Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 695

Jackie Chan is a rough man on the surface, but he is actually very shrewd on the inside.He saw the benefits of Ronald's new style of editing tape.

Although this product cannot make much money, it has an advantage.With this kind of editing tape, after editing and copying, the editing interface is only one-sixteenth of the original tape, which can be directly shown to the audience.

In Hong Kong, where the filming pace is very fast, this is an excellent invention, so that the film studio can save the time and cost of reprinting a new copy, and release it for a trial screening after the editing is completed.

As the exclusive distributor of the new editing tape in Xiangjiang, Jackie Chan can sell it to those bosses who invest in the film business, which is a big favor.

Panavision cameras are equipment that can only be used in large-scale productions, and Jackie Chan can give those directors and producers who are full of creativity and aim at large-scale productions a big favor.

Although the things are supplied by Ronald, isn't it all a matter of his words to rent them out in his studio in Xiangjiang, whether to give them to whom or not?

So he readily agreed to Ronald, and in all the movies that use Panavision cameras and new editing tapes, the name of Daydream Films will be put on the subtitles, which is also the name of Panavision's side. required by the lease contract.

With two good things in hand, including the lightning machine that seems useless, Jackie Chan also promised Ronald to put two at his place and borrow it for those who need it.

Ronald, who has made several deals and expanded his business to the East Asian continent, is also very satisfied.In a film market, there is a lot to learn. I have already extended my tentacles into Dongying and Xiangjiang, the two largest box office markets in East Asia.

Next, relying on these two bases, it will be able to penetrate slowly. It is hard to say about the movie. Who knows how big it will be in the future?

Next, Ronald was back in Los Angeles, having completed his duty of attending the top gun-mandated marketing campaign.

And Tom Cruise will continue his itinerary in India and Singapore. This movie is the key to his becoming a big star. At that time, the contract was a bit harsh. He led many trips as a big star and audience Interact and give the local media an entertainment headline.

Ronald had just lost his jet lag, and it was the weekend again in a blink of an eye.

The box office of "Top Gun" continued to soar in the middle of the week.

Both Paramount and CAA saw this abnormal phenomenon and treated Ronald more cautiously.

Even Ned Tanin, who wanted to use the unused stunt shots in "Top Gun", specially invited Ronald to apologize to him alone in the office, hoping that he would not mind and continue to cooperate with Paramount.

Anyway, no outsiders saw it. Tanin kept his posture very low and said a lot of soft words.In the end, Ronald couldn't stand the president of a big studio, who treated himself like a younger generation in such a humble way, and let him go with a laugh.

In order to appease Ronald, Ned Tanin personally sent him downstairs, then let Ronald sit in the back of his car, sat in the cab himself, and sent him to CAA as the driver.

"Now everyone in Paramount knows how important you are."

In the CAA office, seeing Ned Tanin as the driver himself, Nisita smiled happily.

This statement not only let everyone in Paramount know the importance of Ronald, but also let CAA's agents know Paramount's view of Ronald.

"I don't know why Tanin is so humble. In fact, I would rather he respect my creative freedom than remind everyone in this way."

"It's up to him." Nisita understood Tanin's intentions very well.

"Top Gun" has two uncharacteristically high box office gains, and the new week's decline continues to slowly decline at a pace that is almost invisible to the naked eye.

This shows one thing, "Top Gun" has become a phenomenal movie.

Many missing viewers of "The Sound of Music", middle-aged couples who don't necessarily go to the cinema once in two or three years, this time they also know that there is such an air combat movie, and they must go to the cinema to watch the Tomcat beat up the MiG .

Every two or three years, there will be such a movie. For some unknown reason, the universe and the earth work together, and all kinds of limitations are very good for it, and they are all in the best position.Box office can no longer be inferred from rules of thumb.

For example, "Rocky" ten years ago, and "ET Alien" five years ago, both have a magic power that breaks all the rules and kills all directions at the box office.It can compete with the new film a month or even a few months later for the box office championship.

"So do you forgive Tanin?" Nisita also wanted to hear Ronald's thoughts, whether to continue to cooperate with Paramount in the new film.

"I just promised him to go to the premiere of Paramount's new film to support him. As for my new film, I'd better see the film studio's conditions."

"Very well, you already have the mentality of a Hollywood success." Nisita said happily.

