Chapter 356 The unresolved love between humans and ghosts is a hit in international distribution
"Huh? I just want your company to produce this movie. I've seen your movies, and that's what I think this 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' should be like."
Joss Whedon did not dare to direct by himself. He felt that he had too little experience and hoped that his script could be directed by an experienced director.
"I'm also a screenwriter, and I have to tell you that there's often a huge difference between what you imagine a movie to be like and what it looks like in the end..."
"I have never been a director. I think it would be better to leave it to someone with experience."
"OK", Ronald understood that this person Whedon is probably not the kind of very enterprising person, the kind of screenwriter who feels very happy when he can see his words turned into images on the screen.
"I'll give David Simkins, our script supervisor at the company, a call and the rest is up to you."
Ronald handed the script back to Joss Whedon. Not to mention that he had dreamed of a TV series with the same name. The quality of the script itself was more suitable for Daydream Pictures. It was the kind that could be produced at a low cost.
Films that are more attractive to a specific market.
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After Ronald finished these things, he set off for New York. He wanted to see the scenery there and find the exteriors of the old-school New England factories. His royal art director, Polly Platt, had already gone there in advance and was in New York.
Treasure hunting began in the thirteen earliest states in America, including Tokushima, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
"How about here? This is the 'Seymour Specialty Cable Company' in Seymour, Connecticut. The most important thing is the factory director's office, just above the annealing furnace. If we take a picture from the factory director's office,
You get a shot that instantly reminds you of a factory.”
Polly Platt took out a stack of photos and discussed with Ronald. This job seemed simple, but it was a bit difficult to do.
The biggest advantages of the original Thirteen States of Colony were the building style and the green plants on the exteriors. The climate during filming met the needs of the script. If it were a factory in the south, the shot of workers exhaling white air at work in winter would be
It couldn't be photographed. Moreover, local viewers would be keenly aware that the scenery and plants are not suitable for the Northeast.
But the Thirteen Colonial States are also the areas with the earliest economic development and fastest evolution. Needless to say, in New York State, the metal machine product processing and manufacturing industry has basically disappeared. Massachusetts has also completed high-tech transformation in the past ten years, and now it is IT and high-tech.
It is a place where technological pharmaceutical companies gather. In Rhode Island in the plot, most of the factories were relocated due to strict environmental protection policies. This is also an important reason why the New England Cable Factory was not retained in the final story of the script.
In the end, the only state that met Ronald's requirements was Connecticut. There are also some military manufacturing and aerospace manufacturing industries here. In addition, it has a long history, and you can find authentic factories from the founding period.
Ronald looked at the factory and found it to be a very suitable location. However, he carefully looked at some details and found that the interior of the factory was dirty and not well maintained. He clicked his tongue and asked,
"Are the factory owners here supportive of our filming?"
"The factory owner is very supportive. He hates the local unions. Those unions instigated workers to strike, which put his factory in the same predicament as the factory in the movie script. If we want to shoot there, the union will definitely put forward various suggestions.
Such a request is inevitable. After all, the scenery here is very suitable, and they can probably guess that we don’t have many choices.”
"This is not possible. What other options do we have?" Ronald opened a factory on Staten Island. He knew that this kind of union was very powerful. When the time came, the leader of the union shouted and refused to allow filming. It would be a loss for one day.
All are hundreds of thousands.
"There is also this factory in Georgetown, Connecticut. This factory has a long history. It was built in 1818, but it was renovated in the past few years and the old house was demolished." Polly Platt
He took out another stack of photos.
"Really, why should it be demolished? Such cultural relics should be preserved. How many years of history do we in America only have?"
Polly laughed at Ronald's strange words. He knew that Ronald was talking nonsense out of disappointment. This old factory called "Gilbert and Bennett" has recently been considered by real estate developers to redevelop it and let people
Wouldn't it make people rich if we keep the old factory buildings looking like they are?
"Here, and here, we can build the factory director's office..." Ronald pointed to one of the photos, which shows a small attic on the second floor of the factory building. It can be remodeled with props.
"We shot the exterior scenes in Seymour and the interior scenes in Georgetown. On the Seymour Cable Factory union side, I sent Rachel Talalay to negotiate and reduce the filming time as much as possible. If the union wants to cause trouble, go through the union.
The boss hires them to appear as extras, so that they can save a lot of extra money. Just treat them as..."
