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After taking a shower and changing clothes in the fitness club, Matthew went to the Los Angeles Performing Arts School. Now he will practice accents for two hours under the guidance of professional teachers every night, five days a week. With his unremitting efforts, his English accent has gradually become more and more fashionable.

Before Christmas, Matthew specially left Los Angeles and flew to Toronto, Canada to meet Britney. Britney's schedule was very tight. The plane and the event passed through, except that he went to see her once in the middle, and the two never saw her again.

Matthew originally planned to spend this Christmas together. Unexpectedly, when he got off the plane and just turned on his phone, he received an urgent text message from Britney more than half an hour ago. The record company temporarily changed the schedule and asked her to Went to New York for the New Year's Eve in Times Square and was leaving Toronto.

He hurriedly dialed Britney's number, and there was a prompt to turn off the phone, as if he was on a plane.

I checked the flight to New York in the airport. There was a flight to New York about half an hour ago. Matthew called to inquire about the hotel where Britney stayed in Toronto. Britney and her party had already checked out.

Sitting on the bench in the airport terminal, Matthew scratched his head a little, and called Britney's official phone again, but still prompted to shut down.

He waited for a long time, reckoning that the plane over there should have arrived, and called Britney again, this time someone quickly connected.

"Sorry, Matthew." Britney said in a low voice over there, "The record company has just received an invitation, and I can't help it."

"It's okay." Hearing Britney's voice, Matthew felt a lot more relieved, "The work is important."

"Well." Britney said over there, "This is about to leave the airport. There are fans outside. I'm going to hang up."

She added, "When I'm done with this, I'll go to Los Angeles to find you."

Matthew knew that was all he could do, and said, "Well, I'll wait for you in Los Angeles."

Britney hung up over there, Matthew put away his phone, dragged his suitcase to change his ticket back to Los Angeles, and returned to Los Angeles that afternoon.

His life is back to normal, training, studying, and calling Britney every night, occasionally cooperating with the "Scorpion King" crew to promote the film.

Time quickly entered 2002. It has been three years since Matthew came here. There have been many changes in these three years. The biggest change is that he has never been a poor boy with hundreds of thousands of dollars. The assets of the dollar, by the passerby actor became the male lead.

He is undoubtedly getting closer to fame.

Of course, if he fails, what awaits him is the abyss.

Then, I had the first girlfriend in my life. Although both of them are very busy and meet a limited number of times a year, they also have concerns here.

In three years, he gradually got used to the American social atmosphere and Western-style life. The way of thinking and thinking about problems is also changing due to the influence of the environment.

But Matthew is very clear that his goal has not changed, and he is one step closer to it.

After entering 2002, Matthew mainly focused on three things. One was Britney's announcement. After the trip to New York, she went to Europe again; the other was the Pirates of the Caribbean project. The related preparation work is still going on; the third is "Black Hawk Down", this film has begun to be released on a large scale.

After the new year, Sony Columbia Pictures pushed "Black Hawk Down" into more theaters in North America, from 5 to 3,110, but the box office results were not ideal.

In the previous screenings, although the single-house box office performance of "Black Hawk Down" was not top-notch, the minimum single-house performance was also over US$40,000. On the first weekend of the expanded release, the single-house box office dropped directly to 10,000 US dollars. Off, just over $9,000.

The film earned $28 million in North America in the first weekend of its expanded release, which was a certain gap from Sony Columbia Pictures' expectations.

The good reputation of "Black Hawk Down" has not brought very good box office results, and the professional agency Cinema's prediction of the final North American box office is only about 100 million US dollars.

Compared to the film's $92 million investment, the $100 million box office is still far from paying off.

However, Sony Columbia is very confident that the film will eventually be profitable. First, it has overseas box office, and secondly, the Oscar nomination list announced in late January, "Black Hawk Down" has won several heavyweight nominations.

Matthew paid special attention to the list of nominations for the 74th Academy Awards. "Black Hawk Down" won many nominations such as Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, etc., and it can get some Oscar effect bonus.

Since "Black Hawk Down" was nominated for an Oscar, Helen Herman is also in contact with the crew and wants Matthew to appear on the Oscars red carpet. Universal Pictures also has plans in this regard in order to promote "The Scorpion King" .