……

Another Paramount teen hit, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," is about to premiere.

It was also released by Paramount, and it was the fourth teen film directed by acquaintance John Hughes. Ronald still went to the premiere.

This is the first time that John Hughes has left his teenage muse, Molly Ringwald, to direct and shoot a film.

Because Molly no longer wants to repeat her role image as a young girl, and Hughes wrote or directed three consecutive movies "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", and "Pretty in Pink", she played the same role. , a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, through self-awakening and the boy she likes become lovers, completed the first major change in her life.

Without a long-term deal to tie Molly Ringwald, John Hughes' plans to make a teen movie around real teen actors also went bankrupt.In this film "Spring is not a day for studying", he must also use over-age actors.

24-year-old Matthew Brodick plays the leading actor high school student, 29-year-old Alan Rucker plays the second male classmate, 21-year-old Charlie Sheen plays the supporting actor, and 25-year-old Jennifer Gray plays the leading actor's sister.

They are all over-aged actors who have passed puberty.Only the male protagonist's girlfriend is starred by 19-year-old Mia Sara, but her role is not heavy.

When Ronald arrived on the set, the co-stars were chatting with Molly Ringwald.

"I really don't understand, how did Jean-Luc Godard direct, he directed King Lear, and Jean was lying on a big rock by the sea. I asked him if my character was asleep or dead .He just looked at me like I was asking a really stupid question. Poof..."

Molly Ringwald breathed a sigh of relief and blew out her red bangs. This hairstyle became popular in America and appeared on the cover of Time Magazine last month. sweet!"

The two surrounding actresses, Mia Sara and Jennifer Gray, have also acted in several Hollywood movies, but they are obviously very envious and jealous of Molly Ringwald's hot star.

Although he was complaining, he was showing off that he could be selected by Jean-Luc Godard of the New Wave of the Three Kingdoms to film the modern version of "King Lear", and he told the story in such an intimate tone Godard's guidance to her performance made several bystanders feel uncomfortable.

"John Hughes asked you to make a commercial film, which was well-received and well-received, and now he is going to act in a literary film in Europe. Why do you take advantage of all the good things?"

"Ronald, here you come!"

Jennifer Gray, a classmate in acting class, saw the hot new director enter the lounge.This is a director with a better box office record than John Hughes.Rather than envying Molly Ringwald's good luck, try her luck here.

With a bang, all the people surrounding Ringwald came to surround Ronald, wanting to hear his views on art.

"Ronald, what do you think of Godard's method of directing?"

Molly Ringwald was completely disappointed in Godard and wanted to hear Ronald's opinion.

"I'm in the New Wave of China, and my favorite is Truffaut. He doesn't reject Hollywood commercial films, and he also starred in Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'. Maybe if he is alive, he will be like me. The director of a commercial film full of copper stinks speaks."

"Hahaha……"

Everyone was thoroughly amused by Ronald's "humor". It seemed that his comedy performance was even more amusing than Bill Murray, the most popular comedian recently.

Molly Ringwald curled her lips. This director is indeed, as he said to himself, not very proficient in art.

Several people chatted for a while, Ronald took the opportunity to call Jennifer Gray, "I heard that your father is a famous dancer, can you dance?"

The starring role of "Dirty Dancing" in the dream is the classmate in the acting class, so I just asked her about her dancing level.

"Actually, I won't..." Gray smiled, she did not inherit her father's dance career, "But I can learn..."

She suddenly figured it out, Ronald wouldn't ask her if she could dance for no reason, could it be that there was a role?
"You don't need to learn, I just ask casually." Ronald smiled and denied Gray's idea. In the dream movie, the heroine Baby played by Gray obviously danced at the level of a beginner, and she danced with her in the script. It is in line with the image, if you go to learn to dance now, it will not be good.

"What role does Ronald ask you to play?" Matthew Brodick, who played the leading actor in "Spring Is Not a Book Day", then pulled Jennifer Gray to chat.

Although in the movie, Gray played his older sister, but in private, Brodick disliked Mia Sara, who played his girlfriend, and became a couple with her.

"He just asked me if I could dance and said I didn't need to learn it."

Gray recounted the conversation between himself and Ronald verbatim, and asked his boyfriend what to do.

