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The two remained in a stalemate for a while, and at the end, Eric almost laughed when he saw Miranda showing a weeping expression.
Forget it, just treat it as raising a kitten.
Thinking in his heart, Eric no longer insisted on taking back that black card. Anyway, the money spent by this girl is indeed a huge sum of money for ordinary people, but for Eric, it is just The cost of a lollipop, not to mention, if the girl in front of me really has a tendency to lose control, Eric can stop the credit card with just one phone call.
Miranda has always been careful about the changes in the face of the peeping Eric. As his expression softened, the girl also realized something, and once again showed a flattering smile on her face, saying: "Eric, really, I, I will not absolutely No more messing around."
Eric's tone didn't change. He didn't want to make the girl too proud, so he ordered in a flat tone: "Kelly will go back to Los Angeles in the afternoon, and you will go back with her. You are not allowed to leave Los Angeles for the whole year."
Miranda immediately found the flaw in Eric's words, and said coquettishly, "What if Mom and Dad want me to go back to Australia for Christmas?"
"uh-huh!"
"Okay, okay, Eric, I will be obedient."
Seeing Eric pull his face down again, Miranda didn't dare to play tricks anymore, turned around the desk jerkily, and leaned over to hug Eric's neck affectionately.
Eric raised his hand against the girl's waist and pushed her away, saying, "Don't pester anyone, go find Kelly."
"Hee hee, Eric, you are such a coward."
"three… "
"Um?"
"two… "
"I hate it, to scare people in this way."
Realizing that Eric was counting down, even though he said so, the goblin really didn't dare to test Eric's patience, turned around and slipped out of the study.
Seeing that the door was closed, Eric shook his head and smiled, picked up the few pages of credit card bills on the table again, leaned back with his feet on the table, and slowly looked through them, while thinking about what to do. How to arrange the future of this little cat.
Anyway, Eric doesn't plan to let Miranda take the road of supermodel again, how tiring it is.
Since it is a cat, of course it should lie comfortably on the owner's sofa and squint its eyes to enjoy life.
Because its geographical location happens to be on the border of East and West Europe, and it is supported by Germany and other Western European powers, the Czech Republic can be regarded as the first country to develop after the drastic changes in Eastern Europe. Of course, its economy is far from being comparable to that of Germany and France.
The shooting location of "Casino Royale" in the Czech Republic is mainly located in Prague. The shots include a car chase scene between Bond and the villain, as well as some literary scenes. In addition, there are exterior shots of Bond taking the train as he travels to Montenegro, which were also filmed on the Czech mountain railway. As for Montenegro, the three-year-long war in Bosnia and Herzegovina just ended at the end of last year. Several local countries are still in chaos, and there is no possibility of on-site shooting.
Because of the promotional effect of the 007 series on the countries and cities where it was shot, the Czech government, which is eager to further open up to the outside world, also attaches great importance to the filming of the crew. When filming the chase scene between Bond and the villain, they even blocked the two streets for a week.
While the crew was filming in the Czech Republic, the North American summer program also entered the final stage.
After "Men in Black 2", "Game of the Brave 2" officially landed on 2,800 big screens in North America in the following week, but the ending was surprising.
Because this week, MGM also released the second part of the Resident Evil series, "Resident Evil Revelations". And "Game of the Brave 2", which had a production cost of 86 million U.S. dollars, lost to "Resident Evil Revelation", which has a lesser sense of existence. This is a very embarrassing feeling. result.
With a cost of 30 million US dollars, the first part of "Resident Evil" recovered its production cost with a box office of 60 million US dollars in North America, and the cumulative global box office reached 126 million US dollars. Moreover, it's not that doomsday sci-fi movies performed better in the video tape market. The video tapes and DVDs have brought more than 60 million US dollars in net profit to the producers within one year of their release.
As a result, the production cost of "Resident Evil Revelations" soared to $45 million.
During the production stage, MGM’s plan is that as long as this sequel can recover most of the cost at the box office, the main source of profit is the later video tapes and copyright income. MGM now has enough strength to operate these long-term businesses.
