After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood

Chapter 49:

On the Warners set, in a huge soundstage, the crew of the Caribbean crew gathered again to film the Pirates of the Caribbean scene.

If they were shooting exteriors in the Caribbean, then when they were in the studio, they were shooting the scenes inside the boat.

After Kevin and Zack Snyder had checked out the scene, filming began.

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Time has come to May 1994, and the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean has come to the end.

All the crew behind the scenes, along with some unfinished cast members, assembled in the Pirates of the Caribbean town near San Pedro Harbor in San Pedro.

In a capitalist society, if enough money is given, everything is not a problem.

A number of retro wooden buildings stand beside the port, forming a beautiful scenery. In the town, many residents dress up as residents of the Great Voyage Period, wandering in the town, adding to the town retro flavor.

Captain Jack Sparrow, under the pursuit of several British naval soldiers, ran left and right, nimbly avoiding capture.

Finally, after climbing onto a large box that was difficult for British soldiers to climb up quickly, Captain Jack Sparrow twisted his body, raised his orchid fingers, and said confidently:

“Children, you must always remember today that you almost caught it, the owner of the Black Pearl, the most powerful pirate king among the nine pirate kings, Captain Jack Sparrow!”

“Card!”

“Pirates of the Caribbean, the filming is over, everyone has worked hard!”

Kevin loudly announced the end of filming.

Everyone on the set immediately relaxed.

Kevin arranged for Zack Snyder to carry out the finishing touches, and then came to the side to chat with the newly arrived Ronande.

Ronande looked at the lively Caribbean pirate town where the residents started to wander, and said uneasy:

“Kevin, Pirates of the Caribbean, will make it!”

“Of course, I worked hard for you, so I finished the Pirates of the Caribbean filming at such a fast speed.”

“Counting the post-production time, Pirates of the Caribbean should be released by the end of June.”

Kevin smiled and looked at the town of Pirates of the Caribbean in front of him, full of confidence.

This seaside resort town can only earn about three months a year, but in Kevin’s view, three months is enough to bring tens of millions of dollars in revenue to Chenxi Films.

That’s the power of IP.

As the owner of the copyright of Pirates of the Caribbean, although part of the copyright proceeds of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Kevin distributed to MGM and Warner Bros., but the real big head, this kind of authorization is still in his own hands.

This also means that the income of the Pirates of the Caribbean town belongs to the Morning Sun Film Company alone.

Of course, Warners and MGM can also get a part of the benefits from some peripheral licenses, but after all, the majority is Kevin.

As for why MGM and Warner are willing to give up such a key copyright to Kevin, one is that Kevin agreed. Once the movie is a big hit, they will leave at least 20% of the investment share in the follow-up.

The second is that Kevin is now, in fact, the demand for MGM and Warner has been greatly reduced. If they do not agree, Kevin can always find other partners.

This is the biggest reason to force them to agree.

As for why Kevin doesn’t eat alone…

It is still a truth, win-win cooperation.

Eating alone means that there are enemies everywhere, and Kevin can’t bear the pressure at present, and the release of the movie is not so simple.

Without the support of the two major film companies, the theater chain and the media would have a lot of problems that would cause him a headache. It was MGM and Warner Bros. to help him deal with these external matters by paying these benefits.

On the other hand, or in his mind, in addition to Marvel, other series actually Kevin can transfer the benefits.

Only Marvel is the only real trump card that Kevin is ready to eat alone.

Ronande pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled:

“I believe you, Kevin, Pirates of the Caribbean will be successful. As the owner of Pirates of the Caribbean Town, we in San Pedro will vigorously promote it in the city before the release of Pirates of the Caribbean!”

Kevin also smiled, and it was definitely good for Pirates of the Caribbean to get a city’s vigorous publicity and support for free.

After saying goodbye to Ronande, he took everyone on the set, including the rest, and held a closing party in one of the best hotels in San Pedro according to the old rules.

After a good day of fun, everyone took a ride back to Los Angeles.

The rest of the crew began to take a vacation, but in order to catch up with the hottest summer season, Kevin did not take a break, but brought Zack Snyder to the MGM editing room and began to preliminarily work on the film. clip.

This time, there were no production managers and editors talking in front of him.

In Kevin’s current position, the Pirates of the Caribbean movie is completely under his control, and Kevin only spent a week with Zack Snyder’s assistance to handle the preliminary editing of the film. .

The next thing to do is to deal with the special effects of the film in the later stage, as well as the soundtrack.

After Kevin put forward his need for a kind of majestic music, MGM finally found a person who satisfied Kevin after searching through his own strength, the S.E.N.S. (Spiritual Thinker) combination from Japan.

When it comes to their names, many people may be unfamiliar, but their music should be heard by many people. The soundtrack from the memory of the Forbidden City is their work.

Listening to the whole process, it is full of majesty, and it is the best candidate in Kevin’s mind.

After arranging the music production task, Kevin took the film alone to find Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic again, and started the post-processing of special effects.

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Chapter 80 Internal Screening and Finalization

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By the middle of June, the special effects and soundtrack of the film had been completely completed. With Kevin’s reprocessing, a complete master tape of the film was produced.

MGM, screening room.

The audience was filled with executives and viewing managers from MGM and Warner Bros.

They will rate Pirates of the Caribbean from their respective professional perspectives. If it is rated as a high-quality commercial blockbuster, then Pirates of the Caribbean will receive the full publicity and support of their two companies, as well as the largest number of master copies.

Kevin handed over the master tape in his hand to the person in charge of the screening, and then sat next to Reiter and Robinoff.

The projectionist was preparing for the screening, and Robinoff discussed the specific schedule with Kevin and Reiter.

