It is necessary for Mark to give EON a dismount, the current MM is not the MGM of the past, 007 is not their only cash cow, nor is it the root of life, MGM will not be as respectful to them as before, let alone obedient.

As the publisher of the 007 series, they have the confidence to say no, as for the change of roles, it is even more a slap in the face of Mark, and he still uses it in Hollywood?

Mark called David Lee and said, "Man, come out for a drink?"

You can feel David Lee's frustration across the phone: "I'm sorry to disappoint you!"

This is his real single-handedness, and the result is pounced, which is a huge blow to him.

Mark said, "Come over for a drink! Eva will come too!" and hung up the phone.

The place where they meet is a members-only private club, and the privacy is quite good, so they can play here with confidence.

Whether it is Green or David Lee, they are not very interested, especially Green, who has the huge fight of "Heavenly Dynasty" and the unfavorable start of "007 Casino Royale", and the name of box office poison will put on her head at any time.

An actor is a job with a high income and decent scenery, it can be said that there is a threshold or no threshold, if it can't drive the box office, no matter how beautiful your life is, no matter how good your acting skills are, it will be useless, there will be no film company to please, Green's femme fatale face has collapsed and turned into a bitter gourd face.

Mark said: "You don't have to worry about this box office, the latest statistics hold, "Casino Royale" broke 100 million in the first week overseas. ”

Also in the first round of screenings, Warner Bros. Pictures' animated film "Happy Feet" earned $42.32 million at the box office, surpassing the $40.6 million 007 series of new films "Casino Royale" to become the top box office in North America last week, which was interpreted by the domestic media as the failure of the new James Bond.

However, according to MM company statistics, this Monday, "Casino Royale" in the United States has another 3.85 million US dollars, and "Happy Feet" earned 3.1 million on the same day, the box office of the two is quite close, MM company's mainland publicity manager Musk analyzed that "Happy Feet" is oriented to the family market, and it is easy to understand that the box office is high on weekends, while "Casino Royale" belongs to the restricted PG-13 (children under 13 must be accompanied by their parents to watch), and the theoretical number of viewers is much less:" 007 also had fewer screens in the first round than Happy Feet, and our statistics show that 007 was the highest last week in terms of output per screen. ”

In addition, in all the 32 markets where it was released, "Casino Royale" has earned more than 100 million yuan, accounting for 43.9% of the total box office in these markets. MM's internal split believes that the new 007 film will capture two-thirds of the global box office in the next few weeks, and four years ago, "Die Again" set a global box office record of $270 million, and now it is 77% more than "Casino Royale" in the same period, and in order to achieve this goal, Columbia Samsung has decided to launch "Casino Royale" this weekend in other major European film markets, such as France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.

Although "Casino Royale" did not do well at the box office in the first week and did not win the championship smoothly, this "007" movie is not a box office explosion movie, but relies on beer to eat, and can make money through long-term screening, they estimate that its final price is between 150 million and 170 million, and overseas is about 300 million, this data is consistent with the original version, as a reboot movie, it is qualified, these core data, Mark will not share with EON, but you might as well share it with Green and David Lee.

Hearing Mark's analysis, Green and David Lee relaxed, and with such results, they could sit back and relax.

Mark said to David Lee: "I know Brockley is unhappy with you, but you don't have to take it personally, unless 007 stops filming, it is impossible to change roles, I want you to act until you vomit." ”

David Lee smiled happily as he touched his glass with Mark and said, "I'll play until you don't want to shoot!"

Green wasted no time in saying, "What about me?"

The iron-clad Bond, the flowing Bond girl, her role as a Bond girl is a one-off, Mark said: "Do you still have to be afraid that there will be no scenes to film? I'll keep an eye on it for you." ”

Green's appearance and temperament, a natural evil villain, is quite incompatible with playing a good guy, but Mark doesn't want her to play "Womb", "Crack", and "Sin City 2"

"Sparta 2 Rise of the Empire" is a role with Golubo on top, because Mark no longer wants this beautiful body to be appreciated by other men, and this beautiful and dangerous stunner is his flesh.

Green smiled and said, "Don't forget me!"

Mark said, "Of course!"

As Mark expected, "Casino Royale" surpassed "Happy Feet" by 3 million at the box office the next week and won the weekly championship, and the box office of the two sides was equal, while overseas sang all the way, winning 110 million the next week, and the overseas box office market has won 200 million, far exceeding "Happy Feet", the global appeal of 007 is still strong.

