185 Working together again(1/2)
[Oscar winner, amphibious star of Shadow Song, Bai Quinn was photographed running wildly with a mysterious woman in the Louvre.]
[The biggest imitator of "The Outlaw Madman" appears. If he was not blocked by the security guard when crossing the line, he knocked off his hat and sunglasses, Bai Quinn will secretly complete this achievement.]
[9 minutes and 31 seconds, Bai Quinn broke the record of the fastest visit to the Louvre]
[Revealing the woman running wildly in the Louvre with the rich and star Bai Quinn, the producer assistant of "The King of War", Eva Green from France]
【Bai Quinn and Sarah Michelle Gellar have broken up!】
Sarah cried on the phone: "Mom! He's too much! I pretended not to know before, but now I can't pretend..."
[Bai Quinn responded to the Louvre running event: the crew's sudden whim during the team building during the Paris holiday. At that time, Nicholas Cage and the supermodel Cara Bruni, who played the heroine, were also in the Louvre!]
[Exploring the crew of "King of War" and the Oscar-golden partner Bai Quinn and Said again]
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Bai Quinn's face was full of smiles: "Thank you, Kara, after filming "The King of War", remember to go back to New York to record songs... French, sing songs, no problem, I can write one..."
Bai Quinn hung up the phone to the Caribbean island, where Nicholas Cage and Cara Bruni were filming.
Then another number was called: "Thank you, Mr. Geffen, I know it is very difficult to convince Mr. Doug Morris. You really saved me... Yes, we are all our own people!... I will go, I will go..."
[Bai Quinn and his girlfriend Sarah appeared at a charity auction in a high-profile manner, breaking the rumors of their breakup]
[New Internet tycoon Bai Quinn spent 13 million to buy a mountaintop mansion, adjacent to Madonna and Sylvester Stallone]
[Em's second album has a great sales volume. Who says white people can't rap?]
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Liv Taylor stroked the small jewelry box: "Thank you for your gift, Xiaobai, I like it very much...I miss you too..."
[Liv Taylor attended the premiere of "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation". The huge diamond ring is dazzling and may be close to the rumored mysterious boyfriend]
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Bai Quinn, who was so busy that he was overwhelmed, said helplessly: "Chali, listen to me, the withdrawal of one week is determined by market factors, don't worry! "Deadly Weapon 4" has been upgraded, and we can't do anything...
We do work a lot with Warner, but that's not the main reason why we gave up the schedule...
My own "Rush Hour" has been moved to September...
Charlie, you misunderstood. I am not targeting you for rejecting Fast and Furious. I understand your career plan... Charlie... Charlie... Fxxk!"
[The box office of "Deadly Weapon 4" is $50 million in seven days in the first week! Mel Gibson's box office appeal remains! The villain played by Jeter Lee is very exciting, and he doesn't talk much...]
[I'm crazy for Mary" which has suffered a storm of retiring performance in the first week, and won 30 million US dollars in seven days. Perhaps the audience is tired of gunfighting, car chases, explosion summer season, nonsensical jokes are more suitable for cooling down.]
Charlize Theron held the microphone anxiously: "Assist the phone, please answer the phone...
Ha, QB...
OK, Lina, I'll wait for his phone call...
Woo woo woo woo woo..."
[The cumulative box office of "I'm crazy for Mary" reached 50 million US dollars in two weeks! Wademark's image once again made a big success with a small profit, and the Farrely brothers got out of the shadow of "King Bing" failure!]
[Charlize Theron, a new generation of Hollywood sweet girls!]
"Chali, are you looking for me? Snake House?...Okay!"
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Bai Quinn: "I have promised him, my brother, as an opponent, I know what a good movie "Bully Night" is. Paul is not the kind of director who ignores the market and only knows how to express himself, so I gave him the final editing rights...
He wants Tom Cruise... He really dares to think about it! I told him that if he can convince Tom Cruise to play with a salary cut, we will use Tom Cruise...
You get Tonatore quickly and come back, I finally know how troublesome it is to be a president, and there are so many things in Wademark's image every day!"
[After "Beautiful Life", Wademark Image has won the North American distribution rights for a new Italian director's work. Next year, North American audiences will see Giuseppe Tonatore, the creator of "Paradise Cinema", in the theater, and the touching new work "The Pianist at the Sea" after ten years.]
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Harvey Weinstein waved his fists: "Mr. Eisner, this is not a failure, but the focus of Miramax's business is shifting... I want to remind you that the total box office of foreign language films in the United States has never exceeded 2%. I think it's time for Miramax to transform...
Look at the profits Miramax has contributed to the group in recent years, and then look at the Hollywood Pictures that Linton stayed with...
Yes, he ran away when he saw that the situation was not good, leaving behind a mess, "Burning Hollywood", haha, this kind of bad movie that only earned $60,000 in box office, actually reached $10 million...
Why keep Hollywood Pictures again? It will only disperse the focus of the development of our Disney Group's live-action films...
Mr. Eisner, I need your full support. We have four movies in the summer season. You won’t watch me slaughtered by Spielberg, right?
I want public opinion support, I also need to adjust the schedule, "Deadly Weapons 4" has all run away...
That's Katsonberg's DreamWorks..."
["Save Private Ryan" box office for $30 million in the first weekend, the most realistic World War II film ever!]
["Save Soldier Ryan" triggered a summer movie viewing craze, CinemaSore scored "A", and the famous film review website "Rotten Tomato" gave a rating of 92% freshness]
[Transitional, unnecessary bloody scenes. "Save Private Ryan" has three minutes of the opening, which triggered parents to take their children out of the field in anger. R-level is a mistake. This movie should be NC-17!]
[The new film "The King of Gambling" starring Matt Damon, transferred to September...]
