I’m in Hollywood Chapter 832: The more developed, the more difficult it is to change
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Chapter 832
The story of "Casino Royale" itself is very simple. A confrontation between James · Bond and the ghost party around 150 million USD huge gambling funds, the whole film is composed of three episodes of airport crisis, casino confrontation and final battle. A complete and smooth story, even if it is The appearance of the Angels trio, because there are the first two of 《Charlie's Angels》 as the foreshadowing, the film does not need to add more ink to the background of the trio, which is directly a hot action scene.
After many years of personally coaching many large-scale production films, Eric is also increasingly able to grasp the key factors for the success of large-scale commercial films. The most important of these is that the story of the movie should be simple and clear, which actually coincides with the high-concept movie theory that appeared in the 1980s.
The simpler the core storyline, the more the Director movie can get more play in the process of shoots. The most classic case is Cameron ’s “The Terminator” that year. The whole story is centered around T- 800 was dispatched by Skynet to assassinate Sarah · Conner in the past, without any complicated side story, Cameron was so proud of his personal movie talent, the final film won global 80 million USD Box Office at the cost of 6 million, and made Cameron one of the top Hollywood Director ranks.
Conversely, if a movie wants to show the audience too much, the result is often that Director simply cannot complete a complete story with two hours. The example of failure caused by this reason is even more so in Hollywood. too much.
In the auditorium, Metro Goldwyn Mayer executives and film creators are obviously very satisfied with the effect of the film.
Traditional 007 movies often have the disadvantage of story fragmentation. Producers often cram some plots that have nothing to do with the main line of the movie, just to highlight the romantic and invincible character image of Bond, so it also leads to most The series is full of loopholes. "Casino Royale" completely reversed this shortcoming while retaining the traditional 007 film style. Bond no longer appeared inexplicably at a military base of an unknown villain, and was no longer very abruptly fired by MI6 from a certain fire. Hot girl shouted out of bed to perform the task.
After the film screening ended, the lights were on, and there was a clear applause in the auditorium. Knowing that Eric is not the kind of Director just for self-use, everyone began to speak freely in the auditorium and express their various views on the film.
Although Eric is also very satisfied with the filming effect of "Casino Royale", he also knows the reason why the authorities are fanatic. Because of the difference in personal ideas, the plot may be very good in his opinion, which seems very outdated in the eyes of others.
We have discussed for more than an hour, and Eric has also roughly determined a few modification plans, intending to make the second modification of the film in the next week.
According to the production and release schedule of "Casino Royale", the film will be completely completed in March. During this period, the film will undergo further internal screening, which is like the closed test of the online game later, select some ordinary audiences, in the auditorium with real-time monitoring system installed, there are special buttons on the audience seat armrests, in During the movie watching process, if the audience is bored or disgusted with certain plots or certain shots, they can press the button at any time, and the production company will make further adjustments to the film based on the audience's real-time feedback. Only after that will it enter the stages of grading and publicity.
Of course, these processes are not fixed, everything depends on the distribution of power between the film investors, producers and Director. If an Director has absolute control over the production of the film, neither the investor nor the producer can intervene. Of course, Director can be completely edited into a film according to his own ideas. Conversely, if the final editing rights are firmly in the hands of the producer, it is likely that Director will be completely unavailable at the final editing stage.
Eric of course has absolute control over "Casino Royale", he can edit the film exactly as he wants, but he is obviously unwise, even if it is "Titanic", he has actually experienced "closure" During the 'testing' phase, Cameron also modified part of the plot based on viewer feedback.
After watching the samples in the morning, discussing the amendments, and having lunch at Firefly Studios, everyone left. Headquarters of Metro Goldwyn Mayer has moved to Venice Beach, not far from Firefly Studios, which was near Flower Films Headquarters. Because Kerkorian sold all the Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios as land, now most of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer films that need shoots in the studio are basically rented in Firefly Studios.
With the revival of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the management of Metro Goldwyn Mayer also discussed the plan to rebuild the studio. Drew also asked Eric for comments, but was rejected by Eric. In recent years, more and more movies have begun to pursue real shot effects, especially large-scale production movies. Unless it is a special effects scene, it will rarely be in the studio shoots, plus the United States state and even overseas gradually rebate system, The choice of Hollywood movies in the future will be less and less in Los Angeles shoots, and building a studio at Metro Goldwyn Mayer at this time will only cause the fearless waste of resources.
Eric and Drew gave away the brothers and sisters of Brockley. After seeing the girl leave the parking lot with her, Eric smiled and asked, "Are you not working in the afternoon?"
The first two steps of Drew held the arms of Eric intimately and said with a grin: "Yes, it is an audition for a movie, but I do n’t want to go for the time being anyway, they are watching Amy anyway."
"Oh," Eric smiled and said, "What movie?"
"" Species ", a science fiction horror movie."
Eric nodded and did not show anything unusual. In memory, this film should be a 1995 work. However, since many films are now produced in advance, then some movies are delayed for a year or two, which is not a big deal. The strange thing is that it is too common for a Hollywood film to be prepared for ten or eight years.
Speaking of this, the girl seemed excited and said, "Today's audition was Heroine Oh. I also asked Natasha to try it. Unfortunately, the two of them are too stupid, like two pieces of wood in front of the camera. I can't tell. "
Eric turned his head and looked at the twins who were quietly behind them. When they heard Drew, the Natasha sisters were also a little embarrassed. Seeing Eric, they dropped their heads in unison.
