Chatty Hollywood

"Taxi Driver" is the famous work of Judy Foster.

In the movie directed by Martin Scorsese and remembered in film history, Judy played a young girl named Iris.

At that time, she was only 12 years old, but she played Iris with unlimited charm and innocence.

But it is precisely because of this that she met the truly perverted lo*ic*n-John Hinkley.

This madman learned from Travis, the actor in "Taxi Driver," and wanted to get Judy Foster's attention by assassinating the then President Reagan.

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

The media portrayed her as a beauty, and the FBI has long suspected that she was behind the assassination.

This made Judy had to rest for three years, and it was not until the filming of "Pear Flower" that the king returned.

Now, although Miss Shadow Queen has passed the darkest period of time, in essence, she is still reluctant to mention that period of time.

But for Catherine Kennedy, Judy's anger is not a problem.

As one of the most famous filmmakers in Hollywood, she is so powerful, even if Judy Foster is a double Oscar queen, there is nothing special in her eyes.

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

Besides, she and Judy Foster are not actually familiar.

In fact, Catherine Kennedy mentioned that Judy’s performance in "Taxi Driver" was purposeful.

"Rather than protesting like this, you might as well learn this sentence--"

With that said, the producer lady wittily learned from the "Taxi Driver", Robert De Niro, who played the protagonist, raised her eyebrows.

"Are you talking to me?"

"...This is one of Robert's most famous lines."

The young lady's face is a bit ugly.

At this point, she already understood that Katherine Kennedy didn’t talk to her about another cooperation project before, and just read the film reviews about the "Sixth Sense", or deliberately poked her sore feet, in fact, they were all hints. It is not so easy for her to cooperate with Amperin Entertainment on a new film project.

Just like the line in the "Taxi Driver" she just quoted-

"Are you talking to me?"

--who do you think You Are?

As a bigwig among Hollywood producers, Catherine Kennedy vehemently bullied Judy.

This made Miss Queen's heart swollen with excitement because of "Guillotine Valley" won the best picture Oscar, and "Sixth Sense" showed signs of a big explosion, and calmed down again.

Yes!

Although there is a shadow of Judy behind these two movies, after all, it is Charlotte who is leading these two projects.

As for Charlotte, I am afraid that it will not 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 real commercial film director...

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At this time, Judy Foster had never thought about the possibility of box office failure for "Sixth Sense".

The fact is indeed the case.

In fact, not only the film critics, but most of the audience have a very high evaluation of this film.

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

This makes their evaluation of "Sixth Sense" even higher.

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

These excellent evaluations in all aspects were finally transformed into powerful box office data, which was finally summarized in Warner Bros. Pictures, which was responsible for the distribution of "Sixth Sense"——

"The first day's income reached 18 million U.S. dollars!!!"

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

You know, although they are all works by Charlotte Booth, "Sixth Sense" is not a special effects blockbuster like "Driftwood".

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

In fact, after taking over the release of "Sixth Sense", Warner made a preliminary assessment——

20 to 30 million dollars!

This is the first week box office performance of "Sixth Sense" estimated by Warner.

As the person responsible for the distribution of "Sixth Sense", Barry Mendel has a clear understanding of the data in this area.

So, when he saw that the actual first-day box office of "Sixth Sense" was $18 million, he was completely stunned!

"In this way, the cost will be fully recovered in the second week at most, right?"

The production cost of "Sixth Sense" is actually cheaper than that of "Broken Head", which has a lot of special effects. Charlotte used only about 30 million US dollars to get the whole movie.

According to Hollywood’s popular method that 1/3 of the box office is the film's revenue, the box office of "Sixth Sense" probably only reaches 90 million US dollars, which is enough to recover the cost.

At present, it is indeed very easy.

And the subsequent development is as expected by Barry Mendel-

21 million box office on Saturday!

21 million box office on Sunday! !

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

When Charlotte got the first week's box office report of "Sixth Sense" from Warner on Monday morning, the director himself was stunned.

He knows that, unlike "Dropped Dale", which has a strong commercial flavor and the news of Depp and Winona's engagement, "Sixth Sense" is essentially a slow movie.

This horror movie, which is full of warmth and spooky and secretiveness, should have a box office trend to a greater extent, rather than an instantaneous explosion.

But what's the situation now?

"It's summer vacation now!"

Barry Mendel, who has been in contact with Charlotte, explained,

"Now is the time of the year when movie audiences have the strongest spending power. Although "Sixth Sense" is dressed in a horror film, its delicate feelings and PG-13 classification ensure that it can be used as Watch a family movie."

"A home audience?"

Although it had been predicted before, Charlotte still did not expect the power of the family audience to be so great.

On the other hand, Barry Mendel is still chattering~www.NovelMTL.com~Charlotte, your previous publicity method of showing free movies for orphanages, nursing homes and mental hospitals in the Los Angeles area is also very effective. "

"According to our survey of moviegoers, 36% of the audience came to the cinema because of the charity reputation of "Sixth Sense"."

"What about the others?"

Now that we talked about the questionnaire, Charlotte also asked about the relevant results.

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

"Bruce Willis accounted for about 39%! Besides—"

Barry Mendel gave Charlotte a strange look.

"You yourself, still accounted for 20%."

"I!?"

Pointing to her nose, Charlotte was a little startled.