Chapter 868 walk in silence

Javier Ulliel supported his chin with his right hand, his brain was a little lost, and he kept thinking about the interview with the Golden Triangle of “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” not long ago, but the details of the interview were blurred, and he only saw the picture of three people talking and laughing happily. “Javier? Javier!” A slightly helpless voice interrupted Javier’s thoughts, the focus of his eyes quickly refocused, he subconsciously searched around, and then saw the editor-in-chief Bill Keller across the desk (Bill-Caleb) looked helplessly, “I know it’s not going to be easy, but trust me, I don’t want to.”

Javier’s thoughts didn’t turn around for a while, and he couldn’t keep up with the rhythm of Bill’s conversation. His eyes fell on the “New York Times” on the desk. This was yesterday’s newspaper. The headline on the front page was very eye-catching, “The Birth of a New Record : 135 million!” A concise and clear sentence attracted all the attention, and the subtitle was “‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2’ leading the North American film market to ride the wind and waves.” The breakthrough at the weekend box office has elevated “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” to the height of a history writer.

Obviously, the “New York Times” believes that after “Pirates of the Caribbean 2”, the potential of the North American film market will enter a new stage, just as “Spider-Man” turned out four years ago.

As we all know, “Spider-Man” is considered a watershed of the times, and now “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” is placed in the same grade. This shows that the “New York Times” attaches great importance to this record breaking. Even the “New York Times” has already stated its position, let alone other media. In just 48 hours, more than 300 media outlets across the United States have reported on it, completely detonating the enthusiasm for this year’s summer vacation. His emotions finally found a way to vent.

“Javier!” Bill yelled again angrily, picked up the newspaper on the table and put it down heavily. Only then did Javier come back to his senses, raised his left hand and waved it lightly to express his respect. Sorry, “I know what you mean, but Bill, have things really gotten this bad?”

“You know that’s not what I mean…” Bill sighed softly, trying to explain, but was interrupted by Javier, “You also know that’s not what I meant.” Bill couldn’t help but choked, haha Weir went on to say, “I know that preparing both hands at the same time is to grab time and headlines. It’s not aimed at anyone, it’s just for the newspaper, but such an approach itself is already a sign of lack of confidence. Are you sure that ‘Fury Road’ will fail at the box office? Even we did, let alone other newspapers? I don’t understand, it’s just that ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2’ broke out at the box office, is it ‘Rage Road’ is completely hopeless? That’s not how the summer movie market works.”

For the news industry, time is the most precious thing. Newspapers are printed every night and published the next morning. It is of course good to be able to prepare news in advance before the deadline, but in reality there is often no way, and many Events are sudden and unexpected. Therefore, for a big event like the Super Bowl, all the major newspapers will prepare with both hands, write the manuscripts of victory and defeat in advance, wait for the results to be released, and publish them directly as soon as possible.

Bill asked Javier to do the same, writing both positive and negative manuscripts for the next week’s summer showdown.

But the box office battle in the summer is not that simple. There are many possible outcomes for the duel between “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” and “Fury Road”: “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” crushes the premiere of “Fury Road” At the box office, “Fury Road” premiered at the box office with a big hit, which led to “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” falling sharply in the second week. The champions simply cannot be ranked according to the predicted numbers and have to wait for the real-time data to come out, or the box office performance of the two works is extremely poor this week, continuing the downturn in this year’s summer…

It can be said that there may be many situations in the box office trends of the two works, and the confrontation and interlacing between each other may also lead to various results. There is almost no way to prepare “in advance”.

Now, Bill wants Javier to write two manuscripts in advance, one is “Fury Road”‘s premiere hit the box office, and the other is “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” crushing “Fury Road”. But in fact, the core meaning is that there is not enough confidence in “Fury Road”, because Bill knows that Javier has a special friendship with Lance, and Javier has always been sure that “Fury Road” will be a success. Definitely going to write the first one ahead of time. This is tantamount to saying that Bill is asking Javier to prepare for the failure of “Fury Road”.

This is why Javier expressed dissatisfaction at this time.

The premiere box office of “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” shocked the world, broke the historical record of “Spider-Man” with an absolutely strong attitude, and increased the ratio by nearly 20 million, which is indeed incredible, but only under such circumstances, ” The box office prospects of “Fury Road” began to decline all the way, and it can even be said to have plummeted.

