Six Hundred and Ninety-One - "They Are Just Temporary Partners"
Facing the first ray of sunshine in Los Angeles, a stretched version of the Rolls-Royce Phantom sedan turned into the Greenberg Manor at the end of Mulholland Drive in Beverly. Wayne, who was sitting behind the car, showed exhaustion on his face. But there is also a trace of pleasure that seems to come after venting.
The car parked in the small square in front of the main building. The housekeeper Hela was already waiting by the fountain. She bent slightly and opened the car door immediately.
"Ms. Watts looks very unhappy, sir."
After hearing the butler's low-pitched report, Wayne patted the non-existent folds of his shirt and shrugged lightly. "Where is she?"
"Eating breakfast in the restaurant." Hela followed him leisurely.
Raising his wrist and looking at the time, Wayne nodded secretly. It was not yet 7 o'clock. It seemed that he was not too late to come back. Even though he had been fighting with the two "Charlie's Angels" for most of the night, at least he didn't miss it. Isn't it a good way to see the mother off?
In fact, most outstanding men do one thing on the surface but another behind the scenes. Naomi Watts feels this especially deeply now.
Especially when I saw the man who walked into the restaurant openly, he was nearly 1.9 meters tall, with a tough and handsome face, deep eyes, and a round brown hair that stood upright. Coupled with a slim-fitting three-piece British handmade suit and shiny leather shoes, at least in terms of appearance, he has successfully squeezed into the circle of outstanding men.
Exchange drinks with Hollywood celebrities, invest in film companies, and work closely with superstars in the industry. The works he shoots are regarded as a guarantee of commercial success. His ability to make money in the film industry is the highest since the commercialization of Hollywood.
When these conditions are all concentrated on a man who is less than thirty years old, I believe that 99% of girls in the world will lose all resistance. No wonder there are all kinds of hot girls lining up and trying their best to get into his bed.
Naomi Watts had already thought clearly about all this when she gave birth to a child for this man. But what made her angry from last night to now is that this man was actually seduced by two "cousins" in front of her with a few words and deliberate coquettishness!
"F**k, Hela, am I dazzled?" Naomi Watts put the half-drunk milk glass back on the table with a bang. Then with an expression of incredible surprise, he looked at the butler who handed the man breakfast.
"God, Hela, tell me is all this true? Our dark "tyrant" rushed back to his home early in the morning, and he actually knew how to go home?! Shit, it's so disturbing Disappointed, those two b***hs didn’t make him unable to get out of bed?”
"Nami!"
Although he was thick-skinned, Wayne still frowned helplessly, raised his hand and knocked hard on the table, and gave the Australian girl a fierce look.
Then he secretly winked at Hela beside him. When the butler lowered his head and quickly exited the restaurant, he put on a posture of a pig that is not afraid of boiling water. He picked up a piece of scrambled eggs and said with a smile: "Nami, you know, they are just temporary partners."
"Ah ha, sex partners, huh?"
Naomi Watts saw his expression and knew that her anger was in vain. He simply rolled his eyes, sighed secretly in his heart, and picked up the half-drunk milk on the table again.
In fact, Australian girls are very smart and understand the deep meaning of a man's "temporary partner". The other party is actually expressing a certain attitude to her.
More importantly, the man also knows very clearly that he has to rush back before he leaves Los Angeles in the morning to go on a promotional tour. To a certain extent, a "temporary partner" is definitely not as good as a "life partner," right?
"Have your luggage been packed?"
Wayne's tone didn't change at all from usual, as if he didn't see the woman's unsightly expression at all. Because he was chewing scrambled eggs, his voice was a bit muffled when he said: "Angelina Jolie and Came Ron Diaz, you’ve rushed to the airport early, do you want me to see you off?”
"No, let Sergey send it to me."
Just thinking about the three of them last night, Naomi Watts couldn't help but curl her lips, and finally shook her head. "Dear Director Greenberg, remember to go to the farm to see little Fundy. Our little princess misses her father. By the way..."
While wiping her mouth with a tissue, the Australian girl stood up from the dining table and warned, "You'd better pray to God at home and pray that I won't be able to help myself and beat those two bastards hard."
