Bob was squatting in the small flower bed in front of Gobia's company, smoking a cigarette.
The whole person looked extremely depressed and a little depressed at the same time.
He is over fifty years old this year!
He experienced the booming era of Hollywood movies and was lucky enough to leave many classics in that era. At the same time, he was called one of the top ten most legendary directors in Hollywood by everyone in the film industry.
"United States 1900" is the film in which he spent the most time and was also the most serious film.
For more than two years, he gave up almost all his free time to focus on "The United States of 1900". He had only one thought in his mind, which was to make "The United States of 1900" the first of the four legendary Hollywood films.
, at the most brilliant moment, his career came to a perfect curtain call.
Yes!
Everyone's curtain call hopes to be as bright as a shooting star. Only such a curtain call can be considered a success!
(The third update is here. Please don’t think I’m verbose or arrogant. In fact, I can’t cut out this plot... The third update will be continued tomorrow. After the follow-up plot is released, it will become more and more exciting.
of.
In fact, everyone has already guessed that this movie is the prototype of "Once Upon a Time in America"...
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Bob is not exempt from vulgarity.
When "The United States of America 1900" was completed and sent to Cobia for review, the company felt that the film was too long.
So, Bob cut it into a six-hour movie and divided it into two parts.
The company felt that this was not acceptable, and told Bob that the film should be cut shorter...
So "United States 1900" was reduced from six hours to four hours. Then, the night before it was released, the company was informed that the film had been edited into three hours and had been finalized.
He was stunned.
He personally went to the theater to watch it, and finally found that the movie had been edited in a mess, losing its original flavor, and even the logic seemed very illogical.
When the fans' comments came out on the first day, Bob became anxious.
This movie can't be like this, right?
He immediately went to Gobia's senior management, and then after seeing Wilson's sad and helpless expression, he realized that there were extremely different opinions among the shareholders. The final version of the edit was not requested by Gobia, but by Gobia.
Required by almost all Hollywood theater chains.
That is...
Four hours is too long and must be shortened to three hours.
After all, there has never been a four-hour movie in the history of Hollywood. In addition, theaters are about to usher in a movie war in August. There are four big-investment movies comparable to "United States 1900" in August. Even "
It doesn't matter that the movie "American 1900" is Bob's work. After all, in their view, giving Bob three hours is already extremely biased.
Anyway...
"America 1900" became a deformity due to many factors.
When the box office sales of less than 2.3 million US dollars appeared in front of Bob the next day, Bob almost vomited blood.
This was the first time in his life that he encountered such a cheating thing.
After smoking three cigarettes, footsteps came from beside him.
He raised his head and saw an apologetic Wilson.
"Mr. Bob...I'm sorry, this is my negligence, my fault!" Wilson lowered his head very solemnly.
"Mr. Wilson, can "American 1900" use the version of my previous six hours? I hope the company can give me a chance."
"Mr. Bob, this era is a very impetuous era, and a six-hour movie has never appeared once in the entire history of American movies... It is impossible for major theaters to do this."
"What about dividing it into two parts? Then there is no such problem with the upper and lower parts."
"Hollywood's eight major film companies will have many science fiction blockbusters released at the same time in early August. Over in China, there is also "Bloodshed 3" directed by Li Mingrui, which has been authorized by Fox. It is difficult to squeeze out the movie schedules in theaters, so it is divided into
The upper and lower parts are impossible. After all, these people are businessmen, and all they can see are interests... If they didn't value interests, could we have failed in blocking Lu Yuan?" After Wilson finished speaking, he looked at Bob helplessly.
The ground shook his head.
He knew what Bob was thinking and what Bob wanted to do, but...
"United States 1900" came out at a really bad time, and the length and various factors of "United States 1900" did not meet the current theater standards.
"Then, what if I choose to wait?"
"Mr. Bob, we can choose to wait, but I'm not sure how long we need to wait. More importantly, the situation at the theater chain is very unfavorable for "America 1900"..."
"You want to paint over there?"
"That's not true. However, if tomorrow's box office is not as good as today's, then not only the theater chains in the United States will have objections, but even China Entertainment will not be able to sustain it... I said before that the theater chains are going to
They are all businessmen who are profitable. When there are more profits, they will definitely consider the more profitable side instead of movies that have little profit or even lose money. Do you understand?" Wilson sighed again, actually
Oh, he really couldn't bear to tell everyone this ending.
"The United States 1900, it shouldn't have ended like this." Bob's throat trembled and he felt extremely dry.
"I know that our company has lost a lot of money because of this. This is our company's problem. Mr. Bob, I apologize to you again. The company will give you some compensation in the future..."