Robinoff analyzed Kevin:

“Currently in the summer and upcoming films include Forrest Gump from Paramount, The Lion King, an animated film from Buffalo Films, True Lies and Speed of Life from Fox, and The Stone from Universal Pictures. Family Paradise.”

“These five films will be the strongest contenders at the Pirates of the Caribbean box office.”

“We have to pick a suitable date to avoid too strong a head-on confrontation with them.”

Listening to Robinoff’s introduction, Kevin recalled the box office rankings of the movies one by one in his memory.

Forrest Gump, naturally, needless to say, a blockbuster film under the typical American values, but the Americans at this time really eat this set, not only the box office is not bad.

He also won a total of six Oscars, including the Academy Award for Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Director next year.

As for his director, Robert Zemeckis, he is also Kevin’s predecessor and senior, also from the University of Southern California.

Kevin and he are naturally in the same faction.

If it is not necessary, theoretically he should not take the initiative to touch Forrest Gump.

As for the animated movie The Lion King, although it is coming aggressively, Kevin knows that it belongs to the type of weak successor, and the Lion King has just been released, and their Pirates of the Caribbean has not yet been finalized, so don’t worry too much.

Then the remaining Kevin actually has no choice. The true lie played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by James Cameron is the unavoidable enemy of Kevin.

There is only so little time in the summer season. If a blockbuster wants to be a big hit in the summer season, it must step on the corpses of other movies.

Fortunately, it is not Cameron’s other works, but this true lie. In fact, the conflict between the two is not very strong. They belong to two types of movies, so they will not cause too violent impact.

Based on this consideration, Kevin raised his head and said:

“Let’s set the file for the end of June!”

Although Kevin’s goal is to aim at true lies, the biggest conflict with his movie is Forrest Gump. At this time, Forrest Gump has long been set and will be broadcast on July 6.

True Lies won’t be released until July 15.

What Kevin means is to release it a week in advance, so that the first week that attracts the most box office avoids all the powerful enemies and makes a profit first. As for the time after that, you can only directly fight the bayonet.

As for whether it can beat these two movies, Kevin can only say that he is very confident.

After all, the audiences of the three are different.

Although Forrest Gump has achieved good results, it actually has a completely different audience from Pirates of the Caribbean. The audience of Forrest Gump tends to be middle-class elites and a small number of hard-working and motivated people at the bottom.

The good movies they pursue are often not for the pursuit of cool and good-looking.

But in pursuit of a sense of superiority, a sense of self-mind cleansing.

On the contrary, Kevin’s Pirates of the Caribbean doesn’t need to say anything about its connotations, it’s enough to have fun.

Kevin’s target audience for the movie is the theme of family fun, which is dominated by teenagers.

The so-called family fun is a movie with teenagers as the core, so as to draw in a whole family.

Once such a movie is a big hit, the box office of the movie will be very exaggerated, and the people who come to watch the movie usually come in groups and from one family to one family.

Even though Forrest Gump has won numerous awards, it is still a bit short of a grade to compete with Pirates of the Caribbean at the box office.

“Our worst enemy is a true lie. As for Forrest Gump, although the filming is good, it naturally does not have an advantage in box office competition.”

Kevin analyzes his thoughts to Robinoff and Reiter.

The two nodded. In fact, they had more professionals inside to analyze the schedule.

Everyone agreed that if the quality of Pirates of the Caribbean is good enough, then the schedule is scheduled for the end of June to get the highest box office.

On the contrary, if the quality of Pirates of the Caribbean is average, it is more serious, if they want to return to the original, they will directly withdraw from the whole summer program.

Everything depends on the quality of Pirates of the Caribbean, and now, all they have to do is appreciate the specific quality of Kevin’s Pirates of the Caribbean.

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At the beginning of the film, the picture unfolds with a panoramic view of the town of Pirates of the Caribbean, through the costumes of the extras, and the old-fashioned guns, to convey to people that this is a thing that happened in the past.

Through the scenery and environment, people are quickly substituted into this past story.

Here, Kevin ditched the original Pirates of the Caribbean scene that started with the origins of a small blacksmith, and opened with a scene, the purpose is actually very simple.

It is to break the identity of the hero of the little blacksmith.

According to the original plot, the little blacksmith is actually the first male protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean, but under the charm of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow, he was completely robbed of the light.

From male one to male two.

I have to say, it’s really bad.

As soon as the environment changed, the picture came to Elizabeth’s bedroom, and the cursed gold coin hanging around her neck indicated its important status under the hint of the language of the camera.

This is followed by a quick plot, explaining the identity and origin of the little blacksmith and Elizabeth.

Then, the screen changed again, and the little ruffian Captain Jack Sparrow appeared.

“Oh!”

The moment Jack Sparrow appeared on the stage, his coquettish posture, orchid fingers, and sloppy but unique style instantly attracted everyone’s attention.

Completely different from people’s impressions, the vicious and vicious pirate image is an inexplicable and indescribable taste.

People want to know what kind of character such a special pirate is.

How did it become like this.

Chapter 81 Re-rating the S-rated commercial blockbuster

Everyone was staring at the screen of the movie, not wanting to miss a second.

Kevin, who was sitting in the front row, silently looked out of the corner of his eyes, looking at the reactions of the others.

Kevin, who insists on shooting commercial films, has always had a principle that the audience should not feel like a play while watching a movie.

In his opinion, this is one of the most disruptive ways to experience the audience.

Judging from the current reaction on the scene, at least this film of his has met his requirements, and the rest will be left to the audience to judge.

The hour-long movie quickly came to an end.

The special effects, which cost millions of dollars, produced a shocking work at this moment.

A ship of pirates turned into undead like skeletons under the moonlight. The scene was both shocking and terrifying.

This scene completely attracted everyone.