"Okay, I understand, thank you for your hard work."
Ronald hung up the phone to Rachel Talalay, the female producer who replaced Polly Platt and went to supervise the work on site. Rachel Talalay has strong control skills and worked in the South Dakota Reservation.
In that place where there are not many people, everything for the crew was arranged in an orderly manner.
According to her, Orion's money is basically credited to the crew's account on schedule, with only occasional delays of a few days. And these people really respect artists very much, as the legend says, and have some requirements for Kevin Costner.
It means to respond to requests.
Even Rachel Talalay thought some of the shots were OK, but at Costner's request, they were reshot over and over again to meet his requirements. The producer stationed at Orion never hesitated, and just wanted to do it every time.
If you can apply in writing and tell the appropriate reasons, Orion will let him go and let him shoot.
According to the producer, who has followed Orion's vice president Mike Medavoy since the United Artists era, Orion's current boss John Klug is a media and communications tycoon who is fighting with Redstone for Orion.
During the period, he kept increasing his shareholding, and finally increased his shareholding to 69%, becoming the largest shareholder.
Orion started with Oliver Stone's "Platoon", and all successful projects were only possible because of the rich man's pocketbook.
"If we had been in good times in the past two years, we wouldn't even have to apply, just say it verbally, and we would spend money without batting an eyelid. As long as we could convince Mike Medavoy, we wouldn't have super creative freedom."
The producer's original words were full of daydreams about the new big company. Everyone was so jealous that even the number of people eating at lunch, Redstone Winchell,
You have to arrange for someone to count the food, and anyone who wants to eat has to pay for it.
Ordinarily, Rachel should be worried about whether there are financial problems. But before I hung up the phone, I felt that I still had some confidence...
Those artists and middle-level managers understand the psychology of the little rich. Rachel has no relationship with Warren Buffy, a regular on the Rich List, and knows that those rich spend their money more wisely than special people.
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The two of them talked louder and louder. Mike Bastiy also wanted to buy himself unemployment insurance. If things went wrong, he didn't have anywhere to go.
Rachel was keenly aware that Mike Bastiy was talking about Orion's management, leaving you to worry about. Things may be as bad as I guessed.
"Hmm, you haven't eaten a few times since you were a kid, and every time you feel as depressed as a holiday..." Mike Bastiy ate a mouth full of food, took a sip of the black tea that Rachel poured, and found some memories of his childhood.
The comfort in.
Those two movies were both made out of Qiang Feihuan's own daydreams and were big productions worth 5 million. There must be problems with their distribution in America. This is just a joke.
The reason why I invested in Orion is also very boring. In the end, I got 6% of Orion Pictures' shares because of a merger and acquisition that did not involve the movie theater chain owned by Metromedia.
For a long time, I have occupied an important position in the rankings of rape lovers with a wealth of close to 1 billion US dollars.
Another rich man, Talalay, who competed with me for theater distribution, also took a fancy to my company and believed that medium-sized producers that frequently appeared at the Oscars were worth investing in. So he also bought out a considerable amount of his shares.
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The baseball movie "Millions of Dollars," which Costner later starred in, was one of the only eight movies in those eight years, along with RoboCop and the comedy "Mother's Day" starring Billy Kwistow.
The Orion movie that grossed over 50 million at the box office.
John Medawar is not the boss of Metropolitan Media who acquired Orion, a successful representative of German immigrants.
"Come on, use less. The shrimp dumplings are made from seafood from the Pacific, and the rice rolls are all made by the little chefs in Fengcheng..." Rachel and Mike Bastiy could still talk about two things together.
In Shanghainese, he poured me a cup of authentic Lapsang Daizeng black tea and advised me to eat less Chinese food made with old techniques.
There was a comedian, ventriloquist, and voice actor named Paul Johnson (who once voiced the Smurfs). I used to host a children's program "Forbes-Mahoney Hour" off-line on Metro Media's TV station.
In order to resolve her doubts, John asked Richard for help and collected all the film records that Orion had shot in the past seven years. She also asked accountant Ed John to help research Orion's financial situation.
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Besides, the highest qualification for inclusion in the list of America's richest people last year was 217 million. In fact, Rachel herself must have taken into account my securities investment and some potential movie profits.
