sinovels Chapter 224 The Crushed Christmas File
Chapter 224 The Crushed Christmas File
Knowing the exact release date of "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", major theater companies either postponed their blockbusters or simply gave up the Christmas time.The only major blockbuster coming out this week alongside The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is Columbia Pictures' Mona Lisa.
The director of this film is Mike Neville, one of the few film directors in Hollywood who is good at British style.With the work "New Cape Paradise" in 1990, he came to prominence, and then became famous internationally in the work "The Traitor" in 1997.If it weren't for Jed's involvement, he would have directed "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in 2005. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" can be regarded as the turning point of the "Harry Potter" series of movies. Before this work, the "Harry Potter" movies were only considered to be Hollywood movies with British actors. After this work, it is considered to be a British film produced by Hollywood.That is, after "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the "Harry Potter" series of movies really became popular and popular.
However, because of Jed's participation in this life, it can be said that the director and producer of the "Harry Potter" series of films are American, and the rest of the crew and actors are British. Starting with Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the entire series of films are full of British style, which has been cheered by film critics. "Mona Lisa's Smile" not only has Neville in charge of the director, but also invites Julia Roberts, a first-line Hollywood woman, as the lead actor, and the subject matter is also a very flattering female theme and campus theme.Jed's later generations have also seen this movie, and once defined this movie as "the female version of "Dead Poets Society".On the one hand, this film promotes feminism, and at the same time criticizes the American education system, so such a film is bound to be praised by film critics.
Such a serious fashion movie will naturally not overlap with fans of "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King". No wonder Sony picked this time to release it.Thinking about it, the box office of this movie is fixed anyway. Instead of being suppressed by some inexplicable movies, it would be better to go head-to-head with the galactic battleship "Lord of the Rings 3".If I'm going to lose anyway, I'll look good at losing, and maybe earn some sympathy points.
Wednesday, December 12th, is an average day for film screenings.Generally speaking, Friday to Sunday is the best prime time, while Monday and Thursday are extremely sad blank paper time, so Tuesday and Wednesday are relatively good days.Generally, movies will be released on Fridays, so that they can hit the weekend box office list all at once.But for a movie like "The Lord of the Rings 17", it is more necessary to release it in advance.Because the main force will naturally choose a day like Friday to watch, while neutral fans need to have word of mouth before watching, so the release a few days in advance is conducive to accumulating word of mouth. Hitting the box office would be more helpful.
At 12:17 p.m. on December 3, "Lord of the Rings 3703: The Return of the King" was officially released on 3 screens in North America.Instead of watching the film in the theater, Jed returned to the office to wait for the box office results.According to the film length of "Lord of the Rings [-]", most cinemas will only be able to arrange two rounds of screenings; a few theaters that support overnight screenings may be able to arrange four rounds.But in fact, there are still audiences watching the first two rounds, and there are only some diehard fans in the second two rounds, so Jed only needs to look at the box office results of the first two rounds.
Because Jed will pay next year, in order to repay the attention of fans, Jed prepared another movie besides "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", which is "The Day After Tomorrow".Jed is full of praise for Emmerich's climate disaster film, not only the scene is magnificent, but the theme is quite tear-jerking.Climate disaster films in the United States are actually not uncommon, but most of them are related to wind disasters, especially extreme weather such as tornadoes.In comparison, Americans do not feel so much about cooling and snowstorms.After all, most of the climate in the United States is warm and humid, especially in some areas where it is completely like summer all year round.In the big cities in the United States, except for Philadelphia and New York, which are harassed by snowstorms from time to time, the snow weather in other cities is still very good.But what Jed wants to create this time is an extreme cooling climate that sweeps across the United States, covering two-thirds of the United States with snowstorms.
Jed is actually somewhat dissatisfied with Emmerich's version. First of all, his criticism of human beings is not in place. An extreme cooling climate that has been laid out for a long time has let humans pass it so easily. Jed thinks it is a bit ridiculous .If Emmerich only planned to make a climate disaster film, then Jed would not criticize it, but he insisted on including environmental issues.Secondly, Emmerich's flattery of the U.S. government in the movie also made Jed feel a little disgusted. Disaster movies do not shoot disaster scenes but insist on cutting off the wrist of the American president, and the vice president knows how to return... Jed thinks Emeritus Rich can consider cooperating with the Chinese Ministry of Truth, and maybe he can win the "Five Ones" award.
