Chapter 353 I'm Sure I Read It Right

In the original plan, Robert Shea planned to wait two weeks after the release of "The Silence of the Lambs", the attendance rate dropped to a certain level, and justifiably moved two to three hundred theaters of "The Silence of the Lambs" to "Sleeping with the Enemy". 2000 theaters for "Sleeping with the Enemy".

Following "Pretty Woman" and "Steel Magnolia", two consecutive films that exceeded 100 million at the box office, Julia's box office appeal is unquestionable, so the films starring her can also support 2,000 theaters at the same time.

It's a pity that the box office trend of "The Silence of the Lambs" was far beyond everyone's expectations. The box office dropped by less than 20% in the next week. Such a good result, even if Robert Shea is willing, those who signed the ladder-sharing contract in "The Silence of the Lambs" It is also impossible for the screening theater to replace the movie with "Sleeping with the Enemy". Therefore, there are only 1,700 premiere theaters for "Sleeping with the Enemy".

Of course, the release scale of 1,700 theaters did not affect the performance of "Sleeping with the Enemy" at all. After three days of release, "Sleeping with the Enemy" earned more than $18 million at the box office, which has exceeded the weekly average $10,000 box office hit movie standard.

Although the box office success of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been successful before, the credit for that film cannot be fully attributed to Robert Shea. Therefore, the first big-budget film produced by an independent producer was a success, Robert Shay. Shay can't wait to start planning a celebration dinner after the three-day box office release over the weekend, seemingly wanting to declare his status to the whole of Hollywood.

Anyway, a plan has been made before.

Before the end of the year, Eric did not intend to have any conflict with Robert Shea, so he readily agreed that the celebration banquet held at the Hilton Hotel would be entirely paid for by Firefly.

After "Sleeping with the Enemy", Eric stopped going to Firefly's headquarters every day, even though "Ghost Love" has entered the final stage of publicity. But Eric didn't travel around to do the final promotion for the movie as he did with the likes of Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda. If he's just a film director, there's certainly no escape from these things, though. As the boss of Firefly, Eric still has this privilege.

Several cars stopped outside a beach park south of Santa Monica, Los Angeles. The door opened, and seven or eight people came down one after another. Eric skillfully put on his sunglasses and baseball cap before looking at the beach park with confidence.

A group of people quickly gathered, and Katherine Bigelow, wearing a sun hat and a simple black T-shirt and dark jeans, said: "This is it, I have been here once before, and I just took a cursory look. God made a comparison. Only to find that this is the best place, let's go in. "

"According to the cold, gloomy and gloomy tone of "Point Panic", it seems a little too beautiful here," Eric said, following Katherine Bigelow, looking at the surrounding scenery.

"I plan to choose to shoot here again."

"Cloudy? In Los Angeles, this kind of weather is hard to come by," Eric shook his head and turned to the director of photography of "Shocking Point" who was following behind him: "Donald, do you have any good solutions?"

Donald Peterman is a middle-aged man in his forties. And he is a very good photographer. He has participated in the shooting of many excellent movies before, since the budget of "Shocking Point" is sufficient. Like Katherine Bigelow and James Cameron, the crew chose the best. In the early stage of the film, in order to confirm that the scene selected by the director is suitable for shooting, the director of photography must be involved.

Hearing Eric's words, Donald Peterman squinted his eyes and looked around, thought for a while, and then said, "If I want the best effect for the film, of course I also hope that the scene here can be shot on a cloudy day, but Los Angeles does not encounter a few rainy days in a year, so it is ok to choose to shoot in the evening. However, in that case, because of the change of light, the suitable time for shooting is very short, and it can’t be completed in a few times, so we can only wait. It's the second day."

The group walked around the beach park for a long time. Under the curiosity and doubts of the beach surfers, they wrote and drew as if they were no one else, and made some records from time to time. Donald Peterman also used a portable camera in Katherine Bigger. Luo took a few shots at the location he liked, and they were busy for nearly an hour before everyone left.

They did not communicate with the park management, because it is still very early to start filming, and according to the plan, "Fright Point" will not start until the end of July at the earliest.

After watching the beach park, everyone quickly drove to the next target. After running for an entire afternoon, Eric also deeply realized the vastness of Los Angeles County. After running more than 100 kilometers in one day, he was still on the streets of Greater Los Angeles. Wandering in the alleys, not even the suburbs.

In the evening, the group had dinner at a restaurant in Santa Monica before planning to go home.

"Hey, Kate, can you wait?" Eric stopped Katherine Bigelow who was about to drive home.

Catherine Bigelow stopped by the door and asked, "Eric, what's the matter?"

"That's it. Tomorrow, Firefly will hold a celebration party for "Sleeping with the Enemy" at the Hilton Hotel. Would you like to come?"

Catherine Bigelow shook her head directly: "Sorry, Eric, I don't like to attend this kind of party very much."

"I mean, you can go with Jim, and a lot of executives from Hollywood will probably come over tomorrow, and that's really good for networking."

"Jim went to North Carolina to shoot for Terminator 2," Kathryn Bigelow shrugged. "I can't go alone."

"You can come with me, I don't think Jim would mind," Eric said in a relaxed tone as possible.

Catherine Bigelow raised her eyebrows and teased: "Little guy, I want to warn you, don't hit me."

"Cough cough..." Eric didn't expect Catherine Bigelow to be so direct, so he couldn't help coughing twice before saying, "Kate, I think you must have misunderstood."

"I can be 100% sure, I didn't misunderstand," Kathryn Bigelow opened the car door and planned to leave. After thinking about it, she turned around, hugged Eric like a big sister and patted him hard on the back. He said in a tone of coaxing a child: "Okay, little guy, hey, tomorrow we'll choose heroines for "Terror Point", those young and beautiful girls are the targets you should aim at."

Although the light fragrance on Catherine Bigelow's body is very good, but being coaxed like a child, Eric still resisted and got out of the woman's arms: "Okay, okay, but, can you stop calling me? my little guy?"

"Of course," Katherine Bigelow smiled and took two steps back, opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat, and waved to Eric: "See you tomorrow, little guy."

"See you tomorrow," Eric beckoned to the woman helplessly, watching Catherine Bigelow drive away in that Chevrolet SUV before getting his own car, facing the rearview mirror on the windshield Looking at his current expression, Eric rubbed his cheeks a few times before saying to himself: "It's embarrassing to be picked out so bluntly, but I like this kind of character." (To be continued. )

ps: There are all kinds of tossing today, a lot of things, I have time to start writing after nine o'clock in the evening, try to make up for it tomorrow, sorry.