I’m in Hollywood

Although he heard the news of the failure of Hasbro's Star Wars sales and had the idea of ​​acquiring Hasbro, Eric didn't mean to stab the matter in private, and Katzenberg obviously just mentioned it casually.

Because it's totally unnecessary.

As a listed company, Hasbro needs to regularly disclose operating data to investors. Coupled with the recent high attention to the Star Wars brand from all walks of life, I believe that it will not be long before this matter will be discovered by the pervasive media.

At that time, the fireflies only need to watch the excitement by the side, and then choose the right time to shoot.

However, thinking about the huge losses that Hasbro may face this year, Eric said to Katzenberg: Firefly will definitely make more films with peripheral development potential in the future, which is also a very important thing for us. Good negative case, let the consumer product department follow up in real time and come up with a detailed analysis report on why Hasbro failed in this peripheral operation.

Katzenberg only received the news yesterday, and he hadn't had time to think so much.

Hearing Eric's words, he immediately reacted, nodded, and very cautiously took out the memo he carried with him and wrote it down.

As the popularity of Star Wars gradually cools down, the release date of the long-awaited MGM Movie Universe spin-off series Fast and Furious is getting closer.

December 29th is Tuesday.

Beginning at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the area around the Chinese Theater in Hollywood was crowded with rabid moviegoers.

The release date of The Fast and the Furious is January 1, and MGM officially held its premiere in Los Angeles three days earlier.

Because of work, Eric did not participate in the red carpet ceremony, and it was not until nearly seven o'clock that he quietly entered the screening hall. The girl in full dress saw Eric appear, and didn't ask any more questions. She just waited for the man to sit down and come over and kiss, and the two looked at the film creator who was interacting with the media and the audience on the stage.

In addition to the substitution of the two heroines, Eric basically used the former team of the film. The two male protagonists are Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, and the director is also the original Rob Cohen.

Rob Cohen, who is about 50 years old this year, can also be regarded as a veteran Hollywood director. He debuted in the 1970s and is good at directing action movies. He has worked with veteran action stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Cooperation, also filmed Bruce Lee Biography.

However, outside of the main creative team, the entire film is beyond recognition compared to the original.

Eric's original plan was to follow the previous Fast and Furious development sequence step by step. However, since it is going to be a derivative series of the MGM movie universe, the script must be revised. Finally, after repeated adjustments, the original script All overturned, forming a whole new story. In the process, the story structure of the entire series has also become more complete, and MGM has even come up with the outline of the second and third films.

At the same time as the script was changed, the budget of the film was no longer the $30 million originally envisaged by Eric, but doubled to 60 million, which was almost A-level production.

However, stimulated by the successful cooperation between the Charlie's Angels series and Buick, although it was only the first film, although he was hesitant to use rookie actors in the production company, major car companies still generously donated their money, advertising placement costs plus props Sports car sponsorship, directly offsetting the $20 million budget cost.

During the publicity process in recent months, the joint publicity budget invested by these car companies has also reached 30 million US dollars. Coupled with the investment of MGM itself, the publicity scale of Fast and the Furious is no less than that of a movie. A blockbuster movie with an investment of over 100 million yuan.

On the stage, after some interaction, the main creator stepped off the stage, the lights were dimmed, and the movie on the big screen officially began to play.

After the opening of MGM, the sound of the roaring sports car engine could be heard directly from the speakers around the screening hall, and the picture lit up, and four cool sports cars were speeding on the highway in the dark night.

In a few flashes, the four sports cars easily surround a heavy truck in the center.

Under the doubtful gaze of the audience, a man wearing a motorcycle helmet peeked out from a sports car in front of the heavy truck, holding a modified spear gun and aiming at the co-pilot of the truck. With a bang, the windshield of the heavy truck was shot by the spear gun. The barb penetrated, and immediately, the sports car pushed forward, and the windshield of the heavy truck was torn off.

The sports car that completed the task changed positions skillfully, another sports car came to the front of the heavy truck, and a person wearing a motorcycle helmet appeared in the compartment again.

