In a luxurious suite at the Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Natalie Portman stood in front of the window, thinking about the premiere a few days ago.

The sun was scorching outside, and her heart was cold.

Of course, this cold comes from "Alien Battlefield" which just released a weekend.

Although the poor response during the preview and the extremely poor pre-sale box office made her mentally prepared, she didn't expect the video to be so miserable!

It's so miserable that she will definitely bid farewell to the mainstream productions in the future.

As for how miserable Brad Pitt would be, Natalie Portman couldn't imagine it. It was inevitable that Plan B would go bankrupt and his personal bankruptcy would be.

"Why……"

Natalie Portman sighed a long sigh and recalled the box office statistics news I just read: "Alien Battlefield" won $20.6 million in North America on the first three days of the first weekend.

Well... At first glance, this number seems to be good. In the movies she starred in, the "Star Wars Prequel" trilogy with its own imax aura was removed. This is the highest-grossing film on the first weekend.

Even such a box office can instantly win the final box office of 90% of Hollywood movies.

The problem is, the production cost of "Alien Battlefield" is $250 million! That's $250 million! Not $25 million...

Such outputs that are inconsistent with the cost of the film will cause the film to suffer a fatal blow from producer to director to starring, as well as investors.

Everyone is magnificently flopped. This may be the only place she feels glad that there is no shortage of people on the way to fall into the abyss!

Making videos is one thing, and how to market videos is another.

Natalie Portman believes that poor publicity is another reason for the film's poor performance.

As a rational person, even if she can find tens of millions of reasons, she still knows that she cannot change the current situation, especially major institutions are despising "Alien Battlefield".

The cinemasore cinema audience score is only "b-", and it is predicted that the box office in North America will be difficult to exceed $50 million.

Although cinemasore rarely evaluates overseas box office, Natalie Portman made a speculation based on the North American overseas box office ratio of past films.

How much global box office can "Alien Battlefield" be? If you are not lucky, it will only be about $100 million. Even if you are lucky, it will be difficult to exceed $150 million.

Brad Pitt is really miserable, a hundred times worse than her!

How much money can you get after deducting Disney Pictures’ distribution commission and promotional expenses? As for the surrounding areas, how can the late copyright of the film with a box office failure be sold at a high price?

"Cloud Map" failed, and "Alien Battlefield" also failed...

Natalie Portman suddenly had a strange idea. The two videos she helped Brad Pitt get, which made Brad Pitt and her miserable!

She doesn't have to face the inevitable bankruptcy like Brad Pitt, but she's definitely not feeling well.

This is... why? Why do two films that seem to have a high chance of success end up becoming two big pits?

Natalie Portman thought about it but couldn't even understand it.

Could it be... she suddenly had an idea, was it Matthew Horner who tampered with it?

Impossible! Natalie Portman directly rejected this idea because she has always seen it clearly as the heroine and producer of the two films. Matthew Horner did not make any small moves from behind, and Disney would not let him make small moves.

She sighed, left the window, returned to the sofa in the living room of the suite, and sat down, thinking about how to go in the future.

With the failure of "Alien Battlefield", the road to mainstream commercial films was cut off and they could only return to the path of independent art films. This path is difficult to walk, especially as a failed returner.

Fortunately, she also has an insurance policy and a snatched video!

"Black Swan" has a very good reputation in the preview. September is the Venice Film Festival. This film will first go to the Venice Film Festival to gilt, then switch to Toronto, Canada. After earning enough reputation and reputation, then turn back to Hollywood, aiming at the North American awards season, and ultimately target the Oscar Best Actress Little Golden Man!

The goals and plans were all set, and she tried her best to get them.

But to achieve it? Natalie Portman knows how difficult it is. Even if she is a Jewish person, even if she has sold her character for fifteen years, she still has a certain chance of winning the award?

No one can guarantee that he will win the Oscar Little Golden Man 100%, and even Harvey Weinstein can't do it.

Natalie Portman knew this very well, so what she had to do was to increase her chances of winning the award and increase her bargaining chips for winning the Best Actress.

At this moment, her idea of ​​being born at the premiere was even stronger.

She was a little hesitant at first, but now she has no way out. Even if she gets nominated for Best Actress in the Oscar, it will be of great help to her sharp decline in career.

So, she needs a child and needs to take a child to the Oscars!

The whole society sympathizes with pregnant women and has special advantages for pregnant women. Even in Hollywood circles, they are subtly affected. As long as she can appear in front of the media with a big belly during the awards ceremony, she will definitely enjoy preferential treatment beyond ordinary people.

