From the last failure, David Ellison learned a lot of experience and lessons, and fully understood that it is definitely not an easy task to succeed in Hollywood, nor is it easy to achieve with money and scripts.

After the complete failure of "Air War Hero", he was dormant for a while. This was not a loss of confidence, but a need to think clearly about some things, such as why "Air War Hero" lost to "Batman: The Moment of War" so miserably? In addition to the difference between the directors and other factors between the two sides, what other factors have affected the market reaction?

David Ellison soon discovered that "Air War Hero" is an original film with no audience or fan base before. Although "Batman: The Moment of War" is a reboot of the failed series of movies, Bruce Wayne has tens of millions of fans across the United States...

This alone has opened up the gap between the two films innately.

Later, David Ellison discovered another fact that Hollywood studios rarely give original scripts opportunities, but instead put great enthusiasm on popular novels and comics.

With David Ellison's mind, it is not difficult to find the truth. Original means no audience base or huge investment risks. Popular novels and comics have a certain audience. Although adapted into movies will be rejected by some fans, they can attract a lot of attention.

So he placed the production direction of the second film on the adaptation of famous works.

After a series of investigations and competitions, David Ellison obtained the right to adapt a famous science fiction novel, and raised a huge amount of US$150 million to start filming and production.

In order to ensure the success of this investment and to compete with Duke Rosenberg's new work, David Ellison, despite the strong resistance of Michael Orwitz, who worked with him, found Will Smith, who had a strong market appeal, from CaA.

In addition, he also saw Duke's various promotions in publicity and marketing, and specially invited Will Smith's daughter to play a father and daughter with Will Smith in the film.

Moreover, this novel of Richard Matherson is well-known and was brought to the big screen twice in 1964 and 1971. This time, he hired Aziva Gossman, who won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Beautiful Mind" to write the script and do a lot of preparations.

After the crew started filming, it was also going well, and everything was foreshadowed to David Ellison that this would inevitably be a profitable and even a hit film.

Standing in the middle of Washington Square and watching Will Smith's performance, David Ellison walked to a trailer and found Michael Orwitz who continued to work with him.

He asked directly, "Michael, did I want your confirmation to be the result? When will Duke Rosenberg's new film be released?"

Michael Orwitz frowned slightly, somewhat unhappy. But he still said, "Warner Bros. and Duke Studios have not announced the specific time, but according to Duke Rosenberg's habits over the past few years, "The Dark Knight" should be released in the summer next year."

"Is it early next May?" David Ellison said with his hands on his chest and thought for a while, "make sure our videos are all completed by April next year."

Although he felt uncomfortable with David Ellison's tone, Michael Orwitz resisted the unhappiness in his heart, "It will definitely be done."

After saying that, he walked towards the shooting site.

David Ellison stared at his back and shook his head slightly.

From the failure of "Air War Heroes", he also saw another thing, that is, the famous Michael Orwitz has fallen behind the scenes of films and projects, and his vision of viewing films and projects is seriously behind this era, and his concepts are still in the last century.

After discovering this situation, David Ellison will certainly not hand over his project completely to Michael Orwitz to operate. He even directly rejected the other party's packaging policy in the new film. For example, the starring is Will Smith, who joined Caa only last year, and the director is Francis Lawrence of William Morris.

Since Michael Orwitz and his artist management company were also required, David Ellison left enough positions for the other party.

But he already had plans in his heart. After this project, his team will accumulate a lot of experience, and it is time to throw away this outdated artist management company.

He also doesn't like packaged service policies. In fact, people with a slightly stronger desire to control do not like this service policy very much.

For example, Martin Scorsese and Hollywood are circulating news that for Michael Orwitz, the old Martin, who jumped from Caa to artist management company, was fed up with this policy and the serious decline in the Oscar public relations capabilities of artist management company, and was preparing to change jobs again.

