"The Twilight Zone," Vic Morrow's posthumous film, was released and grossed $6 million at the box office in its first weekend.
Vic Morrow's ex-wife and two daughters had no comment on John Landis' attendance at the premiere.
The Los Angeles prosecutor stated that the film director must also be held responsible for his actions and will prosecute Landis for second-degree murder and manslaughter in accordance with the law.
The newspapers were full of reports about this movie that had a fatal accident.
Ronald's friend, Jennifer Jason Leigh's father's posthumous work, "The Twilight Zone Movie", was finally released nationwide. John Landis, the director of Criminal Cases, also attended the premiere of the film
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Landis may have been forced to attend the premiere out of helplessness, knowing that reporters at the scene would ask many questions that were difficult to answer, just to build publicity for his movie.
Defending a criminal case requires spending a lot of money to hire a famous lawyer. For subsequent civil compensation cases, he also needs to prepare sky-high compensation. Landis bites the bullet and hopes that The Twilight Zone will be a big hit so that someone can ask him to make a movie and earn money.
Use money to pay off debts and avoid the fate of bankruptcy.
In the first weekend, more than 1,200 theaters received a box office of 6.6 million. The unsatisfactory figures may have disappointed Landis.
And "Night of the Comet" is still firmly in the twelfth place on the box office list, and is still taking in about one million US dollars in box office for Atlantic every week.
A few places up the list is "Flash Dance", which is even more popular than his own movie. This movie has returned to the top ten at the box office this week, ranking ninth, with a total box office of over 5,110 yuan.
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The reason for the rebound in box office is that "Flashdance" has also been involved in a lawsuit.
Tom Hedley, the creator of the original story of the film, gave the film's prototype character Maureen Mulder, a female welder/stripper in Toronto, Canada, a $2,300 buyout fee for the adaptation before selling the script to Paramount.
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Now the North American box office of the movie has exceeded 50 million, and the audience has been very supportive, and it seems that it can continue to be shown for more than ten weeks. Maureen Mulder, the prototype of the story, was instigated by her lawyer and sued Paramount, hoping that
You can get more adaptation fees.
"Flashdance," which looked like a bad movie at the time, is now one of the biggest cash cows of the year.
Paramount has very strong evidence to refute the plaintiff's claims.
The contract under which Maureen Mulder sold the adaptation rights was very strict, and when the contract was signed, Maureen Mulder also had a lawyer present, so their chances of winning were very high.
However, Eisner, the cunning CEO, still allowed the other party to sue, signaled his lawyers to show weakness, and let the media report the lawsuit extensively. It actually had a miraculous effect, and the box office rebounded again.
Ronald put down the newspaper, "Movies have been off the throne of the most important entertainment in American people's lives for many years. Nowadays, movies must rely heavily on the help of marketing to convince batches of audiences who did not originally go to movie theaters."
, Go to the cinema for your movie.
"Give me a cup of coffee, please." Ronald said to the flight attendant.
The business class service was satisfactory. Saab paid for it and Ronald took a United flight to New York. The plane stayed here temporarily and was about to fly to Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
"First time going abroad?" Ronald asked Richard next door.
"Yeah, thank you for helping me upgrade my cabin." Logically, Richard could only sit in the economy class at the back, so Ronald upgraded him. Otherwise, after a long flight to Sweden, Richard was not in good spirits, so he couldn't help.
Handle daily chores by yourself.
"Little things", Ronald put on his blindfold and began to fall asleep.
The plane arrived at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport, and the two of them waited in the arrival hall of Terminal 4 for the lady who came to the United States for negotiation last time.
"Here, Ronald." She took Ronald's small bag diligently, got into the Saab 9000 luxury car used by the VIPs, and the group went to the Stockholm Grand Hotel to check in.
In the summer of Northern Europe, the days are very long, lasting more than 16 hours. The Grand Hotel is located in the city center. It is a very impressive ancient monument. Saab booked Ronald a room facing Nord Stream in the center of Stockholm.
Open the window and you will see the two bridges over Beixi, and various old-fashioned buildings come into view.
"You take a rest first, and after you get over the jet lag, we will go to the air force base to see Saab's fighter jets and the sceneries." Saab's female marketing manager made very thoughtful arrangements.
"If it's convenient, I can go now." Ronald has a very good advantage. He can sleep soundly on the plane. Regardless of the noise and turbulence, he often closes his eyes as soon as he gets on the plane. When he opens his eyes, it's already time.
"Is that so? Well, I'll contact the base." Of course, the female manager couldn't ask for Ronald's dedication.
Leaving Richard to stay in the hotel to catch up on his sleep, Ronald took a car through the Old City of Stockholm and arrived at Balkaby Airport in the northern suburbs.