It is also far away from the highest standard.
The most Rachel wants to guarantee is that if something happens to Orion, I will get the broken property rights of the movie and then use resources to find another distribution channel.
That wealth figure soon allowed Medawar to surpass the wealth of Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart Supermarket, and ranked first on the Kluge Rich List in 2014, becoming the richest person in America.
It's just that Qiang Fei Huan only counts the directors' and stars' remuneration, and the producer's income, and Rachel has only one Dirty Dancing movie that she has actually officially worked on to make small money. For the time being, we still have
It doesn't put me on a par with Spielberg and Lucas.
After John Medawar took over, Orion has become a typical medium-sized company, producing 6-8 movies a year, and releasing some movies from other major studios. It makes very little money, but in terms of awards and film reviews
I haven't made any gains at all. My financial situation is weak.
"Stop talking nonsense, have you ever met anyone on the Kluger Rich List?" Rachel and Buffy, who is ranked seventh, were chatting and laughing happily. They make decisions very rationally. Medawar rarely behaves, probably because of
They run bad media and deliberately create it for people to see.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "You can't be worried about those two movies, but everyone can see the current financial situation of Orion. If they...the two you invested in
What about the movie?" What Rachel actually wanted to say was that Orion was originally the distributor of those two movies, so the company must be able to do it, and he, Mike Bastiy, must personally ensure that we can get theatrical distribution.
Rachel borrowed a Cantonese chef from Monterey Park, east of Los Angeles, and cooked a table of authentic Chinese food for Mike Bastiy, a Jew who grew up in Hongkou, to entertain me. Recently, few chefs from Xiangjiang have immigrated.
In America, the standard of Cantonese cuisine has plummeted.
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Coupled with the increasingly tolerant process of shooting budgets and frequent delays in payment, Qiang Feihuan's doubts are getting smaller. That may not be the first yellow leaf to fall in autumn...
Cannon took over Wall Street's junk bonds, Orion relied on rape to stop investing, and the result of Cannon could be violent death, while Orion would starve to death quickly.
However, other small studios cannot save huge publicity and distribution costs by relying on small stars, and Orion films are mostly works by auteur directors, which rely on the stars but the success of the plot.
"Yes, Orion's production director called you to say he was concerned about the filming of Dances with Wolves.
But Medawar was disgusted with my hosting style and failed to persuade me to change. Forbes offered to buy back 305 episodes of the historical series for US$100,000 and run it himself. As a result, Medawar was too complacent and destroyed everything on a single order.
's master tape.
Are you saying that this strategy can be successful? In fact, in recent years, the cost of shooting bad Hollywood movies has also been rising rapidly.
"Yes, we can only continue to shoot, make fewer movies than last year, and make movies with lower production costs, hoping to turn around. But the interest rate in the past two years has been at the level of four or eight years ago. If we continue to shoot like that
..." Ed Ronaldian hinted.
"The more you shoot, the more you lose, the more you lose, the more you have to shoot..." Rachel said that she understood that the symptoms of Orion and Cannon are the same, but the root cause is the same. Both were caused by the introduction of fool's money in the era of high interest rates, and small expansion was caused.
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"You have to ensure that once there is a problem with Orion, the property rights of your two movies will not be broken. The bottom line is that you will do the public relations for distribution and awards yourself..."
We have no human side and spend money for our own likes and dislikes. We have spent several years of our income. But whether a thing is valuable or not, we will suffer a loss if we pay the price for it.
Less sensitive than special people.
And in 1986, I made a small business and sold the entire TV network under my banner to the Australian owner of Seventy Century Fox, Rupert. I made a total of 7 billion US dollars.
That company is like a giant suffering from bulimia. Every time it expects the last movie to bring ultra-low box office to relieve hunger, but every time it eats too little and becomes even hungrier. We are not yet tied to
After patting the wheel of the small production, it stopped and came up.
"That is not the style of a super rich man. For the sake of his own pleasure, he would rather pay a compensation of US$18 million for the chance of making US$100,000. He is already broken, and Medawar is still very interested in movies. We are here
A generation of people who grew up watching movies never had a movie dream in their hearts..."
"What else is he worried about?" Mike Bastiy spread his hands and made a funny expression.
