The first official trailer of "Unlimited Blade Works" produced by Nanaya was immediately posted on the [See Moon] website after the first live broadcast.
Within an hour of the trailer being released, the American and Japanese trailers had already received over 10,000 hits each.
This achievement is not worth being proud of ten years later. You should know that the first trailer of "Avengers 4" received over 300 million hits in 24 hours, not counting some forwarded videos.
However, in this era when everyone is far from having access to the Internet, this result is already very satisfactory.
The most direct effect is that in the face of the aggressive movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", although "Fate" gave up the weekly box office champion, it still stabilized the box office trend and did not experience a drastic decline.
Nanaya is very satisfied with the result. Johnny Depp is now at the peak of his career.
The audiences have not yet grown tired of his signature Captain Jack Sparrow-style acting; as long as he stands in front of the screen in a weird, sissy manner, there will be large crowds of viewers who will buy into his performance.
In addition, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" mainly targets the children's market, and generally speaking, if a child buys a ticket, it means that at least one parent will be included.
Usually, movies with such a combination will have very good box office results as long as they are not too bad.
What's more, the movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" itself is very well-made. Although the plot is a bit old-fashioned, the various colorful candies in the chocolate factory have a natural appeal to children.
However, no matter how popular "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is, for Hollywood, it is not as attractive as the success of "Fate".
The reason is simple. The successful formula of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" of [big stars + children's theme] has long been tested by the market.
It is natural for a movie to be successful. If a movie fails, Hollywood companies may be interested in analyzing why the movie failed.
If it is successful now, as long as it does not affect the box office of my company, I will just watch it.
But "Fate" is different. Although special effects movies are always the selling point of movies, it does not mean that all special effects movies will be popular.
So when a movie made with a new theme becomes successful, major Hollywood studios will follow suit and incorporate the successful elements of the movie into their own movies.
To put it simply, this practice is to follow the trend.
Don't think that there is no trend-following in foreign countries. In fact, following trends has been a thing since the beginning of hot topics in human society.
From clothing to imitating national policies, the phenomenon of following trends has always been endless.
After all, following the trend has low risk, high success rate, low cost and high returns, so why not do it?
Story creation is especially susceptible to following trends.
There is a lot of following trends in novels, comics, animations, and even movies.
This tendency will be more obvious especially for projects with large investment scale.
For major Hollywood studios that need to invest tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in a movie, following the trend is always one of the least risky production models.
For example, after the success of Fox's "X-Men", Sony followed suit and made "Spider-Man", and Marvel began to prepare its own "Iron Man".
Or after the success of Marvel's MCU, major film studios have launched their own unique movie universes.
After the huge success of the 3D movie "Avatar", the two movies "Alice in Wonderland" and "Clash of the Titans" achieved success with their own "special 3D" features.
Of course, following the trend requires methods and approaches. Some people follow the subject matter, some follow the actors, some follow the production team, and some just follow the production method.
Among them, the "Fate" crew itself is the most serious follower. After all, how can a sequel created by the original crew be more attractive?
Seeing your own story become popular and then continuing to write the story is itself a form of following the trend.
Nanaya himself has nothing to be shy about regarding this matter. If it wasn't for building the Type-Moon film and television universe, why would he spend so much energy on this?
Many production companies, including the six major Hollywood studios, are discussing the feasibility of shooting similar feature films.
However, in order to ensure that the fate-themed works were completely under their control, Washimine and his team applied for a series of copyrights.
With the help of Nanaya, the contents of these copyrights were so detailed that they almost blocked all avenues related to the Holy Grail War.
In other words, it is simply impossible for other film studios to bypass Washimine and Erque Studio to create similar stories.
Thanks to the story of the Holy Grail War with seventy-two transformations of Type-Moon in my previous life, I have thought of almost all the stories related to the Holy Grail War.
Otherwise, it would not be so easy for Nanaya to leave others with no way out.
Even if similar approaches no longer work, it doesn't mean that the Big Six have no solutions.
We can't handle the Holy Grail War, but we can touch the heroic popularity in your story, right?
You should know that there is no copyright issue with these ancient heroic stories. Anyone can adapt and film them.
In addition to Mr. Golden, who has not officially debuted, there is also Mr. Golden, who has a market response and whose real name is still unknown.
Several other film projects featuring ancient heroes as protagonists have been launched in major film studios.
It is said that Warner has launched a project about the story of Perseus beheading Medusa and named it "Clash of the Titans".
And those household heroes have been selected as projects by many film companies.
For example, for Hercules, there is Monpelera's "Son of Zeus" and Millennium's "Hercules".
Even Japan's Lin Bao has joined in the fun, planning to make a movie about Kojiro Sasaki.
