The last set of shots was not difficult at all. After more than ten minutes, amidst the cheers and celebrations of everyone on the set, the cave prison scene of "Iron Man" came to an end.
After arranging an assistant director to take care of the finishing work, Joss Whedon came to Eric who had just removed the Mark1 armor, and asked: "Eric, I will check all the shooting materials during this period tomorrow, Do you want to come with me?"
When the filming of "Iron Man" just started, Joss Whedon was worried that Eric would intervene too much in the production of the film.
However, in the past half month, he has completely lost any scruples in this regard. Even, Eric's occasional pointers during the filming process have benefited him a lot as a rookie director for the first time as a big-budget film. Joss Whedon now sincerely hopes to learn from Eric. Get more advice.
After the scene in the cave was filmed, the set in the studio would be dismantled shortly to make room for other films.
Therefore, once the shots of this part of the scene need to be re-shot, it will be very troublesome. Eric naturally wants to make sure that nothing goes wrong. Although tomorrow is Sunday, when he heard Joss Whedon’s invitation, Eric still did not hesitate. agree to come down.
Several core creators of the film got together again to discuss the shooting schedule for next week, and Eric left the studio.
Noticing that he didn't see Miranda Kerr until he left the studio this time, Eric asked Caroline and the two daughters who were following him: "Haven't you come back yet?"
Caroline shook her head: "No, I called ten minutes ago, and Carter said they were planning to go back, and they should take off now."
Today's shooting ended relatively early, and it was not yet five o'clock. Eric was not in a hurry, nodded, and walked to his office in his administrative district, planning to deal with some companies in a timely manner.
Eric walked into the office, just after turning on the computer, Caroline quickly knocked on the door and came in, handed him a folder and said, "Eric, this is what you ordered on Friday, and the movie will be released on Easter." The film list, detailed information and marketing plans of the three companies Firefly, MGM and Fox are also included."
Facing the increasingly crowded summer and New Year's schedules, Eric has been thinking about developing new popular schedules since last year. In addition to gradually expanding the summer and Spring Festival release cycles, he first focused on on Easter.
In the plan, the 'RealD' and '4200' plans to promote 3D and IMAX films will be implemented by the end of next year.
At that time, there will naturally be no shortage of 3D and IMAX film sources for the New Year's file. At present, there are two confirmed "Gravity" and "Lord of the Rings", but only a few 3D and IMAX film sources for the New Year's file. Obviously, it can't last until the summer vacation.
Therefore, Firefly must release at least two more 3D and IMAX format movies in the six months between the end of the year and the summer vacation to ensure that 4,000 3D screens and 200 IMAX screens will not be in trouble due to lack of film contracts. In the six months between the New Year's file and the summer file, the Easter schedule is undoubtedly the best time to launch new film sources.
Easter is the time for American students to go on spring break, and teenagers happen to be the group most receptive to the new film screening mode.
Speaking of which, the Easter schedule has always existed, and Hollywood releases many films during Easter every year.
However, in the past, all the film companies' attitudes towards the Easter schedule were just to take advantage of the students' holiday and make more or less money. It would be even better if they could break out one or two dark horses at the box office. Since it has not been paid too much attention, there have not been any big-budget movies released in the Easter schedule.
Once the '4200' plan is implemented, the situation will be different.
Since we are still in the film age, each film copy can cost between $1,000 and $2,000 to make, depending on the length of time.
Although the production cost of a single copy is not high, multiply this figure by two or three thousand, and the expenditure becomes very large.
In the film distribution process, only a few thousand copies of the film cost millions of dollars. The 3D movie in the dual-camera mode is equivalent to directly doubling this cost, and the cost of the expensive IMAX movie film is equivalent to ten times that of ordinary film. times.
For movies released in 3D and IMAX mode, the cost may exceed tens of millions of dollars just to make copies. Under the current circumstances, there is absolutely no need for medium and low-cost films with a production budget of less than 50 million U.S. dollars to enter the 4,200 theaters Eric planned. The 3D and IMAX movies of the first part of "The Lord of the Rings" can only be big productions.
In order to ensure that the Easter schedule film will not fail at that time, Eric plans to cultivate the concept of Easter schedule with great fanfare from this year.
Of course, this process is probably the same as the later development of shopping carnivals such as Double Eleven or Black Friday, and it is not too complicated. It is nothing more than improving the quality of movies released during Easter, and increasing publicity and marketing efforts to attract more audiences to cinemas.
According to the information in hand, the film that MGM plans to focus on during Easter is "Alien", and the production cost is 35 million US dollars, which is considered a medium-cost production.
Speaking of which, the heroine of this sci-fi horror film should have been Natasha Henstridge, who started her debut as a model at the age of 14 and is also a member of the Victoria's Secret Army.
Eric heard the girl talk about the audition for this film last year, but she didn't intervene. In the end, the heroine of the film was another very beautiful actress in Hollywood, Heather Graham. New Line also had a very good performance in last year's "Boogie Nights".
When casting "Iron Man", Eric directly assigned the role of "Vanity Fair" female reporter Christine Everhart to the Victoria's Secret Legion. Linda Evangelista privately nicknamed Eric the Jealous-Daddy because of Eric’s ban on not allowing Victoria’s Secret Angels to fall in love with Xiao Lizi, which is still true.
Since he personally built the Victoria's Secret Legion, Eric never minded to praise his group of beautiful babies higher. Of course, doing so is not without benefits. The higher Eric promotes the Victoria's Secret Legion, the greater his influence in the fashion circle.
