Although "Pirates 2" was set to shoot a sequel very early, Jenny didn't see the script until she went to Hamilton, compared to the first part that was in mind and couldn't wait, Gore seemed to be a little undecided about the second part, which is also a common problem in sequels, usually this is also the time when the audience of the previous part was turned out of the pile of old papers, and the director and producer will summarize the successful experience of the previous film through various data reports, and then determine the basic structure of the film, and even the role and focus time of each role, As for the plot, it's all secondary. Of course, there's also the amount of time you can use special effects based on your budget, but for a major film like Pirates of the Caribbean, budget isn't a problem, and it doesn't matter if you overspend a little. Bruckheimer and Gore. Wibinski could have taken it easy.

Because there are so many factors to consider in a sequel, directors often can't let go, so generally speaking, the evaluation of sequels is generally weaker than the first episode, and Jenny felt the same way when she saw the script of the sequel - the script was not finalized until April, but at that time she was filming "Sally", so she didn't watch it in order not to be distracted, but waited for the filming to finish before finding time to read.

Like the first episode, the main plot line of "Pirates 2" is not much different from the parallel world version, both of which are about Captain Jack's old enemy, David. The story of Jones' hunt for Captain Jack. Due to the expected large number of special effects and fight scenes, the script is very thin, and there is almost nothing to see in terms of literature and drama, compared with "Chicago", "The Fifth Sally" and even "Prada", "Pirates 2" is a film that is not difficult to interpret at all, Jenny tried to read the script, and she found that with her current strength, she can even play this role well without empathy goldfingers, but empathy will be more effortless, and the style of "Pirates 1" is more consistent. - Although she has never been proud of the progress of her acting skills, on the contrary, the more she goes into Hollywood, the more frightened she feels, and she feels lucky, but there is no need to be too arrogant, maybe she is not very talented, but she is not stupid, after four years of high-intensity acting career, Jenny's own strength must be a leap forward. Even if she leaves Goldfinger now, she can still mix and eat in commercial blockbusters, and maybe even mix very well.

It should be said that from a commercial point of view, the success of "Pirate 2" will not be too much of a problem, but in terms of artistic value, it is completely scum, the first part may still be fresh, but the second part is a bit repetitive about itself, and in the third part, everyone is just watching a lively one. As far as Jenny's memory goes, as well as her own opinion, the "Pirates" tetralogy should be a curve of change - the box office is getting higher and higher, but the word of mouth is getting lower and lower.

Just like the action and cop movies of the last century, this kind of movie that wins with hilarious scenes, American humor, and star charm has always made box office, so it has a reason to exist, and Jenny doesn't plan to use her current influence to push the crew to change the script - she's had enough of Prada, and she doesn't want to repeat that kind of fearful process, at least not on the big production of "Pirates of the Caribbean." Her freshly baked A-lister should be able to withstand the failure of the investment rating of "The Fifth Sally", but if she saves the "Pirate" series with a budget of close to 200 million, the godhead will definitely fall, and it is difficult to say whether she can get a similar opportunity in the future.

The make-up day for "Pirates 2" is also the first reunion of the main actors, Jenny and Josh are at the studio together, and of course Johnny and the role of David. Jones's Bill. Nye, along with director Wibinski and producer Bruckheimer. When the two of them walked into the studio, ten makeup artists were circling around the four of them, mainly Bill's because he needed to do special effects makeup.

"Johnny." Jenny sometimes wonders if there is some code in Hollywood for the distribution of producers. Bruckheimer's greetings were in the same order as everyone had chosen in recent months, "Jenny! ”

He smiled and patted Jenny on the shoulder affectionately, "Girl, you're getting prettier - Josh, how are you doing?" You lucky boy! The premiere of "Unstoppable" is just a few days away, right? ”

Josh smiled at him taekly, "Hi, Jerry Gore—"

"Long time no see, Jenny." Gore also said politely to Jenny that compared to the previous avoidance, he is now calm and relaxed, and Jenny probably understands his heart: according to her own coffee position and Elizabeth's popularity, there is only one successful "Pirate", and Gore, who has just dropped a "Weather Forecaster" on the street, is no longer able to hint at anything by taking advantage of his position. And if you want to rely on charm, Jenny will be with him when she is crazy, a piece of meat that can be eaten without letting herself eat, and a piece of meat that you can't eat at all, the latter is more comfortable, you can't eat it anyway, and you don't need to worry about or avoid anything.

