Made in Hollywood

The turn of the century will inevitably come again. Just entering 1999, the doomsday remarks that have been circulating in the folk and the media have become noisy and even become a trend. Doomsday theory has always had a market in religious societies such as the West. The remarks about the devil's return to the world and Satan's coming to the world are constantly thrown out by many famous religious figures, and then heated up by the gossip media.

Even the Sunrise Industrial Network and the computer industry that saved the United States have rumors about the outbreak of the Millennium Bug. Computers have penetrated into all walks of life in this country. If there is an outbreak of the Millennium Bug, American society will inevitably be in chaos.

But for the business and financial circles, these are small problems that can be ignored in the face of commercial profitability.

Hollywood in particular, how it worked in the past, and how it works now, as the old year passes and the new year arrives, apart from the busy stars, directors and major companies, focus on Hollywood's "Vanity Fair", "Entertainment" Newspapers and magazines such as The Weekly and The Hollywood Reporter also summarized Hollywood's past year in the new New Year's edition of the issue.

"Vanity Fair" released the annual Hollywood income rankings, "Entertainment Weekly" is the Hollywood power rankings that have been done for ten years, and "The Hollywood Reporter" is the 1998 North American box office rankings.

Of the three lists, Duke is not only shortlisted, but also at the forefront.

In "The Hollywood Reporter"'s 1998 North American box office chart, "The Matrix" ranked first with a North American box office of $327.58 million, without any suspense, and Michael Bay's "The Matrix" came in second. The $189 million-plus of "Peerless Catastrophe" is nearly half that.

In addition to the box office, "The Hollywood Reporter" also commented on the film.

"Last summer, we saw an amazing movie - The Matrix. We relished cool moves like 'Bullet Time', 'Explosion Time' and 360-degree volley kicks, and we experienced One of the most revolutionary moments in film history."

"Today. Director Duke Rosenberg and his "Matrix" have been adored by moviegoers around the world, who appreciate every detail of the film over and over again, analyze the metaphors of every line of dialogue, and start discussions 'Existentialism' and 'Nihilism'; the most influential contemporary philosophers are working hard to explore the philosophical connotations of the film, and books like The Matrix and Philosophy are published; its religious spirit is gaining traction The richer the explanation, the debate over human self-awareness in the future digital world. It has even become fashionable in religious circles.”

Although there are still films released on Thanksgiving Christmas in North America that have not ended, no one would expect films like "Stay Forward" and "Shakespeare in Love" to fetch $300 million at the box office in North America, and "The Matrix" "There is no doubt that it will win the annual box office championship.

In addition to No. 1 on the annual box-office chart, Duke also holds the No. 1 spot on the annual grossing list.

The annual income list released by Vanity Fair only counts job remuneration from the film industry, and does not include investment and other asset appreciation.

With the director's base salary and box office bonuses for "The Matrix", Duke received $125 million in pre-tax income. Sit firmly in the first position.

Then came James Cameron. As before, although the truck driver gave up the director's salary, he did not give up the director's share. He got the terrible box office and peripheral income from the big ship. A total of $85 million in pre-tax income came in second on this list.

"Vanity Fair" wrote - Duke Rosenberg is setting a new benchmark for Hollywood's commercial director's income, and his director's salary has not only reached the highest peak in Hollywood history, but also continues to push the highest further. According to people familiar with the matter, in the latest "Lord of the Rings trilogy". Duke Rosenberg's total salary as writer, director and producer is as high as 45 million US dollars, and the ceiling of the stepped sharing agreement is 25% that has never been seen in Hollywood!

In another list, James? Cameron has achieved a reversal of Duke.

"Entertainment Weekly"'s new Hollywood power list, with the huge success of "Titanic". James Cameron ranks first. The calculation of this list, which combines income, fame and influence, is quite complicated. The second place is Jack Leonardo Dika, who is popular all over the world. Prio, followed by Tom Cruise, who has further consolidated his position with "Mission Impossible", Keanu Reeves ranked fourth with the popularity of "The Matrix" and the cool power of the savior. , Duke ranked fifth as the director of the film.

Since "Titanic" was released in 1997, Duke is the only one who can squeeze into the top five of these three heavyweight lists.

