hollywood draw

In the Burbank Disney conference room, everyone's faces were very serious. In two days, the two films would meet head-on. "The Walker of the Stop" is coming in full force. This time, the probability of a solution will be discussed, which is infinitely close to zero in the hearts of most participants.

"Wayne Greenberg's ability is not inferior to Zach Schneider, right?" Michael Orwitz, who was sitting at one end of the conference table, whispering, breaking the dull atmosphere that lasted for a long time. "No one can guarantee whether this will become another "The Matrix". We can only prepare for the worst."

There is another reason why everyone at Disney is facing a great enemy? The box office of "Tornado", which has exceeded $100 million, has passed its hottest movie peak, but now they are facing almost a copy of Paramount.

Four weeks ago, when Paramount's big production "Mission: Impossible" was released, its competitors were not only "Tornado" released at the same time, but also "The Matrix" with a strong stamina.

The final result also proves that in the face of the two major productions of Warner Bros., "Mission Impossible" has no possibility of a turnaround at the box office.

From this point of view, Paramount's luck is already very good. "Mission: Impossible" has been rubbing under the body because of Tom Cruise's huge box office appeal, at least the box office gains are close to their expectations, and the pressure to recover costs by relying on box office is not great.

Now it's Walt Disney's turn. On the one hand, it has to face the Tornado, which has two weeks of release and is also very strong in the box office, and on the other hand, it has to face the "Walker" which was painted the same weekend. Everyone knows that they do not have Tom Cruise, and Mel Gibson does have a good box office appeal, but they are still more than a fraction of the difference between them and superstars.

"Can we do this?"

Mel Gibson's sudden speech attracted everyone's attention. He frowned and looked at Michael Orwitz, saying: "Can we increase our efforts to hype Wayne's scandal? I remember the media once reported that his crew had more than once contraband scandals."

Such means are considered the six regular means of competition. Mel Gibson knew that just like the gossip tabloids under Time Warner, this way of touching each other through the media will not cause a complete war between the six giants.

As long as you stay in this circle for a long time, you can understand what the six majors are like. The complexity of the relationship between these six giants is a mess. They not only maintain uninterrupted cooperation, but also do not miss the opportunity to stumbling between each other, but also maintain the most basic restraint to avoid unlimited vicious competition.

In a big way, the six major groups can also be regarded as a community of interests. No matter how they compete within themselves, as long as emerging forces that may threaten them appear, they will immediately give up all internal disputes and tacitly suppress them.

"It can continue, but it doesn't make much sense."

Long Howard, who was sitting next to Mel Gibson, shook his head and said with a serious face: "To put it bluntly, Wayne is not the same as you. Fans are much more tolerant of film directors than movie stars. After all, the director is a behind-the-scenes job, even if he is much more special."

When Mel Gibson heard this, he couldn't help but blurted out. "F**K, a freak like Wayne Greenberg can be considered a behind-the-scenes job?"

His rhetorical question represents the voice of most people in the conference room. Although the dark madman is quite low-key in life, he never stings with himself whenever his movie is released. Most importantly, he also has a group of hardcore movie fans, which can be said to be unique among the directors, and even surpasses most celebrities standing in front of the stage.

"Okay, no matter what, there is no loss when you try it." Michael Orwitz knocked on the table and then stood up. "I want to remind everyone here that there is no need to be too deified Wayne Greenberg. Preview reputation does not represent box office potential. Everything depends on the reputation of ordinary movie fans after the premiere.

I'm sure most of the fans invited by Warner Bros. during the preview were either Wayne's hardcore or R-rated film enthusiasts, otherwise the reputation of "The Walker of the Skies" would not be abnormally high. You should know that these people are just a minority group, and their reactions cannot represent the market at all."

His words were recognized by most of the people present. Then Michael Orwitz's eyes swept over the faces of everyone in the conference room again and said confidently: "We have a good foundation for success. I firmly believe that a commercial production like "Ranstorm" is the most popular killer weapon for fans in this period. At least it will not be a problem to overwhelm a movie."

"yes, that's it."

"That's right."

Amid the crowd's echoes, this pre-screening meeting will disband in a strange atmosphere. Lang Howard and Mel Gibson walked out of the conference room together, and the two looked at each other more than once along the way.

