I’m in Hollywood Chapter 302: No choice
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As for the controversy in the media about the award results, the Academy has not responded as usual. Anyway, everyone knows that no matter who awards the award, it will always cause controversy.
A few days after Oscar, Firefly released the key first part movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" after the storm at the beginning of the year. Many people follow this movie with various moods.
Although the "Reservoir Dogs" some time ago also got a good Box Office, but the movie Box Office, under the influence of Eric, the release scale is much larger, but it is still a small hit.
Because Eric is very optimistic about "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in advance, Robert Shay has raised up to 2000 screens for this movie, which is already the limit of Firefly's current capabilities, and the seven Film Studio can raise more than 3000 screens if necessary. .
Also, even after "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is released, Box Office is much better than originally planned, it is difficult to increase the canvas, and once Box Office is not satisfactory, then hundreds of screens may be removed next week.
Therefore, this screening has attracted the attention of most people inside and outside the Hollywood circle. If Firefly encounters ‘Waterloo’ this time, there will be a lot of people who are gloating and even falling into the rocks.
But because of the Box Office result of previous life as a guarantee, and now that the scale of publicity is much larger than previous life, Firefly has invested a 6 million USD promotional budget for this movie, which does not include the production cost of 2,000 copies. Therefore, Eric is not as distraught as Robert Shay or Jeffrey.
Although they participated in the premiere, Eric this time was completely hidden as a guest, giving the opportunity to show their faces to the creators of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".
At this time, he is discussing with Jeffrey about the preparation of "Basic Instinct".
"Jeffrey, if Hollywood does not find a suitable Actor, I suggest you go to Europe to try it. Just like the" The Unbearable Lightness of Being "in the previous years, the Director of the movie is because most of the Hollywood Actor Too conservative and unwilling to star in, and chose Europe Actor. "
Jeffrey glanced at Robert Shay, who was enthusiastically and generously speaking on stage. He shook his head and said: "Eric, I am not worried about this. There are still many things, such as Director, your recommended Paul Van Hoven, who just recently received a big production film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he is not willing to ignore" Basic Instinct ". Moreover, the budget is also a big problem. I let people make a detailed budget according to the script you gave. The final result is that the cost of this movie is at least 30 million USD. It is far more than you give The budget of 20 million USD, and the most important grading problem, the scenes you designed are really overdone, and it is easy to be rated as NC-17. We do n’t have the ability to intervene in the rating committee now. The NC-17 class is scheduled to be released in restricted theaters, so this movie will definitely have nowhere to go. "
Eric scratched his hair annoyedly. He knew that Jeffrey said all the facts. The movie rating committee of United States is completely controlled by the seven major Film Studios. Many people have analyzed that some movies have the same picture. The products of the seven major Film Studios will be rated as R-rated, but the non-seven majors will be rated as NC-17. What Eric clearly remembers is 《In the Cut》, which starred previous life Meg Ryan in search of a breakthrough. Because of the release of the big Film Studio, some shots of that movie are called Ivy Class, but they were rated as R-rated.
If the movie shoots comes out in the future and is not rated as NC-17, then the seven major Film Studio must be a collective conspiracy. Although there is still a way to re-rating by modifying the plot, in that case, the plot will definitely change a lot. Box Office results are hard to predict.
After thinking for a while, Eric knew he had no choice. I had no choice but to say: "So, Jeffrey. Contact the Seventh Congress, see which one is willing to cooperate, and choose a condition that is more beneficial to us."
"The thing about you being screenwriter ..."
"In that case, do n’t try to hide it, then just use your real name. Anyway, I am under 20 years old. Writing such an script just makes people feel that I am young and frivolous. If I hide, I dare Bet, no matter what the purpose of those guys is, they will definitely reveal it in every possible way. "
Jeffrey shook his head helplessly: "Eric, I really do n’t understand why you have to make such a movie, I ca n’t see how great this movie is."
"Then watch script a few times more," Eric joked: "Do you now know who actually killed someone with point 38?"
Jeffrey shook his head: "If you tell me, after Bess was shot by the lead actor Nick, what exactly is the saying" I ... ", I can be 100% sure."
