Chapter 2909 Universal Pictures
A few days later, Kim Yu-fan and James Steve directly rushed to the headquarters of Universal Pictures. Under the leadership of the staff, they came to this meeting of the crew of "Spy Shadows 5".
That's right, although "Spy Shadow 5" has been officially filmed for several months as planned, it has now begun to officially confirm the actors and arrange their itinerary. After all, considering the agent-type movies such as "Spy Shadow 5", the key is the key, which requires actors to spend several months training and familiarize themselves with them.
Therefore, now the meeting between the main members of the crew of "Spy Shadows 5" is a few months in advance. After all, the contract is signed now and everything is clear, everyone will do whatever they should do. A few months are enough for everyone to train, and they do not seek practical results, but at least in front of the camera, they can still pretend to be an agent.
Kim Yu-fan did not participate in the so-called audition session. Although Universal Studios had such a requirement at the beginning, after the strong refusal and persuasion of Brad Pitt, Dwayne Johnson and others, Universal Studios learned about Kim Yu-fan's performance in "The Battle of Doomsday" and its popularity and influence in Asia, it immediately decided to make Kim Yu-fan officially become a member of the crew of "Spy Shadows 5".
In fact, whether it is Kim Yu-fan's skills or box office appeal in Asia, these are secondary. The key is that the strong support and strong recommendations of Brad Pitt and others are the key to Universal Pictures' cancellation of Kim Yu-fan's audition.
At the very least, it is not considered that Kim Yu-fan's box office appeal in Asia, but it is enough to give face to big names such as Brad Pitt this time. In the future, what movies do Universal Pictures need big actors, and then invite Brad Pitt and others. With this time, it is more of a favor. I guess Brad Pitt and others will not refuse, right?
After all, there are many big names in Hollywood, but not many. The key is that sometimes there are no good scripts or enough production funds, and big actors really look down on them and are unwilling to come.
At that time, I didn’t rely on pay, but on whether my connections and relationships were good.
Therefore, Universal Pictures naturally wants to give Brad Pitt and others a face, at least they can have a relationship with big names such as Brad Pitt and others, so that Brad Pitt and others will owe their favors a little. So what new movies will be next? As long as the script is not too bad, the pay is reasonable, and the favors they give now, I believe Brad Pitt and others will not refuse.
What's more, Kim Yu-fan's skills have been well demonstrated in "The Battle of Doomsday". With Kim Yu-fan's absolute box office appeal in Asia, especially Southeast Asia, at least in South Korea, the third Asian voting base, Universal Pictures of course readily agreed to Kim Yu-fan as a member of the crew of "Spy Shadows 5", and will also give Kim Yu-fan a certain role after personally watching Kim Yu-fan's acting skills and skills.
If nothing unexpected happens, if Kim Yu-fan is good at playing and acting skills are enough, it doesn't matter if Kim Yu-fan is an important role like the second male lead or the third male lead.
Although it is somewhat risky to join an Asian actor like Kim Yu-fan in "Spy Shadows 5", Universal Pictures doesn't care about this at all, because Universal Pictures knows very well that it only takes Matt Damon back, and then everything is not a problem.
After all, Matt Damon is the soul and core of the movie series "Spy Shadows". Isn't the failure of "Spy Shadows 4" because of the lack of Matt Damon, movie fans do not accept it or buy it.
As for a little adventure, Universal Pictures doesn't care even more. After all, "Spy Shadows" is a successful movie series, and has laid a solid foundation with the previous movies. It doesn't matter if you take some risks now. Hold's stay is just to be confident and can be willful.
In fact, Universal Pictures doesn't care about adventure at all, and even takes the initiative to take risks. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a time when "Spy Shadows 4" and did not invite Matt Damon to continue to play the leading role. Although it failed later, this already reflects Universal Pictures' idea.
Obviously, Universal Pictures does not want the "Spy Shadows" movie series that it has worked hard to create to become Matt Damon's personal movie series. Whenever you mention the "Spy Shadows" movie series, you will not think of Universal Pictures, but only Matt Damon, which will also make Universal Pictures very unhappy.
After all, I am an investor in the movie. I spent money on it myself and found ways to promote it. I also paid Matt Damon one movie higher than the other, but in the end I actually helped Matt Damon, what is this?
Although Universal Pictures also gained box office revenue due to the success of the film, it was just a profit, and Universal Pictures also wanted to be famous.
Therefore, during "Spy Shadows 4", Universal Pictures gave up Matt Damon and continued to serve as the leading actor in the movie and chose other actors. Although it failed, Matt Damon returned in "Spy Shadows 5", this was just to avoid the failure of two series of movies and completely destroy the "Spy Shadows" movie series. If you have enough confidence, Universal Pictures would probably not continue to invite Matt Damon to serve as the leading actor.
