When Hugo was in the summer with the title of the new Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and the title of the new Co Cannes Best Actor, people's doubts about the "speed of life and death" were still not eliminated.

Because everyone knows that the box office appeal of an actor can certainly bring immeasurable effects to the movie, which is also the true meaning of Hollywood to create a box office star; but no one will ignore the importance of the work itself. A top box office star may be ruined by a super bad movie, and there are countless examples.

The most typical example is Francis Ford Coppola. Although "Godfather 3" is still above the level, it has become a reputation as a "dog-tailed marten" compared to the first two films of the series, which disappoints the audience. After the release of "Godfather 3", only one directorial work has appeared in the past four years, "Vampire zombies have been shocked for four hundred years."

In fact, Hugo himself is also a typical example. The success of the "Death Poetry Club" was completely offset by the subsequent three bad movies and fell to the bottom.

The success or failure of a work is the only rating criterion in Hollywood, just like the victory of a sports competition.

Therefore, the disadvantage of "life and death speed" itself makes it difficult for the media to have an optimistic attitude towards this work. Especially when this work is full of topics and may become Hugo's work to create history, the media becomes even more picky.

In addition to the media that gloatly waited to read the jokes of 20th Century Fox, the media pointed the finger directly at Hugo's "New York Post".

Colin Myler has only been the editor-in-chief of the New York Post for only three years, but he has used his ability to increase the sales of the New York Post by 30%. This is the best achievement of the newspaper in fifteen years since Rupert Murdoch acquired the New York Post in 1977. Now, Colin has become one of the most trusted generals of Murdoch. In the second half of last year, there was even news that Murdoch wanted him to be responsible for media affairs on the entire East Coast.

Unfortunately, the "New York Post" then experienced the blow of the Witch's Trial and fell into an unscathing quagmire. The sales of newspapers dropped sharply by 20 percentage points, almost offsetting all Colin's efforts over the past year. Back to before liberation overnight, Colin's promotion naturally fell into the sea. This made Colin hate Hugo to the core.

Although the media generally did not have a positive attitude towards the release of "life and death speed", they did not concentrate their firepower to attack Hugo. On the one hand, because of previous hospital incidents and scandals, reporters did not gain an advantage in the confrontation. They just had this mentality. Since the "life and death speed" does not require media publicity and attention, they let the crew suffer the consequences, so there are not many reports, let alone attacks; on the other hand, it is because, as Hugo said in an interview at the beginning of the year: Everything will be settled after the movie is released.

But Colin didn't think so.

As the editor-in-chief of the New York Post, Colin must have a keen sense of news and accurate judgment. Although he hated Hugo to the core, he calmed down and thought for a while. After comprehensive consideration, Colin believed that "the speed of life and death" would definitely fail miserably.

Colin came to this conclusion with multiple evidence to support it. First, the problem of "life and death speed" itself has been discussed by countless media, and has also been recognized by major production companies in the circle; second, although the series of strategies after the adjustment of the schedule of "life and death speed" seems to be good, anyone with a discerning eye knows that as long as the work does not meet expectations after it is released, it will face huge disasters; third, shortly after the "life and death speed" is released, you must face the impact of works such as "wolf", "Forrest Gump", "Lion King", and the most important thing is the "real lies" of the same type of movies.

To sum up, the "speed of life and death" is definitely hopeless.

So, Colin made the final conclusion: we must seize this opportunity and hit Hugo hard once, not only to exhale a breath, but also to accumulate momentum for future confrontation.

"Hugo Lancaster's Waterloo?"

The New York Post published an article with the title of "Life and Death Hour" four days before it was released.

"After experiencing a series of great successes, Hugo Lancaster has obviously lost his sight and has repeatedly refused to cooperate with media interviews. Not only during normal rest hours, but also during the promotion period of his works, he even believes that he can surpass journalists and use his way to manipulate the media to serve him. Obviously, Lancaster once again couldn't find a direction among the neon lights in Hollywood, making people see the scene before the release of "Moment of Death" in a trance.

Lancaster thought he could rely on his strong personal appeal to go all out, but he obviously forgot that this is Hollywood, a dream place where one work can achieve great success, but it is also because one work can have nothing in the world.

Behind Lancaster's arrogant, arrogant, irritable and proud temper, perhaps he could not see the fierce competition during the summer season, perhaps he could not see the excellence and excellence of other works, perhaps he could not see the decay and boredom of his works, just thinking that the audience would once again pay for his willful choice. But obviously, this is not the case.

