I’m in Hollywood Chapter 799: Whatever you do is wrong
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In July, "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" was released on July 5 in the long-awaited anticipation. As the most popular female action movie in recent years, "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" harvested 7more than 1 million USD Box Office in the first week. At the same time, "Sound of the Desert", "The Mummy2" and other films have also continued to harvest Box Office in the North America film market, and the two sequels of "Men in Black" and "Jumanji", which will be released in the next few weeks, are also ready to go.
In addition to the "The Mummy" series, in the eyes of many people, whether it is the Sound of the Desert of Paramount animation or the 《Charlie's Angels》 series of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Film Industry, or the "Men in Black" and "Jumanji" issued by Sony Film Industry, it should have been the Firefly Thing. But at this time, these films are strategizing for several other Film Studio, Firefly this year's "The Matrix" and "The Rock" has begun to enter the final stage.
So, almost all of these factors have become a place for media to tease Firefly's business strategy, especially the Paramount animation studio.
Although Firefly sold the Hand-Drawn Animation studio for a huge amount of 2.5 billion USD, in view of the commercial prospects currently shown in "Sound of the Desert", as long as Paramount animation maintains this level of production in several future animation films, Viacom can not only In the next ten years, all investment costs will be recovered. Moreover, with the cooperation of Paramount animation and other companies in the Viacom system such as Nick Children ’s Channel and Blockbuster chain, Viacom can also create a 2D Animation industry chain that can compete with Firefly 3D Animation movies. The impact of Firefly is the deadliest.
Because before that, due to factors such as the difficulty of cultivating the animation film team and the long investment cycle, Hollywood animation film industry was almost monopolized by Disney under Firefly, and Firefly almost took the initiative to cut the high-profit industry that was originally monopolized by itself. Give a big piece of cake to Viacom.
So far, only a small number of people knew the inside story of the sale of Disney Hand-Drawn Animation studio, and Firefly could not be refuted at this time.
Moreover, if these criticisms sing Firefly's remarks, although it is very annoying, it will not cause any substantial harm to Firefly. The public relations department estimates that the media is noisy for a while. Interested in these things again, the topic is naturally cooled.
But immediately, after "The Matrix" North America Box Office broke through 200 million, Wachowski Brothers boarded ABCTV Station's "David Late Night Show" festival, the brothers landed on this talk show, mainly for the promotion of "The Matrix" later, I hope the next few weeks movie Box Office I can go longer. Although the two have made a name for themselves, they are both people who like to keep a low profile. Frank · Wells personally called the two and arranged the talk show.
It's just that Wachowski Brothers inadvertently mentioned in the interview that the follow-up script was rejected by the company and the news of script is being rewritten. Firefly did not show much sensitivity to this topic.
But it may be that the news about Firefly in recent times is always easy to make headlines. A large number of media people have focused their attention only on the people and things related to Firefly recently. This news is naturally noticed by interested people.
Wachowski Brothers finished the interview and just returned to Chicago where the two lived for a long time. A paparazzi who had been squatting for a long time entangled the brothers. After a few days of entanglement, because Andy · Wachowski came out from the bar that day, I just drank some. Drunk and drunk, the last paparazzi flickered back to the bar again for an 'exclusive interview'.
Although referring to the original novel concept released by Eric in advance, the brothers have always regarded the trilogy script as their own hard work. Since script completely rejected Eric, the brothers have also been quite depressed recently. Andy · Wachowski has poured a lot of bitterness to the excited paparazzi.
So, the next day, Chicago ’s most influential “Chicago Sun-Times” published related articles.
"..." The Matrix "is undoubtedly the best science fiction film in recent years. Although changed from the original Eric Williams, Director and screenwriter Wachowski Brothers have added a lot of philosophical elements to the film, which also makes the film in The original Eric Williams original science fiction has been further subject to sublimation, greatly increasing the viewability and connotation of the film. "
"... However, according to our interview with our correspondent Bob John on" The Matrix "Director Andy · Wachowski, we got a very regrettable news. Wachowski Brothers in the process of the original Eric Williams, from The complete trilogy series was conceived from the beginning, but after the success of the first song, the subsequent two script were completely rejected by the Firefly executives. Andy · Wachowski revealed that the Firefly executives thought that the sequel script was too deep and not in line with commercial films. Requirements. Therefore, Firefly not only rejected the request for joint shooting of the two sequels of Wachowski Brothers, but also asked the brothers to completely overthrow script, remove the profound philosophical connotation, and return to the commercial film of popcorn sex. "
"... It is well known that although Firefly has encountered its first Film Industry performance Waterloo since its establishment this year, we have to admit that Firefly Group has achieved business results in Film Industry in recent years that are sufficient for all other peers to look forward to. But at the same time We have also seen that in recent years, Firefly has done almost nothing in the field of art films other than commercial films. We have always believed that while chasing commercial profits, a film is also responsible for conveying certain spiritual connotations. Obligation. Therefore, Firefly's excessive pursuit of business and giving up its connotation is undoubtedly very undesirable. "
"... Let's not talk about others, let's take" The Matrix ", this film was released in just over a month, just because of the perfect fusion of science fiction and philosophy of the film, while being widely praised, A large number of diehard fans quickly gathered. It is conceivable that once the "The Matrix" sequel completely abandons the distinctive personal characteristics of Wachowski Brothers and returns to the essence of the Firefly popcorn commercial film, then, but we wait with great anticipation for several years. Doubt, it will be extremely disappointing. "
Obviously, this report must have misinterpreted Andy · Wachowski to a great extent. The original request of Eric was just to let the two brothers rewrite the story of a complete process, and did not let them give up their personal style.
