The first light of 1996 fell on the North American continent, and the warm golden light softened the cold of the morning. The city also ushered in the first day of the new year in the morning mist.

Standing below. The Los Angeles Grand Theatre in the city has been vacant for a long time, and since the grand premiere of "Hour of Death" set off its last revelry, the theater that has accompanied the City of Angels through the vicissitudes of life and forth for half a century has temporarily ceased use.

While the equipment is too old to be one of the reasons, the main reason is that the city's crowds are gradually leaving the area and heading towards Hollywood Boulevard, Beverly Hills, etc., and the Los Angeles Grand Theater has been declining in attendance, and it is no longer able to maintain basic operations, so it has been forced to suspend its use.

However, the city government has replanned the area, and it is likely that in the future it will be used as an art museum or a permanent rehearsal venue for stage theater companies. Over the past year, the Los Angeles Grand Theatre has been undergoing on-again renovations to ensure that some areas are not a safety hazard due to disrepair.

The once bustling surroundings of the Los Angeles Grand Theater have now faded away, and the constant flow of traffic and traffic around the 30s and 40s has now become a yellowed image in memory, gradually disappearing from the minds of the generation born after the 60s.

Recently, it has fallen into a desolation due to the suspension of the Grand Theater, and it is not even as lively as the neighborhood of the poor street, which is as quiet as an abandoned corner of the city, and there is a lot of poison. Traffickers are coveting this place and want to use it as a new place to trade. This is the inevitable imprint of urban development and change.

But today's Los Angeles Grand Theater is different, under the bright morning sun is a group of crowds, dense crowds from the entrance of the Los Angeles Grand Theater along the short street, trivial and hot conversations from the street to the end of the street, it seems that every brick and stone on the street has become full of vitality, that light and excited excitement makes the entire Los Angeles Grand Theater begin to revive, rejuvenate the majestic vitality of half a century ago.

The bustling crowd began at the doorway crookedly but remained orderly, and soon the line blocked the short street and then meandered around the sides of the Los Angeles Grand Theater to form a closed rectangle that enclosed the entire building. But even so, the surging crowd continued to rush.

There were more than twenty uniformed personnel standing at the entrance of the Los Angeles Grand Theater, and they were doing their best to maintain order, continuing to line up the people who felt after them, forming a second encirclement from the gate, and using unfolded iron railings to separate the crowd and make the scene as orderly as possible.

If one looks down from the sky, they will see an incredible sight like a crop circle, which can only be seen in the 21st century's "American Idol" (ameri). "I can see at the audition site, the surging crowd is jaw-dropping, and almost all eyes are attracted.

The Los Angeles Theater, which had been silent for a long time, once again became the center of attention, making it feel like a pool of stagnant water. The city is boiling over.

Almost the whole of the United States knows that today's "End of the World" will be cast in the Los Angeles theater, choosing to play the role of Hugo's son in the movie, this opportunity is also considered a godsend, not only to get the opportunity to appear in commercial blockbusters, but also to get the opportunity to shoot with Hugo, which is an temptation that no one can refuse. Confuse.

But even so, the pomp and circumstance around the Los Angeles theater was staggering, because the crew required children to be five to twelve years old, so every child who came to audition was accompanied by a guardian, which made the surging crowd on the scene directly double, or even triple.

As far as the eye can see, there are at least more than 2,000 people gathered around the entire Los Angeles theater, and this is just the beginning. The city is shining like never before! Such a terrible sight is estimated that even Twentieth Century Fox did not expect.

This time, Twentieth Century Fox arranged the casting for the last role in "The End of the World" at the Los Angeles Grand Theater, which can accommodate 2,000 people, without the hype.

Originally, the actor Steve and his girlfriend Jasmin had a child in the "Apocalypse" script, but this child was the child of Jasmin and his ex-boyfriend, but in order to focus more strongly on Hugo, Twentieth Century Fox changed the script again when submitting the final version, setting the child as the son of Steve and his ex-girlfriend.

In Hollywood, there are not many opportunities for child stars to perform, after all, the roles suitable for children are limited, but everyone knows that once a child star can be created, it will be a real cash cow, not to mention the distant Shirley Temple, and the recent Macaulay Culkin is not far away.

