Just as the premiere of "The Seven Deadly Sins" is getting high. At the same time, the premiere of "The Usual Suspects" is also underway.

After joining Lee's agency, Kevin Spacey's identity on the set became a little awkward, and although he was the lead actor of the film, the director and other actors tried to avoid topics that might mention him when answering questions from reporters.

But the reporters on the scene didn't buy it, and after director Brian Singer went around in a big circle and still refused to answer the questions head-on, a reporter finally stood up and asked Brian by name to evaluate Kevin Spacey's performance in the film.

"Kevin's performance is very good, in order to better express the disability of the character, he always glues the fingers of his left hand together during shooting, and at the same time, he also deliberately files the soles of his shoes to make the image of the cripple more believable...... Everyone should have seen these in the movie just now. ”

Brian's expression when answering questions is somewhat unnatural, objectively speaking, Kevin Spacey's performance in the movie, both in terms of professionalism and acting skills, is the best one, but Kevin Spacey and Jude are the same agent, and the strongest opponent facing "The Extraordinary Suspects" after its release tomorrow is Jude's "Seven Deadly Sins", which makes Brian very entangled.

"Extraordinary Suspects" not only collided with "Seven Deadly Sins", but also collided with the subject matter, and even the time of the premiere collided together, New Line Company put the premiere of "Seven Deadly Sins" at the China Grand Theater, and Columbia Samsung put the premiere of "Extraordinary Suspects" at the Saban Theater, and the intention of confrontation was very obvious.

It was the producer's decision, and Brian couldn't refuse. But from the bottom of his heart, he doesn't want "The Extraordinary Suspects" and "The Seven Deadly Sins" to face each other. Although judging from the evaluation of the two movies by film critics, the reputation of "Extraordinary Suspects" is higher than that of "Seven Deadly Sins". But everyone's reaction to the two films was very different.

The reputation of "The Extraordinary Suspects" is very stable, and basically everyone evaluates it as a good movie, while the evaluation of "Seven Deadly Sins" presents two extremes, critics who like this movie are eager to directly put the title of best picture of the year on its head, while critics who don't like this movie evaluate the film as useless, which is like the gap from the Academy Awards to the Golden Sour Plum Awards.

In this case, "Seven Deadly Sins" can also pull the word-of-mouth evaluation to the same level as "Extraordinary Suspects", which is actually a very dangerous signal.

But Columbia Samsung is encouraged by this appearance, believing that "Extraordinary Suspects" really has the strength to face off with "The Seven Deadly Sins". Not only did it continue to increase investment in publicity, but it also showed that it would fight against the new line company to the end. This is driven not only by the general environmental situation, but also by the ambition to challenge New Line as the leading independent production company in Hollywood.

The production company has been carried away by the situation, but Brian, as the director of the film, is not, and he is well aware of the gap between "The Extraordinary Suspects" and "The Seven Deadly Sins".

This is the natural gap between B-grade production and A-grade production.

The production cost of "The Extraordinary Suspect" is $30 million, and the production cost of "Seven Deadly Sins" is $40 million.

A Denzel Washington. The salary is twice that of all the actors of "The Extraordinary Suspects" combined, and even Jude Locke, who directs and acts himself, actually has a popularity that is not weaker than that of a first-line star, and "Seven Deadly Sins" has completely exploded "The Extraordinary Suspects" in terms of cast.

was already at a disadvantage. But recently, there has been news in the media that there is still a blockbuster star in "The Seven Deadly Sins" that has not been exposed, although the truth of the news has yet to be confirmed. But this incident undoubtedly cast a shadow on the entire crew of "Extraordinary Suspects".

Kevin Spacey was refrigerated by the producers for various reasons just because he had the same agent as Jude. It can be seen how sensitive this matter is in the hearts of the producers.

Even Brian can only mention Kevin Spacey in passing, not to mention the rest of the crew.

Kevin Spacey also knows he's a "persona non grata" at the moment. So the whole premiere was very low-key, even if a reporter asked him about his opinion on the collision of the schedules of "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Extraordinary Suspects", he refused on the grounds that the question had nothing to do with the film.

But even so, some things can't be avoided.

Just halfway through the premiere of "The Extraordinary Suspect", the mobile phone of a reporter sitting in the front row suddenly rang, and before he could take it out, another person's mobile phone rang next to him.

