Kevin Feige was only 26 years old when he entered the industry. He was appointed as the assistant chairman of Marvel Studios by Donn and assisted Nina Jacobson.

At the age of 30, he was promoted to vice president of Marvel Studios.

This year, he is 33 years old and finally reaches the peak of his career. He is recognized as the chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios!

With the popularity of "Darkward 2", he accepted an exclusive interview with "The Hollywood Reporter", announcing the hero behind the Marvel movies and reached the brightest front desk in Hollywood.

Speaking of DC Pictures, Kevin Feige said: "Actually, we are not a real competitive relationship. This 'relationship' only exists in media reports. I think Jeff Johns is a friend of mine. We grew up together in this industry, so I want to applaud all his achievements and I will also appreciate his works from the perspective of fans. Whether it is Marvel or DC movies, if one of the movies has a double reputation and box office harvest, it will be beneficial to both of us, and that is why I often support them."

Jeff Johns was originally an executive of Marvel Studios. In 2003, he was poached by Warner to serve as the creative director of DC Pictures.

When talking about Batman 2, Kevin Feige also generously admitted: "Indeed, Batman and Daredevil have great similarities. After all, this is carried forward in the hands of the same comic artist, which is a continuation of the dark spirit. However, I don't think this is a repetition. "Darkward 2" is a very good movie, and I also wish Batman 2 a good result. For Marvel, the current focus should be on Mission Impossible 3, not Batman 2."

On May 5, "Darkward 2" will be released.

On May 12, "Mission: Impossible 3" will be released.

On May 19, "Batman 2" will be released.

In fact, most American schools have holidays at the end of May. Strictly speaking, the summer season is June and July. May is a "pre-summer season". Only films with confidence will be released in May.

In a few years, Hollywood has advanced this "pre-summer schedule" by another week and will start to release blockbusters at the end of April, such as "Fast and Furious 8", "Avengers 3", and "Avengers 4". This is a sign of overwhelming confidence. The publisher is invincible and needs to leave a better schedule for those less-than-safe blockbusters.

Of course, relatively speaking, the competition in May is smaller than in June and July.

Don’t even look at “Darkward 2”, “Mission Impossible 3”, and “Batman 2”, but only one blockbuster is released every week.

In June, the real peak season comes, with at least two new films released every week.

In the last question, the reporter asked: "Since "Spider-Man", Marvel Studios' movies have always been light and humorous, suitable for family viewing, including "Ant-Man", "Iron Man" and "Thor". However, "Darkishness 1", "Darkishness 2", and "Ghost Rider" are deepening the inner world of superheroes, which is dark wind. These are two different routes. Will Marvel Studios in the future... consider shooting R-level films? After all, the scale in the comics is quite large."

Kevin Feige said: "There is no doubt that this will be a possible choice for Marvel Studios in the future. We are no strangers to R-rated films, such as "The Blade" in previous years. Many people don't even know that the protagonist of this movie comes from Marvel Comics because at that time, the filmmakers deliberately concealed his Marvel identity."

"Can you reveal more specifically?"

"I think the combination of Deadpool and Spider-Man will be very interesting."

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There is no doubt that the Mission: Impossible series is Paramount’s mainstay.

But Tom Cruise is too dark!

In "Mission: Impossible 3", Tom Cruise called out a $25 million salary plus a 25% box office share offer! This means that once the film is launched, Paramount will definitely not make as much money as Tom Cruise!

This is simply darker than Spielberg.

When Spielberg made a movie for DreamWorks, half of the profits belong to him and his team, and the other half of the profits belong to DreamWorks. But he is the boss of DreamWorks, and he has the final say.

What is Tom Cruise? Let Paramount give him soy sauce?

It's tolerant, but who can't bear it!

So two years ago, the angry Redstone personally issued an instruction to no longer cooperate with Tom Cruise!

But the Mission: Impossible series is different from the Fast and Furious series.

Vin Diesel does not have the copyright of "Fast and Furious", so when he offered a sky-high price, Universal Pictures had more choices. At worst, they would break up and no longer cooperate! This year's "Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo Drift" did not have the role of Vin Diesel.

But Tom Cruise has partial copyrights for Mission Impossible, and without him, Paramount could not start this project!

Chacha, Paramount is doing very poorly now. Apart from the Mission: Impossible series, he really can't produce a decent "hot product".

what to do?

There was no choice but Lei Shidong had to swallow his anger!

Tom Cruise once publicly criticized Redstone, saying that he was too old, too stingy, and did not understand the movie. As a result, Redstone finally had to take back his orders and allow Paramount to continue to work with Tom Cruise on "Mission Impossible 3".

It’s okay that Thunderstone Dong was teased by Don Eun, but he couldn’t even control Tom Cruise, and he was simply disgraceful.

