Chapter 472: Layout
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" will be released next month, as the heroine of the film April O'Neal plays, although it is just a vase, Nicole Kidman deliberately took a week off from the set of "Midnight Bells" in Melbourne, Australia, to rush back to Los Angeles when she was approaching the Oscars.
The Oscars of this era generally have more than 40 million viewers, and the TV network is second only in popularity after the annual Super Bowl final.
This year, there are two major films created by Daenerys Entertainment, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" and "Midnight Bell", whether it is for the needs of maintaining personal fame or film promotion, the Oscars are a must.
Of course, Nicole Kidman is also willing to do this kind of rush.
Too many men and women who have been in Hollywood have climbed all their lives and may not be able to sit in the halls of the Oscars.
While returning to Los Angeles on March 25 to prepare for the Oscars, MA also arranged a series of other work schedules for her.
Daenerys Studios.
It's Friday, March 27th.
After an audition at MGM headquarters in Century City in the morning, and after lunch, Nicole Kidman hurried to Daenerys Studios in Malibu.
The image design of Poison Ivy Girl had been decided a few days ago, and Simon wanted to see how her character would look after applying makeup herself.
After the total box office in North America exceeded the $200 million mark at the end of January, "The Flash" has reached $251 million as of yesterday after its release in the last two months, and the film's single-week box office from March 20 to March 26 has also slipped to $1.78 million, and it is expected that it will basically drop around Easter next month, and the total domestic box office is expected to be around $255 million.
Overseas, the box office performance of "The Flash" is even better, and the box office of the box office that has been released has reached $363 million in more than three months. As overseas releases continued, it was only a matter of time before The Flash surpassed $400 million overseas.
With a total global box office of more than $650 million, even if it can't compare with the two "Batman" films, such box office results are enough to make other Hollywood studios envious.
The DC Cinematic Universe has been a hit with three consecutive films, and the follow-up project plans are naturally further valued by the two companies.
According to the information recently gathered by the media, Daenerys and Warner Bros. will officially announce the main creators of the DC Cinematic Universe's "Superman" and "Cyborg" in the near future. "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" has already been gossiped too much.
Nicole Kidman herself is aware of some unknown news.
For example, her poison ivy female role is actually signed with a three-part film contract.
In addition to the villain in "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", she will also join the follow-up "Suicide Squad" series.
A guy once talked about this character, saying that if Poison Ivy is brilliant enough, she may be as popular as Catwoman in the future.
Looking at Valerie Golino's Hollywood scene in the last two years, if Poison Ivy can really do this, Nicole believes that at least throughout the nineties, she will be able to maintain her status as a first-line actress.
Thinking about a few years ago, she obviously had a good starting point like "Vulgar", but because of some self-righteous calculations in her heart, she almost missed her most solid backing in Hollywood.
Fortunately, it's never too late to react.
It's just that every time she thinks of the experience of the guy at the premiere of "Batman: Time to War" that made her drink two bottles of water in a row and rush to the hall to endure for more than an hour, she will have an indescribable strange emotion in her heart.
The DC Cinematic Universe team has a dedicated office area in Office LOFT 3 on the second floor of Daenerys Studios.
Poison Ivy's makeup took nearly 4 hours, and it was almost time to get off work after finishing her makeup, but Simon still didn't show up, but took a set of makeup photos and a video in the studio.
So it wasn't until six o'clock in the afternoon that Simon and Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel showed up together.
It's not just Nicole who has been busy with Poison Ivy all afternoon, Simon and Semel are attending the discussion meeting of the DC Cinematic Universe team all day today, mainly to sort out and finalize the plot framework of the follow-up projects of the DC Cinematic Universe again.
In the previous three films, the intersection of the DC Cinematic Universe basically still exists in easter eggs.
However, starting from "Wonder Woman" this summer, the entire DC Cinematic Universe will officially start fusion, and according to the story plan, this fusion will use the three mother boxes as a series clue.
