Hollywood Hunter

After staying in Rivne for one night, Simon departed the next morning for London, England.

In the United States, this year's Sundance Film Festival closed on Sunday night.

After the premiere on January 21, the new version of "This Man From Earth" written by Simon himself was screened three times in the past week. The venues were full, and the media discussion around the film also skyrocketed, even past January 28. Golden Globe Awards on the night.

As the topic heats up, there are more and more controversies.

Audiences who like "This Man Comes From Earth" worshipped it as a magical work, a classic movie that told a magical science fiction story without using any special effects.

Those who don't like it, criticize the film's plot as far-fetched and lack of sincerity on various media platforms.

In many cases, the topic of a movie is the key to determining the box office of the movie.

The new film written by Simon Westero himself has the aura of topic that can save tens of millions of dollars in the publicity budget. Now, the film has caused a strong controversy, and it is still mostly praised. Daenerys Entertainment executives are more and more optimistic about the film's box office prospects.

One of the most annoying things for the Gaomen Films team in charge of the release of the film is the prevention of spoilers.

Traditional paper media is well controlled.

After greeting, as long as you don't want to be rejected by Daenerys Entertainment's new film premiere in the future, most media will avoid divulging the plot.

It is a pity that the rise of the Internet has made it very difficult to maintain confidentiality.

In particular, "This Man Comes From Earth" is a high-concept movie that can summarize the plot in one sentence.

Fortunately, there is the assistance of the Eaglet portal.

Even if the IE browser homepage restriction has been opened, the current Internet platforms, mainstream forum communities and social networks are basically under the influence of Yigrete.

Even so, the publicity and distribution team took a lot of trouble to clean up or hide the content that is suspected of spoiling. In an email from Ella Deutschman to Simon, he joked that a quarter of the budget for "This Man From Earth" was spent on preventing online spoilers.

At the closing ceremony of the 11th Sundance Film Festival on the evening of January 29th, although Simon had hinted at Robert Redford, "This Man Comes From Earth" still won an "audience award" that was almost universally expected.

Except for "This Man Comes From Earth", the core jury awards did not appear to be accidental, and they succeeded in "Brothers McMullen" produced by Daenerys Entertainment which also received a good reputation at the film festival.

Simon is optimistic about another rookie director James Mangold's "Unspeakable Love" and another "Thief's Life" won the director award second only to the jury award.

Daenerys Entertainment's three projects this year, and the last fashion documentary "Zipper Down" naturally got nothing.

However, through the joint efforts of Gaomen Films and Liz Carbon during Sundance, the reputation of "Under the Zipper" is greater than that of the documentary "Krupper", which won the jury award. Many viewers expressed interest in this. A documentary featuring many supermodels is expected.

On the other hand, Edward Burns's "McMullen Brothers" belongs to Daenerys Entertainment's own project, but James Mangold's "Unspeakable Love" is not.

After Simon personally talked with James Mangold, Mangold quickly signed a three-part package contract with Daenerys Entertainment, but "Unspeakable Love" that Gaomen Pictures originally planned to buy together appeared. misfortune.

Because it is a film invested by an independent filmmaker, everyone is free to compete. After some news came out, this ultra-low-cost independent film with a production cost of only 250,000 US dollars was eventually under the umbrella of Paramount. The Orion Pictures team bought out the local omni-channel distribution rights at a high price of 3.5 million US dollars.

Gaomen Pictures’ box office outlook for "Unspeakable Love" is estimated to be about US$5 million in the country. Based on this, it has made a capped budget of US$2 million. After including the distribution costs, this price is actually equivalent to relying on subsequent video tapes. And other channels to make profits. In the face of looting, Ella Deutschman can only give up.

Before the consecutive Golden Globe Awards and the Sundance closing ceremony, on Friday, January 17, Daenerys Entertainment’s first more important film "Red Zone" was released in North America. The film was produced by New World Studios. The card is responsible for issuing, and the number of screens opened is 1,736.

Daenerys Entertainment has been sparing no effort to introduce excellent Hong Kong films to cultivate the market in recent years. Jack Cheng has gradually become less famous in North America. After the film was released, both the media and audience feedback were very good. Coupled with the fact that New World Pictures has a stronger advertising power than the previous new line, the North American box office of "Red Fan District" is expected to be even better than the historical US$32 million.

