The Best Director

From April 29th to May 5th, North American weekly box office champion "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (★), the distribution company Bowei Films; from May 6th to 12th, "Kingdom of Heaven" (★), 20th Century Fox; May 13th -19, "Husband Panda" (★), Flame Movie; May 20-26, May 27-June 2, "Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith" (★★), 20th Century Fox; June 3-9, "Madagascar" (★), DreamWorks, June 10-16, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (★), 20th Century Fox.

June 17-23, June 24-30, July 1-7, July 8-14, "Firefly" (★★★★), Fire Movie; July 15-21, July 22-28, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (★★), Warner Bros.; July 29-August 4, "Wedding Crashers" (★), New Line Cinema; August 5-11, August 12-18, "League of Assassins" (★★), Flame Films; August 19-25, August 26-September 1, "Forty-Year-Old Virgin" (★★), Universal Pictures.

"Life? Don't talk about life with me!" On the big screen when early summer came, the melancholy robot Marvin made the audience laugh, but it was still dejected: "Don't pretend to want to talk to me, I know you hate me." A blacksmith desperately defended the city of Jerusalem, and the fat panda Po found himself: "I'm not a fat panda, I'm that fat panda!" Under March of the Empire, Anakin- Skywalker becomes Darth Vader, and a group of animals venture into Madagascar: "Marty, I know it's you."

"If I die, please take me back to Tranquility Valley!", "Attack on New Shanxi!" The audience will never forget the madness of midsummer, not the cool Smiths, but the funny guys on Tranquility , that group of Cowboy Bebops who look down on death, "I am a leaf in the wind, watch how I fly." It is the pure smiles and joyful laughter of the children, "Where do you come from?" , "War of the Worlds", "Fantastic Four" and other films, and later Charlie Crooked, etc., all were covered up...

These summer films in 2005 have their own evaluation response, box office and fate. Whether it is annoying flies or lovely butterflies, they have all become history.

But if the media and movie fans come up with the correct rankings again, the most anticipated, favorite, best-selling, highest-rated, and most memorable... all of them must be "Firefly" winning the championship.

Same as in 2004, Flames-lms released a total of three films this summer, "Husband Panda", "Firefly", and "League of Assassins". After winning 4 out of 18 North American weekly championships last year (22.22%), this year it won 7 golden trophies (38.88%) in one fell swoop, which made Yahoo and other media keep feeling, super big winner!

Flame Movie ★★★★★★★ Weekly box office champion, followed by 20th Century Fox★★★★, Warner Bros.★★, Universal Pictures★★, Broadway★, DreamWorks★,

New line ★.

This seems to be a big victory for independent film companies, because three companies accounted for half of the 9 weekly championships! However, in fact, this is only the victory of the flame.

The news that DreamWorks was acquired by a giant due to improper expansion, high debts and hard-to-return may suddenly appear in tomorrow's newspapers; New Line can be described as joy and sorrow. Since the great success of the "Lord of the Rings" series, its ambitions are getting bigger and bigger However, the results are not as good as each year. As far as the 5 new films released so far this year, "The King's Ransom" failed, "Monster Mother" just returned the cost, "Masquerade 2" had a production cost of 84 million / a global box office of 57.55 million, The box office of "Wu Ying Jian" was mediocre, only "Wedding Crashers" made a small splash. Every bad debt aggravates its headaches, and at the same time, lawsuits continue because of the distribution of "Lord of the Rings". A "Windtalker".

In 1967, a newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, when 27-year-old Robert Shaye established New Line Films; in 1998, a newborn calf was not afraid of dinosaurs, 18-year-old Wang Yang acquired A-x Company and reorganized it into Flame Films, developing in an almost crazy way. So far, this summer has been nothing short of terrifying!

"Husband Panda" 100 million production fee/229 million North American box office/356 million overseas box office/585 million global box office; "Firefly" 200 million production fee/642 million North American box office/1.09 billion overseas box office/1.733 billion global box office; "100 million production fee/114 million North American box office/overseas unreleased.

Not counting the cost of publicity and distribution, FF took away 2.432 billion US dollars in the world with a total production cost of 400 million! This does not include the expected 100-200 million overseas box office of "League of Assassins". Although 16.4% of production costs accounted for less than last year's 10.5% of the box office, FF has a new animation series gold mine, a new interstellar pop culture gold mine, and an action comic series gold mine. Who wouldn't envy it? Who is not jealous?

Due to the role of "Firefly" in promoting ancient Chinese poetry, a group of filmmakers sang, "There is no way to get rid of this feeling, so I lower my brows, but care about my heart." The more direct words are "****! Are -u-ng-Me?"

