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Season 2 Chapter 496: The dust has settled

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    readx; This "Alexander the Great" directed by Oliver Stone made its debut on the North American box office rankings on Wednesday, ranking sixth on the rankings with a box office of only 13.5 million US dollars in the three days of the weekend.  It can be said that it was a bad start.  ¡ÑSuimeng Novel, This three-hour epic film has the best creative team and production lineup.  In terms of the cast, Colin Farrell plays Alexander, Val Kilmer plays Alexander's father King Philip, the sexy goddess Angelina Jolie plays Alexander's mother Queen Olympias, and Anthony Hopkins plays History.  scholar Ptolemy, Rosario Townsend plays Alexander's wife Roxanne, and Jared Leto plays Alexander's colleague Hephaestion.  ??Whether it is an actor cast or a producer cast, it is a large-scale production that is second to none.  "Alexander the Great" was released last Wednesday in order to catch up with the American Thanksgiving holiday. The total box office so far is 21.6 million US dollars.  This film, self-financed by the famous Hollywood director Oliver Stone, fulfilled his 15-year wish.  According to relevant reports, the shooting cost of "Alexander the Great" was as high as 210 million US dollars. It was shot in three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, and will become one of the most expensive movies in the history of film.  Unfortunately, the film has received negative reviews since its release.  A large number of negative reviews mainly focused on the film¡¯s exaggeration of Alexander¡¯s bisexuality and incest, as well as the emptiness of the story and characterization.  Someone said that the film "if it had been placed in Alexander's time, the gods would have sent down angry lightning."  The content of the movie may be really nonsense, and the Greek government was offended.  A team of lawyers was hired to sue Oliver Stone for misrepresenting Alexander's sexual orientation. This lawsuit made the situation even more chaotic.  And the distribution company of this movie is still the struggling Warner Bros. Entertainment.  They paid $35 million to purchase North American rights from the film's production company, Intermedia Films.  Now it's so speechless, but fortunately, the 2.1 billion movies are not shot by themselves.  Otherwise, Warner CEO is in danger of being ousted due to successive losses.  In its second week of release, "National Treasure" continues to top the list with a box office of 35.1 million U.S. dollars, followed closely by the animated film "The Incredibles."  It grossed $24.1 million at the box office.  Both films were produced by Disney Pictures, and post-production was completed by Pixar Animation Studio.  After its sixth week in theaters, "Van Helsing" has once again grossed over 10 million in weekend box office, taking in US$13.5 million in one week.  Strong recovery.  This result has also pushed the North American box office of "Van Helsing" to a height of 192.5 billion U.S. dollars. It will exceed 200 million U.S. dollars next week, and the cumulative global box office will exceed 45.8 billion U.S. dollars.  ¡ª¡ªContinue to exert the magic of "vampire monster".  There is no doubt that this is the first and pioneering work of the "Matrix Monsters Movie Universe Project" that was once called the whimsical Matrix by the media.  It was undoubtedly a success.  The Matrix has once again added a hero to its library of blockbuster films.  Striking while the iron is hot, Matrix CEO Peck immediately announced that he is preparing to launch the next filming plan for the "Monster Movie Universe".  Everyone thought it was just one movie, but on the official website of Matrix, there are three movie works: "Dracula", "Vampire Hunter" and "Underworld"!  "Dracula" tells the story of Count Dracula, the most famous vampire in legendary novels, before he became a vampire.  Starring: Johnny Depp. ?¡­ ?Except for one of the starring roles, none of the other characters have been announced.  Because we are still looking for someone to write the script, it is a typical three-nothing type where the script and director have not yet been decided.  The second is a movie that continues the successful model of "Van Helsing", a movie called "Vampire Hunter".  It was actually adapted from a Japanese cartoon that was released in the United States in the early years.  Some curious fans can actually find the prototype after searching, but the film¡¯s box office in North America was disastrous.  After the film was released in Japan after being translated into Japanese, the results were so-so.  