"It's so annoying! Why hasn't Christmas come yet! ”

In an apartment in Southern California, with a muffled "bang", a pillow was smashed against the wall, padded down fluttering, and snowflakes fell, Harry bent down to pick up his 'love pillow', and frowned at the uninvited villain, "Jon, if you want to open your eyes to December 24th, just say it, you don't need to signal me - I'll be happy to help."

"I wish you could knock me out and let me open my eyes in a week," Jon rolled his eyes at Harry, adjusted his position on the lazy couch, and opened his hands to Harry, Harry frowned and threw the pillow to her, "Come on, dear, use your big . Club. Beat me unconscious, use your housekeeping skills, don't stay hard. ”

Harry rolled his eyes at her and said in a deliberately gruff voice, "Thank you for the pun, ma'am, but your current sloppy appearance doesn't arouse any interest in me - whether it's sexual interest or the interest in beating you, and you're so decadent that I feel like it's been a waste of time to hit you, and I could even just sweep you out the door and throw you in the garbage truck." ”

He turned around and picked up the coffee cup on the coffee table, sat down at the computer desk, crackling something on the keyboard, and Jon responded with a middle finger raised with his back to him, "Please, you've been to college too, Harry, a girl should be allowed to relax after exam week." ”

"When we talk about relaxation, we mean parties, parties, and beach parties." Harry frowned and modified a statistic, "Instead of staying illegally at a poor programmer's house and drinking up his best coffee." ”

"You should blame the airlines, or the snow in New York—" Jon argued with Harry in great interest, but she suddenly sighed again, losing the interest in 'teasing' Harry, "Actually, it's still to blame, I'm just going crazy, and now I'm not interested in anything - seriously, I can't wait, I'm even dreaming about 'A Week with Monroe'." ”

"Well," Harry said slowly, putting down his work and pushing his chair away from the computer and settling into a gesture of small talk, "I know you've been holding back for a long time - let's say, what is so special about this movie compared to the previous works?" ”

Jon suddenly came to her senses, she turned over on the lazy couch, her hands propped up, and she looked ready to go, but before she could speak, she suddenly said with some hesitation, "But your job-"

"My colleagues in the company have already started testrun, and my work is almost done." Harry shrugged, "Well, I'm a little curious - the last time I paid attention to these lace news, Jennifer had just won the Venice Film Queen. ”

During the five months from July to December, he worked overtime on a project for the company, and took any free time to rest, almost isolated, and the last time he watched TV was the opening ceremony of the Olympics with Jon.

"Yes, yes." Jon gets excited about Jennifer's feat in early September, "The first actress in history to win the title of Venice in a row, but this is just the beginning. The film has killed all the critics in Europe, Montreal, Toronto, all won the award, so far Jennifer has not let the Best Actress crown fall aside, of course, for us, this awards season has just begun, but now everyone is saying that this year's BAFTA - the British Oscar is her, and even "Monroe" will win the best film, Venice gave the best film to "The Wrestler", Toronto and Montreal favored "Benjamin. The Curious Case of Barton", one gave glory to "Monroe", but everyone said that in Salvi's British home field, he would definitely win the award for best film, and even best director is not impossible. ”

Speaking of the now well-known director, Jon got excited again, threw the pillow into the air again, and exclaimed, "Oh my God, I'm emotional when I say this - I really don't understand why the paparazzi are so keen on Britney and Lindsay. What flavor of coffee did Lohan drink today, instead of photographing the people we were really interested in, since "Monroe" won the award in September, Salvi has become popular online, his K fan page has more than 300,000 followers, but we just can't see his new photos, we don't know where he's gone, whether he has a girlfriend now - we don't know anything at all! I don't even know what his relationship is with him now, whether he is in love or not. ”

"But I see that your k also often posts about him." Harry took a sip of his coffee and said sourly, "If I didn't know you that well, I would almost have thought you'd been completely for him." ”

"Those are all pictures of him before, but now they have been turned out again," Jon waved his hand, "These photos have actually been posted by more or less people before, but after the release of "Monroe", he became completely popular, and now people say that he will be the next Wes. Anderson, the next Patrice. Xiahou -- You don't know how much praise the film has received now, from Canada to England, from France to Italy, the scanned version of the newspaper put up by netizens is simply unreadable, I can't even recite to you how many praises it has received - you know, in fact, this is already September, October, almost four months have passed since Venice, and after that there is a new hot spot, and now the newspapers are keen to calculate her net worth - they are all counting her in "Twilight" What a rich man he became—"

