hollywood draw

It was already early in the morning. Although there was no high expectations for the box office of "Shapes Love History", Wayne did not go to bed early, leaning on the balcony lounge chair, waiting for the premiere statistics sent by Warner Bros.

The most important reason why this film can be painted in North America at the scale of 1,500 cinemas is Warner Bros.'s strong distribution capabilities.

From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with Harvey Weinstein's choice. With Miramax's own distribution capabilities, the number of premiere theaters will never exceed one thousand.

Greenberg Manor in the dark night, the scattered moonlight highlights this private manor with dense vegetation, which is even more psychedelic.

On the balcony of the third floor master bedroom that still maintains bright lights, Wayne put a quilt filled with black tea on the table, looked at the security patrol lights flashing from time to time around the garden, and pulled out a cigarette to light it.

In December, Los Angeles has entered winter, but it has not brought any chill. A breeze blows down the balcony into the master bedroom, as if there is a scent of the sea mixed in it, which is quite similar to the clear autumn atmosphere in the four seasons.

Even when winter comes, the temperature in Los Angeles is around 8 to 18 degrees. There is no real cold winter here. People just add a thick coat in the morning and evening in this coldest season.

This temperature is already the coldest time point of the year in Los Angeles. As soon as December passes, the temperature will rise rapidly. At the latest, the overall temperature will rise above 20 degrees, just like skipping spring and entering the enthusiastic midsummer.

"If it were me, I would honestly wear the coat prepared by Shanghai or put on pajamas."

Naomi Watts was wearing a thick white bathrobe. When she came out of the bathroom, her hair had been blown dry by the fan. Feeling the breeze blowing in from the balcony, she saw the man with his upper body naked and only a bath towel on her lower body, frowned and reminded:

"Your muscles are charming, but there are no other women here, so, dear director Greenberg, you better respect this damn winter."

As the woman who knows Wayne the best, Naomi Watts knows better than anyone else that this man will not get sick easily, but once he catches a cold, it will last for more than one to two weeks.

Until now, she still remembers the scene when the crew first arrived in New York when the filming of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Turning his head and glanced at the woman walking behind him, Wayne waved his fingers holding a cigarette weakly, and hugged in the lounge chair without any intention of moving. The two of them hadn't seen each other for a long time. The huge war just now, from the bedroom to the cloakroom, and finally to the bathroom, drained the last little energy from his body.

In a sense, the Australian girl cannot bring him enough freshness, but because of the unparalleled tacit understanding between each other, she can always bring him the most comfortable feeling when rolling the sheets, especially after not meeting for a while.

"If you ask for an appointment with that little Disney singer now, I definitely have no objection."

Looking at the man's laziness of smoking, Naomi Watts stood behind the recliner, picked up his thick pajamas and covered him with a clear sarcasm and teasing sound, and also sounded over the man's head.

Without even looking at the woman sitting beside her, Wayne's eyes were still looking back in the garden downstairs, and he curled his lips and fought back: "Nami, I swear, you are actually more beautiful when you don't speak."

"Didn't you have an appointment with Zach tomorrow morning? Don't you get off early?" Naomi Watts rolled his eyes, took away the cigarette from the man's mouth, put it in his mouth and took several sips in his mouth.

"Let's wait, even if I have expected the box office results, it won't be too ideal..."

With a soft murmur, Wayne's eyes slowly narrowed, and he reached out to grab the cigarette from the woman's mouth and looked at the other person's face.

After thinking for a few seconds, he said casually: "Nami, stay away from Nicole Kidman, you should understand what I mean."

"Can I understand this as, are you going to start interfering in my private life, or even controlling my private life?"

"f**k, you can ignore it at all, OK?" He glared at the woman beside him fiercely. Wayne heard that her rebuttal was not out of sincerity, but he sweared. "You are free, but if I were you, I would never try to refute the advice of his child's father."

Seeing that the woman shrugged and did not continue the topic, she simply did not mention Mrs. Cruise.

Perhaps in Naomi Watts' understanding, Wayne said this because he realized that the person who bought the copyright of "Three Billboards" behind him was her good friend.

