Heads Up Hollywood

In the past, the general impression was that the better the movie, the better the market response and the higher the box office.

However, the appearance of "Pirate Alliance 2: Dead Man's Chest" directly overturned the entire film industry!

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes is 67%, which means that only 67% of professional media people and film critics think this movie is good. The remaining 33% raised criticisms and doubts.

Although it does not constitute a bad film standard, at least it cannot be regarded as an excellent work.

What about the market reaction?

In the three days of the first weekend, the box office in North America was 139 million US dollars!

God, such data almost made the eyeballs of filmmakers in the industry fall out of shock.

By the second week, the North American box office of "Pirate Alliance 2: Dead Man's Chest" was still hot.

$18.48 million on Monday;

Tuesday, $15.98 million;

Wednesday, $14.81 million;

On Thursday, $12.25 million...

Such a crazy box office trend is even more shocking.

It seems that the next week's North American box office of "Pirate Alliance 2: Dead Man's Chest" will surely exceed 100 million!

With the current situation, not to mention the North American box office of more than 300 million US dollars, even 400 million US dollars is very possible!

As for the global box office total... Well, the current overseas box office report card has been obtained.

It was released for 6 days and earned 180 million US dollars!

And that's just the box office of 12 countries!

When this film is generally released in more countries, one can imagine what kind of height the global box office of "Pirate Alliance 2: Dead Man's Chest" will reach.

Maybe...a billion dollar movie will be born again!

Almost all box office champions in the past few years have reached the scale of 1 billion US dollars.

1997's "Titanic," $1.88 billion; 1999's "Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace," $1.18 billion; 2000's "Spider-Man," $1.26 billion; 2001's "Never The Sinking, $1.01 billion; 2002's Spider-Man 2, $1.29 billion; 2003's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, $1.07 billion.

In the history of film, there have been 6 films with a box office of more than 1 billion US dollars.

Every one is a classic.

The freshness of Rotten Tomatoes, the worst "Spider-Man 2", also has 78%.

This kind of movie has achieved high box office, and everyone can understand it.

But what is "Pirate League 2: Dead Man's Chest"?

Just because the producer of this movie is Don Walker?

There is no reason at all!

However, one has to admit that in the field of commercial films, Twain does have an incredible "golden touch".

"Titanic", he is the director; "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace", he is the director; "Spider-Man", he is also the director!

Tang En was the director of the first three movies with a box office of more than 1 billion US dollars in movie history!

Next, Tang En began to slowly transition to the management, the production of films decreased, and he gradually transitioned from the position of director to producer.

He then went on to oversee "Unsinkable" and "Spider-Man 2" as a producer.

It can be said that among the past 6 movies with a box office of 1 billion US dollars, only "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" has nothing to do with Twain, and the other 5 movies are all from Twain Walker!

Now, the seventh film to hit the billion-dollar mark worldwide is upon us.

I am afraid that except Tang En, no one can imagine it.

It turned out to be "Pirate League 2: Dead Man's Chest"!

Just, why?

But every filmmaker with aspirations must have this doubt.

This is so weird.

Even Natalie and Scarlet talked about this topic inadvertently when they chatted with Tang Enhuan after love.

"Will the box office of "Pirate League 2" exceed US$1 billion?"

Natalie was lying in Tang En's arms, her cheeks were rosy and delicate, and she raised her head to avoid harassment from Scarlett's red lips lying on the other side of Tang En's arms.

Tang En lay comfortably on the bed, hugging left and right, enjoying the comfort of a sage's time, and said casually: "As long as there are no accidents, 1 billion US dollars is fine."

"Why?"

"What?"

"This movie... doesn't mean it's not good, but it's not good enough, at least not up to the level of "Spiderman" and "Lord of the Rings 3."

Natalie is a bit arrogant, she is not satisfied with just being an idiot actress, her movie pursuit is very high.

In contrast, Scarlett was a little heartless. I don't know when she started, she especially liked to tease Natalie, and kissed her whenever she had nothing to do. Seeing her shy and angry face made me feel very refreshed.

Especially when I was with Tang En with Natalie, I could "bully" her openly, just like Tang En, who could possess her however I wanted.

That feeling is very good and comfortable.

Although in normal life, when the two are together, most of them are Natalie's decision, Scarlett is also obedient. But when it comes to bed, Scarlett can always firmly hold the initiative.

Right now, when Natalie talked about the movie, Scarlett put away her playfulness and looked up at Tang En, "Well, I think so too, "Pirate League 2: Dead Man's Chest"... feels like There is always something missing, the plot is not smooth enough, let alone "Spider-Man" and "Lord of the Rings", even compared with "Pirate Alliance 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl", there is still a big gap."

