I have to say that Ryan and Lily are very professional.
From the moment the movie started, the two of them watched the movie intently and didn't even talk to Nanaya.
Although the two "King Arthur" ladies had frowned all the time, they never paid any attention to Nanaya from beginning to end.
Ryan waited until the movie ended and the subtitles fell before he looked at Nanaya.
She said embarrassedly: "Sorry..."
"It's okay. How was the movie?"
Nanaya didn't care much about it. It was a rare happy time to sit together with his girlfriend and watch a movie, which was also a pretty good experience.
The only regret was that because of eating popcorn, Nanaya's hands were covered with grease and syrup, so he couldn't hold hands with Ryan or interact with him.
From this perspective, popcorn in the cinema is not a good thing, especially when the movie is a bit boring.
"How do you feel?"
Nanaya wanted to know what the two ladies thought.
"Hmm...it feels just so-so~"
Lily said first: "Compared to the Disney movie King Arthur two years ago, it's still acceptable, but it's just acceptable."
The review sounded fair, but the resentment in Lily's eyes showed that she was very dissatisfied with the movie.
"The film's rhythm has a big problem." Ryan said from the aspect he is best at: "Excessive flashbacks not only fail to achieve the effect the director wants, but make the main plot more confusing."
"It feels like a waste of time." Lily complained with a pout, "I thought the movie you were interested in would be an interesting one. I wouldn't have come if I had known."
[I didn't ask you to come here in the first place.]
Nanaya looked helpless.
At first, the only person he invited to watch the movie was Ryan, and Lily, the burden, insisted on coming along.
"It's actually not that bad. After all, my brother-in-law is sitting next to me..."
Lily grinned.
"Let's go, let's go back."
Ryan pulled Nanaya out of the cinema and gave his sister a meaningful look.
"Tsk."
Lily curled her lips and quickly followed the two people.
Walking into the elevator, Ryan whispered to Nanaya: "If this movie fails, it will probably be a huge blow to Fox, right?"
"About the same. Fox had very few profitable projects last year." Nanaya analyzed calmly, "It was not easy to get a hit like Avatar this year, but the money is not coming back that fast."
"If this "Legend of the Holy Sword" is successful, it may be delayed for a while longer."
No matter which film company in Hollywood, it will need a lot of external funds to help it shoot movies.
If we follow the normal settlement cycle, then the loss of a few movies wouldn't be a big problem at all.
But Fox has too many places to spend money recently, especially since it concentrated a large amount of funds to help News Corporation acquire Warner.
If it is just normal company operations, I believe Fox can survive with its foundation.
But investors and banks don't think so.
If Fox's projects continue to be profitable, it will naturally give investors confidence.
Similarly, the successive failures of film projects will cause investors to lose confidence in Fox.
In order to ensure the safety of their personal funds, they would begin to urgently demand payment from Fox.
They don't care what happens to Fox as a company, they just want to get their money back.
The external environment of the financial crisis that began in 2008 will exacerbate investors' panic.
The worst thing is that Fox really can't come up with the money right now.
However, investors will not listen carefully to Fox's explanation, but will accelerate their panic.
It's just like the run on banks by ordinary people during the stock market crash in the last century.
Although the specific situations may be different, people's psychological activities are the same.
When all these unfavorable factors stack up together, it will be a devastating blow to Fox.
In this way, Fox's crisis will rise to the peak, and with just a slight push, it will fall into the abyss.
"How's the situation in England?"
Nanaya asked Ryan.
"I showed everyone some of the evidence." Ryan said this with clear disgust, "Everyone agreed with our plan. They... violated the most basic rules of the game."
Although he no longer works for the Foreign Office, Ryan is disgusted by News Corporation's practices.
The "everyone" she mentioned naturally refers to the British politicians and the British royal family.
At the beginning, Nanaya and Shion had made many deductions on how to bring down News Corporation.
If a general scandal breaks out, News Corporation can definitely suppress it with its power.
The final result can only be the same state as Nanaya in his previous life - a centipede, dead but still alive.
But this result could not satisfy Nanaya and Shion.
