The movie "Animal House" was still being promoted at the end of November and officially landed in major theaters across the United States in mid-December.

During the Christmas period, "Superman" produced by Warner Pictures, which missed the summer period, finally met with fans.

The filming process of this movie can be said to be full of twists and turns. At first, the movie was directed by director Richard Donner. He actually did a good job and he was loved by all the crew.

But producer Elia Salkind thought Richard Donner was too demanding and too nitpicking to do things, so he fired him as the "Superman" series was about to end and replaced with new director Richard Lester.

Because Richard Donner has a high prestige and respects everyone, the new director Richard Lester was unanimously excluded from the crew.

Especially the two bigwigs, Marlon Brando and Gene Hackman, were even more disliked Richard Lester and took the lead in opposing him. In order to establish authority, Richard Lester fired Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and others, which triggered a general strike by the crew, resulting in the movie that was supposed to be released in the summer season, which was postponed for half a year before it was released.

The fired Marlon Brando was also very dissatisfied and sued the crew for his own pay and dividends. The lawsuit is still in progress, and Marlon Brando has a very high chance of winning.

Change directors, sing actors, and sue... The news that "Superman" broke has somewhat dissatisfied fans.

Superman is one of the most well-known superheroes in America. The reason people like him is because of his heroic qualities such as perseverance, courage, kindness, fairness, and justice.

But the news released in his movies is very different from the image of Superman, full of fierce fighting, abuse and disputes, which somewhat disillusioned fans.

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"Animal House" and "Superman" were released in the same period. The industry originally had no hope for the box office performance of "Animal House".

After all, compared to "Superman", "Animal House" is far inferior in terms of popularity, theme, cost, cast, etc.

Superman is a superhero with a reputation as America. He has tens of millions of fans, and everyone was looking forward to it long before the movie was released.

In comparison, "Animal House" has no popularity at all. If this movie had not met Ye Jin, it would not even have the chance to be released.

In terms of subject matter, "Superman" is a science fiction action film with a wide audience, with a story that includes science fiction, action, special effects, handsome men and beautiful women, and is a familiar story that is very attractive.

In comparison, "Animal House" is an absurd and nonsense campus comedy. The starring actors in it are not handsome guys, and there are not many beautiful beauties in the film. The whole movie is full of vulgar, vulgar jokes and boring pranks, which are simply a piece of dog x, unattractive.

In terms of cost, "Superman" was filmed together with one and two films, with a total investment of more than 50 million US dollars, and the average cost per movie is 25 million US dollars.

The total cost of "Animal House" is $1.2 million. The money was collected by producer Ivan Reitman, who spent his savings, sold his house, car, and swiped his credit card.

The cost difference between the two is more than twenty times.

In terms of cast, Christopher Reeve, the male lead in the movie "Superman", is not very famous, but the ones who play with him are all veteran actors. Among them, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Susanna York, etc. are all famous stars.

Since "Animal House" costs only $1.2 million, there are almost no famous actors in the film. Several starring actors such as Tim Massson, Peter Riggt, Tom Husk, etc. are almost all inexperienced newcomers.

The first male lead John Belussi only starred in the NBC's longevity comedy show "Weekend Night Live". Ye Jin thought that the familiar actor Donald Sutherland was just a young actor at that time, and his salary was only 40,000 US dollars.

With just this little money, producer Ivan Reitman was reluctant to give it to him and was more willing to pay for the film dividend, but he was rejected by Donald Sutherland because he was not optimistic about the movie.

Therefore, from any perspective, Animal House and Superman are almost incomparable. They are released in the same schedule, and Superman will crush Animal House to pieces.

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The beginning of things was indeed as expected by industry insiders. The cast was weak and the cost of "Animal House" was not very pleasant at the beginning.

Although Fox Pictures has spent a lot of effort to release it, with a distribution scale of more than 1,200 theaters, its first-day box office was only 3 million US dollars, which is not as good as the previous "Halloween".

In comparison, the box office of "Superman" reached 7 million US dollars on the first day of its release, which was quite gratifying.

Moreover, fans also admire the movie "Superman". They think Richard Donner has restored the hero of Superman well and fulfilled most of their expectations, which deserves praise.

In the next few days, "Superman"'s box office was getting higher and higher, while "Animal House"'s box office was always hovering at two or three million dollars, without much improvement. Compared with "Superman", it is even more overshadowed.

Therefore, some industry insiders jumped out and claimed that [Ye Jin's good luck has been used up and his box office lost to "Superman".] completely ignored the cost of "Animal House" was only 1.2 million US dollars. So far, the movie not only recovered all the costs, but also made several times more profit than the cost.

However, he is not the only one who pretends to be blind, but many more people have jumped out one after another to sarcastically sarcastically at Ye Jin's [loss].

The reason why they do this is actually because they want to mess around.

Ye Jin is now the hottest tycoon in Hollywood. He will sell all the movies he invests in or likes. This has allowed him to accumulate huge reputation and his status in the industry has also risen.

In this case, not only people want to climb high, flatter him, and praise him. Some people also want to defeat him and use this to show their talents.

In fact, before that, many people had made a fuss to target Ye Jin. When every movie he invested in was released, someone would be pessimistic. Once they hit it, they would be content with it and gain fame and profit.

But unfortunately, they missed every time. Every movie of Ye Jin is very expensive, so even if they stare at and tell lies, no one is willing to believe it.
Chapter completed!