The biggest difference that this brand new "Reloading" gives Duke is that it is a strong oil painting-like color. Although the film is still mainly blue-black tone, Zach Schneider successfully integrated what he is best at, and in addition, it reduced a lot of mysterious plots and philosophical plots, as well as changes in the action mode of the film. When the screening ended, it won the applause of the theater like a tide. ▲∴,

It is now the summer of 2002. Kung Fu action methods are no longer new to Hollywood and North American audiences. "Reinstalling" abandons the current abuse of kung fu in Hollywood action movies, especially those fancy and complex action routines. Although the actors' fighting routines are different, they are already close to a simple and direct model similar to the future.

The traditional tough guy fight in Hollywood will cause aesthetic fatigue, and kung fu will also cause aesthetic fatigue.

Even at the center of the world's film industry, Hollywood's follow-up situation is no worse than that of the Oriental film industry. Today's Hollywood action movies are embarrassed to start the film without asking a few action guides from Hong Kong and not playing with tiger and crane double shapes and Tai Chi.

A large number of similar movies have flocked to it, but the consequences are not difficult to imagine at all.

Duke's future plan, action elements will occupy a very heavy weight, just like Zach Schneider's version of "Reinstalling" and he will not use kung fu.

He knew very well that it was impossible for Muay Thai and Taekwondo, free fighting and kung fu to become popular all over the world when it was stuffed into the movie. Since the filming of "The Matrix", Duke asked his action guide Jimmy Carter to use Hollywood technical means, learn from Yuan Heping's Hong Kong-style shooting methods, and combine a variety of close combat techniques to design a brand new action mode.

These new action routines do not require any too fancy movements, they are simpler, more powerful, fast and direct, at least this will look like from the camera.

As for promoting Kung Fu and Kung Fu movies, it is too difficult for a non-Kung Fu enthusiast like him. Kung Fu is profound and profound, and it is not something that a layman like him can understand. Countless people across the ocean are more suitable than him.

"The Matrix 2: Reloading" generally responded well after its release. Although countless critics were criticized, they claimed that the film was just fighting and fighting, blowing, blowing, and without any depth or philosophical thinking, it could not stop the fans from paying for the film enthusiastically.

In the three days of the first weekend, "Reloading" hit a box office of $92.77 million in North America, setting the highest record of opening a R-level film in history.

The box office hit of this film directly ended the three consecutive championships of "Spider-Man", becoming the fourth box office hit movie that followed "Twin Towers Shock", "Clone's Attack" and "Spider-Man" in this summer.

On the second weekend, although "Reinstalled" was limited by the R-level film and could not maintain an unusually stable trend like "Two Towers Shock", it also controlled the decline to less than 50%. The next weekend, it won the North American box office championship for US$51.02 million. In just ten days of its release, the North American box office exceeded US$200 million, up to US$211.05 million!

The facts are very clear, this is another masterpiece that can have a box office of more than $300 million in North America.

When July came to an end. At the end of the 2002 summer season, two Duke-related films, "Twin Towers Shock" and "Reloading" undoubtedly became one of the winners.

"Two Towers" started to be screened on a large scale with 3,876 theaters in the first weekend of the summer. After August, the number of theaters in North America shrank to 1,462, with a total box office of 478.55 million US dollars, and a global box office of 1.11 billion US dollars. Although "Spider-Man" also performed well, according to the box office trend, the box office in North America and the world can only stay at around 400 million US dollars and 900 million US dollars. Duke booked the annual box office champions in North America and the world almost in advance.

Even though it is subject to the rating of R-rated films, it depends on the booming reputation of the previous work and the good quality of the sequel. "Reloading" has already reached nearly $300 million in North America in one month after its release. In the end, the box office in North America will inevitably exceed the $300 million mark. It will compete with "The Attack of the Clone" and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" released in the Thanksgiving period for the third place in North America and the world.

"What is more prominent than the box office is the performance of the two series."

On the board of Warner Bros., Doug Walter, who had just sat in the EO position, was very energetic. "From the release of "The Rings Expedition" to the end of July, the total global sales of peripheral products related to the Lord of the Rings reached US$1.732.55 million, of which the highest sales were the DVD set of "The Rings Expedition", with global sales reaching US$521 million..."