In the Hollywood circle, everyone knows that the artist management company, which carries Michael Orwitz's second entrepreneurial ambition, has not developed into a front-line entertainment agency. After years of ups and downs, there is almost no hope of rise. The actors and directors under its promising future are all ready to change jobs.

Even Michael Bay, the director who has no interest in "Escape from the Clones Island" failed, is preparing to terminate the contract with Michael Orwitz.

Otherwise, after seeing some of David Ellison's intentions, Michael Orwitz would not choose to endure.

After all, there are very few big production projects he can get now.

David Ellison was thinking, and Michael Orwitz was thinking.

Strictly speaking, he has no say in this project. After so many years of fighting against Duke Rosenberg, he gradually felt tired. Especially in his cooperation with David Ellison, he found that Hollywood is developing in some new directions, and foreign capital is also changing the rules of the game in this circle.

Thinking of his old friend Martin Scorsese's disclosure to him that he was leaving the artist management company, Michael Orwitz suddenly felt that he should retire?

Michael Orwitz and the artist management company are in poor condition recently, and Duke is certainly aware that the competition between brokerage companies is even more intense than between production and distribution companies. Many companies such as Caa, ICM and William Morris have already extended their poaching hands to the artist management company.

"Nancy, aren't you contacting the Artist Management Company's clients?"

In the office, Duke said to his agent, "Do as much as possible to dig Michael Bay."

"Michael Bay?" Nancy Josephson said with a little strangeness. "Since the failure of "Escape from the Clones" directly led to the collapse of DreamWorks, Michael Bay has been ignored. He is already a recognized past."

Duke shook his head, "In Hollywood, there are many directors who can shoot niche independent films and art films, but there are not many big-time directors who can integrate many commercial elements."

Nancy Josephson thought for a moment, "I will have someone to contact Michael Bay."

The explosion Bay can be said to be the director who was most affected by Duke's appearance, especially the adaptation rights of "Transformers" were taken into his hands, which directly led to Michael Bay losing the opportunity to restart and rise.

The live-action movie of Transformers has been included in Duke's plan, but it's a long series and he always has to find a suitable director for the future of the film.

There is no doubt that no director is more suitable for this series than Blast Bay.

Nancy Josephson now controls ICM and is also the biggest partner. How to poach is easy, Duke is not worried. After all, Michael Bay is at the lowest point in his life.

His energy is more focused on preparing the video.

In October, the preparations have reached the end. All the main actors, including Heath Ledger and Nicholas Cage, have joined the crew, and are also communicating and rehearsing to prepare for the upcoming filming.

In addition, all the preparations explained by Duke will be either ready or will be completed soon.

After doing a lot of experiments, Jos William found a suitable method of explosion; the crew responsible for John Schwartzman could operate the imax camera very skillfully; Lamborghini specially modified the batmobile and the bat motorcycle, and the front of the vehicle could be equipped with a relatively bulky imax camera.

Since the Batman movie has been prepared once, the second preparation seems particularly smooth.

Just as the preparations for "The Dark Knight" were about to come to an end, "Iron Man" also ended its screening for more than five months and was officially offline from major theaters in North America.

In fact, since August, the box office numbers that "Iron Man" can get are better than nothing. Until now, the box office has not increased significantly compared to August. The final North American box office has remained at $389.95 million.

However, after this period of screening, without waiting for Marvel to take action, the global box office of "Iron Man" successfully crossed the $700 million mark, reaching $72.11 million.

The overseas screening journey of this film is not over yet, and there is still room for global box office growth.

As the film was lowered in North America and DVD was officially released. Compared with the films of the same box office level in the past, the DVD of "Iron Man" was affected by the overall market trend, and sales declined slightly. The regular version worth $19.9 and the luxury version worth $39.9 were sold in total in the first week, and the sales amount had just exceeded $100 million.

However, on the Internet, the video on-demand revenue of videos has increased significantly compared with last year's videos of the same level, and it earned about 4.2 million US dollars through paid on-demand in one week.

Although this number is not impressive, its future potential is unlimited.
Chapter completed!