Because Eric likes to use Ivanka as a mascot in her film, the girl has also said that she wants to make Natasha sisters to be mascots in Flower Films movies. Unfortunately, Eric has never seen twins appear in the camera. It seems that there is really no such talent, but it is the girl herself. Since a guest came out in 《Scream》, it is now often frightened in various films.
Thinking about the Heroine Natasha Henschy of Species in time and space happened to be in the Victoria’s Secret army, Eric asked: "Since the audition at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Headquarters, it should be the last round, do you have any candidates who value?"
"Amy originally wanted Paulina Preskova to appear, but Director disagreed and everyone could only re-elect."
Eric remembered Preskova ’s face resembling Audrey · Hepburn, if he were himself, he would not agree. The "Heroine" of "Species" should be the type of Actor with the cool temperament of Natasha · Henstrice. The temperament of Paulina · Preskova is too elegant.
Except for guiding Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show at the beginning, Eric had no contact with Natasha · Hunschwech. At this time, there was no more to say, but just casually said: "If the budget is enough, let Claudia try."
Claudia Schiffer is more than enough to replace Natasha Henschy, and their temperaments are very similar.
The girl shook her head: "Invited, Claudia is not willing to act, because there are many dramas in film, and the production budget is not too large, so I plan to use a relatively cheap newcomer."
The two walked all the way. Instead of meeting the office of the Executive Center Eric, they moved towards the office of the digital field Loft. Cameron has already come over in the morning. It ’s just that Eric is busy with "Casino Royale". The two just have two meetings and have lunch. When Eric did not see the figure of Cameron, I did not know if the other party had left.
Walk into the main number one Loft in the digital field and ask the staff. Eric quickly found Cameron in the lounge area who was dancing and chatting with Stan Winston at a table.
The great success of "Titanic" within the scope of global has completely relieved Cameron of its original pressure, and it has also been quite popular recently.
Seeing Eric approaching, Cameron and Stan · Winston stood up and greeted each other. They greeted each other. Four people sat down at a long table. Eric ordered the twins to make coffee, but Cameron couldn't wait to say: "Eric, I don't think you still have good things hidden here. I didn't even tell me before."
Eric smiled and said: "You are more familiar with this place than your own home, what can you hide from you."
As a film technology maniac, as long as Cameron appears in Firefly Studios, most of the time it comes to the digital field. Even if there is no work, Cameron will often come over to visit some special effects that have just been developed in the digital field. Technology, the two sides have cooperated very happily in recent years. In terms of technology, the support of Cameron films in the digital field can be said to spare no effort. This also led to Cameron not creating its own light storm studio. In most cases, it only uses the digital field. Resources to realize their various ideas, which also benefited the digital field.
Stan Winston looked at him skeptically when he saw Eric and explained: "Eric is the IMAX plus 3D screen we just installed."
Eric immediately understood that after New York last year, when I accidentally noticed IMAX, Eric let the digital field specifically set up a related technical group to cooperate with Canada's IMAX company to develop IMAX and polarized 3D technology.
In fact, these two technologies have a history of decades, but for various reasons, they have not been widely popularized in movies. Now, with the financial and technical support in the digital field, related applications are being developed quickly come out. IMAX is also making final public relations on the conversion of ordinary film to IMAX film. It is expected that the normal two-hour IMAX film can be realized next year. Prior to this, IMAX film was only 40 minutes, and the conversion technology was not mature enough. Polarized 3D technology is even simpler. In order to conduct various tests, recently, the digital field has just installed a large screen combining 3DIMAX in the cinema. This should be what Cameron calls ‘good stuff’.
Over the past six months, Cameron has been busy with the production of "Titanic", coupled with the cost of the film and the pressure on Box Office, of course Cameron has no intention of focusing on new technologies in the digital field.
"Here are some ideas I generated last year. You see, from silent movies to sound movies, from black and white movies to color movies, it took less than 30 years. Now, two 30 years have passed. By the way, there should always be some new changes in the movie playback situation, so I will be optimistic about these two technologies. "
Cameron is quite excited, saying: "Eric, you mean, do you plan to promote 3D and IMAX on a large scale?"
Eric shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "I think so, but it is always a step by step. You must have experienced it now, then you will definitely find the difficulty of promoting these two technologies. 3D may be better, just replace the 3D projector, but for IMAX, most theaters of North America, it is obviously not too realistic to want to replace the IMAX screen. "
The number of North America movie screens has undergone explosive development in recent years, and has grown from more than 22,000 in the early 1990s to more than 28,000 now. At the same time, the more developed the film industry is, the more difficult it is to reform. The entire US28000 screens are basically projection halls built according to the specifications of ordinary 2D screens. Mi's IMAX screen, if you want to promote it, you can only rebuild the theater.
So, the first step of Eric is just to start with the easier 3D.
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Eric shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "I think so, but it is always a step by step, you must have experienced it now, then you will definitely find the difficulty of promoting these two technologies. 3D may be better, just replace the 3D projector, but for IMAX, most theaters of North America, it is obviously not too realistic to want to replace the IMAX screen. "
The number of North America movie screens has grown from more than 22,000 pieces in the early 1990s to more than 28,000 pieces in the early 1990s. At the same time, the more developed the film industry, the more difficult it is to reform. entire US 28000 screens are basically projection halls built in accordance with the specifications of ordinary 2D screens. Mi's IMAX screen, if you want to promote it, you can only rebuild the theater.
So, the first step of Eric is just to start with the easier 3D. (To be continued.)