Chapter 152 Everyone loves gossip(1/2)
The place where the luxury houses in Los Angeles are located basically belongs to the three areas with few cars, few people and few houses.
The girl in school uniform stood alone on the roadside, her right hand raised her thumb and shook it towards Martin.
Martin saw it once. The car stopped next to the man and lowered the passenger window.
The girl bent down and looked down to make sure she recognized the right person. She waved her hand to Martin: "Hi, handsome guy, we've met before."
Martin glanced at the slightly baby-fat face and asked: "Are you Elizabeth from the Olsen family?"
Elizabeth Olsen smiled very sweetly: "Are you going to Louise's place? Can I go home for a while?"
Martin opened the passenger door: "Get in the car."
Elizabeth got into the car and put her schoolbag on her lap: "Thank you."
Martin Driving: "You can stop cars as long as you want, without fear of meeting bad people."
"Are you a bad person?" Elizabeth turned to look at Martin: "I recognize your car, that's why I dared to stop it."
Martin was surprised: "We haven't met a few times."
Elizabeth reminded: "You often go to Louise's place, and you have to pass by my house every time."
Martin asked: "Are all girls as smart as you these days?"
Elizabeth was coaxed into giggling: "Handsome, you speak so nicely. By the way, I don't know your name yet."
"Martin Davis."
"Sounds familiar. I seem to have seen it in the newspaper recently." Elizabeth remembered: "The male protagonist of a horror movie."
Martin nodded and asked: "The few times I saw you, wasn't your sister always driving to pick you up?"
Elizabeth simply explained: "They are very busy today. I took a temporary leave and came back here. I took the bus here. There is no public transportation further ahead. I originally planned to walk back, and I happened to meet you."
Martin said: "You are lucky."
Perhaps her favorable upbringing environment gave her extraordinary self-confidence. Elizabeth said: "Of course, I have always been very lucky."
Martin drove up the south hillside, and Elizabeth said: "No need to stop the car, go directly to Louise's house, there is no one at home."
"Really?" Martin didn't listen to her and instead called Louise first.
Louise said: "The Olson family has gone to attend business activities, let her come over."
Elizabeth said: "I'm not familiar with Louise, but my sister is very familiar with her."
Martin drove directly into the gate of Louise's house and parked the car next to the villa.
Elizabeth got off the passenger car and saw Louise standing at the door of the villa. She greeted her politely and said, "I have nowhere to go for the time being. Can I stay with you for a while?"
Louise invited: "Let's have lunch together."
Martin took the gift from the armrest box and entered the villa to give it to the housekeeper Mary.
Louise asked: "What?"
Martin said: "You can drink a little of the wine I ordered for you from overseas, but don't drink too much. A glass of wine can knock a donkey over."
Louise nodded: "I know."
Ten minutes later, the three of them were sitting at the dining table.
Elizabeth saw the beautifully made barbecue and said: "Meat, I like it best."
Louise said: "You're welcome, just eat whatever you want."
Martin doesn't talk much, and the barbecue is more attractive.
Just like last time, Louise specially invited the chef to cook barbecue.
After lunch, the three of them chatted for a while. Elizabeth had a habit of taking a lunch break, so Louise asked Mary to arrange for her to rest in the guest room and wait for the neighbor to come back before sending her home.
Louise got into Martin's car and went to Warner Studios together.
Passing by the door next door, Louise pointed: "The real rich woman is here."
"Sisters Olsen? Are they richer than you?" Martin asked curiously.
Louise said: "Maybe I will be a billionaire one day."
Martin smiled: "I still want you to take care of me."
Louise changed the topic and asked: "Is the promotion of the wax museum over?"
Martin said: "It's over. The distribution company has not arranged overseas promotion. Yesterday's celebration party was the last public promotion event."
Louise sat crookedly in the passenger seat and asked, "What are your plans?"
Martin thought for a while: "I'm going to the Geshan Eyes crew for post-production these days. Some scenes need dubbing." He turned into the main driveway: "Originally, Zomi told a horror story. Yesterday, he received the first draft of the script and went to the bar.
I showed it to me when I was working on it, but unfortunately it wasn’t suitable for me anymore.”
Louise asked: "That dwarf murderer you talked about?"
