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Published at 3rd of January 2022 12:27:31 PM


Chapter 683

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Mark has just settled the matter of grand theft No. 1. Several distinguished guests came to the office. Wen Ziren, the popular director in charge, brought van diesel, the producer of speed and passion 4, and Lin Zhibin, the director.

The series of "speed and passion" has gone through eight years since 2009. The directors of the three films during this period are different, and the evaluation of the three films is also different. The first part of speed and passion has always been regarded as the best one in the series, and then one is not as good as one. It is recognized that one crab is not as good as one crab. The last part of speed and passion: Tokyo Drift has created the worst reputation so far. At that time, it was rumored that the world wanted to stop this series.

Director Lin Zhibin, who directed speed and passion: Tokyo Drift, mentioned the failure of the last episode. He said he was willing to accept criticism because the production of the last episode was independent of the first two episodes, the available resources were limited, and the production cost could not be compared with the first two episodes. For him who made this type of film for the first time, he also had some problems, However, he felt that he had fulfilled his responsibility. After the film was made, he put forward many suggestions to the company and argued with reason, so that he could have the opportunity to continue to make a sequel.

At the beginning of the film planning, what the producer should prepare is how to shoot the bridge section of the car with a sense of speed and more thrilling. Therefore, the crew designed a variety of drag racing scenes, and tested the feasibility of shooting again and again. The technical guidance of flying car is very hard.

The first return of the original team is the biggest attraction. For a film with the title of racing car, the title of speed and passion appropriately points out the two elements of this kind of film: the passion of racing on the road with various famous sports cars and experiencing the extreme speed of more than 200kmh.

After the trip to Tokyo in the third episode of the "speed and passion" series, the film uses the lineup of the first film and recalls the two stars van diesel and Paul Walker. In addition, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster also return as heroines again. This is the main emotion card, hoping to continue the scenery of the first film.

"Speed and passion 4" was released in beimi area in April and set the highest box office record for Hollywood's new film premiere weekend this year.

According to the global announcement, the total box office revenue of beimi on the third weekend of the film reached US $72.5 million, which not only exceeded any film released since 2009, but also set the highest box office record for the premiere weekend of a new film in April in Hollywood history.

"Speed and passion 4" continues to be directed by Taiwan born Chinese director Lin Zhibin, who directed "speed and passion 3: Tokyo Drift". The difference is that the film has revived all the star cast of "speed and passion 1" in 2001.

The film tells the story that the former gang leader played by Van diesel meets again with the undercover detective played by Paul Walker after he gets out of prison and breaks into the drug trafficking organization according to the police arrangement. The colorful modified racing cars and dazzling flying stunts in the film are still the biggest selling points.

In addition, "speed and passion 4" was also released in 32 film markets outside North America this weekend, with a total overseas box office revenue of US $30.1 million.

The eye-catching box office performance of "speed and passion 4" has become one of Hollywood's recent surprises. The total box office revenue of beimi region this weekend also reached US $160 million, a sharp increase of 68% over the same period last year. By the end of this week, the total box office revenue of North American films in 2009 had reached US $2.57 billion, 14.5% higher than that in the same period last year.

In fact, this achievement is quite elegant and can be taken at any time, but it is not enough to see compared with the strong works such as Iron Man 2, transformers 2 and Harry Potter 6, which often break 100 million in three days and 100 million on Tuesday alone.

Because of the losses of 2 and 3, the income of 1 and 4 only makes globegroup earn hard money and barely maintain the average revenue and expenditure, but the production cost of the film is rising. In addition, several blockbusters invested by globegroup have failed, and in the face of the economic crisis, banks are shrinking their money and refusing to lend. Globegroup is not sure whether to make another fifth film.

Van diesel and Lin Yibin, one of the producers, insisted on making a sequel and wrote a script, but Ron Meyer, President of globegroup, had a headache when he saw the production cost of 150 million. In a disaster year, the landlord had no surplus food!

Seeing the confident appearance of diesel and Lin Yibin, Mayer made a decision that he regretted, and said, "if you can get money, I don't mind giving up part of the copyright!" these days, large companies can't get money, let alone small and medium-sized companies or individuals. He just wanted to give them up and let it go first, When the company's financial situation improves, we can talk about investment.