In fact, it’s not because of this. There are so many similar things in Hollywood. In the future, a more powerful "Matilda" will appear, who will directly steal the husband and project of "best friend" and win the Oscar for the Swan project.

The reason why "Matilda" did that is because he accidentally saw the script that "best friend" was reading.

Hollywood has never lacked plastic friendships, nor has it lacked the life-threatening backs between "girlfriends". In this circle, people usually only focus on the results, and no one naively pays attention to how the results are obtained. Just like that "Matilda", who remembers who her "girlfriend" is in the end? People will only remember her, the Oscar winner.

The reason for this reminder is that Wayne clearly knows that in terms of women's extremely complex thoughts and means, Mrs. Cruise is simply the top in the circle. That is to say, from now on, Nicole Kidman is about to start singing a big show, and this big show will last for many years as soon as it is sung.

He didn't want to see that the woman around him would appear in this farce, and there would be many celebrities who would express their opinions at that time, but even if Nicole Kidman worked hard to create his own victim and had a deep affectionate personality, he would still become the most unpopular actress in North America.

This ranking is very interesting. Until 2013, North American Hollywood fashion magazine "star" once again made another voting statistics on "the most annoying 20 are Hollywood stars".

After nearly 100,000 votes from all walks of life, the first place in the ranking became Gwyneth Paltrow, which successfully pushed Nicole Kidman down.

The two of them did not continue to talk. Naomi Watts squeezed Wayne hard, nestled into the lounge chair, and looked at the somewhat psychedelic garden under the moonlight together.

Until a crisp phone ringing sounded, the woman reached out to pick up the mobile phone from the table, pressed the answer button and put it in the man's ear.

"Nina, just talk about the box office, well, I get it, take a break soon."

The entire call time was less than a minute, without any long-windedness or nonsense. After Wayne got the number he wanted, he signaled the Australian girl to hang up.

"How is the box office?" Naomi Watts put the phone back on the table, simply got up, put up his long white legs on the wide recliner, and looked down at the man and asked curiously.

"It's neither good nor bad." Wayne shook his head slightly, reached out and shot the ash in the ashtray, and said casually: "About $4.8 million."

Hearing this number, Naomi Watts frowned instantly. "That's all?"

"Nami, there are already a lot."

Looking up and looking helplessly at the disappointment on the woman's face, Wayne breathed a sigh of relief and explained: "After all, this is an art film, or an art film for Oscars. You can't expect such a film to have a premiere box office as popular as a commercial film. This number has met my expectations, at least indicating that profit will not be a problem."

“That’s right…”

Hearing his explanation, Naomi Watts suddenly woke up. He had been following the man around him for the past few years, and his vision naturally became higher without realizing it.

Oscar-proposed essays like "Shapes' Love History" will not be very good at box office of more than 90%. Even more films of the same type have been released until the Oscars officially arrived, and the number of screening theaters has remained at about dozens.

From this point of view, the box office of this film is already pretty good. At least according to Wayne's investment scale, it is almost no problem to recover costs in the theater market, and there is even great hope for profit.

Although the box office is not high, it is still won under the promotion of Warner Bros. It can be foreseeable that the single-day box office of the film on the first weekend will basically not be higher than the numbers on the night of the premiere. However, this kind of art film also has its own unique advantage, that is, the screening time.

In the past two years, especially in the hot summer season, the screening life of commercial blockbusters has become significantly shorter and shorter. It seems that all film companies are a strategy. On the first weekend of release, they try to rush enough potential fans into the theaters, and after harvesting the potential box office, they will be removed from the offline copyright operation as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, she immediately cast a look at the man beside her. That's right, in Naomi Watts's view, the man around her is definitely one of the initiators, or even no one.

The reason why the name Wayne Greenberg in the circle is that he has brought about the changes he has brought to Hollywood is because in a subtle way, he has deeply influenced Hollywood from all aspects.

But art films have never been within the category of "don't die if you get addicted", especially art films that were rushing to get awards at the beginning of their release.

