Chapter 355: The unresolved relationship between man and ghost brought about earth-shaking changes to the main creator
The success of "The Love of Ghosts" has also brought about a series of chain reactions. The most obvious one is that the salaries of several leading actors have increased significantly.
Before Demi Moore was released, she took on a movie called "A Little Chance". In order to play the heroine, she also roped in her husband Bruce Willis to make a cameo. Demi is here
The salary in the movie, which is considered to be the market price of a second-tier female star, does not exceed 300,000 US dollars. Because the budget of the entire movie is only 7 million.
However, after the release of "The Ghost Story", her demand for films changed immediately. Paramount film "The Butcher's Psychic Wife", which also had a plot about a psychic, approached her.
The original candidate for the heroine of this movie was Meg Ryan, who shined last year. But after "When Harry Met Sally", Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks starred, and John P.
"The Man Who Jumped" directed by Derek Shanley (screenwriter of Moonlight) was a box office failure.
A positive and a negative, Paramount decisively gave up the fight for Meg Ryan and asked her to star in the "Doors" biopic directed by Oliver Stone. Instead, it found Demi Moore.
Romantic comedy, psychic plot, audience favorite, Demi Moore satisfied multiple sub-terms of the blockbuster formula, so her agent asked for a high price that few female stars can get, three million US dollars.
How about saying that Hollywood is a place that believes in the Gospel of Matthew? With the box office of "The Last Day" exceeding 100 million in six weeks, if Demi Moore had lowered the price, Paramount would still doubt the box office of this movie.
Is the proportion of her contribution not high?
They agreed to the asking price and provided many crew benefits that were previously reserved for first-tier male stars, such as a first-class and spacious trailer, first-class air tickets to Los Angeles to see their daughter every two weeks, resident beauticians paid by the crew, and massages.
Master, wait...
Demi Moore's confidence soared, and she started to show off her power in front of her husband Bruce Willis, forcing him to change his diapers several times.
The same goes for the supporting actress Whoopi Goldberg. She has extraordinary comedy talent. She is very suitable for playing some comedy supporting roles, but due to her poor appearance, she cannot play heavyweight roles. The roles she plays are all with small roles.
, and there is no chance to show up in a big production.
Before "The Love of Ghosts", she had to act in about three or four movies every year, then become a TV host, and then participate in some stage plays. Although it was much better than when she first entered the industry, sleeping on a friend's sofa, it still required a lot of work.
To maintain a certain standard of living, you still have to work non-stop.
As soon as "The Ghost Story" was released, her acting skills were immediately recognized by Hollywood. According to the results of audience interviews, she was among the top three characters who left an impression after watching the movie. Many viewers said that the reason for recommending them to their friends was also Wu
The hilarious effect of the comparison.
Good times suddenly befell this black actress. She was immediately offered a role in the comedy film "Soap Platter", which featured many stars. Her co-star was Sally Field, a two-time Oscar-winning actress. She had great potential.
Young female star Elizabeth Shue, and Jewish future star Robert Downey Jr.
The salary offered was also much higher than the level of traditional Hollywood supporting actresses. When Whoopi Goldberg called Ronald to express her gratitude, she was laughing from ear to ear.
As for the leading actor Patrick Schwytz, his situation is different. This actor who has finally climbed to the A-level star line is actually a very ambitious person. His choice of movies has never been a career planned with the help of his agent.
The path is to follow your own preferences. If you think the script is good and interesting, then you can participate in it, regardless of the salary.
However, being able to act so willfully is also due to Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" and the expensive dividends given to him every year. This allows Schwytz to afford his two expensive jobs in addition to acting.
Hobbies: running the family ranch and raising racehorses for competitions.
This time he was interested in a mid-level production, "Breaking Point". This was a script that was almost filmed in 1986. Later, because the director candidate Ridley Scott dropped out, the script fell to Catherine
·In Bigelow's hands.
She had just finished filming "Blue Steel" and liked the script very much, so she took Cameron to revise it together, and finally got the director's position.
Because they are all friends of Ronald, the meeting after confirming the starring role was held at Ronald's home.
"When will you start production on your new film?" Cameron asked Ronald about the business when he saw him. Both of them are madmen who are very dedicated when they talk about their careers.
"Next month I'm going to New York to see the scenery and cable factories. I've looked for a few real cable factories. Don't tell me, it's not easy to find manufacturing industries on the east coast of America now..." Luo
Nader explained his arrangements, and then asked Cameron, "Where is your Terminator sequel? I thought you had already started filming."
