Toronto, in the temporary office of Embassy Pictures.

While Ronan was waiting for Connie to get the relevant information, he asked Thomas, "Is the theater of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" arranged?"

Thomas nodded: ""Eavesdropping Storm" gave us one, I communicated with the organizing committee of the film festival, and this theater will be used to screen "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" today." ”

Ronan motioned for Connie to hand over the information directly to Thomas: "Look at this movie, an independent film about racial conflict, scheduled to be released in early December. ”

Thomas looked at the brochure and asked, "Target awards season?"

"This type of film, if you don't take the route of rushing for awards and don't have heavyweight awards, it's difficult to get good results. Ronan said simply: "Try to run it from the beginning of the awards season until next year's Oscars." ”

Thomas didn't see the film, so it's hard to give specific opinions, but the fact that Ronan personally bought the movie gave him enough confidence, plus there were themes suitable for the Oscars in the introduction.

"We've been working on 'When Happiness Knocks' for a long time, and 'The Emperor Penguin Diary'...... we just won," he said.

Ronan said directly: "The focus is on "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" and this "Crash", the best documentary of "The Emperor Penguin Diary". Also, there is no conflict between these two key films, the first award for "When Happiness Knocks on the Door" is Best Actor, and "Crash" is ...... Best Picture!"

At the very least, this will not create an internal competition, which will make Relativity Entertainment's film introduce, and Thomas knows that this arrangement is the most reasonable, saying: "When I return to Los Angeles, I will immediately convene a meeting and arrange the work related to the awards." ”

Ronan said: "Relativity Entertainment has never won an Oscar for Best Picture. ”

Thomas said with a smile: "I haven't won Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director either. ”

Ronan nodded lightly and said, "I hope we can gain something from the four major awards this time." ”

So far, Relativity Entertainment's most important award at the Oscars is "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" for Best Foreign Language Film, which was not particularly competitive back then.

The most competitive is, of course, the four major awards.

If you want to get one of these four statuettes, the movie and the character are only one of them, and the rest of the operation is very important, plus a little luck.

For example, a large number of judges who voted with their feet and threw pencils and coins to vote were thrown at your name.

Will Smith really needs luck to win Best Actor, because at this film festival, Ronan saw a promotional poster for a film - "Soul Singer".

The male lead of this film is called Jamie Fox.

is also a black actor, and when it comes to fame and status, Will Smith dumps Jamie Fox a few streets.

But Ronan is not mistaken, Jamie Fox was once the second black best actor in the new century.

In the face of the burgeoning black affirmative action movement, many judges may also choose black actors.

In fact, Will Smith may not be without the possibility of competition, Jamie Fox's acting experience is somewhat similar to Will Smith, born as a singer, and then moved to the film industry, starred in a lot of comedies, and also starred with Will Smith in the biopic "Boxing King Ali".

If you really want to say that Jamie Fox's acting skills are much higher than Will Smith, you can only say that the benevolent will see the wise.

From Ronan's point of view, what are Jamie Fox's advantages? Perhaps the comedies he starred in were not very successful and their commercial results were not very impressive.

Will Smith's biggest disadvantage is precisely his status as a business superstar.

Many things in the Oscars are always inexplicable, and disadvantages in other aspects sometimes become advantages.

As for the film "Crash", "Brokeback Mountain", which once defeated Ang Lee, has a relationship with the vigorous operation of Lionsgate.

For example, after Ronan saw relevant reports and discovered the possible threat of "Brokeback Mountain", several famous film critics in the United States publicly criticized and criticized "Brokeback Mountain" in their columns and TV programs, and even directly said that this film was disgusting.

If there is no shadow of competitors behind this, there is no exchange of interests......

These people have played an important role in dragging "Brokeback Mountain" back, and the smear for more than two months has also caused "Brokeback Mountain" to suffer a lot of negative effects.

If it were another ten years, I don't know if these film critics would still have the courage to smear "Brokeback Mountain"?

Another point is that the theme and background of "Crash" naturally have advantages.

With nearly half of the Oscars on the jury and perennial settlements in Los Angeles and Southern California, the events that "Crash" reacts to may be coincidental and exaggerated, but it's not uncommon in Los Angeles.

This will lead to the bias of the judges.

is still the same sentence, the movie is closely connected with the social environment of the times, and in another ten years, let alone a crash, even if it hits a plane and a spaceship, it can't stop LGTB from reaching the top.

