Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1119 Show your wedding ring
"The female friend of the actor (Richard Gere) has the right to visit at any time, and the crew must be responsible for her board and lodging and itinerary, and enjoy the same level of treatment as the actor (Richard Gere)..."

Richard Gere read all the details of the agreement, the last one made him hesitate for half a second, but under the expectant eyes of Julia Roberts, he signed his name on the contract that he agreed to play.

In addition to Cindy Crawford's visitation rights at any time, he also enjoyed the top privileges that an actor can enjoy.

On set, his trailer had more room, a wider bed, and a more luxurious interior than all the other cast members, including Julia Roberts.

He also has a full-time chef who prepares food for him every day, and the crew is also responsible for this part of the expenses.

He has a separate team of costumers, hairstylists and make-up artists, all expensive professionals he has worked with for a long time.Of course, this part of the cost is also paid by the crew.

Finally, of course, full-time drivers and bodyguards are indispensable.It is necessary to isolate him from various fans who came to visit the set when he starred in the movie.

The male and female protagonists were determined, and Disney held a small celebration ceremony specially for this crew.

"Good job, Ronald." Jeffrey Katzenberg, Disney's producer, gave Ronald a thumbs up.Salute him with a glass of champagne.

Disney can't see big stars in live-action movies, and can only focus on this kind of mid-production movies.It was already a pleasant surprise for them to be able to find Richard Gere starring.

"Additional investment is required..." Ronald made the most critical request.Not only is Richard Gere's salary very expensive, but also his various treatment must be paid by the crew.

Do the math, if you convert these benefits into money and add them up with his salary, you can quickly catch up with the market price of 500 million US dollars for a first-line male star.

"Of course we will increase the investment, do you want to add a little more?" Katzenberg was very satisfied with being able to invite Richard Gere to act in Disney's movies.But the script is an R-rated film after all, and the box office base is not as good as PG-13.But he would no doubt be happy if he could share some of the risk.

"No problem, I will also increase some shares." Ronald remembered the tailor-made fund for Little George. He could also absorb some investment from Bannon, and together with the screen fund managed by Disney President Eisner Together with the fund, they invested in the production process of this film.

Only in this way, the investment of this film will become extremely complicated. There are a total of more than a dozen investors at three levels, and they will be divided into three batches according to the distance of the relationship and the first-come-first-served basis to enjoy the box office share after the film is released.

The first layer is the daydream of Disney himself and Ronald, who are the main producers who lead the project.The second level is Hollywood insiders, plus they have a lot of other money, and they have been classified into this level after a long time in Hollywood. It is not easy to exploit them too hard.

The third layer is those investment funds that have made some isolation arrangements with the project.Their movies are so popular that at most they can only use some of the leftovers from the last few rounds of sharing as a ticket to enter the Hollywood game.

"So is your movie still called 3000?" Katzenberg asked.This kind of movie naming is generally seen in the creative works of some directors.If it is a commercial film, it is best to change it to a movie title that can let the audience understand what type of film the content is.

"This matter has something to do with the budget, if you can set aside extra funds to purchase the copyright of a song..." Ronald laughed.

Bannon's involvement gave him some inspiration.Back then, Bannon directly used the title of the Beatles' "Love Is Not For Sale" as the title of the movie.And around this title, I wrote a script, and it really sold well.

But now that Julia Roberts and Richard Gere have such a good chemistry, the scenes and dialogues of the entire movie have to be redesigned based on their chemistry.

Ronald discussed with music director Jimmy and soon found a famous pop song, the 80 swing song "Oh, Pretty Woman."This song was covered by the rock band Van Halen in the [-]s.It is a very popular song.

It is very appropriate to use this song as the title of the movie, because there are sentences like "beautiful woman, walking on the road, beautiful woman, I like..." in the lyrics.In the plot, Vivienne's identity as a street girl and her encounter with Lewis fit perfectly.

"Haha, no problem...", Katzenberg was very satisfied with this proposal. It is true that this name is better than the so-called 3000. I don't know where it went.And for an old song from [-], it doesn't cost much to buy its copyright.

"Mr. Li, I am very glad to have the opportunity to interview you. What are your expectations for this new film?"

Disney's celebration also invited some familiar media to report on the film project.In addition to the "Hollywood Reporter" published in Los Angeles, which will contact them for interviews and reports on the preparation of each new film, the "New York Daily News", which Ronald is familiar with, also sends reporters from their entertainment section.

