I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 356
[Chapter 353 I’m sure I read it right]
In the original plan, Robert Shea planned to wait two weeks after the release of “The Silence of the Lambs”, the attendance rate dropped to a certain extent, and justifiably put “The Silence of the Lambs” in 200 to 300 theaters Transferred to “Sleeping with the Enemy”, and gathered 2,000 theaters for “Sleeping with the Enemy”.
Following the two consecutive films of “Pretty Woman” and “Steel Magnolia”, which have exceeded 100 million at the box office, Julia’s box office appeal is unquestionable, so the films starring her can also hold up 2000 theaters simultaneously released to the scale.
Unfortunately, the box office trend of “The Silence of the Lambs” far exceeded everyone’s expectations. The box office fell by less than 20% in the next week. Such a good result, even if Robert Shea is willing, “The Silence of the Lambs” “It is impossible for those screening theaters that have signed a ladder-sharing contract to replace the movie with “Sleeping with the Enemy”. Therefore, there are only 1,700 premiere theaters for “Sleeping with the Enemy”.
Of course, the release scale of 1,700 theaters did not affect the performance of “Sleeping with the Enemy” at all. After three days of release, “Sleeping with the Enemy” received a box office of more than 18 million US dollars. The results have exceeded the standard of a blockbuster movie with an average weekly box office of $10,000.
Although the box office success of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” has been successful before, the credit for that film cannot be fully attributed to Robert Shea, therefore, the first major film produced by an independent producer The film was a success, and Robert Shea couldn’t wait to start planning a celebration dinner after the three-day box office release over the weekend, seemingly wanting to declare his status to the whole of Hollywood.
Before the end of the year, Eric did not intend to have any conflict with Robert Shea, so he readily agreed that the celebration banquet held at the Hilton Hotel would be entirely paid for by Firefly.
After “Sleeping with the Enemy”, Eric no longer goes to the Firefly headquarters every day, although “Human Ghost Love” has entered the final publicity stage.
But Eric didn’t travel around to do the final promotion for the movie as he did with the likes of Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda.
If he’s just a film director, there’s certainly no escape from these things, though.
As the boss of Firefly, Eric still has this privilege.
Several cars stopped outside Beach Park, south of Santa Monica, Los Angeles.
The door opened, and seven or eight people came down one after another. Eric skillfully put on his sunglasses and baseball cap before looking at the beach park with confidence.
A group of people quickly gathered, Katherine Bigelow, wearing a sun hat and a simple black t-shirt and dark jeans, said: “This is it, I have been here once before, just I took a cursory look and made some comparisons in the past few days. I found out that this is the best place, let’s go in.” It seems too beautiful here,” Eric said, following Katherine Bigelow, looking at the surrounding scenery.
“I plan to choose to shoot here again.” Panic Point’s director of photography behind him: “Donald, do you have a good solution?” &
nbsp; Donald Peterman is a middle-aged man in his forties.
And he is a very good photographer. He has participated in the shooting of many excellent movies before, since the budget of “Shocking Point” is sufficient.
Like Katherine Bigelow and James Cameron, the crew chose the best.
In the early stage of the film, in order to confirm that the scene selected by the director is suitable for shooting, the director of photography must be involved.
Hearing Eric’s words, Donald Peterman squinted his eyes and looked around, thought for a while, and then said: “If you want the most in line with the effect of the film, of course I also hope that here The scene can be shot on a cloudy day, however. Los Angeles does not encounter several cloudy and rainy days a year, so it is also possible to choose to shoot in the evening. But in that case, because of the change of light, the suitable time for shooting is very short, a few times If we can’t finish it, we can only wait for the next day.” After a while, making some records from time to time, Donald Peterman also used a camcorder to shoot a few scenes at the location that Catherine Bigelow liked. They were busy for nearly an hour before everyone left.
They did not communicate with the park management, because it is still very early to start filming, and according to the plan, “Fright Point” will not start until the end of July at the earliest.
After watching the beach park, everyone quickly drove to the next goal. After running for an entire afternoon, Eric also deeply realized the vastness of Los Angeles County. He ran more than 100 kilometers in one day. But he still wandered the streets and alleys of Greater Los Angeles without even reaching the suburbs.
In the evening, the group finished dinner at a restaurant in Santa Monica before going home.
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nbsp; “Hey, Kate, can you wait?” Eric stopped Katherine Bigelow who was about to drive home.
Catherine Bigelow stopped by the door and asked, “Eric, what’s the matter?” The Hilton Hotel held the celebration party of “Sleeping with the Enemy”, would you like to come?” Katherine Bigelow shook her head directly: “Sorry, Eric, I don’t like it very much? Go to this kind of party.” “I mean, you can go with Jim, and a lot of Hollywood executives will probably come over tomorrow, and it’s really good for networking.” ; “Jim went to North Carolina to film for Terminator 2,” Kathryn Bigelow shrugged. “I can’t go alone.” “You You can come with me, I don’t think Jim would mind,” Eric said in a relaxed tone.
Catherine Bigelow raised her eyebrows and said with a teasing tone: “Little guy, I want to warn you, don’t hit me.” “Cough cough “…” Eric didn’t expect Catherine.
[End of this Chapter]
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