After passing through the layers of encirclement of reporters, even though Hugo was wearing sunglasses, he could still feel the dazzling flash penetrated from the side, constantly tingling his eyes. After finally leaving the airport, he got into the van sent by Rick Rosen, Hugo immediately felt like he was escaping.

However, the reporters were still unwilling to let Hugo go. A large group of reporters ran to the front of the car, lifted the camera and kept pressing the shutter towards the inside of the car. The entire car was illuminated, which made Hugo quite unbearable. Samora, who was sitting next to him, was even more stunned: If he encountered such a situation while driving, what should he do? Just run over? No, okay...

The driver sent by Rick obviously had expected this situation a long time ago, so he showed Samora the correct way to deal with the encirclement.

The driver started the car and slowly drove forward. The front of the car soon reached a large group of reporters. At a glance, there were at least ten people. There were many reporters on both sides pressing the shutters against the inside of the carriage against the glass. They also followed the start of the car, "unaway" and pressed the door tightly against the door and continued to move forward.

But the driver did not stop the car, but kept moving forward at a speed that was slower than walking. The reporters in front were pushed forward by the front of the car. After all, it is unlikely that human bodies will fight against cars. This is a real Hollywood, not a Hollywood movie.

Then I could see the speed of the car rising little by little with the naked eye. Although it was only increased from walking to normal walking speed, the reporters on both sides of the car could still hold tightly, but there were people falling behind right in front of the car because they were all backing and they were hanging on the front of the car. After the car accelerated, their steps to retreat could not keep up. Now there are only two choices: either be rolled under the wheels, or avoid them quickly.

In fact, the photos the reporters were about to take were almost the same at this time, but paparazzi had the habit of not pushing the artist to the extreme and not watching the artist completely break out of their control, they were unwilling to give up. It was time to give up, so they would not really contribute their lives. So reporters began to move away from the front of the car one after another.

With the first one, there is a second one. The speed of the car gradually increased. When the car speed reached the speed of jogging, there was no one in front of the front of the car, but there were still reporters running wildly on both sides.

The driver still increased his speed slowly, and then he could clearly see the reporters who were originally close to the car like leeches and started to retreat one by one. After everyone retreated, the driver stepped on the accelerator and accelerated suddenly... He suddenly turned around and saw a large string of unwilling tails behind him still chasing behind him, but obviously, they could no longer catch up.

The car was running away, and a large group of reporters could only eat dust behind.

Samora couldn't help but whistle, "I must learn this skill." There will definitely be no less things to surround Hugo in the future, and he must learn how to deal with it.

Joseph turned his head and looked at the group of at least thirty reporters behind him, and asked loudly, "What happened in Los Angeles recently? Why are there so many journalists?"

"Twentieth Century Fox officially started the second round of publicity for 'life and death hour' on Thursday." The driver was a strange face, but obviously an insider, and he knew the focus of Joseph's topic at once. Thursday was the day when Hugo participated in the track rock music festival.

Generally speaking, Hugo won the Cannes Best Actor and returned with reputation. It is very normal for reporters to visit. Quentin and others staggered the time and remained in Cannes. On the one hand, it was to further promote the movies in Europe, and on the other hand, it was to avoid the peak of journalists' encirclement.

But today the enthusiasm of the reporters on the scene was obviously too exaggerated, and there were too many visitors. Even Quentin, who won the Palme d'Or, probably at this level. Although Hugo won important acting awards in two months, this is indeed a hot topic, the scene still exceeded expectations.

Although Joseph is Hugo's manager now, his sharpness as an agent can see the problem and immediately grasp the core of the problem. Obviously, as a manager, Joseph can play far more role than an agent. This is the stage where he truly shows his skills. As for how big this stage is, it depends on how far Hugo can go in the future development.

After hearing the driver's answer, Joseph was stunned and immediately realized that the 20th Century Fox wanted to use Hugo's east wind to drive the box office of "life and death speed" so most of today's reporters should have been called by the 20th Century Fox, but things were definitely not that simple. Joseph thought about it, "What else?"

The driver chuckled, "Yes, the other two movies of the same period, including the movies released later, have also started publicity. The publicity offensive has been very fierce recently. It seems that he has made up his mind not to give the "Speed ​​of Life and Death" a chance." After listening to the driver's simple narrative, Joseph couldn't help rolling his eyes.

The matter must start from the release schedule of this summer movies in mid-March.