When Lancaster confidently announced that he would refuse all reporter interviews during the filming of the film, while banning the reporter, he also foreshadowed that the work of 'life and death speed' might become Lancaster's Waterloo!

After this, this article lists a lot of evidence to prove to people that the film is extremely bad, and even lists accidents during filming, believing that this is the persecution of actors by a small-budget film.

"Although the failure of 'life and death speed' will disappoint many people, on the other hand, it is not a good thing. If the complacent Lancaster can wake up, put himself in a right position, and learn to be modest and cautious, then a Waterloo may bring some fresh air to Hollywood."

This article in the New York Post is quite a bitch. The one who wants to stand a archway. On the one hand, they criticize Hugo, but on the other hand, they pretend to care about Hugo's future. They stand at a moral high point, and look at the success or failure of the movie "Speed ​​of Life and Death" like God.

But in fact, this view has been recognized a lot.

Currently, Glory is on the "Road of Glory" tour, and the band rarely accepts media interviews, but only concentrates on performances. In addition, after the Cannes Film Festival, Hugo has been practicing when he returned to Los Angeles and has not received any interviews. It can be said that the halo brought by the title of Cannes actor did not cause more trouble.

With such a phenomenon, those who know the truth will know that Hugo is devoted to the tour, which is a professional expression; but those who don’t know will think that Hugo is playing a big shot, and after becoming famous, he is unwilling to cooperate with the media. In addition, after the Oscars, Hugo has almost devoted all his energy to his music career, which makes people more likely to have the hypothesis that “Hugo is not interested in movies.”

Therefore, Colin's chance was indeed very clever, especially since most media are not optimistic about the "speed of life and death", the "New York Post" directly criticized the "speed of life and death". Before the movie was released, it boldly predicted the failure of this work, which actually caused a lot of discussion and many people expressed their agreement.

Faced with the provocation of the New York Post, Twentieth Century Fox had not had time to react because it was against Hugo, and the "speed of life and death" was just a joint injury, so they reacted half a beat slower; but "US Weekly" couldn't help but stand up as soon as possible.

James Rutt wrote a whole report to refute the absurd remarks of the New York Post about Hugo's "pretentious and arrogant" and explained in detail all Hugo's work after the Oscar, so that people can understand that Hugo is not starting to be a big shot, but hopes to devote himself to the tour.

James is still supporting the "Speed ​​of Life and Death" in the report, believing that this work will be refreshing and has a good chance to create box office miracles on the fiercely competitive comedy weekend.

The report from "Us Weekly" was exactly what Colin thought. He was worried that there would be no media response and weaken the report effect. So after seeing the report from "Us Weekly", Colin immediately published a second report in the "New York Post". This was exactly the day of the premiere of "Speed ​​of Life and Death".

"In the face of our accusations, Hugo Lancaster did not even dare to respond to media interviews. Our reporter tried to contact Lancaster and his agent three times, but they all refused our interview request. Is this a sign of guilt? We don't know.

But one thing we can be sure of is that the "speed of life and death" faces huge difficulties and may even be unable to recover the cost. At the beginning of the year, Nicholas McCross, a reporter from the Los Angeles Times, once claimed that he believed that the "speed of life and death" had a chance to hit the box office of 100 million US dollars, but our newspaper believed that the movie had a chance to hit the cost line of 28 million!

Since Lancaster refused the interview with our newspaper, we can only ask him this question, 'Hugo, do you think the box office can exceed the 100 million threshold? If not, are you willing to accept the interview with our newspaper? Do you apologize for your rude behavior in refusing interviews in the past few months?'"

The title of this report is "A $100 million interview?" is full of "New York Post" ridicule Hugo and "the speed of life and death".

Colin chose to dig out the Los Angeles Times posts at the beginning of the year on the premiere of "Life and Death Hour", which awakened the memories of all media and all viewers. In fact, it was to incite the atmosphere of the media and make Hugo difficult for the premiere, because almost no one thought that the movie had the ability to hit the threshold of $100 million; more importantly, after the "Life and Death Hour", the "New York Post" could beat Hugo's arrogance in one go.

Colin's plan was obviously not limited to this. It was naturally not enough to rely solely on the momentum created by the "New York Post". This time, Colin found the alliance! Or, the alliance took the initiative to stand behind Colin!
Chapter completed!