In addition to the missile test site in the desert, Nanaya also visited many other places to determine the actual location for filming.
This work is not tedious, but it will take up a lot of Nanaya's time.
After all, we have to travel all over the world, and we can't decide on every scene after just looking at it. If the actual scene is different from what we imagined, we have to give up.
Fortunately, many scene shots in fz are the same as in FSN, so many scenes in Fuyuki City do not need to be re-selected.
But this still made Nanaya feel tired. After all, spending most of the day on the road was very tiring.
And the final auditions of the last few actors of FZ...
Nanaya felt like a spinning top since March, being constantly busy with all kinds of things.
All the weight I gained during the Chinese New Year because I was forced to overeat at home has been returned in the past few months.
So after returning to New York, he took a day to rest in the hotel to regain his composure.
Ori, Shonan and the others who had been traveling around the world with Nanaya finally had some time to rest.
"What a pity~?" Shonan complained while lying on the sofa in the suite, "I thought I could meet beautiful girls all over the world by following Kiryu-san~?? I didn't expect to see any~?"
"You better work hard!" Nanaya said dissatisfiedly.
"After all, we are not Kiryu-san~?"
With a malicious smile on his face, Shonan stood up and taunted Nanaya: "After all, it's already a headache for Kiryu-san to deal with the women around him~?? How can he care about the needs of people like us~?"
"Fuck you, you can't even handle your own gakki, and you're still mocking me? Aren't you afraid that I'll tell her what you said?"
Nanaya's words made Shonan Rantaro's face turn black instantly.
Of course, the Gakki that Nanaya was talking about was not the new female star named Aragaki Yui, but the blind date of this guy Shonan.
Yes, Shonan, this guy who looks like a gigolo, actually went on a blind date.
The time for the blind date happened to be during the Chinese New Year this year.
Although there are middle-aged bachelors in Japan, getting married and having children is definitely the choice of most people.
With the continuous development of [Erque Studio] in recent years, the value of Shonan Rantaro, a veteran of the studio, has also been rising.
Nanaya is very caring towards the old man who has been with him since the beginning. Although Shonan is definitely not as good as Nanaya, a capitalist, he is still considered a diamond bachelor among the Japanese working class.
So naturally, Shonan's lifelong affairs became the most worrying thing for the two elders of the Shonan family.
In the past few years, due to various reasons, Shonan did not return to his hometown. This year, Shonan finally got the chance to go home.
So this core member of [Erque Studio] was forced to go on a blind date during the Chinese New Year this year.
At the beginning, Shonan, who longed to live among flowers without getting hurt, was still thinking about how to anger his blind date and drive her away.
As a result, when they met, Shonan Rantaro, a photographer from the famous film studio [Erque Studio], winner of the Japanese Academy Award for Best Cinematography, who had always regarded killing thousands of people as his life goal and aspired to be a gigolo, was shocked by the girl sitting opposite him.
Because although this girl looks very cute, she looks too young, so young that Shonan even doubts whether she is an adult.
Although Shonan Rantaro aspires to defeat thousands of people and kill tens of thousands of people, underage girls are the only thing he is not in charge of.
Fortunately, after a detailed conversation, Shonan found out that the girl was born in 1988 and he was not guilty of a crime.
The minimum sentence is three years. There is no need for this beast like Shonan to be sentenced to the death penalty.
No matter how I look at it, being twice as old as your blind date would be very depressing for anyone.
However, seeing that the other person was quite pretty, Shonan Rantaro thought that he was still single, so he suggested that the two of them should just look around first.
Of course, Shonan Rantaro did this mainly because he felt that his parents would not give up unless they found him a wife this time.
So it's better to pick one that you like as soon as possible and start dragging it first.
So, this couple, who could definitely be called father and daughter, started dating.
Shonan Rantaro was extremely depressed and told other people in the studio about this.
Nanaya knew that Shonan was really depressed this time, because when he talked about this matter, he did not add the suffix "～??", which made Nanaya very uncomfortable.
Nanaya and the others showed infinite sympathy for the Shonan Rantaro incident and have been laughing since January.
Also, Shonan's boyfriend was born in 1988, and 2005 was the time when Yui Aragaki transformed from a model to an actress and began to become a public figure.
So Nanaya unkindly started to use Gakki's nickname to tease his own photographer.
And Nanaya found that this trick was really useful. Every time he used words like "Where's your Gakki?" to tease Shonan.
This guy always recovers from his neurotic state, and sometimes he often omits the suffix "～??".
And every time when talking about her relationship with the person she's dating, Shonan always seems to be hesitant.
Nanaya could see that Shonan still liked his girlfriend very much, otherwise he wouldn't want to go to nightclubs every time he mentioned her.
