I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1085: Disputes and Box Office
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With Brian O'Donnell's last sentence, the screen was dark and the lights in the auditorium hadn't been lit up before, and there was already a buzzing discussion.
The audience who can participate in the premiere is either special guests and media reporters, or loyal fans of the agent film universe. Everyone recognized at a glance that the petite girl in the egg was Angela Linde from Casino Royale two years ago, sister of Heroine Visper Linde, a geeky character genius girl, but also The backup angel of Charlie detective office.
At the end of "Casino Royale", Bond handed Angela Lynn to the trio, but this role did not appear in the "Charlie's Angels3" released in the summer.
Although the role of Angela Linde in "Casino Royale" is very rare, it is also quite eye-catching. Many loyal fans of the special agent movie universe hope that the girl can return, but she did not expect that she will appear in the egg of "The Fast and the Furious", so she can't help guessing the plot of the movie in the future.
Of course, in addition to the role, there are also many people who think of Angela Linde ’s player, Christina · Aguilera, Firefly Records. One of the young pop singers who has been promoting now. The other party has obtained several single songs in the past two years. A very good response, it is said that the first album will be released soon.
Among the sounds of discussion, the lights were on, the main creators came on stage again, and warm applause rang from the screening room.
After a simple curtain call and media interaction, the premiere ended, most of the audience began to exit, and some invited guests also began to transfer to Yuxing party, which was held for the premiere by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Because all the audiences in the premiere were carefully selected, the next day, the comments about "The Fast and the Furious" appeared in the media are basically positive, and the expectations of fans are increasing.
Two days passed quickly. After the last wave of publicity at the premiere, on the New Year ’s Day, "The Fast and the Furious" was officially released on a large scale in the entire US3100 cinema. Spread out on a large scale.
"... A perfect popcorn movie created by the Hollywood standard three-stage script layout. The film ’s world view setting is very perfect. Each protagonist has its own past, present and future. More rare is this perfect The layout of the world view has not affected the narrative rhythm of the movie at all, and the hot and exciting chasing scene of the car makes people immersed in it every second. "
"... Hollywood movies have never lacked drag racing scenes, but there are very few films that focus on this theme and can be commercially successful. The 《Days of Thunder》 of Tom · Cruise many years ago is more like a literary film, Jane de Bonte's "The Speed" also has more criminal elements than drag racing. Compared with it, "The Fast and the Furious" undoubtedly created a precedent for the theme. It can be imagined that several consecutive drag racing dramas in the film will definitely become many similar movies in the future Imitation objects. "
"... The drag racing scene of" The Fast and the Furious "undoubtedly made blood boiling, but at the same time, the film did the same in terms of details. Perhaps many people did not notice that at the Dominic family party, although the noisy music and conversation masked The sound of the TV was heard, but the news of a serious fight incident in a nightclub broadcast on the TV screen was undoubtedly the scene of the three-person raid on the outer base of the ghost party in the opening of "Charlie's Angels3." And, if my guess is correct, cloth Ryan O'Donnell, the childhood playmate Roman mentioned in the film more than once, will definitely appear in the sequel of the film. Of course, if there is a sequel, there seems to be no suspense in this matter. "
"... Over the years, Rob Cohen has finally come up with a work that breaks through himself. The newcomer Actor that Metro Goldwyn Mayer enabled in a controversial voice also submitted a fairly satisfactory answer."
Although most of the traditional film critic are not very fond of pure popcorn movies, but in a round of applause, "The Fast and the Furious" still achieved a very strong media score of 8 points.
There has never been any movie in the world that can be recognized by everyone. Therefore, although the reputation of "The Fast and the Furious" has burst, another group of criticisms of the movie have followed.
Alternatively, criticism is not accurate. As a popcorn movie that Metro Goldwyn Mayer has meticulously created after years of operation of the agent film universe, there are very few aspects that are worthy of criticism. Therefore, the media's criticism of "The Fast and the Furious" may be more accurate as a controversy.
