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Chapter 416 Christmas is approaching
🕑 Added 2025-08-07 15:05:37 +0000 UTC“Ahem.”
Nanaya coughed softly, his face showing the unnaturalness of being exposed, but he still rounded up his words.
"That's why I chose you to play this role. I really just think you are very suitable for this role."
Of course, Johnson is not as expensive now as he will be in the future, which is also a very important reason.
If you can spend $3 million to find an actor worth $8 million, why doesn’t Nanaya do that?
"Okay, it's almost time, let's get ready."
Nanaya looked at the time and found that it was time to rest.
"All departments are in place, and everyone is ready to report back."
As Nanaya's voice sounded through the loudspeaker, the filming of the FZ crew began again.
At this time, the shooting area of the studio has been arranged into the main entrance hall of Einzbern Castle.
However, unlike the neat and luxurious setting before, the castle hall had now turned into a ruin.
The gorgeous carpet was covered with bricks and dust, and combined with the deliberately dimmed light environment on the set, it looked shabby.
When Nanaya and Johnson walked towards the center of the set, they had to make a big detour in order not to damage the set.
In the center of the hall, there is a prop tank.
Johnson took off his jacket, revealing a short-sleeved T-shirt with the game logo printed on it.
However, what was printed on it was not the grand strategy in the original work, but "The Saint and the Brave".
After all, this is an opportunity to advertise blatantly, so Nanaya naturally wants to keep this position for his own people.
Especially since he was also the director of the movie "Goblins Slayer" which was adapted from "The Saint and the Brave", this can be considered a little easter egg for movie fans.
"Hiss... It's a bit cold."
Johnson rubbed his hands together.
After several months of shooting, the weather has already entered winter.
Even though Johnson is in great shape, he is still a human being and will still feel cold.
Nanaya hurriedly reminded: "Warm up quickly, it will be troublesome if you catch a cold."
"I know."
Johnson nodded and started exercising on the side immediately.
"Keep an eye on him and keep him warm."
Nanaya gave instructions to an assistant beside him, and then he began to check the props, scenery, camera positions and other set arrangements one by one.
After making sure there was no problem, Nanaya said to Lily and Illya, "When the show starts, run in from outside the camera range. Don't worry, I've checked it, and there won't be another collapse of the scenic area like what happened to Benny before."
Then Nanaya turned around and said to Johnson, who had already warmed up, "Next, you have to invite Saber to drink."
"This will be a contest between kings, and I need to show the demeanor of a king." Johnson nodded.
"But you also have to act a little silly." Nanaya patted Johnson's sturdy arm and walked towards the monitor. "Johnson, it's time to show your true sense of humor."
After each department gave feedback indicating that there were no problems, Nanaya made a gesture to the script supervisor to get ready.
"Scene 92, Scene 13, starts now!"
"Hey, Knight King! I came here specially to meet you, come out soon, huh?!"
On the monitor, Johnson had a nonchalant smile on his face. He tilted his head and looked like he was inviting his roommates to go out for fun in the evening.
Especially when combined with the luxurious and majestic chariot under his feet, it looks very inharmonious and has a funny and amusing sense of humor.
At this time, the Lily (?) duo finally ran to the hall. They were originally ready to fight because someone broke in, but when they saw Iskandar, their expressions immediately became strange.
"Hey, Saber. After hearing about your castle here, I wanted to come and see it...but how did it become like this, huh?"
Johnson grinned, not looking guilty at all.
"There are too many trees in the yard and it's inconvenient to get in and out. I almost got lost before I got to the city gate, so I cut some for you. Thank me. This way, your view will be much better."
Although he had clearly destroyed someone else's barrier, he said in a serious tone that it was all for your own good.
Facing such an opponent, I believe everyone will feel powerless.
“Rider. You…”
Lily began sharply, but she was interrupted before she could finish.
Johnson frowned in surprise and said, "Hey, Knight King, aren't you going to change into modern clothes tonight? Don't wear that rigid armor all the time."
As he spoke, Johnson picked up the prop barrel on the car and carried it on his shoulder. Now he looked like a wine delivery boy.
"You……"
Lily was speechless again.
She took another deep breath and asked in a tone that was clearly suppressing her anger: “Rider, what are you doing here?”
Iskandar said in a dissatisfied tone: "You still don't understand after reading it? I came to drink with you.
Perhaps because Saber did not move, Iskandar added, "Hey, stop standing there. Lead the way. Is there a courtyard suitable for a banquet? This castle is full of dust, and we can't drink at all."
