The biggest difference between this new "Reloaded" for Duke is the heavy painting-like colors, although the film is still dominated by blue and black tones, Zack? Schneider successfully integrated what he does best, plus reduced a lot of tricks and philosophies for philosophy's sake, as well as changes in the way the film moves, and when the screening ended, it won a flood of applause in the theater.

It's the summer of 2002, and kung fu action is no longer a novelty for Hollywood and North American audiences, and "Reloaded" has abandoned the kung fu that is currently abused in Hollywood action movies, especially those fancy and complex action routines, and the actors' fighting routines, although different, have approached a simple and straightforward model similar to the future.

The traditional Hollywood tough-guy fighting can cause aesthetic fatigue, and so does kung fu.

Even in the center of the world film industry, Hollywood's follow-up situation is no worse than that of the Oriental film industry, and today's Hollywood action movies are embarrassed to start up without inviting a few action directors from Hong Kong, and without playing a tiger and crane duo and tai chi.

A large number of similar movies have flocked to the market, and the consequences are not hard to imagine at all.

Duke's future plans, the action element will take up a lot of weight, like Zach? Like Schneider's version of "Reloaded", he doesn't use kung fu.

He knows very well that whether it is Muay Thai and taekwondo, or free fighting and kung fu, it is impossible to stuff it into a movie and become popular all over the world. Carter, using Hollywood technology and drawing on Yuan Heping's Hong Kong-style shooting methods, integrated a variety of hand-to-hand combat techniques to design a new action mode.

These new routines. You don't need any fancy movements, it's simple, powerful, fast and direct, at least that's what it looks like from the shot.

As for promoting kung fu and kung fu movies, it is too difficult for a non-kung fu enthusiast like him, and kung fu is broad and profound, which is not something that a layman like him can understand. Countless people on the other side of the ocean are more suitable than him.

"The Matrix 2: Reloaded" received an overall good response after its release, although countless film critics scolded them, claiming that the film was just non-stop fighting, bombing, bombing, and bombing, without the slightest depth and philosophical thinking, but it couldn't stop fans from paying for the film enthusiastically.

In the three days of its opening weekend, "Reloaded" soared to $92.77 million at the North American box office, setting a record for the highest R-rated film opening ever.

The box office hit of this film and directly ended the triple crown of "Spider-Man", becoming the successor to "Two Towers", "Attack of the Clones" and "Spider-Man" in this summer file. The fourth film to be a box office hit.

By the second weekend, although "Reloaded" was limited by R-rated films and could not maintain an unusually stable trend like "The Two Towers", it also controlled the decline within 50 percent, and the next weekend with $51.02 million, it won the top spot at the North American box office, and in just ten days of release, the North American box office exceeded $200 million. Up to $211.05 million!

The facts are very clear, this is another blockbuster that can exceed $300 million at the North American box office.

When July comes to an end. At the end of the summer of 2002, two Duke-related films, "The Two Towers" and "Reloaded", were undoubtedly among the winners.

"The Two Towers" began to be screened in 3,876 theaters in the first weekend of the summer season, and after entering August, the number of theaters in North America shrank to 1,462, with a total of $478.55 million at the North American box office and $1,123.11 million worldwide. Although "Spider-Man" is also extraordinary, according to box office trends, the North American and global box office can only stay at about $400 million and $900 million, and Duke has almost booked the annual box office champion in North America and the world in advance.

Even if it is subject to the classification of R-rated films, it depends on the explosive reputation of the previous work and the good quality of the sequel. The North American box office of "Reloaded" has approached $300 million in the first month of its release, and the North American box office will inevitably exceed the $300 million mark in the end, competing with "Attack of the Clones" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" released in Thanksgiving.

"What stands out more than the box office is the table around the two series."

On the board of directors of Warner Bros., Doug, who has just sat in the position of CEO? "From the release of "The Fellowship of the Ring" to the end of July, the total global sales of "The Ring related peripherals" reached $1,732.55 billion, of which the highest sales were the DVD set of "The Fellowship of the Ring", with global sales of $521 million......"

Speaking of which, Doug? Walter looked at the dozen or so directors who participated in the meeting, and said confidently, "The theatrical screening of "The Two Towers" is close to the middle and late stages, and the research and evaluation of the marketing department will inevitably exceed the sales of the film's soundtrack and DVD. ”

Doug? As soon as Walter's words fell, the eyes of the other directors turned to Duke, and the other party single-handedly supported nearly one-third of Warner Bros.'s performance!

