King of Hollywood Chapter 17: Adaptation rights

The reason why Venice is called the water city is because it is located on the water, filled with large and small water lanes of the city, the Venetian pontoon called Gondola, and more than 400 bridges. The unique scenery attracts tourists from all over the world.

The specific location of the film festival is on the slender Lido Island, which traverses the southeast of Venice, and is the same famous resort as Libiela in France, Miami and Hawaii in the United States. There are both private beaches and public baths. Casinos, restaurants, nightclubs, theaters and other entertainment facilities are also available. It is perfect to hold a film festival here.

　　 Opening ceremony On August 27, Adrian arrived in Venice with the team one day in advance. Said to be a team, in fact, there are only five of him, Catherine, Dennis and two assistants. As for other things such as declaring to participate, Laffern personally flew over from the United States a week ago to bear this responsibility.

　　Adrian was still a bit worried, because the deadline is tight, the first edition of the edit did not achieve the best effect in his mind, but it passed smoothly under the operation of La Verne, I have to say that he The ability is excellent. Think about it too. The CEO of Paramount seven years ago is now the CEO of Dinis Michael Eisner. As one of the assistants who can develop Dinis to the point where he is today, Lavern can't be underestimated. That's why Adrian originally acquired Bosworth Film Company when there were obviously cheaper and more beautiful options.

　　After arriving at the hotel where he stayed, Adrian took a short break to talk to Lafferne. Although he has always been concerned about his film company, Los Angeles and London are separated by the Atlantic Ocean and the American continent after all. The current bulky mobile phones do not support global communications. It is too much to want to contact either to make international long-distance calls or to use satellite phones. trouble. Moreover, after the shooting, most of his energy was spent in the late stage, and a small amount of energy was spent on Catherine, so then this opportunity to talk face to face and ask the specific situation is very necessary.

　　 "Eddie Black of the planning department, Clarice Sando of the editorial department." After a few words of greeting, Adrian entered the topic, "Although I promised them, no one will be dismissed within half a year. Employees, but I also said that they will be inspected during this time. Frankly speaking, the performance of these two does not satisfy me."

　　 "I think there must be some misunderstanding," Laffern said after looking through some of the information provided by Adrian. "Eddie and Clarice are not the best employees, but they are also due diligence. "

　　 "But it's always the fact that something went wrong, right?" Adrian smiled, and then raised his hand before Lavern said, "Okay, Laver, I just put forward my opinion. Since the company is under your responsibility during this time, then I will certainly trust you and respect your opinion."

　　 "Thank you, Mr. Kewell." La Verne said after a few seconds of silence.

　　 "Just call me Ed-now let's talk about the festival." Adrian changed the subject.

　　 "Okay, Ed, the organizing committee has accepted "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" to participate in the name of an independent film." Lavern said to hand over the documents he brought with him to Adrian.

　　 "Very good, so we can save some more." Adrian looked and nodded.

The key reason why 　　 gave up the name of a film company and participated in a film festival as an independent film is that there are laws in the United States that film production companies must not take into account the production and distribution of the same film. In other words, if a film company produces a film for distribution, it must be handed over to another film company for operation. This is an extension of antitrust laws.

　　For Hollywood groups that own several film companies, this law is nothing more than a piece of paper, and the substitution is only handed over from the left hand to the right hand-you know, even if the antitrust law expressly stipulates that film companies must not have a theater Line, these large groups are still thinking of ways to drill the loopholes in the law, indirectly controlling the theater line-and small and medium-sized film companies have to comply with this law.

　　 Actually, it’s nothing. Hollywood has a perfect haircut channel. Don’t worry about someone making a stop, but Adrian doesn’t want to waste that distribution fee. For the start-up of a business, all the money should be spent on the blade, so why not take part in the film festival in the name of an independent film and give it to your own film company for distribution? Anyway, from investment to production, he is the one to complete it-well, someone from the company helps, but this is not a problem, is it?

　　 "Have you seen the sample? How do you like it?" Adrian asked at this time, seeing that Raffen hesitated and added: "It's okay, I just want to hear your opinion."

　　 "Hmm... It should be interesting, but I’m not sure how many people will like this British style cut, and it is basically impossible to be below the R level, which will have a great impact on the number of viewers. "" Laffern said, pondering his words.