She shrugged her shoulders, "Of course, that's great, but I can't help but admit to you, Harry, what I want to see most is more information about "Monroe", and with the premieres and preview screenings held in various places, more and more people have seen the movie, which is simply crazy, in those audience's film reviews, I can't read the ones marked with spoiler warnings, and the ones that are not marked with spoiler warnings, it is even more itchy to watch, almost all of them are wailing how beautiful they are, what 'the second half of the story is so beautiful that it is intoxicating',' I'm looking forward to the release of the movie soon, I can't wait to watch it a few more times', these feelings are really infuriating! ”

Saying that, Jon slammed the pillow a few times, "But the most infuriating thing is that I'm so enthusiastic about attending the event, but I didn't even get a ticket for a preview screening, which is simply unfair!" ”

Harry was tempted to ask if Jon was in PMS syndrome, but he didn't dare - and he was indeed intrigued by Jon's statement, so he moved on to the topic, "It never seems to miss, but is this the most critically rated work she's ever had?" Listening to you say this, almost none of the film critics have given a bad review? ”

"Yes, although the previous literary films have also been widely acclaimed, it does not mean that there are no controversies," Jon also said that the more she wants to watch "Monroe", she said angrily, "It's like "Michael. Clayton", some critics found the plot dull, and the performance was a bit hysterical -- a little overdone. As for "The Fifth Sally", there are also objections to overacting and exaggeration, but this work is still 100% praised, with a 95% freshness rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a super high score of 9.2 on IMDB, and they all say that this is the biggest highlight of the year - how do you say that? 'A panoramic film', I remember before Brad. Pete's fans also came to the forum to protest, because many people swiped on K and R: It's good that "Monroe" won't win the actor award this year, otherwise Brad. Pete simply didn't stand a chance. But I don't think that's true, you know, I like Brad a lot, but all I have on my mind right now is Monroe -- I really want to go to the cinema and see how beautiful she is-"

In Jon's gushing and excited narration, the week seems to pass in a flash, and soon, Christmas, the most important family holiday of the year for Americans, has arrived on the North American continent, and as Americans across the country pack up their bags and go home for the holidays, the most important Christmas-New Year schedule at the end of the year also arrives as scheduled, igniting the long-awaited passion of movie fans. Usually deserted, weekday mornings and afternoons can even be said to be a long queue at the door of the cinema, no matter how bad the movie, as long as the audience is right, there will be a certain box office, of course, this year's Christmas schedule is not lonely, in addition to the holiday movies, love movies and other low-cost productions in the genre film market, there are also a number of heavyweight celebrities to participate in the award-winning production, also selected at the end of the year, in order to leave the deepest impression on readers, This also makes a group of film box office experts busy, eager to grow an extra pair of arms: from the film festival in the middle of the year, to the awards season and nomination season at the end of the year, almost all the blockbusters have completed their appearances and public relations, and the awards season has come here, although the list of nominees for several heavyweight awards has not yet been announced, but the specific situation, insiders actually know what the situation is, and the only thing they don't know is what the box office performance of these award-winning films will be, which is not a decisive factor for winning awards, but also quite important, if the box office performance is very good, it will be a very powerful plus point for competing for awards, so whether it is the film company or the actors themselves, and even those film critics who are keen to predict the results of the awards, are all looking at this Christmas schedule, wanting to see "Benjamin. The Curious Case of Barton", will it reverse the situation a little bit at the box office and catch up a little bit......

"Give me a copy of "A Week with Monroe", thank you." In front of the ticket booth, such voices could be heard repeatedly, followed by exclamations of disbelief, "- what, all sold out?" But I bought a ticket for tomorrow morning's 10 o'clock show! ”

"Yes, sir, tomorrow's tickets are all sold out," the conductor's polite voice apologically passed to the waiting area next to him, "Yes, I know tomorrow is Christmas, and according to common sense, people always go home for reunions instead of going to the movies - but the tickets are really all sold out, and the tickets for the day after tomorrow are not on sale yet, if you want, you can come to the theater tomorrow at noon, and we will release tickets at that time, or you can buy them online......"

Taking a sip of Coke, Empire magazine's film critic Alain Brown. Morrison glanced at the crowd queuing up to buy tickets with some superiority: these viewers knew at a glance that they were not core movie fans, after all, as long as the audience who liked movies a little bit would know, Jennifer. If you want to see Jefferson's movies on the first day, you have to buy tickets online in advance, and this walkin-style ticket buying method is definitely not suitable for the opening weekend, especially if it hits the holidays, and if you come a little later, it may all sell out.