However, it is not easy to implement. The number of places for the "Black Hawk Down" crew to participate in the Oscars is limited. First of all, they must take care of the Oscar nominees and their relatives and friends.

Universal Pictures quickly gave up. Matthew's reputation was too small, and he wanted to push him to the Oscar red carpet. Compared with the publicity effect, Universal Pictures thought that it would not be worthwhile to pay too much.

Matthew himself did not have such extravagant expectations. Although the release of "Black Hawk Down" and the promotion of "The Scorpion King" maintained to a certain extent, he paid some attention to it, but strictly speaking, he was still an ordinary actor. rather than stars.

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On South Bowei Street, Burbank, a black BMW slowly parked on the side of the road. Matthew pushed the door and got out of the car. The sun was a little dazzling at noon. He took out his sunglasses and stuck them on his face. Went to the agreed coffee shop.

Not far ahead is the Walt Disney headquarters, which is connected to the Disney Studios across the street by a cross-street bridge, creating one of the most famous views of South Broadway.

The cafe is right next to Disney headquarters, diagonally across from Disney Studios.

Matthew pushed open the glass door of the cafe and went in and immediately saw Helen Herman, who was sitting in a booth by the window, looking at Disney Studios through the huge glass window.

"What are you looking at?" He walked over and sat across from Helen Herman, "so fascinated."

Helen Herman looked back, didn't answer him, but asked, "What to drink?"

Matthew leaned on the back of the chair, "I want black tea." He continued, "You are so busy today that you asked me to have coffee with you."

He and Helen Herman have always only had work-related intersections.

Helen Herman slowly stirred the coffee in front of her, took a sip, and said, "Universal Pictures has confirmed the premiere time, April 9, at Chandler Hall at the Los Angeles Music Center."

But Matthew asked, "When did they start working on propaganda?"

The promotion of "The Scorpion King" has been tepid, and the actor has only attended two media promotion conferences so far, and the response from the media can only be said to be mediocre.

"The publicity resources are concentrated in the month before the release." Helen Herman obviously has enough understanding, "Universal Pictures only invested 12 million US dollars in publicity expenses, and also produced a large number of copies, leaving it to The funds for propaganda cannot be as abundant as "The Mummy Returns", and it can only focus on building momentum."

She put down the coffee cup and said, "If you had promised to have a fake relationship with Kaili Hu, Universal Pictures would have already started making a fuss about it."

Matthew shook his head, "You know, it's impossible." He blocked the words behind Helen Herman first, "It's not about me alone, if it only involves me, I'll be fine with whatever you do. But when it comes to another person, I can't make the decision for her."

"Stop talking about that." Seeing Matthew's firm attitude, Helen Herman stopped talking about it and said, "The crew gave you a few spots at the premiere, if you have a better-known friend, You can invite them to cheer for you."

Matthew thought about it and said, "I'll tell my friends ~www.readwn.com~ to call James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender back to see if they're coming. By the way, And Orlando Bloom, this guy is literally red.

Helen Herman added, "In terms of publicity, please wait for the announcement from the crew, don't worry." She turned to look at Disney Studios again, "I got the news that Disney has officially announced to Jerry Brookhead. Mo's project was approved, the title was "Pirates of the Caribbean," and the budget for the film was $140 million."

Matthew immediately came to the spirit and asked, "Is there any news about the script characters?"

"No." Helen Herman shook his head slowly, "Jerry Bruckheimer has recruited Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, the screenwriters of Shrek, and is ready to start writing the script. already."

The two screenwriters, Matthew, do not know each other, but "Shrek" knows that the screenwriter of this film is definitely not a simple character.

Helen Herman pointed a finger at Disney Studios and said, "Just today, in Studio 2, Jerry Bruckheimer has started designing and building sets. "

Matthew scratched his head, "Starting to set the scene without even having a script?"

"In the hands of Hollywood and Jerry Bruckheimer, nothing is impossible." Helen Herman folded her hands on the table. "Not only is there no script, but the director is not determined."

"What about the actors?" Matthew asked the most concerned thing.

"We'll have to wait until the director is in place," Helen Herman replied. "As far as I know, the cast won't start selecting actors until June, and filming will start in October."

Hearing this time period, Matthew suddenly sounded something and said, "This seems to conflict with Stephen Sommers' project, right?"