For commercial groups like Walt Disney, pursuing interests is an eternal driving force. On the premise that "The Hunger Games" shows the big-selling series of movies, even without Ryan's intervention, the management quickly came up with various feasibility plans to maximize interests.%

Disney, spokespersons of Susan Collins and Ryan, held a press conference at Disney headquarters, announcing the launch of the novel version of "The Hunger Games 2: Catching Sparks" and the film version officially began to prepare for it while retaining the original team.

In addition, Jenkins Film will also create a spoof "Hunger Game" series similar to "Shocking Scream" based on this series.

In addition to traditional box office and peripheral earnings, Ryan and Disney are bound to squeeze every drop of oil from this series.

At this time, Disney Pictures no longer retained its efforts and invested the last 20 million US dollars of the $120 million publicity expenses into the market. While peripheral products are selling well, there is still potential for box office, especially North America.

The film received US$36.52 million in North America in the fourth week, and the North American box office exceeded US$350 million!

This has achieved results in less than a month. In recent years, only two movies, "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" and "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith", have seen such crazy North American box office cumulatives, but the latter two are the final works of a series!

The success of "The Hunger Games" in North America cannot conceal the overall weakness of the overseas market. Two weeks after the film landed in North American theaters, it appeared in major overseas markets one after another. So far, the overseas box office is only $150 million, which is indeed a bit worse than those films that are both high and faster overseas in North America.

This is a helpless and realistic thing. In North America where thoughts and speech are more free, perhaps this kind of film containing the idea of ​​"new feminism" is easily accepted by the audience, but in most overseas regions, this kind of film with completely female protagonists needs to break through the film market where male characters occupy an absolute dominance, which requires both time accumulation and conceptual breakthroughs.

As the most direct competitor of "The Hunger Games", the box office of "Escape from the Cloned Island" in North America was only $5.2 million in the third week. According to the current development momentum and decline rate, the movie's North American box office can exceed $30 million at most.

Michael Bay's transformation was completely failed.

Compared with the Explosion Bet, Natalie is the most popular actress this summer.

Since Padme Amidala from "Star Wars Series", she has no new movie image. There has been news that she wants to completely transform and devote herself to the ranks of directors. Until Katnis appeared on the big screen, it triggered a movie-watching craze across the United States.

This strong female character is so similar to Natalie's public image that the two almost achieve a perfect fit.

"Natalie Portman, who plays the heroine, is like Katniss coming out of the novel, and her performance is very attractive from beginning to end!"

This is the evaluation of Natalie in many mainstream media. Although there are factors such as identity and ethnicity, they can always explain some problems.

The Hunger Games sales completely pushed her into the ranks of Hollywood's first-tier movie stars. This film not only earned Natalie her highest salary of $10 million. It also won her a Chanel 5 endorsement contract worth $15 million a year after the box office in North America exceeded $300 million.

However, after entering July, "The Hunger Games" finally ended its crazy box office growth momentum. The box office fell to more than 10 million US dollars in a single week, entering a stage of accumulating box office through a long release time.

Ryan also met Michael Bay in his office.

One of the best commercial directors in Hollywood, sitting opposite him, although his iconic long face kept calm, it could be vaguely seen that he lacked his confidence in the past. The box office of "Escape from the Clones" was too miserable. In the past, Hollywood encountered such a box office tragedy. There are many directors who have never recovered.

"I've heard a little bit about you."

After the secretary gave the coffee, Ryan slowly spoke, "Michael, your schedule should be free. Are you interested in cooperating with Disney Pictures?"

Michael Bey was stunned. He didn't know the specific reason why Ryan asked him for it, "Cooperate?"

Ryan nodded and made a request gesture to the coffee cup.

He picked up the coffee cup and took a sip. Michael Bay understood that with Ryan's status, he would definitely not joke about such things. He couldn't help but say, "Frankly speaking, Ryan, I really want to take a break for a while and understand some problems."

"Why, if a movie fails, you will lose confidence?"

Hearing Ryan's words, Michael Bee barely smiled, "I need to figure out the crux of the problem."

