I’m in Hollywood

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Compared to when they were in Seattle, it was mostly Jonah and his son.

The filming of the New York scene is a lot more troublesome. From the perspective of the characters alone, the scenes in Sleepless in Seattle in New York include not only Annie's family, but also Annie's friends, colleagues and so on.

Eric felt that such a plot design was likely to weaken the presence of Anne's boyfriend Walter, just as there were only a few shots of Sam's late wife Maggie.

Although for Sam and Annie, it is indeed a very romantic love story.

But for Walter, who is already engaged to Annie, being dumped on a Valentine's Day date for an inexplicable reason is a little sad.

Eric remembers that some of the film reviews he saw in his previous life included comments about this incident, which were generally criticism of Annie's infidelity and sympathy for Walter. Still, in a country with a 50 percent divorce rate, it seems people don't care too much about it. To put it bluntly, both in terms of politics and love, people in this country are pursuing two words: freedom.

Eric doesn't remember reading a sentence there, true freedom is not doing what you want, but not doing what you don't want.

Although this sentence has the suspicion of conspiracy, but. It would be perfect for Anne in Sleepless in Seattle, even when engaged. But when she found out that Walter was not the person she was destined to be, she still rejected him without any compromise.

How is the discussion between the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers? I got off the plane. Sitting in a commercial car with Jeffrey, Eric's first words were the two things he was more concerned about.

These two events are about Sleepless in Seattle and Home Alone 2, respectively, and Jonah and Kevin will be filming on the two tallest buildings in New York, respectively, until the filming of Sleepless in Seattle begins. , these two things have not yet been determined.

It's all done, Jeffrey gave Eric a reassuring look, and then added: However, the time given by the managers of the two buildings is not too much.

It's okay. There aren't many shots anyway, mainly the Empire State Building, and the shot at the top of the Twin Towers only needs a few aerial shots.

Eric nodded in satisfaction.

Jeffrey added: One more thing, about the snow, I consulted the weather department in detail, the first snow in New York will not be until November at the earliest, maybe in the first week of November, but it is not So sure, it's only September after all, you know. Weather forecasts are never accurate. Maybe we're lucky and it snows in late October, or maybe we're not. It won't snow in New York until Home Alone , In short, you have to be mentally prepared.

Eric nodded: It's nothing, just let someone prepare artificial snow, I try to put the location of Home Alone 2 at the end of the shooting, but it won't be delayed for long, so I think 90% may use artificial snow.”

I've got people doing an estimate based on your script, although it doesn't need to cover the scene. However, the artificial snow needs to be enough for the audience to believe. The budget will increase by about $1.5 million.

Eric could hear the pain in Jeffrey's tone, and patted Jeffrey's shoulder. Although Firefly is getting bigger and bigger now, Jeffrey is still the budget-conscious character that Eric saw at the beginning. However, such a character is also the most suitable for being a producer: Jeffrey, after all, it is not last year. When we made the first Home Alone last year, we had to plan carefully, and even went to the far north of Canada to save money. Small town to shoot. But we had a very loose budget for the film, so there was absolutely no need to save on the money that should have been spent.”

I also know that I just subconsciously think that if the schedules of Sleepless in Seattle and Home Alone 2 are changed, maybe the 1.5 million will be saved.

Eric smiled and said: According to what you said, in the end we waited until the natural snowfall, but we were able to save the 1.5 million, but because Home Alone 2 was postponed to Christmas, we may lose money at the box office. Tens of millions. You know, from the box office trend of the last Home Alone, it can be seen that this is a children's movie that is very suitable for long-term screening, so we must extend the period during the festival as much as possible. 11 The end of the month is the beginning of the Christmas box office peak.

Then why not put Sleepless in Seattle in late November, even if it doesn't form a vicious competition with Home Alone 2, I think it's okay to delay it for a week. Jeffrey asked again.

Because Sleepless in Seattle is not only for Christmas, but also for Valentine's Day in February, because this is a romantic comedy, if it is a month earlier, then by February, the film's The popularity is almost exhausted. But around December 24, after two months of screening, after entering the Valentine's Day schedule, the box office of this love movie can rebound. You know, my movie, The large-scale box office harvest cycle is more than eight weeks. For example, last year's first Home Alone won the box office championship for 10 weeks. Later Pretty Woman and Dark War are both. so.

Jeffrey smiled and said, I really don't know where you learned these things. I wanted to tell you about the schedule of Cry on the Island. You encouraged Michael Ace I also feel that it is very inappropriate to put Cry on a Island on November 1st. Halloween is indeed suitable for the release of horror films, but those are small-scale horror films with no box office ambitions, although Cry on a Island is also small. It's a production, but we had high hopes for it at the box office. Now it seems that you must have your own ideas.

Eric nodded and didn't explain to Jeffrey, and Jeffrey didn't mean to ask.

In fact, the concept of movie schedules in the United States is relatively mature now, but it is still very rough after more than 20 years.

Although Eric from later generations has never directed a movie, nor did he do the work of distribution, but in the era of information explosion, he naturally understood the distribution rules of some movies. (A good event to drop pie in the sky, the cool mobile phone is waiting for you! Pay attention to ~ point / Chinese net public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter qdread), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account!) (To be continued)