Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 205 Can’t recognize myself

Of course, Barry Diller wasn't going to stop him.

What if Wayne did find someone else at the party who was interested?

It's not a bad thing after all for him.

"Hi, Mr. Wayne, do you remember me? I'm Mina Suvari, and I once auditioned for "Mean Girls" that you hosted."

The first one to come was Mina Suvari, who almost reached the threshold of the second tier with "Ugly Country Party" and "Ugly Country Beauty". However, several films in the past two years have failed one after another, and she has been transferred back to the middle of the third tier. .

When she was auditioning for "Mean Girls", she competed for the role of a female teacher played by Sarah Michelle Gellar. However, because her appearance was a little worse than Sarah's, and her age did not fit the image of a female teacher, she was brushed off;.

Now Sarah has become the heroine of "Wedding Crashers" and can play with the popular superstar Wayne.

One can imagine how envious and regretful she was after learning about it.

Although she has another movie "Ugly Country Party 2" to be released this year, and the movie in her previous life also received an astonishing box office of 2.87 million.

But the problem is that "Ugly Country Party" mainly tells the story of male high school students.

The roles of several male characters are too important and outstanding.

Moreover, the girlfriend of the male protagonist 'Jim' is 'Michelle', not her, so the increase in fame she can enjoy is actually not much.

If you can hook up with Wayne, the benefits will be greater than starring in a few "Ugly Country" movies.

Unfortunately, she didn't really fit in with Wayne's taste, so Wayne just greeted her politely. The distance in his tone was so obvious that she couldn't help but feel disappointed.

"Hello, Mr. Wayne, I'm Thora Birch, and I'm a fan of yours. Oh my god, I didn't expect to see you here."

Thora Birch, who came with her, tried her best to act like a little fan girl meeting her idol, but it was a pity that Wayne had given up on this trick a long time ago.

At least with Thora Birch, it wasn't worth eating.

However, Thora Birch's figure is the same as in the movie, quite predictable.

In addition, it may be that her parents are actors in the San Fernando Valley next door, and she is particularly bold in that aspect.

However, Wayne stayed away from this kind of woman even more.

Then, without giving the two of them a chance to stay here any longer, other women came over and squeezed them away.

Many of them he had seen before, such as Penelope Cruz, Dominic Swann, Brittany Murphy, etc.

There are also many things that he has never seen before. For example, he has been in Hollywood for more than ten years and has appeared in dozens of movies and TV series, but all of them were minor supporting roles. His popularity has always been stable at the [-]th tier, and later he still Linda Cardellini plays Hawkeye's wife 'Laura' in the Marvel Universe.

Jennifer Love Hewitt made her debut as a child star. Her main job is a singer and her second job is an actress. Her overall popularity is in the upper third tier.

In addition, her performance in the field of TV dramas was okay. Later, she became well-known with "Desperate Housewives" and "Horror Stories of Ugly Country", but she has never made any achievements in the field of movies. Now she is only a third-tier lower-tier Sarah Paulson, etc.

It's a pity that he already has enough women now, and he doesn't intend to downgrade his aesthetics, so he politely refuses all the initiatives that these women reveal in their words.

But even so, surrounded by beautiful women, she still aroused the dissatisfaction of the nominal protagonist of this party, Vin Diesel, who was particularly inflated as soon as he became famous.

"Hey Paul, look, that guy is really popular."

Vin Diesel held the wine glass, looked over at Wayne, and then at himself with only Paul Walker beside him. Although there was a smile on his face, the smile was somewhat ugly.

"Yes."

Paul Walker didn't notice his expression or thoughts, he just looked in the direction of Wayne and sighed secretly.

"How about we go meet him?" Vin Diesel said at this time.

His words stunned Paul Walker.

Then Paul Walker turned his head and looked at Vin Diesel, and then noticed his expression.

"Come on, man, what do you want? We can't mess with him."

Vin Diesel's eyes flashed with dissatisfaction, and he sneered: "Are you scared? This is our party, so what if he is famous? We should be the protagonists of the party."

