Hollywood Domination Chapter 95: A little miracle at the box office

"The first daily report received 9 million, the next Saturday reported 11 million, and the Sunday daily received 10 million... the first Wednesday was 10 million? When did romantic literary films earn so much?" David .Frank said in a questioning tone, but he couldn't help showing a big smile on his face, "This girl made the pressure of "The Devil Wears Prada" very high."

"Companies are already asking if they need to increase the budget." , If you think you can take your time, then no one will think that the budget is too much."

The two of them looked at each other and smiled, both without concealing their joy: For a project that is in production, the best news is of course that the leading actress at the box office has shown her super ability to attract money. Let them have full confidence in the next production process.

"What do you think if you can bring Ryan to play Nate?" David has already moved his brains to "Borrowing the Wind", "Prada" is now in the casting stage, except at Jennifer's insistence Except for Emily Blunt who has been selected as Emily, other actors are still being selected. "I have to admit that this boy also has extraordinary potential."

"It's unlikely," Wendy shook her head, "Ryan's popularity has skyrocketed now, his quotation has doubled tenfold, and the same type of film has reached nearly four million, you know we haven't With such a large budget, and Nate is not a leading actor, it may not attract him."

"It's a pity." David sighed with emotion, but his tone was relaxed, because he also knew that this was unlikely. Not working together on another film, especially if it's a series. There is a problem with stereotyped screen images, and major studios don't like their counterparts to borrow their limelight.

Of course, this is not an iron rule. If the film is good enough, some movie stars will let go of their concerns, but the role of Nate is obviously not enough for Ryan Gosling to do so. "If he and Jennifer star together, even if "Prada" is a big bad movie, it can at least guarantee a box office of 15 million - Jennifer is responsible for 10 million of it, and Ryan is responsible for 5 million."

This is to determine Ryan's market value, Wendy said with a smile, "give him a while, I believe he will perform better - but I heard that this boy has a very special personality, He doesn't seem to have much interest in mainstream movies. It seems that Lionsgate has offered him an olive branch to star in next year's big production, but he turned it down."

"It's a rumor." David didn't take it seriously. The news of this business was always passed around, and it was not known whether it was true or not. Except for the two parties involved, no one can say that they know the truth until definite information is released to the public. ""The Notebook" has only been released for three days, and the people from Lionsgate can't move so fast."

Wendy smiled and said, "Yeah, I think so--one confirmed news, Universal contacted Jennifer yesterday, they want to sign a package contract, buy her at 30/10 Two film appointments, one of which is definitely a love movie. If I guessed correctly, it should be "Love Vacation" that Nancy intends to do. It is guaranteed to play against an A-list actor, and the other one can accompany her around the world Priority selection among the big productions."

The Nancy she mentioned was Nancy Meyers, a well-known romance film director, and she is a good friend of Wendy, so her information should be quite accurate. David was also a little speechless, "This is tantamount to 15/10 price, this asking price is not low."

20/20, it was a long time ago, even a long time ago, actresses who can get 20/20 are rare, 15/10 is almost A-list for actresses treatment.

"As far as the current box office trend is concerned, she is worth the price." Wendy said succinctly, "It is already Wednesday, and Monday and Tuesday can maintain a box office of four to five million. By next Monday, the cumulative If the box office can reach 60 million, it means that this project has already started to make a profit, and this is only in China. "Pirates of the Caribbean" has given her a wide range of international popularity. The overseas box office of this film cannot be too bad. According to this trend , I wouldn’t be too surprised if the global box office can reach 300 million when it is finally released.”

The two couldn't help exchanging a slightly happy look: they are both women and professionals in the field of love themes. Even if it is fully discounted and the share is offset, the new line will finally get 300 million, which is equivalent to ten times the return on investment for the 30 million investment. Even if it is "Pirates of the Caribbean", if you don't count its pulling effect on amusement projects, you can't say that Disney will actually get 1.4 billion in cash in the end.

Although Ryan's performance is very eye-catching, according to film critics, Jennifer's performance is better than his. Ryan's performance is superb, and Jennifer's seamless and natural transformation has been called It's a miracle - of course, this is the nasty touting of online film review blogs, but her fresh and natural acting skills in "Lianlian Notebook", as well as her 180-degree transformation compared with her previous roles, also made her The industry has a high evaluation of her acting skills, but this is real.

Recognized acting skills, beautiful looks, full of popularity, has always been the topic of street photography and gossip magazines, the darling of the fashion industry, the second favorite star of parents in 2004, has "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" in his hand The two box office miracles of "Lianlian Notebook"...

David shook his head and said sincerely, "God, this girl is a gold mine now."

"Oh, here she is." Wendy raised her hand, "Gold mine girl, we are here."

