New York, in a villa on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Lyudmila Besonoskova, wearing a thin sling and sitting on the sofa with her long legs crossed, was operating the laptop on her lap, typing and procrastinating. After a while, she suddenly turned on the expensive laptop. He pushed the custom-made laptop to the side and fell down on the sofa. He raised his feet and kicked the laptop directly onto the carpet. He fluttered his slender body and said depressedly: "Ah, these media are so abominable."
It happened that two maids entered the living room pushing a rack of clothes. It was not surprising at all.
Her Royal Highness is once again having a tantrum over The Hangover 2, in which she guest-starred.
Today is July 1st, Saturday.
Just the day before yesterday, The Hangover 2 held a grand premiere at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, and Lyudmila also went to join in the fun.
Of course it's not a hard move.
The story of this sequel was finally filmed in Ukraine according to Simon's vision.
The general plot is that after the first 'adventure' in Atlantic City, the dentist no longer tolerated it and chose to divorce his original wife, and soon met a Ukrainian immigrant girl. The two fell in love and quickly got married. Then, the introduction of another 'adventure' was like the previous version. The Ukrainian wife's brother was getting married, and the dentist and his wife participated together with three other friends.
On the usual single night before the wedding, the dentist's wife's brother was lost to the four brothers, which triggered a plot similar to the first one but more exciting.
The northwest border town of Ukraine.
As the mystery was revealed step by step, a group of friends discovered that after a night of carnival, they had various "Dances with Wolves", encountered drug dealers, arms dealers, casino owners and even drove tanks rampaging between cities, and, of course, The indispensable beauties are like a cloud, and finally helped the undercover Interpol solve a major case of smuggling nuclear weapons.
Of course, the ending is still a happy one after all.
Compared with the first part, this sequel can be said to be more lively, more grand, and even more unlimited.
However, although the first film received an excellent overall media score of 7.8, in this sequel, due to the lack of breakthroughs and various vulgar scenes, the media reputation plummeted, and the reputation ban was finally lifted on the opening day on Friday. At that time, it only received a comprehensive media score of 4.5 points.
Lyudmila Besonoskova, as a well-known model from Ukraine, and her relationship with Simon, easily got a guest role. Of course, he is just a nightclub lead dancer with no lines. Simon does not allow the women around him to mess around in his movies and TV series. However, Xiao Nizi is still quite satisfied and is eager to get good reviews for her big screen debut.
I didn't expect this result.
I was already angry all day yesterday, but I still can't help but watch it again today, but the media's reputation shows no signs of turning around.
Of course, word of mouth belongs to word of mouth, and box office belongs to box office.
Although it was still filmed in Atlantic City like the first season, this sequel was mainly filmed in Rivny, the capital of Ukraine's Rivne Oblast. The intention of stuffing private goods is too obvious, which has also become a point of criticism from some media people. , but it can’t be stopped that the audience just likes the excitement.
It opened on a large scale yesterday, and on its first day of release, The Hangover 2 quickly earned $19.22 million at the box office. In comparison, the first Hangover two years ago only had a box office of $12.43 million on its first day.
With such a start, even if the production cost of the sequel reaches 50 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to the total cost of production and promotion of the first film, and the marketing budget is as high as 30 million U.S. dollars, with a total investment of 80 million U.S. dollars, the Charlie's Angels movie is expected to open in the first week and last week. 2 With the same opening volume of 90 million box office, it is still a great success.
Now it depends on whether The Hangover 2 can follow the trend of Charlie's Angels 2.
The previous Charlie's Angels 2 had a final box office of US$91.34 million in its first week of release from June 23 to June 29. And just yesterday, even in the face of the impact of new films such as The Hangover 2, Charlie's Angels 2 still maintained a 35% The single-day year-on-year decline is expected to be around 35% in the next week, which basically confirms that the North American box office of Charlie's Angels 2 will reach over US$200 million.
In any case, based on The Hangover 2's first-day box office, The Hangover 3 can be directly considered. As for media reviews, you can say whatever you like.
Probably only Lyudmila would be so entangled in private.
