Chapter 80: The First Payment
After the movie, Ryan greeted the people on the Warner side, pulled up Nicole and quickly drove away, the reporters went to the press conference, don't take this opportunity to leave, do you have to wait for them to start a chase and interception?
He had informed Warner in advance that he would not attend the press conference after the premiere, that he was not stupid, that he would automatically run to be the target of media fire, and besides, with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston two superstars, there was enough news gossip for them to write.
The reporters and the paparazzi, indeed concentrated in the press room of the theater, have long had a tacit understanding that they must bring up the original conflict in front of Ryan Jenkins and detonate the topic again, and it would be wonderful if he could provoke him to shoot Tom Cruise.
It's just that when the crew appeared, they found out that the little guy was actually ...... Slipped!
Everyone knows that Ryan Jenkins is not very old, but he is not easy to deal with at all, but it is extremely rare to retreat without a fight.
After the Thanksgiving holiday, Ryan picked up his school bag and re-entered the campus, focusing most of his energy on the script of "Killer Leon", as for the reporter who besieged him again because of the release of "Bodyguard", he turned a blind eye to it completely, anyway, he is now two points and one line, and he hardly goes anywhere else except for home and school, and those guys can't do anything with him.
"The Bodyguard is a novel combination of thrills, action, gunfights, entertainment and romantic tenderness, and presents the audience with a masterpiece that is built on clichés and engaging!"
"This movie doesn't have many intense scenes, but uses a lot of space to describe the most beautiful feelings of human beings, a 'love' word runs throughout, from the initial depression to the violent outburst of zuihou, this kind of emotional catharsis is incisive, I have to say, this is an extremely excellent aiqing film."
"Rather than the film's cliché plot, we should pay more attention to the soundtrack and the songs interspersed with it, and there is no doubt that Whitney Houston's "I.will.always.love.you" at the end of the film will become a classic!"
"Kevin Costner vividly interprets a hard-blooded tough guy who is quiet on the outside, but in fact passionate and sincere in his heart, strong and brave, and there is no lack of warmth, and Whitney Houston, a superstar who debuted on the big screen, performed with wide openness and ease, vividly interpreting a stubborn, worldly, arrogant but kind-hearted, longing aiqing female singer."
When the new movie is released, all kinds of reviews are indispensable, and in the midst of all the discussions, the movie survived the first week.
In fact, as many critics have said, this movie is indeed very clichéd, but it is cliché and touching, whether it is Kevin Costner or Whitney Houston, they are now well-deserved superstars with strong appeal.
What's more, audiences across the United States have long been full of curiosity about this movie, even if they heard some intermittent episodes from the news video, it did not prevent them from buying tickets frantically and witnessing what the miracle that Ryan Jenkins created in just over three hours would be like.
As it turns out, the topic, the hype and the hype, as well as Ryan Jenkins' increasingly erected signboard, have a huge impact on a movie's box office numbers.
After the first four days, the film landed at the top of the North American box office charts, winning a whopping $41.15 million box office figure, and after the second week, the box office had a certain shock, but still won $29.55 million, so far, the film has not only recovered its costs, but has generated profits.
On the other hand, the impact of "Bodyguard" was no less than the box office figures, and when the movie was released, the original soundtrack was released ahead of schedule, and the single "I.will.always.Love.you" not only became the number one single on Billboard after the first week, but also broke the single's weekly sales record, selling more than 632,000 copies.
Whether it is the box office, a single, or an original soundtrack, Ryan and Jenkins Films have a share of the division.
Of course, some people like it and some people oppose it, such as a film critic from The Hollywood Reporter, who wrote, "This is a movie without any creativity, cliché plots, contrived performances, and nothing but a few good songs, and Whitney Houston should go back and continue singing instead of starting a new career on the big screen!" Especially Ryan Jenkins, if his scripts are of this level, that genius is a bit exaggerated! ”
Unfortunately, his views do not represent the views of the studios, and Ryan's scripts have been successive successes, and if once or twice is accidental, what about three or four times? Even the most unresponsive industry insiders understand that Ryan Jenkins has an extremely keen intuition about the appetite of the vast majority of audiences.
So far, the four scripts he has created, except for the blockbuster "The Sixth Sense", the rest are all borrowed from Hollywood's long-standing rotten bridges, applied to new ideas, and sold to the audience again in the way of old wine in new bottles, but they are extremely popular with the market.
