In the end, on the afternoon of the first day of the Oscars, Charlotte and Charlize still spent it "meaningfully".

After that, although the critics' feast has just arrived, the work of the Ghost Party Studio is back on track again-

First of all, just in time for the end of March, "Island Cry" was finally released.

This horror movie, directed by Lao Gun and starring Alexis, is not expensive to produce.

In addition, Lao Gun is directing a movie as a director for the first time, so he is not very confident.

"I'm very satisfied with the return to my roots!"

- Privately, that's what Old Gun told his wife Annika.

However, how could Charlotte dare to pitch into this film project introduced by Nicole Kidman just to recoup her capital?

"Nineteen million!?"

A week later, Lao Gun was stunned when he saw the box office results of the first week.

Of course, this box office result is nothing compared to the big productions that Charlotte filmed that broke 100 million in the first week.

However, considering the cost of filming "Island Cry" at Ghost Party Studios, it was only a few million dollars.

Even with the addition of the cost of publicity, it does not exceed fifteen million.

- In this case, the box office results of 19 million in the first week are quite good.

In particular, considering the characteristics of the film, Charlotte's design for "Island Cry" is a relatively long-term projection, which means that nineteen million is just the beginning.

"If you're lucky, and make it to the next release, the North American box office may be able to cross the $100 million mark. ”

Charlotte smiled and stretched out her hand to the old gun,

"Congratulations, old gun! You're also the director of a box office success!"

“......”

The old gun mechanically held Charlotte's hand, apparently not reacting for a while......

"Actually, the success of this film is mainly due to your guidance and post-editing. ”

After a long time, the old gun, who had recovered from the state of surprise, sighed and said,

"I know very well what mistakes I've made while shooting – I did everything I could to correct them, but some ...... But most of these mistakes were corrected by editing and some post-production special effects in the final film. So—"

The old gun looked at Charlotte with a wry smile,

"The success of 'Island Cry' may have something to do with me, but it wasn't decisive - Charlotte, you should know that I'm just a live director in a way, and it's you and Alexis who give this movie a soul!"

"You're being arrogant, man!"

Charlotte naturally tried to cheer up the old gun, but looking at the latter's indifferent look, she knew that there was no need.

- After all, when filming "Fatal Bend", Lao Gun had already taken his career lightly because of divorce.

Otherwise, it would not be Charlotte's turn to direct "Fatal Bend".

And now, although after remarrying Anika, Lao Gun's life is much happier, but he is not very young after all.

Compared to Charlotte, who has spells to cheat, has more energy than humans, and can achieve a balance between family, career, and spells, the energy of the old gun is obviously not enough.

And he is obviously more willing to devote this limited energy to his family.

- Even now that he has become the director of a successful film.

Therefore, what he said just now is not that he is arrogant, at most it can only be said that people have their own ambitions.

Charlotte can understand this, but—

"Even if you want to spend more time taking care of your family because Annika gave birth to a lovely daughter, you shouldn't be able to retire, right?"

Charlotte was a little worried,

"Don't forget, I'm the godfather of that little one!"

"How can you forget? This is what you promised when you were filming "Sherlock Holmes"! With you as a godfather, her future will be much smoother. ”

The old gun shook his head,

"I just want to tell you that small and medium-budget movies like "Island Cry" and the adaptation of "Midnight Bell" are already the limit of my ability, and you don't want to stuff me with more difficult jobs - at my age, I have passed the stage where I want to challenge myself!"

"Okay!"

Charlotte shrugged.

In fact, for the Ghost Party Studio, the old gun's "lack of progress" is nothing-

Large-scale or difficult film projects are still completed by Charlotte herself.

Only when there are some small and medium-sized films that have great hopes of success, are relatively easy to produce, but the scale is insufficient, and Charlotte herself makes unsuitable small and medium-sized films, it is necessary to use old guns to direct.

- At that time, Charlotte only had to act as a producer behind the scenes to assist and grasp the direction.

If the old gun has further ambitions, such a position is not suitable for him.

So, after chatting with Lao Gun for a few more words, and assuring him that after the profit was received, he would give him a large bonus and let him buy more gifts for his goddaughter, Charlotte turned the topic back to "Island Cry".

- However, this time, it was Alexis who spoke.

"Critics have praised you!"

Charlotte smiled at Miss Valkyrie,

"Especially, because the Oscars have just passed, many people have compared your performance in "Island Cry" to several actresses who won Otie - they all think that you have at least what it takes to be nominated for an Oscar!"

"That's awesome!"

Alexis naturally followed the news about herself.

- You know, when she came to Hollywood, she also had a dream of stardom.

Although she is now a ghost, she still can't help but care about the result of starring as the heroine of the movie for the first time-

"I really didn't expect so much praise from film critics. ”

Alexis's face was a little red,

"However, the acting skills I showed this time are also enhanced by movie editing and special effects to a certain extent, right?"

"That's right!"

Charlotte nodded, and then a wicked smile appeared on the corner of her mouth,

"However, don't forget, many of the special effects in "Island Cry" were actually done by Alexis yourself!"

“......”

As soon as Charlotte said this, Miss Valkyrie realized that she seemed to have personally used spells to achieve a lot of special effects for the movie "Island Cry"-

Not to mention, in the end, after revealing the fact that the heroine Grace and her children are not haunted by ghosts, but are ghosts themselves, those scenes where Grace hysterically destroys the contents of the house and scares the people who move in are Alexis's masterpieces.

- If you use normal shooting methods, this kind of place will inevitably require post-editing and special effects processing.

However, in Alexis's case, it's very simple -

The old gun just needs to let Miss Valkyrie cast spells freely.

Anyway, it's just a moment of being visible, and a moment of invisibility.

- While this may frighten the other co-actors, considering that the other supporting characters in that scene were all ghosts brought by Francis Farmer, this problem simply doesn't exist......