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As soon as Monday arrived, Spike Lee walked into his North Hollywood studio, which is a small studio with only two offices in total, and like most Hollywood stars and directors' studios, this is a shell bag company, mainly used to avoid taxes and do some personal inconvenient affairs.

"Good morning, Director Lee. ”

A woman with blonde hair respectfully greets Spike Lee.

Spike-Lee nodded to her lightly, walked to the door of his office, suddenly remembered something, and said, "Alice, Jackson is coming soon, he came and brought him directly to my office." ”

The blonde woman knew that this Jackson was the boss's agent and immediately said, "Yes, Director Lee." ”

Spike-Lee thought for a moment, then said, "Get me some of today's paper." ”

"It's ready. "It's not the first day that the blonde woman has been an assistant to Spike Lee," she said, on her desk. ”

"Go ahead. Spike-Lee waved at her.

The studio was an empty shell, with few employees, and the blonde woman was not only an assistant, but also a telephone operator.

Spike Lee walked into the office and sat behind a large desk, a steaming cup of coffee and a few newspapers flipped to the entertainment page on the desk.

He took a long sip of coffee from his cup, then turned his gaze to the entertainment section of the Los Angeles Times.

The headline on the front page of the entertainment edition is a striking image of a man in a red cloak and red trousers, rushing forward with a sword in hand.

Spike Lee frowned slightly, but did not say much, although this person is Leonidas played by Matthew Horner, he has anticipated the current situation since the first day of the box office of "Spartan 300 Warriors" in North America.

With a box office of nearly $40 million on the first day, and no strong competitors, it is strange that it cannot win the box office championship.

He continued to look down, and next to the picture was the news headline - "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" was invincible, and the first week of release broke the record!

"Record-breaking?" Spike Lee pinched his nose, "Is it true that the box office has exceeded 100 million in the first week?"

In the past three days, he has been moving around, running around to make contacts, and has attracted many like-minded people, and the film "Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" is directly related to the next series of plans.

Although the actor annoyed him, he endured watching it.

Last weekend's epic film "The Three Hundred Spartans," which topped the North American box office charts, easily dwarfs the other films in theaters with its account of the famous Battle of Thermopylae in Greek history, just as the mighty Spartan warriors fearlessly resist the invading Persian army. ”

"On the first day of release, "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" surpassed the $37.2 million box office of "The Matrix 2: Reloaded" with a box office of $38.5 million, setting a new single-day box office record for R-rated films! This is also the second best November opening day result in the North American film market after "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" with $40.11 million on the first day of release!"

"However, "The Three Hundred Spartans" is more stable than "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", collecting another $34.6 million and $29.95 million on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, surpassing "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" with a weekend box office of $103.05 million, setting a new November weekend box office record in the North American film market, and also becoming the first R-rated film in history to break the $100 million mark in its first weekend!"

"In the face of the strong performance of "The Three Hundred Spartans," the previous week's box office winner, Clint Eastwood's "Banner of the Fathers," dropped to third place, earning $6.21 million in its second weekend, and this week's runner-up was occupied by Twentieth Century Fox's "Borat" with $26.45 million."

"Not surprisingly, with the release of films starring Matthew Horner, the North American film market has always seen a hot movie-watching boom, and the North American market jumped 75% this week from last week to $154.06 million......"

Seeing this, Spike Lee took the paper, and "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" was even more successful than he expected!

The first R-rated film in history to grossing over 100 million in North America in its first weekend!

When someone thinks of this record in the future, they will naturally think that the starring role of this film is Matthew Horner!

This bastard is going to make a name in film history......

Spike Lee couldn't help but shake his head, and in retrospect, this was the first consecutive movie starring Matthew Horner that sold out at the box office?

Originally, he also thought that the excessively violent, cruel and bloody scenes of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" would become an obstacle to the box office, but these were not a problem.

Then, he saw Matthew Horner's remarks in another newspaper in an interview, answering questions about the film's violence.

"The violence shown in this film is not unpleasant to anyone, because it is not done in an infuriating way. People love the film, and they love creative things. In my opinion, the greatest success of a film is to gain the audience's word-of-mouth, and only when the audience recognizes and actively promotes a film, you will be successful in the true sense. ”

Spike Lee pushes his eyes upward, which makes so much sense that even someone like him, who hates Matthew Horner, wouldn't deny it.