"You—"

"'Fast and Furious' will become a great series, and our reputation in the future will definitely not be inferior to his!"

Vin Diesel said confidently, as if catching up to or even surpassing Wayne's fame and status is something that is just around the corner.

Paul Walker looked at him with a strange look on his face. He really didn't know where he got his confidence.

Although during the filming process, he also learned that Vin Diesel's character was indeed like this, but he really didn't expect that Vin Diesel could be so confident.

You must know that Wayne's current fame has actually surpassed Tom Cruise and almost caught up with Leonardo DiCaprio.

The box office of a single film was 7.6 million, and the cumulative box office in the first half of the year exceeded 16 billion.

Vin Diesel says he can catch up with Wayne?In his opinion, this was no longer confidence but arrogance.

What's more, Wayne's most important identity is not an actor or star, but the boss of Hemera Pictures, which produces blockbuster movies!

According to current assessments by professional organizations, the market value of Hemera Pictures has exceeded one billion US dollars!
What does Vin Diesel compare to Wayne?
"Isn't this guy's brain a black card?"

Of course, Paul Walker thinks so in his heart, but doesn't say it with his mouth.

"Well, I believe you. I saw Director Cohen and I went over to say hello."

After saying that, Paul Walker didn't give Vin Diesel a chance to speak at all, and walked over to Rob Cohen, who was chatting with Barry Diller not far away, holding a wine glass.

Rob Cohen is the director of "Fast and Furious 1" and also the director of "Xxx1".

Think about it, Rob Cohen almost refused to work with Vin Diesel again even though he had already collaborated with Vin Diesel once and it was a great success. You can know how bad Vin Diesel's character is. .

Vin Diesel looked at Paul Walker walking away and his expression darkened.

The thought of kicking Paul Walker out of the next "Fast and Furious" movie has come to mind.

If my younger brother is not loyal, then why should I stay?
In his eyes, all the other supporting actors in the crew are just his little brothers, including Paul Walker.

Of course, it's still too early to tell.

Vin Diesel glanced in Wayne's direction again, and finally snorted coldly, not daring to actually go up and cause trouble.

Although he is arrogant, he still has basic judgment.

Now, the gap between him and Wayne is indeed too big. The two sides are not on the same level at all.

It's okay to let him have sex behind his back, but he still doesn't dare to provoke him in person.

After a final reluctant glance at Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster, Vin Diesel finally decided to look for other targets.Yes, the main reason why he was unhappy with Wayne was that he was jealous of Michelle and Jordana, who surrounded Wayne like two licking dogs and tried to please them.

I remember that when he was filming, he tried so hard to show his charm, but in the end he failed to win over the two of them.

This is too unbalanced.

On the other hand, Wayne was surrounded by thousands of flowers, not a single leaf touched him, and in the end he did not take away any woman.

This made Barry Diller, who was originally confident, couldn't help but doubt his own aesthetics.

Wayne is so good at picking out women, so obviously he can only be the one with the problem.

In addition, Wayne did not mention to him about purchasing the film and television rights related to "Jurassic Park".

This matter is not urgent. We have to wait until "Jurassic Park 3" is released. The box office is not satisfactory and the reputation is even more sparse. The senior management decides to temporarily shelve the sequel plan before it is the right time to take action.

"Speaking of which, "Taken" was released three days earlier than "Jurassic Park 3." Is this Sony trying to follow Universal's pace? With the quality of "Taken," it should be able to Will "Jurassic Park 3" have a certain impact on the box office?"

Wayne couldn't help but think about it on the way back to the manor in the car.

"Hey, didn't you go to a party held by Universal tonight? You actually left like this and came back right after?"

As soon as she got home, Hannah, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV with Mia, Jessica and Charlize Theron while applying facial masks to maintain her skin, couldn't help but exclaimed.

Indeed, this was the first time that Wayne was invited to a party like this and ended up empty-handed.

