Made in Hollywood

"Smile, Duke."

Scarlett put down the camera in front of her, and said loudly to the opposite side, "Is it so embarrassing for you to take a photo with a tuna?"

"Hey, honey." Duke turned his head to the side, keeping his nose away from the dangling tuna. "It's really fishy!"

"Hold on for another ten seconds. You can catch such a big tuna. It is a kind of luck. I will record the luck."

Saying that, she raised the camera again, "5,4,3,2,1..."

With the sound of the shutter, Scarlett recorded the appearance of Duke standing beside the fishing boat and holding the tuna in the camera lens.

"Okay!" She put down the camera, walked over to look at the tuna, and added, "I've contacted Air Express, and they'll refrigerate this fish and ship it to Malibu."

Duke shrugged helplessly, too lazy to say anything, "If you want, then ship it back."

"We captured this together!" Scarlett was obviously still excited, "I'll ship it back and find someone to make a specimen."

Taking a tissue from his backpack and wiping the fishy smell from his hands, Duke moved away from the fish and said, "I'll let Emma put it in your cloakroom."

Throwing the tissue into a ball and throwing it into the trash can on the side of the ship, Duke pointed to the pier trestle, "They're coming, let the professionals handle it."

Dukla took Scarlett aside and watched those people remove the three-foot-long tuna from the hanging net pockets.

After the overseas fishing trip, the two walked onto the trestle and left the dock area.

Although it is winter in the southern hemisphere, Vanuatu is hot all the year round, and Duke and Scarlett even changed into very thin clothes. He didn't go very far, but he still sweated a lot.

"Let's take a break..." Scarlett dragged Duke into a shop on the side of the road, "Have some drinks."

Having previously been to Fiji, the pair left Sydney and headed straight to Vanuatu, known for its volcanoes, islands and tuna.

Duke and Scarlett have been here for a while. Also went to the famous Mount Ysur Volcano.

Sitting under the awning in the store, after waiting for less than two minutes, the drink was brought up. Scarlett ordered one of the most famous drinks in Vanuatu, called kava, also known as drunken pepper.

When you come to Anuatu, the locals often say it. You don't come to Anuatu without drinking kava.

The raw material of kava comes from a pepper shrub that is widely produced in South Pacific island countries. The plant itself is called kava, and the drink made from its roots is also called kava. It is a natural pain reliever and A sedative, which is very effective for symptoms such as nervousness and depression. But after making it into a drink, it looks a bit like thin mud from the outside, and it has a faint watery and bitter taste of peppercorns, and the tongue numbs after drinking.

Maybe it's because it doesn't taste good. So the requirement is to drink it in one gulp, and most people drink it. You will feel relaxed, happy, and fatigued.

Sensitive people like Duke, after drinking it for the first time. It didn't take long for my eyes to sink. I thought it would be better to eat something, but who knew that I walked around after eating, but I vomited like a drunk and vomited confused...

Therefore, he is not sensitive to this local specialty, and just asked for a glass of water.

On the other hand, Scarlett not only felt that the taste was quite good, but there was no adverse reaction after drinking it.

After drinking the mud-like kava, Scarlett put down the cup, looked at the emerald-green sea not far away, and said, "I really want to throw all my work aside, take a trip around the world, and visit all over the world. A different landscape."

"There will be opportunities in the future." Duke also put down the water glass.

Scarlett muttered, "To a workaholic like you, you'll never find enough time to travel."

Duke shook his head, too lazy to deal with her nonsense.

"I'm going back to Los Angeles soon." Scarlett continued to mutter, "I'm really reluctant."

Following Scarlett's gaze, at the end of the field of vision, the sun was like a crimson fireball, falling to the horizon, changing colors as it fell, as if to show her dazzling colors to all things in the world.

It shines gold on the sea, like a lot of gold spread on the sea...

The view is indeed beautiful.

"Wait until the yacht is built," Duke said slowly. "If there is time next year, let's sail around the world."

"Yeah." Scarlett nodded vigorously.

Duke looked at the time and stood up, "Let's go, it's time for us to go back to the hotel."

From late May to the end of June, Duke was on vacation. Even he couldn't finish film after film without stopping. He also needed time to rest and adjust in between, and his team's Humans need this too, after all, humans are not machines.

Film production has its own rules, and some films simply cannot be accelerated too much. It takes time and money to make a qualified film.

