I’m in Hollywood Chapter 137: Go
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The City Center lined with high-rise buildings of Los Angeles, a street about 500 meters long near the Santa Monica highway has been blocked off, and no outside vehicles are allowed to enter. From 8 am, a large amount of shoots equipment has been unloaded from the truck under.
The residents nearby have already become accustomed to the crew, but here is Los Angeles, there are countless movie crews turned on every day, and this road is not too prosperous, but it is between high-rise buildings, so many crews Will be framing here.
But this time there are obviously many people watching, not only because this movie contains two well-known superstar Tom · Cruise and Tom · Hanks, but also because of the Eric Director, many people have seen the live Director, but still The young Director, which has achieved Nuoda's achievements before the age of 19, is unique, and it is no wonder that it arouses people's strong curiosity.
There are many paparazzi with camera hanging on the chest among the onlookers near the street. I hope to get some valuable photos from shoots. Even if shoots does not get some breaking news like the accident of the crew, but if you can get a few shoots The close-up of the starring is also worth a day of waiting.
"Are all the people Actor in place?" Next to the three yellow taxis, Eric watched the crew of the camera crew install the camera on the front of the car and asked to walk to his assistant.
"Fifty people have all come over. Royce let me ask you, do you want to start preparing?"
"According to the plan, let the group performers familiarize themselves with their position first, and then we will take a few street scenes first."
"Well," Alan responded, and said: "Yes, people in community agencies said that we must open this street for one hour at noon. The reason they gave was that time. It will be bigger and need to pass through this street. "
Eric rubbed temple(s) with annoyance. This is purely no problem. Noon is not after work, how much can the traffic increase. But he did not want to deal with these difficult institutions too much. Anyway, the crew also needed to eat at noon: "Respond to them, no problem, we will stop shoots to let the street out of the hour from 12 to 1 noon."
After Alan left, Eric turned his attention to several taxis. The license plates of the three taxis were exactly the same. This was just because these details would not appear in the lens. Once shoots was completed, the three vehicles would be replaced. Back to the original license plate.
One of the three cars does not require any treatment. The photographer will perform the shoots on the co-pilot, while the other two will have cameras attached to the front hood and windows on both sides of the rear seat.
The scene of driving shoots Shane for the first time today and wanting to send Andy to the police station. The scene in script is less than two minutes, but according to the calculation of Eric, the complete shoots comes down, and the accumulated footage will be nearly an hour Therefore, if one day of the day can be finished, it will be smooth.
After the camera brackets on the taxi were all prepared, Eric picked up intercom and began to issue orders to all the crew of the crew, while Cruise and Hanks who had been staying in the trailer only got out of the car at this time. paparazzi began to frantically press the shutter. There was nothing special about the two. The Cruise was dressed in black casual clothes, while the Hanks was dressed like a courier, wearing a cap and a plain white work suit.
After Eric's brief reinstatement, the two got into the first taxi without any modification. The first scene of the location scene where shoots taxi was driving on the street.
Eric walked behind the wireless monitor and looked at the screen of less than seven inches. After confirming that the lens light was correct, Eric confirmed to the camera again: "Alan, have the onlookers left the shoots area? "
"All are gone, and now the Actor is in front of the camera of several stations." The sound of Alan sounded in intercom, mixed with the noise of current.
Eric has to confirm it like this. If a face that does not belong to Actor appears on the screen after the production is completed in the future, the excitement will be huge.
United States ’s group performance is also Actor, and the price is very expensive, but Eric is still impossible to shoot real people, and it is not said whether real passersby will cooperate with the camera ’s lens. Completed, once someone found out that he actually appeared on the movie screen, with the personality of the United States people, it would not properly produce a sense of vanity like 'Laozi on the movie', they would only contact their lawyers, and be Reasons such as infringement sued the film crew. After prosecution, a loss of 1.8 million USD was considered light. If the whole movie is not released, it may be forced to be downgraded halfway, and then it will happen.
Thus, although Eric is confirmed here, after the post-editing is completed, manpower will be organized to conduct a detailed screening of the identity of the characters appearing in the lens to ensure that there are no “outsiders” mixed in the movie that are not Actor Come in.
So, when you see a Hollywood movie with the protagonist walking through the crowded streets, then, do n’t doubt, even if there are hundreds of thousands of pedestrians in the lens, it must be Actor, and No real passerby will appear.
After driving a taxi in Hanks for a few times and getting familiar with the road conditions, with the order of Eric, the cumbersome day of shoots only officially started.
Eric's eyes were fixed on the monitor, watching the performance of two people in the car. The conversation between the two people was heard in the headphones. Although it was not too clear, it was enough to hear clearly. This period must be re-voiced. , But the original sound of the movie also needs to be retained and used as a reference when dubbing.
The time is already in the afternoon, and Eric ca n’t remember how many times shoots has been repeated. Anyway, there are many ng times. At this time, Eric is standing. The staff purposely raised the monitor to the position in front of Eric. Although feeling a little tired, Eric had to continue to insist.
