March is the off-season of the North American film market, and there will be basically no heavyweight movies released in this schedule.

Compared to the real superhero comic book adaptation, "Hellboy" is more like an anti-hero cult film, and its production cost is only $45 million.

Therefore, the special effects of the film are a bit rough, and it is quite difficult to create a film with more than 900 special effects shots with such production investment.

Guillermo del Toro has a strong knack for the use of special effects, and in order to save his budget, after filming several films with Relativity Entertainment in the first two years, he collected most of the props and some of the sets, and used a lot during the filming of "Hellboy".

Unlike other crews who sell scrap like props and sets after filming, Guillermo del Toro has a habit of collecting these things.

"I hope to open a film museum in the future. ”

At the premiere of "Hellboy," Guillermo del Toro said to Ronan: "These could be part of the exhibits. ”

Ronan said: "I support your film museum project, you cooperate with Relativity Entertainment, and the props used by the crew can be collected. ”

Many things can only be sold for scrap if they are left, so it is better to give them away as favors.

Guillermo del Toro was fat and short, and he could barely see his eyes when he smiled.

Ronan was the first to walk on the red carpet and came to the media area in front of the Emirates Rock Theater and was briefly interviewed by media reporters.

"I've always wanted to make a monster movie," Ronan said to reporters, saying all sorts of nonsense: "Hellboy is a work with strange characters and fantastical monsters and settings, which can satisfy all my imagination of monster movies." ”

Seeing the actor Ron Perlman walk into the media area, Ronan gave up the stage at the right time.

Ron Pullman is a very distinctive actor, and in order to compete for this leading actor, Uwe Bauer and Guillermo del Toro were at once in a falling out.

In the end, Ron Pullman chose Gilmour del Toro.

Having said that, when facing these two, it is estimated that most actors will make the same choice as Ron Perlman.

According to Guillermo del Toro's nonsense to attract media reporters, as early as the stage when he started to write the script, he got in touch with Ron Pullman and said that he was writing a movie for Pullman, Pullman was naturally very excited, he liked the comic book character of Hellboy very much, and in order to play this strong role, he prepared for 1 year, training five or six days a week.

During the promotion, Embassy Pictures even played a banner, saying that the hell male protagonist was the first comic book character with an anti-hero image to be put on the screen!

This kind of propaganda rhetoric is good to listen to, but it is not true.

For example, Guillermo del Toro also said that filming "Hellboy" has always been his dream, and after getting the copyright, he never found an investor, and finally moved Ronan Yunyun.

Inside the theater, Guillermo del Toro sat down with Ronan and said, "I have some ideas about Hellboy. ”

Ronan glanced at him, "Gilmour, just say." ”

Guillermo del Toro whispered: "After the movie, you can shoot and make an animated feature film. ”

"Can be considered. Of course, Ronan won't agree in one go: "I'll let Shahai Entertainment discuss your proposal." ”

Specifically, it depends on how the film responds.

Guillermo del Toro actually has a design for a new film project, and considering the occasion and the fact that "Hellboy" is just about to be released, he decided to have time to discuss this with Ronan in the future.

Moreover, the post-production of "Hellboy" was not very pleasant.

What is Hollywood like, Guillermo del Toro has experienced first-hand in the past two years, the director's power is too small, and the two edited versions he submitted in a row were vetoed by Ronan, the producer, and this release version is a big change from his original idea.

Even so, if "Hellboy" does not perform well commercially, the rest will not be said.

One glance at Ronan, his eyes fell on the special effects designer in the same row, where he saw a lot of GUNPLA from the island nation during the filming of Hellboy.

These mechas, like first lovers who fall in love at first sight, are deeply rooted in the heart of Guillermo del Toro.

What do special effects designers say? Mecha is a man's romance!

It's also from an island country, and the mecha is like being put in the same movie as a monster like Godzilla, what will be the effect?

Guillermo del Toro was fascinated for a while, as if he saw the mecha and Godzilla fall in love and kill each other.

However, before the mecha and the monster, you must first fulfill your wish - to make a Spanish-language movie.

The movie begins to show and Guillermo del Toro comes back to his senses and stops thinking about the romance and Spanish-language movies of the Mecha Man.

Roaring thunder sounded, in a heavy dark tone, the Gothic picture style anomalous project, the son of Satan from hell was summoned to the world by the German **.

