The top of fame and fortune [Comprehensive British and American]

"The road to the Oscars has officially kicked off. At the beginning of January, various film distributors submitted their cast and crew lists to the academy jury, and "Forrest Gump" was nominated for performance awards, but doubts arose——Paramount Pictures for Alley Ka Parker's application for the supporting actor award has aroused many doubts."

The "Hollywood Reporter" writer wrote somewhat comically, "Of course, these 'many doubts' all come from the rival enemies of "Forrest Gump", who let it take a full billion dollars worldwide The box office is really hated to the extreme."

"As for Paramount's act of declaring the supporting actor award for Erica, it has been questioned by the 'main application' fraud award——

In Oscar nominations, "Main Reporting" has become one of the typical public relations strategy nomination techniques, and there were even lead actors who appeared in the whole film for 10 to [-] minutes to sign up for the supporting role award.This is of course to have an advantage in the award competition and maximize the possibility of winning.However, it is unavoidable to be suspected of 'cheating awards'.

But in fact, Erika's role of "Jenny" signed up for a supporting role, in my opinion, it is not considered a "cheat award" for the main newspaper - Jenny only played for more than 20 minutes, and she is not the central character who promotes the development of the plot.Do you think she should be counted as a heroine or a supporting role?

This seems to be controversial, and the issue of the main cast declaration in the awards season has always been decided only by the distribution company. As an actor, Erica has no right to speak, but she has been innocently affected——

Yesterday, the Oscar Jury Actors Association decided to include Erika in the list of leading roles after voting.

The director of the Actors Guild said that although Erica played Jenny in the 142-minute "Forrest Gump" only played 28 minutes, the performance was limited.But in terms of the plot, Jenny is the female character second only to the male lead in the whole film, and her image interpretation is perfect and complex.For this, Erica Parker will enter the Best Actress category.

The behavior of the academy's review has been hotly discussed, and the industry infers that this is a warning from the academy's judges to the increasingly serious "principal distribution" public relations operation of film distributors in recent years.And Erica unfortunately became the unlucky ghost who made an example to others. "

Erica sat in the office of agent Brian Lord at the CAA headquarters in Los Angeles, "I was really surprised by what the Academy Actors Guild did."

"I'm afraid we have to give up this award early," Brian Lord looked a little helpless, not as high-spirited as usual, "There have only been two consecutive best actresses in the history of Oscars."

Erica agreed with Lord's opinion, "When it comes to Lian Zhuang, Hanks will probably become the third Oscar Lian Zhuang actor in film history in the near future."

A year ago, Tom Hanks won the Oscar winner with "The Philadelphia Story", and this year, the amazing momentum of "Forrest Gump" in the world will obviously help him win the best actor again.

In the CAA agent's office, Erica noticed that Brian Lord's eyes were dark and gloomy, and he looked tired. "Is the business too heavy recently?"

After hearing her voice of concern, Lord paused for a moment, then looked at Erica, as if hinting, "Perhaps you have heard that there have been rumors about CAA recently."

Erica realized what he was alluding to, and she looked towards the CAA office. Today was supposed to be a meeting with her agent team, but only she and Brian Lord, her lead agent, Michael Ovitz, were involved. nowhere to be seen--

Recently, Ovitz is assisting Matsushita Electric to sell MCA, the headquarter of Universal Pictures, and the Canadian brewing giant Seagram Company will be the new owner of MCA.Clearly, Ovitz once again has Hollywood and Wall Street in the palm of his hand.

However, unlike Michael Ovitz's strong momentum, the CAA brokerage company he is in charge of is almost in turmoil. The media has been rumoring that Ovitz will leave CAA all day long, and CAA, which has lost its head, will soon be disbanded.

Similar to the situation facing CAA, Ovitz, as a partner in Erica's independent studio, has recently stepped away from corporate decision-making.Erika thought, maybe Ovitz has already made up his mind.

In the office, Erica looked at Blake Lord with a calm expression, "For rumors, I always imagine the worst."

While Erica and Lord were at the CAA headquarters, discussing their next career plans, among the thousands of residences in Los Angeles, the Oscar Academy judges were thinking about the final vote.

In this year's Oscar Awards selection, several important awards do not seem to be difficult to choose, more than half of the judges quickly made a choice, "Best Picture "Forrest Gump", Best Director - Robert Zemeckis "Ah Gump" Gump, best actor, oh, and of course Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump."

