Chapter 1067: a bad fun carnival
Wake up in the morning, the gloomy sky outside the window makes it difficult to tell the time. However, the warm bedroom that lingers around the female boudoir is a good complement to the unpleasantness caused by the weather.
This is a villa by Elizabeth on the Thames.
After the residence was occupied by a group of mad demon last night, although it was late at night, many acquaintance friends in London still called to invite Eric to borrow in the past, but they were all rejected by Eric. It is very common for Westerners, especially the rich, to borrow accommodation from each other. Erik is a person who is not used to living in someone else's home.
In the end, Elizabeth, who is familiar with Eric's character, didn't know where to get the news. People found Eric directly on Kensington Street and brought him here.
The place of your own woman, of course, is not borrowed.
Today, in addition to an appointment with Olivia to go to her for lunch, there are no other arrangements.
Feeling the sky outside the window, Eric touched the watch on the bedside table and glanced at it. He was about to stay in bed for an hour and the phone rang.
Picking it up and looking at it, it was a strange number. Eric pressed the answer button and a woman’s polite voice came out. After chatting a few words, Eric hangs up the phone, puts on his clothes and washes it, goes downstairs, and the doorbell rang in a timely manner.
Eric walked over and opened the door. Outside stood a 30-year-old young woman with a curly red hair, dressed in a camel windbreaker, holding a convenience bag with breakfast in her hand and holding one in her hand. Stacked newspapers.
"Hello, Mr. Williams, I am Rebecca, Rebecca Wade, we just called."
"Hello," Eric reached up and took the convenience bag in the other hand and smiled. "I am coming, please come in."
“Thank you,” Rebecca Wade handed the convenience bag to Eric. As he walked into the living room, the stack of newspapers in his hand was placed on the coffee table. “I happened to be near the house, Leeds called. Say you may need these."
"Trouble you," Eric nodded, and asked Rebecca Wade to sit down and look around. He pointed to the direction of the kitchen and smiled. "Want to drink something, I will get it."
Rebecca Wade shook her head and said: "No, Mr. Williams, when Leeds is not there, I am here to help her, there should be nothing in the kitchen."
"Oh, that's it," Eric smiled, no longer polite, sat down on the sofa and asked, "Are you a friend of Leeds?"
“I work in The Sun,” Rebecca Wade said, picking up a business card and handing it over, “Mr. Williams, if you have anything to do in London, you can call me. ""
Eric looked at the business card in his hand and was a little surprised. I didn't expect the woman in her early thirties to be the deputy editor of The Sun. Although the Sun is a gossip tabloid that focuses on social news, it is also the largest circulation newspaper in the UK. Rebecca Wade's ability is absolutely outstanding when he can be a deputy editor at a young age.
During the thoughts, Eric suddenly thought of another name, looked up and looked at the woman who was putting the breakfast in the convenience bag on the coffee table. Although young, the iconic red curly hair was completely in memory with the image in memory. Match.
Rebecca Brooks, one of the top executives of News Corp., which was implicated in the original time and space because of the eavesdropping scandal, was called the 'Queen of the Tabloids' by the British media. Murdoch, who relied heavily on her, even praised her in public, as if she were her own daughter. As for the change of the surname, I think it should be because of the husband’s surname after marriage.
Rebecca Wade did not find the difference in Eric's expression, set the breakfast, went to the kitchen to help him take the tableware, poured the milk, and finally carefully collected the convenience bag wrapping paper and other things before looking at it. Eric, said: "Mr. Williams, will you still live here tomorrow, can I continue to send you breakfast?"
Eric shook his head. "I will leave at noon, no need to worry. In addition, call me Eric."
"Okay," Rebecca Wade smiled and nodded. "So, if there is nothing else, I will leave."
When he got up and sent Rebecca Wade to leave, Eric returned to the sofa, took the cup of milk and tried the temperature. He took a sip of satisfaction and picked up a copy of the newspaper. It happened to be the Sun. ", and then swept the breakfast on the coffee table, Eric could not help but smile.
The first time I met, there was no close relationship between the two. Instead, I silently understood his eating habits and kept everything in order. Although it is not clear that Rebecca Wade's ability to work, but this emotional intelligence to treat people is not comparable to many people.
At least, Eric feels that if he needs it next time, it will be easy to think of each other.
Putting aside these thoughts for a moment, Eric remembered what happened last night and opened the "Sun" in his hand.
‘The Secret Army occupied the garden street mansion, and Eric Williams was on the streets. ’
The eye-catching title lace is very appealing and appealing to readers.
However, reading on, the content implies the clarification of the influx of Victorian angels into his villa in Garden Street last night: there is no special party, but he lends his villa in Garden Street to the Victorian Angel. They are all night, and there are explanatory photos with explanatory pictures.
The biggest gossip newspapers in the country have set the tone, and other tabloids are obviously not likely to pick up any storms for the last night.
Eric laid down his heart and began to read other newspaper news while eating breakfast.
I have to say that the British media has a sense of integrity in the body.
In the past few years, the Wei Mi big show has just emerged. Many British media have criticized the Wei Mi brand. The words are fierce and even accused the underwear brand of relying on the show to attract attention. It is simply the embarrassment of the British Victorian era.
But at this time, almost all the newspapers appreciated the London big show last night. It seems that Wei Mi was originally a British brand. Various newspapers not only counted the various British elements in the previous Victoria Awards, this time The unprecedented scale of the show has become the pride of the British in the media.
The LTD team will also hold an event at the Victoria's flagship store in London at noon. Emily personally rushed to Kensington Garden Street and took all the crazy goblins back to prepare for the noon event. Eric only Take time to go back.
There was no unrecognizable horror in the villa, but Meyer, who stayed for one night, seemed quite aggrieved. I don’t know if it was taken advantage of a group of lilies that are quite liacious.