"Judging from the sample of this theater, at least "Monroe" is better than "Benjamin. The Curious Case of Barton...... Looks like Brad. It's likely that Pete won't even be able to beat his ex-wife, and "Marley & Me" is surprisingly good at the box office...... "His eyes wandered aimlessly over a pair of young men and women around him (this little girl named Jon was probably Jennifer. Jefferson's loyal fans, who had been so excited from just now that Alain felt a little noisy), Alain pondered the final box office rankings for the week, "There won't be a situation where two movies made by Big Dream will lead the Christmas week, right?" If that's the case, the six will be a loss of face......"

Rather than reading newspapers and magazines, Alain is obviously much more knowledgeable than Jon, who is blindly excited by those beautiful words. He also has a deeper understanding of how much "Monroe" now occupies a leading edge in the awards season - and even if it weren't for Jennifer. Jefferson just won a Best Picture award last year, and won two Oscars at the same time a few years ago, if it is really too much limelight, according to the attitude of these international film festivals, the high praise of film critics, and the distinct tendency of the outpost awards, this year's "Monroe" may be able to complete such a skewer from best actress to best director and best film, as long as you find a good public relations company, even Salvi. Tucci's seclusion and low-key can't hinder his path to the Oscar for Best Director, and it's hard to say that he can really become the youngest and most junior best director in history, let alone Jennifer. Jefferson's actress, that's nine out of ten, there can't be any surprises.

"It would be nice if Jennifer only won one Best Actress that year...... Now it seems that the two Oscars of that year have become an obstacle for her. Thinking of this, Alain muttered in his heart with some regret, "If she hadn't won the award, whether it was Kate. Winslet or Anne. Hathaway, or Meryl. Streep, there must be no drama this year, and they all have to make way for her, but it's a pity...... I heard that Weinstein has planned to forcibly let Winslet report the supporting role, and it seems that he is also full of confidence this year, ready to 'appoint' a Best Actress for the Oscars......"

The science of Oscar is too profound, and the water is too deep to see clearly, and Alain, as a film critic, certainly knows some gossip, but in the end. He didn't know much about what the curtain was, plus in fact he also thought that Jeannifer was earlier than Meryl. Streep's third Oscar for acting seems to have gone too far, so he is not too dissatisfied with this, but after thinking about it for a while, he began to think about what he is most concerned about now, and in fact, the most concerned issue of Hollywood now - "Although from a political standpoint, George and Brad are undoubtedly on the side of the majority, but Hollywood is indeed Hollywood, and Jennifer does have a naïve side in politics, but I have to say, She did trample the pair of good brothers to death in every way, and last year's "Michael. Clayton" needless to say, George was choked with anger, and this year's Brad may also have terrible internal injuries, originally from the expectation before the awards season, "Benjamin. "The Curious Case of Barton" is regarded as the biggest favorite for the Oscars, Fincher's compromise to the Oscars, although he does not say that he will win the award, but the breakthrough performance combined with special effects is also a big gimmick, plus strong public relations, it may not be hopeless for the award, but now, everyone is talking about "Monroe", those who are not talking about "Monroe" are talking about "Twilight", almost no one remembers his planb and "Benjamin. The Curious Case of Barton", in fact, this is not very fair to him, "Benjamin. The Curious Case of Barton is indeed a good movie, at least better than "Twilight" - it's weird, how did this good-for-nothing film get so high at the box office? It's still popular even overseas? Is it really the same as the legend suggests, that the girl has a bit of magic that turns stone into gold, or does she really have an innate instinct for choosing blockbusters? ――Isn't that true? It is said that Ron. Perlman is now obedient to her, and even dragged her into Marvel, allowing her to earn the wave of gains from the stock price rise before the acquisition, because she successfully predicted the downfall of Lehman Brothers and allowed her to avoid huge losses...... Either way, this girl is crazy enough - a company that has only been around for five years, or has it been six years? This year's box office share, even if you don't count "Iron Man", there are at least 400 million in China, in addition to the 200 million in "Twilight", "Monroe" and "Marley and I", as long as they are not accidental servants, they can always have 200 million domestic box office together, according to the annual trend in recent years, 400 million has also occupied 4% of the market share, which is already a terrible number, even if it is the big six, if it encounters a bad year, it can only get 10%, and as long as any of the next two movies explodes slightly, it is 5% , 6% market share, and even far behind those established independent film companies......"