Think about himself, he has been in the independent film industry for more than ten years, and he used to have the Coppola family as a helper, but he didn't get mixed into the first-line position. If he hadn't been a black director, he wouldn't be as famous as he is now if the environment in Hollywood has changed dramatically in the 21st century.

It wasn't until last year's filming of "The Insider" that he really understood a similar truth, and then the success of "The Insider" followed.

The film can be niche, but it can't be obscure and pretending to be deep, literary and artistic for the sake of literature.

Strictly speaking, "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" is also relatively niche, but it relies on Matthew Horner to sell meat and the director's skills to create a popular effect.

Spike Lee closed all the newspapers, picked up his cup, and drank all the coffee that was left in one gulp, and the thought kept wandering in his head: Will "The Three Hundred Spartans" set a North American box office record for R-rated films? "The Passion of the Christ," which is currently the highest-grossing R-rated film, was extremely topical back then.

The next second, Spike Lee laughed, "Spartan 300 Warriors" could not have such a chance, because his plan was about to be implemented, if everything went well, this film must be a high-start and low-going ending.

There was a knock on the office door from the outside, and the blonde assistant pushed it open and said, "Director Lee, Mr. James Jackson called, he's already downstairs." ”

Spike-Lee nodded slightly, "Let him come over." ”

In less than five minutes, a middle-aged white man with glasses walked into Spike Lee's office, and the two briefly said hello and got to the point.

"I just met Naomi Harris, who was introduced by Jada Smith. "James Jackson is also Jada Smith's agent," according to Naomi Harris, Matthew Horner once directly stole her roles in the two sequels of "Pirates of the Caribbean" and replaced them with white actor Eva Green, and then she broke out with Matthew Horner. ”

Spike-Lee pondered and asked, "Will she come forward?"

James Jackson replied, "Naomi Harris agreed to come forward and accuse Matthew Horner of unfairly stealing a role that should have been hers." ”

At this point, he asked with concern, "What about Francis Lawrence and Paula Barton?"

"Rest assured. Spike-Lee smiled, "There's no problem with the two of them. ”

"Our big plans are ready to be launched. James Jackson appeared quite confident, "With the current situation in the circle, it is bound to cause a sensation, and if all goes well, "The Insider" will become a big hit in the awards season." Spike, you'll also have a good chance of winning the Oscar for Best Director. ”

He looked at Spike Lee with admiration, "With this plan, we don't need the Coppola family at all this awards season." ”

Spike-Lee was not blindly optimistic and asked, "What does the producer, Universal Pictures, say?"

James Jackson was disgruntled, "Universal Pictures is too conservative and they won't be directly involved." He added, "Don't worry, they weren't involved, and the global executives I contacted acquiesced to our plan." ”

"That's fine. Spike-Lee nodded slightly.

"As long as it's going well on our side. James Jackson then said, "When everyone on Matthew Horner's side is shouting, Universal Pictures will see that it is profitable, and they will be involved without our proposal." ”

Spike-Lee feels that what the agent said is very reasonable, the current situation in Hollywood, black people cannot be violated, racial discrimination is an absolute red line, once someone touches it, it will inevitably become a rat running on the street.

With just three weeks to go until the awards season, it is clearly impossible to regain Sofia Coppola, and he and The Insider will have to find other paths if they want to get enough of the awards season.

Hollywood-style political correctness is undoubtedly the best weapon.

That day, he saw the trailer of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" and saw Matthew Horner angrily killing black characters, and he had a similar idea, after watching the premiere, the idea gradually turned into a plan, and the agent agreed to his plan, after all, the current situation in Hollywood is here, what is the difference between not taking advantage of it and being a fool?

He will be the first to stand up and accuse Matthew Horner and "The Three Hundred Spartan Warriors" of racial discrimination, and then follow up with allies, and the media will also contact a lot, and then stir up the topic and push Matthew Horner to the opposite side of Hollywood's political correctness.

And he will stand on the side of justice.