Of course, this cannot be an illegitimate child. The father of the child must be clear and it is best to get engaged.

Otherwise, it would not be an advantage, but a scandal.

It is June now, and there is still half a year left before December of the next awards season. It’s just right, six months is enough to make your stomach very conspicuous.

"The whole society gives preferential treatment to pregnant women." Natalie Portman's voice was filled with a hint of disdain, "Is it difficult to lie down and spread your legs?"

A child is a must! What about the child's father? Of course it is Darren Aronovsky who is dating.

Thinking of this, she took out her cell phone and called, and asked, "Darren, where are you? Why haven't you arrived yet?"

Fifteen minutes later, Darren Aronovsky walked into the suite, and Natalie Portman pressed Darren Aronovsky downstairs like a predatory wolf.

"Wait, I didn't bring it..."

Before Darren Aronovsky finished his words, he was interrupted by Natalie Portman, "No, I'm in the safe period now."

She calculated the day, and today is not a safe period.

Natalie Portman was crazy about his actions, and his head was still considering the gains and losses.

A child with Darren Aronovsky, now looking at it, can bring her at least two major benefits.

One is to enter the awards season with a big belly and become a bargaining chip for the awards; the other is to tie Darren Aronovsky and let this guy concentrate on serving himself for at least a few years.

It is really rare to be a young director like this who is highly praised by professionals.

As for his former partner Brad Pitt, who cares about his life or death!

Brad Pitt was very sad. From the moment the box office statistics of "Alien Battlefield" were released in advance, he knew that he was 80% going to be finished. When he saw the box office data for the first weekend, he was completely sure that he was finished.

Even if God comes, it cannot save the box office of "Alien Battlefield".

Because he received not only the box office statistics of North America, but also the overseas box office. In more than 70 countries and overseas regions that were released simultaneously, "Alien Battlefield" only received more than 22 million US dollars.

John Carter on Mars came to Earth not only to be unacceptable, but also to be seriously ill and dying.

The loan owed by "Cloud Map" has not been paid back. It was originally expected that "Alien Battlefield" would be a big hit in the box office, and then the deficit caused by "Cloud Map" was made up. As a result, not only could the deficit be compensated, but it also had to cause even greater losses.

It’s okay for those who enter the market through formal film investment channels. Since he is not having a good time, those people will be unlucky with each other.

The point is still debt.

Think about the loans borrowed and mortgaged by two projects, which are huge sums of more than US$180 million in principal and interest, which is not something he can block.

Plan B cannot be kept, so you can file for bankruptcy. After all, it is a company, just give it to the bank.

But the loans that were mortgaged by Plan B were not enough, and he personally borrowed and mortgaged nearly 100 million US dollars. Is it really going bankrupt now?

Thinking of the terrible bankruptcy and the tragic life of Nicholas Cage being forced into debt by his creditors, Brad Pitt's body trembled slightly.

If everything happened, he was far more miserable than Nicholas Cage.

Nicholas Cage has fully proved himself in business, and there are many people who like him. He has always starred in some independent art films and has a very famous reputation, but his commercial value is limited. He has messed up the three projects of "Troy", "Cloud Map" and "Alien Battlefield". Apart from those shoddy B-level films, who dares to find him?

"You can't let these happen." Brad Pitt said to himself, "You can't let these happen!"

He climbed up from the bottom of Hollywood and knew how painful it was to live without money, fame and status.

Who can save him? Who can pull him? Brad Pitt looked at the small bar in the living room, where Angelina Jolie was sitting and drinking.

"Julie." Brad Pitt walked over, picked up a cup, placed it in front of Julie, and "poured a cup."

Angelina Jolie glanced at him and poured him half a cup of vodka. Brad Pitt picked it up and drank it all. The hot alcohol not only stimulated the mouth and stomach, but also gave him great courage.

"I had a little difficulty." Brad Pitt knew that Angelina Jolie had a net worth at least tens of millions. "Julie, can you help me?"

Angelina Jolie suddenly laughed. How could she not know about Brad Pitt’s recent incident? Pitt was trying to die. Do you want her to die with her?

If she has no money, who will support so many sons and daughters?

Sure enough, being with such an irresponsible man is a mistake.

"Julie!" Brad Pitt spoke again.

Angelina Jolie raised her hand to stop him from talking, picked up the wine glass in front of her, drank all the wine inside, and made the final decision.

"Let's break up." She said this calmly.
Chapter completed!