This weekend passed, and the box office defeat of "Cloud Map" quickly spread throughout Hollywood. Matthew has been waiting for this result. The Wachowski brothers ran on the road of philosophical thinking, just like he vaguely remembered, and never looked back.

The disastrous defeat of "Cloud Map" also made him a little worried. Of course, he was not worried about the situation of Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman and Wachowski, but about the just-concluded film "Inception".

Christopher Nolan once said that "Inception" will not be obscure and difficult to understand. He is not worried about this. What he really is worried about is the promotion of Warner Bros.

If Warner Bros. deliberately portrays "Inception" as an obscure and difficult-to-understand so-called high-IQ film, will it exclude many viewers?

However, Matthew's concerns soon disappeared.

During its promotion, "Cloud Map" has always portrayed itself as a film that only smart people can understand. Now it has suffered a crushing box office defeat. For Hollywood, which is good at summarizing, it can summarize too many lessons from "Cloud Map".

As a nominal producer, Matthew learned that Warner Bros. had fully learned from the failure of "Cloud Map" and timely adjusted the publicity strategy of "Inception" in an event.

Now is an era when simple and popular commercial movies can be truly popular. "Inception" is far from being able to sell well by shooting with quality and quantity. In addition to the films produced by Christopher Nolan, which have always performed well in reputation and the market appeal of actors such as Matthew, the cultural transformation caused by the rise of Internet and electronic game culture is also a factor that cannot be ignored.

This is also the focus of Warner Bros.'s changed publicity strategy, using Internet terminals to formulate some clever publicity methods to induce the audience's attitude towards the film in the direction of the participants.

In other words, to allow viewers who are generally baptized by the online virtual society and role-playing electronic games to easily intervene as participants in the film's story and let them participate in the film's specific participants. This is manifested as the movie's plot that made the movie enthusiastically interpret the film's plot after its release, and the gathering of fellow enthusiasts and fan cultures has made the momentum of "Inception" higher than that of the wave.

Compared to the connotation or decryption, this is the real killer weapon of "Inception" that allows the audience to participate. It cannot be too difficult and elegant, nor too simple or too rough. Just like the scene in which Cobb asked Adni to design the maze in the film, the addition and decrease must be just right.

As for video games, this is better understood. If you see it for two hours and some viewers say "This is a video game", Christopher Nolan believes that the film will basically be a great success.

Matthew also communicated with Christopher Nolan, and Christopher Nolan's post-production plan was adjusted appropriately.

In Nolan's words, he would draw on the "The Matrix" by the Wachowski brothers to a certain extent in his post-production.

In some ways, Dom Cobb, like Neo, has fallen into the matrix empire. Once he enters fields such as dreams and virtual reality, it will always be a dead cycle. No matter what, the film becomes a black party full of fake and real things.

It is precisely because it is a dream that you can do whatever you want, which also provides an excellent opportunity for the film to create visual wonders.

Never underestimate the important role of visual strangeness in attracting audiences in commercial films.

Only Matthew knew that soon there would be a film with visual wonders as its main selling point, surpassing the success of "Titanic".

The popularity of electronic games has made this promotional strategy change and allowed movie fans to accept the story of "Inception" more interestingly.

Hollywood has been a film that tells dreams in the past, and transforming the seemingly boring dream games into action blockbusters. This is the focus of "Inception".

As for the "last-minute trick" where the gyro is still spinning, this is just the standard routine in Hollywood.

Moreover, if you play too much in your dream, you can't explain it clearly in the end. Why did Daum Cobb wake up in the cabin? Is he still in a dream? Is his deceased wife's theory about the indistinguishable reality and dreams correct? When the film is screened, these question marks are also conducive to creating propaganda topics.

"The biggest significance of these questions for the audience is that they will tirelessly pursue the truth after watching the video." Before Matthew left, Christopher Nolan said to him, "and then they want to use their own truth to convince others. They will watch the movie over and over again to find evidence to prove that their truth is the truth."

Having met Christopher Nolan, Matthew went to the project department of the Warner Building again and met the New Zealand director Peter Jackson whom he had made an appointment two days ago.

