Reborn Hollywood Ladies

Chapter 777 Active Invitation

Perhaps seeing her weird eyes, Nolan smiled embarrassedly, feeling that he seemed to have ruined his own image, so he changed the subject with a dry cough.

"Director Jackson's remake of "King Kong" is said to have invested more than 2 million U.S. dollars."

"Yes, there will be more special effects required, and there is no way to spend more money." Laila recalled that in her previous life, this work received less than 5 million at the box office worldwide, which can be regarded as a breakeven. It is a successful work.At least compared with the "Lord of the Rings" he created, it is not at the same level at all.

Some people also asked whether the film was underestimated, but the final box office is there, and it is boring to insist on other things.

Nolan shook his head: "It's not so easy to meet the Christmas schedule. The only advantage is that the films in the same period are not competitive at the box office."

Laila nodded.Whether it is "Munich Massacre" or "Brokeback Mountain", although they are both works of well-known directors, it is certainly impossible to bring much pressure to "King Kong" at the box office.Except for the films of these two great directors, there is no other film that can compete with "King Kong" for the time being.

"It's still a matter of publicity. I think they didn't do a good job of publicity in the early stage. Except for those of us who pay attention to the movie circle and movie fans who like to watch movies, how many people know that such a movie is about to be released?"

She has always attached great importance to publicity, so every time before the movie is released, she will use some means to excite the various media, so as to help her advertise.

In her opinion, for a movie like "King Kong" that cost more than 2 million US dollars, it is impossible to spend too much money on publicity.Because no matter how hard you sow, no matter how much you reap, if you just throw the seeds in the ground and ignore everything, what will it look like if it grows by itself?
According to Hollywood practice, publicity costs generally account for half of the shooting cost.In other words, an investment of [-] million needs to spend at least another [-] million for publicity, which is the most reasonable.

But I don't know if it's because of the investment of too much money. I don't know how the promotional expenses of "King Kong" have been reduced. At least Leila didn't see the publicity offensive that this large-scale movie should have.

"Probably because the investors don't want to throw money into it?" Nolan thought of what he had experienced before, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Not every director has the charisma of Cameron, who can make investors ignore him." Throw money in everything."

Lyra was silent.

Indeed, investors are desperately trying to make more money with less investment, while directors are more concerned with the quality of the film itself.Some things will not be filmed well if the money is less, and if the filming is not good, the audience will not be recognized. If the audience does not agree, can you expect them to say good things?Once the bad word-of-mouth spreads, not to mention making profits, it is already lucky to be able to protect capital.

This is an endless loop, but many people turn a blind eye to this.

In fact, investors also feel that "Baby's heart is bitter". Their money is not blown by strong winds, and they can save a little. What if the movie fails?But they forget that if the filming is not good, it is more likely to be a bad filming.

Under such circumstances, you can only rely on the ability of the director to operate in it. As for whether it is good or bad, it is up to the audience to judge.So in many cases it is not that the director is not good at shooting, but that there are too many constraints.

Let's take, for example, the bloody example of Lyra herself.The only movie she made in her previous life had so much money, the actors were the seven aunts and eight aunts of the investors, and almost everyone was related to them.

= Don't want to use those people?You can go as far as you want, I am afraid that if I have money, I can't find someone willing to shoot?

In that case, Laila had no choice but to give in, thinking that as long as she could make a movie, then all difficulties could be overcome.In fact, she overestimated her own ability and underestimated the degree of death of those "amateur actors".

Even her ability to teach actors in her previous life failed to teach those people to become real actors. Either there were many situations during filming, or she added scenes to herself indiscriminately.The only good news is that after her editing, the pictures were barely readable.

It's a pity that the actor is too poor, and she doesn't have the ability to completely control the crew.Those people relied on being relatives of the investor and did not listen to her orders at all.So even if she has a god-like editing technique, she didn't get any good results when she met such a bad actor.As a result... she was reborn.

It seems that God also felt that it was too pitiful for her to shoot such things, so he gave her a new life, right?

After Nolan left, Laila stared at the phone for a moment, then dialed Roy's number.As soon as the phone was connected, she remembered that he should still be on the set, and when she was about to hang up, the other party connected.

"Hi, honey." Roy's slightly panting voice came from the opposite side.

"Are you busy? If I'm busy, I can call again at another time."

If any other woman heard her boyfriend gasp like this, she would guess whether he was doing something indescribable with some other woman.But Laila didn't even think that way, because no one knew his itinerary better than she did.It's not that she wanted to ask too clearly, but that the man wanted to report everything to her.That's why she knew that he should be filming a script at this time.

Seeing that he did have time to talk, she didn't go around in circles: "Do you have time at the end of the month? Go to two movies with me, okay?"

"Of course!" Roy answered quickly, and his joy could be clearly felt from the voice coming through the line: "Is there any good movie? It made you fall in love too?" The number of times she took the initiative to ask him out But, it's rare for her to speak, let alone go to the movies, it's no problem to let him go to the sky to pick the moon!

"There are two movies I really want to watch. It would be the best if you have time." She didn't want him to delay the progress of the crew because of her temporary interest.

"At the end of the month? Isn't that the Christmas schedule?" Roy said as he wondered what movie would be released during the Christmas schedule. Even she took the initiative to ask him to watch it.Regardless of whether the movie was good or not, he decided to follow those two movies. After all, it was very rare for her to ask her out in person.

"That's right, it's Christmas time. Do you have a holiday there?" Laila finally remembered that Christmas is as important to Westerners as Easterners' attitude towards Spring Festival.Vacations seemed normal at that time.

Roy nodded without thinking: "There must be. Don't worry, I will definitely go back and watch with you." Whether there is that vacation or not, he must get that vacation!

(End of this chapter)