The rest time of Cruise and Hanks is quite sufficient. Every hour of shoots, both of them will have a rest period. The two people in the camera are still energetic and not tired at all.
But when they rested, Eric had to arrange other shots. The shoots time he agreed with the community agency was only one day today, so many shots must accumulate enough material to prevent problems in the late stage and make up shots.
In the lens, Andy slowly unzipped the jacket, pulled out the pistol, and asked casually, "Where are you going?"
"The nearest police station." Shane glanced at the rearview mirror and looked calmly at the Andy which will slowly screw on the silencer.
Andy looked out the window with a smile: "Are you alone?"
Shane shrugs indifferently: "Enough."
"You have no guns, are you afraid that I will kill you?"
"You shot me," Shane looked around and said, "The car will roll over."
"Yeah, it's dangerous," Andy's relaxed smile didn't change, and slowly rolled down the window: "If you can send me to the police station, even if you win."
A pistol with a silencer protruded out of the window, and Andy pulled the trigger without hesitation.
When the lens progressed here, the Eric shouted to stop, the taxi stopped, Cruise and Hanks got out at the same time, and the Nickel nested in the co-pilot position was also drilled out with a camera.
After the three people left the rental, the crew of the crew quickly stepped forward and drove the taxi back to their original position. Many props and vehicles on the road also turned around and returned to the starting point in an orderly manner, waiting for the start of shoots again.
Eric talked about the flaws in the lens just to the three, and ordered the precautions for shoots again. After everything was restored, Cruise and Hanks returned to the taxi, and Nickel carried the camera and drilled again. Go in.
Soon, shoots started again.
《Running Out of Time》 is a movie without too much depth. A policeman and a robber will be contested for 72 hours. During the promotion, they will definitely use statements such as ups and downs in the plot. In the eyes of ordinary audiences, it is indeed true This is it.
But for Eric, compared to the big brain-burning movies in the memory, this movie does not have any brain-thinking plots, this is just a cool business movie. So shoots is up, the acting requirements for the two starring actors are not too high. In particular, the film's location scene basically does not require much acting skills, and can be easily controlled with the strengths of Cruise and Hanks.
In the month from mid-April to mid-May, the crew spent most of the time in the streets of Los Angeles City Center, sometimes staying on the street for two or three days, and sometimes all the shots were completed in half a day. In short, the process can only be described as boring.
Jeffrey followed the crew of "The Others" to United Kingdom for a few days, then returned to Los Angeles, and soon flew to the crew of 《Scent of a Woman》 in New York. The employees of Firefly, except for the security staff who stays in the company's Headquarters and the clerk responsible for sending and receiving emails to deal with daily affairs, other people basically follow the work of the crew of Eric. If you ignore the horrible profit brought by the Firefly movie, this Film Studio is no different from the Los Angeles many small independent Film Studio.
Although the location scene shoots of 《Running Out of Time》 is very cumbersome, so far it has not encountered too many problems. The progress of shoots is basically the same as the previously set shoots schedule. It is expected that the official filmed and Columbia will be officially around May 15th The early small-scale publicity has begun, and there will be scattered news about 《Running Out of Time》 in the media from time to time.
The market value of Columbia has risen to 35 billion USD during this period of negotiations with the wealthy Sony Financial Group. Japanese watched the stock price of Columbia rise day by day, and there is no way. This kind of huge merger involving 1 billion USD has not been a year and a half. It is absolutely impossible to complete the loading time. The media estimates that if everything is negotiated, the contract can only be signed in September at the earliest, and even if the acquisition agreement is successfully signed in the end, the subsequent series of handovers will take several years.
Therefore, the summer season Box Office score became the last time for Columbia to push up the stock price.
Warner originally had two major productions to be released, namely "Batman" and "Lethal Weapon 2", but because 《Running Out of Time》 was scheduled for July 7th, Warner had to prepare the original "Lethal Weapon 2" that will be released in July. Postponed until the end of the year.
"Lethal Weapon" was a big sale in Box Office more than 60 million USD of first part in 1987, so the cost of second part doubled this year. To recover the cost, Box Office must at least reach 100 million USD. Under this pressure, Warner executives have no need to own Eric , Cruise and Hanks three big coffee 《Running Out of Time》 the idea of a contest, very actively postponed the schedule to the end of the year.
So Columbia became the only film giants with two blockbuster release plans in the summer. The other major production is 《Ghostbusters II》, which is also a long-awaited sequel to fans. "Ghostbusters" first part was released in 1984 It is already five years from now. As for why Columbia suddenly launched this plan early this year, the progress of shoots is almost the same as that of 《Running Out of Time》. Its purpose is self-evident. After all, Columbia has only such a handy series of movies.
"Eric, do you need to recruit some more people?"
In late April, Jeffrey completed the tour of the two crews and returned to Los Angeles. The two met for the first time in half a month. The venue was in the conference room of Firefly. The time was 8 pm. During the daytime, the basic time was Eric Come to the company.
