Eric quickly found a collection of short stories signed by Nancy Collins on Amazon and read the introduction. The idea of "Underworld" obviously came from one of the novels called "Monster Love" .
Before Natasha came back, Eric called the girl's mobile phone and asked her to stop by the bookstore to buy the novel collection.
"Eric, is this the book?" After another half an hour, Natasha handed a book that wasn't too thick to Eric: "I found it after searching three bookstores."
Eric glanced at the cover, nodded and said: "This is the book, have you bought your leather suit, let me see it first?"
Natasha shook the handbags in her hand and walked towards the bedroom.
Natasha left, Eric leaned on the sofa, opened the book and read the "Monster Love" which only had seven or eight pages. This is another story similar to "Romeo and Juliet". A pair of werewolves and Juliet A vampire man and a woman love each other, but because the two races have been sworn enemies for generations, they could not come together under the obstacles of the tribe, and finally both died in love.
After finishing the novel, Eric was about to write an email to instruct Firefly's copyright department to take down the adaptation rights of this novel when he heard the sound of leather boots hitting the ground.
Looking up, Natasha Henstridge in a black leather suit walked in with a pair of the same black mountain boots. The tight leather suit outlined the girl's already perfect body curve even more. The ponytail and the high-top mountain boots on her feet also made her a bit more heroic.
only.
Eric glanced at the black belt in Natasha's hand with some 'shock': "What are you doing?"
Natasha raised the belt in her hand and slapped the palm of the other hand twice, with a cold and arrogant queen look on her face, she came over and pushed Eric to the back of the sofa chair, and straddled her on him, then bowed his head.
Feeling a warm little tongue slowly across his neck all the way up, Eric took a sharp breath and said loudly: "Stop!"
Natasha Henstridge stopped, looked up at Eric a few times, and finally laughed: "I thought you would like this?"
Eric shook his head resolutely: "No, I don't like it at all. If you dare to continue, I will kick you out. Now, take off this ponytail first."
Natasha didn't get off Eric's body, she made a light face, dropped the belt in her hand, and untied the ponytail with her backhand. After shaking her head a few times, the blond hair spread out, and a soft and charming breath immediately offset her neutral temperament just now: "Is this all right?"
"Well, very good," Eric nodded, carefully admiring the beauties close at hand, and said: "That's it, I just called the restaurant in the club to reserve a place, we will have lunch first, and at the same time Tell you about that movie."
With an excited expression on Natasha's face, she put her arms around Eric's neck again: "So, I have passed the audition?"
Eric nodded: "As long as you dye your hair, your appearance will be fine, and your acting skills will be considered passable. For the rest, as long as you are not afraid of hard work in the future, this movie will be yours."
"Why is it so hard? Is there a lot of fighting scenes, like "Charlie's Angels"?"
"Basically, you are the only heroine, and the combined action scenes should exceed the three of them. Therefore, I need you to receive several months of physical training in advance."
"Of course it's okay," Natasha nodded quickly, and stood up again: "Then I'll go change my clothes first."
Eric smiled and held her back: "No, just wear this suit to the restaurant."
"Hehe, don't you dislike it?"
"Will I let you buy this suit if I don't like it?"
"That… "
"Not so many why."
"oh."
After the three-day work from Monday was completed, the crew returned to Los Angeles that afternoon, and the next part was the scene of the Disney Theater in Los Angeles, which was also a night scene. Therefore, there was no work during the day on Thursday, and Eric did it the next morning. Returning to Los Angeles with Natasha Henstridge.
After a week of work, the crew did not work overtime this weekend.
Next Monday, March 23, will be the day when the 70th Academy Awards will be held.
Eric had already received an invitation call from the chairman of the Academy of Film two months in advance, and this time was Oscar's 70th birthday, so it was naturally not suitable for him to be absent this time, so he agreed and returned Agreed to be the award presenter for the best screenplay.
However, during the filming of "Iron Man", Eric is most concerned about this year's Easter schedule.
It's already late March, and this year's Easter is April 12th. Easter films usually start painting a week in advance, that is, April 3rd.
