Miss Vichy, I watched The Mummy over the weekend, and you're so amazing in the film, can you sign me?"

"Oh, no problem. ”

"And mine, Miss Vichy. ”

"Of course. ”

"Mind if we take another picture?"

"So, let's do it together. ”

Boston.

On the set of "Soul Catcher" in Cambridge City, Rachel Weisz, who came to visit the class, was recognized as soon as she appeared, and was surrounded by a group of staff members who were temporarily idle for an autograph, and Rachel finally took his assistant to a rest area next to a trailer and sat down.

Unscrewing the lid and taking a small sip of the mineral water sent by the staff, Rachel looked at the ongoing shooting not far away, and his heart was still a little thumping.

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

Today is Tuesday, May 21st.

"The Mummy" was released last Friday, and the box office in the first three days of the weekend was 41.46 million US dollars, opening the gap of more than double the second place "Romeo and Juliet" in the same period, becoming the biggest hit in the summer file so far.

With her stunning appearance in the film, the fledgling Rachel Weisz also became famous in one fell swoop, even if some studios heard that she had confirmed her participation in James Cameron's "Titanic", they still received a bunch of new scripts in recent days, and the other party said that they could cooperate with her schedule.

Coupled with the sudden increase in praise and compliments around him, Rachel inevitably felt a little drifting, even though he realized that his mind was mature enough.

After waiting for four or five minutes, the filming in the open-air café area not far away finally ended, and Kate Beckinsale waved over to her, and Rachel got up with a smile.

The two hugged affectionately, and Kate let go and asked, "Rachel, didn't you say we would have dinner together in the evening?"

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

Kate and Rachel sat down again and said with a smile, "Understand, you're a big star now." ”

With that, two sleek girls in white shirts and black trousers appeared, one handing Kate a folder and the other handing a cup with an unknown green drink.

Kate took the cup and took a few sips, put the folder on her lap and opened it, noticing that Rachel was curious to look at the two women beside her, waved her hand at them, and waited for the other party to walk away before saying, "Envy, right?"

Rachel immediately denied: "What is there to envy?"

"I persuaded you at the beginning, since he slept with us, why didn't he have the treatment of those vases, I took the initiative to ask for it, and sure enough, I sent it. You don't know, they may have done it, and they are very good, but anyway, I am very comfortable now. ”

Rachel struck, "And then, you're openly admitting that you're Westeros' lover." ”

"It's an honor to be Simon Westeros'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, the movie has started, does she think she can still grab a role from me?"

Rachel followed Kate's line of sight, and it happened that a tall girl standing next to the male protagonist Matt Damon also glanced at this side, and the two looked at each other, and then avoided each other.

Actually, know each other.

Matt Damon's current girlfriend is named Minnie Drifer, who was very hopeful to win the role of the heroine of "Soul Catcher" for his girlfriend, but unfortunately Kate Beckinsale, who happened to see the script, easily cut off his beard. Minnie Driver is actually a second-generation Hollywood star, and her stepmother is the famous Barbra Streisand.

If it is another actress, the strong recommendation of the male protagonist and screenwriter, coupled with the other party's family background, will definitely not be able to grab it.

It's a pity to meet Kate.

This is a project of Daenerys Entertainment, Kate's appearance and acting skills are only better than the other party, plus the most critical identity of her own big boss lover, tsk, is it better?

Thinking of this, Rachel suddenly felt a little inexplicably lost, and still asked, "Kate, have you thought about it later?"

"Of course," Kate said, "I'm 23 years old now, and in two years, 25 years old, I'll also have a foothold in Hollywood, and when the time comes, send that pair of maids and maids away, and I'll be free." Hey, now some media always say that Simon is like Howard Hughes back then, I think he is much more atmospheric than Hughes, and this is the best lover template. ”

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

"How come, I gave my best youth, he just gave me some convenience in my career, and I suffered a loss. ”

“......”

"Alright, Rachel, I've got one shot left in the morning, wait another 15 minutes. Since you're leaving in the afternoon, I'll ask Morgan and the others to reserve a table at a nearby restaurant and have lunch together. ”

"Don't bother, there should be a working meal here. ”

"Why don't you make yourself better," Kate looked very angry, beckoned a few words from the two not far away, and shoved the cup of green drink that Rachel had been aiming at into her hand: "Taste, kiwi juice." ”

Rachel took it and took a bite.

