Hollywood Director 1992

In early September, Guess Pictures' sixth film of the year, "Léon: The Professional," was released in North America.

Over four weeks, it grossed $18.58 million in North America.

During the Cannes Film Festival in May, Link paid $4.5 million to Gaumont Film Company for the North American distribution rights.

The advertising and distribution costs were $3.5 million.

It has already broken even and is expected to earn around $10 million.

This figure is less than Link anticipated.

He originally thought that a globally popular film like this would perform well at the box office, but the North American box office prediction is only over $30 million, much lower than expected.

However, the film has received very good reviews and has been praised by many filmmakers after its release. Mainstream media such as the "Los Angeles Times" also praised Guess Pictures for releasing another good film.

In the fourth week of "Léon: The Professional's" release, Guess Pictures' seventh film, "Before Sunrise," was released.

This film is a pure art film that won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 51st Venice International Film Festival in September, and has a certain influence in the international film scene.

The film grossed $920,000 in 42 art theaters in North America in its opening week, which is a decent result and is expected to break even within five weeks.

This film also received extremely good reviews, and director Richard Linklater was highly recognized by Hollywood film critics and was called a postmodern 'film poet'.

This week, "Seven" officially surpassed $750 million in global box office revenue, including $320 million in North America and $430 million overseas. In addition, "Seven" videotapes have also been released in various regions, with good results.

"Entertainment Weekly" predicts that Guess Pictures' profit on this film will exceed $400 million.

"Link, sometimes I really envy you independent filmmakers. You only need to make one good film each year to earn tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, which is more than what our agency earns in a busy year," Jay Moloney said, holding a magazine in the bar booth.

Link smiled and said, "You must be joking. In the past few decades, dozens or hundreds of independent film companies have gone bankrupt every year. Very few have made money. Compared with agencies, the risk is huge. Investing in independent films is more like gambling."

"But Guess Pictures has been profitable. Last year, it ranked sixth in total box office revenue in the industry, and this year it is steadily entering the top three. A film company that has been established for less than three years has a higher total box office revenue and profit than the seven major film companies, which is really enviable," Jay Moloney said.

Link smiled.

"Hey, Link, what are you doing here?"

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez walked over from the crowded aisle, shouting at Link from five meters away.

"Come and sit down."

Link shook the beer bottle in his hand.

Quentin looked at his booth and only saw Jay Moloney and Tom Hanks. He greeted them and looked at Link suspiciously, "Why are you at the bar without any beautiful women accompanying you? This is not like you."

"Talking about work."

"Work?"

Quentin looked at the script in Tom Hanks' hand, "'Batman' sequel? Are you planning to find Mr. Tom Hanks to play Batman?"

"Link, is this true?"

Robert Rodriguez looked at Tom Hanks in disbelief, trying to find similarities with Batman, but he couldn't.

"It's not 'Batman', it's another movie. Batman's filming will start at the beginning of next year. I have nothing to do during this time, so I plan to shoot this movie first," Link smiled.

"That's more like it."

"You can go pick up girls and play poker, you can do anything, why do you have to make a movie?"

The two sat down and asked.

"I'm a director, what else can I do if I don't make movies?"

"But have you considered my feelings when you do this? We debuted at the same time, and you are now preparing your seventh movie, while I am still writing the script for my third movie. Doesn't that make me look very slow?"

"You are slow to begin with, do I need to say it?"

"Humph!"

Quentin pouted unhappily, glanced at the cover of the script in Tom Hanks' hand, "'The Sixth Sense'? Are you going to film this next? I don't think this is a good idea. This script is very average."

"Average?"

Tom Hanks raised his head, his eyes red, obviously moved by the story in the script.

"This script is great, one of the most touching scripts I've ever read, how could it be average?"

"Uh? Tom, aren't you exaggerating too much? I read this script at Harvey's place. Although the plot is relatively warm and the character settings are good, the story is too bland, there is no breaking point, and it is not touching enough. According to my measurement standards, it is at most second-rate."

Quentin shrugged.

"Not touching enough? Dr. McConaughey finally finds out that he is dead and becomes a ghost, and everything he experienced before, including treating Cole's mental illness, being late for his wedding anniversary, talking to his wife, and his wife ignoring him, are all because he is dead, his wife can't see him, but he still loves his wife, and his wife also loves him. Two people who love each other can't be together, isn't that touching enough?"

Tom Hanks asked puzzled.

"Wait! Dr. McConaughey is dead? I haven't seen that, are we not reading the same script?"

Quentin took the script and flipped through it, and found that the first 85% of the content was similar to the version he read, but the last 15% of the plot changed drastically, and the entire script became very different, from a very healing drama to a thriller suspense film, and the story became very touching.

Especially the plot where Dr. McConaughey's soul slowly dissipates into starlight after kissing his sleeping wife, which is very tearful.

"How could this be?"

Quentin wiped the corner of his eye, "Did you take it to be modified later?"

"Yes."

Link smiled, actually he did it on purpose.

"The Sixth Sense" tells the story of child and family psychologist Dr. McConaughey, who has helped many troubled children back on the right track in his more than ten years of medical practice, and has also been praised by the city government for this.

On the night of receiving the commendation, a young man who had been treated by Dr. McConaughey but had not been cured broke into his house, shot Dr. McConaughey, and committed suicide.

A year later, Dr. McConaughey once again encountered a case similar to that of the suicidal teenager, a nine-year-old boy named Cole.

Dr. McConaughey decided to help Cole out of his predicament and prevent the tragedy from happening again.

Cole has the ability to see ghosts, and can see ghosts that others cannot see. Cole is very scared and does not think that anyone can help him, and he is also very resistant to Dr. McConaughey's help.

Later, with Dr. McConaughey's insistence, Cole slowly lowered his guard and prepared to accept his help.

While treating Cole, Dr. McConaughey discovered that his marriage seemed to be in trouble, his wife began to ignore him and no longer paid attention to him.

With Dr. McConaughey's companionship and guidance, Cole gradually accepted the fact that he had the ability to see ghosts and began to use his ability to help those ghosts who stayed in the world.

At the same time, Dr. McConaughey also discovered a shocking fact, that he was actually dead and had become a ghost. His wife ignored him and did not answer his words because she could not see him. Cole could see him because of his ability to see ghosts.

In the end, Dr. McConaughey accepted the fact that he had died, and after kissing his wife goodbye, he turned into starlight and disappeared into the world.