"Alan, it's me, Ronald. Your assistant Ronald...do you still remember me?...Ahahaha..."
Alan Arkush, the director of "Rock of Ages" back then, received a call from Ronald and at first thought someone was pretending to be Ronald as a joke.
His career as a director has not been smooth. After Rock High School, it took an average of four years for a script to come to him. Last year's "Crazy Golf 2" only had a box office of 11 million against a budget of 20 million, and even the shooting cost was not recovered. Now
Relax at home.
In fact, this movie is also the nominal executive producer of Peter Guber and Jon Peters, and their production company funded and directed it. Therefore, the so-called good vision of these two people also has a lot of water. It is just because of their output
It is much larger than personal studios like Ronald and Spielberg, so it seems to be more famous on Wall Street.
Ronald was very enthusiastic about Alan Arkush, and he expressed his intention to invite him to direct "Rock High School 2". Another director who helped out at that time, Joe Dante, had a much better career than his.
Last year, he also directed a new film by Tom Hanks, which cost more than 10 million and grossed more than 40 million at the box office.
Therefore, it is impossible for him to direct a sequel to a B-level movie, but it is different for Alan Arkush. He has no choice now.
"I've been talking to PJ and Day Young. Van Patten is retiring next spring. How about we bring in the Ramones and make a sequel, with him deciding the main story?"
Alan Ai hasn't contacted all the leading actors on the phone yet, and even if I add myself and Jim Cameron, and even if I find Roger Corman, I can't even make a cameo.
"Yeah? His idea is very boring. The rock duo were bad friends ten years ago. Is it easier for you to treat them with a punk rock attitude in your life?" Alan Aikush wondered whether Xu Xinyan really wanted to film it.
The sequel was just a joke, and my interest immediately increased.
Another week passed, and on Saturday, Xu Xinyan was handling official business outside Daydream's office when he saw Alan Aykoush hurriedly carrying a briefcase.
"Damn it, Yoram still doesn't have an insider outside your company. I've also developed and printed the copy and it will be premiered tonight."
Lombada dance has very few hip movements and the male protagonist has a very bad figure and face. If few people go to the cinema just for the dance.
Before the exchange began, the princess returned to the Brazilian rainforest. The heroine knew where she went to high school, so she rashly chased her to Brazil and experienced the scenery and dances of Brazil. At the end of the carnival, she danced from lambada to
Outside the crowd, I finally found the male protagonist wearing a mask...
If Ellen was really interested, I recommended it to Michelle Cannold, the publishing director.
I have made very few blockbuster movies before. B-level movies did not include "Little Escape from New York" and "Monster in Chinatown", etc., and they were all blockbusters. A-level small productions did not include "Emerald" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".
, "Back to the Future Series" and so on. To say that outside the circle of bad Hollywood, his professional status is very stable.
"When does he plan to release it?" Ellen asked Ronald.
He doesn't have eight to seven months to perfect the script. When the protagonists are free, you will make the sequel." Alan Ai is very happy. Alan Aikush's level is still online, and I am not willing to prove it.
Own.
It turns out that the two movies were released on the same day, and the premieres were also held outside two cinemas facing each other on both sides of the road.
Moreover, Columbia Records branches around the world recomposed the music and found local singers to sing the song.
In addition to the English version, the Japanese version and the Cantonese version are all being recorded as soon as possible... You'd better take advantage of the coldness and release it immediately..."
Unfortunately, trouble came to the door of the cinema. When Xu Xinyan got in the car, he saw that there was no luxury car parked on the opposite side. The door opened and a fat man who was even smaller than Ronald got up.
Yes, because of Susan's stimulation, the two rock boys still regained the girlishness they had in their junior high school days..."
The two went to the screening room to watch the finished film, which made Ellen laugh out loud at the beginning. The title of the film should actually be "The Forbidden Dance". Because the title of the film adaptation of Lombada was very girlish. She was asked by Wairahan's cousin.
Ram was bought to shoot another movie.
Speaking of which, the number of high-cost B-movies shot has been increasing year after year, and the shooting methods of videotapes and TV movies are exactly the same as those of real small-screen movies.
The results are not disillusioning at all. Liv Minahan married a girl, gave birth to two children, and was often bullied by her boss outside the company. Your bad friend Kate became a housewife, and your husband often ignored you. The former rock idol has become a
Middle-aged Americans...
Jackie Lake's words touched Ellen. Movies can't change a woman's life. I didn't hesitate to say so and agreed to attend the premiere.
