"It's completely ridiculous... I think she just got a little too into the drama. Michelle has this problem. Otherwise, how could she cheat on an ugly man like Malkovich?"
Ronald also has to talk to his agent Richard about this kind of thing. How else can we say that agents are the strongest allies of Hollywood stars? These secrets are actually privileges protected by law, and everyone’s clothes
The little secrets in the closet can be safely handled by the agent to avoid an uncontrollable situation.
"Well, I'm just asking what you think. If you're interested, I can help you handle it. This kind of thing is not uncommon in Hollywood. There is a complete set of processing procedures. Well... I won't say any more..."
Richard now spends more time in New York. There is also a bit of biography about David Letterman. His competitor Jay Leno's agent was too aggressive and offered to occupy the producer position of the Tonight Show, which caused a stir.
There are some doubts among NBC executives. Now NBC has taken the initiative to talk to Letterman about renewing his new contract. This is a gesture...
However, Richard had always made it clear who was his most important customer. Once the situation there stabilized, he began to run to Ronald frequently again.
"Forget it, Ang Lee's movie won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor. You can consider arranging your assistant to sign him and go to Berlin to compete immediately. It is very promising..."
"I have already talked with him. We only provide some basic agent services. If there are suitable movies, it will depend on whether he is interested. We will not force him to consider any movies he does not like."
"This is the appropriate thing to do..."
Ronald is very happy. The Chinese-language films shot by Ang Lee are very popular in European film festivals. Even if they only go through art theaters in China, they can still make money. Such a director is most afraid of someone like Ovitz.
If their agents give them some commercial films that are not suitable at all, America will not be successful at the box office, and it will not show its artistic advantages. It is a complete lose-lose situation.
Different methods must be used to deal with directors from different backgrounds. In this way, overseas directors who come to America to develop are actually lacking in understanding of the basic principles of this society. Only the subject matter that interests them will be able to obtain commercial success.
Success. If you insist on making some commercial films, it is very likely that you will not provide it in certain areas that the public audience needs, or conversely, you will desperately provide it in areas that the public audience does not feel.
"congratulations!"
In the evening at the best Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, Ronald invited Ang Lee's family, who had returned from a successful career, for dinner. His wife, who supported him in persisting in the film and television industry and never gave up, had suffered from physical problems before. Fortunately, Ang Lee
Lee finally succeeded in his career as a film director. He was nominated for Best Film and Best Director at the Golden Horse Awards, and the leading actor Lang Xiong won the Best Actor Award.
This achievement, like that of directors Yang and Guan who also returned from America, dominated the main awards at this year's Golden Horse Awards.
Director Yang's "The Murders on Kuling Street" won the Best Picture, Director Guan's "Ruan Lingyu" won the Best Actress, and the returnees clearly had the upper hand. Only the Best Director was not awarded to any of the above, but was awarded to
Director Wang, a screenwriter-turned-director from Hong Kong.
Ronald is very happy that the increased influence of American returnee directors will in turn increase America's attention to these films. Movie theaters where Chinese people gather will show these films and have better box office results.
"Are there any commercial film directors in your hometown?" Ronald asked Ang Lee after he was full of wine and food.
When they get together, the content of the conversation cannot be divorced from the movie. These movies are not traditional commercial works. "The Murder of the Boys on Guling Street" is also a long work, about cruel teenagers. But with Cobo
Compared with a very commercial work like La's "The Naughty Boy", it still seems to reflect the director's own intentions more.
"Ruan Lingyu" tells the story of a female movie star who suffered a tragedy at that time. It interspersed with many documentary-style actors discussing how to perform the images of the film industry at that time. It is still more obscure to use black and white to distinguish the two eras.
.
As for "Days of Being Wild", which won the Best Director, it seems to be a commercial film, but the plot does not have the inheritance and transformation of Hollywood commercial films. It is essentially the product of a director's film.
Introducing American movies, such non-commercial movies can only make money in Chinatown cinemas in the name of awards. Ronald still wants the kind of kung fu movies in Hong Kong, whether they are black, white, or Latin
You don’t need to understand Chinese to understand...
"Yes, there are, but very few. The commercial film market there is not good and the fees are too heavy. By the way, there is a director Zhu who is very good at making commercial films. In the past few years, the best-selling local films have been made by him..."