"Cut! Very good, this one passed."
Nanaya stood up from the director's chair and clapped loudly.
After several months of filming, the crew has found their best form.
And Nanaya also grew a lot through this filming.
Although he still behaves irritably occasionally, he is much better at controlling his emotions than at the beginning.
However, no matter how good the crew's condition was, it could not continue to operate.
But this time it had nothing to do with other things, it was simply because it was already late December and the crew was about to take Christmas vacation.
Christmas is one of the most important holidays in Europe and the United States, and is as important as New Year in Japan.
Because most of the actors in the Fate project team are employees from the United States and Japan, a long holiday combining Christmas and New Year's Day is inevitable.
Today is the last day of filming in 2006. After today's filming is completed, the crew will gather again in 2007.
Although the filming has stopped, the crew's work has not ended. For example, the post-production team will continue working until before Christmas before they can take a holiday.
However, the actors of the Fate crew cannot immediately take a vacation and go home to relax.
The Christmas season has arrived, and the final box office battle between Washimine Entertainment and Fox in 2006 has officially begun.
This entertainment war, hailed by major entertainment journalists as "the last smoke of war in 2006", attracted the attention of countless people inside and outside the circle.
Whether it's "Night at the Museum" or "Iron Man", they are all big-budget popcorn movies with special effects.
Therefore, there is no such thing as winning awards for them. Box office performance is the only standard to test both of them.
For big-budget movies like this, investors would stagger the release times in order to ensure box office revenue as much as possible.
After all, unless it is a phenomenal movie like "Titanic", the number of moviegoers will not change much in a short period of time.
If most audiences are asked to watch two movies in a short period of time, most of them will choose to shake their heads.
They just don't have the time or energy to do that.
Therefore, even during the busy summer season, big-budget movies are generally released at a frequency of one per week in order to ensure box office revenue.
Because the first-week box office of a commercial film is becoming increasingly important to a film, the frequency of releasing one film per week is acceptable to both the audience and the film companies.
We are all here to make money, there is no need to fight to the death just for a schedule.
In the previous life, Marvel and DC initially put "Civil War" and "Superman vs. Batman" on the same day to confront each other.
But in the end, Marvel took the initiative to avoid "Batman" and postponed the release date of "Civil War".
Although the box office gap and public reputation of the two films later proved that if "Civil War" had defeated "Batman", it would not have been able to guarantee a box office of $1.15 billion.
Even old rivals like Marvel and DC will not release movies at the same time just for the sake of a dispute, which shows that most film companies will not take an irrational approach like Mars colliding with the Earth.
Although the above incident has never happened in this life, the established industry rules make everyone think that in the end, one of "Iron Man" and "Night at the Museum" will definitely be released at an alternate time.
Everyone even thinks that the movie that actively avoids the release date should most likely be "Iron Man".
Both Marvel Entertainment and Washimine are newcomers in Hollywood, and Marvel is even a rookie.
Faced with the veteran film studio Fox, they will probably choose to back down in the end.
Everyone thinks that this Christmas battle is just a publicity stunt and a gimmick by Washimine.
However, as of December, the two films still showed no signs of retreat.
It was not until this time that everyone realized that they were actually serious.
As a result, all kinds of comparative media reviews began to flood the major media outlets, and everyone was analyzing which of the two films would ultimately win.
Judging from the cast, "Night at the Museum" is clearly superior. The leading actor Ben Stiller is a very popular comedy star in recent years, and the movies he starred in are almost always successful at the box office.
The veteran actor Robin Williams also has his own loyal fans.
As for Robert Downey Jr., the star of "Iron Man", although he was also very popular back then, he had long lost his box office appeal due to a ** scandal a few years earlier.
But "Iron Man" is not without its advantages. The IP of "Iron Man" is the biggest star of this movie.
Even though Tony Stark is not as famous as Bruce Banner, he is much better than the purely original IP "Night at the Museum".
In fact, the ones who really feel uncomfortable in this box office battle are not the crews of "Night at the Museum" or "Iron Man", but the other new films released on Christmas.
In previous years, the Christmas period has always been in a state of "one super and many strong". Although the bulk of the revenue will be taken away by one movie, the remaining movies can still get a taste of the broth and make a profit.
But this year there was a [Two Strong] movie, and now other movies can’t even get a share of the show.
Wanglaoji and Jiaduobao fought, but in the end, Wanglaoji was the last one to die.
This is the state of Hollywood right now.