The first "Wonder Woman", the story still takes place in the First World War, but the plot is very different from the Gal Gadot version in Simon's memory.
British Air Force pilot Steve Trevor accidentally crashed into Paradise Island, shattering the tranquility of the Amazons who had been hiding for centuries.
Knowing that there is a war going on in the human world beyond Paradise Island, and discovering that Steve Trevor accidentally gathered information similar to the mother box that caused wars among the Amazons in history, Queen Hippolyta decided to send her daughters Diana Prince and Steve Trevor out of Paradise Island, and Diana finally defeated the god of war Ares, who tried to use the power of the mother box to destroy humanity on its own, and brought the first mother box back to Paradise Island.
Subsequently, the recovery of all three of the legendary mother boxes will be Diana Prince's ultimate mission.
In the summer of 1993, "Superman" will have a second mother box.
Clark Kent's biological parents use the energy of the Mother Box to send their newborn son away from the dying planet Krypton.
In the plot setting, after a big battle between the adult Clark Kent and the tracked General Zod, the mother box fell into the hands of humans.
Therefore, the plot of "Steel Bone" was set for the end of 1993.
Rugby player Victor Stone's father, Silas Stone, happens to be part of the mother box research team, Victor was seriously injured and near death in a car accident, and Silas Stone used the energy of the mother box to turn Victor into a half-human, half-mechanical cyborg in order to save his son.
Because he didn't understand the role of the mother box, in the process of being rescued, Stone also accidentally created the villain 'Grid' of the "Cyborg" series.
The story ends with Cyborg, who accepts his identity, defeats the grid, but the mother box is accidentally stolen and falls into the hands of Lex Luthor, who has been following Superman's events, and this mother box has also become an important clue in "Batman v Superman".
At the same time, the loss of the mother box triggered the federal government to secretly form a "suicide squad".
In the summer of 1994, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", the third mother box appeared, and the clown who was blessed by the ability of the mother box tried to destroy the world, and the conspiracy was destroyed by Batman, and Diana Prince, who had a personal mission to recover all three mother boxes, also appeared in this film, but did not reveal her true identity, but finally quietly took away the second mother box.
The "Suicide Squad" triggered by the loss of Superman's mother box was confirmed to be at the end of 1994, and the result of the story was that the "Suicide Squad" was initially formed, but the mother box brought by Superman from his own planet was still not recovered.
Subsequently, "Batman v Superman", the schedule is 1995.
Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman work together to fight against Lex Luthor, who uses the mother box to transform into an alien alien.
The setting of the alien xenomorph is actually similar to Doom Day.
It's just that the 'Death of Superman' event has not yet happened, and Doom Day has not been born, and DC Comics will launch this big event at the end of this year.
In the setting, Lex Luthor wants to use the mother box technology and Kryptonian genes to transform himself into a cyborg more powerful than the steel bones, but instead turns out to be a monster similar to Doom Day.
At the same time, Wonder Woman retrieves the last mother box in the story finale of "Batman v Superman", and all three mother boxes are stored on the Amazon's paradise island.
In the summer of 1996, "Justice League".
Steppenwolf invades and takes the three mother boxes guarded by the Amazons.
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Catwoman and other superheroes officially assembled to form the Justice League to fight the Steppenwolf army.
Simon and Semel watched Nicole's Poison Ivy real makeup and camera effects together, and Semel quickly took his leave and left.
After four hours of makeup, it is not easy to remove the makeup from your body.
A powder room in Daenerys' special effects office area.
After confirming the effect, the makeup artist began to help Nicole wipe off the paint on her body, because the paint is specially made, the effect of directly flushing with water is not good, and most of it needs to be wiped off with the configured detergent first.
Simon didn't leave directly, sat next to him and watched the makeup artist help Nicole remove her makeup, and asked about the filming of "Midnight Bell" by the way.
Due to the distance, Australia will only send samples back to Los Angeles every week, and Simon doesn't know much about the specific situation of the crew.