No one can stop the flame movie! Who wants to stop them, first ask (American Theater Owners Association) and countless theater owners agree, if there is no "Firefly", this rescue work, this will definitely be a difficult summer! FF's movies are already synonymous with earning money and leading the market development. The latest lighthouses are Chinese culture/foreign culture, IMAX technology, adaptation of non-superhero comics, and even professional media such as "Hollywood Reporter". , Maybe in the next few years, which blockbuster movie says "I'm not an IMAX movie" will end up being watched by no one.

You must know that under the development of the "Hangover" series, small-budget R-rated comedy films such as "Wedding Crashers" and "Forty-Year-Old Virgin" began to create market miracles in batches, and they made big box office hits again and again, making the new line , Universal, TV station and other corresponding film producers grinned. On the other hand, as far away as "Kingdom of Heaven" and as close as "Brothers Grimm", the birth of one big bad film after another has also made the heartbroken filmmakers think again, how should the film industry be done in the 21st century? How to make money in the end! ! How to shoot superhero blockbusters, how to shoot popcorn summer movies...

Is the operation strategy of Flame Movie's high-quality theaters + video library selling peripherals really impeccable? It seems to be true now. The huge film and television library accumulates little by little to maintain the daily expenses of the company with more than 600 employees, and each high-quality new film makes a lot of money. Of course, this requires a very precise investment vision, such as New Line. How can I never think of the tragic situation of "The Masquerade 2". FF does not need to be listed for financing at all, so they have too much cash to spend, but they can continue to maintain a steady pace of "step by step", and have not blindly jumped from 10- to 20+ annual film production. They seem to be very satisfied with the mini-studio scale.

Next summer, the FFs of the four films "Ice Age 3", "Furious Speed ​​2", "The Hangover 3" and "Mamma Mia" have been scheduled. What kind of performance will they have?

A year ago, Wang Yang was surrounded by a halo of doubts. The Oscar for best director was cursed, the office building was degraded, only business was left, and it was over...

Magical BABY defends the name of madness with facts! The summer championship and the history of sci-fi films have added countless classic scenes, even "Star Wars Episode 3" has been compared; during the period, the magical BABY has aroused the pursuit of the media, and he even appeared on the covers of film, entertainment and other magazines, including the first Featured in Time Magazine three times. Time has entered autumn, and no one can forget the huge shock brought by the "Firefly" storm in summer. The IMDB-P250 list is still as high as 9.4 points, and the three indicators of Rotten Tomatoes are 95%/98˜%.

The film critic Roger Ebert, who gave two thumbs up, gave it the highest rating and praised it again and again in a rare way. It was not enough to write a film review in a newspaper column, "Wang Yang is a real blockbuster". Articles: "Magical Yang's shots have the power to fascinate", "He finally treats his Barbie doll as a grown-up, gorgeous fighting is a hundred times more beautiful than designer clothes", "If "Firefly" suffers at next year's Oscars Traditional sci-fi film treatment, the Golden Raspberry Award is more authoritative than that golden man", "Japanese film critics are probably the most pitiful group of people in the world now".

He also sent blessings when Wang Yang was in a coma: "No passenger on a Boeing 777 has ever died. Fantastic Yang has created many miracles and the first time in history, but now he has to restrain himself", "At the age of 25, Stanley -Kubrick's first feature film "Fear and" was on the screen, and Fantastic Yang's ninth film, I didn't say he had a reason to retire, at least 90 films!", mentioned in the film reviews of other films : "Heath Ledger is smart and dumb, he's in Firefly, he's in The Brothers Grimm.", "Lame-ned, Outdated-Wheeze ), if "Pioneer of Justice" is considered a comedy, what is "Firefly"?"...

No one knows what "Firefly" can achieve in the major awards of next year's awards season, but what is certain is that it has excess qualifications to hit every award, and the upcoming promotional posters will inevitably be full of award names: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Soundtrack, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup, Best Original Film Song, Most Best sound editing, best sound effects, best visual effects...

However, Miracle Baby's behaviors often exceed the scope of ordinary people's understanding. Although he quickly broke through the layers of doubts brought about by "The Devil Wears Prada", he inevitably encountered new question marks one after another.

Wang Yang seems to love Warner Bros., not only want to buy its junk project "I Am Legend", but also take over the already terminally ill "Batman"; People in the industry and movie fans have noticed that Lin Wei, the "sinner" who just left Warner Bros. recently joined the Flame Film Production Department as the vice president! FF spokesperson Foona Hasson said happily on the official website: "Dan-n's joining is exciting. He is a piece of the puzzle that we have been looking for for a long time and has injected new impetus into the production business of the flames. We all believe that Dan will have Excellent job performance."

