Chapter 122: summer file
There are five schedules in North America, among which summer and holiday schedules are the most important (including Thanksgiving and Christmas).
Under normal circumstances, large-scale commercial productions and films with good potential will be released in these two schedules.
Compared with last year's summer file, there are "Forrest Gump" and "The Lion King", two global hit films.
This year's summer vacation is a little bit deserted.
Of course, this desertedness is only relative.
As the first batch of films released in the summer, "Die Hard 3" produced by 20th Century Fox did not perform well at the box office.
On the contrary, "Batman Forever" produced by Warner Bros. swept the summer season as soon as it was released, with a box office of 52.78 million US dollars in the first weekend.
Next, "Apollo XIII" produced by Universal Pictures and "Pocahontas" produced by Disney are equally extraordinary.
"Apollo XIII" had a box office of US$25.35 million in the first weekend; "Pocahontas" had a box office of US$29.53 million in the first weekend.
Two consecutive films were screened, which completely kicked off the prelude to the summer vacation.
However, in the summer season, the box office of the two films "Die Hard 3" and "Braveheart" released by 20th Century Fox failed to meet expectations.
"Braveheart" is a film jointly produced by 20th Century Fox and Paramount, with a budget of up to 72 million US dollars. The famous Mel Gibson is a producer, director, and starring in multiple positions. The heroine is also The well-known Sophie Marceau.
It's a pity that the film's box office is not ideal, with only US$75.06 million in North America, which means that it is almost impossible to recover the cost through North America.
The sad discovery of Twentieth Century Fox, it seems that the summer schedule no longer belongs to Twentieth Century Fox.
Compared with the beginning of the previous summer, "The Blair Witch" sold well, with a North American box office of over 100 million U.S. dollars and a global box office of over 200 million U.S. dollars. Except for promotional expenses and printed copies, 20th Century Fox only paid 800,000 U.S. dollars for the buyout Copyright fees.
In addition, Twentieth Century Fox also released blockbuster films such as "True Lies", "Speed", and "Saw".
However, under such circumstances, the third film "The Evil Invasion" directed by Ryan began to kick off the promotion.
Twentieth Century Fox set out a publicity budget of 2.7 million US dollars for this. In addition to traditional horror film promotion channels, it also invited some women's rights organizations and paid a considerable amount of donations for this.
In fact, 20th Century Fox had to increase its publicity budget, hoping that Ryan could once again become a dark horse at the box office, and avoid the impact of the unsatisfactory box office of several summer films.
Regarding the promotion of "The Evil Spirit", Ryan didn't bother much, and focused all his energy on filming.
On the contrary, Lei Sancheni frequently passed on news, and even came to Toronto in person to discuss with Ryan about the promotion plan of "The Evil Spirit".
"The No. 2 machine is a little further forward and moved a little bit."
"Lighting engineer, dim the background light a little, and remember to highlight the facial contours of the hero and heroine."
"Charlie, your facial expression is not in place, so be indifferent and not so shrewd."
"OK, let's do it again, everyone."
"Scene 77 of "The Truman Show" has 5 takes and 3 takes, let's start." Ryan shouted.
The next moment, Nicholas Cage had just come back home soaked from a very strange rain, opened the door and walked in.
Inside the room, Charlize Theron was wearing a very **** pajamas, put down the newspaper in her hand, glanced at Nicholas Cage, who was covered in water, and asked, "Like a drowned chicken, where have you been?"
Nicholas Cage was all about raising money to get out of town, saying, "If you get $8,000..."
"Then as long as we can save a little, it will be enough for us to travel for a year."
"And then? Get beaten back to your original shape, and continue to return to your original life!" Charlize-Theron said with a hint of sarcasm, "You are no longer a teenager, and you can't always act willfully."
Nicholas Cage didn't seem to understand the sarcasm contained in it, walked up to Charlize Theron, squatted down, and argued, "Maybe I was a teenager with a young heart."
Next, Charlize-Theron began to complain, saying: "We need a house and a car. Have you thought about it?"
"Besides, we also plan to have a child, all of which need money."
Nicolas Cage made a somewhat exaggerated gesture and said, "We can have a baby later and go see the world first."
Charlize Theron stood up, touched Nicholas Cage's face very tenderly, and said, "You'd better forget that these unrealistic thoughts, I hope you can be more sober."
"Remember to change the wet clothes on your body first." After finishing speaking, Charlize Theron kissed him lightly.
Camera No. 3 specially gave a special close-up shot.
"Yes, it's a great performance." Ryan felt that the shooting was good, so there was no need to continue to reshoot, "Sophia, change to another shooting scene."
Some details are somewhat different from the "The Truman Show" in the previous life, and Ryan has changed a lot.
For example, the dialogue between Nicholas Cage and Charlize Theron is more flat.
Charlize Theron didn't flirt too much, it was more like a perfunctory one, while Nicolas Cage seemed more focused, and he was a good man.
Before changing the details, Ryan thought about it in detail. The marriage between Truman and his wife was not love, but a wedding arranged by the program team.
So for Charlize-Theron, the current marriage is just a job to earn money, it does not require any emotional investment, and many details of life are perfunctory.
In addition, some small details all imply that this is just a reality show, not a real town.
At the moment Sophia began to direct the crew, get busy, move the equipment, rearrange the lighting background.
Ryan got up and left the monitor, came to Charlize-Theron, hugged him gently, and asked, "How is it, how does it feel!"
"It's not too bad." Charlize-Theron put on a windbreaker, covering the looming body under the silk pajamas.
In fact, the role played by Charlize Theron does not require much acting skills, there are no explosive scenes, and it is somewhat flat.
However, for her, playing the heroine in a $35 million project is still a chance to show off.
"Should I change clothes, or go to dinner first!" Ryan looked down at the time on his watch, and estimated that by the time the crew arrived at the next scene, it would have been past lunch time.
"I hate the crew's lunch." Charlize Theron refused the lunch without hesitation and chose to change a piece of clothing first.
For her, who was born as a model, the various high-calorie foods prepared by the crew were simply a nightmare.
"Charlie, UU reading www.uukanshu.com, you should eat more." Ryan felt that Charlize-Theron seemed a little thinner these days, and the most direct feeling was that the texture was obviously a little worse.
"You can order an extra vegetable salad for me." Charlize Theron shrugged.
"OK, you go to the trailer to change your clothes first, and I'll help you order some more food." Ryan waved his hand, turned and walked outside.
The crew chose a restaurant in a small town as a dining place for all crew members. The environment is not bad, and the price is not very expensive.
The only fly in the ointment is that the taste of the food is not very good, it almost tastes like a fast food restaurant, and the food types are very single.
Similar to dozens of dishes in Chinese restaurants, or even hundreds of dishes, it is a luxury here, so not only Charlize-Theron’s appetite is not good these days, Ryan’s appetite is not very good either, and often I chose to eat it reluctantly.
On the contrary, a group of crew members and extras, including Nicolas Cage, Sophia and others, seemed to think it was pretty good.
