I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1062: Safety first
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The duration of "The Horse Whisperer" is 2 hours and 50 minutes. Taking into account the length, the premiere started very early.
At around nine o'clock, when the movie's end caption was finished, the lights were on, and a polite applause rang out in the theater at the right time. Eric felt a bit stiff but did not get up patiently.
For "The Horse Whisperer", Eric's overall personal evaluation is positive.
The overall story of the film is very smooth, with inspiration and a touch of sorrow in the warmth, and the grassland scenery in Montana is also beautiful. However, Robert Redford has a common problem with Hollywood veteran filmmakers, that is, the film rhythm is slow. Nearly three hours is a long time, which is very test the patience of the audience. The slow rhythm of the film also causes it to be loose in emotional expression, and always lacks a strong force that can directly hit the soul of the audience.
In the applause, the main creators began to speak on stage. The Elizabeth beside Eric came together and whispered: "What do you think?"
Eric thought about it and replied: "The key is to see how Harvey works."
If you want to score, Eric can give this movie 7.5 points. It is not a good score of 8 points or more, but it is far beyond the pass line. However, this score does not allow the audience to take the initiative to enter the cinema. To achieve this, Weinstein Brothers must use its own marketing and public relations methods to raise the reputation of the film to more than 8 points.
Elizabeth actually has a similar judgment. When she heard that Eric did not meet her expectations, although she was a little lost, she could accept it.
After watching the movie, Yuxing party held at Miramax was selected at a nearby hotel.
It's still early. Eric and Elizabeth did not rush back to rest, so they came to the party site together.
"Probably because of self-direction and self-acting, I feel that Redford has n’t poured enough enthusiasm for this story. He is like Scott · Thomas, and even made me play a little bit. This is really bad. In the party hall, film critic Lute Stan from "San Francisco Chronicle" did not shy away from facing Eric, Elizabeth and Harvey, expressing his evaluation of the movie.
Rute · Stan frowned slightly because of Elizabeth's words, but Eric stood quietly beside him, Harvey listened with a smile, and waited for the other party to finish, Harvey stepped forward and embraced each other's shoulders, Tao: "Lute, I have to admit that you are right, this is indeed a small flaw in the film, but there is no perfect film in the world, and we should allow the shortcomings to exist. And, beyond the performance , The advantages of this film are still many, um, how about we go there and talk about it? "
"Of course," Rout Stan nodded slightly and looked at Eric and Elizabeth, explaining smoothly: "Mr Mr. Williams, Miss Murdoch, I definitely have no meaning for this movie, I just Seeking truth from facts. "
Harvey did n’t loosen the other ’s shoulders, but used a little bit of strength, saying: "Of course, Eric and Leeds would n’t care, huh, let ’s go, Oh, Eric, and Leeds, you are free to play Have fun. "
When Harvey left with that film critic, Eric embraced the waist of Elizabeth and smiled: "Okay, what do you mind, you are the lady who is used to it. Think about it, Michael · Ovitz faced The customer's cynicism and sarcasm, in order to win the trust of the other party, not only was not angry, but stood on the table to dance tap, he was not the same as Hollywood's most powerful person. "
"I do n’t mind, it ’s just that the guy clearly saw us coming and only said that he was there," Elizabeth looked at the figure of Harvey and left, refuting the dissatisfaction. Grab the words of Eric: "Now Hollywood is the most powerful person, but you, are you willing to dance for customers?"
"This, if necessary," Eric said: "I will let Jeffrey jump."
"You guys," Elizabeth laughed, but was hotly chased: "But what if the customer insists on letting you jump in person?"
Eric shook his head confidently: "Your hypothesis is not established, and no one in this world is qualified to ask me to dance tap dance for him."
"Hum," Elizabeth suddenly hummed twice: "What if I let you jump?"
Eric seems to have forgotten what he just said, and nods readily: "No problem, I will jump for you when I go back."
