A purely entertainment movie like "The Incredible Hulk" is bound to be criticized and ridiculed.
After all, the film critics and media compared it to Marvel's previous stunning work "Iron Man".
Although "The Incredible Hulk" has its highlights, it still has a big gap compared to "Iron Man".
Besides, the character of Hulk has inherent weaknesses as the protagonist.
But no matter how fierce the complaints and criticisms are, this is still a Marvel movie.
Although compared with Hollywood's top productions, the special effects of "The Incredible Hulk" are definitely still far behind.
However, from the overall perspective of this era, the special effects of "The Incredible Hulk" are definitely top-notch in this era.
In this era when the special effects movie market is not yet saturated, as long as the movie special effects are good enough, it can become a prerequisite for big sales.
Even if other areas are a bit lagging behind, as long as the special effects satisfy the audience, they will naturally ignore the shortcomings.
This is what people often say: "Why take a popcorn movie so seriously?"
Plus, the release date chosen for "The Incredible Hulk" this time is pretty good.
The Halloween period is considered a short holiday in North America, but the quality of other movies released during this period this year is obviously not that good.
This market situation is very favorable for the film's first week box office.
It was intentional for Marvel to release the movie in this period.
The character of Hulk is based on Dr. Jekyll and Hyde, so it is a perfect match to watch this movie on Christmas.
Therefore, both Marvel and Nanaya are very confident about the performance of "The Incredible Hulk".
The weekend after the premiere, Nanaya did not rush back to Japan, but stayed in New York to wait for the results.
As the three days of the weekend passed, the new week's box office list came out. "The Incredible Hulk" unsurprisingly took the weekend box office championship with a score of 69 million US dollars.
As a non-summer movie, this result is already quite good.
Both Washimine and Marvel were very satisfied with this.
Of course, Universal should be more satisfied.
They did almost nothing to get a share of the box office for a movie that was destined to gross over 100 million in North America.
Free money is naturally very sweet to Universal.
Although many media outlets have ridiculed that nearly half of the nearly 70 million US dollars box office revenue belonged to Tony Stark.
However, the beneficiaries of these remarks chose to be selectively deaf and just treated it as someone eating a lemon.
Affected by "The Hulk," other Halloween movies released at the same time all performed poorly, with many box office sales failing to exceed the $10 million mark.
Judging from the situation, a large number of movies will suffer losses again.
Of course, Nanaya's time in North America was not all spent hiding in the villa and playing the "boyfriend/girlfriend" game with Ryan.
After getting the results of "Hulk", Nanaya left New York and went to Washimine Studio in Los Angeles to inspect the various ongoing fate projects.
What Nanaya is most concerned about is naturally the post-production of FZ, especially the production of 3D special effects of the IMAX version.
Afterwards, Nanaya went to visit the filming of "The Second Generation Case Files" which had already begun.
Currently, both "Emiya Meal" and HF have completed the filming stage and have entered the post-production stage.
HF involves a lot of special effects shots, so the post-production is relatively slow, and it is less than half completed so far.
"Emiya Meal" is a low-budget food film, so it doesn't require too much effort in post-production.
However, now Fate's IP is more international.
The food selection in "Emiya Meal" has also changed from mainly Japanese cuisine to home-cooked dishes from all over the world.
Although the dishes have been changed, the warm and friendly atmosphere of the original work has not changed.
After all, this work is meant to help audiences who were depressed by the double blow of FZ and HF plots to recover.
Because of this, this film will not be broadcast after it is completed, and will have to wait until the above two works are released.
However, both HF and "Emiya Meal" will only be exclusive content of the [See Moon] website.
Although [See Moon] has always been the video website with the largest number of paying users and the best user activity in the world.
But this does not mean that [See Moon] can sit back and relax, as other video sites are also catching up with [See Moon].
For example, YouTube was established shortly after See Moon, Netflix has both online and offline channels, and Fox Video Network was established by Fox Group out of a sense of confrontation.
Although the scale of these video websites is far less than that of [See Moon], Nanaya still feels the existence of a crisis.
Nanaya, who has experienced the era when video websites attacked each other, knows very well that when the size of video websites is similar.
There will be differentiated competition among websites, and the high-quality exclusive content of a website will become the biggest advantage of the video.
In Nanaya's previous life, facing the relentless pressure from traditional Hollywood forces, Netflix ensured its unique position by producing a series of exclusive content.
But Netflix is not a TV series or movie producer after all, so it is clearly a novice in video content production.
Plus Netflix's own African attributes.
This results in the fact that although the online dramas or online movies produced by Netflix are well-made, the failure rate is still quite high.
Even before Nanaya's rebirth, Netflix, which had paid the tuition countless times, still maintained a defective rate of over 50% in its content.
But even so, Netflix still maintains its unique position among video websites.