Actually, this is normal.

In the previous life, Disney made "Pirates of the Caribbean". After watching the finished film, Michael Eisner was furious, thinking that it was a clown-like movie, unsightly, and would make people all over the world laugh at Disney!

But for the insistence of Disney president Robert Iger, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Buena Vista distributor Nina Jacobson, the film would have faced a major overhaul. As a result, after the movie was released, Michael Eisner was dumbfounded, and the box office sold well!

The success of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series did not become Michael Eisner's political achievement, but a negative teaching material, proving that his vision has fallen behind the times. It directly led to his resignation.

Tang En laughed and said: "It can only explain one thing, the era of film critics is over!"

Natalie obviously didn't like this change, she curled her lips and said, "Is it replaced by the era of bad movies?"

Tang En shook his head, "Movies are a product of advancing with the times, and film critics' understanding of movies has been in the same line for decades. This is the generation gap between them and young movie fans. Film critics pay attention to the professionalism of movies, scripts, shots , performance, rhythm, content and other factors. The general pursuit of movie fans is entertainment first. Besides, can "Pirate League 2" be called a bad movie? What about movies like "Catwoman"?"

Natalie said quietly: "Anyway, I always feel that the times have changed, especially the emergence of computer special effects, which has changed the meaning of the existence of movies. Now when people watch movies, what they discuss is not whether the plot is exciting or not, or whether the connotation is deep or not, but Does the special effect look good?"

"This is a question of freshness." Tang En smiled, "The current CG special effects are still new products, and movie fans will love them, and "Pirate League 2: Dead Man's Chest" has an advantage. However, After a few years, CG special effects have become the most basic bad movie elements, and we must find new freshness to attract movie fans.”

"Is it an imax movie?"

"almost."

Scarlett, who was in a daze, suddenly said at this moment: "I know, it should be a 3D movie!"

Natalie gave her an angry look, "What do you know?"

Scarlett snorted, "Original! Huh! Dolby Laboratories is developing a new 2D depth technology. When the research and development is successful, future movie theaters will not only be able to see converted imax movies, but also converted imax movies. It's a 3D movie. Dunn, am I right?"

Tang Enqi asked, "How do you know?"

Scarlett blushed slightly, and said embarrassingly: "You put a bunch of documents on the coffee table in the living room this afternoon. I thought it was a script, so I opened it and looked at it..."

Natalie said angrily: "I think you did it on purpose! You are peeking! Shameless!"

"I'm not!"

"You are!"

"no!"

"that is!"

Tang En was a little bit dumbfounded, "Okay, the sisters who were so close just now started arguing now? Just read it, as long as you don't tell outsiders."

Scarlett breathed a sigh of relief, and pouted at Natalie as if in a demonstration, threatening: "When I come back later... Hehe, look at me!"

Natalie blushed, gritted her teeth and said, "Come on, do you think I'm afraid of you?"

Scarlett's eyes flashed slyly, and she leaned over and whispered a few words in her ear with a playful smile on her face.

Natalie's face flushed instantly, "Are you bisexual? Pervert!"

Although Tang En didn't hear it, he could guess a little bit. He couldn't help laughing, and as soon as he retracted his arms, he hugged the moist and tender bodies of the two of them tightly into his arms, and asked with a smile: "Baby, Then let me test you, do you know what 2D depth technology is?"

Scarlett blinked, "It's just 3D conversion technology, the specific process... I forgot."

Natalie glanced at her contemptuously, and said arrogantly: "Idiot, I don't know this. 2D depth technology is mainly divided into three steps. The first step is keying, also known as blue-green screen keying synthesis technology; Second, depth, also called depth of field, is the most important part of converting plane to three-dimensional; third, matching, which is to match the created depth map to the original picture for synthesis, so that the 3D effect begins to take shape.”

Scarlett said in admiration, "Honey, you are amazing!"

Natalie was very happy and said proudly, "Of course."

"Huh? That's not right, why what you said is exactly the same as what I saw in that document this afternoon? Nat, you didn't peek at it too, did you?" Scarlett seemed to have discovered something.

"ah?"

Natalie froze for a moment.

Scarlett said angrily: "Okay, so you peeked too, and you still said that I... you... Tang En, look at her, she always bullies people!"

Natalie said embarrassingly: "I'm not peeping, I'm studying!"

"Liar! You peeked at it yourself and said that I..."

"I don't!"

"You have it!"

"No!"

...

Tang En was more and more dumbfounded at this scene.

He simply refused to compromise, got on his horse, and galloped with a whip.

It didn't take long for the two of them to kiss each other again, very intoxicated.

The three of them hugged each other stickily, like honey mixed with oil.