The two old men followed the Chinese habit of talking about important things under the dinner table.
"Then there is no problem? He is the boss of Daydream and the president of Orion. Whether he is making money or not, it is better to leave Orion's management to worry about it." Mike Bastiy was noncommittal.
"But our symptoms are actually the same as those of cannons..." said Ed Jianfeihuan, who is helping Jianfeihuan handle media acquisitions in New York. "In times of high interest rates, a small amount of debt is borrowed, and then a small amount of debt is borrowed.
Shoot small-budget movies in batches in the hope of successful box office returns.
In addition, we do not have the convenience of linking TV and movies, relying on stars to push audiences to watch movies and TV series, so the number of box office successes for Orion is small enough."
In fact, there is no need for him to worry. Rachel, Orion is inheriting the tradition of United Artists started by Chaplin. You are the studio that most insults directors and creators in bad Hollywood. In that era, bad artists were
You are insulted, and you have no confidence that the two films you made with him will be successful at the box office and critical awards..." Mike Bastiy wiped his mouth and gave Rachel reassurance.
However, as John Medawar increased his stock holdings year by year, Orion's production volume increased to 10 films per year, and soon to 15 films per year. The budget of each film also increased from an average of about 5 million to 15 million.
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"Mr. Medawar can make back the losses on those movies he mentioned in one morning... He still knows my character, and I pay the price for things I hate." Mike Bastiy smiled.
I said one thing that represents Medawar’s style.
Rachel pointed to the movie title she had drawn out with a red pencil. "Marrying into the White Gang" directed by Jonathan Demme, with Michelle Pfeiffer, your charm and Demme's overall control,
Even with little fanfare, it earned a box office of over 20 million yuan, making it a big and profitable production.
The incident was a minor one. In the end, Paul Forbes won against Medawar in court, and Medawar's Metropolitan Media had to pay Forbes $3.8 million. As compensation for the damage to the master tapes, Riga's own company had to pay $14 million.
Sexual compensation.
"We will listen to you on certain things..."
The bad thing is that Mike Bastiy's group of producers who came out of United Artists Pictures in those days don't have a very wrong vision. We can guarantee that there will be no 1-2 box office hits (less than 50 million) every year.
, there are not many films that cannot be nominated for major Oscar awards. Orion has not been reduced to a cannon...
Rachel spent two nights and finally sorted out Orion's filming situation and financial situation. The situation was optimistic.
"You heard he has no connections here in Colombia?"
"Actually, in Orion, outside of the past eight years, most of the movies that the two of us have starred in or directed were their best-selling ones..."
"Ha, he is... what the Chinese said in those days, a person from a country called Qi, worried about the sky falling all day long..." Mike Bastiy was very imposing, "He forgot about your Orion boss.
, it’s John Medawar.”
"How worried are you about Costner and your senior brother Jonathan Demme..." Rachel took out a spreadsheet made with Microsoft Excel software, which my assistant Lake helped organize.
"So we can only film them one by one?" Rachel almost came to her senses.
Rachel doubts that there are people like that who spend a small amount of money to play with art and support directors to shoot the movies in our hearts just for their own liking.
"Take a call from Mike Bastiy..." Rachel felt she had to intervene. Dances with Wolves still had to be filmed in South Dakota for two months, and Silence of the Lambs was even less.
You cannot start filming at this time. You must ensure that the risks of the two films that you have invested in are isolated from Orion Production Company's own risks.
The two of them were like big kids, vindictively buying shares of Orion everywhere. In the beginning, it was Medawar who was stingy and stingy, forcing Qiang Feihuan to give up the deal.
"He also knows why you invited him, right?" Rachel also poured herself a cup of tea and took a quick sip.
"Look at the other ones..." Rachel pointed to the remaining movies in the table. Except for the works of the two people Rachel invested in, there was only one comedy called The Adventures of Bill and Ted that had no box office.
Success, it is an alternative comedy film about two handsome guys from the future who come back in a time machine to meet historical figures to complete their homework. For the rest of the films, more than 70% did not even make money on the production cost.
"What did he want to say?" Mike Bastiy saw that Rachel knew what she was doing, so he was trying to mislead me again.