It's reasonable for me, a stuntman, to live a crazy life, right?

Chapter 576: Xiao Lizi’s confidence in winning the Olympics is like “stinky shit”! "Interstellar" is officially released!
Los Angeles, inside the Weinstein studio.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the conference room was as oppressive as the billowing black clouds before an approaching storm, making people feel as if there was a huge mountain behind them!
The latest newspaper is on the table, and the entertainment pages opened are full of the latest reports on "Escape from Tehran".

Among them, the photo of Gal Dino being interviewed is particularly conspicuous.

The confidence that Ben Affleck had finally accumulated was gone at this moment.

Eyewitnesses of the events that year came forward and accused their film of being fictional, which led to a lot of criticism in the media and caused the film to suffer a huge blow in its bid for awards.

The box office performance was already miserable enough, but now it's better. Even its reputation has suffered a huge impact.

Doing this makes them very passive.

There is not much time left before the Oscar votes are released. If this matter cannot be handled in a short period of time, the difficulty of winning the award will skyrocket!

Harvey turned to look at his brother and asked in a deep voice: "Bob, have you contacted this person?"

"I had a phone call with him yesterday." Bob Weinstein also frowned at this moment: "But the answer he gave me was that he was only describing the events that happened that year based on the facts, and there was no false statement. ”

"Fuck!"

Harvey angrily said: "All the movies based on real events, except for the main content of the same, how can they completely restore the events 1:1? These media are as stupid as pigs!"

"There must be some inside story!" Bob changed the subject: "Gaal Dino's life is actually very difficult. His meager salary, his son who was hospitalized in a car accident, and his daughter who can't afford school fees are all things he accepts. Real life before media interviews.”

Harvey seemed to have thought of something, frowned and asked, "What now?"

"Now his son is admitted to the best private hospital in the area, all his daughter's high school tuition fees have been paid in full, and he himself has obtained a high-paying job."

Hearing this, Harvey had a familiar thought in his mind.

"Someone is messing with us!" He stood up suddenly and stared directly at Bob across from him: "Who is the person who caused these things? Have you found any specific information?"

"It has not been found so far." Bob shook his head, but he was obviously aware of it: "Actually, the target range is not large. This year, there are not many crews who intend to compete for Oscars, and there are not many conflicts with us in major awards."

Before anything happens to the film, the primary goal of "Escape from Tehran" is Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Actor.

Now, due to Daben's personal reasons, the goal of competing for the Olympics is focused on the best film, which is clearly reflected in the series of frontline awards that have been awarded.

Anyone who knows a little bit about the process of winning awards during Hollywood awards season will not have a hard time judging this.

Quentin, who was silent on the side, suddenly said: "Apart from "Django Unchained" directed by me, the only remaining strong competitors are "Life of Pi" and "Dallas Buyers Club". "Les Miserables" "It's not competitive in the Best Picture category."

As soon as these words came out, it seemed to arouse Daben's pain points.

He who had been silent all this time suddenly raised his head, his red eyes full of anger: "It must be "Dallas Buyers Club", it must be the yellow director, this must be planned by Waltons Pictures!"

Harvey glanced over his face, his expression slightly impatient, but he still nodded.

"The facts are clear. We don't even need to know who is behind the incident. We just need to know who our competitors are and we can target them."

At this time, Bob suddenly reached out and pulled out a newspaper from the pile of newspapers on the table, and said:
"'Drag', 'transgender', 'gay' and other groups in New York, Los Angeles and other places are hyping "Dallas Buyers Club". They believe that this is a movie that can reflect the difficult survival of special groups in society. And demand due respect and treatment..."

Of course, Harvey also knows about the rainbow group "LGBT".

And he understands deeper and more thoroughly than ordinary people!

For the sake of damn political correctness, many people at the official level in the United States strongly support this group and believe that they should be respected and free.

Naturally, this custom has also been implicated in Hollywood, and many Oscar judges have "suffered deeply" from it.

Thinking of this, Harvey is one of the top two.

The card Chen Fei played was too "big" and he couldn't catch it.

How does "Escape from Tehran" compare to the entire "LGBT" community?

After some careful consideration, he finally said resignedly: "We have no choice but to give up the competition for best picture."

As soon as these words came out, I felt like I was mourning my heir!

We had already decided to give up Best Director and Best Actor beforehand, and now we have given up even Best Picture. Doesn’t that mean that "Escape from Tehran" will completely give up on competing for the Olympics?

