Witness of the film and television world

Chapter 163 The Crew
Ossana Graves smiled: "I'm looking forward to what Baylor can do with the Lakers."

Payton smiled and said, "Then I'll give you a season ticket for the Lakers, and welcome you to become a member of the Zijin nobles."

"Purple Gold Noble?"

"Yeah, in my vision, the next Lakers will become the star of Los Angeles, the darling of all the media, the real purple and gold nobles."

"Haha, like the Red Storm?"

"No! The Red Storm is just a reckless man, the Lakers will have noble blood."

"Really?" Ossana covered her mouth and smiled, with anticipation in her eyes.

"Of course!" Peyton smiled confidently.

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"Boss, the sales of Barbie dolls are exploding!"

"So far, the sales of our various series in New York State have reached 200 million, and the California area has also reached 100 million. Including the rest of the urban areas, the cumulative sales have reached 700 million."

"Toy dealers in other overseas countries have already rang our phone numbers, and they all want to obtain agency rights in their regions..."

Peyton laughed: "Jeff, well done!"

The Barbie doll series is also the focus of his attention. It complements the image of the entire Marvel. He invested a large amount of publicity before creating a Barbie family in the comics, focusing on the female market. Today's hot sales are just the best. s return.

After hanging up the phone, Payton still had a smile on his face.

Elizabeth asked curiously, "What's the matter? Are you smiling so happily?"

"Nothing, I got good news."

"Ok?"

"The toy company's new Barbie doll series is very popular. Last week, the sales volume was close to [-] million. The toy dealers in the entire New York international market rang up the company's phone number."

Elizabeth obviously knew about Barbie dolls, and she was a little surprised: "Just that kind of doll? Can you earn tens of millions?"

Peyton smiled, tens of millions?
This is too underestimated Barbie dolls, this is a broader market!
Like the Transformers series, the Barbie doll series will also become a pillar of Marvel.

Moreover, the value of opening up the female market and creating a more robust Marvel system is even more difficult to measure.

Elizabeth shook her head, still incomprehensible.

After a while, she adjusted the tie and dress for Peyton, with a flattering smile on her face.

"Honey, can I ask you a question?"

Payton glanced at her: "A script again?"

Elizabeth smiled: "My sweetheart is still so smart."

She clutched Peyton's arm and begged, "Yes, I found a new script. I think it's not bad. Please help me to read it."

"What type of script?"

"Is it another love story like Romeo and Juliet? Or an epic like a hero rescuing a princess?..."

Peyton was a little helpless, and didn't know if Elizabeth had played too many roles like the golden boy and the jade girl. The scripts he liked were all old-fashioned and vulgar stories.

Even, it doesn't matter anymore!

What's more, the directors she found were full of literature and art, and they thought they were artists, and they were investing millions of dollars without talking.

Really don't take investors' money as money?
"Forget it, no matter what genre, the director or screenwriter who asked you to invest is not the same big artist as last time, right?"

"No! I promise, not this time." Elizabeth repeated.

"It's just a simple screenwriter, a well-known screenwriter who has been working for many years. As for the director, I will choose it myself."

Peyton exhaled and nodded: "It's finally a little more reliable. Look at the last time, as an investor, your own project was actually controlled by Party B."

"Anyway, I won an Oscar, and my vision is too high."

"Okay, give me the script. I'll go to the crew and study it along the way."

"it is good."

After taking the script in Elizabeth's hands, Peyton went straight out and walked towards the crew of "The Exorcist".

Saw is still in theaters, and the cumulative box office has reached 800 million. It is also nearing the end, and it can still maintain a slow growth of 20 million per day. When the picture is drawn, there is no problem with exceeding 4000 million.

The filming cost price and the publicity investment are only 300 million, reaching a box office of 4000 million. There is no doubt that it is a big profit!

Clover, who has enjoyed the sweetness, is actively wooing Roger Coleman, the director of Chainsaw, to come up with a similar new script and make another fortune!
Peyton did not participate in it. Anyway, he will definitely go through the company's distribution channel. If he really makes money, he will not be able to get rid of him.

Lie in Lie is also doing post-editing, and it will be released by the end of April at the latest. The two shareholders who invested are looking forward to it.

