"The first day was 9 million, the next Saturday 11 million, and Sunday 10 million...... Ten million in the first three weeks? When did romance literary films make so much money? "David. Frank said in a questioning tone, but he couldn't help but smile widely, "This girl makes the pressure very great. ”

"The company is already asking if it needs to increase the budget." Wendy. "I said, if you want to recoup your full cost in the first week, you'd better not, and if you think you can take your time, no one is too budget-prone." ”

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, both of them did not hide their joy at all: for a project in production, the best news is, of course, that the female lead actress at the box office has demonstrated her super ability to attract money, which will make them confident in the next production process.

"What would you think if Ryan could be brought in to play Nate?" David has already put his brain into 'borrowing the east wind', and is now in the casting stage, except that at Jennifer's insistence, Emily has been decided. Except for Blunt as Emily's actor, other actors are still in the process of selection. "I can't help but admit that this boy has extraordinary potential."

"It's unlikely," Wendy shook her head, "Ryan is now very popular, his offer has multiplied tenfold, and the genre has reached nearly four million, you know we don't have that much budget, and Nate is not a leading actor, so he may not be attracted to him." ”

"It's a shame." David sighed, but his tone was quite relaxed, because he also knew that this was unlikely, and there was an unwritten rule in the industry: normally, the lead group of a blockbuster movie would not cooperate in other films in the short term, especially if it was a series of films. There is a problem with the stereotype of the screen image, and the big studios don't like their peers to borrow their limelight.

Of course, this is not an iron law, and if the film is good enough, there will be movie stars who will put their concerns aside, but the role of Nate is obviously not enough to make Ryan. Gosling did just that. "With him and Jennifer starring together, even if it is a big bad movie, it can at least guarantee a box office of 15 million - Jennifer is responsible for 10 million of it, and Ryan is responsible for 5 million."

This is to make up the nail on Ryan's market value, and Wendy laughs, "Give him some time and I'm sure he'll do better - but I've heard that this boy has a very special personality and he doesn't seem to have much interest in mainstream films." It seems that Lionsgate has thrown an olive branch at him, wanting him to star in next year's big production, but he refused. ”

"Rumors." David didn't think so, the news of this line was always coming and going, and I didn't know whether it was true or not. Except for the parties involved, no one can say that they know the truth until the exact information is released to the public. "It's only been three days since the release, and the people of Lionsgate can't move so fast."

Wendy smiled and said, "yes, I think there is a definite news that Universal contacted Jennifer yesterday, and they want to sign a packaging contract to buy her two film contracts for 30/10, one of which is definitely a romance movie, if I guess correctly, it should be Nancy who is intentionally doing it, guaranteeing to play against A-list actors, and the other can be preferred with her in Universal's big production." ”

The Nancy she said was Nancy. Meyers, a well-known romance director, and Wendy are friends, so her news should be quite accurate, and David was also a little staggered, "This is equivalent to a 15/10 price, which is not a low price." ”

20/20, it's been a long time ago, even a long time ago, it's rare for an actress to get 20/20, and 15/10 is almost an a-list treatment for an actress.

"In terms of the current box office trend, she deserves the price." Wendy said succinctly, "It's Wednesday now, and the box office can maintain four or five million on Monday and Tuesday, and by next Monday, if the cumulative box office can reach 60 million, it means that the project has begun to make a profit, and this is only domestic, so that she has a wide international reputation, the box office of this film overseas cannot be too bad, according to this trend, I will not be too surprised that the global box office can reach 300 million when it is finally released." ”

The two couldn't help exchanging a slightly happy look: they are all professionals in the field of women and love themes, of course, they know that 300 million in the world is also a small box office miracle for romance films, and even if the revenue of the follow-up DVD is fully discounted and offset, in the end, the new line actually took 300 million, which is equivalent to ten times the return on investment for 30 million. Even if, if you don't count its role in stimulating the amusement project, you dare not say that Disney can get 1.4 billion cash in the end.

Although Ryan's performance is very eye-catching, but in terms of film reviews, Jennifer's performance is better than him, Ryan's performance is superb, and Jennifer's traceless and natural transformation has been called a miracle - of course, this is the flesh and blood of the online film review blog, but her fresh and natural acting skills embodied in it, and the transformation of the 180-degree turn compared with her previous roles, have also made the industry have a high evaluation of her acting skills, which is real.

Acting skills are affirmed, beautiful, full of popularity, has always been the topic of street photography, gossip magazines, the darling of the fashion industry, the 2004 parents' favorite star ranked second, and has these two box office miracles in his hands......

