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For Hollywood, the summer of 1995 began with the release of Die Hard 3 on May 19, but since the Jurassic Park 2 trailer was officially unveiled at the Super Bowl at the beginning of the year, the global media and fans have All eyes are on this long-awaited super blockbuster.

June 2, the day when Jurassic Park 2 was released, also became the official start of the summer vacation for most ordinary people.

The huge success of Jurassic Park two years ago was not only reflected in the record-breaking global billion dollar box office, but also made the Jurassic Park brand deeply rooted in people's hearts and even formed a cultural phenomenon, Although under the background of the gradual rise of CG special effects films, it is difficult for the Jurassic Park series to reach the height of Star Wars in the 1970s, but the potential commercial value of its brand still reaches billions of dollars.

Under this powerful influence, the premiere of Jurassic Park 2 attracted intense attention from hundreds of media around the world.

Eric rushed back to Los Angeles from New York on the morning of May 31 to begin final preparations for the premiere of Jurassic Park 2 the next day.

The premiere of Jurassic Park 2 was officially held at the Los Angeles Music Center at 5 pm on June 1.

In the new version of Jurassic Park 2, Eric has used the director Joe Johnston, who has worked with Disney on many films. The hugely successful family comedy Honey, I Made My Kids Small.

In the original timeline, Joe Johnston was supposed to be the director of Jumanji and Jurassic Park 3, Eric handed over Jumanji to someone else, let Joe Johnston Johnston joined the Jurassic Park series in advance, and if the second part can be successful as scheduled, he can also let the other party continue to handle the third part.

The star-studded red carpet segment lasted for two hours, because the media Q\u0026A was arranged after the film screening, and the time came to 7 o'clock in the afternoon. After the host made a brief speech, the film officially started in the hall.

The original Jurassic Park 2 was basically Spielberg's game. The plot is weak and messy, and the story continues to use the first character's intentional death setting, and even later, Spielberg himself admitted that it was his worst film. Although in the original time and space. Jurassic Park 2 still has a global box office of more than 600 million US dollars, but the reputation of the entire series has been completely screwed up, resulting in a third global box office of only 300 million US dollars.

The new version of the Jurassic Park 2 script adopts the general idea of ​​the original version,

But in order not to repeat the same mistakes, maintain the good reputation of the series. The original story frame was completely overturned by Eric.

In the new script, Eric weakened the plot of exploring Dinosaur Island, deleted some branch lines, and no longer adopted the very brainless setting of no immortality. Instead, the story focuses on the first behind-the-scenes company that bribed the park computer administrators for dinosaur embryos, leading to eventual disaster, catching all kinds of people from Dinosaur Island in order to build a brand new Jurassic Park for huge profits. The dinosaurs, when they managed to capture a Tyrannosaurus Rex with great effort, the Tyrannosaurus rex accidentally escaped during the transportation process, resulting in a more catastrophic Tyrannosaurus Rex invasion of the city.

in the movie. Tyrannosaurus rex, who ran rampant in the metropolis in order to find its cubs, not only shocked the whole world, but also shocked thousands of spectators in the cinema. There is no doubt that this setting is very successful. After all, dinosaurs are in modern times. The resurrection of society is already a very big gimmick, and the plot of the Tyrannosaurus rex invading the city is definitely more immersive than the isolated dinosaur island.

The tight storyline makes everyone forget the loss of time, and the two-hour viewing process can be described as turning around, when the Tyrannosaurus rex, which caused a series of catastrophic consequences, is finally subdued, and the subtitles rise. The concert hall suddenly burst into warm applause.

When the audience and guests who participated in the premiere dispersed, the invited reporters did not talk about the quality of the film at the subsequent press conference, nor did they ask the crew about their box office prospects. Instead, they used the first opportunity to ask questions on a question they had been holding back for more than a year.

Mr. Williams, I'm a reporter for The Seattle Journal, and I'll start by saying that this is a very good sequel, but we still don't understand why you gave up directing the Jurassic Park series? Reporter in the meeting hall. A female reporter who was lucky enough to get the right to ask questions stared at Eric and couldn't wait to ask.

Eric took the microphone handed over by the person next to him, with a faint smile on his face, and said, I know that everyone has been curious about this question for a long time, but my answer is not much different from the previous announcement of Firefly Group, and I don't mean to perfunctory everyone. On the one hand, I don't like to repeat a certain job, and on the other hand, it is also the main reason, because I am too busy now, and it is difficult to take a few months alone to fly overseas. Make a movie.

Mr. Williams, does this mean that you won't shoot movies yourself in the future? The female reporter asked again quickly while the microphone in her hand was not taken away.

Eric thought for a while and said, Seriously, the first Jurassic Park two years ago has reached a peak in my personal career. If a person has done something to the extreme, I want him to It's definitely very difficult to keep doing this over and over with passion. Will I go on to make the next film, the answer is yes, because I'm too young to have a lot of time, but the next I don't even know when the film will start.

The microphone for the question was passed to another reporter, who said, Mr. Williams, I'm a reporter from The New York Times. Excuse me, under what circumstances will you continue to make the next film?

“It’s just too many, like projects that I feel like breaking out of myself, or scripts that intrigue me. Of course, there’s also a case where a friend once joked that I’m like a chef who runs a restaurant in the main In the absence of the chef for some reason, I can put myself on top at any time. The same is true, if the project of the Firefly Group needs me, I can also personally participate at any time.

You mean you can direct any type of film project under Firefly?

Facing the small trap in this question, Eric shook his head slightly and smiled: Oh, I don't know much about this, but you can go back and see the types of films I have made over the years.