The weight of the latter is equally important. This is Hollywood, a circle that relies on commercial achievements to speak. Duke has established his power and status in Hollywood with one blockbuster movie after another.

How to choose a director's film path is everyone's freedom, but Duke is convinced that if he had not chosen a commercial path, he would never have created the current situation.

Even the words of one person can decide the future of the entire DC Comics series and Marvel series of movies.

Warner Bros. attaches great importance to Duke's words and has rejected superhero scripts that are too serious and dark, not only because Duke's past is extremely brilliant, but also because his movies continue to create new horror results.

Although the box office convergence rate of "The Dark Knight" has slowed down since the release of "Spider-Man 3", when it just entered June, the North American box office of the film has crossed the threshold of 500 million US dollars to be released. The 29-day performance set a new record for the fastest North American box office to exceed $500 million.

Standing next to "The Dark Knight" and looking back, almost all the North American box offices in the past have fallen.

After spending its sixth weekend in North America, "The Dark Knight" surpassed "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers"' $521.32 million with a box office of $521.45 million, reaching the top three in North America's all-time box office. Second only to "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" and "Titanic".

However, after the North American box office crossed the $500 million mark, The Dark Knight, like someone who was relieved after its success, noticeably slowed its progress, especially as it surpassed The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Raiders, which seems to have used up most of the fans' enthusiasm, has slipped to around $1.3 million in a weekday single-day box office.

With such a single-day box office acquisition rate, it would be very difficult to break through the $600 million mark without a miraculous surge or a super-long screening.

And according to Duke and Warner Bros., the film will be screened at most until next year's Oscar nominees luncheon.

Warner Bros. knows better than Duke how the death of Heath Ledger will play a key role in him getting a golden statuette. He obviously wants to use the conceivable trend of one-sided public opinion after the announcement of next year's Oscar nominations. Release the DVD of The Dark Knight and try to make another big buck.

Duke has no problem with that, and it's the best way for The Dark Knight to make the most of it.

Once released on DVD, even if Warner Bros. doesn't want to pull it out, the North American Cinema Alliance will soon end The Dark Knight's theatrical journey.

It can be said that Warner Bros. has formulated a series of rigorous plans for "The Dark Knight" and is also implementing them. For example, the upcoming Best Supporting Actor declaration for Heath Ledger is an important part.

Not just best supporting actor, but a slew of technical awards, and Warner Bros. is preparing to nominate Best Picture and Best Director for The Dark Knight.

Of course, both Duke and Warner are very clear that these two awards, let alone golden figures, will be very difficult to get nominated.

The academy and Oscar's stigma against superhero movies is deeply ingrained.

It's not to say that it's completely impossible. If Duke is like Heath Ledger, the academy will definitely give up its discrimination, and nine times out of ten, the best director statue will be thrown over.

However, this possibility Duke absolutely does not want to see.

Moreover, he will no longer deliberately pursue the Oscar, and he does not even plan to do the public relations for the nomination.

Beginning in mid-June, The Dark Knight has completely entered the stage of accumulating the box office over time. By the end of June, the single-day box office drop below $1 million has gradually become the norm.

It is impossible for any film to continue to be popular indefinitely. The early screening stage of "The Dark Knight" consumed too much enthusiasm from the audience. Compared with "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" a few years ago, the later trend is more obvious. Slightly weaker.

When the time passed in June 2007, the North American box office of "The Dark Knight" did not exceed the $550 million mark, and stayed at the figure of $545.82 million.

At the same time, the film has also landed in cinemas in nearly 120 countries and regions, and in nearly two months of screening, it has received a total of 512.85 million US dollars.

The style of the film is destined to have a lower overseas response than North America.

But a total of $1.05867 billion at the global box office is enough to dwarf all of this year's competitors.

The screening of "The Dark Knight" is not over yet, and both the North American box office and the overseas box office still have room to continue to rise, but Duke has ended his vacation, and Warner Bros. has given him the exact information, even if he asks for the new project's The minimum production cost is no less than 200 million US dollars, and Warner's review committee still passed the review.

Such a huge investment has also created Duke's record for the highest production cost of a single film, and the vast majority of these funds will be spent on special effects production. The new film needs to use realistic CG special effects to create a group of intelligent beings. giant robot. (To be continued ~^~)

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