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If according to the habits and logic of life, when facing this kind of problem, Duke must be modest and cautious, and must praise his competitors a few words, and then appropriately belittle himself and "Brave Island", otherwise he will inevitably attract criticism.

However, he has lived in this country for more than 20 years, not to mention that the way of thinking is completely Westernized, but he has also assimilated a lot, appropriate modesty is not impossible, but too modesty will only be seen as weak and unconfident, not to mention that this is the fiercely competitive Hollywood, others have stepped on it, if he is still modest and cautious, then he will only be regarded as a soft bone to be bullied in the future.

"I watched 'Interview with the Vampire,' but I didn't finish it."

In the morning, Duke once went to the theater and briefly got to know his competitors, "Maybe it's not the genre I like, the biggest feeling I have about the film is that the pace is slow and the content is dull......"

There was a burst of laughter and applause from the bottom of the stage, and most of the people who could sit here were action movie fans, and they must have also understood Duke's style of making.

Spreading his hand, Duke shrugged his shoulders again and interacted with the audience with a wordless expression.

"It seems like I'm not alone." Duke continued, "I've seen some things in the theater where 'Interview with the Vampire' was shown, and a lot of people were dozing out of boredom, and many of them quit early because they felt bored and boring. ”

According to the number of feedback from the survey company, compared to a fast-paced popcorn film like "Brave Island", the exit rate of "Night Interview with Vampire" is indeed higher.

"Also, there are problems with the actors." Duke has no intention of stopping at all, "The vampires played by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt are cold and handsome enough, but their acting skills are ......"

He shook his head directly, "Frankly, I think Kirsten Dunst is far better than the two of them in terms of performance!" ”

"Do you think there is a problem with Tom Cruise's performance in the film?"

The host Leno immediately grasped the point of Duke's remarks, which was a powerful material to increase the ratings, "Can you talk about it specifically?" ”

"Actually, it's an obvious problem." Duke spread out his hands, didn't even think about it, and said directly, "From "Top Gun" or even earlier, to "Thunder Ambition", "Born on the Fourth of July", "Earth Ambition" and other films, Tom Cruise has left an extremely deep impression, but do you really remember the characters in it? ”

After thinking about it, Leno shook his head directly, and there were more people shaking their heads in the audience under the stage.

"The reason is simple, in these movies, Tom Cruise has turned all the characters he has played into Tom Cruise!"

After hearing Duke's words, a clear sigh sounded from under the stage, and it was obvious that his words were recognized by many people.

These are all things that were once recognized, Tom Cruise and the one in the big boat are undoubtedly typical of playing the role themselves, the difference is that the latter dares to make himself an uncle in order to make a breakthrough, while the former has been playing cool and handsome for decades plus selling face, and there is almost no progress in acting.

Smearing is also a discipline that requires technical content, and Duke naturally will not be discredited, so as not to be embarrassed in the end, whether it is the evaluation of "Interview with the Vampire" or the opinion of Tom Cruise's acting skills, it is based on objective facts.

When he returned to the lounge, Duke suddenly found that he had forgotten a few words about Sean Connery, but it was not a big deal to think about it, whether he was smeared or not, the old man's image was extremely bad, and I heard Nancy mention a few days ago that Connery's divorce case is going through legal procedures, and even his son and wife may sue him for domestic violence!

Walking out of the NBC studio, Duke deliberately called Nancy Josephson to his car.

"Nancy ......"

After starting the car and driving down the road, Duke said, "Tom Cruise is said to be a Scientologyist? ”

"That's right, that's right." Nancy Josephson nodded, "He must have been introduced to Scientology by his ex-wife." ”

"I heard that this sect has a bad reputation?" Duke spun the wheel and the car turned onto Seventh Street.

Nancy was a smart guy and immediately understood, "Duke, what do you mean?" ”

"I'm sure a lot of tabloids are happy to report it."

Hearing Duke's casual words, Nancy was slightly dissatisfied, "This should be the job done by public relations, not the agent!" ”

"Hey, dear." Duke tilted his head towards the co-pilot's position, "Don't forget that I have your revenue share in my investment, suppressing the competitiveness of "Interview with the Vampire" and pulling the box office numbers of "Death Island" as much as possible, which is good for us." ”

No amount of romance could be more convincing than these, and before arriving at the Duke Studios in North Hollywood, Nancy had already taken out her cell phone and started making calls to Warner Bros. PR and campaigning for her own media relations with ICM.