When the heavy truck is attacked, the truck driver will naturally not sit still and start changing the lane, trying to throw the attacking sports car away.

So, the scene immediately became tense and exciting as the heavy trucks were dodging and scurrying on the highway.

The four sports cars followed closely whether the heavy truck was turning, accelerating or crashing into obstacles. After experiencing a very difficult curve drift, precise parallelism, and even the thrilling action of turning into the bottom of the car after encountering obstacles, the four sports cars remained the same. Tightly wrapped around the heavy truck, like four bloodthirsty sharks around a clumsy giant whale.

Because of the ample budget and the assistance of the royal motion design team of the Charlie's Angels series, this set of carefully crafted carjacking scenes is far more thrilling than the original.

In the screening hall, less than two minutes after the film started, most of the audience had already involuntarily put themselves in the role of the driver of the four sports cars. Many people even started to feel itchy, hoping to drive in Los Angeles after the film screening ended. The city is flying.

When the four sports cars finally tacitly threw the heavy-duty truck driver out of the car and walked away with their trophies in the increasingly exciting opening soundtrack, part of the audience already had a feeling that it was worth the fare.

As for the film critics who participated in this premiere, most of them had already put down the pen and paper they were planning to record at this time, but just looking at the amazing beginning of such a scene, they had already determined that this would be another pure film. The popcorn movie, and a very successful popcorn movie.

At the end of the title, after a muffled sound, the camera zooms out, and it turns out that Brian O'Donnell, played by Paul Walker, closes the door and turns towards a fast food restaurant on the side of the road.

After experiencing the excitement at the beginning, what the audience most wanted to know at this time was undoubtedly the identity of the speeding robbers. Therefore, this suggestive scene immediately aroused the audience's curiosity about the identity of Brian O'Donnell.

After being busy with 'work', I drove to the roadside fast food restaurant to have something to eat, and by the way, I took a dip in the beautiful proprietress in the restaurant.

What a familiar routine.

right?

Then got beat up.

After some conflict, Brian drove away in a little embarrassment. He was stopped by a police car on the way, and the person was taken into the police station.

While many viewers wondered what was going on, the film did not continue to sell off, and Brian's identity was soon revealed.

There have been many container truck hijacking incidents in the Los Angeles area. The FBI targeted the suspects on a gang of drag racing parties headed by Dominic Toretto, and sent Brian, the best driver in the police station, to go undercover.

However, for a week in a row, Brian didn't make any progress, but fell in love with Dominic's sister Mia at first sight.

Under the pressure of his boss, Brian had to speed up his progress into the Dominica team. That night, he rushed to participate in the underground racing event organized by Dominica. Although he lost the race during the racing process, he was saved by an 'accident' afterwards. Dominic, who was chased by the police car, was recognized by the other party and brought back to his residence.

In the days that followed, Brian gradually got to know the rest of the biker gang.

Dominica's sister Mia Toretto, the other's girlfriend Riley Ortiz, the impulsive Vince Bernal, and Jesse Fey, who has an excellent car tuning talent but suffers from attention deficit disorder Mann, as well as another Asian gang that is both foes and friends of Dominic's team, Jonny Chen and his gang.

Not only did Brian really fall in love with Mia, but he was also unknowingly influenced by Dominic's charisma, and began to truly integrate into this small gang in his heart.

However, the truck robbery continued to happen, and Brian's alternate identity forced him to continue investigating the matter.

In the process of getting along, Brian inadvertently got an important clue from Jesse's mouth.

Jesse's father is about to be released from prison. He has one wish, that is, after his father is released from prison, he can have a sum of money, and then take his mother to move out of California and start a new life. Jesse always talked about it with a sense of excitement as if he was about to save up enough money.

Brian is very clear that the main source of income for this small gang of Dominic is to organize underground racing competitions and earn bonuses. Although this is enough to allow a group of people to live a life without food and clothing, and still have the energy to continue their racing hobby, it is impossible to scrape together a large sum of money for Jesse's parents to leave California and start a new life.