"I am only one of the producers of this film. For such artistic questions, you should ask our director Mr. Garry Marshall and the two protagonists." Ronald saw that this newbie reporter was not particularly skilled in his business. , quickly pointed her to the interview.

"Sorry, Director Li, I just really like your interpretation of women's films..." The female reporter stuck out her tongue. It seems that Ronald's reputation for feminist films has spread both inside and outside the circle.

Lollard shook his head. In fact, she is not making films about women. She is just giving women more and more appropriate roles in the films than usual, and some films use women as the protagonists to narrate the story.

But it did create a new genre in Hollywood, and he and Jim Cameron are representatives of this genre.In the films of the two of them, women's stories always occupy a main line of narrative, which is quite different from the traditional Hollywood script structure in which male stars dominate and women are just foils.

And the two have one thing in common, that is, female roles are not limited to those young and beautiful women, and they often have the opportunity to portray some professional women over 30 years old.This is obviously more attractive to famous female stars in Hollywood than to ordinary directors.

"Li Cha, what expectations do you have for cooperating with Julia?" The newcomer entertainment reporter went to interview the leading actor again.

"Julia is amazing, I'm really looking forward to working with her in this movie. In fact, if it weren't for her, I might not necessarily accept the invitation for this movie..."

When Richard Gere said this, he changed his usual acting style, leaning towards the banker's reserved, restrained and low-key handsome style.

For a very photogenic star like him, acting is nothing more than playing handsome bankers, handsome workers, handsome various roles...

Originally speaking good things about other characters at the preparatory meeting, this is both a common practice and an obligation for stars.Their salaries are so high, a large part of which is to pay for their attractiveness, and attract more fans to watch the movie through the media.

But today when he praised Julia Roberts, he angered another beautiful woman present.

"Ahem..." The official girlfriend, Cindy Crawford, approached and took Richard Gere's arm.With a pair of wonderful eyes, she stared at the reporter to see what kind of questions she could ask.

The action of the female swearing the territory surprised the reporter.She hastily wrapped up her interview with Richard Gere and went off to interview other actors.

Seeing this, Richard Gere also became very impatient and waved his hands... The clause about visiting the team at any time was obviously deliberately added by Cindy Crawford.

Cindy Crawford was not to be trifled with, she shook her hand when she saw this, and ran over to Ronald on her high heels.

"Ronald, Richard won't let me read his script, you have to tell me, how many intimate scenes are there in this movie?"

"Ahem, Cindy, you don't need to be like this..." Ronald had never seen this kind of scene. In order to monitor her husband, Harrison Ford's wife only came to the site to visit the class every day. Ronald took them Just a couple going to eat.

"Don't be like this, then what do you want from me? What is the showbiz like? It's not like I haven't seen it before, it's even better than our fashion circle..."

The mole on Cindy's lips is still so ecstasy, and her curly hair is just right for Ronald's aesthetic.When he said this, he shook his head and raised the ends of his hair, which made Ronald feel a little itchy in his heart.He quickly touched the wedding ring on his left ring finger with his fingers.

"I said yes to all your requests, Cindy. You can come and visit whenever you want. I have only one request, don't interfere with the filming.

You know there are a lot of times, this type of movie, a lot depends on the chemistry between the hero and heroine.But this is not true, they just have such a performance on camera, and when the filming is finished and they return to their trailer, he is your very good boyfriend... A good actor can separate performance and life very clearly ..."

"I haven't made a movie, I don't know. Ronald, I believe in you, can you guarantee that what you say is true?" Cindy Crawford put her hands on her waist and pushed her hips forward. The sexiness of an American-style big girl comes out from the bottom of her bones.

"Come on Cindy, have a little confidence in yourself, no one can resist your charm..."

"Hmph, why don't you just..." Cindy was quite satisfied with Ronald's compliments, and she also felt that as long as she visited the class frequently and appeared in front of her boyfriend Richard Gere, no one would be able to take him away.

"Christie (Turlington) still lives in our original apartment in New York. Sometimes she calls me and talks about you. She misses you very much..."

"If Christie needs help, tell her to call my agent..."

"Hey, why are you so heartless?" Cindy Crawford patted Ronald's arm.

"Ahem", Ronald raised his left hand, signaling that he had already put on his wedding ring.He looked at Richard Gere over there, who was still being interviewed by several media with Julia Roberts, and didn't notice what happened here.

Fortunately, Cindy Crawford's attention was immediately shifted to her very dangerous boyfriend.

"It's terrible..." Ronald yelled in his heart, looking at the back of Crawford who was twisting and walking towards his boyfriend. The toned figure and elegant temperament of the catwalk models made him feel... In addition, Cindy Crawford walked the traditional catwalk, which required a lot of strength from the waist and hips.Looking from behind... Ronald quickly took a sip of champagne, touched the wedding ring on his hand, and collected himself.

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Now coming home on time every day was not only fulfilling Ronald's husband's duty, but also becoming a way for him to escape his dangerous thoughts.

"I feel like now we are like a couple in a traditional Hollywood movie. You come home from get off work on time every day, and I prepare food for you."

"Well, what kind of dishes did you instruct Wang Ma to cook today?" As long as Diane didn't do it himself, Ronald felt that there would be no problem.

"Just some usual things, nothing special?" Diane smiled and asked the maid to bring the dishes.Sometimes she would make a dish herself, and then let Ronald guess which dish was her little game.

"Well, I can't guess it. I think all the dishes are equally delicious today." Ronald was surprised to find that his sensitive sense of taste was a little out of order today.

"And some baked cookies...", Dane smiled as he served the dessert after the meal.

"Hmm..." Ronald took a bite. This was obviously Aunt Karen's recipe, but there seemed to be some problems with the mixing of butter and eggs.

"What's the matter?" Dane took a sip and found that his baked food was not tasty, so he laughed hahaha.

"The people from Paramount called you today and asked if you like their scripts?" Dane waved the maid to remove the cookies and took out the treasure sent by Aunt Karen.Then he told Ronald about some calls he received today.

"Do you like that ghost movie?"

"I don't really want to..." Dane has worked with the veteran Hollywood star Oliver Lawrence since she was a child. She knows that this is a taboo that male stars tacitly agree on and no one talks about.It's hard to find an established star to play a ghost...

"Then I will push it in two days..."

After dinner, the two sat on the sofa and watched TV.

NBC is currently the TV station with the highest ratings, and their TV series tend to be the first to become popular.As the base of the left-wing ideology of the Donkey Party, ABC often plagiarizes the themes of NBC’s TV series and then creates a left-wing version.

Just like growing pains is to family ties, they also created a more progressive version of NBC's detective dramas.

What Ronald is watching today is this TV series called "Dragon of the Hundred Battles". The hero in it, Maggy, is a special soldier who is entrusted to solve various crises around the world.

But because he is a pacifist, he never uses weapons and never kills the enemy.Instead, he uses all kinds of things that can be bought in the supermarket to achieve the goal he wants to do.

This kind of ridiculous TV series has good ratings. Housewives (temporary) like Diane especially like this kind of TV series.They also don't worry about their children imitating guns and violence after watching it.

At this time Bannon called.

"How's it going? Does Fox have any ideas about purchasing Seinfeld?"

"They liked it very much, but they also encountered the problem of adapting to the audience's low evaluation. So they only gave an order for a six-episode first season. Are you willing to accept it?" Ronald said Barry on the 20th Century Fox side What Diller called him personally said to Bannon.

Barry Diller and his boss Rupert both owed Ronald a favor, so they wanted to know if Ronald really thought so much of the show.If so, they are willing to forcefully push it down to return the favor.

"If there are only six episodes, then I might as well take NBC. They are also willing to order a four-episode order, but NBC is definitely much better than the Fox TV network."

Bannon made his decision quickly.The choice wasn't hard to make, since NBC is one of the three nationally syndicated networks.The Fox TV network is only a regional, local TV network.

"Well, I'll decline, Fox. I won you a share of 150 million US dollars in the investment from 'Pretty Woman'..." Ronald invested part of his own daydream, and then gave Xiao George’s fund kept hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the rest he packaged and sold to Bannon on low-priority terms, and asked him to sell it on Wall Street.

"Very good, very good, now the market is very popular with the romantic dramas you fancy..."

Bannon wasn't exactly sycophanting, as "When Harry Met Sully" went straight to $1000 million at the weekend box office after opening in more than 1200 theaters.Directly surpassed Batman, second only to another new Warner Bros. film "Lethal Weapon II".

Ronald's vision for women's films has been proven yet again, with an overseas release on the agenda.

(End of this chapter)