I’m in Hollywood

Speaking of the producer's problem, Catherine Bigelow couldn't help but said, Why do you want to find another producer? Actually, I can do it myself.

Eric smiled in amazement: Your proposal is really bold. For such a project with an investment of more than 50 million US dollars, few directors in Hollywood dare to be so confident in asking to be the producer in person. jobs are lost.”

Catherine also seems to think that her request is a bit excessive. In Hollywood, it is a very important rule that the director is restricted by the producer. The final editing rights of most movies are often in the hands of the producer, which can prevent the director from recklessly. Shooting according to one's own ideas will affect the quality of the film, and also avoid the investors' funds being squandered by the director.

Of course, this kind of rule also has great drawbacks. Many originally excellent films are ruined beyond recognition because of the producer's intervention in editing. In the end, the director is badly criticized by the audience, and the film company often releases the director's cut version many years later. , the film was renamed, the most famous case is the famous Italian director Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.

After watching the woman put forward this suggestion, he stretched out his slender fingers and rubbed the storyboard in front of him with embarrassment. Eric smiled and said: 5↗ Of course, the biggest advantage of Hollywood is that it is more efficient than other industries. Easy to work around. If you really want to be the producer of Saving Private Ryan, I can promise you.”

Catherine raised her head and asked tentatively, Then... what about the final editing rights?

Eric raised his eyebrows: Hey, woman. Don't be too aggressive.

Women... Katherine repeated Eric's words in a slightly prolonged voice: You are discriminating. Do you mean that I am a man. Can you get the final editing rights?

Eric stared at Katherine's beautiful face that showed no signs of the years: If you are a man, you can't even get the position of producer.

Catherine couldn't help avoiding Eric's fiery gaze: I warn you, little guy, don't do this again, or I won't pick it up.

You're starting to lose confidence? Eric asked rhetorically.

what?

Eric put on a cool pose, looked at Catherine and repeated: I mean, you're starting to lose confidence, and you're afraid that you won't be able to stand my... temptation?

Catherine stared at Eric's somewhat 'hateful' expression with her mouth slightly open. For a few seconds in confusion,

He stood up abruptly, picked up the file bag containing the script and the storyboards in front of him, and slapped Eric's head mercilessly: Little bastard, narcissist.

Eric took a few times without pain, leaned back on the chair to avoid the woman's attack range, and laughed at the woman's rare gaffe.

The two of them were sitting on a prominent seat near the center of the restaurant. Catherine suddenly stood up to 'attack' Eric, and immediately attracted the attention of all the guests in the restaurant. Feeling these strange gazes, Catherine's face, holding the document bag, was instantly dyed with a delicate burgundy, and she mechanically retracted her outstretched arms little by little. Putting down the document bag in his hand, he turned around in a hurry and walked out of the restaurant.

Eric looked at the back of the woman fleeing. The smile on the corners of his mouth deepened. Ignoring other people's pointing, Eric picked up the file bag opposite, got up and followed.

Catherine went back to her room, got into the bathroom and washed her face with cold water. The heat on her cheeks slowly subsided. Looking at herself in the mirror with a few strands of wet hair in front of her forehead, the woman patted her face lightly. , accelerated the blushing on his cheeks to dissipate, and muttered to himself: Damn guy, damn... little guy.

She was muttering to herself in front of the mirror, but there was a sudden knock on the door. She took the towel and wiped her face, and then she walked outside. Thinking that it might be Eric outside the door, she stood behind the door and hesitated for a few seconds before she felt that she couldn't show her timidity because of his flirtatious words, that would make him even more proud. Well, I definitely can't make that little guy more proud, and... seductive, really arrogant, arrogant.

Encouraged herself, Catherine pulled the door open, but blocked the door and did not let Eric in, her eyes became cold, and her chin raised slightly: What do you do?

Eric looked at the proud gesture of the woman, and jokingly handed over the file bag: Your Majesty, your things have fallen into the dining room.

Catherine looked at the thing in front of her, but didn't mean to take it: You can give it to someone else, I...

Eric shoved the script into Catherine's arms, watched the woman take it in a panic, and wanted to push it back, Eric stepped back and said, Okay, it's just a joke, study the script carefully, since If you want to be a producer, then make a detailed production plan as soon as possible, and I will go first if there is nothing else.

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Because this time was much more prepared than in August, Eric didn't need to stay in New York for too long. On February 5, after staying in New York for more than half a month, Eric returned to Los Angeles again. Of course, it was also because many people were prepared this time. Although they invested 2 billion US dollars in principal, because of the reduction in leverage ratio and the large number of players in the futures market, the profit ratio was not as high as last time. According to statistics, the profit this time is only about 4 billion US dollars at most. However, coupled with the profit in August, Eric already has a huge capital of nearly 8 billion US dollars. This money is more than enough to fully acquire Disney in the future, and maybe he can do something else by the way.

In Los Angeles, since the end of last year, the annual awards season has come to an end. Because of the war, this year's awards season in Hollywood has not been as lively as in previous years. Considering the public image, even the Golden Globe Awards will be held. quite low key. But now the outcome of the war has been decided, so it is conceivable that the Oscars ceremony scheduled for March 24 will still be as beautiful as it has been in ten thousand years.

Although Eric did not participate in the Golden Globe Awards for Film and Television on January 19, he has been paying attention to the trends here, at the Golden Globe Awards. The two most important works related to fireflies are The Ghost Story and Friends. Whoopi Goldberg is not only the same as in the previous life. No suspense won the best supporting actress in a musical comedy. To Eric's surprise, Nicolas Cage, who replaced Patrick Swayze as Sam, also won the Best Actor in a Musical Comedy, but in Eric's view, although Cage's acting skills are beyond doubt, The PR of this award is more important. In addition to the PR of Firefly, the connections of the Coppola family must have played a big role.

