Vol 2 Chapter 404: Record maker

The bright sunshine fell on a mansion in the suburbs of Chicago, illuminating the exquisite garden. Roger Albert sat alone at a small table in the garden, enjoying morning tea. Several servants escaped from the garden early. It seems that sitting there is not the most famous film critic in the United States, but a monster who chooses people and eats them.
The others hid. Only the butler, Stiller, would go to the small garden from time to time, but never step into it to disturb the owner.
From 1995 to now, they have adapted to this situation.
The one sitting in the garden is generous and hearty when facing the media. He seems to be just a gentle critic, but Stiller, who has served him for many years, knows very well that the heart of the filmmaker is not much bigger than the eye of a needle.
When did this situation begin to evolve? Stiller remembered for a while, and finally remembered-Duke Rosenberg's "Independence Day"!
He still remembers that Roger issued the most violent attack at the time, and then the target of the attack achieved the most successful box office so far.
Since then, the hatred between the two has been settled, and most of the time, Roger is powerless against the director’s summer film. No matter how fierce he is, the audience still buys the film. Basically ⊥← , Ignoring his film reviews.
This also made Stiller realize that the people he served did not have the terrifying influence he imagined.
There was an exception. "Saving Private Ryan" because of Mel Gibson's scandal, made Duke Rosenberg a favorite for Best Director at the Oscars, but the final result was Tim Robbins. Upset, Roger must have done a lot of work in private.
It seems that this is Roger's only victory.
In recent years, Duke Rosenberg has released almost one movie per year. Roger gave bad reviews and low scores without exception, but the audience ignored his film reviews and went to the theater to buy tickets, creating Duke Rosenberg's continuous success.
Roger is small, but he is very arrogant. He always likes to collect all kinds of data on Duke Rosenberg's movies at the first time. He can only imagine how he will react when he sees data that can brighten the eyes of the blind.
Gradually, the servants summed up their experience, in order to avoid becoming a punching bag, they simply hide away at that special time period.
"Why bother, why bother?"
Thinking of this, Stiller couldn't help shook his head, even he could see clearly. The film critics have been weakened, especially their influence on summer vacations, which has almost dropped to the lowest level ever.
Is it possible for a film critic who emphasizes literary orientation to compete with a director who emphasizes commercialization in the summer file? Is it possible to win? Why bother?
If it's another director, maybe it's over if Roger's joint film critics are so violently attacked, but Duke Rosenberg is powerful. It's not something film critics can shake.
Serving Roger Albert for so many years, Stiller sees some things quite clearly. The voice of public opinion is indeed in the hands of a few people. The problem is that it will not be in the hands of film critics. What if Roger can unite all film critics in North America?
How can a group that does not exceed 400 people at most and cannot actually affect major media groups? How can it confront a director who has tens of millions of fans in the United States or is a major shareholder of Warner Bros.
It's not that Stiller didn't persuade him. It's a pity that since he won the Pulitzer Prize, he can no longer listen to other people's rebuttals.
But is it worth it?
Last year, Roger Albert had just had thyroid cancer surgery, and Stiller was very skeptical. This has something to do with the fact that there is always a period of time each year when he can't vent his anger in his heart.
Every statistic of Duke Rosenberg's film delivered to him, in Stiller's view, is like a reminder letter sent by Satan.
There are certain things that Stiller can persuade once or twice, but he can't keep persuading him to continue. He is just a housekeeper after all.
Looking at Roger Albert in the garden again, Stiller shook his head and chose to leave temporarily.
On the small dining table in the garden, breakfast and morning tea were quietly placed, with no trace of touch, a copy of yesterday’s "Chicago Sun" and a list of today’s statistics, which were also placed in Roger Albert before.
The flip side of "Chicago Sun" is his column yesterday, which mainly focuses on film reviews of "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring".
"The film does show us some beautiful scenery, but it can't cover up the long and boring plot. If you sit in the theater and keep watching at most for an hour, you will feel drowsy. This adaptation is too far away from people's expectations. , The protest of book fans is not without reason..."
Seeing his own comments, looking at the score of 6.2, and looking at the box office numbers on the first day of the film, Roger Albert felt that this was a mockery of himself!
