I’m in Hollywood Chapter 472: First week
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When Kathryn heard Eric, he glanced at him, picked his lips, but did n’t speak, but the woman was thinking that she had caught him an age-appropriate moment, and he was only in his early twenties. Hairy kid.
Perhaps Kathryn did not find that when she was with Eric, she always used to catch the words and deeds of Eric that were more in line with his age.
Maybe I just want to remind myself something, who knows.
Eric said that without saying a word, and the two quietly shifted their attention to the big screen.
At this time, the movie has been playing for about 20 minutes. The first storm is about to strike, and the two teams of horses rushed to the place where Twister occurred.
Because of being influenced (or poisoned) by too many Europe film masters, Kathryn is not too interested in this typical commercial film. Of course, living in Hollywood, she is not like Europe literary film for this commercial film. Director is so disgusting. Kathryn just subconsciously focused most of her attention on the blonde woman wearing a white vest with beautiful eyes.
The performance during the interaction between the woman and the new girlfriend of the protagonist was excellent. Even though the meteorologist's image was specially dressed up for the character, it is still simple, but it is still difficult to conceal the woman's beautiful appearance.
Deeply glanced at Eric in the dark, she knew that the Heroine called Joanna Pacula in the movie was still the lover of the man beside her.
This greedy little bastard.
Feeling the gaze of the woman ’s gaze, Eric looked over questioningly, and Kathryn quickly turned her head and looked at the big screen again.
Soon, the protagonist ’s team encountered the first Twister. Looking at the Twister on the screen with a terrifying picture of rolling up the truck and tractor one by one, Kathryn finally produced a shock. As a movie Director, she Know that before this, no company has ever produced such a realistic Twister special effect.
The surrounding audience also exclaimed in a low voice. With the appearance of the first Twister, the rhythm of the movie accelerated, and the hurricane special effects scenes that appeared on average every ten minutes were dazzling, and the cool scenes occasionally caused a burst of exclamation.
Because "Twister" appeared several years earlier. Prior to this, in terms of CG special effects, only "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" that used liquid metal robot special effects caused a similar sensation. The audience has not yet experienced the impact of CG special effects such as "Jurassic Park" and "Independence Day", so it will bring So the audience reacted so enthusiastically.
When the movie ends in a majestic symphony. Before the lights were on, there was applause in the theater.
When the two walked out of the cinema following the flow of people, and slowly walked towards the parking lot, Kathryn said: "The soundtrack of the movie is very good."
Eric said: "I have a sample of the original sound disc that I have made, and I will send you a copy."
"Thank you," Kathryn did not refuse, thinking and couldn't help saying, "Heroine is also very beautiful."
"Ah, this can't give you away," Eric joked.
Kathryn smiled, and the two went to the car together. Eric thoughtfully pulled the car door for the woman, watched her get in the car, and squatted beside the door and asked with a smile: "Really don't consider letting me take you back?"
Kathryn glared at him, said nothing, and fastened his seat belt for himself.
"Otherwise, you can send me back, I don't mind," Eric watched the woman's movements and continued his hippie smile.
Kathryn fastens your seat belt, turns your head and pushes Eric away with your eyes. With his hand slammed shut the door. With the sound of the engine, the white BMW car drove onto the road, and then slowly walked a short distance. Then it suddenly accelerated, as if it would be held down by a giant monster for a second.
Eric watched the woman ’s car disappear in the traffic, shrugged, whispered to herself, and came to his car with a smile.
I drove all the way back to my residence in Cold Water Canyon Beverly Hills, and Kathryn felt that my heartbeat was calm with some rapid heartbeat. Stop the car, open the door and enter the living room.
Hearing the sound of opening the door, a furry little guy screamed and ran over, presumably hungry.
Kathryn took the cat food and poured it into the little guy ’s basin before leaning tiredly on the living room sofa.
I do n’t know how long it took, after the yellow kitten with some big ears was full, she walked over in small steps and jumped lightly onto the sofa and leaned over.
Kathryn hugged the little guy over his lap and stroked it gently, saying: "Percy, do you also think I am a boring woman?"
The comfortably touched little guy just shrunk his furry body into a ball, narrowed his eyes in a more comfortable posture, and did not mean to answer the owner at all.
Kathryn looked at the lazy look of the little thing, reached out and gently pulled the kitten's big ear, and a slight unscented sigh floated in the air.
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After the last period of bombardment, the time for the release of "Twister" finally came. This is the first part big production movie launched after Firefly Pictures acquired Disney. Several other Hollywood Film Studio have set their sights on this In the film, although "Twister" has accumulated a very solid reputation after several rounds of screening, but at the moment of large-scale release, no one knows what the Box Office potential of a movie is, after all, the movie is previewed It ’s not uncommon to get good reviews at the time of Box Office.
On the evening of June 4th, "Twister" held its grand premiere at the Hollywood Chinese Grand Theater and was officially released in more than 2,600 theaters in North America.
"... A breathtaking special effects movie. After two years of dormancy, Eric Williams brought us a gorgeous visual feast."
"... The relaxing plot, amazing CG special effects, and gorgeous and magnificent soundtrack, this young Hollywood tycoon once again brought us surprises."
"... After watching this movie, I have only one worry, maybe our big screen will be occupied by such realistic CG special effects in the future, and the essence of the film is a story carrier. The special effects company in the digital field may Will bring Hollywood into a whole new era. "
"..."
On June 5th, after the midnight show, large-scale film reviews appeared again in various media. Most of the paper media gave "Twister" a very high score, which is uncountable. Most of the film reviews are also highly praised. Although it is inevitable that some extremely conservative film critic have habitually criticized the film fiercely, but under this general trend. But it doesn't affect anything at all.