However, the imdb movie score is not low, at least it is not lagging behind in terms of reputation.  The original animated film "Vampire Hunter D" is an animated film directed by Japan's Kawajiri Yoshiaki. The work is also adapted from "Demon Killing", one of the series of fantasy novels of the same name by the famous Japanese writer Hideyuki Kikuchi.  The film was first released in the United States, and then a Japanese dubbed version was released in Japan.  The animation abandons the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the original novel and depicts the entire story as a soul-stirring love tragedy.  Many original plots have been added to make the characters more fleshed out.  The character design of the work adheres to the style of Yoshitaka Amano who drew and illustrated the original work.The wild and magnificent features complement the overall style of the film. It is a romantic and beautiful fantasy animated film.  It¡¯s a pity that the Japanese can¡¯t understand American aesthetics and the English dubbing is weak.  It makes the film lose its color too much.  The American audience couldn't figure out what he wanted to express.  Regardless of these things, just looking at the picture and action design, and savoring the beautiful Gothic style in the movie, it is still a very watchable cartoon.  If "Van Helsing" is a collection of monsters.  Among them are scarecrows, dwarfs, old mountain monsters integrated with strange trees, werewolves, vampires, etc.  Then this "Vampire Hunter" is also a monster reunion: including a female dryad with voluptuous skin and a hot figure, a shadow demon like an old witch, a barbarian riding a unicycle, a savage werewolf with a wolf mouth on its chest,  There are vampires who are as elegant as medieval nobles, a huge group of earth dragons, and a half-human, half-vampire vampire hunter D with a monster sealed in his palm There are also many monster characters, and they all have their own characteristics.  This big plan was originally called "Matrix Monster Universe", but this time it is really going to take the monster route to the end.  Compare it to this.  Universal, which has also been clamoring to create its own monster universe, has not yet approved a movie project.  It's just that the thunder is loud and the rain is small.  There is also news that Universal has seen the great success of "Van Helsing" and is very excited.  Insiders are considering bringing the classic "Frankenstein" to the big screen.  The Matrix still has many original creations, but Frankenstein has a huge fan base around the world.  If Universal really wants to create a "Universal Monsters Universe", even if it is just trying to make mistakes, it will definitely be a formidable rival in the Matrix.  But Frankenstein is still far away, and people¡¯s focus is still on the next member of the matrix monster.  "The Matrix has always been good at creating miracles. After the announcement of this shooting plan.  On the contrary, this Japanese cartoon that had sunk to the bottom of the sea was brought to the stage again and became a small hit.  Even the Japanese media reported the incident after getting the information from the American media.  "Asahi Shimbun" reported: "The Imperial Japanese cartoon "Vampire Hunter D" will be adapted into a Hollywood live-action movie. This is the second time that Matrix has adapted the hit TV series "Legal Heroes" and the best-selling anime "Rurouni Kenshin"  ", "". Once again adapted a Japanese animation work There were rumors before that Chen Tiandujun has always been a loyal fan of Japanese comics, and even filled in the story outline by himself and had it completed by "Weekly Sh¨­nen Jump".  The creation of the comic "". Now I am very fond of Japanese cartoons. It seems that this is true"  It's nothing more than mentioning others to show off yourself.  For Chen Tiandu, it has no real meaning, but there is a lot of new news in the Japanese entertainment industry.  Because the movie has already been announced to have Japanese actors participating in the roles, this has attracted many big names to inquire about Kong Yiji, making the movie a hit before it was even made.  In fact, it was Kong Yiji who released it, but the list had already been decided. Ayase Haruka was still at home, secretly rejoicing. What did Kong Daguan want to do?  The final plan of the first phase.  It's called "Underworld."  What has been announced is only the heroine¡¯s information.  It is none other than Kate Beckinsale Chan, who is affectionately called "The Lady of the Night" by her fans.  The media has also speculated about the content of this movie. As part of a large series of movies, the heroine is Kate.  