So, of course, the opportunity to cooperate directly with Hugo in "The End of the World" became a fragrant bun, which easily caused a sensation in the whole Hollywood! Twentieth Century Fox was looking forward to such an outcome, hoping to maximize the effect of Hugo's "20 million club" and strive to convert their efforts into more returns before the movie even came out at the box office.

It's just that it is estimated that even Twentieth Century Fox did not expect that under the strong influence of the "20 million club", this audition would evolve into such a grand situation, as if it had become the third most prosperous era at the end of the year in addition to the rise of Brad and the establishment of the 20 million club by Hugo.

What Twentieth Century Fox didn't expect was that just a few hours later, Columbia Pictures and Innovative Artist Agency jointly announced that Jim Carrey would play the role of "Ace Correspondent" with a salary of 20 million, pushing this topic to an even more incredible height, making "The End of the World" bear more box office pressure, while also arousing chain attention, instantly becoming the hottest trump card project.

When Roland Emmerich arrived at the Los Angeles Grand Theater, he was so frightened that he didn't reach out to open the door even when the car stopped. Roland's first reaction was that he was in the wrong place, and he couldn't help but ask, "This is the Los Angeles Grand Theater?" ”

The driver in the front seat was specially assigned to Roland by Twentieth Century Fox, "You didn't go wrong. The driver couldn't help but smile, looking at such a lively scene, his words couldn't help but relax, "The company has long expected that the scene will be very lively, and today it hired an additional twenty security guards to maintain order, you have to go in quickly, if you slow down, it is estimated that you will not be able to enter." "It's just that Twentieth Century Fox is not sure now, is the number of security guards they hire too small?

Roland nodded repeatedly, opened the car door and got out of the car, standing at the door and looking back at the entire blocked street, exclamation involuntarily erupted, he never knew that Los Angeles had such a prosperous area besides Beverly Hills. What's more, today's prosperity here is even more exaggerated than Hollywood Boulevard, with the crowds filling every blank space in the street, and crowds everywhere you look, almost making Roland mistakenly believe that this is Rockefeller Plaza on last night's New Year's Eve.

The driver drove the car away, but he struggled, leaving at a speed like a snail, slowly breaking through the waves against the raging waves. Roland strongly suspects that it is estimated that all the school-age child actors in all of Hollywood today have appeared; A larger part of the crowd is those who have no acting experience and come to auditions with the idea of trying it out or becoming an overnight success; Among them, it cannot be ruled out that just the parents of fans who want to see Hugo's side bring their children to audition, which has created the grand occasion of today's scene.

Prior to this, Roland was actually very dissatisfied with the strength of Endeavor Elite Agency, after all, it is not easy for the screenwriter and the director to significantly revise the script. Endeavor Elite is a medium-sized brokerage company, completely relying on Hugo's momentum to suppress people, and from beginning to end, Hugo has never really appeared, which makes Roland quite contemptuous of Hugo - even though the evaluation of Hugo in the circle has always been very high, but Roland has no way to leave a good impression.

But today I saw the sensational scene at the scene, not only countless children came to participate in the audition, but even the media reporters in sight were at least 20 people, and now the reporters are all interviewing interviewers on both sides of the road, it is conceivable that the "end of the world" has reached a peak of momentum before filming has started, and the movie will be even more lively when it is released.

This also made Roland have endless enthusiasm for the filming of the movie, he was originally determined to create a box office giant, and now the surging crowd in front of him made Roland have a great ambition in his heart, even he didn't notice it, the fist in his right hand clenched involuntarily, and even trembled slightly because he was too excited.

From this point of view, in fact, Hugo is the actor who best meets Roland's expectations, and the previous compromises and grievances are not worth mentioning at all in the noise in front of him. It's just that Roland can't be a little worried, after Hugo really enters the crew, whether he will be as dedicated as the legend, and whether he will be as easy to get along with as the legend - or difficult to get along with.

Looking back, there were still people rushing here one after another, Roland quickly packed up his thoughts, walked quickly into the Los Angeles Grand Theater, and showed his "Apocalypse" crew work card to the guard at the door, Roland entered the theater.

At this time, the whole theater was brightly lit, and the staff were busy with their feet on the ground, and there was a large group of people sitting in the center of the audience, and Roland easily saw Hugo's side face in the middle of the group.