"Actually, your problem is not complicated." Ryan believes that Michael Bay will not be able to figure it out for a long time, but he doesn't want to wait too long. "It's actually very easy to solve it. Return to the style you are best at."

"The style you are best at?" Michael Bay showed a thoughtful expression.

"Create dazzling image effects at sufficient cost." Ryan took the first draft script of "Transformers" from the side and pushed it to Michael Bay. "In a quick editing method, accompanied by dynamic music, it renders big movements, big explosions, and big scenes, creating the ultimate battle in the dazzling light and shadow!"

This is the style of Michael Bay's previous films and the basis for his foothold and success in Hollywood.

"Ryan, do you mean I'm going back to my original style?" Michael Bay picked up the script.

"Why not?" Ryan tapped the table gently, looking at the script in Blast Bei's hand and said, "I plan to invest $150 million to create the live-action movie version of Transformers. I need enough big moves, big blasts, big scenes, and the dazzling visuals."

"Michael, I don't think anyone in Hollywood is better suited to this series than you!" Ryan emphasized again.

"Escape from the Cloned Island" seriously undermined Michael Bey's confidence. The reason why he said so much is that he did not want to see a director with a failed mood, which would damage the enthusiasm of the entire crew.

Of course, he is not an agitator and has no magic power. These words can only make Michael Bay believe that he trusts him very much. The key factor in the explosion that Bei wants to get out of the trough is still himself, and it will take some time.

Michael Bey finally expressed his sincere intention to think about it carefully, but after earning Ryan's approval, he took away the first draft script.

The other party has been working hard in Hollywood for so many years, but it is actually very clear that if he cannot turn over as soon as possible, in Hollywood with power and reality, he will be destined to be gradually forgotten. This is not the result he wants.

Although countless people are saying that Michael Bay's films are getting worse and worse, it cannot be denied that he is still a very pursuing director.

Complete commercialization is the way he should go.

After seeing off Michael Bay, Ryan pressed the phone and called George in.

After several years of study and training, the former bodyguard became a qualified assistant to the chairman. Through his team, he handled a large number of daily affairs every day, helping Ryan watch the entire Walt Disney Group's every move.

Because Michael Eisner and Roy Disney signed the previous signing, although he placed power to group president Cook Dick and CEO Robert Eiger, Ryan never relaxed his supervision of Disney. He was independent of the board of directors' regulatory committee and external accounting firm review, and has been performing his regulatory responsibilities.

"Sit, George."

Ryan casually pointed to the chair opposite, which was completely his own person.

He took a novel and pushed it to George, saying, "Let me find someone to contact the author of this novel, get the copyright of the movie as soon as possible, and let Touchstone Pictures or other subsidiaries do it."

"I understand." George nodded, picked up the novel, and left the office.

It is a novel that has just been launched, a fantasy work of a housewife, named "Twilight: Twilight". It is not very famous yet and has not entered the bestseller rankings in the United States. It is the best opportunity to get the adaptation rights.

With the popularity of the novels and movies of "The Hunger Games", this youth-type theme will gradually become a category that Hollywood films cannot be ignored. It won't take long, and similar films may be filled with the big screen in North America. Following the trend is not only the patents of movies across the ocean, but Hollywood is no exception.

The few excellent and large productions in Hollywood are based on huge bad movies.

It was also during this period that Walt Disney extended his big hand to the Internet and gained a lot. After half a year of negotiations, Disney acquired Evan Williams, an obvious company, the founder of blog technology pioneer, after the preliminary integration, and the main goal will be to miniaturize the blog and enter the mobile platform, and the company name has also been changed to the name of this project - Twitter!

On the other hand, in the new financing plan of "face Pokok", Disney easily defeated Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Asia from Hong Kong, and obtained 25% of the shares. If Ryan's shares were diluted to 35% of the shares, he had already obtained an absolute controlling stake.

Of course, just like in his previous life, Mark Zuckerberg still holds nearly 30% of the shares, and even for his own interests, he will continue to fight in this company.
Chapter completed!