"Boss, "Forrest Gump" should be just "Rain Man". Last year, "Rain Man" was released and it also achieved good box office and reputation. Now you release a movie of the same theme, it is unlikely that it will be successful again." Long Mayer hurriedly persuaded him when he saw that Xia Tian wanted to buy the film and television adaptation rights of "Forrest Gump".

There is a very important principle for Hollywood investment, that is, not to follow the trend. Especially large productions, they will try to avoid crashes. The reason is that when Hollywood movies are released, they will carry out a lot of publicity and marketing and try their best to mobilize the audience's interest in watching movies.

In this way, the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies is likely to be overdrawn. If there are movies with the same theme released, they will basically not get any high box office.

Just like the hotly released "Wolf Warrior 2" in the mainland last year, it won a total of 5.6 billion yuan in box office from its release in July to the end of October. The box office of "Sky Hunter" with the same theme was only more than 300 million yuan, which is nearly 20 times the difference.

The reason why there is such a huge difference is that when "Wolf Warrior 2" was released, the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies was overdrawn. Therefore, when "Sky Hunter" with the same theme was released, it was difficult to mobilize the audience's interest.

However, "The Shameful Iron Fist" won a box office of 2.2 billion yuan with a different comedy theme at the same time. Even "The Sewing Machine Band", which was released at the same time and had a bad reputation, won a box office of 450 million yuan.

Columbia Pictures only produced and released "Rain Man", starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise last year. "Rain Man" is also a story about abnormal people, just like Forrest Gump, so it can be regarded as the same subject.

When "Rain Man" was released, North America won a box office of $172 million and a box office of $460 million worldwide. In addition, the movie was shortlisted for several Oscars, and the call for winning was very high, which can be said to be a win between fame and fortune.

If you release another "Forrest Gump" with the same theme at this time, it will inevitably be compared with "Rain Man". If it is well filmed, the box office will not be higher than "Rain Man"; if it is poorly filmed, it will be even more unanimously criticized. Since that is the case, why take the risk?

In his previous life, Warner Pictures had the opportunity to film "Forrest Gump", but they also gave up this opportunity because it was similar to the theme of "Rain Man".

"I know it is very similar to "Rain Man". To be honest, I am not ready to start filming immediately. I asked you to take down the film and television adaptation rights first, and you can shoot it in three or four years." Xia Tian curled his lips to him.

"Ah, that's it, then there's no problem." When Long Mayer heard this, he knew that he had misunderstood and nodded quickly.

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"By the way, if you are interested, go and ask about what new works to be published by American best-selling writer Michael Clayton recently," Xia Tian instructed again.

Michael Clayton is a well-known and best-selling American writer. His representative works include "Jurassic Park", "The Train Robbery", "The Rising Sun", "The Alien Bacteria", "The Congo Scar", etc.

He created a total of fifteen works in his life, with a global sales of more than 150 million copies. Stephen King, the king of American horror, had a total sales of only 350 million copies. It can be seen that Michael Clayton is really not simple.

And Lang Meyer naturally knew such a great man, and immediately nodded, and asked curiously, "Boss, have you received some news? I know he has a good work to be published, so I want to get the right to adapt the film and television in advance?"

"I did receive some news, but it has nothing to do with you. You just need to investigate. If there is one, try to buy it." Xia Tian smiled slightly.

If he remembers correctly, in 1990, Michael Clayton published his representative work "Jurassic Park". After this book was released, it was immediately widely welcomed by readers with its novel themes and genius ideas. Once released, it was listed on the New York Times bestseller rankings.

This also attracted the attention of filmmakers after that, but unfortunately, the film and television adaptation rights of this film were first published by Universal Pictures long before it was released.

Later, it made the movie "Jurassic Park" of the same name with this book, which won a billion-dollar box office worldwide, making it the highest-grossing movie before "Titanic".

It was precisely because of this movie that Hollywood swept the world, shocking fans all over the world and deeply betrayed its pomegranate skirt.

For example, in Hong Kong, it was the world of Hong Kong films for a long time before. However, this "Jurassic Park" won the box office of HK$61 million in Hong Kong and won the annual box office championship that year.

The global hot sale of "Jurassic Park" announced that Hollywood, which had been sluggish for nearly ten years, began to rise. Since then, computer special effects technology has become popular. Hollywood has also monopolized the global high-end film industry for 20 years, destroying the film industry in all countries and regions to a great extent.

Needless to say, Asia, South America, Australia, Africa, etc., it was not originally on the same level, and even the European market, which had a very developed film market, was captured by American blockbusters.

In his previous life, Wang Jiawei's movies had such a bad box office and could not even recover the cost, but he could still shoot one by one because he still had a market in Europe. His movies were very popular in the European art film industry. Not only did he win awards at major film festivals, but the film copyright was also very enjoyable.

But entering the new century, with the collapse of the European art film market, even Wang Jiawei lost support in Europe, so his filming speed became slower and slower. For example, "The Grandmaster" was prepared for eight years and filmed in three years, and it was known as "the missing generation", breaking his own record of dragging dramas.

The people who "The Grandmaster" wants to cater to are no longer European fans, but mainland audiences. In order to attract them, mainland stars such as Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang have also been added to the movie.

Although Xia Tian didn't like to see Hollywood crushing the Hong Kong film market with "Jurassic Park", he also knew that this was impossible to reverse the historical trend. Even without "Jurassic Park", "Titanic", "Avatar", and the Marvel series of movies... If you want to avoid being defeated, you can only be independent and self-reliant.
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