Chapter 304 Bosom Friend

For Spider-Man and demons, Layton is a headache, for most old fans, their first on-screen encounter with Maguire was not "Spider-Man", but Toby's acting explosive works "Pentium Age" and "There is Always a Sun"; Fran (Terminator 2 Xiao Zhengtai), Heath Ledger and other high-quality idols, against the crowd, let Suni praise Maguire as a leading superhero movie in the early 21st century, in the three years that Maguire played "Spider-Man", a total of 1.6 billion US dollars at the box office for Soni, and his value has also jumped from 8 million (salary plus share) in the first part to 25 million plus 15/100 North Mi in the third part, which is unparalleled.

is such a sky-high price, he is not satisfied, he is really angry, Columbia can be regarded as raising a star who is angry with himself.

From this moment on, Layton decided that after "Spider-Man 3", he would not cooperate with this person again, and the matter was submitted to the board meeting for discussion.

But Mark's attitude is unprecedentedly tough and uncompromising, he also quoted himself as compromising and bowing to Warner when he was filming "Batman", and let Xiao Lizi play Bruce Wayne, which resulted in harming others and himself, and now Xiao Lizi doesn't want to play, he is really fucking angry with Warner's Barry, although Mark is gloating in comparison, but he also understands one thing, compromise is not happy.

Mark has a little experience in dealing with this kind of thing, Maguire's big-name tsundere, can he be more than a little plum big-name tsundere?Bruce Wayne can make a stand-in with half of his face covered, this Peter Parker is fully masked, it is the time for the stand-in to show his skills, as for the literary drama, this product is willing to cooperate, it is the best, if you refuse to cooperate, the whole green screen cutout, "Spider-Man 1" and "Spider-Man 2" shot a lot of redundant shots, just to use, people come to see "Spider-Man" , is to see him flying around in the air to fight, chivalrous and righteous, who came to him for his acting.

The members of the board of directors were frightened by Mark's remarks, the "Spider-Man" series is the lifeblood of Columbia, a cash cow, in terms of commercial value, it is still above 007, the investment of 220 million is enough to explain everything, and Mark said as if he was playing.

Unlike others who regard "Spider-Man" as their lifeline, Mark did not take "Spider-Man" as his lifeline, Sony's version of "Spider-Man 3" has reached 250 million just after it was made, and there are even rumors of overspending, so far, it is ranked first, if you count the surging currency, "Cleopatra" is the first, and "Spider-Man 3" is second.

On the day of its premiere, "Spider-Man 3" set a new record for the highest single-day box office of the premiere of North America with a score of 59 million US dollars, and after three days of release, it "forcibly grabbed" 148 million US dollars, which can be called the best box office in history, and also won 800 million US dollars at the box office worldwide, the highest in the whole series, but his beer also completely collapsed, the lowest in the whole series, and the number of goofs was also sprayed by fans.

Soni described it as a fiasco, but it is not ruled out that the Dongying people may raise costs and reduce box office revenues, because the Soni Film Group at that time was strong enough, and it was possible to evade taxes in this way.

Their production cost is 250 million, plus 100 million publicity investment, the total cost is more than 350 million, and the world's 800 million will be deducted from 40% of the theater chain, which is 320 million, plus the production cost of 350 million, a total of 670 million, and the remaining 130 million is considered a profit, and there is not much left after paying taxes.

Now everyone has an idea to make "Spider-Man" a series like 007 and shoot it forever, but Mark knows that this is not realistic, it is better to make a series of trilogy, in the original version there was a plan to shoot the fourth part, but it always died for various reasons, and in the end there was no "Spider-Man 4", and then it was a reboot of the series.

Mark knew the result that Maguire's use value was only limited to "Spider-Man 3", and other people always hoped and thought that there would be 4, hoping that there would be Thor Maguire wielding spider silk, and it would be natural to be tied up against him, but this Mark is different, and he doesn't have to worry about this.

Mark has just taken office, as the chairman of a company, Mark wants to think about how to make the company profitable, and he will naturally not be polite to this kind of grabbing meat from his mouth, and everyone has suddenly become the opposite.

"In this way, the series is ruined," Layton said. ”

Mark said: "Michael, the production cost of "Spider-Man 1" is 130 million, "Spider-Man 2" is 200 million, "3" is 220 million, the production cost is rising, and the cost of the leading actors is also rising, and I am afraid that the fourth part will exceed 300 million, and I have worked hard to make only a little hard money, we should learn "Star Wars" and restart this series, so Maguire's request must not be agreed, you can appease him, and the next part can be discussed." ”

A playful smile appeared on the corner of Pascal's mouth, and he said, "The carrot in front of the donkey." ”

Mark said: "Yes, we open the door to do business just to make money, who wants to be someone else's salaryman?"

