Chapter 723 Tragedy
There are tragedies every year, especially this year, and among the high-budget films released in North Rice, many of them have become tragedies.
The name of the movie "The Blade of the Prince of Persia" sounds very domineering, but under such a domineering name, it has become a loss-making business. "Prince of Persia" is backed by the huge popularity of video games, and is supervised by gold producer Bruckheimer, plus a huge investment of $200 million from the owner Disney, which should not have been very risky. However, the box office thing is also a very strange thing, and you can't do anything if the audience doesn't buy it.
Looking at this movie as a whole, it can only be described as mediocre, and the stunt at the end is not worthy of the audience's nostalgia. For those of us who have been ravaged by science fiction masterpieces, such a movie that we are going to see really doesn't have much interest in going to the cinema.
Disney is actually mainly responsible, since the success of Tomb Raider, many studios have changed their focus on the cake of game adaptations, but over the years, there has not been a single movie with a very high box office. Before the release of Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider was still the number one box office adaptation of the game, while Resident Evil was always a big hit because it was only a medium-budget movie. So it's a very unwise choice to invest a budget of up to $200 million in "Prince of Persia".
In the end, "Prince of Persia" only achieved a box office "good result" of 90 million in Beimi, which can be said to be incomplete. Fortunately, "Prince of Persia" collected $328 million worldwide, which saved a little face. It seems that the game will be adapted to the movie in the future.
This year's Bruckheimer has had a bad year, with both films produced by the owner Disney coming home in a feather. Maybe Haimer still dreamed that "The Magician's Apprentice" could earn some face money for himself, but he never thought that this movie would really make it worse and lose a mess. The investment of 150 million US dollars was only exchanged for the box office of 76 million US dollars in Beimi, which is really cold!
There is nothing wrong with this movie as a whole, but it has no advantages. Especially at the end of the movie, I was expecting to see some magic war, but I didn't expect to be shot to death by such a little kid with a machine gun (very similar), I really don't know how 150 million dollars were ruined.
Disney is to blame for this, but there is still a big problem in the choice of theme. In addition to the long-standing "Harry Potter", it seems that it is difficult to find a successful model for the current magic movie, in this era when vampires rule the box office, how can we pin our hopes on an old-fashioned magic movie? Besides, there are also problems with casting, although Uncle Cage's performance is still conscientious, but after all, Cage's current box office appeal has a very serious problem, and the performance of young actors has no characteristics. In this situation where the characters, stunts, and stories are not attractive, do you still want it to soar at the box office?
Jerry Bruckheimer's ambition to catch up with Mark was dealt a serious blow.
Although Disney has these two loss-making deals this year, "Alice in Wonderland" at the beginning of the year broke a billion dollars at the global box office, allowing them to maintain a certain profit. However, Universal Pictures can be said to have been tragic all the way to the end, and it was not until "Despicable Me" that it had a few more days to breathe, and if it still couldn't find a good theme to support, I was really worried about the fate of Universal Company.
The Green Zone is a film that reflects on the war in Iraq. Not to mention the quality of the movie itself, Universal's dare to give $150 million to this movie proves that their decision-makers have something wrong with their brains. Too many films have been made about wars in the Middle East, and too few have been successful at the box office. This kind of film problem is here, the investment and return are often disproportionate.
Although "Bomb Disposal Unit" was a great success in terms of fame, beating "Avatar" to win Best Picture, it became the lowest-grossing Oscar-winning film, and "Body of Lies" starring Xiao Lizi and Uncle Crowe the year before last was also a precedent for a box office fiasco. Therefore, now that anti-war movies are at the end of the road, it can only be said that Universal is looking for death.
"The Green Zone" stars Matt Damon. Matt Damon has also been very unlucky in the past two years, and since "Spy 3", there has not been a heavyweight box office blockbuster. Last year's "Success in the People" with Grint Eastwood was also a box office fiasco, and now "Green Zone" is like this, and the thriller "From Now On", which cooperated with Old Man Wood again some time ago, will not recover its cost. Back then, Brother Pony and Ben Alfleck won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for "Soul Catcher", and now Alfleck's self-directed and self-starred "Thieves in the City" has once again captured the audience, and Brother Little Pony is getting worse day by day.
In the end, the box office of "Green Zone" was more than 30 million, and more than 100 million in the world, which was a miserable loss.
After talking about Brother Pony, let's talk about Uncle Crowe just mentioned. Russell Crowe participated in Ridley Scott's another epic masterpiece "Robin Hood", and the investment of 200 million US dollars is indeed extraordinary, and it seems that the world is fighting to the death. However, the result was a big surprise, and such a promising movie ended up in nothing, how can the $100 million in North America and $300 million in the global box office be worthy of the title of epic.