"Which producer is it from? I'll go find Xiao Qiu and have a look. Come, come, come. Mrs. Lee also eats food. If you have anything to do in New York, you can ask Ang's agent to help you solve it. CAA's service is
In all aspects, you are a scientist, let them help you with some chores..."
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Ronald found Xiao Qiu from Times International and asked him to look for all the Golden Horse movies. Their "Raise the Red Lantern" was successfully selected from among the best foreign language films from dozens of countries.
Got the nomination. Xiaoqiu is now responsive to Ronald's requests...
"The Murder of a Teenager on Guling Street also applied for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but it was not nominated...actually it's still a matter of subject matter..."
Xiao Qiu quickly obtained a copy of the movie and showed it to Ronald and Daydream's distribution manager in person. He introduced several movies to Ronald.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In addition to the Golden Horse, the Kuling Street boy murder case also participated in many film festivals such as Tokyo and Asia Pacific. They followed the story of the Confucian cultural circle. This film
Some of the core elements of the movie have indeed left this cultural circle, and the audience has problems understanding them.
Days of Being Wild went to the Nantes Film Festival in France. I heard that Cannes film selectors have noticed him, and his next film is preparing to enter the Cannes Film Festival. "Ruan Lingyu" will also go to Berlin this time, and will also come to Chicago to participate.
Film Festival.
All in all, the films at this year’s Golden Horse Awards appear to be quite international.
Ronald skipped and watched some. He felt that these movies had little commercial potential, so he pinned his hopes on the last commercial movie recommended by Ang Lee.
This "Seven Wolves" movie directed by Zhu is a very strange movie. The whole movie is a typical B-level commercial movie.
First of all, the leading male actors are all singers, Wang Jie, Zhang Yusheng, Tai Zhengxiao, Yao Kejie, Tuo Zonghua... all of them have no acting experience. And the female leads are all newcomers, very beautiful, but the pay is very high
Low.
Second, the theme song is very nice. A song called "Never Look Back", performed by several singers with unique voices, is very similar to MJ's star chorus song "We are the world".
style.
The advantage of this is that the fans of these singers are all naturally movie audiences, and they are the kind of audiences who can buy tickets to watch again and again...
Originally, Ronald was very familiar with this kind of operation. Isn't it necessary to take advantage of commercial low-budget B-level exploitation films like this? This made Director Zhu even have a "love for talent" mentality.
As a result, as the plot continued, Ronald's brows became more and more frowned. When there was a romantic scene between a man and a woman in the second act, he couldn't bear it anymore and started to fight:
"This is fucking plagiarism, naked plagiarism, and it's all on my head..."
The bizarre plot of "Seven Wolves" is completely copied from several blockbuster Hollywood youth films from the 1980s.
There is a heroine in the middle, Ye Quanzhen, whose background and scenes are plagiarized from "Flash Dance". Even the infamous chair dance was copied.
The love scene between him and the leading actor Wang Jie was copied from Leigh Thompson and her husband's love story "Wonderful"
The background stories of several male protagonists and street fights are copied from "The Kid" starring Tom Cruise, Diane and others.
Another male lead, Zhang Yusheng, plagiarized the movie "The Adventures of Nanny" starring Elizabeth Shue. His appearance scene also plagiarized the railway scene at the beginning of "Wonderful".
Not counting these, the dance scene in the middle is plagiarizing Ronald's "break dance", even the heroine's clothes, leg warmers, and dance choreography are copied exactly.
The most outrageous thing is that in the middle of the movie, it started to plagiarize the movie "Streets of Rage" where Ronald and Diane settled down... The original realistic plot was suddenly inserted into comic-style scenes, motorcycle battles, and the final male protagonist.
The scenes with the gangster brother and the fight over a woman with punches in front of everyone were all copied one by one according to the split shots (these were all bad scenes).
"This is too much. There are so many movies in Hollywood, why are they just copying the ones I participated in? Have you not seen other people's movies?" Ronald was furious and wanted to call his lawyer on the spot.
Report!
"Um, Director Luo..." Xiaoqiu from Era International didn't expect that he had done something wrong. He didn't know how to deal with it, so he stood there in embarrassment.