That is naturally a continuation of the ending of "Van Helsing", and the story after Kate becomes a vampire is undoubtedly.  Originally, in "Van Helsing", Princess Anna played by Kate has already killed everyone. If she shoots "Underworld" again this time, I am really worried, who in the whole Hollywood can control the long legs of the goddess.  "Los Angeles Times" joked: "It seems that the great director does not mind letting his wife go all the way to the dark side. She is really not afraid of being beaten and subjected to domestic violence at home." After Thanksgiving, the DreamWorks acquisition negotiations were resumed again.  After much haggling and more than ten rounds of repeated consultations, a final outcome was finally reached.  DreamWorks Production Company is sold, but DreamWorks Animation Company is slightly different.  Spielberg, Katzenberg and David Geffen, the three largest shareholders, will continue to retain some shares.  Not exactly an acquisition.  But the matrix must play a leadership role, which is also the focus and tangle of negotiations.  The entire acquisition price is as high as US$3.6 billion. Matrix will acquire all the equity of DreamWorks and assume all its debts.  After this announcement was released by Matrix Films CEO Peck, all of Hollywood sighed.  DreamWorks has been selling it for several years, with buyers ranging from Universal to Paramount to Disney.  I didn¡¯t expect that in the end it would be Chen ?? who walked out of DreamWorks.?This brings an end to the protracted acquisition rumors.  Although there will be less on-demand news reports in the future, the reporters will not be unhappy. ¡°It makes people excited just thinking about it. It is really an inspirational model.¡± ¡°Chen Tiandu, who took the first payment from DreamWorks, now  Returning to DreamWorks as a usurper, this kind of drama is much better than the plot of the movie. " "The drama of 'Steven Spielberg vs. Chen Tiandu' that has been hyped for so many years has come to an end.  " "Matrix is ??getting bigger and bigger, and it has swallowed up DreamWorks. Is the next step really going to be a "war" with Paramount? " "Can the six major Hollywood companies just sit back and watch Matrix continue to grow? Matrix acquires DreamWorks?  Can the factory escape the fate of being acquired? "No one can predict what the future will bring." December 5, Monday.  "National Treasure", the movie starring "King of Bad Movies" Nicolas Cage, won an unprecedented three consecutive championships, with the North American box office exceeding US$1.1 billion.  In its fifth week of release, the box office of "The Incredibles" exceeded $22.6 billion.  In the seventh week after "Van Helsing" was released, the North American box office undoubtedly exceeded 200 million US dollars, and the global box office is also slowly heading towards 500 million The film market is so "competing for novels and glamor", but all this was stolen by a piece of news that stole the entertainment headlines  .  Early in the morning, at the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, the press conference hall of the University of Nottingham was already filled with hundreds of reporters.  There are many reporters from Asia and Europe, and the group of reporters with oriental faces sitting at the front are particularly conspicuous.  They are all Chinese.  There are still people completing the security check one after another and walking into the hall.  There are also a lot of paparazzi groups outside the hotel that are unable to enter. They may be waiting to take a few photos to go back for business.  Everyone is waiting for this signing ceremony to be held.  Finally, DreamWorks executives and Matrix executives appeared one by one.  The big shots who would never be able to gather together in normal times are now gathered here.  Seeing this scene, how many people will feel emotional.  ???At least Stallone, George Lucas, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones and others watching the news at home will inevitably have ups and downs.  "I think back then" After Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron and others saw the Matrix snatching food from its mouth and forcibly swallowing the huge DreamWorks, another one  Feelings.  "I think back then" "Hey. I don't want to think about it anymore. What a waste of time." Under the introduction of the host, they all walked onto the stage in suits and ties. They were all smiling. The scene looked so harmonious.  Chen Tiandu also warmly embraced Katzenberg and Spielberg.  After sitting down, Chen Tiandu talked about the help he received and the feeling of working with Katzenberg for the first time.  