"Very good," Polly Platt also agreed. "For the Wall Street scene, we will continue to rent Building 7 of the World Trade Center just like last time... but the floor on Bannon's side has now been rented out.
, the depression after the stock market crash has almost recovered, and the rent for rooms in the World Trade Center is now very expensive again.”
"It's okay. I'll call the real estate developer on Fifth Avenue. This guy keeps harassing me and wants to play a guest role. I'll ask him to arrange some indoor scenes this time. The house of the male protagonist Garfield can also be given to him for free.
supply……"
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"Ronald, I brought today's box office statistics..."
Even though Ronald was not in Beverly Park, but in the apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York, the morning after spending spring night with Helen, Richard still came to the door on time, delivered daily new materials, and listened to
Ronald's work schedule.
"Thank you, please take a seat. Here are bagels from Cher's ex-boyfriend's bakery. It was rated the best in New York." Ronald pushed the bagel over and picked up the baguette himself.
This apartment on Fifth Avenue has all kinds of butler services. It happens to be very close to the famous New York bagel bakery, so it appeared on Ronald's breakfast table today. But Cher's name is Camille
Dee's ex-boyfriend has entered the entertainment industry. The bagels on the table were definitely not made by him, but were entirely due to Ronald's complaints.
"Thank you, um, the coffee here is very good..." Richard took a sip of professional coffee, then picked up the pot and refilled it for himself.
"Hmm, you performed very well..."
Ronald found "The Love of Ghosts" on the box office list, and it was still firmly nailed to the second position, second only to the newly released "Darkman". And the box office was higher than
The weekly decline is still around 10%, which is very strong.
The total box office of "The Love of Ghosts" has exceeded 110 million, continuing to set the record for the fastest box office. And this trend is expected to rebound to the first place during the Labor Day weekend next week.
In the past three weeks, although "The Love of Humans and Ghosts" has been ranked second, the first place is different every week.
Before "The Exorcist," the winner of the week was the third installment in the evergreen horror series "The Exorcist." Before it, there was "The Exorcist," starring Julia Roberts and boyfriend Kiefer Sutherland.
Flatliners”.
Every week, "The End of the World" loses with a very, very weak box office of several hundred thousand, and then continues to hold strong the next week. The box office champion of the previous week plummeted, was surpassed by new movies, and then left "Human".
"The ghost love is not over" is getting farther and farther...
It seems that this romantic film masterpiece will not be a problem until next year.
Speaking of romantic films, "Pretty Woman", another film that dominated the box office in the first half of the year, is finally being released from first-tier theaters.
After 20 weeks of release, this modern Cinderella fairy tale has been released in less than 1,000 theaters and the box office of a single theater has fallen below 1,000 US dollars. Both of these are hard indicators for its release. Theater managers will start to
Screening rooms are reserved for new films that can generate more profits.
As of the weekend, the film has exceeded 160 million in domestic box office. It is Disney's highest-grossing live-action film under the leadership of Michael Eisner. It is also the first R-rated film since the establishment of Disney.
A live-action movie worth over 100 million yuan.
This means that the transformation route designed by Eisner’s predecessor Ron Miller for Disney has been a great success. But having the right route does not mean that good results can be obtained. Disney’s son-in-law is still not as good as a cunning person who relies on Wall Street
Money, Eisner, who was sowing discord among a group of old ministers, finally tasted the ripe peach.
Encouraged by this strong box office, international distribution is also proceeding very smoothly. It was released simultaneously in Mexico, Canada and America, and also achieved very good box office results. Then came English-speaking countries such as Australia, Britain, and the Philippines. Next came Western Europe
and the Nordic countries. Today, Eastern European countries have also officially introduced copies. Although pirated copies have passed through the collapsed Berlin Wall, a large number of copies have been released in Poland, the Czech Republic, East Germany and other places.
Moreover, although the English proficiency of the people in these countries is not as good as that of Western Europe, after being influenced by romantic movies such as Ronald's "Dirty Dancing", the audience also particularly likes Hollywood romantic movies, which are very popular.
As for Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong, due to language barriers, they had to wait for the last round to squeeze out some box office before the video tape was released.
With the success of "Pretty Woman" internationally, the international release of "Pretty Woman" will face much less resistance. Comparatively during the same period, the domestic box office of "Pretty Woman" was PG-13.
About one point eight times.
