King of Hollywood

"Feel? I think about it ... It's not bad. I'm a fan of Al. I think his tango jump and the last reprimand were really great." On the television, a young man wearing a baseball cap was Said excitedly to the camera.

"Thank you, thank you for your answer." After getting the answer, the reporter made a gesture to the photographer, and the lens immediately turned from the guy who still wanted to show his face on the screen to another black young man coming out of the movie theater. Follow girlfriend.

"Hello, may I know your names?" The reporter asked first.

"Well ... my name is Woody Andrews, and this is my girlfriend Mia Harrison." The black young man seemed a little shy, but her girlfriend greeted reporters with a lively greeting: "Hello."

"Is the movie you just watched" Smelling a Woman "?" The reporter continued to ask, and immediately asked after getting a positive answer: "Can you tell me, what do you think of this movie? Why would you bring a woman? Friends watching this movie? "

"A great movie, especially when Aldo tango, is really very attractive." The black girl named Mia replied first, and the black youth thought carefully: "A movie that is very exciting, In particular, Al ’s last speech in the auditorium resonated with me. At that time, I and the people around me were applauding involuntarily. I also experienced similar things when I was in high school. Fortunately, I also made Charlie had the same choice. The reason why I watched the film with Mia was because I was able to meet her at the beginning, and it had nothing to do with that. "

"It sounds really good, thank you for your answers." The reporter said thumbs up at them, then put the microphone to his mouth and looked at the camera: "Well, George, now I have good news and a bad one. I want to report the news to you. The good news is that 80% of the audience who participated in the response thought that the film "Smelling the Woman" was very good. So let's switch Billy lenses back to the studio. "

"Thank you, Todd, thank you for your on-site investigation," with the host's voice, the TV screen returned to the studio, and the host with the news broadcast smiled. "Obviously everyone likes this from the heart. As a director and producer, Adrian believes that he should be very proud. After all, for a long time, this movie refrigerated by him has not been appreciated by people. He must have spent a lot of time on it. Alright, that's all for today's show, and we will meet again next time. "

With a light click, the screen of the TV turned black, and Claude put the remote control in his hand on the coffee table, and looked at Adrian sitting on the other side with a smile: "Are you proud now? , Wizards? "

"Of course, why not?" Adrian shrugged, taking it for granted, "However, this is not the most proud time, and I will surprise more people when Howard Manor is released next month."

"Still so confident," Claude said with a smile, got up and went to the wine cabinet and poured himself a glass of whiskey, then turned to look at Adrian: "You have surprised a lot of people now-coming A cup? "

"No, not for now." Adrian, looking at the documents on the coffee table again, shook his head.

"Well, let's have a drink. It's a celebration." Crowder could not help but pour another drink before him.

"Congratulations?" Adrian looked up in surprise.

"Yeah, congratulations on your first movie North American box office over 100 million." Claude raised his glass with a smile.

Adrian raised an eyebrow, and then the cup laughed, "That's right."

Although the box office of "Vulgar Novel" has always been tepid but quite durable, it has always maintained two or three million box offices every week, and even a little fire on the Halloween holiday, weighing 2.6 million box office Returned to the top ten in North American box office rankings that week. So after being released for 22 weeks, the film finally got more than $ 100 million in box office in North America. Because of the long-distance screening, the ratio of the theater line is much higher, but compared with the investment of almost 10 million That said, there was no loss. Besides, now that it is facing offline and the movie season is approaching, Vulgar Novel still maintains one or two million box office on weekends every week, which has to be said to be a miracle.

"The box office, word of mouth, and honor are all good harvests, and the Golden Palm Awards at the Cannes Film Festival aren't something you can get casually-I didn't understand it until you took two months." Claude's tone There was a little emotion in it.

"That's just an added bonus," Adrian said, disapproving. "For Americans, Oscar is the most important thing, if Golden Palm ... unless there is nothing to be gained from Oscar and eager to redeem it. The declining popularity, directors and actors will consider the European Film Festival, but they will eventually have to return to Hollywood if they want to go further. "

"It's amazing that you have participated in all three major film festivals in Europe once, and you will think of them like this." Claude said jokingly.