"Hi, Gore." She smiled kindly at Gore, and the two smiled at each other, and Jenny was glad that Gore was a smart man, and that it didn't have to be too ugly. "Ready to get started? We're going to get on board again. ”

Jenny wasn't the only one who could get seasick, but Gore laughed, "I'm not the one to hang Wia from the ship—did they tell you?" In the second part, we are going to increase the weight of your plays, of course, there will be stand-ins, but there are also many scenes that require you to hang Weiya in person. ”

Jenny hasn't acted in an action movie so far, and of course there are some running and chasing scenes in "Pirate 1", and some joking fight scenes, but it's still very different from the handsome flipping in the air and moving real fencing and fists, her eyes widened, "Really? I had absolutely no idea. ”

"We've just made a decision, and maybe they haven't had time to inform you yet." "But don't worry, this is a fantasy movie after all, and there won't be too many real shots." It's just that we'll need to try on one more martial arts makeup look for a while. ”

What more could Jenny say? Although it was a bit sudden, it was also a breakthrough - I could only secretly sigh that I had worked hard, I thought it was to see the scenery, travel the Caribbean, and enjoy the shooting trip on a relaxed budget, but now there is suddenly another difficulty, and every movie is really not worry-free.

At the end of the day's makeup trial, it was already late, and she was also very tired, so she could only wait for the next day to finish the interview of "People", do some interviews for the upcoming "Pirate" and the just-finished "Sally", and then hurried to Dameng in the afternoon to ask about her business career when she left.

"You asked Lindsey before. Lohan has no drug addiction. Jim had been waiting in Big Dream early in the morning, the company had rented half a floor in an office building on Sunset Boulevard, Jenny had just signed the lease when she left, and it was a mess everywhere, and now the whole office had a Cesare flavor - minimalist, clean décor, a few offices with little furniture, but they looked very tasteful. It's that Jenny's office has been idle, so there is still a bit of a smell of decoration, "I followed up on this matter before, Lindsay seems to have had too big before. The problem of hemp, but she has been clean recently, and it will not affect the filming of "Unlucky Eros". Her agent said they could provide last month's drug test report — and Fox didn't seem too happy about our questioning. ”

Nominally, Jim was the one who ran the film for Jenny, and Cesare only occasionally attended meetings with Jim under the name of 'Jenny's request', and this kind of checks and balances between agents and managers is also common in Hollywood, and there is nothing wrong with that. So both Jim and Cesare, of course, knew everything about the company's affairs, and Jenny looked at Lindsay's material contemplatively, "What do you think, Chesa?" ”

"Lindsay is very popular now, she is a popular figure in the major votes, and Fox offered her a salary of more than 7 million, from this point of view, her worth is not much different from you a year ago." Cesare said, and both Jim and Jenny smiled contemptuously: "Maybe Lindsay is the favorite right now, but when it comes to cumulative box office, Lindsay can't compare with Jenny a year ago." A "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" is enough to second her. Not to mention Jenny's awards and endorsements - if Lindsay's agent thinks that Jenny is not qualified to find fault with Lindsay, it is pure self-aggrandizement.

"What about the producer's opinion?" Jenny asked, "Does he insist on Lindsey too?" ”

"He also has a crush on Rachel." Cesare replied, "Actually, Rachel's popularity is not low, and the asking price is cheaper, only half a million, which is more conducive to controlling the budget." Chris. Pyne - The male vase in "The Princess Diaries 2" is 750,000 ...... I'm more satisfied with him, as for which is better, Rachel or Lindsay, I think it's about the same from the point of view of value for money, Lindsey is obviously expensive, and Rachel is too cheap. ”

It seems that he also has doubts about Lindsay, Jenny flipped through the script, desperately recalling the information of "Unlucky Eros" in her mind: she had watched "Star Trek" and liked Chris very much. Pine, but he hasn't gotten to the point of watching him act in a film, I only know that he has acted in "The Princess Diaries 2", which is indeed a success, and then it seems to have transitioned directly to "Star Trek". There has been no information about him at all in the middle of the years, so it is common sense to infer that "Unlucky Eros" must not have exploded, otherwise she should have been able to see him at various fashion ceremonies and award ceremonies.

Compared with him, Jenny is more familiar with Lindsay, she seems to have started to fight the streets in the past two years, and when she watches gossip news, she can often see people comparing her with Britney, both of whom are actresses who have a great future but are slumped, and it seems that they may overdose and die at any time. Considering that Britney seems to have started to pick herself up and come out of the haze in '07, then Lindsay will also start her journey to death in '06 at the latest. Anyway, the last time Jenny watched her movie was "Mean Girl", and she didn't seem to have had an influential work after that, and she became famous by being dead.

She gritted her teeth and looked at the script again—because it was just an investment, and she didn't need to shoot it herself, and she had read several scripts as early as Hamilton.

"How much do we expect to invest in this film? Million? She asked.

