[US Entertainment] Superstar

The temperature drops rapidly in late autumn. Eve is wearing a coat and is preparing to go to the shooting site with a cup of fresh hot coffee in her hand.

Originally, Mandy wanted to help her buy a trip, but Eve happened to come out to take a breath to calm her head.The next scene is the one she performed with Julie and Winona during the audition. Last night, the three of them practiced their positioning under the guidance of the director to determine the position of the camera lens. Today they will shoot one without pausing in the middle. long shot!

The so-called long lens does not mean that the camera lens is very long, but that it does not cut for a long time.When shooting a scene, take one shot to the end, without switching shots, to form a complete shot.Generally, a shot of more than 10 seconds can be called a long shot, and some clips can even last for several 10 minutes.

The shooting of long shots requires the director's strong scheduling ability, as well as the cooperation of the actors, so as to achieve the best results.

The three actors with strong acting skills have to cooperate repeatedly with the public to ensure that the light, sound recording, and video recording are all normal.

The shooting location is located in a residential area in Philadelphia. It is said to be an apartment building, but it is actually like a small villa closely connected.

The crew had already fenced off the surrounding area, preventing the onlookers and even the media from peeping.

It has been filmed in Philadelphia for so long, and the secrecy of "Soul Shifting Girl" has always been good. After all, most of the plots were shot indoors. In addition, Winona Ryder is the only star who can be called a star. Neither Leigh nor Whoopi Goldberg is particularly famous, and it's not worth the reporters and paparazzi's trying to sneak in in every possible way.

Eve held the coffee in both hands, walked briskly, and was so happy that she wanted to laugh at the thought of returning to Los Angeles after shooting this long shot.

As she was walking down the street, a small man in a gray sweater suddenly stood up from the edge of the flower bed and stopped her.

"Excuse me, ma'am? I'm John Turner, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Here's my press card."

Eve was taken aback, her eyes quickly scanned the information on the certificate, and asked, "What do you want to know from me?"

She is not famous at all now, facing the reporters who came to her door, she was puzzled, is there any news about herself that can be reported?

John Turner showed a smile, pointed to the studio not far away and said, "I've been observing outside your crew for several days, you should be a member of the crew too, right? Can you give us a brief introduction of what this movie is about?" tell a story?"

The recording pen in his hand flickered occasionally, presumably it must be running.

Eve waved her hand: "If you are really a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, you are welcome to find the PR of the crew. He will definitely be able to provide you with more information."

"Ma'am, please wait. If you accept my interview, I will mention your name in the news. How about leaving you a 200-word content? Is Winona easy to get along with? I heard that she broke up with her boyfriend gone?"

Sure enough, this so-called reporter was just a paparazzi pretending to be a big newspaper!

The Philadelphia Inquirer can be said to be the newspaper with the largest circulation in the city. As long as it wants to interview, "Soul Girl" will definitely allow reporters to visit the set, instead of finding young actors or staff members of the crew on the side of the road to break the news.

John didn't want to miss this opportunity, and took out green dollars directly from his pocket, "If you want to reveal the news anonymously, I can pay part of the fee based on the information you provide. If you don't say it, others will definitely say it, you want Miss this opportunity to make money?"

"Maybe you should check my salary. It's my turn to film soon. Goodbye, Mr. Turner." Eve waved her hand, bypassing John Turner, and quickly walked towards the set.

As she walked, Eve complained in her heart. Sure enough, the reporter didn't come here for herself, but Winona didn't know about the breakup with Matt Damon. Winona seemed to be doing as usual, and sometimes even Chatting with Matt on the phone, the paparazzi should have tracked down the fake news.

In other words, because "The Talented Ripley" is about to be released, Matt Damon is here to stir up the twists and turns of his relationship with Winona, so that it will be interesting.

Who let the actress who cooperated with him be called Gwyneth Paltrow!Winona and Gwyneth have been enemies for many years.

Gossip gossip love triangle has always been the media favorite!

As soon as Eve came to the set, she saw Mandy who was anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

"Thank God you're finally back!"

Mandy hurriedly pulled her into the dressing room, "Just now, the production manager was urging us to hurry up and shoot. Today's shooting permit was only applied for until [-] pm, and the shooting must be completed early."

There are residents in the surrounding residential buildings at night, so it is impossible to allow the crew to play bright lights and make loud noises. The city hall did not approve applications that were too late.

Eve took off her coat and put it on the back of the chair, and hurried to the spotlight. Here, Angelina and Winona didn't even look at each other, and they didn't even bother to hide the difference in their relationship.

Maybe that's why the paparazzi couldn't get in. The director and producer didn't want the discord within the crew to spread to the outside world.

"You are finally here!" James Mangold waved at Eve, "You must hurry up and be efficient. The key to this scene is you, you must hold back your emotions."

"Understood, I'm ready."

"Angelina, what about you?"

Julie nods confidently in her slip dress.

Eve knows that this is a tough battle, and it is very unrealistic to complete the filming in one go. Even if there are several NGs, it is still in the crew's plan.

It can be said that this scene is one of the few outbreaks and highlights of the movie.

After the make-up artist finished touch-ups for the three actors, the rest of the irrelevant staff all left the house, leaving space for the lighting engineer and photographer.

There can't be too many people in a small space.

Having filmed the scene where Eve's Daisy puts the two in, it's Daisy's turn to confront Lisa.

Today is different from the past, Eve's acting skills have improved a lot compared to the audition time, there are not so many designs and techniques, and there is a feeling of returning to the basics.

Similarly, Angelina Jolie also lost five or six kilograms during the filming period, and her mental state was integrated with Lisa.

James Mangold is looking forward to seeing what happens between the two.

A beautiful house, indeed with beautiful decorative items, and a lovely cat.

But in Lisa's eyes, all of this is fake, Daisy is deceiving herself and others, like a cat playing with a mouse, gradually uncovering Daisy's mask.

Daisy's scarred arm was hidden under the soft and bright pajamas, but it was just a captive plaything.

Facing the aggressive Lisa, Daisy was angry at first, angrily accusing Lisa of being jealous of herself.

When the wound on Lisa's arm was discovered, Daisy's momentum weakened and she began to defend herself.

The two people who were originally quite imposing, according to the changes in the plot, Daisy is getting weaker and weaker, and her weight in the camera is gradually shrinking, and the distance between Lisa and Lisa is constantly increasing, as if this is the only way to avoid it.

James Mangold, who was sitting behind the monitor, laughed excitedly. This kind of layered and progressive acting was indeed more substituting, and the rosiness of Eve's eyes deepened a little bit.

Combining playful short hair and charming face, Eve is like a doll about to break.

The crying scene is controlled just right, there is no howling, no teardrops flowing like strings, but red eyes, stubborn and stubborn.

"Your father loves you. He loves you with his body. Don't think that others don't know about your relationship."

In the face of Lisa's heavy hammer, the pride in Daisy's body played by Eve seemed to be emptied directly. If she hadn't held on to the railing with her hands, she might have fallen to the ground.

This sentence cut off all the dignity and hope of Daisy.

After holding back his strength and going upstairs, he just left a back in front of the camera.

No one would have guessed that the phrase "I wish you a happy trip" turned out to be Daisy's last words in her life!

Even though several actors and staff were prepared, they still had to do it three times.Every time, it is necessary to wait for Eve to calm down, at least until her eye circles are no longer rosy before shooting.

"Congratulations, you can finally go back to rest." Winona hugged Eve who came down the stairs, "The acting is great!"

There were tears in the corners of Eve's eyes, which flowed down during the filming, and now she came directly from the emotions of Daisy, "I will miss you all, see you when it snows."

The madness on Angelina Jolie's face was also much less at this time, she said to Eve: "Congratulations on getting out of hell, and I will stay in this crappy crew."

"If you are willing to give me your part, I am willing to stay and continue filming."

Eve responded jokingly, she knew it was impossible.

James Mangold clapped his hands and praised: "You have proved your acting potential to all of us. I really hope to see you on the Oscar podium one day. Remember to mention me when the time comes."

"If there is such a day, I will definitely mention you in my acceptance speech. Thank you James, thank you for letting me understand how to play a role that is more suitable for me."

Eve thanked the staff one by one. She was finally going back to the eccentric Vanity Fair in Los Angeles. She had a hunch that perhaps her quietest shooting time was during the filming of "The Girl Who Moved Soul".

In the future, there will be various commercial activities or publicity interruptions, and it is impossible to really isolate the filming.

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Returning from the autumnal Philadelphia to the sunny California, Eve felt that the wind blowing over him was hot.

But it's nice to say goodbye to heavy sweaters and trench coats, and only need to wear a thin coat at most.

This time, she is not alone in cleaning the house. With Mandy joining in, the room looks brand new in less than two hours!

"Thank you for your hard work. You should also go home and have a good rest. I don't need to be busy for the time being." Eve decided to give Mandy two days off. It was a hard time.

Mandy has a good relationship with the crew of "The Girl Who Moved Soul" and the assistants of other actors, which indirectly helped Eve deal with social relations.

"Okay, call me if you need anything, I'm on 24 hours a day."

"No problem, I'll take good care of myself." Eve didn't like to cause trouble for others, her private life was terribly boring.

Mandy left with her bag. She planned to use her vacation tomorrow to visit and accompany her daughter.

Eve sometimes wonders if she wants to step out of her comfort zone and see what the outside world is like. This will help increase her knowledge and integration into the world.

There are not only movies in the world, there are other wonderful things, such as going to a show, listening to an opera, and attending a reception party.

She put the records in the box on the bookshelf one by one, and said to herself: "It seems that this house is a bit small, if the salary of the next film can be raised, I will go to a better neighborhood to buy a second-hand house. "

You can’t afford a villa, but a house like Daisy’s is not bad. Eve remembers that the American version of Sherlock Holmes lived in such a house. The former townhouse has now been converted into an apartment.

In the remaining scene of "The Girl Who Moved the Soul", Eve is only a member of the ensemble, following the dean of the mental hospital to the candy store, and a group of mental patients help Susanna fight against the professor's wife.

For Eve, that shot was just a reshoot, and the whole movie came to an end.

Now she is sitting in front of the computer and logging into the forum skillfully. She wants to see if the "Death is Coming" promotion has started.

There is only half a month until the film is released, and if there is no publicity, it will be too late!

As the saying goes, there is no publicity, no distribution, and the total production cost of "Reaper" is 2000 million US dollars, plus the 1000 million US dollars of publicity and distribution costs, the box office in North America must reach at least 3000 million US dollars to recover the cost.

Because Hollywood movies are strong in the world, basically as much as they sell in North America, they can be sold overseas, and the box office share in North America is higher. Generally, if the box office of a movie in North America reaches the cost line, it will basically not lose money.

And coupled with DVD, VHS sales and rental, pay TV on demand, etc. authorization, in fact, the profit is very large.

If a horror film becomes famous, the income on the DVD disc market may double the box office income of the movie.

However, "The Grim Reaper" is at a disadvantage in the derivatives market compared with the copyright market. The Grim Reaper in the movie has never shown up at all, and has no specific appearance, so it is impossible to produce corresponding derivatives.

The Halloween schedule is a period when small and medium-budget horror films are released together, and film announcements are very important.

Not only does it attract the first audience to the theater and contribute to a good opening weekend box office, but it also determines how long the film stays in the theater, or how many screenings it can show in a day.

When Eve returned to Los Angeles earlier, she saw the announcement of Death on the billboard outside the highway.

Some have only posters, some have slogans, and related advertisements have even been heard on the radio.

To be honest, in order to keep shooting, she has never watched the trailer, and only now entered the IMDB website.

In the end, before Eve could search for the title of the movie, she saw a poster of Devon, herself, and others on the homepage, with the huge and eye-catching title of the movie on it.

"It seems that the 1000 million US dollars is really useful, and the advertisements are all on it."

The total production cost of many horror films may not be 1000 million, and New Line really invested a lot for the box office and DVD.

If you can't bear to let your children play like wolves, the better the box office performance and the higher the audience's reputation, the more explosive the offline income will be after the release.

Eve discovered that the top banner on IMDB was also an advertisement, which said: "You may get a second chance to live, but you can't fool Death!"

She clicked on the picture with the mouse, and then directly jumped to the relevant information of the film.

In North America, almost all offline movie theaters use credit cards to buy tickets. At this stage, online ticket purchases or seat selection are not supported at all.

After spending such a large price, "Death is Coming" became one of the hottest movies on the IMDB website within 30 days, and ranked in the top ten on the popularity list.

It is featured in the most anticipated Halloween movies this year selected by major magazines, newspapers, and websites.

As the film has not been released, it is not yet possible to rate it.

Eve clicked to view the trailer, and the one-and-a-half-minute trailer was quite exciting.

Obviously the movie screen is death caused by various accidents, but the narration is "no accident, no coincidence, nowhere to escape", this narration is extra points, it directly makes people feel creepy!

Life itself is full of uncertainties. Whether it is birth, old age, sickness, death or misfortune, people regard these small things as luck and providence.

The movie "Death is Coming" is the same, linking these accidental deaths with the god of death, creating a horror atmosphere of "it turns out that the god of death arranges everything", which resonates with the audience!

The first trailer was enough to excite horror movie lovers, and the second trailer also revealed some key factors, which made netizens howl with excitement, wishing that the release date would be earlier.

"Every beginning must have an end."

"You can't cheat death twice."

On the surface, it seems to be fatalism. The group of people controlled by death in the film seem to be in vain no matter how they save themselves. This kind of mystery will make the horror and horror deeper. It is not the sensory impact of eyes and ears, but the spiritual impact.

The ancient mysterious fatalism is good at creating a horror atmosphere. At the same time, the accidental killing props in the film are almost all things that ordinary people can see everywhere. Maybe the audience is still using them one second before watching the trailer, but Know nothing of the dangers they can pose.

None of the accidents in the movie are things that exist in nature itself, and all of them are artificially made and constructed facilities and equipment.

New Line Pictures even used the promotional slogan of an encyclopedia of ways to die. The whole movie is like a brochure for death.

What the audience wants to see most is the process of the characters facing death one by one, wanting to see how they were killed by the god of death in a strange and unexpected way!

What the trailer brings to the audience is that these survivors foresaw the existence of the god of death, but they don't know when the god of death will come and how it will come.

This kind of unknown anxiety and curiosity will drive the audience to walk into the cinema impatiently and feel the shock from the god of death!

Eve is obviously not a horror movie fan, but she was also attracted by the trailer. She casually clicked on the horror movie discussion section of IMDB, and found that the netizens in this section are very lively, and everyone is discussing the upcoming Halloween.

[Which movie do you think is the most worth watching for Halloween this year? 】This post has always been at the top of the forum, and there are more than 200 replies at the bottom.

"I want to see Haunted House."

"Why don't you watch 'Reaper'? I love the trailer!"

"Critics say 'The Twilight Zone' is fun and worth seeing."

"lol, there are people who believe what movie critics say."

"Guys, do you think "Death Comes" will be interesting? I made up my mind after seeing the promotional poster and trailer, and I must go to the cinema to see it."

"I want to see blood, I want to see murder! Death seems to have such elements."

"I've made an appointment with my friends, and I'm going to watch "Stigmata" on Halloween."

"Why not watch Johnny Depp's Sleepy Hollow? It's his collaboration with Tim Burton, and I've been looking forward to it for a long time."

"Sleepy Hollow doesn't come out until November, my friend, and it's over a month away! I'm going to see Death Comes, it looks so cool, and I hope to see a Death without a scythe."

In these comments, "Reaper is Coming" is mentioned very frequently, and its popularity far exceeds other movies of the same period. Everyone is curious about how the film will portray Reaper and death.

The popularity of the film is high, and there is a lot of discussion. There are even a lot of real and fake cases of lucky people who escaped from the hands of death and have been shared on the Internet.

October has always been the low season for movies, basically only some movies that avoid the summer holidays are released, plus horror movies aimed at Halloween.

Boxofficemojo, a professional movie box office data statistics website founded last year, has become the most professional and comprehensive online box office tracking website in the minds of movie fans and Hollywood companies. Various box office records and box office figures of each movie every day are clearly visible.

Among box's predictions for the Halloween schedule, "Haunted House" can take the top spot.Produced by Warner Corporation, it is a remake of the 1959 horror classic. The original version of the movie can be said to be the memory of countless American teenagers who grew up watching it.

Although the reputation of this remake has not been leaked for the time being, Warner has already contacted more than 2500 theaters for its collective release. One can imagine how confident it is.

Box estimates that the box office of "Haunted House" may be as high as 2400 million US dollars in the first weekend, and the next weekend, which is the Halloween schedule, will maintain 2000 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 6000 million US dollars.

Horror movies are different from other types of movies. The release time of this type of movies is short, and the box office is concentrated in the first few weeks. The future trend will be very ugly.

Therefore, horror and thriller movies with an ultra-low decline like "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" are extremely rare in the entire film history!

There are no fans of the original IP, "Death is Coming" is a brand new movie, and there are no celebrities to join. The attention is only more among the audience of horror movies, and it is not attractive to ordinary passers-by.

Box's box office forecast for the film's first weekend is $1500 million, followed by $1200 million in the second weekend, and a cumulative $4000 million, far exceeding the cost line.

The North American box office of the 1999 film is not particularly high, especially the bottleneck of horror movies is more obvious.

Another audience survey agency, NRG, predicted a total box office of 4500 million US dollars, and they are all very optimistic about the box office prospects of "Death Comes"!

NRG publishes weekly audience tracking surveys, which can help distributors determine film release times and marketing plans.Every week, they survey a sample of thousands of viewers by telephone, asking them if they have noticed a certain movie, and if so, whether they will go to the cinema to see this movie.

At the same time, the age, gender, and ethnicity of these audiences will be recorded and grouped.

Many times, in Hollywood news reports, it is said that among the audience of a certain movie, the proportion of men over the age of 25 is more than that, and the proportion of men under the age of 25 is listed separately.

For horror movies, the majority of audiences are male and female under the age of 25.

After seeing such high box office expectations, Eve began to worry about gains and losses again.No one pays attention to the uncomfortable, and the attention is high and uncomfortable.

She was afraid that the box office performance would not be as expected, which would definitely surprise all the media.

"No, no, I can't watch these news anymore." Eve quickly shook her head to clear these negative emotions from her mind. She planned to watch something positive, such as her attention on the IMDB homepage.

Thanks to the extensive publicity of "Death is Coming", Eve has appeared many times in the movie trailers. Compared with the heroine's nerdy high school student, her appearance is much more beautiful and sexy. Like the goddess that most boys had a crush on when they were students.

On the Internet, women themselves are more likely to become popular, so her homepage has two or three hundred followers.

Apparently, it is nothing compared to popular stars. The movie has been released for several months, but Keanu Reeves is still in the top ten of the IMDB movie star list, and tens of thousands of netizens follow his homepage.

Fans who followed Eve's homepage were surprised to find that she had other works, not just "Death Comes"!

"Soul Shifting Girl" currently only has the name of the movie and the cast list, not even the specific roles played by the actors, let alone a movie poster.

So their eyes were naturally on the "ByeByeBye" MV.

Superboy has just been in the spotlight in recent months. The new album sold more than 240 million copies worldwide in the first week, breaking all records that can be broken, and the popularity in North America cannot be more popular.

Many people have heard this song and watched the MV unconsciously, but now they realize that the handsome and sexy modern girl in the movie is actually the same person as the heroine of "Death Comes"!

As a result, there were a few sporadic posts discussing Eve in Yahoo Entertainment. She was no longer a little transparent, and finally there were sporadic and hot discussions.

As for whether these fans can be retained, whether they can be attracted to the cinema, that will have to wait for the test of time!

The author has something to say: Tomorrow morning, the author is going to go through the discharge procedures of his grandmother.

The update during the day will be sent out together at night, which should be a big fat stamp.