MTL - After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood-Chapter 193
After finishing this business, Kevin is going to take a few days off to see how the construction of the Hogwarts theme park is going.
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Another day passed in a flash.
Steve Kevin's first film review, published on the Los Angeles Daily News.
In order to get Steve Kevin's first published film review, the Los Angeles Journal offered an astronomical sum for other film critics.
Two hundred thousand dollars.
This is the highest level of remuneration in the industry so far.
In this regard, the Los Angeles Daily can be said to be sincere, and they also believe that this film review by Steve Kevin can bring them rich rewards.
After all, this is the first time that Steve Kevin has publicly disclosed his opinions on other films. Before this, Steve Kevin has never commented on other films.
Once the scolded director is not convinced, this is a scolding battle.
What kind of benefits can be brought to them, I will drool just thinking about it, and for this reason, they have paid such an amount.
Dawson never imagined that he could make $200,000, and he accepted it happily and handed over the film review to the Los Angeles Daily.
The Los Angeles Daily also launched a publicity campaign a day earlier.
Many people who are more interested in things in the entertainment industry have bought the Los Angeles Daily News to see what Steve Kevin said in the newspaper.
Cruise, as the person who paid the most attention to this matter, naturally bought this newspaper for the first time.
The first time he got the newspaper, he read it.
[Green Lantern, an empty superhero movie. 】
[In the past two days, the superhero movie Green Lantern with an investment of up to 150 million US dollars has successfully attracted my attention. Everyone knows that I am a superhero fanatic. I believe this is from the film I shot. You can all see it. 】
[Just yesterday, I saw the newspapers and unanimously criticized Cruise's acting skills, which made me want to say a few words. 】
[A well-known thing, the success and failure of a movie, the biggest influencing factor is always the director. 】
[There is nothing wrong with actors needing to be responsible, but it is always the director who has the greatest responsibility. 】
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A small homework, 1,500-word film review, clearly laid out the reasons for Green Lantern's failure in front of the audience.
At the same time, in this film review, the biggest responsibility for the failure of the box office word of mouth is also placed on the director.
After reading this film review, Cruston breathed a sigh of relief, this time, his pressure can be much less.
Putting down the newspaper, Cruise looked at Nicole Kidman in her own room, hurried up to say hello, and then left the villa.
He needs to go to church to relieve his stress.
Likewise, to thank Steve Kevin, he also created an opportunity for Nicole Kidman to go to Steve Kevin.
Cruise's behavior, Nicole Kidman instantly understood.
Quickly started makeup, put on the sexiest underwear, and went to Kevin's villa...
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Let's not mention these messy relationships between men and women.
Steve Kevin's film review instantly set off a bloodbath in the film critic world.
A group of film critics who are traditional supporters of literary films have attacked Steve Kevin's film reviews. For them, criticizing Steve Kevin, an absolute commercial film director, is politically correct.
On the other hand, some film critics who had always supported Steve Kevin's films raised their flags and published their own reviews. Based on Steve Kevin's attitude, they criticized the director of Green Lantern one after another.
Such a chaotic battle successfully opened the audience's thinking, so that the audience must judge by watching the movie whether Cruise is good or not.
It was a successful move from Cruise to the director of Green Lantern.
Immediately after that, the third day's box office came out and only made $25 million at the box office.
Warner was shocked to find that Steve Kevin's film review successfully attracted many audiences to enter the movie theater to take a look. Although the word of mouth is still bad, the attendance rate has actually improved a little.
It can help them recover a little more of their losses.
In such a situation, they also gave up the idea of only letting Cruise take the blame, and began to cooperate with Kevin's film review and attack the director.
At the same time, they contacted Martin Campbell, the director of Green Lantern, to make hype, through newspapers, and Steve Kevin sprayed each other, so as to arouse the audience's interest, and went to the cinema to recover their losses.
Chapter 282 The completion of the theme park and the arrival of the Christmas stall
The fourth day of the movie's release.
Martin Campbell, at the behest of Warner, began to refute Steve Kevin's remarks in the newspapers.
And he would love to do it.
The failure of Green Lantern is bound to have a negative impact on his directing career.
At least his next movie, a big production of this level has nothing to do with him, and at most it will cost 20 to 30 million US dollars.
It can make up for Warner's loss a little, at least when other film companies look for him to film in the future, Warner can give him a little bit of a cooperative reputation.
Otherwise, a director who neither cooperates with the film company to recover losses nor makes a blockbuster film will be ignored in Hollywood.
Inside the villa.
Kevin looked at the newspaper, Martin Campbell's rebuttal, and almost laughed.
[For director Steve Kevin, a rebuttal to some of the remarks made by the Green Lantern directed by me. 】
As soon as this sentence appeared in the media, the momentum suddenly weakened a lot.
But it is also normal. In terms of status in the circle, Martin Campbell and Steve Kevin are one day at a time, not on the same level at all.
Steve Kevin commenting on Martin Campbell is a matter of course, but if Martin Campbell comments on Steve Kevin bluntly, it will only make people feel that the sky is too high.