Natasha Henstridge did not get the role of "Alien". After Eric released the spot, he saw that Natasha Henstridge participated in the audition, so he gave her the role.
Perhaps with a bit of anger, because she was very pessimistic about the prospects of "Ace Powers 2", Elizabeth took out this nonsensical spoof comedy as Fox's main film in the Easter schedule.
Finally, there is a romantic comedy from New Line called The Wedding Singer starring Adam Sandler.
If you compare the budget, New Line's "The Wedding Singer" is the lowest of the three films, with a production cost of only 18 million US dollars, which is only half of the production cost of "Alien", and it cannot be compared with the 30 million US dollars of "Kingsman 2". compared to the production cost.
However, among these three movies, Eric's favorite is actually "The Wedding Singer".
Because he happened to remember this movie, the original time and space, the heroine of this movie is Drew. Although I don't know the specific box office of "The Wedding Singer", Eric knows that the meaning of this movie to Adam Sandler is almost the same as that of Jim Carrey's famous work "Dumb and Dumber".
This time, Yatou will definitely not be involved in this low-cost romantic comedy, but the heroine who replaced Yatou is Aniston, which is naturally the result of Eric's intervention. After reconciling with Aniston last year, Eric happened to see that New Line was choosing a heroine for this romantic comedy, so he asked the chick to try it. "Friends" has entered the recovery stage, and now it is Aniston's court The timing of the development of the film industry.
As for the leading actor, Adam Sandler, he has worked as a screenwriter and actor in "Saturday Night Live" since the early 1990s. As a resident actor of North America's longest-running variety show, Adam Sandler is also a household name in the United States. .
A lot of people often confuse Adam Sandler with the bad boy gang led by Ben Stiller. But in fact, Adam Sandler can't be regarded as a member of the Bad Boys, but a self-contained family with a very obvious personal style. The members of the Bad Boys focus on the vulgar comedy with no lower limit, but Adam Sandler is more inclined to the warmer and nonsensical romantic comedy.
Of course, as a star who often dominates Hollywood's low-return list in memory, Eric's attitude towards Adam Sandler is similar to that of Jim Carrey, or worse than Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey still has international box office appeal, but most of Adam Sandler's comedies, like Bad Boys dramas, have box office appeal only in North America.
Therefore, I probably worked with Adam Sandler on a few films. Once the other party's salary and project production budget exceeded Firefly's acceptance range, Eric did not intend to cooperate with him again. After all, there is no shortage of projects for Firefly. At the same time, the risk of comedy movies is actually very high. Once it becomes a big production, the probability of loss will become very high. This is why Adam Sandler often tops the list of low returns. The reason for the championship.
Even when box office is good, profit estimates are largely in the hands of stars like Adam Sandler, and studios are often just hard-earned cash.
The three movies, "Alien", "Ace Spy 2" and "The Wedding Singer", although they have not met Eric's expectations, are enough to support this Easter schedule.
Eric hoped to be able to insert a large-scale production movie, but on the one hand, after several years of continuous outbreaks, the large-scale production projects in the hands of Firefly are all in the development stage, which can be regarded as entering a low period. Can only wait until next year. On the other hand, whether it is MGM or Fox, although they have a few large-scale production films that can be arranged in the Easter schedule, with the production scale of these two companies, they have projects that include summer and New Year files. If they are still not enough, it is impossible for Eric to ask the two companies to give up their popular schedules and use them as cannon fodder for expanding the map.
After reading the information in his hand, Eric picked up the phone and called Elizabeth and the others to discuss it. It was not until Caroline knocked on the door again and told Eric that the helicopter had returned that Eric packed his things and prepared to leave work. go home.
Leaving the office building, Eric went all the way to the helipad, but saw a group of seven or eight girls gathered around Miranda Kerr, and they didn't even leave.
These girls are basically about the same age as Miranda. Since they are all children from the rich area of Beverly High School, they are all dressed in casual clothes for spring outings, simple shirts and jeans, and many of them are also tied with ponytails, looking youthful and full of vitality.
Noticing Eric's appearance, seven or eight girls immediately screamed in surprise and came over one after another.
"Wow, it really is Eric."
"I thought Miranda was lying to us."
"Eric, can you sign us?"
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Eric suddenly felt a little dizzy.
He never disliked being surrounded by a group of beautiful girls, but what he disliked the most was girls who were too noisy.
Seeming to feel Eric's dislike, the girls gradually calmed down, but they still boldly surrounded Eric, and asked Eric if he could invite them to the Horn Manor to see the Shell Villa.
Eric was dealing with it, but Miranda had already walked over with another girl on his arm.
Eric was dissatisfied with this girl's self-assertion in his heart, and when he saw the appearance of the girl with Miranda, his expression suddenly looked very surprised.
The girl was not too tall, compared to Miranda who had grown to 1.7 meters, she was just over Miranda's shoulders. She has long blond hair, her face is not stunning, but looks very young, and there is a small mole on the right cheek.
Noticing that Eric was looking at her, the girl's eyes showed a little nervousness, but she quickly approached and introduced herself, "Mr. Williams, hello, I'm Miranda's classmate, and my name is Scarlett." Mary, Scarlett Johansson."
Eric didn't expect to meet the former Black Widow here, but he didn't feel too strange. Scarlett Johansson has made his debut a few years ago, and Eric has seen this in several films. The figure of the girl, but has not paid much attention to it.
(To be continued.)