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Los Angeles, Hollywood \u0026 Highland Center.

Martin was very familiar with this place. He entered the side door with the invitation letter and took Musk into the VIP room.

The two of them didn't walk on the red carpet. They arrived earlier and saw Megan Ellison as soon as they entered the door.

The VIP room was very large, and many people had already arrived, but Martin and Megan's eyes passed through everyone and collided with each other.

Musk put his hands in his trouser pockets and said: "The daughter of madman Larry Ellison has a personality very much like her father. Man, go ahead and do it as much as you like. I will cover for you and I will never compete with you."

Martin couldn't possibly wrong his brother: "Aren't you cold-blooded? If you want to go, you can go."

Although Musk had a strong taste, he didn't look down on her. He grinned: "My target tonight is not Megan Ellison."

Just as the two were talking for a moment, Megan Ellison, the host, walked over quickly and looked at Martin and Musk with a bit of curiosity. How did these two people get together?

Assholes attract assholes?

Musk laughed: "I didn't expect to meet people from Silicon Valley here."

Meghan obviously didn't like this fat white man very much and ignored him at all. After coming over, she looked at Martin and said, "Welcome to my movie premiere."

She is still confident: "Did you see it? I held a grand premiere for "Transcendence"."

Martin is a huge asshole: "Sorry, Elon and I came through the back door and didn't see your premiere."

Meghan remained calm: "When the film is successful, you can see it in the media countless times."

This was the first of three films. Martin kept his composure and said casually: "Congratulations in advance on your success."

The casualness and insincerity in these words could even be heard by a ten-year-old child. Megan only thought that Martin was helpless after losing the project, and said: "By the way, if this film is successful, I will give the screenwriter a supplementary payment. Quan When he chose to work with Annapurna Pictures he was rewarded.”

Martin laughed: "I hope you won't be too excited after the film is released."

Although "Transcendence" encountered a lot of troubles during the promotion, and Depp was criticized by the media and caused a lot of scolding on the Internet, Megan Ellison has carefully studied that countless cases in Hollywood in the past have proved that as long as The video quality is excellent and none of this is a problem.

Before the release of "Pirates of the Caribbean", was Depp's reputation very good?

Martin saw that Daniel was too lazy to talk to Megan Ellison and went to chat with Daniel for a while.

Daniel faced Martin with mixed emotions: "It would be great if we were still cooperating."

Martin said: "Warner also needs to pay my share first, right?"

Daniel did not hesitate to blame Jon Berg: "The distribution company's funds have long been transferred to Warner Pictures, and now it is Warner Pictures' problem."

This is consistent with what Martin learned. He didn't care about it, and Daniel was not responsible for it. He said, "You look like you are under a lot of pressure recently?"

Daniel said: "In the promotion of this film, the commanders are constantly putting out fires. One Depp can do more for you than a hundred." He was very direct: "Originally, I thought that Depp would have a long-term cooperation with Annapurna Pictures. , the distribution company cooperates with Annapurna Pictures, Depp may become a long-term partner of Warner Pictures."

He shook his head: "It turns out that what I thought was too simple."

Martin said: "I watched the recent news, which is very exciting."

Daniel was quite helpless: "If I hadn't signed a three-film distribution contract with Annapurna, I would have said stop when I saw a movie starring Depp."

The two continued to chat, Martin looked out from time to time, and soon spotted Amber Heard.

He spoke a few more words to Daniel, and Musk was already chatting with Amber Heard.

Depp is not here, probably still hanging out with the crew outside the theater.

Musk's wealth has obviously attracted the attention of Amber Heard.

Amber Heard happily exchanged contact information with Musk after he revealed his identity.

In her eyes, she will divorce Depp sooner or later. What will happen next?

Megan Ellison did give her a promise to use her as the heroine in the future.

But when Amber Heard and Depp are together, money comes too easily, and making money as a female star is too slow and difficult.

Where can I find another rich man?

Depp's pre-marriage obsession also fueled Amber's self-confidence.

As for Musk, maybe Amber Heard is just right in his aesthetic sense.

Or maybe, he has a soft spot for that or something like that.

Martin suddenly heard footsteps and turned around to see Depp coming.

Depp's sturdy bodyguard quickly followed him.

Bruce took a step forward and stood next to Martin.

Daniel said: "Martin, calm down."

Martin gestured to Depp with his chin: "You'd better let him calm down first."

Depp stopped three meters away, his eyes with dark circles due to alcoholism and drug addiction, like the name of the Black Mamba Bar he opened, staring here coldly.

Martin raised his hand to block his nose, and fanned in front of his face with the other hand.

