Beverly Hills, a well-known rich and celebrity settlement in North America, occupies half of the hill on the south slope of the Cruise Manor, which is the residence of Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise, who is on his way to becoming a superstar, and is also the focus of paparazzi and media attention.

As soon as the morning sun climbed into the sky, Tom Cruise came out of the fitness room, took a towel to wipe the sweat off his head, heard Nicole Kidman say hello, first took all the today's newspapers from the newspaper shelf, and then slowly walked into the restaurant.

"Your breakfast, honey."

As he sat down at the dining table, Nicole Kidman brought coffee and a porcelain plate and placed them in front of him.

Picking up the coffee cup and taking a sip, Tom Cruise didn't eat breakfast immediately, but opened the newspaper, and Nicole Kidman, who was sitting opposite, frowned, as if he wanted to say something, and finally endured it.

Flipping to the entertainment page, Tom Cruise only glanced at it a few times, and the corners of his mouth curled, looking like he was in a good mood.

"Although "Brave Death Island" has many characters and magnificent scenes, the story is old-fashioned and the plot design is unsatisfactory. This is the kind of movie that we will soon forget after watching it, and it is a typical American fool entertainment! ”

It's clear that the CAA and Twentieth Century Fox's propaganda campaign for Death Island has begun.

"The action is cool, the sense of design is too strong; The plot is cliché and the logic is too poor......"

Even though he knew that most of these were the result of his own public relations, Tom Cruise still opened the entertainment pages of newspapers and browsed them tirelessly, as if with these, "Brave Island" will become a super bad movie spurned by the audience.

However, in the next few newspapers, Tom Cruise saw quite a few negative reviews of "Interview with the Vampire".

"The film is flashy, verbose, and Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's acting skills are not enough for the vampires they play!"

"A numbing movie, a hodgepodge ...... that I don't know what to call it"

Seeing this, Tom Cruise understands that Warner Bros.'s publicity department is not idle, and while promoting its films, like them, it does not hesitate to attack competitors.

The phone in the living room rang suddenly, and Nicole Kidman hurried out, and walked back with a cordless phone ten seconds later.

"Pat's call." She handed it over.

Receiving the cordless phone, Tom Cruise heard the numbers quoted by the agent, and his face gradually became gloomy.

"Tom ......" Seeing Cruise put down the phone, Nicole Kidman asked tentatively, "How much did our film get at the box office on the first day?" ”

"$13.89 million!"

That number sounds pretty good, and if it can be maintained in the next two days, maybe the film will grossing $40 million in its first week, and winning the weekend box office will certainly not be a problem.

"What about 'Death Island'?" Nicole Kidman asked again.

"$10.13 million!"

Hearing Tom Cruise say this number, Nicole Kidman immediately understood the reason for the change in his face, her famous husband contributed a full $3 million at the box office of "Interview with the Vampire" yesterday!

In other words, if no one else does anything, the real first-day box office of "Interview with the Vampire" is $10.89 million! is only more than $700,000 higher than "Brave Island", while the latter only had 2,512 theaters in the first week, while the former had as many as 2,689!

Nicole Kidman knows that the other party, from the director to the actors, is basically a relatively poor group of people in the circle, presumably the box office on the first day of "Brave Island" does not have much water, and the box office appeal of these people is really limited, even if they are added together, they are not as good as Cruise on the other side, can it be said that the halftime advertising effect of the Super Bowl is so terrifying?

But she didn't know that Tom Cruise's face had changed because of the other two numbers!

As the scale of screenings expanded and more and more people watched the film, the survey consulting firm hired by Twentieth Century Fox collected more real audience feedback, and the audience reputation of "Night Interview with Vampire" quickly dropped from 79 percent A or above at midnight to 68.5 percent, while the audience A or above rating of the rival "Into Death Island" only dropped by three percentage points, and it was still as high as 89 percent!

Although the first day to watch "Brave Island" is bound to be action movie fans or tendencies, but "Interview with the Vampire" also has a lot of fans and his own fans?

Even if he is as arrogant as Tom Cruise, he understands the simplest truth in the industry, the summer commercial films, the media score and the reputation of professional film critics are multiplied by two times, and it is not as good as the market acceptance of the film that can be reflected by the audience's word of mouth.

