Chapter 727: Parallel Goods
"Linda, don't transfer this kind of call to me in the future!"
Song Ya immediately scolded her assistant, but his wife unexpectedly didn't make a noise, threw the phone on the sofa and turned back to the bedroom.
Obediently followed to the bed, "It's so sad that my friend's movie failed at the box office, and that's it......"
She turned over and ignored people.
"Let's go see it today."
She had drunk a lot last night, and only woke up at noon, and her mood did not seem to be affected by the events of the morning, and while eating 'breakfast', she noticed a newspaper report about the cold in the first midnight scene of Amy's new play.
"See what?" Song Ya, who was talking about work with Yeremov and others, asked.
"Isn't her movie being released?" She asked.
"No, right...... It should be a bad movie. Song Ya figured out her expression, not like she was fishing.
"Go ahead, let's wait for the afternoon session." She simply asked her assistant to prepare the itinerary, "It just so happens that I am free today, Yeremov, are you going?" ”
"I'm not going, I've seen the screening." Yeremov laughed, "No spoilers." ”
"Oh." She focused on the food.
The more stable the mood is, the more scary it is, Song Ya can't guess his wife's intentions for the time being, and there are a lot of outsiders next to him, so he has to continue to be busy with himself.
"The cat-and-mouse game will definitely be completed by the end of the month, and Linton is very interested in this project, and the budget and shooting schedule are perfectly controlled."
In addition to Yeremov, there were many staff members of A+ Film Studios present, who handed over the sorted documents to the big boss for review.
"How many sponsors can you find for a film from the sixties?"
Song Ya took a brief look, the sponsor of the cat-and-mouse game was unexpected, because there was a passage in which the protagonist imitated Bond, and 007's royal car sponsor, the British Aston Martin was just acquired by Ford last year, Linton and Ford negotiated an all-round cooperation, Ford not only paid a generous sponsorship fee, an Aston Martin DB5, that is, an absolute blockbuster in the sixties' 007 Goldfinger' in the same car driven by Bond, and also gave the male protagonist Leto a new limited edition DB7, on the condition that Leto often take it on camera during the movie release period, and at the same time, Ford's cars from the 60s will be filled with all corners of the movie screen.
In order to get this sponsorship, Linton changed the script a lot, replacing all the brands of other car manufacturers such as Cadillac mentioned in the original plot with Ford's.
The male protagonist is still a comic book fan, and he used the Flash name Barry Allen as a pseudonym in disguise, and the Flash comics are mentioned many times in the movie, and DC Comics, which is facing the collapse of the comic book and superhero card market, is very satisfied, and his family's recent situation is much stronger than that of Marvel, which is about to be revealed, so he also provided a small amount of sponsorship.
"I didn't expect it to be more expensive than the sponsorship fee for the modern urban film that danced my life." Song Ya said.
"Nostalgia is a good consumer enhancer."
Yeremov smiled: "At that time, the market was not as full of books as it is now, not only cars and comics, but also Coca-Cola, Pan American Airways, Polaroids, Douglas airplanes, ketchup, hotels and other brands that appeared in the movie, and the people of the United States missed the era before the Vietnam War." ”
"But Pan Am and Douglas are bankrupt." Song Ya asked in surprise.
"It's just a merger, and Pan Am still has some routes to and from South America."
Yeremov was very proud, "We will be able to recover a lot of costs before the movie is released." ”
"Not bad."
This is naturally good news, Song Ya is buried in some A+ film studio affairs, in fact, the main thing is to sign the financial documents, "You have prepared a budget for the preliminary research of the Blade Warrior project?" ”
He's not the kind of MC Hammer guy who doesn't look at the contents of the document and picks it up and signs it, and he sees Blade's name in the nondescript A+ Film Studio project pre-research expense table.
"Yes, it's actually just buying some related comics, and then spending some social expenses with Marvel people." Yeremov replied.
"You've talked to Catherine about it?"
Song Ya was a little unhappy, "I said how Catherine brought this up to me more formally yesterday. ”
"Yes, we've talked twice, our film studios always need to maintain the scale of investment next year, right? This year, the total investment and operating costs of the three projects are nearly 20 million. ”
Yeremov did not deny that "the third part of my life is undecided, and next year I need to invest in a project that is at least no less than a cat and mouse game." ”
Song Ya understood that he relied on the apocalypse to decide on investment, and Yeremov, like Delay, was already a manager mentality, and unlike Delay, his interests and status in Hollywood were maintained by the scale of investment, so he asked: "Do you tend to cooperate with Catherine?" Why not Linton? ”
"Touchstone Pictures is teaming up with LL Cool J, as a Hollywood studio under the same Disney system, Linton doesn't want to tear his face and grab the project with his own people." Yeremov replied.
"Rob? Marvel can't even send it out now, right? ”
"It's different now, Wesley Streep has united the new line under the Warner system, and the screenwriter David Goyer, who works closely with Marvel, and the triangle is currently in the lead, LL Cool J is in a hurry, and Marvel is now turning back and starting to pinch the two sides."
