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Jason's worried, hesitant expression appeared in his mind, and Ryan's expression froze.

Just a week ago, the annual masterpiece Alexander the Great held its grand premiere. Warner Bros. invested 155 million funds for this year's most watched work, and personally invited Oliver Stone ( Oliver-Stone wrote the screenplay and directed, and then brought together Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val-Kilmer, Anthony Hopkins, Jared Lay The joining of actors such as Jared-Leto can be said to be ambitious.

Even if such a work is placed in the summer file, it is at the level of a giant alligator, but now it is placed in the holiday file. Almost everyone thinks that it will easily complete the sweep and completely detonate the box office.

However, after the film was released, it fell through everyone's glasses. The box office of Alexander the Great in its opening weekend was only 13 million U.S. dollars-this data can only rank No. 1 in the fourth week of November. There are only six of them, and the comprehensive media evaluation is only a bad 34 points!

This is not only a fiasco, but also an earth-shattering avalanche-style fiasco, even more terrifying than Troy and King Arthur who lost everything in this summer. Although the film is only shown for the first week, Warner Bros. has basically given up internally. Media reviews and audience feedback are a nightmare. Even the overseas box office is hard to come back to life. The brothers lost between 120 million and 150 million.

Objectively speaking, the quality of the work Alexander the Great itself has been slammed by the media, even more bleak than the 51 points of Troy. At the same time, this is also the year when epic movies completely collapsed; but the media in the circle generally believe that However, Angelina, who was plagued by negative news, was an important reason why the film suffered a heavy blow.

Alexander the Great originally planned to hit the summer file, but because they were not confident in the quality of the finished film, Warner Bros. withdrew from the fierce competition for the summer file. This decision was understandable, but Brad and Angelina did not expect The derailment door broke out immediately, and everyone's anger was ignited in an instant. Operation Smith faced severe resistance, which made the crew who were filming closely at a loss.

It now appears that the audience's repulsion has not had time to affect Operation Smith, and it has already affected Alexander the Great-the ratio of theater lineups is far lower than expected, and the audience attendance is a disaster. Worse than the end of the world described in The Day After Tomorrow. Coupled with the horrible word-of-mouth and feedback of the work, the opening weekend box office of 13 million was born.

The sky is falling apart!

In just one year, Warner Bros. faced the collapse of Troy and Alexander the Great successively, with a loss of more than 200 million U.S. dollars-this is only a preliminary forecast, and the heavy blow made Barry Meyer a little dazed . Therefore, after the rise of the recent confrontation, Warner Bros. has almost no hesitation, and began to push forward with all its strength-because they can no longer afford to lose in Ocean's Twelve.

Although it is an exaggeration to say that Angelina is an actor who caused such a situation, but no one can deny that Cheating Door did have a negative impact on the movie box office. Now, it's Brad's turn. Can Ocean's Twelve avoid such a situation?

This was Jason's concern.

Jason believes that they should not spend too much energy on publicity, or should return to the work itself, not just Ocean's Twelve, but more importantly, Sahara Cavalry - after this work was put into post-production, the editing There are constant disagreements between the director and the director, and the semi-finished product presented so far is far from the expectations of the producers, especially for the use of special effects and the use of the actual bomb explosion shots on the shooting scene. Everyone has a lot of differences .

This worried Jason.

Ryan understands Jason's worries, but he doesn't think it's that serious. It's the right way to do both post-production and film promotion. What's more, the pattern and routines of commercial films have formed a fixed pattern-so this is called For genre films, he believes that as long as the quality of the final product is guaranteed to be at the average level of the Hollywood pipeline, the film will not fail. What's more, if the quality of the finished film fails to meet expectations, then it will need more publicity to make up for it. Therefore, Ryan believes that not only can't compress the publicity, but should adjust the plan and continue to pave the way for publicity in an orderly manner.

This led to a bitter internal dispute.

The smile on the corner of Ryan's mouth froze for a moment, and he glanced at Brad from the corner of his eyes, then looked up at George, who cast a questioning look in doubt, calm and calm, calm and confident, mature and steady, not only There was no panic at all, and she also showed a well-thought-out self-confidence. This made Ryan think of Lance inexplicably—even a loser can be so confident, shouldn't he be more confident as a winner? Just like George.

