Chapter 2049 2051 [Léa Seydoux]
The shooting process of "Mission: Impossible 6" was relatively smooth.
At the same time, Universal Pictures launched the movie "Invincible Hulk" in June, telling the origin of the Hulk. This is also the first Hulk movie of the new century.
In fact, the original version of "Hulk" was filmed by An Li in 2003, starring Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly.
However, the response to that movie was not good. The investment of 130 million U.S. dollars only returned 230 million U.S. dollars in the global box office. Therefore, Universal Pictures, the producer at the time, did not make a sequel.
So after the copyright expired, Marvel Pictures took back the copyright and invited Edward Norton and Liv Tyler to star in "Invincible Hulk".
This movie was supposed to be the beginning of the Marvel Avengers universe, but I didn't expect the word of mouth and box office to be poor. With an investment of 150 million U.S. dollars, the global box office was only 260 million U.S. dollars.
So after that, both Edward Norton and Liv Tyler gave up starring in the sequel. Marvel Studios has yet to release a single Hulk movie.
The reasons for the poor box office and reputation of the two films are different.
Li An's part is too focused on mining the Hulk's psychology, emphasizing Bruce Banner's pain and choice, and discussing genetic experiments, excessive technology and the future of human beings, resulting in insufficient entertainment.
The "Invincible Hulk" is the other way around. It's overly entertaining, but has little depth. This also leads to the fact that most of the time in the movie is fighting. Although the special effects are amazing and the scenes are shocking, but because of the lack of sufficient foreshadowing, it cannot arouse the emotions of the audience, so it failed miserably at the box office in the end.
When Xiang Nan was filming "The Incredible Hulk", he reworked its script, which not only has humanistic depth, but also focuses on Bruce Banner's pain and choice, as well as passionate scenes. In short, it is a qualified popcorn movie.
Sure enough, after the movie was released, it won unanimous approval from fans. In the end, the North American box office was 230 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office was nearly 700 million U.S. dollars. It is one of the most popular movies in the summer.
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The movie released in July is still the movie "Hurricane Rescue" starring Xiang Nan, Cong Shan, and Zhou Dongyu.
With twists and turns and a compact story, it can be said to be a fairly pure action movie. All the fighting scenes are full of punches to the flesh, hearty, and no special effects at all, so it looks extraordinarily real and believable.
It is also a rare masterpiece for fans of **** action movies, so it was well received after it was released. In the end, the North American box office was 180 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office exceeded 500 million U.S. dollars.
For a film with an investment of only 50 million US dollars, such a result is quite good.
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In August, "The Hangover 2" was released, which continued to tell the absurd experience of a group of bad friends after getting drunk.
The previous work "The Hangover 1" won a global box office of 450 million US dollars with an investment of 35 million US dollars.
Such a result is pretty good, and a sequel will naturally be arranged.
Compared with the previous one, the sequel has the same story routine, but the place of action is changed from Las Vegas to Bangkok, and the four-person protagonist group played wilder and more enjoyable.
However, as "The Hangover 2" continues to sell well, the salaries of several leading actors have also skyrocketed. Like the leading actor Bradley Cooper, his salary has risen to 5 million US dollars when he starred in "The Hangover 2".
The salaries of the other leading actors will not be low. Together, the cost of the film needs to be at least 100 million US dollars. In that case, the box office pressure of "The Hangover 3" will be too great, and it must get a box office of more than 300 million US dollars to be able to make a profit.
And "The Hangover 2" has already been scolded by the media for being refractory, which has brought a lot of pressure to "The Hangover 3". Therefore, Xiang Nan decided that unless there is a better script that makes people laugh from ear to ear, "The Hangover 3" will not be filmed again.
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In September, the movie released by Universal Pictures is Morbius the Vampire, which tells the origin of this anti-hero.
The original movie was launched by Sony Pictures, starring Jared Leto, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. However, the film's word-of-mouth and box office both failed disastrously at the release, and it can be said that it was a mess.
The reason for this is because the story is too old-fashioned. It just tells the story of a person who gains super powers and acts out of justice. There is no entanglement, no anxiety, no doubts, everything is so logical and ordinary.
Even the appearance of the villain is so childish, so the movie with an investment of 100 million U.S. dollars in the end has a global box office of only 160 million U.S. dollars, causing Sony to lose at least 60 million U.S. dollars.
So absorbing Sony's lessons, Xiang Nan deliberately avoided these pitfalls when writing the script. Try to make the plot more twists and turns, focusing on the hero's pain and choice.
With such a blessing, after the release of "Mobius the Vampire", word-of-mouth has indeed risen to a higher level. Although the film was rated R because of its dark themes and a large number of **** and violent scenes.
But this dark and violent style has attracted a group of fans with heavy tastes. In the end, "Mobius the Vampire" had a North American box office of 180 million US dollars and a global box office of nearly 400 million US dollars.
Compared to the investment of 80 million US dollars, the return of this movie is not bad.
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In October, Xiang Nan finished shooting "Mission: Impossible 6". He then asked Léa Seydoux for coffee.
Léa Seydoux, a well-known French beauty, was born as a model, with a perfect match in appearance and figure. Of course, this is not a big advantage in the entertainment industry. After all, the most indispensable thing in this industry is beautiful women.
The most admirable thing about Léa Seydoux is her cool and refined temperament, like a stubborn little beast, which makes people involuntarily have a desire to conquer.
That's why Xiang Nan asked her to have coffee with her.
Léa Seydoux also has a very good impression of Xiang Nan.
On the one hand, he is really talented. Not to mention those commercial films, all the literary films he created are also classics.
Such as "Fallen Angel", "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", "Scent of a Woman", "Edward Scissorhands", "Dead Poets Society", "Ghost Love" and so on.
On the one hand, Xiang Nan is really dedicated. There is a scene of skydiving in the film. In pursuit of reality, he really did skydiving. And skydiving is very dangerous, not to mention that in order to capture the shot of him jumping, the photographer has to jump with him.
The distance between the two should not be too far, but if the distance is too close, once they collide, at the speed of their descent, at least they will be broken.
Nevertheless, in order to pursue the best results, Xiang Nan still jumped more than 50 times in a row. Even professional skydivers can't do his crazy.
(end of this chapter)