The filming process of "Mission: Impossible 6" was relatively smooth.
At the same time, Universal Pictures released the movie "The Incredible Hulk" in June, telling the origin of the Hulk. This is also the first Hulk movie in the new century.
In fact, the original "Hulk" was filmed by Li An in 2003, starring Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly.
However, the movie did not receive a good response. The investment of US$130 million only returned US$230 million in global box office. Therefore, the producer at the time, Universal Pictures, did not produce a sequel.
Therefore, after the copyright expired, Marvel Studios took back the copyright and invited Edward Norton and Liv Tyler to star in "The Incredible Hulk".
This movie was originally supposed to be the beginning of the Marvel Avengers universe, but unexpectedly it received poor reviews and poor box office. An investment of US$150 million resulted in a global box office of only US$260 million.
As a result, both Edward Norton and Liv Tyler declined to star in the sequel. Marvel Studios has yet to release another Hulk stand-alone movie.
The reasons why the two movies did not do well at the box office and received good reviews are for different reasons.
Li An's film was too focused on exploring the Hulk's psychology, emphasizing Bruce Banner's pain and choices, and exploring genetic experiments, excessive technology, and the future of mankind, which resulted in insufficient entertainment.
"The Incredible Hulk" is the other way around. It's highly entertaining, but has almost no depth. This also results in most of the movie being about fighting. Although the special effects were amazing and the scenes were shocking, due to the lack of sufficient foreshadowing, it could not arouse the audience's emotions, so it ultimately failed miserably at the box office.
When Xiang Nan was filming "The Incredible Hulk", he revised its script to have both humanistic depth and focus on Bruce Banner's pain and choices, as well as passionate scenes. All in all, it's a decent popcorn movie.
Sure enough, this movie won unanimous approval from movie fans after it was released. The final box office in North America was US$230 million and the global box office was nearly US$700 million, making it one of the most popular movies of the summer.
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The movie released in July is still the movie "Hurricane Rescue" starring Xiang Nan, Cong Shan, and Zhou Dongyu, telling the story of the male protagonist rescuing his daughter who was kidnapped by a human-snake organization.
The plot is twists and turns and the story is compact. It can be said to be a quite pure action movie. All the fighting scenes are full of punches and hearty, and there are no special effects at all, so they look extremely real and believable.
It is also a rare masterpiece for fans of hardcore action movies, so it has been well received since its release. The final box office in North America was US$180 million, and the global box office exceeded US$500 million.
For a movie with an investment of only 50 million US dollars, this is a pretty good result.
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In August, "The Hangover 2" was released, continuing to tell the story of the ridiculous experiences of a group of bad friends after getting drunk.
The previous film "The Hangover Part 1" took an investment of US$35 million and grossed US$450 million at the global box office.
Such results are quite good, and a sequel will naturally be arranged.
Compared with the previous game, the sequel has the same story routine, but the location is changed from Las Vegas to Bangkok, and the four protagonists play more wildly and have more fun.
Coupled with the attraction of exotic locales, "The Hangover 2" still received a good response at the box office. The final North American box office was US$250 million and the global box office was US$580 million.
However, as "The Hangover 2" continues to be a hit, the salaries of several leading actors have also skyrocketed. For example, starring Bradley Cooper's salary has risen to five million US dollars when he starred in "The Hangover 2". He will definitely not be able to stop him from starring in "The Hangover 3" for 10 million US dollars.
The remuneration of the other leading actors will not be small. Together, the film cost will be at least 100 million US dollars. In that case, the box office pressure of "The Hangover 3" will be too great. It must get more than 300 million US dollars at the box office before it can make a profit.
"The Hangover 2" has been criticized by the media as a hype, which has put a lot of pressure on "The Hangover 3". Therefore, Xiang Nan decided that unless there is a better script that makes people laugh from ear to ear, "The Hangover 3" will not be filmed again.
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In September, Universal Pictures releases Morbius, a film about the antihero's origins.
The original film was released by Sony Pictures and starred Jared Leto, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. However, that movie failed miserably both in terms of reputation and box office. It can be said that it was a complete failure.
The reason for this is because the story is too cliche. It just tells the story of a person who acquires superpowers and acts as a hero. There was no entanglement, no anxiety, no doubt, everything was so logical and ordinary.
Even the appearance of the villain was so trivial, so in the end, a movie with a US$100 million investment only had a global box office of US$160 million, causing Sony to lose at least US$60 million.
Therefore, after absorbing Sony's lessons, Xiang Nan deliberately avoided these pitfalls when writing the script. Try to make the plot as twists and turns as possible, focusing on the pain and choices of the male protagonist.
With such blessing, after the release of "Morbius the Vampire", its reputation has indeed risen to a higher level. Although the film is rated R because of its dark themes and numerous bloody and violent scenes.
But this dark and violent style has attracted a group of serious movie fans. In the end, "Morbius" had a box office of US$180 million in North America and nearly US$400 million worldwide.
Compared with the investment of US$80 million, the return on this movie is not bad.
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In October, Xiang Nan finished filming "Mission: Impossible 6". Later, he met Léa Seydoux for coffee.
Léa Seydoux, a well-known French beauty, a former model, with perfect appearance and figure. Of course, this is not a big advantage in the entertainment industry. After all, the most important thing in this industry is beautiful women.
The most admirable thing about Léa Seydoux is her cold and refined temperament, like a stubborn little beast, which makes people involuntarily have the desire to conquer.
That's why Xiang Nan asked her to have coffee together.
Léa Seydoux also has a very good impression of Xiang Nan.
On the one hand, he is really talented. Not to mention those commercial films, all of the artistic films he created are also classics.
For example, "Fallen Angels", "Beautiful Legend of Sicily", "Scent of a Woman", "Edward Scissorhands", "Dead Poets Society", "Love Between Ghosts" and so on.
On the one hand, Xiang Nan is really dedicated. There is a skydiving scene in the film. In order to pursue reality, he actually skydived. Skydiving is very dangerous, not to mention that in order to capture his jump, the photographer has to jump with him.
The two of them cannot be too far apart, but if they are too close, once they collide, at the speed at which they are falling, they may suffer broken muscles and fractures.
Despite this, in order to pursue the best effect, Xiang Nan jumped more than fifty times in a row. Even professional skydivers couldn't do it as crazy as him.
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