Heads Up Hollywood

Kevin Fitch was only 26 years old when he entered the industry, and was appointed by Tang En as the assistant to the chairman of Marvel Studios, assisting Nina Jacobson.

At the age of 30, he was promoted to vice president of Marvel Studios.

This year, at the age of 33, he finally ushered in the pinnacle of his career and was appointed as the chairman and CEO of Marvel Pictures!

With the hot screening of "Daredevil 2", he accepted an exclusive interview with "Hollywood Reporter", announcing that the behind-the-scenes hero of this Marvel movie has come to the most glamorous stage in Hollywood.

When talking about DC Films, Kevin Fitch said: "In fact, we are not a real competitive relationship. This kind of 'relationship' only exists in media reports. I think Jeff Johns is my one. My friend, we grew up in this industry together, so I applaud him for everything he has achieved, and I also appreciate his work from the perspective of a fan. Whether it is a Marvel or DC movie, if one of the movies wins This is beneficial to both of us, which is why I often support them.”

Jeff Johns was originally an executive of Marvel Pictures, but was poached by Warner in 2003 to serve as the creative director of DC Pictures.

When talking about "Batman 2", Kevin Feige also generously admitted: "Indeed, Batman and Daredevil have a lot of similarities, after all, they are carried forward by the same cartoonist. It is a continuation of the dark spirit. However, I don't think it is a repetition. "Daredevil 2" is a very good movie, and I also wish "Batman 2" a good result. For Marvel , At present, more attention should be paid to "Mission: Impossible 3" rather than "Batman 2."

On May 5, "Daredevil 2" will be released.

On May 12, "Mission: Impossible 3" was released.

On May 19, "Batman 2" was released.

In fact, most schools in the United States are on vacation at the end of May. Strictly speaking, the summer holidays are in June and July. May is a "pre-summer file", and only films that are full of confidence will be released in May.

In a few years, Hollywood has advanced this "pre-summer schedule" by another week, and blockbuster movies will be released at the end of April, such as "Fast and Furious 8", "Avengers 3", and "Avengers 4". With a performance full of confidence, the distributor is confident and invincible, and must set aside a better schedule for those blockbusters that are not so safe.

Of course, relatively speaking, the competition in May is also smaller than in June and July.

Don't look at "Daredevil 2", "Mission: Impossible 3", and "Batman 2" are all connected, but after all, only one blockbuster movie is released every week.

Come June, the real peak season arrives, with at least two new films released every week.

The last question, the reporter asked: "Since "Spider-Man", Marvel Studios' movies have always been based on light-hearted humor and suitable for the whole family, including "Ant-Man", "Iron Man" and "Thor". But "Daredevil 1", "Daredevil 2", including "Ghost Rider", are all deepening the inner world of superheroes, which is the dark wind. These are two different routes. May I ask the future Marvel Studios ...Would you consider making an R-rated film? After all, the scale in the comics is quite large."

Kevin Feige said: "There is no doubt that this will be an option that may exist in the future of Marvel Studios. We are no strangers to R-rated films, such as "Blade Warrior" in previous years. Knowing that the protagonist of this movie is from Marvel comics, because at the time, the filmmakers deliberately concealed his Marvel identity."

"Can you give some details?"

"I think the combination of Deadpool and Spider-Man will be very interesting."

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There is no doubt that the "Mission: Impossible" series is the mainstay of Paramount.

Tom Cruise is too dark, though!

In "Mission: Impossible 3", Tom Cruise called out an offer of $25 million in remuneration plus 25% of the box office share! This means that once this film is approved, Paramount will definitely not make as much money as Tom Cruise!

This is simply darker than Spielberg.

Spielberg made films for DreamWorks, half of the profits belonged to him and his team, and the other half of the profits belonged to DreamWorks. But he is the boss of DreamWorks, so he has the final say.

What is Tom Cruise? Let Paramount make soy sauce for him?

It is tolerable, what is unbearable!

So two years ago, the angry Redstone personally issued an order to no longer cooperate with Tom Cruise!

But the "Mission Impossible" series is different from the "Fast and Furious" series.

Vin Diesel does not have the copyright of "Fast and Furious", so when he offered a sky-high price, Universal Pictures had more choices. At worst, it would just shoot and break up, and no longer cooperate! This year's "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift" does not have the role of Vin Diesel.