Deesel and Lin Yibin believed it and immediately ran around to attract investment, but investors shook their heads when they heard that the racing film with an investment of hundreds of millions was still made in South America.

Lin Yibin had a good personal relationship with Wen Ziren, and Wen Ziren got along like a duck to water in mm. Under his recommendation, they came to mark's face and came to the office of Hollywood God's hand to sell and sell this plan to him.

Mark no longer doubts his protagonist's aura. What he wants will always be sent automatically. Does he slander the "speed and passion" series? That's false. He thinks it's the lifeblood of the world. Who touches who dies? Why hurt the kindness of your peers? Who knows, globegroup automatically sent it to the door, which is disrespectful.

However, he doubted the sincerity of the other party and thought that the other party might be testing him. In Hollywood, as long as mark liked the work, it immediately became a hot commodity. There has been such a precedent. Someone sent the work to mark. When he liked it, he immediately turned around and successfully hyped himself and made a bad price.

He made a ha ha and said, "I like this project, but now popular are magic blockbusters and superhero blockbusters. This racing film is not favored."

Van diesel is a man with a unique personality. He is strong. Whether in movies or daily life, he is mainly based on a vest, which makes people feel handsome. The muscle and voice, some people say, this unique voice, this is the most magnetic hard male smoking voice in the world. Just listening to his voice is a kind of enjoyment.

He is one of the most individual tough guys in Hollywood. From the appearance, van diesel looks like a heavy locomotive, but in fact, he is quite artistic. He writes, supervises and directs his own plays. The powerful, muscular and tall van diesel gives people a cynical and maverick style. There are two kinds of blood flowing in his body, one from romantic and warm Italy and the other from ancient and mysterious Africa, which makes him often show a different style on the screen.

Unlike many stars who are rumored and want to be known all over the world, van diesel refuses to disclose his life experience to the outside world, even his real name. He only publicly says that his real name is Vincent.

He has been in contact with famous model Paloma gimanez for many years, but Van diesel has always blocked the news and did not disclose the news to the outside world. Their relationship is also very low-key. Paloma is a woman integrating beauty and wisdom. She was a lawyer before she became a model.

The producer, the top action star in Hollywood, is an expert. Naturally, he can see Mark's hesitation. It's not easy to make an appointment with mark, a super rich man. He knows that hiding is a hard won opportunity to waste. He said: "We are not empty handed people. We have the power of attorney of the president of globegroup. If we reach an agreement, we can sign at any time. We come with the contract and are full of sincerity."

In fact, he cooperated with Colombia. His famous work "extreme agent" was a Colombian work at that time, but it broke up unhappily because of the film pay. In 2005, "extreme agent 2" However, earth shaking changes have taken place in Colombia in recent years. No one cares about that little resentment in previous years. One is a rare action star in Hollywood and the other is a giant film company. There is still a lot of room for cooperation.

Mark was secretly happy when he saw that the other party came with dry goods. He didn't want to do it. The 80 year old mother collapsed the child's work. He said: "in fact, I'm not optimistic about the prospect of this project. The racing film is the fourth film, and the market potential should be explored not much. In addition, the last cooperation with globegroup was not very pleasant."

He refers to invincible hawk, which is a huge investment film. Globegroup accuses marvel of cutting corners. Even iron man can be made like this, but the more prestigious Hulk is even worse, (among Marvel superheroes, iron man can only be regarded as a member of the second echelon, but with its global box office sales, he has jumped to the eldest son of marvel and shoulder the important task of safeguarding world peace).

Marvel accuses globegroup of harboring and conniving at Norton, changing the script again and again, and tossing a superhero blockbuster into a literary atmosphere. Why not rush?

The bald man promised: "not this time. We will use the same team and delegate power to Lin (Zhibin) , concentrate on making a pure commercial popcorn film. Can you listen to Lin's ideas? He has quite a set of films. He has even conceived the plot of the sixth and seventh films. If the films sell well, we will build them into a series of racing films that sell well all over the world. "

Selling movies to investors is the only way to impress them. It is the practice of many film companies to make a series of big sales. Mm, Warner, Disney and universal are experts. However, this series of IP does not mean to be built. It is a good result to select one of more than 100 projects.

Mark looked interested and said, "I'm listening!"




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