Now that Jed has the idea of adapting, the new script has been refined and more compact. The whole movie will be the story of the father keeping his promise to save his son trapped in the snowstorm.His father is a climatologist, and he once warned the government and society about climate anomalies caused by human deforestation, but no one listened to him. In the end, only an American environmental and climate official supported his opinion; his son is an American high school student. A gifted child, bright but shy, takes part in quiz contests because of a crush on a girl in his class and even goes to New York despite his father's warnings.
Jed will divide the plot into two parts, one part is how the father went to New York to save his son, and the other part is how the son uses his father's usual teaching to help some people survive in New York.Of course, in the face of such a disaster, national rescue is inevitable. Jed compressed this part of the plot to be very small, and it is just the behavior between climate officials and the US government.After the script was completed, Jed naturally ordered Digital Domain Studio to start producing shots of Blizzard closing the city. According to the engineer's suggestion, most of the shots will be completed with shots, and a few shots will be completed with scene prop technology.
After the conference call with the engineers at Digital Realm Studios, Jed turned to John and asked, "Is the first round of screenings over? Is there any box office results? Are there any reports from film critics on the Internet and on TV? ?”
John is also busy with various budgets at this time. Since Shannity's work has been transformed into administrative management, John has become Jed's de facto "housekeeper".Maybe Jed himself doesn't know how much money he has, but John does.As a direct member of one of the five major families of the New York Mafia, John had seen a lot of money, but it was only when Jed touched him that he knew what a rich man was.What surprised John the most was that about 9000% of Jade's funds were earned by himself.Hearing Jed's smell, John replied: "The box office results of the east bank have already been released, and the west bank will take about half an hour. The current result of the east bank is an average revenue of 10000 US dollars, and it is almost the same result in the west bank. Judging from the current pre-sale ticket situation, the average revenue of the first two rounds of today’s museum should not be less than 3400 US dollars. It is estimated that today’s box office results should be [-] million yuan.”
"That's good." Jed breathed a sigh of relief.If nothing else, next year will be a day of important transformation for the company.The Sherman Entertainment Holdings Group will be formally established, and then there will be a film group and a TV group in the eastern and western hemispheres, and then there will be a music group spanning the world.These five major groups will be the important pillars of Jade's future industry, and also the most valued industry of Jade. "Next year we'll all be a little bit more tired, and then we'll have a little time off. Joe (John's nickname), do you think we're going to have a baby? How many? Boys? Girls?"
John was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Gay marriages haven't been recognized by the state yet, let alone adoption?"
"I've consulted with a family law attorney. It can be adopted by me or you alone, and then it will actually become our child." Jed said with a smile, "I actually consulted an adoption agency. They said that although gay adoption is difficult, but They have a way to avoid the legal risk and find the right kid for us. Boys, girls, no problem; Asian, African American, Hispanic, no problem...and someone in the family talked to me and asked me if I would Adopt a child within the family."
"I have also received news from within the family." John sighed.In terms of his and Jed's net worth, the family behind them will naturally be jealous.Although both John and Jed made living wills and decided to donate most of their property, even the remaining part is enough for many people to struggle for a lifetime.
"Actually, there is nothing wrong with adopting a child within the family, but it must be small enough." Jed thought for a while and said, "Although the adults' ideas are a bit dirty, but the child has followed us since childhood and will always become a normal child."
"I'm more worried about the pressure on the children. Others have one father and one mother, but our family has two fathers." Speaking of this, John couldn't help chuckling, "How can I explain this to my children? Especially when he waits In the sixth and seventh grades, his classmates discovered that he was from a gay family. His pressure was no less than the two of us. Sometimes we are forced by the media and society to have difficulty controlling our emotions, let alone children? We can’t always Do you not attend your child's parent-teacher contact meeting for the rest of your life?"
"The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" grossed US$7300 million in its opening weekend, directly crushing the US$1200 million box office of runner-up "Mona Lisa's Smile".In the second week, "Lord of the Rings 3" continued to lead the box office with $5100 million.In the third week, although the box office fell to 2800 million US dollars, "Lord of the Rings 3" was still the weekend box office champion of the week, and the cumulative box office has reached 2.9 million US dollars.It was not until the fifth week that "Lord of the Rings 3" was squeezed out of the weekend box office champion by "Meet Polly". But at this time, the domestic box office of "Lord of the Rings 3" has reached 3.3 million US dollars. The box office revenue has reached 7.9 million US dollars! "Hollywood Reporter" has shouted "the first billion-dollar movie of the new century is about to be born!"
But at this time, Jed has already started directing "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" in the UK, and at the same time, he will spend two to three days a week returning to New York to direct the filming of "The Day After Tomorrow".Although it is very tiring to travel around, fortunately, the bed on the private jet is big enough, so I don't feel particularly tired when I rest.