But Tom Cruise owns part of the rights to "Mission: Impossible," and Paramount couldn't have started the project without him!

It just so happens that Paramount is doing very poorly now, except for the "Mission: Impossible" series, it really can't come up with a decent "popular style".

what to do?

There was no other way, Lei Shidong had no choice but to swallow his anger!

Tom Cruise once publicly criticized Redstone, saying he was too old and petty to understand movies. As a result, Redstone finally had to withdraw his order, allowing Paramount to continue to cooperate with Tom Cruise in the filming of "Mission: Impossible 3".

Lei Shidong was teased by Tang En, but he couldn't even handle Tom Cruise, it was embarrassing.

Anyway, after 6 years, amidst the ups and downs, the "Mission: Impossible" series finally released a new work - "Mission: Impossible 3"!

On May 12, "Mission: Impossible 3" will be released nationwide!

Friday, $16.63 million; Saturday, $18.41 million; Sunday, $12.7 million.

Counting the $2.84 million advance screening, the $20,000 premiere screening...

"Mission: Impossible 3" grossed $50 million in its first week of release!

Compared with the film's production cost of US$150 million, such box office results are really unsatisfactory. Ranked second in the weekly box office list.

Who is the first?

There is no doubt that it is the hit "Daredevil 2"!

In the seven days of the following week, the box office results were 24.49 million US dollars, 20.86 million US dollars, 18.38 million US dollars, 16.46 million US dollars, 23.23 million US dollars, 28.27 million US dollars, and 23.66 million US dollars.

Although it was hit by the new film of "Mission: Impossible 3" in the three days of the weekend, the box office did not surge, but the strong word-of-mouth effect gave "Daredevil 2" a long-term box office basis.

Following the box office of 150 million US dollars in the first week, the next week's box office cut another 140 million US dollars!

What is the concept of 140 million US dollars?

According to the box office trend of "Mission: Impossible 3" in the first week of 50 million US dollars, I am afraid that it will not get the North American box office of 140 million US dollars when it is down.

On the other hand, "Daredevil 2", which swept $290 million in the North American market in two weeks after its release, has already become an unstoppable trend.

This is likely to become the sixth North American box office hit after "Titanic", "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace", "Spider-Man 1", "Unsinkable" and "Spider-Man 2". Billion dollar movie!

However, whether the global box office can exceed US$1 billion has become a suspense.

Two weeks after its release, the overseas market has just exceeded 100 million.

Of course, there are still relatively few countries where it is released overseas, but compared with the North American market, such overseas box office is still relatively deserted.

The global box office of "Daredevil 1" is 360 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is only 160 million US dollars.

From this point of view, the overseas box office of "Daredevil 2" may hardly surpass North America.

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Marvel is really the trend of the times.

"Daredevil 2" almost eliminated "Mission: Impossible 3" with a crushing attitude, and next, there is a more difficult opponent "Batman 2".

Recently, Tang En got a report.

It is the balance sheet of "Iron Man" released in early May last year.

The North American box office of the film was 370 million US dollars, the overseas box office was 410 million US dollars, and the global box office was 780 million US dollars. Among them, the North American share was 196 million US dollars, the overseas share was 176 million US dollars, and the total box office share was 3.72 US dollars.

Global disc revenue 490 million US dollars!

This is second only to the $600 million "Spider-Man 2" and the $550 million "Spider-Man 1" in the disc revenue of Marvel movies! Higher than the $480 million "Spider-Man 3" and the $450 million "Ghost Rider"!

The disc income of "Iron Man" was 490 million US dollars, and the box office revenue was 370 million US dollars. It can be seen that now is the golden age of the video disc market!

Disc revenue is even higher than box office revenue!

In addition, North American TV revenue is 98 million US dollars, and overseas TV revenue is 75 million US dollars!

Not counting peripheral derivatives such as clothing and toys, the direct income of the movie "Iron Man" reached 1.035 billion US dollars!

Of course, there is also a lot of expenses.

The North American publicity cost is 80 million U.S. dollars, and the overseas publicity cost is 60 million U.S. dollars.

Production cost $90 million (production fee $140 million, advertising revenue $50 million).

Global video distribution $42 million.

Shareholders, producers, actors and unions paid $56.4 million in dividends.

