Chatty Hollywood

After that, the filming of "Happy Death Day" went smoothly, so smoothly that even Charlotte felt it was abnormal.

"Is this done?"

At the closing party, Charlize looked confused and seemed a little reluctant to leave.

Charlotte somewhat understood her reaction——

After experiencing the same scene with Jodie Foster, Charlize's performance has obviously improved. She seems to have entered a special state, a state that many actors are afraid of and addicted to.

"Sally, you won't get too deep into the drama and won't be able to get out, right?"

Charlotte was worried.

"Don't worry, it won't happen."

As she said that, the girl rolled her eyes - exactly the same expression that the heroine Cui often used during filming.

——Hey, you are not convincing at all!

Seeing Charlotte's uneasy expression, Charlize suddenly smiled. This time the smile was like a blooming rose.

"Really, don't worry, I was joking."

"you……"

The director smiled helplessly,

"Are you showing off your progress in acting to me?"

"So be it!"

"But how can I be sure that what you look like now is not acting?"

"this……"

This time it was Charlize's turn to get stuck.

"unless……"

Charlotte whispered something into Charlize's ear, and the girl blushed.

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After the wrapping party, "Happy Death Day" entered the post-production stage.

This film also does not have any difficult special effects, but because it uses an infinite loop story mode and involves a lot of editing, this is by no means an easy task.

Normally, this is another battlefield where directors and producers compete fiercely.

Fortunately, the two main producers of the crew rarely spoke this time.

Mr. Westwood because of the trust generated by working together on "The Turn";

As for Jodie Foster, in addition to relying on Charlotte for the painting, it is also because she is busy wrapping up "The Blair Witch Project."

Yes, after an early stage of almost fraudulent publicity, "The Blair Witch Project" has achieved quite impressive box office results.

Although it is inevitable that the box office will plummet after its premiere, the profit ratio of this movie is beyond imagination compared to the low cost.

This makes Jodie Foster, as the boss of a production and distribution company, must go all out to keep an eye on those theaters to ensure that her profits are not stolen by others.

No way, why did her "egg" company become a small workshop?

It's a very simple thing for the Hollywood Seven, but she has to be careful here...

However, this gave Charlotte a good opportunity.

Without anyone's input, he, Lao Qiang and others quickly completed the editing. Then, the internal preview screening of "Happy Death Day" began.

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The so-called internal test screening is actually a small-scale test screening where the film studio invites some lucky audiences and film critics to participate after the basic production is completed.

After the test screening, participants will provide comments and ratings. The film studio will make an expectation for the future of the film based on these evaluations and scores.

Of course everyone is happy if the movie gets good reviews, and everyone is laughing and preparing to make money after it is officially released;

If the review is not good, then it will be troublesome. Not to mention the modification of the promotion plan caused by the drop in expectations, just the possible reshoots and corrections are enough to give the director and post-production staff a headache.

Of course, the evaluation of internal preview screenings is not very accurate.

Let's not talk about "Star Wars", which made the film critics across the United States collectively miss it. Let's talk about "Pirates of the Caribbean", which will only appear in the future. The evaluation received at the internal preview screening was also very average.

Disney president Michael Eisner almost gave the film a death sentence.

But who would have thought that what followed would be the huge sales of "Pirates", and Captain Jack Sparrow would become famous all over the world...

However, regardless of whether the evaluation is good or not, and whether the results are accurate or not, the results of the internal preview are not allowed to be disclosed, as they are bound by legal agreements.

This was Charlotte's first time participating in an in-house preview of her own film.

When "The Turn" was released, there was no time to hold internal test screenings because of the popularity of the "Vials Valley Incident".

Moreover, given the cost of that movie, New Line paid little attention to it at that time...

And this time, because New Line, Orion and Jodie Foster's "Egg" are involved, if they want to cooperate tacitly, they must first have expectations for the movie.

This makes internal previews essential.