After saying that, she ignored the man's reaction and turned around to walk outside the restaurant. She could vaguely hear her conversation with Hela and asked the housekeeper to help her with her luggage.
For some things, a necessary attitude must be shown, but it must not exceed the point of a man's tolerance. Naomi Watts understands this kind of thing quite thoroughly. It's okay to express your temper appropriately, but if it passes a certain critical point, it will only cause unnecessary disgust to the other party.
To put it bluntly, there is no legal contract or moral contract between them that requires them to fulfill their responsibilities. At least there is freedom between the two of them. This is why she did not stop the man from hugging the two last night. The reason why "Charlie's Angels" left.
Even among ordinary young men and women in North America, there are too many friendships, let alone in Hollywood, where the relationship is even more chaotic.
Not to mention singles like Wayne, even the couples in the industry who entered the marriage hall and swore fidelity to each other before God still had their own affairs. A relationship like "temporary partner" is not something that requires special attention in the industry. If you know it casually, you will know that it is everywhere.
On set, at cocktail parties, and at various social events, men and women in the industry would look at each other, turn around and roll onto the same sheet. If both parties feel good about this time, then this "temporary partner" relationship will last a few more weeks. If the situation is opposite, then wave goodbye to each other in a cool way.
Even an ordinary starlet encounters countless temptations every day in Hollywood, let alone a top boss in the industry like Wayne.
Naomi Watts had already thought about this clearly early on, so she never thought about entering into a marriage that would bind both of them with Wayne.
She knows that no normal man can resist the ubiquitous temptation in the circle. Rather than living the rest of her life as a resentful woman full of suspicion, it is better to take a step back and give both parties more freedom and space.
"Ha, it seems that I came down at the right time." The sound of footsteps sounded in the restaurant, accompanied by a teasing greeting. "Good morning, boss."
Wayne looked up and saw the assistant lady covering her mouth, yawning and pulling out her chair. He burped, threw the steel fork back into the plate, and raised his eyebrows at Nina. "It seems you woke up early. If you came down early, you might be able to see a battle of the century."
"Boss, I'm very hungry now, but I'm not starved into a fool now."
Habitually pushing up the glasses on her face, the assistant looked at her boss helplessly and said: "With Nami's character, there is a high probability that she will understand your character better than anyone else just by saying a few words. , unless she really wants to fall out with you."
As the only close woman around Wayne who has not had a relationship with him, Nina always looks at things very objectively and can always stand from the perspective of a bystander and analyze everyone's action trajectory and choices, even though she herself is also I also feel that my boss is a complete scumbag.
"The distribution department of Warner Bros. just called." It seems that in the world of the assistant lady, business is always the subject of getting along with Wayne. After a few words of teasing, she stuffed food into her mouth and reported the report: " The premiere of "Charlie's Angels" received good reviews from fans, with average scores ranging from B+ to A. The distribution department called and said they would adjust the promotion strategy at any time based on the film's subsequent performance..."
No matter in every aspect, the director of "Charlie's Angels" is a novice. The Warner Bros. distribution department arranged a large-scale theater opening for the film and held a grand premiere for the film. , basically all based on Wayne's relationship.
Otherwise, let alone letting a film like "Charlie's Angels" open on a large scale in North America, even if Warner Bros. takes over the distribution of the film, it will definitely start with a small-scale screening.
"I see."
After Nina finished her intermittently report, Wayne held a cigarette in his mouth and nodded. "Get ready, let's go back to the farm to see little Fundy while we have time."
Leave professional matters to professionals. He understands very well that the staff of Warner Bros.'s distribution department are the professionals in the promotion and distribution work of "Charlie's Angels". As long as the promotion and marketing can keep up, there is a high probability that this film will not achieve great results. Difference.
Not to mention, there are countless pairs of eyes watching behind "Charlie's Angels", especially a group of executives and shareholders of Warner Bros., who are very aware of the significance of the success or failure of this film to Warner Bros.
Even after the official large-scale production started this morning, Warner Bros. and DC Comics have sent out many investigation teams to start paying close attention to the fan response of "Charlie's Angels" in order to obtain first-hand market data earlier.