Elizabeth's mouth is curved, but the tone is very despised: "It's really boneless, it's not rare to see what tap dance you guys do."
Eric immediately insisted: "This will not work, I will not regret the things I promised. Tonight you have to watch without seeing. I will tie you to the chair when I go back. Watch me jump for half an hour first. "
Just a few words, the two came to an empty seat in the banquet hall and noticed that another film critic had been changed next to Harvey. The two were chatting about something, Elizabeth raised his chin Signaled to Eric, said: "From the current situation, the word of mouth of the film should be okay?"
Eric can also see that Harvey is not a general focus on "The Horse Whisperer".
In fact, it is also very easy to understand. "The Horse Whisperer" is the largest investment in Weinstein Film Industry so far. The Harvey brothers were originally dissatisfied with the Fox's decision on the investment ceiling of 50 million USD made by Miramax. Box Office of "The Horse Whisperer" The situation is directly related to whether it is possible for Miramax to break through this limit.
If "The Horse Whisperer" Box Office can reach the scale of conventional commercial films, as long as it encounters a good enough project in the future, Fox will likely open this restriction. However, if Box Office of "The Horse Whisperer" fails, Miramax will not be able to invest in high-cost literary films.
"Word of mouth is definitely no problem," Eric nodded and said: "However, the key is to see if the audience buys it. The film is nearly 3 hours long, and after all, it will make many impatient audiences discouraged."
Elizabeth didn't agree with it, saying: "Remember the" Dances with Wolves "you bought me last year, but it was four hours, but North America Box Office exceeded 180 million USD, global 420 million, but the cost was only two Thousands of thousands of USD. I think these two movies obviously have a lot of similarities. They are both novel adaptations, both self-directed and self-directed, and have a very spectacular natural human background. "
"But you have to admit," Eric said: "No matter the political connotation or human emotion," The Horse Whisperer "is not as strong and hot as" Dances with Wolves ". Relatively speaking, the biggest advantage of" The Horse Whisperer "is its originality The popularity of the novel is far greater than the relatively popular "Dances with Wolves" of the year. However, after you say this, I feel that I can remind Harvey later, if he can link "The Horse Whisperer" and "Dances with Wolves" in the media, Perhaps you will get unexpected gains. "
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The secret of the Oscar operation of Weinstein Brothers has always been very simple. It is through the powerful media and public relations of the judges to create an undisputed reputation and a large number of award votes for the Miramax finalist film.
Of course, the specific operation method is very cumbersome and complicated.
Due to the return pressure brought about by the investment of "The Horse Whisperer" 50 million USD, Weinstein Brothers did not use the small-scale release to gradually accumulate word of mouth and Box Office ’s long-term operation methods this time, but the media marketing methods accumulated over the years are still in this movie. Still played a very important role.
After the premiere, Miramax immediately launched a powerful public relations offensive. The next day, almost all mainstream North America paper media published positive comments on "The Horse Whisperer", even if a small number of them obviously did not like this movie. film critic, the criticism of "The Horse Whisperer" is obviously not so intense.
After preliminary statistics, the initial film critic evaluation of "The Horse Whisperer" successfully broke through the excellent score of 8 points, and the average media score reached 8.2 points, much higher than the 7.5 points given by Eric individuals.
The publication date of "The Horse Whisperer" was 1995, and it has only been three years since now. However, although this novel has won the popularity of readers worldwide, and many viewers also quite approve of the excellent adaptation of the movie version of "The Horse Whisperer", "The Horse Whisperer" also has a very obvious disadvantage, that is Lack of topics that can cause public discussion.
A lot of times, the topic of a movie is even more important than its own movie score.
In this regard, Eric and Elizabeth played a very important role in the flash of party after the premiere. Under the reminder of Eric and Elizabeth, Weinstein Brothers very decisively linked "The Horse Whisperer" and "Dances with Wolves" together.
Although seven years have passed since "Dances with Wolves", it is this long time that made this series of movies that successfully won a series of heavyweight awards such as Oscar Best Film, Best Director, etc. gradually become Many people have unshakable classics.