The thoughts in his mind flashed like a light, and then disappeared. The smile on the corner of Ryan's mouth was redrawn, and he shook his head at George, I'm just thinking, now I'm watching today's premiere, and I'm ready to fight ?

George's smile slightly raised, and then calmly restrained, Of course.

Ryan's nervousness was completely relieved. Brad is a member of Ocean's Twelve, but only one of them. So what if Brad gets all the bad press? Ocean's Twelve has twelve stars, which is the film's greatest confidence and capital.

What's more, now that the movie has become a hot spot on the Internet, it has become the focus of December almost effortlessly, and even stole the limelight of the awards season. This is an almost impossible task in the holiday season-but they It did. Everything is creating conditions for the success of Ocean's Twelve. Some people even speculate whether Ocean's Twelve can replicate the 70 million premiere data of The Incredibles four weeks ago. It is undoubtedly the best affirmation.

Therefore, with Ocean's Twelve against Murder with a Borrowed Knife and facing Lance again, whether it is Tucker or George, the mood seems very relaxed. comparable. He shouldn't be an exception, don't be disturbed by Jason's words, and don't be distracted by Jason's focus!

Ryan straightened his chest and spine, and the calm and confident emotions were released from the inside out. For this victory, they have unprecedented confidence!

Phew, the time should be up, right? I think the audience on the red carpet can't wait. Tucker looked at his watch. For the first time, he was actually looking forward to confronting Lance again. After sweeping Lance out of the house years ago, the feeling he found again reminded him of the pleasure when he stepped Lance into the dust.

George stood up, straightened his suit, and smoothed out all the folds carefully. His tall and straight figure showed a strong confidence invisibly. Although he didn't say anything, his actual actions have shown that he is at the moment Mood. George looked back at Brad who was still fiddling with the bow tie. Brad saw George's eyes reflected in the mirror and rolled his eyes, Okay, okay, I'm ready, let me vent my depressed mood Let's go to Lance, who made him unlucky? This sentence made George laugh dumbly, and his calmness in the calm and breezy was eye-catching.

Brad walked to the very center of the room, looked around at the other three people, and raised his voice with bright eyes, Who is expecting a hot premiere, and a hearty weekend box office success?

The premiere of Ocean's Twelve is about to open, and the Chinese/Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard is already bustling with crowds everywhere. In the near future, at the same time on the same day, the two films premiered in two different theaters respectively, pushing the tense atmosphere of the confrontation to its peak.

Fighting on the same stage means that the victory or defeat is clear at a glance, and there is almost no room for maneuver: choose The Twelve Arhats or kill with a borrowed knife? This is an extremely difficult choice, not to mention that these two works are commercial crime films, and similar themes have also targeted similar audiences, which means that the diversion of audiences will be maximized-there is no possibility of a win-win situation, or It's life and death, or both sides will suffer, it can be described as a life and death struggle.

It is impossible for Warner Bros. and Paramount to be unaware of this, but both sides seem to have acquiesced in this pattern-out of different mentalities, the former hopes to use the festive atmosphere to launch a last-ditch effort, while the latter strictly enforces its true purpose. Strictly hidden behind a commercial mask, the result is that the two not only did not avoid the limelight, but also intentionally started to fan the flames, making the tension of the confrontation continue to rise.

All of this made the whole of Los Angeles boil, and it was rare to temporarily forget the turmoil of the awards season, and shifted all attention to this showdown that continued from Interview with the Vampire. This is indeed a dumbfounding situation.

Compared with the fighting spirit of Chinese theaters, the atmosphere of the crew of Murder with a Borrowing Knife seems a bit casual. Although the film is always promoted from the perspective of a commercial film, the main staff of the crew know that the box office is important, but What is really important about this work is word of mouth, but also performance. It can be said that the main battlefield of killing people with a borrowed knife is completely in another field.

Even so, Tom still seemed a little nervous-if it was just a commercial film, his mood might be relatively relaxed, but his expectations for this work are obviously more than that. Sitting on the sofa, Tom leaned forward, rubbing his knees restlessly, raised his head and kept looking at the door, and finally, a figure strode over, it was Cole Grinder .

Tom let out a long breath, and looked behind Cole, but found that there was nothing behind Cole, and the muscles that had just relaxed a little bit tensed up again, and he stood up abruptly, all muscles tensed. He said tensely, Where's Lance?