Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 439 Stockholm

"The Twilight Zone," Vic Morrow's posthumous film, took in $600 million in its opening weekend.

Vic Morrow, ex-wife and two daughters, declined to comment on John Landis' attendance at the premiere.

Los Angeles prosecutors stated that the film director is also responsible for his actions and will sue Landis with second-degree murder and manslaughter in accordance with the law.

The newspapers were full of reports about the film in which a fatal accident occurred.

Ronald's friend, Jennifer Jason Lee's father's posthumous work, "The Twilight Zone Movie", has finally been released nationwide.Director John Landis, who is carrying a criminal case, also attended the premiere of the film.

Landis may have been forced to attend the premiere knowing that the reporters on the scene would ask many difficult questions, in order to create momentum for his film.

Defending a criminal case costs a lot of money to hire a lawyer.Subsequent civil compensation cases also need to prepare sky-high compensation.Landis bite the bullet, hoping that The Twilight Zone will sell well, so that someone can hire him to make a movie, earn money to pay off debts, and avoid bankruptcy.

In the first weekend, more than 660 theaters received a box office of [-] million. The unsatisfactory figure may have disappointed Landis.

And "Night of the Comet" is still No. 12 on the box office list, and it is still bringing in about $100 million in box office for the Atlantic every week.

A few places up, it is "Lightning Dance", which is even more nail-biting than my own movie. This movie, this week, returned to the top ten at the box office, nailed to the ninth place, and the cumulative box office has broken through 100 Ten thousand.

The reason for the rebound in the box office is that "Lightning Dance" is also involved in a lawsuit.

Original story creator Tom Hedley, before selling the script to Paramount, gave Toronto, Canada-based welder/stripper Maureen Mulder a $[-] buyout fee for the adaptation .

Now the film's North American box office has exceeded 5000 million, and the audience has been cheering, and it seems that it can continue to be screened for more than ten weeks.Maureen Mulder, the prototype of the story, sued Paramount under the instigation of lawyers, hoping to get more adaptation fees.

"Flash Dance," which looked like a bad movie at the time, is now one of the year's biggest cash cows.

Paramount has very strong evidence in its hands to refute the plaintiffs' claims.

Maureen Mulder's contract for selling the adaptation rights was very strict, and when the contract was signed, Maureen Mulder also had a lawyer present, and their chances of winning were very high.

However, the treacherous and cunning CEO Eisner still let the other party sue, signaled his lawyer to show weakness, and let the media widely report the lawsuit, which actually received a miraculous effect, and the box office picked up again.

Ronald put down the newspaper. Movies had been dethroned for years from the entertainment throne that dominated American life.Today's movies must rely heavily on the help of marketing in order to persuade batches of audiences who didn't go to the movie theater to go to the movie theater for your movie.

"Please give me a cup of coffee." Ronald said to the stewardess.

The service in the business class was satisfactory, and Saab paid for it. Ronald took a United Airlines plane and flew to New York. The plane stayed here and was about to fly to Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.

"Going abroad for the first time?" Ronald asked Richard next door.

"Yeah, thank you for upgrading the cabin for me." According to the logic, Richard could only sit in the economy class at the back, and Ronald upgraded him, otherwise Richard was in poor spirits and couldn't help him. Take care of daily chores by yourself.

"Little things," Ronald put on the blindfold and began to fall asleep.

The plane arrived at Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, and the two of them waited in the arrival hall of Terminal [-] until the lady who came to the United States to negotiate.

"Here, Ronald." She took Ronald's small bag graciously, got into the Saab 9000 luxury car that the VIPs took, and the group went to the Stockholm Grand Hotel to check in.

In summer in northern Europe, the days are very long, with more than sixteen hours.The Grand Hotel is in the center of the city. It is a very grand historic site. Saab reserved a room for Ronald facing the North Stream in the center of Stockholm. When you open the window, you can see the two bridges on the North Stream and various old buildings. came into view.

"You rest first, and when you get over the jet lag, we'll go to the air force base to see Saab's fighter jets and the scene of the site." Saab's marketing female manager made very thoughtful arrangements.

"If it's convenient, I can go now." Ronald has a good advantage. He can sleep soundly on the plane, regardless of the noise and turbulence.

"Is that so? Well then, I'll contact the base." Of course, the female manager couldn't wish for Ronald's dedication.

Let Richard stay in the hotel to catch up on sleep, and Ronald drove through the ancient city of Stockholm to Balkaby Airport in the northern suburbs.

