Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 161 Winning the Prize
When the crew was filming in New York, Liu Xiaoli called and told him that Paranormal Activity won the 'Best Horror Film Award' at the 19th American Film and Television Saturn Awards yesterday.

The Saturn Awards are a film and television award hosted by the American Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. It was founded in 1972 and is held annually.

The purpose of this award is to reward and promote the best science fiction and horror films and television shows of the year, as well as outstanding works with breakthrough and innovative significance.

The scope of nominations and the final results are all film and television works or filmmakers that are deeply loved by movie fans.

Most of the films nominated for the Saturn Awards were those that had a certain influence and caused a sensation in that year.

Both "Paranormal Activity" and "Buried" caused a sensation last year.

Link received 6 nominations, including Best Horror Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, etc.

The biggest winner of this year's Saturn Awards was "Bram Stoker's Dracula" directed by Coppola, which received eight nominations and ultimately won four awards including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Costumes.

Link congratulated director Coppola through Sofia.

In the morning, the crew continued filming scenes of other characters' accidental deaths.

Among the seven survivors, Todd was the first to die, the second was the third woman, Terry Jenny, the third was the teacher Valerie Liudon, the fourth was Billy Sydam, and the fifth was Carter.

After Terry Jenny was in a car accident, Alex was inspired by the TV news and discovered that in his dream, Todd and Jenny died first when the plane exploded, just like the current situation.

According to this situation, the Grim Reaper may also need to kill people according to the settings.

There is an order for who dies first and who dies later, and people will not be killed randomly.

When Alex discovered this secret, he prepared to destroy the arrangement of the god of death to save himself.

He told the rest of the people about this, but no one believed him, which led to Teacher Liu Dun's death in an accident again.

The fourth person to die was originally Carter, but after Alex's intervention, Billy Sydam was beheaded by the iron sheet brought up by the train and died prematurely.

The fifth one should have been the heroine Claire's turn, but in the emergency, the hero appeared and saved Claire.

Originally they thought they had successfully interrupted the arrangements of the god of death and survived his clutches.

But when they traveled to Paris again, Carter was killed by a falling sign.

Because these methods of killing are more sophisticated and complex in design, and Link has very high requirements for the camera and the actors, the filming progress of the crew was slow.

Link led the crew to shoot in New York, New Jersey, Toronto, Canada and other places for nearly two months before completing the filming of these scenes.

It was not until early June that Link returned to Los Angeles with his crew from New York to shoot the opening plane crash and other miscellaneous footage.

In June, the summer vacation season arrives in the North American film market.

This summer, there are many blockbuster movies, and the first one is the monster special effects blockbuster "Jurassic Park" directed by Spielberg.

The film was released at the end of May and grossed $5 million in its first week, setting a record for North American film premieres and first-week box office. It sold $8171 million in three weeks, setting a record for the fastest box office of $2 million in North America.

The film has been released overseas for two weeks, and its current overseas box office has exceeded 2 million.

The current total box office is 4.13 million US dollars, and the box office is expected to be over 8 million US dollars.

The second-ranked movie is "Indecent Proposal", a love movie starring Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Robert Redford and others.

The film was released on April 4 and has grossed $23 million in North America so far, with global box office revenue exceeding $1.06 million.

Ranked third is "Clarks" starring Sylvester Stallone, which was released in mid-May. Affected by "Jurassic Park", the current North American box office is only more than 7200 million US dollars, while the production cost is 6500 million US dollars.

There is also "Turning Point", starring Robert Downey Jr., which was released in late April and grossed $1658 million in North America and $2809 million worldwide.

The Blair Witch Project was released at the end of February. It has now finished showing in North America, with a final box office of 2 million. The overseas box office is currently 1.58 million, and it is still being shown in many other regions. The global box office is expected to be about 1.31 million.

In addition to the movies currently in theaters, there are also popular movies such as "Sleepless in Seattle", "Phantom Hero", "In the Line of Fire", and "The Mermaid Fairy Tale" which will be released during the summer vacation.

"Jurassic Park is really amazing. It has grossed over 4 million worldwide in less than three weeks. The final box office is expected to exceed 9 million."

"Universal Pictures made a lot of money this time, and director Spielberg also made a lot of money."

"The most amazing thing about this movie is the CGI technology, which realistically reproduces the images of several dinosaurs. They look like the real thing. This technology will be used by many people in the future. It seems that as directors, we can't just make movies. We also need to learn how to use new technologies to make movies. Otherwise, we will be eliminated by the film industry in a few years."

In a Beverly Hills bar, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, director Robert, and new director Richard Linklater were chatting.

"Hi, good afternoon, everyone!"

Link arrived late, wearing a baseball cap, a loose shirt and blue jeans.

Among the people present, Quentin and several others are old acquaintances. I met Richard Linklater at the last party. He is a good friend of Steven Soderbergh and he even made a cameo appearance in Steven's movie "Dangerous Love".

"Link, why are you here just now? We agreed to be here at five o'clock, and you're late again."

Quentin complained.

"It's 4:58 now. Not only am I not late, I'm two minutes early."

Link pointed to his watch.

"We are having a party, drinking and chatting, isn't it good to arrive early?"

"My movie hasn't been finished yet, so how can I have time to come out and play? Is Pulp Fiction finished?"

"Pulp Fiction" started filming before his movie and took more than three months to shoot.

"90% completed, with a little left. By the way, I still have your scene. When will you have time to go to the crew to shoot?"

Quentin smiled maliciously.

"I don't have time for now. My drama still needs three weeks of filming, and two weeks of editing. I won't be free until next month. Can I join the crew next month?"

"No, the film is almost finished. If you delay it for one day, it will waste a lot of money. You have to spare one or two days."

"How about you change someone else? Well, I can spare a day this weekend. I hope you don't get stuck during filming."

Link smiled and drank and chatted with a few people.

Due to the recent huge sales of "Jurassic Park", the dinosaurs on the screen have greatly shocked the audience and filmmakers, and this movie has also become a hot topic in the circle recently.

Some praised the movie’s box office for being so high that it was expected to set a global box office record.

Some envy Universal Pictures and director Spielberg for being able to make a lot of money from movies and peripheral products.

Some marveled at the film's stunning use of CGI technology.

CGI stands for Computer-generated imagery, which uses computer technology to generate images to create a realistic and credible virtual world. It can be used in movies, television, animation, games and other fields.

Currently, CGI is still a new computer special effects technology, and it has become popular because of the huge sales of "Jurassic Park".

Many movies are planning to apply this technology. Link will also use this technology in "Final Destination" to improve the viewing experience of the movie. At the same time, it is also a good selling point during promotion.

(End of this chapter)