There is no doubt that the reason why Ryan Jenkins is so prolific in the script has helped him a lot, but everyone knows that he is clever, but he can't deny that whether it is the nonsense of "Home Alone", or the warmth of "Sleepless in Seattle", or the bloody aiqing of "Bodyguard", they are all covered with a new coat on top of the cliché.
And this cloak is creativity, which is sometimes cheap, but the creativity that brings benefits is the most valuable thing.
The media's interpretation of "Bodyguard" continues, and Tom will inevitably be pulled in front of the public by reporters and paparazzi for a few walks, the big star is very simple, and after the movie is released, he went directly to a private island in the Caribbean for a vacation.
"The most commendable thing about this film is Ryan's bold idea of placing a sincere and passionate aiqing on two people of different skin tones and showing it in the film, which represents the progress of the United States!" - Vanity Fair
Ryan doesn't know if the screenwriter and director of this movie in his previous life had this intention, but he definitely didn't mean it, maybe the word brain supplement has not appeared yet, but the media and the public's interpretation of many movies undoubtedly show this word.
Whether America is progressing or not, that's his business!
Besides, this kind of thing is just to say, the status of the black ...... Well, this kind of problem can never be solved, even in the entertainment industry, Michael Jackson's experience is needless to say, just Whitney Houston, if it weren't for the color of her skin, she would have been compared to Madonna Scicony.
On the other hand, the big hit of the soundtrack of "Bodyguard" made the entire entertainment industry have to reevaluate Ryan's value, they all know that he can write songs, but the songs he created are so good and so popular that they are beyond everyone's expectations.
"Ryan Jenkins is no worse than any other musician, if not better, just "he" in the top 10 on Billboard, "I.will.always.love.you" in No. 1 and "I.have.nothing" in No. 4!"
The article was from Rolling Stone magazine, and they interviewed others, "Whitney Houston admitted in an interview that she accepted many of Ryan's suggestions when performing the songs, and she confessed that the ten songs Ryan wrote were as brilliant and precious to her as the stars in the night sky!" ”
Ryan's original eight songs, although not as amazing as the two plagiarized ones, are still good enough, and even two of them made it to the Billboard charts, so the sales of the soundtrack album can be imagined.
On Christmas Eve, the North American box office of "The Bodyguard" crossed the $100 million mark, and the soundtrack sold more than 2 million copies, but Ryan knew that the sales of the disc were just the beginning, and in his previous life, this album had set a record for the sales of female singers.
Jenkins Films also ushered in its first revenue since its establishment, after the first box office split, the company's account has nearly 10 million US dollars, which is very inconspicuous compared to the box office figures, but they only account for a quarter of the investment in the film, that is, 6 million US dollars, and the film is still far from the next grade, and there will be overseas box office and various derivatives in the future.
Ryan and Nicole also came to the corporate office in Burbank for the first time, which is an independent two-story building, with a maximum of 300 square feet up and down, and the formal staff has expanded to nine, and the person in charge is no longer Scott Swift, but hires a professional acting director and producer from Australia, named Julis Stewart, who is a standard strong woman.
Kingsley and Scott waited in the office early, and the two of them chatted for a while, with some emotion, when did movies become a profiteering industry? The investment taken out half a year ago is about to double, and with the release of "Bodyguard" in overseas regions, I am afraid that the profit will more than double.
Now even Scott is an insider, they naturally know where the movie will have such a high profit, otherwise, those arms dealers still push the army to change their clothes and do it, and they can make movies directly.
Now this is happening because the boy who just walked in, as if he had been kissed by God, always created works that kept selling.
"Hey, Ryan, and Nicole."
The four of them didn't have anything polite to talk about, so they simply said hello and talked about some things about the company.
Ryan is a layman to these things, and he will not easily speak unless it involves movies, but fortunately, Nicole knows his flaws, and uses her spare time to learn a lot about finances, after all, there are some things that are not wrong.
Ryan is not yet an adult, and according to the law, he cannot directly hold shares in the company, and as a guardian, Nicole Kidman becomes the custodian, and she naturally has to take care of the family business for him.
"Nicole, I have an invitation from you!" Kim Si Li handed over a simple script.
"What crew?" Ryan was very curious, and under Nicole's glare, he took the script, flipped through a few pages, and his forehead jumped with bruises, "Instinct? ”
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