Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

Upon hearing the news, Kevin immediately agreed.

This show can increase his familiarity in front of the public and help build his personal directorial image brand.

At the same time, it is also good for the box office, and he has no possibility of refusing.

....

It's time to May 4, and Escape from Desperate Town has been released for three days.

In these three days, the box office on the first day was 10.82 million US dollars, and the next two days were not to be outdone, achieving a box office of more than 12 million and a box office of 133 million, respectively.

According to this rhythm, the North American box office is likely to exceed 100 million.

In North America, the most important time to pay box office is the first two weeks, after which it will start to fall sharply.

Therefore, the propaganda in front is the most important.

Although it may already exceed 100 million, Warner and Kevin will naturally not be so satisfied.

Therefore, the opportunity for Oprah Winfrey's talk show was obtained by Warner's side.

This is the opportunity that Kevin knows how to share.

Otherwise, even if the film is good, such opportunities will be difficult to obtain.

...

Kevin and Will Smith and Angelina Jolie came to the Oprah Winfrey talk show.

A black aunt, with curly hair, came over with a smile.

"Hello, Kevin, Julie, Smith, hello!"

Kevin, Steve, and Julie all responded enthusiastically.

After a few brief chats, the show began to be officially recorded.

The main point of Oprah Winfrey's talk show is empathy, of course, in Kevin's opinion, it is actually a miserable sale.

So Kevin revealed his identity as an orphan on this show, relying on his own efforts to become a talented director of the University of Southern California, and the news of two consecutive movie hits.

"Kevin, you are a typical American dream, relying on your own efforts, step by step to become a rich man, by now, your net worth should be tens of millions, right?"

"But I heard that you bought a multi-million dollar luxury villa in Beverly Hills."

Oprah Winfrey performed with an exaggerated expression.

After simply showing off a wave of wealth, this talk show came to the point.

"Kevin, how did you come up with the idea of making a movie with black people as the protagonists?"

Oprah Winfrey asked curiously.

"Why can't a black man be the protagonist?"

Kevin first asked a rhetorical question, and then continued:

"In my films, I only arrange actors according to specific roles, and I don't care about race."

"As long as he really suits my film, I will directly determine it."

Oprah Winfrey followed Kevin's words and played with the trend.

He chatted with Kevin about discrimination against blacks in American society, and Kevin showed a very sympathetic face for blacks.

Interspersed with the words of Will Smith from time to time, as a black rapper, amusing is also his skill.

The talk show lasted more than two hours of recording, and after the Kevin couple and Oprah Winfrey exchanged contact information, they left here to go home.

A day later, the Oprah Winfrey talk show was broadcast, which immediately attracted countless black and white left viewers to escape from Desperate Town.

On the same day, the box office successfully exceeded 20 million gates.

Don't notice that this is too much, knowing that the Oprah Winfrey talk show now has a regular weekly audience of 30 million.

Spread out every day, it is watched by more than four million people.

It's only added millions of dollars, which is really not much.

.....

MGM Pictures, one of the eight largest studios in Hollywood.

Of course, if you follow Kevin, there are actually only five big ones.

Since MGM was acquired by a casino tycoon in 1970, it has not produced any classics, relying entirely on eating old books.

007, cat and mouse are their last glory.

MGM executives, however, don't want that.

They are looking for ways to get MGM out of trouble and back to glory.

In this situation, MGM set his sights on Kevin.

Unlike other big directors who have regular cooperation with film companies, Steve Kevin, as a newly famous director, has not yet put any film company imprint.

MGM's idea was to sink the boat and be Steve Kevin's Bole.

Inside the MGM President's Office.

"Guys, invite Steve Kevin to make a medium-investment movie, can we accept this cost?"

As the president, LTECH said with a serious face.

At this time, MGM was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and saddled with heavy debt, which made them naturally afraid to do things, especially when it came to film investment.

But as president, Reiter knew that if this continued, MGM would only die a slow death.

A way must be found to reverse this situation.

For studios, nothing can change the current situation more than the emergence of a blockbuster movie.

But the real famous director, the big director, is now either making literary and artistic films with a high probability of losing money, or a big investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Both are unacceptable to MGM.

Of course, there are also famous directors who are willing to make small productions, but such famous directors have long been hooked up by other film companies.

It has nothing to do with them MGM.

The only director who has a chance, so far, is MGM.

"Yes, but if you fail..."

The meaning of the person who spoke is obvious, if it fails, LTECH, the president, is mainly responsible.

The consequence is likely to be to carry this black pot and leave MGM.

As a middle-aged person, who can become a high-ranking person in MGM, no one is willing to leave like this.

But everyone also knows that if it goes on like this, MGM will not last for many years, and it must be found.

Therefore, from the bottom of their hearts, everyone supports the president of LTECH, of course, it is naturally impossible to back the pot.

"I will take all the responsibility, please support my decision."

Having said that, others naturally won't refuse,

so MGM's president began to find Kevin's contact information through various ways.

....

In the villa, Kevin was reading the news in the newspaper.

Since being on the Oprah talk show, it has suddenly attracted a lot of support for escaping from Desperate Town, especially the most famous black movie stars.

Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Forrest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson and other famous black movie stars unified in the newspaper to publish news in the newspaper that supported Kevin's escape from Desperate Town.

After Kevin clearly set himself an equal character, plus the protagonist of the movie is indeed black.

So these black movie stars unanimously expressed their support for Kevin.