After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

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"Also, in terms of public opinion, we need to control it, and don't let our company be pointed at."

"It's better for everyone to criticize Tom Cruise's acting skills."

"···"

All the executives nodded.

As long as the Green Lantern's failure is blamed on Tom Cruise, the responsibilities of these executives and Robinov, the president, can be greatly reduced.

All they have to do is declare to the outside world that they chose the wrong actor.

The unanimous opinion is that everyone believes too much in Tom Cruise's acting skills. Unexpectedly, in Green Lantern, his acting skills are undoubtedly exposed.

Everyone was wrong about him.

Although this is bound to cause a devastating blow to Tom Cruise, what does this have to do with them?

It is certainly impossible for Tom Cruise not to take the blame for the failure of such a big investment.

Chapter 280 Tom Cruise's Request

Now, they just let Tom Cruise from a small pot to a big pot.

After arranging the way to deal with it, Warner Bros. immediately started to act.

If the media were to directly praise Green Lantern in turn, the cost would be too high, and it would be difficult for media personnel to clearly support the opinions of the masses.

Just like a so-and-so boy, it is clear that the public's reputation is poor.

There are still countless media advocating how good movies are, which is typically caused by the capital behind them.

Of course, the eyes of the masses are discerning.

After countless votes, there are still only more than 2 million word-of-mouth, which shows how bad the movie is.

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Time flies, another day has passed.

On the second day, the media's remarks changed one after another.

[The biggest failure of Green Lantern is that they chose Tom Cruise, a Hollywood superstar who became famous for Mission: Impossible, to play Green Lantern. It turns out that he can only be considered a superstar when he was playing Mission: Impossible . 】

This sentence is harsh enough to directly obliterate all of Tom Cruise's previous efforts, and attribute Tom Cruise's success to the Mission: Impossible series.

To put it in a different way, he became famous by relying on the movies directed by Steve Kevin.

[The biggest mistake of Warner Bros. is that they chose Tom Cruise to play Green Lantern. In fact, in him, we can't feel the courage that a superhero should have at all...]

[Green Lantern's box office fell by more than 30.00%, the biggest reason for this is because of Tom Cruise...]

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Inside Tom Cruise's Beverly Hills mansion.

Looking at the attacks on him in all the newspapers in front of him.

Tom Cruston was furious.

"Isn't the biggest reason for the failure of the movie the director? Why are everyone attacking me..."

Speaking of this, the original anger also turned into doubt.

Tom Cruise hurriedly called his friends in the circle to inquire, and after a while, he got the news he wanted.

Only then did he grit his teeth.

"Warner is such a jerk, wanting to blame me for it."

"No, I can't sit still."

Unable to sit still, Tom Chris looked outside the house before calling Steve Kevin.

Kevin, who was resting in the villa, answered the phone.

"Kevin, it's me, Tom Cruise, are you in the villa now?"

"I'm here."

"I have something I want to talk to you about."

"Come here."

Kevin hung up the phone.

Only then did I think about Tom Cruise's intentions.

However, apart from guessing that Tom Cruise came because of the loss of Green Lantern, other Kevin can't guess.

A moment later, the doorbell rang.

Kevin went out and took Tom Cruise into the villa.

After arranging Tom Cruise to sit down, Kevin asked directly:

"It's so late, why are you looking for me?"

Tom Cruise nodded and said sincerely:

"Kevin, I'm here to ask you for help."

"What help?"

"I will help if I can!"

Kevin readily agreed.

Cruise will not be overturned in the future, and he is still very famous. Being strong with him is still useful to Kevin. At some point, these superstars who have a huge influence on fans can play a huge role.

There was a grateful look on Tom Cruise's face.

He didn't believe that Steve Kevin didn't know what happened today, but Steve Kevin was still willing to help him, which made Tom Cruise, who was used to seeing the warmth and warmth of people in the circle, somewhat warm in his heart.

Of course, the incident between his wife and Kevin probably had some influence.

Anyway, he and Nicole Kidman are contract couples.

They have been separated for a long time now, and if they play with women, they are also arranged by the church, and each one is getting tenderer than the other. He has no feeling for Nicole Kidman for a long time.

Nicole Kidman can find whoever she wants, and if she finds Steve Kevin, it can also bring him benefits, so there is nothing wrong with it.

Looking at Kevin, Tom Cruise began to talk about what happened today.

"I read the newspaper just now, and it was full of comments criticizing me. At first, I didn't notice anything wrong."

