Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

"Jurassic Park" is not only a hit at the box office, but also all kinds of peripherals are also selling well all over the world. Since toys and peripherals related to dinosaurs are shared by Universal, Aberin and Industrial Light & Magic, even Jed Made a fortune.However, when "Jurassic Park" was released for the fifth week, the "Hollywood Reporter" suddenly broke the news, "Hollywood genius screenwriters have formed their own production company, and the debut filming plan may be implemented soon."

Hollywood has never been a secret place, and Jade did not avoid others when he formed the Galaxy Film Production Company, so it is reasonable to be targeted by the "Hollywood Reporter".However, as one of the most senior film and TV gossip magazines in the United States, "Hollywood Report" certainly doesn't only have a little bit of information. In this weekly magazine, they specially made a special feature for Jed, dividing his net worth into movies, Television and publishing are three major blocks.

The "Hollywood Report" pointed out that Jade is undoubtedly the most successful in the TV industry. The Dongfeng Television Production Company under his name not only owns the full copyright of the two hit sitcoms "Friends" and "Will & Grace", but also recently Co-produced "X-Files" and "New York Serious Crimes" with Fox Television Production Company, and decided to return to the drama market.Jade's own Dongfeng International Distribution Company not only owns the distribution rights of TV series under the name of Dongfeng Production, but also has the exclusive distribution rights of Opal's "Oprah Show". Becomes the distribution company for David Lyman's Late Late Show with David Lyman on CBS.Therefore, "Hollywood Report" estimates that Jade can become the country's first-class production and distribution company after two years of development in the television industry at most.

Then the "Hollywood Reporter" pointed out that although Jade's layout in the cultural publishing industry is limited, only Muse Culture owns the copyright of three popular novels, "Resident Evil", "Tomb Raider" and "Halo". And it has also attracted a group of potential writers, so "Hollywood Reporter" believes that the muse culture still has a lot to do.

Finally, "The Hollywood Reporter" introduced Jed's deeds in the film industry in a very large space, "Mr. Jed Sherman first entered Hollywood as a screenwriter, which is the only way for every writer to transform into a filmmaker. Undoubtedly, Mr. Jed Sherman is the most able to use this status among them. His first two works, "Thelma and Louise" and "Uninhibited Skies" entered the Hollywood stage with controversial themes. There are praises and criticisms, but none of this will damage his reputation. Originally, Mr. Sherman was a rather topical figure, so it is reasonable to launch controversial works. But soon he launched three more romantic dramas , It seems to be a lot gentler, but the rebellion in the bones has not been wiped out. From the questioning of belief in "400 Years of Surprise" to the criticism of education in "Scent of a Woman", we have reason to believe that the upcoming There must be some "unhappy" content in "Sleepless in Seattle". But just when we thought that Mr. Sherman would get better and better on the road of Hollywood gold medal screenwriter, he suddenly got the Mr. Pielberg's appreciation, he became his assistant. It is said that many of the ideas in the recently released "Jurassic Park" came from his proposal, of course, especially his way of promoting this film can be regarded as a textbook. At the same time, according to people close to Mr. Spielberg, at least half of the content of "Schindler's List" released at the end of the year was completed by Mr. Sherman, so we will review Mr. Sherman's director skills at the end of this year. I understand. When you see this content, you must be guessing, when will Mr. Sherman shoot his own work? I think this time should be coming soon, because Mr. Sherman has been in the beginning of the year At that time, he formed a studio named 'Galaxy Film Production Company' and acquired a bankrupt production company in Burbank. All this is bound to prepare for Mr. Sherman's directorial debut in the future. It's just , What will be the subject of this debut novel? Love? Homosexuality? Feminism? Or, directly come to an eighteen-ban foul-mouthed comedy?"

"The "Hollywood Report" topic is really interesting!" Jed put the weekly magazine on the desk, and then called Old Bell in, "Help me ask, how many people did the "Hollywood Report" arrange to investigate my assets? "

"Does this still need to be investigated?" Old Bell shrugged, "Except for the fact that you don't have much information about the Muse Culture registered in Nevada, you can find detailed information about the other companies in the Internal Revenue Service, and then make a little association. You can get this report in just a few seconds. My suggestion is that you don’t need to worry too much, after all, your most important assets are in offshore companies, and it is difficult to find them.”

"I also know, the main reason is that I worry about whether they will have the line of reporters following me." Jed is mainly worried about privacy.

"The bodyguards I arranged for the master are all top-notch. Except for some innocuous news, any secrets about the master will not be known by reporters." Old Bell replied as if insulted, "Even if it is the CIA or the FBI Arrange spies to come to the master, and I will be 100% sure to find him out. So, little reporter, don't worry about it."

