579 Shit Luck
Liu Anran's speech at USC quickly circulated, with some people affirming it, and others criticizing it, believing that he should not use money as bait to poison filmmakers who have not yet been in contact with society. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Some of the praise he received some time ago was lost with his speech at USC, after all, his core content was too red to be accepted by the mainstream.
However, he is quite popular in the youth group, and he thinks that people should live as simple and direct as Liu Anran. No matter who you are, isn't the purpose of making movies just to make money? If you don't make money, who will ask you to shoot next time? You have become box office poison, and all the studios will stay away from you.
Liu Anran is not in the mood to care about this, they can say whatever they like, this has nothing to do with themselves, and they really think so.
The next three months will be three months when everyone in Dream Media will be nervous.
In May, "X-Men 2", "Stealing the Day", and "Finding Nemo" will be released one after another. Although a large part of the profits of "Finding Nemo" will be taken by Disney, and Pixar will only be lost, everyone is also very optimistic, because this animated feature film has the hope of hitting the Oscars.
In June, "Fast and Furious 2" and "The Incredible Hulk" were released, and the box office and word-of-mouth feedback of "The Incredible Hulk" that everyone was looking forward to, this film is a standard that everyone uses to measure Marvel Studios. Only when this film is good, will I be able to be interested in the rest of the films in the future.
In July, "Pirates of the Caribbean" directed by Liu Anran was released, and this film is the film that really considers Liu Anran's success.
This is a real big production, not the ones he made before, whether in terms of production cost or scenes, it is not comparable to the films he directed before.
The people at Dream Media are nervous because everyone knows that only when these films are all successful can people really pay attention to all the film companies under Dream Media.
Liu Anran's heart is more or less nervous, even if he is confident, now because of his intervention, the actual situation has changed. He can only pray that everything will work out for the better.
Following Edward, they carefully discussed the publicity plan for all the films in the past three months, and Liu Anran came to Clint? Eastwood's side.
"Andy, your opinion scares a bunch of people." Meet Ang Liu and then Clint? Eastwood quipped.
"I just expressed my opinion, who knew there would be such a big movement. Spielberg has been calling me to make fun of me for a long time, so don't you want to make fun of me again? Liu Anran said depressedly.
No way, now he is a student of USC, whether it is Spielberg or Eastwood, he is his own senior, or a senior with a very important position in the film and television industry. As a junior himself, he can only let them bully.
"Andy, last time you said that you wanted to cooperate with my production company, in what way do you plan to cooperate?" Eastwood asked with a smile.
Liu Anran was a little puzzled, and when he came in, he noticed that there was another person in Eastwood's office, this person he didn't know, and he didn't introduce himself, but asked about working with him. Could it be that this man is from Paramount?
However, there is no time for him to seriously think about it, and working with Eastwood is his dream, "It mainly depends on the investment, if we invest together, I only get 53% of the box office." If we were all invested, I would have been able to get a share of only 85% of the box office. In terms of copyright, this can also be done in such a proportion. ”
If it is a co-investment, it is equivalent to MGM being responsible for the distribution and only needs 3% of the box office share, which is pitiful. If you invest in everything, you will also set aside 15% of the box office, which is already a very high percentage of all film cooperation.
It can be said that Eastwood's side will not take any risks, and they will get a 15% share. The reason why Pixar in the Jobs era was unhappy with Disney was because the share given by Disney was pitifully low.
"I didn't expect a person who puts money first to be willing to give up such a big profit, I really don't have any reason to refuse." Eastwood said, shaking his head.
"Tell me about you, this is Paul? Haggis. I met through a friend's introduction, and the two of us changed the script you wrote a little bit. He has a film that he wants to invest in, and you can look at his script first. ”
Liu Anran let out a sigh of relief, fortunately he was not from Paramount. This is the person introduced by Eastwood, no matter what, he has to invest in this film, if the script is good, he will invest more, and the script will generally be less.
Paul? Haggis took out the script a little nervously and put it in front of Liu Anran.
Liu Anran did not shy away from it, and reviewed the script on the spot. When he saw the title of the house in black letters on the script, he was so frightened that he almost jumped out of his chair.
He tried hard to recall that he didn't seem to step on dog shit when he went out today, but how did he have this shit luck? The title of the film is "Crash", and it depicts a series of events that take place in the multi-ethnic and multicultural city of Los Angeles.
After a few more glances, Liu Anran was sure that this was the "Crash" that could take the little golden man. This somewhat nervous Paul in front of you? Haggis is the director of "Crash".
I didn't pay attention to it just now, but now it's finally right, mainly Paul? Haggis doesn't have much time to appear in front of the media. And Paul? Haggis's greatest achievement is also not in directing films, but in screenwriting.
Just like the movie "Million Dollar Baby", if he hadn't intervened by himself, this guy should have been in charge of the screenplay, and now because of his own intervention, he can only make some simple changes.
It's just that he doesn't know why the script of "Crash" has been almost done at this time, and the reason why he remembers it so clearly is because this film sniped the "Brokeback Mountain" he planned to shoot and didn't win the best picture.
But the problem arises, now that the script is out, and the difficulty of filming is not great, is it really enough to invest in competing with his own "Million Dollar Baby"? Isn't this self-harm, no matter which one loses or which one wins, it's a loss.
His heart is very entangled, and he has to promise to come down, but how to postpone the filming of this film is a problem.