Legendary Hollywood Producer

The sun in Burbank is still shining, and Roman is sitting in the office of Manhai Entertainment, dealing with some of the running things that the company has accumulated.

The movie "The Hangover" has been put on the market, and a total of about 2,300 screen openings are currently being shown in multiple theaters across the United States.

Roman is dealing with official duties, but in his heart he is thinking about the schedule of the movies he has seen before.

The time period approaching Christmas and New Year is undoubtedly very suitable for movie releases. This golden period has always been a battleground for military strategists, and this time is no exception. There are still many companies involved.

Like Warner’s "Arctic Express" released in the first two weeks, Disney’s "Superman Assault Team" released on November 5th, "National Treasure" released by Touchstone Pictures the day before yesterday, and Paramount Pictures’ "Cotton Ball Cube Adventure" "Remember", Universal Pictures' "Thunder", Sony Columbia Pictures' "Escape from Christmas", Miramax's "Looking for Neverland" and other movies.

I say this because all the movies listed above are not enough to threaten "The Hangover", they are all bad movies.

These are the movies that really need attention.

The first is "The Chamber of Fear" released by Lionsgate. It is more clear to people that this film may be called another name-"Chain Saw". It has been in theaters for more than 20 days so far, but even so, it still gets a lot of box office every day. In Roman's impression, this seems to be a series of movies, and each of them can bring a lot of profits to Lionsgate. It can be regarded as a cash cow for their company, and it has been very successful. Director Wen Ziren has also benefited from this. In the future, he will direct top big productions such as "Fast and Furious VII" and "Aquaman", and the box office results are also very good. He is a very capable director.

Thinking of this, Roman slapped his mouth and thought for a while. He doesn't like watching this type of movie. Even if he made a lot of this movie in his previous life, Roman has never watched any of it. Even if it is on the video software, he has never watched it. However, having not read it does not mean that Roman does not want it.

This is a series of movies, not to mention how much it can win at the box office, the real big head is the DVD and video tape market. Roman has heard in his previous life that all the products of this movie series have brought more than 2 billion U.S. dollars in revenue to Lionsgate Pictures in the offline home entertainment market, which is simply lying down and making money.

It's a pity that Roman now feels that he didn't get the movie in his pocket.

Had it not been for the name of the movie and the director, Roman would have forgotten that there was such a movie that could continue to attract money. There are too many good movies that can make money, and there are many that Roman has watched and heard of. It seems that in the future, I still have to remember to hold them all in my hands as much as possible, otherwise, Roman can only watch Lionsgate making money as it is now.

After all, the first movie has been successful, the serialization is completely predictable, and Lionsgate is not stupid.

Even if Roman sends someone to contact Lionsgate to find a way to get the copyright of "Chain Saw", the price is still unacceptable for Roman.

And if you don’t want copyright, as long as the shooting permission or co-production is required, it might as well do not.

"Chain Saw" was originally a film that relied on small costs and heavy tastes to shoot. It was impossible for Manhai Entertainment to shoot the film after spending a sum of money. In the end, it could only split the box office into the DVD and video tape market. If you can't get in, there is not much benefit at all. Roman is also utterly out of this mind. Lionsgate is not a fool.

But, Roman thought in his heart, if it is to contact Wen Ziren, a director with Malaysian Chinese identity, he can also use it to make a fuss. Roman thought about it seriously, um, if you cooperate with him, it is completely It works. After all, a capable director is also a scarce resource, isn't it?

After thinking about so much, Roman quickly took out the notebook from the drawer, and wrote down the keywords such as Wen Ziren, Speed ​​and Passion, Haiwang with a pen, and then put the notebook back in the drawer and put it away. Alas, my memory is not good, so I still have to remind myself in this way, Roman thought secretly in his heart.

In addition to Lionsgate’s "Chain Saw", there is also Universal Pictures’ "BJ Singles Diary 2". Of course, this movie is also a sequel production. It has already earned 23 million US dollars in the box office for two days after its release. In addition to movies of the same comedy genre, the audience for the movie is also the most overlapping.

The above two movies only made Roman a little regretful, and the following movie made Roman heartache.

Produced by Warner Bros. and directed by director Clint Eastwood, the drama "Million Dollar Baby".

In his previous life, Roman especially liked the director Clint Eastwood. He also watched a lot of works directed by him, such as "Unforgivable" which won the Best Director Award at the 65th Academy Awards, and the romantic movie "The Bridge of Madison County". ", and "Million Dollar Baby" now in theaters.

Roman knew that this movie was not only excellent at the box office, but would also win Clint Eastwood's second Oscar for Best Director in his life.

At the 77th Oscars ceremony to be held next year, "Million Dollar Baby" was nominated for 7 items in one fell swoop, and finally won the best director, best picture, actress, and best supporting role.

When I first watched this film, which is known as the inspirational movie of the year, the big man couldn't help but worry about it.

The early stage of the movie is quite enthusiastic, especially the heroine, through her own efforts, slowly stepped onto the boxer stage from a novice.

But in the second half of the movie, the heroine was attacked during the game and injured her spine. From then on, she could only lie in the hospital bed forever and never stand up.

The family’s indifference and her own despair eventually led the heroine to plead with the boxing coach played by the hero Clint Eastwood to "euthanize" herself. The hero finally did what the heroine wanted...

This movie has a very core proposition, that is, how should we face failure in life, even if this failure is desperate.

Director Clint Eastwood told us the answer in the film, "choice."

As long as a person has the courage to choose, he is noble and free.

This is the strong logic that the director wants to tell, and he is responsible for every choice he makes, even if he chooses to die. People are always swayed by momentary emotions. Once they work hard to get timely feedback, they are easy to lose and then choose to give up. It is because it is not easy to be strong that the director made such an "inspirational" film to cheer everyone up. This is what the director said in an interview later, doesn't it make sense?

Roman still remembers the line that touched him the most in this film, "MoGuishle", which translated means my beloved, my flesh and blood.

Missing such a masterpiece, or saying that this masterpiece was not born from his own hands, really made Roman feel depressed, but life still has to go on, and then it depends on the performance of "The Hangover".