"It used to be that, there was a paradise for small-cost movies. In the name of 'art', you made self-proclaimed movies, and you never cared about the views of the audience-the majority of the audience. If you can't balance it, it will happen sooner or later." With that, Adrian's brow frowned slightly, and something seemed to come to mind.

"Well, don't talk about this, as long as" Howard Manor "is released smoothly and in line with expectations, I will achieve more than half of my goals this year." He then waved.

"Oscar?" Crowd raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, Oscar." Adrian smiled and gestured. "I told you."

"I have to sigh again, Ed," Crowder held the whisky in his hand. "You have more ideas in your head than the sum of the past 20 years. As far as I know, the film company's screenwriters We haven't written a script based on your ideas in the past few months. It doesn't seem to be what you told me. "

"They're actually there, but they just came out now," Adrian pointed to his head. "I used to focus my energy elsewhere."

"Well, just let it be," Crowder wasn't entangled with the topic. "Let's talk about the movie company first, and frankly, I think there is a little more investment in current and upcoming movies."

"Is this your opinion, or?" Adrian watched him make a gesture.

Claude smiled slightly and then laughed: "Why, Laffer said the same thing to you? Oh, of course, he's a good one, and it's not surprising that he would have the same views as me. Although I don't really make movies Yes, but I understand the market and the risks, think about it, Ed, if ... "

"Okay, Crow." Adrian reached out and stopped his speech for the first time. After making a few gestures and thinking about it, he sighed: "I know, I can't convince you on this , But I want to ask, how much of the investment or production of the film did not make a profit with my consent? "

"No." Claude gave the answer after only a few thoughts.

Adrian didn't speak anymore, just spread his hands and looked at him.

"Can you guarantee the same?" Crowder asked, raising his eyebrows. "Like the Schindler's List, for example."

"That's not necessarily true, and I told you that Schindler's List can give us more than just monetary benefits," Adrian countered.

"But what you just said is economic interest." Claude smiled, shaking his fingers.

Adrian looked at what he seemed to say, but in the end he spread his hand: "It can't be 100%, but it can be 80%. I believe that my vision is much better than you, because What you need is a holistic view. And we all know that without a huge library of high-quality films, it ’s difficult for movie companies to scale up. "

That's right, one of the reasons why the seven major companies are firmly seated on the throne of the Hollywood giants is that they have a large movie library, which is why Adrian would want to include all the outstanding movies of the 1990s.

"Moreover, didn't you complain about excessive liquidity before? Maybe invest in the movie." He continued.

"Okay, okay, you're always right." Crowder gave up arguing with him.

Adrien smiled and let the topic go to another: "Speaking of too much liquidity, how about we buy another movie company? Buy a movie company bigger than Bosworth Pictures .Let me think, Miramax Pictures? Or Newline Films? "

"I want to ask, why do you suddenly want to buy a new film company?" Crowder asked.

"Because of the release ~ www.readwn.com ~ Adrian raised his hands," If there are two movie companies in hand, many small-cost movies can be handed over to another after this production, just like a big company That way we turn profits from left hand to right hand, and this will help build our own distribution channel. "

"Well, this is indeed a good reason, but Ed, if you buy another movie company, will your main focus be on Bosworth Pictures or the newly acquired movie company?" Ke Lauder reminded.

Adrian froze, frowned, and didn't speak again. After a few seconds of this pause, Claude opened his mouth again: "Yes, and there are, the two movie companies you mentioned, currently They are negotiating with Disney and TBS separately. According to intelligence, they are likely to be acquired separately. "

"You mean ..." Adrian blinked.

"According to the previous contacts, I have negotiated with many companies, and the most interested in them is Dineus, so I prefer to buy TBS." Claude explained a little.

"That sounds good." Adrian nodded, understanding what he meant, but vaguely felt that there was something inconsistent with his memory, but it was difficult to remember for a moment. ()