The Best Entertainment Era

If you just look at the first half or the second half of Escape from Clone Island, it is quite good, but the combination of the two always gives people an awkward feeling.

Frankly speaking, this is definitely not the worst movie Michael Bay has made, at least it is better than that very unreliable Peerless Heist.

Because Scarlett Johansson turned down an invitation to audition for the film because of Ronan's relationship, Michael Bay finally chose Jessica Alba as the female lead.

This also allows the film to still have sufficient guarantees in terms of appearance.

In the previous Escape from Clone Island, the crew chose two typical literary stars, Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson, as the protagonists, which was also considered one of the reasons for the failure.

Having said that, looking at Michael Bay's past, Escape from Clone Island can be said to be Michael Bay's most thoughtful and emotional work.

Well, here's the first half.

To be more precise, Michael Bay wanted to play with content, but somehow got pulled back to the old way of chasing explosions.

The split of style is the scariest thing.

It is normal for Michael Bay's films to have a poor reputation during the test screenings, but in the past, the box office after the official release can always bring the director back.

This point did not appear in Escape from Clone Island.

Even if DreamWorks invested a huge amount of nearly 180 million U.S. dollars in the film, including the production costs and publicity costs, it still could not bring Michael Bay the consistent success.

During the three-day opening weekend in North America, Escape from Clone Island earned $11.4 million.

Box office failure!

And irreparable.

Spielberg is also a qualified businessman. Seeing that nothing can be done, he immediately gave up and continued to invest in order to stop losses in time.

Fortunately, the current DreamWorks is not what it used to be. After successfully financing from India and having an independent global distribution channel, it has a stronger ability to resist risks.

Otherwise, the failure of Escape from Clone Island would put DreamWorks on the old road of selling itself to the six major companies.

Kingdom of Heaven and Escape from Clone Island lost,

In some respects, Relativity Entertainment's Bourne Shadow 3 has also been achieved.

After the start of the summer season, Bourne Shadow 3 was the only one, and it achieved the three consecutive championships in the North American box office very easily and smoothly.

In the third weekend of its release, Bourne Shadow 3 took another US$22.15 million in North America, and the North American box office totaled US$191.83 million.

The final North American box office of this film is very hopeful to hit 300 million US dollars or more.

Two consecutive first-line big-budget commercial films have failed, and both inside and outside the industry seem to feel the coldness of this summer.

Hollywood is very realistic. With the failure of Escape from Clone Island, DreamWorks temporarily suspended discussions with Michael Bay's new project. Michael Bay's first film after leaving Jerry Bruckheimer ended in failure.

There are more and more criticisms against Michael Bay from the outside world. Ronan has not allowed people to contact Michael Bay for the time being. These criticisms are actually not a bad thing for Michael Bay.

Frankly speaking, Michael Bay is a typical commercial director. After being scolded by film critics for so many years, he has a tendency to be led into the ditch by the public opinion of film critics. He does not shoot good commercial films, but insists on adding various humanistic thinking...

Not to mention Michael Bay, most directors do this, but in fact, there is only one result of failure.

Film critics have overlooked many talented commercial directors. Ronan is actually very sorry for the Wachowski brothers. This pair of directors who were brothers for a while and later became sisters could have brought another flavor to Hollywood commercial films.

It's a pity that a burst of praise from film critics made them completely embark on the road of philosophical speculation. They have never looked back since then, and have never achieved the success of The Matrix.

Even among the many comments about directors, the Wachowski brothers belong to the typical example that debut is the pinnacle.

While The Matrix wasn't the Wachowskis' first film, it was a hit, and the two have been on a downward spiral since.

In the end, I went to shoot a TV series, but I was still thinking about it, and I still couldn’t get rid of the failure. The project was forcibly cut off...

The Wachowski brothers were touted as biased, and Michael Bay was scolded as biased.

Perhaps, the failure of Escape from Clone Island will make Michael Bay understand himself more clearly.

Ronan called George Clint and asked him to contact Michael Bay in June to discuss the Transformers project with him.

For now, Ronan can't find a more reassuring director than Michael Bay.

Guillermo del Toro has expressed his interest in Transformers, but his production concept has added too many elements about the island country Gundam and mechs.

Filled with misgivings, Ronan turned Guillermo del Toro down like a mech and a monster.

The huge investment in the Transformers project determines that issues such as audience and market differences must be considered at the beginning of the project.