This type of film usually has a long screening cycle. If you can get a bonus for the award, the screening time can even last for more than a whole year. Not only that, the screening scale will usually be greatly expanded within a short period of time when the winning amount is awarded.

It is also because of the long screening cycle that some of the more successful literary and artistic films saw in the end that the total box office numbers that movie fans saw were not low at all.

"When will you start making the novel your mother gave me?"

Thinking of the dazzling Cate Blanchett tonight, Naomi Watts turned his big blue eyes and looked at the man and finally couldn't help asking.

"To be honest, Nami, I'm not sure now."

Without silence, Wayne said directly: "Since you have read the novel several times, you must have noticed it. It contains various social problems in North America. More importantly, this story still boasts of a strong feminism.

So, it is not difficult to shoot such a film at all. It is rare to require the blessing of social background, political trends and other things. Otherwise, even if it is shot, it will definitely not get the results we want."

Compared to filming "Three Billboards" earlier, Wayne actually prefers not to make this film directly. As long as his busiest two years have passed, there is still time to make an Oscar movie later.

In his heart, he didn't want Naomi Watts to go the path of Cate Blanchett now. It's of course good to win an Oscar directly, but the price he has to pay is probably to be teased by movie fans and the film industry for many years, "the most popular movie queen in decades".

Therefore, he prefers to let Naomi Watts take the orthodox path, first according to the plan, and then turn to star in an art film that can highlight its acting skills.

It is even better not to get what you want in one go. After one or two nominations, you will feel that you deserve it. If you can be like Little Lizi, and everyone feels that the college owe her a Little Golden Man, it would be even more perfect.

Of course, no matter how well planned things are, they cannot keep up with the sudden changes. If this woman had a big obsession with the little golden man, Wayne wouldn't mind operating this early.

"Nami, you are so beautiful. This is the biggest obstacle on your way to the little golden man."

“thank you Wayne.”

Women's brain circuits are always a little different. Naomi Watts completely ignored the meaning he wanted to express in his words and directly put all his attention on the saying that he is too beautiful.

Sighing helplessly, Wayne stretched out his hands and turned the woman's head hard, making the two of them look at each other from the air. "Listen, Nami, if you want to get that little golden man as soon as possible, the best way, or the only way with a high success rate, is to act ugly."

"I Konw, I remember you talked about this method before when you were chatting with Tom Cruise." Naomi Watts nodded and said, shook the man's hands.

"The nature is the same, and the college naturally discriminates against all beautiful actors."

With his upper body back on the chair, Wayne said directly: "So, if you want to win the Oscar winner, Little Golden Man before you are thirty, the best way is to act ugly and play a role that challenges humanity, such as a lunatic, mentally ill, serial murderer."

Without any hesitation, Naomi Watts shook his head at the man. "Ha, then I'd rather wait a few more years."

Self-destructing the screen image is never an easy task for female celebrities, and it involves a lot of influence. But even self-destructing the screen image is just an opportunity to fight for. No one can give a guarantee on the final result.

Hearing that the woman had no hesitation at all, he gave a straightforward answer. Wayne felt that his IQ was insulted. With his patient explanation and advice, he became useless in the other party. "F**k, then let's dispel all the thoughts about the little golden man first!"

In fact, Naomi Watts understands better than anyone else that as long as she doesn't mess around, the man around her will definitely find a way to help her get what she deserves.

If she hadn't seen Cate Blanchett tonight, she wouldn't have had the urge to be anxious. After all, she knew something about Harvey's big fat man and Wayne's plans during the awards season.

Looking at the man's somewhat frustrated face, she stuck out her tongue, licked her lips, and asked with a smile: "Okay, my dear, it's getting late. Can I invite you to go back to the big bed to rest?"

"Men don't like the problem." Wayne said, lying on the chair without moving, waved his hand.

"Go to bed with me!"

“It’s too stiff.”

Trying to suppress the urge to punch the tough face, the Australian girl kept a smile on her face. "Can you go to bed with me?"

“It’s a problem again.”

"Okay, I'm going to go to bed, I can't sleep without you."

"All right..."