Chapter 1904 1904 Boot Party
The Sunset Tower Hotel in Hollywood is just a four-star hotel, but it is famous all over the world, even more famous than many five-star hotels. The reason is very simple. After the Oscars end every year, the "Oscar Night" party hosted by "Vanity Fair" will be held here. The star-studded night makes the Sunset Tower the focus of attention once a year, and makes countless loyal movie lovers go there specifically just to experience the real experience of top stars.
Today, the Sunset Tower Hotel has once again become a hot spot. Half of Hollywood crowds are coming, not only media reporters, powerful figures in production companies, editor-in-chief of fashion magazines, Hollywood actors, and even many celebrities from Wall Street in New York have come, making Los Angeles in November present the hustle and boiling of the year-end award ceremony early.
There is no reason, everyone knows one thing. The party of the "Trumen's World" opening ceremony was held on time today at the Sunset Tower Hotel. This work with an investment of 60 million US dollars is the highest-cost comedy movie in recent years. Paramount has injected a lot of effort into the movie, and even started to carry out the mysterious publicity in the early stage one after another since September. At this time, the cast of the movie was not even completely confirmed.
But Paramount didn't care, because they only needed a gimmick: Hugo Lancaster, the work starring Hugo, will become Hugo's first comedy movie in the true sense, and will once again let people appreciate Hugo's comedy performance after "Friends".
Rumors in the circle say that Hugo defeated Kim Carrey, the current Hollywood king of comedy, got the opportunity to star in this work, which has also become a topic of discussion for everyone. Since "The Disguised Strange", Kim has brought his exaggerated and unique performance style to the extreme and won the love of the entire North American market. In the current comedy field, almost no one can compete with him, even Billy Christo and Robin Williams.
Now, Hugo defeated Jin, the second time in a row after the "20 million club", and in the comedy field that Jin is best at, which is enough to make everyone excited. The expectation and curiosity for "Trueman's world" have risen to a new level, but people can't tell clearly whether they are looking forward to Hugo defeating Jin with outstanding performance again, or Hugo's miserable defeat in the comedy theme is unacceptable, but what is certain is that no matter what the result is, it will be very exciting.
More importantly, "Trumen's World" will be Hugo's second work with a personal pay of 20 million. At the same time, he can also participate in box office dividends. This is almost an unprecedented unequal condition. For film companies, although they do not know the specific dividend ratio, everyone can be sure that this is the unprecedented first in Hollywood's history. The "20 million club" is already the top among the top in Hollywood, and Hugo can also get box office dividends, which is destined to shock the whole United States.
At this time, the final box office of "Los Angeles City Secret" did not come out, and people could not know what Hugo's final pay was, so many people predicted that "Trueman's World" would create a new record for Hollywood actors' personal box office. Who knows that there is no need to wait for "Trueman's World", "Los Angeles City Secret" has already taken the lead in creating such a record.
So, even if the protagonist lineup is only confirmed by Hugo, even if the screenwriter Andrew Nicole is still revising the script, and even if the crew has not yet been called, Paramount's publicity department has already begun to lay the groundwork for promoting that just one Hugo is enough to ignite all topics. It can be seen that they are full of confidence in this movie.
After one after another, the cast of "The World of Truman" has been confirmed one after another. After the backbone actors such as Paul Giamatti and Ed Harris (ed.har) joined, Alexander Lorraine was also confirmed to play Truman's best friend Ma Long in the movie, which has also become the first major news, and this is also the second collaboration between the two friends.
Immediately afterwards, the second major news was announced, Kate Winslet announced that he would star in this work, and he was not the heroine, but just the supporting actress in the movie.
Since "reason and emotion" amazed Hollywood, Kate has not been affected too much because of regret. She quickly joined the "Titanic" crew with her unremitting perseverance, which attracted much attention. Now, Kate has chosen "Trumen's World" and has cooperated with the number one person in the United States today, which has made everyone optimistic about Kate's future development prospects.
The unresolved heroine seat has become the most popular position in Hollywood competition. Paramount will release the latest news almost every one to two weeks. At its peak, this position gathered the competition among eleven top actresses, including Julia Roberts, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Aniston and other names. In addition, Catherine Zeta Jones recommended by Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett recommended by Scott Rudin are also on the list, with unprecedented competition.
