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- On July 15, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was released in North America. The film was well received by film critics, with a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 83%, but the response from the audience was only average, with a 51% love rating and an IMDb score of -6.7. These are Regardless, it performed well at the box office, taking in $85.8 million in its first week. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are still a golden pairing.
? ?p>The outstanding performances of all the young actors were highly praised, and the chewing gum champion "Violet" AnnaSophia Robb was very eye-catching.
On the day of the premiere on Sunday the 10th, both Ye Wei and Emma went to join in the fun. They didn¡¯t go together. He went as AnnaSophia¡¯s friend, and Emma went on her own schedule.
Ye Wei didn't want to go at first, but both Brian and DreamWorks Publishing asked him to attend to increase his exposure and promote LMS. And there was a good reason. He is the son of a dentist and he is a good friend of AnnaSophia. ¡
This event allowed him to reschedule his date with Nina, and it was a good movie, with Anna playing a great role.
Anna's stardom is booming. This year she auditioned again and joined the main supporting role in "The Harvest", which will start filming next month. It is a thriller starring Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank and has a budget of $40 million. ; Then in November, he will star in the comedy project "Undercover Academy" with a budget of $3 million.
Although I have already watched it once, on the night of the 15th, the Ye family of four went to the theater to watch it. Duoduo had been looking forward to it for a long time. For the dentist family, it is indeed another kind of fun.
In the packed theater, Duoduo burst into laughter from time to time. Whenever Anna appeared on the stage, she would laugh and call her Ana Ana. When she saw "Violet" turned into a big ball, she almost rolled to the ground with joy. Ye Wei couldn't help but shake his head. He was so unsympathetic that he had to cover his mouth when smiling!
Ye Haogen joked that Depp was obviously wearing dentures, and the prop team should ask him to make a more realistic pair. Ye Weixiao said that it was not a matter of the props team, but of the makeup team, showing his real and neat teeth, "A few days ago, they said they should make molds based on my teeth." Ye Haogen said proudly: "The neatest in Hollywood teeth.¡±
They were talking and laughing, but Gu Qiao was really annoyed, "I disturbed others."
There was laughter and children exclaiming in the cinema, but there was no disturbance. The father and son continued their talk show, amusing Duoduo.
When Depp was recalling his childhood, the image of him wearing an exaggerated dental helmet appeared on the screen. Ye Wei scared her and said, "Doduo, do you see it? When you start to change your teeth, you will wear that helmet." Ye Haogen's story Zuo nodded seriously: "You have to wear it for seven years until all your teeth are replaced." Duoduo believed it and was so frightened that she almost cried: "No, it's so ugly! I don't want to replace my teeth!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"Sweetheart, don't listen to them, just wear it for a year and you'll be fine."
"No, no, no, no!"
"Ha ha!"
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On July 22, "Escape from Clone Island" directed by Michael Bay was released in North America. Not only did DreamWorks not have a savior, it also fell directly from the cliff and fell into hell!
Terrible! This sci-fi blockbuster, which cost $1.26 billion to produce, has a very bad reputation, with a 40% freshness rating and a 64% love rating. But the worst part is the box office. It opened 3,122 theaters in its opening week. Not to mention it won the weekly championship. Received $18.35 million in first-week box office!
¡° If we calculate the final North American box office of a mediocre film based on the usual formula of first week * 2, it will be about $36.7 million We can¡¯t even make back the distribution fee, which is too miserable.
In fact, according to industry insiders, "Escape from Clone Island" will cause its two producers, DreamWorks and Warner Bros., to lose at least US$50 million each.
"This is much more serious than Madagascar, where African Animals just wasn't as successful as expected, and it was a complete failure.
Things have been changing this week, and various rumors have come out of DreamWorks, which is covered with dark clouds.
For example, in the movie version of "Transformers", DreamWorks and Hasbro have previously reached a cooperation to shoot this big project next year. It has been confirmed that Michael Bay will direct it and will be released on Independence Day in 2007, but now everything has changed. This is still light compared to another earthquake-level news!
DreamWorks is close to bankruptcy and will be acquired by Universal Pictures. The two parties are currently negotiating the acquisition, with a transaction price of approximately US$1 billion or more.
DreamWorks has not yet responded to the rumors, but everyone knows that this independent company is suffering from a storm and can hardly hold on
There is another thing worth recording this week. "The Exorcism Video" has reached $140 million at the North American box office. Not counting inflation, it has surpassed "The Blair Witch Project" with $140,501,248, becoming the highest-grossing film in North American history. mockumentary! Both Lions Gate and Cliffhanger earned laughs.