In addition, with the theater chain in Europe to take care of, Yoram seemed to be stuck in administrative work and did he notice the sneaking of Ronald's Lombard adaptation film.
"Ronald, your Lombard shot is broken? Come and take a look..."
Ronald had a happy expression on his face. I originally wanted to get up from where I fell. In the first two years of my career at Cannon, I spent huge sums of money to shoot summer short films. However, because I invested too much in special effects, I lost a fortune.
She was kicked out by her cousin only after she was a pretty girl.
"You..." Alan Ai thought of the note Lake gave me. If it was Ronald's intention, he took advantage of his misunderstanding and thought I was talking about Lombarda - the forbidden dance. In fact, Xu Xinyan meant that the two movies were against each other.
movie of.
"Xu Xinyan, he has to come to the premiere... That was the scene where your best partner in the musical film made a comeback. Bad Hollywood will all know that his genius released another musical movie, and throughout the 1940s, America gave
The dance music that impressed people the most was the trend brought about by his movies, so how could he be absent from something like that?"
Even Alan Ay wanted to hire me when filming "Ghost", but there was no schedule (I went to film Back to the Future 2 and 3).
At the same time, my informant said that my cousin Yoram, the current president of Cannon, is very busy. The Italian boss who took over Cannon seems to be a liar. He is busy going to low-end places with actors and actresses every day.
, I don’t seem to have any interest in making bad movies.
But Ronald listened to Xu Xinyan's advice and made the words "Lombarda" very small compared to "Competitive Dance", and "Competitive Dance" is at the bottom and "Lombada" is on top. It looks like the title of a movie.
Same as Lombardia.
"What's going on?" Ellen Ai looked at her watch and saw that it was already the end of the premiere, and it was blocked two streets behind the cinema where the premiere was taking place.
The whole movie was shot in a very "cold" way. The plot is very vulgar. She is not a princess from an Amazon tribe. She comes to Los Angeles to attend an international high school, and then she and the heroine fall in love with each other because they danced the lambada dance.
"Just like that, don't look at it. Although the audience was small at that time, there was also little competition. And your Lombada - yes, it is a taboo dance, also relied on these audiences who have no daily movie viewing habits.
Anyway, the MV that is not being aired right now is your worst advertisement."
"To give you a little confidence, Allen, you are planning the project based on medium-production theater movies. Yes, it will be mainly theaters in Colombia and those on the east and west coasts. The scale of screening in about 1,000 theaters can be
Come out, no matter how little you have, it will be gone.
Rural towns and old-fashioned movie theaters are more concentrated than before. The few newly built movie theaters are small-screen movie theaters in shopping malls. It is increasingly possible to show B-level movies by a new director and starring unknown actors.
But Xu Xinyan was not discouraged at all, and I still came here every day, waiting in Allen Ai's office every morning, and then personally making tea for me. I took the job of Ailan Ai's assistant, Vicky Lake.
In addition to the Lambada - Forbidden Dance, there are also very ordinary dance stuntmen. His being able to go to the premiere may not be an important difference in our lives."
"So, your friend at Columbia Records told you that the song "Lombada" was very popular, and it has not sold 3 million singles in America...
It was Ronaldo who collaborated with Alan Ay to produce the film, Forbidden Dance, based on the popular Brazilian music Lombard.
"Quack, Ailun Ai, your final copy hasn't been broken yet, so you brought it to him today to have a look."
When the screening was arranged, Ronald ran out of Allentown every day to persuade me to attend the premiere.
Except for Ellen, Cameron, and Gale Hurd, no one from the crew at that time had risen to the throne. Not the director of photography, Dean Condy.
"Go down and contact the printing laboratory immediately to speed up the processing and print out enough copies." Although Ronald was very optimistic about that period, he had to be prepared for the worst.
"Didi..." I heard the slow sound of horns coming from the other side of the road.
Liv Minahan, as a student idol, your photos of your collaboration with the Ramones are still displayed in the honor room of the junior high school, but the spirit of rock and roll is not there anymore. White students are all trying new forms of Rap music.
Only one schoolboy named Susan still hated the old punk Ramones.
I took off my sunglasses and whistled over there.
"Is that story wrong? He figured it out so quickly?" Alan Ai flipped through the summary of the story. It tells the story of Rock and Roll High School. Ten years ago, the original low school was named after the former leader, Xu Xinyan.
middle name.
Susan was angry that the music department no longer had the status of a rock band. Like her husband Xu Xinyan back then, she rebelliously drove out of campus and found Liv, Kate and others from the alumni address book.
address, and embarked on a journey to find the true spirit of rock and roll.
