Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 187 How many families are happy and how many families are sad

   "Hahahahaha!"

   "We earned it!"

   "We found a treasure!"

   ""Spider-Man" set a new record for the fastest film breaking 100 million! One hundred hours! It only took one hundred hours!"

   "Sure enough! Only Roland can defeat Roland!"

When "Spider-Man" broke the record of "Jurassic Park" with an astonishing momentum, there was a wave of celebration in Sony Pictures. Is it finally time to start making profits with special codes?

  Since the acquisition of Columbia Film and Television, they have been repeating-losing, investing, losing again, and investing again. After so many years, they have not made a single penny!

  Although Sony Corporation, the parent company located in the island country, has been giving them money to support them, the appalling report card has actually pushed the entire company to the brink of bankruptcy!

  When Panasonic sold American Music Company and abandoned Universal Film and Television due to a broken capital chain, Sony could not sustain it anymore. If they lost another two years, they would have to sell their entertainment assets and completely declare the transformation failed, but—

   They have Spider-Man now!

   Oh no!

  They have Roland Allen now!

Since the establishment of Sony, Amblin and Warcraft Joint Publishing Company, Sony has found that its own special brand has finally embarked on the right path to profitability. "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Shawshank's Redemption" made their overseas distribution company realize for the first time Profit, and the current "Spider-Man", let them see the possibility of reaching the top of this year's box office list!

You know, in the past four years, if you want to be in the top ten box office rankings, it depends on God's will. Now, the movie has not yet started to be released overseas. "Pushed to the first position on the prediction list, this kind of behavior that people in the circle are unanimously optimistic about has not happened in four years!

  The last time was the summer of 1991, when they released "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"!

   Hiss!

   The last time he was favored by his peers was because of Roland Allen?

  This son is so terrifying!

   But fortunately, Roland is one of his own.

Of course, in addition to the big sales of "Spider-Man", what excites Sony even more is the sales of PS game consoles. More than 20,000 game consoles were sold in America!

  The most important thing is that each one is sold as a matching "Spider-Man" game!

what does that mean?

   It means that in Roland's fan base, there are many people who are willing to play games, but they don't have a PS game console!

   And some of them have the financial strength to buy game consoles!

   As long as these people are dug out, they will have the confidence to get a share of the home console industry!

   "Perhaps Roland is really the chosen one!"

   "If he can maintain such results, the headquarters will not only give them half of the equity in the overseas distribution company, but even give them half of the equity in the American distribution company, it will be worth it!"

   "Since it's the current result, then we'll go directly to laying films overseas. Of course, while continuing to work, we will also contact Roland to see when he will return to Los Angeles, and we will hold a celebration party for him!"

   "Oh! That's right! I still have to call James! Ask him to submit the scripts of the next two films! As long as they want, we can invest any time! It doesn't matter if we don't shoot for now, we can also prepare the project first!"

  ...

  In addition to Sony, after seeing the transcript of "Spider-Man", Fox also beeped excitedly!

   "Everyone, am I right? Let Roland sign the contract first!"

   "At the beginning, James wanted to wait for "Spider-Man" to be released, and he was negotiating a film contract with us... How is this possible!"

   "According to the current results, if Roland wants twenty plus twenty, we have to give it all!"

"Now it's not an A+list problem at all, but Roland is really what we expected back then, becoming the kind of people like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas! Only they can play with themselves Box office game! Everyone else is younger brother!"

  “I have never understood why these people have always been loved by the audience.”

   "Now I understand that the audience's popularity depends on how much you have paid!"

   "Steven never thought about how I should shoot what I like, George didn't think about how I can convey my own ideas to the audience, and Roland didn't think about how to let the public accept the transformed self!"

"People are full of fantasies about the universe. George makes Star Wars. People need personal heroes. Steven makes Raiders of the Lost Ark. People like Roland Allen. James directly embeds Roland's personal growth in Spider-Man. "..."

   "They have been selling what the audience wants most, can the audience not like it?"

   "And what do viewers most want to see right now?"

   "I want to see who Roland is referring to by 'yes'!"

   "Since that's the case, then it's time for our show!"

   "Tell the production director who followed the "Titanic" project that he doesn't need to worry about anything. He just needs to pay and sign the bills for the consumption in the crew. If you have any other needs, just call us!"

   "We are unconditionally satisfied!"

   "100 million in 100 hours! Even if we invest 200 million, we will be able to pay back the cost of the first month's accounts alone!"

  ...

  Of course, compared with Sony, who is overjoyed, and Fox, who wants to go to heaven, Disney is extremely depressed.

  Disney is the investor of "Brave to Kill the Island", and "Brave to Kill the Island"—

   Those who were crushed by "Spider-Man" didn't even have ashes left.