"What I want is not compensation. I hope that it can be released for six hours, no, the four-hour version can be released. Mr. Wilson, do you understand?"
"I see……"
"I'll wait for the day it comes out."
"..."
Half an hour later.
Bob quietly left Cobia Company.
After Wilson looked at Bob's hunched back as he left, he let out a long sigh.
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The box office for the third day is also out.
"Rocky" maintained a surging momentum from beginning to end, and on its third day, it actually took in a single-day box office of US$5.5 million in the United States.
This is a very crazy result, which is completely close to the data of major Hollywood movies.
The Hollywood media, like China, blew up this "Rocky" movie.
Compared with "Rocky"'s gradual rise to glory, the results of "United States 1900" really showed off everyone.
On the third day, the box office only received 800,000 US dollars. The Chinese side was even worse, falling directly to 1 million yuan...
This data is, well, really unsightly.
Many media even rated the movie "United States 1900" as one of the top ten worst movies in Hollywood history.
There was a lot of scolding.
Some more extreme movie fans even said that Bob was old and out of his mind. He was making a bad movie, so he might as well go back and take care of his grandson.
Bob's death is not guaranteed.
For the entire Columbia Company, the loss of "American 1900" was quite huge.
"I didn't approve of Bob making this movie at first. I have always been against it. Wilson, it's because you want to make this movie!"
"Yes, Wilson, you need to take responsibility!"
"This is simply the biggest shame since the founding of Columbia. "America 1900", hey..."
"Although the loss of blood hurts the foundation of the company, do you know what the media thinks? Now all the media are laughing at us with a god-killing attitude. They didn't suppress Lu Yuan in the first place, but they have always been humiliated. Now they still let Lu Yuan's movie
To directly beat us like this is simply a shame among humiliations. These damn Chinese people who don’t believe in God are probably laughing at us now!”
"..."
"..."
At the shareholders' meeting, shareholders headed by Sevan immediately slammed the table.
In fact, Sevan has always been opposed to Bob filming "United States 1900". Two years ago, he had always hoped that Bob could film commercial blockbusters such as "Transformers". He felt that literary gangsters such as "United States 1900"
The film is a waste of time. After all, even if it was not edited here in the United States and went to China to make "America 1900", it would be edited into a mess.
Sevan feels that the Chinese market has always been a place that Gobia attaches great importance to.
Facts have proved that the movie "United States 1900" is indeed not popular with anyone, and the box office is proof of it.
"..."
Wilson has been silently listening to everyone's criticism.
He looked at everyone with a blank expression.
Especially after seeing Sevan's expression of relying on his old age and feeling that he must listen to his words, his eyes became colder...
"Wilson, I am your uncle, Gobia. I am guarding with your father. When your father left, he told me that he must let me take you well. Do you understand, this "United States 1900" is a
Lesson!" When Sevan saw Wilson's expression, he knew he was wrong, but he still kept a straight face.
"Uncle Sevan!"
"What?"
"You are old!"
"What did you say?"
"I said, you are old..."
"??"
"boom!"
"..."
Wilson looked at everyone silently, then picked up the computer next to him and smashed it to the ground.
The computer makes an explosion sound...
Then, with the faces of several old people pale, Wilson picked up a baseball bat from the side, kicked the chair away like a madman, and then...
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
"..."
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Allen heard the chaos in the conference room. When a group of security guards were about to rush in, Allen stopped them.
Half an hour later, each of the pale old men left the conference room cursing.
However, there was an indescribable sense of fear in their eyes.
Sevan was the last to come out.
When he came out, Wilson put his arm around Sevan's shoulders.
"Uncle Sevan, from now on, go to the Maldives for a good vacation. You are really too tired now, okay?"
"..."
"Goodbye, Uncle Sevan, I've already bought the tickets."
Allen then watched Wilson stop and waved to Sevan who left silently.
After Allen looked at Wilson's bloody hands, he felt a chill unconsciously.
"Alan, what's wrong?"
"Mr. Wilson, Lu Yuan is here."
"Huh? Lu Yuan? What is he doing here?" Wilson's expression became even colder after hearing the word "Lu Yuan".
"He wants to chat with you..."
"Oh? Okay." Wilson narrowed his eyes.
Why is Lu Yuan suddenly looking for him at this time?
Are you here to see his jokes?
"Mr. Wilson, do you want to..."
"fine……"
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"Dong dong dong..."
"Who is it? Here we come."
"Hello Mr. Bob! Nice to meet you!"
"Who are you?"
"Oh, hello, Mr. Bob. My name is Wei Wuji. I am a director in China and one of the veterans of "remote" entertainment."