Over the four weeks in July, it looked like this:
¡°The Exorcist Video¡± ¨C No. 13 ¨C Week 11 ¨C 1,156 ¨C $2,274.??¡ª$2,628,744¡ª$137,165,313¡ª$0.45
"The Exorcism Video" - No. 16 - Week 12 - 773 - $1,531 - $1,183,463 - $138,348,776 - $0.45
"The Exorcism Video" - No. 18 - Week 13 - 641 - $1,369 - $877,529 - $139,226,305 - $0.45
"The Exorcist Video" - No. 17 - Week 14 - 961 - $1,625 - $1,561,625 - $140,787,930 - $0.45
This week, in order to hit the record, Lionsgate bucked the trend and added 320 theaters. TET did not disappoint anyone, collecting another $1.56 million in one fell swoop, officially reaching the top!
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Working hard after work and work, Ye Wei finished editing the first version of "Little Miss Sunshine" as scheduled in late July. It took a few more days to add the dialogue track, some simple sound effects and soundtrack, and 110 minutes of in-house directing The edited version is out!
Ye Wei was deeply moved by the disastrous failure of "Escape from Clone Island". TET set off a craze. A film that seemed impossible to fail based on the lineup and cost was so miserable. There are really no absolutes in the world. He felt sorry for DreamWorks, and was a little worried about whether LMS would be affected by this.
¡°But he knows that whether DreamWorks sells or not, it won¡¯t be settled in a day or two, and no one will suspend or despise the release of LMS. Even if it is sold, the more profitable LMS is, the more valuable DreamWorks will be.
In fact, he can know from the list of people present at the director's cut screening that DreamWorks' emphasis on LMS has increased to the highest level. It is like this is a life-saving straw. It is not very solid, but it is already the only one. hope.
On this day, in the screening room of DreamWorks headquarters, all the big names who could come came. Spielberg, who was busy filming "The Massacre in Munich", and Hanks, who was busy starring in "The Da Vinci Code", did not come, but Katzenberg Ge, Jeff Smy, Terry Price, Goetzman, editor William Goldenbergall were present.
Jeffrey Katzenberg, this middle-aged man with bald glasses and glasses who once saved Disney and created the glory of DreamWorks Animation, still shows a gentle and kind smile, and does not seem to be worried about the company's situation.
From the opening to the end of the film, there was very little sound in the screening room, but everyone was already smiling, not only because of the story of the film, but also because
Super high quality!
"This is great." Katzenberg suddenly applauded, and everyone also applauded, looking at Ye Wei, who was sitting on the left side of the front row, with a kind of praise of "You shocked us."
"Weige, you did not disappoint." Gozman also praised, what a prodigy!
It is easy for LMS scripts and stories to be dull, and successive failures can easily make people depressed, but Ye Wei tells the story in a sunny and warm way, full of black humor, each touching scene, almost perfect in every aspect This It's just a rough internal version, the theatrical version is definitely better.
Jeff Smyth, Price and others all praised it, "You have made an incredible movie.", "It can definitely hit the awards season, it's great."
"Thank you, thank you!" Ye Wei also laughed. He was happy, excited, and relieved to be recognized by these people, but he was not completely relieved. The "Exorcism Video" was also praised by them before, and then he got It's that it doesn't have the value of a theatrical release.
Just because the director's cut was praised by them, it doesn't mean that it can be released to the market unchanged, because the mass market and everyone here have different tastes and needs, and they only consider the mass market.
Sure enough, after giving the thumbs up, everyone gradually changed their demeanor, becoming calm, rational, and businesslike, and began to discuss what the problem was.
"The length of the film is a little too long." Goetzman has long had this opinion. "I think it would be better to reduce it to about 100 minutes. Weige, do you think you can delete some scenes?"
Being watched by everyone, Ye Wei thought, maybe the difficult editing battle has begun. Here he has only one ally, Peter Heller, who has no say.
So everything can only be done by himself. He said seriously: "Sir, you know that this version was edited by William and I after a lot of experiments. Every scene in these 110 minutes is essential, and every shot is carefully designed. , every material is selected as the best, no matter what is deleted, it will not be good.¡±
¡°No one is surprised, that¡¯s just the director.
"105 minutes, Wei, listen to me and delete 5 minutes as much as possible." Goetzman continued, "This way it will be more compact."
"No, it will be incomplete." Ye Wei gestured a little anxiously, "Now it is the compact result. If it is not compact, I can cut out 135 minutes."
