I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1067: A bad fun carnival
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Waking up early in the morning, the gloomy sky outside the window makes it difficult to tell the time, but the cozy bedroom that haunts the fragrance of the female boudoir has made up for the unpleasant weather.
This is a Elizabeth villa by the Thames.
After the residence was occupied by a group of crazy monsters last night, although it was late at night, many acquaintances of London still called to invite Eric to borrow in the past, but all were politely rejected by Eric. Westerners, especially wealthy people, borrow their residences from each other very often, but Eric is the kind of people who are not used to living in other people's homes.
In the end, Elizabeth, who is still familiar with the character of Eric, did n’t know where he got the news. He let people find Eric directly on Kensington Street and brought him here.
Of course, the woman ’s place of residence is not a loan.
In addition to having an appointment with Olivia to have lunch with her today, there are no other arrangements.
Feeling the weather outside the window, Eric glanced at the watch on the bedside table and was planning to stay in bed for another hour, and the phone rang.
Pick it up and glance at it. It is an unfamiliar number. Eric immediately pressed the answer button, and a woman's polite voice came out. After a few chats, Eric hung up the phone, got up and dressed up, came downstairs, and the doorbell rang at the right time.
Eric walked over to open the door. Outside stood a 30 young woman with curly red hair, dressed appropriately in a camel trench coat, holding a convenient bag with breakfast in her hand and a Stack newspaper.
"Hello, Mr. Williams, I ’m Rebecca, Rebecca Wade, we just talked by phone."
"Hello," Eric reached out and took the convenience bag from the other person's hand and smiled, "I'll come, please come in."
"Thank you," Rebecca Wade handed the convenience bag to Eric. As he walked into the living room together, the stack of newspaper in his hand was also placed on the coffee table. He said: "I happen to be near the house, Liz hits The phone said you might need these. "
"Trouble you," Eric nodded, and asked Rebecca Wade to sit down and look around, pointing in the direction of the kitchen, and laughing: "I want to drink something, I'll get it."
Rebecca Wade shook his head and smiled: "No, Mr. Williams, when Leeds is away, I will take care of her here, there should be nothing in the kitchen."
"Oh, then consider as finished," Eric smiled and no longer polite, sat down on the sofa and asked, "Are you a friend of Leeds?"
"I work in The Sun," Rebecca Wade said, took out a business card and handed it over, said: "Mr. Williams, if you have anything to do in London, you can call me . "
Eric looked at the business card in his hand and was a little surprised in his heart. He did n’t expect that the woman in her early 30 years old was actually the deputy editor-in-chief of The Sun. Although the Sun is a gossip tabloid newspaper that focuses on social news, it is also the newspaper with the largest United Kingdom circulation. Rebecca Wade ’s ability to be an associate editor at a young age is absolutely outstanding.
Thinking about it, Eric suddenly thought of another name. She looked up and looked at the woman who was putting breakfast in a convenient bag on the coffee table. Although she was much younger, her iconic red curly hair was like the image in her memory. Completely agree.
Rebecca Brooks, one of the important News Corp senior executives who was implicated in the time and space because of the eavesdropping scandal, was called ‘Queen tabloid newspaper’ by United Kingdom media. Murdoch, who is quite reliant on her, even praised her in public ‘as if she were her own daughter’. As for the change of surname, I think it should be because of the husband's surname after marriage.
Rebecca Wade did n’t find anything strange in the expression of Eric, set the breakfast, went to the kitchen to help him get the tableware, poured the milk, and finally carefully collected the sundries and other debris in the convenience bag. To Eric, said: "Mr. Williams, will you stay here tomorrow, can I continue to bring you breakfast?"
Eric shook his head and said: "I will leave at noon, no need to trouble, otherwise, just call me Eric."
"Okay," Rebecca Wade nodded with a smile, and said, "So, if there is nothing else, I will say goodbye first."
Get up and send Rebecca Wade away, Eric returns to the sofa, picks up the glass of milk and tries the temperature, takes a sip of satisfaction, and picks up a portion of the stack of newspaper, which happens to be "Sun "Paper", glanced at the breakfast on the coffee table again, Eric could not help smiling.