Yeremov said: "Of course, if the boss is willing to invest in the role, they will not be able to compete with us. ”
"So you're going to league with Catherine's Ampere's Amberline?" Song Ya asked.
"It's not Amperin Entertainment, eh...... You go back first. ”
Yeremov sent his subordinates away, "It's Katherine and his wife's KM Pictures, Spielberg wants to go to DreamWorks, no matter how loyal they are, they should leave a way back, and the action is not small, the Congo Horror that is being released is produced by KM Pictures, with a cost of 50 million, and the box office will probably go to 150 million, and it is still in front of Amy's new film." ”
"No wonder Linton would make a statement to provoke them, and they were a bit arrogant last night......"
Song Ya remembered that Catherine's husband said last night that Hollywood could pit them and the couple were not born yet.
"What do you think?" Yeremov asked, "Everyone thinks you're a good fit for that role, the first big-screen African-American superhero will raise your reputation in the African-American community to another level." ”
"LL Cool J just came to Hollywood by me, and I don't want to be mistaken by him for chasing and killing, so I will offend people to death."
Without the revelations of the apocalypse, Song Yana could not make up his mind.
Originally, 100 million cash in hand, invested 20 million SUN stocks, and was ready to invest another 10 million to increase Netscape, A+CN will have millions of start-up capital, and it will definitely lose a lot in the first year, if 30 million is injected into the inner city broadcaster, superhero movies generally need a lot of special effects plus action movies, even if someone jointly ventures more than 10 million on their side, it will definitely cost ......
"It's time to go." That's when Mariah Carey's female assistant reminded.
"Let me think again."
I set off with my wife to see a movie from my ex-lover, and it felt weird until the two sat down in a dark private movie theater.
Amy's commercial youth film has no singing and dancing, but it continues to dance the basic element of success of the love between a rich girl and a poor boy in my life, the director is a highly anticipated new talent in the industry, the male protagonist and supporting roles are not famous, and the main thing is to rely on Amy to carry the box office.
"It's boring......" After watching for about fifteen minutes, Mariah Carey pouted.
It's really a bit boring, the plot is almost a modern copy of Jane Austen's kind of love, the slow pace, the picture editing plot is decent, with a strong stale and outdated taste, and Amy's mouth still pops up from time to time to abruptly promote women's independence, no wonder the media doesn't even talk about it much now.
"How do I feel that this girl's acting skills are not as good as when I worked with you?" She asked after one of Amy's one-man shows.
"I don't know, I don't know, Mimi."
Song Ya felt that she was talking nonsense, "The morning was the first time I talked to her about this drama, and we haven't been in touch for a long time." ”
Wronged, I really didn't lie.
"Aren't you boasting that you're professional? Let me have my opinion. She said.
"Amy's own temperament still can't support a rich girl, I mean the kind of rich girl in this movie who constantly emphasizes her family background, and her character in my life only appears as a background, and this movie has become one of the main elements that force the male protagonist and the female protagonist to have twists and turns."
Song Ya watched the movie seriously and talked about things, Amy acted too hard, always holding her head high, always looking indifferent, trying to try her best to lean on the kind of girl who was noble and cold like a swan, but now to be honest, her acting skills and aura can't hold up, and standing with the male protagonist immediately looks like a bird, "But you can't blame her for the box office failure, the main thing is that the plot is lackluster, and the male protagonist plays worse than her." ”
"Will she be unlucky? Will you be scolded by the media? Mariah Carey asked.
"Definitely, her career development will encounter a lot of setbacks, but it should not be reduced to no drama to film, the media will not care about the unknown director and male lead, and will only attack her who carries the box office alone." Song Ya nodded.
At this time, the movie came to the first male and female love scene, Amy and the male protagonist kissed in the rain, which should have been filmed in a borrowed position, Song Ya nodded slightly expressionlessly.
"Humph......"
The movie with a plain and old-fashioned plot is really bad, and Mariah Carey seemed to be quite satisfied, and when she saw half of it, she suddenly got up and walked to the exit, "Forget it this time, forgive you." She said arrogantly.
"You're so reasonable, dear." Song Ya hurriedly followed.
Her female assistant has already bought several copies of the newly released newspaper, and the film critic really stared at Amy and scolded, saying that her acting skills had regressed, and she had lost the aura in my life, and so on, and it was nothing to say too much, in fact, it was only a few chapters of tofu block articles, and the layout was even far inferior to the brave heart and Congo horror that had been released for a long time, and the brave heart was unanimously criticized by the British people and the royal family, because of the fictional affair between the crown prince's wife and the Scottish hero William Wallace, while the United States side was working against the British and applauded unanimously.
Catherine and his wife's Congo Horror produced by KM Pictures were scolded very harshly, mainly focusing on the bad special effects, but the box office was good......
and the old Larry, who had just pounced on an art film not long ago, was unlucky enough to be dragged out by the critics and whipped again, saying that he and Amy were both parallel goods with resources beyond their own abilities because of the box office success of a dance in my life.
"Boss." Back to the extended Lincoln of the two, Linda, who was waiting in the passenger seat, reported, "Dr. Chen has agreed to be the president of your venture capital firm." ”