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"Have you got the latest weekend box office stats?"

Hearing the words of her agent Nancy, Naomi Watts was indignant that she was her signed client, not her personal assistant.

"Here's the statistic I just got from the crew."

Although she had an idea in her heart, she understood her status, and obediently put the statistical table on the table in front of Nancy, who drank the oatmeal porridge, just picked up the statistical table, and her eyes suddenly widened with a little sleepiness.

"I actually suppressed "Alien 3"!" There was a bit of incredulity in her tone, "The $20.27 million of "Life and Death" beat the $19.44 million of "Alien 3" and won the second weekly box office top! ”

She raised her head and asked Naomi Watts, "The North American box office of "Life and Death" has exceeded 100 million, right?" ”

"It's over 100 million."

Where Nancy couldn't see, Naomi Watts quickly rolled her eyes, "If I'm not mistaken, the box office should be $104.05 million." ”

"A director who joined the 100 million yuan box office club at the age of 22." Nancy suddenly stood up and walked around the dining room in the suite, "This is an absolute potential stock, as long as the next two or three of his works can still sell well, he can completely rank among the ranks of Hollywood's first-class commercial directors......"

She slapped her forehead, "I remember yesterday there was a report in the New York Times about Duke, and he said that his second work was conceived? ”

Speaking of this, Nancy suddenly stopped, all the qiē were suing her that she should definitely sign him while the other party was still a potential stock!

Still, those damn conditions he proposed......

"Nami, help me make an appointment with Duke."

Hearing this, Naomi Watts was very unhappy, but she didn't hesitate to act, stood up and walked to the phone, dialed a number, hung up the phone and said, "Nancy, the crew's promotional activities are over for the time being, if you want to see Duke, you have to hurry." ”

In another suite on the same floor, Duke was flipping through the newspapers, and as the competition for summer slots heated up, Twentieth Century Fox turned more resources into other areas, and from this week onwards, the publicity and screening scale of "Life and Death" will shrink dramatically, which is a market law that every film cannot escape.

And in this era, the North American box office of over 100 million is almost a benchmark.

"Duke Rosenberg, Hollywood's Rising New Director......"

"Young Duke sent his first feature film to the $100 million club by destroying half of Santa Monica."

"Duke Rosenberg seems to have an insatiable desire to discredit. Hopefully, he not only destroyed half of Santa Monica's streets, but also blew up an elevator, a house, two buses, and an airplane, creating an atypical action movie, and perhaps the young Duke could lead the new trend of Hollywood action movies. ”

Today's "Los Angeles Times", "Washington Post", "New York Times" and many other national newspapers have his name on it, as if all the media in North America are waiting for the moment when the film has a box office of more than 100 million, and then bombard him with overwhelming propaganda.

In today's Hollywood, there are only about ten movies that grossed more than 100 million in North America every year, and the work of a rookie director has finally crossed this mark, and the media that he ignored before will naturally burst out with the greatest enthusiasm.

Although it is inevitable to be happy to see this, Duke has a clear mind, and if his next work messes up, the media will definitely not hesitate to stomp him on the ground and stomp him a few harder.

After checking the time, Duke put down the newspaper and left the room to go to the café on the second floor to meet Nancy Josephson again.

After Nancy Josephson expressed enough sincerity, Duke did not deliberately make things difficult, but insisted that he would not accept the agency's packaging of his works and not interfering in his private life, and everything else could be discussed.

The conversation between the two lasted all morning, and then a certain consensus was reached on some aspects, and although no agreement was initialed, it was a huge improvement compared to the last meeting.

In terms of the choice of future agents, Duke is also slightly inclined to Nancy Josephson, although the other party's last handling of Naomi Watts's harassment incident did not leave a good impression on him, but the atmosphere of the entire industry is like this, not to mention that he is looking for a professional agent, not a friend.

After his meeting with Nancy Josephson, Duke headed straight to Manhattan, where the Santa Fea advertising agency was working on the annual campaign for Estée Lauder's Morning Dew perfume, which had been on the East Coast since Mrs. Leah had flown to New York some time ago.

Walking into his studio on Eighth Avenue, Duke made a little inquiry and found his mother's makeshift office.

"Mom's ......"

