The two were at a stalemate for a while, and at the end, Eric almost laughed when he saw Miranda with a crying little expression.

Forget it, just think of it as a kitten.

Thinking in his heart, Eric no longer insisted on getting the black card back, anyway, the money spent by this Nizi is indeed a huge amount of money for ordinary people, but for Eric, it is just the cost of a lollipop, not to mention, if this Nizi in front of him really has a tendency to get out of control, Eric only needs a phone call to stop the credit card.

Miranda had been carefully watching Eric's face change, and as his expression softened, the girl realized something, and once again showed a flattering smile on her face, and said, "Eric, really, I, I will never spend any more money." ”

Eric's tone didn't change, he didn't want the girl to be too proud, and ordered in a flat tone: "Kelly will go back to Los Angeles in the afternoon, you go back with you, and you won't leave Los Angeles for the whole year." ”

Miranda immediately found the flaw in Eric's words, and said coquettishly: "What if Mom and Dad want me to go back to Australia for Christmas?"

"Uh-huh!"

"Alright, alright, Eric, I'll be obedient. ”

Seeing that Eric pulled down her face again, Miranda didn't dare to be clever anymore, turned the desk upside down, leaned over and wanted to put her arms around Eric's neck affectionately.

Eric raised his hand against the girl's waist and pushed her away, saying, "Don't pester anyone, go find Kelly." ”

"Hee-hee, Eric, you're such a coward. ”

"Three ......"

"Huh?"

"Two ......"

"I hate it, it's scary in this way. ”

Realizing that Eric was counting down, the goblin didn't dare to test Eric's patience anymore, and turned around and slipped out of the study.

Seeing the door closed, Eric shook his head and smiled, picked up the few pages of credit card statements on the table again, leaned back, his feet on the table, and slowly flipped through them, while thinking about how to arrange the future of the kitten.

Anyway, Eric doesn't plan to let Miranda go the way she used to be a supermodel, how tiring it is.

Since it is a cat, of course, it should be comfortable to lie on the sofa of the owner's house and squint your eyes and enjoy life.

Because of its geographical location on the border between Eastern and Western Europe, and with the support of Western European powers such as Germany, the Czech Republic can be regarded as the first country to develop after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, but of course, it is far from being comparable to Germany and France in terms of economy.

The filming location of "Casino Royale" in the Czech Republic is mainly in Prague, and the footage includes a car chase between Bond and the villain, as well as some literary scenes. In addition, the exterior shot of Bond riding the train on his way to Montenegro was also shot on the Czech Mountain Railway. As for Montenegro, the more than three-year-long war in Bosnia-Herzegovina just ended at the end of last year, and several countries on the ground are still in chaos, and there is no possibility of filming on the ground.

Because of the promotional role of the 007 series on the countries and cities where it was filmed, the Czech government, which is urgently seeking further opening, also attaches great importance to the filming of the crew, and even cooperated in blocking two streets for a week when filming the chase scene between Bond and the villain.

While the crew was filming in the Czech Republic, the North American summer season also entered the final stage.

After "Men in Black 2", "Game of the Brave 2" officially landed on 2,800 big screens in North America the following week, but the ending was a big surprise.

Because this week, MGM also released the second part of the Resident Evil series, "Resident Evil: Apocalypse". And the first-week box office of "Jumanji's Game 2", which cost $86 million to make, lost to "Resident Evil: Apocalypse", which does not have a strong sense of existence, which has to be said to be a very embarrassing result.

With a cost of $30 million, the first part of "Resident Evil" earned $60 million at the box office in North America, and the cumulative global box office reached $126 million. Moreover, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi film has performed even better in the videotape market, bringing more than $60 million in net profits to the producers within a year of the release of the videotapes and DVDs.

As a result, the production cost of "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" soared to $45 million.

In the production phase, MGM's plan was that the sequel would recoup most of its cost at the box office, and that the main source of profit would be the later videotapes and copyright revenues, and MGM now has enough strength to run these long-term businesses.

Before the release of the two films, although "Game of the Brave 2" had already reported a poor reputation, most box office analysis agencies gave a first-week box office of no less than $50 million.