It's really much better than the bottle of mineral water just now.

All right.

Kate looked down at the footage materials that were about to be filmed, and asked, "Hey, when will the filming of "Titanic" start?"

"If nothing else, next month. ”

"Last year, it was almost the same as the "Mummy" films, and now "The Mummy" has been released. Rachel, according to the laws of Hollywood, the longer a project drags on, the easier it is to fail, and, you must have inquired, James Cameron's projects are very frustrating, if I were you, I would push this project down and pick something else. ”

The fluttering feeling when Rachel first arrived became weaker and weaker for some reason, and his tone was still a little resentful: "I'm not you, you can choose other things wherever you want, if you push off this project, you may not have a job." ”

"Tsk, a delicious tone, with the current popularity of "The Mummy", how could you not find other characters. ”

Rachel felt Kate's teasing and his face was a little unbearable: "I mean, this is Simon's own decision, if I push, he will definitely be angry." ”

"No, it won't. ”

"Huh?"

"Simon will definitely find another woman, hey, girl, do you want to be famous, to sleep with me. ”

“......”

Kate glanced at her: "You don't think about sueing, do you, I speak ill of him behind my back?"

"I'm not that bored. ”

"I want you to sue. ”

Rachel looked suspicious.

Kate's expression still flashed with a slight sense of 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 character, I know it was he who said hello, but there was no communication. And, can you imagine, until now, I've only slept with him once. ”

Rachel's eyes widened slightly.

Because of their original experience, the two are also friends, but they have been busy with their respective work and have not met much, and seeing her with the maid of the Wei family by her side, I thought she often met with him.

"You mean, that time, we did?"

"yes. ”

Rachel's expression was a little strange, and he asked in a strange way, "You, want to sleep with him?"

Kate glanced at her, paused, and said, "Actually, I'm also a little weak-hearted." ”

Rachel stared at his friend next to him for a moment, realized it, and suddenly cracked his mouth, and if it weren't for being poked by a embarrassed Kate in the ribs, he would have almost laughed out loud.

......

In New York, which is also on the East Coast, Jett Lee, who has just finished "The Late Show with David Letterman", is also a little weak-hearted.

Of course, the nature is completely different.

Jett Lee is worried about the box office of "Black Man" in North America.

If it were Asia, of course, he would not have such concerns, but here it is the United States. Moreover, New World Pictures actually invested $3 million in publicity and distribution for "Black Man", and prepared 1,276 opening screens, which is still a summer file. All of this actually means that once he messes up, he basically doesn't want to get other opportunities in Hollywood in the future.

After all, don't look at Jack Cheng's current scenery, he has been trying in Hollywood since the 70s, and the success of "Rush Hour" actually has an obvious element of chance.

A group of men and women, who are mostly East faces, left the ABC headquarters on the Upper West Side together, and Jack Cheng, who participated in the talk show filming together, took the lead in saying goodbye and leaving with other things, Jett Lee and the others enthusiastically sent each other to the car, in fact, they also understood that Jack Cheng was quite righteous enough to be able to do this, after all, although Chinese people want to help each other outside, there are really few people who can really do it.

It's good if you don't dig holes with each other.

Sending off Jack Cheng, the others got into the two business cars, waited for the car to start, and then said in jerky Cantonese next to a middle-aged man with a Chinese face next to Jet Lee: "About "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Mr. Friedman personally contacted Mr. Westeros, unfortunately, Jet, this project has already decided on other actors, you may also know, surnamed Zhou, he is also very famous in Asia, and participated in Mr. Wu's "True Colors of Heroes". ”

The middle-aged man who spoke was an agent under WMA, named Jeremy Zhao, whose ancestral home was Guangdong, but he was already a second-generation immigrant.

With the close relationship between WMA and Daenerys Entertainment, sensing Simon's always love for "Black Man", the other party decisively signed Jett Lee's agency in Hollywood, and also specially matched the other party with a Chinese agent.

