Chapter 157 Annual catwalk
"Why aren't you with the crew?"
As she walked across the red carpet and entered a relatively quiet place, Mrs. Leah looked at Duke who had caught up with her and asked, "Didn't you plan the publicity?"
"It's enough to have Tom, he can attract media than me."
Duke looked back and looked back. Tom Hanks had just walked on the red carpet. The audience and media reporters could only describe it as crazy. When it comes to the attraction to the media and the public, the front-line directors could not catch up with the front-line actors while riding the train, not to mention Tom Hanks still took Rita Wilson to attend.
It was not easy for Tom Hanks to appear on Victoria's Secret's annual show. Although he was obliged to cooperate with the crew to promote it, it was a temporary increase. The film crew communicated several times with his agent Ino Martin to facilitate the trip.
However, Duke would not be very relaxed. After standing under the background sign, he was pulled into the interview area by Warner Bros.'s public relations staff.
A reporter immediately came over and asked, "Director Rosenberg, is your new movie "Save Private Ryan" completed?"
"You can see the summer season," Duke replied.
"I heard that Victoria's Secret set up a professional angel model team came from your suggestion?" someone asked again.
"I just mentioned it casually." Duke did not forget to promote his advertising company by the way. "It was Santa Fea who made my very immature ideas work into facts."
"As we all know, your movies are never short of beauties. Do angels have the chance to appear in your movie?"
"Of course, as long as there is a suitable role."
The promotion of "Save Private Ryan" has been launched. As long as it can attract topics and attention, Duke will not refuse any questions from reporters.
"Congratulations, Director Rosenberg, the global box office of "Day" has exceeded 900 million US dollars!"
A reporter squeezed out of the crowd with great force. The smile on his face looked very sincere, and Duke nodded to him, "Thank you."
He is not very polite about the next question, "But your video has been criticized by countless professionals in the industry, and the professional score has dropped to 292 points. What do you think?"
"There are people in the world who can't eat grapes, and they will tell everyone that grapes are sour, bitter, and the most unpalatable thing in the world."
When he heard Duke's metaphor, the reporters around him were stunned for a moment, and then they were blocked by several men in suits. Duke nodded to the organizer's security officer, turned around and left the interview area, and entered the venue.
After searching roughly, Duke saw the location of his mother and walked straight over.
Just like the promotional strategy of all the films, the promotional focus of "Save Private Ryan" will not be on the director, and Tom Hanks is the top priority of this mutual support event with Victoria's Secret. Even other actors such as Leonardo DiCaprio will also arrive at the venue and make a name for themselves under the leadership of Robin Grande.
The only thing that Duke felt a little regretful was that Leonardo DiCaprio and his agent rejected the crew's suggestion of having a fake relationship with Victoria's Secret model. Li Xiao, who was born into a child star, was different from Keanu Reeves. She went on a relatively smooth journey and probably didn't want to make too much of her private life.
"Duke. Come here."
My mother waved to this side, and after Duke walked over, she introduced several people around him one by one, "This is Lori Grirey, the president of Victoria's Secret Store, this is Vice President Rebecca Fein, and this is Operations Director Bill May..."
All the employees introduced were Victoria's Secret executives, and Duke politely greeted these people.
Mrs. Leah stood aside with a proud smile on her lips. Duke did become her greatest pride as he said, and even did better than her most luxurious imagination!
Looking at the entire Hollywood, the whole United States, and even the world, how many film directors can achieve such achievements as Duke? Can any director create such achievements at the age of Duke?
I won’t say that the total box office of the past three movies has been over 1.5 billion US dollars. Just talking about "Day", a film has a box office of more than 360 million US dollars in North America and a global box office of over 900 million US dollars. What kind of glory is this? If she is not proud of this, it would be too hypocritical.
As a businessman and a relatively successful businessman, Mrs. Leah knows well that in this highly commercial society, although business success cannot represent everything, it is the basis for winning respect and recognition. Moreover, Duke entered the extremely realistic Hollywood, and it is even more a circle of speaking with business data.
After a few chats, the executives of Victoria's Secret went to the backstage. Duke sat with his mother in the front row near the booth. While socializing and greeting people, he was also observing the situation in the venue.
Unlike the future where celebrities gather in the show, Victoria's Secret is obviously not appealing. Although there are many familiar faces, there are not many stars who are truly big names, especially Hollywood celebrities. Apart from Tom Hanks and other members of "Save Private Ryan", there are actually not many.
