There is nothing wrong with Nanaya investing money in the entertainment sector.
To put it bluntly, all the money is given to the "Madoka Magica" project.
This is a big money-burning project, and Nanaya must do his best to ensure that he has sufficient funds for filming.
At the same time, "The Incredible Hulk" is continuing to be a huge success in North America.
Marvel's current cameo narratives are very novel to audiences in North America and around the world.
Coupled with the popularity brought by "Iron Man" last Christmas.
Therefore, the North American box office curve of "The Incredible Hulk" is naturally very beautiful.
But no matter how beautiful it is, it will eventually come to an end.
After topping the box office charts for two consecutive weekends, "The Incredible Hulk" finally won the weekly championship crown three weeks after its release.
But at this time, "The Incredible Hulk" had already grossed 160 million in North America.
Although the box office performance has declined sharply after the popularity faded, it will definitely not be a problem to get a box office of 250 million in North America.
This result is much higher than the pitiful North American result of 130 million US dollars in Nanaya's memory.
This not only once again proves that Marvel's entertainment-first philosophy is correct, but also further strengthens Kevin Feige and Nanaya Kiryu's prestige in Marvel.
This made a certain Marvel president very scared.
It would be fine if the latter was the major shareholder, but the rise of Kevin Feige made him clearly feel the survival crisis.
In order to consolidate his position, Avi Arad devoted all his energy to the production of "Iron Man 2".
If the film is a big success, there is still a chance that Arad can make a comeback.
But if not, then he will have to exit Marvel in disgrace.
Nanaya knew very well what Arad was thinking.
But he is not optimistic about the ending of the Marvel president. With the success of "Iron Man", it will be too difficult for the sequel to surpass the first movie in the series.
Because sequels often make several very easy mistakes that are difficult to detect unless you are a professional film researcher.
Therefore, sequels usually receive lower reviews than their predecessors.
This is not an isolated case, but a common situation in the film industry.
Otherwise, movie series like the "Toy Story" series and the "Captain America"series, whose sequels get better and better, would not be talked about over and over again.
All I can say is, may God bless Arad.
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In mid-November, Nanaya returned to Japan.
After several months of preparation, the preliminary work for "Madoka Magica" has been completely completed and filming is about to begin.
During the period before filming, Nanaya also had detailed discussions with several important cast and crew members to unify creative ideas.
As for the soundtrack, it is because Yuki Urao inexplicably disappeared in this world.
So Nanaya found Hans Zimmer, the master of commercial film score.
The other party had just finished the soundtrack for Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes" and happened to have some free time.
It's not that Nanaya doesn't want to find his old friend ZUN, but ZUN has now taken on the music composition work for FZ, HF, "Emiya Meal" and "Case Files".
Such a conscientious model worker made Nanaya, a capitalist, feel embarrassed to disturb him again.
In fact, Nanaye has always felt that Aunt Urao and Hans Zimmer have a lot in common.
For example, as music producers, both of them are very famous in the business field of their respective industries.
Moreover, their work efficiency is very high, and they will dare to take the job as long as they are paid.
At the same time, their music is very distinctive, and people will know it is their soundtrack as soon as they hear it.
Of course, the shortcomings of both people are equally obvious.
For example, they all have the bad habit of taking several orders at the same time.
For example, every time they take on multiple orders, the quality of their work deteriorates.
Although it will not delay work time, multi-threading operations will reduce the quality of music.
Moreover, the work results submitted at the same time may make people feel that they are all in the same tone.
Therefore, before inviting him, Nanaya made sure that Hans Zimmer had already completed the soundtrack work for two films, "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Dark Knight".
Only then did he hand over the task of composing the music for "Madoka Magica" to the other party.
Afterwards, Nanaya met up with his old friend Andy Serkis.
After all, he is a master of motion capture technology, and his help is needed in the production of QB.
Of course, Nanaya didn't let this uncle play the role of QB and act cute on the screen, but instead threw the silly Astolfo to him.
The purpose of Nanaya is also very simple.
Let Andy Serkis teach Astolfo how to use motion capture technology.
Nanaye, who has used motion capture technology many times, knows very well that simple computer modeling will make special effects movements look very awkward and fake.
Therefore, QB's modeling and movements must have reference objects.
Although Astolfo's acting skills are terrible and confusing, he is still good at acting cute.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have fooled so many fanatical fans.
Neither Hans Zimmer nor Andy Serkis, who were given the assignment, need to work in Japan.