Such a movie has fewer troubles to release, and it has religious elements that European and Asian audiences love. The plot is simpler than that of "Pretty Woman," and there are fewer language and cultural barriers. Therefore, the momentum of international orders is even greater than that of "Pretty Woman."
Be good.
Due to the local box office endorsement and the popularity of Ronaldo's films in Europe and Asia, distributors responded quickly to the international distribution of "The Last Days". Most European and Latin American, plus Australian film studios have
It is scheduled to be released in October, just in time to succeed "Pretty Woman".
Japan, Xiangjiang and Korea, where Ronald is most famous, are scheduled to compete in the ring at the same time as "Pretty Woman" in November.
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"Your son looks good... He has the forehead of a lawyer, the eyes of a businessman, and the chin of a movie star..." Lindsay Dole, Ronald's personal attorney, looked at the Ronaldinho bag in Ronald's wallet.
Nader, Diane and Little Roger took a group photo and praised it a lot.
"Hahaha, you're right..." Sons are all good for him. Ronald also praised Lindsay's son, "We can only monitor overseas box offices where people and ghosts have unresolved affairs.
It’s come to this…”
Overseas box office is the hardest hit area of Hollywood's "creative accounting method". No matter what industry it is, monitoring cross-border sales revenue is a difficult problem. Many manufacturers are too lazy to go to the trouble and just wholesale to local retailers for the sake of stability.
It turns out that movies are like this too. They only charge a rental fee for one copy. No matter how many times you play it, the money will be calculated based on the price of one copy and sold to overseas distributors.
However, in recent years, Wall Street has invested deeply in Hollywood. From the perspective of a banker, there is nothing more annoying than not making all the money on the table. Therefore, under the guidance of Wall Street bankers, and the performance of listed companies
Under the urging of demands, overseas box offices are now gradually turning to box office statistics and sharing.
But this is another troublesome matter for stars or producers. When collecting copy rentals, it is very easy to monitor. Just look at how many copies the film laboratory has made. But the current box office figures are not as good as those overseas.
There is no such transparency and openness in China.
"This is a measure, Ronald." Lindsay Dole emphasized to Ronald again. Monitoring overseas box office actually has costs, and the cost of supervision is very high.
Not mentioning the labor costs, even if you find out about the box office problem, who will you claim compensation from? To the distributor? Paramount said that I am also a victim. To overseas theaters? Transnational lawsuits are just for this little box office? Lawyers
It doesn't even cost you enough.
"I understand, I just want a bargaining chip," Ronald said that he understood that if Paramount had concealed its box office, he could also provide some evidence.
In fact, overseas box office sales are not necessarily underestimated.
Take "Pretty Woman" for example. In order to compete for the top spot in the global box office, Disney definitely overestimated its statistics in the statistics. Anyway, from the director to the stars, no one can sign a global revenue share contract.
Another example is last year's "Valmont," which failed at the box office. For the sake of their own jobs, everyone was motivated to go higher. But the American box office was too low, and the international box office was too high, and no one believed it.
As for "Batman", Jack Nicholson's outrageous box office dividends, Warner Bros. will definitely underpay.
The film "The End of the World" is also in a similar situation. Ronald and Jack Nicholson exchanged a lot of experiences. Now Los Angeles barrister Mitch Kanter is negotiating with Warner Bros. on his behalf. Ronald
Also make some preparations based on his experiences and lessons.
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"Rich, you are really different now than when you were my assistant, your eyes are all bright..." In the evening, Ronald had dinner with his former assistant, the fat girl Rich Lake. She is now the host of a TV show
Like a fish in water...
What is more touching is that when she was the heroine in "Hairspray", no fans would ask her to sign autographs and take photos. Now that she has become a host and a celebrity, there are already several groups of customers when she has a meal.
I came over to ask her to sign an autograph and take a photo.
"Boss, I learned this from you..." Richie Lake smiled. After getting busy, she actually lost a little weight and was in better shape than when she was an assistant.
"Haha, cheers...", Ronald raised a glass to celebrate with her.
"By the way, how's your TV series version of Working Girl going?" Richie Lake originally made a cameo appearance in the movie version of Working Girl. She was still a little curious about the TV series version, but she was busy with work and didn't have time to watch it.
"Hey...", Ronald put down the wine glass, "Forget it, the ratings are neither up nor down, hovering near the passing line. If it cannot be improved, it may be cut in half in advance."