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After a short half-day rest, the crew chartered a flight to New York the next day. This time, Jeffrey brought people to pick up the plane, and there is also a team from Firefly, responsible for "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Home Alone 2 Lost". New York's preparatory work.
Compared with when they were in Seattle, most of the scenes were played by Jonah and his son.
The shooting of the New York scene is much more troublesome. In terms of characters, the scenes of "Sleepless in Seattle" in New York include not only Annie's family, but also Annie's friends and colleagues.
Eric feels that such a plot design is likely to weaken the sense of existence of Anne's boyfriend Walter, just like showing Sam's dead wife Maggie with only a few shots.
Although for Sam and Annie, it is indeed a very romantic love story.
But for Walter, who is already engaged to Annie, being dumped for an 'inexplicable' reason during a date on Valentine's Day is a bit sad.
Eric remembered that among some film reviews he saw in his previous life, there were comments on this incident, which were generally criticism of Annie's infidelity and sympathy for Walter. Still, in a country with a divorce rate as high as 50 percent, it doesn't seem like people care too much. To put it bluntly, no matter in politics or love, people in this country are pursuing two words: freedom.
Eric remembers reading a sentence there, real freedom. It's not about doing whatever you want. But don't do what you don't want to do.
Although this sentence is suspected of mystification. However, it is very suitable for Anne in "Sleepless in Seattle". Even though she is engaged, she still rejects Walter without mercy when she finds out that Walter is not the one she is destined for.
"How's the discussion on the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers going?" After getting off the plane and sitting in a business 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. Jonah and Kevin will be filming on the two tallest buildings in New York, respectively, and until the filming of "Sleepless in Seattle", these two things have not yet been confirmed.
"It's all done," Jeffrey gave Eric a reassuring look, and then said: "However, the management of the two buildings did not give too much time."
"It's okay, there are not many shots anyway, mainly the Empire State Building, and the shots on the top of the Twin Towers only need a few aerial shots." Eric nodded with satisfaction.
Jeffrey added: "One more thing, about the snow. I consulted the meteorological department in detail, and the first snow in New York will not be until November at the earliest. It may be in the first week of November, but it will not Pretty sure it's only September after all and you know, weather forecasts are never accurate. Maybe we're lucky and it snows at the end of October, or maybe we're just unlucky and it won't snow in New York until Home Alone comes out , In short, you have to be mentally prepared."
Eric nodded: "It's nothing, you can just get someone to prepare artificial snow, I will try my best to shoot the exterior of "Home Alone 2" at the end, but it won't take long to delay, so I think 90% Some may use artificial snow."
"I've already had someone make an estimate according to your script. Although it doesn't need to fill the scene, but if the artificial snow is to make the audience believe it's real, the budget will increase by about 1.5 million U.S. dollars."
Eric could hear the pain in Jeffrey's tone, and patted Jeffrey on the shoulder. Although the fireflies are getting bigger and bigger now, Jeffrey is still the one that Eric saw at the beginning who likes to plan carefully. character. However, such a personality is also the most suitable for being a producer: "Jeffrey, this is not last year after all. Last year when we made the first "Home Alone", we had to plan carefully and even went to the far north of Canada to save the budget. Small towns. But our budget for this film is very loose, so there is no need to save the money that should be 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 laughed and said, "According to what you said, we could save 1.5 million yuan by waiting for the natural snowfall in the end, but because we postponed "Home Alone 2" to Christmas, we might 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 screenings, so we must extend the schedule during the festival as much as possible. 11 The second half 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 vicious competition with "Home Alone 2", I think it's okay to postpone it by 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. The popularity is almost exhausted. But it will be around December 24th, after two months of screenings, and then enter the Valentine's Day schedule, it can give this love movie a rebound at the box office. You know, my movie, The large-scale box office harvesting 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" were both so."
Jeffrey smiled and said: "I really don't know where you learned these things from. I originally wanted to tell you about the schedule of "Small Island Cry", you encouraged Michael Ace I also think it is very inappropriate to put "Small Island Cry" 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 "Small Island Cry" is also a small 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 after more than two decades, it is still very rough.
Although Eric, who came from later generations, has never directed a movie, nor did he do distribution work, but in that era of information explosion, under the influence of his ears and eyes, he naturally understood the distribution rules of some movies. (It’s a great event to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow up~click/official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter dd), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now follow dd immediately WeChat public account!) (To be continued..)