After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

It's no joke that two fists can't beat four hands.

After chatting and eating, Kevin decisively chose to hire him.

Then he threw out a check and asked him to go to a car shop to buy a luxury car, and then customize a bulletproof car.

As a rich man, cherishing his own life is definitely not a joke. On weekdays, Kevin never touches those things that hurt his body. Kevin also eats other supplements. The only thing that hurts his body is probably sex.

After arranging everything.

Kevin started to get busy with the movie.

Post-production is also not that simple.

It requires Kevin to invest most of his energy, but after the specific production completion time is probably clear.

After discussion, Warner Bros. and MGM decided to set a specific file for Mission: Impossible.

Judging from the progress, the special effects will take two months, if you look at the time for some adjustments and the current time.

The release time of Mission: Impossible will not be until the end of November at the earliest.

In North America, there are two most profitable schedules.

One is the summer vacation, from the festival at the end of May to mid-September, more than three months.

The other one is Christmas from the end of November to the end of December.

Theoretically, as a commercial blockbuster, Mission: Impossible is the most suitable time for release in summer, but obviously, both Warner Bros. and MGM have their own performance pressures.

There's no way Mission: Impossible could have dragged on until then.

As a result, Mission: Impossible has no choice but to hit theaters directly on Thanksgiving at the end of November.

Fortunately, the Hollywood movie that poses the greatest threat to Kevin, the original box office champion of this year, Jurassic Park, was released in June, and it has already been offline by this time.

The original box office No.8, Gannet Assassination Order, was invested by Warner, and it was a crime thriller. In order to avoid cannibalism, and considering that Mission: Impossible is an action-adventure film, it is more family-friendly than it.

Therefore, the gannet assassination order was postponed for a month to avoid conflicts.

At this point, there is only one movie called Slim Dad, which is the biggest threat to Kevin.

However, the schedule battle is unavoidable. Both Chainsaw and Escape from Deadly Town coincided with the release of the blockbuster movie, but Mission: Impossible must be confronted right now.

Kevin is also confident that Mission Impossible's global box office of 1996 million US dollars in 4.5 can beat the 93 million global box office of "Slim Dad" in 4.2.

In this regard, after some discussions, the scheduled Mission: Impossible by Liang Tang started the offline movie promotion...

Chapter 54 Mission: Impossible post-production completed

Now that the speed of the Internet has not been greatly improved, Hollywood film companies mainly promote movies offline.

Mission: Impossible is an adaptation of a classic American drama, and its main promotional card is nostalgia.

As an American drama released in the 60s, his audiences are all in their forties at this time, and it is time to grasp the economic power.

The main audience of Mission: Impossible is divided into two categories, one is the spy adventure film, that is, lovers of 007-type movies.

The other type of people they need to win over is naturally these sentimental parties.

All kinds of promotional posters are produced, and the actions of the characters on them all pay tribute to the classics, and strive to evoke everyone's memories.

In this way, promotion and production are juxtaposed, and time is passing by quickly.

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Twentieth Century Fox.

Inside the President's Office.

As the president, Jeffrey is discussing the finalization of Mission: Impossible with other high-level officials.

The movie market is so big, if you eat more, it means you have to eat less, especially during the special time of Christmas.

There is also a comedy film in their company that will be released on Christmas, but it is different from the 8000 million investment in Mission Impossible.

Fit Daddy only cost $1000 million to make, so they weren't particularly uptight about going head-to-head with Mission: Impossible.

However, being in a competitive relationship and being able to add chaos to Mission: Impossible, it is natural to give it a try.

If it is useful, a random loss is a huge amount of several million dollars.

"Jeffrey, do you want to bribe the crew and use some tricks?"

A black executive suddenly suggested.

There have also been cases of bribed crew members, burning film, and destroying movies before.

Therefore, in the face of this situation, the black executives immediately thought of this method.

Other senior executives cast strange glances at him one after another.

As if to say, a black person will always be a black person.

In Hollywood, some methods can be used, and some methods cannot be used.

Warner Bros. and MGM are not to be trifled with. If they use this method, they will inevitably provoke a fierce counterattack.

To put it bluntly, if they can use this method, so can others.

If you really play like this, everyone should stop filming.

"Jerry, we definitely can't do this kind of thing."

Jeffrey shook his head at the black man before continuing:

"Find some black material about the starring role and make a big splash. This is a legitimate competition."

"As for those methods, they can only be used for some small crews, but it is impossible to use them when it involves investment from major Hollywood film companies."

After the arrangement was completed, Jeffrey discussed other matters with everyone.

After all, in this war, the passive players are Warner Bros. and MGM.

Their investment is only 1000 million U.S. dollars, which is several orders of magnitude behind their 8000 million.

Fox failed, only slightly hurt.

But if Warner and the others failed, the loss would be much greater.

...

Of course, Fox is not the only film company that is acting.

Mission: Impossible, as an absolute big production in the Christmas file, has successfully obtained the largest number of opening screens from the theaters.

Of course, this squeezed the plans of many other film companies in the Christmas schedule. There are not too many people who, like Fox, have the idea of ​​causing some trouble for Mission: Impossible.

