Chapter 1904: 1904 Boot Party

The Sunset Tower Hotel in Hollywood is only a four-star hotel, but it is famous all over the world, even more famous than many five-star hotels. The "Oscar Night" party will be held here. The star-studded night makes the Sunset Tower the focus of attention once a year, and it attracts countless loyal movie lovers to go there just to experience the real experience of top stars.

Today, the Sunset Tower Hotel has once again become the focus of attention, with crowds from half of Hollywood flocking here, not only media reporters, powerful figures from production companies, editors of fashion magazines, Hollywood actors, and even many celebrities from Wall Street in New York. They came here one after another, making Los Angeles in November present the noise and excitement of the year-end awards ceremony.

There is no other reason. Everyone knows one thing. The opening ceremony of "The Truman Show" was held on time today at the Sunset Tower Hotel. This $60 million investment can be called the highest-cost comedy movie in recent years. Paramount has poured a lot of effort into this movie, and even started to launch mysterious promotions in the early stage since September-at this time, the cast of the movie has not even been fully determined.

But Paramount didn't care, because all they needed was one gimmick: Hugo Lancaster, starring Hugo, would be Hugo's first real comedy. The movie will once again let people appreciate Hugo's comedy performance after "Friends".

Rumors in the circle that Hugo beat Jim Carrey - the current king of comedy in Hollywood - to get the chance to star in this production, which has become a hot topic of discussion. Since "Grandmaid in disguise", King has brought his exaggerated and unique performance style to the extreme and won the love of the entire North American market. In the current comedy field, almost no one can match him - even Billy Crystal, Neither does Robin Williams.

Now, Hugo beat King for the second time in a row after "The 20 Million Club," and it's still in King's field of comedy, which is enough to get everyone excited. The expectations and curiosity for "The Truman Show" have risen to a new level-but people can't tell whether they are looking forward to Hugo's outstanding performance to defeat Jin again, or are they looking forward to Hugo Unaccustomed to the theme of comedy ushered in the fiasco of Waterloo, but what is certain is that no matter what the result is, it will be very exciting.

More importantly, "The Truman Show" will be Hugo's second work with a personal salary of 20 million. At the same time, he can also participate in box office dividends. This is almost an unprecedented unequal condition-for the film company He said that although the specific dividend ratio is not known, everyone can be sure that this is the first time in the history of Hollywood movies. Box office dividends, this is destined to shock the whole United States.

At this time, the final box office of "LA Confidential" has not been released, and people can't know the final salary of Hugo, so many people have predicted that "The Truman Show" will set a new personal box office record for Hollywood actors ——Who would know that without waiting for "The Truman Show", "LA Confidential" has already created such a record first.

Therefore, even if the protagonist lineup is only confirmed by Hugo alone, even if the screenwriter Andrew Nicole is still revising the script, even if the crew has not yet been summoned, Paramount's publicity department has already begun to lay the groundwork for publicity—— Just one Hugo is enough to ignite all the topics, and it can be seen that they have full confidence in this movie.

One after another, the starring lineup of "The Truman Show" has been confirmed one after another. After the core actors such as Paul Giamatti and Ed Harris joined in one after another, Alexander Lowe Lin also confirmed that he will play the role of Malone, Truman's best friend in the movie, which also became the first big news, and this is also another collaboration between the two friends.

Immediately afterwards, the second big news was announced. Kate Winslet announced that she would appear in this work, and she was not the heroine, but only a supporting actress in the movie.

Since "Sense and Sensibility" has amazed Hollywood, Kate has not been affected too much by the regret of passing her first Oscar statuette. She soon joined the crew of "Titanic" with her unremitting perseverance , has attracted much attention. Now, Kate has chosen "The Truman Show" again. The cooperation with the No. 1 person in the United States has made everyone very optimistic about Kate's future development prospects.

The unresolved heroine seat has become the most sought-after position in Hollywood, and Paramount will announce the latest news almost every week to two weeks. At its peak, eleven top actresses competed for the position, including Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer , Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston and many other names, and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Catherine. Zeta-Jones) recommended by Steven Spielberg, Scott Rudin recommended Kate Blanchett (Cate. Blanchett) is also on the list, and the competition is fiercer than ever.