Before the release of the two films, although "Game of the Brave 2" had received bad word-of-mouth news, most analysts gave a box office of no less than 50 million U.S. dollars in the first week.
But the final result was that "Resident Evil Revelations" had a box office of US$28.37 million in its first week, while "Game of the Brave 2" only had a box office of US$25.22 million in its first week.
In terms of word-of-mouth, due to the natural disadvantages of the "Resident Evil" series, the media reviews are of course not very good, with an average score of only 6.5 points. However, judging from the box office of $28.37 million in the first week, the total box office of this sequel may reach $70 million, plus overseas box office, is enough to recoup the full production and distribution costs.
"Game of the Brave 2" is completely sad. Not only did it only earn $25.22 million at the box office in the first week, which was more than 50% lower than most agencies expected, but also, because of the chaotic plot and other reasons, the media score of this film was only 4.6 points. The evaluation of most film critics is basically "a farce with a lot of CG shots".
In this case, "Game of the Brave 2" must be in a bad situation. Because Firefly only participated in the production investment of 50 million US dollars, it will more or less make up for it with the box office and later copyright operation income. The loss is not too big . Not only did Sony Pictures participate in the production, but it was also the main distributor, so the scale of losses would be much larger than that of Firefly. What's more serious is that the failure of this project will not have a great impact on Firefly, but it is a major blow to Sony Pictures' film business.
Perhaps, the only consolation is that the box office of the new film "Game of the Brave 2" was not strong enough, so it did not have a big impact on the box office of "Men in Black 2" last week.
After the box office of $75.5 million in the first week, the box office of "Men in Black 2" fell by only 31% in the second week, and it received another $52.09 million, a total of $127 million in two weeks.
The box office decline of "Charlie's Angels 2" in the third week of release also narrowed from 43% last week to 25%. The weekly box office reached 32.49 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 156 million U.S. dollars.
Moreover, because there will no longer be strong new films released at the end of the summer season, the box office data of "Men in Black 2" and "Charlie's Angels 2" will undoubtedly last longer.
When Eric heard the relevant news, he inquired about the shooting progress of Sony's "Godzilla". Much shorter, only three months. Of course, as a CG blockbuster, the film's post-production cycle is much longer than that of "Casino Royale".
According to the release plan disclosed by Sony Pictures, the film will be scheduled for next summer.
Although Sony has not yet confirmed the specific schedule, the possibility of a collision between "Casino Royale" and "Godzilla" is still very high.
Thinking of the image of a certain 'Tyrannosaurus Rex', Eric couldn't help but start to look forward to the arrival of next year's summer vacation.
You know, next year is 1997.
What year is that!
In memory of the Asian financial crisis, although Japan was not directly impacted, the overall downturn of the Southeast Asian economy was inevitable.
In such a general environment, Sony will definitely not have a good time at that time, if it suffers another fiasco in the film business.
Tsk tsk, just thinking about it makes me sour.
Fast forward to August, and two weeks of filming in the Czech Republic almost flashed by.
The crew moved to Italy again.
The shooting cycle in Italy is one month, mainly shooting two important episodes, namely the scene of Bond and the big villain Cheriff gambling in Casino Royale, and the plot of Vesper's death played by Cate Blanchett.
Meanwhile, the Charlie's Angels trio, as well as Vesper's sister character, will also have very brief shots in Italy.
All three of Charlize are promoting "Charlie's Angels 2" in Asia at this time, and the schedule is very tight. The scenes of the three of them are mainly concentrated in the British mainland, that is, in the plot of rescuing Vesper's sister Angela Linde. If the time is not enough, the shots of the three women in Italy may return to Italy for a short period of time after the British filming is completed. Make up.
Although the trio couldn't come immediately, Christina Aguilera, who played Vesper's sister Angela Linder, joined the cast at the same time after the crew moved to Italy.
However, while the crew was engaged in intense filming, Eric had to pay attention to another thing.
