"Taxi Driver" is Jodie Foster's famous work.

In the film directed by Martin Scorsese and made famous in film history, Judy plays a young girl named Iris.

She was only 12 years old at the time, but she played Iris with infinite charm, innocence and charm.

But it is precisely because of this that she met the real perverted Lolicon - John Hinkley.

This madman learns from Travis, the male protagonist of "Taxi Driver", and wants to gain the attention of Jodie Foster by assassinating then-President Ronald Reagan.

As a result, Reagan did not die, but Judy was almost pushed into the abyss by him.

The media portrayed her as a disgrace, and the FBI had long suspected that she was the mastermind behind the assassination.

This made Judy have to take a break from filming for three years, and it was not until the filming of "Robbery of Pear Blossom" that the king returned.

Now, although Miss Actress has gone through the darkest years, in essence, she is still reluctant to mention that past.

But for Kathleen Kennedy, Judy's anger wasn't much of a problem.

As one of Hollywood's most famous producers, she is extremely powerful, and even if Jodie Foster is a double Oscar-winning actress, there is nothing special in her eyes.

In Hollywood, a vanity fair of power, beauty and money, no matter how powerful an actress is, her influence is limited after all.

What's more, she is not very familiar with Jodie Foster.

In fact, Katherine Kennedy's remarks about Judy's performance in "Taxi Driver" were purposeful.

"Rather than protest like this, you might as well learn this—"

Saying that, the producer lady playfully learned from the appearance of Robert De Niro, who played the protagonist in "Taxi Driver", and raised her eyebrows.

"Are you talking to me?"

“...... This is one of Robert's most famous lines. ”

The actress's face was a little ugly.

At this time, she had already understood that Catherine Kennedy didn't talk to her about another cooperation project before, whether she was just reading a film review about "The Sixth Sense" or deliberately poking her sore feet, in fact, she was hinting that it was not so easy to cooperate with Amperin Entertainment on a new film project.

It's like the line in "Taxi Driver" that she just quoted-

"Are you talking to me?"

- Who do you think you are?

As a big man among Hollywood producers, Katherine Kennedy was very subtle in bullying Judy.

This made the actress's heart swelled down again because "Guillotine Valley" won the Oscar for Best Picture and "The Sixth Sense" showed signs of a big explosion.

Oh, yes!

Although there is Judy's shadow behind these two films, in the end, it is indeed Charlotte who leads these two projects.

And Charlotte, I'm afraid it won't be so easy to cooperate with Judy's "egg" company in the future.

After all, after "The Sixth Sense", the other party is already a big director of commercial films in the real sense......

At this time, Jodie Foster never thought that "The Sixth Sense" had the possibility of box office failure.

And that's exactly what happened.

In fact, not only film critics, but most of the audience rated this movie very highly.

Especially many viewers who came to watch the movie with their families, after watching "The Sixth Sense", they all had a feeling of cherishing the people in front of them.

This made them think highly of "The Sixth Sense".

And they will recommend the film to their neighbors, colleagues and friends.

These excellent reviews in all aspects were finally translated into powerful box office data, which were finally summarized by Warner Bros. Pictures, which is responsible for the distribution of "The Sixth Sense"-

"$18 million in revenue on the first day!!"

Barry Mendel looked at the first-day box office report of "The Sixth Sense" in his hand, and suddenly felt a little hot.

You know, although they are all Charlotte Booth's works, "The Sixth Sense" is not a special effects blockbuster like "Guillotte Valley".

To a certain extent, this is a relatively literary film, although under the banner of horror films.

In fact, after Warner took over the release of "The Sixth Sense", it made a preliminary assessment -

$2,000 to $30,000!

This is Warner's estimate of the first-week box office performance of "The Sixth Sense".

As the person responsible for the distribution of "The Sixth Sense", Barry Mendel knows this data very well.

So, when he saw that The Sixth Sense actually grossed $18 million on its first day, he was completely stunned!

"In this case, you can fully recoup the cost in the second week at most, right?"

Compared with "Guillotine Valley", which has a lot of special effects, the production cost of "The Sixth Sense" is actually cheaper, and Charlotte only used about $30 million to complete the entire movie.

According to Hollywood's general algorithm that 1/3 of the box office is the income of the filmmaker, the box office of "The Sixth Sense" is probably enough to recover the cost as long as it reaches $90 million.

At the moment, it seems that it is very easy indeed.

And the subsequent development is also as Barry Mendel expected-

Saturday box office 21 million!

Sunday box office 21 million!!

The total box office in the first week was 60 million!!

When Charlotte got the first-week box office report for "The Sixth Sense" from Warner on Monday morning, the director himself was stunned.

He knows that unlike "Guillotine Valley", which has a strong commercial flavor and the addition of Depp and Winona's engagement news, "The Sixth Sense" is essentially a slow-burning movie.

This warm, but eerie horror movie, the box office trend should be more of a trickle rather than an instant explosion.

But what's going on now?

"It's summer!"

Barry Mendel, who has been in contact with Charlotte for a long time, explained,

"It's the time of year when moviegoers have the most spending power. Although "The Sixth Sense" is dressed in the skin of a horror movie, the delicate feelings and PG-13 rating in it ensure that it can be watched as a family movie. ”

"A family audience?"

Although it was expected before, Charlotte still didn't expect the power of the family audience to be so great.

On the other side, Barry Mendel is still chattering,

"Charlotte, your previous campaign for free screenings of films for orphanages, homes for the elderly, and psychiatric hospitals in the Los Angeles area has also been very effective. ”

"According to our survey of moviegoers, 36% of the audience went to the cinema because of the charity fame of "The Sixth Sense". ”

"What about the others?"

Since it was said that the questionnaire was discussed, Charlotte also simply asked about the relevant results,

"In addition to charity, what are the other elements that attract the audience to watch this movie?"

"Bruce Willis is about 39%! and—"

Barry Mendel glanced at Charlotte a little strangely,

"Yourself, it's 20 percent smaller. ”

"Me!?"

Pointing to her nose, Charlotte was a little stunned.