Made in Hollywood

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"One mirror to the end?"

After the banquet, Duke shook his head when he heard Tina Fey's words, "Don't worry about him."

Then, Duke turned his head to the housekeeper Emma and said, "If there are such people in the future, just let Blue and the others drive them out."

"Let's go back to rest."

Dukra took Ivanka out of the banquet hall and walked towards the living room. After a night of entertainment, both of them were inevitably a little tired.

After pouring two glasses of water, Ivanka sat next to Duke, leaned on him, and asked curiously, "What is a mirror to the end?"

"One shot to the end, that is, the lens doesn't cut." Duke explained a few simple words, "The real one shot to the end movie, you can't shoot at all, as long as one person makes a mistake, you have to start all over again, and the shooting is very difficult. And what Hollywood usually refers to as one shot to the end generally refers to a movie composed of super long shots.”

There are very few movies that do not change lenses and do not edit, and none of them can be widely known.

One shot is indeed a technique that is highly praised by professionals, but Duke has no interest at all, not to mention the difficulty of it, just the lack of editing is destined to be a slow-paced literary film.

He never thought about investing in or shooting literary films.

After the banquet, since the post-production of "The Return of the King" has been completed and the release is still far away, Duke can briefly end his busy work and accompany Ivanka on vacation. He plans to start from Hawaii and make a round-the-world trip from east to west. , circle around the world-famous big cities until Christmas and return to North America.

Of course, there is no need to go to countries like New Zealand and Australia that have been there for a long time.

Duke and Ivanka leave North America. The launch of the follow-up products of "The Two Towers" has not been delayed. In November, the film's original soundtrack album was officially launched, and the Lord of the Rings concert also kicked off again. have improved.

The situation is very obvious, with the release of "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers" successively. And one of them has been wonderful, and the audience's expectations for "The Return of the King" have been mentioned to a very high level.

"That's a good thing, David."

With the new awards season approaching, film critics from all over the world have also begun to focus on Los Angeles. Roger Ebert spoke to David Denby, chief film critic of The New Yorker, "The higher the expectations. When you look forward to it, you will be disappointed.”

David Denby picked up his coffee cup, took a sip, and said remindingly, "Don't forget. He's Duke Rosenberg, and although I don't like him very much, I admit that his films fit the bill very well. What vulgar audience's appetite."

"Why were the first two episodes of The Lord of the Rings so successful?" Roger Albert asked, and then gave the answer. "One of the most important points is undoubtedly the realistic special effects and the grand spectacle."

See David Denby nod. Roger Albert added, ""The Two Towers" has almost perfected the special effects and big scenes. If Duke Rosenberg can't surpass himself in "The Return of the King". Even just maintaining "The Two Towers" The level of "The Raiders" will definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of the audience, so our chance has come!"

David Denby pondered for a few seconds, then said, "Don't forget, Roger, our influence in the summer is already very small."

"Indeed." Roger Albert laughed, "However, there must be a lot of people in Hollywood who want to see him and Warner unlucky, and other companies really want to see Duke Rosenberg take the annual three Crown, or even make Return of the King the next Titanic?"

"As long as there is a problem with the film, attacks from other companies are bound to come, which is almost inevitable!"

Roger Albert seemed to have regained the glory of the 1980s, and said with high spirits, "And we mainly attack him during the awards season. As long as the group of professional film critics still exists, we cannot let him win the best director! "

Just like what Roger Albert said, every major Hollywood company knows that a super box office bomb is now in the pipeline, and it will only be detonated in the summer of next year. The power of a bomb is bound to be very amazing, and a reasonable person will try to avoid the bomb as much as possible.

"Has Warner's release schedule worked out?"

In the office of Universal Pictures, Ron Mayer was a little angry, and said to the head of the distribution department opposite, "I don't care what method you use, get the exact release time of "The Return of the King" as soon as possible!"

"Our people are already working hard." The executive was also quite helpless, "Warner Bros. had to negotiate with Duke Rosenberg about the release time, but Duke and his girlfriend went on a round-the-world trip, the fastest We won’t be able to return to North America until the end of December.”

"Travel around the world?" Ron Mayer seemed to be going crazy. "Call Nancy Josephson, I don't care what method you use, you have to find out when Duke wants the film to be released within a week!"