In the competition for the heroine—in fact, the competition for the supporting actress is also the same. The major brokerage companies have used various contacts, and the methods are almost endless. It can be said that the Eight Immortals have shown their magical powers. The casting process of the heroine of "The Truman Show" has also become one of the biggest gossip news.

Stepping on the tail of October, the battle for the heroine of "The Truman Show" finally came to a conclusion. Unexpectedly, Nicole Kidman had the last laugh and successfully won the opportunity to cooperate with Hugo.

The reason why it is unexpected is that Nicole has not been able to achieve real career success so far. Apart from winning a Golden Globe for "Whatever It Takes" in 1995, she is best known as "Tom K Ruth", and she was only a supporting role in the 1995 box office miracle "Batman Forever". What's more, Nicole has never appeared in any comedy movie, and more often she is known as a "vase".

This also caused people to have countless question marks: Can Nicole really deliver enough acting skills? Will Nicole do what Brad did in "The Seven Deadly Sins" in front of Hugo, making the opposite scene dull? Can Nicole really put down her body and join the comedy in "The Truman Show"? Is Nicole's joining a good thing or a bad thing for "The Truman Show"?

But such a result can be regarded as reasonable, aside from the fact that Nicole’s agency, Creative Artists Agency, is currently the hottest top presence in Hollywood, Nicole’s husband Tom Cruise and Hugo’s personal relationship is well known , and the two have always hoped to cooperate, but unfortunately they have never found an opportunity; in addition, Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, Nora Efron, and David Fincher are all willing to work together for her. Endorsements, not to mention the friendship between Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and the Cruises.

In the final stage, Nicole defeated the powerful Julia Roberts, had the last laugh in the head-to-head competition, and successfully won the role of "The Truman Show". The entire casting process can be called an epic blockbuster, soul-stirring and vigorous, which also makes people more curious and expectant about this work.

Just in the casting stage, "The Truman Show" took the limelight, and Paramount Pictures almost squeezed out the remaining value of the film. Even if the movie fails at that time, Paramount will also occupy the commanding heights in terms of topics, but everyone knows that Paramount is so ambitious not just for topics, they obviously have more pursuits, just watch now" Can The Truman Show live up to Paramount's high standards?

Today, "The Truman Show" held a grand party at the Sunset Tower Hotel, replacing the usual press conference. Paramount obviously hopes that everyone can enjoy the opening ceremony more relaxed and free. Of course, this is also an occasion where various deals are sprouted or concluded. Paramount's abacus can be said to be Sima Zhao's heart, but no one can refuse this party.

Not only because of "The Truman Show", but also because many people remember that Hugo's birthday is in this month. Hugo has always been very low-key, rarely causing a sensation on his birthday, and more often just celebrating with his friends. This year is Hugo's 30th birthday, but Hugo still has no plans, so this party has become the only occasion where everyone can send blessings to Hugo. Although no one officially mentioned it, everyone tacitly , just planning to surprise Hugo on party night.

As a result, the Sunset Tower Hotel became the focus of attention in Los Angeles tonight. Since only 700 invitations were sent out, the scale was naturally much smaller than the Oscar night, but each of the 700 invitations was It is worth a thousand dollars, and even the upper-class people are racking their brains and sharpening their heads to squeeze in. Such a grand occasion far exceeds the Oscar night.

When Hugo arrived at the scene, he saw the grand red carpet and a large number of reporters hovering at the door. There were at least 200 people crowded the door. The scene actually had the illusion of coming to Oscar night. This made Hugo look down, and then burst out laughing, "Fortunately, I wasn't too rude today." This sentence caused the reporters to smile.

After accepting a brief interview—the party inside will have a lot of interview time, Hugo quickly entered the Sunset Tower Hotel, and after only a few steps, he saw Shirley Lansing oncoming. Judging from the calm posture, it is difficult to distinguish whether this is a coincidence or deliberate, "Look, our protagonist has arrived at the scene, no wonder I feel that the surroundings have become brighter just now."

"I'm lucky that I didn't forget to bring the flashlight." Hugo's humorous response made Shirley smile brightly.