Speaking of this, Doug Walter looked at the dozen directors participating in the meeting and said confidently, "The theater screening of "Two Towers" is close to the middle and late stages. The fundamental market department's research and evaluation, the original soundtrack and DVD sales of the film will inevitably exceed "The Rings Expeditionary Team".

As soon as Doug Walter finished speaking, the other directors' eyes turned to Duke, and the other party supported nearly one-third of Warner Bros.'s performance alone!

Duke sat here quietly and said nothing. He was the biggest personal profiter in the movie.

Indeed, compared with the film's box office and the total profits around the surroundings, the net dividends he received over 200 million US dollars seem to be nothing, but don't forget that the movie's peripherals rely more on channels than theater box offices. Without the support of the group platform, the surroundings can only achieve extensive licensing income. Why do Pixar Studio, Blue Sky Studio and later DreamWorks Animation Studio, and other small and medium-sized film companies join or squeeze their heads to join those group companies?

In addition to the reasons for capital and risk resistance, the advantage of large companies integrating resources is an important condition for attracting them.

Perhaps in the coming years, the era of Hollywood's giants will end, but from the early and mid-1990s to more than a decade later, Hollywood was a veritable era of giants.

His experience is indeed extraordinary, but seeing and doing are all different things. Hollywood's problems cannot be solved by making a good enough movie.

To be honest, new people and new ideas are really not very valuable in Hollywood.

If you have no successful experience in the past, just mail a script to the film company or director, and the other party will come to you? Don't joke.

For example, Duke's initial experience was slightly better. After all, his mother and family background could play a little role. The new screenwriters had no chance to meet senior executives of the film company. The famous directors and producers, even a fool, knew that the scripts mailed to them could not be in their hands.

Like Duke and Tina Fey, which big director and well-known producer doesn't have an assistant?

Even the director at Duke's level, Tina Fei, has an assistant team of more than ten people under his command. The scripts sent out will definitely fall into the hands of these assistants first. Who can expect these assistants to pass on the newcomer's creativity and scripts to it?

Let’s just say that, screenwriters who want to write scripts for big directors and well-known producers can line up from Long Beach to Malibu.

Working with a big director means that success is very likely. Success will give the most disadvantaged screenwriter, the most critical factor of a project, the opportunity to climb upward, and even become a gold medal screenwriter.

Like the former gold medal screenwriter Ilen Kruger, is there a wonderful or logical plot he compiled? But he wrote "Transformers" one after another, and even though he was criticized by countless people, the production company still did not change people.

This is an extremely realistic circle, with a hundred or even ten thousand times more convincing than creativity.

Similarly, in this circle, countless talented people have been buried. The most typical example is the so-called Hollywood blacklist. Many of the scripts on it have been completed for several years or even longer, but have been unable to become real projects. The reason is not difficult to imagine.

Just like the rumor that Bill Gates bowed to Wall Street, it would be a dream to be a person who wants to fight against the entire huge system.

Therefore, from the beginning to now, Duke has chosen to stand on the side of a large company and cooperate in depth with it.

To the point where he is today, Duke is actually very clear that if he had not had his mother's support, perhaps only God would know when his first movie would be released.

Just like in "The Speed ​​of Life and Death", the film received unanimous praise from film selection experts, and even with the help of George Lucas, Twentieth Century Fox still chose the most conservative and most beneficial preview distribution policy, and was prepared to withdraw the market at any time if the market responded poorly.

Hollywood has countless ways to climb upward. It is undoubtedly an unreliable one to gain the appreciation of big names and big companies through a script.

And there are quite a lot of big-name videos, and the scripts are really average, and the creativity and plots are often used by Hollywood.

As for innovation? The other side of innovation is risk. When innovation is combined with unqualified newcomers, what choices will directors, producers and film companies make?

I believe that as long as there is no water in my head, there will only be one choice for these people.

And how many people who can climb to a high position from the fierce to cruel competition in Hollywood will have their heads?

The board of directors has one by one, and most of the time, Duke doesn't express much opinions. He just talks a few words solemnly when discussing issues related to movies, and what he says can attract the Warner board of directors to pay enough attention.

For example, the meeting focused on the establishment of the Justice League studio, and Duke was positive about this.

And with the promotion of Duke and Doug Walter, Warner Bros. also decided to start contacting Marvel and strive to win the distribution rights of Marvel movies.
Chapter completed!