I’m in Hollywood

Catherine heard Eric's words, glanced at him, raised her lips but didn't speak, but the woman was thinking that she had caught another moment of his age, and he was only a hairy in his early twenties. Head boy.

Perhaps Catherine herself didn't realize that when she was with Eric, she was always accustomed to capturing Eric's behavior that was more in line with his age.

Probably just trying to remind myself of something, who knows.

After Eric said that, he didn't speak again, and the two quietly turned their attention to the big screen together.

At this time, the movie has been played for about 20 minutes. The first storm is about to hit, and the two teams rushed to the location of the tornado.

Because she has been influenced (or poisoned) by too many European film masters, Catherine is not too interested in this typical commercial film. Of course, living in Hollywood, she does not hate this kind of commercial film as much as European literary film directors. . Catherine just subconsciously focused most of her attention on the beautiful blonde woman in the movie in a white tank top.

The performance of the interaction between the woman and the new girlfriend of the male protagonist was very good. Although she was specially dressed up for the role of the meteorologist, it was still difficult to hide the beautiful appearance of the woman.

Glancing at Eric in the dark, she knew that the heroine named Joanna Pakula in the movie was still the lover of the man beside her.

This greedy little bastard.

Feeling the woman's gaze, Eric looked over inquiringly, and Catherine quickly turned her head. Looking at the big screen again.

soon. The protagonist's convoy suffered the first tornado. Watching the scene of the tornado rolling up the truck and tractor one by one with a terrifying momentum on the screen, Catherine finally had a bit of shock. As a film director, she knew that no company had ever produced such a realistic tornado before. special effects.

The surrounding audience also exclaimed in a low voice. With the appearance of the first tornado, the rhythm of the next movie accelerated, and the hurricane special effects scenes that appeared every ten minutes on average were dizzying. The cool scene attracted bursts of exclamations from time to time.

Because Tornado appeared a few years earlier, before that, in terms of cg special effects, only Terminator 2 using liquid metal robot special effects caused a similar sensation, and the audience had not yet passed Jurassic Park. , Independence Day and other CG special effects blockbusters, so it will bring such an enthusiastic response from the audience.

When the film ends with a majestic symphony,

Before the lights came on, applause broke out in the theater.

When the two walked out of the cinema following the flow of people and walked slowly towards the parking lot, Catherine said, The soundtrack of the movie is very nice.

Eric said: I have a sample of the original soundtrack that has been made. I will send you a copy.

Thank you, Catherine didn't refuse. After thinking about it, I couldn't help but say: The heroine is also very beautiful.

Ah, I can't give you this one, Eric joked.

Catherine followed and smiled, and the two walked to the car together. Eric thoughtfully opened the car door for the woman, watched her get in the car, leaned on the door and asked with a smile, I really don't think about letting me see you off. go back?

Catherine glared at him, said nothing, and fastened her seat belt to herself.

Otherwise, you can send me back, I don't mind, Eric continued to smile while watching the woman's movements.

Catherine fastened her seat belt, turned her head and forced Eric away with her eyes. She stretched out her hand and slammed the door. With the sound of the engine, the white BMW sedan drove onto the highway, first slowly for a short distance, and then suddenly Accelerate, as if it will be held down by a giant beast for a second.

Eric watched the woman's car disappear into the traffic all the way, then shrugged, muttered to himself, and came to his car with a smile.

After driving all the way back to her residence in Coldwater Canyon of Beverly Hills, Catherine felt her pounding heartbeat calm down a lot, parked the car, opened the door and walked into the living room.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, a furry little guy came running over meowing, presumably starving.

Catherine took the cat food and poured it into the little guy's basin before leaning on the sofa in the living room a little tired.

I don't know how long it took, after the yellow kitten with some big ears was full, he walked over with small steps, and jumped on the sofa lightly and leaned over.

Catherine hugged the little guy and placed it on her lap, stroking lightly, and said, Percy, don't you think I'm a boring woman too?

The little guy who was very comfortable to be stroked just shrunk his furry body into a ball, found a more comfortable position and narrowed his eyes, without answering the master's intention at all.

Catherine looked at the lazy appearance of the little thing, reached out and gently tugged at the kitten's big ears, and there was an inaudible sigh in the air.

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After the last period of bombardment, the time for the release of Tornado has finally come. This is the first big-budget film released by Firefly Pictures after the acquisition of Disney. Several other Hollywood film companies have set their sights on it. In this film, although Tornado has accumulated a very solid reputation after several rounds of screenings, no one knows the box office potential of a film until it is released on a large scale. After all, the movie It is not uncommon for it to get good reviews at the box office but hit the streets during the test screening.

On the evening of June 4th, Tornado held a grand premiere at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and was officially released in more than 2,600 theaters in North America.

...a breathtaking special effects film, after two years of dormancy, Eric Williams has brought us a gorgeous visual feast.

...a relaxed plot, amazing CG special effects, and a magnificent soundtrack, this young Hollywood tycoon has once again brought us a surprise.

... After watching this movie, I only have one worry, maybe our big screen will be occupied by this kind of realistic CG special effects in the future. And the essence of the film as a story carrier is lost. The digital special effects company may take Hollywood into a whole new era.”

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June 5th. After the midnight screening. Large-scale film reviews appeared again in various media. Most of the paper media gave Tornado a very high score, and countless film reviews were mostly praised, although some extremely conservative film reviews were inevitable. People habitually criticize movies with fierce words, but under this general trend, it has little effect at all.

