Movie Master

The coolness of early autumn hangs over the City of Angels, the heat of the summer vacation is gradually fading, and the outpost of the awards season is slowly warming up. The Venice Film Festival on the Mediterranean coast and the Toronto Film Festival bathed in the warm Atlantic current have kicked off one after another. , Immediately after the deserted October, awards season movies will appear one after another.

Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation," which has attracted a lot of attention in production, will first land at the Telluride-Film-Festival (Telluride-Film-Festival), then head to Venice, followed by Landing in Toronto, kicked off the journey of this year's awards season with great momentum.

Just as everyone was turning their attention to Venice and Toronto, the film market in the United States recovered slightly. After experiencing a continuous outbreak of hot summer holidays, the film market in September was a little deserted, even if there was no one there. Asking about interest will not appear too exaggerated. However, there are endless news outside the venue. Hollywood, which operates continuously throughout the year, always has countless heavyweight projects coming out, attracting thousands of attention in the preparatory stage.

Take "Troy" for example.

Warner Bros., together with Plan B Films and Diorama Films, held a grand opening ceremony, announcing the official launch of "Troy". This opening ceremony was mighty and mighty, attracting more than 160 media and more than 300 reporters to the scene, focusing on the firing of this annual masterpiece.

With an investment of 175 million US dollars, this is the highest-invested work in North American film history after "Titanic"; the most famous, sensational and controversial history of Troy in Homer's epic will be shown on the big screen The entire crew will move to London, where most of the filming will take place, and the rest of the exterior will be filmed in Malta and Mexico. Cassoli built a ten-acre location, which is jaw-droppingly large; it is also reported that in order to star in this movie, the actor Brad voluntarily reduced his salary and invested more money in the film. The production of the film strives to truly restore the scene of the year...

Led by Brad Pitt, idol topic figures such as Orlando Bloom and Diane Kruger are in charge of beauty, Eric-Bana, Sean Bean, Julie- Powerful fighters such as Christie will be in charge of quality, David-Benioff (David-Benioff), who wrote the "25 Hours" script for Spike-Lee (Spike-Lee), will write the script, and finally the veteran director Wolfgang Peter Desen checks, this is almost a cast lineup that will never fail...

If there are any concerns, Colin-Wilson, the producer of the "Jurassic Park" series, will be double insurance to ensure that the quality of the film does not go off track.

There is no doubt that "Troy" is the most anticipated, most anticipated, and most trusted film project in the preparation stage after entering the 21st century. At the press conference, a reporter from the "New York Post" even made a joke, "How high is the box office expectation for the premiere set by the crew? Do you have the confidence to break the record of 'Spider-Man'?"

The movie has not even started shooting, and everyone is already looking forward to the premiere box office.

At present, in the entire North American film history, the highest box office premiere record is held by "Spider-Man". The box office breaks through 100 million US dollars in the opening weekend, setting a new benchmark and officially marking the arrival of the era of a single 100 million box office.

And everyone put "Troy" on the level of "Spiderman" as soon as they came up, which shows that the expectations are high. After the press conference, many reporters joked that the premiere box office of "Troy" should be at least 80 million, which is comparable to that of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones". "It's the same level, and it's bound to be a summer bomb.

All of a sudden, the desolate North American mainland was flooded with news about "Troy". The crew of "Troy" has become the focus of everyone's attention. Before the filming of the movie started, the news has spread overwhelmingly.

In comparison, the launch of "The Day After Tomorrow" is not even as good as that of "King Arthur". It's just that the "Chicago Tribune" published an article the size of a tofu block in the entertainment section, announcing the official launch. Other than that, there was hardly any news. Among the overwhelming news about "Troy", "The Day After Tomorrow" was like a canoe traveling through a tsunami—it was directly swallowed by subversion.

Compared with "Troy", "The day after tomorrow" can be said to have no gimmicks worth hyping, even the topic of "Lancelot-Strello" is no exception. In front of the top superstar Brad, Lance This little new director is not worth mentioning at all, not to mention the lackluster cast.

Therefore, apart from the "Chicago Tribune", there are not many media reports. What's even more weird is that Twentieth Century Fox and Chaos Pictures just let it go, and have no intention of fighting a propaganda war with "Troy". Underneath the calm and calm, the dark tide was raging, which was really hard to see through.

