On July 15, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was released in North America. The film was well received by the critics, with 83% freshness of Rotten Tomatoes, but the audience's response was only average, 51% favourite and IMDb-6.7 points. These may be as good as its box office performance, collecting $85.8 million in the first week. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are still on the golden combination.

?p>And the outstanding performances of the young actors were praised, and the chewing gum champion "Violet" Anna Sophia Rob was very eye-catching.

On the premiere on Sunday on the 10th, Ye Wei and Emma went to join in the fun. They were not going together, but as Anna Sophia's friend, and Emma was her own itinerary.

Ye Wei didn't want to go, but whether it was Brian or DreamWorks distribution, he wanted him to attend, and added exposure and publicity for LMS. And there was a good reason, he was the dentist's son, and he was Anna Sophia's good friend...

This event has rescheduled his and Nina's date week. It's a good movie, and Anna acted very well.

Anna's career is very good. Since this year, she has been auditioning again and joined the main supporting role of "Harvest", which will start filming next month, which is a thriller starring Oscar-winning actress Hillary Swank, with a budget project of $40 million. Then in November, she will also star in the budget comedy project "Undercover Academy".

Although I have seen it once, on the night of the 15th, the Ye family of four went to the cinema to watch it. Duoduo has been waiting for it for a long time, and it is indeed a different kind of fun for the dentist family.

In the full screening room, Duoduo laughed from time to time. Whenever Anna appeared, she would laugh at Anna. When she saw the "violet" turned into a big ball, she was so happy that she almost rolled to the ground. Ye Wei couldn't help but shake her head. She was really not sympathetic, and she had to cover her mouth and smile!

Ye Haogen joked that Depp was obviously wearing dentures, and the prop group should have a more real look. Ye Wei laughed and said that it was not a prop group, but a makeup group, showing off her real and neat teeth. "A few days ago, they said they should make molds according to my teeth." Ye Haogen said proudly: "The neat teeth in Hollywood."

They were talking and laughing, but Gu Qiao was really angry, "It made people disturb."

There was laughter in the cinema and the children exclaimed repeatedly. There was no disturbance. The father and son continued to talk show and tease Duoduo.

When Depp recalled his childhood, the shape of a helmet wearing an exaggerated bracelet appeared on the screen. Ye Wei scared her and said, "Duoduo, see if you see it, you will wear that helmet when you start changing your teeth." Ye Haogen nodded seriously: "It will take seven years to wear it until all your teeth are replaced." Duoduo believed it and was so scared that he cried: "No, it's so ugly! I don't want to change my teeth!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"Little sweetheart, don't listen to them, just wear it for a year."

"No, no, no!"

"Ha ha!"

...

On July 22, "Escape from the Cloned Island" directed by Michael Bay was released in North America. Not only did DreamWorks not welcome the savior, but also fell directly from the cliff and fell into hell!

Miserable! This science fiction blockbuster with a production cost of $126 million is very well-received, with a 40% freshness and 64% love. But the worst is the box office. There are 3,122 theaters on the opening week. Not to mention winning the weekly championship, it only received $18.35 million in the first week!

If you calculate the final North American box office of a mediocre film based on the formula of the usual first week *2, it will probably be $36.7 million... The distribution fee cannot be paid back, which is too miserable.

In fact, industry insiders predict that Escape from Clones will result in its two producers DreamWorks and Warner Bros. losing at least $50 million respectively.

This is much more serious than "Madagascar". African animals are just not as successful as expected, and it is a complete failure.

This week, the turmoil has changed, and all kinds of rumors have spread to DreamWorks, covered with dark clouds.

For example, the movie version of "Transformers", which was previously reached by DreamWorks and Hasbro to invest in this major project next year. It has been confirmed that Michael Bay will be released on Independence Day in 2007, but now everything has variables. This is still light, compared to another news about earthquake magnitude!

DreamWorks is about to go bankrupt and will be acquired by Universal Pictures. The two parties are currently negotiating the acquisition, with a transaction price of about $1 billion or more.

DreamWorks has not responded to the rumors, but everyone knows that this independent company is suffering from a storm and can hardly hold on...

And there is another thing worth recording this week. "Exorcist Video" hit a box office of $140 million in North America. Not counting inflation, it surpassed "The Witch Blair"'s $140,501,248 and became the most popular pseudo-documentary in North American history! Both the Lion Gate and the Cliff made a lot of laughter.

