Chapter 875: 875 Reporter Provocation

When Hugo clipped the title of the new Oscar Best Supporting Actor and the new Cannes Actor in the summer season, people's doubts about the "speed of life and death" still could not be eliminated.

Because everyone knows that an actor's box office appeal can certainly bring an immeasurable effect to a movie, which is also the real meaning of Hollywood's creation of a box office star; but no one will ignore the importance of the work itself, a top box office star. It can be ruined by a super bad movie, there are countless examples.

The most typical example is Francis Ford Coppola. Although "The Godfather 3" is still above the standard, it has fallen into a "dog tail" reputation compared to the first two parts of the series, which greatly disappointed the audience. In "The Godfather 3" "After it came out, in the past four years, he has only appeared in one directorial work, "The Horror of Vampire Zombies for Four Hundred Years".

In fact, Hugo himself is also a typical example. The success of "Dead Poets Society" was completely offset by the subsequent three bad films, and it fell to the bottom.

The success or failure of a work is the only evaluation criterion in Hollywood, just like the victory of a sports competition.

Therefore, the disadvantage of "speed of life and death" itself makes it difficult for the media to have an optimistic attitude towards this work. Especially when this work is full of topics and may become Hugo's work to create history, the media is even more critical.

In addition to the media that gloated over the misfortune and waited to see the Twentieth Century Fox jokes, there were also media outlets that pointed the finger directly at Hugo. "New York Post".

Colin Myler (Colin. Myler) has only been the editor-in-chief of the New York Post for just three years, but he has used his ability to increase the sales of the New York Post by a full 30%. , which is the newspaper's best performance in 15 years since Rupert Murdoch bought the New York Post in 1977. Now, Colin seems to have become one of Murdoch's most trusted generals. In the second half of last year, there was even news that Murdoch wanted him to be responsible for the media affairs of the entire East Coast.

It is a pity that the "New York Post" experienced the blow of the witch's trial and fell into an inextricable quagmire. The sales of the newspaper dropped by 20%, almost offsetting all of Colin's previous efforts for more than a year, overnight. Back in time before liberation, and Colin's promotion naturally fell into disrepair. This makes Colin absolutely hate Hugo.

This time the release of "Speed ​​of Life and Death", although the general attitude of the media was not optimistic, they did not focus their firepower on Hugo. On the one hand, because of the previous hospital incident and scandal incident, the reporters did not have an advantage in the confrontation, they It is also with this mentality that since "speed of life and death" does not require media publicity and attention, then they let the crew eat the consequences themselves, so there are not too many reports, let alone attacks; on the other hand, because like rain Guo said in an interview at the beginning of the year: Everything will be settled after the movie is released.

But Colin didn't think so.

As the editor-in-chief of the "New York Post", Colin must have a keen sense of news and accurate judgment. Although he hated Hugo, he calmed down and thought about it. After comprehensive consideration, Colin thought: " Life and Death" will fail miserably.

Colin's conclusion is supported by multiple evidences. First, the problem of "speed of life and death" has been discussed by countless media, and it has also been recognized by major production companies in the circle; second, Although the series of strategies after the adjustment of the schedule of "Life and Death" seems to be working well, everyone with a discerning eye knows that as long as the work does not meet expectations after it is released, it will face a huge disaster; The impact of "Wolf", "Forrest Gump", "The Lion King" and other works, and the most important thing is the same type of movie "True Lies".

To sum up, the "speed of life and death" is absolutely hopeless.

As a result, Colin came to the final conclusion: he must seize this opportunity and hit Hugo hard once, not only to let out a bad breath, but also to accumulate momentum in the future confrontation.

"Hugo - Lancaster's Waterloo?"

The New York Post ran an article under the headline "Speed ​​of Life" four days before it was due to hit theaters.

"After a series of great successes, Hugo Lancaster has obviously lost his sight and refused to cooperate with the media again and again, not only during his usual rest time, but even during the promotion period. In this way, he even thinks he can go above the reporters and use his way to manipulate the media to serve him. Obviously, Lancaster can't find his way in the neon lights of Hollywood again, and people see it again in a trance' The scene before the release of "Hour of Death".

Lancaster thinks that he can rely on the strong appeal of the individual, but he obviously forgets that this is Hollywood, the dream land that can achieve great success by relying on one work, but also because one work can make the world with nothing. hell.

Behind Lancaster's arrogant, defiant, irritable and proud temper, maybe he can't see the fierce competition in the summer season, maybe he can't see the excellence and excellence of other works, maybe he can't see the decadence and splendor of his own works. Boring, he just fully thought that the audience would pay for his willful choice again. But obviously, that's not the case.

