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"Long time no see, Orlando. ”

Matthew opened his arms and gave Orlando Bloom a gentle hug, "You're still so handsome." ”

Orlando Bloom looked very good when she saw Matthew and said, "I owe you a favor again, and I really don't know how to thank you." ”

"Thank me for what?" said Matthew, grinning, "You still need to be polite to me?"

"Really, really thank you. Orlando Bloom said seriously, "I signed with the crew of "Kingdom of Heaven" last month, and your call to director Ridley Scott must have helped me." ”

Matthew didn't call Ridley Scott at all, and when he saw Orlando Bloom say this, it was hard to deny it, so he waved his hand and said, "It's just a little thing, don't take it personally." ”

Orlando Bloom said again, "Matthew, if you need my help in the future, just ask." ”

Matthew patted his arm gently, "I'm not going to be polite to you." ”

Over there, Rachel Weisz finished greeting Stephen Sommers and beckoned Matthew to go to the screening room together, Matthew didn't linger anymore, and walked with her towards the door, and when she passed, she happened to pass by the heroine Kate Beckinsale, but Matthew was not familiar with her, and he didn't mean to stop to say hello.

He and Rachel Weisz walked out of the VIP lounge and entered the screening room with the people who came out one after another, and the two were not seated next to each other, but Matthew found Edward Norton, changed seats with him, and sat next to Rachel Weisz.

"Don't you know Kate Beckinsale?" asked Matthew.

"Yes. Rachel Weisz said directly, "I don't want to pay attention to her." ”

Matthew is not stupid, when he heard Rachel Weisz's words, his head turned around, and he roughly figured out that there are only a few famous British Roses in Hollywood, and most of the scenes are not wide, basically limited to the scope of English Roses, and when you think about it, you know that there must be fierce competition between them.

The main creative staff of the crew entered the screening room, "Van Helsing" was about to start screening, and Matthew and Rachel Weisz stopped talking.

As the screen lit up and Universal Pictures appeared in the opening credits, the super-production of $160 million in open figures for production also lifted the veil of mystery.

It's a time of darkness and evil, and ghosts are extremely insolent and outrageous, and in a chilling but intriguing and terrifying world, the righteous hero Van Helsing will simultaneously confront some of Universal's most recognizable demons: vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein.

On the screen, under the cold sky, black clouds rolling, the wind gusts, a lightning bolt pierces the night sky, and the demons and monsters who seek their lives attack the ancient town of "Transylvania", the story takes place at the end of the 19th century, the mysterious ancient town of Transylvania in Romania has many terrible monsters, they are raging in the city, and people are constantly dying under the clutches of the devil.

Among these monsters is the vampire Dracula, a noble elder of the vampire family, who has been entrenched in the ancient town of Transylvania for many years, sucking the blood of countless humans.

Frankenstein is also summoned under the shadow of the evil of Dracula's vampire family, a monster created by scientist Frankenstein, who has both human muscles and metal, and is very terrifying when killing people.

In the ancient city of Transylvania, there are also the grumpy werewolves and the three vampire brides of the vampire Dracula.

In order to eradicate the evil forces in Transylvania, the Catholic Church invited the monster hunter Dr. Van Helsing to deal with vampires, Frankenstein, and werewolves on their behalf, and Van Helsing immediately took his lethal weapon and rushed to the ancient city of Transylvania with his assistant Karl.

On the way, Van Helsing rescues another vampire huntress, Anna Villeris, and becomes his lover and right-hand man.

To Van Helsing's surprise, the people of Transylvania didn't seem to believe him very much.

In their eyes, Van Helsing was also a violent monster, definitely not the hero who longed to save them, and the enemy was far more raging and terrifying than he imagined, and he himself almost fell under the monster's teeth several times......

Of course, in Matthew's opinion, this film can be seen from the perspective of Count Dracula.

This is a story about the poor vampire Dracula, who was murdered by Van Helsing when he was alive, and after he died, he became a vampire and was hunted down, and finally hid in a cold castle to have children, but he got infertility;

Poor vampire Dracula has no pursuits, and hiding in an ancient castle to create a descendant will not end well.

At the end of the film screening, Matthew carefully recalled that the main plot was roughly the same as in his memory, and as for the details and the like, who could still remember the details of such a movie after so many years.

