As an independent investor of "Air War Hero", David Ellison held a grand premiere for the movie. Perhaps money is really just a digital game for him. The premiere, in terms of luxury, will definitely rank first among all the movies released in Hollywood this year.?

The premiere was not only selected at the Kodak Theater, which junctions between Hollywood Avenue and Highland Avenue, but also at the entrance of the theater, five old propeller planes produced in the 1920s and 1930s were arranged. These were not model props, but real master planes collected by Larry Ellison.

David Ellison and Larry Ellison are both enthusiastic plane enthusiasts.

In addition to the big scenes, there are many Hollywood celebrities and well-known American rich people participating in the premiere.

Although Larry Ellison is a famous big mouth and has a bad reputation in the media, there are many rich people like Ryan who accept his invitation and come to support him.

For example, David Geffen, one of DreamWorks' three giants, Viacom's media giant Summer Redstone, Apple's current ceo Tim Cook, etc.

Even Larry Ellison's old rival, Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, appeared on the red carpet.

In fact, to put it bluntly, these rich people, like the companies they control, have both competition and maintain a certain degree of cooperation. In such trivial matters, they are more worthy of face.

As he walked quickly across the red carpet, Ryan walked past the interview area with Taylor in his arms, he also heard Larry Ellison's iconic loud voice.

"What? The first week of "Air War Heroes"?"

The Silicon Valley madman is being interviewed by the media, as he has been in the past, and is full of heroism. "As early as the last century, I said that David is a movie genius who can compete with Ryan Jenkins. Of course, he is just starting out, but "Air War Hero" won $60 million in the first week of North America."

"You can't go over and say a few words?" Taylor whispered Ryan. "Oh, a movie genius who is comparable to you."

"Don't be naughty."

Ryan pulled her, and the two quickly walked into the Kodak Theater, and led by several receptionists, headed straight to the hall.

They came almost the latest. When they entered the theater hall with giant screens, the front row was almost full of people.

Having shook hands with David Geffen, Summer Redstone, Tim Cook and others who were reaching out one after another, Ryan walked to his seat, except Taylor on the left. On his right was Paul Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft.

The two of them are not particularly familiar with each other, but they have always seen each other on other occasions before and greet them casually. Paul Allen's topic turned directly to Walt Disney's increasingly obvious acquisition activities.

"Your people have come into contact with me, Ryan."

“Are you interested in Disney’s proposal?”

This is a pure business deal, and Ryan doesn't go around, "Paul, Disney is bound to win the DreamWorks animation studio."

As early as the beginning of DreamWorks in the last century, Paul Allen was one of the investors of DreamWorks. Later, after DreamWorks animation studio was separated, he was also a shareholder second only to Ryan and DreamWorks.

"If I look at the investment level, my investment that year achieved more than five times the profit." Paul Allen also showed his true nature as a businessman, "But Ryan, what is the benefit for me to transfer my shares in DreamWorks Animation Studios to Disney?"

"I heard that your Seattle Seahawks have always been interested in New England's quarterback Tom Brady?" Ryan didn't give him a chance to answer and said to himself. "He is a signed player under the sports department of KK's agency. Her girlfriend Gisele Bonson is also a signed model of KK and is still a friend of Miss Theron. So..."

Ryan gave Paul Allen an expression you understand.

After only less than ten seconds of consideration, Paul Allen extended his hand to Ryan, "Happy cooperation."

"Happy cooperation." Ryan gently held it in his hand.

The joining of Tom Brady is enough to make the Seattle Seahawks more attractive. The New Englanders quarterback is not only the most valuable player in the NFL last year, but also beat Tiger Woods on the Forbes celebrity rankings and became the No. 1 celebrity in the United States last year.

For American football, the largest sport in the United States, even Ryan, an outsider, knows a little about the importance of quarterbacks.

Since he wants to acquire DreamWorks Animation Studio, Disney will naturally make targeted preparations. Take Paul Allen, one of the shareholders. After he bought the Seattle Seahawks in 1997, he has always wanted to win back the Vince Lombardi Cup from the Super Bowl. He wanted to sign Tom Brady several times, but failed for various reasons.