Old Bell was so domineering, it made it difficult for Jed to say anything.At the same time, he was also thinking, how many secrets does the Sherman family have, even the FBI and CIA have to guard against it.But Jed also knew that this was not a good time to talk about this topic, so he waved Old Bell to go down.After Old Bell left the study, his face regained his composure.Although the Sherman family in Los Angeles does not hide as many secrets as the original family, how can this kind of family that has been in existence for hundreds of years not have any privacy?If the old Mr. Sherman insisted on coming to Los Angeles to start a business, the current manager of the family must be the old Mr. Sherman.Therefore, Old Bell does hold some secrets that cannot be known by too many people.In fact, even when Jed didn't know, the old Bell would strictly filter out some people who were not good for Jed.For example, Zhou Xiao who played tennis, if he hadn't had a clean background, Old Bell would have completely regarded him as a pet raised by his master.If some people with ulterior motives want to get close to Sherman, I'm afraid they will be taken away by the people sent by Old Bell as soon as they start to act.Since Mr. and Mrs. Sherman were murdered in a "car accident", Bell's nerves became more and more tense.But Old Bell didn't tell Jed about these things, because it's not the time yet.

But to the disappointment of "Hollywood Reporter", "Sleepless in Seattle" is really a very pure love movie.This is all a romantic comedy about fate and choice, without the slightest criticism of Jed's past works.As a result, some film critics sighed that "Jade is exhausted", thinking that such an excellent critical realist screenwriter such as Jed actually compromised with the secular commercial forces.Seeing these film critics beating their chests and feet, Jed was a little incomprehensible.When he wrote "Sleepless in Seattle", he wrote it with the attitude of writing a light romantic comedy, so the whole movie is full of various "coincidences" and "unfortunate".In a more popular way, Jed sprinkled all kinds of blood for this love story.Seeing the discussion of his creative talents on the film and television pages, Jed felt that these film critics were really full and had nothing to do.In an interview with reporters, Jed said, ""Sleepless in Seattle" is a romantic comedy. I didn't think about giving it much depth and thoughtfulness. This is a love that makes you warm and happy. Comedy, that's all."

Although the critics did not give a high opinion of "Sleepless in Seattle", how many young girls with spring hearts and young women with deep boudoirs and grievances have shed tears because of this kind of love comedy?With the support of the vast female market, are you afraid that men will not come?Single men plan to learn the male lead's pickup skills while looking forward to meeting them in the movie theater; boyfriends want to bring their girlfriends to worship this love movie together, and swear to the girls that they will only be married in this life. I love you; Husbands must bring their neglected wives to experience the romantic atmosphere of the year, otherwise the backyard will not be safe.Although the film only took second place at the weekend box office in the first weekend, the film box office has been soaring since the second week.By the time the film was released, the box office revenue in North America was as high as 1.3 million US dollars, and the cost of the entire movie was only 2100 million yuan, which was less than a fraction of the domestic box office revenue.Including the overseas box office, the final box office revenue of "Sleepless in Seattle" reached 2.3 million U.S. dollars, which made the executives of Universal Pictures couldn't help but be overjoyed.They are very clear that even if such a movie is drawn, due to the word-of-mouth effect, there is still a lot to do in the video tape rental market.

After the promotion period of "Sleepless in Seattle" ended, Jed was busy with the post-editing of "Schindler's List" in addition to writing the script.Spielberg said he was unable to edit the film, citing discomfort, so Jed was in charge of the editing.As if to compensate Jade for his toil, Spielberg offered to list the film as a co-director.This time Jed didn't refuse, because with his participation, the style of the whole movie has changed a little compared to the previous version.The original movie mainly highlighted the helplessness of the Jews and the cruelty of the Nazis, but Jed added the indifference of the Germans and Poles.Make the criticality of the film more obvious and convey a thought.If you remain indifferent in the face of cruelty, even if you did not do evil, your hands will still be stained with blood.Like filming, the editing process wasn't terribly joyful.Especially the dark and cramped space in the editing room made both Jed and the editor angry.In an interview afterwards, the editor said, "I doubt that I could not help but kill Mr. Sherman. Of course, I also doubt that Mr. Sherman would have the urge to kill me first. I don't want to It’s hell to go back to memory!”

At this time, Jed was reading another document in his study, which was sent from South Korea, about the current situation of Samsung Dongfeng Film and Television Production Company.Thanks to the joint efforts of SBS and Samsung Dongfeng, the three scripts provided by Jade were completed two months earlier than originally planned.At the beginning of the new semester, SBS premiered "Under the Same Roof".After all, this kind of ethical drama is suitable for the whole family to watch, and the ratings are relatively more guaranteed.Sure enough, when the first episode of "Under the Same Roof" was broadcast, SBS won 12.3% of the ratings in Seoul and 10.1% in the whole country. When the second episode was broadcast, the ratings continued to rise.Seeing such a good performance, SBS finally confirmed that he had indeed picked up a treasure.Due to the good start of "Under the Same Roof", SBS immediately stated through the Korean media that they will build the Moonfire Theater belonging to SBS, and this theater will become a boutique theater for SBS.And said that after "Under the Same Roof", they have arranged two other dramas as the baton.Due to the great popularity of SBS Moonfire Theater, MBS and KBS had to give up all the ratings share on Monday and Tuesday to SBS.Seeing the popularity of SBS, Jade asked Dongfeng International's Asian branch to immediately arrange manpower for dubbing in Cantonese and Mandarin, so that the TV series could be sold to TV stations in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.And Jade lost three more script outlines for the screenwriters of Samsung Dongfeng to fill in. These three outlines are: "Cinderella", "Star Gold Coin" and "Tell Me You Love Me", all of which are dog blood Slow urban life drama or love drama.

