few movies that completely feature female protagonists and can sell well. Through this movie, which will be released in August, "The Hunger Games" can also make some based on the market reaction. necessary adjustments.

Besides, with the appeal of Wonder Woman, if you don't come up with something inexplicable, the movie is still very likely to succeed.

Well... it depends on how the producers measure the psychological bottom line of male audiences.

"Let's go together then." Ryan said to Natalie who put down the book. ()