I’m in Hollywood Chapter 498: May be counterproductive

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Eric did not deny it and said: "Telecommunications and Comcast are both thinking carefully. In this case, if Barry can successfully acquire Paramount, it is a strange thing."

After going through this event, even though Barry Diller will not part ways with remote communication and Comcast, the cooperation between them will not be possible for too long. Barry Diller ’s ability to manage TV Network is undoubtedly Under its banner, Eric believes that it will definitely not repeat the embarrassment after the acquisition of ABC by Disney.

Katzenberg is also aware of the idea of ​​Eric and smiles and cracks down: "Your idea is very good, but unfortunately it is unlikely to be realized."

"If you don't try it, there is no possibility," Eric replied.

While talking, the assistant of Katzenberg knocked on the office door probe and said, "Mr. Mr. Williams, Katzenberg, and Mr. Guber are here."

"Then let's take a look at the samples of" Mr. & Mrs. Smith "," Katzenberg got up.

The two just walked out of the office, Peter Guber has come over with a smile, and gave Eric and Katzenberg a hug enthusiastically. Eric noticed that Peter Guber ’s deputy Jon Peters did not follow, and returned to Los Angeles these days, he vaguely listen It is said that there is a contradiction between Peter Guber and Jon Peters, which seems to be related to Warner's "Superman" copyright.

In the 1980s, Warner continuously launched four "Superman" big movies, but Box Office is not as good as one. In 1987, "Superman" the fourth, even only got the poor Box Office of 15 million USD. As a result, the "Superman" series was completely refrigerated, and the DC comics attached to the Warner system were once in a business dilemma. Depressed, DC sold the film adaptation rights of the "Superman" series, and the buyer was at that time. Jon Peters with its own Production Studio.

" Batman "of second part Word of mouth and Box Office Although not as good first part , But it is also better Superman 》 The series is much stronger, it seems to see DC Superhero Many people are right about the potential of movies Jon Peters " Superman "the film copyright Mindful.

As for the detailed entanglement, Eric is not very clear. With the memory in his mind, he knew that until the end of the subtitle of "Superman: The Body of Steel" more than two decades later, the name of the producer still exists in the column of Jon Peters, which shows that Warner has fallen into disregard for thousands of years. From the beginning to the end, I failed to completely take back the "Superman" movie copyright from Jon Peters.

At the moment, Eric can almost guess. It is estimated that Peter Guber took a fancy to "Superman" copyright in the hands of Jon Peters and wanted to let Columbia develop.

After the three of them talked about each other. Go to the screening hall together, at this time a lot of high-level Disney and Columbia have gathered in the screening hall, and of course the Director John Wu of this movie. The two starring actors Nicole and Pierce Brosnan did not come to participate in this screening because they had already started the promotion of the film.

After learning of Eric ’s affirmation of the success of John Wu shoots, Peter Guber changed its dissatisfaction with the Eric insisting on enabling John Wu in the past, and then greeted John Wu with a smile.

Eric didn't make much changes to the plot of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", the film still started from the marriage consultation of two people who have been married for five or six years Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

However, it is because Eric did not change the plot of this movie so much that it was very stunning in the eyes of the audience in the screening room. Because of a series of high-tech equipment that appeared in the movie. Although many of the lenses were made using special effects technology in the digital field for the sake of the times, it is so cool that it is even cooler than the 007, which uses high-tech equipment as the selling point.

After John and Jane met in the chaotic Columbia capital, respectively, for two hostile killer groups, love at first sight, the two lightning married and lived a seemingly ordinary United States ordinary middle-class family life, but in this life Behind is a series of assassinations that the two concealed from each other.

Although John and Jane concealed their identities from each other very well, this incident was learned by the killer group behind them, in order to get rid of their two ‘instability’ factors. The two killer groups cooperated in unison and launched an operation.

John and Jane soon understood each other's identity. After some twists and turns, the two started a confrontation in the villa where they lived for six years. Then he also understood his feelings for each other and launched a counterattack in order to survive.

In the intense and exciting plot of the movie, there are also occasional warmth and small humor. After the re-editing of Eric, the movie plot becomes more compact.

After 120 minutes of watching the movie. The movie ended in the hot rock music, and the executives in the auditorium patiently waited for the subtitles to finish playing, and the lights were on before applauding.

"Mr. Wu, thank you for bringing us such a wonderful movie," Peter Guber applauded while complimenting John Wu sitting next to him.

John Wu adhering to the habit of Oriental modesty, but can still see the look of satisfaction and satisfaction on his face.

The schedule of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and the announcement plan have been determined before the film is completed. The release time is placed on Christmas Day on December 18th. The trial film is only for the purpose of letting all executives participating in the project finalize Once confirmed, to fine-tune the original announcement plan, but after watching the movie, both the Disney side and the Columbia Peter Guber brought a few people, have no opinion on the announcement budget of this movie up to 25 million USD.

It ’s worth noting that Warner seems to create gimmicks for each other, and the 《The Bodyguard》 that served as the executive producer of Eric for the contract of the actor Sam Neill of Jurassic Park was also placed on December 18 with Mr. & Mrs. Smith Beat.

Since the name of Producer is implemented, Eric is of course impossible to ignore this movie. Although Warner just wants to use the reputation of Eric to improve Box Office of 《The Bodyguard》, it does not really mean that Eric will participate in this project, A few days ago, I specially invited Eric to participate in the trial of the movie. Eric thinks that the biggest selling point of the movie is almost the winner of Kevin Costner, the best Director and best actor of the previous Oscar. Of course, there are several Whitney Houston Song, other than that, Eric doesn't feel anything special about this story.

