When Catherine heard Eric's words, she glanced at him, twitched the corners of her lips but said nothing, but the woman thought that she had caught another moment of his age, after all, he was just a hairy man in his early twenties Head boy.
Maybe Catherine herself didn't realize that when getting along with Eric, she always habitually captured Eric's words and deeds that were more in line with his age.
Probably just trying to remind myself of something, who knows.
After Eric finished that sentence, he didn't speak again, and the two quietly turned their attention to the big screen together.
At this time, the movie has played for about 20 minutes. The first storm is about to hit, and the two teams rushed to the location where the tornado occurred.
Because she has been influenced (or poisoned) by too many European film masters, Catherine is not very 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 blond woman with beautiful eyes in a white vest in the movie.
The performance of the interaction between the woman and the actor's new girlfriend is very good. Although the character's meteorologist is deliberately dressed in a simple way, it is still difficult to conceal the beautiful appearance of the woman@〗.
Taking a peek 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.
The greedy little bastard.
Sensing the woman's gaze, Eric looked over inquiringly, and Catherine turned her head quickly. Looking at the big screen again.
soon. The protagonist's motorcade encounters the first tornado. Looking at the picture of the tornado rolling up trucks and tractors one by one with terrifying momentum on the screen, Catherine was finally a little shocked. As a film director, she knew that no company had ever produced such a realistic tornado before. special effects.
The surrounding audience also let out a low exclamation at this time. With the appearance of the first tornado, the pace of the movie accelerated, and the hurricane special effects scenes that appeared every ten minutes on average made people dizzy. The cool scenes drew 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", which used liquid metal robot special effects, caused a similar sensation. ", "Independence Day" and other CG special effects blockbusters, that's why they brought such enthusiastic responses from the audience.
When the movie ended with a majestic symphony, the theater had already burst into applause before the lights were turned on.
The two followed the crowd out of the cinema and walked slowly towards the parking lot when Catherine said, "The soundtrack of the movie is very nice."
Eric said: "I have a sample of the original soundtrack that I have made. I will send you a copy later."
"Thank you," Catherine didn't refuse. After thinking about it, he couldn't help but said: "The heroine is also very beautiful."
"Ah, this one can't be given to you," Eric joked.
Catherine followed with a smile, and the two walked to the front of the car together. Eric opened the door for the woman considerately, watched her get into the car, and asked with a smile, "I really don't think about letting me see you off." Go back?"
Catherine glared at him, didn't speak, and fastened her seat belt on her own.
"Or, 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 to force Eric away with her eyes, reached out and slammed the car door, and with the sound of the engine, the white BMW drove onto the road, first slowly driving for a short distance, and then suddenly Accelerate, as if if you slow down for a second, you will be held down by a giant beast.
Eric watched the woman's car disappear into the traffic all the way, then shrugged, whispered something to himself, and came to his car with a smile.
After driving all the way back to her residence in Cold Water Canyon in Beverly Hills, Catherine felt that her racing heartbeat had calmed down a lot. She parked the car, opened the door and walked into the living room.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, a little furry guy ran over meowing, probably very hungry.
After taking the cat food and pouring it into the little guy's basin, Catherine leaned a little tiredly on the sofa in the living room.
I don't know how long it took, after the yellow kitten with big ears was full, it walked over in small steps, jumped onto the sofa and leaned over lightly.
Catherine hugged the little guy and put it on her lap, stroked it gently, and said, "Posey, do you also think I'm a boring woman?"
The little guy who was stroked very comfortably just shrunk his furry body into a ball, found a more comfortable position and narrowed his eyes, without any intention of answering his master.
Seeing the laziness of the little thing, Catherine stretched out her hand and gently tugged at the kitten's big ears, and an inaudible sigh floated in the air.
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After going through the last period of bombardment, the time for the release of "Tornado" finally arrived. This is the first big-budget film released after Firefly Pictures acquired Disney. Several other Hollywood film companies have set their sights on For this movie, although "Tornado" has accumulated a very solid reputation after several rounds of screenings, no one knows the box office potential of a movie until the moment it is released on a large scale. It is not uncommon for a film to receive good reviews at the box office during the test screening but fail to hit the street.
On the evening of June 4th, "Tornado" had its grand premiere at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, and it was officially shown in more than 2,600 theaters in North America.
"...a breathtaking special effects movie, after two years of dormancy, Eric Williams has brought us a gorgeous visual feast."
"...with a relaxed plot, stunning CG special effects, and a magnificent soundtrack, this young Hollywood tycoon has once again surprised us."
"... After watching this movie, I only have one worry. Maybe in the future our big screen will be occupied by such realistic CG special effects. It loses the essence of a movie as a story carrier. Digital field special effects companies may bring Hollywood to the world. into a whole new era.”