"Hello, Peter." Matthew shook hands with Peter Jackson, "The Lord of the Rings trilogy has always been my favorite."

Peter Jackson is significantly thinner than in previous years and said with a smile, "I like your movies too."

The two of them politely spoke, sat together and talked about the "Hobbit" trilogy, which was also the main reason why Matthew met Peter Jackson.

Whether the Hobbit is filming two or making trilogy like "The Lord of the Rings", the investment amount will be astronomical. Even if he only accounts for 20% of the investment share, it is a considerable amount of money. We must talk to Peter Jackson, who leads this series.

"My studio has reached an agreement with Warner Bros.," Matthew said directly. "The final 20% funding gap in this project will be funded by my studio."

Peter Jackson nodded slightly, he had no objection to this.

Matthew said again, "Peter, how long do you expect this video to be released?"

"It's just now starting to plan." Peter Jackson told the truth, "It's 2012 or 2013 at the earliest."

He glanced at Matthew and said tentatively, "The premise is that there is no copyright dispute."

Matthew had a phone call with Kevin Teshura and was very sure, "The copyright dispute has been resolved, and 20% of my investment will soon fall on the written contract."

Warner Bros. has handled the dispute with Harvey Weinstein, and Harvey Weinstein retreated.

"That's good." Peter Jackson obviously hadn't gotten the news yet, "this way I'll feel relieved."

Some time ago, Warner Bros. offered generous conditions that he could not refuse. He had decided to let go of his previous unhappiness with Warner's subsidiary Xinyi Film and directed the "Hobbit" series.

After all, after Warner Bros. intervened, Xinyi Film quickly reached an out-of-court settlement with him and paid that he deserved the profit.

Then there is no need to get involved in this aspect anymore. You can't be able to get over the favorable director's pay.

After chatting for a while, Matthew asked the most concerned question, "Peter, how many movies do you plan to shoot? Two or three movies? Are you sure now? I always have to prepare myself to raise funds."

Peter Jackson said with a brief consideration, "I want to shoot a trilogy."

The trilogy means more investment and greater risks. Matthew's 20% investment share is the largest investor outside Warner Bros. If the trilogy plan is successful, of course, he must win Matthew's support.

Therefore, he said, "Only a complete trilogy can the story be told."

Matthew didn't interrupt and waited for Peter Jackson to continue.

Peter Jackson further said, "Compared with "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit" is lighter in weight. However, in this movie, many of the details and origins of the story in "The Lord of the Rings" will be explained and interpreted, and this fantasy journey will continue to unfold."

Speaking of this, he smiled, "I also want to show the past and present lives of Guru and Aragon."

Matthew nodded, and he could hear that after the success of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Peter Jackson had greater ambitions for Middle-earth.

However, he also raised a question, "Peter, if I remember correctly, the original Hobbit is very small, right? It seems that the main text is only a dozen chapters, right?"

"Yes." Peter Jackson obviously had plans. "I plan to find more details from the Hobbit novels and the Lord of the Rings novels, use limited materials to evoke people's memories of the Lord of the Rings, and then use this memory to enrich the story and plot of the Hobbit."

He was full of confidence, "The information I had at hand was able to shoot a trilogy. And the trilogy was very necessary. After the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, there were still many stories that had not been finished. I could use the personnel and materials in my hands to shoot a trilogy."

Matthew thought for a while and said, "Peter, wait until I sign the official contract with Warner Brothers, I hope you can give me a project plan. I will reply to you after I have read it."

"Okay." Peter Jackson responded, and then laughed, "Just now, I thought of a good idea, which has something to do with you."

Matthew pointed to himself, "It has something to do with me?"

Peter Jackson said seriously, "In the original book "The Hobbit", there are limited characters, especially those with full images, so I have always planned to design an original elves. For the time being, I just have this idea. The gender, background and background of this elves have no idea, until we meet this time today."

He gestured and said, "I think you can use it as a reference for this elf character."

Matthew scratched his chin, "Aren't the elves all slender and elegant? Are there elves as strong as me?"

"Your whole body lines are very smooth." Peter Jackson didn't give up, "It's not the type Schwarzenegger or Stallone."

He invited him very sincerely, "Matthew, join this series."
Chapter completed!