All of October. Eric is almost spent in this kind of busyness. In addition to paying attention to the movie to be released at the end of the year, it also has to discuss with the management of Firefly next year's production and distribution plan.

At the end of October, Roland Emmerich shoots's "Deep Impact", which has been for nearly twenty weeks, also finally filmed. Emmerich has never controlled such a big production movie, so compared to the smoothness of Eric shoots "Jurassic Park", Emmerich has to be a lot more cautious, and the shoots process is therefore very slow, but fortunately, Roland Emmerich has not overrun. The film soon began post-production work in the digital realm.

November is coming soon, thanksgiving near the end of the year-Christmas period, Halloween at the beginning of the month, Firefly and several other big Film Studio, have released their own small production horror movies, but Eric did not pay much attention to these investments yet Less than 10 million USD's small production, but handed it to the management of Firefly with confidence.

In addition to the movie, another important event for United States also happened in November. On November 3, the results of the four-year United States President general election were released. The Republican President candidate William Jefferson Clinton defeated the Democratic candidate George Bush with 37% support, and was elected the 42nd United States President with a slight advantage of 42%.

Eric finally breathed a sigh of relief. The historical process has not changed. If Clinton is not elected as President, then many things are difficult to predict. Perhaps United States will not have the fastest economic growth rate in history for ten years.

In Cliff Peak Manor, Eric is talking to Kathryn Bigelow who came to visit: "You believe me now, I have already said, even if you do not need to issue 《Riot》 in advance. Clinton can still win elections, Because the economic policy he puts forward is better than the old Bush team. "

Kathryn Bigelow just lightly glanced at Eric and took a sip with the boiled water in his hand. The election of Clinton was almost a victory. Even before the final vote, Bush ’s approval rating was higher than Clinton, so the final result surprised many people.

In the process of producing the Los Angeles riot documentary, Kathryn Bigelow has gradually become a supporter of Clinton. In fact, many Hollywood Director and stars are supporters of Clinton, including Spielberg, George Lucas and others.

So. After Kathryn produced the documentary 《Riot》, it proposed to Eric to release the documentary in September to support Clinton, but it was rejected by Eric who was still in France at the time.

After a detailed investigation and analysis of this documentary, 《Riot》, a large part of the Los Angeles riots were attributed to the high unemployment rate in the southern part of Los Angeles. Although Bush ’s main house won the Gulf War, it left the World War II. The United States nationals who have not won a few wars since then have been very excited, but the economic policies implemented by Bush during his four-year term have all failed. The current unemployment rate of United States is as high as 9%. Year after year of deficit, it even owed up to 4 trillion USD of national debt, which was 4 trillion USD during the strong period of USD in the early 1990s.

After a while, Kathryn said, "It's just 5% of the lead. If you don't pay attention, you may fail. Didn't you say that you are also a supporter of Clinton? Why did you object to me releasing this documentary?"

"Because your purpose is too obvious, it may even be counterproductive."

"How is it possible?" Kathryn was a little surprised.

Eric remembered the "Fahrenheit 9/11" about previous life. Michael Moore forcibly issued this documentary about the September 11 incident under the pressure of George W. Bush ’s re-election, and sharply attacked the Bush administration, but In the end, this documentary not only did not suppress Bush's approval rating, but even because the "Fahrenheit 9/11" was too fierce, it aroused the rebellion of some voters. In short, the result was that even Bush ’s opponents disagreed with "Fahrenheit 9/11" and stood on the opposite side of Michael Moore, but in the end, Bush Jr. was re-elected.

The documentary about the Los Angeles riots produced by Kathryn, although not as sharp as Michael Moore, still points the finger at the failed economic policies of the old Bush administration. At this sensitive moment, it may be adopted by the old Bush campaign team. Using, reversing black and white as evidence of competitors deliberately discrediting, like to know that the old Bush is still United States President, the resources in his hands are far more than Clinton, it is not too difficult to achieve this.

"People's hearts are hard to figure out. Sometimes you may think that you are doing the right thing, but in the eyes of others, it is a completely different situation." Eric replied after thinking for a while.

Kathryn is not stupid. Hearing Eric saying this, he quickly understood it and couldn't help sighing.

Eric watched this expression rarely seen by women and could n’t help comforting: “Relax, Firefly is planning to release this documentary in mid-December, I assure you that I will at least fight for this movie A nomination for the best documentary Oscar. "

Kathryn knew that Eric was kind and nodded. She also knew that the subject matter of 《Riot》 was too sensitive. Although it was profound, it was not something that too many people wanted to see. Moreover, this documentary was also away from the time of the incident. It's too close, less than a year, although some people want to reflect, but most people subconsciously don't want to mention this matter, so it can also be said that it is not time to reflect.

In this case, it is already the limit to be nominated for an Oscar best documentary, and it is not too possible to win an award.

"Next, you can concentrate on making" Saving Private Ryan "," said Eric, and then smiled, with a somewhat bad expression: "There is one more thing to tell you about Oh," True Lies "of Jim was also released last month. Is to join Firefly's project plan for next year, I plan to put it on the summer file of the following year, what do you think? "

It ’s been a year since Kathryn ’s hatred of Cameron ’s derailment has dissipated a lot. At this time, when I heard this sentence, I just gave Eric a glance: “You like to do this kind of thing.” (Unfinished To be continued.)