March is the off-season for the North American film market, and there will be basically no heavyweight movies released during this period. A comic adaptation film like "Hellboy" with a medium investment was specially selected by Embassy Films in March.

Compared to the real superhero comic adaptation blockbuster, "Hellboy" is more like an anti-hero cult film, and the production cost is only $45 million.

Therefore, the special effects of the film are a bit rough, and it is also quite difficult to create a video with more than 900 special effects shots with such production investment.

Gilmo del Toro has strong attainments in the use of special effects. In order to save budget, after filming several movies with Relativity Entertainment in the past two years, most of the props and some sets were collected. During the filming of "Hellboy", a lot of them were used.

Unlike other crews who sell waste products such as props and sets after filming, Gilmo del Toro has a habit of collecting these things.

“I hope to open a movie museum in the future.”

At the premiere of "Hellboy", Guilmo del Toro said to Ronan: "These may all be part of the exhibit."

Ronan said: "I support your film museum project. You cooperate with Relativity Entertainment. The props that the crew has used can be collected."

Many things are left to sell waste, so it is better to send them out as favors.

Gilmo del Toro is fat and short, and he can hardly even see his eyes when he smiles.

Ronan took the lead in walking up the red carpet and came to the media area in front of the Chiefs Stone Theater, and simply accepted an interview with media reporters.

"I always wanted to make a monster movie," Ronan talked to media reporters, saying all kinds of nonsense: "The unique characters and fantasy monsters and settings in the work "Hellboy" can satisfy all my imaginations of monster movies."

Seeing the male lead Ron Pullman walk into the media area, Ronan gives up the stage at the right time.

Ron Pullman is a very distinctive male actor. In order to compete for the male lead, Uvi Ball and Gilmore Del Toro had a big fight.

In the end, Ron Pullman chose Guilmo del Toro.

Having said that, when facing these two, most actors probably make the same choice as Ron Pullman.

According to the nonsense that Guilmo del Toro brought to media reporters during his publicity, he contacted Ron Pullman as early as the stage when he started writing the script and said that he was writing a movie for Pullman. Pullman was naturally extremely excited. He liked the comic character Hellboy very much. In order to play this strong character, he prepared for one year and had to train for five or six days a week.

During the promotion, the Embassy Film Company even put forward a banner, saying that the Hellboy is the first comic character to be brought to the screen with an anti-hero image!

Just listen to this kind of sayings when promoting it, and you must not be honest.

For example, Gilmore Del Toro also said that filming "Hellboy" was his always dream. After obtaining the copyright, he could never find an investor, and finally moved Ronan and Yunyun.

Entering the theater, Gilmo del Toro and Ronan sat together and said, "I still have some ideas about "Hellboy."

Ronan glanced at him: "Gilmore, say it."

Gilmo del Toro whispered: "After the movie, you can shoot and make animated feature films."

"You can consider it." Of course, Ronan would not agree: "I will let Shahai Entertainment discuss your proposal."

The exact thing depends on the response of this video.

Gilmore Del Toro actually has the design of the new film project. Considering the occasion and the release of "Hellboy", he decided to have time to discuss this with Ronan in the future.

Besides, the post-production of "Hellboy" is not very pleasant.

What is Hollywood like? Gilmore Del Toro has had a personal experience in the past two years. The director's power is too small. The two edited versions he submitted in succession have been rejected by the producer Ronan. This release version has changed a lot from his initial ideas.

Even so, if "Hellboy" has poor commercial performance, it would be better not to say the rest.

He glanced at Ronan and his eyes fell on the special effects designers in the same row. During the filming of "Hellboy", he saw many Gundam models from the island country from this designer.

These mechas, like first lovers who fell in love at first sight, were deeply engraved into Gilmo del Toro's heart.

What does the special effects designer say? Mecha is the romance of men!

What will the effect of mechas in the same movie as monsters like Godzilla?

Gilmo del Toro was fascinated, as if he had seen the Mecha and Godzilla fall in love and fight.

However, before the mecha and the monster, you must fulfill your wish - to shoot a Spanish movie.

The film begins to be screened, and Gilmo del Toro comes back to his senses and no longer thinks about the romance and Spanish films of the mecha men.