Jennifer showed a bright smile, walked around the rock pile to the back porch, found a seat in the shadows and sat down, "Sorry, there is some traffic jam on the road."

"It's kind of annoying in Malibu," says David, of his beachfront mansion in Malibu. "Always late for appointments in town—you're pretty quick, and Meryl and Ellie (the screenwriter) haven't arrived yet."

This is the first meeting of the main creative team of "Prada", and the location was chosen in David's house. This is a very common phenomenon, and many early production meetings of projects were held in such a relaxed atmosphere .

Wendy poured Jennifer a glass of water—her habit. "We're talking about you—but I guess we're by no means the only producer-director couple in town talking about you, baby, you're hot right now."

"Thank you, dear." Jennifer took the water glass, and it was obvious that she was in a good mood, which was also a matter of course. "Speaking of which, I will give you the invitation letter first, and then the new line is planning to hold a celebration party. If the time is convenient, you can come and have fun together."

This kind of celebration party is a great opportunity to socialize with the film studio, and it's also for Jennifer's support. Of course, the two people in the industry will not refuse. Wendy smiled and read the words on the invitation letter, "The North American box office broke 100 million celebration, it seems that New Line has full confidence in "The Notebook."

"Judging from the current word-of-mouth and trend, it should only be a matter of time before 100 million." Jennifer said, "But this is indeed an accident. Neither Xinxian nor I thought that "The Notebook" would achieve such a good result." I don’t think it’s all about the quality of the movie—of course it’s a good movie, but it’s also because the market is a bit hungry for romance movies, so it was a hit.”

"Oh?" Wendy became interested, she laughed and teased, "It seems that you really want to be a producer, my dear. Then can you analyze the reason why "The Notebook" has achieved such a good result? ?By the way, I also want to know why you took "The Notebook", are you a fan of the original book?"

Because she is an investor, Dream Films is one of the producers, and Jenny is also named as an executive producer, but many starring stars will be named as an executive producer. In fact, it is just a name, and it may not be true. She is working as a producer, but Jenny previously appointed Emily Blunt to play the third or fourth female Emily. There is a tendency to intervene in the composition of the staff, so Wendy's question now is a bit of a test the meaning of. ——The work of these market analysis is also the basic skill of the producer.

Although the 'Intuition Theory' is very unreliable, Jenny almost regretted choosing it as her weapon several times, but she couldn't turn back, and there must be a reason why she chose the 'Intuition Theory'. With an extremely busy schedule, it is almost impossible for Jenny to study on her own and become a positivist who smashes people with data like Cesare. In this case, "Intuitionism" is her only choice.

"I'm a person who values ​​intuition very much," she said with a smile, trying to imitate Cesare's style as much as possible, as if she had strong confidence in her own words, "The reason why I chose "The Notebook" is because In fact, it was because the moment I saw the script, I had a strong intuition that this would be a successful project. The market is very hungry for such pure and pure films. In recent years, films have combined love and too many complicated things. The gimmicks are bound together, but in fact, romance films may not need these selling points, they only need the sincere interaction between the hero and heroine and the appropriate story. The lemonade, although it has no depth, just sells moving, but I think its performance will be very good."

She shrugged, "Of course, none of us thought it would be so good. I think we all underestimated the market's hunger for real, touching movies, and when predicting the box office, I underestimated my expectations for it." The appeal of teenage girls. They and their boyfriends, BFFs, fill the movie theaters during the summer, and my face is still very attractive to them."

To her surprise, this time, her 'intuition theory' was not questioned at all in front of Wendy and David, and Wendy nodded in agreement, "For a producer In other words, intuition is an indispensable talent. You have to choose one of thousands of tempting and seemingly profitable ideas to implement. The entire film production process is full of choices. Every choice may be a matter of life and death for the film, and in many cases, you can only trust your intuition."

Wendy did not object to the two reasons she gave, but just smiled and said, "That's very well said. In many cases, the relationship between supply and demand in the movie market is indeed unbalanced. The audience only knows what they don't want to watch, but Audiences won't know what they want until they see the movie they want to see. But maybe you underestimated Ryan's popularity. Although you brought the initial box office, if "The Notebook" can break 100 million or even If it exceeds 200 million, Ryan's role must not be underestimated, after all, his rankings in IMDB and major search engines have already suppressed you."

"Yeah." Jenny nodded, and laughed at herself, "The newcomer effect, now I understand Johnny's mood last year."

Both Wendy and David laughed, and David commented, "This is also because the role of Noah is more likable. Audiences always like characters who love deeper. If you play too much, it will not be easy to gather popularity—but Andy is different, if you play Andy well, I guarantee you will have a lot of fans with great purchasing power.”

