Chapter 34

It's no joke that two fists can't beat four hands.

After some chat and dinner, Kevin decided to hire him.

Then he threw out a check and asked him to go to the car shop to buy a luxury car, and then customize a bulletproof car.

As a rich man, cherishing one's own life is definitely not a joke. Kevin never touches those things that hurt his body on weekdays. Kevin also eats other supplements. The only thing that hurts his body is probably only lust.

After everything is arranged.

Kevin started to get busy with the movie.

The post-production process is also not that simple.

Kevin needs to bet most of his energy, but after the specific production time, it is probably clear.

Warner Bros. and MGM decided to set a specific file for Mission Impossible after consultation.

According to the progress, the special effects will take two months, combined with the time for some adjustments, and the current time.

The release time of Mission: Impossible will not be until the end of November at the earliest.

In North America, there are two of the most lucrative periods.

One is the summer vacation, which lasts more than three months from the festival at the end of May to the middle of September.

The other is Christmas from the end of November to the end of December.

In theory, the most suitable period for the release of Mission Impossible as a commercial blockbuster is the summer season, but obviously, both Warner and MGM have their own performance pressures.

Impossible to let Mission: Impossible drag on until that time.

So Mission: Impossible has no choice but to go straight to theaters on Thanksgiving at the end of November.

Fortunately, the Hollywood movie that threatens Kevin the most, Jurassic Park, the original box office champion this year, was released in June, and it was already offline at this time.

The original eighth place at the box office, Gannet Assassination, was invested by Warner Bros. and belongs to a crime thriller. In order to avoid cannibalism, and considering that Mission: Impossible is an action-adventure film, it is more family-friendly than it.

Therefore, the gannet assassination order was put on file for a month, avoiding the conflict.

In this regard, there is only one movie left, called Slim Dad, which is Kevin's biggest threat.

However, the battle of schedule is inevitable. Chainsaw Cry and Escape from the Dead Town happened to fall when the blockbuster was released, but Mission Impossible had to face it at this time.

Kevin is also confident that Mission Impossible's global box office total of 450 million US dollars in 1996 can beat the 420 million global box office achievements of this slim dad in 1993.

In this regard, after some discussion, the finalized Mission Impossible began the offline movie promotion by Liangtang…

Chapter 54 Mission Impossible post-production completed

Now that the Internet speed has not made great progress, Hollywood film companies mainly promote movies offline.

As an adaptation of a classic American drama, Mission Impossible, the main propaganda card is nostalgia.

As an American drama released in the 1960s, his audiences are all in their 40s at this time, and it is the time when they have mastered economic power.

The main audience of Mission Impossible is divided into two categories, one is the special agent adventure film, that is, the fans of 007 type movies.

The other type they need to win over is naturally these sentimental parties.

Various propaganda posters have been produced, and the actions of the characters on them pay tribute to the classics one by one, and strive to evoke everyone's memories.

In this way, publicity and production are juxtaposed, and time flies by quickly.

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Twentieth Century Fox.

Inside the President's Office.

Jeffrey, as the president, is discussing the finalization of Mission Impossible with other executives.

The movie market is so big, if you eat more, it means you need to eat less, especially during the special time of Christmas.

Their company also has a comedy film to be released on Christmas Day, but it is different from the 80 million investment of Mission Impossible.

Nanny Daddy cost only $10 million to make, so they weren't particularly nervous about going head-to-head with Mission Impossible.

However, in a competitive relationship, it can add chaos to Mission Impossible, so naturally, it is necessary to give it a try.

In case it is useful, any loss is a huge sum of millions of dollars.

"Jeffrey, do you want to bribe the cast and make some tricks?"

A black executive suddenly proposed.

There have also been cases of bribing the crew, burning film, and destroying the movie before.

Therefore, in the face of this situation, the black executives immediately thought of this solution.

Other high-level executives cast different eyes on him, different eyes.

As if to say that black people are always black.

In Hollywood, some methods can be used, and some methods can't be used.

Warner Bros. and MGM are not easy to provoke. They will inevitably provoke violent counterattacks by using this method.

To put it bluntly, they can use this method, and others can also use it.

It's so fun, everyone should stop filming.

"Jerry, we definitely can't do this kind of thing."

Jeffrey shook his head at the black man, and then continued:

"Find some black material for the starring role, and hype it up. This is all legitimate competition."

"As for those means, it can only be used by some small crews, but it is impossible to use it when it involves the investment of major Hollywood studios."

After the arrangement was completed, Jeffrey discussed other things with everyone.

After all, in this battle, it is Warner Bros. and MGM who are passive.

Their investment is only a mere 10 million US dollars, which is several orders of magnitude away from their 80 million.

Fox's failure is only a small injury.

While Warners and the others failed, the loss was much greater.

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Of course, it's not just the Fox film company that is in action.

Mission: Impossible, as an absolute big production in the Christmas stalls, has successfully obtained the largest number of opening screens from the theater.

This of course squeezes the plans of many other studios in the Christmas schedule. Like Fox, people with the idea of ​​causing some trouble for Mission: Impossible, but not too many.