  As a movie with an investment of 75 million, the box office in the first three days of the weekend didn’t even exceed 10 million…

  This kind of behavior of only hearing a hum, and there is a tire mark on their face, made them speechless.

   "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"

   "I said at the beginning that I would change the file of "Into the Deadly Island"! Change the file! Change the file! You just don't listen!"

   "Whether it's playing "Mission Impossible" or "Ace Agent", it's better than playing "Spider-Man"!"

"What now!"

   "75 million investment! It's gone!"

Since 1990, the management team headed by Disney chairman Michael Eisner has wanted to get a share of the live-action movie business. For this reason, they also dragged the Hollywood film company that has not been in business for a long time. Up, and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment co-developed "Little Devil".

  But alas—

  Maybe there is no talent for developing live-action movies, and things are not going well in the Hollywood film industry.

   For six full years, they haven't developed a worthwhile live-action movie...

   "Bravely Entering the Island of Death" was originally their hope.

  The combination of Michael Bay and Nicolas Cage can sell hundreds of millions of box office, right?

   But the question is, who made them hit Roland Allen?

  Many years later, the seventy-five million investment may be fully recovered, but now—

   Behind every successful person, there are countless bones.

   "Into the Deadly Island" is excellent, but in front of the dazzling lineup, they can only be sacrificed.

   As for revenge?

   Then don’t even think about it.

  Let's not say that there is a forest behind Roland... Ahh! It's a bunch of thighs.

   Just inside Disney, they are not of one mind!

  ...

   Of course, Warner is even more upset than Disney.

  Because "Batman 4: Batman and Robin" has already been approved.

   As another sequel to the "Batman" series, they want to save this IP with a star cast.

  George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Uma Thurman, Chris O'Donnell, Alicia Silverstone...

  Three B-lists and two C-lists, this kind of main creative team is not bad, but compared with "Spiderman"...

hehe…

   ""Spider-Man" is simply not a lineup that humans can make up, okay?!"

   "Roland Allen was a student of Steven Spielberg! And those others owe the Jewish Gang!!"

   "They were meant to play games in groups! If you ask James Cameron or Sony to invite them, you won't be able to invite these people!"

  Warner is now riding a tiger.

  If they announce the lineup of "Batman 4" before "Spiderman" is released, it will be crushed, and forget it.

  Anyway, no one knows what the results of the "Spider-Man" Wang Zhan lineup are...

   But now, before they announced it, "Spider-Man" has exploded!

   This is really beeping the dog!

   To put it bluntly, after seeing the lineup of "Spiderman", the audience wants to get interested in "Batman 4"?

   Isn’t that just a dream?

  The audience ate a full banquet, so how could they be interested in rice bran pickles?

  They are not Han Guishan!

   "What should I do now? "Batman 4" is already scheduled to hit the street before filming."

   "Anyway, I don't believe that "Batman 4" can be profitable, no matter what..."

  Just as a group of people were discussing the future of "Batman 4" in Warner's conference room with frowning faces, trying to save the first brother of the comic book, the ringing of the phone suddenly rang throughout the room.

  Picking up the phone and listening, the face of the person in charge suddenly turned dark.

   Putting down the phone and sighing lightly, he said directly: "Okay, don't discuss it anymore, "Batman 4" has been cancelled..."

   "Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to quit..."

   "James Cameron pulled him to shoot "Spiderman 2", people don't care about our "Batman 4"..."

   ""Batman" directly enters the cold storage link, it's almost time to wait, let's restart..."

  Such words made everyone present look at each other in dismay.

   Grab the grass!

  Warner’s most profitable series in the past few years was kicked by "Spider-Man" like this?

  Even the leading role was pulled away?

   That's right, after "Spider-Man" earned 100 million box office, the truck driver secretly called the governor.

  He said that a tough guy like Doctor Octopus can only be played by him or Stallone.

   But if he played the villain in "Batman" first, then Doctor Octopus, he would be out of play.

   After all, the circle of American manga is so big, and it is easy to make plays by jumping and acting.

   Upon hearing this, the governor immediately became upset.

   Isn’t Dr. Octopus just a handsome man wearing sunglasses?

  Will Stallone wear sunglasses as handsome as Lao Tzu?

  The role of Sima Mian, the man in sunglasses, he knows better than anyone else!

  How could he give up his old profession to that guy Stallone?

  Besides, there is no way that a declining IP like "Batman" is more attractive than "Spiderman"!

  So, the governor pushed "Batman" who hadn't signed the contract yet...

   And his push...

  Warner simply didn't bother to do it...

   After all, "Batman 3: Batman Forever", which was released last year, almost lost money.

   According to the normal trend of the series of movies, "Batman 4" has a high probability of hitting the street.

  Since this is the case, then don’t do it!

   With the money saved, you can develop new series!

  ...

While some of the major Hollywood production companies were happy and some were sad, Roland, who had been in New York since the premiere, hadn't thought about it at all other than caring about the daily box office trend. Butterfly wings can fly a few items away, because he and Kate are tired of being together at other times.

  There is no one who can fight, so there is no need to use the off-the-market tricks like Tom Cruise who pays for the box office out of his own pocket, right?

   As for the celebration after breaking the record?

  With Kate, isn't that the best celebration?

  Okay...no kidding...

  Perhaps because the box office situation is so good, in the past week, their lives can actually be summed up in two words——

  Eat, go shopping.

  Eat what you want.

   Shopping, shopping as you want.

  Different from the vast majority of seniors, Roland has never felt that career is the whole of his life. What if he only starred in five movies in six years, dubbed one movie, and guest starred in two movies?

  If we say that the reason for trying to do a good job in the project in hand is to better meet the next project...

   Then what is the meaning of this day?

Things like work can never be finished. When you have contacts to control resources, you only need to complete the goals on the schedule step by step, and devote 200% of your energy to treat a job well. Projects, it is much more comfortable than being insatiable and wanting everything, turning yourself into an overtime machine.

   In the remaining time, you can improve yourself and relax appropriately.

It’s like going to Hawaii with my family on Christmas in 1990, taking three little lolitas to the Ocean Kingdom in the summer of 1993, traveling to European countries with my family in early 1994, and falling with Kate in early 1996. Living in Mexico is the same as in Athens.

  In the past seventy-two months, he has traveled for only ten months.

  Equally shared every year, not even two months of annual leave!

  'Hiss! How can I work so hard? '

  Of course, apart from eating and shopping, the reason why Roland stayed in New York instead of going back to Los Angeles was to pass the time.

  Since meeting the bald head of Ronald Perelman on the day of the premiere, he has received an invitation from the other party.

  The bald head asked him to stay in New York for a few more days to attend a private party at his home on the 15th.

   Not only that, the bald head also directly told him at the premiere that the guys invited to the scene were all relatives and friends, and many guys would even bring their families along.

  Because of this, for Roland, the excitement and joy after the success of "Spider-Man" is actually not that important, because the invitation to the banquet is what can really move his heart now!

  He loves movies and games, but who doesn't love money and power?

  Roland is not the kind of idiot who just immerses himself in making movies.

  Li Lianjie, Hong Jinbao, Zhen Bullet, Wu Jin...

   These people are awesome in the entertainment industry, right?

   But he was still beaten by Jack Ma in a fancy way.

  Many filmmakers talk about art all day long, and hate things like "Gong Shou Dao". Many people even repeatedly said that micro-movies are not even considered movies!

   Jack Ma's money-making ability is the biggest dirt on film art!

And when they beeped and sprayed Jack Ma, their Ali Pictures really voted for "Green Book" and "1917"; also known as the little Ma who cheated elementary school students of money, their Tencent Pictures really voted for " The Gathering at Southern Station" and "The Wandering Earth".

  Talk about movies on an empty stomach, but tell your ears?

   Protect the film with a passion, your pocket is cleaner than your face!

  It is true that these two parties are really involved in the film industry to make money.

   But art that doesn't make money is dead long ago.

  If you have no money in your pocket, let alone love movies.

  Because I can't afford to love.

Note: ①At that time, Disney had two subsidiaries specializing in live-action movies, one was Hollywood, and the other was Touchstone. The former was controlled by Disney chairman Michael Eisner, and the latter was controlled by other faction members in the company. Yes, so don't look at Disney making a lot of live-action movies at the time, such as "Pretty Woman" and "Crazy Nuns", but in fact, all the movies that hit the box office charts have nothing to do with the chairman. The power struggle has divided them, so no matter who is on the street, the entire Disney company will not retaliate. Moreover, there is another point that Disney has been playing a game back then, that is, 'see who will hug the thigh of the Jewish gang first'. The best film in Hollywood is "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", and the film of Touchstone, Yishui It's all Jewish projects. ②In reality, the "Batman 4" project is precarious. After "True Lies", the governor made four movies in a row. Anti-box office, the result is a lose-lose. Then Batman was directly refrigerated, and the governor did not receive the book for more than two years. ③A lot of movie stars pay their own money to buy the box office, and the midnight slots are piled up at the box office. On the first day and the first week, there were too many people. Ah Tang was caught, mainly because he took the company's account, and the result was different from The data reported by Paramount to the SEC did not match up. But it's normal for him to be caught. His 20/20 is paid by the film production company. Others set up an empty shell to get rid of it.

  (end of this chapter)