"Brother Luo, don't be angry with this guy..." Xiao Yan has now gone to work on Wang Ying's crew. He came to see Ronald today and also stepped forward to persuade Ronald to calm down.
Being able to plagiarize is different from our original directors..."
"No, it's common for movies to plagiarize some plots and scenes, and I won't be angry. But how can anyone look at me for plagiarizing? Forget it, if it's copied like this, the damn Chinese audience will think that I'm just a copycat.
This level?”
"Calm down, calm down, Brother Luo. Their level is very low. Let's look at other movies. There is another one here... called Seven Wolves 2..." Xiao Yan didn't know if he was deliberately angry with Xiao Qiu.
The name of another commercially successful film was read from the film box next to it.
"Ah... I'm so angry. This one is even more hateful. How did it get copied?"
Ronald became even angrier when he saw it. The second part follows the story of the first part, telling the story of several protagonists entering adulthood after finishing school life.
As a result, Director Zhu copied Ronald's "Working Girl" again, even the ferry scenes between Staten Island and Manhattan. In the final scene of the decisive battle with the gangster brother, the protagonist once again had to wear it.
The forehead band completely copied the final battle scene of "The Dragon King".
"I'm so angry..." Seeing that his carefully shot movie was plagiarized to such a bad extent, Ronald kicked the copy on the ground hard and walked away angrily.
"Uncle, will there be no problem?" Xiao Qiu hurriedly called his uncle across the ocean. The director of this film, Zhu, had offended Ronald severely this time. Will Ronald cause them?
Do you have the impression that all the filmmakers there are terrible?
"This kind of thing is just a moment of anger. What should he do? Can he still come here to file a lawsuit? This is not to tell everyone that Director Zhu copied his movie. If I were him, I would rather others not know that the bad movie was copied from mine.
…”
Ginger is still old and spicy. This kind of commercial film directors in Hong Kong and the island use this crude method to plagiarize Hollywood movies alive. This is actually a tradition. Anyway, the local audience has not seen the original version, and they applauded after watching it. The box office
After a big sale, you can only envy these people for being "smart"?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "That's not right? We have to give him a response. Ronald's status in Hollywood is not low. If you do this, you will have a bad impression in the future.
If you don't, don't even think about cooperating with him..." After all, Xiao Qiu has been in America for a long time and knows that others may not pursue it, but in his heart he regards you as a low-income person.
"In this way, when the time comes, we will find a way to invite him to the Golden Horse Awards. Then we will ask Director Zhu to apologize in person and drink three drinks as a penalty. He will say that he is his loyal fan and has admired him for a long time because he has watched too many of his movies.
It came out naturally during the filming..."
"Hey, uncle's vision is still behind..." Xiao Qiu put down the phone and smiled bitterly. He didn't expect his uncle to say such things. But it might be a good idea to invite him to present the award. Elizabeth Taylor came to the Golden Horse to present the award that year.
The officials who hosted that year brought good promotion opportunities...
…
"Hahaha, the fight started, okay,..."
Ronald was angry and didn't take this kind of thing to heart. Two days later, the Berlin Film Festival opened, and the movie "Reinventing the Soldier" produced by Ronald's company and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren was also released.
I went to Berlin to attend a film festival and sell copies.
At the press conference of the project, a physical conflict broke out between Jean-Claude Van Damme and Lundgren. The two put on professional karate postures and exchanged volley kicks in the air. They were stopped by bodyguards and staff
Pulled open.
However, the news media did not know that this was a pre-arranged publicity ploy. For a while, the leading actors were at odds with each other and almost staged a Mortal Kombat fight over the order of scenes and promotions, as well as the heroine's preference. The news dominated the coverage of the Berlin Film Festival.
, even the news about the participating films was suppressed.
The news spread back to China. The film has not even been released yet, but there have been many free press reports.
Also participating in the Berlin Film Festival, a package project organized by Ovitz, his former bodyguard Steve Seagal starring in Qianlong, was suppressed without any sound, even the blonde in the previous popular TV series "The Beach"
The photos of Erica Elenik, the beautiful lifeguard who joined the team, did not compete with the two muscular men Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme, and did not appear on the main page.