Jenny agrees with David's words, and she also feels that "The Notebook" is a film that belongs to the type of "red film but not popular". Let Ryan, a newcomer, soar into the sky, but some of Jenny's search data has not risen like "Pirates of the Caribbean" in recent days. The increase can only be said to be stable. In other words, this movie is not very popular. . It may make her and Ryan's public recognition reach 80 points, but because she has a foundation of 75 points, some people who know her are not interested in knowing her latest developments after watching this film, so Her search index didn't rise as much as Ryan's.

Of course, this is also a very normal thing. "Lianlian Notebook" sells emotion. People watch this movie just to cry, to be moved. No matter how good it is, Ellie's role is limited there, and it is impossible to bring them a shocking feeling. No matter how talented an actor is, he must be limited by his role, not to mention that Jenny's empathetic golden finger only allows her to become Ellie, but cannot instantly make Ellie very charming. Yes, the Ellie she played is very vivid and real, but people don't have much interest and admiration for "Ellie", and even because of Ellie's plain personality, they don't think that Jenny played very well , and this is also a problem that Golden Finger cannot solve.

In fact, "Pirates of the Caribbean" may also be a "red film but not popular" type of film. Elizabeth is not the focus of the plot. Although Jenny insists on sharing some of the charm of Captain Jack, the plot gives her room to play It can't be said that it is very big. So far, she has not taken over the films of "Rocky is not popular" or "Red man is popular again". As for the musical, she has taken over "Chicago". At one point, Elizabeth, Ellie and even Juanita were killed in seconds.

This is why big names will lower their salaries to star in some literary films, and some even pay back their investment. Even the big names at the top of the pyramid want to meet a suitable one who can make them "popular and popular". Hope's script wasn't easy either. Jenny is now gradually understanding their mentality, and her current mood has changed again—although with the popularity of "The Notebook", her right to speak seems to have increased, but she is no longer ready to restart "Prada "The debate on script adaptation ideas.

After all, if you follow the idea of ​​the original film, the role of Andy does not appear in the play, and there is not much room for development. It is just another vase, which is a bit boring, especially when there are two charm points in the same film. Such a high-level role, although not proud of Goldfinger, but seeing Meryl and Emily can play such glamorous roles, and she can only play the flat Andy, Jenny still feels Unwilling. ——After "Lianlian Notebook" was confirmed to be able to recover the 10 million film remuneration, Jenny's financial pressure eased a lot, and she no longer needed to prove her vision so urgently. The mentality of investors was weakened immediately, and the "artist" One side is beginning to gain the upper hand.

In the past few days, she has been feeling the turmoil and emptiness in her heart. She has to say that she has begun to miss 'Rocky'. Although she has put in a lot of hard work in shaping such a character, it is harder than playing Ellie. I don't know how many times, but the praise and satisfaction that 'Rocky' brought her is something that 'Ellie' can't give her. Even if 'Ai Li' gave her tens of millions of rewards, she found that there are some things whose value cannot be measured by money.

Instigate a new round of controversy, strive to win-promote "Prada" back to the original track-slaughter the box office, prove the ability to attract money-take another step on the road to dominate Hollywood-one step closer to going home

Be comfortable with the status quo - take a risk - Prada may be better than it was, or it may be a mess - if you lose, take a few steps back on the road to dominance in Hollywood - maybe miss the return home Best Rhythm

...Weighing the two possibilities, Jenny closed her eyes and said 'I'm sorry' softly in her heart to the little boy whose face was already somewhat blurred, and then smiled, naturally Then David said, "Yes, I think the adapted Andy is a very easy character. There are a few inner scenes in the first draft. To be honest, I am looking forward to it. I heard that Ellie will bring the finished draft today. ——This script reading meeting should be very interesting.”

Although she did not show her struggles, after she made up her mind, her enthusiasm for the new script increased. This change may have made Wendy aware of it. She glanced at Jenny with relief and said with a smile, "If you are acting If "Lianlian Notebook" debuts, maybe I will use the plan B you proposed (the original track idea). Andy in this plan A has certain requirements for acting skills. If another person plays the role, the effect may be very poor. It directly caused Andy to be suppressed by Miranda, and both word of mouth and box office will lose at that time. But David and I have full confidence in you-this Andy should at least not be more difficult than Roxy. The script in a while At the reading meeting, if you have any questions, please ask, shaping Andy and Miranda is the common work of this crew.”

Jenny looked at the confident expressions on David and Wendy's faces, and this time she actually smiled wryly, and she said sincerely, "Actually, I think Andy should be the most confident person I have ever met. Challenging role, she is not at all simpler than Roxy, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the hardest nuttocrack I have ever seen in a movie..."

The author has something to say: Note: The box office of "Lianlian Notebook" has increased a lot, mainly because Jenny has a certain international reputation, and the box office appeal must be different from that of newcomers

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Question: Why does Jenny say that Andy is the hardest bone to crack in the movie?

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