[First of all, the Green Lantern that director Steve Kevin said is just an ordinary superhero, I don't agree with this...]
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A lot of nonsense, Kevin just swiped it once and finished it.
The core line is to disagree with Steve Kevin's criticism of Green Lantern, and at the same time secretly say that Spider-Man is actually a similar superhero movie.
It's just because he is the director and because of his fame, he has attracted a large audience.
And he, who directed Green Lantern, was not famous enough to attract audiences.
It is said that in fact, Spider-Man is only successful because of his name, not because Spider-Man is good at filming.
Of course, he didn't dare to say too direct words.
After reading the film review, with Kevin's shrewdness, he naturally knows what it means.
After giving Dawson a call and letting Dawson speak for him after freelance in the media.
Kevin just ignored it.
Two days off and a few nights of messing around with Nicole Kidman until three days later.
Green Lantern received news of the release.
At the North American box office, only 110 million US dollars were obtained at the box office, and the sales of peripherals were almost zero. The loss of Green Lantern has become a foregone conclusion.
It is said that Warners is also working **** overseas channels, trying to get Green Lantern to be released all over the world so as to maximize the cost recovery.
Of course, Kevin doesn't care about these things.
In order to have this friendship with Tom Cruise, he cooperated with Warner to carry out a wave of hype, which helped Warner get at least 20 million US dollars more at the box office.
It has been considered that Warner has greatly reduced its losses.
By the way, Kevin also went to the hospital for a check-up. The hospital proved that everything about him was normal. As for why he had so many women and none of them were pregnant, Kevin could only say that he didn't know.
But the current Kevin is actually still relatively young, he is not in a hurry at all, just take his time.
After going to Hogwarts theme park to watch it, after confirming that the degree of restoration of Hogwarts is very high, Kevin went to the headhunting company he contacted before and chatted with a few people who were interested in changing jobs.
In the end, a forty-year-old executive who had previously been a Disney vice president was selected to serve as president of Kevin's new entertainment company in charge of the amusement park theme park project.
In terms of name, Kevin named it Dawn Entertainment Company, which corresponds to Dawn Film Company.
After confirming that the theme park has been built, Kevin immediately arranged for someone to go to the theme park to shoot some promotional videos about the park.
At the same time, I am looking for someone to act as a magic teacher in Hogwarts, play a unicorn and so on.
After all the work arrangements are in place, the time has come to November.
Kevin came to the company, and Dawson rushed to his office.
"Kevin, the current Hogwarts theme park promotional video has been shown on all major TV media."
"A lot of people know that at Christmas time, theme parks will open."
"Our pre-sale tickets have already sold tens of thousands of copies."
Kevin dragged his chin and nodded.
For the theme park ticket, Kevin set $50 per person, and children under ten years old are free. The ticket price is not very high, but food is not allowed, and you can bring your own water.
Through these regulations, a theme park visit, if it is an ordinary family, is about five hundred dollars, which is actually not low.
It can be seen that the main target audience of Hogwarts theme parks is the middle class.
Among them, there are high and low, various price ranges around.
With the strength of copyright protection in the United States, the various Harry Potter props in it are unique to Kevin here. If you want to play, you can only buy them from him.
According to Kevin's own estimation, after the release of Harry Potter, the theme park will definitely be able to welcome a large number of tourists, and the annual revenue of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars is normal.
This kind of industry itself is very scary to attract money.
Can attract a lot of cash flow.
After the influence of Hogwarts has grown, and with this influence, two more Hogwarts theme parks will be built in the United States, covering the most prosperous areas in the United States in a triangular shape.
At that time, it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in cash income every year, which will be the foundation of Kevin's future.
With this terrifying cash flow, Kevin can focus on Hollywood and involve his tentacles in all aspects of the entertainment industry.
In the future, he will be the king of Hollywood.
Of course, he just kept this goal deep in his heart, and only a fool would say it.
"Well, don't stop the Harry Potter propaganda, and the Hogwarts theme park propaganda."
"As soon as I release it, it will be sold out immediately."
"Yes."
Dawson answered firmly.
With the scale of Hogwarts, it is enough to receive thousands of tourists a day. At this time, in the amusement park, hundreds of staff are already on standby.
As soon as the tourists come to the door, they will start receiving them according to the rehearsal process.
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Harry Potter's negotiation went very smoothly. As early as two months ago, the theaters had already handed over December 10, the best time for Christmas, to Harry Potter.
And with the fame of Steve Kevin, Harry Potter directly got 70% of the film volume.
Don't look as tall as Spider-Man.
The Christmas season is much shorter than the summer season. With this more than one month season, if you can compete with the summer season, you know how fierce the competition is during this season.
Chapter 283 Harry Potter Released
You know, during this period.
On November 6th, the film with the Bravais Touchstone was released, and the film achieved fifth place on the North American box office charts in 1998.
On November 25th, there will be the release of the animated film of Beverly Witches Disney, The Bugs.
This is the film that achieved the fourth place in the North American box office chart in 1998.
On December 18, there will be the release of Bo Wei's Public Enemy and DreamWorks' Prince of Egypt.
