The filming of "The Piano Tuner" went smoothly overall!
On the one hand, Kyle had seen it several times in his previous life, and his film school instructors had assigned it as an assignment. Moreover, the Indian adaptation of the film, The Piano Tuner, which achieved the highest box office in India in 2018, was also seen by Kyle and left a deep impression.
With the right time, right place, and right people, why wouldn't Kyle succeed?!
As of April 5, Kyle's second personal work, "The Tuner", has been completed!
From script preparation, early film preparation, shooting, to final shooting, thanks to the efforts of Kyle and all the crew members, it took a total of 17 days, which can be said to be fast.
"Well, the next issue is post-production editing." Kyle sighed repeatedly.
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April 6th.
The movie "Memento", written by Jonathan Nolan, directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jennifer Connelly, took 23 days to complete all the shooting and entered the post-production work such as editing, soundtrack, and dubbing.
Well, the shooting cycle was completed two days earlier than in the original time and space.
"Brother, please be at ease."
Jonathan Nolan consoled him, "The editors at Page Pictures are all veterans, not much behind the Big Six Hollywood productions. You can rest assured."
Hearing this, Christopher Nolan shook his head: "I am very relieved, but you know, this movie is not only my personal hard work, it also has the attention of Mr. Page. I can't let him down."
Jonathan Nolan spread his hands and said helplessly: "Well, what I said just now was in vain."
As a younger brother, he still identifies with and admires his elder brother.
Christopher Nolan ignored his brother and ran to the editing room to participate in the post-production of the film with the editors.
Hollywood adopts the "producer-centred" principle, which means that the final presentation of a movie to the audience is not based on the director, but on the producer.
This is the valuable experience accumulated by Hollywood over its long operation!
Directors are often a certain type of people who have their own artistic pursuits.
When they are shooting a movie, they will inevitably mix in many personal ideas and subjective thoughts, which will greatly deviate from the original intention of the movie and make the movie obscure and difficult to understand; at this time, producers need to be involved. They are the reins of the movie and minimise the difficulty of watching the movie for ordinary audiences.
Many Hollywood directors who have obtained the final editing rights will choose to let themselves go after losing the reins of the producer!
The movie "Heaven's Gate" declared the bankruptcy of United Artists, a studio with decades of history!
It is a typical work when the director lets himself go!
Therefore, repeated bloody lessons have allowed producers to occupy the top of the Hollywood industry chain!
Looking at the history of Hollywood after the 1990s, only a very small number of directors have been able to obtain the final editing rights.
However!
However, in the film project of "Memento", Kyle gave Christopher Nolan the final editing rights, not because Kyle fully believed in his ability, but because the film was too brain-burning, and without Nolan's participation, the film might fall apart.
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April 10th.
"Wrong Turn 2", which has been promoted for a long time and has been eagerly awaited by many movie fans, premiered on this day in 2,450 theatres in North America.
Wrong Turn 2 is the second instalment in the Wrong Turn series and has a certain fan base. Therefore, even though Page Pictures did not hold a premiere this time, it still attracted countless fans on the premiere day.
Crowds rushed to the cinema to watch the film.
On the day of its premiere, "Wrong Turn 2" achieved a North American box office of 13 million US dollars!
This box office figure surpassed the long-released "Titanic" and films from other film companies, making it the single-day box office champion on Friday; at the same time, it also broke the first weekend box office record of the first film in the series.
When "Wrong Turn 1" was released in 1996, it was limited by theatre scheduling and only achieved a box office revenue of 12.45 million US dollars in the first three days of the weekend.
I have to say that the advantages of the sequel movie are very obvious!
This is also the reason why major Hollywood companies will repeatedly shoot sequels in the future instead of restarting original movies.
Especially after 2010, many Hollywood movies that have swept the global box office are basically series movies except for a few.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, the "Fast and Furious" series, the "Hunger Games" series, and the Marvel and DC superhero universe series...
It is really a sequel to a series of movies. It is too easy to make money and can avoid risks to the greatest extent.
Monday, April 13th.
"Wrong Turn 2" achieved an impressive $28.3 million in the North American market in its first three days of release!
Yes, it cannot be compared with movies such as "Juno", "The Purge", and "The Sixth Sense" which were also produced by Page Pictures. The box office results in the first weekend are very different.
Even the final box office data of the film may not be as good as the box office data of movies such as "Avengers 4" and "Avatar" on the first day of their release in North America.
However...it was very cheap to shoot!
The filming cost of "Wrong Turn 1" was only $1 million;
The filming cost of "Wrong Turn 2" is much higher than the first one, but it is only 1.5 million US dollars!
With profit ratios of several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times, what else do you want?
In fact, many medium and small film companies in Hollywood are jealous of Page Pictures' profits.
For example: Miramax Films!
"A bunch of bastards' stuff, why do they always find treasures?"
Harvey Weinstein, president of Miramax Films, said sourly: "It costs $1.5 million and may eventually make more than $50 million at the box office. If they can do it, why can't we?"
Harvey Weinstein is jealous!
He also has reason to be envious and jealous. You know, every year Harvey Weinstein spends a lot of real money on the movie box office and to operate the Oscar awards, and the energy he puts in is countless.
However, the cruel reality told him that his hard work for a year might not be as good as a movie produced by Page Pictures with a cost of only 1.5 million US dollars.
This is like two students who are about to take the college entrance examination. One has put in all his efforts but can only go to a technical college; while the other is addicted to video games all day long. When the college entrance examination comes, he crams at the last minute and gets a higher score than you.
Can you accept this?
In fact, there are quite a few such things!
Summit Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Searchlight Pictures, Dimension Films, Lionsgate, New Line Cinema and other second-tier Hollywood film companies all expressed their opinions after learning the box office data of "Wrong Turn 2" produced by Page Pictures.