Duke sat quietly and didn't say anything, he was the biggest personal gainer of the movie.

Indeed, compared with the total profit of the film's box office and peripherals, the net dividends of more than $200 million he got in his hands seem to be nothing, but don't forget, the movie peripherals are more dependent on channels than the theater box office, and without the support of the group platform, the peripherals can only achieve extensive licensing income, why Pixar Studios, Blue Sky Studios and later DreamWorks Animation Studios, as well as other small and medium-sized film companies, have joined or squeezed their heads to join those group companies?

In addition to capital and anti-risk reasons, the advantages of large companies in integrating resources are important conditions for attracting them.

Perhaps many years from now, Hollywood's era of giants will come to an end, but from the early to mid-nineties to the next decade or so, Hollywood is a veritable era of giants.

His experience is indeed not ordinary, but seeing and doing it are fundamentally two different things, and Hollywood's problems are not at all solved by making a good enough movie.

To put it mildly, newcomers and new ideas are really not worth much in Hollywood.

I didn't have any successful experience in the past, just mail a script to the film company or director, and the other party will come to the door? No kidding.

For example, Duke's initial experience was slightly better, after all, his mother and family background played a little role, and those rookie screenwriters did not have the opportunity to meet the top management of the film company at all, and the famous directors and producers, even a fool, knew that the script mailed to them could not reach them at all.

Like Duke and Tina? Fei, which big director and well-known producer doesn't have an assistant?

Even a director at the level of Duke, Tina? Fei also has a team of more than ten assistants, and the mailed script will definitely fall into the hands of these assistants first, who can expect these assistants to pass on the newcomer's ideas and scripts?

Let's just say that screenwriters who want to write scripts for big directors and well-known producers can line up from Long Beach to Malibu.

Working with a great director means that there is a high probability of success, and success will give the most vulnerable screenwriter who constitutes the key factor of a project a chance to climb the ladder and even become a gold medal screenwriter.

Like the former gold medal screenwriter Elen? Kruger, is there a wonderful or logical plot he has written? But he wrote "Transformers" one after another, and even if he was complained about by countless people, the production company still did not change people.

This is an extremely realistic circle, where qualifications are a hundred or even ten thousand times more persuasive than creativity.

Similarly, in this circle, countless talented people have been buried, and the most typical, the so-called Hollywood blacklist, on which many scripts have been completed for several years or even longer, but have not been able to turn into real projects, the reason is not difficult to imagine.

Like the rumored Bill? Gates bows to Wall Street, and it is tantamount to a fool's dream that a person wants to confront the entire huge system.

Therefore, from the beginning to the present, Duke has chosen to stand on the side of large companies and carry out in-depth cooperation with them.

At this point, Duke is actually very clear that if he hadn't been funded by his mother, his first movie might only God know when it would have been released.

Just like in "Life and Death", the film has been unanimously praised by film selection experts, and even George? With Lucas's help, Twentieth Century Fox still chose the most conservative and favorable on-demand distribution policy, and was ready to withdraw at any time if the market response was not good.

There are countless ways to climb up in Hollywood, and it is undoubtedly very unreliable to get a script to be appreciated by big people and big companies.

And quite a lot of big-selling films, the scripts are really very ordinary, and the creativity and bridges are often used by Hollywood.

As for innovation? The flip side of innovation is risk, and when innovation is combined with an unqualified newcomer, what choices do directors, producers, and studios make?

I believe that as long as the head does not enter the water, there will only be one choice for these people.

And how many people who can climb to a high position from the fierce to brutal competition in Hollywood will have their heads in water?

Most of the time, Duke doesn't express much of his opinion, but when discussing issues related to movies, he will say a few solemn words, and what he says can attract enough attention from the Warner board.

For example, the meeting focused on the establishment of a Justice League studio, and Duke was positive about it.

And in Duke and Doug? Under Walter's promotion, Warner Bros. also decided to start contacting Marvel and strive to win the distribution rights of Marvel movies.

Marvel and DC are in a relationship of both competition and cooperation, although competition is far greater than cooperation, but as long as the interests are large enough, cooperation is not impossible. (To be continued......)