Entering November, the holiday schedule of the North American film market kicked off, and the market competition became extremely fierce, especially the two official holiday schedules in November.

The first to come is the Veterans Day holiday file, New Line Pictures' holiday custom movie "Christmas Elf" fired the first shot, this film with a production cost of only 30 million US dollars, won more than 31 million US dollars at the box office in North America on the first weekend of its release, and at the same time its own popularity, it also announced that the horror atmosphere that has been rampant in theaters since Halloween has completely dissipated.

As a result, the box office of "Dungeon Siege" continued to decline, and the North American box office in its third weekend of release has fallen to $4.2 million.

However, the film has already grossed more than $60 million at the North American box office.

There is a clear understanding within Embassy Pictures that the lifespan of "Dungeon Siege" in North American theaters will not exceed December.

At the same time, two other films released by Embassy Pictures, North American screenings came to an end.

The first is the plasma horror film "Chainsaw".

This genre is notoriously short-lived, and "Saw" stayed in North American theaters for a full nine weeks before it was released, which is also considered the longest screening life in the genre.

After nine weeks of screening, "Saw Horror" grossed $87.21 million at the North American box office, compared with the production cost of $1.5 million, once again creating a miracle for Relativity Entertainment.

Having said that, horror films can be said to be the most common genre with small and large grosses, and Hollywood basically has low-cost and high-grossing horror films every year, especially some old series of horror films, the investment is not high, but the box office returns are good.

"Chainsaw" has also been screened overseas for a while, but compared to North America, the film's overseas response is also much worse, and the overseas box office is only about 30 million US dollars.

The film's global box office combined is infinitely close to $120 million.

Subsequently, after more than four months of screening, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" also successfully rolled off the production line in North America.

The film had a much bigger impact than Saw and could even be said to have changed the landscape of Hollywood cinema, with a resurgence of pirate films, leading to countless people devoting themselves to the great pirate business and then being overwhelmed by the stormy seas.

Captain Jack Sparrow has and only one!

"Pirates of the Caribbean" grossed $388.77 million at the North American box office, and the film's overseas screenings are not yet over, and the global box office is expected to reach around $778 million.

After the film ended, the crew of "Pirates of the Caribbean" held a press conference in Rosario, Baja California, announcing that the two sequels "Coffin of the Soul" and "The End of the World" officially began filming.

All the main creators of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" have returned, and Xiao Ma, who has considerable appeal in the Eastern market, also joined through the crew audition.

In addition, when Ronan discussed the script with director Gore Wibinski and others, he made it clear that they made certain changes to the script and not to engage in a love triangle between Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan.

Many times, the inexplicable tangled love triangle is not pleasant, and Elizabeth Swan was very unpopular with fans in the latter two films, and the reason for this is precisely the ambiguity with Jack Sparrow, as well as the fateful kiss.

Kiss who died Elizabeth Swan.

Maybe it's because he has been poisoned by too many film and television dramas, and Ronan feels that the love triangle or something is really a bit of a diaphragm.

Instead of a love triangle, it would be better to have Captain Jack Sparrow and the little blacksmith Will Turner fall in love and kill each other, which would also attract a large audience of rotten girls.

Of course, Ronan is also thinking about it, if he really wants to do this, regardless of the market reaction, it is estimated that the whole crew will oppose it.

Nowadays, after all, it is not homosexuality, which belongs to the protection of animals more than ten years later.

The next weekend after "Christmas Elf" produced and distributed by New Line Pictures, "Mean Girl" released by Embassy Pictures will be released.

After checking the news and news related to "Christmas Elf", Ronan found a familiar name, the name of the director of this comedy is - Jon Favreau!

A director who is not very famous in Hollywood at the moment.

But Ronan remembers him very clearly, even if he has never seen him since coming to Los Angeles, he can still remember what Jon Favreau looks like, such as Jon Favreau is a big fat man with a lot of humor.

Because this used to be the driver and bodyguard next to Iron Man Tony Stark, it seems to be called Harpy.

The most important thing is that Jon Finn not only starred in Harpy, but also the director of "Iron Man", a film that really turned the tide of Marvel and thus formed Marvel's Dafa!

This can be said to be one of the important figures in Marvel superhero movies, and in the later period, with the help of Marvel's springboard, he directed a number of heavyweight commercial giants and reached the peak of his life.