While he was in a daze, Harvey made a final statement: "We still have time, so we will devote all our public relations resources to "Django Unchained" with the goal of 'Oscar for Best Director'."

Ben was completely desperate, but Quentin's eyes lit up when he was sitting at the end of the conference table.

Oscar for best director?
This is good!

He is 49 years old this year. With "Pulp Fiction", he has completed his charge for the Palme d'Or, but he has never been able to get his wish for the Oscar for Best Director.

Nominated several times, failed several times, and accompanied several times, it simply cannot be described with a simple word "miserable"!
If I can successfully win the award this time, it will be considered as my dream has come true!
But soon, his excitement calmed down, because he suddenly discovered that the competition for the Oscar for Best Director this year was not as simple as he thought.

Chen Fei and Li Jian, these two Chinese directors have shown an attitude of being determined to win the Oscar, and they have both won the Oscar for Best Director.

In comparison, his advantages are unclear.

However, just when he was about to explain the current situation, Harvey gave a specific way to win the prize: "This time, we will not target the content of the film, but only the individual competitor to defeat him from the root!"

Harvey talked eloquently, and the bad water kept pouring out, as if there was an endless stream.

The other people will also chime in from time to time and help with bad ideas.

This is actually a last resort, after all, "Dallas Buyers Club" is really dark.

This movie is too "correct" in terms of overall style and content. Coupled with the great help of the "LGBT" community, it will never win the best film.

……

At the same time, just when Harvey changed the direction of attack and targeted Chen Fei personally, "Interstellar" officially launched its release.

As North America's first A-category sci-fi blockbuster in December, more than 12% of the screens will screen this movie this weekend.

If the film's box office performance is good enough, this schedule can last at least a week until the release of "Soul Tanker: A Time for Vengeance" and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey."

The December 12th slot was chosen very well.

Prior to this, "Cloud Atlas" with Zhou Xun's guest appearance ended sadly with a box office of 2710.8 million US dollars in North America, and "Last Vegas" starring Morgan Freeman only had a box office of 6391.4 million US dollars.

"Guardians" and "Les Misérables" also temporarily ranked at the bottom with US$4325 million and US$3536 million in the first three days in the first weekend.

Under such premise, the film schedule of "Interstellar" directed by Chen Fei and starring Venice Silver Lion winner Matthew McConaughey is naturally infinitely higher!

Blockbusters should enjoy super high scheduling and promotion packages. In this way, not only the producers can make money, but the theaters can also make a lot of money.

……

At this time, outside a flagship theater in Los Angeles, three people, headed by Jon Berg, the president of Warner Bros. Pictures, and assisted by the vice presidents of New Line Cinema and MGM Pictures, walked into the theater together.

Because the premiere of "Interstellar" was so unusual, none of the three had a chance to see the movie.

Like many movie fans, today is also the first time for the three of them to watch a movie.

The reason Jon Berg chose to watch "Interstellar" was simply to observe the quality of his competitors' films.

"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" will be released on December 12th, North American time, only one week apart from the former, and can be said to be the most direct competitor.

Adhering to the idea of ​​knowing yourself and the enemy and being victorious in every battle, the three are ready to analyze the opponent's situation and adjust the promotion strategy of their own movies in a timely manner.

Since the end of the Harry Potter series, Warner Bros. Pictures has been in a slump for many years.

The failure of "Green Lantern" was a fatal blow!
If it weren’t for the Batman series, I’m afraid the company’s performance would have been negative.

Now, the first film in the "Hobbit" series is about to hit theaters, and it is clearly aiming to exceed one billion U.S. dollars at the box office and even win the annual box office championship.

At present, the biggest competitors standing in front of us are Volton Pictures and "Interstellar"!
Following the guidance of the movie tickets, Jon Berg led two business friends and went straight to the front row.

As the three of them took their seats, the film screening officially began after a while.

The story of "Interstellar" is very simple. If it can be summarized in one paragraph, it is actually an "act of self-rescue."

Dust and blight have caused crops to wither one after another, and the earth and mankind are facing severe survival challenges. For the safety and survival of their loved ones, the male protagonist Cooper chooses to listen to Professor Brand's advice, and the heroine Liu Yifei and two other colleagues Board the "Eternity" with two robots and head to space to find a new home...

The main story line is very consistent with the consistent style of Hollywood movies, and the main focus is "easy to understand".

The real selling point of the film is that it is based on the theories of physicist Kip Thorne and introduces concepts such as "wormholes", "five-dimensional space", "time and space travel", and "parallel universes", showing the An extremely grand science fiction scene!

