This brand new "Reloaded" gave Duke the biggest difference, that is, the thick colors like oil paintings. Although the film is still dominated by blue and black tones, Zack Schneider has successfully integrated what he is best at. , coupled with the reduction of a lot of mystifying and philosophical plots for the sake of philosophy, as well as the changes in the film's action methods, at the end of the screening, it won applause like a flood in the theater.

It is now the summer of 2002. Kung Fu action is no longer a new thing for Hollywood and North American audiences. "Reloaded" abandons the current abuse of kung fu in Hollywood action movies, especially those fancy and complicated moves. Routine, although the fighting routines of the actors are different, they are already close to a simple and direct model similar to the future.

Hollywood's traditional tough guy fighting can cause aesthetic fatigue, and kung fu can also cause aesthetic fatigue.

Even if it is the center of the world's film industry, Hollywood's follow-up situation is no worse than that of the Eastern film circle. Today's Hollywood action films, do not invite a few action directors from Hong Kong, do not play a lot of tiger-crane and Tai Chi Sorry to boot.

A large number of similar movies have flocked, and the consequences are not difficult to imagine.

In Duke's future plans, action elements will play a very important role, just like Zack Snyder's version of "Reloaded", he will not use kung fu.

He is very clear that whether it is muay thai and taekwondo, or free fighting and kung fu, it is impossible to put it into a movie and become popular all over the world. When filming "The Matrix" a few years ago, Duke asked his action director Jimmy Carter, Using Hollywood's technical means, drawing on Yuan Heping's Hong Kong-style shooting methods, and integrating a variety of close combat techniques, a brand-new action mode is designed.

These new action routines.It doesn't need any fancy moves, it's more simple, powerful, fast and direct, at least that's how it looks from the camera.

As for the promotion of kung fu and kung fu movies, it is too difficult for a non-kung fu enthusiast like him, and the profoundness of kung fu is beyond the comprehension of a layman like him.Countless people across the ocean are more suitable than him.

After the release of "The Matrix 2: Reloaded", the response was generally good. Although countless film critics scolded, claiming that the film just kept beating, beating, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing, bombing and bombing. Live movie fans enthusiastically paid for the film.

In the three days of the first weekend, "Reloaded" soared a North American box office of 9277 million US dollars, creating the highest opening record for an R-rated film ever.

The film was a smash at the box office.It directly ended the three consecutive championships of "Spider-Man", becoming the fourth box office hit film of this summer after "The Two Towers", "Attack of the Clones" and "Spider-Man".

By the second weekend, although "Reloaded" was limited by R-rated films, it could not maintain an unusually stable trend like "Two Towers".But it also controlled the decline within 50.00%, and won the North American box office champion with 5102 million US dollars in the next weekend, and it was released for only ten days.The North American box office exceeded 2 million US dollars, as high as 2 million US dollars!

The facts are crystal clear.This is another masterpiece that can exceed 3 million US dollars at the North American box office.

When July came to an end and the summer of 2002 ended, the two Duke-related films "The Two Towers" and "Reloaded" undoubtedly became one of the winners.

"Two Towers" started its large-scale screening in 3876 theaters on the first weekend of the summer file, and entered August.The number of theaters in North America has shrunk to 1462. The North American box office has accumulated a total of 4 million US dollars, and the global box office has reached 7855 billion US dollars. Although "Spider-Man" also performed extraordinary, according to the box office trend estimates, the North American and global box office can only stay. At around US$11 million and US$2311 million, Duke almost booked the annual box office champion in North America and the world in advance.

Even though it is subject to the rating of R-rated films, relying on the overwhelming reputation of the previous film and the good quality of the sequel, the North American box office of "Reloaded" is close to 3 million U.S. dollars in one month after its release, and the North American box office will inevitably exceed 3 million U.S. dollars in the end. Off, it will compete with "Attack of the Clones" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" released on Thanksgiving file for the No.3 position in the North American and global box office.

"What stands out more than the box office is the performance of the two series."

On the Warner Bros. board of directors, Doug Walter, who just took the position of CEO, can be described as high-spirited, "From the release of "The Fellowship of the Ring" to the end of July, the total global sales of peripheral products related to the Lord of the Rings reached 17 billion US dollars. The highest-grossing of these was the DVD set of The Fellowship of the Ring, with worldwide sales of $3255 million...”

