"Dance Out of My Life 2" won the North American weekly box office champion from September 30 to October 6 with a box office of 20.87 million (-45.1%), which is the 9th weekly championship trophy taken by Flame Films this year, accounting for 23% of the 39 titles, more than any other company; Next, DreamWorks' animated comedy "Super Invincible Dog: The Curse of the Human Rabbit" topped the week of October 7-13 with 21.55 million box office; With 14.24 million yuan, he won the weekly championship from October 14 to 20.

11.12 million (-46.7%), 4.97 million (-55.3%), the total North American box office of "Step-Up2" rose to 74.99 million US dollars after four weeks of release.

The pace of progress of Flame Films will not stop, and the production department of Duoduo Project is getting busier and busier, and under the company's search and Wang Yang's recommendation, the two dog movies scheduled to be released in 2007 have new trends.

The low-budget "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog" invited Todd Reebman as the first producer, and he planned and produced the previous films such as "Hara Hairdresser" and the dog movies "Long-haired Dog" and "Antarctic Adventure" released next year, and this is his first time to take over the executive production affairs, and FF is sending an invitation to French director Luc Jacques to direct & write the screenplay, his documentary "The Diary of the Emperor Penguin" released this year performed amazingly, with a freshness of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the North American box office has reached 76 million.

But documentaries are very different from dramas and commercial films, he is not a celebrity of Hollywood studios, and of course Luc-Jacques himself is not interested in popcorn. FF Productions believes that Jacques's ability to deal with the relationship and emotions between people, animals, and nature is first-class, and he has rich experience in animal shots, which makes him very suitable for directing "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog". Since "Hachi" is not very commercial, it is worth looking forward to making it a touching film with a high reputation, and later sales will make up for the lack of box office, and the performance of the Asian market is worth looking forward to.

However, FF is choosing, and Luc Jacques is also choosing, and his attitude is more excited, but the script of a family drama "The Fox and the Child" he is currently writing is also unwilling to postpone production, so it still needs time to consider.

However, Wang Yang, who has watched "The Fox and the Child" with 50% freshness in advance, knows one of Luc-Jacques's major shortcomings, and is probably used to the rhythm of documentaries. "Hachi" is a grand project launched by Wang Yang, and he naturally does not sit idly by and watch it mess up, the solution is simple: if Jacques directs & writes the script, then another person will be added to the adaptation of the script, who will be responsible for the commercial construction and gatekeeping, and when the film is edited in the post-production, it will be necessary to hire an experienced editor to handle it.

The mid-cost "Marley and Me" hired Jill Nate as the first producer, and he has participated in successful films in recent years, such as "Pig's Head, Where's My Car?" and "Sniper Phone Booth", and the screenwriter invited Scott Frank and Don Ross, who will work together to adapt the best-selling film into a screenplay.

Recently, for producer Greg Muradian, who runs his own independent production company "Maverick-Films", a dream thing suddenly happened! The reason is that he is optimistic that a supernatural romance "Twilight" can be brought to the big screen, and he contacted several studios, and almost all of the answers he received were: "It's not worth much." ”

This is not surprising, there are so many films in Hollywood that use vampires and werewolves as gimmicks, and how many of them have been successful? Even if you want to make such a story, why spend a lot of money to buy the adaptation rights? Just find a screenwriter to write one. Besides, now that there is a "Tale of the Night" series on the market, and a whole film of the same type has come out, how many people will watch it?

In fact, "Twilight" was originally a script written by Stephanie Meyer, and in April 2004, MTV Films, a subsidiary of Paramount, intended to make it into a movie, but the project was later shelved, and Meyer wrote the story for publication, and now a copy is in Paramount's production office. But regardless of that script, Greg Muradian felt that "Twilight" was really different, it had a special charm to it, and it was a love story, not an adventure action movie.

It's just that the filmmakers can't do anything if they don't care, Muladian thinks that he will probably wait for the sales of "Twilight" to be more convincing, and probably the filmmakers will pay attention to it, but at this time, the fire movie seems to have generated a lot of interest!

In fact, many studios and producers were able to read their original manuscripts before they were published, looking for new material that could be made into films. It depends on the author, publisher's connections, and influence. "Twilight" author Stephanie Meyer is just a 32-year-old ordinary stay-at-home housewife with no previous writing qualifications, which is also the reason for Paramount's lack of confidence, and the first book "Twilight" that recently hit the shelves on October 5 has only 75,000 copies for the first printing, and Bron-Andpany would not have imagined that it would reach the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

So most of the producers who delivered "Twilight" before it was released were at the level of Greg Muradian, and the Flame Film Production Department, which has always paid attention to the bestsellers, also read it and immediately began to pay attention! So this is not a project recommended by Muradian, but Meyer and Bron-Andpany need a producer to communicate with the studio, and Muradian is such an intermediary.

