Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

Everyone stared firmly at the screen of the movie, not wanting to miss a second.

Kevin, who was sitting in the front row, silently looked at the reactions of others out of the corner of his eye.

Kevin, who insists on shooting commercial films, has always had a principle, that is, he cannot make the audience feel like a play when watching a movie.

In his opinion, this is the most disruptive way for the viewer's experience.

Judging from the current reaction on the scene, at least his film has met his requirements, and the rest is left to the audience to judge.

The more than hour-long movie quickly came to an end.

The special effects that cost millions of dollars to produce were a powerful work in this moment.

A ship of pirates, transformed into skeleton-like undead spirits in the moonlight, the scene is both shocking and terrifying.

This scene completely attracted everyone.

Then Captain Jack Sparrow's battle with these undead officially began.

...

Kevin looked at the scene of the skeleton and smiled on his face.

Although there is a touch of horror, Kevin actually makes the special effects less realistic, quite a bit of anime cartoon effect.

At the end of the day, Pirates of the Caribbean is a family movie, and there's no need to make a plot that scares out children.

This kind of special effects, which at first glance seem a little real and have a bit of the characteristic false sense of anime, are more expensive than pure realism.

However, expensive, Kevin also chose this special effect.

The reaction of those present was also very satisfactory to Kevin.

No one showed the scared face of watching a horror movie, but continued to watch everything played in the movie in a state of obsession.

This is exactly the effect Kevin wants, horror movies will always be niche, and family fun is the secret to becoming a classic.

Moments later, the movie ends, after the cast of the people behind the scenes floats by, and an Easter egg planted for the second part has been played.

The crowd applauded like a dream.

"Director Kevin, you have successfully shot an excellent commercial blockbuster again!"

Several viewing managers with slightly higher status came over and praised.

Kevin also replied politely one by one.

In the absence of conflicts of interest, Kevin has always been very peaceful.

On the other hand, LTECH and Robinoff are counting the statistics of a number of viewing managers, who will give accurate conclusions brought by their years of work experience from the audience, classification, picture, story and other aspects of the film.

So as to have an accurate understanding of the quality of Pirates of the Caribbean and the next promotion efforts.

After collecting the information, the three of them went to a small office.

Kevin watched the two carefully look at the information, but he was confident.

After a while, Robinoff first raised his head and showed a smile:

"Kevin, this is another commercial blockbuster rated S-rated internally, and it is more family fun than the hardcore of Mission Impossible, I have a hunch that the box office of Pirates of the Caribbean can surpass Mission Impossible."

Mission Impossible movies have long been drawn from all over the world.

In North America, Mission Impossible has achieved a box office result of about 210 million, surpassing the original box office of 180 million in Kevin's memory.

And there are 30 million more, but in fact, this is very understandable.

Warner and MGM invested a lot of publicity in the later period, and this time it was not Paramount who ate alone, but four studios shared its profits.

This made the release of Mission Impossible throw away a lot of trouble, which achieved a box office that surpassed the original results.

The overseas box office was much beyond Kevin's expectations.

It achieved nearly 400 million overseas box office results, and this gain spread to the United States, so that Warner and MGM did not know how many more celebration parties they had.

Paramount's bowels were even blue.

The global box office of 600 million, excluding costs and theatrical sharing and taxes, is also a profit of up to 300 million US dollars, and there are post-copyright revenues that are not less than this profit.

In this way, they gave it up for nothing.

However, what they didn't expect was that after they proposed to make a sequel to Mission Impossible, first Kevin was unwilling to take over, and then Tom Cruise's lion opened his mouth.

Here, this is the nail that Kevin buried for them.

At the time of signing the contract, Kevin did not impose any contractual restrictions on Tom Cruise's follow-up earnings in Mission Impossible.

After the Mission Impossible explosion, filming the sequel, Tom Cruise directly shouted out a salary of 20 million US dollars plus a certain box office share.

This is undoubtedly Paramount is unwilling to accept, so the two sides are still negotiating on this matter.

Of course, Kevin knew that eventually Paramount would give in.

Mission Impossible 2, in front of the good foundation laid by Kevin, shooting is equivalent to picking up money, and Paramount has no reason to let this cake go.

Even if it comes to paying a huge price for Tom Cruise's appearance.

LATE echoed on the side:

"Kevin, I also think so, MGM and Warner Bros. viewing managers, from all aspects, Pirates of the Caribbean is a masterpiece, a top S-rated commercial blockbuster."

"If it is paired with enough publicity and the number of theaters, it will definitely be able to surpass the results of Mission Impossible."

Kevin first nodded in recognition of their opinions, and then said:

"So, how much is the appropriate arrangement for Pirates of the Caribbean publicity funds?"

Reiter hesitated, gritted his teeth and said,

"Twenty million dollars!"

"I agree!"

Robinov on the side, echoed, speaking in a tone as if this was not twenty million dollars, but twenty thousand dollars.

This amount of publicity, in Hollywood, is only worthy of big hits.

Even in Hollywood, the vast majority of film shooting funds do not even have half of this publicity fund.

However, such a huge amount, in front of Kevin's movie, seems to be a small number, and it is casually raised.

None of the three made a fuss about it, though.

The investment now is to make more money.

Twenty million publicity investment, if nothing else, can at least be exchanged for several times the income, which is completely worth it.

"Then twenty million."

"But out of 20 million, I suggest that at least 2 million funds be used on the Internet, which may have a miraculous effect."

Kevin hit the nail on the head.

With the rapid development of Internet speed in the past two years, although the Internet has not yet evolved into the video era, text communication has become very frequent.

Major forums have sprung up.

Kevin meant, give it a try.

"Regarding this matter, I will let someone investigate."

Ray nodded and promised Kevin.

....

The publicity began, as an Oscar-winning director, Kevin couldn't be lazy this time.

He became the main force and leader of propaganda.

He led the main actors of Pirates of the Caribbean to travel around major cities in the United States for road shows, telling the audience the news of the upcoming release of Pirates of the Caribbean, and at the same time using costumes and various media to attract people's attention to the movie.