Chapter Seventy-Three: Schedule: Columbia Day [First Update]
If this controversy had been all there was, it might have dissipated by now. Just when the reporters of the two media surnamed Ren made a bet, someone stood up again, and the first one who popped up was Richard Kelly, the director who has always had a prejudice against Xiansen published his second declaration of war in the "New York Times", in which he called Hitchcock his idol, and clearly disclosed the release time of his movie "Death Hallucination", saying that if Xiansen dared to release it at the same time period, he would definitely let him know what a real suspense thriller is. Although Chad Kelly is also young, but who makes the family a native of the American, this strong declaration of war letter has received a lot of support.
When he saw that Richard Kelly's movie was released on October 28th, Xiansen smiled, this is really a good advertisement.
In addition to Richard Kelly, there are many well-known veteran actors who have also expressed their opinions on this matter, such as Bruce Dern, the actor who starred in Hitchcock's last film "Family Conspiracy", said in a media interview:
"I heard recently that an Asian director said that Hitchcock was outdated, oh, forgive my ears, I don't know what kind of courage or confidence he had to say such a thing, maybe, he was a madman. Haha, just kidding, I know that many young directors nowadays will use the older generation of artists as a guise for the sake of box office popularity, and in my personal opinion, this kind of behavior is very bad. I hope that Hollywood's major studios will join forces to boycott this kind of behavior, really, this is the greatest disrespect to us of the older generation of film practitioners. ”
After saying this, Bruce Dunn coughed uncontrollably.
"Joint boycott?"
Seeing these words, Xiansen laughed again, doesn't this veteran actor who has been making movies for so many years still know that Hollywood is actually a business circle? In the face of real money, all respect can be discarded.
After Bruce Dern said this, the media criticism of Xiansen's film became even stronger, just like "50 First Loves" was splashed with dirty water by the Kennedy family, the dirty water of "Shutter Island" is far darker than it was at the beginning.
After reading these criticisms and sarcasm, Xiansen looked through some of the remarks in support of him with great interest, which took up very little space, but there were some things that surprised Xiansen.
For example, this one: "I know Mister's ability, and I believe that he can make really good movies, and as for the evaluation of "Death Illusion", I'm sorry, I don't think there's anything like it." ”
These are the words of Julie Barrymore, the producer of "Death Illusion" and the heroine of Mister's first film, who became the hottest subject of media interviews. Every day, many reporters crowd her door.
"He's a very talented director, Shutter Island is sure to be a great film, and of course, Death Illusion won't lose to him, and I've been lucky enough to be able to make a film with him, and it turns out that I made a wise decision in the first place."
Julie Barrymore locked herself in the room and cried over the pillow, not knowing what she was crying about, but she couldn't help it.
In these controversies, wars, criticisms, criticisms, and defenses, the mysterious movie "Shutter Island" has become the hottest topic in the United States, and it can be seen from the voting choices given on the official website of "US Newsweek" that 82% of people choose not to be optimistic about "Shutter Island", 14% choose neutral, and only 4% say that they can continue to succeed.
This result also seems to reflect the scene after the release of "Shutter Island".
When will the movie be released?
On this issue, Xiansen made a special trip to the Columbia company. knocked on the door and walked into Cook's office very casually, only to see the other party straightening his clothes in a bit of a panic, and beside him stood the reception lady, Ms. Carrose. Her badge was crooked again.
"Uh, I'm sorry, you go on."
Seeing this scene, even if Xiansen was a fool, he knew that he was disturbing other people's good things, and he turned around and was about to walk out the door.
"Wait, Mister, I have something important to tell you."
Cook took out a document from the drawer in his office, then waved his hand at Caros, signaled her to step back first, sorted out the materials and put them on the desk and said: "Mist, these are the outside world's evaluations of the movie, I asked people to sort it out, but there are more negatives, do you want to take a look." ”
It turned out to be this, Xiansen shook his head and said: "Don't pay attention to these things for the time being, I'm here to discuss the schedule this time, you know that there are still a few blockbusters that have not been released this year." ”
"Schedule? What do you think of Labor Day on September 3 this year? ”
Cook gave a suggestion that Cook should have discussed this with the publishing department before making a decision, but apparently Xiansen didn't want to be so troublesome, and the young man liked to make some decisions on his own.
"Labor Day? The last day of summer vacation? That's a good idea. ”
Xiansen nodded, Labor Day in the United States will be a three-day holiday in a row, and the movie will be released on such a festival, and the attendance rate will definitely increase.
Just as Xiansen was about to continue to discuss the publicity plan with Cook, he saw that the other party's face suddenly became heavy.
"I'm sorry, Mister, I just remembered that the Labor Day schedule was booked."
Cook's words made Xiansen very unhappy, and while talking to himself about the Labor Day file, he also said that there were movies to be released on the schedule, which was too inefficient.
"'The Glass House' is also a thriller, so, it may be a bit of a conflict!"
Grabbing a pen from his desk, Cook said as he wrote, "So I said we should sit down with someone from the distribution department, you know, I can't remember that clearly." ”
After about ten minutes, Cook had filled a piece of paper.
"In addition, there are good schedules such as Columbia, Thanksgiving and Christmas, you can choose one."
Hearing the three schedules given at the end, Xiansen couldn't help but roll his eyes, the Thanksgiving schedule has "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Monsters, Inc.", "Angel Amelie" and other movies full of topics, and there are also big productions such as "The Lord of the Rings", "A Beautiful Mind", and "Black Hawk Down" are released at the same time as these movies, and they are also suspense thrillers, Xiansen feels that only a fool would make such a choice.
It's not that he doesn't dare to fight, but the type of movie determines that there is no way to fight with each other in these two festivals, have you ever seen a thriller with a child to the cinema on Thanksgiving?
"Isn't it only Columbus who can choose?"
Xiansen shrugged his shoulders helplessly, this year's Columbus is October 15, and the release time of "Death Hallucination" is only two weeks apart, it seems that the two movies are inevitably going to collide!
"Okay, then it's decided, October 15th, premiere!"
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