Chapter 931

"Miss Vicky, I watched mummy at the weekend. You are so amazing in the film. Could you sign for me?"

"Oh, no problem."

"And mine, Miss Vicky."

"Of course."

"Do you mind if we take a picture together?"

"Well, let's get together."

Boston.

On the set of "mind catcher" in Cambridge City, Rachel Vichy, who came to visit the studio, was recognized as soon as she appeared. She was surrounded by a group of temporary leisure workers and took a group photo. Finally, she took her assistant to a rest area beside a trailer and sat down.

After unscrewing the lid and sipping the mineral water from the staff, Rachael looked at the shooting not far away, and her heart was still pounding.

That's what it's like to be famous.

Today is Tuesday, May 21.

"Mummy" was released on Friday, with a three-day box office revenue of $41.46 million over the first weekend, more than doubling the number two of "Romeo and Juliet" in the same period, making it the biggest hit in the summer program so far.

With her amazing appearance in the film, the fledgling Rachel Vichy has become famous at one stroke. Even if the film dealers heard that she had decided to play in James Cameron's Titanic, they still received a lot of new scripts in recent days, and the other side said that she could match her schedule.

Coupled with the sudden increase of praise and compliments around her, even though she was mature enough, she could not help feeling a little complacent.

After waiting for four or five minutes, the shooting in the open-air cafe area is finally over. Kate Beckinsale beckons to her and Rachel gets up with a smile.

They hugged each other intimately. Kate let go and asked, "Rachel, don't you mean to have dinner together in the evening?"

"After recording the program here, I changed my itinerary temporarily and will fly to Vancouver in the afternoon."

Kate and Rachel sat down again and said with a smile, "I understand. You're a big star now."

With that said, two smart girls in white shirt and black trousers appeared, one handed Kate a folder, the other a cup with unknown green drinks.

Kate took a few sips from the glass, opened the folder on her lap, and noticed that Rachel looked at the two girls curiously, waved at them, waited for them to walk away, and then said, "do you envy them?"

Rachel immediately denied: "what is there to admire?"

"At the beginning, I advised you to join us. Since he had slept with us, why didn't he get the treatment of those vases? I asked for it on my own initiative, and it was delivered. You don't know, they may have done it, and they are very good. Anyway, my life is very comfortable now. "

"And then, you're admitting that you're a lover of Westeros," Rachel said

"It's an honor to be Simon westero's lover now. I don't know how many little bichi envy me," Kate said, gesturing not far away. "There's one over there. She's been on the set these days. Hum, all the movies have started. Does she think she can get the role from me?"

Rachel follows Kate's line of sight, just as a tall girl standing next to the hero Matt Damon also glances to this side, and they both look away from each other.

I know each other.

Matt Damon's current girlfriend, Minnie deriver, was hoping to win the role of the heroine in the heart catcher for his girlfriend. Unfortunately, Kate Beckinsale, who happened to see the script, easily intercepted him. Minnie deriver is also the second generation of Hollywood stars. Her stepmother is the famous Barbara Streisand.

If it's other actresses, the recommendation of the man and screenwriter, plus the other's family background, it's sure that they won't be able to compete.

It's a pity I met Kate.

This is the project of danilisi entertainment. Kate's appearance and acting skills are better than each other. In addition, the most important thing is the identity of her boss and lover. Tut, is that better?

Thinking about this, Rachel suddenly felt a little lost, but asked, "Kate, have you thought about it later?"

"Of course," Kate said, "I'm 23 now, and in two years, 25, I'll be in Hollywood, and I'll be free when I get rid of the waitresses. Hey, now some media always say that Simon is like Howard Hughes. I think he is more atmospheric than Hughes. This is the best lover template. "

"What do I think you're taking advantage of him?"

"How can I, I paid my best youth time, he just gave me some convenience in my career, I also suffered a loss."

“……”

"Well, Rachel, I have one shot left in the morning. I'll wait another 15 minutes. Since you're leaving this afternoon, I'll ask them to book a table. There's a great French restaurant nearby. We'll have lunch later. "

"Don't bother. There should be a working meal here."

"If you can make yourself better, why don't you?" Kate was so angry that they asked not far away. Then she put the green drink glass that Rachel had been aiming at into her hand: "try it, strange juice."Rachel took it and tasted it.

