Vol 2 Chapter 715: Water in a desert oasis

Warner Bros. invested heavily in Fury Road. Duke's films have always been the backbone of Warner's film business. The publicity of Fury Road has not been relaxed for a moment.
Entering the second Friday of April, Wondercon Comic Con kicked off. Although they are not as influential as San Diego Comic Con, the people participating in Wondercon Comic Con are younger and they are also the main audience in the North American film market.
On this day, more than 100,000 fans of anime, science fiction and other popular culture will gather here, looking forward to pouring into the Anaheim Convention Center, which is an hour’s drive southeast of Los Angeles, and they will come here not far away. It is for this 3-day animation exhibition.
Wondercon has entered its 22nd year and is organized by a wave of pop culture fanatics. It is like the prelude to the San Diego iccon animation show every summer.
Although not as large as the San Diego Comic Con, Wondercon is still a favorite of fans, especially because it is less crowded, so you can participate in more events every day.
In addition to the series of review of "Back to the Future", "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" in the exhibition schedule this year, it will also increase many franchised game exhibits, hold best-selling-, interactive interviews with comic authors, and a large wave of film studios , TV network exhibition.
In fact, the most fascinating highlight of the Wondercon Comic Con is the first trailer for "Furious Road".
Norman Shearer entered the Anaheim Convention Center early and did not go to other booths at all. He went directly to the Warner Bros. showroom. He came here so early that he wanted to occupy a good position ahead. He did not expect this wish. It was completely frustrated, it was already full of people.
Nearly 10,000 people crowded in front of the Warner Bros. showroom. They talked about Duke, movies, and posters.
"Charlize Theron's look is so handsome!"
A movie fan pointed to the huge poster hanging high and was talking, "Tom Cruise's appearance in a yoke is also awesome!"
"Their looks are so unique!"
"Is this self-destructive image?"
"Self-destructive image? This is a self-breakthrough, alright! Even looking at the extremely cool and powerful looks of these two men, I will enter the theater."
Looking at the two huge character posters, Norman Shearer has only one idea. I am afraid there is only a director like Duke in Hollywood. Only then can two superstars be willing to play this type of role.
But then he threw away this idea because the trailer was announced.
The famous talk show host Alan DeGeneres walked to the stage of the Warner Showroom and introduced the trailer in person.
But few people paid attention to the famous host, and they turned their attention to the big screen.
In the big-screen video, Tom Cruise woke up from the sandy wasteland, dizzy, wearing a metal mask, and James Franco in the wreckage of a car. He found a shotgun. He tried to break the companion's arm with a shot, but the gun failed.
When he was about to ask the opponent's wrist, he heard movement nearby, so he picked up his unconscious companion and walked to a truck. He found a group of women in white clothes washing the dust off their bodies with hoses.
Those are five Victoria's Secret angels fluttering in white clothes like a Greek saint. They are as attractive as oasis in the desert. However, when the camera turns to Charlize Theron, almost everyone regards Victoria's Secret. 'S supermodels are behind their heads. Because the bald Charlize Theron, for them. It's like water in a desert oasis!
With water, everything else in the oasis can be temporarily ignored.
What is even more stunned is that the two superstars, Charlize Theron and Tom Cruise, played powerful roles, and there was a fierce and crazy life-and-death fight.
Tom Cruise pointed a gun at one of the women, asked her to show him a hose and cut the shackles with pliers. At this moment. The female leader played by Charlize Theron attacked him, and the two started a close fight.
Tom Cruise resisted her attack, his accomplice James Franco woke up from a coma and found that Charlize Theron was about to get a gun on the ground and hurried to help. Tom Cruise finally took the gun and fired several shots on the sand near Charlize Theron's head...
This is an action scene that is too tight to breathe without any fancy moves, only you die and die!
Norman Shearer took a breath, he knew that Duke would not disappoint, and the facts proved that it did not disappoint.
The trailer continues to play, including the speeding chase in the desolate land, thrilling stunts, and the dangerous duel between Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron and a group of motorcycle parties in the canyon...
These clips are all wonderful!
"The most ambitious, most anticipated and exciting movie of the year has appeared!"
