I’m in Hollywood Chapter 242: True freedom

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ps: See the exclusive story behind 《I am in Hollywood》, listen to your more suggestions for the novel, pay attention to the starting point Chinese network public number (WeChat add friends-add public number-enter qdread), quietly tell me! After a short half-day rest, the crew chartered to New York the next day. This time, Jeffrey still brought people to pick up the plane, and there is also a Firefly team responsible for the preparatory work for "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Home Alone2 Lost New York" .

Compared to when I was in Seattle, most of them were Jonathan ’s father and son.

The shoots of the New York scene is going to be a lot more troublesome. In terms of roles alone, "Sleepless in Seattle" is not only a Annie family, but also Annie friends, colleagues, etc. in the New York scene.

Eric feels that this plot design is likely to weaken the sense of existence of Annie boyfriend Walter, just as there are only a few shots of Sam ’s dead wife Maggie.

Although for Sam and Annie, this is indeed a very romantic love story.

But for Walter who is already engaged with Annie, it ’s a bit sad to be dumped on Valentine ’s Day for a ‘inexplicable’ reason.

Eric remembers that some of the movie reviews seen by previous life contained comments on this matter, roughly criticism of Annie ’s infidelity and sympathy for Walter. However, in this country where the divorce rate is as high as 50%, it seems that people do not care too much about it. To put it bluntly, in terms of politics and love, people in this country are pursuing two words: freedom.

Eric do n’t know if I read a sentence there, true freedom is not to do what you want, but not to do what you do n’t want to do.

Although this sentence is suspected of being false. Put it on Annie in "Sleepless in Seattle", it is very suitable, even if it is engaged. But when she found that Walter was not the one she was destined to, she still refused the other party without any accommodation.

"How is the discussion about the Empire State Building and the Petronas Towers?" got off the plane. Sitting in a commercial car with Jeffrey, the first sentence of Eric is two things he pays more attention to.

These two events are about "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Home Alone2" respectively. Jonah and Kevin will be on the two tallest buildings of New York for shoots. Until the shooting of "Sleepless in Seattle", these two events still Not sure.

"It's all done," Jeffrey gave Eric a reassuring look, and then said: "However, the management of the two buildings is not giving enough time."

"It's okay. There aren't many shots anyway, mainly the Empire State Building. The shots at the top of the Petronas Tower only need a few aerial shots." Eric nodded in satisfaction.

Jeffrey said again: "There is one more thing. I have consulted the meteorological department in detail about the snow. The first snow of New York has to wait as early as November, possibly in the first week of November, but also Not sure, after all, it ’s only September, you know. The weather forecast has never been accurate. Maybe we were lucky, it snowed at the end of October, or bad luck. It wo n’t snow until New York is released in "Home Alone" , In short, you have to be mentally prepared. "

Eric nodded: "It's nothing, you just let people prepare artificial snow. I try to put the location of" Home Alone2 "at the end of shoots, but I can't delay it for too long, so I think 90% Artificial snow may be used. "

"I have made estimates based on your script, although there is no need to cover the scene. However, artificial snow should reach the point where the audience believes it. The budget will increase by about 1.5 million USD."

Eric heard Jeffrey in a tone of pain, and patted Jeffrey on the shoulder. Although Firefly is getting bigger and bigger now, Jeffrey is still the character that Eric saw at first, who likes to think carefully. However, this kind of character is also the most suitable for Producer: "Jeffrey, after all, it is not last year. When we produced first part" Home Alone "last year, we had to make careful calculations. In order to save the budget, we even had to run to the remote Canada northern town to shoots. Our budget for this movie is very loose, so there is no need to save money. "

"I also know that I just subconsciously think that if you change the schedule of" Sleepless in Seattle "and" Home Alone2 ", maybe this 1.5 million will be saved."

Eric smiled and said: "According to what you said, in the end we waited for the natural snowfall, but we were able to save this 1.5 million, but, because" Home Alone2 "was postponed to Christmas, then we may lose several thousand on Box Office You must know that from the Box Office trend of the last "Home Alone", it can be seen that this is a child-oriented movie that is very suitable for long-term screening, so we must extend the period of the festival as far as possible, in late November is The beginning of the peak period of Christmas file Box Office. "

"Why not put" Sleepless in Seattle "in late November, even if it does not form a vicious competition with" Home Alone2 ", I think it is possible to postpone it for a week." Jeffrey asked again.

"Because" Sleepless in Seattle "is not only for Christmas, but also for Valentine ’s Day in February, because this is a romantic comedy. If it is one month in advance, then in February, the film ’s Popularity is almost exhausted. But on December 24th, after two months of screening, then after entering the Valentine ’s Day period, this love movie Box Office can have a rebound. You know, my movie, The large-scale Box Office harvesting cycle is more than eight weeks, such as last year's first part "Home Alone", which won the Box Office championship for 10 weeks, and later 《Pretty Woman》 and 《Running Out of Time》 are like this. "

Jeffrey smiled and said: "I really don't know where you learned these things from. I originally wanted to tell you about the schedule of" The Others ", you encouraged Michael Eisner to" The Others " On November 1st, I also think it is very inappropriate. Halloween is really suitable for the release of horror movies, but those are small horticultural movies with no Box Office ambitions. Although "The Others" is also a small production, but we are Box Office High hopes. It seems that you must have your own ideas now. "

Eric nodded, did not explain to Jeffrey, and Jeffrey did not mean to ask questions.

In fact, the concept of United States's movie schedule is relatively mature, but it is still very rough after more than 20 years.

Although Eric from later generations has n’t had Director movies, nor did it do distribution work, but in that era of information explosion, it was natural to understand the distribution rules of some movies. (A good event to drop a pie in the sky, a cool mobile phone is waiting for you! Pay attention to ~ dot / Chinese network public number (WeChat add friends-add public number-enter qdread)), participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Follow qdread WeChat public account!) (To be continued)