Chapter 1019: "The Grim Reaper Is Coming" (1)
In January, the temperature difference between day and night in Los Angeles is relatively large, and it is still a little chilly in the evening, Catherine Blanchett wears a hat and sunglasses, and wears a blue Prada coat that is obviously one size larger, and arrives at the "ArcLight.Hollywood" cinema alone, if Catherine wants to see the first movie she wants to see, she will come to this theater. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"ArcLight.Hollywood" is one of the most popular movie theaters in Hollywood because of its comfortable seating, the most advanced sound and light effects in the United States, and Catherine Blanchett's favorite thing is the theater's delicious snack bar and refreshing black coffee, although parking is a little harder, but it is not a problem for Catherine who has a nanny car.
Catherine didn't wear a mask, because wearing a mask was a bit of a cover, she put the collar of her coat up, walked to the ticket office with her head down, and told her that what she didn't expect was that although it was a meal, there were still a lot of people in line to buy tickets.
She stood in the crowd and found that no one was paying attention to her, so she looked up at the film schedule on the big screen, and it was obvious that "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4", which had topped the box office charts for two consecutive weeks, had more films than other movies.
And Cheng Xiaoyu's "Death is Coming", which was filmed by the person who called her a little annoying, although it was released on the first day, it was the second most scheduled, and it seems that the theater chain is still very optimistic about the movie starring Justin Bieber, which has recently exploded, otherwise with the fairly simple publicity of "Universal" in the past two months, the theater chain will definitely not give such a high film schedule on the first day.
Catherine stood in the queue, in front of her were two girls who came together, who seemed to be high school students, and the two of them were very enthusiastically discussing Justin Bieber, obviously a fan of Justin Bieber, and the two talked about her during the conversation, and the two girls were gossiping about whether she and Justin Bieber were worthy or not.
This made Catherine scoff, she pulled her black top hat lower, hung her head and pretended to play with her mobile phone, she didn't want to attract anyone's attention, in case someone filmed herself coming to the cinema to support Cheng Xiaoyu's movie, it would be too embarrassing.
In fact, she didn't care, she was photographed when she was photographed, the key is that Cheng Xiaoyu never called her again after that meal, which made her very unhappy.
remembered that he took a big risk last time and offended "Universal" and "Sony", and he didn't even have any scruples about his grandfather, who felt the most sorry for him, to help promote his movie, he just sent a text message to thank him, saying that he was free to invite himself to dinner, and then there was no follow-up, which was really infuriating.
This gave Cheng Xiaoyu another charge of untrustworthy in Catherine's heart, she didn't know at all, "I have time to invite you to dinner" in Huaxia is completely polite, this time I am free, it is likely that I will not be free for the rest of my life.......
Every time she thinks of this stubble, Catherine Blanchett feels that she can't vent her anger in her heart, and secretly vows that the next time she has the opportunity to see Cheng Xiaoyu, she must make him look good.
Of course, all this does not prevent Catherine, who is studying "film production", from watching Cheng Xiaoyu's movie for the first time in the name of observation, she wants to see Cheng Xiaoyu, who is prolific and looks like that, in less than two months, what kind of movie has been made, if it is a bad movie, she must scold him fiercely on "drizzle" and "Twitter" this time, so that he knows the end of offending himself.
Finally it was her turn, Catherine handed over eleven dollars, ready to choose a seat, but found that although there was usually no one to eat, there were not many seats to choose, which was a good sign for "The Grim Reaper", but Catherine didn't think that the box office of "The Grim Reaper" could not be compared with "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4", although Cheng Xiaoyu's last movie was a huge success, it was just a publicity success to some extent.
Although Justin Bieber is a big hit at the moment, but for a movie, whether he has box office appeal is another matter, and a person's box office appeal must be proved by high-box office works, but this is only Justin's debut.
Catherine took the ticket, there is still half an hour to start, Catherine plans to go to the café to buy a cup of black coffee, she starred in "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4" in two weeks and a weekend has won 110 million box office, the results are not good or bad, it is expected that the North American box office will eventually be between 350 million and 400 million, plus the overseas box office, it should be considered a lot of money, which is an acceptable result for "Sony".
The investment in this film is mainly spent on the actors' salaries, of which she and Douglas will take 40 million in salary, which does not include the dividends of the excess box office, but it is also worth the money for Sony, if it weren't for her and Douglas's acting skills to prop up the whole movie, it is estimated that the ratings on "Rotten Tomatoes" and "IMDB" would be even more miserable.
With the blessing of two box office elixirs, he forcibly turned a third-rate horror film into a big production, of course, Peter Kopla's grasp of the rhythm of horror films is also at the master level, although it is still an old-fashioned plasma movie, but the atmosphere is in place, so it doesn't look boring at all, but after watching it, it's over, and it won't leave any impression.
Catherine has watched the trailer of "The Grim Reaper", which did not reveal too many details of the movie, and she couldn't see what this movie wanted to express at all.
Catherine sat in the café and drank a cup of black coffee, full of energy, ready to enter the venue to see what kind of film Cheng Xiaoyu made, I don't know if it will bring her a little surprise like "Horror Movie".
Catherine pinched the screening room and began to advertise when the lights dimmed, and walked into the screening room, at this time the advertisement for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4" was playing on the big screen, which made Catherine feel a little funny, presumably the screening hall that screened "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4" would also show the advertisement of "Death is Coming", which was deliberately made by the theater in order to promote the box office of the two movies.
When Catherine found the place in her row, she found that the screening room was almost full, except for a few positions where the angle was too off, which made her a little surprised by the box office appeal of Justin Bieber, she absolutely did not believe that these audiences came because of the name Cheng Xiaoyu, and in fact, there were really some people who came to Cheng Xiaoyu's name, especially in the Chinese-Americans, most of whom were surrounded by Cheng Xiaoyu.
Catherine sat down in the dark, and at this time the advertisement had ended, and the very shocking opening of the "Xichu" film company had already appeared, and the lifelike three-dimensional goddess holding the torch slowly emerged........
The fat man Eddie, who was sitting next to Catherine, was holding a large bucket of popcorn, which was for the name Cheng Xiaoyu, the last "Horror Movie" gave him a very deep impression, and he also bought the DVD version of "Horror Movie" as the most collectible.
What he didn't expect was that the afterglow of "Horror Movie" had not yet passed, and Cheng Xiaoyu had a second movie released in less than two months, which was really surprising, so he and his friends came to the cinema for the first time to see how this movie was.
In fact, neither of them had much expectation, after all, the speed of the release was too much to make people feel that "Universal" and "Xichu" were just to take advantage of the topic of the showdown between the two directors, Cheng Xiaoyu and Peter Kopla, as well as the popularity of Justin Bieber and Catherine Blanchett, a movie with a shooting cycle of only a few months, it is really difficult for people to feel that there will be surprises......
But at this moment, Eddie felt very pleasantly surprised, because when the girl next to him sat down and took off his sunglasses, he noticed that this girl was none other than the starring actress of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre 4", and the new generation of actresses he also liked very much-Catherine Blanchett.........