Hollywood Theatre.
"Titanic" is a movie produced by two Hollywood giants, 20th Century Fox and Paramount, with an additional production cost of $200 million and a publicity and distribution cost of $100 million. It is the most expensive movie in history. Even though the few previews did not create much enthusiasm, it still attracted a large number of media reporters on the day of its premiere to report on it.
Of course, more people come here to watch the fun.
"Hey man, did you see this morning's Olaf Weekly?"
Said female reporter Antis Cole.
Upon hearing this, the photographer next to her immediately said, "I haven't seen it, but if you're referring to the article by the famous film critic Asim Albert criticizing Titanic and director Cameron, I did hear someone mention it."
"hehe!"
Los Angeles Morning Post reporter Antis Cole quipped, "Let me tell you something. Asim Albert called Cameron's films rubbish, worthless garbage, and said Cameron should jump off a building. He also declared Titanic would fail, and if it didn't fail, he said he would swim across the Atlantic from New York to London."
Swimming across the Atlantic?
Is he crazy?!
The photographer was surprised and said, "These film critics really have big mouths. They spew out all sorts of nonsense."
Reporter Antisker quipped, "If I remember correctly, Asim is almost 60. If he loses the bet, he'll drown in less than 0.1 nautical miles (182 meters), let alone swimming across the Atlantic."
The two of them started talking and laughing, acting as spectators.
The conflict between famous film critic Asim Albert and Cameron is not just because of "Titanic".
The two had a feud as early as when Cameron directed "Terminator 1".
When Terminator 1 was released in 1984, the film's producer, Western Pacific Pictures, was short of money and did not pay critics enough, so film critic Asim took the lead and slammed the film in various media. Of course, as the director, Cameron was inevitably criticised by him.
However, Cameron is not a good-tempered person!
He's a tyrant on the set!
As a result, Asim and Cameron started to argue with each other in the media.
As a result, we have to say that Cameron was very aggressive and directly confused the film critic Asim, and "Terminator 1" also exploded at the box office.
From then on, Asim, the film critic who had lost once, began to hound Cameron relentlessly. As long as it was a movie directed by Cameron, no matter what the quality was, he would rush up and criticise it first!
However...
"I'm not sure either!"
Cameron was indeed unsure, otherwise, he would not have said, "If the movie fails, I will slit my own throat with a razor blade."
Remember, when a person is feared to the extreme, he becomes angry!
"Come out, I'll kill you!"
"Get out of here, I'll fight you~!"
This is the state most people are in when they face extreme fear.
Similarly, when a person feels guilty and extremely insecure, some people do not retreat, but instead lie stubbornly. What's worse, some people even become hysterical during the process of defending themselves.
For example: When your parents ask you about your work, no matter how badly you are doing, you will lie. If your parents ask a few more questions, your tone will become angry, or even hang up the phone impatiently.
Just like today!
When film critic Asim once again criticised Cameron, Cameron, who was always full of criticism,
He did not back down and started to criticise the film critic Asim in many media and newspapers in the morning, directly scolding his ancestors.
His eyes were red and he looked so angry that people who didn't understand would think Cameron was going to kill Asim.
....
Around 4 pm.
Less than an hour before the premiere of "Titanic" was to begin, Kyle arrived at the venue with Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan.
"Nolan, I heard that your brother Jonathan submitted a script to the company's production department a few days ago. Um, "Memento"? Are you planning to shoot it next?"
Walking on the red carpet, Kyle started chatting with Nolan and didn't care about the media reporters around him at all.
Kyle is the boss;
Nolan is a new director who has just entered Hollywood;
How could all the media reporters pay attention to the two of them?
On the contrary, Zack Snyder was walking on the red carpet. Before he had gone far, he was already being photographed by media reporters, and even the host on the scene was chasing him to ask questions.
Who made him the director of "The Purge", a movie that just became a hit in America?
"Nolan, let's go our own way and don't worry about Zack. Well, don't look at his serious face now, you never know how happy he is in his heart. Listen to me, let's go first." Zack scolded with a smile.
Nolan nodded.
Afterwards, Kyle and Nolan entered the meeting room and discussed again the topic of "Memento" that Kyle had just mentioned.
Of course, Kyle knows the movie "Memento"!
In its original time and space, it was adapted from the novel of his younger brother Jonathan Nolan, and was Christopher Nolan's first famous work after entering Hollywood. With a production cost of less than $5 million, it successfully won more than $30 million at the North American box office.
....
It didn't take long.
Kyle met with several people in charge of the film project from Paramount and 20th Century Fox. As one of the investors, Kyle of course had to have a good chat with them.
"Not ideal."
Paramount's head, Hall Ample, shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Kyle, you know. Although Titanic has received very good reviews after several preview screenings, the media and theatre chains are not very optimistic about it. Even some viewers say that Titanic is too long."
Can the film be shorter?
Man, that's a full three hours and fifteen minutes!
The impatient audience even fell asleep during the first few screenings!
John Chiora, the head of 20th Century Fox, echoed, "Anyway, let's do our best. Hey, hey, hey, Kyle, you won't regret buying your investment in Titanic, will you? Haha, but it's too late for you to regret it now."
Regret?
I'm afraid you'll regret selling me part of your investment!
Kyle pretended to be anxious and sighed, "Man, I paid tens of millions of dollars!"
Upon hearing this, Hall Anpu and John Chiora immediately looked at Kyle with a look that said "We are not familiar with each other".
It's a shame for you!
Our two companies have long regretted investing in the large ship project, but we never expected that a fool like you would come along.
"Hi, Leonardo!"
At this moment, Kyle saw Leonardo DiCaprio, the male lead of "Titanic", walk into the venue, and he immediately walked up to him and started chatting with him.
Haha~!
You know, Kyle really wants Leo to be one of the spokespersons for SpongeBob SquarePants!