"The director has a lot of ideas, and we don't know what the role is now. It's not good for you to ask more. Then I will ask my agent to help you find out what project Ronald is working on recently. Haven't you practiced before? How about ballet, you can also familiarize yourself with it again, just in case."

"Well, I listen to you."

Jennifer Gray is no longer dating Michael J. Fox, and he's clearly smitten with the actress who played his girlfriend on TV's "Bounds," and Brodick offers him an olive branch.

Both male and female protagonists of John Hughes will be popular, and it is not bad to be in love with him.Besides, Brodick is also Jewish of the same ethnicity, and he is also very handsome.

"John", Ronald had already gone to greet John Hughes at this time.

"You're welcome, Ronald. This is my partner, Howard Deutsch," Hughes welcomed him, before introducing him to a tall friend from earlier this year" The director of "Pretty in Pink", Hughes' partner and friend.

"You're still right. Before the release of Pretty in Pink, during the test screening, the audience was very dissatisfied with the ending of Andy, played by Molly Ringwald, who fell in love with the neighbor Fa Xiao. I finally asked Howard to recall the The lead actor, Andrew McCarthy, who went off to do other movies, came back and did a different ending."

Hughes complained about the poor box office of "Pretty in Pink", which was less than 4000 million, which did not meet his expectations.He didn't understand whether it was the ending problem, or the skill of director Howard Deutsch, which was far behind him.

"I told you... that ending doesn't fit the audience's values ​​in America." Ronald laughed. If the story were reversed, the little one would be a girl, and the ugly duckling would become a white swan after being dressed up. Except for the male lead, it's more or less the same.

"Who says no, I should listen to you."

John Hughes is about the same as Ronald, producing an average of two to three films a year, all of which are blockbusters.So now, apart from Ronald, who has a better box office performance than himself, he and others have a sense of arrogance.

After some chatting, everyone entered the screening room and began to watch "Spring is Not a Day for Studying", which was filmed in Hughes' hometown of Chicago.

"Hahaha……"

The audience's laughter and applause showed that after Hughes's last box office film fell short of expectations, the film he directed could still reach the average level of Hughes' youth films.

Ronald also applauded.Hughes is no longer obsessed with casting, he must have real teenage actors to play teenage roles, but changed his directing method.

This "Spring is not a day for studying" is all the dreams of a high school boy.He has a beautiful girlfriend, a very strong buddy, teased the teacher and the principal, pretended to be sick to deceive his parents, and stayed in Chicago with his girlfriend and buddies instead of going to school.

In the end, he returned home before he was out of gangs, and let his sister and principal who came to arrest him for lying, suffered a crushing defeat.

It's the kind of daydream that probably every high school boy in America has, and Hughes ties it all together nicely, showing off all the sights to see in his hometown of Chicago.

However, John Hughes has a habit that Ronald doesn't like very much. He asked the actor many times to break the space of the movie and directly speak to the audience.

This technique is very dramatic, and it does not suit Ronald's taste.Sometimes the audience will also play at that time.But the other parts are very exciting, which still covers up this small flaw.

After saying goodbye to a few actors he knew well and speaking kindly to reporters about Hughes, Ronald left and went home.

John Hughes, who stayed behind, was not too immersed in the success of the new film, and discussed the issue of the new film with his friend Howard Deutsch.

"John, this movie is like a negative of 'Pretty in Pink', changing the story of one woman and two men into one man and two women. We have learned from last time that casting is very important. I think if we can't Find a lead like Molly Ringwald, and you might as well not make it."

"Pretty in Pink" is Howard Deutsch's debut film. The film has not reached the average box office level of Hughes' works, and he really wants to make a comeback with the new film.Ringwald refused to repeat the role again, and Deutsch felt that his prospects were worrying.

"You think so?" Hughes was not as humble in front of Howard Deutsch as he was in front of Ronald.

"Yes, that's what I thought."

"Okay then, you don't want to shoot."

"What do you mean, John. Do you want to write a new script to shoot?" Howard Deutsch hadn't figured out the situation yet.

"You don't want to shoot anymore, you are fired."

John Hughes failed at the box office, and Muse Lin Ward was already angry when he left him. Howard Deutsch also said that, the anger that was suppressed by him at the box office in front of Ronald broke out again come out.

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