I don't know who said such a sentence in the crowd, causing a echoing voice around, and senior movie fans like Norman Hiller couldn't stop nodding.
If such films are not worth looking forward to, what other films are worth looking forward to?
The publicity of the film also entered the craziest and intensive stage before the release. In the following month, Warner Bros. released four more TV trailers.
These trailers are sturdy in style and focus on the visual system. With the coming of a huge tornado, the rag-walkers fight in the desert and stage a flying car explosion, which brings the most thrilling to fans who are looking forward to the release of this movie. Visual enjoyment.
"As director Duke Rosenberg said, "Furious Road" has a huge number of speeding scenes, full of gunfights, speeding, explosions, and a strong end of the world..."
Looking at the TV screen, David Ellison's expression was serious. Although the scale of the film was a bit large, he was fully aware that this was an extremely powerful competitor.
"Hey, David, good news."
His sister Megan Ellison ran in from the outside and said loudly, "I have just come from the company, and there is accurate news. MPaa's rating for Fury Road is r."
"It's weird that such a film is not R-rated." David Ellison muttered.
Megan Ellison came over, sat next to him, and said, "I remember "The Adventures of Tintin" is a pg level, right?"
David Ellison nodded.
"Steven Spielberg's PG-class family is happy, to Duke Rosenberg's R-class heavy taste..." Megan Ellison shook his head, "This is simply an unfair contest. ."
"Unfair?" David Ellison gave a sneer, "Business competition has never been fair! It should be "The Adventures of Tintin" who received unfair treatment!"
Megan Ellison looked at his brother and asked curiously, "Did something happen that I didn't know?"
As she gets older, Megan Ellison can also control part of the funds in her trust fund. She is also interested in the film industry and has invested in David Ellison's Sky Film Studio.
"Those idiots on the theater chain would rather give more than 4,000 theater chains to an R-rated movie like "Furthermore" than invest resources in a PG-rated movie like "The Adventures of Tintin"!"
Having said that, David Ellison couldn't help but hammer the arm of the sofa.
Megan Ellison just shrugged, but didn't say anything. She knew the reason very well, and also knew that David Ellison knew better than her why.
Although he was awkward, David Ellison was not a fool, and he quickly recovered his calm. "The Adventures of Tintin" has less than 3,600 open theaters. This is still the North American Theater League seeing that the film director is Steven Spear The preferential treatment given after Berg, otherwise the quantity will be less.
Why is that? The reason is simple. The publisher of Fury Road is Warner Bros., and the publisher of The Adventures of Tintin is Sky Studios!
By now, David Ellison regrets not finding another distributor for The Adventures of Tintin. He overestimates his company's ability and the difficulty of establishing distribution channels.
Issuing is far from setting up a department and hiring some professionals with high salaries.
But now it’s too late to change the North American publisher. What David Ellison can do is to hand over the overseas distribution of The Adventures of Tintin to Disney Pictures.
However, David Ellison still has a certain degree of confidence, after all, the director of "The Adventures of Tintin" is Steven Spielberg.
Most importantly, pg-level films have a huge advantage over r-level films in terms of audiences, and this advantage is enough to make up for the gap in the number of open theaters.
And as long as the box office numbers of "The Adventures of Tintin" in the first week are higher than that of "Road of Fury", it is natural to increase the number of theaters later.
There is also the Chinese market. David Ellison also aimed at that market. "Transformers" has allowed him to fully see the potential of that market. As a person from a business family, he has a keen business sense. Know that the market represents the future.
Now he is indeed inferior to Duke Rosenberg, but he has only been in this circle for a few years? Where is the other party?
He has high enough expectations for his own future and the future of Sky Film Studio.
To achieve these expectations, to become a force that cannot be ignored in Hollywood, depends on the actual market performance!
There is no doubt that "The Adventures of Tintin" has entered the Chinese market. Disney Pictures has long received a definite reply from the other side. Spielberg's influence in the world is still huge.
"Furious Road" wants to enter that market, I am afraid it will be difficult, even if Warner Bros. and China Film Group have various cooperation, can it pass the opposite one?
David Ellison can't remember the specific name, he only knows that the possibility of "fury road" passing the approval is unlikely, or even basically not. (To be continued...)
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