Nicole Kidman, who has long been ridiculed as "box office poison", "as always" killed "Dark Materials: The Golden Compass" this week, as a "luxury souvenir of the 40th anniversary of the new line company" in 3,800 movie theaters, "The Golden Compass" not only has the original book that has been acclaimed, but also holds a huge budget of up to 180 million US dollars, so all walks of life are still generally optimistic that it will open with a high-profile premiere number of more than 50 million, and finally earn more than 200 million North Mi box office.

The actual harvest of 26 million is only about 50% of the expected, and the dream of creating a "second "Lord of the Rings" was instantly shattered as "the second "Dragon Knight", and the "mu yield" of a single museum is only a pitiful 7,400 yuan, and the rise on Saturday is much lower than the performance of the "Harry Potter" series or "The Legend of Narnia 1" in the same period, and there is even no hope of launching a long-term offensive in the future.

According to this form, "The Golden Compass" is likely to fail with a final harvest of less than 100 million, and the plan of the new line's high-level "production trilogy" may also disappear in an instant, right? Horizontal comparison, we realize the seriousness of the problem, let's look at "The Legend of Narnia 1", which opened at the same time two years ago: the premiere and final North Mi box office were 65 million and 291 million respectively,...... It's shocking in comparison.

Although Nicole Kidman, who won the Oscar in 2003, has been steadily playing the special effects of "box office poison" recently, like several other films starring her, the problems of "Dark Materials: The Golden Compass" are also not to blame Nicole, of course, repeated mistakes in the key link of choosing the script are still unforgivable.

Why did "The Golden Compass" fail so badly? The commercial value of the original book is much lower than that of "Harry Potter", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Chronicles of Narnia", and Philip Pullman's "Dark Materials" trilogy has lived in the shadow of the "Harry Potter" series since its release.

Although the two contemporaneous masterpieces both created countless fantasy concepts of their own, the "magic" of "Harry Potter" is obviously more ingenious than the "elves" of "Dark Materials", and not only that, the growth process of the young protagonists of the "Harry Potter" series is more likely to attract readers of other ages; Physics, it's rare to stand out from the huge audition, and I still can't see the light of day in the last two episodes......

The second is that the failed adaptation has led to the loss of originality and freshness, with flying witches throwing dustpans in "Harry Potter", human-speaking spirit beasts throwing a brick and smashing two and a half (those half are centaurs) in "The Legend of Narnia", and "Gandalf the White-robed Wizard" being demoted to "a polar bear with a silver helmet" (voiced by Eli McCrane,...... Not even a fire-breathing dragon, how does "Dark Materials" compete with several other powerful people? Of course, it is the dark worldview of the early mechanical industrial era, the unique secret "parallel space", the elven cutting theory that alludes to "original sin", and the debate focus of "advocating atheism".

I didn't expect the above four original contents to be changed back and forth to only one "world view", the third and fourth articles were deliberately weakened in the script writing stage for fear of being boycotted by religious groups, and the valuable experience of "The Da Vinci Code" becoming more and more noisy and popular in front of me, and I dared to turn a blind eye. Director Weitz was so incompetent that he couldn't justify himself, so the last few chapters of the original novel of the same name were cut and ready to be put into the second part of the supplementary explanation.

What is the difference between this and the "soul castration" that cuts off children and guardian elves in the play! Therefore, it is no wonder that such a lifeless and lackluster pseudo-blockbuster has failed miserably at the box office! Since there is no mercy on the dogmatic and small-footed woman David Yates media, then a reservoir dog like Chris Weitz should be beaten even more!

Marvel Studios' "Captain America", which was released at the same time as "The Golden Compass", was a comic book adaptation that was not optimistic, and was praised by critics after its screening, and the box office was also quite good, earning $65.8 million in three days of the opening weekend, winning the weekend box office championship.

"The Golden Compass" was full of confidence before its release, with huge investment and a super cast, after "Captain America" was first scheduled for the first week of December, "The Golden Compass" cut the queue strongly: "If you don't want to lose too ugly, move back for a week." ”

The new line has had a grudge with MM for a long time because of "The Hobbit", Peter Fat Man, and now he finally got the opportunity to slap his face.

In the face of the other party's powerful and domineering aura, Columbia Pictures, which is responsible for distribution, has the intention to back down, which is not a shame, "Captain America" is far inferior to "The Golden Compass" in terms of investment, lineup, and publicity, and the investment is only a fraction, (180 million vs. 75 million).

