The night was dark and the lights were brightly lit in California Disneyland. After the premiere, Disney Pictures specially arranged a group of creators to go out of the Hollywood Theater and accepted interviews from media reporters in an open manner. As the two biggest actors in the crew, Matthew and Johnny Depp were naturally the focus of media reporters' siege.

As soon as Matthew came out of the theater, he was surrounded by more than 30 reporters. Fortunately, Disney Pictures had coordinated before and had a dedicated person to maintain order. There was no chaos on the scene and the interview could continue normally.

A female reporter asked first, "Matthew, recently many people have been discussing how the cost of this video is amazing. What do you think?"

Is this the wrong person? Is it wrong to ask the producer Jerry Brookheimer, but came to ask him what the actor is doing? Thinking of this in my heart, Matthew's head was turning quickly. In such an occasion, he must give an appropriate answer.

"If you go out to sea on a yacht, you won't consider how much the yacht is worth. You're only concerned about its performance, appearance, decoration, etc." Matthew spread his hands and said with a smile. "If you think about the engine cost of the passenger plane, you probably won't go on vacation."

After saying this, laughter rang out around him.

The news officer from Disney Pictures also laughed. This response was unexpected but extremely reasonable.

"Mr. Horner!" a male reporter with a tag hanging on his chest asked loudly, "Don't you think it's too shallow? Is it too unpursuing to show such a grand world in such a simple way?"

Matthew was a little helpless. If you don’t ask Disney Pictures and Jerry Brookheimer about this kind of question, what’s the matter with him?

He coughed and replied slowly, "This question is interesting." He looked at the reporter, "You spend $10 into the theater to find fun in the movie. Only happiness is a real huge wealth. As long as the story told in the film can bring people fun, no matter how much money they spend, they are willing to pay."

The reporter from the reporter asked loudly, "Last year, many viewers complained that it was too long, but now it's longer. Does Disney Pictures care about the length of the film?"

After hearing this question, Matthew wanted to ask people from Disney Pictures, but he still has a very professional ethics and replied, "At the time of the preview, many movie fans watched it, and they thought the film was not slow."

Of course, this is lying with his eyes open. Even the starring actor feels lengthy, let alone ordinary audiences, but he only says good things about the film, "It's very interesting and has a lot of attractive things. There is no reason for the film to be more than two hours. It can tell more details about what they are most concerned about. As the plot develops, your attention will be brought into the film and worry about the fate of the characters in the play. Even if you sit down and watch it halfway through the film, you will find something new."

Matthew thought about it and said, "Everyone of the crew has a consensus that no director or screenwriter or actor wants to let old things appear in an epic film. Regardless of the production cost of $30 million or $300 million, the crew must push themselves forward. The question is how far can we go? And what should we do to prevent the film from falling into clichés? We are shooting a pirate movie, obviously we have to give up some patterned things, and we have to use fresh elements to express our respect to this type of film every time."

Finally, the reporter from the scene really asked Matthew, "Disney Pictures has decided to shoot more videos. It was confirmed that Jack Sparrow and Johnny Depp will return, and where are you and Will Turner?"

Disney Pictures did not ask for confidentiality in this issue. Matthew said directly, "In this movie, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan have real results. Will will take over David Jones's job. He is very busy and has no time and free time to accompany Captain Jack Sparrow to adventure."

"That means you won't be able to act?" another reporter asked immediately.

"Yes, I'm not going to shoot another pirate film." Matthew said slowly, "I'm going to challenge myself on a different battlefield."

The reporter asked again, "Do you never shoot?"

Matthew couldn't help laughing, "You know, never say forever."

The interview lasted for more than ten minutes. It was almost midnight before Disneyland in California gradually calmed down and had officially set sail.

This year's summer season kicked off from the first weekend of May. The market is quite hot and the competition is particularly fierce. It seems that North America ushered in a commercial year. The first weekend of the summer season was released, and the first weekend was 150 million US dollars. The first week of the release was not too much. The box office of more than 120 million US dollars was also created in North America.

It has the same similarity with these two big-selling films, with a high box office and a very poor professional reputation.

They did not escape this fate. After winning more than 17 million US dollars in advance, many media and film critics began to criticize the film the next day.

Walt Disney is very powerful and will become stronger in the future, but it will not be able to control all media.

Before the release of this film, many critics who participated in the preview praised it as the best one, and various boasting soft articles emerged one after another.

For example, some film critics praised it together with the three films: the first one is vivid and popular, the most outstanding and entertaining; the second one has characters, increasing fighting, and establishing a huge worldview, which is also quite interesting; the third one talks about death and rebirth, which is very lively, with bigger gimmicks and more stunt wonders than the first two episodes.

For the sake of the next consideration, there are many soft articles praising the actors, all focusing on Johnny Depp, praising Captain Jack's acting skills as awesome. If he continues to play this role in the future, they will not oppose shooting more sequels, etc.

But as the film was released in North America, more and more people saw the film, it was impossible for Walt Disney to control the reputation of the film like before.

The media reputation fell instantly.

"Don't expect to see a work that is organized, novel and compact in rhythm. The film is unsatisfactory in terms of satisfaction and narrative."

"It doesn't matter whether you have watched the first two movies, but you'll still be confused anyway."

"It's not that difficult to keep up with the complicated outline of the film's story, but the two-hour and forty-seven-minute length is really exhausting."

"The last three hours of the film continues the unnecessary act of presumptuousness, and once again completely loses the romantic charm of the first part."

This situation is not surprising. Matthew had such an expectation when he saw it. Looking at all Hollywood series, there are very few series that can get better and better sequels.

In fact, I am still following the old path, but there are more characters and bigger worldviews and special effects scenes.

Since there is a successful model ahead, why should Hollywood manufacturers who take making money as their mission to take risks and innovate? Innovation is very likely to destroy the brand that has finally been established.

Hollywood loves to make sequel movies, and the brand appeal of the movie cannot be ignored.

For filmmakers, their ultimate goal is to make money, and it is extremely difficult for a brand to gain popularity. When the first film is outstanding, shooting sequels in an inherent mode is a safer way. The brand effect and a well-established production team can make the movie attract more attention.

Nowadays, in Hollywood movies, in addition to sequels, there are also reshoots of old films from past. Hollywood has fewer and fewer original works, and major production companies are becoming more and more cautious in investing in original movies.

Since the 1970s, Hollywood movies have officially entered the era of commercial films. Because producers need sequels with relatively high market returns, they will invest accordingly to produce brand new single movies. Making sequels has become Hollywood's established idea and has also become one of the important reasons why Hollywood movies have remained prosperous.

Of course, sequel movies also need to rely on a mature film industry chain like Hollywood.

The sequel movie can be said to be a movie product with very clear product attributes. It is necessary to have a complete and mature industrial chain before such products can emerge based on the industrial chain, such as copyright ownership, actor contracts, main creative contracts, product quality control, etc.

Today, looking at the world, only Hollywood can continuously produce sequels of large-scale productions.

Although Matthew will withdraw from this series and Disney Pictures does not want to pay a high salary for Will Turner, he can see clearly that no matter what the reputation is, as long as the box office is successful, it will never be interrupted, and there will be, or even more in the future.

As long as it can make a profit, even if Johnny Depp can't shoot, he can still find young actors to make a prequel.
Chapter completed!