"After I read more than a dozen newspapers, I found that there were basically only comments attacking me. I didn't think it was normal."

"So I called my friends and learned from them that Warner Bros. manipulated the media to focus on me in order to prevent the loss of Green Lantern from affecting them."

"That's why there are overwhelming comments in today's newspapers."

Kevin nodded. To put it bluntly, it was Warner Bros. who used their own factors to make the media biased towards criticizing Tom Cruise, thereby picking out this group of people from Warner Bros.

"Then how do you want me to help you?"

"I hope you will come forward, speak in a newspaper or on a TV show, support me, and help me refute these remarks."

"For your next movie, I can play the second and third roles at the lowest price, and fully cooperate with the publicity."

This condition is actually very sincere.

At the level of Tom Cruise, it is basically impossible to play a supporting role.

For a superstar of this level, playing a supporting role is to help others, which is a very cheap behavior.

At the same time, the lowest price also saves a lot of money.

I have to say that Kevin was moved.

And Kevin's next movie, The Fast and the Furious, featuring Walker Paul, seems like a good fit for Tom Cruise as well.

The story of speed and passion is actually very simple, it is a series of stories about an undercover police detective who is undercover in the gang.

In fact, in theory, the undercover detective is the protagonist.

But maybe it was the original Walker Paul, whose aura couldn't hold back Vin Diesel, which made the whole movie look like a dual protagonist.

Later, Vin Diesel was simply turned into a regular and became the protagonist.

This is why Kevin was prepared to right the role of Dominique Toretto from the beginning.

However, if Tom Cruise is willing to drop his coffee, it seems good to shoot directly as a double protagonist.

Of course, two subsequent plot lines can be buried.

If in the future, Tom Cruise is willing to continue to act, and if the pay is not too much, then use Tom Cruise as the protagonist, or continue the dual protagonist route.

If he doesn't want to act, Kevin will continue to take Dwayne Johnson as the protagonist.

Later, I will invite Jason Statham to continue creating the remaining sequels.

I have to say that thanks to his similar appearance to Guoda Statham, Kevin still has a good impression of him.

But at this time, Jason Statham, has he stepped into the showbiz?

Kevin frowned thoughtfully.

Tom Cruise on the side saw Kevin's brows furrowed, and his heart tightened.

Isn't Kevin willing to help him?

Chapter 281 Kevin's Movie Review

Cruise quickly continued to ask:

"Kevin, what do you think of the conditions I mentioned?"

Kevin came back to his senses and replied:

"Fine, I was just thinking about something."

"It's like this. It just so happens that my new movie is a two-star movie. I'll give you a salary of 500 million US dollars. You need to play with a newcomer. Do you think it's okay?"

With Cruise's price, 500 million is still very worthwhile, after all, it is the top five superstars in Hollywood in this era.

Cruise has this appeal, at least the 500 million US dollars, which can be earned back casually, Kevin has no doubts about this.

As for the lower price, Kevin couldn't say it, and that would be an insult to Cruise.

"no problem."

Cruise readily agreed.

The decline of Green Lantern is horrific, and the word of mouth is also extremely bad.

Judging from this decline, it is estimated that it will be released in a week.

This will definitely have a great negative impact on him, and if he takes on a movie later, his salary may drop to 2000 million US dollars without a share.

And the protagonist who can star in Steve Kevin's new movie, even if the salary is a little less, as long as the movie is successful.

He is still a superstar, and his subsequent remuneration can still maintain this level of more than 2000 million US dollars, with a share.

"Okay, I'll contact Chenxi Films later and ask them to speak in the newspaper on my behalf and point the finger at the director."

Cruise nodded.

As for Warner Bros., the two tacitly did not mention it.

Although Kevin and Warner are a bit at odds, there is no need to confront Warner Bros. when his interests are not involved.

Cruise also didn't want to offend Warner Bros. too hard.

Therefore, the two tacitly pointed the finger at the director.

Anyway, Martin Campbell was in the circle, and he didn't have too many connections. Both of them could offend him, and there was no place they would ask him for. Naturally, they were not afraid of attacking him.

After negotiating with Kevin, Cruise happily treated Kevin to a meal before leaving Kevin's villa.

After Cruise left.

After Kevin first assembled his various views on Green Lantern into a film review, he called Dawson and asked him to contact a large media to publish his film review.

Afterwards, the film review was sent to the company by fax.