"You know, I worked with Philip once when I was on Horizon Crossing, he's a very serious director, and he knows exactly what this film needs to do when Midnight Ringtones, and I'm going back to Melbourne next week and I'll have two weeks at the most. Nicole tilted her neck slightly to let the makeup artist wipe the paint on her neck, squinted at the man next to her, and said, "Simon, do you know the "Body Heat Edge" that I auditioned for at MGM in the morning?"
Simon nodded and said, "I know, Alan Sorkin's new script, or I asked MGM to contact you, the heroine is very suitable for you." ”
Alan Sorkin is the screenwriter of last year's blockbuster "Few Good People", Daenerys and MGM collaborated on this project, although the production budget finally reached $40 million because of the starring roles of Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and Demi Moore, but only North America got $117 million, and the global box office has exceeded $200 million so far, which is a big profit overall.
Alan Sorkin also entered the ranks of Hollywood's gold medal screenwriters, and the new script "The Edge of Body Heat" once again cooperated with MGM, but this time, there was no participation of Daenerys Entertainment, but MGM sole proprietorship.
When Nicole heard Simon say that he arranged it personally, she was a little surprised and surprised, and then reacted and said, "This project doesn't seem to be a film between Daenerys and MGM?"
Without Daenerys Entertainment's involvement, the film's box office prospects seem less secure.
Simon just smiled and said, "Yes, but the script is still good, and besides, you must know MGM's current situation, whether it's the same for cooperation or sole proprietorship." ”
In the memory of "Body Heat Edge", the heroine is Nicole Kidman.
Simon doesn't quite remember the box office figures for this film, but he can vaguely confirm that the market is not doing badly.
Moreover, compared to "Few Good People", "The Edge of Body Heat" only needs a budget of $20 million, and even if it really fails, MGM can afford it.
After shelving the 007 series, MGM's plan for the next few years is to carefully produce a batch of low-cost commercial films, and Simon will also appropriately stuff a few 'dark horses' into it. At the same time, MGM will also try to act as an agent for distribution, and get projects from second- and third-tier Hollywood studios purely for agency distribution.
Simon's ultimate goal is to slowly restore the vitality of the major studio, which had endured the turmoil and decline of the '80s.
Two or three years later, when the first phase of the goal is reached, Simon will make the next step for the company.
When Nicole heard Simon say this, her eyes flashed slightly, and she made up her mind.
She already has the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Midnight Bells, and Poison Ivy characters under her name, and even if "Body Heat Edge" fails, it won't affect her much.
What's more, this was arranged by Westeros himself.
She had promised to be 'obedient', and although she didn't know if he remembered it, she didn't dare to go against his will.
Following the makeup artist's change of position again, Yu Guang noticed the man's movement of raising his wrist to look at his watch, Nicole thought for a moment and asked, "You, do you want to eat together later?"
Simon shook his head and said with a smile: "There are already arrangements, ICM Marvin Josephson's cocktail party, do you want to come along?"
Nicole hesitated, then nodded quickly.
Although she is an artist under MA, it is certainly not appropriate to go to the cocktail party of the ICM founder's house, but with Westeros, it will definitely be fine.
The two female makeup artists who gathered around Nicole to help her wipe the paint on her body were a little envious when they heard this. Just now, he also threw some hints at the big boss next to him, but the other party didn't give any response.
As for the chat between the big boss and Nicole Kidman just now, they must have pretended not to have heard it.
First of all, there is no important gossip, "Midnight Bell", "Body Heat Edge" and the like, have nothing to do with their little makeup artists, as for the big boss taking Nicole Kidman to the drinking party, there is no picture and no truth, it is definitely not much gossip.
Secondly, if it leaks out, they will definitely not want to continue working at Daenerys Entertainment.
25-year-old Nicole is at the peak of her appearance.
Janet isn't in Los Angeles, and Simon has no other plans for tonight, so he certainly wouldn't mind tasting the Aussie beauty again tonight.
Since Nicole agreed, Simon patiently continued to wait for her to finish removing her makeup, and the two left Daenerys Studios together in the night.
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