Chapter 1462: Daqian's first movie to hit the streets
At the suggestion of Boss Jia, these hard-working researchers finally got a week's vacation and could have a good rest, and our Boss Jia returned home as soon as possible and slept for a day and a night, after all, studying is a very hard thing.
And while Boss Jia was sleeping, the world was also constantly developing.
For example, "Fantastic Four", a movie that Marvel Lafayette has tossed a lot, has finally been released around the world.
First of all, the IP of the Fantastic Four is the hottest superhero IP of Marvel and even the entire United States.
Some people may say, shouldn't the hottest superhero in the United States be Iron Man, or the superhero like Captain and Superman?
I've never heard of this Fantastic Four!
This kind of thinking is wrong, because this is the idea of the Chinese people, and it is the idea that the Chinese people came up with through the Marvel movie, but this is not the idea of the Chinese people.
In fact, Fantastic Four is still the largest superhero IP in the entire United States and has the most supporters, otherwise it would not have been three years earlier than Iron Man, and the movie would have been released in 05.
But the problem is that the first "Fantastic Four" was smashed, with a flood of bad reviews and a box office hit, if it weren't for Spider-Man's unexpected success around the world, if it wasn't for the superhero movie, it would be a whole street because of the "Fantastic Four" hit the street, and there would naturally be no Marvel universe in the future.
So now that the Fantastic Four movie premiere, the popularity in the entire North is very huge.
At the same time, because this is also a movie produced by Daqian Films, and Daqian has just made such a huge moth in the film industry, with huge news traffic, many people will be interested in the new movie produced by Daqian.
So the film got off to a dream start, grossing $80 million on its first day of release.
It's just that just when everyone thought that this movie was going to take off, it fell at an even more bullish speed.
On the second day, the box office of the movie was cut in half, and on the third day, it died again.
By the second week, the single-day box office had never exceeded $10 million.
As for the third week, many movie theaters directly chose to screen this movie that hit the street.
The reason is very simple, this movie is really bad, the plot of the movie is greedy, obviously there is only 120 minutes, but I want to show the story of the four Fantastic Four in an all-round way, show their life experience, and mental journey or something.
In fact, it can't be said that this is wrong, after all, this is something that both good filmmakers and screenwriters want to have, but the problem is that stuffing the things of 4 people into one movie is too nonsense, and it will inevitably scatter the entire storyline of the movie, and finally become a half-baked,-like thing, disgusting.
In terms of the audience's evaluation, he went in without knowing anything, and then came out without knowing anything, and they couldn't understand the plot inside at all.
However, there are still some core Marvel fans who came out to defend themselves, saying that this movie is actually very good, and it brings together the essence and famous scenes of the Fantastic Four comics over the past 30 years.
In addition, those who say they can't understand the plot are all because of their own ignorance, they only need to read all the more than 40 volumes of the Fantastic Four single book in total, understand the detailed plot and design inside, and they can see the plot very easily.
Yes, such a comment comes out, I believe everyone understands what the problem is, after all, normal people are not interested in reading 40 Fantastic Four single books.
On the other hand, there are still many people's black hands here, after all, there are many people who like Daqian, and there are many people who dislike Daqian, such as the Oscar organizing committee, after seeing a bad review of "Fantastic Four", they immediately cheered, and organized a group of people to start all kinds of crazy dicks "Fantastic Four"
There are also those film critics before them, who are eager to magnify all the shortcomings of "Fantastic Four" by 100 times, so naturally, "Fantastic Four" completely exploded.
In the end, the global box office of "Fantastic Four" was 200 million US dollars, and the investment of 200 million US dollars only came back with less than 60 million US dollars, and directly lost 140 million US dollars.
And this also made the global film companies breathe a sigh of relief, in recent years, the pressure on them has been too great, in a few years, not a single movie has hit the street, all of them are big hits, and continue to create box office records.
Now they know that the movies produced by Daqian Films will also hit the streets, otherwise they really think that Jia Yapeng is a time-traveler and knows what movies the audience likes to watch.
However, this money is not a loss, but a loss from Marvel, after all, Daqian Movie is only the producer of the movie, and people charge production fees, although it is not much, but it is a steady profit.
The real investment of Marvel and the United States Priority Foundation, the investment of 200 million US dollars, was all given by Stan Lee cheekily and gambling all his reputation from the United States Priority Foundation.
And the Priority Foundation made it clear at the beginning that they were not optimistic about this movie and did not plan to invest in filming. It was only at Stan Lee's request, even at the risk of introducing external capital, that finally the United States Priority Foundation reluctantly invested.
However, the two parties signed a VAM agreement when investing, that is, if the movie makes a profit, all the profits will be at the disposal of Marvel itself, except for the investment funds returned to the United States Priority Foundation, and 50% of the profits belong to Stan Lee himself, and the foundation does not interfere.
But on the contrary, if there is a loss, then all the losses will be borne by Stan Lee alone, who will be responsible for repaying the loss.
At that time, Stan Lee signed the contract with confidence, and in his thoughts, he had Daqian Films, the film giant that shot "Titanic", responsible for filming, and a huge investment of 200 million US dollars, which can make three times the special effects of "Titanic", plus the huge IP bonus of the superhero itself, this movie will not lose.
But in the end, he lost, or lost to Stan Lee himself, because the script originally given by Daqian Movie was not like this, the first half was the birth of the Fantastic Four, the middle part was that they pretended to be daily, and the last part was a collective monster fight and brush the boss.
It's very routine, but there is also a movie script that is fully sure to attract the audience.
But Stan Lee had to redesign the plot himself for the sake of the connotation of the extreme role and the maintenance of the original plot, and later even did all the work of storyboarding, and the director of Daqian Pictures was angry and walked away, and Stan Lee found a young director who absolutely obeyed his orders to be responsible for the next shooting, and it is not surprising that there will be such a result in the end.
In fact, it can't be said that Stan Lee's idea of wanting to show the story core and spiritual core of every superhero is wrong, on the contrary, it is correct, and superheroes can only make the audience remember him in this way.
A few years later, Stan Lee himself figured out this problem, so the next Marvel movies were mainly based on individual heroes, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, etc., each superhero has its own exclusive movie.
Then these superheroes gathered into one movie to form the Avengers series, and more than 20 movies were used to create the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Marvel world in Stan Lee's heart.
The problem is that if you want to cram the volume of more than 20 movies into one movie, it's over.