Jett Lee heard this, with a regretful expression on his face, if he could win the role of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in advance, it would be equivalent to one more chance. Of course, he knew who the agent was talking about, and since Simon Westeros personally decided it, it was in vain that he wanted to fight for it, unless the other party took the initiative to give up.

It's just that now Hong Kong films as a whole are collapsing, and filmmakers on the other side of the ocean are looking for other ways out, as long as Fa Ge is not crazy, he will not refuse the olive branch thrown by Simon Westeros himself.

"Thank you for your help, Zhao. ”

Jeremy Zhao didn't have much, and said: "Actually, there is good news, there is a party in Greenwich tonight, Daenerys Entertainment arranged for you to participate, and when the time comes, they will record a few videos to help you recommend this movie on YouTube, and Ang Lee will also be in attendance, and Quentin, you may not have seen his "Bloody Romeo", however, he is a fan of kung fu movies and has seen many of your movies." ”

Jett Lee nodded, "I'll try to cooperate." ”

......

A total of $5 million was invested to launch a Hong Kong film, which is definitely a big deal, and if it weren't for the very positive feedback from the Western audience specially selected for the multiple internal test screenings of "Black Man", coupled with the information in memory, Simon himself would not have agreed to this plan.

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

Therefore, mainstream publicity methods such as newspapers and television advertisements can only be used in small quantities.

Or the sword still has to go sideways.

Pulling Jack Cheng over to cheer for Jet Lee is a little sword that goes off the rails.

Moreover, in addition to the appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" that night, the next day, the YouTube website also focused on promoting the recommended video of Jett Lee's "Black Man" by several directors such as Ang Lee and Quentin and the trailer of "Black Man".

With the continuous development of publicity, even though the New World Pictures team is still uncertain about the specific market performance of "Black Man", the exposure rate of this film has only reached the level of enough to support 1296 screens.

As more and more people pay attention to "Black Man", the second week of the summer file of 1996 also came to an end.

May 17 to May 23.

In seven days, the final box office of "The Mummy" in the first week of painting reached $63.54 million, easily landing in the first place on the single-week box office list. With the excellent results of the first week, Daenerys and Fox were the first to announce the news that the sequel was on the agenda.

Subsequently, "Romeo and Juliet", which was released in the second week, achieved a counterattack against Arnold Schwarzenegger's super blockbuster "Evaporation Order", grossing $25.45 million the next week.

Within two weeks of filming, Romeo and Juliet had a cumulative box office of $56.91 million.

New World Pictures has recouped all $30 million in production and distribution costs in two weeks, and is starting to turn a profit. Moreover, because the box office fell by only 19% in the next week, the film's subsequent box office potential can be described as very good.

In stark contrast to Romeo and Juliet, it is undoubtedly the Order of Evaporation.

In the second week of its release, the box office of "Evaporation Secret", which was already unsatisfactory at the beginning, fell sharply by 51% under the impact of "The Mummy", and the box office was only $17.79 million in the second week, with a total of $54.21 million in two weeks, which seems to be a lot, but with the box office trend of the film at this time, the final local box office will only be around $80 million.

Warner Bros. has invested a total of $130 million, 80 million locally, and can't even recover half of the $100 million production cost. Because the proportion of overseas account sharing is very low, even if the overseas box office doubles compared with the mainland, Warner still cannot escape losses in the theatrical distribution stage.

The last "Ace Spy" finally grossed $15.94 million in the first week of filming.

Not a complete failure.

But it is also equivalent to directly withdrawing from the competition in the summer file.

May 24th.

In the third week of the summer season, because it is between "The Mummy" and "Mission Impossible 2", only two new films on a large scale will be released this week.

One is Leslie Nelson's comedy "The Ultimate Laughing Detective", produced by Sony, with a production cost of $18 million and 22.86 million screens, which is still the routine of "Bald Detective".

The other is "Black Man", which unconsciously appeared in many people's field of vision during this time.

This Hong Kong film from across the ocean, with 1,296 screens, does not seem to be much, but it is actually a screen that Daenerys Entertainment has won from the theater chain with its own influence.

Otherwise, in the popular summer file, major theaters in North America are not very willing to give a Hong Kong film, after all, after so many years, only Jack Cheng is still recognized by North American audiences.

If you don't pay attention to releasing such a movie, you may actually be directly lost.