After this, in the face of the strong expectations of the audience, Gaomen Pictures first announced the opening period of "This Man From Earth", February 24.

This arrangement is mainly to make way for "Broken Arrow", which will be released on Valentine's Day on February 10.

The other two "Brothers McMullen" and "Under the Zipper" that participated in Sundance were also announced on February 10 and March 3, respectively.

"Brothers McMullen" and "Broken Arrow" are on the same schedule mainly to take advantage of the Sundance Film Festival Jury Award, and there is not much competition between the two films.

"Under the Zipper" was even more popular on March 3, because of the film's positioning. The publicity team of Gaomen Pictures plans to give an opening screen of about 500 yuan, which is actually not cold, and the scale of the opening screen of "McMullen Brothers" is probably only this level.

Simon arrived in London on January 30.

Because many matters need to be negotiated with the Ukrainian government, Celia and his party will continue to stay in Ukraine for a few days without leaving together.

Coincidentally, this day is the 30th day of the Chinese lunar calendar.

As a city of immigrants, London naturally has no shortage of Chinatown. The weather is too cold. Simon has no plans to join in the fun. He just handed over to Lin Su and Chen Qing who returned to China to spend the New Year while checking work emails on a private plane from Kiev to London. The two women sent a message congratulating the new year.

I took a car from Rivni to Kiev and then flew to London. After getting off the plane, I rushed to Sophia Fesi’s villa in Kensington Garden Street where Simon was staying. It was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon.

Today is Monday, working day.

The negotiation to acquire Burberry is still going on, Sophia did not come to pick up the plane, nor did she wait for Simon at home, but continued to go to work.

However, someone else was waiting in the villa on Kensington Garden Street.

A ballet teacher, Yulia Shursikina, whom Simon had handed over last year, saw this Russian girl who led the girls to dance like an elf through a remote camera. Occupy it.

It's just that Simon has never had the opportunity to come to London in the past year, nor has he summoned the Russian girl to his side. Instead of teaching the girls ballet lessons, Simon has arranged for her another job as Simon in the UK. The housekeeper of a series of properties.

Shuershikina's treatment is equal to that of Lin Su and the others. Outside the residence, there is also a maid and a guard.

Shuer Shikina, who was almost sold by her lover to her mother and daughter at one time, accepted her role without any resistance. In the past year, she has worked diligently on several things that Simon explained.

When I saw Simon for the first time, Shuer Sijina was neither happy nor nervous. The 31-year-old woman who still shows no signs of years wore a well-tailored OL suit indoors, her blonde hair was rolled up, her face was exquisite and perfect, her hands were placed In front of him, when he called Simon, he was different from other women around him. It was neither a close call of Simon's name nor a boss with multiple meanings, but a clear voice called Simon'Mr.'.

This made Simon think of the British butler in "Big Name" at a certain moment.

Now that she was arranged to be a butler, Shul Shikina did receive a professional training course. It is not surprising that this British butler style has formed.

Simon has always felt that Slav girls are the closest race to the "elves". Both Lyudmila yesterday and Shur Shikina at this time are both called elves, but they have two completely different styles, one being aggressive and the other introverted. All are perfect and refined.

Listening to Shuershikina greet herself, Simon stepped forward and held up the woman’s delicate chin, took a closer look, and finally saw a little nervousness in the woman’s expression, smiled, and said: "Go and change yours. Practice clothes, show me the dance later."

Shuershikina was startled, and when Simon let go, she nodded subconsciously, but she couldn't help lowering her eyes and dared not look at the man.

Simon walked upstairs after speaking, running around, planning to take a hot bath and relax.

During the period, I called Sofia. The woman said that things could be finalized today, so it would take more than five o'clock to come back. Simon mentioned that today is Chinese New Year’s Eve and asked the woman if she would like to eat Chinese food. Sophia took the initiative to introduce a few here Nice Chinese restaurant, you can invite the chef to make it to your door.