The first time I met, there was no such thing as a close relationship. Instead, I silently figured out his life and eating habits and kept everything organized. Although it is unclear about Rebecca Wade's ability to work, it's just that the emotional intelligence that treats others is not something many people can match.
At least, Eric feels at this time that if it is necessary next time, it will definitely be easy to think of the other party.
Forgetting these thoughts for a while, Eric remembered what happened last night, and opened the "Sun" again.
‘Victoria’s Secret Legion occupied the mansion on Garden Street, Eric Williams lived on the streets. ’
The eye-catching title lace is full of meaning and is very attractive to readers.
However, if you continue reading, the content implicitly clarifies that Victoria’s Secret angels poured into his villa on Garden Street last night: there is no special party, but he lends his villa on Garden Street to Victoria’s Secret The angels reveled all night, with explanatory pictures on the page.
The biggest local gossip newspaper has set the tone, and other tabloid newspaper obviously can't set off any waves for last night.
Eric is relieved to start reading other newspaper news while having breakfast.
It has to be said that the United Kingdom media has a sense of integrity in its bones.
In the past few years, Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show has just emerged, and many United Kingdom media have criticized the Victoria’s Secret brand. Some of them even criticized this underwear brand that "relies on showy style and gains attention" as a blasphemy against the United Kingdom Victoria era.
But at this time, almost all newspaper praised last night's London big show. It seems that Victoria’s Secret was originally the United Kingdom brand. Various newspaper not only counted the various British elements in the previous Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, this big show The unprecedented scale has become the pride of British in the media.
The LTD team will also hold an event in the Victoria’s Secret flagship store of London at noon. Emily personally rushed to Kensington Garden Street in the morning, and all the goblins who have been crazy all night were caught back to prepare for the noon event. Eric took the time to go back. A trip.
There is no unrecognizable misfortune in the villa, but the Meyer who stayed all night looked rather aggrieved. I do n’t know if it was taken advantage of by a group of fairies with a lily tendency.
Some tricks were thrown away from the media. Eric hurried to Olivia for lunch at noon and stayed in her gallery until early evening.
Early on the plane the next morning and return to Los Angeles.
When United Kingdom various sizes newspaper are still frantically chasing news related to Victoria’s Secret, the media on North America is more lively.
Because, on November 13, 《Ted》 was released.
In the late 1990s, although the rotten gang had begun to emerge, the most popular vulgar comedy of Hollywood was still the exaggerated ridiculous style of Kim Carey.
Therefore, when the audience and the media saw a series of vulgar jokes in 《Ted》 with no lower limit, everyone was shocked. And when all this happened to a stuffed toy in the childhood impression of many people, the shock index immediately soared and became dumbfounded.
On the first day of the release, the topic of 《Ted》 in the media became a quarrel. Most of the media felt that this kind of unruly and unrestricted spoof was too much. Some emotional media people even demanded a ban on 《Ted》. .
However, what surprised many people, including Eric, was that the critics ’attitude towards the film was not as harsh as it was. At least, after a comprehensive score statistic, 《Ted》 ’s reputation in film critic actually exceeded 7 points Most film critic think this movie is quite new.
At the same time, although the plot is vulgar, the movie itself is still a warm topic to discuss how adults choose between friendship and love.
As for Hollywood and other Film Studio, they are again surprised by the level of special effects in the digital field.
Except for a small number of shots that use toy models, most of the tedddy bear shots in the film are completed through motion capture, which makes the tedddy bear in the film completely to the point of being fake, even many mouths are real people. The pronunciation is undoubted.
You know, this is not ten years later, and the most well-known image of Guru in "The Lord of the Rings" has not yet appeared.
original's 《Ted》, because screenwriter and Director Mike Seth Flange are TV series screenwriter, so they bring a lot of North America TV series elements. These very localized elements greatly limit the film's overseas commercial potential, even It is very unfriendly to some young audiences in North America who do not like watching TV.
