Perhaps seeing her strange eyes, Nolan smiled embarrassedly, feeling as if he had ruined his image, so he changed the subject with a dry cough.

This time, director Jackson remade "King Kong", and it is said that more than 200 million US dollars were invested. ”

"Yes, there will be more special effects needed, and there is no way to spend more money. Leila remembered that in her previous life, this work collected about 550 million at the box office worldwide, which can be regarded as capital preservation, but not a successful work. At least compared to the "Lord of the Rings" he created, it is not a grade at all.

Some people also asked if they underestimated the movie, but the final box office was there, and it would be boring to just pull something else.

Nolan shook his head: "It's not so easy to catch up with the Christmas schedule, the only good thing is that the films in the same period are not competitive at the box office." ”

Leila nodded. Whether it is "Munich Tragedy" or "Brokeback Mountain", although they are the works of well-known directors, it is certainly impossible to bring much pressure to "King Kong" at the box office. In addition to the films of these two great directors, it is not clear which of the other movies has the strength to compete with "King Kong" for the time being.

"It's still a matter of publicity. I don't think they did a good job in the early stage of publicity, except for those of us who follow the film industry and fans who like to watch movies, how many people know that there is such a movie to be released?"

She has always attached great importance to publicity, so she will use some means to excite various media before the release of each movie, so as to help her side advertise.

In her opinion, a movie like "King Kong", which has cost more than $200 million, is really not too much to spend on publicity. Because every effort is harvested, just throw the seed in the ground and ignore nothing, just let it grow on its own, what can it become?

As is customary in Hollywood, publicity costs generally account for half of the cost of filming. In other words, an investment of 200 million yuan needs to be at least another 100 million to publicize, which is the most reasonable.

But I don't know if it's because the investment has cost too much money, and I don't know what the publicity costs of "King Kong" have been cut into, at least Leila didn't see the publicity offensive that this blockbuster should have.

"Probably because the investor is unwilling to throw money into it, right?" Nolan remembered what he had experienced before, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Not every director has the appeal of Cameron, which can make investors desperately throw money into it." ”

Leila was silent.

Indeed, investors desperately want to make more profit with less investment, while directors are more concerned with the quality of the film itself. If you don't shoot some things well with less money, you won't be able to get the audience's approval if you don't shoot them well, and if the audience doesn't agree with them, can you still expect them to say good things? Once the bad word of mouth spreads, let alone make a profit, it is already a great luck to be able to protect the capital.

It's an endless cycle, and many people turn a blind eye to it.

In fact, investors also feel that "the baby's heart is bitter", their money is not blown by the wind, they can save a little is a little, what if the movie is smashed? They forget that if the film is not good, then it will be more likely to be smashed.

In such a situation, it can only rely on the director's ability to operate in it, and as for whether it is good or bad, it is up to the audience to judge. So many times it's not that the director doesn't shoot well, but that there are too many constraints.

Let's take an example, the bloody example of Leila herself. The only movie she made in her previous life, there was so much money, and the actors were the seven aunts and eight aunts of the investors, and almost all of them were related households.

= Don't want to use those people?How far can you roll away, Lao Tzu is rich and afraid that he can't find someone willing to shoot?

In that case, Leila had no choice but to give in, thinking that as long as she could make a movie, then all problems could be overcome. In fact, she overestimated her own abilities and underestimated the extent to which the "amateur actors" died.

Even in her previous life, her ability to teach actors did not teach those people to be real actors, either she was in a lot of situations during filming, or she added drama to herself indiscriminately. The only good news is that after her editing, the footage is barely watchable.

It's a pity that the actors are too bad, and she doesn't have the ability to fully control the crew. Those people relied on their relatives as investors and did not listen to her instructions at all. So even if she is a god-like editing technique, she didn't get any good results in the end when she met such a bad actor. The result...... She was born again.

It seems that God also thinks that it is too pitiful for her to shoot something like that, so it will give her a new life, right?

After Nolan left, Layla stared at her phone for a moment, then pressed Roy's number. As soon as the phone rang, she remembered that he should still be in the crew, and when she was about to hang up the phone, the other side was connected.

"Hi dear. Roy's voice came from the other side, wheezing slightly.

"Are you busy? If you're busy, I'll just change the time and call again. ”

If other women hear their boyfriends gasp like this, they probably have to wonder if he is doing something indescribable with some other woman. But Layla didn't even think about it, because no one knew his itinerary better than she did. It's not that she wants to ask too clearly, but the one who wants to report everything to her. That's why she knew that he should be filming in the script at this time.

Seeing that he would indeed have time to speak, she stopped going around in circles: "Do you have time at the end of the month?"

"Of course!" Roy replied quickly, and his pleasure could be clearly felt as the voice came from the line: "Is there any good movie?

"There are two that I really want to see. Best if you have the time. She didn't want him to delay the crew's progress because of her momentary interest.

"At the end of the month, isn't that the Christmas schedule?" Roy said, wondering what movies would be released during the Christmas schedule, and even she took the initiative to ask him to see it. Regardless of whether the movies are good or not, he decided to fan those two movies, after all, it is very rare to let her ask her to ask her in person.

"Yes, it's Christmas. Do you have a holiday over there?" Leila finally remembered that Christmas is as important to Westerners as it is to the Chinese New Year. At that time, it seemed normal to have a holiday.

Roy nodded without thinking about it: "There must be." Don't worry, I'll definitely go back to see you. "Whether he has that vacation or not, he has to get it!