Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 1022 Change the script after filming the movie

   After Nicholson signaled to the film crew that he was interested in "Batman" again, Warner Bros. was overjoyed and asked Nicholson what conditions he needed.

  He obtained two important pieces of information during the conversation with Ronald, the video tape is very profitable and Sean Yang is a crazy woman, so he put forward two conditions:

  1 It is okay to use the box office share instead of paying the film salary, but the sales part of the video tape must be added.

  2 replaced Sean Young who played the heroine Vicki Weir.

   After calculating the gains and losses in an internal meeting, Warner agreed to the first condition, but was embarrassed by the second condition. Because Sean Yang broke into Warner's office single-handedly after hearing the news of the change of roles, threatening that if she was not allowed to play the leading actress, all the men she had slept with in order to get the role would be made public.

  The most troublesome of these people is the independent producer Jon Peters. This is the one who made promises to Sean Yang, and exposing this relationship will have a great impact on his "reputation". He made his way by working as a hairstylist for Barbra Streisand, and his specialty was dealing with actresses.

  Under Peters' insistence, there was no change of roles in the end. After Ronald learned the news, he had no choice but to put it aside temporarily, and wait for the opportunity to compensate Basinger for the protagonist of a similar scale production in the future.

  But Kim Basinger is not depressed because of this matter, she is using the dividends earned from "Love You for Nine and a Half Weeks" to invest in the ranch. The video sales speed of this pornographic film is second only to "Dirty Dancing". Basinger, who also has a dividend, has recently made the most money in his life.

   Still, compared to winners like Ronald and Basinger, things are tough for most in Hollywood. The aftermath of the screenwriter strike for more than half a year seems to be more serious than Ronald and most Hollywood practitioners estimated.

  This can be seen from the script submissions that Daydream recently received and the number of invitations to co-shoot. Many people in Hollywood now know that Ronald's daydream is super rich in cash, and they all want to try their luck.

   "Why do you want me to invest in Minahan's movie? I read the introduction of this project, and they are all actors I have never heard of. He doesn't even have this money?"

Ronald saw that among the many scripts, there was actually a project of Minahan Grand's new company, 21st Century Films, and he took a look curiously. It turned out to be a song and dance film, obviously imitating the "break dance ", and "Dirty Dancing."

  After Minahan was kicked out of Cannon by his cousin Yoram, it seems that he still wants to replicate the old way that Ronald helped him achieve success in the first place, relying on musicals to achieve another box office miracle, and also wants to make a comeback in Hollywood.

   "Shall I ask him to talk?" David Simkins, who was in charge of selecting the script, asked.

   "Are you optimistic about this script?" Ronald asked professional judgment first, and didn't want his relationship with Minahan to affect his subordinates. I can't judge the prospects of all movies. If my subordinates always talk according to their own direction, they will be punished by the market soon.

   "Tsk, I'm actually not too optimistic. The script lacks romance, and the selected songs are also of weird taste. Middle Eastern-style music is not popular in America."

   "Hahaha, you'll be like this from now on, just speak up if you have something to say, I'll call Minahan." Ronald picked up the phone, "Minahan, what did you send..."

"Quack, I really caught your attention." Minahan Gran's real purpose was not really to ask Ronald to co-invest in such a low-budget film, but to talk to Ronald, and he still He will not officially resign until he has stayed in Cannon for the period stipulated in the contract. Now he wants to talk to Ronald about future cooperation.

   "Why, didn't Richard forward your phone to me?" In Cannon's big office, Ronald frowned. As a producer and director, what he hates the most is that agents make their own decisions and help clients push projects based on their own ideas. Many Hollywood stars have lost many opportunities because of this.

   "No, if he conveyed it to you, you would definitely not come to talk to me about the project. Only a completely unreasonable movie script can make you come over, quack... This is the Arak I brought from Israel.

   "Well, it's delicious." Ronald tasted it. This is a kind of distilled wine with a faint fragrance. It is very comfortable to mix with water and ice.

