"Are you sure? Animals are harder to photograph than children..."

Ronald's home welcomed another guest. This was Amy Heckerling, who competed with him for the director's position and later made the hit movie "Look Who's Talking" for Daydream.

"Look Who's Talking" stars John Travolta and Kirsty Alley, and the voice of the baby is Bruce Willis. The film unexpectedly gained the audience's love and grossed over $140 million domestically.

With a box office of over 10,000, Travolta's career was on the verge of collapse.

The next year, Amy Heckerling took advantage of the situation and launched the second film. Although the original cast was recalled, the box office was not satisfactory, with only less than 50 million.

This disappointed both Daydream and Samsung Pictures, which is responsible for distribution, and the third sequel has been shelved indefinitely.

But more than two years later, Amy Heckerling came up with another script and found the third part of the Daydream pitch series.

This script was not recommended by Daydream Pictures, but Samsung Pictures, the distributor of the first two films, was more optimistic. If everyone had different opinions, they came to Ronald for a decision. This became a face-to-face interview.

reason.

Amy Heckerling smiled and replied, "This is a request from Samsung Pictures. This is just a custom-made work. You may have noticed that I am not the screenwriter..."

Ronald nodded and said, this is the tacit understanding between independent filmmakers. If you take the initiative to make a sequel, I will put my name here and grant the copyright to deal with it.

"I'll make a call..."

Ronald picked up the phone and called Mike Medavoy of TriStar Pictures. This script was very unexpected. The baby scenes in the first two films were deleted, and the third film instead told the story of two dogs.

.Adult dubbing is also used to replace the non-speaking characters to express the inner monologue.

"Mike, this is Ronald, why did you approve this project?"

"This is a good opportunity, Ronald. Don't you think Columbia has released fewer movies since the second half of last year?"

Mike Medavoy's words suddenly made Ronald understand. He wanted to take the opportunity to attack Columbia CEO Peter Guber. Frank Price, the former CEO of TriStar Pictures, was no longer in charge of things. He was completely

It's Mike Medavoy who is helming the film project.

Peter Guber's distribution results at Columbia Pictures were not very good, and he was completely suppressed by TriStar Pictures in the past two years. Just as people at Sony were criticizing this, Mike Medavoy wanted to

Go one step further.

"But you didn't read the script, did you? Frank Price didn't read it either, did he?"

"Yeah, what's the problem? The first two films have achieved great results."

"Mike, wake up, this movie..."

"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry, I've been distracted by a lot of things lately."

After listening to what Ronald said, Mike Medavoy knew that something was wrong with him. Using dogs as the protagonists, acting cute and well-behaved in various ways, this kind of filming was popular thirty years ago, and there was also a

Dog star Rin Tin Tin. However, it is difficult for this kind of filming method to resonate with the audience. Audiences generally prefer animal movies in the form of animation. After all, it is difficult for a real dog to make such rich expressions and movements.

"Why don't you come here when you have time? Amy can..."

After Ronald discussed it with Mike Medavoy, he went back to discuss the outcome with Amy Heckerling.

"Daydream will not be deeply involved in this movie, and TriStar Pictures will not distribute it..." Ronald stretched out his hand to interrupt Amy Heckerling who was about to argue, "But I will let Columbia Pictures talk to you.

Talk about..."

Amy Heckerling understood immediately, "This is simply unexpected good news... Harold Ramis said that his new film has received great support from Colombia..."

"Who?" Ronald was stunned for a moment.

"Ah, that's right, that's my ex-boyfriend." Amy Heckerling turned around and took out her wallet, and took out a photo from it, which showed a photo of her, her daughter, and another man.

"Oh, he is the father of your daughter Molly... huh?"

"Forehead……"

Both of them realized something was wrong and changed the subject after a moment of embarrassment.

Ronald knew that Amy Heckerling's daughter Molly was born in 1985, so she named the heroine of "Look Who's Talking" after her daughter.

But at that time her husband was another Israeli, Neil Israel. Ronald had met her before at the premiere. But now looking at this recent photo, you can tell without a DNA test...

"What movie is Harold Ramis releasing?" Ronald knew that he didn't want to talk about this kind of thing and quickly changed the topic.

"Oh, it's Groundhog Love. It has a very interesting structure... Columbia put a lot of effort into marketing, and it had a box office of 12 million in the first weekend."

Amy Heckerling talked about the content of the movie. It is a weather forecaster who is acrimonious and full of complaints about life. He is trapped in the same day. No matter what he does every day, he will wake up and return to the six-month-old weather forecaster that day.

point.

