Legendary Hollywood Director

On July 15, the North American film market welcomed two more masterpieces.

One is the romantic comedy Wedding Cracker by New Line Cinema, and the other is the fantasy film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory shot by genius director Tim Burton and released by Warner Bros.

The release of these two films also means that the summer of 2005 has come to an end.

Although the post-production work of Monster in the Lake did not become easy after editing, Lehmann, as the boss of a film company, still paid close attention to the works of other film companies while he was busy.

Among them, the quality of Wedding Cracker and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are very good. The former box office of 33.9 million US dollars in the first week, with more than 1,900 screens; the latter's first week box office of 56.17 million US dollars, with more than 2,400 screens , and basically occupied the first or second place in the weekly box office list with its performance.

However, in comparison, New Line Pictures suffers from a loss, and it is inferior to Warner in the announcement, and the number of screens obtained is too small, otherwise Wedding Shocker may not be better than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as for Xia Ying Mystery has been released for a month, and most of the box office that should be obtained has been obtained. It doesn't matter if there is a new film released, whether it is a hit or not, anyway, the box office of one or two million dollars per day hangs.

Going back to the previous comparison, in fact, the director Tim Burton's style is too personal, and the consequence of stylization is that people who love them very much love them very much, and those who don't like them will not go to the cinema to support them. 》This kind of market level can be accepted by the giggling public.

The director, who was born in 1958 and is 47 years old today, is always known as weird, and it can be seen from his circle of friends - his favorite actor to work with is Johnny Depp, and he and The Red Queen Helena Bonham Carter was married.

If the entire Hollywood director circle voted for one of the weirdest people, it would definitely be him.

He is reticent, imaginative, and has a unique Burton-style exaggerated visual style, which often makes his works gothic, eerie, and weird, making his work extremely recognizable.

Take a look at the character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a little boy who was put on exaggerated equipment to prevent tooth decay, and eventually became the world's largest chocolate producer, not to mention the style of painting, this guy is a painting professional. If you can't be a director, you can also be a cartoonist.

Then, coupled with the wonderful performance of Johnny Depp, with the support of many fans, Wedding Cracker has been suppressed from the beginning.

However, the box office trend of Wedding Cracker was too stable, falling by less than 15% in the next week and 23% in the third week, which is far more stable than Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

So, in the middle of the third week, Wedding Cracker overtook it strongly, and then it went all the way.

Facts have proved that comedy is comedy. No matter which country it is in, it is the easiest existence to win big from small. Is director David Dawkin more famous than Tim Burton?

Are the actors in it more topical than Johnny Depp after Pirates of the Caribbean?

Even if it is compared to investment and publicity, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a complete victory.

But the charm of the movie lies in how many audiences it can please, rather than the competition of the lineup to determine the winner.

Therefore, New Line, Lionsgate, Firefly Pictures, and Mubao Pictures can sometimes be beaten by the Big Six, instead of losing directly because of the theater problem.

When it comes to arranging films, of course, Warner has the upper hand, but with the film market there, it is impossible to ask theaters not to tilt their resources out.

Moreover, the theater chain is not a company that can have the final say.

In the fourth week, the box office of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory plunged by more than 45%, while Wedding Cracker remained stable, only dropped 30%, and finally surpassed the total box office. .

The box office evaluation agency directly gave the reservation, saying that Wedding Cracker could at least win Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the box office by 2 million.

But in the end, Wedding Crashers not only overwhelmed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by 2 million, but close to 3 million dollars - the last few days of the painting, the box office picked up strangely, taking an extra 70,000 to 800,000 dollars, Win by a narrow margin.

As a result, Wedding Cracker has accumulated more than 209 million in North America, and currently ranks fourth in the annual box office rankings, while Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ranks fifth with more than 206 million. The sixth is Batman: Mystery of the Shadow, which won more than 205 million US dollars.

And Lehman's The Fog also temporarily ranked third with more than 219 million, and the second was Spielberg's War of the Worlds, which earned more than 230 million at the North American box office; Star Wars 3, with more than 380 million in the United States and 850 million in the world, it is really impossible to catch up.

After entering August, when Lehmann continued the post-production of Monster in the Lake, the special effects work in the digital field had been completed - if it hadn't been for the work in the digital field, the post-production of Monster in the Lake would not have been necessary. Long.

In fact, it took two weeks to edit and one week to record sound effects, and the time was very loose.

In the middle, Lyman even accompanied Eva to MGM.

In other words, MGM is really in decline, there are really not many projects that can be taken, and the management is extremely chaotic, often changing the helmsman, three times in two years, and then it is even more chaotic, and I don't know what's behind What are the shareholders doing?

Of course, MGM has little to do with Lehmann, and even the worse they are, for competitors like Firefly Pictures, they are very happy to see the situation.

And in that past, it was also Eva who decided to participate in 007: Battle of Casino Royale and signed a participation contract first.

In terms of remuneration, the conditions are also quite good.

Just acting in a vase will give 7 million plus box office incentives, which is more than the hero Daniel gets - the new Bond is chosen, and MGM still takes a fancy to Daniel Craig.

This person is also very good at things. When he saw Lehman and Eva that day, he took the initiative to chat with them.

He is not low in emotional intelligence. Knowing that the heroine is Eva, he also took the initiative to ask MGM to delete the intimate scenes in Casino Royale. As for the exposed plot, there will be no more.

Even if it is a kiss scene, it can actually be shot in a borrowed position, which is also a condition for Eva to be willing to participate.

Originally, Lehman thought that Eva was now very valuable and the conditions were very harsh, maybe MGM would give up.

But who knew that they made this calculus and even proposed to let Lehmann be the project producer-because of the change of Bond, MGM was also afraid that the market of the latest issue of 007 would not start well, so they wanted to take insurance. .

After thinking about it, I felt that Lehman had a good market vision, so I invited Eva to play to show goodwill to Lehman.

Lehmann agreed to this.

Isn't that just filming? No need for him to shoot. Give some advice, grasp the overall situation and do not deviate from the original version, and the box office will not be bad.

Moreover, MGM is also interesting, a producer, gave Lehmann 10% of the North American box office.

Of course, there are no other remuneration packages for this condition. Anyway, the more the movie box office sells, the more Lehmann gets, which is a small calculation by MGM.

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