But maybe because they were an old man and a young wife, Shonan seemed embarrassed every time he mentioned the other party.
In fact, in Japan, although this age gap is not common, it is not a rare treasure either.
After all, when Japanese white-collar workers are young, they work all the time. If they don't have the right opportunity, their lifelong event will be delayed.
By the time they get promoted and have the capital to start a family, they will be about the same age as Shonan is now.
However, the situation in Shonan is a bit special. You know, Illya was also born in 1988, and when they knew Illya, she was still a little girl...
So whenever Shonan thought about his girlfriend being the same age as Illya, he didn't know what to do.
Because it's really embarrassing.
It doesn't matter whether Shonan was embarrassed or not, Nanaya has nothing to do with it. Anyway, it was this guy who started to tease him first.
"Okay, you two stop arguing."
Ori, who was standing by, acted as a peacemaker. He threw out a newspaper.
"I looked at this year's box office charts and we are in good shape. So far this year, there hasn't been any movie that has done particularly well at the box office."
"Nonsense, because our UBW is the first blockbuster of the year."
Nanaya looked through this year's movie release schedule, and found that it was not much different from what he remembered. Basically, all the box office hits he remembered were released after UBW.
As for the movies that have been released this year, except for the animated film "Ice Age 2", none of the others have achieved a box office of over 100 million in North America.
The captain of the famous Shohoku animal basketball team, the ape-like creature Akagi Takenori, once said: "Whoever controls the rebounds can control the game."
Similarly, in this era when China's box office had not yet risen, for a commercial film, getting the North American box office was equivalent to getting the global box office.
At this time, UBW had already been completely declared completed. All copies had been completed and sent to theaters across the United States and even the world, waiting to be released on May 5th.
Compared to last year's July when Nanaya chose almost no strong competitors, this year's May schedule is obviously much more intense than last year.
After UBW kicks off this year's summer season, there will be blockbusters released almost every weekend during the nearly three-month summer season.
UBW's main rivals are "X-Men 3" and "The Da Vinci Code", which will also be released in May.
Not only do these two movies have a strong fan base, but in Nanaya's impression, they also have very good box office results.
Although both movies have not received very good reviews, "X-Men 3" is called the bad ending of the X-Men trilogy.
"The Da Vinci Code" is considered to be an almost identical replica of the original novel, a work with no originality.
From this point of view, UBW, which has a wonderful plot and big-budget special effects, should be a sure winner.
But the problem is that although the box office performance of a movie in the first month is important, if you want to get an ideal box office result, the box office curve in the next few months cannot be ignored.
Although the 2006 summer season was filled with many blockbusters, there was also a mixed bag of quality, but that doesn't mean there weren't any films that could pose a huge threat to UBW.
For example, "Superman Returns" in June and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" in July.
Although the former is an absolute failure in terms of return on investment, Superman's powerful fan base can definitely have a strong impact on other movies of the same period. Otherwise, how did the historical North American box office of $200 million come about?
As for Pirates of the Caribbean 2...
Well, the box office champion in 2006 in the previous life is also the goal that Nanaya hopes to surpass this time.
This is also the achievement that Nanaya wants to achieve most in the near future - to win an annual box office championship.
But this is not an easy thing to do. After all, facing many strong challengers, it is not easy to maintain the box office.
Therefore, in order to ensure the competitiveness of the film when it is released, the Fate crew launched a high-intensity publicity campaign.
At the beginning, the publicity and promotion department of the Fate crew wanted to use the relationship between Shirou Emiya and Rin Toosaka in the movie and make them a fake couple for publicity.
However, before this plan even left the publicity department, it was rejected by the two people involved.
When Sugiyama saw this promotional plan, he was almost scared to death.
Damn it, if you want to get yourself killed, don't drag me into this! Instead of asking me to do the publicity, you might as well just drag my cheap teacher into this! His rumors of having multiple girlfriends are much more impressive than my fake couple rumors.
"We also wanted to use Director Kiryu's uncertain relationship to build momentum."
The publicity and promotion person who proposed the fake couple suggestion answered in a muffled voice - the moment he spoke out the fake couple plan, Sugiyama jumped up and beat him into a pig's head.
"However, Director Kiryu is so scary when he gets angry that we in the publicity department didn't dare to mention this to him."
"..."
[So you think my cheap mistress is a pushover? ]
Sugiyama didn't know whether the guy in front of him who was seeking death could be considered lucky. He was obviously scared to death of the teacher, but why did he come up with a publicity and promotion plan that involved the teacher's secret lover?
"Boy, you have to thank me." Sugiyama patted the other's shoulder and said.
[Huh? Why should I be grateful to you for getting beaten up? ]
Poor Pighead didn't know that if his proposal was passed, it would not be as simple as just being beaten up.
All I can say is that even fools have their own luck.