The girl rummaged around on the sofa for a while and noticed the two waitresses coming in pushing clothes. She stayed there for a while, then got up and went to the clothes rack with bare feet. After some picking and choosing, she chose a dress that looked very princess-like. He immediately started to change into a mesh-style white dress, and said to a waitress: "My meow wrist is here, let's match it with it."
The girl is talking about a set of fur decorations, worn on the wrist, which look like two cat paws at first glance, cute and playful.
The waitress heard this and agreed, but couldn't help but remind her: "Miss, you have been criticized several times by anti-fur organizations."
Lyudmila's love for fur has been deep-rooted since before she became famous.
After dating a certain tycoon, Nizi has been showing off her preferences in more and more ways over the years. Even in the hot summer, Nizi will always adorn her body with some fur parts.
Hearing what the waitress said, Lyudmila couldn't help but think of her depression when she just read the review of The Hangover 2. Her anger surged up again. She pulled up the shoulder straps of her dress and picked up a shoe from the shoebox held by the waitress on the other side. He only wore high heels with pointed toes, and with a cold face, he raised his hand and was about to throw them over.
It's just that, in the end, he suddenly stopped again.
Recently I plan to stay in New York for a few more days, maybe I can meet a certain man.
Lyudmila didn't want to see someone, and the first thing she said was to be scolded and beaten to death.
Lady.
I want a lady!
After reciting it several times in her mind, Lyudmila dropped the high heels in her hands, glared at the waitress who wanted to hide but didn't dare, and raised her voice: "Do you want me to say it a second time?"
The waitress turned around quickly and hurried out.
Lyudmila looked at the maid on the other side: "Help me get dressed, you idiot. Also, is the makeup artist here?"
Another maid who had been silent at first hurriedly stepped forward to help Her Royal Highness the Princess arrange her dress, while whispering: "She's already here, downstairs."
"Let her come up, and bring those diamond-encrusted glass slippers. I want to wear those tonight."
After struggling like this until the evening, Lyudmila finally set off from the Upper West Side and rushed to Sand Point, a city at the northwest end of Long Island not far from New York City.
There is a ck summer brand party tonight at the famous Guggenheim Manor in Sandpoint City.
This is the second collaboration between ck after it held a big show at the Guggenheim Manor last fall. Because the last big show was very effective, this marketing-oriented summer party chose each other again. For a win-win situation, the Guggenheim Estate is also quite cooperative.
Arriving at the Guggenheim Estate, dusk has fallen.
When entering the door, she noticed the obviously strengthened security here, and, most importantly, happened to recognize the face of a bodyguard who had appeared next to a certain man. Lyudmila immediately became excited.
Entering the manor, after searching for a while, he quickly pounced on a certain figure.
Simon, who was talking to someone, was suddenly hugged by a pair of furry arms. He was startled and pulled the girl behind him over. After recognizing her, he inevitably raised his hand and slapped her a few times and asked, "Why are you here?"
Lyudmila giggled and begged for mercy. She changed to English with a clear accent. While holding her arm with the man, she said: "I'm here to attend the premiere of The Hangover 2, but those media are so mean."
The girl said, very politely in front of outsiders, turned to George Soros and stretched out her hand: "Hello, Mr. Soros, I am Lyudmila."
Soros also shook hands with the girl politely: "Hello, Miss Lyudmila."
Soros didn't know much about the fashion world. He came here tonight to join in the fun, mainly to meet Simon, and he didn't know Lyudmila. However, listening to this girl's special accent and obvious Slavic face, her expression is inevitably a little strange.
Because the two of them just happened to be talking about things in Eastern Europe.
After greeting him like this, Simon did not shy away from the little girl hanging on his body, and continued to say to Soros: "I said a few years ago, George, after 1997, the highlight moment of hedge funds has completely passed, because no longer A stupid donkey will not fall down in the same pit many times. It is inevitable for Quantum Fund to consider transformation. Besides, in Eastern Europe, this time the attack on the oligarchs seems to be a variable, but it is actually an opportunity and an investment opportunity. If there is an opportunity, Quantum Fund can take advantage of this opportunity to move into the industrial field. Anyway, my personal attitude will not change."
Soros actually wanted to have a deeper conversation. He glanced at Lyudmila and understood what Simon meant. He could only nod: "Simon, I will seriously consider it."
