The Best Director

"Dance My Life 2" won the North American weekly box office championship from September 30 to October 6 with a box office of 20.87 million (-45.1%). This is the ninth weekly championship trophy won by Flame Films this year, accounting for 39 23% of the total, more than any other company; next, DreamWorks’ animated comedy “Walkers and Gromit: The Curse of the Rabbit” topped the box office with 21.55 million in the week of October 7-13; Columbia released the horror The film "Ghost Fog" won the weekly championship from October 14th to 20th with 14.24 million.

11.12 million (-46.7%) and 4.97 million (-55.3%). Four weeks after its release, the total North American box office of "Step-Up 2" rose to 74.99 million US dollars. In this off-season of the film market, it is very impressive to achieve this gratifying result. satisfy.

The progress of Flame Movies will not stop, and the production department with many projects is getting busier and busier. With the company's characters and Wang Yang's recommendation, the two dog movies scheduled to be released in 2007 have new trends.

The low-budget "The Story of Hachiko" has hired Todd Leibman as the first producer. He has worked on previous films such as "Haha the Hairdresser" and the dog movie "Shaggy Dog" to be released next year. , "Antarctic Adventure" are all planned and produced, and this is the first time he has taken over the executive production; and FF is extending an invitation to French director Luc Jacques to direct and write the documentary "Diary of the Emperor Penguin" released this year. The performance is amazing, with a Rotten Tomatoes fresh rating of 94%, and the North American box office has reached 76 million.

But there is a huge difference between documentaries, feature films, and commercial films. He is not a celebrity among Hollywood film producers. Of course, Luc-Jacques himself is not interested in popcorn. The FF Production Department believes that Jacques’ ability to deal with the relationships and emotions between people, animals, and nature is first-rate, and he has rich experience in animal shots. He is very suitable for directing "The Story of Hachiko". Since the commercial nature is not strong, then he will It has become a touching film with a high reputation. Later sales will make up for the lack of box office, and its performance in the Asian market is worth looking forward to.

However, FF is making a choice, and so is Luc-Jacques. His attitude is that he is more enthusiastic, but currently he is unwilling to postpone the production of a family drama script "The Fox and the Child", so he still needs time to consider.

However, Wang Yang, who has watched "The Fox and the Child" with a 50% freshness rating in advance, knows a major shortcoming of Luc Jacques. He is probably used to the rhythm of documentaries. He tells stories very slowly, leaving little time for the beautiful Taobao women's clothing days. Cat Taobao Mall Taobao Women's Winter Jacket m shots, the narrative structure is out of control, and the young Jacques cannot control the plot alone. "" is Wang Yang's grand launch plan. Naturally, he will not sit back and watch it go wrong. The solution is simple. If Jacques directs and writes the screenplay, then another person will be added to the script adaptation work to be responsible for the commercial structure and control of the film; When editing later, it is even more necessary to hire an experienced editor.

The mid-budget "Marley and Me" has found Gil Nate as the first producer. He has participated in successful films in recent years such as "Pig, Where's My Car?" ", "Sniper Phone Booth", etc.; the screenwriters have invited Scott Frank and Don Ross, who will work together to adapt this best-selling novel into a movie script.

Some film companies invite producers to produce projects. Naturally, more often than not, producers who have good project ideas are looking for film companies to invest in them. Recently, the film company who runs his own independent production company "Lone Walker Films (k-lms)" For producer Greg Mooradian, a dreamlike thing suddenly happened! The reason was that he was optimistic that a supernatural romance novel "Twilight" could be adapted for the big screen. He contacted a number of film producers, and almost all of the answers he received were: "It has no value."

This is not surprising. There are so many movies using vampires and werewolves as gimmicks in Hollywood. How many of them are successful? Even if you want to produce such a story, why spend a lot of money to buy the rights to adapt the novel? Just find a screenwriter to write one. Besides, there is already the "Underworld" series on the market, and another movie of the same type is released. How many people will watch it?

In fact, "Twilight" was originally a script written by Stephenie Meyer. Initially, in April 2004, MTV Movies, a subsidiary of Paraméng, was interested in making it into a movie. However, the project was later shelved and Meyer decided to make it into a movie. The story was written into a novel and published, and a manuscript of the novel is now in the Paraméng Production Department office. But regardless of the script, Greg Mooradian feels that "Twilight" is really different. It has a special magical quality. It is a love story rather than an adventure action film.

It's just that the film studios can't help it. Muradian thinks that he has to wait until the sales of "Twilight" are more convincing before the film studios will take notice. However, at this time, the Flame Movie seems to have created a big impact. interest of!

