"Emmy?"

Although Alexander was talking about two awards, the first thing that interested Levy after hearing his words was what he said about the Emmys. As the biggest award in the television category, the Emmy Awards are far less influential than the film awards, but they are still an award - Levy has never attended any awards ceremony in his life, and he is certainly interested in this.

"Of course, CSI is so hot this year, how could it be that the Emmys didn't nominate it? It's been a long time since the nominations were announced, haven't you seen it all along? ”

Levy shrugged: Who has time to stare at the TV awards? He's been busy with movies all the time.

In this regard, Alexander could only helplessly explain to him: Although the Emmy Awards are also an award that claims to be linked to art, this award attaches great importance to ratings. CSI, as the new favorite of this year's ratings and the top three phenomenal TV series in the United States, has naturally received a lot of nominations.

The nomination for Best Drama TV Series, CSI is naturally indispensable, the nomination for Best Actor, Hugh Laurie also got it smoothly, and the remaining roles, Marg Hagenberg was nominated for Best Actress. It's just a pity that although Amy Adams is well received, she seems to be too young to be nominated, but the remaining two nominations are quite surprising: one is Quentin Tarantino for directing a two-hour special for the final episode of the film, and the other is for Levy's own episode of The Buffalo Case, which was nominated for Best Screenplay.

"Five nominations, not less." When he saw this nomination number, Levy also felt a little pity: there are a lot of five nominations, but compared to CSI's status as a hit drama, it is still a little insufficient. In the field of TV dramas, the record for the most Emmy nominations was set by the story of the emergency room, and that TV series won eight nominations at once, setting a record. This time, CSI only received a total of five nominations, which is quite a gap.

"Is it going to die if you give a nomination for Best Supporting Actress? Amy did a pretty good job. Levy frowned at such nominations.

The Emmy Award is a grand prize in the TV drama category, and the evaluation of this award is quite helpless, it is not based on ratings, not artistry, and many times, the cake is divided according to the qualifications of the producers and performers of the TV series.

There were five nominations for Best Supporting Actress this year, and the story of the emergency room occupied four places, but CSI didn't get any of them. This distribution method is quite biased, and it is also obvious to people that the Emmy Awards are still the previous awards based on seniority.

When he heard that his TV series was nominated for an Emmy, Levy was quite excited, but now that he looks at the other TV series nominated and the way they were nominated, his excitement has passed.

It's simply for Levy to run with him, and who likes to watch someone win an award?

"There are already five nominations, a lot, so why do you have to be the best at everything? Your TV series has made enough money, do you have to have a very good reputation? At Levy's side, Theron said softly, "It's more important than that, but it's more important for you to prepare a little bit for the awards." ”

"What's there to attend at the awards ceremony? This kind of award, I think it's very difficult for my TV series to get. In this regard, Levy was also a little helpless, so he could only shrug his shoulders slightly.

Compared to those big producers and production companies, Mystery is still a bit small, and CSI only acted in the first season like winning an award, which is simply impossible - the cake has to be divided slowly, and it is too difficult to win the award in the first season.

"You'd better listen to Miss Theron, and you should really be prepared to attend the Emmys. The movie is about to be released, and even if you don't want to go, at least think about the promotion of the movie. ”

Alexander's reminder reminded Levy of something, "You just said the problem of the release...... What's the problem? ”

"It's a matter of the release date of the movie and the theater arrangement. The film, when it came to the world, was going to be released in early December -- they had the idea that it would be on December 5th, or December 12th. If it's too late, on December 19th, it will hit the release of Titanic, that movie has a lot of investment, and the theater chain is also a little skewed towards it, and it will be difficult to arrange your movie to be released at that time. And if it's too late, even if Titanic doesn't continue to occupy the market, there will still be Jack Nicholson's movie "Perfect" released, so your movie has to be released on December 5, before "Titanic", which is more beneficial to the box office. ”

"Understood, in order to avoid that big ship." Levy nodded--that movie, even if it hadn't been released yet, the whole of Hollywood had been paying attention for a long time, and no studio would be stupid enough to let its movie fight that movie.

