For Hollywood, the summer season of 1995 began with the release of "Die Hard 3" on May 19, but since the trailer of "Jurassic Park 2" was officially unveiled at the Super Bowl at the beginning of the year, the eyes of the global media and fans have been focused on this long-awaited super blockbuster.

On June 2, the day when "Jurassic Park 2" was released also became the official beginning of the summer file in the hearts of most ordinary people.

The huge success of "Jurassic Park" two years ago was not only reflected in the record-breaking global box office of one billion dollars, but also made the "Jurassic Park" brand deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and even formed a cultural phenomenon, although in the context of the gradual rise of CG special effects films, the "Jurassic Park" series is difficult to reach the height of "Star Wars" in the seventies, but the potential commercial value of its brand still reaches billions of dollars.

With this strong influence, the premiere of Jurassic Park 2 attracted intense attention from hundreds of media outlets around the world.

Eric rushed back to Los Angeles from New York on the morning of May 31 to begin final preparations for the premiere of "Jurassic Park 2" the next day.

At five p.m. on June 1, the premiere of "Jurassic Park 2" was officially held at the Los Angeles Music Center.

In the new version of "Jurassic Park 2", Eric uses the director Joe Johnston, who has worked with Disney on several films, and the director who is a film special effects artist made the hugely successful family comedy "Honey, I Make My Kids Small" in the late 80s.

In the original timeline, Joe Johnston was supposed to be the director of "Jumanji" and "Jurassic Park 3", and Eric gave "Jumanji" to someone else. Let Joe Johnston join the Jurassic Park series ahead of schedule. If the second part can be successful as expected. You can also let the other party continue to handle the third part.

The star-studded red carpet session lasted for two hours, as the media Q&A was scheduled after the film screening, and the time came to 7 o'clock in the afternoon, and after the host's brief speech, the film officially began in the hall.

The original "Jurassic Park 2" is basically Spielberg's play, the plot is weak and scattered, and the story progression still follows the setting of the first character's deliberate death, even later. Spielberg himself admits that it was his worst film. Although the global box office of "Jurassic Park 2" still reached more than $600 million in the original time and space, the reputation of the entire series was completely screwed, resulting in the global box office of the third part being only $300 million.

The new version of the script of "Jurassic Park 2" adopts the general idea of the original version, but in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past and maintain the good reputation of the series, the story framework of the original version was completely overturned by Eric.

In the new script, Eric has weakened the plot of exploring Dinosaur Island, deleted some of the subplots, and no longer uses the very brainless setting of not being immortal. Instead, the story focuses on the company behind the first to bribe the park's computer manager for a dinosaur embryo that leads to the eventual disaster. In order to build a new Jurassic Park for huge profits, the company captures all kinds of dinosaurs from Dinosaur Island. When they successfully captured a Tyrannosaurus rex with great effort, during the transportation process, the Tyrannosaurus rex accidentally escaped, which caused even more disastrous consequences, and the Tyrannosaurus rex invaded the city.

In the movie, the Tyrannosaurus rex that ran rampant in the metropolis in order to find its cubs not only caused a shock to the world, but also made thousands of viewers in the cinema exclaim, there is no doubt that this setting is very successful, after all, the resurrection of dinosaurs in modern society is already a very big gimmick, and the plot of the Tyrannosaurus rex invasion of the city like a hill is definitely more immersive than the dinosaur island hanging overseas.

The tight storyline makes everyone forget about the loss of time, and the two-hour viewing process can be described as a turning and fleeting process, when the T-Rex that caused a series of catastrophic consequences is finally subdued, the credits are raised, and the music hall bursts into applause.

The audience and guests who participated in the premiere dispersed, and at the subsequent press conference, it was the turn of the question session, and the invited reporters did not talk about the quality of the film, nor did they ask the crew about the box office prospects, but invariably used the first question opportunity on the question they had been holding back for more than a year.

"Mr. Williams, I'm a reporter for the Seattle Daily News, and first of all, I'm going to say that it's a great sequel, but we still don't understand why you would give up directing the Jurassic Park series?"

Eric took the microphone handed over by the person next to him, with a faint smile on his face, and said: "I know that everyone has been curious about this question for a long time, but my answer is not much different from the previous announcement of the Firefly Group, and it is not perfunctory at all. On the one hand, I don't like to do a job repeatedly, and on the other hand, and the main reason, because I'm so busy right now that it's hard to spare a few months to fly overseas to make a film. ”

"Mr. Williams, does that mean you won't be making movies yourself again?" The female reporter asked again quickly, taking advantage of the fact that the microphone in her hand had not been taken.

Eric thought for a moment and said, "Seriously, the first Jurassic Park two years ago has reached a peak in my personal career, and if a person has done something to the extreme, it is definitely very difficult to make him continue to do it with passion. Whether or not I'm going to make the next film, the answer is yes, because I'm still very young and have a lot of time, but I don't even know exactly when the next film will start. ”

The question microphone was passed to another reporter, who said, "Mr. Williams, I'm a reporter for The New York Times, may I ask under what circumstances would you go ahead and make the next film?"

"There are so many of them, such as projects that I feel like I can break through, or scripts that make me feel strongly interested. Of course, there is also a situation, a friend once joked. I'm like a chef who runs a restaurant. In the absence of the chef, you can always put yourself on top. And so it is. If the Firefly Group project requires me, I can always do it myself. ”

"Do you mean that you can direct any genre of Firefly's film project?"

Faced with the small trap in this question, Eric shook his head slightly and smiled: "Oh, I don't know much about this, but you can go back and see what types of films I've made over the years." ”

There was a chuckle from the audience, a moment later. Another questioner asked, "Mr. Williams, I'm a reporter for The Hollywood Reporter, and when are you going to make an Oscar for Best Director if your film has been commercially successful and hard to match?"