After trying all possible things, the protagonist finally began to open his heart to love others, brought a good mood to many people in the town, and changed the world with love. Finally, after spending a night full of love with the heroine, the third

The second day finally arrived.

"How could Amy switch to this kind of script?"

Diane later also saw the script for the third part and made a tut-tsk sound incomprehensible.

"I'm not surprised at all. Back then, she was a person who focused on profits rather than art."

"Huh, I've never liked her." When Diane heard that Amy Heckerling had done such things against Ronald, she immediately started to say bad things about her.

"Tell me, is her daughter really born from her lover? Doesn't her ex-husband know?" Diane heard about the photo and became even more sure that this was a bad person.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Husbands are often the last to know about this kind of thing."

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In the evening, Mike Medavoy did come to visit Ronald and apologized on his own initiative.

"I'm dealing with a divorce recently, so I haven't looked at many projects carefully..."

"Hey, Mike, I feel so..."

"It's okay, I should have seen her problem earlier."

Mike Medavoy's wife, Patricia Duff, is a Georgetown-educated political fundraiser. She was a Protestant before marrying him. In order to trap Mike Medavoy, who was then the president of Orion, she also

A special ceremony was performed to convert to Judaism.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, through Mike Medavoy's connections in the film industry and Jewish gatherings, she met the Jewish financier Perelman.

Perelman was very fascinated by the young blonde, and the two openly went out together on some occasions, which made Mike Medavoy so painful that he had to file for divorce.

And according to legal provisions, Mike Medavoy still has to pay her child support.

Most people in the industry don't dare to say this kind of thing, but there is still a lot of ridicule behind his back. Mike Medavoy couldn't tell his friends about this matter, and he was too depressed.

However, Ronald, as a big boss in the industry and his partner, would not laugh at him for this kind of thing. Medavoy did go into a lot of details.

Perelman met Patricia Duff in Paris. At that time, Medavoy was busy with projects at TriStar Pictures and fighting with Peter Guber in front of Sony bosses, so he did not accompany her to Paris.

Perelman was on vacation with his wife, Cohen, and arranged a dinner with their friends Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Both are spokespersons for Revlon, which Perelman acquired.

Because Duff knew Don Johnson, he was introduced to Perelman after a chance encounter in the restaurant. The two fell in love at first sight and met frequently after returning from Paris, and began to meet with their respective divorce lawyers.

"Is this the Perelman who bought Marvel?"

"Yes, that's him..."

"Forget it, Mike, isn't this a good thing for you? That guy is an extremely stingy person. I suspect that Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice after reading him."

"I just feel so ashamed..."

Mike Medavoy still couldn't stand being publicly humiliated. The old man almost cried. Ronald didn't mention it and invited him to have dinner at home.

Ronald chatted with him about the pandas that were coming soon and about his previous job as an insurance salesman in Xujiahui. Medavoy felt much better.

After the meal, the guests and hosts drank some light wine and chatted in the study. After Medavoy sobered up, he was still the very shrewd and capable film producer.

The two chatted about how to get Colombia to willingly swallow the movie "Look Who's Talking 3". The general principle is that you can't promote this kind of thing by yourself, otherwise the very sensitive Gubel will definitely feel that something is wrong. Why is it that Samsung Films

Karma will give up.

It is best to let Gubel take the initiative to request it, so that he will not be suspicious of it.

The two discussed some means. Medavoy stood up to add wine and found the portrait that Ronald had taken of Diane.

"Oh, which photographer took this portrait of your wife? It's very good. Is it Bruce Weber?" Bruce Weber is a famous fashion photographer who has taken portraits of many supermodels and movie stars.

"No, this was taken by me. You don't know that I was a portrait photographer before I made movies, right?"

"Good guy, you are not a director, but you are also a first-class portrait and fashion photographer. Your talent cannot be hidden anywhere..." Medavoy praised, he is indeed a great director, and he shoots all the Hollywood classics of the past.

Business card theme.

"This...doesn't it look a bit like it?" Medavoy saw the white costume with violet ribbons that Diane took at the end.

"This picture was taken at random. I think it looks a bit like a movie I've seen, but I just can't remember it."

"Hey, it's not a movie, Ronald. This is the Statue of Liberty from the opening of Columbia..."

"Why?"

After hearing this, Ronald thought about it and realized that it did look a bit like the Colombian title sequence, which showed a beautiful woman wearing ancient Greek clothing, but with a posture similar to that of the Statue of Liberty.

No wonder it looks familiar to me, but I can't remember it.

"Hey, isn't this the topic of conversation with Gubel?"

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To be continued...