Due to this very "special" attention, "Charlie's Angels" will not make any mistakes in publicity. Having been here for so many years and working in the middle pages of Hollywood for so many years, Wayne has never been an idealistic person and fully understands the importance of publicity and marketing for the success of a commercial film.
There is a point of view that being put in Hollywood is completely opposite to the education he received in his previous life, that is, don't be superstitious about "gold always shines"!
That's right, "gold always shines" is a lie in the Hollywood film industry. According to his experience from childhood, even if the gold is covered by a rag, the piece of gold will still shine. It will never shine!
Therefore, there is one rule for commercial movies, that is, when you can desperately promote it, you must not feel sorry for every cent invested. How much money you have, how much money you spend, how many media resources you have, and how much media resources you spend.
Good box office figures are always inseparable from intensive bombing of publicity and marketing, just like the media resources Warner Bros. spent on "Charlie's Angels".
Just as Wayne got into the car and returned to his father's farm, information related to "Charlie's Angels" this weekend began to appear in major North American media. On roadside billboards in the center of the city, stand-up posters that can be seen everywhere in theaters, TV commercials, newspaper soft articles, and magazine leaks, the photos of the three sexy female stars seemed to appear in everyone's sight in one day. .
Even countless entertainment gossip tabloids began to publish a large number of the bumpy love stories between the three female stars and Wayne.
Because this weekend, the only new film to be released together with "Charlie's Angels" is "Six Days and Seven Nights" released by Disney's Buenais International. However, the scale of promotion of this "Six Days and Seven Nights" is far less than that of "Charlie's Angels". "compared to.
Coupled with the recent "The Flash", "Godzilla", "Collision" and a series of popular blockbuster movies, they have already passed their hottest screening period, so this weekend can be called "Charlie's Angels". "The only rival films are "Six Days, Seven Nights" and "The Horse Whisperer" which was released last weekend.
With a large amount of intensive publicity bombardment and the largest opening this weekend, it can be said that "Charlie's Angels" has all the favorable conditions. After successfully getting movie fans into the theater, "Charlie's Angels" became the first choice for watching movies.
As the three days of the weekend passed and the latest working day arrived, "Charlie's Angels" did not make the headlines of the entertainment media, because "The Flash" shocked all media after five weekends of release. With such speed, the North American box office successfully exceeded 300 million US dollars!
Although the performance of "The Flash" in the theater market has plummeted since the fourth week of its release, its performance in the first three weekends was so strong that even if the box office dropped to one million US dollars in the later days, Still with the huge advantages accumulated in the early stage, it successfully pushed the North American box office to exceed 300 million US dollars in a short period of time, reaching 300.16 million US dollars.
Everyone knows that based on the film attributes of "The Flash", it is basically impossible for the box office to continue to maintain a high trend in the later period. However, this film still has a long running time. What kind of box office figures can it achieve in the end? It depends on when Warner Bros. plans to release the film.
However, the special commercial film model of "The Flash" has taught all Hollywood film companies a lesson. "The Flash" relied on the first few weeks of its release to get more than 80% of the film's total box office. The gameplay has successfully allowed all film companies to see the profitability of commercial films with pure visual effects.
"Charlie's Angels" was upstaged by "The Flash"'s total North American box office of 300 million, which does not mean that it failed at the box office. This film with three "sexy hotties" as its main selling point also gained a lot of revenue during its first weekend of release. Pretty amazing box office results.
"At the beginning of this year's summer season, the DC series "The Flash" directed by Wayne Greenberg still did not disappoint North American movie fans. After last weekend, this superhero with shocking audio and video special effects successfully topped the North American box office reached the US$300 million threshold.
Last weekend, "Charlie's Angels", also invested and written by director Wayne Greenberg, officially opened on a large scale in 2,800 theaters in North America, with a box office of US$68.5 million in the first three days. This film, starring three female stars, grossed US$24,600 at the box office in a single theater, successfully topping the box office last weekend!
According to many professionals in the industry, the production cost of "Charlie's Angels" will never exceed 70 million US dollars. Among the three main actors, only Cameron Diaz's salary is close to 10 million US dollars, so Wei Wei It can be said that all of Greenberg's investment in the film was recouped in one weekend. It can be called a classic investment case in Hollywood commercial films!