　　Adrian originally wanted to say a few words, but after thinking about it, he gave up this plan. Laffern only analyzed from the perspective of the US market, so it can’t be wrong.

　　 "How is the release time scheduled?" Adrian asked again.

　　 "On the 31st, the Fleet Theater." La Verne replied briefly.

　　 "Then wait until it is released and talk about it," Adrian smiled and shifted the topic again. "How are the adaptation rights of those novels? I heard you said that you have encountered some trouble?"

　　"Mr. Stephen King has agreed to sell the adaptation rights of the novel to us, and he may have signed a contract now; Mr. Michael Clayton’s novel is still under negotiation, and the possibility of obtaining it according to the current situation is still very high. ; The main problem is with Mr. Winston Groom, who insists that he must participate in the adaptation of the script." Laffern explained.

　　Adrian's eyebrows were suddenly frowned, and he opened his mouth after thinking for a long time: "It is best to get Clayton's novel adaptation right as soon as possible. If necessary, you can make some concessions and even let him participate in the adaptation. ——Glum can’t... Does he mean anything at all?”

　　 "Yes, Mr. Glum said that this is a necessary condition." Lavern sighed.

　　Adrian was silent for a few seconds: "I can understand his thoughts, a work is equivalent to his own child, no one will want others to dress up their children at will, but the problem is... his The work is a political satirical novel, and I want to adapt it to an inspirational movie. If he participates in the adaptation, it is inevitable that we will not have conflicts-this is why I emphasize that this book must be fully adapted. ."

　　 is really a troublesome guy. Paramount would probably be forced to do that, right? He squeezed his fingers and thought again before saying: "So, Laffer, you can agree to this condition, but at the same time prepare a special contract, to ensure that there is a conflict during the adaptation and cannot be reconciled, we can Without any obstacle, he kicked off his production at the first time."

　　 Laffern raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, but then nodded and said nothing. The conversation between the two ended, and Adrian went back to the room to take a good rest.

　　 The next day, the film festival officially opened in front of countless journalists’ cameras and cameras. The opening movie was a work of Italian natives. After walking through a red carpet that is not a red carpet, after attending the opening ceremony and listening to the organizer's speech, Adrian took Catherine to walk around the streets of Venice.

　　He doesn’t have much interest in communicating with European directors, his goal is not here, and he is just a new director. Of course, there are still a few heavyweights in the United States. Martin Scorsister intends to bring his new work "Good Guy" to the festival. He was originally an Italian-American, and he was naturally independent of the Venice Film Festival. There is love. Even his movie themes are often Italian-American identity, sin and salvation in the Catholic sense, and violence in American society, and so on-this is probably one of the reasons why Oscar has not dumped him for more than ten years.

Since Scorsese is here, Robert De Niro, who has worked closely with him since the 1980s and is one of the protagonists of this "good guy", will naturally not be behind ~IndoMTL. com~Adrian doesn’t feel much about Scorsese, but he likes De Niro’s performance, but as he said before, he is just a newcomer director, even if he meets the most, he will talk a lot. So why should he join in the excitement?

　　 plus everything about the movie has been given to Laffern, and the holiday was originally part of the film festival, so he felt at ease with Catherine in Venice.

　　 Doge’s Palace, Bridge of Sighs, Rezonico Palace, St. Mark’s Square and St. Mark’s Church are naturally indispensable places to visit, and it’s also a must to go through the water lanes of the cobwebs with Gondola One of them, the two even went to the library in the original "Stranger 3" to take a look. In three days, they had visited Venice for most of the time.

　　 "Venice is so beautiful, I like this place!" Catherine came out from the water lane and looked at the gulls in the distance above Gondola. Catherine couldn't help but praise.

　　 "If you like it, we will take time to travel every year in the future." Adrian said with a smile around her waist.

　　Catherine didn't speak, with a light smile, she looked at Adrian with bright eyes, and after a while, he wrapped his neck and kissed his mouth. Adrian took the opportunity to kiss Catherine deeply in her arms, and the two were entangled with each other enthusiastically, ignoring the surrounding scenery, just like those couples who are passionate about.

　　 Seeing this, the boatman sitting at the end shaking the oar suddenly sang a song, although he used Italian but the affectionate taste of the song sang out of the mark. Perhaps because of this love song, the two who were kissing became more enthusiastic.

　　 (finally passed, I really don’t know where this chapter is sensitive... the next chapter will finally be pushed...)