Chapter 775 Heavenly Kingdom
Fox Building, Twentieth Century Fox Distribution and Production Department are also busy. As the weekend approaches, the production cost of "Dynasty of Heaven", which costs up to $130 million, has reached the final preparation period before its premiere.
This epic war work on Jerusalem was held twice after Ridley Scott finished editing, with very good response and reputation.
But the Twentieth Century Fox was not satisfied with it because Ridley Scott's director editing version was too long, with an infinite length of nearly 200 minutes.
This is really crazy and it is something that Twentieth Century Fox cannot accept at all.
First of all, if the video is too long, the audience will get bored and have no patience to watch.
Secondly and most importantly, the long movie time will seriously affect the film's schedule rate. Originally, a cinema could schedule six times a day, but only four times a day. The reduced number of scenes also means a decrease in the number of movie tickets available, which will drag down the film's box office results.
Even though Ridley Scott's version submitted by the film received a great response, for commercial reasons, after the filming, 20th Century Fox asked the producers to convene the editing team and re-edit the film.
"The re-edited copies have been delivered in place." Bruce Dewan reported to Jim Prouss: "The new edited version has been reduced from the original 198 minutes to 132 minutes, and each hall can be scheduled for two additional screenings every day."
Jim Prous asked, "Where is Ridley Scott? Is there no objection?"
Bruce Dewan replied: "He has no objection, the director's agreement stipulates that he does not have the final editing rights, and he is really crazy this time, and he actually edited such a long film."
"It's not unreasonable for Hollywood to limit directors' power." Jim Prouss doesn't think there is anything wrong with re-editing. Directors are crazy guys. If they don't restrict it, maybe they will directly edit a 300-minute version: "Many directors only consider film creation, not the market at all, and do not understand what pressure the production companies have to face."
Bruce Dewan smiled and said, "Ridley Scott is pretty good, at least not interfering with work that exceeds the scope of the director and contract. Peter Jackson is a headache. I heard that Universal Pictures has had a bad time with him recently. They gave Peter Jackson the final editing rights. Peter Jackson's first edition lasted more than 200 minutes, and King Kong appeared more than an hour after the film began..."
Jim Prous said: "Please calm Ridley Scott, we are still working with him on new projects. Don't let him have too many negative emotions. It will be bad for the new project to work."
He also participated in the preview and saw responses from all parties involved in the preview. He still highly recognized Ridley Scott's work results in "Dynasty of Heaven".
But recognition is recognized and maximizing benefits meets the needs of Twentieth Century Fox.
Bruce Dewan said: "Ridley Scott is a good director and is more obedient, not that kind of thorn."
Jim Prous nodded slightly. Hollywood production companies like to work with Ridley Scott, and there is a reason for this.
If you abandon the value of creation, no one likes James Cameron, who is the world's number one director.
"Contact the theaters and control the filming schedule of "Chen Dynasty"." Because Ridley Scott's trial version responded well, Jim Prous is quite optimistic about the market prospects of "Chen Dynasty": "Let the publicity department promote the promotion and marketing of the film as planned."
The promotional and distribution fee of up to $70 million will be reduced, which will make the film arouse a global craze.
As long as there is a market response like "Troy", Twentieth Century Fox can make profits through online and offline operations.
This project was successful.
Jim Prous and Twentieth Century Fox are both very optimistic about this.
Besides, Ridley Scott has achieved great success in war epics. "Gladiator" is a classic of this type. Judging from the response during the preview, the quality of "Dynasty of Heaven" is definitely not inferior to "Gladiator".
After Bruce Dewan left, Jim Prous no longer considered the "Dynasty of Heaven" that could be assured, but instead considered the extremely troublesome "Fantastic Four".
This superhero movie is about to be released, but the situation is facing is quite serious.
Twentieth Century Fox has made many efforts, and has done a lot of soft articles in the media and various public relations publicity, but the initiative of the comics is completely in the hands of Marvel Entertainment, and it is not as impactful as the content about the Fantastic Four expressed directly in the comics.
The second issue of Marvel Entertainment's "Civil War" has been published, and the response has been increasing. The Fantastic Four is not only notorious, but also has become a stepping stone for another superhero team comic.