It was much better than that bottle of mineral water just now, so I took a few more mouthfuls.

All right.

Kate looked down at the camera materials she was waiting to shoot, and said, "Hey, when does the filming of Titanic start?"

"Next month, if there's no accident."

"Last year, it was almost the same as the mummy movies. Now mummy is on. Rachel, according to the law of Hollywood, the longer a project is delayed, the more likely it is to fail. Moreover, you must have inquired that James Cameron's projects are very frustrating. If I were you, I would drop this film and choose another one. "

I don't know why Rachael's sense of flutter when she just arrived is getting lighter and lighter, and her tone is still a little grumpy: "I'm not you. I can choose others if I want to. If I push this project, I may not have a job."

"Delicious tone, with the popularity of mummy, how can you not find other characters?"

Rachel felt Kate's teasing and said, "I mean, it's Simon's decision. If I push, he might be angry."

"No

"Well?"

"Simon will definitely find another woman: Hey, girl, do you want to be famous? Go to bed with me."

“……”

Kate glanced at her. "You don't want to complain, do you? I speak ill of him behind his back?"

"I'm not so bored."

"I want you to complain."

Rachel looked suspicious.

In the end, Kate's expression flashed some slight loss: "in this way, he can not only notice you, but also probably think of me. The last time I saw him was at a party at the end of last year. Even this role, I know that he said hello, but also did not communicate. And, can you imagine, until now, I've only slept with him once. "

Rachel's eyes widened slightly.

Because of their original experience, they are friends, but they have been busy with their own work, so they don't meet much. Seeing that she is accompanied by Wei's maid, they think that she and he often meet.

"You mean, at the beginning, when we were together?"

"Yes."

"Do you want to have sex with him?" Rachel asked with a strange look

Kate white her one eye, pause, just always met a way: "in fact, I also have some guilty."

Rachel stares at her best friend for a while. She realizes it and suddenly cracks her mouth. If it's not for Kate's stabbing, she almost laughs.

……

In New York, which is also on the east coast, Jeter Lee, who has just finished recording the late night show of David Letterman, also feels guilty.

Of course, the nature is totally different.

Jeter Lee is worried about the box office of "black man" in North America.

If it was Asia, he would not have such concerns, but here it is the United States. What's more, New World Pictures has invested $3 million in the publicity and distribution of "black man", and has prepared 1276 open screen paintings, which is still a summer program. It seems that other Hong Kong films are out of reach, but in fact, it means that once they are screwed up, they will basically never get another chance in Hollywood.

Despite Jack Cheng's popularity, he has been trying in Hollywood since the 1970s, and the success of rush hour is obviously accidental.

After the recording of the program, a group of oriental men and women left ABC headquarters in the upper west side. Jack Cheng, who also participated in the talk show shooting, took the lead to leave on the pretext of other things. Jett Lee and others enthusiastically took each other to the car. In fact, they also know that Jack Cheng is quite righteous to be able to do this. After all, although Chinese people have to communicate with each other outside Help, but there are really few that can be done.

It's good not to dig each other.

Seeing Jack Cheng off, others get into two business cars and wait for the car to start. Sitting next to Jeter Lee, a middle-aged man with a Chinese face says in puzzling Cantonese, "about crouching tiger, hidden dragon, Mr. Friedman has personally contacted Mr. westrow. Unfortunately, Jeter, this project has already set up other male protagonists. Maybe you know him, surnamed Zhou He is very famous in Asia. He has participated in Mr. Wu's the hero. "

The middle-aged man who spoke was a wma agent named Jeremy Zhao, who was born in Guangdong, but was a second-generation immigrant.

Because of her close relationship with danielis entertainment, and aware of Simon's attention to the black man, wma decisively signed Jeter Lee's agent in Hollywood, and specially assigned a Chinese agent for the other party.

"Thank you for your help, Zhao."

Said Jeter Lee, with a look of regret.

If we can take the role of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ahead of time, we will have another chance. Of course, he knows who the agent is talking about. Since it's Simon westero who made the decision himself, it's futile for him to fight for it unless the other side gives up.However, now the whole Hong Kong film industry is on the verge of collapse, and filmmakers on the other side of the ocean are looking for other ways out. As long as Fage is not crazy, it is impossible to refuse Simon westero's olive branch.

