Hollywood Hunter

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" will be released next month, as the heroine of the film, Aipro O’Neill, although it is just a vase in this movie featuring four turtles, Nicole Kidman When approaching the Oscars ceremony, I deliberately took a week off from the set of "Midnight Bell" in Melbourne, Australia, and rushed back to Los Angeles.

Oscars of this era generally have more than 40 million viewers, and their popularity is second only to the annual Super Bowl.

This year, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" and "Midnight Ring" are two major films released by Daenerys Entertainment. Whether it is for maintaining personal reputation or film promotion, the Oscars ceremony is a must.

Of course, for this kind of running, Nicole Kidman is also happy.

Too many men and women who have mixed in Hollywood climbing all their lives will not necessarily be able to sit in the Oscars hall.

While returning to Los Angeles on March 25 to prepare for the Oscars, WMA also arranged a series of other work schedules for her.

Daenerys Studios.

The time is Friday, March 27.

In the morning at MGM headquarters in Century City, I participated in an audition for a script. After lunch, Nicole Kidman hurried to Daenerys Studios in Malibu.

The image design of Plant Ivy was confirmed last month. Taking advantage of Nicole's return from Australia, Simon wanted to see the effect of her character after putting on makeup herself.

After the total box office in North America broke through the 200 million U.S. dollar mark at the end of January, "The Flash" has been released in the last two months, and the cumulative box office as of yesterday has reached 251 million U.S. dollars. The film runs from March 20 to March 26 in a single week. The box office has also fallen to 1.78 million U.S. dollars, and is expected to go down around Easter next month. The total domestic box office is about 255 million U.S. dollars.

Overseas, the box office performance of "The Flash" is even better. The box office that has been released has reached a cumulative box office of 363 million US dollars in more than three months. As the overseas release continues, it is only a matter of time before the "Flash" has accumulated more than US$400 million overseas.

The global box office totaled more than 650 million U.S. dollars. Even if it can't compare with the two "Batman", such box office results are enough to make other Hollywood studios envy.

DC Cinema Universe sold three consecutive films, and the follow-up project plan naturally received further attention from the two companies.

According to the information recently collected by the media, Daenerys and Warner Bros. will officially announce the candidates for the two major projects of the DC Cinematic Universe, "Superman" and "Steel Bones". "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" has already been gossip about too much.

Nicole Kidman himself knows some news that is not heard by the outside world.

For example, her role as Poison Ivy is actually a three-part contract.

In addition to the villain in "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", she will also join the follow-up "Suicide Squad" series.

Someone once talked about this role, saying that if the Plant Girl is brilliant enough, her popularity in the future might be no less than Catwoman.

Looking at the scenery of Valerie Galino in Hollywood in the last two years, if Plant Ivy can really do this, Nicole believes that at least throughout the 1990s, she will be able to maintain her status as a first-line actress.

Thinking back to the beginning, she obviously had such a good starting point as "Pulp Fiction", because of some self-righteous little calculations in her heart, she almost missed her most solid backing in Hollywood.

Fortunately, it's not too late to react.

It's just that every time I think of the experience that the guy at the premiere of "Batman: Hour of War" made her drink two bottles of water and rushed to the hall to endure for more than an hour, an indescribable weirdness will linger in my heart. mood.

It took nearly 4 hours for the Plant Girl to put on makeup. After finishing the makeup, it was close to the end of get off work time, but Simon still did not show up, just took a set of makeup photos and a video in the studio.

So it wasn't until six o'clock in the afternoon that Simon and Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel showed up together.

It's not just that Nicole has been busy working for Plant Ivy all afternoon. All day today, Simon and Semel are participating in the discussion meeting of the DC Cinematic Universe team, mainly to sort out and finalize the plot framework of the DC Cinematic Universe follow-up project.

The DC Cinema Universe team has a dedicated office area in Office LOFT on the second floor of Daenerys Studios.

In the previous three films, the intersection of the DC movie universe basically still exists in the easter eggs.

However, starting from this summer's "Wonder Woman", the entire DC movie universe will officially start fusion. According to the plot plan, this fusion will use three mother boxes as a series of clues.

