Chatty Hollywood

In the end, Charlotte and Charlize spent the afternoon of the first day of the Oscars in a "meaningful" way.

Afterwards, although the critics’ feast had just arrived, the work of Spectre Studio was back on track again——

First of all, just in time for the end of March, "The Island" is finally released.

This horror movie directed by Lao Gun and starring Alexis is not expensive to produce.

In addition, it was Lao Qiang's first time directing a movie as a director, so he was not very confident.

“I’m very satisfied if I can get my money back!”

——Privately, this is what Lao Qiang told his wife Annika.

However, how could Charlotte dare to invest in this film project introduced by Nicole Kidman just to get back her money?

"Nineteen million!?"

A week later, Lao Qiang was shocked when he saw the box office results in the first week.

Of course, this box office result is nothing compared to the big productions shot in Charlotte that broke over 100 million in the first week.

However, considering how much it cost Specter Studios to make Island, it was only a few million dollars.

Even if publicity costs are included, it does not exceed 15 million.

——In this case, the box office performance of 19 million in the first week is quite good.

In particular, considering the characteristics of the film type, Charlotte designed a relatively long-term screening method for "The Island", which means that 19 million is just the beginning.

"If we're lucky and stick with it until it's released, the North American box office may cross the $100 million mark."

Charlotte smiled and stretched out her hand to Lao Qiang,

"Congratulations, Lao Qiang! You are also the director of a box-office-successful movie!"

"..."

Lao Qiang mechanically held Charlotte's hand, obviously not reacting for a while...

"Actually, the success of this film is mainly thanks to your guidance and post-editing production."

After a long time, Lao Qiang finally recovered from his surprise and sighed,

"I know very well what mistakes I made during filming - I tried my best to correct the ones I could, but some... But in the final film, most of these mistakes were edited and some post-production special effects Corrected. So—"

Lao Qiang looked at Charlotte with a wry smile.

"The success of "Little Island" may have something to do with me, but it is not decisive - Charlotte, you should know that I am just a live director to a certain extent. It is you and Ellie who gave this film a soul. Xixis!"

"You're so underestimating yourself, man!"

Charlotte naturally tried to encourage Lao Qiang, but looking at the latter's indifferent look, she knew it was not necessary.

——After all, when filming "Fatal Turn", Lao Qiang had already taken his career relatively lightly due to divorce.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be Charlotte’s turn to direct “The Turn.”

And now,

Although Lao Qiang's life has become much happier after remarrying Annika, he is not very young after all.

Compared to Charlotte, who has magic cheats and is energetic beyond the scope of human beings, and can completely balance family, career, and magic, Lao Qiang's energy is obviously not enough.

And he is obviously more willing to devote this limited energy to his family.

——This is true even if he is now the director of a successful movie.

Therefore, what he said just now is not that he is belittling himself. At most, it can only be said that everyone has his own ambitions.

Charlotte can understand this, but——

"Even if you, Lao Qiang, want to spend more time taking care of your family because Annika gave you a lovely daughter, you shouldn't be able to retire, right?"

Charlotte was a little worried,

"Don't forget, I am that little guy's godfather!"

"How could you forget? This is what you promised when you were filming "Sherlock Holmes"! With you as her godfather, her future will be much smoother."

Lao Qiang shook his head,

"I just want to tell you that small and medium-budget movies like "The Island" and the adaptation of "The Ring" are already the limit of my abilities. Don't give me more difficult jobs - I At this age, I have passed the stage of wanting to challenge myself!”

"All right!"

Charlotte shrugged.

In fact, for Spectre Studio, Lao Qiang’s “lack of progress” is nothing—

Large-scale productions or relatively difficult film projects are still left to Charlotte to complete herself.

Only when there are some small and medium-sized films that have high hopes of success, are relatively easy to produce, but are not of sufficient scale that it would be inappropriate for Charlotte to shoot them herself, do we need to use Lao Qiang to direct them.

——At that time, Charlotte only had to serve as a producer, assisting behind the scenes and holding the direction.

If Lao Qiang had further ambitions, this position would not be suitable for him.

Therefore, after chatting with Lao Qiang for a few more times and promising him that after the profits came in, she would give him a large bonus and ask him to buy more gifts for his goddaughter, Charlotte then Turning the topic back to "Island".

——However, it was Alexis who spoke this time.

"Film critics have praised you very much!"

Charlotte smiled at Miss Valkyrie and said,

"Especially, because the Oscars have just passed, many people have compared your performance in "The Island" with several actresses who have won Oti - they all think that you at least have the skills to be nominated for an Oscar. strength!"

"That's awesome!"

Alexis naturally paid attention to news about herself.

——You know, when she came to Hollywood, she also had dreams of becoming a star.

Although she is now transformed into a ghost, she still cannot care less about the result of her first movie starring role——

"I really didn't expect that film critics would give it so much praise."

Alexis's face turned a little red;

"However, the acting skills I showed this time are also enhanced by film editing and special effects to a certain extent, right?"

"That's right!"

Charlotte nodded, then a smirk appeared on her lips,

"But don't forget, many of the special effects in "The Island" were actually done by Alexis yourself!"

"..."

After Charlotte said this, Miss Valkyrie realized that she seemed to have indeed used magic to achieve many special effects for the movie "The Island"——

Not to mention anything else, in the end, after it was revealed that the heroine Grace and her children were not haunted by ghosts, but were ghosts themselves, those Graces hysterically destroyed everything in the house and took away the people who had moved in. The scene where people are scared away is Alexis’ masterpiece.

——If you use normal shooting methods, this kind of place will definitely require post-production editing and special effects processing.

However, with Alexis, it's very simple -

Lao Qiang just needs to let Miss Valkyrie cast her spells freely.

Anyway, it just appears and disappears for a while.

——Although this may frighten other co-actors, considering that the other supporting characters in that scene are all ghosts brought by Francis Farmer, this problem does not exist at all... …

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