At the same time, various media are releasing strange lists, and people or things related to "The Matrix" have become the winners of many of them.

For example, Charlize Theron squeezed into the top three among the top 100 sexiest actresses in "The Men's Gang"; "Blast Time" ranked first among the top ten classic movie scenes of "The New York Times" in 1998...

Even Duke was ranked among the top 50 sexiest men in the world by a gossip magazine.

Because he decided to take a long vacation for himself, Duke stayed in New York from before Christmas to after New Years. Except for fitness exercises, most of the time he read and read newspapers, or chatted and drank tea with Erin Lauder, and deliberately Went to Philadelphia to explore Sofia Coppola.

Her first feature film "Death of a Virgin" was filmed in a middle school near the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

"You look the same as before."

Taking advantage of the rest of the crew, Sofia Coppola chatted with Duke for a while, "I was on the phone with Tina some time ago, and I heard that your physical and mental state is not good."

"it's better now."

Sitting next to Sofia Coppola, Duke looked at the students who were watching the filming, and then looked back, "Probably the fatigue accumulated over the years was induced by the high-intensity work. Last Christmas forward……"

He sighed, "Not only physically and mentally, but I feel that my fighting spirit has a problem."

"My dear, you are too strict with yourself."

Holding Duke's arm, Sophia said seriously, "You keep urging yourself to move forward, and you don't want to stop and relax. In the past few years, even on vacation, your nerves have been tense. In all Hollywood Not even Spielberg, the most diligent director among directors, works as hard as you do."

Taking the hot coffee from Sophia's assistant, Duke thanked him, leaned on the low back of the chair, and said, "I always have a sense of time urgency, I want to keep myself successful, I have been in it since I was very young. Understand that success is not a fluke, and it takes hard work to be successful.”

Sophia gave him a roll of eyes, "You're successful enough now."

"So I ditched all my work for now," Duke said, sipping his coffee. "Took a long vacation for myself."

Duke then turned the conversation to Sophia's film, "Did the filming go well?"

"Overall it's not bad."

Pointing to several actresses who were doing makeup for Duke, Sofia Coppola said, "I have prepared the script and the filming plan for two years, and you and my father have given me enough advice. The performance is also very good, especially Kirsten Dunst, who is in very good shape and deserves to be one of the best actresses of the post-80s."

Hearing Sofia Coppola talk about actresses, Duke suddenly thought that he seemed to have overlooked someone, "Where's Scarlett? Why didn't I see her."

"I don't have her role today." Sofia Coppola asked the assistant next to her and said, "She came here in the morning and left before lunch. She should have visited the Wharton School next door."

Someone came over and said a few words to Sophia. She turned to Duke and said, "Look around for yourself, I'm going to start shooting."

Duke came to visit the class, not to disturb Sofia Coppola's filming.

In fact, there is not much to see here. Sofia Coppola chose this middle school to shoot a story about Michigan, because she fell in love with the middle school's long history and relatively old-style buildings. Duke walked around the library and couldn't help but A little bored, he simply took out his mobile phone and dialed Scarlett Johansson's number.

She was his mother's goddaughter after all, and since he came to Philadelphia, Duke always wanted to see her.

"Mary and I are having coffee at the Wharton cafe. Do you want to come over? Well, I'll wait for you..."

Hearing the name of the coffee shop announced by Scarlett Johansson, Duke hung up the phone, left the middle school, had a crew driver take him to the Wharton School, went inside the school, and asked a few students to inquire. I took a look at the location of the cafe, and it took nearly ten minutes to find it.

He pushed open the door and walked into the cafe, and immediately saw a blond girl standing up and beckoning to the front left near the window, and strode over.

"Hello, Director Rosenberg..."

Scarlett Johansson's agent Mary quickly stood up to greet Duke, Duke nodded, pulled out the chair, and sat opposite the blonde girl.

"Did you come here specifically to see me, Duke?" Scarlett asked expectantly.

"Ah, yes." Duke nodded casually, "I'm here to visit you and Sofia Coppola's class."

The space in the cafe was a bit crowded, Duke moved his chair back and said to the waiter who came over, "Thank you for a latte."

This is an unusually tall waitress, who suddenly stared at Duke and asked, "Why are you here?" (To be continued ~^~)

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