After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

He values ​​Nicole Kidman's looks, and Nicole Kidman covets his fame and connections.

In his opinion, Nicole Kidman is definitely not a smart person.

Unfortunately, he didn't know that after the divorce, Nicole Kidman would step on his reputation and directly climb to the top and become the first lady in Hollywood.

"Honey, there should be no conflict between the director and the actors, do you understand?"

"Especially a director with unlimited potential like Kevin."

"Although he has only succeeded in two small-budget films now, no director will stop here, and he will eventually start his big production."

"At that time, there will definitely be a time for cooperation between him and me."

Nicole Kidman nodded, a different look flashed in her eyes.

Compared with the woman of a superstar, the woman of a great director seems to have more advantages.

...

Kevin at the party naturally didn't know what Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise thought.

He is connecting emotionally with his team.

A sufficiently stable team can enable him to better produce movies of his own style.

Like Chainsaw and Escape from Deadly Town, although the rhythm and plot of the original work are generally maintained, Kevin also arranged some foreshadowing in it.

He had already thought about this kind of thing when he was filming Saw.

That's the cinematic universe.

The existence of the movie universe has huge benefits for the increase of the box office belonging to this universe.

In the previous life, Marvel, relying on its own IP, made tens of billions of dollars, and there are follow-ups.

And tens of billions of dollars is just a spoonful of Marvel's gold mine.

But before creating the Marvel universe, he also wanted to practice his skills and create his own horror movie universe.

Jigsaw, acting in the name of God as God's punishment, Kevin added some Cthulhu elements to it, preparing Jigsaw as a believer of evil gods.

And the people in the small town who escaped from Jueming Town and made a deal with the devil didn't know that the price they paid for making a deal with the devil (evil god) in this way was after a certain number of years.

Their souls and bodies belong to God.

Just like in the memory of Kevin's previous life, the ghost of the tiger helped the tiger hunt more prey.

Of course, this is only a preliminary idea.

The creation of a movie universe is not that simple.

The most important thing is that by using this movie universe, Kevin needs to obtain the capital that can obtain Marvel.

This is his ultimate goal.

......

a day later.

The paper media is full of countless topics about escaping from Deadly Town.

"Escape from Deadly Town, another classic film directed by Kevin. In this film, the director incorporates more humanistic care, leading others to pay attention to the black people who are discriminated against in the United States... "

"A must-see movie for black people, Escape from Deadly Town, tense, exciting, and anti-discrimination, fighting for the status of black people, if you don't watch it, you are not black!"

"···"

Moral kidnapping, emotional incitement, all kinds of means are skillfully used by Warner Bros.

In the villa, lying on the bed.

Kevin read the news in the newspaper, rubbed his chin, and thought about how to continue to expand his influence.

Pure paper media can only give people a little impression of the name Kevin.

For building his personal image brand, it is far from enough.

The phone rang suddenly, and Julie quickly picked it up and handed it to him.

"Hey Kevin, The Oprah Winfrey Show has invited you to their show!"

On the other end of the phone, Dean's cheerful voice came.

The Oprah Winfrey Talk Show, one of the most famous talk shows in the United States in the 90s.

Host Oprah Winfrey, with her natural eloquence and ability to speak well, can always firmly grasp the audience's attention.

Although Kevin has never seen her, he has heard of this name.

In this day and age, she is an absolute celebrity.

Participating in her talk show will undoubtedly greatly increase the audience for Escape from Breaking Dead.

Chapter 40 MGM's Plan

Upon hearing the news, Kevin immediately agreed.

This program can increase his familiarity in front of the public and help build his personal director image brand.

At the same time, it is also beneficial to the box office, and he has no possibility of rejecting it.

...

The time has come to May [-]th, and Escape from Deadly Town has been released for three days.

During these three days, the box office on the first day was 82 million US dollars, and the following two days were not to be outdone, with more than 200 million box office and 300 million box office respectively.

According to this rhythm, the box office in North America is likely to exceed [-] million.

In North America, the most important time for box office revenue is the first two weeks, after which it will start to decline sharply.

Therefore, the previous publicity is the most important.

Although it may have exceeded [-] million, Warner and Kevin will naturally not be satisfied like this.

Therefore, the opportunity of Oprah Winfrey's talk show was obtained by Warner's side.