Speaking of this, Doug Walter looked at the dozen or so directors who participated in the meeting, and said confidently, "The theater screening of "The Two Towers" is approaching the mid-to-late stage. The research and evaluation of the basic market department, the film's The soundtrack and DVD will surely outsell The Fellowship of the Ring."

As soon as Doug Walter's words fell, the eyes of other directors turned to Duke. The other party alone supported nearly one-third of Warner Bros.'s performance!

Duke sat here quietly and didn't say anything. He was the biggest personal beneficiary of the movie.

Indeed, compared to the total profit of the movie box office and peripherals, the net dividend of more than 200 million US dollars in his hands seems nothing, but don’t forget that movie peripherals are more dependent on channels than theater box office, without the support of group platforms , Peripherals can only achieve extensive licensing income. Why did Pixar Studios, Blue Sky Studios, and later DreamWorks Animation Studios, as well as other small and medium-sized film companies, join or squeeze their heads to join those group companies?

In addition to the reasons of capital and anti-risk, the advantage of large companies in integrating resources is an important condition to attract them.

Perhaps many years to come, the era of Hollywood giants will end, but from the early and middle period of the 90s to the later ten years, Hollywood is a veritable era of giants.

His experience is indeed extraordinary, but seeing and doing are two different things. Hollywood's problems cannot be solved by making good enough movies.

To put it bluntly, newcomers and new ideas are really not worth much in Hollywood.

Without any successful experience in the past, just mail a script to a film company or director, and the other party will come to you?Do not make jokes.

For example, Duke’s initial experience was a little bit better. After all, his mother and family background played a role. Those new screenwriters had no chance to meet the top executives of the film company, and famous directors and producers, even if they were a Any fool knows that it is impossible for the script mailed to them to reach them.

Like Duke and Tina Fey, which big director and well-known producer doesn't have an assistant?

Even for a director at Duke's level, Tina Fey has a team of more than ten assistants. The scripts sent by mail will definitely fall into the hands of these assistants first. Pass it up?

Let's just say that screenwriters who want to write for big directors and established producers can line up from Long Beach to Malibu.

Cooperating with a big director means that there is a high possibility of success, and success will give the weakest screenwriter among the key factors of a project a chance to climb up, and even become a gold medal screenwriter.

Like the former gold medal screenwriter Iren Kruger, is the plot he wrote wonderful or logical?But he wrote "Transformers" one after another. Even though countless people complained, the production company still did not change people.

This is an extremely realistic circle, and qualifications are hundreds or even ten thousand times more persuasive than creativity.

Similarly, in this circle, countless talented people have been buried. The most typical is the so-called Hollywood blacklist. Many scripts on it have been completed for several years or even longer, but they have been unable to become real projects. The reason is not hard to imagine.

Just like the rumors that Bill Gates bowed his head to Wall Street, if a person wants to fight against the entire huge system, it is tantamount to a dream.

Therefore, from the beginning to the present, Duke has chosen to stand on the side of large companies and conduct in-depth cooperation with them.

At this point, Duke actually knows very well that God only knows when his first film would have been released without his mother's support.

Just like "Speed", the film received unanimous praise from film selection experts, and even with the help of George Lucas, Twentieth Century Fox still chose the most conservative and most beneficial one-click distribution policy, and made Well, if the market response is not good, we are ready to withdraw at any time.

There are countless ways to climb up in Hollywood. It is undoubtedly a very unreliable way to get the appreciation of big shots and big companies through a script.

Moreover, for quite a few blockbuster movies, the scripts are really mediocre, and the ideas and plots are often used by Hollywood.

As for innovation?The other side of innovation is risk. When innovation is combined with unqualified newcomers, what choices will directors, producers and film companies make?

I believe that as long as their heads are not flooded, these people will only have one choice.

And how many people who can climb up to high positions from the fierce and cruel competition in Hollywood will have their heads flooded?

The issues of the board of directors are one by one. Most of the time, Duke does not express much opinion, but when discussing issues related to movies, he will solemnly say a few words, and what he said can arouse people's attention. Warner's board of directors paid enough attention.

For example, the meeting focused on the establishment of a Justice League studio, and Duke took a positive attitude towards it.

And under the impetus of Duke and Doug Walter, Warner Bros. also decided to start contacting Marvel, striving to win the distribution rights of Marvel movies.

Marvel and DC are both competitive and cooperative. Although competition is far greater than cooperation, as long as the interests are large enough, cooperation is not impossible. (to be continued~^~)