After dreaming about two movies in a row, Ronald also asked David Simkins to prepare some display boards for the studio executives. Since he had written a script himself, he also wanted to join the ranks of producers.
You should also start to become familiar with these tasks.
David Simkins, whose workload was increased for no reason, also had to read the scripts that were still being sent to the company. While working hard overtime every day, he also felt full of motivation to fight.
Ronald himself focused on promoting "Dirty Dancing." He wanted to use the film to be released as the first film produced by Daydream Pictures.
Turning on the computer at home, Ronald inserted the floppy disk. After a while of noise and waiting, the interface of WordStar editing software appeared on the screen. He created a new file and began to write the selling points and difficulties required to promote the script.
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"Advantage:
The investment is small, there is a fixed audience, and the marketing cost is low. You don’t need to hire famous movie stars. You can find directors who shoot musicals or youth movies to guide you.
Disadvantages: The budget is not enough to hire movie stars, and the distributor may have concerns. If the other party is willing to invest more resources, the script can be modified to suit the stars.
Best sales targets:
Touchstone Pictures, owned by Disney..."
"Squeak..." The dot matrix printer printed out the document. Ronald picked up the pen and made a few corrections, then put it into the document archive labeled "Dirty Dancing".
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What Ronald didn't expect was that the first person he saw on his "Dirty Dancing" sales display was not the touchstone Katzenberg or his agent Niceta, but the "Dragon Boy" series.
Producer, Weintraub.
"What is this? Your new project?" Weintraub condescended to come to Ronald's humble little apartment. This was the first time he took the initiative to come to Ronald's house to discuss matters.
Before he got down to business, he first saw some display boards that Ronald placed on the wall.
"Ah, yes. My script assistant is very good. This is also a script he likes. I just bought the production rights from the original producer."
Ronald simply turned over a few display boards and placed them on the table. "This is a script aimed at teenage girls as the main market. I plan to produce it with a small budget of less than five million."
"Is it such a small production?" When Weintraub heard that it was a small production, he quickly wanted to increase the budget and grab this project that Ronald was interested in.
"How about you put it in MGM/United Arts for distribution, and I'll give you five million, and raise a budget of ten million, as the next project of "Moonlight"?"
"This movie is from a female perspective, and young men may not necessarily like to watch it, so I didn't want to use celebrities, and it was only aimed at a relatively small audience. It is easier to get back the investment with a small investment."
"Just in time, I came to you today to talk about getting my money back." Weintraub took Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" script and read it, then motioned to Susan to hand the two documents to Ronald.
Germany.
"These are two invitations to adapt Dragon King into a video game. You have the property rights to the characters of Miyagi-sensei and Daniel-san, and you also have a share of the rights to the second part of Dragon King. This contract requires your consent.
"
Weintraub's young wife and assistant, Susan Akins, took out two documents and handed them to Ronald.
Ronald took a look and saw that one was a development contract from Atlus Co., Ltd. This is a Japanese game development company that specializes in producing games for Japan's Nintendo company to play on home game consoles.
"Is this NES game console the most popular little gray box now?" Ronald looked at the planning document. This game is developed for home game consoles. The game console needs to be connected to a TV and played with a controller.
"Yes, the American version of the game console is like that, and here is a copy of the Japanese version of the game console." Susan pointed to the picture on a page in the plan and said to Ronald.
"Huh? Isn't this a red and white machine?"
"Family machine? The name you gave is easy to understand." Susan smiled, "The other one is the development authorization for computer games."
Ronald picked up a second authorization letter, which was a game development authorization for new models of computers, Atari ST, and Commodore amiga.
"I know Kang Maode, it's just a game console with a keyboard. Didn't Atari go bankrupt?"
"That's old news for you. After Atari's reorganization, it mainly produces computer brands. ST is their new computer model. This kind of computer has 512k of memory and can also be equipped with midi equipment. Many people in the music industry like it. use.
Commodity's new amiga computer does not have a game controller, and many animation companies use it to color paintings. They are computers used by many professionals."
"Then why do you still want to make games for them?"
"People always need entertainment. Wouldn't it be great to be able to use your work computer for entertainment?"
"Well..." Ronald himself only used that old personal computer for writing. He didn't expect that computers have developed so fast. In addition to composing and painting, they can also be used to play games. "Do I need to update myself too?" Did you get off the computer?"
He quickly found the place where his signature was needed, signed it, and handed it back to Susan.
"This is your script..." Weintraub next to him had already quickly turned over Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" script, but he hesitated to speak.
"Is it not suitable for large-scale production? It doesn't matter. I can slowly find investors. Do you have any ideas about releasing this film? The production budget is not very high."
"Hmm... so what, I'm currently at MGM/United Artists, we're still fighting various pre-merger factions, we'd better focus on 'Moonlight'."
"That's right, it doesn't matter. I'll look at a few others."
Ronald looked at Weintraub. His main focus now is on managing a huge company and integrating internal human resources. He must not be as interested in such small-market, small-production works as before. Already.
"This script is really well written." After Weintraub put down the script, Susan picked it up and flipped through it.
"Why, do you like this script too?" Ronald didn't expect that Susan Akins liked the script very much.
"Yeah, which girl hasn't imagined that she can dance well, partner with the boy who dances best, and win the envy of everyone?"
"How about it, do you want to try to distribute this movie?" Ronald said half-jokingly, seeing her fascinated look.
Weintraub pulled Susan over and whispered a few words quickly in her ear.
"I'm sorry, Ronald Jerry has to focus on MGM's business. My main job is to assist him. I'm afraid I won't be able to devote more energy to distributing this movie."
Susan Akins stated to Ronald her reasons for not being able to help distribute the film. She slowly put the script down, "However, I really like this movie, and you must make it if you get the chance."
come out."
"Of course, I'm going to find a distributor and start the project, and then find a director." Ronald looked at Susan, who was about the same age as himself, and thought that although this woman was already quite old, she still had a bright girl's heart.
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"Just put it here." Ronald asked two door-to-door installation workers to come in. A new computer that looked very similar to his original computer was placed on the desk.
"Mr. Li, this is IBM's new product, pc 286, which uses the latest Intel 80286 CPU, 640kb of memory, 1.2m high-capacity double-sided 3.5-inch floppy disk, and a 20m hard drive."
Ronald looked at the characters displayed on the screen. They were no longer the green color of the old monitors, but white characters.
"This monitor looks great."
"Yes, this is a 256-color true color display." The installation engineer took the keyboard and entered the c drive.
"Is this a hard drive?" Ronald looked at the letter "C" on the drive letter. The first two drives, A and B, were floppy disks.
"Yes", the young engineer typed win, and then the monitor jumped, and a blue and white interface appeared.
"This is the latest Microsoft Windows. You can use this device and mouse to select files and other operations."
Ronald took the mouse and naturally double-clicked the close symbol on the window, and the file manager was closed.
"Ah, yes, double-clicking can..." the engineer also wanted to introduce.
Ronald double-clicked again, opened the C drive interface, and dragged the files in the floppy drive into this window.
"Yes, it seems that Mr. Li has used it before, so he can copy files."
"Thank you," Ronald handed over a tip of US$20 and treated the two installation engineers to a Coke.
After sitting there and playing Windows for a while, Ronald felt bored. The system seemed familiar, but not fun.
He still quit and opened the WordStar software using the DOS character interface. The hard disk was indeed much faster than the floppy disk and the noise was much smaller. Ronald opened a new file and began to write his own description of "Spicy Body"
Summary of sales feedback for "Dance".
"It seems that older women also like the story of the script very much. Maybe we can use this advantage to win the favor of female senior executives in the company..."