30000 acres of huge cornfields, distinctive spaceships, terrifying sandstorms, galactic backgrounds, galaxies, nebulae, wormholes...

When the cool, stunning and breathtaking pictures were displayed in front of everyone's eyes, as expected, bursts of exclamations gradually sounded in the theater.

Many people present had seen Chen Fei's previous "space skydiving" challenge.

Before the challenge began, Chen Fei once said: "The scenes shown in "Interstellar" are far more stunning than the current scene when you look down on the earth from space." Many people did not take it seriously at first and did not take this sentence seriously. Take it to heart.

But looking at it now, Chen Fei's words were still conservative.

It is no exaggeration to say that the rendering of space scenes and the display of various wonders in the film are even far beyond reality to some extent!
The film duration of 169 minutes, nearly three hours, simply made the audience ecstasy watching it!
Many people immediately run to the bathroom to drain the water after the movie is over to relieve the pressure on their bladders.

Jon Berg did the same thing.

Due to prostate and kidney stones, it took him more than ten minutes to pee.

In fact, he still had symptoms of frequent urination, urgency, and inability to urinate. The doctor had specifically warned him not to deliberately hold back his urine.

However, because he was unwilling to give up every frame and second of "Interstellar", he still held it in.

After walking out of the bathroom, he saw the vice presidents of the two cooperative companies who had been waiting for a long time.

Walking forward, he asked without blushing or heartbeat: "How is it? Are the audience statistics available?"

"Well, it's out." The vice president of New Line Cinema said solemnly: "Basically all the reviews are positive, and the average audience score is A+. Except for some people who said that the film's running time is too long, there are no other negative reviews. "

Jon Berg suddenly fell silent.

The competition is too strong and will inevitably affect the release data of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey".

Big trouble!
"We must increase our promotional resources for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. We cannot be outdone by this movie!"

After listening to Jon Berg's words, the two vice presidents of New Line and MGM looked at each other subconsciously, and finally gritted their teeth and agreed.

"Okay, then increase publicity resources!"

The sunk costs are too high, and now they can only hope that the film will be a success at the box office, otherwise they will have to sell their underwear and lose money.

……

Waltons Pictures, in the president's office.

Chen Fei did not go to the theater specifically to observe attendance and positive reviews. The method he chose was to watch fan reviews online.

As the movie is officially released, the ratings on lMDb and Rotten Tomatoes have been released.

The former has a score of 8.7, the latter has a freshness index of 89%, and the MTC comprehensive score is as high as 8.5.

Whether it is film critics, the media, or ordinary audiences, this film has received many praises.

"It's so majestic and profound that it can't be expressed in words! It gets better at 40 minutes, breathtaking at 80 minutes, burst into tears at 120 minutes, and feels like a different world at 160 minutes!"

"I have never been so close to the vast starry sky, surrounded by it, touched the strings of life, and escaped into a five-dimensional dream. A super stunning science fiction masterpiece, an unprecedented IMAX experience!"

"It is recommended that you drink plenty of water before entering the venue and prepare for a three-hour tear duct baptism!"

"Love is a force that allows us to transcend time and space and deeply feel its existence."

"Only after watching the end did I realize that love is the biggest cheat for the male protagonist. The love between father and daughter builds an indestructible bridge, and their love is quantified in a multi-dimensional space. Although this is a science fiction film, It makes love sublime, Fei is simply a genius screenwriter and director!”

If it's just good reviews from movie fans, it can only bring about some box office growth at best.

But what Chen Fei never expected was that the famous space physicist Stephen Hawking actually shared the movie on his personal Twitter account and made a very pertinent evaluation.

"nice!"

Two simple words are enough to prove everything.

For a time, more and more people responded to the call and entered the theater.

Even people from the scientific community came out to discuss the film.

Commentator Christina Warren said: "The design of the black hole in the film does not conform to scientific common sense. The accretion disk of the black hole will emit high-energy X-rays, and spacecraft and astronauts approaching it like the one in the film will undoubtedly Also, the color of the accretion disk in the movie doesn't make sense, it's supposed to look bluer and brighter due to the Doppler effect and relativistic beams surrounding it..."

In response to this, Chen Fei also responded on his personal Twitter account: "The overall rationality of the movie is beyond doubt, and the profound scientific theories involved in the story should not affect the movie itself. In fact, These issues should be discussed by excellent and more professional scientists like Hawking."