The actors who play servants in Fate are the objects of competition among various film companies.
After all, since you're already following the trend in terms of subject matter, don't worry about the appearances and just bring people in to make the movie.
As for whether these movies are successful or not, Nanaya doesn't intend to care.
After all, not every attempt to follow a trend will lead to good results. For example, in recent years, major film studios have been following the trend of "The Lord of the Rings" to launch their own epic movies, but so far they have made nothing but losses.
All major film companies are aware of this situation, so they will try their best to keep the actors consistent with Fate.
This is also why, although the most popular character in Fate is Artoria, there are very few projects of "King Arthur".
In addition to the fact that they are still haunted by last year's disastrous failure of "King Arthur", another reason is that Washimine is unwilling to let go.
You have to know that although Lily is very popular now, her contract with Washimine is still an idol contract.
This meant that before the contract was changed, Washimine had absolute control over Lily.
Not to mention letting her play King Arthur, even other movies that wanted to use Lily's popularity to let her play roles were rejected by Washimine.
However, Washimine's idea of not letting Lily star in the movie was not a request from the operation, but from Nanaya.
Family members know their own business.
Lily is not someone with an acting foundation like Rin or Luvia. Her current acting skills are probably not even as good as those of third-tier starlets.
The reason why Lily was able to play Artoria so well was purely because she imitated her sister Ryan.
There are no templates for other roles for Lily to refer to every day. If she were to play another role, she would be exposed in minutes.
If the audience is dissatisfied, Lily herself will lose popularity.
How many actors became famous because of an accidental role, but were quickly abandoned by the market because their acting skills were not up to par.
Lily's current status is not stable. Just one failure will lead to a complete collapse of Lily's popularity.
Look at Orlando Bloom. Even with the foundation of "The Lord of the Rings" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, his star path was completely ruined because of the failure of "Kingdom of Heaven".
From then on, apart from relying on the capital of Legolas and Will Turner, he had no chance to get involved in any big productions.
Although the Artoria mass production plan is Nanaya's main project, he does not want Lily to never be able to play any role except King Arthur for the rest of her life.
Therefore, Nanaya did not intend to let Lily accept other roles until her acting skills were up to standard.
When talking about King Arthur, we have to mention Disney.
Among so many fate-themed film studios, they are probably the ones who laugh the happiest.
Last year, their "King Arthur" was a complete failure, which dealt a heavy blow to the company.
Just when they thought they would be dragged down by the losses of this movie for decades, the popularity of "Fate" gave the movie a boost.
Even though this movie is still being criticized, even though it has been dragged out by countless people to promote Artoria, even though not many people still like this movie.
But King Arthur is very popular now.
Thanks to the King Arthur craze caused by "Fate" and the audience's hunger for King Arthur's stories, the offline market of "King Arthur", which was already dead, actually had a short-term resurgence.
Although it is a bit insignificant compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars Disney lost, it is a pleasant surprise for a movie that was already destined to lose money.
In fact, it's not just the live-action version of "King Arthur". The offline market for Disney's current cartoons involving fate heroes has also become extremely popular.
The DVDs of the two animated films, "The Sword in the Stone" and "Hercules", were even out of stock.
For Disney, happiness came too suddenly. If Nanaya appeared in Disney, many employees would probably hug his thighs and call him dad.
You have to know that since the beginning of the new millennium, all Disney projects except "Pirates of the Caribbean" have failed. Even though Disney is rich, it can't afford such a waste.
So to commemorate this victory, Disney decided to launch animated films with Medusa, Medea and Cu Chulainn as the protagonists.
"I'll go to hell with you!"
This was Nanaya's first reaction after hearing Disney's decision. At the same time, in order to express his respect for Disney, he also raised two middle fingers in the direction of the Disney headquarters building.
"There's nothing I can do."
Shion was both annoyed and amused at Nanaya's childish behavior and said, "Who told you to choose historical figures? I heard from Mark that he has received four movie audition invitations, all of which want him to play Hercules."
Nanaya said angrily: "This is simply robbery. I built the country, and these people are here to steal my food."
Although Nanaya knew that this was a normal business operation, he still felt unhappy.
You know, he was planning to open up the movie about the past stories of the heroes, but in the end, wasn't he just following behind others?
To put it bluntly, if I make a similar movie again after Seven Nights, it would be like eating shit while it's still hot.
"It's decided!"
He slammed the table with a bang and decided to make those who followed suit pay the price.
"We must buy Marvel. When Disney comes to buy Marvel in the future, I will offer $10 billion plus $3 billion for the film distribution rights! By the way, I also want Robert Iger's Mickey Mouse (current Disney CEO) to do a handstand for me!"
"I think you're just thinking about peaches!"
Shion complained coldly.