"Well, if Fox hadn't invited Lindsay, the budget would have gone back to about twenty million." "So we're close to half of our investment, and we're not having a low voice." ”

For the Big Six, they will not allow outsiders to get involved in big projects with confidence, but it is easier for small productions of tens of millions of dollars to accept foreign investment, so as to share the risk, especially romance films, because romance films are not easy to make sequels, and there is nothing to do around, so the plate is not big for the Big Six, and in the contracts signed by the Big Six, they generally enjoy the priority settlement right, that is to say, small companies take money later, the risk is higher, and there is a danger of being swallowed up.

As for how to avoid these risks, that is, the eight immortals have crossed the sea to show their powers, Hollywood is by no means a commercial paradise, you can start from scratch with your extraordinary business talents - this is just a dream, large companies will do everything to protect their own interests, seize new territory, the Big Six and subsidiaries almost carved up the top 100 box office in North America every year, looking at the rankings, the occasional name of independent film companies, are also old big companies such as New Line and Lionsgate.

In Cesare's previous plan, the company would invest millions of dollars in a project, try to use the 40 million yuan efficiently, and not sit idle to earn interest. But in the end, there are only two projects that he sees and can accept the investment of Big Dream, so Cesare also increased the amount of investment, otherwise both films will invest one or two million, and they will have no right to speak at all, and it will be a long time before the return on the capital - needless to say, such a small investment, the priority of settlement is very low, and it is possible to settle it for you after two or three years, it is better to invest eight million now, and you can also talk about the project, and even rely on Cesare's wrist and Jenny's face, and you can compete with Fox in the settlement.

"It doesn't look like you're too enthusiastic about Lindsey either." Jenny groaned for a moment and made up her mind, "If Lindsay refuses to accept the drug trial we arranged, let her go, or we'll take the money." The projects I have invested in will never work with drug addicts. ”

Cesare didn't speak, just nodded at Jim, who jotted down her words, "So we're going to bring Rachel up to Fox?" ”

"Well," said Jenny, "and besides, this script is so bad, Fox should have said it straight if he didn't have the heart to do this project well, it's a good idea, but the specific script is terrible, can't you find a cheaper screenwriter to rewrite it?" If you ask Rachel, you can save 7 million, and 500,000 from it is enough. ”

She closed her eyes and thought about it, and found a name from the show space, "Steve. How about Fabre? He's the screenwriter of The Wedding Guest, and my gut tells me he has a lot of potential. ”

Cesare shook his head, "Between the screenwriter and the actress, you may only choose to meddle in one thing, otherwise you might as well just divest - Fox is Fox after all." ”

"Are you really optimistic about this project?" Jenny really doesn't like this script no matter how she looks at it.

Cesare calmly asked, "Are you really optimistic about Rachel and Steve?" ”

Jenny looked at him for a moment, then coughed softly, "Well, you trust me, I trust you...... Then give up the screenwriting and tell Fox to put Lindsay in drug testing. ”

After deciding on "Unlucky Eros", "Old Friends Are Rich" went well, only some documents needed Jenny to sign, and after Jenny looked at it carefully, she did not leave to go to Kim's office immediately, but closed the door of the office.

"How's your opinion manipulator project going?" She asked Jim, "Are there any posts worth looking at?" ”

In fact, she also knows that Bell is a B-lister no matter what she says, and a black water army can't shake her status, but Jenny guesses that Bell will definitely read the posts on the Internet - she will, even if Bell doesn't, her PR or agent will pay attention to these, and eventually the information will be fed back to Bell. Isn't it money? Sister has nothing else, the small money of Jianshui Army can still be taken out, throw some money to Ying Bell, and buy it for your own comfort. As for other developments, they are all dispensable, and she is not naïve enough to think that she can control online public opinion or even real media public opinion with an idea that can be easily copied.

Jim and Cesare looked at each other, and a confident smile appeared on his face, even a little smug, as he licked his lips and rubbed his hands to take his laptop out of his briefcase. "Regarding this matter, I can guarantee that the progress of the 'Puppeteer' will surprise you......"

The author has something to say: Note: 1 The release time of several of the movies mentioned here has been fine-tuned, and in fact, "The Weather Forecaster" has not yet been released, so let's be a few months in advance. But this film did hit the streets.

2 As for the time of Lindsay's death, it was almost 06 years when he began to die. At the same time, Britney is actually getting better. Hey, these two girls are a pity-

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Anyway, I also want to write a movie for release, but unless I jump a few months at a time, I must have a lot of things to explain, after all, it usually takes a year from the production of a movie to its release. Celebrities have a rich life, and it is impossible to make films all the time if they want to dominate, there are always a lot of things...... And you can't be old and dominate, you still have to have a little bit of a private life......