No matter what, after 6 years, amidst the ups and downs, the "Mission Impossible" series has finally released a new work - "Mission Impossible 3"!

On May 12, "Mission: Impossible 3" will be released across the United States!

Friday, $16.63 million; Saturday, $18.41 million; Sunday, $12.7 million.

Including the early game of $2.84 million, the premiere of $20,000...

Mission: Impossible 3's box office was $50 million in the first week of its release!

Compared with the production cost of the film of $150 million, such box office results are really not satisfactory. It ranks second in the weekly box office list.

Who is the first?

There is no doubt that it is the hot "Darkward 2"!

The next seven days, the box office results were respectively 24.49 million US dollars, 20.86 million US dollars, 18.38 million US dollars, 16.46 million US dollars, 23.23 million US dollars, 28.27 million US dollars and 23.66 million US dollars respectively.

Although the box office was not soared by the new film of "Mission Impossible 3" on the weekend, the strong reputation effect gave "Darkward 2" a long-term box office basis.

After the first week's box office of $150 million, the next week's box office of $140 million!

What is the concept of $140 million?

According to the box office trend of "Mission Impossible 3" in the first week of $50 million, when I waited for the downgrade, I probably won't get a North American box office of $140 million.

In contrast, "Dharthy Devil 2", which swept $290 million in the North American market for two weeks, has an unstoppable trend.

This is likely to become the sixth film in North America with a box office of over $500 million after Titanic, Star Wars Prequel 1: The Ghostman Threat, Spider-Man 1, Never Sink, and Spider-Man 2!

However, whether the global box office can exceed $1 billion has become a suspense.

Two weeks after its release, the overseas market has just exceeded 100 million.

Of course, there are still relatively few countries that are released overseas, but such overseas box office is still relatively deserted compared to the North American market.

The global box office of "Darkward 1" was US$360 million, while the overseas box office was only US$160 million.

From this point of view, the overseas box office of "Darkward 2" may be difficult to surpass that of North America.

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Marvel is really the trend.

"Darkward 2" almost destroyed "Mission Impossible 3" in a crushing manner, and next, it will be a more difficult opponent "Batman 2".

Recently, Don En got a report.

It is the income and expenditure statement of "Iron Man" released in early May last year.

The film has a box office of US$370 million in North America, an overseas box office of US$410 million, and a global box office of US$780 million. Among them, the North American share account was US$196 million, the overseas share account was US$176 million, and the total box office account was US$3.72.

Global disc revenue was US$490 million!

This is second only to the $600 million Spider-Man 2 and $550 million Spider-Man 1 in Marvel movies’ disc revenue! It is higher than the $480 million Spider-Man 3 and $450 million Ghost Rider!

"Iron Man"'s disc revenue was US$490 million and its box office revenue was US$370 million. It can be seen that it is the golden age of the movie disc market!

Disc revenue is even higher than box office revenue!

In addition, North American TV revenue was US$98 million, and overseas TV revenue was US$75 million!

Not counting clothing, toys and other peripheral derivatives, the direct revenue of the movie "Iron Man" reached US$1.035 billion!

Of course, there are also lots of expenses.

The cost of publicity and promotion in North America is US$80 million, and the cost of publicity and promotion in overseas is US$60 million.

The production cost is $90 million (production cost is $140 million, advertising revenue is $50 million).

Global video releases $42 million.

Shareholders, producers, actors and unions paid $56.4 million.

Investment tax of US$23.8 million.

Total expenditure was $352 million.

So, over the past year's operation, Iron Man's profit was $683 million!

This is just a direct benefit of the movie.

Including the indirect benefits around the area, there will be more.

In the past year, the best sold around the surrounding area is of course "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith", with sales of over $3 billion, making it the highest in the Star Wars series.

"Iron Man" is second only to "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", and is the third-ranked film. The sales of peripheral products reached US$900 million, creating a profit of US$440 million for the new Global. (The products sold vertically by the Global Store are high in profits, while the products licensed to other manufacturers are low in profits)

Over the past year, Iron Man has generated more than $1 billion in profits in total!

At the end of the "Spider-Man" trilogy and "Spider-Man 4" is nowhere to go, Marvel launches a new hero, Iron Man!

Of course, there is also the Daredevil who has been in high popularity recently.

"Darkward 2" is popular, and the popularity of the female villain Erica continues to rise. The actress Penelope Cruz, who plays "Erica", also became a Hollywood star for a while.

In contrast, her sister Monica Cruz's career was somewhat frustrated.

She was discouraged.

Want to go back to Spain to develop.

Due to the relationship between Donn, she also got some opportunities. The most representative one is "The Lovers of All" that she collaborated with Will Smith last year, and she is the heroine.
To be continued...