Although Ryan has confidence in Marvel's superhero, the Marvel management only targeted comic book fans, but after the movie was released, the reaction of the moviegoers was beyond their expectations.

Thrillers, blood and American Hong Kong kung fu, as well as the suspended slow-motion bullet shots that are destined to become classics, coupled with the combination of beautiful women and cool men, have all become the talk of fans, and some people even believe that "Blade" can be called a classic of action movies.

Although professional film critics are not interested in this kind of film, and often publish sour comments such as 'ketchup and silly fights that attract attention', it is a pity that most movie fans do not buy their account and rush to the theaters to enjoy the pure entertainment.

"We need to please the audience, not the so-called professionals, as long as the audience is willing to pay for tickets and to hell with their film reviews."

That's what Ryan said at a meeting of Marvel's top management after the box office came out the first week, "Blade" is clearly a purely entertaining movie, and it would be a big joke if critics had to show an artistic model to comment on it.

In this regard, Ryan admired the most for the later Michael? Bei, those film critics were eager to belittle his work to the Mariana Trench, but the explosion after waking up after the fiasco Bei took the explosion to the extreme, and several big productions made the producers make a lot of money.

For the future positioning, Ryan is very clear, that is, commercialization, and his efforts in film are also closely around commercialization.

For example, Scott's investment team, which has been eyeing the IT industry since the early nineties, would submit a report for him every once in a while, and then Ryan would look for the names of companies or websites that were impressive, and the ones he remembered would have been famous in his previous life.

Just last month, he filed a report from Scott. Found two familiar website names - IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, and then ......

Then there was no indication that Ryan had no interest in these two websites, he had worked in the cinema industry in his previous life, and he knew a lot of information that was only widely circulated in the industry.

These two websites can be said to be overrated, and their influence is not as great as imagined, not to mention the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but also to the box office......

One of the most authoritative film institutions in the United States. Through long-term observation and evaluation, it was found that the top 50 movies at the box office in the last ten years have only a correlation of 0.13 between the box office and the scores between IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, in other words, there is almost no correlation.

The most representative is the "Transformers" series, with the correlation reduced to -0.81, and a negative score means that the more fierce the critics, the higher the box office.

In Ryan's view, it is the difference between the good and the bad, life and death of the movie. It's never the website and the critic, it's the audience's choice.

Besides, the more controversial the big production, the more eye-catching it is. The more profitable it is, the more lucrative it is.

"Blade" was, after all, the first film produced by Marvel, and it was normal for the management to be a little worried, and when the box office came out in the first week, they put back at least half of their hearts.

The first-week box office was $34.5 million. Kicked Leonardo's "Mission Impossible" off the top of the weekly box office charts, and the latter has occupied this position for three weeks, grossing more than $100 million in North America. In addition, Xiao Li was also praised as a superstar.

Judging from the number of moviegoers who did not decrease sharply in the second week, it should be very easy for "Blade" to exceed 100 million at the box office in North America, plus the several overseas markets that have been confirmed to be introduced, the box office alone may be able to earn back tens of millions of dollars.

Ryan also breathed a sigh of relief, in the previous life, the producer of this movie was New Line, and in this life, it was replaced by Marvel Pictures, which appeared in advance, and he was somewhat worried, after all, it involved an investment of nearly half a billion dollars, even if the debt of the year had already been paid off.

Now there are no surprises, and Marvel's management has also gained confidence in their children, not only speeding up the preliminary planning of "X-Men", but also putting "Blade 2" on the agenda.

Marvel's management also understands Ryan's plan, as long as "Blade" and "X-Men" warm up the market, Marvel's biggest target at the beginning of the new century will be - "Spider-Man"!

"Stan, I still mean it before, adding more intersections for Eric and Charles in the plot, such as they used to fight side by side and are very good friends, and Charles is paralyzed because of Eric's accidental injury."

Holding up his mobile phone, Ryan waved to a few friends and walked out of the tennis court on the estate, constantly talking to Stan? Lee communicated, "Don't characterize Magneto as a villain, I found someone to do market research, Eric has a very high popularity, a Magneto who fights for the interests of mutants, and is both good and evil, will definitely be more popular." ”

"Although we are filming a trilogy for the time being, we should prepare for the long term, as long as the whole series is popular, we can take the popular characters separately to make a movie, and even shoot a prequel in the future to tell the story of their youth." ”

"Well, no problem, you can send it to my mailbox after you confirm the outline." Ryan turned and walked towards the tennis court, "That's it for now." ”

Magneto Eric and Professor X Charles are a pair of good friends, plus the demon girl Raven, the plot of falling in love and killing each other is enough blood.