Well, Hollywood's truly successful movie series, or super IP, can really ignore the male lead candidates, and it is just a simple role-first movie series, not an actor-first movie series. It is probably the "007" movie series and the "Superman" movie series.
In these two movie series, everyone only watches James Bond and Clark Kent. These two names are the core of these two movie series, rather than actors who play the roles James Bond and Clark Kent.
As for other movie series, basically, the so-called actors are the core and soul, rather than characters like "007" and "Superman" are the soul and core.
He had the idea and spirit of taking risks, and now Matt Damon's return has basically ensured that the box office of the movie is stable. Moreover, he can also improve the box office of the movie in Asia with an Asian actor, and can also sell the favors of Hollywood celebrities such as Brad Pitt. Universal Pictures will certainly not refuse.
In fact, this is the case in Hollywood. Many times, unless there are some important roles, they usually refer to the male and female protagonists. The rest, whether they are screenwriters, directors, or male second or female second characters, are actually the personal relationships of a network of connections. What everyone sees is not necessarily fame and value, but the relationship between the other party.
If someone helps to speak, it is easy to get an important role, which is that simple.
There is no doubt that Kim Yu-fan is such a related person. After all, there is a small circle behind Kim Yu-fan. Although there are not many people, they are definitely big names in Hollywood. Therefore, Kim Yu-fan joined the crew of "Spy Shadows 5" as a young Asian actor and will also play an important role. This is nothing strange.
In this regard, his connections and relationships have shown strong energy. Without the help of Brad Pitt and others, even if Kim Yu-hwan became the well-deserved superstar in Asia, his popularity and acting skills are so great, it would probably be difficult for him to enter the eyes of Universal Pictures, let alone Kim Yu-hwan successfully joins the crew of "Spy Shadows 5".
To put it bluntly, Hollywood is the holy land and core of global movies. Hollywood filmmakers are born with superiority and even look down on each other when facing filmmakers from other countries. Even if you are against the will of your own country, so what? If you have the ability, don’t come to Hollywood to develop. Since there are two, you will be a newcomer at that time. Forget your awesomeness in your own country. In Hollywood, you don’t count anything and nothing is.
Under the leadership of the staff, Kim Yu-fan came to the office of the crew of "Spy Shadows 5". As the most successful and outstanding film series of Universal Pictures, there is no doubt that the crew of "Spy Shadows 5" has also received attention from senior executives of Universal Pictures.
After all, at present, Universal Pictures has only a few of the most successful and representative film series. "Jurassic Park" is a super IP, and the film series is also very successful, and the box office is terrifying, but unfortunately, the investment is large, and once the box office fails, the risk is also high. Therefore, after the first movie series of Universal Pictures was released in 1993, twenty years have passed, and the fourth one has not even been released, but is just about to be released.
The reason is very simple, that is, the "Jurassic Park" movie series is very successful, it is a super big IP, but the investment is also too great. Once the box office fails, it will have a great impact on Universal Pictures.
Therefore, Universal Pictures’ idea is very simple. In order to be more safe, it would rather spend a few years to cultivate the market. This is the so-called market hunger level. When the fans are impatient, they will shoot a sequel, which greatly stimulates the enthusiasm of the fans and ensures box office profits.
Universal Pictures thinks this way, and it does indeed do it. And the facts prove that Universal Pictures' approach is very successful. Every "Jurassic Park" movie series is very successful, and the box office sales are so popular, which makes Universal Pictures not only have a super IP, but also makes a lot of money in box office.
The second is the animated movie series of "Despicable" and the box office of the animated movie series of "Despicable" undoubtedly tells the whole world that animation movies are not only played by Disney, but also by Universal Pictures. Secondly, the market for animated movies has always been very large. As long as there is no problem with the movie, the box office will not be bad.
Not only that, Universal Pictures also created the animated film "Miniu Big Eyes" in the "Despicable" movie series. Although it has not been officially released now, as an animated film, it can exceed $1 billion in box office, second only to "Frozen", which undoubtedly proves the great success of the animated film "Miniu Big Eyes".
More importantly, the great success of the role of Minions. There is no doubt that as long as the senior executives of Universal Pictures have no brain problems, the "Minions" movie series will obviously appear. Not only that, "Despicable" has other characters or can also be derived into a brand new movie series like Minions. A movie series with a super big IP that produces countless IPs. Also, Minions' toys should not be too popular.