In fact, before many novels are published, some film developers and producers can already read their manuscripts and look for new material that can be made into movies. It depends on the connections and influence of the author and publisher. "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer is just a 32-year-old ordinary full-time housewife. She has no writing qualifications before, which is also the reason for Paraméng's lack of confidence. Recently, it was put on the shelves on October 5. The first book "Twilight" had an initial printing of only 75,000 copies. wn-And-Pany Publishing House never expected that it would top the New York Times bestseller list.

So before "Twilight" was released, most of the producers it was sent to were at the level of Greg Muradian, and the Flame Film Production Department, which has always been paying attention to best-sellers, also read about it and started paying attention immediately! So this is not a project recommended by Mooradian, but Meyer and wn-and-pany publishing house need a producer to communicate with the film studio, and Mooradian is such a middleman.

According to normal market analysis, what FF gets is that the vampire theme of "Twilight" lacks new ideas, and is "generally accepted and widely accepted" in other words, "old-fashioned". The essence of a high school love story lacks grand scenes and profound themes. , obviously it is not a very attractive project, and it seems that it is better to invest money in a youth campus movie; and the popularity of this novel is still unknown, can it still become "Harry Potter"? Don’t forget that a best-selling book doesn’t mean a box office hit.

However, Vice President Lin Wei feels that "Twilight" is full of style and unique appeal. He cannot prejudgmentally label it as "old-fashioned" or "unmarketable" just because it has a vampire background and he has not even read the novel. , what is really described in it is a touching love story, which is exactly what makes it a hit. People who have re-examined it think it is indeed pretty good. There is an interesting contrast between vampire culture and the restlessness of adolescence. Maybe this will attract a large part of the teenage audience. You might as well consider trying to adapt it into a production with a production cost of 23 million yuan. If the film is successful, it will hopefully have a box office of over 100 million.

In fact, the outcome of the matter has already been decided. No matter what, the Flame will not despise "Twilight", because UNG-SS said: "I love Bella! I love Edward! We must fight for its film rights!" "Las Vegas" and "The Devil Wears Prada" have been successfully brought to the screen by Miriam Young, and FF's current project of adapting best-selling books is "Marley and Me". His vision is unmistakable. , the production department received the order and transferred it at high speed.

In this world today, only Wang Yang knows the horror of "Twilight". Not to mention its book sales, how many film companies will regret it in the future when looking at the results of its series of films? Shouting: "Oh God! Why!? Why!?"...

If Paramount paid more attention to it, it would never have been Summit Entertainment's turn to produce this series. Summit is an independent film company that mainly releases DVDs for films. It cooperates with many independent film producers and has occasionally participated in production investments in recent years, such as "American Pie", "Memento", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "The Brothers Grimm" and other films. It has appeared in everything. Originally, when it purchased the copyright of the "Twilight" series in 2007 and spent 37 million to produce "Twilight", Pinnacle had already made a desperate move. If this venture full of risks and opportunities failed, Its financial statements will be very ugly.

Moreover, Peak's theater distribution capabilities and experience are not high, so if other independent film companies pay enough attention, the production cost of "Twilight" will not be so shabby that it can't even reach 50 million yuan. MTV Movies will give up "Twilight" From the beginning of "The City", everything went wrong, and then created one business miracle after another.

Although the reputation of its series of films is not very good among film critics, with the Rotten Tomatoes freshness of the four films being 49%, 28%, 49%, and 25% respectively, its box office is enough to speak for itself. In 2008, the first " "Twilight" cost 37 million at the North American box office and the global box office was 100 million, the second "New Moon" in 2009 cost 50 million, the third "Eclipse" in 2010 cost 68 million, and the 2011 "Daybreak" cost 100 million, 2012 "Breaking Dawn PART 2"......

Only the first four films, with a total production cost of 265 million, grossed a crazy global box office of 100 million! The subsequent sales of various DVDs and other products must also be an astonishing number.

If Fire Film successfully recruits it, it can be said to be the lucky one. "Twilight" will not only bring huge profits and financial space for further development to the group, but also have huge popularity among teenagers. With such a Isn’t a cute video a joyful thing? Now it's looking for investors, and there's no reason Flame Films should miss out.

But it also started when MTV Movies gave up on this story, especially now that the novel is selling better and better. Stephenie Meyer is not in a hurry to adapt it for film and television. She will not sell the copyright easily and recklessly. Flame Films knows that once the news leaks out that they are very interested in "Twilight", it is the production department's idea, which is fine, but the magic... will definitely attract the attention of the film producers, especially the competition from Paramount. If so, there will be a fierce battle waiting for FF, but it seems that we can’t treat it too much like a treasure?

"No! Don't be afraid of competition. As long as we do our best and show the Flames' sincerity, respect and determination, Meyer will choose the Flames." Wang Yang told Mark Slant, Lin Wei and others. Everyone was deeply moved. Take it for granted. @.