The coolness of early autumn enveloped the city of Angels, and the summer craze gradually faded. The outposts of the awards season began to warm up slowly. The Venetian Film Festival, far away on the Mediterranean coast and the Toronto Film Festival, bathed in the Atlantic warm current, kicked off one after another. Then, the awards season movies will appear one after another in the deserted October. ↗

"Lost Tokyo" directed by Sofia Coppola has attracted a lot of attention during the production stage. This work will be the first to land at the Telle De-film-festival, then to Venice, and then to Toronto, which will start the journey of this year's awards season.

Just as everyone turned their attention to Venice and Toronto, the film market in the United States warmed up slightly. After a continuous burst of hot summer seasons, the film market in September was a bit deserted, and it would not seem too exaggerated even if it was ignored. However, news from the outside world is endless. Hollywood, which continues to operate continuously all year round, always has countless heavyweight projects released, which attracted a lot of attention during the preparation stage.

For example, "Troy".

Warner Bros. joined forces with B Program Pictures and Diorama Films to hold a grand opening ceremony to announce the official start of the "Troy". This opening ceremony was awesome, attracting more than 160 media and more than 300 reporters to arrive at the scene, focusing on the shooting of this annual masterpiece.

Investing 175 million US dollars, this is the highest investment work in North American film history after the "Titanic". The most famous, sensation and controversial Troy history in Homer's epic will show a grand and brilliant momentum on the big screen; the entire crew will move to London to conduct most of the shooting there, and the remaining outdoor parts will be filmed in Malta and Mexico. In order to truly restore the glory of Troy City, the crew has established a ten-acre outdoor site in Ricasoli, Malta, with a shocking amount of work. There are also reports that the hero Brad took the initiative to reduce his pay in order to star in this movie, investing more expenses in the production of the movie, trying to truly restore the scene of that year...

Brad Pitt leads strongly, and idol topics such as Orlando Bloom and Diane Kruger are responsible for their beauty. Eric Barna (E-N-C-bana), Sean Bin, Julie Christie and other powerful players are responsible for quality. David Benioff, who wrote the "25-hour" script for Spike-lee, and finally checked by veteran director Wolfgang Peterson. This is almost a cast lineup that will never fail...

If there are any concerns, Colin-wilson, the producer who has produced the "Jurassic Park" series, will be a double insurance policy to ensure that the quality of the film does not deviate from the track.

There is no doubt that "Troy" is the most highly anticipated, most trusted film project in the preparation stage after entering the 21st century. At the press conference, a reporter from the New York Post even joked, "How high is the premiere box office expectations set by the crew? Are you confident to break the record of "Spider-Man"?"

Before the filming started, everyone is looking forward to the premiere box office.

Currently, the highest record of premiere box office in the entire North American film history is maintained by "Spider-Man". The film created a box office of $114 million in the summer of 2002, becoming the first work in film history to exceed $100 million on the premiere weekend. It set a brand new benchmark and officially marked the arrival of the era of 100 million box office per week.

As soon as everyone started, they put "Troy" on the level of "Spider-Man", which shows that the expectations are so high. After the press conference, many reporters joked that the box office of "Troy" should be at least 80 million, which is the same as "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Star Wars Prequel 2: The Clones' Attack", which will inevitably become a summer bomb.

For a time, the deserted North American land was filled with news about "Troy". It was very lively and even "King Arthur" was squeezed aside. Filming was started in a low-key manner. The "Troy" drama was the focus of everyone's attention. Before the filming started, the news was already spread all over the place.

In comparison, the "day acquired" startup is even worse than "King Arthur". It is just that the "Chicago Tribune" published an article in the entertainment edition of the tofu block size and announced the official start of the production. Apart from that, there is almost no news. In the "Troy" news everywhere, the "day acquired" is like a canoe passing through the tsunami - it was directly subverted and swallowed.

Compared to "Troy", "the day after tomorrow" can be said to be without any gimmicks worth hyping, even the topic of "Lancelot-Straello". In front of top superstar Brad, Lance, a small new director, is not worth mentioning at all, let alone the lack of affluent cast.

Therefore, except for the "Chicago Tribune", there was no too much media coverage. What's even more strange is that 20th Century Fox and Chaos Pictures just let it go, and there was no intention of fighting a propaganda war with "Troy". The surging under the calm waves was really hard to see through.