After taking a shower and arranging girl A to handle the dinner, Simon led the waitress in the villa to a spacious room on the first floor of about a hundred square meters. This was originally a recreation room of the former owner of the villa. Simon bought this After the property was opened, all the old things were cleared out, only an indoor bar was re-arranged in the corner, which was intended to be used as a dance floor for parties.

Shuer Shikina has been waiting here, wearing a pure white ballet exercise suit, without the kind of tutu skirt, so it shows more and more the perfect figure of a woman.

There is a circle of sofas next to the bar, and there is a stage for the band to play, and there is a piano on the stage.

Simon did not go to sit down on the sofa. Instead, he came to the piano and looked at the woman standing in the middle of the room with her hands tied. He smiled and said, "Last year I saw you dancing and I had an idea. I think you must be very beautiful solo dancers. It happens to be here. There is a tune, you can listen to it. If you dance well, I can record a MV for you in the future. Well, this outfit will need to be changed then, but let’s talk about it later."

Simon finished speaking, bowed his head and started to move the keys.

The piano skills inherited from those memories have not faded, and it is easy to find the feeling, and then the piano music sounded in the room.

This is a solo ballet that Simon had seen in his previous life, "The Last Day of Bach."

I was not interested in ballet at all, but when I saw this dance by chance, Simon immediately fell in love with it. It turns out that ballet can also be like this. Probably the true beauty is true. Later, I also specifically inquired that the song was made by a German singer to mourn his dead wife. He found a complete song. After listening to it, I didn’t feel much, but the pure music version was accompanied by Paulina, the principal of the Berlin State Ballet. Semionova's solo dance is amazing.

Because the original song was created after the new century, with the increasing influence of Simon this big butterfly, if he does not take it out, it may not appear again in the future, so the idea of ​​letting Shur Shikina interpret it .

After playing the tune again, Simon began to direct Yulia's corresponding dance moves.

I have read the information. Yulia, who has practiced ballet since she was a child, is not much worse than the chief of many dance companies. It’s just that personal opportunities are more important than ability. Before she met Simon, Shuershikina had always been. The one with bad luck.

Directed by Simon, the woman quickly danced in the spacious room.

Over and over again.

Gradually become proficient.

Then do it with ease.

I don’t know when it was dark in London. Sophia, who had returned from the outside, appeared at the door of the room, watching the woman dancing perfectly in harmony with the piano sound. She was a little jealous and couldn’t bear to interrupt. It was not until the end of another time that she walked to the man. In front of him, she looked at Yulia, who seemed to be addicted to her lying on the floor in a swan-necked posture, and said, "It's very beautiful, did you write a song specifically for her?"

Simon was still sitting on the stool and did not respond. Instead, he put his arm around Sophia's waist standing next to him, pressed his face to the woman's abdomen, and asked with a smile, "How is the baby today?"

The man didn't answer the question just now, and Sophia was wise not to ask any more, and said softly: "It's only been two months, the little guy hasn't been naughty yet."

Simon listened for a moment and said, "London is too cold. Let's leave tomorrow and go to Cannes, Rome or Athens. The temperature there is suitable for children to grow up. You should not work like this again in the next few months."

Feeling the concern in the man's tone, Sophia's jealousy just disappeared a lot, and she put her palm on the man's head and stroked it, agreeing: "Okay, anyway, today's things have been discussed."

The two whispered intimately, and Yulia, who was curled up on the floor, did not move, as if she had fallen asleep.

Of course it is impossible to sleep.

In just a few short hours, dancing to the music of the man, Yulia felt that her lonely heart over the years suddenly melted again.

Recall many many things.

Hours later, I took a ballet class for the first time.

The clumsy little swan.

When I was slim, I felt that the world was so beautiful because of the joy of being admired for dancing.

At that time as proud as a swan.

Later, there was also the excitement of joining the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet.

...

then.

The trajectory of life is like a derailed train.

Keep falling.

come down.

Until today, a certain heart that had been indulged for a long time suddenly resurfaced and felt the long-lost air.

The man sitting by the piano is her savior.

Knowing that he is just a piece of his collection.

I dare not love.

However, I really want to keep dancing with his music like this.