Chapter 58: goal achieved
Natalie Portman is still a sophomore in high school and has now returned to New York to prepare for her final exams.
Dunn made a phone call. She wanted to ask her out to get to know each other better. Her mother, Shirley Hirschler, answered the call. She was a little embarrassed.
This Jewish mother is very strict with her daughter.
Dunn couldn't even get her personal contact information.
Since Dunn and George Lucas had a fierce conflict of ideas that day, Dunn Walker, the director, has never appeared in the Star Wars crew. The preparatory work of the crew is completely controlled by Lucas.
He has already thought about it. If George Lucas is stubborn, he will do his job well, finish the movie, take the money and leave. As for the future... well water will not make river water.
Different road non-phase plan!
It's late April, and "My Grand Greek Wedding" has been released overseas one after another, and the box office...is not good.
In the 5 countries that have been released, the box office of Austria is 1.02 million US dollars, the box office of Brazil is US $ 1.23 million, the box office of Chile is US $ 170,000, and the box office of Finland is US $ 430,000. Fortunately, Nicole Kidman's home country Australia has gained a lot, reaching $12.8 million.
With the arrival of May, the film will gradually be released on a large scale.
But overall, the box office trend is not optimistic.
After all, it is a comedy film, because of the cultural differences in various places, it is difficult to popularize it in the world like a commercial blockbuster.
Fortunately, English-speaking regions and European regions have shown good box office trends.
By May 15, the cumulative box office in Australia reached 21 million US dollars, and the UK box office, which had just been released for 9 days, also had 15 million US dollars, France 5 million US dollars, Germany 8 million US dollars, Italy 7.5 million US dollars...
There is still half a month before the launch of Star Wars, and the overseas box office of "My Big Greek Wedding" has accumulated to 65 million US dollars.
Dunn's worries are getting heavier and heavier. The UK and Australia have already passed the hot period. With the help of other non-English speaking regions, can they accumulate another 55 million US dollars at the box office within this month?
At this time, Dunn, who disappeared from the Star Wars crew for half a month, finally received a call from George Lucas.
"Boy, you won't forget that you are my film director, right?"
"How come? I'll show up before the movie starts."
Lucas laughed and scolded: "Stinky boy, are you still angry with me? Forget it, come over here at some time, I have something to tell you."
Dunn's heart jumped. Judging from Lucas's attitude, he... seems to be shrinking back?
When Dunn drove to Lucasfilm on the outskirts of California, he heard this good news.
George Lucas approved Dunn's changes to the script, while tacitly allowing him to increase the action scenes and intensity.
And Lucas also gave a gift—
"The movie "Follow" you gave me, I watched it, and it was pretty good. I helped you contact two small theater chains, less than 100, so let's try it out first, and there is no publicity. If the effect is good, Maybe a dozen more theaters."
Tang En raised his eyebrows and laughed in his heart: "Is this an apology?"
However, he is not optimistic about the box office market of the film "Following". A film of less than 70 minutes cannot attract enough fans in terms of duration, let alone a black and white film.
"Thank you then."
For this kind of trivial matter, Dunn understands that it is not difficult to do it with the influence of George Lucas.
……
On May 27, "My Big Greek Wedding" finally surpassed $100 million at the global box office.
As of May 31, the worldwide box office grossed $112.7 million!
It's six or seven million away from Dunn's request!
According to the requirements of the crew of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Menace of Ghost Man", the group will be in the group on June 1, and the film will be officially filmed on June 3.
Tang En didn't have the ability to "Mirror Possession" at this time, so naturally he couldn't join the group, so he quickly made an excuse, saying that he was sick and had a fever, and he would wait two days before joining the group.
On June 1, the goal is still $5.4 million;
On June 2, the goal is still $1.2 million.
……
"Dan En, how is your body?"
Tomorrow, the film crew will officially start filming, and George Lucas personally made a phone call to express condolences.
The crew will not wait for Dunn to arrive before the official start. With Lucas in charge and seven or eight assistant directors, they can adjust the order and shoot some unimportant scenes such as framing first.
Tang En was so anxious that he could only grit his teeth, "It's much better, at most... two days, I'll definitely be there!"
Fortunately, most of the films were filmed in the studios of Lucasfilm, and it only took 40 minutes to drive.
"Well, that's good, I'll let them take some scattered shots first." Lucaston paused, "By the way, I forgot to tell you one thing, your movie "Following" has been removed from the theater in a large area. It's out."
""Following"?" Dunn's heart skipped a beat, thinking of something, he couldn't help being a little excited, "George, how much is the box office? Uh... I haven't been in good health recently, so I didn't pay much attention to these little things."
Because "Follow" was produced by Tang En Pictures, Tang En naturally added his name to the producer's position.
Lucas thought for a while, "I didn't pay too much attention. It's less than two million dollars anyway. Check it out for yourself."
Two million dollars?
Dunn almost jumped up in excitement.
It's done!
The goal of 120 million has been achieved!
Hanging up the phone~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Dunn immediately put on his sunglasses and turned on the system. Sure enough, in the package at the top right, he found a brand new icon—the mirror image.
"Haha! It's really not easy!"
During this period of time, the mountain that was pressing on Tang En finally disappeared, and Tang En was relieved and excited.
"Which director's ability should I choose to possess?"
Dunn thought about it for a long time, and finally chose three people - James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott.
Needless to say about the first two, Ridley Scott is also a great director. He has directed the sci-fi film "Blade Runner", as well as the action films "Black Rain" and "Big Wave".
Dunn didn't make a decision immediately, but called George Lucas and told him that he would be there tomorrow morning as scheduled.
Lucas is naturally very happy, Dunn is a film director, and it is somewhat outrageous not to show up at the opening ceremony.
"By the way, George, if the director of this movie had to choose between James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott, who would you choose?"
Lucas said without thinking, "Of course it's Steven!"
"Oh why?"
Lucas said with a smile: "Didn't you say that the script I wrote was too young? If you want to shoot with depth, naturally you have to choose Steven! However, your kid is not bad, I'm very optimistic."
"Haha, borrow your auspicious words, George, I won't let you down!"
Dunn's mood suddenly brightened, he hung up the phone, and calmly opened the character attributes of "Steven Spielberg".
"Are you sure about the professional skills of Dunn Walker's 'Mirror Possession' Steven Spielberg?"
"Sure!"
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