Mark is annoying, its largest companies are Columbia and MGM, the money can't make much, but it has to be posted upside down, and now it's December, the year is not double-paid, all kinds of benefits and holidays, if it weren't for YouTube selling at a good price, now he doesn't know where to get a sum of money to pile up this pit, and now the company's account balance is not much, it is impossible to pay dividends or withdraw.

Next year, the company will operate several large projects, one is to borrow money, and the other is to pay out several major shareholders, otherwise it will not be able to sustain itself.

Mark means that everyone has a few shareholders, and it is very difficult to take out another sum of money and ask the bank to borrow it.

Mark has a lot of money in his hands, if it was in the past, he had investment projects, but now since he was sniped by Martin, Martin has also drawn a red line, he is not allowed to touch anything outside the entertainment industry, he has also become cautious, he does not dare to spend indiscriminately, in addition to repaying interest, he invested a large amount of money in Facebook, and the rest is put in the bank for liquidity.

Now that Mark has decided, others can only do what they are told, and Mark has a great say in film production, and the nickname of the Hand of God is worthy of its name, and Iger and Meghan fully agree with this.

After the meeting ended, Mark met Sam Raimi in the office, Mark went straight to the point after a few polite words, and said: "Today I watched the first drama of the sub-drama, and then I found that "Spider-Man 3" Venom, Sandman, Green Goblin, girlfriend, uncle, past and present, several lines in parallel, and the lack of a main line to string them together, resulting in the whole plot is scattered, the rhythm is chaotic, I don't know which point is the real excitement, which only adds to the sense of complexity and length, the main reason is that there are too many villains in it, especially the villain "Venom" After being introduced into the film, this caused the plot of the film to seem to fall apart. Seeing Remy's gloomy face, Mark, who was only foaming, had to stop and said, "I see the problem from the perspective of an audience." ”

In fact, this is not the original intention of director Sam Raimi, after the first and second parts introduced "Green Goblin" and "Doctor Octopus" respectively, Remy originally wanted to set the villain in "Spider-Man 3" as "Sandman", and also introduced the "Little Green Goblin" played by James Franco into it, so that he could complete his own story line, but the film's producer Avi Arad finally "convinced" Sam Raimi to introduce the villain of "Venom" into "Spider-Man 3", but Sam Raimi himself did not like "Venom" This villain, he feels that this villain "lacks humanity".

Later, in an interview, Remy once mentioned this problem: ""Spider-Man 3 didn't get a good response, I tried to make that movie well, but I didn't believe in some of the characters in the film (Venom), and if the director didn't like something, then it would be difficult for him to make other people fall in love with it." I was supposed to continue with the characters and relationships of the first two films. ”

Although "Spider-Man 3" has achieved great commercial success, due to poor word-of-mouth, it can be regarded as smashing the entire signboard.

Mark's words hit his G-spot, but the question was whether Aland would think he was suing him? He didn't want to get involved in this high-level struggle.

But he thought about it and decided to say it, Mark's vision was recognized as good, and the problem he found was definitely a problem and must be taken seriously, and he said the reason, and by the way, he said his feelings.

"Very good!" Mark said: "I'm most afraid that the director doesn't agree, how embarrassing it is to force people to leave the girl they love, you don't like this girl, that's right, break up immediately, there is no pressure at all." ”

Remy knew that Mark's gloomy face had scared Mark just now, and now it was even more rare for Mark to agree with him, this is a confidant! He changed his smile and said, "What do you mean?"

Mark said: "Delete the character of Venom, as for how to complete the main story, flesh out the story, that's your business, you have to make sure that you complete the changes to the script without affecting the current progress of the work, oh my God! Christmas and New Year are coming, at this time let you work overtime, Mrs. Remy should scold me to death." ”

Remy smiled: "Rachel is very supportive of my work, what is your opinion on the revision of the script?"

Mark said: "You are a director and screenwriter, you know what is best, follow your feelings, I believe in your ability." ”

Remy felt like he had met a confidant, and how wonderful it was to have a high-level boss with the same idea and full support, and he said excitedly: "Mr. Wang, I won't disappoint you." ”

"Call me Mark!" Mark said.

Thank you, the happiest thing for the local tyrant book friends is that you are fatter than me. Thanks a lot. Commonwealth of Nations.