American fame and fortune

The place where the Los Angeles mansion is located basically belongs to the area with few cars, few people and few houses.

The girl in school uniform stood alone on the side of the road, with her right hand stretched out and her thumb raised, shaking towards Martin.

Martin saw it once, the car pulled up next to the man, the passenger window down.

The girl bent down and looked down, making sure she didn't recognize the wrong person, and shook her hand at Martin: "Hi, handsome guy, we met."

Martin glanced at the slightly baby-fat face and asked, "Are you Elizabeth from the Olsen family?"

Elizabeth Olsen smiled very sweetly: "You go to Louise's? Let me go home by the way, okay?"

Martin opened the passenger door: "Get in the car."

Elizabeth got into the car with her schoolbag on her lap: "Thank you."

Martin drove: "Stop the car casually, you are not afraid of encountering bad guys."

"Are you a bad guy?" Elizabeth turned to look at Martin: "I know your car, so I dared to stop it."

Martin was surprised: "We haven't met a few times."

Elizabeth reminded: "You often go to Louise's, and you have to pass by my house every time."

"Are girls as smart as you now?" Martin asked.

Elizabeth was coaxed into giggling: "Handsome guy, you speak so nicely. By the way, I don't know your name yet."

"Martin Davis."

"It sounds familiar, I seem to have seen it in a newspaper recently." Elizabeth remembered: "The male lead of a horror movie."

Martin nodded and asked, "Didn't your sister drive you the few times I saw you?"

Elizabeth simply explained: "They are very busy today. I came back from temporary leave and took a bus to get here. There is no public transportation further on. I was planning to walk back, and I happened to meet you."

Martin said, "You're lucky."

Perhaps the favorable environment in which she grew up 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, go directly to Louise's house, there is no one in my house."

"Really?" Martin didn't listen to her, but called Louise first.

Louise said: "The Olsen family has gone to participate in business activities, let her come over."

Elizabeth said: "I don't know Louise well, but my sister knows her well."

Martin drove directly into the gate of Louise's house, and the car was parked next to the villa.

Elizabeth got off the co-pilot, saw Louise standing at the door of the villa, greeted politely, and said, "I have no place to go for now, can I stay with you for a while?"

Louise invited: "Let's have lunch together."

Martin took the gift in the armrest box and went into the villa to give it to the housekeeper Mary.

Louise asked, "What?"

Martin said: "The wine I ordered for you from overseas, you can drink less, don't drink too much, if you drink a glass, the donkey will be knocked down."

Louise nodded: "Got it."

Ten minutes later, the three sat at the dining table.

Elizabeth saw the beautifully prepared barbecue and said, "Meat is my favorite."

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 the barbecue.

After lunch, the three chatted for a while. Elizabeth had a habit of taking a lunch break, and Louise asked Mary to arrange for her to go to the guest room to rest, and then take her home when the neighbor came back.

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."

"Sister Olsen? Richer than you?" Martin asked curiously.

Louise said: "Maybe one day he will become a billionaire."

Martin smiled: "I still want you to take care of me."

Louise changed the subject and asked, "Is the announcement of the Wax Museum over?"

Martin said: "It's over. The publishing company has not arranged overseas promotion. Yesterday's celebration party was the last public promotion event."

Louise sat crookedly on the co-pilot and asked, "What are your plans?"

Martin thought for a while: "I'm going to Geshan Youyan to do post-production in the next few days, and some scenes need to be dubbed." 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. Showed it to me when it was time, but it’s a pity it’s not for me anymore.”

Louise asked, "The dwarf murderer you mentioned?"

Martin simply said: "The script written by Zomi's friend, the core is the perverted heroine with dwarfism, and the supporting actress. The supporting actor is not good, and in the end he was killed by the heroine."

Martin would have been interested during the filming of the House of Wax, but after playing the leading role, it is impossible for him to play this kind of role again.

Louise added a little bit: "As long as possible, choose the protagonist first. Even if you choose a supporting role, you must have a distinctive supporting role, not a stupid supporting role that sets off 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 the Orphan Grievance in his previous life.