This circle is like this, in front of the media and the public, you can stand together and take a group photo with a smile, as if they are the most powerful friends in the circle, but when they compete in private, they will mercilessly pour black water on each other, Duke is not the first person to smear competitors, and he will not be the last.

As a result, many tabloids across the United States on Sunday, especially the gossip newspapers owned by Warner Group, began to accuse Tom Cruise of seeming to have problems with his faith, especially interfering with Nicole Kidman's freedom of belief, and forcing the latter to abandon Catholicism and convert to Scientology after the two got married.

This is a country of freedom of belief, and generally speaking, no one else can interfere with the freedom of belief of others, and the same is true of the media, but the tabloids are not big newspapers after all, they have no bottom line at all, and while talking about the Tom Cruise faith, they are afraid that it will not be convincing, and they also list some ridiculous things that Scientology has done......

Among them, there are even tabloid newspapers that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's marriage is not because of love at all, but based on the planning of Scientology and the agency, which is simply a game to fool the public.

It's no exaggeration to say that many tabloids have vaguely portrayed Tom Cruise as a standard evil. Catholics.

As for the Church of Scientology not looking for trouble, these tabloids don't care, they want someone to find trouble every day, and they can attract attention every day.

Duke and Warner are blacking the main creative team of "Interview with the Vampire" led by Tom Cruise, and the other party is also smearing him, what to recommend actresses close to him to join the crew, success is not because of personal efforts, but family relationships, the movie has no creativity at all except for sabotage, etc.

Compared with the Cruise couple, who are said to have a sudden quarrel while shopping, Duke has a very good mentality, and after reading it, he laughs and forgets, he has a resolute personality, in the era of the information explosion, what bottomless propaganda has not been seen?

Of course, according to Duke's speculation, Tom Cruise's tantrum is also related to the single-day box office of "Interview with the Vampire" on Saturday.

No one can deny that "Night Interview with the Vampire" has been maintained at a professional media score of about 8.7 points, and the complete "Brave Island" has plummeted to a professional score of 7.3.

Unfortunately, this is the summer season, a time when popcorn movies are rampant, and CAA and Twentieth Century Fox clearly overestimate the box office appeal that superstars can bring, underestimate the impact of the genre, and ignore the role of movie commercials that first appeared at the Super Bowl!

At Friday's North American box office, "Interview with the Vampire" did steadily dominate "Death Island", but the role of die-hard fans cannot be ignored, as the premiere day temporarily consumes the enthusiasm of their respective die-hard supporters, audience word-of-mouth and publicity efforts play a crucial role.

The audience reputation of "Interview with the Vampire" has been declining, and with it, the box office numbers have declined, with the single-day box office on Saturday sliding to $8.2 million, while the rise of "Brave Death Island" is extremely obvious, and the power of word of mouth has brought substantial box office figures, and the North American box office on this day has surged from $10.13 million to $15.66 million!

On top of that, Duke is convinced that "Death Island" doesn't have zài water at the box office, and it's hard to say how much of "Interview with the Vampire" comes from Tom Cruise's pocket.

If it weren't for the smear from competitors, Duke would even feel that the film's second-day box office could hit $20 million, but he knew it was impossible, and the film wanted to crush all the way in a pure world without competition? Come on, this is Hollywood!

Although they never explicitly informed Duke, Warner's expectation for the film's first-week box office is $25 million, as long as it can reach this figure, according to Warner's promotion, the film's North American box office will eventually exceed 100 million at all.

"Unexpectedly, it only took two days,"

Sitting in his office chair, Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Trasuha sighed, "The box office of the film reached $25.79 million. Jeff, you're making the right move to work with Duke Rosenberg. ”

Even though he was just smiling, anyone could tell that Jeff Robinov was in a good mood, and he said, "It's still a theatrical issue, Kevin, CAA, and Twentieth Century Fox have been putting pressure on AMG and Imperial Entertainment, and we should do something about it." ”

"I'll call their CEO personally!"

If he can achieve a good result in the final stage of his tenure, Kevin Trasuha will not only be able to find a better home for himself, but also get a good bonus, "I will inform the group company and let them put pressure on them as well." ”

With Kevin Trasuha's words, Jeff Robinoff let go of his already small worries, the box office figures of "Brave Death Island" are here, and it is impossible for the theater chain to give up the revenue, but to push the box office and the potential of the film is worse, and he does not seek to expand the scale of release, as long as the current number of theaters can be maintained next week!