"..."
June fifth. After going through the midnight screening. Large-scale film reviews appeared in various media again, and most of the paper media gave "Tornado" a very high score, and most of the countless film reviews were highly praised, although there were inevitably some extremely conservative film critics People habitually criticize movies fiercely, but under this general trend, it can't affect anything at all.
Under everyone's expectation, on June 6th, the first-day box office of "Tornado" was released. Although Firefly Pictures did not release the specific data to the outside world, the Hollywood film company and the entertainment media, who are always paying attention to this matter, quickly obtained detailed figures through their respective channels.
$14.5 million on the first day.
Seeing this number, many people felt an indescribable sense of numbness, surprised and taken it for granted.
According to the box office rules of the first week of the movie, after Friday, there will be a rise in the box office on Saturdays, and it will fall again on weekends. "Tornado" is expected to get a box office of about 45 million U.S. dollars in the first three days of the weekend. About half of the three days of the weekend. Calculated in this way, the box office of "Tornado" in the first week may reach the cost line of 70 million US dollars.
In the office of the CEO of Columbia Pictures. Seeing the box office data in his hand, Peter Guber has already had a bad feeling. According to the current word-of-mouth of "Tornado", even in the next week, the box office will not drop too much, and it will definitely remain at 40 million to Between 50 million US dollars, and the average weekly box office in North America in the summer period is only about 100 million US dollars. "Dark War Prequel" is likely to compete with more than a dozen other films for the remaining 50 million US dollars at the box office.
After the pre-screening, many film critics and audiences generally expressed varying degrees of dissatisfaction with "The Prelude to Dark War", thinking that this prequel film completely lost the film style created by Eric in the first film, and changed into a new one. It has become a mediocre action movie. Although the action scenes of the film are not spectacular, and the big scenes are not gorgeous, 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 Prelude" was released. Under the attack of the two blockbuster films, Peter Cooper couldn't help but fight a cold war.
Originally, 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 Guber couldn't help but think of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" which is being produced. He has been in Hollywood for decades. As long as there are no major accidents, movies produced with novel plots and brand-new shooting concepts are almost certain to succeed.
Peter Guber 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 Guber picked up the phone on his desk and dialed Eric number.
"Hi, Eric, I'm Peter Cooper... Of course it's okay, I just want to congratulate you..."
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In the carnival of movie fans during the summer vacation, the box office of the first week of the film was finally released. In seven days, "Tornado" won a total box office of more than 65 million US dollars. Including the small-scale movies in the previous week, the total box office just exceeded 70 million US dollars. cost line.
The last hope of many people who had expected the box office of "Tornado" to decline was shattered. Those who wanted to cooperate with Firefly also put away their disappointment and picked up the phone again to dial Eric's number. Eric and It was the same as after the box office was released on the first day, and it experienced a phone bombardment again.
"Of course, Chris, you can make up your own 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 will definitely not let I'm at a disadvantage... Well, of course... To be honest, I still enjoy hearing those people calling me to congratulate me with envy and jealousy... Okay, stop talking nonsense with you, I'm busy here, if you If you want, you can fly over to attend the "Tornado" celebration banquet at night, it will definitely be more lively then... Then I'll hang up," Eric hung up the phone, and handed it to the assistant behind him.
After finishing a movie, Hollywood directors often take a vacation to rest and experience the success or loss of the movie's release process. However, although "Tornado" almost broke Hollywood's first-week box office record, Eric didn't have much time to stop and enjoy 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 IE's shelf has been set up, except for Tim Berners-Lee, who is the company's consultant, Chris not only recruited dozens of software engineers, but even dug a senior manager from Oracle as 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 officially launch on the platform of ie until at least the beta version of ie is launched, so Chris's main focus is to focus on On the top of ie.
Someone in the open space in front of him yelled something through a loudspeaker, waking Eric up from his thoughts.
This is a square in Firefly Studios. The huge monster in the center of the square moved slowly after the shout just now.
Foreground, lean, bite, growl...
When the Tyrannosaurus rex model, which took months of painstaking efforts of more than a dozen special effects artists in the digital field, successfully completed various test actions, everyone heaved a sigh of relief and cheered.
"How about it, Eric," Stan Winston ran over enthusiastically, with a hint of 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 watched another model take shape in the hands of his team, still extremely excited and proud.
"It's great," Eric praised without hesitation, "I believe this big guy will definitely surprise everyone next year."
"Of course, it will definitely not be much worse than the hurricane in "Tornado", "Stan Winston said confidently, and then said: "Then let's take a 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 several smaller Velociraptor models were quickly pulled out by the staff. (To be continued..)