But the problem is that the great success of the "Despicable" movie series has undoubtedly affected Disney, the leader of the animation film. Although Disney has not said anything in the field of animation films, there is no doubt that from the bottom of his heart, it is believed that animated movies are its own territory. Although other film companies can also make animated movies, it doesn't matter. However, if any film company successfully creates a successful animated movie series, it hurts Disney, thinking that its absolute field has been challenged and must be returned.
Not to mention that the upcoming "Mini Man Big Eyes" will soon be a huge success, especially the huge box office harvest, which has completely stimulated Disney, making Disney use Universal Pictures as its biggest enemy in the animated film field.
It doesn't matter if you like to play animated movies, but you can't be too awesome. It's okay if you have a hit box office, but you have actually created a successful animated movie series, and the toys are sold so popular. This is obviously a provocation, a grabbing job, and that's a big deal, you have to fight back.
So, after the release of "Miniu Niu" was a huge success, Universal Pictures began to target Disney in animated films. Anyway, you are going to shoot the sequel to "Despicable" movie, so I am going to prepare animated films. I dare not say that I will beat you up. Anyway, your movie will be affected and the box office will not be high.
Similarly, Universal Pictures also has the "Agent Bean" movie series, but for some reasons, although this series has a good box office, it is estimated that every sequel will be a life-long death, and it is very likely that it will completely collapse in the next one.
If Universal Pictures has the most popular and most powerful movie series at the moment, there is no doubt that it will be the "Fast and Furious" movie series led by Vin Diesel.
In fact, the "Fast and Furious" movie series was almost cut in half, and in the end, Universal Pictures planned to take a look. With Van Diesel's efforts, it ultimately successfully saved the "Fast and Furious" movie series, and every sequel was so popular in the box office, making the "Fast and Furious" movie series the hottest movie series in Hollywood, especially the hottest movie series at the box office.
In the "Fast and Furious" movie series, there is no doubt that Van Diesel is the truly well-deserved core and soul, Dominic is the soul of "Fast and Furious", and Van Diesel's Dominic has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and it is definitely another movie series with actors greater than characters.
Vin Diesel became famous with the "Star Legend" movie series, but there is no doubt that Vin Diesel truly became a first-line Hollywood actor and a big star in Hollywood because of the "Fast and Furious" movie series.
Similarly, the "Fast and Furious" movie series has a very good box office, becoming the most popular and most profitable movie series at Universal Pictures. After all, when Fast and Furious reached its eighth part, Universal Pictures only invested $650 million, and earned a total box office of $3.8 billion. Universal Pictures' revenue was 1.52 billion US dollars. In addition to the cost of $650 million, the "Fast and Furious" movie series alone brought Universal Pictures 870 million US dollars in revenue.
In comparison, the cumulative box office of the "Jurassic Park" movie series reached US$3.8 billion, and considering the production cost, it is definitely stronger than "Fast and Furious". But the key is that the shooting cycle of the "Jurassic Park" movie series is too long, almost every five years. How can it be compared with the "Fast and Furious" movie series one in two or three years?
Perhaps, for Universal Pictures, "Jurassic Park" is a bomb that will only be bombed for a long time or a key fit, but usually it relies more on the "Fast and Furious" movie series, which can be used to fight.
Finally, that is the "Spy Shadows" movie series. Perhaps the "Spy Shadows" movie series cannot be as shocking as the "Jurassic Park" movie series, nor can it make the "Fast and Furious" movie series make people so popular, and it cannot get the children's love like the "Despicable" movie series.
But it is undeniable that the "Spy Shadows" movie series is an excellent agent movie series, and it is currently recognized as the most successful agent movie series in Hollywood.
"Spy Shadows" will not serve the country like "007", and have strong government agencies to provide all-round support. Whether it is intelligence or various weird black technology weapons, it will not be as cool and handsome as "Mission: Impossible".
In contrast, the agents in the movie series "Spy Shadows" are closer to reality. The posture of a person fighting the whole world is flesh and blood, a real lone hero.
More importantly, the box office of the "Spy Shadows" movie series is very good. At least, except for the fourth part of Matt Damon, the previous three movies were all very successful in box office and basically won't lose anything.
Although he lost a lot in the box office of "Spy Shadows 4", I believe that as long as Matt Damon returns, the box office will not be a problem.
Therefore, Universal Pictures also attaches great importance to "Spy Shadows 5". After all, the fourth part has been filmed and the fifth part must be powerful now to save the reputation and reputation of the "Spy Shadows" movie series. If it is filmed again, it will really ruin the "Spy Shadows" movie series.
However, Universal Pictures is not worried about this. Didn’t Matt Damon return? What’s more, “Fast and Furious” has encountered this kind of thing in the third part, but after the original cast returns, the box office will return to normal, and Universal Pictures is also full of confidence in this.
Chapter completed!