During the four weeks of July, it performed like this:

"Exorcist Video" - No. 13 - Week 11 - 1156 - $2,274 - $2,628,744 - $137,165,313 - $0.45

"Exorcist Video" - No. 16 - Week 12 - 773 - $1,531 - $1,183,463 - $138,348,776 - $0.45

Exorcist Video - No. 18 - Week 13 - 641 - $1,369 - $877,529 - $139,226,305 - $0.45

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, Lions Gate increased 320 cinemas against the trend. TET did not disappoint anyone and collected $1.56 million in one fell swoop, officially reaching the top!

...

He worked diligently in late July. In late July, Ye Wei edited the first version of "The Little Sunshine Beauty" as scheduled. He spent a few days adding lines and audio tracks, some simple sound effects and soundtracks, and a 110-minute internal director editing version was released!

The disastrous defeat of "Escape from the Cloned Island" made Ye Wei feel very moved. TET set off a crazy wave. A film that seemed impossible to fail from the lineup and cost was so miserable. It was really nothing in the world. He felt sorry for DreamWorks, and he was even more worried about whether LMS would be affected by it.

However, he knew that no matter whether DreamWorks sells or not, it would not be negotiated in one or two days, and no one would stop or despise the issuance of LMS. Even if it is sold, the more money the LMS makes, the more valuable the DreamWorks will be.

In fact, he can know from the list of people attending the director's edited screening that DreamWorks' emphasis on LMS has been increased to the highest level, just like this is a life-saving straw, not very solid, but it is already the only hope.

That day in the screening room of DreamWorks headquarters, all the big names who can come. Spielberg, who was busy filming "The Munich Tragedy", and Hanks, who was busy starring in "The Da Vinci Code", did not come, but Carsonberg, Jeff Smith, Terley Price, Gotzmann, editor William Gordonberg...all were present.

Jeffrey Carsonberg, a middle-aged man with bald glasses who had saved Disney and created the brilliant DreamWorks animation, still showed his gentle and kind smile, and did not seem to be worried about the company's situation.

From the opening to the end of the video, there were very few sounds in the screening room, but everyone's expressions were full of smiles, not only laughing because of the story of the video, but also because...

Super high quality!

"This is great." Katzenberg suddenly clapped his applause, and everyone also hugged and applauded, looking at Ye Wei on the left sitting in the front row with a complimentary look of "You shocked us".

"Vege, you didn't disappoint." Gotzman also praised, he was such a child prodigy!

The LMS script story is easy to be filmed in plain style, and the successive failures are also easy to be depressing, but Ye Wei tells the story in a sunny and warm manner, and there are also black humorous colors, moving scenes, almost perfect aspects... This is just a rough internal version, and the release version is definitely better.

Jeff Smith, Price and others praised it, "You made an incredible movie." "It can definitely hit awards season, it's great."

"Thank you, thank you!" Ye Wei also laughed loudly. He was happy, excited and relieved to be recognized by these people, but he did not completely relax. "Exorcist Video" was praised by them before, and then he got that it had no value in the theater distribution.

The director's cut version is praised by them, which does not mean that he can launch the market without any change, because the mass market and everyone here have different appreciation abilities and needs, and they only consider the mass market.

Sure enough, after praise, everyone gradually changed their expressions, calm, rational, and business, and began to discuss what was wrong.

"The length of the film is a little longer." Gotzmann had this opinion a long time ago. "I think it would be better to reduce it to about 100 minutes. Weige, can you see if you can delete some scenes?"

As everyone looked at him, Ye Wei's thoughts were lit up. Perhaps the difficult editing war had begun. Here he had only one ally, Peter Heller, who had no say.

So everything depends on yourself. He said seriously: "Sir, you know that this version was cut out after a lot of experiments with William and I. In these 110 minutes, every scene is essential. Each shot is carefully designed, and every material is the best choice. It is not good to delete it anywhere."

Everyone was not surprised, the director was like this.

"105 minutes, but listen to me and delete as much as possible for 5 minutes." Gotzman continued, "this will be more compact."

"No, it will be incomplete." Ye Wei made a gesture in a bit anxious, "Now it is the result of compactness. If it is not compact, I can cut it out for 135 minutes."