This is an obvious exchange of interests.

"This is how we manipulate other people's fate?"

After Ryan turned back, Taylor leaned into his ear and whispered, "With the other party's knowledge, does it determine his future path?"

"Our people will only persuade." Ryan lowered his voice, "and would not help anyone make decisions."

Even if he doesn't say anything later, Taylor will understand.

Just like those football stars in the European League, in addition to enough money to tempt a sports star, the persuasion of agents and people around them often plays an extremely important role.

Not to mention the KK agency signed by Tom Brady, his current girlfriend and future wife Gisel Bonchen, is definitely a smart woman.

As the screen lights up, Ryan shifts his energy to the movie.

He had heard of the famous movie in his previous life, but never watched it, because people who had watched the movie always told him that the film was beautiful, and then... there was nothing.

After calming down and watching for a while, Ryan couldn't help but sigh. If the World War I propeller planes in the film were replaced with horses, it would be a hodgepodge of westerns that combines science fiction and cartoon elements.

For example, the pilot played by James Franco, the first male protagonist of the film, escaped to France on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean with the evidence of beating people on his back, and brought the cowboy's free and casual style to the army that should have been uniform, and he could even ride... Sorry, he ran to a date with a French girl in a fighter plane...

He could actually land the plane calmly on a battlefield where the fire was supposed to be plowed into sieve by both sides, and rescued his comrades trapped in the distance without any damage. It made people feel that they were not against the German army equipped with a large number of Maxim machine guns and heavy artillery, but only the Indians holding flying axes and bows.

As for the plot where he finally killed a German pilot with a pistol at a high altitude, although he borrowed from real events in history, it looked like a cowboy playing on a horse's back. However, his crotch was replaced by a biplane with a speed of 100 miles per hour, and the classic laws of physics and mechanics would not have any effect on such a gangster and scientific blind cowboy.

In fact, from a good point, the director and screenwriter of the film understand that this subject has natural flaws. If it is filmed according to the real scenes of World War I, it will inevitably be difficult to please the audiences born after the 1980s.

They tried to use the lines and behaviors of new humans born in the 1980s to package the characters belonging to their great-grandfather's generation in the film. However, regardless of the protagonist, supporting role, positive and negative role in the film, they are either too old to deal with the characters and related plots, or ridiculously ridiculously. Judging from the laughter sounds of the audience from time to time, this is not like an air combat film about courage and courage, but a pure comedy.

Of course, movies are movies after all, not history. After all, they are commercial entertainment films. As long as the audience is willing to buy them, these problems are not problems.

The question is, will the audience buy it?

Perhaps the comments on the Internet are representative.

"The lack of plot, the completely mentally retarded screenwriter, the formulaic performance without surprises, and what's more terrible is that such a trash war movie has even entered the theater?"

"A video that was completely unnecessary."

"Apart from the special effects shots of air combat, they are completely boring French-style movies that are unavailable to watch normally."

"Whether it is an adventure story or a love story from a war time, this film is not very good. Even the special effects set in historical situations are sleepy and can't save this overly tedious film."

"I think the battle back then must be more exciting than the movie."

"After watching all the videos, the real impression I can leave is neither the starring actors nor the planes and air battles inside, but the fierce pet lion..."

This is not the view of the film critics, but the view of ordinary audiences. Except for a few female audiences who made ill-fated remarks like "James Frank is so handsome" and "I just left for James Frank", the film received unanimous bad reviews, and even the bad reviews lasted less than two days, because there were too few viewers who went to watch this video later.

As for the first week of the $60 million box office that Larry Ellison mentioned, even if the integer of 50 million is removed, there is no sign of the first week of the box office number of the movie "Air War Hero".

The film started painting in North America with 3,033 theaters. The box office figure for the first three days was...6 million US dollars, and by the second week, it quickly dropped to more than 2 million US dollars.

The North American box office defeat directly led to the ongoing overseas distribution negotiations for the film. Even Larry Ellison made a phone call in person, and Paramount Pictures still refused to become the overseas publisher of the film.

Perhaps, David Ellison can only find one of the second and third-tier issuing labels to negotiate. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!