The competition for heroines actually includes the competition for supporting actresses. Major agency companies have used various connections and almost all means to emerge one after another. It can be said that the Eight Immortals show their magical powers across the sea. During the release of "Los Angeles City Secret", the casting process of the heroine in "Trueman's World" also became one of the biggest gossip news.
Stepping on the tail of October, the battle for the heroine of "Trumen's World" finally came to an end. Surprisingly, Nicole Kidman laughed the last time and successfully got the opportunity to cooperate with Hugo.
The reason why it is unexpected is that Nicole has not been able to achieve real career success so far. In addition to winning a Golden Globe Award in 1995, her most well-known identity is "Mrs. Tom Cruise". In 1995, the "Forever Batman" who created the box office miracle was just a supporting role. What's more, Nicole has never appeared in any comedy movie, and more often she is known as a "vase".
This also caused countless question marks to people: Can Nicole really express enough acting skills? Will Nicole repeat Brad's mistake in the "Seven Deadly Sins" in front of Hugo and make the opponent's scenes boring? Can Nicole really put down her figure in "Truemon's World" and devote herself to comedy? Is Nicole's joining a good or bad thing for "Truemon's World"?
But this result is reasonable. Putting aside the fact that the company Nicole belongs to is the hottest top presence in Hollywood, Nicole's husband Tom Cruise and Hugo's personal relationship is well known, and the two have always hoped to cooperate, but unfortunately they never found an opportunity. In addition, Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, Nora Efron, and David Finch are all willing to endorse her, let alone Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and the Cruise couple are all very good.
In the final stage, Nicole defeated the powerful Julia Roberts, laughed to the end in the front-line competition, and successfully won the role of "Trumen's World". The entire casting process can be regarded as an epic blockbuster, heart-wrenching and vigorous, which also made people more curious and expectant about this work.
Just in the casting stage, "Truman's World" made a big splash, and Paramount Pictures almost squeezed out the surplus value of the movie. Even if the movie fails by then, Paramount will occupy the commanding heights in terms of topics, but everyone knows that Paramount is so ambitious, not just for the topic. They obviously have more pursuits. Now it depends on whether "Truman's World" can meet Paramount's high standards.
Today, "Trumen's World" held a grand party at Sunset Tower Hotel, replacing the usual press conference. Paramount obviously hopes that everyone can relax and enjoy the opening ceremony more freely. Of course, this is also an occasion for the budding or conclusion of various transactions. Paramount's abacus is well known to Sima Zhao's heart, but no one can reject this party.
Not only because of the "Trumen's world", but also because many people remember that Hugo's birthday was this month. Hugo has always been very low-key, and his birthday rarely causes a sensation. Most of the time, he just celebrates with his friends. This year, as Hugo's 30th birthday, Hugo still has no plans, so this party has become the only occasion where everyone can send blessings to Hugo. Although no one officially mentioned it, everyone tacitly agreed and just planned to surprise Hugo on the night of the party.
Therefore, tonight's Sunset Tower Hotel became the focus of attention of the entire Los Angeles. Since only 700 invitations were sent on the scene, the scale was naturally much smaller than Oscar Night, but each of these 700 invitations was worth a thousand gold. Even the upper class people racked their brains and wanted to squeeze in. Such a grand occasion far exceeded that of Oscar Night. It was amazing, and there was only a sigh.
When Hugo arrived at the scene, he saw the grand red carpet and a large number of reporters wandering at the door. There were at least 200 people crowding the door. The scene actually felt like it was coming to Oscar Night. This made Hugo look down and then laughed in silence, "Fortunately I was not too rude today." The reporters couldn't help but smile.
After receiving a brief interview, there will be a lot of interview time for the party inside. Hugo quickly entered the Sunset Tower Hotel. After walking for only a few movies, he saw Shirley Lansing coming towards him. Judging from her calm and comfortable posture, it is difficult to tell whether this was a coincidence or intentionality. "Look, our protagonist has arrived at the scene. No wonder I feel that everything around has become brighter just now."
"I haven't forgotten to carry a flashlight, so lucky." Hugo's humorous response made Shirley smile brightly.
Chapter completed!