Hasbro, far less composed than Relativity Entertainment, has repeatedly urged film production to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

But this kind of top-level production project, even if it doesn't count the return of funds from the final release, requires at least a two-year production cycle.

Relatively speaking, Michael Bay belongs to the kind of director who makes films faster.

At the same time, good news came from the Premier League.

In the penultimate round of the 2004-2005 season, Manchester United swept West Bromwich Albion at home. Although Chelsea also won this round, Manchester United still maintained a five-point lead in the standings. Won the Premier League title one round ahead of schedule.

In this way, Manchester United can devote all its energy to preparing for the Champions League final at the end of May in advance.

Roan deliberately asked someone to inquire. Although Chelsea did not win the Premier League title, they still had the FA Cup to contend for. Abramovich did not intend to fire Mourinho, but was planning to increase investment in the next season.

What is the most effective way for a football club to improve its performance? That is to increase capital investment.

Today's football professional league has been completely commercialized.

Ronan did not attend Manchester United's Premier League championship celebration, because the first animated feature film Despicable Me by Shahai Entertainment Animation Studio was officially released, and Manchester United's real championship celebration will have to wait until after the Champions League final.

Embassy Pictures also held the premiere of the animated feature film.

To Ronan's surprise, he saw someone from Twentieth Century Fox at the premiere.

Despicable Me director Chris Leonard explained to Ronan: My invitation to 20th Century Fox.

Ronan nodded slightly, able to understand the thoughts of people like Chris Leonard.

Chris Leonard said in a low voice: The team that was fired by 20th Century Fox is now the core of Sandhai Entertainment Animation Studio. They have always been worried about 20th Century Fox's ruthlessness. Emotional release.

Ronan patted his arm lightly: I understand, just do whatever you want.

Chris Leonard shook his head: Tom Rothman, who kicked us away, has already lost power at 20th Century Fox, and the person sent by 20th Century Fox is just a middle-level executive.

Ronan reassured: As long as Despicable Me is successful, 20th Century Fox will definitely have an idea, and will feel uncomfortable for the stupid decision at the beginning.

Having said that, if 20th Century Fox hadn't kicked out Chris Renard and others, how could Shahai Entertainment have successfully established its own animation studio?

In this regard, Relativity Entertainment should come to Fox Building to thank them.

Ronan swore he really wanted to thank Twentieth Century Fox.

Perhaps, when Universal Pictures acquired Illumination Entertainment at that time, they had similar ideas.

Twentieth Century Fox is such a good guy.

Perhaps 20th Century Fox believes that with Blue Sky Studios in hand, it has mastered one of the future markets for animated feature film production.

But Blue Sky Studios has faintly lacked stamina.

As the three major animation studios in Hollywood, Pixar continues to shoot and produce one after another animated feature film, and has achieved success; DreamWorks Animation Studio is also constantly opening up new territory outside of Shrek. Shark Gang and Madagascar which will be released this summer are proofs; the development of Blue Sky Studios is a little behind, still clinging to the Ice Age series, and other aspects of production and development are seriously behind.

In the past, the decline of Blue Sky Studio was not without reason.

After 2010, Twentieth Century Fox wanted to sell Blue Sky Studios more than once, but couldn’t easily find a company willing to take over.

The release of Despicable Me is of great significance to Relativity Entertainment.

After comedy movies, Relativity Entertainment has opened up a new territory in the production of feature films.

Of course, compared to the animated feature films made by Pixar's gangsters, Despicable Me is relatively rough in terms of graphics and other technologies. After all, the production cost is only 60 million US dollars.

Sophisticated technology is the guarantee of success, and successful animated features are not necessarily works with superb technology.

Despicable Me almost perfectly interprets this aspect.

The style of this animated feature film is exactly the same as the Minions short film. It is not an adult fairy tale with tears in Pixar's laughter, but a typical simple and cute one.

The storyline and theme are simple, and the main characters, especially the minions, are responsible for the cuteness.

When a bunch of little yellow people appeared, the whole theater was so cute.

Therefore, after Despicable Me was released, it was a success as expected, and the opening weekend box office in North America was as high as 65.47 million US dollars!

This result exceeded everyone's expectations.

Despicable Me also put an end to The Bourne 3's dominance at the North American box office charts, snatching the box office champion right after it opened.

It also makes people see that in addition to the three major animation studios, new animation production forces have risen.