Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 58.

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Mia Korschner arrived at the Danielle Studios in Malibu a half hour early for the 10 a.m. production meeting for "The Soul Shifter Girl.

With a Best Actress Oscar nomination for "Little Women" and now with a smash hit like "Sleepy Hollow," Mia Kirschner has become one of the fastest rising actresses in Hollywood, and until now, the girl was only 21 years old.

Many of the actresses' 21s may still be slogging away in Hollywood waiting for a chance at a runway vase.

Mia Kirschner, a child star herself, can appreciate the value of her line of work.

The receptionist was even surprised that the most powerful actress in Vertigo had arrived early, but Mia couldn't tell him what she was thinking.

They waited in one of the lounges for the moment, and waitress Shirley made a call out, only to shake her head at Mia's expectant gaze after a while, "It says there that Mr. Westeros is in a meeting and will only reply that he'll mention it for us."

There was a disappointed expression in Mia's eyes for a moment, a very small grudge.

I came to Daenerys Studios early, of course I wanted to meet him, but unfortunately I couldn't.

By the way, the one thing Mia would never reveal to anyone else anyway was that she and he had never slept together until now, so the fact that everyone took it for granted that she was one of his many lovers was actually a bit of a misnomer.

Into this circle, growing up and beautiful, Mia all the way to encounter a lot of entanglement, after meeting him, all these covetousness disappeared, to live in Hollywood as a princess, is a miracle, so deep down, Mia on the number of times since the meeting can be counted on one hand, but has a feeling of attachment than his father.

A sense of safety.

The man didn't have time to see himself, and Mia was lost for a moment, waiting for Shirley to bring her a cup of coffee and hand over a copy of today's latest Hollywood Reporter magazine before Mia finally got some spirit.

Just remembered it's Friday.

Chapter 7.

Today's Hollywood Reporter lists the past eight days as a separate box office week, mainly because last week's three major new releases were all released a day earlier on Thursday, July 4, instead of Friday, so this week's numbers overlap with the box office week that preceded it by one day.

In any case, the key is the box office.

In the face of the sniping of "The Birdcage", "Brave Island" and "The Phantom Menace" three new films, over the past eight days, "Cutoff Valley" is still strong in the single-week box office number one position, eight days into the $46.73 million, if you subtract the July 4 day $9.22 million, the next week seven days into the figure $37.51 million, only 27% year-on-year decline.

In two weeks of release, Tim Burton's acclaimed fantasy horror film has grossed $88.9 million at the box office.

Second place is still not the turn of several new films from last week, but continues to be occupied by James Bond's Ghostbusters.

In its fourth week of release, "007's Ghost Party" had grossed $35.62 million over the previous eight days, minus $8.19 million on July 4, and $27.43 million in other past receipts, also due to a huge increase in the number of moviegoers on the Doklam holiday, with only a 29% drop in box office.

Nearly a month after it opened, the cumulative box office total for "007's Ghost Party" has officially surpassed the $200 million mark, reaching $211.42 million.

Last week's July 4th could be called the last heavyweight opening week of the 1996 summer season, and whether it was "The Birdcage" or "Daredevil Island" or "The Phantom Menace," it was pretty heavy, and then...

This actually means that both "Cutoff Valley" and "007's Ghostbusters" and even the other films before it, which resisted the onslaught of last week's three new films, will be able to harvest the box office with relative ease.

So, based on the fact that "007's Ghost Party" was able to maintain its $27.42 million box office body for seven days last week, and with the film's local box office successfully crossing the $200 million mark, the projected local $300 million is basically just a matter of time. The previous $150 million local expectation for "Broken Head Valley" also proved to be quite conservative due to the good performance the following week.

It all boils down to the basis of the July 4 announcement loss of three highly anticipated new films.

After the top two spots on the list, Disney's "The Island of the Brave" finally got the third spot, but compared to the box office word-of-mouth bumper that was once Michael Bay's version, this time "The Island of the Brave", as only Sean Connery was retained and the other two creators, Michael Bay and Nicolas Cage, were all launched, even losing the gatekeeping of legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The film opened last week with a poor overall press score of 6.1.

As for the many eggs deliberately planted by the filmmakers to link Sean Connery to the first generation of 007, they were also criticized by critics for possessing the suspicion of rubbing off on the film.

After all, the real James Bond's Ghostbusters is in theaters.

As a result, the cost of $ 70 million to build a bombshell action blockbuster, opened on July 4, the first week and eight days ended up taking in only $ 26.59 million.

Such results of course not box office failure, but also far below Disney's initial box office expectations for the first week of $ 40 million or more, after all, there is a single power day holiday, the first week of eight days did not even get $ 30 million, no matter what can be considered a success.

And, if there is no "Broken Head Valley" and "007's Ghost Party" pressure, relying on the next long line, "Into the Island" may still be able to hit the billion yuan box office club, now, this possibility is really a bit remote, the final local box office is more likely to be in the 70 million to 80 million dollars.

Including the $30 million in promotional expenses, the budgets of "Isla de los Muertos" and "The Valley of the Damned" are exactly the same size, except that "Isla de los Muertos" will be much worse than "The Valley of the Damned," which grossed $88.9 million in two weeks.

The fourth spot on the list went to MGM's homosexual comedy "The Birdcage.

In its first eight days, "The Birdcage" opened to $23.91 million at the box office. With over $20 million in its first week at the box office compared to its $31 million production cost, this mid-budget comedy is certainly a success. It's just that, compared to the excellent ninth-place cumulative box office break of the year in the original time period, and in the face of a series of heavyweight squeezes, The Birdcage's projected $60 million local box office this time around is certainly a bit of a letdown.