"What I really wanted to do was Fantastic Four and Spider-Man...the project I brought out from Cannon...I especially loved the fire and lightning effects in Lucas' new film, and we happened to be doing Fantastic Four..." Minahan read Looking at Ronald, if a movie with such a large investment can be endorsed by someone like Ronald, it will have a chance to attract investment and stars.

"Hey, let me tell you, the computing power of the current computer CPU is not enough to shoot good special effects. Unless...you can get the time of the engineering team of Industrial Light and Magic." Ronald felt that it was impossible when he heard it. Now the only company in Hollywood that can shoot this kind of special effects is Industrial Light and Magic. And so far, the most capable computer graphics engineers in it have only worked for Lucas's own and Spielberg's projects.

   "Is there no one else who can do it?" Minahan knew less about computer special effects than Ronald. He asked several start-ups, and some people swore that it could be done.

   "Believe me, have you heard of Moore's Law of the CPU?" Ronald knew there was a problem when he heard it. "I'm afraid we'll have to wait two to three years before we get a viable result."

   "If the technology is feasible, are you interested in filming Fantastic Four with me, this story is really good..."

"We can pay attention to it..." Ronald thought of Cameron's team. He is a director who can make breakthroughs. If "Abyss" really allows him to break through technical limitations and make something good, it won't be Can't try.

"Quack quack, then it's settled. I'll remind you..." Minahan is not in a hurry anyway, and he can just start making movies when he officially leaves the cannon. "Actually, my musical script is not useless... ’ He thought again of the success that breakdancing had brought him.

"Seriously, you need to find a better screenwriter, and you need a hit song... slap..." Ronald was chatting when suddenly there were several loud noises outside the door, which sounded like the wood had been crushed by someone. Like split.

   "Yoram, you liars... Where is Minahan? Let Minahan come out, how did he promise us?"

   Ronald felt that the two voices outside were very familiar, so he was going to have a look. Minahan reacted faster than him, and jumped up suddenly, without any influence from his fat figure, he quickly opened the door of the office and poked his head out, "Jean-Claude, Duff, I'm here. "

   It was the two action actors who used to be Ronald's bodyguards, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. Both were dressed in simple, crisp clothing, baggy trousers, and stiff boots. There were still a few pieces of broken wood on the ground, and several mutilated chair legs.

  Yoram next to him, and his secretary, were too scared to speak. It seems that Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren gave them a live demonstration of what a black belt in karate is. One used his legs and the other punched, and actually broke several wooden chairs made of plywood.

"Ah, Ronald... You're here too, that's great, you can judge for us." The two action stars saw that Ronald was also there, and they seemed to have a savior immediately. In the cannon, there was no one who could do things. .

"Come in and tell me what's the matter..." Ronald glanced at Yoram who was silent beside him, thinking that the on-site demolition is quite powerful, otherwise this gold medal salesman wouldn't be able to say nothing Come on.

   "Minahan, you promised us that you will make Cyborg into a blockbuster with special effects like Superman and Unicron Seaman. Why don't you even have money for special effects in the end?"

   "Quack, as you all know, I am no longer the chairman of Cannon, Yoram is in charge of Cannon now", Minahan said the name, turned his head and spit on the ground, "Drink... bah..."

"But you promised us, what's going on now? We all believed in the cannon's bewitchment, and we didn't have the right to confiscate the salary. We said we would invest in special effects, and we would pay dividends after the movie was released..." Longer was the most blunt, punching on the table.

"Don't hit it. This is the original wooden table in the chairman's office. I moved it here specially. You can't break it." Minahan moved his hands behind his head, "I said a long time ago that Yoram is unreliable. Yes, he even lied to me, the cousin who brought him into the industry, so it goes without saying how many nonsense he told you."

   "Then what should we do? It was you who promised us that we could become first-line action stars..." Jean-Claude Van Damme was more rational. He stopped Longger who was about to explode. Isn't Ronald still there? If he says something...so he can't be too stupid.

  Ronald was amused when he heard it. The film claimed to have invested more than 20 million in filming funds, and now there is no budget for special effects. It's not that they lack money and do poorly, but that if they don't have money, they don't have any money.