Under everyone's expectations, on June 6, Box Office was released on the first day of "Twister", although Firefly Pictures did not release specific data to the outside world. But Hollywood Film Studio and the entertainment media, who are always paying attention to this matter, quickly obtained detailed figures through their respective channels.
14500,000 USD on the first day.
Seeing this number, many people have an indescribable sense of numbness, surprised and taken for granted.
According to the first week of the movie Box Office Regularly, after Friday. on Saturday Box Office There will be a climb, and it will fall again on the weekend, Twister 》 I expect to get it in the first three days of the weekend 45 million USD Left and right Box Office , Summer working day Box Office It is generally about half of the three days on the weekend. Twister 》 First week Box Office It is possible to reach 70 million USD Cost line.
In the office of Columbia Film StudioCEO, seeing the Box Office data in hand, Peter Guber has produced a bad feeling. According to the current word of mouth of "Twister", even in the next week. Box Office will not slip too much, and it will still remain between 40 million and 50 million USD. The average weekly Box Office of North America in summer is only about 100 million USD. "Running Out of Time: Prequel" is likely to compete with more than ten other films more than 50 million USD Box Office.
After the preliminary screening, many film critic and audience generally expressed different levels of dissatisfaction with "Running Out of Time: Prequel", thinking that this prequel movie completely lost the style of the film created by Eric in first part and became a mediocre Although the action scenes of the movie are not spectacular, the big scenes are not gorgeous, but in front of the realistic CG special effects of "Twister". These do not seem to be too competitive.
Not to mention, one week after the release of "Running Out of Time: Prequel", "Batman Returns" of Warner will also be released, under the impact of two blockbuster movies. Peter Guber couldn't help but fight a cold war.
The original Columbia also signed a cooperation agreement with Tom Cruise's Production Studio for three films, but now it seems that this cooperation will be reconsidered. Peter Guber couldn't help but think of the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" he was working on. After all, he spent a few decades in Hollywood. Even if he couldn't make a good movie himself, his vision in the film is absolutely beyond doubt. Such a novel novel with a completely new shoots concept is almost inevitable as long as there are no major accidents.
Peter Guber quickly figured out that if he wanted to keep his current position, he still had to grasp the cooperation with Firefly Pictures. After making a decision, Peter Guber picked up the phone on the desk and dialed the Eric number.
"Hi, Eric, I am Peter Guber ... Of course it ’s fine, I just want to congratulate you ..."
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In the carnival of summer fans, the first week of the movie Box Office was finally released. In seven days of "Twister", a total of Box Office of 6more than 5 million USD was won, plus the small-scale movies of the previous week, the total Box Office just broke the 70 million USD movie cost line .
Many people who were still expecting "Twister" Box Office to fall will have the last hope in their hearts shattered. Those who want to cooperate with Firefly have also put away their losses and picked up the phone again to dial the Eric number, Eric and the original After the Box Office was released on the first day, it experienced another phone bombing.
"Of course, Chris, you just have to make up your mind about this matter. 2 million is 2 million in a year ... Haha, I did n’t say that I have already spent too much money, I just believe that you will definitely not The one that made me suffer ... um, of course ... to be honest, I heard those people call envy and jealousy to congratulate me, I still enjoyed it ... well, I'm not **** with you, I'm busy here Then, if you want, you can fly over to participate in the celebration party of "Twister" at night, and it will definitely be more lively ... Then I will hang up, "Eric hung up the phone and handed it to the assistant behind him.
After the Director of Hollywood completes a movie, they often take a vacation to take a good rest, and at the same time experience the success or loss in the movie release process. However, although "Twister" almost broke the Box Office record of the first week of Hollywood, Eric did not have much time to stop and enjoy flowers and wine.
Chris, who is far away from New York, just called to discuss with Eric the amount of donation to the World Wide Web fund, and told him that the IE company ’s shelf has been set up. In addition to Tim Berners-Lee as a company consultant, Chris not only recruited dozens The software engineer even dug a senior Manager person from Oracle to serve as the director of IE. To facilitate interaction with the World Wide Web alliance, IE's Headquarters is temporarily set up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is expected that the beta version of the IE browser will be launched by the end of the year.
In addition to IE, the other two companies are also making orderly preparations. According to the plan of Eric, the two companies will only officially launch on the platform of IE after the launch of the IE beta version, so the main energy of Chris is still In IE above.
Someone shouted something in the open space in front of the speaker, waking up the Eric from thinking.
This is a square in the Firefly cinema. The behemoth in the center of the square moved slowly after the shouting just now.
Foreground, lean over, bite, growl ...
After the Tyrannosaurus Rex model, which only took a few months of hard work by dozens of special effects engineers in the digital field, successfully completed various test actions, everyone sighed with relief and cheered.
"How is it, Eric," Stan Winston rushed over with excitement in his tone, although he knew that the development center of the digital field was on CG special effects, but he did model special effects for so many years, Stan Winston Watching another model take shape in the hands of his team was still extremely excited and proud.
"Excellent," Eric praised without hesitation: "I believe this big guy will surely surprise everyone next year."
"Of course, it will never be much worse than the hurricane in" Twister "," Stan Winston said confidently, and then said: "So let's look at the model of velociraptor again."
Under the personal command of Stan Winston, the Tyrannosaurus Rex model was carefully dragged back to the warehouse, and a few reminders of the smaller velociraptor model were quickly pulled out by the staff. (To be continued.)