"Also next month, I will be helping Catherine revise his script during this time..." Cameron smiled, showing great love for his new wife.
Ronald glanced at Cameron and saw Kathryn Bigelow talking to Patrick Schwytz and another handsome actor next to him.
Cameron was not like this before. In order to make a movie, he divorced his first wife, a coffee shop waitress whom he met when he was a truck driver. His second wife, Gale Hurd, had to cover the script rights for The Terminator back then.
I had no choice but to sign her name when I went to raise funds.
How can you have the energy to help Bigelow with the script while not working on your own project?
"Point Break" is a police drama. In order to catch a few criminals wearing the masks of the former commander-in-chief who robbed banks, the FBI agents undercover a group of surfers and battled wits with the robber leader. In the process, the two also...
Cherish each other...
This kind of movie is full of identity contradictions, both friends and enemies, and requires a lot of skills in character creation. The idea of wearing a mask of a commander was something Cameron helped come up with. It is both interesting and can be cut into a trailer.
Attract attention.
"I just want to lend you your special effects team... Terminator 2 has a lot of shots that need to be keyed. Catherine Kidd in your team is the best in Hollywood..." Cameron asked for help.
"Okay, I asked her to transfer some better engineers over. The helicopter air combat on the Firebird side is actually not a heavy task for image correction..."
Ronald nodded in agreement. The shots of the air combat were very short and fragmented. A large number of short shots were edited together. Under the rapid switching of shots, there were actually some problems that the audience could not see. They only noticed the impactful shots.
But shots like Terminator 2 require quite careful processing. They are deformed in prison, frozen to pieces by liquid nitrogen on the ground and then restored again. In such slow shots, if there are any slight flaws, the audience will be disappointed.
Create the impression that this is fake.
Besides, Carocco Company is very wealthy and spent nearly 20 million to secure the copyright before filming even started. Ronald's special effects team must also like this kind of money-making business.
"Very good..." Cameron is ready to sprint for "Terminator 2". He is already gearing up to do a big job. Carloco gave him almost unlimited filming funds, and he has to think about it.
There are only effects, and there will never be a situation like "Abyss" where you want to take better pictures but don't have the money.
After chatting for a while about the application prospects of computers in special effects, Ronald got up and went to help Diane. She had already poked her head at the door several times.
Unlike Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, who always quarrel, Ronald and Diane are more tolerant. If Diane sees something wrong with Ronald, she won't come over to disturb him. But today I just have to take care of him.
Little Roger went to the hospital to get vaccinated. The weather was nice, so Diane thought about enjoying a family outing with Ronald.
"Ronald..." Patrick Schwytz greeted Ronald, who played the robber in the movie, and introduced the handsome guy who played the FBI agent, "This is Keanu, Keanu Reeves...
…”
"Director Li..." The handsome guy looked a little dazed, but his face was really photogenic.
"You can call me Ronald..." Ronald nodded with them, walked through the porch, saw Diane who had already put on sunglasses, stepped forward to pick up little Roger, let him sit in a strap, and went to
Little Roger was so comfortable that he had a big snot bubble in his face.
By the time Ronald and Diane came back from playing outside, it was already evening. Cameron had already left, leaving Kathryn Bigelow still chatting with the two handsome guys.
Ronald smiled. Bigelow was a little afraid that he couldn't command Patrick Schwytz, so he used Ronald's name to suppress him. It seems to be working well now. Schwytz and the guy named Keanu
The handsome guys all seem to be very obedient to Bigelow, a female director.
"Ronald, you have some guests who have been waiting for you for a long time." Richard emerged from the side. These guests wanted to talk to Ronald about something they needed him to do, so they also waited here for a long time.
"Ah, hello, let's go to the conference room next to us to chat..." Ronald took seven or eight guests to another room. The maid brought coffee and fruit and closed the door.
"Is it a Fantastic Four thing?"
Ronald invited them to sit down. These people were all the main creative staff of Minahan Golan's "Fantastic Four" sold to Warner Brothers. The fat Minahan was also sitting next to him. It seemed that this movie
things.
"That's right, Ronald, they..." Minahan Golan laughed a few times before speaking.
"Let us speak for ourselves, please, Mr. Lee?" The actor who played Reed, the Noodle Man, said directly to Ronald, ignoring Minahan.
"Please..." Ronald gestured, "Please speak faster, if you can..." His time was very precious.
"We were deceived by Mr. Minahan Golan and we want a better outcome."
It turned out that in order to play psychological games with Warner Bros., Ronald and Minahan had asked these leading actors to go to the San Diego Comic Con to interact with fans.