But the end result is that "Resident Evil: Revelations" grossed $28.37 million in the first week, while "Jumanji's Game 2" only grossed $25.22 million in the first week, and the two new films only occupied the third and fourth positions in the weekly box office charts respectively.

In terms of word-of-mouth, because of the natural disadvantages of the "Resident Evil" series, the media reviews are certainly not too good, with an average score of only 6.5 points, but judging from the box office of $28.37 million in the first week, the total box office of this sequel may reach $70 million, plus the overseas box office, it is enough to recover all the production and distribution costs in the release stage.

"Jumanji's Game 2" is completely tragic, not only is the box office only $25.22 million in the first week, which is more than 50% lower than most institutions' expectations, but also because of the chaotic plot, the media score of this film is only 4.6 points, and most critics' evaluation is basically 'a farce with a lot of CG shots'.

In this case, the tragic situation of "Jumanji's Game 2" has been decided, and Firefly only participated in the production investment of 50 million US dollars, with the box office and later copyright operation income, it will more or less make up for it, and the loss is not too big. Sony Pictures is not only involved in the production, but also the main distributor, and the scale of the loss is much larger than that of Firefly. What's more serious is that the failure of this project will not have much impact on Firefly, but it will be a major blow to Sony Pictures' film business.

Perhaps, the only thing that can be gratified is that the box office of the new film "Game of the Brave 2" is not strong enough, so it did not have much impact on the box office of "Men in Black 2", which was released the week before.

After the box office of $75.5 million in the first week, "Men in Black 2" fell by only 31% in the second week, collecting another $52.09 million, for a total of $127 million in two weeks.

The box office decline of "Breaking Bads 2" in the third week of release also narrowed to 25% from 43% last week, reaching $32.49 million for a cumulative box office of $156 million.

Moreover, because there are no strong new films at the end of the summer season, the box office data of "Men in Black 2" and "Breaking Bads 2" will undoubtedly be more durable.

When Eric heard the news, he asked about the filming progress of Sony's "Godzilla", which also started filming in New York in June, but the shooting cycle of "Godzilla" is much shorter than that of "Casino Royale", only three months, of course, as a CG blockbuster, the post-production cycle of the film is much longer than that of "Casino Royale".

According to the release plan revealed by Sony Pictures, the film will be scheduled for next summer.

Although Sony has not yet determined the specific schedule, however, just like this year's "Breaking Bads 2" and "Men in Black 2", the possibility of "Casino Royale" and "Godzilla" colliding next year is still very high.

Thinking of the image of a certain 'Tyrannosaurus Rex', Eric couldn't help but look forward to the arrival of next year's summer file.

You know, next year is 1997.

What year was that.

The Asian financial crisis.

In my memory, although Japan was not directly impacted, the overall economic downturn of Southeast Asia as a whole was inevitable.

In that environment, Sony will certainly not have a good time, if it suffers another fiasco in the film business.

Tsk, it's sour just thinking about it.

Fast forward to August, and the two-week shooting in the Czech Republic almost flashed by.

The crew moved to Italy again.

The filming period in Italy lasted for one month, and there were two important scenes, namely the scene of Bond and the villain Cherip gambling at the Casino Royale, and the death of Cate Blanchett's Westper.

At the same time, the Breaking Bird trio and Vesper's sister character will also appear in Italy for a very brief time.

Charlize and the three of them are all promoting "Breaking Bads 2" overseas at this time, and the schedule is very tight. The scenes of the three of them are mainly focused on the British mainland, that is, the rescue of Vesper's sister Angela Linder, and if the time is not in time, the three daughters in Italy may return to Italy for a short reshoot after the completion of filming in the UK.

Although the trio could not arrive immediately, Christina Aguilera, who played Vesper's sister Angela Linder, joined the crew at the same time after the crew moved to Italy.

However, while the crew was filming intensely, Eric had to focus on another thing.

After that meeting, under the operation of Firefly, the Venice Film Festival quickly replied and agreed to make "Titanic" the opening film of this year's Venice Film Festival.