He just criticized "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings Expedition" in the column, even without Duke Rosenberg's personal shots, the freshly released crew statistics today returned a resounding slap in the face.
"On the first day, 94% of the audience praised the theater, and the overall evaluation was a+!"
Perhaps these are nothing to arrogant film critics. In their inherent views, the public must be vulgar, but the most important thing for a commercial film is that he dismisses it on the surface, and actually dreams of influence. The data obtained is so dazzling and dazzling!
"US$27.11 million!"
This is the first day box office of "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring"!
Seeing this number, even if Roger Albert is no more conceited, he understands that his so-called most authoritative film critic in North America has a low influence on ordinary fans.
In addition to making trouble in the academic awards of the award season, what can they do in the summer?
Roger Albert suddenly felt a chest tightness, and immediately remembered his condition, and quickly adjusted his breathing rhythm to calm his emotions. Although he had cancer, he didn't want to die, at least before Duke Rosenberg was finished. He can't die!
The film critic has fallen to this day, and his income has dropped by nearly half compared with the previous few years, all because of him!
It is this young director who does not abide by the rules of film critics, stepping on the cake of the film critics, so that the entire Hollywood finds that the film critics are actually strong outsiders.
Since their interests have been touched, they have to pay the price, and before he has paid enough, he must not fall down!
His breathing gradually calmed down, and Roger Albert's eyes brightened. Maybe he could not snipe him in the summer or in business, but as long as he was still alive, that guy wouldn't want to touch the best director, Golden Man!
He swears!
No matter how Roger Albert swears, he can't stop Duke from moving forward unswervingly, toward a more successful direction.
The director's success comes from the accumulation of successful works.
What needs success now is undoubtedly "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Expedition".
On Sunday afternoon, Duke led the entire Fellowship Expedition to the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, and also kicked off the crew’s promotional journey in North America, including Gandalf, Aragon, Frodo, Legolas and Love Many characters such as Long Wang also appeared one after another.
Especially when Orlando Bloom, who played Legolas, appeared in front of the fans, the girls who had watched the film almost rushed up frantically, waiting for the security to rescue Bloom from a group of female satyrs. At the time, his hair turned into a bird's nest, his casual jacket was torn open several times, and the zipper on the small door of his jeans was directly torn...
"Orlando, you are now a big star."
Hidden into the lounge of Santa Monica Commercial Plaza, Billy Boyd was still joking, "Look at those girls, if you want to find a female partner, I think everyone will come."
"Don't say me, you are also a star now." Orlando Bloom directly countered, "If you stand up and hook, there must be a lot of female fans willing to accompany you tonight."
"Did you say so, Duke?" He turned to ask Duke.
Duke nodded and said to everyone, "Guys, enjoy this journey."
"Yeah, this is a dream journey!" Ilya Wood was the youngest and sighed the most. "I fired Martin Bob and insisted on participating in the audition. It was really correct! I won the first place in my life. The first and second one-day box office champions."
It is not a secret that Elijah Wood fired his agent for Frodo's audition. Everyone laughed when he said that.
"I'm not kidding, I'm very serious!" Elijah Wood stood up from the chair she was sitting on, and said seriously, "Our single-day box office on Friday was $27.11 million! Yesterday Saturday... …"
Gerald Butler, who has never liked to joke, took over, "32.24 million dollars!"
Elijah Wood looked at everyone in the lounge next to him, "Do you know what this means? This is the second one-day box office champion in my life for me, but for everyone?"
Everyone knows what this means!
Ian McLean, the oldest in the lounge, said the answer, "We! All of us! Together we have created the highest single-day box office in North American film history since the birth of the film! We have set a new record!"
"Yes, we are record creators!"
Except for Duke, who was always smiling, the others burst into cheers.
This is a memorable number and a record that will be remembered. Those who set the record will be written in the history of the film industry in North America and the world!
They do have the qualifications for pride and excitement!
The North American publicity tour of "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Expedition" starts from Santa Monica Commercial Plaza. Duke will lead the entire crew from west to east, pushing it through the famous big cities in the United States, and try to converge as much as possible. Box office numbers. (To be continued...)