The Best Entertainment Era

Under the night, the neon lights blooming in Century City are more dazzling than the starlight in the sky. As one of the most prosperous commercial districts in Los Angeles, this place is definitely a veritable city that never sleeps.

In Century City Plaza, Ronan parked the car, took Jessica Felton into the elevator room, took the elevator to the top floor of the commercial plaza, took the reserved movie tickets, entered the movie hall, and came to the back sit down.

This is the theater where Pharaohs and Kings was screened.

Thanks to the great reputation of director Ridley Scott, it is a first-line commercial production with a production cost of 130 million US dollars, and it is Friday night, the audience in the theater is not small, Ronan roughly sees After a while, there are always about ten people.

Ronan put the paper tube in his hand between the two and asked, Do you want to eat popcorn?

Jessica Felton glanced at the cream and syrup wrapped on it, and shook her head without hesitation: This is the natural enemy of women.

Ronan didn't force it, he gave her a bottle of water and said, You can indulge once in a while.

Opening the bottle cap, Jessica Felton took a sip and asked, Isn't this a Twentieth Century Fox movie? I remember that the company didn't have a good relationship with Twentieth Century Fox. How did you think of sponsoring them? Is it at the box office?

Ronan threw a popcorn into his mouth, and the sweetness of the syrup went straight into his throat. He coughed lightly and said, You may not know that this project adapted from The Prince of Egypt will be launched next by Twentieth Century Fox. The release of Ten Thousand Years Before History and the later Robin Hood were originally intended projects of Shahai Entertainment.

Due to the high secrecy of this matter, only a few parties knew about it. Jessica Felton didn't know about it at all, and looked at Ronan in surprise: Why did it get into the hands of 20th Century Fox?

She understands the style of Ronan and the management of Relativity Entertainment, and the meat in the bowl cannot be snatched away by others.

Ronan shrugged: The news leaked out, Twentieth Century Fox acted quickly.

Because Jessica Felton knew Ronan well, she subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and asked, Did you get poached?

What are you thinking about? Ronan held Jessica Felton's arm and said, Don't tell anyone about this, remember to keep it secret.

I see. Seeing that Ronan didn't say anything, Jessica Felton didn't ask, but turned to the upcoming movie: The attendance rate of this movie is average.

Ronan nodded slightly: It's the prime time on Friday night,

There are only a dozen viewers, not very optimistic.

Jessica Felton saw the classic title of 20th Century Fox on the screen and said, Let's watch the movie.

As a person in the industry, she watched movies seriously.

Ronan also looked at it seriously, but he just couldn't figure it out. Is Colin Farrell so popular in big Hollywood companies?

After Alexander the Great, Colin Farrell once again became the main actor in a first-line epic blockbuster. This time, instead of playing the leading actor Moses, he played Moses' brother Ramses.

That big bald head is exactly the same as the Colin Farrell video that is widely spread on the Internet.

The leading actor was very strange, an actor Ronan had never seen before.

Ronan still can't figure it out, do Hollywood directors and producers like Colin Farrell so much?

Counting from the beginning of his debut in Hollywood, the resources Colin Farrell got are definitely first-class, but the tragic degree of the movie hitting the street after its release is also first-class.

Could it be that those directors and producers especially appreciate Colin Farrell's appearance?

Ronan vaguely remembers Colin Farrell screwing up most of his movies and still getting good projects and roles later on.

Seeing Colin Farrell's bald head, coupled with the genre of costume epics, Ronan is basically relieved of Pharaohs and Gods.

It's hell if you put those two together and you can't screw up a movie.

Frankly speaking, as a veteran director with considerable qualifications and abilities, Ridley Scott's film is not bad.

Especially the special effects and big scenes are very epic.

Ridley Scott's ability in this regard is unquestionable, and it can even be said that he showed a magnificent ancient dynasty through the lens, retelling a well-known biblical story in a new way.

The film starts and ends brilliantly, as is typical for Ridley Scott.

But the rhythm in the middle part is really a bit procrastinated. Ronan can roughly see that Ridley Scott wants to downplay the mythology as much as possible and shoot it as a human story, but how can this story ignore the existence of God?

Especially the process of Moses from rejecting religion to pious belief, not only Ronan, as a bystander, could not understand it, but Moses himself would probably be confused if he saw it.

Jessica Felton is very professional. Since the beginning of the movie, she has been watching it intently, and she didn't even speak to Ronan in the middle.