Jon blamed the media for shifting the focus and focusing on Jennifer's film company, which is actually a bit angry, after all, for the industry, the shock caused by "Twilight" is too great, this film with a production fee of only 40 million, since its release on the 21st of last month, has won 170 million box office, although it has been hit by the blockbuster of the Christmas file, but it will certainly not be a problem for the box office to exceed 200 million by the next release - because its distribution strategy is not a costly global synchronization, So it's hard to say how the global box office will be, but it's certain that just the domestic box office, Big Dream has already made money, and that's not the point: the point is that "Twilight" is a four-part series, and after this one is filmed, there will be the next one, the next one, and the next one, and from "Harry. Judging from the experience of "Potter", the box office of the first part is just the beginning, and the box office will continue to rise in the next few films.

Now, the term IP is still relatively new to Hollywood, but many film critics have noticed this and experienced the power of this famous IP. The company founded by Jefferson, although it has frequently appeared at the beginning of Jennifer's movies in the past few years, it was not until this one that it really became a blockbuster and was discovered by everyone: this company not only holds part of the copyright of Jennifer's works, but more importantly, it now has such a high-quality IP independently, and its future can be said to be promising. Jefferson's net worth status will also have a qualitative change because of this!

From Jennifer. From the moment Jefferson became famous, she was the best spokesperson for the American dream, she was a miracle girl, a darling favored by God, and people in the industry have long been accustomed to looking at Jennifer with the eyes of a legend. Jefferson has difficulty coordinating, and he doesn't know what attitude to use to face her success - this is simply not something that human beings can do, a 27-year-old young girl, she is very good at acting, very beautiful, and very rich, which is actually not unusual in Hollywood, even if she lives in the best house, wears the most expensive clothes, and sleeps with the most famous and handsome men, it is nothing to Hollywood, but if she not only wins three Oscars, but also has extremely high-grossing commercial films, has won numerous literary films, and now there is even a promising production company, and even more, if she has begun to play the capital game, and Ron. Wall Street predators like Pereman made friends and were influenced by Robert Brown. Iger and Jeff. Robinov favored at the same time? What should you look at her? You don't even know how to define her. This girl is already otherworldly to the industry, even if she has been a servant since the next movie, but seriously, at the height she has reached now, she can become a legend.

On Christmas Eve, the cinema was normally empty, but now it was packed with people waiting for the midnight show of "Monroe", and Alain looked around, absentmindedly wondering how many people were there to see "Benjamin. "Maybe there won't be too many, after all, the audience of this film has no hunger, unlike the audience of "Monroe", from the moment they saw the trailer, they were hooked by Monroe's beauty, I remember that the trailer set a record for the fastest breakthrough of one million on YouTube, right? Hailed as the best trailer of the year, after that, the number of searches for "Monroe" directly increased sevenfold, and that's the power of beauty and special effects - the visual spectacle is even better than the critics' reputation, and it is definitely the biggest factor in determining the midnight show, the first-day box office. However, this is also because it has a good marketing team, and after Jennifer got Venice, the trailer was released at the time when the attention was highest, and the timing was really old and spicy - Big Dream really doesn't look like a new company! Who is its CEO? Cesare. Vijri? Is that the name? However, he seems to be newly inaugurated, and has been Jennifer's agent before...... He doesn't look like the one leading these miracles, but more like Jennifer's mouthpiece and old butler - could it be that Jennifer also developed these marketing strategies? It can't be, right...... But anyway, judging from the current crowd, the box office of "Monroe" at midnight may be the first strong Jennifer literary film. ”

Thinking of this, Alain couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "4,000 theaters have opened paintings, this can't be said to be a literary film, "Benjamin. "The Curious Affair of Barton" is a special effects blockbuster that only dares to be put in 2900 stores, from this point of view, the box office on the first day is also destined to be □□ by "Monroe", and Brad is estimated to be able to compete with Aniston for the top two - but, then again, when the schedule was set a year ago, everyone bypassed the Christmas schedule for the sake of "Benjamin", only Big Dream was not afraid of death and set the two new films in the Christmas file, at that time everyone thought that Big Dream would kill each other, and the two movies would share the leftover cake of "Benjamin", What I didn't expect was that now it was "Marley and I" that continued to grab the few remaining markets for "Benjamin". Those who love to watch beautiful actors go to "Monroe", those who love to watch visual spectacle go to "Monroe", those who love love stories go to "Monroe", "Benjamin" estimates that there is only a little market left that likes science fiction films, and even the family market will be thinned by "Marley and Me", who would have thought that it was originally regarded as its world, and major theaters have switched gears to avoid the confrontational Christmas files, which will actually become Brad's death schedule...... In fact, he should have adjusted the file, and he should have made this decision after the test screening, to be honest, this is not a shame. ”