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MGM, Kevin is discussing the production style of the film with the MGM production manager.

"Cryptic, neat action scenes, special scenes beyond people's imagination, chase scenes on the train, what's wrong with these?"

The production manager of MGM said solemnly with a straight face:

"It doesn't seem to be a problem, but he is obviously different from the 007 series. I suggest you edit towards the 007 model."

"We have the template of the most successful spy movie, why take the risk?"

Looking at this old-fashioned middle-aged man, Kevin suddenly lost the desire to communicate with him.

Although 007 and Mission: Impossible are indeed very similar, in the hands of Kevin, Mission: Impossible has shown more of its own characteristics.

Such as action scenes, such as villain settings, such as those special scenes.

If all of them are discarded, it will be a replica of 007 that loses its own characteristics, and without the fame of 007, no one knows what will happen to the box office.

Kevin said directly and strongly:

"My style is like this. If you have any opinions, you can ask your president, but the style must follow my instructions. If the box office is not good, I will bear the responsibility alone."

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment, then nodded.

For middle-aged people, stability is the most important thing. Since the director is willing to take all the responsibilities, he, the production manager responsible for supervising editing, has nothing to say.

Of course, the most important thing is that Kevin is not the kind of little director who has never become famous.

It's a slightly famous director with two big-selling movies. He has the capital to be responsible, and ordinary small directors don't even have the qualifications to say this in front of him.

After resolving the controversy over the film style, Kevin continued to match the first cut version with special effects shots, and at the same time made better cuts for some shots.

In such steps, the time has come to November 11th, and there are only ten days before Thanksgiving.

Although the schedule and the number of openings have been determined, the film was not actually completed until this time.

Upon receiving the news of the completion of the film, Warner Bros. immediately sent a number of film managers, that is, film viewers, to MGM to participate in this internal preview.

As the president, Leiter also sat nervously in the movie theater, beside him were President Warner and Kevin.

Several people were a little nervous.

The huge investment of 3000 million US dollars is definitely not a joke. This is the price of dozens of human lives. If there is a huge loss, no one can bear it.

For Kevin, if Mission: Impossible fails, MGM's shares will not be mentioned for the time being, but the opportunity to get Marvel is missed, and he has almost no chance of reaching the top in Hollywood.

For Leiter, failure means that he will be abandoned by MGM and become a loser.

As for the losers, it is almost impossible to obtain such a status.

As for Warner President Robinov, although he is not as desperate as they are, the failure of this investment has somewhat affected his status in Warner.

With their own ideas, the three watched the final version of Mission: Impossible, which was formed by Kevin after four months of shooting and two months of special effects production.

Chapter 55 Internal Viewing - Positioning of S-Class Commercial Blockbusters

The original plot of Mission: Impossible is actually not complicated.

The CIA obtained information and learned that a traitor had appeared in their special agent team. This traitor was going to sell the CIA agent list in Eastern Europe to foreign spy organizations. Under the plan of the agent leader Jim, the protagonist Ethan led a group of agents. Went to their trading place.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived, they were ambushed, and except for Ethan and his wife, the other agents were all wiped out.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of dollars appeared in Ethan's account for no reason, so Ethan became the biggest suspect of the traitor.

Afterwards, it was the process of Ethan, relying on his extraordinary mind and skills, bravely breaking into the dragon's lake and tiger's lair, to clean himself up.

Such a plot is not surprising no matter where it is placed.

But the director's ability lies here. They can make a simple story show a completely different style in the movie.

Through editing, the use of screen color, and the director's personal aesthetics, a wonderful movie is formed.

Of course, the audience group that comes with Mission: Impossible itself, and the fan group of Tom Cruise, the protagonist, are very important.

This is an important part of attracting audiences into the cinema in the early stage of the film.

Otherwise, Kevin can shoot Mission: Impossible at a lower price.

For example, change the name of the movie, don't want the audience of the big IP of Mission: Impossible, for example, don't want the big star of Tom Cruise, and change to a small star.

In this way, the investment can be reduced to 5000 million or even less.

But in this way, the probability of the movie failing will increase to more than [-]%.

To put it bluntly, there are many factors for the success of a movie.

The number of openings, audience reputation, stars, IP, and movie quality, each of which will affect the audience's willingness to enter the cinema.

Kevin has never realized that there are any movies that can get good results directly without relying on operation.

Operations are a crucial part of the film's success.

...

In the screening hall, several people and the film manager were all watching the movie attentively.

The story is simple, but through Kevin's wonderful editing, the audience is completely substituted into the protagonist Ethan and worried about him.

At the same time, I expect Ethan to use his skills to clear his name and find out the real traitor in the CIA.

Compared with the previous spy films, the Mission: Impossible directed by Kevin is extraordinarily real.

This truth does not mean that it is the same as the real intelligence agency, but that what it shows is very consistent with the image of the intelligence agency and agents in people's imagination.

After all, audiences are ordinary people. They don't go into detail about what the real secret service agency is like. They just want to see the spies they know in the movie.