When the subtitles fell, she looked at Ronan and said shyly, Sorry...

Ronan didn't understand Jessica Felton, shook his head and said with a smile: It's okay. He turned to ask: How do you feel?

Jessica Felton at her best: There's clearly something wrong with the editing. It's been heard for a long time that 20th Century Fox gave Ridley Scott the final cut to avoid Kingdom of Heaven type mistakes, now it seems that it is not very successful.

Ronan didn't hide from her, saying: Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven cut version, if it is released in theaters, the result will not be much better. It is too long and too slow.

Sitting in a theater is definitely not the same feeling as sitting at home and watching a movie leisurely, and the tolerance of the latter is often higher.

Perhaps there is such a possibility that the media and movie fans touted the director's cut version of Kingdom of Heaven too much, which affected Ridley Scott to a certain extent, causing Ridley Scott to edit Pharaoh and others. When God, it was more or less affected, making the film's pace as slow as Kingdom of Heaven.

Jessica Felton thought for a while, and said: Overall, it's not bad, it's better than the few epic productions in previous years.

Ronan nodded slightly: Actually, I think Ridley Scott's filming is very interesting.

Downplaying the mythological color and filming it as a human story, this subversive approach may cause dissatisfaction among many people.

But for people like Ronan who have never read the Bible, it is very interesting.

Ridley Scott's handling is very ambiguous. Is God real or is Moses imagining it? For example, the ten plagues are said to be punishments from God, but apart from the last death of the eldest son, the remaining nine plagues are more like a chain reaction, at least from the perspective of modern science, it can be explained.

It's just hard to say whether people who grew up reading the Bible can accept it.

Let's go. Ronan pulled Jessica Felton out of the theater together: Go back.

Jessica Felton followed Ronan into the elevator and asked, To my place?

Ronan said, Go to my place.

The two got on the elevator and came downstairs, where bodyguards had already driven the car over.

Jessica Felton was already used to the sudden chaos of bodyguards in the two-person world during a date, and she could see that Ronan was a person who attached great importance to safety, so she never said anything more.

She is a mature adult who knows that Ronan's status is unusual, and she represents too much.

After getting into the car, Jessica Felton lowered her voice and said to Ronan, I'm going back first to get my clothes.

Ronan smiled: No need, I have prepared a lot for you.

Jessica Felton asked: Are you sure it's right for me?

Of course. Ronan nodded slightly: I have actually measured your size, and there will be no mistakes.

Jessica Felton was speechless, and indeed, she had been measured by Ronan from head to toe too many times.

Ronan leaned close to her ear and said, I'll measure again tonight to avoid mistakes in previous calculations.

In the early hours of the same day, the box office of Pharaoh and the Gods on the first day of its release in North America was released, and only US$6.86 million was earned on Friday.

For a first-line commercial blockbuster with a production cost of up to 130 million US dollars, this box office result is not only not ideal, but also really bad.

On Saturday, the box office trend of Pharaoh and the Gods did not improve, with a single daily receipt of 7.24 million US dollars.

At this time, both inside and outside the industry have seen clearly that this epic masterpiece of 20th Century Fox has hit the street tragically.

Indeed, this film hit the street quite tragically, with only $18.11 million in box office in the three days of its North American premiere weekend.

The most conservative estimate, including production costs and publicity and distribution costs, the total cost of Pharaohs and Gods is likely to reach 200 million US dollars.

This film is doomed to lose everything.

Although Ronan did not help 20th Century Fox collect all seven Dragon Balls in the end, the first Dragon Ball was so hot that even the 20th Century Fox family would feel pain.

Moreover, in the past two years, apart from the X-Men series, other top-line commercial productions invested by 20th Century Fox have not received very satisfactory market response.

But most people in the industry are not surprised. Filmmaking is like this, with success and failure.

No one can guarantee that a film will be 100% successful.

James Murdoch, who came to Los Angeles from London, didn't say much when he saw the first-week box office data of Pharaohs and Gods.

Glancing at Jim Prose, who was cautiously in front of him, James Murdoch said generously: It's just a movie failure, and 20th Century Fox can't afford it. Don't take it too seriously and sum up experience. Learn a lesson, shoot a few films in production later, and try to avoid failure as much as possible.”

Jim Pross said quickly, I'm already doing it.

James Murdoch turned his head, looked over the huge window, saw the Relativity Building not far away, and said: I remember that there will be a premiere of Relativity Entertainment's film next week, and I want an invitation for the premiere.

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