The subsequent Friends not only won the best drama series in a musical comedy, Aniston also won a best actress in a musical comedy. Too bad Eric didn't show up. Otherwise, I will definitely meet the little stubborn girl I haven't seen in a long time.

Although Elizabeth's Silence of the Lambs is recognized as a big hit at the Oscars, and even has a tendency to overwhelm Francis Coppola's The Godfather 3, it doesn't seem to be well received by the judges at the Golden Globe Awards. Love, although the nominations won are almost the same as the Oscar nominations announced later, but only Jodie Foster won the best actress award, and all the others were lost.

This result made Elizabeth uneasy for a while, and she even called to New York to discuss with Eric, but the public relations focus of Silence of the Lambs has always been on the Oscars, and the Golden Globes are not too important. And, while the Golden Globes are known as an outpost for the Oscars. But it's not the Golden Globes that really reflect the Oscar-winning tendencies. Instead, it is a special union like the Directors Guild, Actors Guild, or Screenwriters Guild. In these awards, Silence of the Lambs has received a lot of recognition, so Eric is sure that this Oscar will not have too many twists and turns.

As usual, The Godfather 3 should be a big threat. Because of Eric's accidental insertion, Sofia Coppola, who received a lot of bad reviews in her previous life, voluntarily withdrew from the Godfather 3 crew, and Francis Coppola invited acting. The well-received young actress Winona Ryder, but this change is not destined to save the Godfather 3, which seems to be a bit of a follow-up.

After all, many people know that Coppola had no plans to shoot The Godfather 3, but because the Coppola family-run film company suffered losses in the first two years, Coppola had to agree to Paramount Pictures Production of this sequel.

It is said that Coppola originally planned to release the film on Easter next year. Because of the urging of Paramount Pictures, the film was moved forward by more than three months. Correspondingly, the sequel was not as good as the first two. So far, The Godfather 3 has only received $60 million at the box office. According to the current attendance rate, it will definitely not be able to enjoy the box office rebound after the Oscar. For this reason, Paramount is not so eager to publicize the Godfather 3 awards. Although Coppola has not publicly stated his position, he is privately dissatisfied with Paramount's forcibly speeding up the production progress and affecting the quality of the film. , and even less in the mood for public relations.

Therefore, although the first two films of the Godfather series have won the best film, the quality of The Godfather 3 is completely incomparable with the first two films, and the possibility of winning the best film is even more slim, and because Eric shot Dances with Wolves has been cut off, and there is not a single film that can compete with The Silence of the Lambs at this Oscar.

After returning to Los Angeles, Eric only asked a little about this matter, and devoted most of his energy to the reorganization of Firefly and the preparation of Tornado.

After all, even if Silence of the Lambs wins the award, it doesn't seem to have much to do with Eric on the surface.

As for The Ghost Story, although he was nominated for the best picture, Eric has no PR meaning at all, and Firefly is only two of the best supporting actress and the best original screenplay in Whoopi Goldberg. Put some effort into the project. While Bridget Fonda and Cage were both nominated for the Golden Globes, neither was nominated for the Oscars.

After more than half a year, the development of the special effects software maya hosted by Ed Carmore has entered the final testing stage. Of course, this is only the traditionally defined version 1.0, whose main function is to satisfy the related special effects of Tornado In the production process of Tornado, we will continue to invest energy and funds to improve it.

The fluid simulation software originally handed over to a scientific research team at Stanford University has been completed, and it has realized the connection with Maya and the rendering software renderman. This software is a tool specially used to design fluid special effects such as hurricanes and ocean waves, which can make these scenes It looks more realistic.

The problem of special effects was initially resolved, and Tornado began the most important pre-casting work. Of course, the heroine Eric has already decided on Joanna Pakula, and this cannot be changed. However, the male protagonist and the female lead, as well as many supporting roles in the film who have room to play, have also become the objects of competition among major brokerage companies.

Although many people in Hollywood circles know that caa and Eric have some festivals, the third part of Home Alone was stranded because caa insisted on huge pay. But this time, caa took the initiative to contact Eric, trying to win the roles of the male lead and the second female lead in Tornado. Many people can see that this is caa's initiative to show goodwill, because the Hollywood brokerage company caa, wma and the current three-legged situation, caa is not as popular as in the previous life, and Michael Ovitz was also on the Hollywood Power List at the end of last year. The top fell out of five.

If it was the first two years, Eric would still care about the festival with caa, but now he doesn't care much, his eyes have been set on the whole of Hollywood, and caa is no longer the one who made all Hollywood movies in his previous life. The Big Mac that the company is afraid of. In the past two years, there have been no more rumors about the so-called caa agent breaking into the high-level office of the big film company. Therefore, in the face of caa's active contact, Eric also generously asked the responsible person to choose. The assistant director of the corner accepted the resume handed over by the other party.

Eric's films have been recognized as 'star-making machines'. Almost every previous film of his has produced a Hollywood A-list star. With Eric's reduction in production, the competition for tornado related roles has become more and more serious. The intensity has also reached a very high level. After the rumor about the casting of Tornado was revealed, not only caa, but also the other two did not pull at all, and even some second- and third-tier brokerage companies also participated in trying to get some supporting roles. quota. Therefore, as long as it is a little bit of a relationship network that can be linked to Eric, they are trying to contact Eric himself. After all, Eric has the final say of the character. (To be continued..)

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