Ranking second at the box office last weekend was the film "Six Days, Seven Nights" distributed by Disney's distribution company Buena Vista. This film successfully took in 31.23 million US dollars in the three days of its first weekend... ..."---"Premiere"
"In "Charlie's Angels", the entire screen is full of scenes that make men drool. Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts, and Cameron Diaz, these three have very different temperaments but the same hot figure. The hot actor has simply added a raging fire to the extremely hot summer season..." --- "Daily Entertainment"
"Pioneering female action film, sexy "angel" body, clothing, action awards, another new idea in commercial action films in the late 1990s, Cameron Diaz's legs, Angelina Jolie's The bear, Naomi Watts' waist, as well as the film's rhythm, editing, and action design are all areas that make the audience hooked." --- "Hollywood Reporter"
Mainstream entertainment media gave full recognition to "Charlie's Angels" early on Monday morning. Strictly speaking, "Charlie's Angels" is still a typical commercial popcorn film, but the unexpected starring role of three sexy hotties made this film an extremely beautiful sight in late June.
As the film continued to be screened, the three heroines who were promoted abroad suddenly became the dream "angels" of most men in North America. Everywhere they went, a large number of male fans went crazy for them.
When the film was screened in the North American theater market for one week, the box office of "Charlie's Angels" had reached 88.65 million US dollars. This box office result is fully in line with the expectations of Wayne and Warner Bros. They all know that this film will have a box office of over 100 million in North America this weekend.
According to relevant media statistics, as a purely female-perspective film, "Charlie's Angels" is likely to become Hollywood's first female-only film with a box office of over 100 million in North America.
There are countless works with better results than this film, but if the starring roles are limited to pure female actors, the first thing people think of are niche literary films. In other words, this film is likely to be the only female-themed film that has a box office of over 100 million in North America.
This situation also brought more attention to "Charlie's Angels". Continuous media reports, spontaneous word-of-mouth spread by male fans, and some female organizations that couldn't wait to jump out all contributed to the film's success the following weekend. screenings, laying a very solid foundation.
The performance of "Charlie's Angels" did not disappoint those who paid attention to it. After the film's second weekend in the North American theater market, the box office successfully exceeded 100 million US dollars, reaching 103.25 million US dollars.
Not only is the film's overseas distribution work included in Warner Bros.'s work plan, but even the script writing of the second part of the film, Warner Bros. executives are eager to test Wayne's intentions. Obviously, this is the consistent code of conduct of major Hollywood movie companies. As long as the movie can make money, they don't mind continuing to make it.
In particular, the peripheral performance of "Charlie's Angels" is far better than Wayne and Warner Bros. expected. The character dolls of Angelina Jolie, Naomi Watts and Cameron Diaz have almost become A must-have for male movie buffs.
Starting from late June and lasting until early July, Wayne was basically on intermittent vacation, but his eyes did not leave the hot summer season and "Charlie's Angels", which attracted countless male enigmas.
It's just that this is the hottest schedule in North America. Even "Charlie's Angels" only dominated the theater market for two consecutive weekends. When July 1st arrived, "The End of the World", released by Disney's Buena Vista International, stole all the limelight upon release.
The dominance of "Bombshell" in the summer season, or in the field of commercial popcorn movies, is almost as good as Wayne's fame at the beginning of the summer season.
This work, starring A-list actor Bruce Willis, continued the consistently popular scenes of "Bombshell" and opened in 3,127 theaters in North America. It received a terrifying box office of 36.09 million US dollars on the first day of release. !
At the same time, with the release of "The Last Day", "Charlie's Angels"'s short-lived dominance in the summer season has also come to an end. However, no one can deny the success of this female action film. It has only been three weekends since the film was released, and the North American box office has already reached To 119 million US dollars.
After entering July, it was officially announced that the North American theater market has entered the hottest summer screening period. After "The Last Day", there are several big productions that are highly anticipated by movie fans, and Wayne also had to take a break from intermittent short vacations because of the premiere of "Saving Private Ryan" in late July. Steven Spielberg made the invitation call himself.