Simon raised the red wine in his hand towards Soros: "Then, have a good time tonight."
After Soros left, Lyudmila was immediately curious about the baby: "Simon, what are you talking about?"
"Little girl, don't be so curious. If you know too much, you will be silenced."
Lyudmila stuck out her tongue at the man and stopped asking. Instead, she took the red wine in Simon's hand and brought it to her mouth to drink it in three or two gulps to show her dissatisfaction.
Simon called the waiter to get two more glasses of wine, and while he was talking to the girl next to him, a man and a woman came over, but it was Cindy Crawford and her husband Rand Jabbert. In addition, it was obvious that Cindy Crawford The bulging belly shows that she has been pregnant for a long time.
Another greeting.
Although her husband was by her side, Cindy hugged Simon quite closely.
After the two parties separated, Simon glanced at the woman's belly again and said with a smile: "Congratulations, how many months has it been?"
Cindy rubbed her belly cooperatively and said, "Five months."
"Boy, or girl?"
"Girl," Cindy said, looking up: "Simon, you happen to be such a talented artist, can you give the little one a name?"
Simon smiled and glanced at Lander Gerber: "It's best for you to come up with the name yourself, right?"
Lander Gerber saw Simon looking over and immediately showed an expectant expression: "Simon, if you can give our child a name, that would be his greatest honor."
"In this case, I happen to have one, please refer to it," Simon said: "This is a Nordic name, kaia, kaia. In the Scandinavian language, it means 'pure'."
Kaia, naturally comes from past memories.
This time, the little guy in Cindy's belly obviously couldn't be the original one, but since it was a girl, of course she couldn't miss such a beautiful and unique name.
Simon just hopes that when this little girl grows up, she will no longer imitate the Kardashians and have her lips filled up like she once did. The pretty little girl has to make two weird sausage mouths.
However, there is definitely no chance this time.
Simon will never allow the aesthetic style that is almost deformed in his concept to appear in the circle again.
"Kaya, Kaya," Cindy whispered several times, then looked at her husband: "That's it, Rand, Kaya Jebo, right?"
Randager nodded quickly: "Of course."
What else
After all, Cindy has always been the stronger one in this family. What's more, the person in front of him is definitely a master who cannot be offended in the slightest. Even if Akechi's wife was still unclear about her relationship with him after marriage, Lander Gerber did not dare to show it at all.
After symbolically obtaining her husband's consent, Cindy turned to Simon, went a step further, and said with a smile: "Simon, since Kaya's name was given by you, she can also call you godfather, right?"
"Um, shouldn't we ask the little guy what he means?"
Cindy immediately lowered her head and stroked her bulging belly again: "Baby, what's your opinion?" After speaking, she made a listening expression, then raised her head: "Simon, Kaya has agreed."
Simon: ""
Lyudmila curled her lips and cursed in her heart: Bichi.
Simon actually didn't care, so there were so many unclear goddaughters.
After chatting for a while, Cindy suddenly became resentful again: "Simon, I regret not taking the host job of Project Runway. Can you help me introduce another opportunity?"
During this period, the thing that bothered Cindy the most was the popularity of Project Runway.
The relatively deserted summer time period was only the first season, and the viewership numbers were heading towards the tens of millions level step by step. Claudia Schiffer, who had obviously taken her place and got the opportunity, suddenly became famous in the fashion circle because of this. Cindy was almost going crazy when she was so hot again.
So infuriating.
After all, what this show brings is not only the income from participating in this show, but also the huge popularity that comes from it. Moreover, it is not just the popularity in just one or two years. With reference to a series of other reality shows in USA, To say the least is also the support of popularity that started five years ago.
With popularity, even if Project Runway doesn't make a penny, they can still make a lot of money from other endorsements, catwalk shows, and other commercial invitations that come with it.
For these former supermodels whose careers will inevitably decline after the age of 30, such an opportunity to rejuvenate their personal careers is really rare.
In short, the thing that Cindy thought about the most during this time was to do it again. If she did it again, she would never miss such an opportunity.
When she saw Simon again, Cindy ignored her reservation and made a request directly.