He smiled and broke the news: "He was not a friendly person at the time. We often quarreled with each other. We were all arrogant people and insisted on each other's opinions. No one accepted anyone. We ended up arguing. We made a global box office breakthrough.  "The Sixth Sense" worth US$600 million! "" Bang bang bang~~" Chen Tiandu said with emotion, which attracted many reporters to applaud.  Maybe they can recall the great scene when "The Sixth Sense" was released.  Katzenberg also recalled with a look on his face and said with a smile: "Thinking about the original scene, it seems like it happened yesterday. It's incredible. Steve and I look at the box office data every day and watch the box office of "The Sixth Sense" exceed 100 million.  , exceeded 200 million, surpassed "Saving Private Ryan", and then exceeded 300 million It was also selling well overseas. "It was almost a breakthrough." Spielberg also shook his head with emotion, "It was really a crazy time.  ¡± After talking about Katzenberg and then Spielberg, Chen Tiandu remained humble.  Said: "He is my teacher. Maybe reality has changed, maybe I have some achievements now, but he will not change. There will still be only one Steven Spielberg in the world, which is irreplaceable. I  After leaving DreamWorks, I never thought that we would be able to continue working together again. " Spielberg said with a smile, "Young people today are so awesome.  It¡¯s okay not to admit it.¡± ¡°We old guys have to keep up with the times, otherwise we will really be abandoned by the times. Chen now has the demeanor of a film master. There are many things in him that people can learn from.  , he is a special case. I didn¡¯t have many opportunities to talk before, but now I can communicate with you. I want to learn this trick.¡± Naturally, I didn¡¯t give the reporters below much time to ask questions.  A chance to ruin the mood.  Most of the time, a few big shots are remembering the past.    What was said on stage was interesting, and he occasionally made jokes, which actually attracted a large number of reporters. ???????????????????????????????????????????????? Most of the entertainment gossip pages around the world the next day will feature a certain scene here.  Under the terms of the acquisition, Matrix will acquire the rights to all 59 DreamWorks films, including Oscar-winning Best Picture winners such as "Gladiator" and "American Beauty," as well as "War of the Worlds" and "Cat and Mouse."  ", "Saving Private Ryan", "Minority Report" and other amazing dramas directed by Steven Spielberg.  Compared with the huge film resources, the role of the Big Three cannot be underestimated. Katzenberg has a good relationship with Paramount, Spielberg and Universal are old friends, and David Geffen is the only business giant, but he  I prefer Disney.  But this relationship will not ease the contradiction between the Matrix and the Big Six in Hollywood, but may intensify it.  If you don't want to have a real confrontation, acquiring Paramount is one way.  Or, for every movie, there are six major companies involved in it, either investing in it or distributing it.  The matrix is ??now out of the way of production, and integrating into it is the best way out.  After the acquisition is completed, Spielberg and Geffen will sign new employment agreements with Matrix, assuming the roles of producer/director and chairman respectively.  Mr. Katzenberg will continue to serve as CEO of DreamWorks Pictures.  The addition of DreamWorks will also help Matrix develop more low-cost productions and reduce risks for the company.  Under the new organization, production and distribution will be led by Spielberg and Geffen.  According to Matrix's consistent line of high-quality blockbusters, future cooperation with Matrix will produce at least 4 to 6 film shooting plans every year. DreamWorks and Matrix will maintain the same production scale.  The sales and other functional structures of DreamWorks will be integrated with the relevant channels of the matrix company and operated in a unified manner.  The biggest concern is undoubtedly DreamWorks Animation.  This animation pioneer with an annual output of 700 million will produce existing animated films together with the new "Matrix Animation".  For example, Matrix has started production of the "Kung Fu Panda" animated film, and DreamWorks has already started production of the "Madagascar" animated film.  DreamWorks Animation¡¯s huge team of thousands of people will undoubtedly drive Matrix Animation to mature rapidly.  These two films will be the first jointly produced films after the merger.  Spielberg and others also want to see if Chen Tiandu really has the ability to "never fail", let's start with next year's "Madasgas".  (To be continued.)?¡­
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