"Ahem!"

Sid was about to leave when a man's voice coughed nearby. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Sid was startled and looked back, "Damn, Jeremy, don't be scared, it's going to die, okay?"

Jeremy joked with a smile: "I don't know if there will be a dead person, but if people know what happened just now, the reporters and the media will definitely be crazy with excitement." ”

Sid shrugged: "What can they do? I'm only 17 years old, and no one can help me what I want to do?" Sid, who had recovered his look, slipped away and flew away, and Jeremy could only shrug his shoulders.

"Why are you here?" asked Sid.

"I just went to the bathroom and happened to hear something about someone's welcome dying. Jeremy covered his mouth and laughed.

"Oh, yes? I was going to say that there's a new movie that would be a good fit for you to be the main character. Since you're so busy going to the bathroom, I'd better find someone who has time. Sid shrugged and said deliberately.

"It's a loss, old wet!" Jeremy OTR conceded.

"Okay, you can find a time to come to my house next week, and I'll show you the script. It's a single-protagonist play, which is more helpful for exercising your acting skills. Sid said.

"OK, no problem, I also feel that I need to polish my acting skills and play some small supporting roles every day, but it's still not good. Although Jeremy has starred in two Sid films, it is still difficult to get any heavyweight roles and films in Hollywood.

This is also normal, imagine the original starring roles of "Ghost Shadow". It can be said that except for "Ghost Shadow", they have not appeared on the big screen.

"Alright, let's go inside. Anyway, I saw the girl you brought, it's a model. Sid and Intervening Mi walked shoulder-to-shoulder to the screening room.

"Haha, you can see it. Jeremy smiled complacently, "How about I? Would you like me to introduce you to a few models, and with your skills, those little models are not yet dazzled by you?"

"If you're not afraid that Lindsay will get you in trouble. Sid said with a smile, Jeremy's face immediately changed, and we filmed a few scenes together, and he definitely knew the character of Lindsay Lohan's little devil.

"Besides, I'm not Justin Bieber, what are you looking for a model, do you have to summon Ji next time?" Sid shrugged.

"Who is Justin Bieber?"

"A celebrity from my hometown. ”

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After the premiere of "Little Sunshine Beauty", the media evaluation was almost unanimous praise.

All the media invariably used the word "aura" to describe the film. Of course, this is also used to describe director Sid himself.

A family comedy that uses children to knock on the door of the audience's heart, although films of the same genre abound, but it lacks the spirituality that this film has. ――The most professional "Variety Weekly"

"Film Review" praised Lindsay's performance, "The performance of 12-year-old child star Lindsay Lohan is remarkable and malleable. ”

Renowned film critic Roger Ebert published a long review in the Chicago Sun-Times, full of emotional praise: "The first thing I saw was the blue eyes of the little girl, who seemed to be able to see through the depths of our souls. ”

"You can't possibly see a movie with better performances and better casting than 'Little Miss Sunshine'. These actors and directors have mastered the secret to making non-verbal reactions to things far more funny than dialogue and baggage, and they turn pain into a source of quality comedy. ”

"Two thumbs up!"

The warm praise of film critics and the media immediately relieved everyone in the crew, and even everyone in Fire Lion, as Sid's first official feature film, "Little Sunshine Beauty" is not just a director's neodymium work. It also relates to the next development of the program.

In addition, the general director makes a movie every two or three years. But Sid made two films in 98 years, and with such a fast filming speed, people can't help but worry about whether he is consuming his aura and talent.

Shirley Sandberg, as a layman's entry, doesn't think it's too much of a problem. But insiders such as Henry, Sean, and even Charles Shear, who is in charge of Fire Lion TV, are vaguely worried. But the hot comments of "Little Sunshine Beauty" made everyone feel at ease.

As for the theaters, although the situation is better than when the first "Ghost Record" was released, Sean only got 150 theaters in the first week. Although Sid is in the limelight with many achievements, the film market is still quite cautious and conservative about his first official feature film released only a few months later.

The box office performance of $2.6 million in the first week made the single store score around $17,000. Of course, this result is not as good as "Ghost Shadow", which was more than $100,000 at the time.

But as a million-level, low-cost literary comedy, such an achievement is enough to make major theaters with weak box office invitations one after another.

The number of theaters in the second week also jumped to 690, more than five or six times. During this period, Fire Lion Pictures' promotion of "Little Sunshine Beauty" was mainly based on word-of-mouth publicity. Because of Sid's request, everything has to be kept as concise and amiable as the film itself.

This is not only for the box office and word-of-mouth, but also for the awards season afterward.

But under such a strategy, the box office is still rising, showing a contrarian upward trend that is completely different from ordinary films. And in the fourth week, when the theater chain expanded to 1,600 stores in the United States, the box office exceeded $11 million. And this is still a week ago, Pixar's second animated film "Bug Crisis" was released under the pressure.

Shocked off the spot. And "Little Sunshine Beauty" also won the highest this week, the second best result in the North American box office list, second only to "Bug Crisis", and even overwhelmed "Enemy of the Nation" starring Will Smith, which was released two weeks ago.

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Just when "Little Sunshine Beauty" overcame all the obstacles, staged the achievements of low opening and high walking, and long-term development, Sid finally welcomed an old friend in the sunset villa.

"Congratulations, the box office of "Little Sunshine Beauty" is actually good. Ali Emmanuel said with a smile.

"What do you mean, isn't that a matter of course for me?" said Sid, smiling.

"Is there anything important that I have to come here today?" asked Ali Emmanuel curiously. In fact, as a broker and principal, it is generally a telephone contact business. Even though Sid had some big projects to hand over to Ali (Emmanuel), it was also through the phone and sent someone to explain, after all, Shirley (Sandberg) was in charge of the day-to-day affairs.

"You won't forget, it's already November, it's the time of the year. Sid smiled mysteriously.

"What time is it?" asked the second monk Ali (Emmanuel), puzzled.

"It's only been a year, and you forgot? Ali, it seems that you need to take more medicine, and the medicine can't be stopped. Sid said with a distressed look.

Seeing that Ali (Emmanuel) still didn't react, Sid sighed, turned around and took out an original manuscript from behind him, and threw it in front of him.

Familiar scenes, familiar sounds!

Ali (Emmanuel) immediately snorted, "You, you, won't ...... , novels, and wrote 12 more ......"

Before Ali could finish his sentence, Sid smiled and took out an original manuscript and read: "Doctor House", "The Wedding Guest", "The Romance of Mom and Dad", "50 First Loves", "Black Swan", "Alice in Wonderland", "Source Code", "District 9", "Grey's Anatomy", "Two and a Half Men", "Evil Force", "The Vampire Diaries". ”

"Holy-Sh-!!" Ali (Emmanuel) couldn't help but explode, "You want to do it again after last year's crazy auction!?

"Alright, no kidding. Sid smiled and pulled out a folder and handed it over, "This is the introduction and synopsis of all the novels, you can choose the publishing company separately according to the content style." This time, I didn't ask for a one-time fee that was too high, but I tried to divide the novels evenly and let those publishers publish them as soon as possible. ”

"Don't be like this year, Random House's 12 novels from last year to now haven't been published. Sid said with some unhappiness.

Although Random House acquired 12 of Sid's novels last year, they apparently did not intend to publish them in one sitting. Rather, it will be published in steps and within the next few years. And this is clearly detrimental to Sid's plan to preempt the copyright. So he changed his strategy this year, instead looking for more publishers, sharing these novels evenly, and then publishing them at the same time as soon as possible.