Every time it launches a new web drama, it is also sought after by many people.
With a vision for the future, Nanaya will certainly not let [See Moon] fall behind with Netflix as an example.
HF, "Emiya Meal" and "Lord El-Melloi II Case Files" are just the first step in [See Moon]'s exclusive content.
After that, Nanaya plans to use these three dramas as examples to attract other people in Hollywood to try the [See Moon] website and expand its exclusive content advantages.
For this purpose, Nanaya specially asked Ori out for a talk.
The place where Nanaya agreed to talk was a cafe near a photo studio.
This cafe is very old and not very crowded.
When Nanaya arrived, he found that Ori had already arrived. He was sitting in the corner reading a newspaper.
After seeing Nanaya, Ori waved to his senior brother.
Nanaya walked over slowly.
"It was clearly your appointment, yet you were late."
Ori put down the newspaper and complained to Nanaya.
"A cappuccino, please."
Nanaya didn't answer, but asked the waiter for a cup of coffee.
In response to Nanaya's disregard for him, Ori simply snorted coldly.
Today, Ryougi Ori is still wearing the same black kimono that she always wears, and her face is also without makeup.
But Ori's delicate appearance still attracted the few customers in the cafe, who frequently cast curious glances over here.
After Nanaya appeared, there were waves of groans in the cafe.
[Stop looking at it. If you continue to look at it, your soul will belong to Lucifer. ]
"Thanks."
Nanaya took the coffee brought by the waiter and handed over a tip.
"What's wrong?"
Nanaya discovered that Ori was laughing secretly.
"Nothing." Ori's words seemed very calm, "I just think your disgusted expression every time you lose money is very funny."
"That's because you haven't lived through a time when paper money wasn't needed."
Nanaya frowned strangely.
"If I use a credit card, it would be very convenient for such small purchases, right?"
Ori thought Nanaya was talking about paying by credit card.
"Scat~"
Nanaya took a sip of coffee and didn't respond.
Ori was a little unhappy with his senior brother's attitude, and he was waiting for Nanaya to bring up the topic.
As it turned out, Nanaya really just kept drinking coffee.
"Hey, you asked someone out, you're not just going to sit there and drink coffee, are you?"
Ori held his chin with one hand and tapped the table impatiently with the other.
Nanaya smiled slightly: "Isn't it possible? Haven't we brothers seen each other for a long time?"
"Just for such a small thing?!"
"You are so heartless, Ori." Nanaya said with regret, "When did the relationship between us become so cold?"
Ori almost spilled the coffee in his hand. He pointed at Nanaya's chest and said loudly: "What nonsense are you talking about!"
I have to say, it was really fun to see the usually cool beauty fumbling around.
Moreover, playing such games with your junior fellow students is also a good way to relax after busy work.
Isn't it?
[This is my privilege as a senior brother, and the relationship between an elder brother and my junior brother. ]
Nanaya thought with peace of mind.
He always thought that his junior fellow apprentice needed some rich expressions to exercise his facial muscles.
Otherwise, you will get facial paralysis if you keep a stern face all day.
[But...]
Nanaya's mouth corners slightly raised.
[It's time to change the way of playing…]
"Ori, thank you for your hard work during this period. Thank you."
Nanaya suddenly said in a very heavy tone.
"Eh??!! Senior, why are you suddenly… that… this… it's nothing~"
Ori scratched her cheek with her fingers and muttered quietly.
[It's really interesting. ]
Nanaya sipped his coffee slowly, and all the recent stress from work was swept away.
This is Kiryu Nanaya's unique way of relieving stress.
Of course, for the sake of his own life, Nanaya would not say these words.
"Ahem, senior, you are always bullying me."
Ori coughed lightly, then he looked up at Nanaya and reported his work.
"Senior, the filming of "The Case Files" is going very smoothly at the moment. I believe it can be completed before next summer vacation."
"Just take your time, Ori."
Nanaya nodded, "As long as 'Case Files' can be aired by next autumn, please help me keep an eye on FZ and HF."
HF and "Case Files" Seven Nights plan to be broadcast in two different ways.
Because the content of the first few episodes of HF is highly repetitive with the movie version of UBW, they are released to the website all at once for viewers to watch.
This form of direct broadcasting of all programs is also a way of broadcasting dramas that Netflix often uses in the future.
As for "Case Files", Nanaya still broadcasts it in the traditional format of one episode per week.
This model is adopted because the missions of the two dramas are completely different.
HF is a kind of complement to FZ, and the relationships between the characters are already known to fans - at least that's certainly the case for the first batch of viewers who followed the show.
Therefore, letting the audience see enough at once is not only what everyone wants, but also a very wise approach.
The content of the drama "Case Files" is to continue the gap between Fate movies after FZ.
Therefore, it is natural that the longer the topic is heated, the better.
The one episode per week format is really perfect for this series.