Jude has always been very protective of this relationship with Kate, including not meeting Kate during this time to prevent the relationship from being exposed, but he didn't expect that the two were secretly photographed when they were holding hands and shopping in the United States before.

At that time, the reporter did not recognize Jude, but thought that Kate, who was wearing sunglasses, was very star-like, and pressed the shutter casually.

The photo was not developed, it was always stored in the film, and it was not until the promotion of "Two Big Smoking Guns" began, and once Jude wore the same clothes as the dinner to the event, and then he was recognized by the reporter.

As soon as the photo appeared in the newspaper, Kate's identity was soon revealed.

After dropping out of Oxford, his first film was directed by the famous British director Kenneth Brynner, and the roles were all big-name actors, and he also participated in the filming of Jude's first film.

As soon as such an artistic experience was exposed, the British media, which finally regained a little face, immediately stopped bothering about Jude's identity as an American, but enthusiastically discussed Kate's affairs.

The good thing about the relationship after it was revealed is that Jude and Kate no longer have to "avoid" each other as before, but the trouble is that there are twice as many reporters squatting under Jude's rented apartment than before.

Because they would be recognized when they walked there, Jude and Kate couldn't go out for the past two days, so they had to stay in their rooms and wait for news from CinemaScore.

During this time, Jude was interviewed by the Times, which was supposed to be an interview only with him, but when the reporter entered the door, he found that Kate was also there, and immediately asked to be interviewed with her.

Jude agreed to Kate's request after asking for advice, but only allowed to ask a personal question during the interview.

"What do you think of your current relationship with Jude?"

Jude didn't expect the other party to be this problem as soon as he came up, and turned his head to look at Kate helplessly, "Do you need me to avoid it?" ”

Kate pressed Jude's hand, shook her head, and said, "Of course not." ”

The two exchanged sweet eyes for a few seconds before Kate began to answer reporters' questions.

"Actually, I don't want my relationship with Jude to be known, or I don't want to be known so soon. I'm certainly proud of what Jude has achieved now, but that doesn't mean I want to be famous through him, I want people to know that I'm because of my work, not because of my boyfriend. ”

The Times reporter quickly recorded Kate's answer as he turned to Jude.

"And what about you, Mr. Locke?"

"The first time I met Kate, I was fascinated by her, even though I didn't want to admit it at the time." Jude said this, pausing to look at Kate, "Later we worked together on my first film, and Kate recommended it to Mr. Kenneth Brynner, which helped me a lot, or without Kate's help, maybe I haven't found a distributor for my first film now, let alone sit here for an interview with you." Including recently, many people have asked me why I thought of coming to the UK to shoot this movie, in fact, the real reason is that if I shoot in London, I can have more opportunities to meet Kate, and I won't describe the process of the relationship later, in short, you have seen that Kate has become my girlfriend, which should be the biggest gain of me shooting this movie in the UK. ”

The Times reporter stopped his pen and looked up at Jude in surprise.

"More important than the box office success of the movie?"

"Is this the second problem?" Jude reminded the other with a smile.

The other shrugged, "I just want to make sure." ”

"So can we talk about the movie next?" Jude continued to ask.

"I'm going to get you coffee." Kate got up and left the living room, and although she was a little regretful, the Times reporter turned the conversation to the movie "Two Smoking Guns".

While the interview was taking place, the CinemaScore score report was delivered to Shay White's desk.

The report was brought by a manager-level leader at CinemaScore, named James, who gave Shay a detailed account of the survey conducted in the UK.

"On the night of the premiere of the film on the 27th, we selected the top 10 cities in the UK by population, randomly selected 50 theaters, distributed a total of 2,056 questionnaires, and finally recovered 1,876 questionnaires, of which 1,835 were valid, and the final score was A-."

Shay put down the score report in his hand and stood up, looking at James who was standing across from his desk.

"I never doubted the professionalism of the CinemaScore scores, but Mr. James came here not only to tell me such a result, but also to see the numbers about the box office prediction of the film."

"Of course."

James took a thicker document from his briefcase, handed it to Shay, and explained: "This is based on the age distribution of the moviegoers, the competition for films released in the same schedule, and the likelihood that they will choose to buy or rent the tape after watching the film, and we have come to the conclusion that the film could eventually make £15 million at the box office in the UK." ”

The corners of Shay's eyes jumped unnaturally, 15 million pounds is converted into US dollars is 30 million, according to the proportion of account sharing with British theaters, the new line can finally get 12 million US dollars, so that the 2 million US dollars invested in the previous film shooting and the 10 million US dollars invested in the later publicity funds have all been recovered, and the box office sharing in North America and other overseas markets in the future will become a net income.

However, when he thought that this money would first be divided by Jude 13%, Shay couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh, and when he readily agreed to Jude's request for a split account, he never thought that this movie would be so profitable.

James on the other side didn't know what Shay was thinking at the moment, but dutifully explained the reason for CinemaScore's prediction.

"First of all, starting from the age distribution of the premiere moviegoers, young people aged 18 to 32 account for 73% of the proportion, and this group of people is the main consumer of films, because we have reason to believe that with the further expansion of the scale of film screenings, more young people will enter the cinema to watch this movie. Recently, there have been no box office threats of the same genre in the UK, leaving plenty of room for box office growth. Last but not least, the survey we collected showed that 23% of moviegoers would buy or rent the videotape again, and 16% would even say they would buy tickets to watch the film again, which is also an important support for future box office growth. ”

In the analysis of the last question, James still has one thing that he did not say, that is, the reason why "Two Big Smoking Guns" got an A- score, many people within CinemaScore believe that it is because there are too many characters in the first 30 minutes of the film, and the story clues are too complex, which leads to some viewers sloppy scoring, so the score is lower than the previous estimate, but it is precisely because of the complexity of the plot that so many viewers will choose to buy video tapes in the future.

Because there was no evidence to back it up, James didn't tell Shay about it.