At this time, Eric is looking at the documents of "Wen Xiang" and "The Others" brought back by Jeffrey, without looking up: "No, after 《Scent of a Woman》 and" The Others "are completed, I will let Jonathan and Martin recommend Some crew members joined Firefly. "
"Okay, then, what about TV series, the one you said ... that, 《Friends》, the time is getting tighter, the executives of Fox have contacted me, I hope you provide script, they are willing to help with the pre-stage Preparation. "
Eric smiled a bit. He had already told Barry · Diller that it was very clear. 《Friends》 will have Firefly independent production. Fox still did not give up the idea of wanting to insert a hand. This is understandable. After all, this is a sitcom with very low production costs. If copyright is jointly owned with Firefly, if TV series succeeds, Fox can also prevent Eric from using it as a bargaining chip, even if it fails. It is only a few million USD investment, which is not painful for Fox.
"Reject them, you see, they come to you instead of contacting me, it means that Fox also knows my personality."
Jeffrey hesitated for a while, and then said: "Eric, you ... you are not doing well."
Eric finally raised his head: "Huh?"
"You ... are too unique to do anything. The film does not allow others to intervene, and TV series is not allowed. This is not feasible in Hollywood. Now even for many small-cost movies, multiple investors will be introduced to share Risks also share profits. This is the orthodox Hollywood survival rule, even if it is Six Great Film Studios. Although the competition is fierce, there is also a phenomenon of cross-shareholding. "
"I understand what you want to say," Eric scratched his head: "It's just ... maybe it's not time yet, I will definitely share it with others in the future, but while I can eat single food now, of course I have to eat more Several times, waiting for others to stand it, I am giving them some. "
Jeffrey showed a helpless expression: "Okay, when will we start preparing for 《Friends》?"
"Starting tomorrow," Eric said: "I called you today to discuss this matter. We must start this project as soon as possible. I plan to insert a few 《Friends》 lenses into 《Running Out of Time》."
"《Running Out of Time》 inserts the lens of 《Friends》, Eric, do you mean SMD advertising, even if Columbia agrees, this is not worth it, and may even cause objection to the audience."
"Not a SMD advertisement," Eric denied, explaining to Jeffrey a few lens intentions in detail.
"This is a good idea," Jeffrey nodded, then questioned: "But less than two months, and you have agreed to Fox personally Director the first two episodes, do you think you can complete these? ? "
Eric shook his head: "No, I do n’t need to complete any episode of shoots, all the ideas are in my head, we just need to determine the role as soon as possible, complete the set, and then some interesting fragments of shoots. . "
Jeffrey feels that this plan is very feasible, and he also sees that if the plan is successful, it will have an unexpected publicity effect on 《Friends》.
"But, I don't have any experience in Eric and TV series production. Maybe you need an experienced TV series Producer."
"I said, I will not let Fox intervene in this matter," Eric said: "So, Jeffrey, you can only work harder."
Jeffrey showed a somewhat unclear smile, with a bit of ridicule and ambiguity: "In fact, one of the people you know has done TV series Producer."
The thought of Eric turned around, and soon the pretty face of the little stubborn girl and the John · Aniston who had a few sides of the relationship came to mind.
"He ... John should be NBC, and his main energy is still in Actor." The first reaction of Eric is resistance, father-in-law and son-in-law, these two creatures are naturally mutually exclusive.
Jeffrey said: "But he is always more experienced than me. I know nothing about the production of TV series. If there is enough time, I can slowly explore it, but you will also use the time card. Tight, so ... "
Eric pinched the paper in front of him for a few moments, and then nodded slightly: "Then I will contact him as soon as possible to try, if not, I still want you to go out."
Jeffrey nodded: "So, Actor?"
"The role of Jenny has been determined," said Eric: "There are five other roles needed. I will go back to the evening and write down the requirements of the role. I will hand it to you tomorrow, and start casting as soon as possible. The scope of this time is not too large. Otherwise, it would be too troublesome to interview, at least Actor with experience in performing arts, I think that if this is the case, people who are willing to sign up will not think so much about the previous movies. "
"It wouldn't have been much," Jeffrey smiled and said: "TV series is not as tempting as the movie."
We have been discussing things until 9 pm, and Eric left the office building of Firefly. We should invite John · Aniston to serve as Producer. It is better to pass Aniston, so Eric opened to Aniston’s residence.
When I came to the door of Aniston apartment, Eric didn't knock on the door. As usual, I got the spare key from the flower pot beside the door, but after rotating it a few times in the lock hole, I found that it was locked.
Is n’t it for yourself, Eric thought with a wry smile, tucked the key into the flower pot and knocked on the door.
"Who is it," I heard the girl answering faintly. After a while, the door opened a slit, Eric was about to push the door, but it was found that there was an anti-theft chain between the slits. This thing is definitely new. , Look at that chain, shine!
This is definitely for you.
Thinking about it in Eric, the body put a posture of self-respect on the door frame, staring at Aniston, and asked in a very hippie tone: "Girl, long nights, unconscious sleep, need a strong Your lonely little heart under the comfort of a man? "
"Go!" Aniston glared at Eric and slammed the door.