Almost all people in the industry believe that the chaos in the previous two months of the summer file is to build up energy for “Pirates of the Caribbean 2”, and even “Superman Returns” has become a victim-Warner Bros. has also become the biggest loser of this year’s summer file, What about “Fury Road”? Originally, the box office of “Fury Road” was not optimistic, and now the unfavorable factors are even more clearly visible. No one believes that under the pressure of “Pirates of the Caribbean 2”, “Fury Road” can find life, even if it is the slightest. It is extremely difficult.

Javier was really upset.

Lance is no longer a fledgling unknown. He has firmly established his foothold in Hollywood. The past three Oscars have won consecutively, and his directorial works have never failed. This has proved Lance’s ability, if not the most The ranks of top directors, but it is also enough to lead the first-line directors. But the news media still has no confidence in Lance, and even people in the industry have always refused to be optimistic about Lance. In addition to Lance’s unrestrained and arrogant personality, the main reason is that Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Disney’s blockade of Lance —

Now that the publicity strategy of “Fury Road” is raging, they have no way to stop it; then they play around to cool down the movie and quietly divert the audience’s attention. After the premiere of “Pirates of the Caribbean 2”, almost all the news focused on the history of this work, and next week’s premiere of “Fury Road” was almost forgotten.

Bill knew that Javier and Lance had a close personal relationship, and their relationship was naturally extraordinary, so he said patiently, “Let me put it this way, the drop in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2’ in the second week…let’s say it’s 50% , maybe higher, maybe lower, but let’s take it as 50%, which also means that the movie can get 65 million box office in the next week-the details of the numbers will not be pursued. So, you predict What was the opening box office of ‘Fury Road’?”

Javier was silent. Although he was confident in “Fury Road”, he was not a blind lunatic. The New York Times predicted the opening number of 60 million, and he wrote the article.

“Believe me, I want to see Lance’s work succeed more than anyone else, and give a lesson to the booze and s**ts of the west coast who have no talent. But, that’s the reality. ” Bill leaned forward slightly and leaned against the edge of the desk, “When Lance chose the work ‘Fury Road’, he knew the risk he was facing. He is a smarter man than you and me. are much smarter, but even Einstein couldn’t predict where the box office was headed.”

Sixty million, that’s just what the New York Times expected. But the reality is that this prediction is a conclusion after stripping away the surrounding interference factors. Now the premiere box office of “Pirates of the Caribbean 2” has broken a new record in history, which means that it will increase the pressure on subsequent releases, and bear the brunt The box office forecast for “Fury Road” naturally needs to be lower, so there’s a good chance it won’t even hit $60 million in its opening weekend, or even…  

Javier raised his head and tried to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he found that his mind went blank for a moment, and he blurted out, “Then what if the box office of the premiere of ‘Fury Road’ exceeds 100 million?”

Bill shrugged, “That’s our carnival.” Bill chuckled, “We’ll give those West Bank money moths a hard hit. Hey, we’re talking about Lancelot, that Unpredictable guy, although Chaos Films has not taken any action now, it is estimated that Lance has long been prepared for such a situation, let’s wait and see.” Bill’s expression also seemed very relaxed~www.readmtl.com ~ This made Javier laugh dumbly, “However, we still have to be prepared here. After the box office fiasco, you have to write the manuscript in advance, and the perspective needs to be novel. We need to grab time on the Internet.”

Javier has actually been persuaded by Bill, but the emotional angle is still unacceptable. Bill clenched his right hand into a fist and tapped lightly on the desk, “This is reality. Javier, we are reporters, and this is our Work.”

Letting out a long breath, Javier nodded sullenly, got up and left the office, opened the office door, Javier thought of something again, and stopped, “So, is the box office record of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2’ really great? ?” After all, his understanding of Hollywood is still not that deep, is 135 million really that brilliant?

Bill thought about it seriously, “Only five years ago, this achievement was unimaginable. It’s like, if you imagine now, a movie raked in 200 million dollars in three days on weekends. This makes sense.”

Javier laughed lightly, “Then, this is really powerful.” After a pause, he added, “However, the script was written by Lance, and if I remember correctly, Lance has a share of the dividends. So… this It’s a good result.” After speaking, Javier closed the door of the office and left. (To be continued.) Enable new URL