It can't be helped, after all, the movie market has a limited capacity, such is the reality.

Last week's final new film, The Phantom Menace, took the fifth spot on the list.

However, Sony's $47 million comic book adaptation of the film, although occupying the fifth place, the opening of the box office for eight days is directly dropped from the first few, not even $ 10 million range, the first week only a pitiful $ 9.43 million box office receipts, once again, a box office dud of Sony Pictures.

After the success of DC Cinematic Universe, many studios have attempted to make comic book adaptations in recent years, but unfortunately they have all failed.

Sony is simply repeating that failure once again.

After last week's three new films, the latest week starting today sees only one Eddie Murphy's "The Fat Professor" officially open in North America.

By the way, "The Fat Professor" was once a Universal Pictures film and also crossed into the former ranks of the annual box office list, and even if it cost a bit more, it's still considered a big hit.

The film's production schedule was such that Simon didn't take it on again, but gave it to Fox personally. In the past few years, the rapid rise of the heavy bomb movie, relying on the "Beverly Hills Police" series of aura, Eddie Murphy still long time to maintain the ranks of Hollywood's first-line male star, "Professor Fatty" production budget eventually reached $54 million, is considered Fox this summer a heavy bomb.

It was put on July 12, the date of the release, but also to avoid competition considerations.

The film's initial budget of $4000, can be said to have overspent 14 million, Murdoch is said to have a slight problem with this, after all, things are very clear, $54 million budget, plus $20 million of publicity, unless there is a small box office miracle, otherwise, even if the local just break $100 million, the film is not too easy to recoup costs through theatrical distribution.

After all, Eddie Murphy is black, and overseas box office appeal is shaky.

It was actually for this consideration that Simon did not turn the project over to the more intimate MGM, but to Fox.

However, since it was once able to break into the annual box office top ten, even if times change, the same creative lineup, this movie should not be too bad at the box office, Fox should not be too difficult to make a small profit.

Mia Kirschner was carelessly going over the box office figures and other movie information in today's Hollywood Reporter.

Compared to the once apparently out-of-control budget of $40 million, Simon gave only $20 million this time.

Because of the nature of the film, even with the Oscar nomination for Best Actress, the "Valley of the Broken Heads" has just been a big hit, the highest-priced Mia also only took $2 million this time, the other Angelina Jolie, although in the audition stage performance was amazing, so much so that director James Mangold, knowing that the actress' appearance is against the aesthetics of the big boss, has insisted on using each other, this time. The company is also offering only $100,000 for the film.

Outside of the two women, because of the high quality of the film produced by Daenerys Entertainment, the other characters who have joined the company, even if they are already little known in Hollywood, are basically only paid union base salaries.

Everyone is just trying to get appearances, and anyone who wants to make money from this arthouse film that Simon Westeros is said to be particularly interested in would be really crazy.

James Mangold himself also only had $1.5 million to direct this time around, a notch below Mia, but as director, writer and producer, James Mangold also signed a split clause that would follow up with a nice profit if the film was a commercial success.

This was the first production meeting after the crew was complete, and everyone was introduced to each other and got to know each other well, talking about their own understanding of the script, time passed quickly in the discussion, and before we knew it it was already 12 o'clock at noon.

The meeting ended, and everyone began to disperse.

As soon as Mia got up, two other girls had already made their way over, not Angelina Jolie, who was clearly a bit out of place, but two of the film's supporting characters, one named Brittany Murphy and one named Cady Strayland.

Cady Strayland asked, very self-consciously, "Mia, do you have any other plans for lunch, how about lunch together?"

Having been a part of the community since she was very young, Mia certainly knew the intentions of the two girls approaching her, and they weren't the only ones who had tried to do so in recent years.

Despite her quiet appearance, Mia wasn't the kind of personality that liked to reject people, but was instead very lively in private, quietly sizing up the two women for a few moments, confirming that it probably didn't fit a certain man's preference, also smiled and nodded, "Well, I was planning to go to Venice Beach for seafood, so let's all go together, um, my treat."

Brittany Murphy saw that Mia had agreed, and even said, "How can I do that, Cady and I are buying of course."

So saying this, the two women unknowingly had clustered around Mia left and right, directly drove the girl out, no longer giving others the opportunity to accost, Mia as if unaware, picked up her own white Hermes bag, and finally nodded goodbye to the others, and the two women jokingly walked out of the conference room together.

Just outside the door, the maid Shirley was already waiting outside the door, seeing Mia followed by the two women, slightly stunned before stepping forward and saying, "Mia."

Mia Korschner was a little confused, "Huh?"

Shirley crossed her fingers and simply said to the other two women, "Excuse me, but could you give us a moment alone?"

The other two women also knew who Shirley was, but instead were a little more inexplicably intimidated than Mia, and of course had no problem indicating that they would wait at the elevator.

"Here's the thing," Shirley waited for the two women to walk away and take Mia away from some of the conference room doors that people were entering and exiting before saying, "Let's get over there, Mr. Westeros said he'd like to have dinner with you, it's right over there in the dining room."

Mia, who had been hopeless today, brightened at the words, nodded her head subconsciously, remembering the two women not far away, and said, "I'll talk to them."

Shirley nodded.

They walked to the elevator together, and Mia, regrettably making a perfunctory excuse, hurried off with Shirley.

The two women, Brittany and Murphy, saw that Mia had not gone to the parking lot, but to another part of the administrative district, and understood what was going on, but could only express envy.