Of course, Ryan has a long-term plan, and in this era, let Magneto and Professor X be the foundation, then the movie will only be a dead end.

Well...... Add some interaction and you'll be fine.

Thinking about these inconsequential things, Ryan returned to the tennis court, handed his phone back to George, and shouted to the two girls who were fighting, "Who lost?" ”

"Me!"

Scarlett? Johnson took the lead in raising his hand, walked over and handed the tennis racket to Ryan, and lowered his voice, "Be merciful, if Nat loses in a hurry......"

She squeezed her eyes, and they were full of mischievousness.

Ryan shrugged his shoulders, from Natalie's birthday, Scarlett clearly saw the relationship between the two, maybe it was Natalie's advice, or maybe she really grew up and matured, and didn't reveal it to anyone.

Walking to the tee box, Ryan took out the tennis ball in his pocket, tossed it in his hand a few times, and shouted to Natalie opposite, "Nat, let you see the strength of the professional level now." ”

"Don't talk big, Ryan." Natalie, who was wearing a ponytail, sorted out her sportswear and put on a position to catch the ball, "Your level, at best, can beat Taylor." ”

"No way, he never won against me." In the lounge area next to the tennis court, Taylor's voice could be heard.

"My dear, no one can win under the rules you have made."

No netting, no movement, never having the right to serve, and most importantly using a table tennis racket, such a rule, even if Agassi and Sampras come, they will only lose.

Shaking his head, Ryan tossed the pale yellow tennis ball and swung his racket, which landed in response.

Damn it! The corners of his mouth twitched.

"Fifteen to zero!" The sound of the blonde little curly-haired scorer rang out.

"Hey, double miss counts as one point!" Ryan waved his paddle dissatisfiedly, and Taylor shouted nonchalantly, "Shouldn't men let women?" ”

"Hurry up, Ryan." Natalie's racket slammed down on her boots, "Or do you want to change my serve?" ”

"Okay, okay!"

Picking up the tennis ball, in line with the principle that good men don't fight women, Ryan once again stood on the service point, just looking at his posture, he is definitely a professional-level master.

Although he has not been trained at the professional level as he said, Ryan's level is good in amateurism, and as long as the ball does not fall into the net or go out of bounds, Natalie rarely receives his serve and return.

"Fifteen to forty, Nat, you have to come on, or you're going to lose." Taylor and Scarlett cheered on the side.

"Stop, Ryan!" Natalie raised her hand to interrupt Ryan's serve, "I demand...... Replace the racket. ”

"Nat, don't waste time, even if you change ten rackets, you will still lose." Ryan shook his head absently.

"Who said I had to change my racket?" Natalie smiled slyly, "I mean you change the racket, change the ping-pong racket." ”

With that, she turned to the sidelines, "Taylor, get Ryan's special racket over." ”

"Right now!"

The little blonde girl jumped out of her seat and ran over in a swoop, snatching the tennis racket and stuffing it into a ping-pong racket in Ryan's stunned eyes.

"This ......"

Ryan looked at the tennis ball in his left hand, then at the red racket in his right hand, and then gritted his teeth and tossed the tennis ball.

"Thirty to Forty ......"

"Forty to Forty ......"

"Now it's divided!"

"Wow, Nat, you've got the end point!"

The outcome of the match can be imagined, after Ryan walked off the tennis court, Taylor was substituted, and when he sat in the lounge, she still shouted the so-called rules to the opposite side, and Natalie's face was full of black lines.

"Where's Christine?" Ryan was a little weird, that tomboy always liked to follow Taylor's ass.

"She's on the crew." Scarlett? Johnson placed the juice on the table next to Ryan, "Aunt Julius helped her find a role. ”

"A movie called 'The Little Mermaid.'" She added.

"I see." Ryan nodded.

This is a very normal thing, my mother and my friends and relatives around me are all well-known people in the circle, and it will naturally become the first choice to enter Hollywood, and it is a great advantage and resource to interpret the background of the family.

"Ryan, I haven't told you thank you yet." Scarlett has already passed Sophia? Coppola's audition.

"You're welcome, Scarlett, we're friends."

Ryan waved his hand absently, and then saw Lisa come over with a strange expression, "Ryan, someone is coming to visit you." (To be continued......)