What's more, according to the feedback from the research company, when "Night Interview with the Vampire" was screened, there was an early exit from the theater!

Yesterday morning, Tom Cruise went to see "Brave Island", a single round of art performance, "Night Interview with the Vampire" finished the film, but in the summer and even in all the schedules, art has never been the decisive factor in market returns!

For a moment, he even had a not-so-good premonition in his heart.

"Tom Cruise's new game is ...... defeat"

"Superstars can't withstand the impact of rookie directors......"

Don't think about it, Tom Cruise also knows that the media will be cynical at that time, he has gone too smoothly over the years, and countless people wish he was unlucky, good at jokes, and stepped on a few feet by the way.

Thinking of this, he picked up the cordless phone and dialed the agent's number, "Pat, I have something to discuss with you, okay!" See you in half an hour! ”

"Tom ......"

There was an admonishing voice on the phone, and Pat Kingsley obviously knew that Tom Cruise was actually not the kind of star who could be reassured, and if it weren't for her and CAA and public relations efforts over the years, where would he have such a healthy image as he is now, just the arrogant personality and belief problems would have caused countless troubles.

""Interview with the Vampire" has just been released, there must be reporters and paparazzi squatting around your residence, don't talk nonsense!" None of the pillows know any of these stars better than their agents.

"I see." Tom Cruise hung up impatiently, stood up and said to Nicole Kidman, "I'll go out." ”

"Do you need me to accompany you?"

"No need!"

He strode to the garage, and a blue supercar quickly rushed out and headed straight for the manor gate.

When going out to turn, the speed of the car inevitably decreased, and a large number of reporters and paparazzi flocked to both sides of the sports car with cameras, video cameras and tape recorders.

"Tom, the box office and word-of-mouth of "Night Interview with the Vampire" on the first day are out, can you talk about your opinion?"

"Mr. Cruise, did Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst really kiss during filming? Heard that the Child Protection Society has been involved in the investigation? ”

Hearing this question, Tom Cruise immediately thought of Warner Bros., this kind of thing must be something they are doing.

In an instant, his already gloomy mood was a lot worse.

"Mr. Cruise! Someone revealed that you went to see "Brave Island" yesterday, can you comment on this movie? ”

Suddenly, a louder voice sounded, even through the window glass, Tom Cruise could hear it clearly, "Also, according to the number released by Warner Bros. in the media this morning, the audience reputation of "Death Island" is better than "Night Vampire", Warner thinks that "Death Island" will definitely be able to catch up and win this week's box office title, if you lose the weekly box office top, will this have an impact on your next movie choice?" ”

Subconsciously, Tom Cruise stepped on the brakes, which was like a turtle-speed sports car, completely stopped, you must know that there are still two days left this week, and the box office development behind is still unknown, in the eyes of that reporter, it seems that his movie has failed!

The audience reputation of "Brave Death Island"? Tom Cruise sneered a few times in his heart, feeling that he should do something, after all, he is a superstar with super appeal!

There is no public relations, no agent, no thoughtful Nicole Kidman, no one can stop Tom Cruise, if Duke is standing here, he must be able to guess that this guy who is wrapped up by Pat Kingsley and CAA, who actually behaves out of the way and has a haughty and arrogant personality, will definitely be speechless!

The windows of the sports car slowly lowered, and all the reporters were stunned, and then countless camera lenses and tape recorders were aimed at the faces in the windows.

"Is Death Island good? I don't think so, it's a film full of bugs everywhere! ”

Pretending to shrug his shoulders chicly, Tom Cruise suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, showed his trademark smile, and even jumped out one sentence after another for "Brave Death Island" without the reporter asking.

"As you all know, I have worked with the military, and I have also filmed military-themed films like "Top Gun", as long as you look at it with a serious eye, you can find that "Brave Island" is full of mistakes, these mistakes are very low-level, and the strict zhòng affects the logic of the film and the realism of the subject matter, and even, people can't understand whether director Duke Rosenberg wants to make a realistic film or a pure fantasy film!"

Hearing Tom Cruise's usual confident words, the reporters and paparazzi were as excited as chickens, and they could see that there was no one else in the sports car to remind Cruise that some fierce material was bound to be dug up today!

"Tom! Tom! ”

When a reporter asked, the others remained silent, "Tom, can you point out a few low-level mistakes in "Death Island"? ”