"I can't help it, who made you so beautiful~"

Wayne told the truth, smiled and waved his hand to ask the maid to step back, and then walked towards the four of them.

"By the way, where are Amanda and Lydia?"

"The two of them are doing their homework. In order to get into a good university and be able to help you in the future, they have also worked harder recently."

"Then I'll 'thank' them later~"

Soon, the living room turned into a messy battlefield.

The temperature of the air seemed to have become even hotter and hotter.

Time came to July 7th in a blink of an eye.

This day became a little unusual because three things happened to be squeezed together.

First of all, the box office of "Taken" on the first day of screening is released.

Good action movies have never lacked screens and filming in theaters in this era. Under Warner's operation, 3000 screens were provided as soon as they were released.

It's completely a matter of using the rules to extend the release period.

And its results live up to expectations.

The North American first-day box office was 1869 million, and the overseas first-day box office was 2590 million. Although it is not as good as "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Notebook", it is still quite amazing.

At least it's much better than "Fast and Furious 1".

The most important thing is that "Taken" also has a very good reputation, especially in the movie, the protagonist uses waterboarding and electrocution to interrogate the kidnapper, and finally executes him with electrocution.

There was also a scene where the wife of a fallen ex-colleague was shot directly, which made the audience couldn't help but cheer loudly.

With such a good reputation, the imdb score of "Rescue" is as high as 8.9 points.

Although this rating will gradually drop in the future, as an action movie, it is already very powerful.

At least it is 1 points higher than the rating of "Fast and Furious 1.8" when it first started.

This made Vin Diesel, who was eating breakfast and reading the newspaper in his newly purchased villa, mash the newspaper into a ball in anger.

But it was useless for him to be so angry.

With such a good reputation, the box office of "Taken" will only get higher and higher in the next few days.

And this also made Barry Diller, who was a little late-minded, finally become a little nervous.

Unfortunately, it is too late to delay the release of "Jurassic Park 3" now. He can only pray that the two movies are not of the same genre and "Jurassic Park 3" will not be greatly affected.

Next, "Wedding Crashers", which was officially launched on May 5, was also completed on July 26.

To be honest, a romantic comedy with few big scenes or complicated shots doesn’t take such a long time to shoot.

But who makes Wayne take time off all the time.

Although Peter Farrelly will immediately adjust the shooting plan and shoot other scenes first, it will be affected to some extent.

Finally, the filming was completed on July 7st, and the American version of "The Ring" was officially completed today and was transferred to post-production.

It is said to be a ghost horror film, but in fact, there are not many special effects used in the American version of "The Ring".

The shots that appear to be special effects are actually mostly made by special actors using special effects makeup.

Other than that, it’s just the effect of editing.

Of course, the ability to complete the production so quickly is also due to director Gore Verbinski working overtime and forgetting to eat and sleep.

Although Gore Verbinski is more than ten years older than James Wan, as a middle-aged man, he still worked hard to successfully direct "Pirates of the Caribbean Part 1".

It's just that the completion of "Wedding Crashers" and the production of "The American Version of Midnight Ring" happened at the same time, coupled with the blessing of "Taken"'s box office success.

As expected, Wayne's work cell phone was almost blasted by the enthusiastic Harvey and Howard Stringer.

Unfortunately, it's not just "Wedding Crashers" who already have arrangements.

For "The American Version of The Ring," he has also decided to sell it to Harvey, a guy who weighs 100 kilograms and weighs 120 kilograms.

In addition to the gifts Harvey prepared for him at the last party, there was also a deeper consideration, which was to help Harvey consolidate his position in Miramax.

So far, all Miramax movies released this year have suffered losses, except for "The Gifted" and "Mean Girls" purchased from Hemera Pictures, and two of them still suffered heavy losses.

If he doesn't stabilize himself, Harvey will be kicked out of Miramax.

Once Harvey leaves Miramax, Disney will become more stable and powerful internally, and will have more experience to target the outside world.

Obviously, for Wayne, the more conflicts and chaos within Disney, the better.

(End of this chapter)