After arranging affairs in Korea, Jed will be busy with "Schindler's List" and "Philadelphia Story" which will be released at the end of the year.Since the distributors of the two films are Universal, everyone is more considerate of Jade's busy schedule.Fortunately, Spielberg was finally able to work normally at this time, so the promotion of "Schindler's List" was relatively stable.Because no one dares to pick anything on such a subject, not to mention Spielberg's reputation is still there.On the contrary, "The Philadelphia Story" is a bit embarrassing. This is a movie about gay and AIDS people fighting for their rights.This subject is a very sensitive and sharp topic in the 21st century, let alone in the relatively conservative early 90s?When some scholars in later generations studied the reasons why Jed and Universal drifted away in the end, they found that the root cause was actually in "Philadelphia Story".In Jed's script, the male protagonist actually has a sex scene, but the producer deleted this scene in order not to overly stimulate conservatives.But according to lead actor Tom Hanks and director Jonathan Demi, "(This scene) is not provocative at all and there is no erotic meaning in it. Instead, it is a natural plot. We all think this plot is very important to the story. Integrity is very important, but (the producer) was still deleted. For this scene, the screenwriter Mr. Sherman argued, but did not get (the producer) support. In the end, Mr. Sherman left angrily , and said that Universal will regret doing so in the future." In the remastered "Philadelphia Story" director's cut DVD, Universal finally added this plot.

In addition to creating the script of "Philadelphia Story", Jed also specially found Bruce Springsteen, hoping that he could complete an episode for this movie.Springsteen said he was surprised by the meeting because he didn't believe that anyone would come to him to write an episode for the film. "However, after listening to Mr. Sherman tell the story of the whole movie, I was inspired. This is a very sad story, but it is not decadent. You should be able to feel the strength in it. Gradually, there is something in front of my eyes. A gray street, indifferent, sad and hopeless. But I am on this street, and I have an obligation to bring something to this street, so in the end we have the song "Philadelphia Street". When I played the demo for Mr. Sherman, he was very excited, and he said that this song was what he wanted."

However, compared to Jed's smooth selection of "Streets of Philadelphia", he was very entangled in the debut script he selected for himself.In fact, Jade already has two screenplays, Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption.Both are Jed's latest purchases, one is a Winston Groom novel and the other is a Stephen King novel.Jed is well aware of the impact of these two films on later generations. It can be said that the entire 1994 was shrouded in the brilliance of these two films.But what Jed knows better is that it is difficult for him to direct two movies at the same time, let alone two movies that are destined to become classics.So I must give up a script, but which one should I keep?In comparison, Jed may wish to shoot "Forrest Gump" by himself, because the subject matter of this movie is relatively more flattering.But this doesn't fit Jed's character, he is an adventurous person in his bones.But from the standpoint of a new director, "The Shawshank Redemption" is obviously not a work that is easy to operate.The subject matter is dark and quite adventurous, and if you are not careful, you will make a future classic into a bad movie that is funny and unsuccessful.How to choose?After thinking with the door closed for three days, Jed finally went out and said to Old Bell, "Please contact Mr. Redstone for me, I think he will like the gift I prepared for him."

After deciding on his debut script, Jed followed the crew of "Schindler's List" to Washington, D.C., the city where "Schindler's List" premiered.According to Universal's plan, they will premiere in three locations in Washington, D.C., New York City and Los Angeles, and then be released nationwide.Seeing Universal's arrangement, it is obvious that the film's political propaganda purpose is very obvious.But thinking about the National Jewish Association that has been supporting this movie behind the scenes, Jed is also relieved.Although "Schindler's List" is a "political propaganda film" in a certain sense, Jed did not violate his conscience or tamper with the existing history.On the contrary, Jed also feels that everyone really needs such publicity, whether it is sincere or not.And it is said that President Clinton will be present at the premiere.Thinking about it, how could there be no American politicians in this opportunity to please the Jews and promote world peace?

The author has something to say: "Streets of Philadelphia" mentioned in the article, an episode of "Philadelphia Story".Response to a question: Some readers asked: The male protagonist has changed his core, how could he be saddened by the historical facts behind "Schindler's List"?I need to be clear that some emotions don't hurt just because you're not of the group.Let me give you an example, Ms. Zhang Chunru.She is a native American (besides being Chinese by blood), why would she have an emotional breakdown writing a novel about the "Nanking Massacre"?It stands to reason that she has not experienced the Nanjing Massacre, and she does not receive such an education like in China.More importantly, the novel she wrote has aroused strong response in the United States, and has been among the best-sellers of the New York Times for [-] consecutive weeks.Did Americans suddenly become Chinese?Compassion is an emotion shared by all human beings, and it doesn't exist just because you haven't experienced it.