Many Hollywood movies that have been blown up on the other side of the Internet have a high probability of being box office hits in North America.

The word-of-mouth has exploded, and there are too many films with extremely poor box office.

Martin based his judgment on the fact that a sequel was made to the film.

Louise was somewhat interested, after all, Zomi had just achieved success: "When his script is finished, let him deliver 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 Geshan Youyan crew is located is next to the Alexander crew. When Martin and Louise came over, they saw Angelina Jolie.

Louise seemed to be familiar with her and had a chat with her.

In the first half of this year, gossip media published rumors that Pitt cheated on Jolie, but not many people paid attention to it, and there has been no trouble yet.

When Martin entered the post studio, he looked back at Julie.

It is said that this woman has never hired professional public relations, and all public relations and self-marketing plans are all from her own hands.

In Julie, one thing is fully reflected: no matter how good the film is, it is not as good as the promotion.

Martin found director Ajia and went to the post-production dubbing studio. Many scenes shot on-site were disturbed by the environment and could not achieve the desired effect, which could only be solved through post-production dubbing.

He stayed in the dubbing room for half an afternoon, and his work efficiency was not bad, re-dubbing more than 30 shots.

When Martin came out, Wes Craven was back from a meeting at Warner Bros.

Together with Ajia, the three entered the producer's office together.

Craven first said the important thing: "The box office of the Wax Museum has received a good response, and you have earned 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. It's in early February, the weekend after the Super Bowl."

Martin asked, "Is the Super Bowl in the ad?"

Craven said: "I mentioned it, it depends on the arrangement of Warner Bros."

Ajia shook her hair and said, "It is said that the Super Bowl commercials are very effective."

"The number one program in the United States." Craven watches every year: "In terms of TV commercials alone, there is nothing better than the Super Bowl."

Martin pondered for a moment, then said, "I have some ideas about the promotion of the film."

Ajia was curious: "I heard people say that the Wax Museum used a lot of your suggestions in the promotion?"

Martin wouldn't be humble about this kind of thing: "There's a part of it."

Craven is old-fashioned: "It's definitely not the routine promotion. It's all played badly. 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. Go and attend together."

Martin replied: "I have no problem, call me at a certain time."

Craven has been the producer countless times, and reminded: "Martin, Geshan Youyan is completely focused on you, and you are the main focus of public opinion."

He offers similar advice to Thomas: "The Wax Museum brings you some heat, and you try to keep it going, and that will benefit your next film."

Ajia's head was sensitive: "I'm going to hold a party and call some French female stars over? Martin, would you like to invite one?"

Martin was upright: "Why do you think of women first when you talk about creating heat and topics?"

Ajia Tan Tanshou: "Because the public loves to read gossip, making gossip about men and women is the easiest and cheapest, and the effect is the best."

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 and popularity in North America. "

Martin realized that not only Sophie Marceau, but also Monica Bellucci had a mediocre appeal in North America.

It's not Europe after all.

Afterwards, the three of them entered the post-editing room together and watched the first-cut samples together.

Craven and Aja discuss how to do secondary editing.

Martin listened attentively, without saying a word.

Although he is not a layman in this area, he has indeed had relatively little contact with them before, not as good as Craven and Ajia.

The final cut of the film rests with Craven.

The title of godfather of modern Hollywood horror films is not for nothing.

I stayed in the post studio for two days, and in a blink of an eye, Halloween is coming. Every year at this time, all the ghosts and ghosts in Hollywood and even the United States will be dispatched.

Martin originally wanted to ask Louise to a Halloween parade, but Louise wasn't interested.

He thought for a while and called Anne Hathaway.

"I remember that your crew hasn't started filming yet. Are you free for Halloween?" Martin invited: "Let's participate in the Halloween parade together."

Adhering to the principle of not refusing or being responsible, Annie said: "The crew will be on vacation then. I have participated in the Halloween parade in Greenwich Village, but I have not participated in the one in Los Angeles."

Martin immediately said: "My Royal Highness, can your loyal guard accompany you to inspect the territory?"

Anne smiled: "Yes, but you are responsible for the princess's shape and dress."

Martin replied, "No problem."

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