The supervisor walked out of the office reluctantly. Ron Mayer took the water glass and took a sip of water, only to feel that the anger in his heart gradually subsided.

No wonder he is so anxious. In the summer of next year, Universal Pictures will release three high-investment films, "Van Helsing", "Fake God" and "Fast and Furious 2". In order to reduce their own influence, these three films are bound to be released. The release is spread over the three months of May, June and July, and if the release time of "The Return of the King" is unclear, Universal cannot determine a specific release date for the three films.

However, according to the habits of previous years, "The Return of the King" must be in May. His plan is to throw "Fast and Furious 2" in May. After all, this is a niche type of film with relatively low investment. As long as it is separated from "The Return of the King" for one to two weekends, it will not be particularly affected.

Although the Thanksgiving Christmas season in 2002 has not yet opened, many companies are already preparing for the 2003 summer season. Walt Disney is also one of them. Cook Dick, the company's executive president responsible for film affairs, also faces with a similar problem as Ron Mayer.

Disney will also have big productions to be released in the summer next year, and they are all super masterpieces with a production cost of more than 100 million US dollars, and there is no room for mistakes.

In the past two years, fantasy epic films brought by "The Lord of the Rings" have quietly emerged, and major companies have followed this genre. For example, Universal Pictures produced "Van Helsing", while Walt Disney's follow-up is " Pirates of the Caribbean".

Cook Dick's heart is not very optimistic about "Pirates of the Caribbean", but Disney has invested a lot of money. Even if it is not optimistic, it can't let it hit "The Return of the King" head-on. As you can imagine.

The other film is slightly better. There is a huge difference between the audiences of Pixar Studio's "Finding Nemo" and "The Return of the King", and the impact will be smaller, and according to North American screening and movie viewing habits, summer animations Movies are generally released in mid-to-late May and mid-to-early June. "Finding Nemo" must be placed in these two time periods. How to choose depends on whether "The Return of the King" is released in early May or at the end of May.

The phone rang suddenly, and Cook Dick interrupted his thinking and picked up the phone.

"Cook!"

The voice of Steve Jobs sounded in the receiver, "I'm telling you, "Finding Nemo" will be finished on time! At the same time, I remind you that the farther away from the work of that lunatic Duke Rosenberg, the better! I don't want Pixar's work to collide with that lunatic in the summer!"

"Steve, I think so too." Cook Dick said helplessly, "The problem is that we don't know the specific release time of "The Return of the King"."

"I remind you one thing, Duke is a shareholder of Marvel."

Hearing Steve Jobs' words, Cook Dick's eyes lit up immediately. After hanging up, he dialed a number immediately, and then learned that 20th Century Fox adjusted the schedule of "X-Men 2" to early June When it was released, I immediately understood.

"The Return of the King" should be released in early May like "The Two Towers".

Cook Dick couldn't help but sighed in relief, thinking of the recent undercurrents in Hollywood, and shook his head again.

A film has not yet been released, and only the schedule arrangement can make the whole Hollywood turbulent. Who else can do it except Duke Rosenberg?

He is very sure that although countless people are looking forward to Duke Rosenberg's bad luck, no one dares to let his family's film collide with "The Return of the King" head-on.

After Duke received a call from Nancy Josephson in Dubai, he communicated briefly with Doug Walter. "The Return of the King" was officially confirmed to be released in the summer of next year, and then it was announced on instant sharing for the first time. this news.

"How do I need to thank you?"

In the presidential suite of the Burj Al Arab, Ivanka was lying on the soft thick blanket, looking at the laptop screen. The information Duke released had more than 50,000 views in less than half an hour. She couldn't help turning her head to him. Raised eyebrows.

Duke lay on his back, like Ivanka, without any clothes on his body, his eyes that were looking at the ceiling turned to Ivanka's white buttocks, and then moved up little by little, and finally landed on the pair of On the full red lips.

Seemingly noticing Duke's eyes, Ivanka suddenly stretched out her tender tongue and slowly licked it on her lips...

"Did you seduce me..." Duke muttered, moving to her side, and said to the red lips, "Can you do it again, dear?"

Ivanka leaned over and pecked on his lips lightly, and the raindrop-like kisses moved down the chin, neck, and chest, and finally the long blond hair covered Duke's entire lower abdomen. (To be continued ~^~)