On the other hand, Exorcist Talent, which invested the most, is worth half of the production. There are still many foreign plots that have not yet been filmed, and there are still several months before the release.

It can't be said that it is too slow. This is a relatively standard shooting process. For this movie, Payton's expectations were originally the highest.

"How was the filming going?"

Peyton looked at Robert Wise, the director of The Exorcist, an experienced and excellent director he had specially selected.

The cost of The Exorcist is 700 million, plus the estimated 500 million publicity in the later stage, it can be called an absolute big production, and Payton is really worried about handing it over to ordinary people.

Robert Wise, on the other hand, initially worked as an editor.

In 1941, he won the Oscar for Best Editing with the film "Citizen Kane", so he can be said to be a gold medal editor.

In addition to editing, he is also a technology enthusiast. With the emergence of high-tech film technology in the 40s, Wise's talent has been fully utilized. The perfect combination of many audio-visual space technologies has been obtained in his important film works. Perfect interpretation.

Wise's first directorial effort was a stylish horror film, The Curse of the Leopards (1944), co-produced with Hollywood horror filmmaker and director Ville Roudon, during which the two co-produced films Notable is The Body Snatcher starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.

In 1947, Wise directed Lawrence Tierney's black classic "Full Metal Jacket". Two years later, he directed the boxing film "The Man Who Sold the Flesh". Much attention in the film industry.

Not only that, Wise has also learned from many experts, drawing experience from different types of films and applying them to another type of film, thus making his films novel and unique and attracting attention.

Over the years, Wise's directorial talents have shined in all kinds of films, from the science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to the absurd film "So Big" to the Oscar starring Susan Hayward. Award-winning film "I want to live!" ".

Wise was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for this film.

Technology control, black works, horror films, rich experience, and gold medal editor, these labels are also important factors for Peyton to choose him as the director of "The Exorcist".

Robert Wise is also very discerning. After reading the script of The Exorcist, he realized that this is an unprecedented horror film that perfectly fits the ideas he has expressed over the years. He directly expressed his intention to direct.

For this reason, he even chose to enter with the lowest director fee.

Robert Wise: "It's not bad, but the little girl's emotions are sometimes not in place and need to be polished repeatedly."

Peyton smiled: "It's normal, after all, she's just a child, and she deserves to be encouraged to act in a movie like One Step."

"Sir, you are right."

Payton asked: "By the way, how is Shirley McClain doing?"

Shirley McLean, a newly signed female artist of the production company, was born in an acting family, learned ballet at the age of 2, performed on stage at the age of 4, and performed in musicals on Federal Broadway at the age of 16.

In 1955, she starred in the first movie "Strange Corpse Case" from the film, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Female Newcomer and the British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Actress.

It is a good seedling!

After signing the contract with Peyton Company, the Countess who once let her play the role of the Sound of Music is also considered a little red.

Now, casting her as the No. [-] female exorcist is definitely a big praise, and she is regarded as a pillar.

Also, it is worth mentioning her younger brother, famous Hollywood playboy Warren Beatty.

It has a Hollywood-certified Lifetime Achievement Award-the number one stallion who is said to have slept with 12775 women.

Robert Wise expressed his approval: "Shirley MacLean's performance is very good. At her age, it is rare to have such acting skills. She is indeed from Broadway."

Peyton nodded, that's fine.

Before the filming of this movie, Audrey Hepburn once sent a message to him, revealing that he wanted to play a role, but he resolutely refused, and he was not a contracted actor of his company.

You didn't even get on the red sofa, so why are you so spoiled?
Is it because you are famous?
Of course, out of interest considerations, Peyton didn't think it would be a good thing to play the exorcist with Hepburn's fame.

This is a horror movie, and it really doesn't fit Hepburn.

Not only will there be no halo bonus, but it is more likely that the audience will call The Exorcist a bad movie with Hepburn's previous princess image.

This is also the reason why Peyton told Elizabeth that she was not suitable for these films.

Whether the image is suitable or not is an important point.

For example, do you think it is appropriate for a tertiary film actress to suddenly play the role of a pure girl?

And vice versa, people get off the show when they see it.

(End of this chapter)