If you want to completely defeat News Corporation, it will definitely require the intervention of state agencies, and it must be a very powerful country.
Britain was the first choice for both people, as the Wettin family had close contacts with senior British officials.
As the saying goes, "It's easier to get things done if you have someone in the government", with Ryan's coordination, the British top leaders have decided to take action against News Corporation.
In addition, there are various media and film companies in North America that oppose News Corporation and Fox.
It can be said that Fox and News Corporation are now sitting on thrones made of dry wood.
At this moment, even a little spark could burn everything to ashes.
"Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing..."
Nanaya pinched his chin.
Everything that needs to be prepared has been prepared, and all that is missing is the final step.
Although a lot of evidence of News Corporation's illegal activities has been collected, all of them are old accounts.
If you want these things to ferment again, there must be a reason.
A reason to focus everyone's attention on News Corp.
"In other words, brother-in-law, you need a big news that can blow up the whole place, right?!"
After listening to Nanaya's explanation, Lily's spiritual eyes began to move.
"Yes, but the problem is that such opportunities are hard to come by."
"If there isn't one, then let's create one!!"
Lily grabbed Nanaya's arm with a "snap".
"Brother-in-law, let's make some big news."
[You are going to cause trouble...]
Seeing the excitement in the eyes of the girl with a single blonde ponytail, Nanaya instinctively felt that it was not a good idea.
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The fastest-growing thing in modern society is the speed of information dissemination and statistics.
Before the sun rose on Saturday, the North American box office figures for King Arthur: Legend of the Sword were released on its first day of release.
Even taking into account the advance box office results from Thursday, "Legend of the Holy Sword" only grossed $5.3 million on its first day.
For a first-tier commercial blockbuster with a production cost of 150 million US dollars, this box office result cannot be said to be unsatisfactory, but can be directly described as terrible.
By Saturday, the box office trend of "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" did not change much, with a single-day closing of 5.52 million US dollars.
This shows that the reputation of "Legend of the Holy Sword" is also not ideal.
Everyone has seen clearly that Street Fox in Legend of the Holy Sword is doomed to fail.
Even if calculated using the most conservative method, Fox's investment in the production and promotion of this film is at least over $200 million.
The dismal box office results meant that the project was doomed to fail.
What followed was criticism of the film from various media and peers.
Everyone is eager to get involved in this movie.
It seems that if I don't do this, I won't be a part of Hollywood.
Even the famous director Nanaya Kiryu, who just won the film history championship and the Oscar, expressed his criticism of this movie.
"It's clear that this movie is Guy Ritchie's attempt to inject his own Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels into The Lord of the Rings."
"But instead of combining the strengths of the two films, it presents all the shortcomings of the two films. It is the kind of movie that doesn't know what story to tell, nor how to tell it."
Nanaya has always been known in the public eye as a polite person.
Apart from his own films, Nanaya rarely judges a movie in public.
Even if it is a terrible movie like "Twilight", Nanaya will try his best to talk about its successful points.
But this time, Nanaya directly tore off his mask and criticized "Legend of the Holy Sword" by name.
At this point, Nanaya's influence in Hollywood has reached the top in every aspect, so his criticism is more useful than ever.
Many filmmakers who were friends with Nanaya also followed suit and began to criticize "Legend of the Holy Sword" in various ways.
No matter from which angle you look at it, the movie Legend of the Sacred Sword is doomed.
The failure of "Legend of the Holy Sword" had a huge impact on Fox.
From 2009 to the present, excluding those small-budget investments, except for the first-line commercial production "Ice Age 3" invested and filmed by Fox, most of them ended in failure in the market.
For people in the industry, this is nothing. Movies are originally a volatile investment project. There will naturally be successes and failures.
Even Nanaya, a time traveler, cannot guarantee that a film will be 100% successful.
In fact, Fox is already considered good. Before the success of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, Disney next door lost much more money in the live-action movie business than Fox is now.
Every film company will have its ups and downs. When things are going smoothly, the film company can make money by doing any project.
But when bad luck strikes, many movies that seem very likely to be successful end up being box office flops.
However, Fox's low point came at a particularly bad time.
It affects more than just a company's financial statements.