David shook his head and sighed sincerely, "God, this girl is a gold mine now. ”

"Oh, she's coming." Wendy raised her hand, "Goldmine Girl, we're here. ”

Jennifer smiled brightly, walked around the rock pile to the back porch, and sat down in the shadows, "Sorry, there's some traffic jam on the road. ”

"That's what annoys in Malibu." David said it was his waterfront mansion in Malibu. "You always have to be late for a date in the city - you're getting there pretty fast, Meryl and Elle (the screenwriter) haven't arrived yet."

This was the first meeting of the main creative team, and the location was chosen in David's house, which is a very common phenomenon, and many early production meetings of the project were held in such a relaxed atmosphere.

Wendy poured Jennifer a glass of water - it was her habit. "We're talking about you - but I don't think we're the only producer and director in town talking about you, baby, you're hot right now."

"Thank you, dear." Jennifer took the glass of water and could see that she was in a good mood, which was also a matter of course. "Speaking of which, I will give you the invitation first, and then the new line is expected to hold a celebration party, if the time is convenient, you can come and have a lively time."

This kind of celebration party is a great opportunity to socialize with the film company, and it is also for Jennifer, and of course the two industry insiders will not refuse. Wendy smiled and read the words on the invitation, "The North American box office will break 100 million celebrations, it seems that the new line is full of confidence." ”

"Judging from the current reputation and trend, it should only be a matter of time before it breaks 100 million." Jennifer said, "But it was a real accident, neither New Line nor I expected it to do so well, and I don't think it's all about the quality of the film - of course it's a good movie, but it's also because the market is a little hungry for romance films." thirsty, that's why it can be a hit. ”

"Oh?" Wendy was in the mood for it, and she laughed and teased, "Looks like you really want to be a producer, dear." Can you analyze the reasons for such good results? By the way, I'm also wondering why you took it, are you a fan of the original? ”

Since she is an investor, Big Dream Movies is one of the producers, Jenny also has the name of an executive producer, but many starring stars will hang an executive producer, in fact, it is just a name, and may not really do the work of a producer, but Jenny has designated Emily before. Blunt plays the female No. 3 or female No. 4 Emily, which is a bit of a tendency to meddle in the composition of personnel, so Wendy's asking this sentence now also means a bit of a school test. -- These market analysis tasks are also the basic skills of producers.

Although 'intuitionism' is very unreliable, Jenny almost regretted choosing it as her weapon several times, but she can't turn back, and there must be a reason why she chose 'intuitionism', with her extremely busy schedule, it is almost impossible for Jeanne to self-educate herself and cultivate into a positivist who smashes people with data like Cesare, in this case, 'intuitionism' is her only choice.

"I'm a guy who values intuition," she says with a smile, mimicking Cesare's style as much as possible, as if she had a strong confidence in her words, "because the moment I saw the script, I had a strong intuition that this was going to be a successful project." The market is very hungry for such pure, pure films, and the movies of the past few years have tied love to too many complex gimmicks, but in fact, romance films may not need these selling points, only the interaction of the male and female protagonists with true feelings and appropriate stories, the audience has been enduring the cake that is not on the appetite, but it is a refreshing lemonade, although it has no depth, just selling moving, but I feel that its results will be very good. ”

She shrugged, "Of course, none of us expected it to be so good, and I think we all underestimated the market's hunger for truthful and moving movies, and when predicting the box office, underestimating my appeal to teenage girls." They and their boyfriends, BFFs, filled the movie theater for the summer vacation, and my face was still very attractive to them. ”

To her surprise, this time, her 'intuition' was not questioned at all in front of Wendy and David, and Wendy nodded approvingly, "For a producer, intuition is an indispensable talent, you have to pick out one of thousands of tempting and seemingly profitable ideas to put into practice, the whole film production process is full of choices, each choice can be the difference between life and death of the film, in many cases, you can only trust intuition." ”

Wendy didn't object to the two reasons she gave, just smiled and said, "Very well-said, many times the supply and demand relationship in the film market is really unbalanced, and the audience only knows what they don't want to watch, but it won't be until they see the movie they want to see that the audience will know what they want." But maybe you also underestimate Ryan's popularity, although the initial box office was brought by you, but if you can break 100 million or even break 200 million, Ryan's role must not be underestimated, after all, his ranking on IMDB and major search engines has put you down. ”

"Hmm." Jenny nodded, smirking self-deprecatingly, "Rookie effect, now I understand Johnny's mood last year." ”

Wendy and David both laughed, and David commented, "This is also because the character of Noah is more likable, and the audience always likes characters who are more deeply loved, relatively speaking, the character of Elle is really not very dramatic, and it is not easy to gather popularity - but Andy is different, play Andy well, I guarantee that you will have a bunch of fans with great purchasing power." ”

Jenny agrees with David's words, and she also feels that it is a film that belongs to the type of 'red film is not a red person', although it has a wicked start at the box office, and the trend is against the sky, which also makes Ryan, a newcomer, soar into the sky, but some of Jenny's search data have not risen as wildly in the past few days, and the increase can only be said to be stable, in other words, this film is not very popular. may have made her and Ryan's public awareness reach 80 points, but because she has a 75 point base, some people who know her are not interested in learning about her latest developments after watching this film, so her search index has not risen as much as Ryan.