"... It is undeniable that" The Fast and the Furious "is a very good movie. However, it is difficult to accept that in order to extract more profits from the agent movie universe brand, Metro Goldwyn Mayer forcibly associates this movie with the agent movie universe. Together. After watching the movie, I really ca n’t think of how much a group of drag racing parties can be related to the agent movie universe. Do people like James · Bond or Ethan Hunt need a driver? Although Metro Goldwyn Mayer has already stated the "The Fast and the Furious" series many times before There will not be too much intersection with the agent movie universe, but this statement undoubtedly shows the guilty conscience of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. "
"... The Agent Movie Universe is definitely a very great initiative in the history of Hollywood movies, but the profitable Metro Goldwyn Mayer is ruining it all. Forcibly linking a street drag film with the three series that are enough to be included in the film history It ’s just tiresome. There is no doubt that next, we will see a variety of 'special movie universe derivative series', I believe that there is always one that will let the audience completely disappointed with this brand. "
Although it was expected from the beginning, the critics' doubts about the linkage between "The Fast and the Furious" and the agent movie universe are still far beyond Metro Goldwyn Mayer's expectations. This controversial trend even spread quickly to the Internet, and although most netizens are accustomed to watching around, the voiced fans have very clear views on whether "The Fast and the Furious" can join the agent movie universe, or strong Support, or resolutely oppose, the two factions quarreled in the Internet movie community forums, and quickly became a hot topic in the major news web portal.
"Why ca n’t it be linked, is it because Dominic they did n’t save the world? If so, the agent movie universe simply changed its name to Save the World."
“Although I also feel blood boiling in the cinema for the male & female leads ’s drag racing, I calm down afterwards, but I have to think about what this has to do with the agent movie universe. Angela Linde ’s appearance in the movie Egg It was awkward. I was looking forward to the return of this role. Now it seems that Metro Goldwyn Mayer is forcibly ruining all this. "
Hollywood has always had a very general rule.
A movie with a bad reputation and a low level of topicality is destined to fail. If the word of mouth is good and the topic is low, then its Box Office will only be satisfactory. If the word-of-mouth is bursting, and the topic is also bursting, then this movie will undoubtedly burst into Box Office.
Although it has caused strong controversy, the "The Fast and the Furious" series is undoubtedly in the last state.
In a heated media discussion, "The Fast and the Furious" opened for three days on the first weekend, Box Office has reached 57.33 million USD, and Box Office in the first seven days of the first week easily broke through the 80 million mark, reaching 81.21 million USD.
Although the Box Office scores of 8more than 7 million USD in the first week of 《Ted》 in the Thanksgiving period were not reached, the Box Office in the first week exceeded 80 million USD, which is also far beyond the expectations of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. After all, 《Ted》 has a very wide reputation and popularity base. The film's subversion of tedddy bear is even more stunning, so the super high Box Office in the first week is also reasonable.
Compared with the title of the derivative series of the special movie universe, "The Fast and the Furious" has a natural short board. That is, in the western world where vehicles are very common, people's interest in drag racing movies is never very high, just like you are used to eating bread every day, seeing others eat the same food, even if the other person's bread is more fragrant, There will be too much envy. Many ordinary people even hate the drag racing party.
Also, although there is no shortage of films such as drag racing in Hollywood, this type has always been a niche, and there has never been a fixed base for watching movies.
Therefore, Metro Goldwyn Mayer expected Box Office for the first week of "The Fast and the Furious" to be originally 60 million USD, and North America total Box Office is also expected to be between 120 million USD and 150 million USD. The company only hopes to lay the popularity base through first part, and, although the budget cost is 60 million USD, but because of the auto company sponsorship and advertising placement, the production capital invested by Metro Goldwyn Mayer is actually only 40 million USD. Also only 70 million USD. As long as the film North America Box Office breaks through 120 million USD, the film is basically equal to cost recovery, overseas distribution and future surroundings will directly bring huge profits to Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
The current situation is far beyond Firefly's expectations, but it is not over yet.
