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After a short half-day break, the crew chartered a flight to New York the next day, this time it was still Jeffrey who brought someone to pick up the plane, and there was also a team of Fireflies here, responsible for the preliminary preparations for "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York".

Compared to when I was in Seattle, most of them were the roles of Jonah and his son.

The filming of the New York scene is much more troublesome, just in terms of characters, in the scenes of "Sleepless in Seattle" in New York, there are not only Anne's family, but also Anne's friends, colleagues, etc.

Eric thinks that this plot design is likely to weaken the sense of existence of Anne's boyfriend Walter, just like the show of Sam's deceased wife Maggie with only a few shots.

Although it is indeed a very romantic love story for Sam and Annie.

But for Walter, who is already engaged to Anne, it is a bit very sad to be dumped on a date on Valentine's Day for an 'inexplicable' reason.

Eric remembers that in some of the film reviews he had seen in his previous life, there were comments about this incident, which were basically criticism of Anne's infidelity and sympathy for Walter. However, in a country with a 50% divorce rate, people don't seem to care much about that. To put it bluntly, whether in politics or love, people in this country are pursuing two words: freedom.

Eric remembers not knowing where to read a phrase, True Freedom. It's not about doing whatever you want. It's about not doing what you don't want to do.

Although this sentence is suspected of being false. However, it is very suitable for Anne in "Sleepless in Seattle", even if she is engaged, she still rejects the other party without giving in when she finds out that Walter is not the person she was destined to be.

"How's the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers discussed?" Getting off the plane and getting into a van with Jeffrey, Eric's first words were the two things he was more concerned about.

These two things are about "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Home Alone 2" respectively. Jonah and Kevin will each be filming in the two tallest buildings in New York, which had not yet been decided until filming of "Sleepless in Seattle" began.

"It's all done," Jeffrey gave Eric a reassuring look, and added, "However, the management of both buildings didn't give much time. ”

"It's okay, there aren't many shots anyway, mainly the Empire State Building, and the shots on the top of the Twin Towers only need a few aerial shots. Eric nodded in satisfaction.

Jeffrey added, "One more thing, about snow. I consulted the weather department in detail, and the first snow in New York would not be until November at the earliest. It could be the first week of November, but it's not so sure, it's only September, and you know, the weather forecasts are never accurate. Maybe we're lucky enough to have snow at the end of October, or maybe we're unlucky enough to have no snow in New York until Home Alone comes out, but in short, be prepared. ”

Eric nodded: "It's nothing, you just ask people to prepare artificial snow, I try to put the exterior of "Home Alone 2" in the last shooting, but it can't be delayed for long, so I think there is a 90% chance that artificial snow will be used." ”

"I've had people estimate based on your script, and while you don't need to cover the scene, the artificial snow will add about $1.5 million to the budget for the audience to believe it. ”

Eric could hear the pain in Jeffrey's tone, and patted Jeffrey on the shoulder, although the fireflies are getting bigger and bigger, Jeffrey is still the kind of person who likes to be careful when Eric saw him. However, such a character is also the most suitable for making people: "Jeffrey, it's not last year after all, when we made the first "Home Alone" last year, we had to be careful and even go to a distant northern Canadian town to shoot in order to save our budget. But we have a very loose budget for this film, so there's no need to save money at all. ”

"I also know that I just subconsciously thought that if the schedules of "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Home Alone 2" were changed, maybe the 1.5 million would be saved. ”

Eric smiled: "According to what you say, in the end, we waited for the natural snowfall, but we were able to save the 1.5 million, but because of the postponement of Home Alone 2 to Christmas, then we may lose tens of millions at the box office." You must know that from the box office trend of the last "Home Alone", it can be seen that this is a very suitable children's movie for long-term screening, so we must extend the slot during the holiday season as much as possible, and late November is the beginning of the peak box office season for Christmas. ”

"Then why not put "Sleepless in Seattle" in late November, even if it doesn't form a vicious competition with "Home Alone 2", I think it's okay to postpone it for a week. Jeffrey asked again.

"Because "Sleepless in Seattle" is not only rushing for Christmas, but also for Valentine's Day in February, because this is a romantic comedy, if it is a month in advance, then by February, the popularity of this film will almost be exhausted. But around December 24, after two months of screening, after entering the Valentine's Day schedule, the box office of this love movie can rebound. You know, my films, the large-scale box office harvest cycle, are all more than eight weeks, such as last year's first "Home Alone", which won the box office championship for 10 weeks, and later "Pretty Woman" and "Dark War" are like this. ”

Jeffrey smiled and said, "I don't know where you learned this." I originally wanted to tell you about the schedule of "Island Cry", you instigated Michael Eisner to put "Island Cry" on November 1st, I also think it is very inappropriate, Halloween is indeed suitable for horror films, but those are small horror films with no box office ambitions, although "Island Cry" is also a small production, but we have high hopes for its box office. Now it seems that you must have your own ideas. ”

Eric nodded, not explaining anything more to Jeffrey, who had no intention of asking.

In fact, the concept of film schedule in the United States is relatively mature now, but it is equivalent to more than 20 years later, and it is still very rough.

Although Eric from later generations has never directed movies and does not do distribution work, in that era of information explosion, he naturally understood some of the distribution rules of movies. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you to take!Pay attention to ~ 點 / public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter dd), participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately pay attention to dd WeChat public account!) (to be continued......)