Chatty Hollywood

? However, no matter how good the pre-publicity and warm-up work is, the performance of the movie will ultimately depend on the box office.

——Even after entering the 21st century, the box office revenue of Hollywood movies accounts for an increasingly smaller proportion of the overall film revenue.

However, box office revenue is still the best proof of a movie’s revenue potential.

——After all, it is very difficult for a movie that has a negligible box office revenue in a three-day theatrical tour to expect its offline revenue to be extraordinary.

Of course, it’s not like there are no such cases——

For example, "This Man Is From Earth", which was touted by many people on the Internet as a miracle film in its previous life, barely even entered theaters and relied on offline DVDs to make huge revenue.

However, such extraordinary examples are extremely rare, and the odds are comparable to winning the lottery.

If most people don't have the kind of luck that makes them cheat, they might as well just buy welfare lottery tickets.

At least, if you don't win the lottery, you can think of yourself as donating money to charity...

Moreover, even if it succeeds occasionally, this kind of success is difficult to replicate and can never be repeated.

Let’s take “This Man is from Earth” as an example——

In Charlotte's original time and space, ten years after the success of "The Man from Earth", the director of the film filmed a sequel to the film, "The Man from Earth 2: The Holocene."

——This is completely a continuation of the story.

Because of exploring the mysteries of magic, Charlotte has done research on a lot of history and mythology.

This breadth and depth of knowledge made him find the speculative philosophical and theological discussions in "This Man Came From Earth" very interesting.

However, in "This Man Came from Earth 2: The Holocene", he did not feel these things at all.

——Although the director tried his best to copy the successful elements of the first film and wanted to add more commercial elements, the result was that nothing was done well.

In this world, after using the "copying and transformation" method to shoot many movies, Charlotte understands better that if a movie wants to achieve high box office by relying solely on plot and performance without sufficient cost investment, How difficult it is.

A clever hand got it by chance.

——This sentence is probably the best way to describe it.

Even a cheating time traveler like Charlotte doesn't have much confidence in this aspect.

That's why he stopped making low-budget movies after "The Turn" and "Happy Death Day."

——After all, there is no reason to gamble on luck instead of doing things that have a higher success rate and greater profits.

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However, Philip Biermann, who is Disney's follow-up to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, is not interested in these complicated matters.

Today is the premiere of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2". He did not go to the scene, but stayed in the office of Disney headquarters.

——He planned to stay all night so that he could see the midnight box office data of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" released as soon as possible.

"It shouldn't be necessary, right?"

His immediate boss, Robert Iger, who is also very concerned about the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, couldn't help but say,

"With Charlotte Booth as a quality guarantee, and with the billion-dollar global box office performance of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1," there shouldn't be any problems with this sequel, right?"

"That's right!"

Philip Biermann nodded,

"Also, I've seen the film in advance and it's really good - the feedback from the internal test screenings was also very good."

"and you--"

"I'm just a little worried!"

Philip Biermann said with a wry smile,

"We have held several internal test screenings before, and the feedback every time was good, but each time Charlotte Booth was not satisfied - he changed the editing plan several times and even reshot some scenes. , which makes me a little unsure, is this guy simply suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and striving for excellence, or has he discovered some problem."

"I see!"

Robert Egger nodded,

"Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful - this quote from Buffett is also very suitable for Charlotte Booth!"

"ah!!?"

Philip Biermann obviously failed to keep up with his boss. In desperation, Robert Egger had no choice but to explain,

"Have you not noticed that Charlotte Booth has a completely different attitude towards sequel movies and towards original movies?"

"You mean-"

"He dares to try and innovate in original movies and is very confident. But he is very cautious about making sequels, which we, the production company, generally feel are safer -"

Robert Egger gave an example,

"The most direct proof is that before the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, he never filmed any sequel movies - even "Hell Detective" and "Harry Potter" have adapted the original works, which are very suitable for movie adaptations. The same goes for works.”

"That seems to be the case!"

Philip Biermann nodded, and Robert Egger continued,

"I asked Charlotte Booth this question once before in particular - what do you think he said?"

“He said it’s actually more difficult to make a sequel!”

Before Philip Biermann could ask, Robert Egger gave the answer.

——An answer completely contrary to the current mainstream view in Hollywood.

"I was just as surprised as you were."

Robert Egger smiled and said to Philip Biermann,

"Charlotte Booth, however, did convince me with some reasoning—"

"He said that as long as the first film is successful, it is not difficult from a business perspective to make a trilogy of films - as long as there are no serious mistakes, it will generally be profitable."

"But that's just from a commercial profit perspective."

"From the perspective of a director like him, if he wants to make a successful trilogy, he must ensure that all three films have their own characteristics——"

"Especially the second part, it must be more successful than the first and win better reputation and box office. Only such a trilogy of movies can be called a real success."

“It’s like the Star Wars franchise — even though George Lucas’s first one was groundbreaking, what’s the most iconic line from that movie that comes to mind?”

"Of course it's "I am your father"!"

Philip Biermann complained in his heart.

Of course, facing his own BOSS, it would be difficult for him to say this line directly.

However, he also understood the meaning conveyed by the other person.

"It is precisely because of the sublimation of this series by Irvin Kershner's "Star Wars: Episode II: The Empire Strikes Back" that it solidified the foundation of the Star Wars series and made this purely commercial production a classic among classics - —So, the reason why Charlotte Booth kept tinkering with "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" was because she wanted to create a classic?"

"I guess so!"

Robert Egger shrugged.

In this regard, Philip Biermann could not say anything - or rather, he expected this to be the case,

"Then let's wait and see!" ()

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