Generally speaking, the movie schedule is determined three months before it is released, and it is possible to set it up one year in advance, because the entire promotional plan will revolve around the release schedule. The number of movies in the 1990s was far less than that in the 21st century, so the filming cycle was relatively short, just like "Pulp Novels" were completed in January and landed in Cannes in May; "Life and Death Speed" was completed in March and scheduled for June. This situation was almost impossible to see in the 21st century. But in the 1990s, it was very normal.

Schedule arrangement is very particular and knowledgeable, and it is not just a company's business, but also involves other competitors' schedule issues of competing works, as well as screening issues in major theaters. Therefore, the schedule is arranged in advance, and partly because it can be adjusted in time.

The story started with Paramount Pictures. At that time, major film companies began to arrange the schedule for this year's summer season. Paramount released several works this year, including three of them, namely "Beverly.hills.cop.iii" released at the end of May, "clear.and.pre color nt.danger" released in late June, and "Forrest Gump" released in early August.

However, after the schedule was scheduled, it was discovered that "Eyebrow Chasing" and 20th Century Fox's "Real Lies" were actually in the schedule. The two works were released only a week apart. Since they were both action movies, the internal friction of movies of the same type would obviously be a situation where both sides suffered losses.

So Paramount Pictures discussed with 20th Century Fox and finally decided to postpone the "true lie" by one week and release it on the third weekend of July. "Forrest Gump" and "Eyebrow Chaser" changed their schedules. "Forrest Gump" was released in the last week of June, while "Eyebrow Chaser" was transferred to the second week of August.

Unexpectedly, in this way, "Forrest Gump" coincided with Disney's annual masterpiece "The Lion King". As a result, after negotiations between the two companies, "The Lion King" decided to release one week in advance, while "The Legend of Forrest Gump" was postponed for two weeks. This action immediately caused a major earthquake. The "The Lion King" with a production cost of up to 79 million US dollars is definitely an opponent that no one wants to meet in the summer season. So the June and May schedules, which were originally safe, became nervous, and finally, the "life and death speed" that everyone did not value became the target of oppression.

The result is that "life and death speed" not only requires facing the situation where there are strong competitors in the previous week and the next week, but also facing the situation where there are strong competitors in the same week. It is definitely a survivor.

"Wolf" directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer mentioned a timeline of "Life and Death Hour" and faced a head-on match, which triggered a heated hype in the media. It is generally believed that this will be Hugo and Mike Nichols' second head-on match after the Oscars.

Moreover, "Wolf" was published by Columbia Pictures. As we all know, Columbia Pictures and Hugo have successfully cooperated several times before. Now Mike and Jack have joined forces with Columbia Pictures to stand opposite Hugo, and the result is obviously full of suspense.

Twentieth Century Fox, who was always lacking confidence, decided to avoid the ambition masterpiece "Wolf" with an investment of 70 million yuan and advance the "speed of life and death". In this way, the competitor of "speed of life and death" became Universal Pictures' comedy "The.cow wave y.way".

"The Countryside Conquers New York" is starring Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland, and it is also the first shot of Universal Pictures' summer season since Long Mayer took office.

Therefore, the showdown became a competition between Hugo and Kiefer. After the two of them confronted each other in the movie "Yihai Xiongfeng" and became competitors in reality; and the other two things that Hugo and Lang had to say extended to the movie contest.

Ultimately, the media generally interpreted this matter as: Hugo avoided the second contest with Mike and chose the opponent Lang, who is easier to bully. Under this exaggeration, all the news naturally exploded.

In fact, all this is just a balance and game between major companies. In the summer competition, they all hope to defeat their opponents, but they do not want to fight internally to kill one thousand enemies and lose 800 on their own. After all, in the final analysis, making money is everyone's wish, so the change of schedule is completely understandable.

There was nothing strange at first, but it was hyped by the media, especially the second publicity period recently kicked off. At this moment, Hugo won the Cannes Best Actor again, and the momentum was getting to the next level. The prospect of "life and death speed" became more and more confusing: Is it a crushing defeat or a counterattack?

Under such circumstances, several other competing films kicked off the second round of publicity, and the smell of gunpowder had already hit the face, and the airport reporters had a rare grand occasion.

Although the driver simply said what has been promoted recently by movies, Joseph understood the whole story at once. He also knew that "life and death speed" is a typical example of whales fighting and shrimps. As the starring actor Hugo is a person standing under the spotlight, so he naturally became a victim of the game between major companies behind the scenes.
Chapter completed!