Some small means to open the media, Eric rushed to Olivia for lunch at noon, and stayed in her gallery until the evening.
The next morning, I boarded the plane and returned to Los Angeles.
When the British newspapers of various sizes are still chasing news related to Wei Mi, the media in North America is more lively.
Because, on November 13, "Teddy Bear" was released.
In the late 1990s, although the rotten gang has begun to take the lead, however, Hollywood's most popular vulgar comedy is still the exaggerated nonsense funny style of Kim Kerry.
Therefore, when the audience and the media saw a series of idiots in Teddy Bear that had no limits at all, everyone was shocked. And when all this happened to a plush toy in the impression of many people's childhood, the shock index immediately went up and became a stunned.
On the first day of the release, the topic of "Teddy Bear" in the media was noisy. Most media felt that this kind of spoof without any lower limit was too overdone. Some emotional media people even demanded fierce demands. "Teddy Bear" was banned.
However, what surprised many people, including Eric himself, was that the film's attitude toward the film was not as harsh as it was. At least, after comprehensive scoring statistics, Teddy Bear’s reputation in the film critics exceeded With 7 points, most film critics feel that the film is quite new. At the same time, although the plot is vulgar, the film itself is still a warm topic to discuss how adults should choose between friendship and love.
As for other Hollywood studios, it is once again surprised by the level of special effects in the digital field.
In addition to the small number of lenses using the toy model, most of the teddy bears in the film are captured by motion capture, which makes the teddy bear in the film completely reach the point of realism, even a lot of mouths are Real people are no doubt pronounced.
You know, this is not the decade after, the most well-known image of the Lord of the Rings has not yet appeared.
The original version of "Teddy Bear", because the screenwriter and director Mike Sethran is a TV screenwriter, so with a lot of North American TV drama elements, these very local elements have largely restricted the film's overseas business. potential.
Although Eric can basically copy the original script with his memory, he did not do it. Since he is now a film circle, the object of spoofing naturally becomes a movie, and many of them are still Eric himself. Films such as "Little Ghosts" and "Fengyue Beauty".
Early on the 14th, British time, when Eric boarded the plane at Heathrow Airport, the news that the "Teddy Bear" caused a "sensation" in the media in North America had already been passed.
However, at the time of Los Angeles, there was still a late night on the 13th. The first day of the film’s box office information was not released.
Affected by the media's winds, the top executives of Kasenberg and other companies felt that the film is likely to be embarrassed. Eric himself felt that this time may be overdone, overestimating the acceptance limit of vulgar comedies in North American audiences.
However, when Boeing 767 landed at Ventura Airport, Eric had not yet stepped out of the cabin and received a phone call from Kenneth Horn, in order to avoid the impact of Teddy Bear on the firefly brand, although this The final cost of the film reached 50 million US dollars, Eric still let the new line responsible for its distribution.
The scale of the paintings of more than 2,700 theaters in North America, eventually, the "Teddy Bear" first day box office reached 17.87 million US dollars, this achievement is beyond everyone's expectations.
Because, the first day of 17.87 million US dollars, which means that the first weekend of the film box office may exceed 50 million US dollars, the first week of the box office is likely to reach 80 million US dollars.
80 million US dollars, this is equivalent to the first week of the box office of a blockbuster film.
Although the investment of "Teddy Bear" has reached 50 million US dollars, in recent years, it has been only a medium-cost production. Moreover, the size of the film is not able to invest over 100 million bombs with large studios. compared to.
Coupled with the strong controversy in the media, the first day of 17.87 million US dollars, this can definitely be considered a major outbreak.
Even, strictly speaking, even if it was forced to go down after the first week, the $80 million box office was a very beautiful result for the film. But in the North American market, a movie, especially a successful commercial film, is basically impossible to make a forced downshift because of media criticism.
In other words, the first week of 80 million US dollars, for "Teddy Bear", is definitely only the beginning.
Upon hearing this news, Eric did not return to the Sharp Point Manor, but instead took a helicopter from Ventura Airport to the Firefly Group Burbank headquarters.
When Eric walked into the conference room, the top executives of Kasenberg, Frank Wells, Kenneth Horn and others discussed what was going on in the information and saw Eric coming in, They looked up.
Instructing everyone to continue to sit down, Eric also found a position at the large conference table, smiling and asked: "So, what is the current situation?"
“We just had a survey of several theaters in Los Angeles,” Kasenberger handed over a piece of information, saying: “The audience of “Teddy Bear” is basically concentrated in the group of young people under the age of 28 In addition, unlike most media criticisms, many viewers feel that this is a very fun movie."
Eric looked at the information that Kasenberg had handed over, and Frank Wells next to him said: "However, Eric, I think we should add some reminders immediately because our customer service department is just yesterday. In one day, I received more than 3,000 phone complaints. Although it was marked with R level, our trailer also gave enough hints, but some viewers who didn't pay much attention to this information still misunderstood that this is a family fun. The movie, then take the children to see, the results can be imagined."
Eric nodded: "In this case, let the issuing department immediately make a plan, and we should continue to do the things we should do."
After discussing with the group's senior executives for several hours, the follow-up promotion plan was urgently drafted, and Eric left the Burbank headquarters.
In the following days, the influence of "Teddy Bear" continued to expand. After the first day of the $17.87 million box office, on Saturday, the film's single-day box office directly broke through the 20 million mark, reaching $20.58 million. On the third day, although the box office began to fall, it also reached $16.9 million.
Three days in the first weekend, the box office of "Teddy Bear" broke through the cost line and eventually reached $55.41 million.
The media’s fierce criticism of the film not only did not affect the box office of the film, but caused a bad carnival in the young audience.