Chapter 117: Flesh Pain, Divide, Fashion

Unlike "Terminator 2" in 91, which dominated the summer file, in the summer of 92, it was really a fight between the gods.

Even if there was a war in Los Angeles in early May, this could not hinder the determination of major studios to make money, and not only that, but "Nuns Are Crazy" starring black people, and "Love Killer" starring all black teams, have received a group of unexpected fans.

This is actually the influence brought by the public opinion outlet.

Black people want to have a voice, and there are no more than two means, sports and entertainment.

Only these two channels are the easiest for them to reach and the easiest to obtain.

However, it is easy to make it big, but it is difficult to rise.

Because the people who play chess in the back have nothing to do with them.

In addition to these two films, "Patriot Game" starring Harrison Ford, "Half a House" starring Pulsatilla Steve Martin, "Batman Returns" by Tim Burton, "The Pink League" by Tom Hanks, "Flying Over Immortality" by Bruce Wesley and Meryl Streep, and "Unforgiven" by Clint Eastwood, all want to get a piece of the pie in this short sixty days, such a luxurious lineup makes fans addicted, but their box office can't be high.

There's no way, a strong duel means that no one can eat enough.

The market is so big, and there is so much money in the pockets of movie fans, you want them to watch all the movies again?

Everything in my dreams.

In this way, it can better reflect how influential Roland's works are.

Two movies have exceeded one billion, the first person in film history.

Even Spielberg, the most profitable in Hollywood history, was not as fierce as him when he debuted.

And this, too, raises a question.

In the case of two consecutive years of works and public meetings, in the summer of 92, there was no him?

When children aged eight to twelve pass by the cinema and look for a long time, but they can't find a poster belonging to Roland, they turn around and leave, it becomes the most common choice, because they are not interested in other movies at all!

What is Hanks' "Pink Alliance" talking about?

Women's baseball team?

Boring......

What is Harrison's "Patriot Game" talking about?

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan "Pursuit Trilogy" Part II?

Isn't that a military master? You can take a look.

Why is the poster for Meryl's Flying Over Immortality so ugly?

And this is still a PG-13 movie?

Sorry for the interruption, farewell!

Yes, for the children, the summer vacation of '92 was extremely boring.

Because their entertainment is gone.

Although it has only been two years, Roland has left an indelible impression in their hearts.

Since there are blockbusters starring guys of the same age as themselves, why do they want to watch the adult world?

Children look at children, and the sense of substitution is stronger!

Just like "Frozen" in the future, as soon as Aisha opened her mouth, her parents panicked, why?

As soon as Elsa changed her skirt, her purse suffered!

Can you imagine that Aisha's dress of the same style costs four hundred and ninety-nine for a single piece?

If you buy a set that includes a dress + leggings + magic staff + 3D sticker machine small toys, 749 will be gone......

The most uncomfortable thing is that this kind of skirt with Jin blue and peacock blue is also a basic model! Further up the Elsa Castle toy, eight, nine, nine, nine, if it is the Queen of the White Horse, it is even more expensive!

This special damn is simply grabbing money!

But......

The kids love it!

It's like the saying 'women and children have the best money'.

After injecting the concept of 'I am a blockbuster' into the hearts of children twice in a row, children are no longer very interested in other children's movies that are not Roland, and those movies that block them at the door because of their ratings will not make them want to beg their parents, because they understand that this kind of opportunity has to be left to Roland.

As a result, in the summer of 92, there were only three movies with a box office of hundreds of millions in North America.

One is Hanks's "Pink Alliance", the other is "Nuns Are Crazy" that has been stained with the light of public opinion, and the last one is the American comic, DC's "Batman Returns".

To be honest, when Roland got the box office data on a weekly basis, he was confused.

Take "Pink League" as an example, the name on the data sheet is "A League of Their Own......

Their own alliance?

After Roland watched the introduction of the film with wide eyes, he reacted to what the domestic name of this movie was.

There is no way, the domestic god translator and the old name of Hollywood have always been the culprits hindering Roland's rapid response.

But if you don't paraphrase, many titles can't be read at all.

If "The Revenant" were translated as "The Ghost Hunter", Kratos would be the main character.

And translating "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" as "Monsters and Their Origins" really becomes a treasure trove of hunting!

As for the translation of "New Year's Love Song" into "I Love Your Mother...... A good movie has become a curse.

But this is better than "Captain America", those who know understand that this is a comic movie, and those who don't know still think that this is the American version of "Captain Five Bars"!

So after the confusion, Roland didn't bother with the name anymore.

