Director who specializes in American comics

When Wang Xuanyuan and Stan Lee talked about adapting comics into movies, because the comics described are basically superhero stories, they can also be called superhero movies. This opened a new door for Stan, but The difficulty of this gate is also conceivable, and a lot of money needs to be poured into it.

At the same time, Scarlett's joke: I want to play the Black Widow brought more connections between Scarlett and superhero movies.

After talking for nearly an hour, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. Stan waved his hand and said: "My friend, it's getting late. It's time for me, an old man, to go back. If I don't go back, I will have to live on the street."

Wang Xuanyuan and Scarlett helped the old man out of the bar, and stopped a taxi for Old Stan on the street. After paying the fare and tip in advance, they watched the old man leave.

The old man didn't bring any money, so he had to rely on Wang Xuanyuan for wine and car money.

After watching the old man leave, the two of them also took a taxi back to their respective homes.

The first weekend box office of "The Matrix", which was released a few days ago, has been released, reaching 34 million, which is very good among Hollywood blockbusters. It is now in its second week, and the total box office in North America has basically reached 34 million. It has reached 100 million U.S. dollars, and the trend is very good. The rate of positive reviews from the audience is very high, exceeding Warner Brothers’ expectations.

At the same time, "The Matrix" has also opened in other regions around the world. In many regions, it has directly broken the box office record in that region. At this moment, the global box office has exceeded 160 million and is approaching the figure of 200 million.

According to this trend, Warner Bros. estimates that it will be a piece of cake for the global box office to exceed 400 million. Film critics have unanimously praised this genesis movie.

After Wang Xuanyuan rested at home for a day, he received a notice from Universal that the release date of his new film had been set.

In fact, the release date of his new film has already been set, but because he is only a new director, Universal has not issued an announcement. Furthermore, Universal actually also intentionally avoids Warner Bros.' "The Matrix" and deliberately gives up The release of "The Fast and the Furious: Paranormal Activity" has been postponed by ten days from the original scheduled date.

The audience of "The Matrix" and "The Fast and the Furious: Paranormal Activity" largely overlap. Most of them are targeted at teenagers aged 17 to 30. Universal aims to attract all kinds of audiences. After thinking about it, I decided to postpone Wang Xuanyuan's new film.

However, the final release date has been determined this time, which is next Friday night, and there is still a week for further promotion.

Within this week, Universal allocated another two million in publicity funds and once again launched intensive publicity in several major cities near Los Angeles. At the same time, Wang Xuanyuan also followed the publicity team during this publicity. Speeches and announcements were made in one city after another. Fortunately, they were all cities in western North America, so the distances were not very far.

During this week, Ryan's new movie "Battlefield Earth", a science fiction blockbuster initiated and produced by the famous Hollywood actor John Travolta, embraced the golden thigh in Ryan's fantasy, and in the eyes of all Warner Bros. executives Amidst the enthusiastic expectations to once again create the fantasy of "The Matrix" box office, this science fiction blockbuster completely failed.

The first weekend box office of "Battlefield Earth" was less than 3 million.

Yes, you read that right, four million.

Even as of today, six days after its release, its North American box office is only a mere six million.

It can be said that Ryan's vision for selecting films this time is somewhat problematic. Even ordinary Hollywood movies can easily reach this box office. Faced with its production and publicity costs of more than 80 million, just looking at its current box office. I already know that this movie is probably a flop.

John Travolta, who was promoting this project, was also in great trouble.

Looking at various media and filmmakers, there is unanimous criticism of this science fiction masterpiece: poor special effects, a script full of loopholes, obscure content, an epic "movie disaster".

As the box office of this movie becomes more and more weak, Ryan's heart becomes more and more depressed. He originally wanted to use this movie to break into Hollywood, but he didn't expect that his debut would be such a hit. At a loss.

However, he still has a sense of luck. Although his new film is a hit, the new film of his old rival Wang Xuanyuan will definitely be a hit too. Well, that's certainly the case.

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