He knocked on the door and walked in, and Mrs. Leah, who was sitting behind her desk, nodded, and gave him a rare compliment, "Well done, Duke." ”

Seeing Dukla open a chair and sit opposite, Lady Leah took off her glasses and looked at him seriously, "I'm proud of you. ”

"Thanks, Mom."

Duke didn't say much, and he would keep in mind the qiē that his mother had done for him.

Probably because she had work to deal with, Mrs. Leah pressed the intercom to call her assistant and took Duke on a brief tour of the studio, and Duke was also very interested in the youth morning dew fashion blockbuster that had been filmed and was busy in the later stage, so he went to the place where the advertising team hired by Santa Fea was working.

Walking into an editing room, the corners of Duke's mouth couldn't help but tremble slightly when he saw the advertising director who was busy with the command staff.

The director was tall and thin, with a long, signature face underneath his long, messy brown hair.

Although he is much younger than he remembered, combined with the blurred picture in his memory and the identity of the other party's advertising director, Duke instantly confirmed that he was definitely Michael Bay!

He stood in the corner of the room, watching the crew process the gaudy and exaggerated images, and if you count the time, this is almost the last advertising career of Michael Bay, who is now arguably one of the top directors in the advertising industry, and it should be that Santa Fea specially asked him to direct this commercial for Estee Lauder.

As the legend goes, Michael Bay doesn't have the talent of James Cameron, but he has the same grumpy temper, and his roar can be heard in the editing room from time to time, especially an assistant director named Zack Snyder, who is almost scolded by Michael Bay and can't hold his head up.

"Interesting ......"

He didn't stay long before Duke left, and he didn't expect to meet two super directors who had risen from the advertising industry here.

But on second thought, it's not surprising that the top-level advertising circles in North America are much smaller than those in Hollywood, and Santa Fea's fashion blockbuster for Estée Lauder is sure to gather the top people in the industry.

"Hello, Zach, can I call you that? Thank you? ”

Taking advantage of the advertising team's break, Duke had Zack Schneider called into an office, "I heard you studied at the Pasadena College of Art and Design?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Rosenberg." Zack Schneider, who was sitting across from him, replied calmly.

"Just call me Duke."

Strictly speaking, the other party is older and has deeper qualifications than Duke, but the $100 million box office of "Life and Death" is enough to reverse this qiē, and Duke did not mean to beat around the bush, and said directly, "Let's put it this way, I am preparing my second work......"

Of course, Duke won't sue him, the script is ready, but the investment has not yet been settled.

"I need an assistant director, an assistant director with a similar philosophy to me."

Hearing Duke say this, Zack Schneider's eyes lit up instantly, and there was a faint hint of excitement on his calm face, which director doesn't want to be a film director? Why did he get into advertising? It's not about looking for an opportunity to enter the big screen while begging for life to hone yourself.

Although this is an assistant director, he is a real film assistant director, not the current advertising assistant director, and he has also entered the mainstream Hollywood film circle, and he will inevitably get more opportunities in the future.

Without anyone to help, Zack Schneider knows how difficult it can be.

The most typical is Michael Bay, the current head of the advertising team, whose own uncle is the executive director of Warners, but has not been given the opportunity to direct a film until now.

In Hollywood, you can imagine how important opportunity is.

"May I ask you what you think of the graphics and colors of the film?"

As someone who has studied each other's work, Duke knows what Zack Schneider does best.

"I think there are a lot of similarities between film and painting, especially the composition of the picture, if you look at a film with the eyes of a painter, then the picture of the film will present a unique style."

Zack Schneider knew that this was a rare opportunity, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I think the brilliant colors of oil paintings can be used in movies, because the rich colors in oil paintings can definitely bring unprecedented visual impact to the audience when applied to the movie screen......

When he says 'visual impact', he noticeably accentuates his tone.

Sure enough, it was Zack Schneider, and some of the opinions were formed very early.

Although he fully agrees with this philosophy in his heart, Duke will not make a decision lightly, every great director has gone through a long grinding process, who knows if the young version of Zack Schneider is in vain?

Subsequently, the two talked a lot about the film, and they had a common language in many places, especially the opinion on 'visual impact'!

The current Duke is a relatively immature director, and Zack Schneider is obviously a little more immature than him, but he has worked in advertising and MV for several years, and relevant work experience is not a problem, and he can be included in the list of inspection objects.