Nancy also poured herself a cup of coffee, sat down across from John, and after a little sip, said. "You asked me to tell the outside world that the new film launch ceremony will be held on June 19, congratulations on your ....... Nancy said with a cold smile. Not long after I spoke, your good friend "Michael Ovitz" also announced that CAA will cooperate with Miramax Films to package Miramax Films' new films, and also held a new film launch ceremony on June 19. ”

Nancy looked at John after speaking, she wanted to see how John would react, Michael Ovitz was obviously coming for him, and this time Harvey Wienstein in the independent film was also invited, and the firepower was obviously much stronger than before.

"These two guys!" John shook his head speechlessly at Nancy's words.

Michael Ovitz and Harvey Wienstein are just two minor characters, and John is worried about the masters behind these two, Charles and Bowen Rothschild, who are his real opponents.

These two people are not only rich and connected, but also very powerful, the most important thing is that they are still embarrassed to deal with him now, and more importantly, he is undergoing family assessment, and his rights have been recovered by old Morgan.

"Do you have any news about their new film?" asked John. Now that Charles and Bowen Rothschild have made a war letter, even if he is weak, he cannot back down, only face it head-on.

"There's some news. Nancy replied.

Not long after Michael Ovitz spoke, she used her contacts in Hollywood to gather some information about the two collaborations.

"Michael Ovitz packaged Miramax Films for the same project as we did, and the subject matter was based on fiction. Nancy frowned slightly as she spoke, and a solemn look appeared on her face. "But the author of their novel is much more famous than the author of Forrest Gump. ”

This is what worries her the most, famous writers are more appealing than non-famous writers, the former has more fans than the latter, and if their works are adapted into movies, the former will obviously attract more people to the theater to pay for it.

"Whose work are they adapting?" John was a little surprised, he thought that Charles would choose some high-quality sequels from the library to fight him, but he didn't expect Charles to find a novel to adapt.

Although the movie adapted from the novel has readers as the basis and the possibility of hitting the street is low, it is still too risky compared to high-quality sequel movies.

So in Hollywood, sequel movies with the lowest risk and highest success rate are secondary, followed by novel adaptations or remakes of old films, and secondarily original scripts.

But often sequel movies are the private land and cash cows of major studios, and they will not allow people to come in and get a piece of the pie, such as Warner's "Terminator", Universal's "Jurassic Park", MGM's "007", Lucas's "Star Wars".

And where did those platter movies come about? Of course, they all came from the original scripts that were the most risky.

Film companies generally adopt platter cooperation for high-risk works, and find people to share the risk. If the film loses money, someone bears the failure together, and if it is earned, the film company will set up a name to use all kinds of fake accounts to obtain the maximum profit.

This is Hollywood, behind the glamorous is the scene of cannibalism, everyone sees the infinite scenery of superstars, famous directors and major production companies, but few people see the bankrupt investors who lose money.

It may be that people prefer to see success, as if it motivates them, or because there is such a function that makes them more illusionistic, so people choose to ignore failure.

"From what I've got, Miramax Films is adapting a work by Stephen King. Nancy replied.

Stephen King is a best-selling author in the United States, known as the master of contemporary thriller novels, many of his works have been ranked on the best-selling list in the United States, and has a large number of book fans. And Winston Groom, the author of "Forrest Gump", is obviously much inferior to Stephen King, who has written books for many years and has not been able to come up with a bestseller until now.

As soon as she thought of the gap between the two, Nancy felt a kind of pressure coming to her. Before the war started, he lost at the starting line, and no one could easily get up.

And John was stunned at first when he heard Nancy's words, and then felt incredible, most American writers he knew, Stephen King was naturally among them, and three of the four novellas included in his work "Strange Tales of the Four Seasons" were adapted into movies, the most famous of which is "The Shawshank Redemption".

"Nancy, they're not going to adapt Stephen King's "The Shawshank Redemption" from "Tales of the Four Seasons!"

"Congratulations, you got it right, it's "The Shawshank Redemption" that they want to adapt. ”

"What!"

John's eyes widened as if God was joking with him, and he observed three seconds of silence for Charles and Bowen Rothschild.

Is there anything more abusive than fighting on the same stage with "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Forrest Gump"!

"The Redemption of Seanke" was beaten by "Forrest Gump" both at the box office and during the awards season, and there was no room to fight back.

The thought that Charles and Bowen Rothschild chose this street movie against him made John feel relaxed.

This is not because he is arrogant, but "The Shawshank Redemption" is too big, and the investment of 25 million at the box office only recovered 28.24 million.

And in the middle of the awards season, it was a big pounce, with 7 nominations for the Academy Awards, but in the end, there was no win, and he didn't even win a consolation prize.

So for such a movie, John naturally won't take it to heart, how "Forrest Gump" abused it in his previous life, and he will continue to abuse it in this life.

Of course, John knows that "The Shawshank Redemption" is actually a very good movie, and it deserves its place in film history, and it is also appropriate to be called the uncrowned king.

But why is it that a movie that is so highly rated by everyone is so popular during the awards season?

Actually, it has something to do with its subject matter. The core of "The Shawshank Redemption" focuses on "freedom" and "redemption", which is very pleasing, but it is wrong to use the theme of prison to express this core idea.

"Freedom" is a high-level spirit, and it is expressed in prison, which is undoubtedly disgusting to the old men of the academy, so in the end they don't even bother to give a consolation prize.

And at the box office, why did "The Shawshank Redemption" hit the streets?

Or because of its subject matter.

"The Shawshank Redemption" was too depressing and heavy, and it was not suitable for calling friends and wearing family members to watch in the theater at that time.

Movies are like this, some are suitable for the whole family to watch in the theater together, but some are only suitable for one person to stay at home and chew slowly, "The Shawshank Redemption" is undoubtedly the latter, which is why it hit the street at the box office, but the video market is very hot.

John feels that this also corresponds to the sentence "success is also Xiao He is also Xiao Xiao", the prison theme made "The Shawshank Redemption" hit the streets at the box office and awards season, but because of its theme, it was talked about and regarded as the uncrowned king.