Chapter 350: New Thoughts

Iger is responsible for the operation of the MM TV network, and the expansion of the Chinese market is handed over to the Ellison brothers and sisters, who will be better off than Mark to deal with, and now Mark's first task is to do a good job in the promotion of "Iron Man".

The twenty-eighth of this month is Chinese New Year's Eve, the twenty-ninth is the Spring Festival, it happens to be Saturday and Sunday, no matter whether David, the banana man, can celebrate the New Year, he must live, not only decorate the home, paste the Spring Festival, burn firecrackers, but also have a celebration party, even if it is yellow skin and white heart, it is still yellow, Chinese, there is a reason that the Chinese are not the New Year, he has a holiday for these two days, a good rest, and a good year.

As for Giselle's foreign daughter-in-law will not celebrate the Chinese New Year, if there is a problem, Mark will ask the party expert to guide, since the family is headed by Mark, some new traditions must be established, and his sons and daughters will follow these traditions in the future, like Sophia in the past They went to Switzerland for a vacation, which makes Mark feel like the master of the house.

Unknowingly, I have been in the United States for three years, (rebirth, the previous Mark was earlier), for the Chinese living in the United States, the Chinese New Year is not only the sustenance of nostalgia, but also means a rich cultural conception. As far as space is concerned, it is inclusive of the customs of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and the three places, and combines the characteristics of the mainstream festival according to local conditions to form a traditional Chinese festival with exotic characteristics, which is subject to the change of time and space, and constantly summarizes and absorbs various internal and external cultural elements, which is also the root of the charm of the ancient Spring Festival.

The farther away from the homeland, the more I want to inherit the cultural customs of the homeland", every Spring Festival, the pilgrims of the Chinese temple are endless, and the Chinese restaurant is always overcrowded, in various ways, to express the good wishes for the New Year, but also to inherit the Chinese culture.

Mark invited his uncle's family to come to the United States for the New Year, but was refused, Ma Yingying said: "The people of the United States understand what the New Year is?

Mark had to give up, on the day of the New Year, the house was renovated inside and out, and there were Spring Festival couplets and red paper pasted everywhere, which looked very festive and lively, and they also invited many people to the party, David, Sophia and Kayla were of course coming, and Mark's best friends also came.

Mark and Giselle put on red Tang costumes at the right time, and also gave red envelopes to the guests, everyone was happy, but this was at most a lively party, and there was nothing Mark expected, imaginary, maybe this is the United States, maybe this is the old age, maybe this is what his uncle said, there is no New Year's flavor, Mark's only gain from this New Year is to see Giselle's happy smile.

Giselle, who is deformed, is seriously unconfident, only Mark is by his side, only in Mark's arms, she will rest assured, she is even worried that Mark will not love her anymore, let people replace her, this is completely superfluous, how can Mark be like this? As a father, his heart is full of great happiness, and he has not opened the New Year's gift given to him by Martin, but he does not want to hurt Giselle's heart and make her unhappy.

Giselle is about to take the plate, this is a sensitive moment, Mark doesn't want to tear up all this in front of him because of personal desires, at least after Giselle gives birth, as for the unhappy female companions, this is not a problem, he here except for Giselle, the others come and go freely, Mark understands, Giselle is a relative, a person who can live with each other, and the others are playmates, and they are the trophies of great victories in their work and career.

After a very new year, Mark returned to work, and at the beginning of his return to work, Anne brought good news.

Cormac McCarthy is willing to sell the film adaptation rights to "No Country for Old Men" for MM.

No Country for Old Men, a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning Cormac McCarthy, was published in 2005 and caused quite a stir at the time: "A delicately built stage, with relentless projection of lights, the book is a true diagnosis of the ills of a post-millennial society, a terrifying portrayal of the darkness to come." - Time

In the original version, the book was remade into a movie in 2007 and won four heavyweight awards at the 80th Academy Awards, which was a film jointly invested and produced by Paramount Advantage and Weinstein Pictures, but here, "No Country for Old Men" was immediately remembered by Mark and sent someone to seduce McCarthy.