Are-u-ng-Me? Dan Lin screwed up two big productions in a row, don't say he was just unlucky! This surprised people in the industry even more, especially Dan Lin's old club Warner Bros.! There was a lot of discussion about this in the production department. In fact, everyone didn't think that Dan Lin lacked ability, at most he lacked the ability to run blockbuster films. Now that FF wants Lin Wei, WB seems to think of him. But in Hollywood, it is normal for middle and lower-level personnel to change, and vice presidents and other high-level executives are not surprising. Dan Lin's joining FF can only be explained as Miracle Yang saving and supporting Chinese forces.

Of course Warner President Alan-F-Horn still called Wang Yang and asked a few questions starting with "Dan is very enthusiastic about his work". Wang Yang frankly admitted that he had already known that Lin Wei was not happy in WB Communication, when he saw him resigning, he immediately sent an invitation, WB didn't treat Lin Wei badly, but he was really out of luck...

"Yang, I heard that you are going to co-produce "Iron Man" with Xinxian?" Horn didn't care too much about Lin Wei's job-hopping. Whatever happens to Dan in FF in the future, you can't blame them for being harsh now.

Knowing that he couldn't hide it from others, Wang Yang, who was basking in the sun in the garden at home, generously admitted to Horn on the phone: "Oh yes, that is a new plan of ours, don't worry Alan! Stark and Wayne have no conflict. He laughed and said, "If everything goes well, we plan to release it in 2007. You know "TDK" is in 2008."

In April 1990, Universal Pictures purchased the copyright of "Iron Man" from Marvel Comics, but due to commercial potential and budget problems, the project was refrigerated until February 1996. Universal simply sold the rights to 20 Century Fox, Nicolas Cage expressed interest in "Tony Stark" in January 1997, followed by Tom Cruise in September 1998, and Quentin Tarantino approached writing "Tony Stark" in October 1999 The work on the script of "Iron Man"...all ended in abort, and in December of that year, 20th Century Fox transferred the filming rights to New Line Films.

To this day, New Line has been looking for screenwriters to write scripts for it several times over the years, and had talks with Joss Whedon about the possibility of the director taking the helm in June 2001, but of course all of them were aborted in the end.

If "I Am Legend" is a poor project that is a pity to abandon, every time the script is written, the director is found, and the filming starts, it suddenly calls CUT; "Iron Man" is a poor project that no one wants to try at all. After changing hands several times, it eventually fell into the hands of an independent film company. Originally, with the revival of superhero movies, "Iron Man" has gradually become of some value. Although it has the successful experience of the "Blade Warrior" series, the new line, which has not been doing well for a long time, has no ability to operate such a very risky game. Project, think Hulk, Blade 3, Dark Angel, Batman Begins.

Now Marvel Pictures has proposed to buy back the copyright of "Iron Man". Originally, New Line was also inclined to exchange for a return of the money, but Flame Films broke out halfway, and proposed that New Line sell the copyright to Flame, and then the main investment of Flame, The new line's sub-investment plan is naturally indispensable for Marvel Pictures, which has already signed a filming contract.

This is almost the only chance to win a popular superhero. Of course, Flame Movie hopes to be able to fully invest independently, but it is impossible. Well, FF will probably win with its "magic aura", but now the surprise is to independently produce the film and then find a distributor to distribute it. How can FF's distribution system compare with the big film studios? Another problem is that the new line sees that the flames have taken a fancy to Tony Stark, and they must protect this "Howard Hughes"! Marvel Pictures don't even think about this genius idea!

Therefore, only the cooperation plan between the two parties can be brought to the negotiating table, otherwise there will be no negotiation! Flame and New Line have been negotiating about "Iron Man" for nearly half a month. Naturally, FF will not disclose any production plans, and the contract will be signed first. Although New Line is an independent film studio with independent management rights, and its founder Robert Shaye still holds a major stake in it, it belongs to the same Time Warner Group as Warner Bros. It has nothing to do with the business, but the news can be communicated. There are rumors.

"That's good." Alan-F-Horn didn't think much about it. As the president of WB, he cared about "The Dark Knight". shoot? Universal and Fox both gave up directly.

The first weekend in September has just passed, and the news of Hurricane Katrina still grabs the attention of the public, but fans who pay attention to movie entertainment find that Flame Movie has taken another garbage project, the superhero "Iron Man" who has been wandering for many years! Here New Line reached an agreement with Flame, and Warner Bros. finally signed a contract with Flame. The content involved the copyright transfer of "I Am Legend", the joint production of "The Dark Knight" and some distribution matters. The corresponding rumors are astounding. Is it true that Wang Yang's brain was not damaged by the ceiling of the cabin?

"Yan, can you reveal your specific plan now? Who are you going to hire to direct "The Dark Knight"?" Anyway, Horn smiled very brightly.

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