The preparations for "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" began in 2006. It took nearly a year to write the script alone, and filming officially began in 2007.
Peter Jackson originally planned to film the story of "The Hobbit" into two parts. The upper part tells the battle between the dwarves and Smaug; the second part tells the battle between the dwarves, elves and the orcs.
However, out of profit-making considerations, Xiang Nan still suggested that he make a trilogy. In this case, one movie can earn hundreds of millions of dollars more.
Peter Jackson had always been in love with Xiang Nan. When he was filming the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Xiang Nan asked for money and things, and he was very happy to let him complete the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. , the most classic fantasy movie in film history, also fulfilled his lifelong wish.
So in the end Peter Jackson accepted Xiang Nan's suggestion and decided to make "The Hobbit" into a trilogy. In order to save money, the three films were filmed at the same time.
In fact, the filming of the "Hobbit" trilogy has been completed at present. The first part is being released, and the second and third parts are still undergoing post-production special effects. They will be released sequentially in the next two years.
Because of the success of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, it has conquered countless movie fans around the world. Therefore, when "The Hobbit", the predecessor of "The Lord of the Rings", was released, it was inherently welcomed by movie fans.
Upon its release, the movie performed well at the box office. It took in $230 million at the box office in its first week of release, and eventually reached a box office of $1.15 billion.
Such box office results made Disney next door cry.
After the huge success of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Hollywood has launched a craze for fantasy films.
As a result, the last two of the three classic Western fantasy works, "The Lord of the Rings", "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Tales from Earthsea", have also been adapted into movies.
Among them, Disney produced "The Chronicles of Narnia", and the first "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" achieved very good results. The cost of US$180 million was exchanged for a box office of US$750 million.
Therefore, Disney launched "The Chronicles of Narnia 2: Prince Caspian" this year. The film invested 200 million US dollars, but the final box office was only 410 million US dollars, which caused Disney a loss of about 70 million US dollars.
Now Disney is extremely regretful, but it has not decided yet whether it will continue filming "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader".
It depends on the DVD sales of "Prince Caspian". If the DVD sells well, then a third part may be filmed. If the DVD sales are not high, then it may stop filming.
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In December, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was officially launched.
This is the fifth film in the "Harry Potter" series and the sixth film in the "Harry Potter" film series.
"Harry Potter" is now one of the most famous IPs in the world, and even the Marvel Universe is not as popular as it. After all, the seven "Harry Potter" books have sold as many as 500 million copies, with an average sales volume of more than 60 million copies each.
As for Marvel's comics, the highest sales volume of a single volume is only a few hundred thousand copies. However, it has been established for nearly 70 years, so the cumulative sales volume is high.
"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" has such a good mass base, so it will naturally do well at the box office after its release. In the end, the North American box office was nearly 400 million US dollars, and the global box office was as high as 930 million US dollars.
Such good results make other companies in Hollywood envious.
They are all eager to have such a profitable IP, but it is really difficult.
New Line Cinema tried to adapt "His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass" last year, hoping to replicate the success of "Harry Potter."
"His Dark Materials" is a fantasy created by the famous British writer Philip Pullman. It was written from 1996 to 2000. There are three parts in total, namely "The Golden Compass", "The Magic Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass".
It was well received after its release, selling tens of millions of copies worldwide and winning multiple book awards. And in the BBC reader survey, it ranked third most popular among British readers, second only to "Pride and Prejudice" and "The Lord of the Rings".
Therefore, New Line Cinema invested US$180 million last year, inviting Nicole Kidman, Eva Green, Ian McKellen (Gandalf of "Lord of the Rings", Professor ), Daniel Craig and others co-starred in this movie.
Such an excellent and powerful lineup can be said to be foolproof.
But it's a pity that there is only one in a thousand.
This star-studded, highly anticipated movie only took in $360 million at the box office. Among them, the North American box office is 70 million US dollars, and the overseas box office is 290 million US dollars.
It may seem like a lot, but since New Line Cinema sold the overseas distribution rights early, it has nothing to do with the overseas box office.
New Line Cinema ultimately lost $110 million. This also made the parent company Warner very angry, so it ordered the withdrawal of New Line Cinema's independent production rights.
As a result, New Line Cinema exists in name only.
The failure of New Line Cinema has also discouraged other film companies from adapting fantasy films, fearing that they might accidentally step on a trap.
But seeing that Universal Pictures has made a lot of money with "Harry Potter", it is natural to be quite greedy.
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Entering January, Xiang Nan started a new project.
"The Twilight Saga", "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", "Tekken 3", "Spider-Man 3", "Iron Man", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Weakness", "The Hangover", "The Devil Wears Prada" and "Mission: Impossible 5."
"Iron Man" was originally supposed to be released in 2008, but Xiang Nan pushed it to 2009.
Iron Man was not originally a popular character in Marvel Comics. The reason why the original Marvel Universe started with him is mainly because Marvel has already sold out other popular superheroes, such as Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Fantastic Four, etc., so they can only wait and see. The big guy was pulled out and photographed.
However, in this world, Xiang Nan bought Marvel early, so its copyrights are the most complete. In this case, there is no rush to film "Iron Man".
Now that The Defenders, Midnight's Sons, and X-Men are all being filmed, Xiang Nan is preparing to film The Avengers, The Fantastic Four, etc. in an effort to create a complete version of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Xiang Nan also chose Robert Downey Jr. as the protagonist of "Iron Man". Apart from him, Xiang Nan couldn't find anyone more suitable. The female lead has been confirmed to be Cobie Smulders.
After she got Xiang Nan's email two months ago, she often sent him emails to discuss the plot, characters, and chat to relieve her boredom. Within a few days, the two were together.
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