This McCarthy is a celebrity, Cormac McCarthy, born in Rhode Island in 1933, Irish, well-known family and playwright, representative works include "Blood Meridian", "Border Trilogy", "No Country for Old Men", "Road", etc., "Blood Meridian" opened a turning point in McCarthy's creation, ranked third in the "Best of the United States in the Past Twenty-five Years" selected by the New York Times, "Border Trilogy" caused a sensation in the book industry, won the National Book Award and the National Book Review Award of the United States, and was awarded by "No Country for Old Men" The film adaptation of the same name won four major awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture, which established McCarthy's status as a master, and he was named "one of the greatest American writers of our time" and the only successor to Hemingway and Faulkner, and he has always been the favorite for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

McCarthy likes to live in seclusion and rarely participates in public events, and he has never given television interviews (his first television interview was at the invitation of talk show host Oprah Winfrey after "The Road" won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize.) He rarely interacted with fellow writers, but more often with scientists, who spent four years at the Santa Fe Institute, founded by physicist Murray Gell-Man, during which he wrote No Country for Old Men, perhaps influenced by the way scientists observe things, and he also eliminated the intervention of subjective emotions as much as possible in his writing, and reproduced all the environmental factors of human activity as objects of dispassionate observation.

For this weird ga, it's not just money that can be impressed, Mark sent two lobbyists to successfully win the copyright of the movie, which represents Mark's ambition, mixed for a few years, he also wants to try the taste of the Oscar statuette, I don't want to win the Oscar Best Director The director is not a good director, Mark has to achieve fame and fortune in his career before retiring with honor, the earlier North Milan global double championship can not satisfy his ambitions, plus two little gold men are almost the same.

You don't see that as soon as the awards season arrives, the whole Hollywood revolves around the Oscars, the newspaper and TV audiences are all fans, in front of this first entertainment event, other entertainment activities are far inferior, even Spielberg is addicted to it, can't extricate himself, not to mention others, Lao Si won the Oscar for Best Director in 93 and 98 respectively, and is very interested in winning the third one, and his works in recent years are suspected of flattering and getting closer to the Oscars.

Like Woody Allen, the fastidious French call him "the only intellectual in the film industry in the United States", there are not many people, Mark makes movies just to make money, and he doesn't want to express something, he has a fight with Jerry Bruckheimer in this regard, and some people even list him as a member of Jerry Bruckheimer's Military Academy, many people in the academy are speaking, Mark wants to get involved in the Oscar statuette, this is early?

But this can't dampen Mark's enthusiasm, the college can be publicized, their thinking can be guided, Mark has his own media group, TV and Internet integration, fighting and fighting, who to be afraid of, who dares to tear his B, now Mark's public relations team has begun to build momentum for this publicity, those negative news began to disappear, this positive news has increased.

Mark has the best PR team, and Daniel, the former PR manager of Miramax, worked for him, and took advantage of the split between Disney and Miramax to pull away many key personnel, which made Miramax and the newly opened Weinstein Pictures feel deeply understaffed.

According to the separation agreement, after the separation, the Weinstein brothers will continue to operate Miramax's "Timon Films" and the company's cooperation plan with Miramax, including the sequels of "Scream" and "Very Little Spy", as well as more than 25 other projects, but Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, the two "direct directors" of the Weinstein brothers, will not have a share in Disney.

Interestingly, on the day of the Weinstein brothers' complete resignation on September 30, the original version 05, under the pressure of shareholders, Michael Eisner, known as the "tyrant", also "retired" from Disney ahead of schedule, and the first thing Robert Eger, the successor and former second-in-command, did was to fire Eisner's henchman Peter Murphy.

Now Eisner's position is as stable as Mount Tai, and Disney's shareholder meeting is suppressed by him.

Soon after leaving Disney, the two formed a new company, the name of the company is Weinstein Pictures, in fact, the separation is nothing for the brothers, after the independent door is more free, the only thing that makes them uncomfortable is that they can no longer use the name of the company named after their parents.

After the opening of Weinstein Pictures, with the connections and experience of the brothers, the business was in full swing, and the first animated film "Little Red Riding Hood" was released, and as the plot progressed, there were accidents constantly, and until the last moment, you never knew the truth of the matter, squeezed out "The Road to Glory" and "The Chronicles of Narnia", and won the box office championship of the first weekend of 16 million US dollars, which is on the right track.

However, in the competition for this year's Oscar sentinel battle, it failed across the board, on the one hand, because he was busy separating the family and did not lay out in advance, and on the other hand, he was short of manpower.