  The filming of the whole movie has been completed, but there is no money for post-production special effects. Who of you has the ability to cut it out and release it. Of course, the production rights still belong to Cannon, and they have to share the money when it is released.

   Of course he would not take over such a movie. But watching the two action actors being played around, and the filming time spent several months without getting the money, they all staged a scene of picking up a wooden board to ask for salary. After all, I have been a bodyguard for myself for a few weeks, which is too pitiful.

   "If there is a sample, let's take a look first." Ronald asked them to take a copy to have a look.

   "I'll get the screening room ready." Minahan is very interested in things that can make Yoram feel embarrassed. Using the screening room is probably the last bit of his authority in Cannon.

"Tsk, I'm afraid no one can cut a special effects movie. You can't cut a complete movie even if you ask Walter Murch." Ronald only knew the movie after watching it for ten minutes. It's over.

  In all the action scenes, special effects interfaces are reserved, waiting to add some special effects of two yuan and thirty eight cents in the later stage. But the cannon that can't be paid for is already tantamount to giving up. It is impossible for the audience to watch Jean-Claude Van Damme make a slash, and Lundgren in the distance yells and falls to the ground, and then he cuts down the opponent with the laser light from the knife in his own mind.

   "Is there no way?" Longer heard Ronald say this, his dream was completely shattered, and he sighed and sat on the chair without speaking. Originally, action movies began to ebb in Hollywood, but now this kind of special effects action movies are gone.

"You mean, you can't cut special effects movies?" Jean-Claude Van Damme listened more carefully, and he heard Ronald's subtext. Special effects movies can't be cut. If the script is changed, it can be cut into a normal movie. What about action movies?

   It’s just that the background is still set in the apocalypse in the future. If you remove the special effects shots that are worth two yuan and three cents, it will become... just like the setting of the "Mad Max" series of movies in Australia?

  Superman Himan can't add action, so Mad Max can add martial arts?

   "Huh?" All three looked at Ronald, did he mean that?

"I don't know how to do this. Find a way to edit it yourself. If you need an editing machine, I can lend it to you." Ronald knew that the property rights of this movie were very controversial. Is it a producer? I'm afraid it will take a series of court trials to make a conclusion, and I won't be stupid enough to get involved.

   But, it doesn't matter if Rashang Gravin Dun and Lundgren are together. Anyway, Jean-Claude Van Damme received basic editing training from Murch, and after spending so long with Xiangjiang’s Corey Yeun and Tsui Hark, he also learned some editing techniques for action movies.

   "I see, thank you, Ronald." Jean-Claude Van Damme really understood everything, and dragged Longer to make trouble with Yoram again.

   "What? What do you understand?" Longer wanted to be a star, so he couldn't understand any editing, but he knew that two strong men were more deterrent than one strong man, so he went out to support the scene.

"Does Ronald want to invest? Our Cannon has always cooperated very well with him. He can inject capital and then occupy 30% of the shares..." Yoram revealed his true colors as a Jewish profiteer and heard the news that Jean-Claude Van Damme was going to re-cut , quickly pressed the calculator.

   First quote a high price, and then talk slowly. Anyway, I am not in a hurry, so I will give him 50% in the end. It is not negotiable.

   "Don't dream, you Cannon has breached the contract, you should transfer the film copy and production rights to me and Duff for free..." Jean-Claude Van Damme gave Yoram a break from the idea.

   "That's right, hehehe..." Longel squeezed his fists beside him.

  "He agreed...the property rights of the whole movie will be transferred to Du Fu and me. If it is released, they can get a 30% dividend"

   Jean-Claude Van Damme quickly negotiated that without Ronald's takeover, the movie would be worthless rubbish. In the future, Jean-Claude Van Damme will be able to attract investment to make up special effects, which is his ability.

   "Is it about the editing machine?" Jean-Claude Van Damme had no money to rent an editing room.

   "Go and tell the daydreamers, I will let them give you one, and you can pay after it is released. It's just an old-fashioned editing machine, you have to get used to it."

   "It's okay, I'm in Xiangjiang with CoreyYeun, and the ones I use with TsuiHark are old fashioned..."

  (end of this chapter)