Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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Another North American summer box office week quickly came to a close after Daenerys Entertainment hosted the premiere of the summer's only completely solo heavyweight bombshell film, "Brokeback Valley," on June 26.

Chapter 6.

It's about to enter July, kicking off nearly two months of summer, and the only one that can keep up with James Bond's Ghost Party is Mission Impossible 2. In the fourth week of release, "Mission Impossible" single week box office drop of 43%, another $ 15.94 million, the weekly box office list ranked second, accumulated box office to $ 177.18 million.

Third place goes to Sylvester Stallone's new film, "Police Empire.

This crime movie, all of the lead actors are only union base salary for the first week of box office sales of $ 12.76 million, if you compare it to the production cost of a mere $ 10 million, is definitely the most cost-effective Stallone starring in recent years. The first week of $12.76 million, coupled with good word of mouth, the local box office is expected to be around $25 million, enough to make a small profit for Daenerys Entertainment.

Fourth place goes to Disney's The Bell Jar Monster.

The old-school 2D animated film, based on Notre Dame de Paris, had a first-week house average of more than $9,300, close to big-selling levels, higher than the $7,500-plus of Empire of the Police, but because Disney had lost faith in 2D animated films, the film only had 1,297 opening screens and ended up grossing only $12.03 million in its opening week, behind Empire of the Police.

In fifth place is Spielberg's new novel, Broken Lock Rage.

The film about a slave rebellion grossed just $7.36 million in its first week at the box office, which is the worst result for Spielberg's directorial work in years. Considering this isn't the end of the year when you can take advantage of the awards season, it's unlikely that the film's mediocre start will be followed by a turnaround.

The word in the circle is thus already out that Paramount is at odds with the Spielberg-led DreamWorks.

Simon naturally knows the details.

Paramount, dissatisfied with Spielberg's efforts to make such cold films, urged the director to produce something like Jurassic Park, even if it meant rebooting Indiana Jones. The long-established Spielberg, who founded DreamWorks, is more inclined to his own preferences and, to put it bluntly, only likes to shoot about subjects that interest him.

In fact, many commercial film directors have this problem, and after achieving fame and fortune, they always like to make films that are artistic or profound.

It was inevitable that the two sides would be at odds.

Furthermore, DreamWorks has accused Paramount of a serious release strategy blunder in targeting Broken Rage, arguing that the film is more suited to the end of the year awards season than the summer. Arguably, unlike the honeymoon period in the original time period, the two sides have only been working together for a few years this time around, and already the cracks are showing.

This whole thing goes deeper than that, and it's ultimately because of Denise Entertainment's transgressions.

Once in history, after the peak of the "Jurassic Park" series, Spielberg seems to have never directed any phenomenal box-office blockbusters, which is actually not the case, because the legendary Hollywood director began to live more behind the scenes, and those who are interested can be found, whether it is the nineties global sales of the "Men in Black" series or the new century after the "Transformers" series, whether it is the sci-fi heavyweight "Heaven and Earth". The Big Crash or Ridley Scott's war epic Gladiator, both of which have Steven Spielberg's name on the list of producers.

And now, this ubiquity that should have been Spielberg's has not only been replaced by Simon.

Denise Studios, Malibu.

Kate Beckinsale, who had been touring the studio all afternoon, watched the busy scene in the film and television studio, and although indirectly but clearly felt some kind of omnipresent control, she could not help but feel some awe for a young man not much older than her.

Towards the end of the day, Kate takes her two female guards to the post-production center on the second floor of the studio again, and when she enters a viewing area with extra guards, she surprises someone with another girl, Natasha Henscratch.

Sort of a recognition.

They didn't know each other well, so there were a few more sparks when they looked at each other, and Kate regretted a bit that she shouldn't have been able to resist the boring run and hang out.

Chapter Four.

Knowing that the man would be watching dailies and discussing post-production plans with the director of Mindcatcher today, he made some phone calls and followed suit, only to lose patience after spending less than half an hour in the studio with Kate since 2 p.m. The man thoughtfully sent her off to play casually, so she ran off.

Because of a certain special status, Kate is able to get around this studio unimpeded.

So see the first floor of the studio area crowded with film project teams, the second floor of the fantastic Pixar studio and a large number of people busy with various post-film Danielle effects, and the third floor of office buildings rushing to and fro.

It's a completely different feel from other studios in Los Angeles.

Just vibrant wasn't even enough to describe it, and more accurately, Kate even felt a strong sense of aggression from it.

Here, it was just one of the multiple film and television bases within Daenerys Entertainment.

Not only was there a large Universal Studios on the Burbank side, Daenerys Entertainment already had film and television bases of varying sizes on the east coast of the United States, Melbourne in Australia and even Toronto in Canada.

In addition, from last week Rachel who officially went to Australia to join the Titanic crew, the news is that the 20 hectares of Titanic's filming site on the Gold Coast, a famous tourist destination south of Brisbane on Australia's east coast, is as big as a movie theater, so we can imagine that after the completion of the Titanic filming, it is likely to develop into another Daenerys Studios.

Only MGM, at the height of its golden age, could match this kind of grandeur.

The MGM dynasty of Louis Meyer had as many as six locations in Los Angeles, and now Daenerys Entertainment was spreading its filming across the globe.

In the afternoon at 5:00 p.m., less than ten minutes left, Kate entered to watch the film, some man is still concentrating on watching the dailies with the director of the "Mindcatcher" Gus Van Sant, watching Natasha Hinscatch very nicely with a magazine sitting next to her, without the slightest intention of disturbing, the character is actually a little delicate Kate is also very smart not to disturb, also looking for a copy of smashed in, directly in the Natasha sat down on the couch next to her.