"Can those drug-taking scenes be deleted?" Katzenberg said another opinion, or shouldBegged, "I'm worried this will affect the rating, we need to get a PG-13 rating."
Price nodded in agreement. For a family comedy, the difference between a PG-13 rating and an R rating is huge. The story has a lot of foul language that cannot be corrected. The G and PG ratings are difficult, but the PG-13 rating is The established goal is even more life-threatening for DreamWorks now
Family comedy, literary independent film, DreamWorks only focuses on the former. The irony is that LMS is not a normal story, drug abuse, homosexuality, suicide, children's beauty pageants
No matter what, it is not only DreamWorks¡¯ desire to expect LMS to achieve a box office explosion, but also Platoon¡¯s.
"Jeffrey." Ye Wei looked at the big man next to him. He no longer knew how to be nervous for the sake of the movie, and said: "Those drug-taking scenes are very important to the portrayal of grandpa. They are not instigative. I think this issue can be discussed after the rating?" If the MPAA insists on giving us an R rating, we will revise it.¡±
Katzenberg smiled and nodded without saying anything.
There are not many opinions, because this director's cut is really good. VIY has always been very knowledgeable about business. Although it is an art film, from shooting to editing, he did not make it into a stream of consciousness or a piece of pure art. to dull scenes, it fits the rhythm of commercial films, and has a clean and practical structure.
but¡¡
"I heard there are other endings?" Katzenberg asked, his eyes behind his glasses showing no attitude.
Ye Wei nodded, and William Goldenberg also nodded. It¡¯s not about multiple endings like when Oliver wins the game, but how to end the story. Those materials can be cut into many forms. Ye Wei had already made up his mind that Richard and his family would go to eat ice cream; but the editor had a different idea. Goldenberg's version was that after leaving the beauty pageant hotel, the family drove home.
At the moment, the assistant played another ending video. The family walked out of the hotel, said some words, pushed the cart, and soon it was a shot of the road going home, ending.
Goldenberg explained his idea to everyone: "This is simpler, and it is easier for ordinary audiences to understand and be moved. If you fail, go home. There is no place like a warm home. The family has eliminated misunderstandings and learned to unite, regardless of success. Failure has a family.¡±
Everyone nodded after hearing this, as if they were a little moved. Gotzman thought about it and said: "This is simpler than Weige's. It can be understood directly. There is no need to understand the metaphor of eating ice cream." Katzenberg did not speak, not knowing what he was thinking. ¡
Ye Weiyi didn't like it, and quickly said louder: "It's more simple, but it's a completely different thing! Why don't I use it, because this will make this story lose the most soul, all the previous scenes, props, and lines When all the settings don¡¯t get the final echo and sublimation, they are all in vain, and the film will return to the most ordinary and cliche, and there is nothing like a warm home. In fact, this is not what it is about.¡±
He thought of his family and smiled naturally, "Home does not lie in a specific place, but in the garden of the soul. It lies in the mutual understanding, care, and cherishment of family members regardless of success or failure. As long as the family is there, home is everywhere, including convenience stores and movie theaters. , anywhere. This is what I want to say about this movie.¡±
But Goldenberg said: "It is difficult for ordinary audiences to understand. They don't understand. When they see eating ice cream, they are eating ice cream and nothing else. When we start from the perspective of business and the viewing level of ordinary audiences, the simplicity is Correct. It is easier to make them happy by following their ideas than by telling them new ones.¡±
Business! Ye Wei is aware of the current situation. Once Katzenberg thinks that his ending is not commercial, he will lose.
He was already prepared for this disagreement, and he immediately retorted: "There is no incomprehensible question here, it just has multiple layers of meaning. High-level viewers can see through it, and low-level viewers can't understand the whole idea, but they can also understand the most basic meaning." No matter how stupid you are, you can understand the superficial meaning, because the scene of eating ice cream is very warm and cute. Richard has changed. This family has changed. It is no longer about success or failure. They are a real family. "
"Changing this point was expressed in the previous family dance scene." Goldenberg also insisted on his opinion, "A simpler ending can sometimes be more powerful."
"Believe me, this is the most powerful, artistic, and memorable ending." Ye Wei's very firm tone revealed that he would not make any concessions.
Any other differences can be resolved through discussion, but this is absolutely not possible. Instead of going to eat ice cream, go home directly?
Then he doesn¡¯t even know what the previous story is for. All the details are fragmented and cannot be integrated into a whole. Everything is over!
The screening room suddenly became silent. Katzenberg, Goetzman and others were silently considering and preparing to take a stand - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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