The few that can be visited are also related to Duke's invitation, such as Christopher Lee and Uma Thurman, and Nancy Josephson's signed actors.
Among them is Rachel Jennifer Aniston, who became famous last year with a sitcom.
Although this actress took the typical American silly sister route, she was not a silly sister in reality. After coming in, she came over to say hello to Duke, chatted with Mrs. Leah enthusiastically, and even called out auntie...
Few people who can become famous are fools. Obviously, Jennifer Aniston understands the situation of actors who rely on TV series to become famous. If there is no suitable role transformation, the life will be limited to this. The most ideal and suitable transformation direction for TV series actors is the big screen.
"Back in Los Angeles, have time to have dinner together?"
When she said goodbye, she whispered the invitation, and Duke naturally had no reason to refuse, "Okay, I'll wait for your call."
Jennifer Aniston gradually moved away. Duke saw his mother's eyes turning, straightened his face, sat back on the chair, and temporarily threw what had happened just behind his head.
The show is not just a show. As a promotional party, Santa Fia signed broadcast contracts with ABC and Sky TV respectively, and will broadcast to North America and Europe through two TV stations. As long as the results can meet expectations, such a show will become the norm in the next few years.
Before I could wait for a long time, the show started. Although it was different from the video I had watched, in Duke's view, the models and overall operations that were on the stand seemed to have some future prototypes.
Victoria's Secret's operating strategy is not to build itself into a high-end luxury brand, but to the world's most famous and popular sexy lingerie brand. Therefore, the models walking on the booth are not as cool as they were when they were in the costume show. Instead, they frequently blew kisses, laughed, blinked, waved, and even made victory gestures to interact with the surrounding audience and camera lenses.
The makeup artist also put in the makeup of the model. The angels' long hair is naturally curled, just like they have just woken up and have not washed up or experienced a perfect match. Their faces are natural and charming, and their red and beautiful faces and foggy eyes are very similar to the lips they just kissed.
What surprised Duke the most was that Madonna Cicone was invited as a guest singer in this show. The big sister in the pop music industry wore sexy underwear and sang the classic crown "Beautiful Island" and walked up to the booth to celebrate with the model passing by with the high fives, which set off the first place on the scene.
"Is this Santa Fia invited?" Duke pointed to Madonna on the stage and whispered to his mother.
Mrs. Leah nodded, "I think the advice from one of Santa Fia's deputy directors of creative, I think it's very good."
Although Duke knew that Victoria's Secret show had a tradition of inviting guests to perform, he remembered it very clearly. He had never mentioned this point. The reason was very simple. At that time, he forgot that it was not particularly strange that it was raised by others. As long as many things were pointed out, some additional things would naturally come.
Duke never underestimated the elites of this era. The more experiences, all creativity will only come from him or it is natural to succeed. It is impossible. He has neither a hard drive nor a Google in his mind, so how can he remember everything? Even those with memories, remembering is one thing, and the fact that it turns it into success is another thing.
Then, another show was launched, the same thing Duke knew about but forgot to mention!
Claudia Shiver, one of the top five supermodels, walked up to the stand wearing a sky-high underwear made of diamonds. This underwear, which is claimed to be worth $2 million, shone a lot of people's eyes against the backdrop of world-class supermodels and bright lights on the scene, especially some men in the back row, who were already whistling excitedly.
"Whose proposal is this?" Duke asked his mother again, and the corners of Mrs. Leah's mouth curled up slightly, "My, it looks good."
Expensive diamonds, beautiful angels and sexy underwear can kill many people in seconds, and of course the effect is not much worse.
Duke admired his mother very much. Unlike a cheating guy like him, after his marriage failed, his mother had achieved success by replacing the few interpersonal networks left by the Rosenberg family.
Victoria's Secret's first annual show is coming to an end. The sky-high underwear worn by Claudia Shiver has become the focus of competition for many people, and it has even attracted more attention than Madonna. Before the event has ended, a wealthy man from Southern Europe took out $3 million and put his underwear in his pocket.
This show also ended perfectly, and it was definitely a success. After the successful event, the organizer naturally held a thank-you dinner. (To be continued. (.))
ps: That, the next chapter is a bit heavy, and people who don’t like it can bypass it...
Chapter completed!