According to normal market analysis, what FF got was that the vampire theme of "Twilight" really lacked novelty, the "universally accepted extensiveness" in other words was "old-fashioned", and the essence of a high school love story lacked grandeur and profound themes, obviously it was not a very attractive project, it seemed that it was better to invest money in a youth school movie, and the popularity of this film is still unknown, can it still be "Harry Potter"? Don't forget that book sales do not equal box office sales.

But Vice President Lin Wei feels that "Twilight" is full of charm and different attractions, and it can't be preconceived as "old-fashioned" and "no market value" because it is a vampire background, and it can't even be labeled as "old-fashioned" and "no market value" before it has even been seen. The re-examined public thinks that it is indeed not bad, and there is an interesting contrast between vampire culture and adolescent restlessness, which may attract a large part of the teenage audience, and you may wish to try to adapt it into a film with a production cost of 230 million, and it is expected to exceed 100 million at the box office if it works well.

In fact, the end of the matter has long been predestined, no matter what, the flames will not despise "Twilight", because the words of YOUNG-BOSS are: "I love Bella! I love Edward! We must fight for its film rights!" "The Capture of Las Vegas" and "The Devil Wears Prada" have been successfully brought to the screen by Miraculous Young, and FF's current adaptation of best-selling projects such as "Marley and Me" will not go wrong, and the production department that has been instructed will be transferred at high speed.

In this world today, only Wang Yang knows the horror of "Twilight", not to mention its book sales, how many filmmakers will regret the results of its series of films in the future, shouting: "God! Why!??"...... If Paramount had taken it a little seriously, it wouldn't have been Summit Entertainment's turn to produce this series at all. Pinnacle is an independent film company that mainly distributes DVDs for films, cooperates with many independent film studios, and occasionally participates in production investments in recent years, such as "American Pie", "Fragments of Memory", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "Brothers Grimm" and other films have its presence, originally by 2007 when it bought the rights to the "Twilight" series and spent 37 million to produce "Twilight", Pinnacle was already desperate, if this risk-filled and opportunity fight turned out to be a failure, its financial statements would be very ugly.

And the peak theatrical distribution ability and experience are not high, so if other independent film companies pay enough attention, the production fee of "Twilight" will not be so cold that it can't even reach 50 million files, since MTV Movies gave up "Twilight", everything has gone wrong, and then created one commercial miracle after another.

Although its series of films have a bad reputation in the film critics, the freshness of the four films on Rotten Tomatoes is 49%, 28%, 49%, and 25% respectively, but its box office is enough to speak for itself, the first "Twilight" in 2008 cost 37 million / 192 million North American box office / 392 million global box office, the second "New Moon" in 2009 cost 50 million / 296 million / 709 million, and the third "Lunar Eclipse" in 2010 cost 68 million / 300 million / 698 million, 110 million cost / 280 million / 705 million in 2011 "Dawn PART1", 2012 "Dawn PART2" ...... Only the first four films had a total production cost of 265 million, and they frantically collected 2.504 billion global box office! DVD and other post-production sales must also be an astonishing number.

If Flame Films succeeds in recruiting it to its portfolio, it can be said that it is the luck of the lucky, "Twilight" will not only bring huge profits and further development funds for the group, but also huge popularity from teenagers, isn't it a joy to have such a charming film? Now it is looking for investors, and there is no reason for Flame Films to miss out.

However, it is also from the beginning of MTV Movies to abandon this story, especially now that it is selling better and better, Stephanie Meyer is not in a hurry to film and television adaptation, she will not sell the rights easily and recklessly. And Flame Movies knows that once the news of their great interest in "Twilight" leaks out, it is the production department's idea that is okay, but magical...... It will definitely attract the attention of filmmakers, especially if it provokes Paramount to fight, what awaits FF will be a vicious battle, and it seems that it can't be treated too much as a baby?

"Don't be afraid of competition, we just need to be ourselves and show the sincerity, respect and determination of the flame, and Meyer will choose the flame. Wang Yang said this to Mark Slent, Lin Wei and others, and everyone thought so.

(To be continued)