Under everyone's expectation, on June 6th, the box office of Tornado was released on the first day. Although Firefly Pictures did not release specific data to the outside world, Hollywood film companies and entertainment media, who were always concerned about this matter, quickly got detailed figures through their respective channels.

$14.5 million on the first day.

Seeing this number, many people feel an indescribable sense of numbness. They feel surprised and take it for granted.

According to the box office rules of the first week of the film, after Friday, the box office will rise once on Saturday, and then fall again on the weekend. Tornado is expected to get a box office of about 45 million US dollars in the first three days of the first weekend. The box office of the summer weekday is generally About half of the three days on the weekend. Based on this calculation, Tornado may reach the cost line of 70 million US dollars in the first week.

Inside the Columbia Pictures offices. Seeing the box office data in his hand, Peter Cooper has already had a bad feeling. According to the current reputation of Tornado, even if it comes to the next week, the box office will not fall too much, and it will definitely remain at 40 million to 40 million yuan. Between $50 million, and the average weekly box office total in North America during the summer season is only about $100 million, Dark War is likely to compete with more than ten other films for the remaining more than $50 million at the box office.

After the trial screening in the early stage, many film critics and audiences generally expressed varying degrees of dissatisfaction with The Prequel, believing that this prequel film completely lost the style of the film that Eric created in the first film, and changed It has become a mediocre action film. Although the action scenes of the film are not unremarkable, and the big scenes are not unremarkable, but in the face of the realistic CG special effects of Tornado, these do not seem to be too competitive.

What's more, Warner's Batman Returns will also be released a week after the release of The Prequel. Under the attack of the two blockbusters, Peter Cooper couldn't help but fight a cold war.

Columbia also signed a three-film cooperation agreement with Tom Cruise's production company, but now it seems that this cooperation has to be reconsidered. Peter Cooper couldn't help but think of the Mr. and Mrs. Smith that is being produced. He has been in Hollywood for decades. Even if he can't make a good movie, his vision for movies is absolutely unquestionable. Such a movie A film with a novel plot and a brand-new shooting concept, as long as there are not too many accidents, success is almost certain.

Peter Cooper quickly figured out that if he wanted to keep his current position, he still had to hold on to the cooperation with Firefly Pictures. After making a decision, Peter Cooper picked up the phone on his desk and dialed. Eric's number.

Hi, Eric, I'm Peter Cooper... Of course it's fine, I just wanted to congratulate you...

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In the carnival of summer fans, the film's first-week box office was finally released. Tornado won a total of more than 65 million US dollars at the box office in seven days. In addition to the small-scale movies in the previous week, the total box office just exceeded 70 million US dollars. cost line.

Many people who were expecting the box office of Tornado to decline have lost their last ray of hope. Those who want to cooperate with Firefly have also put away their disappointment and picked up the phone again to dial Eric's number. Eric and After the first day of the box office was released, it experienced a phone bombing again.

Of course, Chris, you can make up your mind about this matter, 2 million a year is 2 million... Haha, I didn't say that I have too much money to spend, I just believe that you definitely won't The one that made me suffer... um, of course... to be honest, I enjoyed hearing those people call me to congratulate me with envy and jealousy... Okay, I won't talk nonsense with you, I'm busy here Now, if you want, you can fly over to participate in the celebration feast of Tornado at night, it will definitely be more lively then... Then I will hang up, Eric hung up the phone and handed it to the assistant behind him.

After a Hollywood director finishes a movie, they often take a vacation and take a good rest, and at the same time experience the success or failure of the movie's release. But while Tornado nearly broke Hollywood's first-week box office record, Eric didn't have much time to stop and enjoy the flowers and wine.

Chris, who is far away in New York, just called to discuss with Eric the amount of donation to the World Wide Web Fund, and told him that the ie company's shelf had been set up, except for Tim Berners Lee, who served as the company's consultant. Chris not only hired dozens of software engineers, he even hired a senior manager from Oracle to be the director of ie. In order to facilitate interaction with the World Wide Web Consortium, the headquarters of IE is temporarily set up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located. It is expected that the beta version of the IE browser will be launched at the end of the year.

In addition to IE, the other two companies are also making preparations in an orderly manner. According to Eric's plan, these two companies will not be officially launched on the IE platform at least after the IE beta version is launched, so Chris's main focus is still on on the ie.

Someone shouted something through the loudspeaker in the open space in front of him, waking Eric out of his thoughts.

This is a square in the Firefly Studios. The giant in the center of the square moved slowly after the shout just now.

Foreground, leaning, biting, growling...

When the Tyrannosaurus Rex model, which took a dozen special effects engineers in the digital domain for several months, successfully completed various testing actions, everyone cheered while heaving a sigh of relief.

How's it going, Eric, Stan Winston ran over enthusiastically, with a bit of a call for credit in his tone, although he knew that the development center of the digital field was in CG special effects, but after so many years of modeling Special effects, Stan Winston was still very excited and proud as he watched another model take shape in the hands of his team.

Excellent, Eric praised without hesitation. I'm sure this big guy will surprise everyone next year?

Of course, it's definitely not much worse than the hurricane in Tornado, Stan Winston said confidently, and then said, Then let's look at the model of the Velociraptor.

Under the personal command of Stan Winston, the Tyrannosaurus Rex model was carefully dragged back to the warehouse, and a few smaller Velociraptor models were quickly pulled out by the staff. (To be continued..)

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