Rebirth In Hollywood

"Jurassic Park 3, what else is there besides the visual effects? As far as the film itself is concerned, it is uglier than the shit pulled by the Tyrannosaurus in the film!"

France's "Le Figaro" opened fire violently after the global box office of "Jurassic Park 3" exceeded 500 million US dollars, and even interviewed the famous Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci for this purpose.

"3D technology will not bring any help to the development of movies, because it is essentially a movie technology that appears to satisfy sensory stimulation, and has no meaning to art. This kind of simple and rude special effects technology will only destroy the beauty of the movie. "

This is just a microcosm of the European media. Since "Jurassic Park 3" swept the continental European film market, those European film workers who have been ignored by the mainstream market have resorted to the European media that have not dealt with North America very much. "Jurassic Park 3" and 3D technology fire.

"A stupid, goofy movie that just makes people feel sick after watching it."

"No matter how good the visual effects are and how high the box office is, they are all out of the essence of the movie!"

"3D technology is nothing but a deception of vision, poisonous candy for the eyes..."

Every large-scale outbreak of a new technology is always accompanied by countless voices of opposition, not only in Europe, but even in North America, many people are not used to 3D technology.

"The 3D special effects are great, the 3D movies are full of sensory stimulation, but the two best 3D movies to date, The Polar Express and Jurassic Park 3, are like a circus sideshow, with characters floating on the screen. And scenes, boring and funny, fakes just to make the audience happy."

This is David Denby's comment published in the "New York Times", and he echoes that, "Chicago Sun", Roger? Albert also put forward a similar view on 3d.

"Remember more than a decade ago, it was Ryan Jenkins who pushed "Jurassic Park" and "Titanic" to push Hollywood into the wave of big investment and big production. Until there was no turning back, Looking back now, there are fewer and fewer films with profound connotations produced by Hollywood, and the films produced by the Hollywood model he advocated have all become products of sensory stimulation.”

"Every frame of a 3D movie shows us something that is not necessary at all, and the box office success of Jurassic Park 3 will again lead Hollywood very wrongly, even with Ryan Jenkins pushing hard. , Hollywood's mainstream commercial films will become simple and crude visual effects accumulations, which will greatly damage the real quality of Hollywood films. Hollywood and theater operators must be cautious about 3D film technology."

"I would like to remind you that 3D movies purely for the pursuit of commercial interests,

It is impossible to survive in the market for a long time, and it will only be reduced to a misappropriating product. "

However, every time a new technology is updated, people who can't keep up with the trend will always be swept into the old paper pile of history, not to mention this is a technology that can generate tens or even tens of billions of dollars in output value every year in the future.

For European media and European film directors, Hollywood directly ignores them, except for those who speak sour words. It does not pose any threat to Hollywood movies, and their so-called artistic movies can only survive in the cracks of Hollywood movies.

Does anyone care about a group of defeated soldiers who were beaten by themselves until they lost their pants more than ten or twenty years ago?

In Ryan's view, it is described as the future of the remnants of the army. It's all a compliment to continental movies.

As for the veteran film critics in North America, how many Hollywood companies would care about their voices? The two films criticized by them are the important promoters of Hollywood's globalization strategy. How many people in the Hollywood industry would deny that "Titanic" played a key role in the globalization of Hollywood films?

Capital is always profit-seeking. 3D and imax technology have made Hollywood and cinema companies see new interests and the success of "Jurassic Park 3". It also gave them a glimpse into the future that such films can expect.

"Jurassic Park 3" has not been offline, several Hollywood companies have announced their own 3D and imax movie plans.

The first to react is undoubtedly Disney, using the wave brought by "Jurassic Park 3" to promote that "Transformers" is also produced using imax3d technology, while "Flying House Globe", "Toy Story 3" and "The Hunger Games" 2", "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" and other films will be produced using this technology.

Interestingly, these are not post-production conversions, they will be real 3D movies.

Then, more companies responded, such as Despicable Me and Kung Fu Panda in preparation and production by DreamWorks Animation Studios, such as Warner Bros.' Green Lantern, such as Sony Pictures' relaunching Godzilla and more...

In addition, the most intense response is undoubtedly the major theater companies. The North American Theater Alliance, which is composed of many North American theater companies, announced at a press conference that in the future, 3D screens and imax theaters will be North American theaters. Major cinema companies have long-term plans for the main development direction of cinema chains.