"Are you sure we don't need publicity?" Gao Wen threw the "Los Angeles Times" in his hand aside, with a contemptuous expression - "Los Angeles Times" used one-third of the pages to tell the grand opening of "Troy" in the entertainment version.

Lance shrugged, "This promotion will cost at least three million, or even five million. If you have this budget, I might as well discuss with the digital field where to add some special effects."

Lance's understatement of tone, jumped out from three million or five million, which scared Gao Wen and looked at it in surprise - the crew fee of the "day acquired" was only 15 million, but Chaos Pictures was still short of at least half of the cost. Although the actor's pay can be paid together with the dividend after the movie was released, the pressure for Chaos Pictures still has not decreased.

Lance nodded seriously, "Promotion is so costly, and this is just the beginning. At this pace, Warner Bros.'s publicity budget for Troy is at least 20 million, which is a conservative estimate." In other words, the overall cost of "Troy" exceeds 20 million US dollars is easy, which shows how Warner Bros. attaches importance to this movie - or Diorama Films attaches importance to this movie.

"Is this a good or a bad thing for Ryan and the others?" Gao Wen didn't understand that the layman was indeed confused about the complex interest relationships in the film industry.

"The bets represent their greater." Ian, who was standing next to him, said casually that his understanding of these things was gradually deepening. He had previously found out that Diorama Film had invested at least $80 million in the "Troy" project - or even more. B Plan Film is more investing in shares as Brad, and will not put in substantial costs, so Diorama Film and Warner Bros. must bear a budget of $200 million.

At first, Diorama Film only planned to invest 50 million US dollars, but now it seems to have changed... Obviously, Diorama Film is becoming more and more greedy.

Gao Wen snapped his fingers and laughed excitedly, but then he was stunned again, "Lance, are you sure this movie will fail?" Even Ian couldn't help but watch it. They have been busy for so long and finally led Diorama Pictures into a trap, but now all the media are optimistic about the prospect of "Troy". If they are shot in the foot in the end...

Lance raised his eyebrows and smiled mysteriously, "I'm not a saint."

The smile on the corner of Gao Wen's mouth immediately bloomed. Even though Lance did not give any further explanation, he still believed Lance unconditionally, "Then are we sure we won't promote it? Even if we are not like them, at least let the media pay attention."

Lance asked back, "How do you know we didn't start promoting?" Then Lance turned to look at Ian, "Everything will be done as planned?"

Ian glanced out the window, picked up the coffee and took a sip, "Don't worry, I've already prepared it. For the next period of follow-up plans, Percy and Mark, I have greeted me, and we will slowly advance together. Next month, Theo and I will go on the fight in person." Gao Wen looked at the two people in front of him in confusion, but Ian ignored Gao Wen and stood up, "I'm leaving."

Lance also looked out the window and found a tall woman wearing a high-slit red dress, leaning unrestrainedly on the lamp posts of the street lamps, her symmetrical and slender legs crossed casually, attracting many passers-by to look at her. The black slightly curly hair had a wild temperament, like a rose blooming tenaciously in the desert, unruly and wantonly.

This is not Katherine Morris! This is lola-glaudini who starred in the "New York Crime Squad"!

"A new date?" Lance teased with a chuckling, and Ian shrugged calmly, admitting Lance's speculation.

Ian took two steps out and walked back, "By the way, I need your help in Lance's business next month. It's best that you can pull your teammates to participate together. I will call you at that time." After that, Ian left without waiting for Gao Wen to react.

"What? What?" Gao Wen's shouting did not call Ian back. Ian walked out straight, hugged Laura, and then kissed him enthusiastically in the street. The handsome man and beautiful woman were so arrogant that they couldn't help but want to whistle.

Gao Wen rolled his eyes speechlessly, turned his head anxiously and looked at Lance, "What the hell is it?"

"Do charity." Lance looked at Gao Wen who was eager to try in front of him and explained with a smile, "You are the key link!"

Gao Wen's eyes were full of doubts. What is the relationship between doing charity and film promotion? He had no way to connect these two things. However, looking at Lance who was full of confidence in front of him, Gao Wen had to temporarily suppress his doubts and asked seriously, "If it is a charity event, our team should have no problems. Do I need to encourage the coaches and the others together?"

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