However, Mark said that he did not give an inch, and someone begged to slap himself in the face, and he was beaten until it was swollen, and he was full of confidence.

Last Friday, "Captain America" successfully completed MM Pictures' goal of opening the game with the help of a huge distribution scale: after the film debuted on 7,100 screens in 3,785 theaters across the country, it recouped $26.8 million a day on Friday, which was better than the three days of "Compass d'Or" in one day.

This disappointed the lively media, there was no expected dragon fight, only one-sided slaughter, just a role reversal, no one thought that "The Golden Compass" would lose so badly, so humiliating, to create another Lord of the Rings trilogy, just a joke, the new line boss Bob Shay cried to death in the toilet.

The new line is full of contradictions, crises, the relationship with the parent company is extremely poor, and there are a lot of foreign debts, this huge loss of hundreds of millions of yuan, so that he is greatly injured, facing the fate of being taken over by the parent company, Warner Bros. is the largest independent prince, no longer qualified to say no to the parent company, lose that transcendent status.

The success of "Captain America" officially proves one thing, Marvel is a treasure trove, a gold mine, the success of "Iron Man" is not an individual example, but can be replicated, Marvel's Marvel universe is not whimsical, but very likely to become an IP that surpasses the "Star Wars" series, Marvel is rising and doubling the popularity of the capital market, and MM has become the most potential giant company because of Marvel's massive IP.

In terms of creating IP and owning IP, MM is currently the first in the world, sitting on Marvel gives them an inexhaustible treasure, plus "Transformers", "Twilight", "The Hangover", "Chainsaw" and other series, the money is bright, and now the whole of Hollywood is recognized, there is no movie that makes a profit and does not lose money, a movie is a big hit, and the last is to make N sequels, and shoot until it is rotten.

And Marvel has more than 10 series, more than 5,000 superheroes, which is the natural best material to create a series of stories, which is now beyond doubt, and the most intuitive reaction is that MM's stock price has hit a new high.

On the eve of the release of "Captain America", David Wang and Mark flew to Switzerland to meet several European fund managers, which was the superficial reason, but the real reason was that Scarlett was going to give birth.

The place where she gave birth is a private hospital on the shore of Sunshine Lake, with a beautiful environment, first-class doctors and equipment, her brothers and sisters have arrived, Mark came because of commitment, and David came here to set up a trust fund, David did not think so of Mark's lovers, but he valued his grandson very much, and the trust fund he set up made them worry about food and clothing, which was the only thing he could do.

Seeing that Mark and David are coming, Scarlett is a little relieved, she is a little nervous in a foreign country, she has been living in Switzerland after five months, during which Mark has only been here once, Mark said that he will come at a critical time, but she has no bottom, after all, Mark is the owner of a large company, and he is busy.

Scarlett is petite and slender, and now her belly is big and round, and the doctors think that it is impossible to give birth normally, so it is safer to prepare for a caesarean section, and when Mark and they arrived, the amniotic water had broken and met the conditions for natural birth, so she was immediately sent to the delivery room.

Mark and Scarlett's family are not familiar with each other, they have only met a few times, and they don't communicate much, they are not very familiar, they just have a small talk without a word, of course, everyone is very happy, full of anticipation for a new life.

This is Mark's second child, but Mark is still excited and excited, David is the usual style of a barrister, calm and calm, he is introducing the trust fund he set up to Johnson's family, this trust fund start-up fund is not much, only 50 million, holding Pingguo Company, Netflix, Facebook, Google high-quality stocks, which can make Scarlett they really worry about food and clothing.

Half an hour later, the door of the delivery room opened, the doctor came out to report the good news, gave birth to a son, weighing nine pounds two, Mark could not suppress his excitement, and shook hands with every hug, David was also very happy, the family fund is growing day by day, it is not inferior to those big families, but the people are not prosperous, every time a family member is added, this is a good thing, it is a symbol of the prosperity of the family, if it is not for Sophia to be busy with the affairs of the foundation, she will come, in this regard, he has the same opinion.

Scarlett's petite figure, but pregnant with a big fat boy, which made her suffer, but seeing a healthy and strong baby, all the hard work was worth it, she was pale and bloodless after giving birth, but she was in excellent spirits, holding her son, she asked Mark: "Give our baby a name?"

Mark caressed the baby's black face lovingly, and said, "It's called Marven?"

Scarlett said, "You seem to like the M word very much." ”

Mark said: "Yes!" He simply admitted that the child's father liked it, and no one else objected, and Mark's second son was called Marven.