After that meeting, under the operation of Firefly, the Venice Film Festival quickly responded, agreeing to use "Titanic" as the opening film of this year's Venice Film Festival.
After all, because of Eric's connivance, when Cameron completed all the films, the overall cost had reached an unprecedented 215 million US dollars, which was 15 million more than the original time and space.
Although the Venice Film Festival has always adhered to the high-cold artistic style, it is really difficult to say no to such a film whose cost can be included in the Guinness Book of Records when the entire film industry is becoming commercialized.
When the Venice Film Festival issued an official invitation and released the news to the media, Cameron had already brought the sample to Venice, where the crew was stationed.
The time is August 3rd.
Eric finished his day's work, and before he had time to rest, he got the news from Peter Rich that Cameron had arrived.
In the hotel where the crew stayed.
Eric saw the unshaven Cameron again. Although Eric gave Cameron a reassurance at the beginning, Cameron knew after all that once the film with a cost of more than 200 million US dollars fails, it will be very difficult for his director. What kind of blow will life cause? Therefore, his hair is obviously a lot grayer.
"Hey, Eric, how is the filming going?" Seeing Eric walk into the lobby, Cameron, who was sitting on the sofa in the lounge area, got up and greeted him.
"Everything is going well," Eric and Cameron hugged gently, looked at the guy's haggard face, and said with a smile: "Let's go to eat first, the food in this hotel restaurant is good, I have eaten Let's have dinner and watch a movie together."
"Of course," Cameron nodded.
Because both of them were a little absent-minded, they ate a meal very sloppily.
After filling their stomachs, the two entered the hotel's private screening hall without exchanging too many greetings.
"The film may be a bit long," Cameron couldn't help but said after the lights dimmed, and added: "However, I think it's best not to trim it."
Having said that, Cameron's tone was obviously not firm.
Eric has given him the greatest support in terms of the film budget. If he insists on compressing the set, Cameron really can't refuse.
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However, while the crew was engaged in intense filming, Eric had to pay attention to another thing.
After that meeting, under the operation of Firefly, the Venice Film Festival quickly responded, agreeing to use "Titanic" as the opening film of this year's Venice Film Festival.
After all, because of Eric's connivance, when Cameron completed all the films, the overall cost had reached an unprecedented 215 million US dollars, which was 15 million more than the original time and space.
Although the Venice Film Festival has always adhered to the high-cold artistic style, it is really difficult to say no to such a film whose cost can be included in the Guinness Book of Records when the entire film industry is becoming commercialized.
When the Venice Film Festival issued an official invitation and released the news to the media, Cameron had already brought the sample to Venice, where the crew was stationed.
The time is August 3rd.
Eric finished his day's work, and before he had time to rest, he got the news from Peter Rich that Cameron had arrived.
In the hotel where the crew stayed.
Eric saw the unshaven Cameron again. Although Eric gave Cameron a reassurance at the beginning, Cameron knew after all that once the film with a cost of more than 200 million US dollars fails, it will be very difficult for his director. What kind of blow will life cause? Therefore, his hair is obviously a lot grayer.
"Hey, Eric, how is the filming going?" Seeing Eric walk into the lobby, Cameron, who was sitting on the sofa in the lounge area, got up and greeted him.
"Everything is going well," Eric and Cameron hugged gently, looked at the guy's haggard face, and said with a smile: "Let's go to eat first, the food in this hotel restaurant is good, I have eaten Let's have dinner and watch a movie together."
"Of course," Cameron nodded.
Because both of them were a little absent-minded, they ate a meal very sloppily.
After filling their stomachs, the two entered the hotel's private screening hall without exchanging too many greetings.
"The film may be a bit long," Cameron couldn't help but said after the lights dimmed, and added: "However, I think it's best not to trim it."
Having said that, Cameron's tone was obviously not firm.
Eric has given him the greatest support in terms of the film budget. If he insists on compressing the set, Cameron really can't refuse. (To be continued.)