This is exactly the opportunity Kevin got when he knew how to share.

Otherwise, no matter how good the film is, such an opportunity will be hard to come by.

...

Kevin, Will Smith and Angelina Jolie join the Oprah Winfrey Show.

A black aunt with curly hair came over with a smile on her face.

"Hello, Kevin, Julie, Smith, how are you!"

Kevin, Steve, and Julie all responded enthusiastically.

After a few brief chats, the official recording of the program began.

Oprah Winfrey's talk show is all about empathy, and of course, in Kevin's view, it's actually selling badly.

So on this show, Kevin revealed his identity as an orphan, relying on his own efforts to become a genius director at the University of Southern California, and the news that two consecutive movies were sold well.

"Kevin, you are a typical American dream. Relying on your own hard work, you have become a rich man step by step. By now, your net worth should be tens of millions, right?"

"I heard that you bought a multi-million dollar luxury villa in Beverly Hills."

Oprah Winfrey performed with an exaggerated expression.

After simply showing off a wave of wealth, this talk show entered the topic.

"Kevin, how did you come up with the idea of ​​making a movie with a black protagonist?"

asked Oprah Winfrey curiously.

"How can black people not be protagonists?"

Kevin asked a rhetorical question before continuing:

"In my films, I only arrange actors according to specific roles, and I don't care about race issues."

"As long as he is really suitable for my movie, I will directly confirm it."

Oprah Winfrey followed Kevin's words and took advantage of the situation.

I chatted with Kevin about the discrimination faced by blacks in American society, and Kevin showed a very sympathetic face to blacks.

Interspersed with Will Smith's words from time to time, as a black rapper, making fun is also his skill.

The talk show was recorded for more than two hours. After Kevin and the others exchanged contact information with Oprah Winfrey, they left here and went home.

A day later, the Oprah Winfrey talk show was broadcast, which immediately attracted countless black and white left viewers for Escape from Deadly Town.

On that day, the box office successfully broke through the 2000 million gate.

Don't think this is too much, know that the Oprah Winfrey talk show now has a regular weekly audience of 3000 million people.

And if it is scattered every day, it has more than 400 million people watching.

Just a few million dollars more, which really isn't much.

.....

MGM, one of the eight major film companies in Hollywood.

Of course, according to Kevin, there are actually only the Big Five.

Since MGM was acquired by a casino tycoon in 1970, it has not produced any classics, and it has completely relied on its laurels.

007, cat and mouse is their last glory.

MGM executives, however, don't want that.

They were looking for a way to get MGM out of trouble and back to glory.

In such a situation, MGM eyed Kevin.

Unlike other film companies that have regular cooperation with big directors, Steve Kevin, as a director who has just become famous, has not yet been branded by any film company.

MGM's idea is to break the boat and become Steve Kevin's Bole.

Inside the MGM President's Office.

"Everyone, invite Steve Kevin to make a film with a medium investment. Can we accept this cost?"

As the president, Leiter said seriously.

At this time, MGM's debts were as high as hundreds of millions of dollars, and they were burdened with heavy debts. It was natural for them to do things, especially in film investment.

However, as the president, Leiter knew that if this continues, MGM will just die slowly.

A way must be found to reverse this situation.

For film companies, there is nothing more capable of changing the current situation than the appearance of a blockbuster movie.

But real famous directors, great directors, are now either making literary films with a high probability of losing money, or investing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Both of these are unacceptable to MGM.

Of course, there are also famous directors who are willing to make small productions, but such famous directors have long been hooked up by other film companies.

Nothing to do with them MGM.

The only director who has a chance, so far, is MGM.

"Okay, but if you fail..."

The meaning of the speaker is obvious. If it fails, Leiter, the president, should bear the main responsibility.

The consequence is likely to be the scapegoat and resignation from MGM.

As a middle-aged person, who can become a high-level executive in MGM, no one is willing to just take the blame and leave.

But everyone also knows that if this continues, MGM will not be able to last for many years, and must find a way.

Therefore, from the bottom of their hearts, everyone supports Leiter, the president. Of course, it is impossible to take the blame.

"I will take all responsibility, please support my decision."

Having said that, others will naturally not refuse

Ever since, the president of MGM began to find Kevin's contact information in various ways.