In recent years, epic films have also come to an end. The glory of "Gladiator" is also difficult to repeat, and the later "Alexander the Great", "King Arthur", "Troy", and "Heavenly Dynasty" did nothing at the box office, so spending 200 million to fulfill Ridley Scott can only say that Universal is too worthy of this epic director.
This movie is still very good to watch throughout, and although the scene of "Normandy Landing" at the end is a bit small, it is very creative, and I still like it. It's hard for me to pinpoint what's wrong with it, and maybe the audience really just likes vampires to show off their muscles these days.
Russell Crowe also participated in Lionsgate's "Three Days of Danger" this year, and at present, it is unlikely that the North Mi box office will recoup its costs.
Universal's disaster doesn't stop there, "Werewolf" is another Universal movie, Universal has lost the most money movies this year, and now Universal doesn't know when it will be revived!
Universal seems to have given $100 million in investment for this movie, but the North North box office seems to be only $30 million! Why did Universal choose such a film to invest in? It's hard to understand. Although "Twilight" is very popular, and Twilight also has a werewolf, but after all, this werewolf is only a junior, a complete supporting role, so why use werewolves to bet on the box office?
The main reason for the failure of this film should be its own quality. The whole thing is very sloppy, and the fight scene is extremely pediatric, very boring, so that the audience really can't get much interest in watching him, and failure is a matter of course!
The third part of "The Chronicles of Narnia" is in the second week of release, no matter how much the global box office will be in the future, the North Korean box office has been completely tragic, and it is expected that it will be difficult to exceed 100 million US dollars. After Fox took over this second-hand goods, he only dared to make an investment of 155 million. If you're so scared, why take over?
After the success of the first installment and the tepid success of the second installment, it seemed wise for Disney to abandon the increasingly unpopular series.
No matter how you look at the legend of "Narnia", it feels like a magical movie for children, and it is difficult to raise it to a certain height even if it is filming. Such a movie is actually very embarrassing. Adults are too lazy to look at it.,Children may not be able to see any doorways.,And those heroes who used to be cute aren't very likable now.。 There is no need for such a high-investment movie to exist, and after this final desperate fight, it should also come to an end. Of course, it is not ruled out that it will be a global hit, it cannot be ruled out that Fox is stupid, and it is not ruled out that it will be picked out again in a few years, otherwise, this will be the last time we will see Narnia in the cinema.
The other one is "Tron. War", which is the one where Mark tried to seduce Disney.
But Disney is not stupid, how can they let Mark take advantage? So, they made additional investment, and the kind of dazzling Blu-ray created by the 300 million dollar investment is beautiful in 3D.
This Mark's "The Avengers" is only 230 million, which shows that its investment is huge.
The box office of "Tron War" in the first week was only a pitiful 43.6 million, which is too big a gap from the 8,000 predicted by the media. Moreover, the reputation of this movie is so bleak, then the total box office should be about 3 times the box office in the first week, so it is less than 150 million US dollars. The investment of 300 million US dollars (counting publicity expenses) in exchange for such a miserable result, I don't know what the Disney top management is doing now? But life should not be easy, and now they know that they were miserable by Mark.
It's not a good year for Fox either. "Avatar" can only be counted as last year's masterpiece. The investment in "Dangerous Spy War" and "Tianlong Secret Service", which are not small, can be regarded as a loss-making transaction in Beimi, and neither of them has been able to recover their costs. The combined box office of these two films in North America is only $150 million, while the total investment of the two films is as high as more than $200 million. Fortunately, with Tom Cruise's popularity, the global box office of "Dangerous Spy War" is not bad, it should exceed 300 million US dollars!
The movie "Dangerous Spy War" should be regarded as an early action movie genre, and the whole viewing is still quite strong. If Tom was young, he would definitely be able to attract more young people to the cinema. However, today's Hollywood has long been different, looking at the wrinkles on the faces of Tom and Diaz, it makes people feel that the years are not left.
"Agents of the Dragon" starring Lian Um Nisen, who has been in the limelight in the past two years. Fox must have been thinking about the box office miracle created by "Hurricane Rescue" in 08 (130 million in the United States), so he invested in such a popular action movie. Audiences who like action movies must like this movie, a series of ideas such as upside-down helicopters, airplanes and tanks in the air, etc., all of which make our eyes shine, but why is such an action movie still not good at the box office? To say that now is not the spring of action movies, but how can "Agent Sauter" starring Charlize reach 110 million US dollars?
Therefore, the risk of investing in movies is no better than any investment, and hundreds of millions of investments are often lost, and only those distribution and production giants can lose so badly.