There was a round of applause in the theater, and he stood up and applauded with the crowd.

Frankly speaking, the film doesn't look as bad as imagined, Matthew knows that he lacks the ability to judge the quality of a movie, and it is impossible to predict the future market reaction, so he can only start from his own senses.

The special effects of "Van Helsing" are not to be said, they are definitely the top existence in this era, and Hollywood's assembly-line vicarious inheritance is also in place, but the pace seems to be a little slow, far less compact than the two "Mummies" edited by Sean Daniel, which makes the film seem a little dragging and too long.

Matthew also thought of another problem, the previous Stephen Sommers did not have post-editing rights, but was more of a shooting director, and the huge box office success of the two "Mummies" made him not only serve as a screenwriter and director on the "Van Helsing" project, but also as the first producer.

In other words, Stephen Sommos owns almost all the rights to the film, including the post-editing rights.

In Hollywood, most of the time, it is not necessarily a good thing for the director to have the final editing right, although there are also examples of film failure due to the oppression of the director in the producer's post-editing, but there is a certain inevitability that Hollywood has always implemented the producer-centric system for so many years.

Independent literary films are good to say, similar to commercial entertainment films with huge investments, whether they are investors or distributors, of course, they will not let the directors shoot and edit without any imagination, most directors are people with active thinking and even jumping, with rich association and creativity, these are more terrible for commercial films produced by assembly lines most of the time.

What's more, most producers tend to care more about the film market than directors, and naturally know more about the market than they do.

Matthew has collaborated with Sean Daniel on three films, "Dawn of the Living Dead" is still screened in less than 100 theaters, and naturally has a deeper understanding of this first-line producer, and it is inferred from the final films of the two "Mummies" and "Dawn of the Living Dead" that if "Van Helsing" is still edited by him, the length of this film should not exceed 110 minutes.

This makes the film a lot tighter and faster-paced.

I just don't know if fans will buy such a slightly slow rhythm and a movie with all kinds of monsters.

He has no ability to predict this kind of thing, and everything will not be known until tomorrow.

However, from this film, it can also be seen that Universal Pictures is ambitious and wants to recreate the monster stars that have created glory under its own banner.

With a $160 million investment to bring three classic monsters, Vampire, Frankenstein, and Werewolf, on the same screen, Universal Pictures clearly wants to bloodied the box office for its long-established monsters.

The actor Van Helsing did not go into detail about his life experience and the reason for his amnesia in the first part, and according to Matthew's speculation, it should be left as a gimmick for the second part.

In fact, in retrospect, there was a lot of foreshadowing buried in this film, and Universal Pictures and Stephen Sommers were obviously preparing a sequel.

Whether the sequel to "Van Helsing" will come to fruition depends on the reaction of the market.

As long as the box office is high enough, even if word of mouth hits the streets, the sequel will not be cut.

But Matthew still felt a little unreliable, on the one hand, it was the memory of the past, and on the other hand, he remembered something similar to the street movie.

"Van Helsing" is not the first action-adventure film to mix and match well-known literary characters, and "Fallen from the Sky," which was released at the same time as "Pirates of the Caribbean" last year, is largely similar to "Van Helsing."

However, Sean Connery, who hit the streets in "Fallen from the Sky", has directly withdrawn from the film industry.

The applause in the theater gradually fell, and Matthew followed the other guests, walking towards the front row, and there were two acquaintances in the crew, Stephen Sommers and Orlando Bloom, who congratulated them even out of the most basic courtesy before leaving.

"Stephen, what a movie!"

Matthew came up to Stephen Sommers, shook his hand, and said, "The style of this film is so impressive!"

Stephen Sommos seemed to be in a good mood and said, "Thank you!" and he smiled and looked at Matthew, "If we have the chance, we can work together on another project." ”

Matthew gestured to make a call, "You can call me at any time." ”

After talking to Stephen Sommers, Matthew found Orlando Bloom, "Very superb performance! Orlando, you regret not stealing the role." ”

"It's too late to regret it now!" Orlando Bloom seemed to smile on his face, "It's been two years, and it's finally released!"

Matthew nodded, "yes, it's been two years! "Van Helsing" is finally released. ”

Just from the time to prepare for filming and post-production, you can also see that Stephen Sommers and Universal Pictures have done enough work.