"If internal reviews are good, we hope to release it during the Christmas period."

Mr. Westwood said while chatting with Charlotte before the test screening started.

"In other words, I might have two movies released this year?"

Charlotte thought for a moment,

"I suddenly felt so tired."

"indeed."

Mr. Westwood also sighed,

"For an average director, one movie a year is already a very high production rate. Your situation is indeed not that common, it is a special situation!"

That’s right!

Charlotte nodded in her mind——

"Fatal Turn" was basically made at the last minute and forced to do it, and because of the encounter with the ghost tiger Wei Changhui, it had to be released as soon as possible in order to gain popularity and meet the time;

And "Happy Death Day"?

If it wasn't for the purpose of relieving the strange state of Charlize and Alexis, he wouldn't have racked his brains to come up with such a movie.

"hope everything is fine!"

After chatting with Mr. Westwood for a few words, Charlotte returned to her seat.

He did not choose to build relationships with the well-known film critics who came to the preview.

On the one hand, we really don’t know each other very well, so the relationship is not easy to build.

On the other hand, it’s also because of the nature of film critics’ work—none of what they say actually counts before watching a movie.

Especially if he didn't put in any extra money.

Now, he was more concerned about Charlize sitting next to him.

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Charlize was a little scared.

There was no other way. The last time Charlotte and I attended the premiere of "Fatal Turn", we ended up directly entering the world of painted walls. There were strange situations there, and Charlize still feels something is wrong.

What's more, according to Charlotte, the premiere of "Happy Death Day" has more additional tasks -

Not to mention dealing with the painting skin and the evil god, the original purpose of filming this movie was to facilitate Charlotte's transfer of the life force obtained from the ghost tiger to Alexis.

There won't be any problems, right?

"Don't worry, I don't plan to do anything extra at this internal preview."

Charlotte grabbed the girl's hand and comforted her,

"The number of people at the internal preview was not enough, and the emotions generated were not enough to release the spell. I have to wait for the real premiere!"

——In other words, I just need to watch a movie quietly this time?

Charlize breathed a sigh of relief.

"Speaking of which, Sally, how have you been doing at work recently?"

Charlotte asked again in a low voice.

Because they are busy with the post-production of "Happy Death Day", Charlotte and Charlize haven't communicated much recently.

Although they would "help" each other when "in need", Charlotte didn't know very well about Charlize's work status.

“I’ve had a few more auditions lately.”

Charlize thought for a moment and said,

"'Seven' lost to Gwyneth Paltrow, but '12 Monkeys' succeeded."

——"Seven Deadly Sins"?

——"Twelve Monkeys"! ?

——Sally, you are making rapid progress!

Of course Charlotte could tell that in these two auditions, Charlize was talking about the heroine.

Although the heroine in "Seven Deadly Sins" or "12 Monkeys" is basically a soy sauce existence, she is a heroine after all!

A year ago, Charlize was still a little transparent who couldn't even play a small part! This improvement is indeed big enough.

In particular, if you compare the original time and space with Charlize Theron, who is still playing soy sauce at this moment, you can better appreciate the changes.

——This is probably the so-called butterfly effect!

Charlotte sighed in her heart, but for a moment she forgot that she was the butterfly.

At this time, he still had to comfort Charlize.

"You can't beat Gwyneth Paltrow in "Seven Deadly Sins". She's so normal. Her family has many connections in this industry."

——If you can win an Oscar-winning actress by building connections, don’t you have a lot of connections?

Charlotte was complaining about her first win at the Oscars in the 1990s.

"Also, the leading role in this film is Brad Pitt... Even though it is a David Fincher film, it doesn't matter if he doesn't star in it."

"Hey, why doesn't it matter if it's Pete?"

"this……"

Charlotte hesitated.

"The main reason is that this guy has a habit of having affairs with the actresses he works with, right?"

Charlize took over Charlotte's words and smiled sweetly.