The popularity of the Fantastic Four is a bit old. The audience in the earliest popular period has become old and has long passed the stage of liking superhero themes. The current main audience teenagers are not particularly familiar with the original Fantastic Four. As a result, they just learned about it through the comics and found that these are four disgusting bastards...
The decent Fantastic Four movie will inevitably be affected.
Jim Prous knew very well that Twentieth Century Fox had an opportunity to compromise with Marvel Entertainment, but for practical interests, especially the interests of the "X-Men" series, Twentieth Century Fox could not, nor could it compromise, and in the end it could only be like this.
The prospects for this "Fantastic Four" movie are unfavorable, and the 20th Century Fox is ready to fail.
But failure will not shake its position. Tom Rossman, who has been eyeing him and wants to take the lead, will not have a chance in a short time.
The power struggle within the Murdoch family has temporarily achieved a result. James Murdoch has become the biggest winner with Rupert Murdoch's favor. It won't take long. Twentieth Century Fox will inevitably be under the control of James Murdoch.
As a close confidant of James Murdoch, Jim Prous thinks he is in a stable position.
It's no big deal to fail in a "Fantastic Four". "X-Men" is about to develop many derivative series, involving the interests of this aspect, and 20th Century Fox will definitely not give in.
As for Marvel Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox has no choice but to do it for the time being. Behind the other party is Relativity Entertainment, which is very difficult to deal with.
Specifically, we have to wait until James Murdoch returns to Los Angeles from London and personally take control of the 20th Century Fox in the future.
"Spy Shadows 3" was a huge success in its premiere in North America. The European, Australian and Latin American markets released overseas at the same time were also popular.
Over the first weekend overseas, "Spy Shadows 3" swept away $92.1 million in the film market in more than 30 countries and regions.
Over time, this film will appear in cinemas in more than 90 countries and regions.
The plot of the film is not sensitive. The only real negative character is the CIA in the United States. Even the CIA itself doesn't care. It also sends retired personnel to the crew as special technical consultants. Most countries and regions have pre-screening reviews, and "Spy Shadows 3" passes very easily.
Even Russia has confirmed that it will introduce and open the film on a large scale.
Although it is a pity that Paul Greengras ended his cooperation with Relativity Entertainment and turned to create niche political films that suit his own wishes, for Ronan and Relativity Entertainment, cooperation with any director and actor will eventually end.
In the future, similar situations will continue to occur.
Relativity Entertainment is also exploring new projects, new directors and new actors, both going and coming, this is the virtuous cycle.
The summer season continues. There are many new films to be released this weekend after "Spy Shadows 3". Ronan is undoubtedly concerned about "Dynasty of Heaven".
This film once had a serious polarization of reputation, but it was not a polarization of traditional meaning.
Because those who gave bad reviews basically watched the theater screening version, most of those who gave good reviews were watched the edited version of director Ridley Scott.
Ronan has received news that Twentieth Century Fox is dissatisfied with the length of the edited version of Ridley Scott, which is nearly 200 minutes long. The producer re-sumes his hands on the basic line of Ridley Scott's version and performs another fine cutting in order to shorten the length of the film as much as possible and increase the screening rate during the screening.
To be honest, the choice of Twentieth Century Fox is understandable. If it were relativity entertainment, a similar choice would generally be made.
After all, movies that last more than 3 hours are really crazy, and it is hard for the audience to endure such a long time.
Not to mention the box office revenue involved.
Ronan didn't see the movie, and he couldn't explain clearly what the re-cut version was.
But regardless of whether "Dynasty Dynasty" succeeds or not, Hollywood will continue to restrict the director's final editing rights, and there will be no doubts.
Once upon a time, this war epic was commented on the Internet by many people as a typical example of the failure of the Hollywood producer's central system.
As for "Dynasty of Heaven", there is no problem with this statement, but it is also necessary to limit the director's power.
Not to mention anything else, as far as Michael Bay is concerned, if he does not restrict him and put all his power into his hands, what kind of video will eventually come out?
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No matter how long the video is, Michael Bed dares to blow it from beginning to end.
Just so happens, on the next weekend after "Dynasty" is released, the science fiction production "Escape from the Clones" directed by Michael Bay will also be fully released in North American theaters.
Chapter completed!