Chapter 471

Perhaps in order to expel the fright caused by the Los Angeles riot, when the crime action film "The Deadly Weapon 3" was released on May 15, people went to the cinema. Warner's classic series won more than $40 million in the first week of the box office, which was a good start for the 1992 summer season and also made many Hollywood film companies worried that the Los Angeles riot would have an impact on the summer season box office.

On May 22, the third part of another classic series was released. However, "Alien 3" did not have such a good fate. It only achieved a box office of over 20 million in the first week, which was only half of the box office of "Deadly Weapon 3". However, the cost of this sequel is 15 times that of "Deadly Weapon 3".

Although I had an impression in my memory, Eric still took the time to watch the movie in person. Because "Alien 3" is like the first two, there is still a famous director, David Finch. As a director who started filming MV, David Finch seemed to become another person after picking up the film director. Although it was the film debut, "Alien 3" has already reflected David Finch's classic dark thriller style.

The first week of $20 million is far lower than Fox's expectations. Based on the reputation of the movie, the North American box office of this sequel is likely to not even reach the cost line. If there is no external interference, David Finch will definitely have to return to the old MV business for a few more years. A week after the movie was released, Eric heard that Fox terminated the contract with David Finch. At the same time, he was swept out. An executive of the Fox production department who recommended David Finch as director.

Although Eric is very interested in David Finch, he is not in a hurry to get in touch with the other party. Anyway, in a short period of time, there will be no more film companies to invite this rookie director who just messed up the "Alien" series.

Originally, Disney planned to release the film "The Sisters Are Crazy" in the last week of May, but after Eric specifically reminded him that in order to avoid encountering the blockbusters released in June, Disney changed the film "The Sisters Are Crazy" to July 10th.

Starting from late May, Eric started the final promotion of the film with the production team of "Tornado". Although Eric's films have never had a fixed style, they have accumulated a large number of fans with the excellent quality of each movie. In addition, the movie that was released after two years and the visual impact of the trailer that was once in the Super Bowl. Fans are generally full of great expectations for "Tornado".

At the end of May, after several rounds of previews, reviews about "Tornado" appeared in the media one after another. Although many critics did not highly comment on this popcorn movie without any connotation, they could not deny the amazing and realistic CG special effects in the movie. Under Firefly's public relations, "Tornado" also won a good reputation.

With everything ready, May finally passed, and the storm about the riot in Los Angeles seemed to have completely disappeared. Whether it was newspapers or TV media, they rarely mentioned this major event that shocked the world. After all, this matter is not a too glorious thing, both internally and externally.

However, it is always not easy to be forgotten about what has happened. Not only that, some people even want people to remember these things more deeply, hoping that they can bring some reflection.

For example, in front of me, there was such a person sitting in Eric's office.

A woman.

He is tall, with a straight back and a beautiful face with a bit of heroic spirit.

A black slim jacket, dark blue jeans, and a pair of hard-soled leather boots on her feet. She always seems to be so meticulous.

"This is a heartbreaking turmoil. In many aspects before the incident, if we can pay a little attention, this tragedy will definitely not happen again. But now it seems that no one is willing to carefully reflect on the root of this tragedy, so I want to make this into a documentary, and the specific materials are here."

Katherine Bigelow said, pushing a thick document bag in front of Eric and retracting his hand, adding hesitantly: "This documentary will definitely not affect the production of "Save Private Ryan". I will make the documentary by the end of the year, and only... only a budget of $5 million is enough."

Eric nodded, opened the file bag, took out the thick printed materials inside and looked down.

Catherine Bigelow could not see Eric's expression when he lowered his head, so he turned his attention to the hand that flipped the page. Eric was not fast, but was not satisfied. Catherine Bigelow waited quietly for a while, and suddenly couldn't help but speak, "Don't you know it already, right?"

Eric looked up at the woman, closed the project information in front of him, opened the file cabinet next to him, and quickly took out two similar file bags from it.

For some reason, Katherine, who saw these, felt a little guilty inexplicably, and she had a urge to lower her head and avoid Eric's gaze.

"This one was received by Warner President Robert Daly a week ago. This one was given to me by Fox. It's so sad. Katherine, I didn't expect that I was just your last choice. I always thought we were good friends," said Eric, after noticing the subtle expression of the woman, he deliberately showed a heartbreaking expression.

"It's not like that. The reason I contacted Warner and Fox first was because Warner's CNN and Fox's Fox News Station had sufficient news materials available," Katherine Bigelow explained in a slightly faster tone, but she quickly noticed the unconcealed smile on the corner of Eric's mouth, and realized that the little man had started to play with her habitually. The woman immediately put away her expression: "Eric, you are like this again, you..."

The woman was scrambling to search for the appropriate condemnation, and Eric had already raised his hand to surrender: "Well, Catherine, let's talk about the documentary."

Catherine was stunned for a moment. She was helpless, but she still made a look of asking for words: "Okay."

Eric twisted the page in front of him with a serious tone: "Although some media blamed this incident on the high unemployment rate in recent years and the huge smuggling immigrants in Los Angeles, everyone knows that the root cause of the riot in Los Angeles is still the deep-rooted racial conflict. This issue is sensitive. Even Bush did not dare to speak out in his TV speech, so what are you going to do?"

"I don't intend to express any opinion. I just want to show the cause and effect of this matter from a completely bystander perspective," Catherine said, and suddenly remembered the original intention of this idea, which was derived from some of the words Eric had said to her about her movies. Thinking of this, the woman couldn't help but look up at the youth opposite, and quickly looked away when she looked at each other.

Eric seemed to have not noticed this detail and continued: "The time is very sensitive, and the presidential election is about to come. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are unwilling to express too much on this matter. Everyone is working hard to downplay it."

"Eric, I'm not a politician." Catherine said seriously.

Eric looked at the woman's firm gaze and sighed in his heart, saying, "Catherine. You should know that there are always too many people in this world who are used to guessing the motivations of certain things with the most malicious ideas."

Katherine shook her head: "I don't care."

"Okay, then do it," Eric stuffed the information back into the information bag: "I will help you contact Fox News and let them open the news materials they have accumulated some time ago for you. If not enough, I can try it on CNN."

"Thank you. Eric," Catherine was a little moved. This month, in addition to preparing materials, she spent most of her time in contact with Warner and Fox, but she kept hitting a wall. Both film companies were indifferent to her documentary plan. Warner was concerned about the impact of this matter. After all, if it weren't for Warner's CNN's first release of incomplete law enforcement video tapes, the storm would not have been so big. CNN had been under tremendous pressure from all parties during this period. Now things have finally subsided, and Warner hoped that everyone would forget about this matter. Fox could not see the profit prospects of this documentary. Although the $5 million investment is not big, Fox also felt that he had no hobby of wasting money.

Eric closed the information and smiled and said, "Is it just a verbal thank you? I thought you would at least treat me to a meal. Now I'm going to get off work."

Catherine thought about it and nodded, "Then... OK."

Eric put the information back into the filing cabinet and took out two movie tickets from it: "In return, after dinner, I invite you to watch the movie, "Tornado" will be previewed."

"Ah, this is not needed," Catherine was stunned for a moment, finding a reason: "I don't like going back too late."

"Of course I know that it won't delay your rest. I can send you home in person."

"I...I have a car, I can go back by myself," Catherine almost panicked.

Eric looked at his watch and said, "That's it. Where do you like to eat, I will follow the guests."

Katherine stood up with Eric and said, "A friend recommended a nearby Chinese restaurant where we can go."

The two left the Firefly headquarters and came all the way to a Chinese restaurant with a pretty exquisite decoration. However, although Eric saw that there were not many customers in the Chinese restaurant, it took him a long time to serve the dinner after ordering the dishes.

Looking at the skinny dumplings on the plate and another plate of scrambled tomatoes, Eric couldn't help but start complaining: "Catherine, I really doubt what your friend is thinking to recommend this restaurant to you."

Catherine also had a little embarrassment in her expression. During the time she spent together in New York last year, she vaguely remembered that Eric prefers Chinese food, so she brought her here with her. Now she also feels like she is being deceived.

"Maybe we didn't order the right food. Isn't it said that many Chinese restaurants have some... specialty dishes, and other dishes are often more common, so why don't you order something else?"

Eric looked around. In the evening, if the food in this restaurant was very delicious, the surroundings would definitely be full, but now the guests are less than half.

"Forget it," Eric looked at the woman's embarrassed expression, shook his head, skillfully picked up a dumpling with chopsticks and tasted it, and said, "It's actually pretty good. I'll order another serving to eat."

"Then order another one," Catherine said, waved to the very awkward dressed waiter not far away, gave a few instructions before saying to Eric: "I have never been here. Next time, I will invite you to a restaurant I am more familiar with."

"Of course it's okay, don't forget it. It's very good in my memory," Eric said with a smile.

"No," Katherine followed Eric's appearance and picked up the chopsticks next to her and tried to pick up the dumplings on the plate. Finally, she gave up and changed to a familiar knife and fork.

Perhaps the crappy dinner diverted some attention, and the two of them slowly started chatting again. Over the past year, Catherine led a group to collect information about World War II and regularly handed the summary information to Eric. However, because Catherine deliberately avoided, the two of them had never met many times.

Eric could only attribute the reason to the woman's hard-to-guess. He could see that Catherine was not disgusted with him, but perhaps because the two were too different in age, they had been somewhat alienated when they got along.

After dinner, Eric and Catherine drove to a theater on Hollywood Walk of Fame together. The tickets in their hands were at 8 o'clock. When they arrived, they were still at 8 o'clock. They hurriedly bought some popcorn and walked in together.

Although there are still a few days before the release of "Tornado", the small preview has begun a week before the release of "Tornado". For a movie with poor quality, preview will only lose reputation in advance from the audience. However, for a good movie, appropriate movies will accumulate the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies. Although "Tornado" has no depth and connotation, it is a standard high-quality popcorn movie.
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