Martin simply said: "The core of the script written by Zomi's friend is a perverted heroine with dwarfism and a supporting actress. The supporting actor is not outstanding and was killed by the heroine in the end."
Martin would be interested during the filming of House of Wax, but after playing the leading role, it would be impossible for him to play such a role again.
Louise gave a little reminder: "Whenever possible, choose the protagonist first. Even if you choose a supporting role, it should be a unique supporting role, not a stupid supporting role that complements other characters."
Martin thought of "Alexander the Great" again: "If you are interested, you can read it. I think the script is very interesting, and Zomi's directing ability is also good."
I mentioned this to Louise not because he had a good response to Orphan Resentment in his previous life.
Many Hollywood films that have been popular on the other side of the Internet have a high chance of becoming box office hits in North America.
There are too many films that have great reputations and poor box office.
Martin's judgment is based on the fact that this film has a sequel.
Louise was somewhat interested. After all, Zomi had just achieved success: "When his script is completed, let him submit a copy to Pacific Pictures."
When he arrived at Warner Studios, Martin called Zomi and reminded him to finalize the script and send a copy to Pacific Pictures.
The post-production studio where the "The Mountain Has Eyes" crew is located is right next to the Alexander crew. When Martin and Louise came over, they saw Angelina Jolie.
Louise seemed to be familiar with her, and they even chatted for a few words.
In the first half of this year, some gossip media published rumors about Pitt cheating on Jolie, but not many people paid attention to it, and it hasn't caused an uproar yet.
When Martin entered the post-production studio, he looked back at Julie.
It is said that this woman never hires professional public relations, and all public relations and self-marketing plans are all done by herself.
Julie fully embodies one thing: no matter how good the film is, it is not as good as good promotion.
Martin found director Ajia and went to the post-dubbing studio. Many of the scenes shot on location were disturbed by the environment and did not achieve the desired effect, so they could only be solved through post-dubbing.
He spent half the afternoon in the dubbing studio, and his work efficiency was pretty good, re-dubbing more than 30 scenes.
When Martin came out, Wes Craven returned from a meeting at Warner Bros.
Including Ajia, the three of them entered the producer's office together.
Craven talked about the important things first: "The Wax Museum received a good response at the box office and earned you a lot of points for Martin. Warner Bros. attaches great importance to this film with you as the absolute protagonist. It was originally planned to be released in April, but finally decided to put it forward."
It won’t be until early February, the weekend after the Super Bowl.”
Martin asked: "Will the video be advertised in the Super Bowl?"
Craven said: "I mentioned it, but it depends on Warner Bros.'s arrangements."
Ajia flipped her hair and said: "It is said that the Super Bowl advertising effect is very good."
"The most watched program in the United States." Craven watches it every year: "In terms of TV commercials alone, there is nothing better than the Super Bowl."
Martin pondered for a moment and said: "I have some ideas about the promotion of the film."
Ajia was curious: "I heard that a lot of your suggestions were used in the promotion of the wax museum?"
Martin is not one to be modest about this kind of thing: "Part of it."
Craven is a mature man: "It's definitely not the conventional publicity ones, those have been screwed up. So, Paris Hilton?"
Martin just laughed, neither admitting nor denying.
Craven said: "In a few days, Warner Bros. will hold a film announcement meeting. One of you is the director and the other is also the production manager. You will attend together."
Martin responded: "I have no problem, call me when you set the time."
Craven has been the producer countless times and reminded: "Martin, Eyes on the Mountain is entirely about you, you are the main focus of public opinion."
He gave similar advice to Thomas: "The Wax Museum brings you some popularity, and you try to maintain the popularity as much as possible, which will benefit your next film."
Ajia's brain is very responsive: "I'm going to have a party and call some French female celebrities to come over? Martin, can you join one?"
Martin was upright: "Why do you think of women first when it comes to creating buzz and topics?"
Ajia spread his hands: "Because the public loves gossip, it is easiest and most effective to create gossip about men and women."
Martin said: "Unless you invite Sophie Marceau."
"It's useless, you'd better find a Hollywood female star." Craven has been in the industry for decades and understands the market and audience better than Martin and Ajia: "Sophie Marceau has no appeal in North America, and she doesn't have much popularity.
To be continued...