Of course, this is also a very normal thing, what is sold is moving, people go to watch this film just to cry, to be moved, after crying, what should you do with tears, even if you Jennifer plays well, Elle's role is limited there, and it is impossible to bring them shocking feelings. No matter how talented an actor is, he has to be limited by the role, not to mention that Jenny's empathy golden finger only allows her to become Elle, but not to make Elle very charming in an instant. Yes, her role as Elle is very vivid and real, but people don't have much interest in and impulse to worship 'Elle', and even because of Elle's own bland personality, they won't think Jenny plays very well, and this is also a problem that Goldfinger can't solve.

In fact, it may also be a 'red film is not a red man' type of film, Elizabeth is not the focus of the plot, although Jenny has divided some of Captain Jack's charm points, but the plot gives her a lot of room to play, so far, she has not taken over the 'red man is not a red film', 'red man and red film' film, as for the musical, the role of Locke killed Elizabeth, Ellie and even Huanita in seconds.

This is also why big names will lower their salaries to star in some literary films, and some even invest upside down, even if they are big names at the top of the pyramid, it is not easy to meet a suitable script that can make them have the hope of 'red people and red films'. Jenny is now gradually understanding their mentality, and her mood has changed again - although her voice seems to have risen with the popularity of the screening, she is no longer ready to restart the debate on the idea of adapting the script.

After all, if you follow the idea of the original film, Andy's character doesn't play either, and there is not much room to play, it's just another vase, it's a bit boring, especially if there are two characters with such a high charm value in the same film, although it is not to say that they are proud of Goldfinger, but seeing that Meryl and Emily can play such a charismatic role, and she can only play the flat Andy, Jenny will still feel unwilling. -- After confirming that she could recover 10 million in salary, Jenny's financial pressure was reduced a lot, and she no longer had the need to prove her vision so urgently, and the mentality of investors was suddenly weakened, and the 'artist' side began to prevail.

In the past few days, she has been feeling the turmoil and emptiness in her heart, I can't help but say, she began to miss 'Lockhee', although she has put in great hard work to create such a role, and she has worked hard many times harder than playing Elle, but the praise and satisfaction that 'Lockhee' brings to her are also what 'Elle' can't give her. Even if 'Ellie' paid her tens of millions, she found that there were some things that really couldn't be measured by money.

Stir up a new round of controversy, try to win - push back to the original trajectory - slaughter the box office, prove the ability to attract money - take another step on the road to dominating Hollywood - and one step closer to going home

Settle for the status quo – take risks – you may perform better than you used to, or you may end up in the streets – if you lose, take a few steps back on your way to dominating Hollywood – and you may miss the best rhythm of going home

…… Weighing the two possibilities, Jenny closed her eyes and gently said 'I'm sorry' to the little boy whose face was already a little blurred in her heart, and then she smiled and naturally picked up David's words, "Yes, I think the adapted Andy is an easy character to shine through, there are a few inner scenes in the first draft, and to be honest, I'm looking forward to it very much." I've heard that Elle will be bringing a finished manuscript today -- this script reading session should be interesting. ”

Although she didn't show her struggles, after making up her mind, her enthusiasm for the new script increased, and this change may still make Wendy notice, she glanced at Jenny with relief, and said with a smile, "If you were a performer, maybe I would use the B plan you proposed (the original trajectory idea)." Andy of this A plan has certain requirements for acting skills, and if someone else is changed, the effect may be very poor, which directly causes Andy to be pressed by Miranda, and then the word of mouth and box office will lose. But David and I have full confidence in you—this Andy shouldn't be harder than Loxi. At the script reading meeting, if you have any questions, ask them, and it is the joint work of this crew to portray Andy and Miranda. ”

Jenny looked at the confident expressions on David and Wendy's faces, and this time she smiled genuinely wryly, and she said sincerely, "Actually, I think Andy should be the most challenging character I've ever encountered, she is not at all simpler than Loxi, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the hardest bone (hardestnuttocrack) I have ever ...... ever been in the movies."

The author has something to say: Note: The box office has been raised a lot, mainly because Jenny has a certain international reputation, and the box office appeal is definitely different from that of newcomers.

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Question: Why did Jenny say that Andy was the hardest bone to gnaw since the movie?

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