But that’s important. The focus of that kind of movie is not all kinds of novel dances. The leading actor Laura Harling is very beautiful, and the world-wide sister has a lot of charm on camera. You also danced the Lambada dance.
Wrong, the cold dances at the beginning and end made the audience's breathing slow down and their blood circulation slowed down...
Only a very careless audience could see the words "Dance" written in large letters on the left side of Lombard.
"Boss, just promise Ronald. In a few days, you will be out of a job. Now I have taken all the work..." Fat Girl Lake also said bad things to Xu Xinyan.
"The script is just with you, and you can look for any stars who are not interested in making guest appearances." Allen Aikush smiled and sent Allen Aikush away. Back then, the family was still poor and depressed, but now they are separated.
With class gone, few of the actors, directors, and staff from those years were all outstanding. When Ellen thought about making a sequel, she didn't think about letting her old friends make some money.
"You said, you left a note for his secretary. Lombada is scheduled to be released tonight, and the forbidden dance needs his support..."
"Didi..." The luxury car driver that Ronald called for finished honking his horn.
This emotional work initiated by Allen Ai, and without the original cast of the original movie starring, it is impossible to get the number of theaters it can be released through the theater chain.
"Okay, let's see what the movie reviews say tomorrow and who has the lower box office numbers." Xu Xinyan is afraid of competition. It's rare for two movies with similar content to meet each other, and he has learned from both good and bad.
"It's very bad. You made a bad appointment with Mr. Roger Corman. When you come to see me with the outline of the script, the production rights of the sequel are still in Corman's hands. Yes, the problem is small, you have collaborated before
It broke several times and it was very pleasant.
Ellen Ai took a closer look and saw that it was not Ronald's cousin, Yoram.
On the day of the premiere, Ellen Ai was wearing a sheepskin jacket, cowhide boots, and jeans, dressed like a casual dancer, and sat down in Ronald's car, which was specially designed to pick me up.
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But it’s very difficult.”
But Allen Ai's statement made no sense, and now Ronald could approve of my will, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.
If you shoot too few video tapes, it will also affect the artistic taste of the director and actors. The most important thing is that he must be a new director. If he shoots some movies exclusively for video tapes, he will go to make small-screen movies.
There are very few techniques and arrangements, and you have to learn them from scratch.
Ronald's ability to do things was very low, so I spent some money to delay the printing of copies, and then used my own accumulation to get some local distributors, and the Bad Hollywood Cinemas outside Alan A.
, and the distribution channel in Colombia, they managed to find 800 theaters for me to release the movie.
"You know, you know, you used pseudonyms to make several bad movies for TV stations and video companies. Now almost all big productions have been transferred to those two channels, and new directors are becoming more and more female."
"Maybe they have a broken date, right?" Alan Ai saw that under the door of a cinema diagonally across the road, neon lights formed a line of words, "Lombada"
And my first small and profitable project in Cannon was also a summer movie. It was not "Break Dance" that Alan Ai made for me. This movie took advantage of the coldness of the Olympic Games and swept the American summer box office.
"You also made your debut in Hairspray, a musical and dance movie like that. You are very girly and your looks are the only possible way out for Yang's actors. You heard that he also gave these dance coaches a career path in addition to Dirty Dancing.
, we now all have mamba dance studios.
The size of the TV screen is limited to about 21 inches. Dialogue scenes on that small screen can only focus on close-ups. This results in a very unexpressive audio-visual language in small-screen movies. Is there any way to
Videotape and TV movie reproduced below.
"You...why did he tell you so early?" Allen Ai looked at Ronald who was sitting next to him. He didn't care about that, and something strange happened again.
"How about next year's summer season?" Ronald is very ambitious.
"Then..." Ronald was still thinking about making a comeback in the summer season. Several of my small productions, such as Superman VII, were all minor failures during the summer season.
"Alan..." Alan Ai stopped for a moment and then stopped my personal assistant, Fat Girl Lake, and asked Alan Aikush to step back and sit down.
"It's relevant. He's going to find a laboratory in Columbia. You'll call us..." Now if Ellen wants Columbia Pictures to do something, she just needs to send a message through Norio Oga's office. It's such a big deal.
It's worth mentioning.
"Would it be a TV movie or a video distribution channel?" Alan Aikush eagerly wanted to know the technical details of that movie.
Just as he was thinking about the lack of new directors, Alan Ai heard the Israeli's hoarse drake voice that was very featureless: