I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 282

[Chapter 277 This reason is too powerful]

Eric handed the scribbled outline of the “Instinct” script to Alan behind him, and instructed his assistant to go to the Screenwriters Guild to register the outline before saying to David Greenwater: “Because I don’t like this woman.” “…” The two producers were speechless at the same time, this reason was too powerful, David Greenwater and Hans Whittle felt helpless at the same time , And a little envious, when will I reach the point where I can control the fate of others with a single word of ‘I don’t like’.

Eric did not mean to explain to the two of them. He is not an extreme nationalist, nor is he sensitive enough to boycott just because some people say a couple of anti-xx remarks What, if you don’t like me, then I don’t like you either, that’s all, they’re just ordinary people, there’s no need to worry so much.

But after the disaster in the previous life where tens of thousands of innocent civilians were killed, a woman who laughed and said the word ‘retribution’ can only be described as cold-blooded, no matter what political stance and other bullshit reasons are used to quibble , are difficult to forgive.

Therefore, the moment he saw Sharon Stone’s profile, Eric passed the other party directly, and took advantage of the other party’s audition. The script outline of “Instinct”, which became famous in one fell swoop, was written, and it was a movie with a box office of over 100 million.

Although Eric’s current reputation, for the sake of his own image, it is impossible to make such a controversial large-scale film, and even the screenwriter is not planning to use it when making films in the future Real name, but this script is just right for Robert Shea. Anyway, Robert Shea will lead two big production movies this year. As long as you make money, Robert will definitely be willing to make any movie. As for the heroine, the heroine of a TV series can do it. Hundreds of people scrambled for it.

Will Hollywood be short of heroines?

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Another poor girl was ignored by him, and the next one came in.

Eric looked up at the other party, then opened the other party’s information and looked at the name on it.

Confirming that he was right, Eric raised his head with a quirky smile: “This lady, have we met?” Hans Whittle and David Wright were just about to speak. Greenwater closed his mouth in unison.

It seems that the heroine has fallen, so I don’t have to continue to cook for a few more days. Although I can see nearly 100 beautiful faces every day, I will definitely not feel it after watching too much. What’s more, there is Eric pressing on it.

They don’t have much decision-making power in their hands, and they can only watch and eat these beautiful women.

Famke Jensen, who just sat down on the chair, saw Eric looking at him a little weird, but he was a little happy, being noticed is better than being ignored Be strong.

He glanced at the girl’s long legs tightly wrapped in white slacks and asked, “Miss Jensen, are you a model?” Famke Jensen shook her head: ” It’s not anymore, I just retired.” Eric then asked: “If you are not selected this time. What will you do in the future?” ;

The girl’s expression didn’t change much, and she thought about it: “In this case, I may apply for a university. Let’s study for two years. After getting the certificate, you can find other jobs.” ” Other jobs, such as?” Famke Janssen was startled, then shook his head: “I don’t know, I haven’t thought about it yet.” Ke nodded and said to the two producers on the left and right: “I’m fine, you guys come.” “No more questions, like do you have a boyfriend or something?” Hans Whittle made a joke in a low voice.

Eric rolled his eyes at the other party, thinking about the woman I liked.

What if you have a boyfriend, grab it?

“Eric. Is that just her?” David Greenwater also asked in a low voice.

“Let’s finish the morning audition first,” Eric replied calmly.

Honestly.

Born in the 1960s, there are not many famous actresses who have caught up with the rise of Hollywood. The more famous ones are only 20 or 30, and a few are counted by stepping on the first train of the post-70s.

And Famke Janssen is one of the more famous Hollywood women born in the 1960s.

The girl impressed Eric the most, not the only fifth-level mutant Phoenix girl in “X-Men”, but the sturdy and beautiful Russian female killer in “007 Golden Eye”. What an amazing way to kill a man with his legs pinched to death. Since he met him, of course, he had to try the strength of those two long legs himself.

Famke Janssen saw the three main referees whispering for a while, and felt a little uneasy, not knowing what the other party was discussing.

But what happened next made her a little happy, because the three of them were very meticulous about her audition.

Other auditioners usually don’t have more than ten minutes to audition, but her audition took a full twenty minutes.

After Famke Jensen left, David Greenwater said: “It’s okay, the acting is a little clumsy, but it’s enough to exercise more during the shooting process, the camera sense is very strong , worthy of being a model.” Hans Whittle also echoed with a smile.

Eric paid no attention to the mocking expressions in the envy of the two, and filled in his opinion on the form in front of him.

The audition in the morning passed quickly. Now that the role has been determined, everyone doesn’t have to work anymore. Eric packed up his things, explained a few words, and left with Alan.

As for Famke Jensen, he is not in a hurry, he will talk about it after he is busy.

The time is in late December, and Christmas is coming. In the five weeks from the beginning of the Thanksgiving schedule on November 17th to the present, the box office market in North America is basically “Home Alone 2” leading, in just five weeks, “Home Alone 2” Home Alone 2 has grossed $110 million at the box office.

The top five in the North American box office list, in addition to “Home Alone 2”, followed by Warner’s “Lethal Weapon 2” and Universal’s “Back to the Future 2”, these three films Occupy the top three at the box office, while “The Island” and “Steel Magnolia” have repeatedly contended for the fourth-place role, steadily taking in more than $10 million per week, ; After seven weeks of accumulation, the box office is about to break 100 million.

The final box office is likely to exceed the original $150 million target, as “Island” barely dipped more than 20% in the past few weeks, while “Steel Magnolia” has been more stable.

With more than $60 million in five weeks, the film is perfect for the Christmas mood.

It is estimated that there will be a box office rebound during the next Christmas period, and there is no suspense at all if the box office exceeds 100 million.

As for the black comedy “Harlem Nightclub” starring Eddie Murphy, which had a good first week at the box office, after its release, after a massive drop of more than 50% for the next two consecutive weeks, He was thrown out of the top five, once again proving the truth that black movies cannot be squeezed into the mainstream of Hollywood.

The dazzling achievements of “Home Alone 2”, “Steel Magnolia” and “Steel Magnolia” have also attracted the attention of the media. Since the beginning of November, the films produced by Firefly or Eric have begun to dominate the box office charts. The top spot has been occupied for seven weeks so far.

And on December 22, “Sleepless in Seattle” will also be released soon. This is another film directed by Eric himself. Under Fox’s vigorous publicity, basically no one is optimistic about the film launched by Warner to follow “Crazy Christmas Holiday” against “Sleepless in Seattle”.

As the seventh week passed, December 22 finally came, “Sleepless in Seattle” officially opened in more than 2,200 theaters in North America after its premiere at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.

And at the same time, there was the “Scent of a Woman” starring Al Pacino, which was used to impact the Oscars.

According to the release rules of many Olympic films, Robert Shea arranged only 60 theaters for “Scent of a Woman” in order to gain admission to the Oscars.

After the heroine of “The X-Files” is determined.

Eric’s work this year has basically been completed. After attending the premiere of “Sleepless in Seattle”, he has been staying in the Malibu mansion to rest, reading and writing scripts every day, and his life is extremely relaxed.

Compared to Eric’s lightheartedness, the media across North America was nervously watching the opening week of “Sleepless in Seattle”.

Because if “Sleepless in Seattle” can successfully win this week’s box office championship, then Eric’s film will really achieve the grand slam of the eight-week box office championship in the entire New Year’s block.

Although many media are not very optimistic about Warner’s “Crazy Christmas Holiday”, but no one dares to guarantee 100%.

Maybe this movie will also create a box office miracle like “Home Alone”, after all.

Although this film is not starring a child, the style has many similarities with “Home Alone”.

In this anxious wait.

The three-day box office in the first weekend was released. “Sleepless in Seattle” undoubtedly won the box office this weekend with a box office of 17 million US dollars, while “Crazy Christmas Holiday” only made more than 11 million US dollars at the box office, not even because of Christmas. And “Home Alone 2” has more box office rises.

The outcome was decided without any suspense.

A week later, “Sleepless in Seattle” earned more than $27 million at the box office in its first week, and succeeded “Home Alone 2” to occupy the top spot in the box office. So far, Firefly has passed three films The relay of the film successfully won the box office champion of the entire New Year’s gear.

The media began to operate this matter spontaneously. Although the first film of “Home Alone” won the box office championship for 10 weeks last year, the box office of that film can only be classified as a miracle.

This year, Firefly won the box office championship for eight weeks through this relay method, which really proved its strength.

Although Firefly released only one “Scent of a Woman” and several other films were distributed by Disney and Fox, few media outlets in the United States attribute this achievement to Disney, instead, mocked the seven major studios one-sidedly while touting Firefly.

What I have to say is that while “Sleepless in Seattle” won the box office championship, several other things also happened at the same time, among which is “Scent of a Woman”, although the premiere theater of this film has 60 However, it received more than $900,000 at the box office in the first week, with an average weekly box office of more than $15,000 per theater, which far exceeds the $10,000 threshold for a blockbuster movie.

And the reputation of this film is also very good. The media rated the blind lieutenant colonel played by Al Pacino as his most classic role since filming.

And another thing is about the video tape of “Jin Yumeng”, after the release of “Sleepless in Seattle”, with the proper promotion of Firefly, the two-pronged approach, the first week sales of the videotape of “Jinyumeng” It broke through 200,000 boxes, and squeezed into the top ten position of video tape weekly sales.

You know, this is an old movie from more than 30 years ago. It sold 200,000 boxes in the first week, so there is no problem with the sales exceeding 1 million boxes in the next week, and it may even reach the point of 2 million boxes.

Eric remembered that after “Seattle” in his previous life, the videotape sales of “Jinyumeng” reached 2 million boxes.

Calculated at a cost of less than $10 per box of videotapes, the $5 profit that goes out to the distributor, Firefly can get half of the profit from each box of videotapes that sells for about $30, if If the sales reach 2 million boxes, then Firefly will be able to get a profit of 30 million US dollars.

This amount of money is equivalent to the total profit brought by a North American film with a box office of more than 100 million yuan for the film company.

While many people who had nothing to do with them were amazed by Eric’s vision, Fox’s executive who sold all the copyrights of “Jinyumeng” for $3.2 million also left Fox in embarrassment.

Although the firefly was full of admiration from the outside, Eric found that many things were getting more and more wrong. Originally, according to the contract, Colombia should pay the Firefly a share of more than 88 million US dollars in “Dark War”, and the advertising share of “Friends” It should also be settled in December, but the two big companies have repeatedly shied away for various reasons. Eric even went to Columbia and Fox in a row, but he did not see the helm of the two companies.

And then, when UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com Eric asked the newly appointed Firefly Chief Financial Officer Caroline Elliott to apply for loans from several banks with the movie contract in Firefly’s hands, In just a few days, loan applications were blocked for various reasons.

On December 31st, the last day of the year, Eric was running around for a day, but a few things came to nothing. When he returned to the Malibu villa, Eric sat on the sofa and meditated. After a long time, he sorted out all the unusual details he encountered during this time, and then he had to call Jeffrey, who went to Chris in New York for Christmas. After the call was connected, Eric He said in a heavy tone: “Jeffrey, something big may happen…” (To be continued)

[End of this Chapter]