Jeremy Zhao didn't say much. Instead, he said, "well, there's another good news. Tonight, there's a party in Greenwich. Danelis entertainment will arrange for you to attend. At that time, they will record some videos to help you recommend this movie and put them on YouTube. Ang Lee will also attend. And Quentin, you may not have seen his Romeo stained with blood, but He is a fan of Chinese kung fu movies and has seen a lot of your movies. "

Jeter Lee nodded and said, "I'll try to cooperate."

……

With a total investment of $5 million to launch a Hong Kong film, which is still a popular summer film, it is definitely a big adventure in Hollywood. If it wasn't for the multiple internal auditions of "black man", the specially selected western audiences gave very positive feedback, plus the information in their memory, Simon would not agree with this plan.

However, even so, the $2 million purchase of copyright and the $3 million publicity are still very small projects in Hollywood.

Therefore, mainstream propaganda means such as newspaper and TV advertisement are basically not used.

It's better to take the sword to the side.

It's a small sword to pull Jack Cheng to support jet Lee.

In addition to the appearance of David Letterman's late night show that night, the next day, the YouTube website also focused on promoting the recommended videos of Ang Lee, Quentin and other directors on jet Lee's black man and the trailer of jet Lee's black man. In addition, with the permission of the copyright owner, Denise entertainment also edited some clips of jet Lee's previous films and put them on the YouTube website .

With the continuous spread of publicity, even if the new world film team is still not sure about the market performance of "black man", the film's exposure rate is at least enough to support 1276 screens. The next step is to see whether the audience will buy it.

More and more people pay attention to "black man", the second week of the summer file in 1996 also announced the end.

May 17 to May 23.

In seven days, mummy's box office in the first week of the painting finally reached 63.54 million US dollars, easily winning the top of the box office list in a single week. In the first week of the show, Daniels and fox immediately announced that the sequel was on the agenda.

Then, the second week's Romeo and Juliet achieved a counter attack on Arnold Schwarzenegger's super blockbuster movie the order of evaporation, with a box office revenue of $25.45 million the next week.

Romeo and Juliet grossed $56.91 million in the first two weeks.

New World Pictures has recovered all the production and publicity costs of US $30 million in two weeks and started to make profits. Moreover, because the box office drop next week is only 19%, the film's subsequent box office potential is very good.

In sharp contrast to Romeo and Juliet, there is no doubt that the order of evaporation.

In the second week of the same release, the box office of "evaporation secret order", which had an unsatisfactory start, fell by 51% and only received $17.79 million under the impact of "Mummy", which is also a blockbuster. The cumulative box office in two weeks is 54.21 million US dollars, which seems to be quite a lot, but with the box office trend of evaporation secret order at this time, the local box office will only be about 80 million US dollars in the end.

Warner Bros. has invested a total of US $130 million in this project, including 80 million in China. It can't even recover half of the production cost of US $100 million. Because the proportion of overseas accounts is very low, even if the overseas box office is doubled compared with the local box office, Warner is still unable to escape losses in the stage of cinema distribution.

The box office of the first week of the final "ace spy" was $15.94 million.

It's not a complete failure.

However, the production cost of 40 million US dollars, only 15 million US dollars in the first week, is equivalent to a direct exit from the summer competition.

May 24.

The summer program opens in the third week.

Because the schedule is between "Mummy" and "mission impossible 2", the two major new films this week are not big.

One is Leslie Nelson's comedy "the ultimate laughing detective", produced by Sony. The production cost is 18 million US dollars, and the number of screens is 22.86 million, which is still the routine of "white headed detective".

The other is "black man", which appears in many people's eyes unconsciously during this period of time.

This Hong Kong film from the other side of the ocean has 1276 screens, which seems not much, but it's really the result of Denise Entertainment's own influence. Otherwise, the most popular summer program in North America is not willing to give a Hong Kong film. After all, there is only one jack Cheng in the North American market, which is still recognized by the audience.

Jack Cheng's rush hour is still the standard Hollywood routine.

As for the black man, if you don't pay attention to the release of such a movie with no major actors, it may be a very bleak drift.