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MGM Studios, Kevin is discussing the production style of the film with the MGM production manager.

"Crisp, neat action scenes, special scenes beyond people's imagination, chase scenes on trains, what's the problem?"

MGM's production manager sternly said:

"It looks fine, but he's clearly different from the 007 series, and I suggest you edit towards the 007 model."

"We have the template for the most successful spy films, so why take the risk?"

Looking at this old-fashioned middle-aged man, Kevin suddenly lost his mind to communicate with him.

Although 007 and Mission Impossible are indeed very similar, but in the hands of Kevin, Mission Impossible has shown more of its own characteristics.

Such as action scenes, such as villain settings, such as those special scenes.

If they are all abandoned, the whole copy of 007 will lose its own characteristics, but without the fame of 007, no one knows what will happen to the box office.

Kevin said directly and firmly:

"My style is like this. If you have an opinion, ask your president to mention it, but the style must be according to what I said. If the box office is not good, I will bear the responsibility alone."

The middle-aged man was silent for a while, then nodded.

For middle-aged people, stability is the most important thing. Since the director is willing to take all the responsibilities, he, the production manager who oversees the editing, has nothing to say.

The bottom line, of course, is that Kevin isn't the kind of little director who hasn't made his mark.

It is a well-known director with two big movies. He has the capital to be responsible, and ordinary young directors are not even qualified to say this in front of him.

After resolving the controversy over the style of the film, Kevin continued to pair the first cut with special effects shots, while making better transitions for some shots.

In such a step, the time came to November 20th, only ten days before Thanksgiving.

Although the schedule and the number of opening paintings have been determined, in fact, the film is not really completed until this time.

Upon receiving the news of the completion of the film, Warner Bros. immediately sent a number of film managers, that is, film crews, to MGM to participate in this internal preview.

As the president, Leiter was also very nervous sitting in the viewing seat, next to him were the president of Warner and Kevin.

Several people were a little nervous.

The huge investment of 30 million US dollars is definitely not a joke. This is the price of dozens of human lives. If there is a huge loss, no one can bear it.

For Kevin, if Mission Impossible fails, MGM's shares will not be mentioned for the time being, but the chance to get Marvel is missed, and he has almost no chance of reaching the top in Hollywood.

For Reiter, failure means that he will be abandoned by MGM and become a loser.

For losers, it is almost impossible to get this status again.

As for Warner President Robinoff, although they are not as desperate as they are, the failure of this investment has some impact on his status in Warner.

With their own ideas, the three watched the finalized version of Mission Impossible formed by Kevin after four months of filming and two months of special effects production.

Chapter 55 Inside Viewing – Positioning of S-Class Commercial Blockbusters

The original plot of Mission Impossible is actually not complicated.

The CIA obtained intelligence and learned that a traitor appeared in their agent team. The traitor was going to sell the list of agents arranged by the CIA in Eastern Europe to foreign agent organizations. Under the planning of the agent leader Jim, the protagonist Ethan brought a group of agents. to their trading location.

Who knows, when they arrived, they were ambushed, and except for Ethan and his wife, all the other agents were wiped out.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of dollars appeared in Ethan's account for no reason, so Ethan became the biggest suspect of this traitor.

Afterwards, it was the process of Ethan, relying on his extraordinary mind and skills, to bravely enter the Dragon Pool and Tiger's Den to cleanse himself.

This kind of plot, no matter where it is placed, is not surprising.

But the ability of directors lies here. They can make simple stories show a completely different style in the movie.

Through editing, the use of screen colors, and the director's personal aesthetics, a wonderful film is formed.

Of course, the audience of Mission Impossible itself, and the fan group of Tom Cruise, the protagonist, are very important.

This is an important part of attracting audiences to the cinema in the early stage of the film.

Otherwise, Kevin could have paid a lower price to shoot Mission Impossible.

For example, change the name of the movie, do not want the audience of the big IP such as Mission Impossible, such as not the big star Tom Cruise, and change the role of a small star.

In this way, the investment can be reduced to 50 million or less.

But in this way, the probability of film failure will increase to more than 80%.

To put it bluntly, the success of the film has many factors.

The number of openings, audience word of mouth, stars, IP, movie quality, each of which will affect the audience's willingness to enter the cinema.

Kevin has never felt that there are movies that can get good grades directly without relying on operations.

Operation is a vital part of the success of the film.

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In the screening hall, several people and the viewing manager were watching the movie attentively.

The story is simple, but through Kevin's wonderful editing, the audience is completely immersed in the protagonist Ethan and worried about him.

At the same time, I expect Ethan to use his skills to clean up his own whitewash and find out the real traitor in the CIA.

Compared with the previous spy films, this mission: Impossible, directed by Kevin, is extraordinarily real.

This truth does not mean that it is the same as the real intelligence agency, but that what it shows is very consistent with the image of intelligence agencies and agents in people's imagination.

After all, audiences are ordinary people. They won't go into detail about what the real secret service agency looks like. They just want to see what the secret agent looks like in the movie.