Eric would like to ask rhetorically, if you were already president of the United States, would you still care about the Boy Scout Medal?

However, such an answer would definitely be interpreted by the media as Eric Williams' public contempt for the Oscars, although he did think so. But Eric would never say it in public.

After a moment's hesitation, Eric said into the microphone, "Okay." This is the last question about me personally, and if the next question has nothing to do with Jurassic Park, I won't answer it again. Well, to your question, my answer is, it's going to be a very long story for sure. ”

Everyone in the audience was stunned for a moment, and then realized the subtle ridicule of the film school in Eric's words, and laughed one after another.

As we all know, Eric is only twenty-five years old now, and in the history of the Oscars for more than half a century, no director has won the Oscar before the age of thirty. So, if Eric shows his intention to attack the best director, then there will definitely be a protracted chase between him and the academy. It is conceivable that in order to maintain its authority, in order to show that it will never succumb to the various halos on Eric's head, and even for the ratings of the awards ceremony, it will be 100% more demanding on Eric's Olympic films.

Even, Eric can imagine that if he wants to hit the Oscars, he is likely to replace Xiao Lizi and become a meme that people all over the world talk about at every Oscar.

Xiao Lizi has now followed the historical trajectory and stepped on that big ship, so let's leave it to him to make fun for fans.

After the premiere, "Jurassic Park" was officially released in North American theaters, and the number of screens opened broke the record again, reaching 3,500.

The pressure on Joe Johnston to take over such a sequel to a film that once created a box office myth can be imagined, so he did not have the heart of Spielberg in his previous life, and invested a lot of energy in this sequel, although the final production cost was overrun, but it was obviously worth it.

"With a tighter plot and more elaborate special effects, it makes for two exciting hours in the theater before you know it, and there is no doubt that Joe Johnston has delivered a satisfying answer for this sequel. - Los Angeles Times

"The setting of the Tyrannosaurus rex running rampant in the city is amazing, even in the theater, looking at the crowd being chased by the Tyrannosaurus rex on the screen, I can't help but feel my heart beat faster, and I feel like I'm running away. - Hollywood Daily News

"I originally thought it would be a decent sequel, but the film continues the style of the first part, and the breakthrough in the plot and special effects is surprising, and the plot of the giant beast invading the city can't help but make people wonder if we should be more in awe of nature and less destructive. —The New York Times

Compared with the one-sided bad reviews of the sequel in the previous life, for this new version, the critics basically gave a positive evaluation, with a good reputation, with the number of 3,500 opening screens, the film achieved a box office of $31.7 million in a single day on the first Friday, easily breaking all previous single-day box office records.

Subsequently, $33.5 million on Saturday and $29.8 million on Sunday.

In the end, when the $5.6 million box office at midnight on the night of the premiere was added, everyone was surprised to find that "Jurassic Park 2" once again set a new box office record of breaking 100 million in the opening weekend with a box office of $100.6 million.

At the same time, under the operation of Firefly Group's strong distribution channels, although Japan, Germany and other major box office countries failed to synchronize for various reasons, the 22 countries and regions where "Jurassic Park 2" was released overseas also reached $60 million at the box office in the first three days of the weekend.

At $160 million at the global box office in three days, it easily exceeded the entire production and distribution costs that Firefly threw for this sequel.

Many people don't even dare to imagine what kind of heights this film will reach again.

For Eric, seeing this box office report card, the last trace of apprehension in his heart completely dissipated, and at the same time, he was 100% sure that the sequel to "Jurassic Park" in his previous life was really messed up by Lao Si's classmates.

In fact, this is not too surprising for Eric, the huge popularity accumulated by the first part of the film, coupled with the equally excellent quality of the second part, and the further expansion of the North American and global film market, even if the box office is not as high as the first part, it will definitely not be too bad.

Moreover, "Jurassic World", which was rebooted after "Jurassic Park" was shelved for many years in the previous life, has a box office of $600 million in North America and $1.6 billion worldwide, which is enough to prove how much interest people are in this dinosaur blockbuster.

Culver City, Los Angeles, inside Columbia Pictures' film and television base.

A black Lincoln slowly pulled up in front of an office building in the studio, and as soon as Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony America, got out of the car, the new CEO of Columbia Pictures, Bill Michanick, greeted him.

Bill Michanick is also a veteran Hollywood executive, who has worked in Paramount, Disney, and Fox, and when he was at Disney in the mid-80s, Bill Michanick single-handedly led the video distribution of Disney's classic animated films, and created a series of beautiful sales results, and jumped to Fox in the late 80s as vice president.

After Fox appointed Joe Ross as president, Bill Michanik was already planning to make a career change.

Sony searched for a few months after abandoning Michael Ovitz's plan to take the helm of Colombia, and the position ended up luckily falling to Bill Michanic.

In fact, Columbia is not without better candidates, but after the events of Peter Cooper and Jon Peters, Sony became very cautious in the decision to delegate power to the directors of the studio, so a group of better Hollywood managers lost interest in the position of head of Columbia Pictures because of Sony's various restrictions during the negotiation process.

Howard Stringer and Bill Michanik hugged warmly, exchanged a few pleasantries, and walked towards the office building together.

Bill Michanick followed Howard Stringer and said, "Howard, you should have seen the box office report of "Jurassic Park 2", right?"

"Of course," Howard Stringer nodded, "I came here today to talk to you about this, and the headquarters just sent me a project, and in my opinion, its box office potential is no less than that of Jurassic Park 2." (To be continued.) )