Satan can be said to have made frequent appearances in American comics, whether it is Marvel Comics or DC Comics next door, there are hell and Satan.

"Hellboy" is from the hands of Dark Horse Comics, the third largest comic book company in the United States, and has a relatively short history, first published in 1993.

The original comics are typical of steampunk style, and the idea is very interesting, ** using the power of black magic and technology to summon demons, the Allies discovered and destroyed this evil plan, and a son of a demon who has been summoned to the human world has been trained to become a superhero who slays demons and defends humanity.

The post-production of this film dragged on for a long time, and after Guillermo del Toro had completed all the production, two edited versions submitted to Ronan in a row were rejected by Ronan.

Both times for the same reasons, the pace of the film is too slow, more than 120 minutes is too long, and the scale of the action scenes is too small.

Initially, Guillermo del Toro submitted a PG-13 version, and after several revisions at Ronan's request, the film was completely transformed into a dark, gloomy, brutally bloody R-rated film.

Without affecting the narrative, the length of the film was also compressed to 102 minutes.

This makes the pace of the film tighter.

The main cut is the grinding and chirping love scene.

This seriously weakens the thematic depth of the film, but this type of film, what does the subject depth do.

However, Guillermour del Toro also did a great job in many ways.

For example, he aggravated the elements of Hell Baron's cuteness.

As a male protagonist without a handsome face, Hell Baron is a pure monster, rough and reckless, but in stark contrast to these, in addition to being rough and reckless, the film can make people clearly feel a kind of contrast and cuteness of Hell Baron.

In particular, the various complaining lines of Hellboy, combined with Ron Perlman's very recognizable voice, are quite powerful.

This film creates another kind of heroic image, the protagonist in the previous Hollywood hero films, no matter how grotesque, but undoubtedly revolves around the theme of handsomeness and might, but Hellboy breaks this rule, the protagonist is a monster from the perspective of appearance, and almost all the necessary appearance elements of the villain in the movie are integrated.

But after watching the movie, you will find that the monster of Hell Baron, except for his red skin and unusual appearance, is actually an ordinary person.

Unlike the previous film that was heavily child-oriented, this version of "Hellboy" is more violent and bloody, and the R-rated rating also says a lot about his audience.

In short, he is a typical American brainless hero, and he doesn't have to use his brain too much when he encounters any problems, just go through the fast-paced recklessness all the way.

The vast majority of superhero movies adapted from comics are actually this routine.

Correspondingly, the market acceptance of this routine is also extremely wide, and the audience is large.

On the first weekend after the release of "Hellboy", it appeared in 3,602 theaters in North America, and with a score of $29.87 million, it beat "Boys and Girls Black and White", which opened at a box office of $20.67 million that opened the same weekend, and won the first place in the North American box office.

However, the film's reputation is very average, with a score of 6.9 from IMDB users and a "B" from ema Score theater audiences, predicting that the North American box office will fall at around $80 million.

By the second weekend, "Hellboy" had lost its box office title.

The result of $15.62 million can only ensure that "Hellboy" sits in second place at the box office, and the top of the North American box office list is snatched by DreamWorks' "American Version of Midnight Bell 2".

This remake of the film earned $35.06 million in North America in its opening weekend.

After DreamWorks has its own distribution channels, there have been box office hits one after another, and even if it is a box office failure, because it has an independent distribution channel, the loss can be minimized.

Today's DreamWorks has embarked on a completely different path than it once was.

The most obvious is that DreamWorks is more resilient to risks.

Films that fail at the box office can recover their costs as much as possible through online and offline distribution channels, while successful films can maximize their profits with the support of their own independent distribution system.

In addition to distributing its own films, DreamWorks has begun to take on the business of external distribution, which is less risky and has a more stable income.

After the hard lessons, DreamWorks seems to be on the verge of a resurgence.

With the current situation of DreamWorks, it will not sell itself for life because of the failure of a movie.

"Hellboy" was released two weeks ago and grossed $51.2 million at the North American box office.

Compared with last month's "The Demon Wears Prada", the market response of "Hellboy" is much worse, but counting the future overseas and offline income, this project can still make a certain profit, but the profit margin will not be very high.

It is impossible for every movie to be like "The Devil Wears Prada", with a relatively low investment, to win several times the income of the investment.

Relativity Entertainment's profit margin on investing in movies is already the highest in the Hollywood industry.