After all, because of Eric's connivance, Cameron's overall cost has reached an unprecedented $215 million when he completed all the films of "Titanic", 15 million more than in the original time and space.

Although the Venice Film Festival has always adhered to the cold artistic style, it is really difficult to say no to such a film whose cost can be included in the Guinness Book of Records when the entire film industry tends to be commercialized.

At the same time that the Venice Film Festival issued an official invitation and released the news to the media, Cameron had already rushed to Venice with a sample film.

The time is August 3rd.

Eric had finished his day's work, and before he could rest, he received news from Peter Ritchie that Cameron had arrived.

In the hotel where the crew stayed.

Eric saw the bearded Cameron again, although Eric gave Cameron a reassurance, but Cameron finally knew what kind of blow would be dealt to his directorial career if this film cost more than $200 million failed, so his hair was obviously grayer these days.

"Hey, Eric, how was the film?" Seeing Eric walk into the lobby, Cameron Change, who had been waiting for him in the lobby, immediately greeted him.

"Everything is going well," Eric and Cameron hugged gently, looked at this guy's haggard appearance, and smiled: "Let's go eat first, the food in this hotel restaurant is good, after dinner, we will watch the film together." ”

"Of course," Cameron nodded.

Because both of them were a little absent-minded, the meal was also eaten very quickly.

Filling their stomachs hastily and without too many pleasantries, the two of them went into the hotel's private screening room.

"The film may be a bit long," the lights dimmed, and Cameron couldn't help but say, "However, I think it's better not to trim it anymore." ”

That being said, Cameron's tone was decidedly less resolute.

Eric has given him the most support in terms of the film budget, Cameron is not a completely unreasonable person, and in Hollywood he can shout to Katzenberg 'kill me if you want to cut the film', but if Eric insists, Cameron will try to reduce the length of the film as much as possible.

At this time, the version in front of the two of them has a total length of 187 minutes.

In the entire history of Hollywood, Cameron only has 1939's "Gone with the Wind" in his memory of more than three hours and being successful at the box office. In addition, most of these films may have achieved some artistic success, but few have achieved high box office.

After all, for a movie, just three hours long is enough to put most viewers off.

Although Cameron is very confident in his work, he does not think that "Titanic" can be compared with the epoch-making legendary film "Gone with the Wind".

The original idea for filming "Titanic" was deliberately led by Cameron when Eric was chatting with several famous directors and producers at Preavista Studios, and Eric was later involved in the writing of part of the script.

Therefore, the plot of the new version of "Titanic" is roughly the same as the original.

The biggest difference is undoubtedly the heroine, compared to the fat and warm, slender body, elegant temperament, delicate face, but at the same time there is no lack of rebellion in her heart, Rachel Weisz, is undoubtedly more suitable for the role of Rose.

When the elderly Rose began to reminisce about the past on the big screen, Rachel appeared in the picture for the first time, with a tall figure, classical makeup, and the unique pride of an English aristocratic lady, which made Eric feel amazed, and even a little regret that had been made up.

Cameron's control of the plot is undoubtedly masterful, although the whole film is three hours and seven minutes long, but every minute of the plot can firmly drive the audience's emotions, without giving people a superfluous feeling at all, the Titanic sailing on the sea, Jack and Rose sunset bow hugging, and the interior of the cabin full of industrial atmosphere, etc., bring almost sighing beauty and shock. Although the disaster plot in the second half of the film is short, whether it is the good and evil of human nature at the moment of the disaster or the plot of Jack and Rose's farewell, it is enough to deeply touch the hearts of the audience.

Eric has watched "Titanic" many times, but he was reborn as a human and saw another "Titanic" that was still perfect again, and his heart was still excited.

When the film was over, Eric didn't feel that more than three hours had passed unconsciously, and he was turning his head to say something to Cameron when he suddenly noticed the pure music at the end of the credits, which was still playing.

That's right, this is a pure music that combines piano, bagpipes, violin and other instruments, although it still sounds beautiful, but it has nothing to do with the former "My Heart is Eternal". (To be continued.) )