"If you agree, try to finish the film by October. Universal said that it had to contact the test screening and contact the media to comment on the movie. This process can take about a month, so you'll have to speed up your pace as well. ”

"There's no problem with this, it's definitely going to be done." Levi agreed: it was only the beginning of September, and the film itself didn't have much post-production work to do, and there was a month, which was enough to finish the post-production work.

The investment in this movie, although it is not very large, but it is not bad, Levy spent more than half a year preparing in advance, so that the publicity and distribution are fully in place, and the post-production sound effects and other configurations of the film are also completed very well, with these preparations, it will take another month to plan, and the release will not be a problem.

"The other is the number of theaters, they contacted about 1,500 theaters to release at the same time, and they may adjust it again when the time comes. Of course, if the movie has good results, you can also contact the expansion immediately, and you can rest assured in this regard. ”

1500? Levy was also very satisfied with this amount.

During the filming, Levy did not keep it too secretive, but publicized that his film was related to some East German institutions. These things have made his film already attract the attention of Germany during the filming process, and there are not many people who pay attention to it now. Moreover, the starring role of this movie is Kevin Spacey, who just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor last year, and his performance in "Los Angeles Confidential" released this summer is also extremely eye-catching, so in the issue of the opening of this movie, Levy got a good number of 1,500 theaters opening at the same time.

This scale, in the United States, is considered a small and medium-sized opening scale, compared to the 4,000 openings of some commercial films, there is no way to compare, but as far as this scale of investment is concerned, it can be regarded as okay.

Universal has done a very generous job in this regard, and of course it is also related to Levy's finding CBS support: if it weren't for this approach, the distribution company would have arranged a dozen movie theaters to show it locally at most, and see the effect before the next step. There are basically no thousands of families directly arranged like this.

Thousands of movie theaters, coupled with a month of promotional preparations, also made Levy have some expectations for what the box office of this movie will be. In his memory, the film was quite poor at the box office: because the original film was German, and the director, in pursuit of artistry, refused to use dubbing in other languages and only allowed the original German sound, which made it impossible for the film to open the market outside of Germany.

Levy also admits that the original soundtrack of the movie is very important to the movie - for example, in the memory of the rise of the planet of the apes, Caesar's shouting of no is quite shocking, but if it is dubbed in Japanese, Caesar shouts 'Ami Butterfly', it is very awkward......

However, movies always have to take care of the audience, and some senseless insistence will indeed damage the spread of the movie. When the film was released in the United States, only 20 theaters were willing to release it, and the total release time was only three days - no wonder the box office was so good with such a screening method.

But now that Levy is shooting a movie, with star participation, English original sound, and the distribution company's hard work, what will be the box office of the movie?

In addition, according to the agreement, Kevin Spacey agreed to participate in a talk show to promote the movie, and the Universal Club will be responsible for contacting him. If you have this requirement and want to participate in the promotion of the movie, you can also do so. ”

This time, Levy thought for a moment, "Forget it, I won't play along." ”

"Could it be that you have been resting all this time?" Alexander also felt a little strange that Levy didn't want to participate in the publicity event, "You don't want to go to the Emmy Awards, and you don't want to participate in the publicity, what are your arrangements?" ”

"There's nothing to do, I just want to have fun and take a break. Now go out and publicize, how to publicize? I haven't directed a movie, look at the arrangement of the Emmys, that's the consequence of not being famous, not having status! If you really want to promote it, wait until the movie is released - at that time, it won't be me begging the media to promote me! Levy pouted, "Besides, I would like to take more time out to enjoy life during this time." ”

Glancing at Theron, Alexander seemed to understand what Levy meant, and he sighed: it seems that this time he still has to keep busy.