The first "Wonder Woman", the story still takes place in World War I, but the plot is very different from the version of Gal Gadot in Simon's memory.

British Air Force pilot Steve Trevor accidentally crashed on Paradise Island, breaking the tranquility of the Amazons who have been hiding from the world for hundreds of years.

Knowing that there is a war in the human world outside of Paradise Island, and discovering that the intelligence that Steve Trevor accidentally collected is similar to the mother box that triggered wars among the various races in Amazonian history, Queen Hippolyte decided to send her own Daughter Diana Prince and Steve Trevor left Paradise Island together, trying to retrieve the mother box to avoid a greater disaster.

Diana finally defeated Ares, the **** of war who used the mother box to make humans kill each other, and brought the first mother box back to Paradise Island.

Subsequently, recovering all three mother boxes in the legend became the ultimate mission of Diana Prince.

In the 1993 summer archive of "Superman", there will be a second mother box.

Clark Kent's biological parents used the energy of the mother box to send their newborn son away from the dying Krypton planet, and the second mother box came to earth with it.

In the plot setting, after a battle between Clark Kent as an adult and General Zod who followed him, the mother box fell into the hands of humans, which triggered the finalized plot of "Steel Bones" at the end of 1993.

The father of rugby player Victor Stone, Silas Stone, happens to be a member of the mother box research team.

Victor was seriously injured and dying in a car accident. In order to save his son, Silas Stone privately used the energy of the mother box to turn Victor into a semi-human, semi-mechanical biochemical man.

Because he didn't understand the role of the mother box, Stone also accidentally created the villain "Grid" of the "Steel Bone" series during the process of being saved.

The ending of the story is that the steel frame that accepted his biochemical state defeated Grid, but the second mother box was accidentally stolen and fell into the hands of the metropolitan entrepreneur Lex Luther who has been following the Superman incident. This mother box It has also become an important clue to "Batman v Superman".

At the same time, the loss of the mother box triggered the secret formation of the "Suicide Squad" by the federal government in an attempt to retrieve the lost mother box.

The planned schedule is in the summer of 1994 in "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", and the third mother box appears.

The clown who was blessed with the mother box ability was finally defeated by Batman. Diana Prince, whose personal mission to retrieve all three mother boxes, also appeared in this film, but did not reveal her true identity, but finally brought it quietly. The third mother box is gone.

Subsequently, the "Suicide Squad" triggered by the loss of the second mother box was confirmed to be at the end of 1994. The result of the story was that the "Suicide Squad" was initially formed, but the mother box that Superman brought from his planet has not been recovered.

Next, "Batman vs. Superman" is scheduled for 1995.

Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman fight together against Lex Luther, who uses the mother box to transform into an alien species.

The setting of alien species is actually similar to the day of destruction.

However, the ‘Death of Superman’ event in the DC Comics series has not yet occurred, and the Day of Destruction has not yet been born. At the end of this year, DC Comics will launch this event.

Therefore, in the setting of the "Batman v Superman" story, Lex Luther wanted to use mother box technology and Kryptonian genes to transform himself into a more powerful biochemical man than steel, but turned into a Doomsday monster.

When the story of "Batman v Superman" ended, Wonder Woman finally recovered the last mother box, and all three mother boxes were stored on the Amazonian Paradise Island.

Summer of 1996, "Justice League."

Steppenwolves invade and take away the three mother boxes guarded by the Amazons.

Superheroes such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Catwoman are all assembled to form the Justice League against the Steppenwolves army.

Simon and Semel have seen Nicole's Plant Juice make-up and lens effects together, and Semel quickly left.

It takes four hours to put on makeup, but it is not easy to remove makeup.

A dressing room in the special effects office area of ​​Daenerys.

After confirming the effect, the makeup artist began to help Nicole wipe off the paint on her body. Because the paint is specially made, the effect of direct water flushing is not good. You need to wipe off most of it with a well-equipped detergent.

Simon did not leave directly, sitting next to the makeup artist to help Nicole remove her makeup, and by the way asked about the shooting situation of "Midnight Ring".

Because of the long distance, Australia will only send back to Los Angeles every week.

Simon did not know the specific situation of the crew very well.