The doubts and arguments from both sides did not affect the box office, but instead caused more people to go into the theater for verification.

There are so many ways of entertainment nowadays, and information is so developed. If a film cannot attract as many viewers into the theater as possible in the first two weeks, then the subsequent trend will be much more difficult.

After all, there are too few films with box office success like "Titanic", "Inception" and "Avatar".

The right time, the right location, and the right people are all indispensable.

On the morning of December 12, the first day box office of "Interstellar" was officially announced.

1.3 billion dollars!
As an original non-sequel film, this achievement is undoubtedly very successful.

With the support of overwhelming word-of-mouth support, the box office rose again the next day, and the revenue on that day directly exceeded 1.5 million US dollars!
Everyone can see that at the end of 2012, a hit movie was officially born!

As the film was a huge success in North America, it also aroused strong reactions overseas.

Because it is not a sequel or an adaptation of a world-renowned work, Waltons Pictures adopted a conservative distribution strategy for the overseas distribution of "Interstellar."

The film will only be released in one market in North America first, and will be released overseas after the North American box office and word-of-mouth are known.

And this also shows that Walton Pictures has strong confidence in the film and Chen Fei as a director!
During its three-day opening weekend in North America, "Interstellar" received huge reviews and box office, with a revenue of US$3.9 million, successfully ranking No. 1 in the North American box office rankings!

At the same time, overseas distribution kept pace.

"The film was first released in the UK, France, Germany, Japan and South Korea, with a total overseas box office of $1.4 million on the first day..."

In the office, Natasha smiled and reported to Chen Fei about the current box office situation of "Interstellar".

After reporting the box office results of "Interstellar", she also summarized the total box office results of "The Hunger Games 2" and "Now You See Me".

""The Hunger Games 2" has officially withdrawn from the Chinese theater market, with a box office revenue of 8.76 million yuan. When combined, the film's global box office total is as high as 9.15 million U.S. dollars.

The current North American performance of "Now You See Me" is US$2.05 million, and the total global box office is US$5.43 million, which is basically settled..."

After chatting for more than half an hour, the report on the box office results of various countries and regions finally came to an end.

At this time, Chen Fei asked again: "I heard that the peripherals of these movies are also selling well?"

"That's right." Natasha nodded and simply added: "The film's box office share only accounts for one-third of the total revenue. Offline, peripherals, DVD and Blu-ray discs, etc. are the bulk of the revenue.

Of course, if you want subsequent revenue to continue to rise, early box office is also key. "

Chen Fei nodded: "That's for sure, the two complement each other."

After saying that, he asked again: "By the way, when is the release date of "Dallas Buyers Club"?"

"The 25th of this month."

"Huh?!" Chen Fei suddenly raised his eyebrows: "If I remember correctly, the "Django Unchained" produced by Weinstein Pictures seems to be on the 25th too?"

"Yes." Natasha responded first, then suddenly covered her mouth and laughed again.

Chen Fei was quite curious: "Did something interesting happen?"

Natasha nodded: "Leon plays a greedy Candy Manor owner in this movie. He not only upholds slavery, but is also a racist. He behaves politely in front of white people, but he is obsessed with black people. Duel, cruelty."

"WTF?" Chen Fei was shocked on the spot: "What is he doing? Doesn't he want to win the Oscar? He actually plays such a role?"

Natasha shrugged: "Sorry, I can't understand his thoughts either."

Chen Fei took out his cell phone and called Xiao Lizi directly.

After a while, the call was answered.

When talking about the movie "Django Unchained", DiCaprio said frankly: "If I can't win the Best Actor, then I will pursue the Best Supporting Actor. No matter what, I must win a small gold. people!

With an exaggerated performance style, controversial characters, and a devastating ending, you will definitely be able to defeat all opponents! "

The confidence shown in DiCaprio's tone was very strong, but Chen Fei was certain that he definitely did not observe the candidates competing for the Best Supporting Actor award at this Oscar.

Christoph Waltz is a direct descendant of Harvey, and Jared Leto is a representative figure that the "LGBT" community has recently strongly praised.

Facing these two strong opponents, even if Leonardo has high popularity, this is not enough to support him in winning the Oscar.

Chen Fei did not deliberately attack him, but muttered in a low voice after hanging up the phone:
"No wonder Old Jack said that DiCaprio's Oscar public relations operation is a piece of stinking shit, focusing on blind confidence. As expected, this comment hits the nail on the head!"

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