After signing the agreement and getting the relevant scripts, the two of them immediately left Japan in a hurry.
After a series of calculations, Nanaya finally got the maximum budget he could invest in the movie "Madoka Magica".
Under the condition that it will not go bankrupt, Nanaya can currently come up with a total of 210 million yuan for film production.
Of course, as FZ's subsequent revenue share arrives, the money will definitely be a little more.
But Nanaya didn't plan to increase it any further.
You should know that the book cost of "Avatar" is only more than 230 million US dollars.
This is even when "Avatar" required the development of various technologies.
Therefore, Nanaya, a latecomer that uses the other party's technology, cannot possibly spend more than the other party in terms of costs.
It's not like inflation will occur in 10 years, so why would we need so much money?
Besides, the actors Nanaya hired in Madoka Magica weren't particularly expensive actors.
The highest paid actress, Luvia, only received 10 million U.S. dollars, and the protagonist, Tohsaka Rin, only received 9 million U.S. dollars.
If this is the case, the production cost of "Madoka Magica" is even higher than that of "Avatar".
Then Nanaya felt that there must be a big problem in one link of this project.
Although Nanaya is responsible for the profits and losses of the movie "Madoka Magica", it does not mean that Nanaya does not want to make a profit.
Therefore, with the total production cost estimated to exceed $200 million, the film will inevitably need corresponding publicity.
You should know that after the filming of "Avatar" started, there has been a continuous release of news about this movie.
And has been promoting 3D technology in movies.
It's just that Cameron, the king of delayed delivery, is too good at procrastinating.
This led to the movie's lack of popularity when it was first released - everyone's excitement was exhausted in the long wait.
Similarly, just before the filming of Madoka Magica was about to begin, Nanaya lifted the crew's news silence.
It was announced that the "Madoka Magica" project will officially start filming.
Washimine Entertainment also invited a large number of media to Japan.
They plan to use extensive coverage to allow movie fans around the world to witness the opening ceremony of "Madoka Magica".
At the same time, Nanaya finally officially announced the content of the movie after that [Madoka.jpg].
Of course, Nanaya didn't reveal much.
I have said it all now at once, so what will I reveal later?
So, this time.
Nanaya only said that the film will tell the story of friendship and struggle among several high school girls.
There is certainly nothing wrong with this statement.
But I guess after everyone has finished reading the story of "Madoka Magica", most people will definitely stab Nanaya when they look back at this statement.
However, some discordant elements occurred during the opening ceremony.
Some netizens feel that it is putting the cart before the horse for Nanaya to abandon FZ to make a new movie, and they are worried about the quality of "Purgatory's Flames".
There are many people who agree with this statement, and these Fate fans even launched a protest against "Madoka Magica" on the Internet.
But no matter how dissatisfied these people were, they could not change Nanaya's determination to film "Madoka Magica".
Nanaya even thanked them, which added to the topic of the film.
After all, movies, like stars, need to maintain popularity in various ways.
No one is talking about this film, which is worse than being opposed to it.
For the latter, you can also use reverse word of mouth and tap into people's curiosity.
There are more than one or two bad movies that have made money by turning around topics.
Hollywood makes movies like this almost every year.
But if you don't even have the qualifications to be talked about, then you are doomed to be dead.
You have to know that "Madoka Magica" itself is an original, non-adapted movie.
Such movies inherently lack a fan base, which is very disadvantageous from a commercial perspective.
All Nanaya relies on is the film's exciting plot, novel 3D special effects and his own reputation as the father of Fate.
But these are simply not enough to attract enough audiences to go to the cinema in the first place.
Not to mention Seven Nights, the box office of "Avatar" on its first day of release was only 27 million US dollars.
Nanaya's work this year, FZ Part 1, can beat this data.
So creating topics and attracting audiences are what Nanaya needs to do next.
For this reason, Nanaya even went so far as to personally create topics.
No matter how much he disliked being interviewed by reporters, he still kept jumping up and down during the opening ceremony.
Dealing with a large group of reporters is not an easy task.
Because the scale of this opening ceremony was indeed large enough, not all the reporters invited by Washimine were his own people.
When answering each question, Nanaya had to be careful to avoid questions with traps.
This consumed a lot of Nanaya's energy.
After a whole morning of press conference, Nanaya even thought his head was going to explode.
But these efforts have paid off.
At least judging from the current reviews from major media outlets, the original movie "Madoka Magica" has become popular before it even hits the screen.