For film company operators, if they don't maintain a good attitude and do their best to prepare for the worst for each film project, maybe a few movies will come down, and they may go crazy. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info After all, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, in the blink of an eye, there is no return, this kind of ups and downs is too stimulating to people's nerves.

Regardless of whether you are optimistic about "Ace Spy" or not, as the Easter schedule is gradually approaching, the last wave of marketing offensives of the three companies is still in full swing.

The TV trailer of the film is playing more and more intensively, and all kinds of news about the Easter movie package are also more endless, and even some non-firefly Easter schedule films have begun to consciously or unintentionally rub the gimmick of "Easter movie package" to promote themselves.

However, whether it is "Ace Cheap Spy 2", "Wedding Singer" or "Xenomorph", it is obviously not a movie that is likely to please critics, so before the official release of the film, the three companies did not hold any media preview of the three films.

Unable to see the film in advance, the media naturally began to speculate based on subjective impressions.

"Wedding Singer" and "Xenomorph" are both brand new scripts, and there is no foundation for the previous work, so the media has to focus on "Ace Spy 2", which has already released a previous work and is also leading the Easter schedule.

Although the first part of "Ace Spy" got a box office of more than 60 million US dollars, the North American box office alone brought Fox nearly double the revenue compared with the cost, but the film's reputation in the media can only be described by a bad word.

Coupled with the general box office rules of spoof series such as "Fighting Eagle" and "Fighting Wisdom Multi-Star" of the same genre in the past, most of the media are not optimistic about the box office prospects of "Ace Cheap Spy 2", and some media directly said that Fox has been reluctant to hold a test screening because the film is too bad.

And so on, judging that the quality of the other two films is also unsatisfactory. I have to say that this view is still shared by a large part of the media.

In comparison, "City of Angels", the only big-budget film in the Easter schedule, held a lively media preview in Los Angeles a week after the Oscars, and the subsequent media evaluations were obviously with some Warner's public relations factors, but the overall reputation was not bad. The media that participated in the test screening generally gave a rating of more than seven points, which is not excellent, but it also meets the standard of being worth watching, coupled with the box office appeal of Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan, Warner Bros. can be described as full of confidence.

In this way, until April 1, due to the spoof nature of "Ace Cheap Spy 2", Fox deliberately chose April Fool's Day to hold a not-so-large but interesting premiere in a theater in Los Angeles, and the invited guests were basically the media in the three companies' system and the core lucky audience.

The premiere of "City of Angels" is scheduled for the next day, and the venue is also the Chinese Grand Theatre, where Hollywood movies often hold premieres.

On April 3, the Easter schedule officially opened, and "Ace Cheap Spy 2" opened at the same time on 3091 screens in North America, perhaps out of prudence, Warner Bros. only arranged more than 2700 opening screens for "City of Angels".

It is not difficult to understand that in the film era, for a film with a large-scale opening, the cost of copying alone was a very expensive expense.

"City of Angels" is nearly two hours long, and based on the average production cost of about $1,500 per copy, 2,700 copies, this expenditure is already more than $4 million, enough to make a small-budget movie. The duration of "Ace Spy 2" is about 90 minutes, and although the production cost of a single copy is cheaper, it has more than 3,000 copies, and the overall cost has reached more than 3 million US dollars.

Firefly Studios, Eric built the 'Free City' in advance, and the Tony Stark mansion in "Iron Man" naturally had to be redesigned.

The Iron Man mansion in the setting is located on the top of Beverly Mountain, and the new mansion design is full of angular mechanical atmosphere compared to Liberty City, which is more in line with Tony Stark's genius engineer.

During the shoot, Larry Ellison saw the design of this new mansion and was excited to bring it to life and compete with Eric at Sharp Corner Manor in Malibu, who had been coveting Sharp Corner Manor for too long.

However, after calculating the construction cost, Larry Ellison had no choice but to give up.

Because the brand new Iron Man mansion needs at least $100 million if it is to be restored to the top of Beverly Mountain.

This money does not seem to be much compared to Larry Ellison's net worth of 10 billion, but in fact, more than 90% of Larry Ellison's personal assets are stocks, in order to maintain control of Oracle, Larry Ellison must not be able to sell any shares easily, and most of his remaining assets are real estate such as real estate, and Larry Ellison's actual discretionary funds are only 10 million or 20 million.

Larry Ellison, who used to buy yacht islands, was a few years later, after Oracle established its dominance in the database software industry and the company generated a lot of dividends. Oracle is now in a difficult moment of competing for market position with several competitors of the same level, and even if Oracle makes a profit, it is all used for the development of the company, and it is impossible to give shareholders any dividends.

Therefore, although he doesn't say it, Larry Ellison, who likes luxury by nature, was still quite envious of Eric during filming, and after completing Harpy Hogan's role, he borrowed a VH-60 helicopter from Eric on the grounds that he only took a dollar and was too disadvantaged, and flew back to San Francisco all the way, and he has no intention of returning it until now.

Although the envisioned mansion was located at the top of Beverly Hills, the interior was still set up in the studio's studio.

Today is the last day of the week's work, but it is Brigitte Fonda and Natasha Henschuch who are facing off on the court, and this is also the scene where Pepper and Vanity Fair reporter Christine in the original "Iron Man" are arguing.

After the shot was done again, Joss Whedon shouted 'Good' loudly and said, "Very well, that's all for today's work, and besides, this is Miss Henswch's last scene, and we thank her for all this time for this film, thank you." ”

As he spoke, Joss Whedon was the first to applaud, and all the staff around him also put down their work and applauded. Although everyone thought that Natasha Hensquich got the role because of Eric at first, Natasha Hensquidge's outstanding performance during this time was also obvious to all.