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At the end of July, Bai Quinn, who was promoting "Save Private Ryan", met Spielberg again in Chicago. It has been a month and a half since the last time the two met.
On June 10, Bai Quinn returned to China. Spielberg mentioned his follow-up cooperation plan to him during the publicity before the screening, a new film from DreamWorks.
Bai Quinn didn't expect Spielberg to invite him to shoot a movie, and this time he was still the protagonist!
Bai Quinn always felt that he didn't have enough time. If he couldn't get new "memory fragments" when filming other people's movies, even Spielberg's wouldn't work. The time he saved could make more money. A pure "learning" experience like "Save Private Ryan" would be enough once.
So out of politeness, Bai Quinn did not respond on the spot, but instead took a script outline and creative documents to go back to study it.
Well, research the way to politely reject Spielberg.
Unfortunately, after arriving at home, Bai Quinn, who served as the president of Wademark Image, forgot about this matter because she was too busy...
As soon as we met this time, Spielberg took the initiative to ask him about his feelings about the script.
Before Bai Quinn could use his brain to try to refuse with some ambiguous words, Spielberg took the initiative to say: "Sorry, the story outline of the previous draft has been invalidated. David Franzoni has tailored a new plot direction for you. I also think that after you grow a beard, you can play a more mature role..."
Is this invalid? More mature?
Bai Quinn remembered that when he met Spielberg in June, writer and screenwriter David Franzoni was also there.
At that time, he had a beard because he needed a decadent image to play Nicholas Cage's younger brother in "The King of War", which left the impression that David Franzoni, who had met him for the first time, could play a role more mature than his actual age.
At first, when he heard Spielberg say he wanted to work with him for another movie, Bai Quinn thought he would have the opportunity to take over the whip of Harrison Ford, who was already old, and became the new generation of Indiana Jones.
Harrison Ford is almost sixty, and it is time to hand over the title of "Indiana Jones". If you don't see 007, you will change to the younger Pierce Brosnan.
Bai Quinn urgently needs a series of movies. He is different from Little Leo and Matt Damon. Those two guys can play anything, and his image determines that he is not suitable for many roles, and it is more suitable for the route of series movies plus classic characters.
In addition, the series of movies have always been a powerful tool for making money, and Bai Quinn never dislikes the amount of money.
Not long ago, when buying a luxury house, Universal Music needed to settle the dividends of his singles and Eminem's album in advance. He told Bai Quinn that equity and wealth will shrink significantly when you urgently need money, and everyone would be eager to kill you at this time.
But unexpectedly, what Spielberg took out was a new movie created by David Franzoni.
David Franzoni and DreamWorks have signed a contract for three movies, and have fulfilled one, hoping that Bai Quinn will be the protagonist of the second one.
The first movie that David Franzoni and Spielberg collaborated was "The Brave Without Fear", which was released bravely at the same time as the Big Ship. Sure enough, it was hit and sunk. The production cost of 36 million was only recovered by 44 million in the box office. With DreamWorks' weak offline distribution capabilities, it is almost impossible to make a profit.
The "offline distribution" here refers to distribution channels other than North American cinema chains, including TV station buyouts, video tape markets and overseas distributions, overseas distributions, and fragmented buyouts and theater distributions.
The reason why DreamWorks' offline issuance is that DreamWorks' overseas issuance can only be used as buyout issuance and does not have the ability to issue overseas.
Unless popular movies or Oscar-winning films, overseas theaters rarely buy out at high prices, and prefer box office sharing to ensure that they can earn money safely.
If the film merchants don’t come to buy it, they can only sell it by themselves.
However, if a country and a country take the initiative to find theater cooperation, it will require a large number of employees who are familiar with the local market. This will be too burdensome for Hollywood production companies that pursue "simplifying military and simplifying administration" and can never increase formal positions by using temporary workers. It is not a large studio that produces more than a dozen movies a year, but it cannot afford so many people.
So even though DreamWorks is regarded as one of the "little giants", it still does not have its own overseas issuance capabilities.
Moreover, since its establishment, DreamWorks has been aiming to develop into a new generation of giants. Therefore, the "Six Majors" have tacitly squeezed the market space of DreamWorks, so why didn't they kindly help it to issue international distribution?
This is much more flexible. Due to its "ambiguous relationship" with Warner, international distribution can also take advantage of Warner's ride-sharing. At the appropriate time, just "tick your head and play" at once. For example, in recent years, there have always been one or two movies in the Wademark image that have collaborated with Warner.
Of course, the failure of "The Brave Is Not Fear" also has its theme factors.
This movie, known as "Schindler's List" in the 19th century, is actually a "black" movie. Because it involves the history of the black slave trade, most of the main characters are black, but the movie is despised by black people. Spike Lee publicly declared that the whole plot of "The Brave is Not Fear" is "a hypocritical performance of a white savior."
In short, David Franzoni and Spielberg joined forces, but failed!
This is another reason why Bai Quinn wanted to reject the script written by David Franzoni.
When you are lucky, there is a great possibility of continuous failure.
Bai Quinn felt that Spielberg must have been tricked by the old man David Franzoni, so he pounced once and had to come on pole for the second time.
After more than a month, Spielberg mentioned the cooperation matter again. Bai Quinn, who had never thought about the decisive words, was suddenly increased by difficulty again. People have changed the script for themselves, so the reason must be more convincing.
Spielberg continued: "The core of that story was Daniel Mannix's novel "The Ones Are About to Die", which was the story of wrestler Nalcisus strangled the seventh emperor of Rome in the baths..."
Wrestler, regicide, Roman costume films...
Bai Quinn has no feelings about this subject, as old as Broadway drama, making people drowsy.
To be continued...