But when it comes to the selection of the best actress, many judges seem to be hesitant, "The "Daughter of the Earth" starring Jodie Foster has a good reputation, but the box office performance is really not good; Winona Ryder's "" "Little Women" is in its fifth remake; Jessica Lange's "Let's Go" is a good performance, but the movie's plot is really lackluster; Miranda Richardson's "Tom and Viv" is a movie that few people have seen .”

The academy judges considered several shortlisted actresses one by one, "Arica Parker's "Forrest Gump", she is really a bit unlucky, inexplicably burdened with the "principal match" question, I really like her "Four Weddings and a Funeral" ", why didn't this movie give her a nomination?"

"Which of these actresses should I vote for the first place?" The Oscar judges looked at the names on the ballot papers, as if they couldn't choose the best candidate for a while, and finally shook their hands and said, "Oh, let others make the decision. I I just voted for Erika. Anyway, she just won the award last year, so I don’t think she has a chance to win. But having said that, her performances in "Forrest Gump" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" are totally worth it. Academy Award."

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In March [-], when Hollywood's major distributors were actively working on the Oscar selection, Erica, who gave up this year's individual award, was in the office of the president of her independent film industry, and her visitor today was a bit special. Famous Hollywood director James Cameron.

And Cameron brought some real images of the wreckage of the Titanic he took today, as well as a movie script called "Titanic".

Set against the background of the sinking of the Titanic cruise ship, it is an amazing romantic epic.

"After I finished filming "Terminator 2", I came up with the idea of ​​making a Titanic movie," Cameron told Erica that this was his plan for many years, "I spent five years studying the Titanic and its destiny."

Erica looked at the actual images of the shipwreck, "You want me to finance this movie?"

She was a little surprised that Cameron chose her as the producer. According to the director's commercial status, I am afraid that major Hollywood studios would be happy to invest in his films.

James Cameron did not hide it from Erica, he once lobbied other studios to invest in this film, "Twentieth Century Fox is willing to invest, but they asked me to reduce the budget and control the length of the film to two hours. about."

He talked about more details, "About "Titanic", I think the duration will reach three hours, and the production budget, I think the final number may reach 1.5 million to [-] million US dollars."

Erica was drinking tea, but when she heard what Cameron said, she almost choked on water. She cleared her throat, "Two hundred million dollars?"

This is definitely the most expensive production in the history of world cinema.And the film is three hours long, which means fewer screenings and therefore less revenue.

"When you faced the executives of [-]th Century Fox, you also told them that the production cost would be as high as [-] million?" Erika asked with raised eyebrows.

Cameron gave her a funny look, "So they asked to reduce the budget to 1.35 million, but I'm sure this figure will definitely be overrun, and [-] million dollars will be the final real cost."

Erica said frankly, "This is really a crazy plan."

And according to the box office performance of James Cameron's last film, whether this hugely expensive film can make a profit, I am afraid that the producer will have doubts——

The production cost of Cameron's latest "True Lies" is 1.15 million, and the global box office is 2.8 million US dollars; compared with the 2 million production cost of the previous "Terminator [-]", the global box office has exceeded [-] million US dollars, and the global box office has fallen seriously. .

Therefore, even major Hollywood studios may have some hesitation about the $[-] million movie project proposed by Cameron.

Erica was noncommittal about the financing for the time being, while Cameron talked about why he was willing to cooperate with Erica, "In Hollywood right now, your independent studio has achieved great success and attracted much attention, but What I prefer is your full respect for creators."

In other words, James Cameron believes that Erica will not dictate to him compared to those executives in major studios, and will absolutely respect his wishes in film creation.

Erica has heard about Cameron's arbitrary behavior. If a studio executive asks him to cut a movie, Cameron will probably get an answer-"You want to cut my movie? You have to fire me! You Want to fire me? You have to kill me!"

Obviously, the film project called "Titanic" before Erika at this moment is not an easy job anyway——

A huge budget investment, an overly long movie, and a three-hour romantic epic with an overbearing director?To be honest, it sounds really skeptical about its commercial potential.

Erica looked at the real shipwreck images taken by director Cameron, as well as the "Titanic" movie script, "I need some time to think about it."