After seeing some media linking "The Horse Whisperer" to the classics in their hearts, the fans of "Dances with Wolves" were suddenly reluctant. So, in just a few days, the North America media appeared on "The Horse Whisperer" and "Dances with Wolves" which is better or worse. There are many supporters of "Dances with Wolves", but the original novel "The Horse Whisperer" of the 10 million book was sold within the scope of global, and the number of book fans and movie fans should not be underestimated.
Therefore, the dispute between the two sides can be described as full of gunpowder, which can hardly be divided at a time.
While this debate greatly stimulated the attention of "The Horse Whisperer" and Box Office, it even brought an additional wave of sales of video tapes and DVDs of "Dances with Wolves". A detail that many people did not realize is that The copyright of "Dances with Wolves" is also in the hands of the Firefly system.
Under the stimulus of such a high degree of topic, in the first three days of the first weekend, "Dances with Wolves" finally got 32150,000 USD Box Office. Although this result is not comparable to those bombshells, it has already satisfied many people.
Box Office 321 50,000 USD for the first weekend, which means that Box Office can reach 45 million USD in the first week of the movie.
According to the word of mouth shown in "The Horse Whisperer", although it will face competition from several new films next week, it is still very easy to maintain the expected decline of Box Office at 30%.
As long as the Box Office trend of a low decline can be reached, the North America Box Office of "The Horse Whisperer" will be just over 100 million.
The cost of 50 million USD, North America Box Office broke 100 million. Counting the expected overseas Box Office, this basically means that only the theater release, this project can bring huge profits to Miramax and even the parent company Fox Group.
Moreover, with Weinstein Brothers ’s Oscar public relations capability, as long as “The Horse Whisperer” can gain some gains on this year ’s Oscar, the late-period distribution revenue of the film will be even richer.
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Ventura in the north of Los Angeles, this is the first time Eric has come here after the official opening of the private airport.
Compared with the original large-scale farmland, at this time, the 600-hectare area has been surrounded by high wire fences. Inside the airport are two crossing long and short runways, as well as a surveillance navigation center and six other seats. Large hangar. However, there were only two Gulfstream V jets in the hangar at this time.
This year is already November 10th, Eric arrived here in the morning, intending to take the Gulfstream V that I just obtained some time ago and fly directly to London.
Gulfstream V can be said to be the first ultra-long-range business jet of Gulfstream Aerospace, with an endurance of 12,000 kilometers. It can even meet trans-Pacific flights. From Los Angeles on the west coast of United States across the mainland of United States and directly reaching the London from the Atlantic Ocean problem.
However, after visiting the Gulfstream V cabin for a while, Eric immediately dispelled the idea of flying to London by this aircraft.
The reason is also very simple and rude.
It's too small.
Compared to the Boeing 767 with a luxury suite and a spacious event space that the Eric used to sit on nearly two meters wide in the past two years, the interior width of the Gulfstream V cabin is only two meters wide, with sofas and seats on both sides. Basically, there is no free space for activities. Eric is really difficult to imagine the situation of rushing from Los Angeles to London in such a small aircraft. More than 8,000 kilometers, ten hours of flight, Eric thinks he is likely to Crazy, he always thought he might have some psychological disorders like claustrophobia.
"In the future, this small plane will be used for short flights for everyone," in the airport lounge, Eric said to the girl who came over to see off: "In addition, how is the construction progress of the two 747s?"
"It will take about half a year," the girl said: "However, I can urge Boeing over there."
Eric smiled and shook his head, said: "This kind of thing is still not the best, safety first."
"Oh, then consider as finished," the girl said, raised her wrist and looked at her watch, and said, "That Boeing 767 will take another hour to arrive, otherwise, Eric, let's go for a walk."
Abandoning the plan to take the Gulfstream V for transoceanic flight, Eric can only let people transfer the original Boeing 767.