Internal Screening and Finalization

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By the middle of June, the special effects and soundtrack of the film had been completely completed. With Kevin's re-processing, a complete master tape of the film was produced.

MGM, screening room.

The audience was filled with MGM and Warner Bros. executives and viewing managers.

They will rate Pirates of the Caribbean from their professional point of view. If it is rated as a high-quality commercial blockbuster, then Pirates of the Caribbean will receive the full publicity and support of their two companies, as well as the largest number of master copies.

Kevin handed over the master tape in his hand to the person in charge of the screening, and then sat next to Reiter and Robinoff.

The projectionist was preparing for the screening, and Robinoff discussed the specific schedule with Kevin and Reiter.

Robinoff analyzed Kevin:

"Currently in the summer and upcoming films include Forrest Gump from Paramount, The Lion King, an animated film from Buffalo Films, True Lies and Speed ​​of Life from Fox, and The Stone from Universal Pictures. Family Paradise."

"These five films will be the strongest contenders at the Pirates of the Caribbean box office."

"We have to pick a suitable date to avoid too strong a head-on confrontation with them."

Listening to Robinoff's introduction, Kevin recalled the box office rankings of the movies one by one in his memory.

Forrest Gump, naturally, needless to say, the blockbuster hit Olympics under the typical American values, but the Americans at this time really eat this set, not only the box office is not bad.

He also won a total of six Oscars, including the Academy Award for Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Director next year.

As for his director, Robert Zemeckis, he is also Kevin's predecessor and senior, also from the University of Southern California.

Kevin and he are naturally in the same faction.

If it is not necessary, theoretically he should not take the initiative to touch Forrest Gump.

As for the animated movie The Lion King, although it is aggressive, Kevin knows that it belongs to the type of powerless successor, and the Lion King has just been released, and their Pirates of the Caribbean has not yet been finalized, so don't worry too much.

Then the remaining Kevin actually has no choice. The true lie played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by James Cameron is the unavoidable enemy of Kevin.

There is only so little time in the summer season. If a blockbuster wants to be a big hit in the summer season, it must step on the corpses of other movies.

Fortunately, it is not Cameron's other works, but this true lie. In fact, the conflict between the two is not very strong. They belong to two types of movies, and they will not cause too violent impact.

Based on this consideration, Kevin raised his head and said:

"Let's set the file for the end of June!"

Although Kevin's goal is to aim at true lies, the biggest conflict with his movie is Forrest Gump. At this time, Forrest Gump has long been set and will be broadcast on July 6.

True Lies won't be released until July 15.

What Kevin means is to release it a week in advance, so that the first week that attracts the most box office avoids all the powerful enemies and makes a profit first. As for the time after that, you can only directly fight the bayonet.

As for whether it can beat these two movies, Kevin can only say that he is very confident.

After all, the audiences of the three are different.

Although Forrest Gump has achieved good results, it actually has a completely different audience from Pirates of the Caribbean. The audience of Forrest Gump tends to be middle-class elites and a small number of hard-working and motivated people at the bottom.

The good movies they pursue are often not for the pursuit of cool and good-looking.

But in pursuit of a sense of superiority, a sense of self-mind cleansing.

On the contrary, Kevin's Pirates of the Caribbean doesn't need to say anything about its connotations, it's enough to have fun.

Kevin's target audience for the movie is the theme of family fun, which is dominated by teenagers.

The so-called family fun is a movie with teenagers as the core, so as to draw in a whole family.

Once such a movie is a big hit, the box office of the movie will be very exaggerated, and the people who come to watch the movie usually come in groups and from one family to one family.

Even though Forrest Gump has won numerous awards, it is still a bit short of a grade to compete with Pirates of the Caribbean at the box office.

"Our worst enemy is the true lie. As for Forrest Gump, although the filming is good, it naturally does not have an advantage in box office competition."

Kevin analyzes his thoughts to Robinoff and Reiter.

The two nodded. In fact, they had more professionals inside to analyze the schedule.

Everyone agrees that if Pirates of the Caribbean is of good enough quality, the top-grossing schedule is set for the end of June.

On the contrary, if the quality of Pirates of the Caribbean is average, it is more serious, if they want to return to the original, they will directly withdraw from the whole summer program.

Everything depends on the quality of Pirates of the Caribbean, and now, all they have to do is appreciate the specific quality of Kevin's Pirates of the Caribbean.

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At the beginning of the film, the picture unfolds with a panoramic view of the town of Pirates of the Caribbean, through the costumes of the extras, and the old-fashioned guns, to convey to people that this is a thing that happened in the past.

Through the scenery and environment, people are quickly substituted into this past story.

Here, Kevin ditched the original Pirates of the Caribbean scene that started with the origins of a small blacksmith, and instead opened with a scenery, the purpose is actually very simple.

It is to break the identity of the hero of the little blacksmith.

According to the original plot, the little blacksmith is actually the first male protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean, but under the charm of Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, he was completely robbed of the light.

From male one to male two.

I have to say, it's really bad.

As soon as the environment changed, the picture came to Elizabeth's bedroom, and the cursed gold coin hanging around her neck indicated its important status under the hint of the language of the camera.

This is followed by a quick plot, explaining the identity and origin of the little blacksmith and Elizabeth.

Then, the screen changed again, and the little ruffian Captain Jack Sparrow appeared.

"Oh!"

The moment Jack Sparrow appeared, his coquettish posture, orchid fingers, and sloppy but unique style instantly attracted everyone's attention.

Completely different from people's impressions, the vicious and vicious pirate image is an inexplicable and indescribable taste.

People want to know what kind of character such a special pirate is.

How did it become like this.