These leading actors were very happy. They all thought that they would soon become the leading actors in the next "Batman" and that fame and salary increases would be just around the corner. So they worked very hard, and each of them put on various costumes and made up on the spot.
image in the movie.
On the spot, Minahan also held a live screening, and comic fans were invited to attend the screening.
Those who came to the Comic Exhibition were die-hard comic fans, and they were extremely satisfied with the leading actors and their highly restored appearances in the comics. For the first time in their lives, these leading actors were surrounded by people signing autographs and taking photos, as if they had tried Hollywood for a while.
The feeling of a big star.
Afterwards, the leading actors felt that their future was bright, and they even spent their own money to buy some props for road shows and life-size display boards. The cost of this movie was not high, but the fans were so enthusiastic that they could not be disappointed.
In the end, it was the leading actors who were disappointed. The movie copies were bought back by Warner Bros. and Marvel, and there was no chance to show them. The things they bought, like their dreams of stardom, were put into warehouses and then lay there without anyone caring about them.
over there……
A few of them were so angry that they went to Minahan's company every day to cause trouble. Minahan was so annoyed that he didn't dare to let them come to Ronald's place. It wasn't until the leading actors threatened to expose their behavior to the media that they had no choice but to bring him.
Bring them over.
"So what do you expect?" Ronald was a little happy. He understood the disappointment of these people, but he also took the matter of becoming famous too simply. How could such a B-level movie be produced with a production cost of only one million?
How about making them as famous as the stars of "Batman"?
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The popularity is regarded as the star status that will be achieved after the movie is released.
This is obviously an expected problem.
"We want to re-release this movie, and we have spent a lot of effort..." The actor who played Noodle Man Reed began to speak on behalf of everyone again.
"This is impossible. The success of a movie is luck. How can you expect a small production with a million dollars to become a giant movie like Batman? Even Superman ten years ago cost tens of thousands to produce.
Times more than you.
You probably don’t know how much investment is needed to distribute a movie, right?”
Ronald patiently explained to them that even if it was released, it would probably only be a few weeks in the theater, and then quickly enter the video distribution. At most, they would occasionally be recognized by customers when they went to Blockbuster to pick up the video...
Everyone was convinced by Ronald. Similarly, what Minahan said was hard to believe, but once Ronald said it, they were more convinced. In addition, Ronald's promise of priority audition made these thinkers
Actors who break into Hollywood still gain something.
Ronald shook hands with the actors one by one and sent them out. It is not easy to offend these little people. Otherwise, if you really go for an interview, even if you can suppress it, it will always be a storm. Ronald behaved quite politely.
"What do you do?" Finally, I shook hands with a fat guy with an unshaven beard. He looked young, but he was already balding on the top of his head.
"I'm not an actor, I'm the unnamed screenwriter of this movie..." Fatty was at a loss, not knowing what to say, and his face turned red all of a sudden.
"Ah, what do you want?" Ronald thought to himself, if you were nodding your head at what I said just now, I would have thought you were playing a supporting role.
"I admire you, Ronald. I've watched your movies many times. I'm here to..." Fatty excitedly held Ronald's hand and wouldn't let go.
"Do you want an autograph? Or a photo?" Ronald was happy. Although he was more successful in the film career than Diane, when we went out together, Diane would always be recognized and asked for an autograph, but there was no one for him.
reason.
"Ah, no... no, I mean I want to sign an autograph and take a photo with you... Ah, no, I mean, I came here to ask you to read my script. It would be best if I could take a photo with you."
"Oh?" Ronald thought, yes, he is a screenwriter, so this is right. I am a director, how can I have so many fans?
Ronald took over the script, which was bound with copper nails and was in a standard script format. He weighed it in his hand and saw that it was a standard ninety-page, ninety-minute movie script.
After opening it and flipping through it, Ronald suddenly frowned.
"Buffy recognized that the person in front of her was the fang in her mouth. She thrust the sharp wooden stake forward and pierced the vampire's chest..."
Isn't this name and plot the same TV series I dreamed about before?
Could it be...?
"Is this a movie script or a TV series..." Ronald closed the script, and sure enough, the name "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" was written on the cover, and below it was the signature, Joss Whedon, "Mr. Whedon?"
"Please call me Joss... This is a movie script... It's my first feature film script. You are really amazing. You can tell at a glance that I have a background as a TV drama screenwriter. Is there something in my script?
Are there any traces of TV drama writing?”
"Interesting, do you want to direct it yourself?" Ronald thought to himself, you brought this to your door...