Depp was instantly furious.

Many people in the VIP room, including Musk, quietly took out their mobile phones and pointed them at Depp's waistband, as if waiting for him to repeat his feat on the set.

Depp's agent Whigham chased after him, held Depp's hand and whispered: "He deliberately provoked you."

Martin smelled a mix of cologne, alcohol and smoke and said, "It smells weird."

Depp's chest rose and fell rapidly, and he finally did not dare to take off his pants again.

The bodyguard whispered in his ear: "Have you forgotten Coulson's contact?"

Hearing the mosquito-like sound, Depp turned around and walked away, looking back at Martin in the middle. He wanted this bastard to be ruined.

Daniel said at this time: "It's almost time, let's go into the theater."

Amber Heard returned to her husband. Musk followed Martin and walked towards the theater hall. As he walked, he said: "That woman is very easy to hook up with. With my charm, I easily got her contact information and made an appointment." Let’s have tea together.”

Martin quietly gave a thumbs up: "Sure enough, more wealth and more than 100 million yuan."

Musk said: "Actually, you can have sex with you. I can guarantee that as long as you show some interest to her, she will never reject you."

Martin shook his head quickly: "The smell is too strong, I'm afraid."

Musk said disdainfully: "You are so bad at playing."

Martin said: "You have too strong taste."

The two entered the theater lobby and sat in the third row. After waiting for a while, the movie screening started.

Because it is related to Depp and Megan Ellison, Martin is watching "Transcendence" very seriously.

The trailers and advertisements for this film give people a sense of grand and subversive science fiction similar to "Inception", but in fact it is a bloody drama about love.

Moreover, the film also wants to explore some philosophical topics like "The Matrix", but it does not have the skills of the Wachowski brothers or siblings.

Even for Wachowski, it is inevitable to engage in philosophical speculation nowadays.

The film may not be bad, but it is very, very mediocre.

In Musk's words, no one wants to make a science fiction masterpiece into a literary and artistic novel.

During the screening, Martin looked around and found that many audience members were asleep.

This situation is much scarier than Michael Bay's bomb film, which was criticized as a super bad one. At least Bay's film will not make people fall asleep in the theater.

Rooney Mara, who sat on the other side of Martin, fell asleep five times during a movie.

At the end of the premiere screening, there was still thunderous applause. The audience was very polite and there was no shortage of polite applause. It is impossible to judge the quality of a film based on these alone.

"This is one of the most boring movies I've ever seen live," Musk told Martin while applauding.

Martin also applauded: "Maybe it's not bad, but it's definitely boring."

The crew took the stage together for a curtain call, and the audience began to leave.

Martin glanced at his watch: "Let's go."

Musk did not move, and winked at Martin: "You go first, I will talk later."

Martin understood and simply left the theater.

On the way back to Beverly Hills, Martin scrolled through Twitter and was already complaining about the film.

“Depp’s new movie sucks.”

"The promotional announcement was so big-name, I thought there would be another character like a captain, but this is what happened?"

"Johnny Depp is gone. He is no longer the captain he was."

"Boycott Depp! Boycott the bad actor who insults the fans!"

The comments are wrong.

“Boycott Depp!”

"Boycott Depp's new film..."

Maybe it's because of the recent publicity announcements, Depp is so good at it, even if the crew and the publisher went through emergency public relations after Nokia Plaza, he still couldn't get rid of his habit of being late and drunk.

Even if a public relations document is drawn up, he doesn’t remember it, or he can’t remember it.

These have lost popularity among passers-by.

Hardcore fans alone cannot support the box office of a major Hollywood production.

"Transcendence" also proves this.

Despite the support of heaps of die-hard fans, Depp's new film did poorly.

On its first day in North America on Friday, "Transcendence" only earned $4.81 million from 3,655 theaters.

Under normal circumstances, non-sequels or series movies will do better at the box office on Saturday than on Friday if the response is slightly better, but this film's single-day revenue plummeted 20% on Saturday, taking in only 3.82 million US dollars.

After three days of its first weekend, the North American box office of "Transcendence" totaled US$10.88 million.

Compared to the film's production cost of US$150 million, this box office result represents an investment tragedy that has occurred.

The most frightening thing is that the film's reputation among viewers has completely collapsed.

Data released by CinemaScore, a professional film market research organization, shows that theater audiences in the first week gave "Transcendence" an average C rating, and the film's North American box office is expected to be around US$22 million.

Counting the overseas markets where it has not yet been released, after the box office share of "Transcendence" is deducted by the distributor for publicity and distribution fees, management fees, etc., Annapurna Pictures' box office income is completely negligible.