This is the earliest airport in Stockholm, which has been used by the Air Force. It was not opened to civil aviation until ten years ago, but on the other side of the airport, the training base of the Swedish Air Force is still maintained.

The car passed several guards, Ronald got a pass, hung it around his neck, and the car drove into the air force base.

When Ronald got out of the car, the first thing he saw were two huge hangars.On the door of the hangar, there are several letters of SAAB written in large letters.

This is where the Saab 37 Thor jet fighter (Saab 37 Viggen) is parked.

"Viggen means thunderbolt in Swedish. In Norse mythology, he is the thunderbolt hit by Thor with his war hammer." The female manager introduced to Ronald.

"When will I see him in training?"

The female manager found the senior manager of Saab who came with him. After he verified with the personnel of the Air Force and Saab, there will be a routine training half an hour later.

The iron door of the hangar was slowly opened a crack, and a fully armed Swedish Air Force pilot, wearing sunglasses and a white scarf around his neck, nodded to them and walked into the hangar.He climbed carefully into the cockpit through a steel escalator.

Ronald was chartered to stand next to the hangar and watch the fighter jets leave the warehouse.

As the door of the hangar opened wider and wider, the sun shone in through the door, hitting the cockpit of the fighter jet.

A ray of sunlight penetrated the glass of the cockpit and shone on the pilot's mask.

Ronald's heart moved, this is a very good scene design.He quickly used shorthand symbols that no one present could understand to outline the scene in his heart.

The fighter pilot put the canopy back on, some ground crew undocked the plane, and the plane slowly moved forward.The airspeed tube in front of the fighter jet poked out the door of the hangar like a needle.

The huge machine was glowing with gray light, which made Ronald feel great awe of this modern murder weapon.Looking at the pylon under the belly, it is obvious that missiles can be mounted to attack local targets.

Modern warfare has evolved to shoot down enemy planes by pressing a button.Instead of fighting each other with machine guns like in old movies.

When the fighter jets leave the hangar, they are very slow.But this very slow progress left a deep impression on Ronald.Before this killing machine soared into the sky, it also crouched on the ground, advancing slowly like a turtle.

The plane moved slowly onto the runway.Together with Saab's manager, Ronald came to the side of the runway to watch take off.

A single turbojet engine, the nozzle in the tail of the aircraft is opened.A mass of orange-red flames spewed out from the nozzle of the engine.

Today the pilots are going to perform short takeoff and landing training.I saw that the flame suddenly increased, and the length of the jet also suddenly lengthened.The pilot applied the brakes, and the nose of the plane paused for a moment, then moved forward slowly.

The noise of the engine suddenly amplified several times, and a huge roar came. Ronald found that his eardrums were beginning to be compressed, and he had to use a loud voice to barely hear.

The manageress brought two earmuffs and gave Ronald one.

After wearing it, the noise was reduced a lot.Ronald stopped talking, took out his notebook and ballpoint pen, and began to write down some of his feelings in the notebook.

With a sound of "Boom...", the fighter jet suddenly seemed to be pushed by someone and began to accelerate sharply.The subject of short take-off made Ronald, who watched from a close distance, feel thrilled.

The plane raised its head first, then the front landing gear slowly lifted up, and it kept its head up posture. After a second, the fighter jet struggled again, completely breaking free from the shackles of gravity, and slowly lifted into the air.

Then the pilot yanked the nose again, made a maneuver, flew high into the sky at high speed, and disappeared soon.

Ronald felt the aftertaste of a sound wave, the echo of the engine, and the hot air blown by the nozzle, as if bounced back by the surrounding wall.

This kind of very slow movement in front, the appearance of being in place and preparing, and the rapid soaring into the sky after take-off gave Ronald a very strong sense of contrast.

"I...have..." Ronald said to Saab's manager.

"What did you say?" the manager took off his earmuffs and asked him.

Ronald also hurriedly took off the earmuffs, "I said, I have a new idea. I know how to express Saab's surging power."

"What is it?"

"I think that the most powerful moment for ordinary people to feel the jet fighter is not launching missiles in the sky, but the moment of take-off or landing. In this way, I can express the surging power of Saab fighter jets and Saab cars in parallel, and then Let them meet on the runway."

Ronald gestured and said to the female manager.

"Sounds good." The female manager felt that Ronald's new idea seemed even more exciting.

The two walked back to the hangar, ready to board the car and go back to the hotel.

"What's in that hangar?" Ronald looked at another hangar not far away, separated from here by barbed wire.

"That's a confidential project," the female manager replied with a smile, "I don't know what it is either."

(End of this chapter)