This year's animated film market is highly competitive, with a total of 12 cartoons released, since Pixar's "Cars" shined, "Outside the Fence", "Wash Away the Little Mouse", "Monster House" and "Farm Madness" find a large group of animals to shout, never able to defeat the "face car", but "Happy Feet" should be the biggest competitor of "Cars", first of all, there are almost only a handful of cartoons with penguins as the protagonist, and it is the only one this year, since "The Emperor Penguin Diaries" After impressing the hearts of countless people, the emperor penguin is not only the most popular penguin breed, but also overshadows old faces such as misshapen cows and honest bears.

However, because the competition is too fierce and there are too many choices, "Happy Feet" was released in the off-season, and there were strong films such as "007" in the same period, which did not win the 60 million-level premiere box office like "Ice Age 2" and "Cars", and it is difficult to have an impact on this "Cars", just as Warner's animation company cannot threaten the Pixar situation.

Mark's film "Twilight" was filmed before "Casino Royale" and has moved to post-production, and after finishing the first cut, he handed over the post-production work to Catherine while he prepared "No Country for Old Men".

And the actors entered the publicity journey, and they began to promote it all over the country, this is a movie released on Valentine's Day, and it is a big production, and it is promoted three months in advance, which is considered a short time.

Mark cut the trailer, the picture is as beautiful as a fairyland mountain, vampires are running fast, Edward is holding Bella to enjoy the magnificent scenery of mountains and rivers, the burning and hilarious baseball game on the grass, Edward and James in the ballet studio battle to the death, each picture is exquisite, uploaded to YouTube on the day of 3 million views.

After doing this, Mark is finished, he will never run around the country with these young boys and girls, go to the newspapers and TV to promote the movie, this is what the leading actors do, the audience mainly wants to see handsome guys and beauties, watch the hero and heroine, they just need to know that this movie is adapted by Mark, and Mark himself is enough.

Mark is a fortune boy in the eyes of cinema operators, the guarantee of the box office, every time a rescue work is launched in difficult times, as long as it is filmed by Mark, you can get a super high film scheduling rate, and Mark is a dignified director, running to shoot chick movies, what is there to hesitate about? The highest film scheduling rate is right.

As for publicity and promotion, there will be a professional team responsible, this is not Mark's forcibness, he is not as good as any supervisor under him, they are either graduates of professional media colleges, or have several years of work experience, Mark may be able to come up with a few ideas, but when it comes to specific implementation operations, he is blind, he is invincible in the world, hard work and powerless people, so he is also born to be the boss of the material, what to tell others to do on the line.

As the chairman of a large company, he is afraid that he will not be able to keep busy with everything himself, so it will never be wrong to leave professional things to professional people.

Marc is now working on his new book, No Country for Old Men, and he has completed the script, which condenses the whole story into a tense and concise, theatrical structure that focuses on black humor and intertwined human secrets. Morse is in the wrong place at the wrong time, discovers tens of millions of dollars from a failed drug deal, and then stalks him with two men with diametrically opposed relationships: Anton, a chilling psychopathic killer, and Bell, the town's esoteric sheriff......

In an interview with the National Enquirer, Mark said: "This film is likely to take me to a whole new realm of cinema, there is a lot of humor in the original book, although not enough to call it funny, and the story itself is of course very dark, and it is also very violent and bloody, so this is probably the most violent work I have ever made, and in this regard, I want the film to be able to reflect the characteristics of the original book." ”

The reporter asked Mark: "The movies you made in the past were all big-selling works with a very strong commercial atmosphere, and the old and no-rely belong to the genre of literary and artistic works, do you have the confidence to shoot the works of Master McCarthy well?"

Mark said: "Before I got the rights to adapt, I had the privilege of visiting Master McCarthy, and we had an in-depth discussion about the work, and the core of No Country for Old Man contained some of the most incendiary topics that McCarthy had always cared about, and we had a pact that if it didn't do well, if it didn't work, we could take it back at any time if he thought it wasn't good. ”

The reporter said: "This means that you are spending tens of millions of dollars on experimental works, aren't you afraid that this will be wasted at any time? If the movie is made well and Mr. McCarthy doesn't like it, will you change it?"

Mark said: "So we asked him to review the script first, and he approved of us before filming!"