Thinking that he had confirmed the motive of Dominic's gang to rob the truck, Brian began to follow the clues, but found that things were not as simple as he thought.

It turned out that Jesse did take part in the truck robbery, but Dominic had no idea what his brother was doing. It was Jesse and Vince who worked privately with Jonny Chen.

As the FBI's investigation into the truck robbery intensifies, Jonny Chen, feeling the pressure, decides to make one last vote and push the Dominic gang out as a scapegoat.

Bryan, who understands the ins and outs of it all, and gets Jonny Chen's final goal of action, finally confesses to Dominic after some struggles.

Although Dominic was very angry, he realized that his brother had fallen into Jonny Chen's trap, and rushed to the rescue with his girlfriend Riley without hesitation.

However, it was finally too late.

In the intense road chase, Jonny Chen's group, Dominica's team, and the resisting truck driver had a three-way melee. Jesse died unexpectedly, Vince was seriously injured, and Jonny Chen escaped. He was wrongly blamed by Jonny Chen and was targeted by the FBI as a suspect in a truck robbery.

After hurriedly settling down his brother, Dominic immediately launched his revenge against Jonny Chen, and Brian followed Dominic with Mia's request.

In the final drag racing battle, Jonny Chen was smashed to pieces in a violent explosion, and the car of Dominic who had succeeded in revenge was destroyed. At the same time, he heard the sound of the surrounding sirens, so he did not plan to escape, but only hoped that he could help the two brothers. Resist guilt.

This time, Brian didn't hesitate any longer, handed over his car keys, and took the initiative to let Dominic leave.

The original version of Fast and Furious is basically a low-cost B-rated drag racing movie, so there is no need to care about the value of the film. Dominic's gang is a group of pure drag racing parties and robbers.

However, although Westerners advocate freedom, this does not mean that they will reverse the concept of right and wrong without principle.

Hollywood, which follows political correctness, also understands this. Therefore, in the original series, as the series was gradually promoted to A-level production, the Dominic team gradually began to be whitewashed, the characters became more and more positive, and eventually even began to save world.

At this time, although it is just a start, but because of the halo of the derivative series of the agent movie universe, the attention of Fast and Furious from the beginning is far from the original version. In this case, if Eric still insists on the various settings of the original version, he will definitely be criticized from all sides.

Therefore, Eric simply cleaned up the Dominic team from the beginning, and at the same time aggravated the description of the brotherhood between this small team and Dominica's super drag racing party attributes. In this version, in order to pave the way for the speeding family to save the world in the future, Eric greatly increased Dominic's force value, shaping him into one of the top drivers hidden in the market.

In the screening room, when the feature film was over and the subtitles were raised, Eric glanced around at will, and the audience in the field of vision basically showed a satisfied look with the film.

Also, everyone continued to wait very patiently.

By convention, the films of the Agent Cinematic Universe must have ending eggs.

Although MGM has stated that the Fast and Furious series will not join the main story of the agent movie universe, but there will be some plot intersections with the world setting, but fans are still looking forward to it very much.

In the screening hall, although it was already felt that The Fast and the Furious was another film with a completely different style from the three series of the Secret Service Cinematic Universe, but after the hearty viewing process of the past 120 minutes, everyone was looking forward to it. Such an exciting drag racing movie can intersect with the three major series.

The film did not disappoint the audience.

When the end credits freeze, the screen lights up again.

The black Porsche made a nice flick around a corner and stopped precisely next to another orange Lamborghini.

Brian O'Donnell, played by Paul Walker, got out of the car with a smug expression and looked opposite.

A petite girl who wasn't frightened by the sudden stop of the Porsche's tail just sat casually on the hood of the Lamborghini, shook her head in disappointment and said, No, I need a better driver.

Brian retorted dissatisfiedly: I'm the best driver in Los Angeles.

The girl raised a finger and shook it: No, you are not.

Brian and the girl looked at each other for a moment, his eyes narrowed, and a meaningful smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he nodded and said, Indeed, I am not.