Chapter 777 (1/2)
After staying in rifney for another night, Simon left the next morning for London, England.
In the United States, this year's Sundance Film Festival closed on Sunday night.
After the premiere on January 21, Simon's new version of ”this man from the earth” has been screened three times in the past week, and the media discussion about the film has also soared, even surpassing the Golden Globe Award on January 28.
With the increasing popularity of the topic, there are more and more disputes.
The audiences who like this man from the earth feel that this is a masterpiece, a classic film that tells a magical science fiction story without any special effects.
Don't like, also in various media platform criticism film plot far fetched, lack of sincerity and so on.
Most of the time, the hot topic of a film is the key to determine the box office.
Simon westero's new film, written by himself, has the aura of saving tens of millions of dollars in publicity budget. Now, the film has caused a strong controversy, but also the majority of praise, Denise entertainment executives for the film's box office prospects more optimistic.
One of the most troubling things for the gaomen film team in charge of film publicity is the prevention of spoilers.
Traditional paper media are well controlled.
After saying hello, as long as you don't want to be turned away from the premiere of danielis's new entertainment film, most of the media will avoid divulging the plot.
Unfortunately, the rise of the Internet makes it very difficult to keep secrets.
In particular, ”this man from Earth” is a high concept film that can summarize the general plot in one sentence.
Fortunately, with the help of igritte portal.
Even if Internet Explorer home page restrictions have been opened, the current Internet platform, mainstream forum community and social network are basically under the control of igritte's influence.
Nevertheless, the publicity and distribution team took a lot of trouble to clean up or hide the contents suspected of being spoilers. In her email to Simon, Ella doichman joked that a quarter of the publicity budget of this man from earth is spent on preventing Internet spoiler.
At the closing ceremony of the 11th Sundance Film Festival on the evening of January 29, Simon hinted at Robert Redford, but this man from earth still won an almost popular audience award.
In addition to ”this man is from Earth”, the core Jury Award did not happen unexpectedly, and the success fell on ”McMullen brothers”, which was also well received by Denise entertainment at the film festival.
Simon's another new director, James Mangold's ”unspeakable love words” and another ”thief's life”, won the director's award second only to the jury award.
Among the three projects of danielis entertainment this year, the last fashion documentary ”zipper down” naturally got nothing.
However, during the Sundance period, gaomen film and lishikabang spared no effort to publicize that ”under the zipper” is more famous than the jury award winning documentary ”kruber”. Many audiences are looking forward to this documentary with many supermodels appearing.
On the other hand, Edward Burns' McMullen brothers belongs to danielis Entertainment's own project, but James Mangold's unspeakable love story is not.
After Simon talked to James Mangold in person, Mangold signed a contract for three packaged films with Denise entertainment. However, the unspeakable love story, which gaomen pictures intended to buy together, changed.
Because it is a film invested by an independent film company, everyone competes freely. After some news came out, this ultra-low cost independent film, which costs only $250000 to produce, was finally bought out of the local Omni channel distribution right by Orion film team, which belongs to paramount, at a high price of $3.5 million.
Gaomen film's box office prospect of ”unspeakable love words” is estimated to be about US $5 million at home. Based on this, it has made a ceiling budget of US $2 million. Considering the distribution cost, this price is actually equivalent to relying on follow-up video tapes and other channels to make profits. In the face of looting, Ella doichman had to give up.
Before the successive Golden Globe Awards and the closing ceremony of Sundance, on Friday, January 27, Denise Entertainment's first important film of this year, the red zone, was released in North America. The film was distributed by the new world film company, with 1736 screens.
Denise entertainment has been sparing no effort to introduce excellent Hong Kong film training market in recent years, and Jack Cheng has gradually become a little famous in North America. After the film was released, both the media reputation and audience feedback were very good. In addition, the new world film industry is even more powerful than its former new line in publicity and distribution. The North American box office of ”Hongfan district” is expected to be even better than the previous $32 million in history.
After that, facing the strong expectation of the audience, gaomen pictures announced the opening period of this man from the earth for the first time, February 24.
This arrangement is mainly to make way for the release of ”broken arrow” on Valentine's day on February 10.The other two Sundance films, McMullen brothers and under the zipper, were scheduled for February 10 and March 3, respectively.
”McMullen brothers” and ”broken arrow” are on the same schedule mainly to take advantage of the Grand Prix of Sundance Film Festival, and there is not much competition between the two films.
The more popular March 3 of ”under the zipper” is due to the positioning of the film. The publicity team of gaomen film company plans to provide about 500 pieces of opening screen. In fact, it's not a cold shoulder. The opening screen scale of McMullen brothers is only about this level.
Simon arrived in London on January 30.
Because many issues need to be discussed with the Ukrainian government, Celia and her party will continue to stay in Ukraine for a few days without leaving together.
Coincidentally, this day is the Chinese New Year's Eve.
As an immigrant city, London naturally has no shortage of Chinatown. The weather is too cold. Simon has no plans to join in the fun. He just sent a congratulatory message to Lin Su and Chen Qing, who returned to China for the new year, while checking their work email on the private plane flying from Kiev to London.
Take a bus from Livni to Kiev and then fly to London. After getting off the plane, we rush to Simon's villa in Kensington Garden Street where Sophia faessy is staying. It's already more than two o'clock in the local afternoon.
Today is Monday, weekday.
The negotiation to acquire Burberry is still going on. Sofia didn't come to pick up the plane or wait for Simon at home. Instead, she continued to work.
But there was someone else waiting in the villa on Garden Street in Kensington.
Last year, a ballet teacher, Yulia schulthina, was captured by Simon. At the beginning, through the remote camera, he saw this Russian girl who was like an elf and led the girls to dance. After a little operation, she directly seized the place.
But in the past year, Simon has never had a chance to come to London, nor did he call the Russian girl to his side. Instead, while teaching the girls ballet lessons, he arranged another job for her as the housekeeper of a series of Simon's properties in the UK.
Shuer xijinna's treatment is similar to Lin Su's, and she also has a maid and a guard in addition to her residence.
Shuer higgina, who was once almost sold by her lover to her mother and daughter, accepted her role without any resistance. In the past year, she worked hard on several things Simon told her.
When she first met Simon, she was neither happy nor nervous and shy. At the age of 31, she was still wearing a well tailored ol suit. Her blonde hair was curled up, her face was delicate and perfect, and her hands were put in front of her. When she called Simon, she was different from other women around her. She neither called Simon by his name intimately, nor with multiple meanings The boss calls Simon ”Sir” in a clear voice.
This made Simon think of the British housekeeper in big shot in a moment.