"Are you sure we don't need publicity?" Gao Wen threw aside the "Los Angeles Times" in his hand, with a look of disdain on his face - "Los Angeles Times" used one-third of the page in the entertainment section to talk about "Troy" "The start-up event.

Lance shrugged, "This publicity will cost at least three million, or even five million. If there is such a budget, I might as well discuss with the digital field, where to add a little special effect."

Lance's understated tone immediately jumped out at three million or five million, which startled Gawain, and looked over with a look of astonishment—the production cost of "The Day After Tomorrow" only cost fifteen thousand. Millions, but Chaos Films is still short of at least half of the cost. Although the actor's remuneration can be paid together with the dividends after the movie is released, the pressure on Chaos Films has not diminished.

Lance nodded seriously, "This is how money is spent on publicity, and this is just the beginning. Judging from this pace, Warner Bros.' publicity budget for 'Troy' is at least 20 million, which is a conservative estimate. In other words, the overall cost of "Troy" easily exceeds 200 million U.S. dollars, which shows that Warner Bros. attaches great importance to this film—or, in other words, Diorama Pictures attaches great importance to this film.

"Is this a good thing or a bad thing for Ryan and the others?" Gao Wen didn't understand. The layman was really confused about the intricate interests of the film industry.

"The stakes are bigger on behalf of them." Ian, who was standing next to him, casually said that his understanding of these things is gradually deepening. Before that, he had inquired that Diorama Pictures had invested at least eight months in the "Troy" project. Tens of millions of dollars—or even more, Plan B Films invested more in Brad's identity, and would not come up with substantial costs, so Diorama Films and Warner Bros. must bear the 200 million U.S. dollars. Budget.

In the beginning, Diorama Films was only planning to invest 50 million US dollars, but now it seems to have changed... Clearly, Diorama Films is becoming more and more greedy.

Gao Wen snapped his fingers and laughed excitedly, but then he was taken aback, "Lance, are you sure this movie will fail?" Even Ian couldn't help but look over, they have been busy for so long, okay? It is easy to lead Diorama Films into a pit, but now all the media are optimistic about the prospect of "Troy", if they finally shoot themselves in the foot...

Lance raised his eyebrows, with a mysterious smile on his face, "I'm not a saint."

The smile on the corner of Gao Wen's mouth immediately bloomed. Even though Lance didn't give any further explanation, he still believed Lance unconditionally, "Then are we sure we don't want to publicize it? Even if it's not like them, at least let the media Pay attention and come here."

Lance asked back, "How do you know we didn't start the promotion?" Then Lance turned to look at Ian, "Everything is going according to plan, right?"

Ian glanced out the window, picked up his coffee and took a sip, "Don't worry, I've already taken care of it. For the follow-up plan for the next period of time, I have already greeted Percy and Mark, and we will go slowly together. It's advancing. Next month, Theo and I will fight in person." Gawain looked at the two people in front of him in bewilderment, but Ian ignored Gawain and stood up, "I'm leaving."

Lance also looked out the window, and found a tall woman, wearing a red dress with high slits, leaning unrestrainedly on the lamppost of the street lamp, with her shapely and slender legs crossed casually, which attracted her attention. Many passers-by cast their gazes one after another. That head of slightly curly black hair has a wild temperament, like a rose that blooms tenaciously in the desert, unruly and wanton.

This is not Catherine Morris! This is Lola-Glaudini from "NYC"!

"New date?" Lance teased with a chuckle, and Ian shrugged frankly, admitting Lance's speculation.

Ian took two steps and came back again, "By the way, I need your help with Lance's matter next month. It's best if you can pull your teammates to participate, and I'll call you when the time comes." After finishing speaking, Ian En didn't wait for Gao Wen's reaction, and left directly.

"What? What's the matter?" Gawain's yell did not call Ian back, but Ian went straight out, embraced Laura, and then passionately kissed on the street. The flamboyance of handsome men and beautiful women makes people want to whistle.

Gawain rolled his eyes speechlessly, then turned his head to look at Lance eagerly, "What's the matter?"

"For charity." Lance looked at Gao Wen who was eager to try, and explained with a smile, "You are the key link!"

Gao Wen's eyes were full of doubts, what does charity have to do with movie promotion? He had absolutely no way to connect these two things, but looking at the confident Lance in front of him, Gawain could only temporarily suppress his doubts and asked seriously, "If it's a charity event, shouldn't our team have Question, do I need to encourage the coaches and them to come together?"