Although Eric can basically copy original script by memory, he certainly did n’t do it again since he saw the defects of original. Since I am now in the movie world, the ridicule and spoof objects have naturally become more widely accepted movies, many of which are still Eric's own shoots movies over the years, such as "Home Alone", 《Pretty Woman》 and the like.
Early in the morning on the 14th of United Kingdom, when Eric boarded the plane at Heathrow Airport, the news that North America had caused sensation in the media by 《Ted》 had been passed.
It's just that Los Angeles was still on the night of the 13th, and the Box Office information on the first day of the film was not released.
Due to the influence of media trends, senior executives such as Katzenberg have expressed their concerns that this movie is likely to be smashed. Eric himself feels that this may be too much this time, overestimating the acceptance of vulgar comedy by North America viewers. limit.
However, when the Boeing 767 landed at Ventura Airport, Eric had not yet got out of the cabin and received a phone call excited by Kenneth Horn, in order to avoid the impact of 《Ted》 on the Firefly brand, although the final cost of this film Reaching 50 million USD, Eric still let the new line take charge of its issuance.
North America The opening scale of more than 2,700 theaters. Eventually, Box Office reached 17.87 million USD on the first day of 《Ted》. This result was beyond everyone's expectations.
Because, on the first day, 17.87 million USD, this means that Box Office may break through 50 million USD in the first weekend, and Box Office may exceed 80 million in the first week.
80 million USD, which is equivalent to Box Office in the first week of a blockbuster movie.
Although the investment of 《Ted》 has reached 50 million USD, in recent years, it can only be regarded as a medium-cost production, and the announcement scale of the film can not be compared with the blockbuster movie with a huge investment of over 100 million Film Studio.
In addition to the strong controversy in the media, the first day was 17.87 million USD, which is definitely a big explosion.
Even, strictly speaking, even if it is forced to downgrade after the first week, 80 million USD's Box Office is also a very good result for this movie. However, in the North America market, a movie, especially a successful commercial movie, is basically impossible to make a compulsory downgrade because of the criticism of the media.
That is to say, 80 million USD in the first week is definitely just the beginning for 《Ted》.
Hearing this news, Eric did not return to Cliff Peak Manor, but arrived at Firefly Group Burbank Headquarters by helicopter at Ventura Airport.
When Eric walked into the conference room, Katzenberg, Frank · Wells, Kenneth · Horn and other senior executives of the group were discussing some points of information around them. When they saw Eric coming in, they all raised their heads.
Instruct everyone to continue to sit down. Eric also found a place next to the lenient meeting table and smiled and asked, "So, how is the situation now?"
"We just asked people to do a questionnaire survey in several theaters of Los Angeles," Katzenberg handed over a piece of information and said: "The audience of 《Ted》 is basically concentrated in the group of young people under 28, and, Unlike the critical attitude of most media, many viewers feel that this is a very fun movie. "
Eric looked at the information handed over from Katzenberg, and the Frank · Wells next to it also said: "However, Eric, I think we should add some reminder measures immediately because our customer service department only received it one day yesterday. More than 3,000 phone complaints, although they were marked R-rated, our trailer also gave enough hints, but some viewers who did not pay much attention to this information still misunderstood that this is a family carnival movie, and then took the children Go and see together, the result can be imagined. "
Eric nodded: "In this case, let the distribution department make a plan immediately, we still have to continue to do what we should do."
After several hours of discussions with the senior management of the group, a follow-up promotion plan was urgently prepared, and Eric left Burbank Headquarters.
In the following days, the influence of 《Ted》 continued to expand. After the first day of 17.87 million USD Box Office, on Saturday, the single day of the film Box Office directly broke through the 20 million mark, reaching 20.58 million USD. Although Box Office began to fall on the third day, it also harvested 16950,000 USD.
Only three days during the first weekend, 《Ted》's Box Office broke through the cost line, reaching 55.41 million USD.
The fierce criticism of the film by the media not only did not affect the Box Office of the film, but also caused a fun carnival among the young audience. Many people even think that 《Ted》 has caused a threat to "Mission: Impossible3" which will be released next week.