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3: "Forrest Gump" celebration banquet

In the first half of 1994, the most brilliant company in Hollywood was Paramount Pictures, and the most popular male and female stars were Tom Hanks and Jennifer Connery.

Although "Forrest Gump" is a literary and artistic romance film!

However, the overseas box office of "Forrest Gump" unexpectedly reached more than 600 million US dollars. In addition, the local box office in North America, a total of 710 million US dollars, firmly ranked as the box office champion this year.

Disney's box office record of $531 million.

What surprised the most was that "Forrest Gump" had a box office of US$380 million in South America alone, and it surpassed Disney's CG movie "The Lion King" through overseas box office.

This result is enough for Shirley Lansing, the vice president of Paramount Film Studio, touted for a year.

Sherry Lansing did the same, and she specially held a celebration banquet at the Manhattan Hotel in Times Square, New York!

In addition to the crew members and producers, the number of guests present at this "Forrest Gump Celebration Banquet" can also be comparable to the invited guests of the upcoming "Oscar Film Festival".

What is most surprising is that there are many well-known directors and media presents.

"Oh! There are so many celebrities here this time!"

"Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman are all here!"

Playboy Playboy, as a well-known old magazine in the United States, also sent their ace reporter Giovanni Ayala this time, but this time, Giovanni has seen Shirley Lansing's influence for the first time.

"FXXK! Leonardo DiCaprio, the playboy, is here too!"

When Giovanni saw his colleagues shouting and screaming, he would attract the attention of his peers, and suddenly blushed. In order to prevent his colleagues from embarrassing himself, Giovanni took a photo of his colleagues who were filming and said in a low voice: "Hey! Vlad, I think this time the editor asked me to take you out to gain knowledge is embarrassing me. If someone enters the venue later, can you not scream so loudly?"

Vlad Heaton didn't feel any discomfort after hearing the complaints from his predecessors. Instead, he looked curious and asked: "Govanni, you know, it's hard to see so many stars in the UK, and I just saw Pierce Brosnan, the male lead in "007: Golden Eye". After all, he is the fourth generation 007. I am very much looking forward to his performance on the screen!"

"But why, so many people came to the banquet this time?"

"Forrest Gump is average in the European box office market!"

After hearing all the questions of rookie photographer Vlad Heaton, Giovanni looked around all his colleagues around him. After finding that CNN, ABC and the British Emap Magazine Group also came, he replied in a low voice: "Not to mention Forrest Gump's box office of 980 million yuan this time!"

"The six films released in South America this time in Paramount alone have accumulated a total of $1 billion yesterday. Do you know what this means?"

As a photographer who specializes in British street shooting female stars, Vlad Heaton certainly didn't know about this, so he could only shake his head with a foolish look on his face.

"FXXK! You idiot! Remember, if you want to continue to hang out with me in Hollywood in the future, you must first understand the business environment to better hang out in this circle. Do you know?" When Giovanni discovered that the stupid photographer assigned to him by the headquarters, he pointed anger at Vlad's forehead and warned.

“That means!”

"If someone can hold Paramount's thigh, no matter whether this person is an independent producer or an investor, as long as Paramount is willing to contribute his release in South America this time, as long as the film is still reasonable, his production cost can be recovered at least 70%. As for the local box office, he is his surplus. Do you understand?"

"Paramount is the only stock in the entertainment sector of the New York Stock Exchange that is still rising!"

After seeing his rookie partner nodding, Giovanni wanted to knock out the cigarette butt in his hand on his bald head.

Not far away, several CNN reporters rushed out of the crowd and ran towards Larry King after seeing Larry King coming down from a black Buick car with a Chinese.

Giovanni saw these reporters rushing to the red carpet, but there was no security guard stopping him. He rolled his eyes at several CNN reporters who were away and cursed at the backs not far away: "These idiots, if this is in the UK, I will definitely just want you to eat my cigarette butt!"

A reporter from Fox TV channel not far away heard this and smiled and asked back: "Hey! Giovanni! Is this the British gentlemanly demeanor you often talk about?"

"Govanni! You have to know how to be content! After all, the car fee this time is enough for you, a hypocritical British gentleman, to go to Fernando Valley to find a little star for one night!" An ABC reporter standing behind Giovanni seemed to have a good relationship with Giovanni and joked with him.

"This group of guys who are jealous of money!" Giovanni muttered dissatisfiedly and prepared to start work because he saw that Michael Bay and Will Smith were already walking on the red carpet. Recently, "The Jedi Men" as producer, Jerry Brookheimer has been promoted by many media as the highlight of Hao Aiwu in 1995. Moreover, director Michael Bay is very unfamiliar with him. It seems that he is a lucky person who has just been fortunate to break into this big dyeing tank in Hollywood.

"Oh! Giovanni, you may not know that CNN has something to do with this Jerry Brookheimer and Michael Bedou and the sudden appearance of distribution theaters in South America this time!" The reporter of the ABC who was joking with Giovanni just seemed to know some inside story, and crawled behind Giovanni in a low voice and said.

When Giovanni heard this, he immediately changed his expression. Even Will Smith, who was standing on the red carpet, was not caring about it. He quickly looked like a gossipy expression to hear what his colleague wanted to say.

A reporter from ABC took the cigarette from Giovanni with a smile: "Do you know that Macy's has changed to a Chinese boss?"

"Are you kidding? Chinese!!!"

"Ye! Chinese! Jennifer Connery got the role of "Forrest Gump" because of the help of this Chinese. Recently, Jennifer Connery is working hard for the best supporting actress in this year's Oscar!"

"A large part of this celebration banquet for Forrest Gump was Shirley who chose to stand up for Jennifer Connery in order to thank the Chinese for helping her in South America!"

Giovanni heard the ABC reporter's words and looked surprised. He was about to ask something, but the other party explained first: "I have been to South America! Do you know about the Amazon UFO incident? This is a scam! This is planned by this Chinese!"

“What can we do?”

"No, no! Giovanni, I don't want to provoke such people! You don't know what we encountered in Bolivia!"
Chapter completed!
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