This is the earliest airport in Stockholm and has been used by the Air Force. It was not opened to civil aviation until ten years ago. However, on the other side of the airport, the Swedish Air Force's training base is still maintained.
The car passed several guards, Ronald got a pass, hung it around his neck, and drove into the air force base.
When Ronald got out of the car, the first thing he saw were two huge hangars. On the doors of the hangars, there were big letters "saab" written on them.
This is where the Saab 37 Thor jet fighter (saab 37 viggen) is parked.
"viggen means thunderbolt in Swedish. In Norse mythology, it is the thunderbolt struck by Thor with his war hammer." The female manager introduced to Ronald.
"When can I see him training in the sky?"
The female manager called the senior manager of Saab who was also here. After he checked with the Air Force and Saab personnel, there was a routine training half an hour later.
The iron door of the hangar was slowly opened a crack, and a fully armed Swedish Air Force pilot, wearing sunglasses and a white scarf around his neck, nodded to them and said hello, and walked into the hangar. He passed through a steel
He took the escalator and climbed up the cockpit carefully.
Ronald was allowed to stand next to the hangar and watch the fighter jets leaving the hangar.
As the hangar door opened wider and wider, sunlight shone in through the door, hitting the cockpit of the fighter jet.
A ray of sunlight shines through the cockpit glass and onto the pilot's mask.
Ronald's mind moved. This was a very good scene design. He quickly used shorthand symbols that no one present could understand to outline the scene in his mind.
The fighter pilot closed the canopy, some ground crew members pulled the plane's block, and the plane slowly moved forward. The pitot tube in front of the fighter jet, like a needle, first poked out of the hangar door.
The huge machine glowed gray, which made Ronald feel in great awe of this modern killing weapon. Looking at the pylon under the belly of the machine, it was obvious that missiles could be mounted to attack local targets.
Modern warfare has evolved to the point where you can shoot down enemy planes with the press of a button. Instead of dogfighting with cannons like in the old movies.
When the fighter jet drove out of the hangar, it was very slow. But this very slow progress left a deep impression on Ronald. This killing machine, before it soared into the sky, was still lying on the ground.
Slowly move forward like a turtle.
The plane slowly moved onto the runway. Ronald and Saab's manager came to the side of the runway to watch the takeoff.
The nozzle of a single turbojet engine at the tail of the aircraft was opened. A ball of orange-red flames spurted out from the nozzle of the engine.
Today the pilot had to perform a short take-off and landing training. The flames suddenly increased in size, and the length of the jet suddenly lengthened. The pilot pulled the brakes, and the nose of the plane suddenly paused forward, and then slowly moved forward.
Move away.
The noise of the engine suddenly amplified several times, and a huge roar came. Ronald found that his eardrums were beginning to be oppressed, and he had to speak in a loud voice to barely hear.
The female manager brought two earmuffs and gave one to Ronald.
After putting it on, the noise was immediately reduced a lot. Ronald stopped talking, took out his notebook and ballpoint pen, and began to write down some of his feelings in the notebook.
With a sound of "Boom...", the fighter jet suddenly seemed to be pushed by someone and began to accelerate sharply. The subject of short take-off was thrilling to Ronald who was watching at a close distance.
The aircraft first raised its head, then slowly raised its front landing gear, and kept its head raised. After a second, the fighter struggled again, completely getting rid of the shackles of gravity, and slowly lifted off.
Then the pilot jerked the nose of the plane again, made a maneuver, flew high into the sky quickly, and quickly disappeared.
Ronald felt the aftertaste of a sound wave, the echo of the engine, and the hot air blown up by the nozzle, which seemed to be bounced back by the outer wall.
This very slow movement in front, the look of being in place and ready, and the rapid flight into the sky after takeoff gave Ronald a very strong sense of contrast.
"I... have... intention," Ronald said to Saab's manager.
"What did you say?" the manager took off his earmuffs and asked him.
Ronald also hurriedly took off his earmuffs, "I said, I have a new idea. I know how to express the surging power of Saab."
"What is it?"
"I think the most powerful moment for ordinary people to feel a jet fighter is not when missiles are launched in the sky. It is the moment when it takes off or lands. In this way, I can express the surging power of Saab fighter jets and Saab cars in parallel, and then
Let them meet on the runway."
Ronald gestured and said to the female manager.
"Sounds very good." The female manager felt that Ronald's new idea seemed even more exciting.
The two walked back to the hangar and prepared to get in the car and go back to the hotel.
"What's in that hangar?" Ronald looked at another hangar not far away, separated from it by a barbed wire fence.
"That's a confidential project," the female manager replied with a smile, "I don't know what it is."