Even though the stare was full of sparks and a little hesitation, Kate made a habit of trying to take the initiative and found a topic to ask, "What are you doing here?"

Natasha Henscratch had thought Kate wouldn't talk to her, and likewise didn't open her mouth to see her take the initiative before she looked up at the few people busy at the workbench not far away, Simon, and whispered, "I'm here for a production meeting."

Rather without much explanation.

Kate, however, said, "Is it that Extreme Deep Freeze movie?"

Natasha was clearly surprised, "How did you know?"

Not only did Kate know, she had read the script, after all, the writer of Extreme Deep Freeze, Stephen Sommers, was the director of The Mummy, The Mummy's leading lady was Rachel Weisz, Rachel was her best friend, and Hollywood filmmakers who had worked with each other usually kept in good contact with each other.

So, Rachel knew about Extreme Deep Freeze first, and Kate soon knew about it too.

Kate was not an introverted, humble person, so she quickly asked her agent to find the script and find out some additional information.

Thinking so, Kate curled her lips and raised her eyebrows slightly, "I've read the script, but unfortunately the lead actress is just a flower vase, so I'm not interested."

The implication is, I'm not interested, so it's your turn.

Beautiful women tend to be proud, Natasha but that kind of somewhat soft sex, see Kate obvious provocation, subconsciously looked again at the man not far away from the work desk is repeatedly replaying a footage and the director to discuss something, then withdrew his gaze, lowered his head to look at the magazine in his hands, intended to ignore Kate.

Of course there was a little frustration.

It was always inevitable that the women around Simon would pay some attention to each other, and Natasha also knew something about Kate's situation, so she understood that she was really just a vase, and couldn't compare to this one of the leading ladies of Charlie's Angels beside her, but it wasn't that she hadn't had any thoughts about Charlie's Angels in the first place, it just didn't work out.

And it was understood that Simon was generous to them, but just, yet never overdone, what they could hold up to get.

Kate waited a moment, seeing that Natasha didn't take the bait, and wasn't aggressive, and couldn't help but glance over at the next girl's shirt-chest that was held up high.

Some envy.

Natasha was acutely aware of Kate's gaze, and somehow more than a little smug, also 'tit for tat', no feeling, so another glance, still no feeling.

The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the newest version of the new T-shirt.

Natasha then took her eyes off her and seemed to be taking it easy.

Kate got even more furious and scoffed, "That's why you can only act like a vase."

As if she hadn't heard, Natasha just sat up a little straighter again without making a show of it, holding the pale blue women's shirt higher.

The two women went at it for twenty minutes or so, but the workbench side of the table was finally busy.

When Simon finally had a few words with Gus Van Sant and turned around, the two women met up together.

Simon embraced Natasha and kissed the girl on the lips, saw Kate aiming over, didn't be thick, opened his arms again towards the girl, and then walked out with the two women as he asked Natasha, "How did it go with Steph and the others?"

"It's good, and I tried out some scenes, and director Sommers thought I was quite suitable for the role of Trillian."

"What about your own feelings?"

Natasha blinked a few times before saying, "Great script, like Alien."

Simon laughed and just said, "I mean, if you're not interested, you can tell me."

"Of course not, well, I mean, I quite like the script."

Natasha said that, but in fact, just reading the script, she could feel that making this movie would be very hard and probably dirty, it was a monster movie after all, and there was the sea and sea monsters and all sorts of fights, but she also knew very well that she didn't have much room to pick and choose, her character, though still a vase, was much better than the vase in Fae, and it was clearly a kind of gradual progression that the man had arranged for her.

In fact, it would have been fine to do nothing at all if she was just comfortable being a vase for the man next to her. But Natasha didn't want that, she more or less still wanted to have her own career.

When Simon saw Natasha say this, he didn't say anything more and looked at Kate who had come to the studio to lend a hand for the afternoon: "Disco Doomsday won't start shooting until next year, so you can have a good rest in the second half of the year."

Starting with last year's Charlie's Angels and just killing this one, Mindcatcher, Kate had been pretty busy in a row for more than half a year, and Simon could probably guess what the actress was running to today, but didn't want her to continue to be in a row, an actress didn't take on as many films as possible, and appearing on the big screen too mundanely would instead cause aesthetic fatigue in the audience.

"I'm planning to visit Australia recently, while on vacation," Kate said voluntarily, seeing Simon's arm around Natasha's waist but not next to his own, actively wrapped around the man's other arm, then said: "Simon, those two projects Disney announced last week, Terminator 3 and The Fifth. The Element, do you think I could try it?"

The female Terminator news for Terminator 3 is out there. As for The Fifth Element, it's also a movie with a heavy female cast, and a super heavy one at that. So it's no surprise that Simon is not at all surprised that Kate's interest has been piqued.

However, Simon was the one who directly shook his head and said, "I don't have a good relationship with Disney, so I don't want you guys to be in a Disney film."

Kate was stunned at the words, then nodded.

Even though she wasn't as meek as Natasha, Simon had said it so bluntly that Kate wouldn't be stupid enough to screw with the man.

As the three of them chatted like this and walked out of the Late Center, Kate looked at the crowd that was gradually gathering over to the parking lot, still not letting go of Simon's arm, and quietly wrapped it around some more and said with a bit of pettiness, "Simon, are you free tonight?"

Simon shook his head again and smiled, "I'm going home tonight, and I have to go to Pixar to watch the dailies for another animated movie, and I don't get off work until about seven."

"Ah, it's Friday,"

"Gotta work hard to make money," Simon joked, and said, "You two go to dinner together, um, don't fight, or if you're going to fight don't get in the middle, sneak somewhere and remember just don't scratch your face, I don't care about the rest."