Eric said: "Maybe it's" I'm wrong "," I'm sorry for you "," I love you "or something?"
"I think the most unlikely is" I love you "and the most likely is" I'm wrong. "Jeffrey said.
Eric was stunned. In fact, this sentence was originally "I love you", but Eric feels that people who are deeply loved are shot without hesitation. It is difficult to say "I love you" like this before death. Word, so when writing script, Eric made a small modification, leaving only an 'I ...' for the audience to guess. Just like "The Others", leaving a suspense will be more beneficial to Box Office.
On the stage, after the main creators of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" made remarks, the movie began to play.
Seeing the screen again, Eric still inevitably frowned slightly. This thick b-level Hong Kong tastes, although the total cost of 13 million USD is definitely a super big production for Hong Kong movies, but it is placed on Hollywood It can only be regarded as moderate cost, plus some special effects must appear in the movie, the result can be imagined.
Like one of the scenes, when a group of people are fighting, a gangster with a knife cut the wire, even if you ca n’t do the special lighting effect here, at least you should match it with a bit of electric current, but the result is ... No, the gangster just shuddered a few times, even if he was electrocuted, it looked funny.
Of course, this is mainly because the appetite of Eric was raised by the special effects of previous life. Although Eric frowned frequently, the audience in the movie theaters participating in the premiere occasionally made a few laughs, or a few low marvels, because of the words and martial arts of the four ninja turtles.
The film creators, who were still a little nervous, were relieved when they heard these voices.
Perhaps because of film budget, or the convention of Hong Kong movies, the movie only has 90 minutes, and it is finished soon, the lights are not on yet, and there is a warm applause in the movie theater.
"A wonderful sci-fi action movie, although it is not produced in many places, but with the investment of 13 million USD, this is an excellent movie."
"The ridicule of the Renaissance characters from time to time in the movie is gratifying, and the motion design of the movie also has a lot of two points, which is worth watching."
"..."
After the premiere, various evaluations followed, because of the strong publicity and public relations of Firefly, the overall evaluation of the movie was still very positive, and many newspaper gave high scores, although there were several violent words from time to time. The critical article appeared, but there was no big wave. Although the seven major Film Studio did not want to see the success of this movie, but in the face of Firefly spared no effort to spread money, no one would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to discredit this movie.
Not to mention, the Seven Majors are not particularly optimistic about this movie, otherwise Fox would not refuse to release for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" after watching the film.
In the attention of many people, three days later, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" harvested 25 million USD's first weekend Box Office in North America2000 theaters, which caused many people to be surprised.
The Fox once again looked away, and several senior executives were expelled in a short period of time. Including "An Affair to Remember", Fox is inevitably ridiculed by many media.
In the face of this situation, Fox has a hard time.
After a full week, the Box Office in the first week of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was released and reached 32 million.
Seeing this result, many of the media that were originally whispered are silent.
People in the Hollywood circle also realized that after experiencing the storm at the beginning of the year, Firefly was not affected in any way, and the news that Eric first optimistic about the movie was inevitably revealed, once again in the Hollywood circle There was a heated discussion inside. In addition to the several movies that Eric participated in, plus 《Steel Magnolias》, this is the second time that a movie that is not favored by others, but favored by Eric is a big success.
For a time, many people began to inquire about which movies Eric is optimistic about.
So, the series of copyright that Drew acquired Eric years ago has once again caught the eye of many people.
Because small girl is not too urgent, the more than 20 copyright listed by Eric only acquired more than half.
After the two copyrights in talks were discovered, Hollywood's Film Studio of all strengths joined the competition, and all copyrights were sold at the price.
In this case, Eric can only make Drew stop the acquisition of copyright. Although there are still a few of them that are not available, if you do now, you will definitely be in a mad rush, and the certainty you get is extremely low.
Also, some of Eric's most important adaptation rights, such as "Charlie's Angels" / "Mission: Impossible" and "The Bourne Identity", have been obtained.
Of course, these are all afterwords, and after the success of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", the most complicated person is undoubtedly Robert Shay.
After all, if Robert Shay can wait for the first half of the year and wait for the release of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", then the new line will be completely different. (To be continued)