Chapter 358 Bomb Disposal Unit

In fact, Mark wants to invest the most, and the most popular is James Cameron's project "Avatar", which has begun to be established, and Twenty World Fox has written a check for 500 million US dollars.

The king of the world is worthy of his name, the famous Cameron, the director of the first billion-dollar production ("Terminator 2"), and the director of the first 200 million-dollar production ("Titanic"), is now skipping 340 million and directly entering the 500 million era, which makes fans and fans cheer and scream, and makes the film companies hate themselves.

And because of the great success of "Titanic", the Twentieth Century Fox worshipped Cameron as the God of Wealth and responded to his requests, and in order to keep Cameron's heart, they wrote signed blank checks.

The last "Titanic", the promised investment of 130 million and six additional investments, almost drove the top management of Twentieth Century Fox crazy, forcing Jim, the vice president in charge of the project at the time, to almost jump off the building, and coupled with the unanimous singing of the media, they made an extremely stupid decision to make them a joke, which is to give the North Rice distribution rights of "Titanic" to Paramount for 60 million US dollars.

As a result, Paramount ate the biggest piece of fat in "Titanic", and what is even more disgusting is that this movie is one of the best movies in film history, which was invested and produced by their Twentieth Century Fox, but Paramount has always listed it as his own work, and even the old guy Lei Shidong has put gold on his face, and in many official personal profiles, they have always claimed that "Titanic" is their successful work, and it is Lei Shidong's excellent vision that discovered this work.

His excellent vision is equivalent to gouging out the eyeballs of Twentieth Century Fox, can you imagine how depressed and hated they are?

So Twentieth Century Fox, which has the right to invest in Cameron's films this time, is determined this time that it will not allow anyone to get involved, and it will not be possible to touch it.

As early as the nineties of the last century, after Cameron won the North Korean global championship after filming "Terminator 2", Twentieth Century Fox decided to support him and signed a treaty that they had the right to invest in all of Cameron's films, according to the spirit of this treaty, when Cameron was ready to take over the production of "Spider-Man", Twentieth Century Fox was ready to get involved in the investment rights of "Spider-Man", "True Lies" and "Titanic" are the products under this treaty.

It is also according to this article that Cameron has been able to force Twentieth Century Fox to make additional investments six times before and after, if it is someone else, either get out of the way or see you in court, and thus destroy a new insurance variety, the completion insurance, and now the investors are all asking the producer to buy the completion insurance to ensure that there will be no delay in delivery, on-time delivery, which makes people laugh that the major film studios are occupied by lawyers and accountants.

Of course, like Cameron, you can only coax him to make a movie with a good voice, and any rules and restrictions are clouds.

When "Titanic" swept the world, James Cameron was popular even if he filmed a tuoxiang, and Twentieth Century Fox naturally hoped that Cameron would take advantage of the victory and chase after him, make a few movies, and make a lot of money on tickets and women.

Twentieth Century Fox had to wait, wait patiently, wait until this guy divorced and got married, waited until he sold his stake in D2, waited patiently for him to make a documentary, and finally waited for him to speak, ready to do a big job.

This time, Cameron's new film is solely invested and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox, and is supported by Weta Digital's special effects technology.

As soon as the news came out, D2's stock price fell in response, how deep is Cameron's resentment towards D2? Although he has repeatedly explained that this is because D's technology is suitable for the style of "Avatar", and New Zealand's tax rebate is exciting, but the market and investors prefer to believe that Cameron, the super director, is not optimistic about D2 and abandoned D2.

Mark sat and looked at such a big piece of fat, drooling, he really didn't dare to move, if he moved this piece of fat, he was afraid that the old guy Mei Duo would jump out and fight him, and he would be incompatible, this is really something that can only be watched from a distance and cannot be blasphemed.

This Cameron can't be seduced, but this Cameron's wife can be seduced, back then, the king of the world's "Avatar" once again detonated the world, and the complete drama set a new world record held by himself, with a global box office of 2.75 billion US dollars, waiting for future generations to break through.