And after discovering that without his own participation, the children's box office in the summer file actually plummeted, and Roland was even happier.

For two and a half years, I have pulled a wave of children's fans, although I can only hang the name of the child king, but this is also very good!

There is a saying that 'children are the future of **, and your future is my fans, not to mention how happy this feeling is!

At the same time, Fox was not idle, they released the news through FOX TV that "Home Alone 2" has been filmed and will meet the public on Thanksgiving this year.

Universal was not stunned, and the news that "Jurassic Park" was determined to be filmed and filmed, and that Roland and Mary starred were finalized on various media that cooperated with him.

And when the sequel to Home Alone and the hottest dinosaur tide of the moment appeared-

The most popular Batman in American comics?

Directly downgraded to the Blue Winged Bat King Wei smiled!

Now, it is not the era of special effects, and superheroes cannot show the corresponding style on the screen due to technical limitations.

But "Jurassic Park" is different!

With "Terminator 2" as the start, no one will doubt that Universal will fool itself with a freeze-frame picture like "The Lost World", and everyone is curious about how dinosaurs will be filmed, but no one will doubt that the movie will be bad.

Because the director's name is Spielberg, it's as simple as that.

And the younger sister of the Roland and Olsen sisters will star in "Jurassic Park"?

For the children, this news is simply a magnitude 8 earthquake!

More than the news that "Home Alone 2" will be released this year, they were even more surprised!

What kid doesn't have a heroic dream? What kid hasn't fantasized about monsters?

And now, they can see it on screen?

They finally don't have to watch those adults beat monsters and criminals on the screen!

Because of themselves, they can roll up their sleeves and do it!

As a result—

The children, who thought that they would be bored to death this summer, took out their pocket money directly from their pockets.

"DC left, Marvel right ......"

"I'm sorry, I want to buy Jurassic Park......"

"Jurassic Park?"

"yes, it's the original book of the movie Roland Allen is going to star in, don't you have it?"

"Yes, go straight to the first shelf."

Although there is still a year before the release time announced by Universal, the children did not think about it so much.

Anyway, I have nothing to do this summer, so instead of spending money on other movies that don't let you in, you might as well buy books.

It's okay to support Roland.

And when Roland learned that with the release of the news of the start of filming, the sales of "Jurassic Park", which was already at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, rose by almost 30%......

His whole face shook three times like Lin Zicong's axe gang tattoo......

Hurts......

Painful ......

It's all his box office!

The author of the cheap "Jurassic Park" with all special codes went!

"Therefore, all kinds of copyrights are the most important ......"

"If you are dead on the salary and box office bonus, then you can only have such a height in your life......"

When Roland looked at all the news helplessly, and saw that those capitalists were using their fame to make money, they were deceiving people if they were not jealous, but David looked at it quite openly, because he always felt that operating copyright was the way to make a fortune.

"Don't look at those things, how the box office of other movies is rising, how books are selling, it has nothing to do with us."

"Let's get down to business, and get rid of this mess before you and Mary go to Hawaii."

"First of all, your contract with Mary ......"

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Since talking to Spielberg about Nintendo and Sony on the day of the fight, Roland put away his plan to train Ashley and Mary personally, pulled the two of them, and ran to the Universal set every day.

First, it is for Spielberg to choose his own girls to play, and secondly, he is bored at home, and instead of staring at James for the difficult birth of the "Spider-Man" script, it is better to go to the Universal set to brush up on experience.

Anyway, with just one face, he can swipe open all the doors up and down the world, what script library, green light committee, he is like a Mondo, he can go wherever he wants, as for other people's opinions?

They don't have an opinion.

Because of going back 20 years, Spielberg is also so shameless in Universal Studios......

However, Roland didn't mess around, and after the other party decided to let Mary play the little girl in the film, he decisively took the two little Loli drills home, of course, with him, there was also a profit sharing contract belonging to him, and Mary's maximum box office bonus of five million.

Yes, Roland converted his salary into the final profit share of the film, of course, he did this, in fact, Spielberg operated, in the words of the other party, that is: "This is the investor's money, there is nothing embarrassing to take it." ”

"Home Alone 2" has taken 11 million, if you don't take 10 million here, it's your own worth!"

"Moreover, since we are going to do a dinosaur fight, there is no way to save the money for special effects."

"You sign a contract of 10 million and then give up the cash, so that our production costs can be 10 million more, and the money distributed to investors can also be reduced proportionally, about eight points."

"In the end, you can get eight percent, don't you want this money? Don't worry about financial problems, the world doesn't dare to rely on my accounts. ”

That's right, that's how Hollywood plays at the premium......