For example, "Fantasy Forest", and the real-animal version of "The Lion King".

Ronan carefully looked at Jon Favreau's profile and found that he had a direct connection to the Marvel superhero movie, Jon Favreau starred in Twentieth Century Fox's "Daredevil released in the first half of this year", that is, the one starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, but not in the main role.

This "Daredevil Man" can also be regarded as a typical failure of Marvel superhero movies.

Ronan noted Jon Favreau's name, but won't be in touch with him anytime soon, and the Avengers project hasn't yet been launched.

Later, Ronan returned to New York to attend the premiere of "Mean Girls" in New York.

This is a movie with the theme of youth campus women, and it is the main brand when it is promoted, and it is naturally a gathering of young and beautiful girls at the premiere.

Liz Kapan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried walked the red carpet successively.

Although some of them are twenty-five or sixteen years old, pretending to be tender is an essential skill for Hollywood actresses, and there is no pressure to walk the red carpet dressed as a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl.

This film also encountered some trouble, especially in the ratings, and was almost rated R by the rating committee, but fortunately, after the last time, Ronan told George Clint to pay more attention to this aspect, and the film was sent to the rating committee on a smaller scale and earlier, leaving enough buffer space.

The Big Six companies are both cooperating and competing, just like DreamWorks, using rules and regulations.

For example, this weekend, there was a top production from six major companies, produced and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox, starring Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe, and the production cost of nearly $120 million "Arctic Expedition" opened strongly.

"Mean Girl", which cost only $15 million to produce, looks like an underage child in front of the giant "Raging Sea".

"The Raging Sea" is also one of Hollywood's top big productions in 2003, a real commercial blockbuster.

This film was also the beginning of Russell Crowe's transition from prosperity to decline.

But it is undeniable that "Angry Sea" was released at the same time, which squeezed the screening space of "Mean Girl" in theaters to a certain extent, and the latter's film schedule and the number of theaters opened are not as good as the former in any case.

"Angry Sea" has 3,201 theaters, while "Mean Girls" has only 2,840.

The only good thing is that the target audience of "Mean Girl" is very clear, and the overlap with "Angry Sea" is low.

In the face of strong competitors in the same schedule, in order to promote "Mean Girl", Ronan, who rarely appears directly in front of the media, rolled up his sleeves and went into battle in person.

Standing in the media area, Ronan was specially interviewed by reporters.

"I think girls who find ways to destroy other people's lives in the dark are smart. Ronan said of the original: "What struck me about this book was the anecdotes that the girls told in the interviews, and in my opinion, they were very interesting, I mean, the methods of the girls' battles between them were so witty and complex." ”

He then pulled Lindsay Beale to his side and introduced it solemnly: "This is the film's screenwriter, Miss Lindsay Beal, who is also the original author of "Twilight", "The Hunger Games" and "Fifty Shades of Gray", and is a very talented woman, who has previously completed the script of "Summer of Jeans", and the female-themed film launched by Embassy Pictures in June. ”

Lindsay Beal was arguably the first time she had actually appeared in front of the media, clenching her fists nervously despite the proper smile on her delicate face.

Ronan did not hesitate to praise it, saying: "Lindsay's "Mean Girl" script completed by herself is the best young women's script I have seen in many years, Lindsay knows the girls' thoughts very well, the script is written very realistically, and the fierce competition between American middle schools and girls is very realistic, and girls who have experienced and are about to experience middle school life will resonate with the story of the film. ”

With that, Ronan handed over the rest of the interview time to Lindsay Beal, nodded to her in encouragement, and said a few words to the publicist who was following him, and then left the media interview area and walked towards the theater.

Arriving at the door of the theater and looking back, Rhona found that Lindsay Beale had been surrounded by a group of media reporters.

A good-looking female screenwriter is very topical, and a good-looking and very talented female screenwriter is even more topical!

In the future, there will be star directors, and there can also be star screenwriters.

Lindsay Beale also holds the aura of being the author of "The Twilight Zone," "The Hunger Games," and "Fifty Shades of Gray," and if she's well-known enough, it's a complete good thing for future film changes.

Ronan took the time to chat with Amanda and quickly entered the theater to talk to Lauren Weisberg, who had come to the premiere in the VIP room, and Lindsay Beale walked over with a tired face.

She was accompanied by a blonde girl, who looked to be under twenty years of age.