Investment tax $23.8 million.

Total spending was $352 million.

So, over the past year of operations, Man of Steel made a profit of $683 million!

It's just a direct benefit of the movie.

Counting the indirect benefits around, it will be even more.

In the past year, the best-selling merchandise was of course "Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith", with sales of merchandise exceeding 3 billion US dollars, the highest among the Star Wars series.

"Iron Man" is second only to "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and is the third-ranked film. The sales of peripheral products reached 900 million U.S. dollars, creating a profit of 440 million U.S. dollars for New Universal. (Products sold vertically by Global Store have high profits, while products authorized to other manufacturers have low profits)

Over the past year, "Iron Man" has generated a total of more than 1 billion US dollars in profits!

With the end of the "Spider-Man" trilogy and "Spider-Man 4" in the foreseeable future, Marvel has launched a new hero-Iron Man!

Of course, there is also Daredevil, whose popularity has continued to rise recently.

"Daredevil 2" hits theaters, and the popularity of the female villain Erica also continues to rise. The actress Penelope Cruz who played "Elekka" also became a famous figure in Hollywood for a while.

In contrast, her younger sister, Monica Cruz, has suffered a bit of a career setback.

She was disheartened.

I want to go back to Spain to develop.

Thanks to Twain's relationship, she also got some opportunities, the most representative one being "National Lover", which she collaborated with Will Smith last year, in which she was the heroine.

The film was a huge success with a global box office of $368 million on a cost of $70 million.

Monica Cruz got the leading actress, so she got a little bit of fame and got some opportunities.

However, after a long time, it will not work.

Her English accent is serious, and her Latina identity does not fit the mainstream image of a vase. More importantly, she looks too much like her sister Penelope Cruz, which will greatly affect her performance.

After more than a year of development, she has figured it out. Rather than looking for opportunities in Hollywood, it is better to go back to Spain and become a big sister.

Of course Tang En had no objection to this.

Now, Penelope Cruz is really popular, and Monica Cruz is going back to China. This pair of sisters... It's time to break up.

Speaking of which, it's almost time.

Penelope Cruz has been with Tang En since 2001, so it has been 5 years. There is no credit, but hard work!

She is 32 years old this year, and she has achieved great success in her career, so it is time to think about her future life. It's not the case to just follow Tang En without a name or distinction.

Tang En was very angry, and directly wrote a check for 5 million US dollars to the Cruz sisters and beauties, and wished them happiness in their future lives.

Unexpectedly, Qi Qi, the Cruz sister, refused.

"I already took so much money from you, but I can't ask for any more." Monica Cruz firmly refused.

Tang En was a little surprised, don't even want money?

Monica Cruz said very moved: "Tang En, the two years I've known you... No matter what, you are the noble person in my life. I want to thank you, and I will thank you for the rest of my life!"

Penelope Cruz agrees: "Yeah, without you, maybe... we're just a little bit in a corner, struggling at the bottom. I know what it's like to be an actor at the bottom."

Tang En smiled, "Okay, we are all friends, there is no need to say these polite things. It's not that we won't see each other in the future, maybe we will miss you in the future, and we will ask you out."

Monica Cruz chuckled, "I'm going back to Spain, what should I do?"

Tang En said: "So what? I'll send a plane to pick you up!"

Monica Cruz couldn't help but giggle.

Flying to Los Angeles on a private jet to date Tang En?

It felt both extravagant and absurd.

Penelope Cruz pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Okay, that's it. You have to contact us frequently, otherwise, I don't know when my personal movie "Eleka" will come out."

In the planning of Marvel Pictures, there is indeed a plan to start the female superhero movie "Erica". However, there are many controversies and risks. Whether or not to get on the horse, there are differences.

Of course, with Tang En's appointment, all obstacles will be removed immediately.

Tang En said righteously: "That's different. A date is a date, and this is our personal relationship. Filming is a business matter, so there should be no confusion."

Monica Cruz winked, "I don't believe it!"

Penelope Cruz chuckled, "I don't believe it either!"

"I'm leaving tomorrow, or can I get him done tonight?"

"I think it will work!"

Tang En waved his hand, "Not at night, I don't have time! It's better to hit the sun than choose a day, I think it's now! Look at your sisters' methods!"