It was a coincidence that one or two people's mobile phones rang, but the next scene made the creators of "Extraordinary Suspects" on stage dumbfounded.

More and more reporters took out their mobile phones, noisy and chaotic ringtones came and went, and the ongoing interaction between the main creators on the stage had to be paused for two minutes before it could continue.

A staff member walked quickly up to producer Michael McDonnell and whispered a few words of explanation to him, followed by McDonnell's face suddenly turning terrible.

Brian, who was standing on the stage, saw this scene and suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, in less than ten minutes, at least a quarter of the reporters in the audience left the venue under the pretext of leaving the venue, and the entire screening hall suddenly vacated many seats.

Even the ordinary audience noticed the abnormality of this incident and began to whisper in their seats, and several of the main creators on the stage were also greatly affected, and they were obviously a little out of shape when they continued to answer the questions raised by the host.

As soon as the on-stage event ended, Brian was the first to find Michael McDonnell and asked him why the reporter's mobile phone rang and left the venue early.

"Just came the news from the Chinese Theater that Anthony Hopkins appeared, he is the leading actor who was not exposed in the media before, and he plays the villain killer in it."

McDonnell said the news with a dismayed face, and Brian only felt a cold air rushing up from the soles of his feet, and the whole person was "frozen" there all of a sudden.

After a long time, he opened his mouth with difficulty and asked, "Is this true?" ”

There was still a bit of disbelief in his tone, and it was clear that he hadn't fully accepted the news until now.

"I hope it's fake, too, but you've seen what happened just now, and if it weren't for this kind of big news, those damn reporters wouldn't have left the show early before the premiere was over."

McDonnell was completely dead when he said this, if the stars of "The Seven Deadly Sins" were only Denzel Washington and Jude Locke, "The Usual Suspects" could still be spelled, and now there is an extra Anthony Hopkins, and even the hope of fighting is directly crushed.

Although Brian saw this clearly earlier than his own producer, his heart was also filled with reluctance and disappointment.

McDonnell patted Brian on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

"It's not your fault, I'm going to negotiate with the Columbia Samsung side and get them to lower their expectations for 'The Usual Suspects', it's a battle we don't want to win."

Anthony Hopkins' "incognito" appearance in "The Seven Deadly Sins" disrupted not only the "Extraordinary Suspects" crew and the layout of Columbia's Samsung company, but the whole of Hollywood was shaken by this sudden news.

One of the most surprising was Ed Mintz, the chairman of CinemaScore.

From the first meeting, Ed Mintz clearly felt that Jude had an inscrutable confidence in him, as if his films were inherently meant to be successful.

This confidence in success can easily be labelled as megalomania, and of all the directors I've dealt with in the past, Ed Mintz has only felt the same way with James Cameron.

The hubris of truck drivers is well known in Hollywood, and Jude can only be said to have just started on the road in terms of age and personal accomplishments, but these two people who feel unconnected in any way put Ed Mintz into the same category.

Insiders know that James Cameron is now competing with a shipwreck, and the upfront investment in this film alone is a rare large-scale investment in Hollywood history, and this project was originally very expected, but some time ago, the super blockbuster "Future Water World" shot by Universal spent $170 million failed miserably, and the entire Hollywood followed the "talk about water discoloration", all film projects related to the ocean were all cut, and the movie that James Cameron was preparing to shoot was of course also affected by some influences.

Ed Mintz has a different opinion from everyone, he was very optimistic about Cameron's new work from the beginning, and had a strong premonition that if James Cameron did not lose this time under the personal arrogance and jealousy of others after his career and influence reached the peak, there will be very few people in Hollywood who are qualified to be his opponents in the future, and if there is a guy like Jude, the showdown between two arrogant guys should be a very interesting thing.

Of course, now Ed Mintz is only assuming such a possibility, and does not really think that Jude is qualified to be Cameron's opponent.

Jude first has to squeeze into the ranks of directors with a box office of more than 100 million yuan before he can be regarded as initially qualified to be Cameron's opponent, and the current box office performance after the release of "The Seven Deadly Sins" is Ed Mintz's main concern.

There is no suspense about this movie being a box office hit, the key is how much it can sell! (To be continued......)