The roaring thunder sounded, and in the heavy dark tones, the Gothic picture style abnormal items were summoned by the Germans to the earth.

Satan has frequently appeared in American comics, whether it is Marvel comics or the DC comics next door, there are hell and Satan.

"Hellboy" was written by Dark Horse Comics, the third largest comic bookmaker in the United States. It has a short history of publication and was first published in 1993.

The original comic is a typical steampunk style, and the creativity is very interesting. ** uses the power of black magic and technology to summon demons. The Allies discovered and destroyed this evil plan. A demon son who had summoned to the human world was actually trained to become a superhero who killed demons and defended humans.

The post-production of this film took a long time. After Guilmo del Toro completed all the productions, the two consecutive edited versions submitted to Ronan were rejected by Ronan.

The reasons for both times are the same. The pace of the video is too slow, more than 120 minutes are too long, and the action scene size is too small.

At the beginning, Gilmo del Toro submitted a version of PG-13, which was modified several times at Ronan's request, and the film completely turned into a dark, gloomy, cruel and bloody R-level film.

Without affecting the narrative, the length of the film was also compressed to 102 minutes.

This makes the pace of the film more compact.

The main thing that was cut out was a sloppy love scene.

This seriously weakens the theme depth of the film, but for this type of film, what should the subject depth do?

However, Guilmo del Toro has done a great job in many aspects.

For example, he has aggravated the cuteness of Hellboy.

As a male protagonist without a handsome face, Hellboy is a pure monster, rough and reckless, but in sharp contrast to these, while being rough and reckless, the film can clearly feel the contrast between Hellboy.

Especially the various lines of Hellboy's complaints and lines, combined with Ron Pullman's very recognizable voice, are quite powerful.

This film creates another kind of heroic image. In the past, the protagonists in Hollywood hero films were no matter how weird it was, but they undoubtedly revolved around the theme of handsomeness and mightyness. However, Hellboy broke this rule. From the perspective of appearance, the protagonist is a monster, almost integrating the essential appearance elements of all negative characters in the movie.

But after watching the movie, you will find that the monster Hellboy, apart from red skin and unique appearance, is actually an ordinary person.

Unlike the movie that was once seriously biased towards children, this version of "Hellboy" is more violent and bloody, and the R-level rating also illustrates its audience.

In short, it is a typical American brainless hero. You don’t have to use your brain too much when encountering any problems. You just pass by quickly and quickly.

Most of the superhero movies adapted from comics are actually this routine.

Correspondingly, this routine has a very wide market acceptance and a large audience.

On the first weekend after the release of "Hellboy", it appeared among 3,602 theaters in North America. With a score of US$29.87 million, it beat "Boys and Girls Black and White" which opened at the same weekend, winning the North American box office championship.

But the reputation of the film is very average, with imdb users rated 6.9 points, cinema score theater audience rated "b", and the box office in North America is predicted to be around 80 million US dollars.

On the second weekend, "Hellboy" lost the box office champion.

The result of $15.62 million can only ensure that "Hellboy" sits second in the box office list, and the North American box office champion was snatched by DreamWorks' "American version of Midnight Bell 2".

This remake of the film, which opened the painting weekend, achieved a good result of $35.06 million in North America.

After DreamWorks has its own distribution channel, it has successively sold movies at box office. Even movies that fail at box office can minimize losses due to independent distribution channels.

Today's Dream Factory has embarked on a completely different path than before.

The most obvious thing is that DreamWorks has stronger risk resistance.

Movies that fail in box office can make as much money as possible through online and offline distribution channels, while successful movies can maximize their benefits with the support of their own independent distribution system.

In addition to releasing movies produced by itself, DreamWorks has begun to undertake external distribution business, with lower risks and more stable revenues in this area.

After experiencing painful lessons, DreamWorks seems to have a trend of rising again.

With DreamWorks' current situation, you won't have to sell yourself to survive just because a movie fails.

"Hellboy" was released for two weeks and earned $51.2 million in North America.

Compared with last month's "The Demon Wearing Prada", the market response of "Hellboy" is much worse, but including future overseas and offline revenue, this project can still make a certain profit, but the profit margin will not be very high.

It is impossible for every movie to get several times the investment income with a relatively low investment like "The Demon Wearing Prada".
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