After leaving Disney, the two did not rush to separate, but instead walked to the cafe across the street. They knew that some problems were there, and they could not ignore them with a few words of chicken blood.

"There are only more than 2,800 theaters in "Ranstorm". Michael Orwitz and John Brown have no effect at all in the work of the theater league."

After the two sat down, Mel Gibson looked at the pedestrian outside the window, and said with a sarcastic sneer on his lips. "Even if they didn't fight for the same number of theaters as "The Walker of the Infinite", I regret joining this project now. Disney's chaos is far beyond my initial estimate."

"If you want to have the same scale as "The Walker", unless Michael Eisner personally calls the three major theater companies to fight for it." Long Howard shook his head. His mood was not as low as Mel Gibson, but he was simply dissatisfied with Disney's distribution work.

"Even if Michael Eisner personally strives for it, it is probably difficult to compare the number of screens of "Ranstorm" with "The Walker". In the past few years, Wayne Greenberg's movies have brought too much profit to theater companies. Even if the commercial attributes of this film are not outstanding, they will first guarantee Wayne's screens of screens. Who can guarantee that this film will not be a big hit?"

As he said that, he looked at the Australian movie star, breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "How exactly the performance of the two films is still to be seen in the premiere in two days. It's a bit too early for us to worry about now."

"I hate that damn madman." Mel Gibson muttered softly. "Shit-like Jewish..."

With the last two days left before the film is released, Disney and Warner Bros. are now exactly the same, with dense and crazy promotional advertisements emerging one after another. They each began to bombard the land of North America through their media and other large and small media.

The happiest group of people in this situation are the movie fans who are ready to go. This year's summer vacation is particularly exciting. The past few weeks have fully proved that the large productions are released in large numbers, which is a feast for movie fans.

Two days passed by. After intensive publicity and Warner Bros.'s good distribution work, on the evening of June 18, "The Walker" was similar to most films in the Hollywood area, and the premiere was held at the Hollywood Chinese Theater in Beverly.

The tit-for-tat premiere was staged again, and within the same period, the grand premiere of "Ranstorm" was also held at the Los Angeles Temple Grand Theater.

"You actually came from New York too? It's really rare."

There are crowds of people in front of the Grand Grand Theater in Hollywood. It is still early now. No movie stars have appeared on the red carpet. Next to the window on the second floor of the theater, the famous film critic Todd McCarthy was looking at the familiar faces appearing beside him in surprise.

"I hope this masterpiece, known as Wayne Greenberg's R-rated film, can give people enough surprises." The person who spoke was David Denby, a famous critic of "The New Yorker", with anticipation on his face, and he also looked at the red carpet show that was about to begin outside.

The internal preview of "The Walker of the Infinite" was perfectly missed by David Dembie because of distance and other reasons. The reason why he happily agreed to the Warner Brothers' invitation this time was to see this film as soon as possible.

"David." Todd McCarthy thought for a while and said carefully: "In my opinion, this film is indeed worthy of Wayne Greenberg's great black film, but the flaws of the film are relatively obvious. Forget it, you should wait until the movie begins and watch it yourself."

Todd McCarthy has always paid attention to his words. In his eyes, the advantages and disadvantages of "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs" are very obvious. If we only look at a Clut-attribute R-level film, this movie can be said to be a masterpiece of violent aesthetics, but in his heart, he still feels that "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs" is too far behind "The Walker of the Infernal Affairs" and "The Joker".

"Ha." David Denby looked at the other person's face in surprise, and his curiosity about the film became stronger at this moment. "At least, you can find out from your tone that this is not a bad movie, isn't it?"

"here we go......"

At this moment, hundreds of movie fans gathered in front of the Grand Theater suddenly shouted like tsunamis, because the first person to walk on the red carpet was film director Wayne.

Usually, whenever he attends events where he needs to bring a formal female companion, Naomi Watts is always around Wayne. Both his fans and media reporters are used to this.

The same is true tonight. The Australian actress wore a gray off-shoulder evening dress and completely returned to her pre-production glory. Wayne, wearing a black suit, walked onto the red carpet with a radiant look.

Although the screams of the fans came one after another, the flashes in the media area illuminated the entire theater gate, and the two of them did not mean to slow down. They walked across the red carpet at a very fast speed and came directly to the prepared media interview area.