When Lancaster confidently announced that he would refuse all interviews with reporters during the filming of the film, while he blocked the reporters, he also foreshadowed that the work of 'Life and Death' might become Lancaster's Waterloo ! "

After that, the article cited a lot of evidence to prove to people that the film was terrible, and even listed the accident during the shooting, thinking that this was the persecution of the actors by the low-budget film.

"Although the failure of the 'speed of life' will disappoint many people, it is not a good thing if you think about it in reverse. If you can wake up the complacent Lancaster, reset his position and learn to be humble Caution. If. Then a Waterloo might bring some fresh air to Hollywood."

This New York Post article is quite a bit of a bitch. The children still want the taste of the archway. On the one hand, they criticized Hugo a lot, but on the other hand, they pretended to care about Hugo's future. Standing on a moral high point, they looked at the movie "Speed ​​of Life and Death" like a god. success or failure.

But in fact, this view has been widely recognized.

At present, Glory to Death is on the "Road to Glory" tour, and the band rarely accepts interviews with the media, but only concentrates on the performance. In addition, after the previous Cannes Film Festival, Hugo returned to Los Angeles and put in practice , and did not give any interviews. It can be said that the halo brought by the title of Cannes Best Actor has not caused more waves.

With this kind of phenomenon, people who know the truth will know that Hugo is fully committed to the tour, which is a professional performance; but people who don't know why will think that Hugo is playing a big name, after he became popular and reached the top Instead, they are unwilling to work with the media. After the Oscars, Hugo put almost all his energy on his music career, which makes it easier for people to have an assumption that "Hugo doesn't care about movies".

Therefore, Colin's opportunity is indeed very clever, especially when most of the media are not optimistic about the "speed of life and death", the "New York Post" directly sings the "speed of life and death", and the movie has not been released yet. The bold prediction of the failure of this work has caused a lot of discussion - and many people have expressed their approval.

In the face of the provocation of the "New York Post", 20th Century Fox has not had time to respond-because it was aimed at Hugo, and "Life and Death" was only collateral damage, so they responded half a beat; Weekly" couldn't help but stand up for the first time.

James Larter wrote an entire story to refute the New York Post's absurd remarks about Hugo's "defiant and arrogant" and to explain in detail all of Hugo's work after the Oscars to make people understand that Hugo was not I'm starting to play big, but I hope I can devote myself to the tour wholeheartedly.

James also backed "Life and Death" in the report, arguing that the work would be refreshing and have a good chance of making a box-office miracle on a competitive comedy weekend.

This report of "US Weekly" hits Colin's heart. He was also worried that there would be no media response, which would weaken the effect of the report. So after seeing the "US Weekly" report, Colin immediately published a second article in the "New York Post". According to reports, this time is precisely the day of the premiere of "Speed ​​of Life and Death".

"Faced with this newspaper's accusations, Hugo Lancaster didn't even dare to respond to an interview with the media. Our reporter tried to contact Lancaster and his agent three times before and after, but they all rejected our request. Interview request. Is this a sign of guilty conscience? We don't know.

But one thing we can be sure of is that the "speed of life and death" is facing a huge dilemma, and it may not even be able to recover the cost. At the beginning of the year, "Los Angeles Times" reporter Nicholas - McClane once declared that he thought "Life and Death" had a chance to hit the box office of 100 million US dollars, but this newspaper believes that this film has a chance to hit the 28 million cost line!

Since Lancaster refused to be interviewed by this newspaper, we can only ask him this question here, 'Hugo, do you think the box office can break the 100 million threshold? If not, would you like to be interviewed by this newspaper? Apologize for your rude behavior in declining interviews over the past few months? ’”

The headline of this report is "A $100 Million Interview?" It is full of "New York Post" ridicule of Hugo and "speed of life and death".

Colin chose to turn out the "Los Angeles Times" battle post at the beginning of the year on the day of the premiere of "Life and Death", which awakened the memory of all media and all audiences. In fact, it was to incite the atmosphere of the media and let Hugo appear at the premiere. It's not easy, because almost no one thinks this movie has the ability to hit the $100 million threshold; more importantly, after the "Life and Death" fiasco, the "New York Post" can blow Hugo's arrogance in one fell swoop .

Colin's plan is obviously not limited to this, it is naturally not enough to rely on the momentum created by the "New York Post", and this time, Colin has found an ally! In other words, the alliance took the initiative to stand behind Colin!