"Can you delete those drug shots?" Katsenberg said another opinion, or request, "I'm worried that this will affect the rating, and we need to get a PG-13 level."

Price nodded in agreement. For a family comedy, the difference between PG-13 and R is huge. Many swear words cannot be changed in this story, and G-level and PG-level are difficult, but PG-13 is the established goal, and it is even more desperate for the current DreamWorks...

Family comedy, literary independent film, and DreamWorks are only focusing on the former, ironically, LMS is not a normal story, drug use, homosexuality, suicide, children's beauty pageant...

In any case, expecting LMS to achieve a box office explosion is not just DreamWorks’ desire, but also Preton.

"Jeffrey." Ye Wei looked at the big man next to him, and said, "Those drug-taking shots are very important to shaping grandpa, and they are not instigative. I think this question will be discussed after the rating? If MPAA insists on modifying us R-level."

Katsenberg nodded with a smile, not arguing about anything.

Everyone didn't have many opinions because the director's editing version was really good. VIY has always understood business very well. Although it is an art film, from filming to editing, he did not make a stream of consciousness, or had a large number of pure art to dull scenes, which fits the rhythm of the commercial film, with a clean structure and practicality.

but……

"I heard there are other endings?" Katsenberg asked, his eyes behind his glasses did not show his attitude.

Ye Wei nodded, and William Gordonberg also nodded. It was not the multiple endings that Oliver won the game, how to end the story, and the materials could be cut into various forms. Ye Wei had already made up his mind that Richard and his family would go to eat ice cream; but the editor had different ideas. Gordonberg's version was to drive home after leaving the beauty pageant hotel.

At the moment, the assistant operated another ending image. The family walked out of the hotel, said something, pushed the cart, and soon the footage of the road going home, ending.

Gordonberg explained his claim to everyone: "This is simpler, and it is easier for ordinary audiences to understand and move. If you fail, when you go home, there is no place to compare to a warm home. The family has eliminated misunderstandings and learned to unite. No matter whether you succeed or fail, there will be family members."

Everyone nodded as if they were a little moved. Gotzman thought, "This is more simple than Weige, and you can directly understand it. You don't need to understand the metaphor of eating ice cream." Katsenberg didn't say anything, not knowing what he was thinking...

Ye Weiyi saw that it was not good, so he quickly said loudly: "It's more simple, but what he said is just another thing! Why don't I use it? Because this will make this story lose its greatest soul. All the previous scenes, props, lines and other settings cannot get the final echo and sublimation. They are all in vain. The film will return to the most ordinary and old-fashioned words, and there is no place to compare to the warm home. In fact, it is not about this."

He remembered his family and smiled naturally, "Home does not depend on a specific location, but on the garden of the heart, and on the family that understands, cares about, cherishes, and does not care about success or failure. As long as the family is there, there are homes, convenience stores, cinemas, and anywhere. This is what I want to say in this movie I made."

Gordonberg said, "It is difficult for ordinary audiences to understand. They don't understand. They see that eating ice cream is eating ice cream, and there is nothing else. When we start from business and from the viewing level of ordinary audiences, it is simple and correct. Following their ideas is easier to make them applaud than telling them new ideas."

Business! Ye Wei knew the current situation. Once Katzenberg thought that his ending was not commercial, he would lose.

He had prepared for this disagreement, and he immediately retorted: "There is no problem here that cannot be understood. It is just that it has multiple meanings. High-level audiences can see through it, low-level audiences cannot understand all their thoughts, and they can also understand the most superficial meaning. No matter how stupid they can understand it, because the scene of eating ice cream is very warm and cute. Richard has changed. This family has changed. It is no longer a success or failure, they are real family."

"Change this, the previous family dancing scene was expressed." Gordonberg also insisted on his own opinion, "The ending will be simpler, and sometimes it will be more powerful."

"Believe me, this is the most powerful, artistic and memorable ending." Ye Wei's tone revealed that he would not give in any way.

Any other differences can be resolved through negotiation. This is absolutely not possible. Don’t eat ice cream and go home directly?

Then he didn't know what the previous story was for. All the details were broken and they couldn't be a whole, and everything was over!

The screening room suddenly became quiet, and Katsenberg, Gotzman and others were thinking silently, preparing to express their opinions...
Chapter completed!