What should I do if I lack money to do special effects?

First ask for a high salary, and then reverse injection!

Of course, if you want to play like this, the most important thing is to be able to see the accounts of the world directly like Spielberg.

I can see what shooting costs, publicity costs, and sharing ratios you want, do you want to pay the bills?

Don't cooperate after that......

For this kind of gameplay with the map fully displayed, Roland really doesn't have a temper at all, he knew that the money could come so safely, so he wouldn't pluck the bear hair! Of course, he is not hypocritical, anyway, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Harrison Ford, who have worked with Spielberg, all make money like this, if he has psychological pressure, isn't he sick?

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In this way, when David opened his mouth to ask, Roland directly threw away the information file in his hand.

"The contract is fine, I just get a profit share."

"Besides, didn't you sign this contract for me? In order to bypass the CAA, I waited for a while, and in order to avoid 20% of the tax, I still took the company's account, which you should know better than me......"

When he really puts on his own name, the vampire of CAA can be ignored.

These projects are not what they are talking about, what are they doing with their cuts for no reason?

If the broker only needs to supervise and sign, he can get a share of the million, then this profession is too easy to do!

Therefore, under the tacit understanding of the old and the young, the contract of "Jurassic Park" was negotiated on the table after the brokerage contract signed in 90 expired, and after the negotiation, he signed a new contract with CAA, but this time, there is only a brokerage fee of 500,000 yuan per year, and there is no commission, and CAA will not take the initiative to help him negotiate other film and television repertoire in addition to providing him with a project schedule on a regular basis, of course, Roland does not need them to take the initiative to negotiate.

And even if it really wants to be discussed, the CAA is definitely not as good as the old man's royal agent, Catherine Kennedy.

Let's take profit sharing, no matter how bullish CAA is, no matter how powerful the packaging contract is-

They can't do it all over the world, either!

"Self-confidence is a good thing."

"I certainly don't have a problem with profit sharing."

"But what I'm trying to say is that profit-sharing contracts can't be mortgaged."

"In this way, we can't use the money in advance and invest it."

David sighed, apparently regretting the inability to use the contract to make a mortgage on the investment.

However, his idea didn't mean much to Roland.

10 million salaries are operated in advance, and they can't be doubled!

But eight percent of the profits of "Jurassic Park" are a matter of multipliing!

In the case that the bear hair is not good, this kind of behavior of looking at the giant's account, taking the investor's money, and taking the lead in dividing dividends is the easiest way to make money that Roland can come into contact with at the moment!

"It's okay, if you can't mortgage it, you can't mortgage it, anyway, I'm not short of money now." Roland shrugged.

"Really? You really don't want to vote for Ashley and Mary's company? David looked at Roland with a toothache on his face.

That's right, since finalizing "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Jurassic Park", David has finally expressed his thoughts, and his daughter has entered the film industry? Naturally, everything is on sale!

Now that you've been promoted from a TV café to a movie café, you're ready to invade the fashion industry!

The first thing to get started with is naturally children's clothing and children's shoes.

Let her daughter wear her own products to appear in major movies, this is the best promotion......

And in the early 90s, after the explosion of "Home Alone", Roland, who had authorized a series of things such as portrait copyright, was naturally in his planning, in David's words, that is: "We can also do the boy's business." ”

But Roland is really not interested in these.

It is enough to get a profit share after licensing.

The internal affairs of the company are still up to David and them to worry about.

This could be the roots of the Olsen sisters, what is it if he votes 10 percent and 20 percent?

"Forget it, I really don't own a stake."

Roland rejected David's offer again, "I don't understand fashion, and I don't have time to learn it." ”

"You just watch and do it, I'll just sit back and wait for the money to be collected."

"It's okay to let me be a product model, it's better to let the designer design some clothes for me according to my standards."

"James of the province always said that I was low-key and reluctant to spend money......"

"Okay, I won't mention this to you in the future......" Seeing Roland's resolute attitude, David didn't force it anymore.

And after putting away the documents, Roland also asked him a question in reverse, "David?" ”

"Huh?"

"Is it difficult to do real estate business?"

"It's harder, but—it's okay......"

"So your focus in the future is their children's clothing company?"

"Oh, it's not called children's clothing, our final goal is fashion ......"

"Okay, light luxury, I understand......"

"What, there's a problem?"

"No,......" Roland shook his head, not thinking it was much of a problem.

Isn't it a very normal thing to change careers when real estate is not good?

As long as you don't touch the theater chain stupidly, just buy a film company with money.