Due to the increased word-of-mouth and topicality of the film, many passers-by viewers who had no interest in drag racing movies have gradually joined the audience.
Moreover, after the New Year, there is no longer an empty market for heavyweight movies, which undoubtedly gives "The Fast and the Furious" more room to play.
Therefore, after 81.21 million USD in the first week, according to the regular Box Office curve of commercial films, "The Fast and the Furious" should fall about 50% in the next week Box Office, but in fact, the Box Office fell only 38% in the next week. 50350,000 USD, in just two weeks, the North America total Box Office of "The Fast and the Furious" reached 100 million31.56 million USD, which has exceeded Metro Goldwyn Mayer's expectation for this film's North America all Box Office is only two weeks Box Office, Metro Goldwyn Mayer has recovered all costs and achieved profit .
80 million USD in the first week and 50 million USD in the following week, the drop rate is kept within 40%. It is conceivable that according to this Box Office trend, "The Fast and the Furious" will undoubtedly become the film of 1999 first part North America Box Office breakthrough 200 million USD.
The outstanding performance of North America Box Office will also greatly stimulate the attention of overseas markets to "The Fast and the Furious". Even if the controversy about whether "The Fast and the Furious" can join the Metro Goldwyn Mayer agent movie universe has always existed, there is no doubt that this series has already been a hit. In the future, even if Metro Goldwyn Mayer really cancels this series of links with the agent movie universe, it will not affect it The future of Box Office in the film.
With the success of the "The Fast and the Furious" series, several of the movie's rookie Actor also instantly became Hollywood's quasi-first-line cafe.
In the original time and space, after van Diesel succeeded in the "The Fast and the Furious" series first part, he was directly troubled by the issue of pay and Universal Pictures, and did not return again until the third part. But after going through a series of pay disputes in the development process of the agent film universe, Metro Goldwyn Mayer will naturally not make the same mistake this time.
Before the film started, Metro Goldwyn Mayer had signed a strict series of contracts with Van Diesel and Paul Walker, and even broke the Hollywood tradition of signing up to three films in advance.
Eric originally just hoped to sign a three-part contract with the two first, but under the operation of the girl and Amy, this contract directly became six, "Spider-Man" signed with Stewart · Lunkel and Firefly The film is about similar.
However, the contract of Stewart is only three originals plus three cross sets, and Firefly also generously gave Stewart a certain bargaining power. But as a rookie rookie, Paul Walker and Van Diesel naturally did not get these benefits.
It can be said that this time, Van Diesel and Paul Walker were directly tied to this series, unless Metro Goldwyn Mayer allowed, or the other party paid a high price penalty that was basically impossible to bear. Otherwise, Van Diesel and Paul Walker cannot even star in other movies before completing the "The Fast and the Furious" contract.
With the success of the "The Fast and the Furious" series, although all parties have signed confidentiality contracts, such a binding contract similar to the deed of sale was quickly excavated by the supernatural media. Regarding the strong power of the Firefly system currently in Hollywood, some media even began to exclaim, the era of Hollywood large-scale studios returned again, and Hollywood Star will once again become the signed Actor of Film Studio.
This very marketable argument quickly spread.
In recent years, the strength of the Firefly system in Hollywood is well known.
Especially after the acquisition of Columbia Film Studio last year, the pattern of the seven major Film Studio of Hollywood, the Firefly system has occupied four, which has been equivalent to controlling most of the Hollywood. Due to the strong performance in the film and television business for several consecutive years, the Firefly system The actual influence on Hollywood is even greater. Therefore, almost no one would doubt that the Firefly system now has the power to change the Hollywood rules again.
Naturally, as the media throws a return to the "era era", some people have deliberately promoted it, and some media have begun to discuss whether the federal government should take action to restrict the increasingly powerful Firefly system.