At the same time, they also announced their short-term goals. In the next six months, with the support of equipment manufacturers such as imax and Dolby, they will add 500 3D screens and build about 40 imax theaters.

With the support of Hollywood content, the theater party naturally does not want to miss the good opportunity to attract more audiences into the theater.

Compared with "Jurassic Park 3", which uses imax3d as its biggest selling point, it was released a week earlier than "Superman Returns", which is known as the most expensive movie in history, which is a bit tragic.

This mega-production, with a production cost of $270 million alone, was released in 4,100 theaters in its first week and only earned $76.03 million at the North American box office.

As of last week, the single-week box office of the film, which was released for more than three weeks, has dropped to more than 7 million US dollars, and the North American box office has only accumulated more than 170 million US dollars. As its direct competitor, "Jurassic Park" 3, which came a week later, was close to $260 million at the North American box office.

Although there are many reasons why "Superman Returns" did not perform as expected, many people believe that "Superman Returns" did not use 3D technology and launched a 3D version, which was an extremely stupid decision-making error.

Of course, this can only be regarded as a rumor, Ryan is very aware of this.

"I went to see the imax3d version of "Jurassic Park 3"." The speaker was James Cameron.

The afternoon sun was extremely bright. Ryan and him were sitting under the umbrellas in Nicole's garden. The two chatted a lot about imax, and the topic gradually turned to movies.

"Believe that the technical aspects are no longer an issue."

Waving to the other under the umbrella, Nicole gently rocked Sandy's crib. The mother and daughter didn't see his gesture at all. Ryan had to turn his eyes back to James Cameron. "Jim, I've waited too long."

The two are not only old friends, but also have a very pleasant cooperation in the past. James Cameron stretched out a hand. All five fingers lit up, "Five hundred million dollars!"

"How much?" This number surprised Nicole on the other side.

"In terms of production costs, I initially estimate that 200 million US dollars will be enough." James Cameron explained to the two at the same time, "The rest are promotional and marketing expenses. We shoot not only movies, but also company promotional videos. ."

After the release of "Avatar" in the previous life, companies other than the producers, distributors and James Cameron can be said to be one of the biggest beneficiaries.

Now, the company's largest shareholder is Ryan. The second largest shareholder is James Cameron.

"Are you going to start preparing now?" Ryan asked after thinking for a while.

"Yes." James Cameron drank half a cup of black tea, "After this talk, I'm going to call up people."

"Okay then." Ryan made a reassuring gesture to him. "I will push Disney to pass this project as soon as possible, and the early funds will be available soon."

"Ryan Jenkins and James Cameron teamed up." Nicole on the other side grabbed Sandy's little hand and shook it gently, "Don't talk about Disney, I'm afraid all Hollywood companies will be generous in signing checks."

Ryan and James Cameron both laughed.

these years. There are not a few companies looking for James Cameron to re-emerge, but unfortunately only a few people such as Ryan understand why he is obsessed with making imax3d documentaries. I am preparing for the next big production. Today, the development trend of 3D technology and North American theaters has obviously surpassed that of the previous life. This studio tyrant is finally about to start that time-consuming and labor-intensive super production.

The two then briefly talked about some details, such as in addition to him and Cameron himself, another executive producer would invite Jon Landau, who had been working happily with "Titanic"; such as the film's studio shooting Put it in Australia as much as possible to get favorable conditions such as tax rebates and sponsorships.

After talking about the business, James Cameron turned his eyes to Nicole's side, looked at Sandy lying on the crib, who seemed to be asleep, and asked, "I remember that the little guy doesn't have a godfather yet, right? ?"

"That's right." Ryan laughed, and he vaguely guessed the intention of the tyrant on the set.

"Frankly, Jim." Nicole joked deliberately, "I don't think you, a grumpy fellow, would be a proper godfather."

"As long as Sandy thinks I'm qualified in the future." James Cameron walked over to the shaker, "That's enough."

"What do you mean?"

Nicole looked this way, Ryan shrugged, she nodded and said, "Okay, Jim, you can get Sandy a given name now."

"Christian name?"

The tyrant on the set couldn't help holding his chin. After thinking for a few seconds, he said, "re, Ruth, what do you think?"

"Sandy Ruth Kidman Jenkins?" Nicole muttered, then added, "Not bad."

Ryan has the urge to cover his forehead. How much does James Cameron like the names Jack and Ruth? If I remember correctly, the male protagonist in "Avatar" is also called Jack... (To be continued...) ()