There was a burst of laughter from the audience. A moment later, another questioner said, Mr. Williams, I'm a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter. Excuse me. The film you directed has achieved commercial success that no one else can match, so when are you going to hit it? What about the best director Oscar?

Eric wanted to ask a question, if you were already the President of the United States, would you still care about the Boy Scout medal?

However, this answer. It will definitely be interpreted by the media as Eric Williams' open disdain for the Oscars. Although he really has this idea in his heart, Eric will never say it in public.

After pretending to hesitate for a moment, Eric said into the microphone: Well, this is the last question about me personally, if the next question has nothing to do with Jurassic Park, I will not answer it again. So, to your question, I think it's going to be a very long story for sure.

Everyone in the arena was stunned for a moment. Immediately aware of the veiled ridicule of the film school in Eric's words, they all laughed.

As we all know, Eric is only 25 years old now. In the history of the Oscars for more than half a century, no director has ever won an Oscar before the age of 30. So, if Eric shows his intention to hit the best director, there will definitely be a protracted chase game between him and the Academy. It is conceivable that in order to maintain its authority, the film academy will never succumb to the various halos on Eric's head, or even for the ratings of the awards ceremony. 100% would be even more harsh on Eric's Olympic film.

Even Eric can imagine that if he wants to hit Oscar, he will probably replace Xiao Lizi. Become a meme at every Oscar.

Xiao Lizi has now followed the historical trajectory and embarked on that big ship, so it is better to leave it to him to create laughter for fans.

After the premiere, Jurassic Park was officially released in North American theaters, and the number of opening screens broke the record again. reached 3500.

Taking over the sequel to such a movie that once created a box office myth, Joe Johnston's pressure can be imagined. Therefore, he did not have the same mind as Spielberg in his previous life, and invested a lot of energy in this sequel, although The final production cost was overrun, but it was clearly worth it.

With a tighter plot, more refined special effects, and an unwittingly intense two hours in the theater, there is no doubt that Joe Johnston has delivered a satisfying performance for this sequel. answer.” The Los Angeles Times

The setting of the Tyrannosaurus rex roaming the city is amazing. Even in the theater, watching the crowd chased by the Tyrannosaurus Rex on the screen, I couldn't help but my heart beat faster, creating a feeling of running away. Daily News

I originally thought that this would be a decent sequel, but while continuing the style of the first film, the breakthroughs made in the plot and special effects are surprising, and the plot of the giant beasts invading the city can't help but make People are starting to wonder if we should be more in awe of nature and less destructive. The New York Times

Compared with the one-sided negative reviews of the sequel of the previous life, the critics basically gave positive reviews for this new version. With the good reputation, with the number of 3,500 opening screens, the film achieved 31.7 million in a single day on the first Friday. Dollar box office, easily breaking all previous single-day box office records.

Then, $33.5 million on Saturday and $29.8 million on Sunday.

In the end, when adding the $5.6 million box office at midnight on the night of the premiere, everyone was surprised to find that Jurassic Park 2 once again created a brand new opening weekend with a box office of $100.6 million. billion box office records.

At the same time, under the strong distribution channels of Firefly Group, Jurassic Park 2 was simultaneously released overseas in 22 countries and regions, and the box office in the first three days of the first weekend also reached 60 million US dollars.

The three-day global box office grossed $160 million, easily surpassing all the production and distribution costs Firefly spent on the sequel.

Many people can't even imagine what kind of height this film will reach again.

For Eric, seeing this box office report card, the last trace of anxiety in his heart has completely dissipated. At the same time, he is also 100% sure that the sequel to Jurassic Park in his previous life was really smashed by Lao Si's classmates. .

In fact, this is not too surprising for Eric. The huge popularity accumulated by the first film, coupled with the equally excellent quality of the second film, and the further expansion of the North American and global film market, even if the box office does not reach The first Gundam is definitely not too bad.

Moreover, the Jurassic World restarted after Jurassic Park was shelved for many years in the previous life, the North American box office of 600 million US dollars and the global box office of 1.6 billion US dollars is enough to prove how strong people's interest in this dinosaur series blockbuster is.

Inside the Columbia Pictures studio in Culver City, Los Angeles.

A black Lincoln parked slowly in front of an office building of the studio. Just as Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony America, got out of the car, Bill Michanick, the new CEO of Columbia Pictures, greeted him.

Bill Michanick is also a Hollywood veteran. He once worked for Paramount, Disney and Fox. When he was at Disney in the mid-1980s, Bill Michanick single-handedly dominated the videotape distribution of Disney's classic animated films. After working and producing a string of good sales, he moved to Fox as a vice president in the late 1980s.

After Fox appointed Joe Ross as president, Bill Michanick had already started brewing a job-hopping plan.

After Sony abandoned Michael Ovitz's plans to take the helm at Columbia, it took a few months of scouting, and the job finally fell to Bill Michanic.

In fact, Columbia is not without better candidates, but after the events of Peter Cooper and John Peters, Sony has become very cautious in the decision to delegate power to film company managers, so a group of better Hollywood During the negotiation process, the manager withdrew from the battle for the head of Colombia because of Sony's various restrictions.

Howard Stringer and Bill Michanick hugged warmly, greeted each other, and walked towards the office building together.

Bill Michanick followed Howard Stringer step by step and said, Howard, you should have seen the box office report of Jurassic Park 2, right?

Of course, Howard Stringer nodded, I came here today just to talk to you about this. The headquarters just sent me a project. In my opinion, it is similar to Jurassic Park 2 has huge potential. (To be continued.)

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