Natasha Hensquich was also a little lost in excitement, and stood in the middle of the room and bowed politely to everyone: "Thank you, thank you, I am also very happy to work with all of you." ”

Everyone was polite, and Natasha walked into the locker room under the leadership of the staff, she was just wearing only a shirt, the hem completely covered the bottom pants, and the two long legs didn't know how much benefit was given to the male on the scene.

Natasha leaves, and the others start to get busy again.

The internal scene of Tony Stark's mansion is completely over with the end of this scene. Next, the crew will start the long and difficult location shooting.

Joss Whedon breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and instructed the assistant director next to him to personally supervise several workers who had arrived specially to pack the surrounding furniture into a cart and send it back to Jianjiao Manor.

Although Joss Whedon really couldn't see why a simple coffee table was worth 60,000 US dollars, before using it, the crew had bought insurance for these furniture, and the insurance company also recognized the value of these furniture after sending someone to evaluate it.

While they were busy, Eric and Jeff Bridges also walked in from outside, and the two of them had their roles today before Brigitte Fonda and Natasha Hensquitch, and after the last scene, both of them rushed to remove their makeup, and by this time they had changed into their usual clothes.

After talking to Joss Whedon for a while about next week's filming schedule, Brigitte Fonda and Natasha Hensquich walked over with a smile and greeted a few people together.

After talking about business, Jeff Bridges said goodbye and left, Joss Whedon had other things to do and walked away, but the two girls stayed, Brigitte Fonda finally found an opportunity and asked, "Eric, are you free tomorrow?"

Eric looked at Brigitte Fonda with a very formal look and nodded, "What's the matter?"

"Tomorrow night, Coppola's house is going to have a party, Sophia, do you remember her? Sophia had just finished her first directorial work, and she said that you encouraged her to try something else. So, if you're free tomorrow, she wants you to check out her work. ”

Eric smiled and said, "Tomorrow night, is it going to a party or a movie?"

Realizing that she hadn't made it clear, Brigitte Fonda said, "If you have time, go to the movies tomorrow afternoon, and stay at the Coppola manor for the party in the evening." ”

"I'm sure I'll be watching the dailies with Joss tomorrow," Eric shook his head regretfully, "Well, I'll see if I can go over the night." ”

"Well, that's it," Brigitte Fonda just helped convey the invitation, and naturally she didn't show too eagerness, and stepped forward to hug Eric, and then said hello to Natasha Hensquitch, and left.

Eric looked around and said to Natasha Hensquic, "Let's go out too." ”

Natasha Hensquich nodded and followed Eric out of the studio.

It was just past five o'clock in the afternoon, and the days in Los Angeles were slowly starting to get longer, and the two of them walked on the park's road, which had turned orange sunlight, and soon came to the administrative district with less crowds.

"The copyright to "Tales of the Night" has been bought, but it will take a few months for the script to be written, and if filming starts, it is estimated that it will be in September," Eric and Natasha said casually, suddenly remembering something again, and said: "In this case, you may have to miss this year's Victoria's Secret show." ”

"It's okay," Natasha shook her head and said, "Actually, I've been wondering if I can concentrate on being an actor all this time, Eric, do you think it's okay?"

In the past two years, the Victoria's Secret Legion has accelerated the pace of upgrading. Natasha Hensquich is twenty-four years old this year, and she is naturally very young compared to Cindy, but she also knows that she is not a supermodel that Victoria's Secret focuses on cultivating, and it is impossible to stay on the Victoria's Secret stage for a long time.

What's more, models, whether in terms of professional life or personal income, are far from being comparable to movie stars.

Eric nodded and said, "Of course you can, next year when "Iron Man" is released, you will be half a foot in Hollywood." As long as "Tales of the Night" is successful, you will almost be able to enter the second tier, and whether Hollywood actresses can be promoted to the first tier actually requires a lot of luck. But as long as you can sit firmly in the second-tier position, you will not be short of appointments in the future. Oh, speaking of which, Hollywood's demand for vases is still very strong, not to mention such a beautiful vase as yours. ”

Natasha smiled, she didn't have any objection to Eric calling herself a vase, she was still self-aware. Although Hollywood also has very beautiful first-line actresses, like Nicole Kidman, the other party's acting skills can really throw her off a few streets.

As long as she can gain a foothold in Hollywood, Natasha is already very satisfied.

"Eric, actually, well, I wish I could have a chance to work with you. ”

Eric pointed to the studio area behind him and said, "Haven't we been working together lately?"

"I mean, acting, well, your movie," Natasha said very confidently, and then she retreated, "Am I too whimsical?"

"Of course not," Eric shook his head and said with a smile: "If I have the opportunity in the future, I will definitely invite you, this is not perfunctory, the key is to really meet the right character." And, strictly speaking, we still have great expectations for working together in the future, as you know, I've always been making commercial films, and this kind of film doesn't have such strict acting requirements. ”

Although she knew that even if Eric said this, the chances of the two working together in the future were extremely slim, Natasha was still very happy and said, "Then I'll wait." Also, Eric, do you have any plans for tonight?"

"I've booked a fancy screening room for the movies," Eric nodded, then looked at Natasha, "So, Miss Hensquage, may I have the pleasure of having you with me?"

Natasha didn't ask what the movie meant at all, and nodded directly: "Of course." (To be continued.) )