"You know, Philip and I worked together once in "Cross the Horizon". He is a very serious director. For "Midnight Ring", he also fully understands the effect of this film. I will return next week. Melbourne, it will take up to two more weeks to finish." Nicole turned her neck slightly and asked the makeup artist to wipe the paint on her neck, tilted her eyes at the man beside her, and said, "Simon, I went to MGM to audition in the morning. Do you know that "The Edge of Body Heat"?"

Simon nodded and said, "I know, Alan Sorkin's new script, or I asked MGM to contact you, the heroine is very suitable for you."

Alan Sorkin was the screenwriter of the big-selling "Few Good People" last year. Daenerys and MGM collaborated on this project, although because of Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and Demi Moore The starring role of the three big stars led to the final production budget reaching 40 million US dollars, but the film only got 117 million US dollars in North America. So far, the global box office has exceeded the 200 million US dollars mark, which is generally considered a big profit.

With the success of "A Few Good People", Alan Sorkin also entered the ranks of Hollywood gold screenwriters, and the new script "The Edge of Body Heat" once again cooperated with MGM.

However, this time there was no participation of Daenerys Entertainment, but MGM sole proprietorship.

Nicole heard that Simon said that he arranged it personally. She was a little surprised and pleasantly surprised, and then she reacted and asked, "This project does not seem to be a collaborative film between Daenerys and MGM?"

Without Daenerys Entertainment's participation, the film’s box office prospects seem to be less secure.

Simon just smiled and said: "Yes, but the script is still good, and you must know the current situation of MGM, whether it is a cooperation or a sole proprietorship."

In the memory of "The Edge of Body Heat", the heroine is Nicole Kidman.

Simon doesn't remember the box office data of this film, but he can confirm that the market performance is not bad.

Moreover, compared with "Few Good People", the budget of "Body Heat Edge", which does not intend to launch a heavy lineup, only needs 20 million US dollars. Even if it fails, MGM can afford it.

After shelving the 007 series, MGM's plan for the next few years is to carefully produce a batch of medium and low-cost commercial films, and Simon will also appropriately include several ‘dark horses’. At the same time, MGM will also try to distribute as an agency, and get projects from Hollywood second- and third-tier film companies for pure agency distribution.

Simon's ultimate goal is to slowly restore the vitality of the big film company, which experienced continuous turbulence and decline in the 1980s.

After two or three years, when the first phase goal is reached, Simon will make the next step for this company.

Nicole heard Simon say this, her eyes flickered a little, and she stopped hesitating.

She already has the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, "Midnight Bell" and the role of Poison Ivy. Even if "The Edge of Body Heat" fails, it will have little impact on her.

Moreover, this was arranged by Westeros himself.

She had promised to be "obedient", although she didn't know if he remembered, but she didn't intend to go against the will of this man.

Following the makeup artist, Yu Guang noticed the movement of the man raising his wrist to look at his watch. Nicole thought about it and asked, "You, would you like to have dinner together later?"

Simon shook his head and said: "There is already an arrangement. Marvin Josephson's reception, would you like to come together?"

Nicole hesitated for a moment, and nodded quickly.

Although she is an artist under the WMA banner, it seems a little inappropriate to go to the wine party at ICM founder Marvin Josephson's house, but if she is with Westeros, it will definitely be fine.

The two female make-up artists who were of good shape and appearance, who quietly surrounded Nicole and helped her wipe the paint on her body, were a little envious. I just threw some hints to the big boss next to him, but the other party did not give any response.

As for the content of the chat between the big boss and Nicole Kidman just now, they must also treat it as unheard.

First of all, there is no important gossip. "Midnight Ring", "Body Heat Edge", etc., have nothing to do with their little makeup artists. As for the big boss to bring Nicole Kidman to the cocktail party, it is definitely not a big deal. Gossip.

Secondly, if it spreads indiscriminately, they will definitely not want to continue working at Daenerys Entertainment.

The 25-year-old Nicole is at the peak of her appearance.

Janet is not in Los Angeles, Simon has no other arrangements tonight, of course I don’t mind tasting this Australian beauty tonight.

Now that Nicole agreed, Simon patiently continued to wait for her to remove her makeup, and sent someone a set of dresses for the reception. The two people left Daenerys Studios together in the night.