On the day when this article was published in "Chicago Sun-Times", Wachowski Brothers's manager publicly clarified the media, saying that Firefly did not ask the brothers to adapt "The Matrix" into a pure popcorn movie. This interview is just that The name paparazzi named Bob John Si induced speech after drunken Andy · Wachowski.
It's just that the media and fans obviously don't believe the clarification of Wachowski Brothers manager. Some people who think they know the industry are even more determined. This is a statement issued by Wachowski Brothers under the strong pressure of Firefly.
So, this article was quickly reprinted in just a few days, and its influence expanded not only.
In less than a week, almost all United States people who are slightly concerned about entertainment information know this.
The real fans of "The Matrix" are even more angry. After the event fermented to the second week, a large number of fans started to gather outside the Burbank Firefly Headquarters and Playa Vista Firefly studios, holding a slogan similar to "We do n’t want popcorn movies, we want" The Matrix "" , Require Firefly executives to abandon the decision of Wachowski Brothers to modify script and follow the original script for shoots.
Firefly can of course be ignored if it is just a variety of media criticisms, but the company has to be cautious about the actions of fans.
After all, the perfect film culture of United States also means that the power of the fan community far exceeds that of other countries where Film Industry has just developed its business. If it is not handled properly, it may damage the Firefly Group brand.
While arranging manpower to maintain the order of original film fans to prevent more serious emergencies every day, Firefly executives also began to discuss countermeasures.
According to Wachowski Brothers original script shoots, it certainly will not work, because now Firefly has been completely squeezed into a two-year situation. Once the original kind of script that makes people misty and foggy is taken out by shoots, the quality of the film will definitely not meet the expectations of the fans. Then, because of these things today, disappointed fans will definitely blame the error on Firefly for no reason. Moreover, Firefly cannot make the original script of Wachowski Brothers public, which not only violates the industry rules, but also fans who feel that idols are good in the fans mentality, often do not make professional judgments on script.
On the other hand, if Wachowski Brothers is rewritten and written as script according to the original plan, and not to mention the future of the movie, this group of people will definitely be more demanding of the sequel when they offend a large number of fans. The strength of 8 points will also be pulled to the 6-point rotten line by discerning fans.
All in all, because of this unexpected media sensation, no matter what Firefly does for the "The Matrix" project, as long as the sequel does not reach an amazing level of quality, the results will be almost wrong in the future.
Perhaps other competitors are also aware of the dilemma of Firefly. With their thoughts that even if they cannot disturb the "The Matrix", they have taken small actions.
As time goes on, the news topics related to the sequel of "The Matrix" not only have no meaning of cooling, but also become more popular.
There is even an original website on the Internet, with the same title of "We do n’t want popcorn movie, we want" The Matrix "", which attracted more than 100,000 signatures in just one week.
After many public relations campaigns by Firefly Group executives, Katzenberg also personally boarded the ABCTV Station "Morning News" section to explain the intention of Firefly to fans, but the results were of no avail.
Although there are other treatment methods, in the end, Katzenberg, Frank · Wells and other high-level officials can only send things to the Eric side of Bahamas and let him decide for himself.
After the two-week night drama shoots ended, the related cultural drama shoots was also quite smooth.
The time came on July 16th. The first two days, "Casino Royale" in Bahamas was all over, but because of the one and a half month of continuous busyness, plus the painful reversal of the two Sunday nights in the middle, shoots, the whole crew was Already exhausted.
Eric did not rush to get the crew to the next shoots place, but gave the whole crew three days off so that everyone could enjoy the sunny beach of Bahamas.
At the same time as the movie shoots, Eric of course also kept a close eye on a series of events that occurred in Los Angeles. He thought that Katzenberg and others would properly handle this matter, but when he was in charge of his first assistant Kelly · Haynes With a stack of documents coming to Bahamas, Eric realized that things had reached the brink of runaway.
On the living room sofa of the Eric residence, Kelly handed a document to Eric, explaining: "Now we are almost completely unable to give fans a satisfactory account. According to the original script shoots, once the quality of the film is not good in the future It is expected that the error will definitely be blamed on us, and let Wachowski Brothers rewrite script. The movie may not have been shot yet. The movie may be resisted by the fans. The error still requires us to bear it. "
After reading a lot of information such as newspaper clippings and risk assessments, Eric could n’t help rubbing temple(s), saying: “It ’s really not a stop, it ’s not enough to shoot now.”
Kelly smiled bitterly and said: "Yeah, if the project is not put on the film, it will still offend the fans, and may be the most kind of offense, because they will feel that they are being neglected and despised."
"Okay, let me think about it," Eric rubbed temple(s) and looked at the Peter · Ritchie sitting on the other side, said: "You go to a place where you can have a video conference, the Ocean Club Center should be Yes, let Katzenberg come online on time at night, let's discuss it again. "
Peter · Ridge nodded and hesitated again, said: "Eric, the difficulty of video conferencing may be a bit big, there should be no video conferencing equipment here, the telephone conference room is better arranged."
Eric has also forgotten that the development of the Internet has not reached the point where video conferences can be easily held, let alone Bahamas, and waved a hand: "Then call the conference."
When Peter · Ritchie left, Kelly moved his body and saw that Eric was still rubbing the appearance of temple(s). He gently stood up and walked over. Standing behind Eric, he stretched out a pair of prime hands and rubbed it for Eric. (To be continued.)