"Crash" has the value of Oscar operation, and Ronan encountered it, and of course he will not let it go.

Soon, Ronan got the exact news that Miramax's Harvey Weinstein did buy the rights to Spring in the Cattle Herding Class, but not for $7 million as Tony Koch claimed, but for $6 million.

It is said that Harvey Weinstein won the live bid for $7 million, and the formal negotiations began to drag on again, and the French producers were not small companies that had not entered the international film market after all, and refused the Harvey Weinstein Film Festival's request to negotiate later, but finally lowered the $1 million to reach an agreement, considering Miramax's commitment to the Olympics.

But for Ronan, spending $6 million on a French film is still very risky.

The vast majority of non-English-language films that are internationally famous have made a big splash in the North American market, and spending a relatively large price to get an overseas film to come to the North American market often does not get the best results.

Unless you can really get a heavier award at the Oscars.

Will Smith also rushed to Toronto, and after meeting with Ronan, he threw himself into the promotion of "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

At present, the Toronto Film Festival does not have individual performance awards, the most important is the audience choice award, as well as the Discovery Award, Best Canadian Feature Film, Best Canadian Short Film, Best Canadian Debut Film and International Film Critics Award.

Relativity Entertainment and Will Smith certainly want to win the Audience Choice Award.

Not only Relativity Entertainment is promoting the event, after getting the North American rights to "Spring in the Cattle Class", Miramax is also increasing the promotion of this French film, and it seems that he also wants to win a few awards.

At an awareness event convened by the organizing committee, Ronan also met Harvey Weinstein.

"I didn't expect to meet you here, Ronan. "Harvey Weinstein was very gracious.

Ronan shook his hand and said, "Harvey, I've heard about your generosity. ”

There have been rivalries between the two, and even a bad quarrel on the other side of the Pacific, but Harvey Weinstein is well aware that this is a normal business competition and there is no need to fight Ronan Anderson.

For Miramax, Relativistic Entertainment is already a behemoth.

While he doesn't have to be afraid of Relativity Entertainment and Ronan Anderson, there's no need to be on the opposite side.

Harvey Weinstein smiled and said, "Didn't you get something out of it?"

Ronan also smiled and said: "I have a few films this year that want to hit the Oscars, and I have to ask you more in this regard." ”

"I don't dare to ask for advice. Harvey Weinstein said the right way to rush to the Olympics that no one will deny: "Invest more, spend more money, so that you can see the Oscar statuette." ”

Ronan pointed to his forehead, "I wrote it down." He deliberately said, "Which awards are you eyeing this year? ”

Harvey Weinstein mumbled, "Not yet." ”

Ronan wondered: "I remember Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" was released by Miramax, right?"

Harvey Weinstein didn't seem to want to talk much about the film, saying, "Now that the company is in a mess, how can I bother to run the Oscars." ”

This did divert Ronan's attention, and he asked tentatively, "Between Miramax and Disney?"

"As always, contradictions are irreconcilable. It's pretty much public, and there's nothing wrong with Harvey Weinstein saying, "Michael Eisner wants to remove me and Bob from power and completely strip Miramax." ”

Ronan looked like he was a hater: "Michael Eisner is too domineering, and Pirates of the Caribbean has no conflict of interest with him, and he actually attacked this film." ”

Harvey Weinstein certainly knows: "He's getting used to being domineering and aggressive. ”

Ronan said: "Harvey, I'm on your side against Michael Eisner. ”

Harvey Weinstein said to himself, "Thank you." ”

"Hold on, Harvey. Ronan specifically encouraged: "Can't let Michael Eisner succeed, at least not let him succeed easily, Miramax is your and Bob's hard work." ”

Harvey Weinstein is silent and will not give up on Miramax, which he single-handedly created, as long as he still has the possibility.

Ronan deliberately pulled himself up: "If someone wants to steal my relativity entertainment, I will fight him to the death!"

"Bob and I didn't lose that easily. Harvey Weinstein said with a smile: "Michael Eisner wants to remove us from power, he thinks too easily!"

Ronan then turned the conversation back to the movie, chatting about "The Aviator" and Martin Scorsese.

Miramax is a subsidiary of Walt Disney and one of Disney's instability and Michael Eisner's opposition, and the longer the Weinstein brothers hold out at Disney, the more chaotic Disney will likely become.