After observing the sale of movie tickets, Alain stood up leisurely and went home for a Christmas dinner, and it was not until nearly 10 o'clock, when the midnight show was about to start, that he returned to the cinema, and as expected, he was at the bottom of the line—the young couple who had sat with him was in the first place, but it was not surprising that the two of them were clearly planning to give up Christmas dinner in order to get a good seat first.

After estimating the number of people in his heart, and confirming that the midnight performances of "Monroe" in the four halls opened in this theater should be full, Alain nodded secretly, feeling that his breathing also accelerated a little: "Although no matter how the box office of "Monroe" is, 2008 will be the year, but judging from the current scene, it is obvious that the box office of this film is about to break through the most optimistic estimate before......

Although he has watched it twice before, it is enough for ordinary films, but for "Monroe", Alain feels that he has not seen enough, he is not to appreciate the shallow beauty composed of Jennifer's beauty and Salvi's lens, for film critics, this kind of beauty is certainly distracting, but after watching it once, you can come out, what he likes more is Salvi's sense of rhythm and storytelling skills, which is also what he saw the second time he watched the movie: the connotation of the middle level, this time he wanted to ponder, What is studied and tasted is the director's thoughts and outlook on life, the deepest creative motivation, and the spiritual resonance of the director in the world of light and shadow - the first layer is his eyes, the second layer is his brain, and the third layer is his soul. The Panoramic' masterpiece brings great surprises on all three levels, making people want to watch it again and again, and that's why he is interested in running to the theater on Christmas Eve to observe these details related to the movie.

Alain, who was at the end of the line, of course, didn't pick a good seat, and as he passed the sixth row, he glanced at the young couple - they seemed to have found a friend, the girl named Jon was excitedly chatting with a fat geek next to him, it seemed, they were all Jennifer fans, because Geek was wearing a cultural shirt with Jennifer's head - however, this information did not enter Alain's brain, it was just an instinctive observation and feedback, and he found an empty seat in the corner and settled down, Let the mind wander around in a whimsical manner, quietly waiting for the movie to begin.

"I really want to know what Jennifer is doing now, it seems that she has no voice after the completion of "Nine", and she has not come out of the current award ceremonies...... The last time I heard from her, I heard from Warner's friend that she was working on the script of that superhero girl...... is another street hit project that was originally not optimistic, and after having her, or after the box office myth she created, everyone competed for it. After "Twilight", I felt adored and fascinated by her. Xindu is about to become a trend, even if she wants to shoot a piece of, it is estimated that there will be people rushing to invest in it now......"

"Also, if this girl and Salvi are really in a relationship - if their marketing team made a big fuss about this scandal, I wouldn't believe it, but now the media hasn't systematically hyped this scandal throughout the awards season, which makes me a little suspicious, could she be on vacation with Salvi? That's fine, with her as a muse, Salvi will definitely be able to make a few very good movies, and after that, their relationship should come to an end, speaking of which, Jennifer has never been short of handsome guys around her, who told me before? What Jennifer has said to have been with that Cesare. Vijri is secretly married - maybe it's been a year since she and Christopher broke up, but they haven't been dating again, and even such ridiculous rumors are starting to have a market...... Perhaps, this girl should really make her relationship public, get a new boyfriend, and meet everyone's expectations......"

When the lights of the movie theater are dim and the screen is on, all the distractions naturally disappear from his mind, and Alain's attention and spirit are sharp, staring at the screen with full attention, and he is ready to watch the movie professionally.

However, although he has entered the state of watching the movie, although he has watched the movie twice, when Monroe turned around in the sound of music and completed his first appearance in front of the camera, Alain still couldn't help but sigh softly in the full theater, "She's so beautiful!" ”

His mind was involuntarily pulled and fluctuated, but under Alain's deliberate control, he quickly settled down and paid attention to the progress of the plot: after watching the movie, Simon. Roemer's Colin, with a dreamlike face, happily stands up, walks out of the theater, jumps into a brand-name car, and drives to his country house ...... 12284785863664173->