This kind of scenery and glory is not a personal experience, no one can know, but at the Oscar Academy, he was slapped in the face, beating him so that he had no temper, and the huge "Avatar" only won a few technical awards.

And his wife's "Bomb Disposal Unit" won seven nominations, six awards, and the most important Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Effects, Best Sound Editing, are the most important, no leftovers, the most big winner, which made Cameron constipated.

Born in California in 1951, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, and she loved painting and horseback riding from an early age.

In 1978, she was electrocuted for the first time directing a 17-minute short film about the battle between two men, and although Catherine herself does not want to see this film today, the appearance of "The Fighter" can at least show the style of her later films: emphasizing the themes of men, masculinity, and war, and many years later she said of the theme of the film: " In the sixties, you would think that the enemy existed in the outside world, in other words, a police, a government, and a system, but that wasn't entirely the case, fascism was very insidious, and we humans were copying it all the time. ”

Bigelow's feature film debut was 1982's "Ruthless" co-directed with Monty Monte Gumeri, which also made his big-screen debut starring Willem Dafoe.

After two years of silence after directing "Century Tide" and "Devil's Game", the blockbuster "K-19: The Widow Maker" released in 02 brought Catherine back into the spotlight.

Bigelow is a famous female director with both beautiful and charming appearance and a talented and unique brain, married James Cameron, the director of "Titanic" on August 17, 1989, and divorced in 91, which lasted only two years.

Mark is a man who can do whatever he wants, and immediately asks Anne to find Bigelow and arrange a meeting.

In 2002, Bigelow's film "K-19: The Widowmaker" invested as much as $100 million, but only recouped $65 million at the box office.

Now Bigelow is just a well-known female director, and more people call it Cameron's ex-wife, the failure of "K_19: The Widow Maker" has made her career fall silent.

For example, her latest preparation of "Bomb Disposal Unit", based on the personal experience of screenwriter and producer Mark Bauer in Iraq, Bigelow chose some actors who were not well-known at the time but had great potential and promise to play, including actor Jeremy Bauer. Reina, these names have almost no box office appeal, but this just ensures that their characters are more alive, and at her insistence, the crew moved to the Middle East to shoot on location, because this kind of war theme is relatively unpopular, no Hollywood company is willing to invest, Catherine can only seek investment funds from abroad, and is now negotiating with a French investment company.

At this time, Mark's assistant Anne appeared in front of her and led her to Mark's office.

From the outside, Bigelow is 1.82 meters tall, is a standard long-legged tall beauty, her personality shows a tough side, and it is well maintained, few Omi women are in their fifties, and still maintain such a figure and appearance, on the other hand, she is a person with strong self-control, always seems very peaceful and friendly to people, and prefers to use the second person to talk to people.

Because the other party is a woman older than Sophia, although she is as glamorous as ever, Mark doesn't want to talk about those things that are out of tune, and said directly: "I intend to invest in your movie "Bomb Disposal Unit", what conditions do you have?"

In fact, the other party took the initiative to invite, Bigelow knew that Mark was interested in investing, but he didn't expect Mark to be so refreshing and direct, the problem of running for help in Hollywood in the past six months is not a problem for Mark here, but she still emphasized: "This is a literary film, there are many things I want to express in it, I need the final editing rights, complete financial power, of course, you can send financial personnel to supervise, as for how to spend it, who to invite, this is my business." ”

Mark said, "How much do you plan to invest?"

The Lion Bigelow opened his mouth and said, "Fifteen million dollars!"

Mark said: "Deal! Columbia Pictures is responsible for investment, operation and distribution, you and Mark Ball are in charge of production, and I will only send a financial officer to supervise the use and flow of funds, Ms. Bigelow, happy cooperation!" Mark stretched out his hand.

Bigelow felt a little unreal, and within two minutes Mark decided to invest and gave her the most power and support, and she shook Mark's hand with some slow reaction.

In this way, Catherine Bigelow, a well-known female director, joined MM and became a part of MM, working for MM, Mark breathed a sigh of relief, which can be regarded as doing a reliable thing.

Columbia and MGM, together there are more than 170 statuettes, and there are special rooms for exhibitions, but Mark doesn't mind a few more.