Firefly, MGM and Fox's joint Easter marketing plan has entered the final stage. Now, whether it is theaters or street billboard posters, or the advertising time of several major TV networks, "The Wedding Singer" can be seen frequently. ", "Alien" and "Ace Powers" posters and mixed-cut trailer videos.
The three film companies have completely bundled these three films together, and for this reason, only a full 50 million US dollars have been invested in the advertising and marketing budget.
This kind of budget has even exceeded a blockbuster film with a production cost of over 100 million, because the total marketing and distribution budget of a usual blockbuster is less than 50 million US dollars. The combined production cost of the three films was only $83 million.
Speaking of which, there was originally another movie that was expected to be included in this 'Easter Movie Package', and that was "City of Angels" produced by Warner Bros.
This fantasy romance film starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan, due to the joining of two first-line celebrities, the production cost reached 55 million US dollars. Warner is also full of confidence that this film will become an Easter hit.
Therefore, when Firefly proposed a bundled promotion, although the management of Warner Bros. was very interested in cooperating, because "City of Angels" was an order of magnitude larger than the other three films in terms of cast and budget, the other party inevitably proposed a proposal. The series leans toward the terms of City of Angels.
Due to the many hills inside, Warner's work efficiency is appallingly low.
Eric felt that if these conditions were really negotiated, Easter might have passed long ago, so he had to give up and both sides played their own ways.
In fact, even the three companies have their own concerns about this cooperation. The biggest difference lies in how to allocate the marketing budget of 50 million US dollars this time. Some people want to share it equally, and some want to share it according to the budget cost.
Eric naturally didn't want these differences to affect this cooperation, so he came forward in person and made a firm decision: according to the final North American box office of the three films, they will be distributed. , so that no one will feel disadvantaged.
"The Wedding Singer", "Alien", and "Ace Powers" focus on warm love, science fiction thriller and vulgar comedy respectively, and specially launched discounted holiday packages.
With a marketing expense of 50 million US dollars, the effect is still very obvious under the fresh gimmicks and overwhelming publicity and marketing.
After investigation and feedback, most of the potential audience groups are already aware of the existence of these three films. More than 80% of the movie fans surveyed said that they might choose one or several of them to enter the cinema to watch movies according to the situation.
In comparison, although Warner's "City of Angels" also invested a budget of 25 million US dollars in publicity and distribution, its momentum is far from being comparable to the "Easter Movie Package" of the Firefly system.
Although Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan's box office appeal is strong, but for the Firefly system, Mike Myers of "Ace Powers" and Ben Stiller of "The Wedding Singer" They are all ace comedians from "Saturday Night Live", and they are household names in the United States. And Aniston, the number one heroine of "The Wedding Singer", has accumulated 200 episodes of "Friends" in the past ten years, and her status as the number one sweetheart in the United States is already unshakable, even Heather Graham, the heroine of "Alien", Since her debut in the 1980s, she has also been the sexy goddess in the hearts of many movie fans.
Therefore, the popularity of these people combined is not inferior to Cage and Meg Ryan.
Even, in terms of publicity, the advantages of these people far surpassed Cage and Meg Ryan. Just like TV program promotion, both Cage and Meg Ryan can only land on several popular talk shows according to Warner's arrangement.
But the group of four here is much more imaginative, and "Saturday Night Live" will definitely not be able to run, and the four of them will take turns to watch it again.
"David Letterman Late Show", "Jay Leno Talk Show" and so on, with their contacts in the TV circle, even if Firefly does not arrange, it is easy to log in. Even, the second half of "Friends", which has returned after the winter break, also specially arranged a crossover episode related to these movies, Mike Myers and Ben Stiller, Heather Guerra Ham also appeared as a guest guest.
After careful consideration, "Ace Powers" will be released at the same time as Warner's "City of Angels" on April 3, and "Alien" and "The Wedding Singer" will be scheduled for April 10, the week of Easter.
Due to the huge publicity campaign, although the three films are not considered blockbusters, several major theaters in North America are very enthusiastic about the production of these three films.
The opening screens of the three films have all reached about 3,000, which is already considered the treatment that can only be obtained by large-scale production films. Of course, the reason why we were able to get so many films is also because Easter is not a very popular timetable after all. (To be continued.)