The Best Entertainment Era

In the temporary offices of Embassy Pictures in Toronto.

While waiting for Connie to get relevant information, Ronan asked Thomas: Have the theater arrangements for When Happiness Knocks on the Door been settled?

Thomas nodded: Give us one of Eavesdropping Storm. I have communicated with the film festival organizing committee. This theater will be used to screen When Happiness Knocks on the Door today.

Ronan signaled Connie to hand over the information directly to Thomas: You watch this movie, an independent movie about racial conflict, scheduled to be screened in early December.

While looking at the introduction, Thomas asked, Target awards season?

For this type of film, if you don't follow the award-winning route, it will be difficult to get good results without heavyweight awards. Ronan said simply: Try to start working from the awards season until next year's Oscars.

Thomas hasn't seen the film, so it's hard to express specific opinions, but the fact that Ronan personally bought the film gave him enough confidence, and there are topics suitable for Oscars in the information introduction.

He said: We have been working on When Happiness Comes Knocking for a long time, and Emperor Penguin Diaries just won...

Ronan said directly: The focus is on When Happiness Knocks on the Door and this Crash. Happiness Knocks topped the prize for Best Actor, and Crash was... Best Picture!

At least this will not form an internal competition, which will cause internal friction in the film of Relativity Entertainment. Thomas knows that such an arrangement is the most reasonable, and said: After returning to Los Angeles, I will immediately call a meeting to arrange related work on the award.

Ronan said: Relativity Entertainment has never won an Oscar for Best Picture.

Thomas said with a smile: Best actor, best actress and best director have not won either.

Ronan nodded slightly, and said, I hope we can gain something from the four major awards this year.

So far, the most important award that Relativity Entertainment has won at the Oscars is the best foreign language film for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The competition for this award was not particularly fierce back then.

The competition is of course the four major awards.

If you want to get one of these four statuettes, movies and characters are just one of them.

The rest of the operation is important, plus a little bit of luck.

For example, a large number of judges who voted with their feet and threw pencils and coins threw your name.

Will Smith really needs luck if he wants to get the best actor, because at this year's film festival, Ronan saw a promotional poster for the film - The King of Soul Singer.

The actor in this film is called Jamie Foxx.

Also a black actor, when it comes to fame and status, Will Smith throws Jamie Foxx a few streets away.

But if Ronan remembers correctly, Jamie Foxx was once the second best black actor after entering the new century.

Facing the booming black affirmative movement, many judges may still choose black actors.

In fact, Will Smith may not be without the possibility of competition. Jamie Foxx’s acting experience is somewhat similar to that of Will Smith. He started out as a singer and then moved to the film industry. Biographical film King Ali.

If you really want to say that Jamie Foxx's acting skills are much higher than Will Smith's, I can only say that different people have different opinions.

From Ronan's point of view, what are the advantages of Jamie Foxx? Maybe it's because the comedies he starred in were not very successful, and the commercial results were not very impressive.

Will Smith's biggest disadvantage is precisely his status as a business superstar.

Many things about the Oscars are always inexplicable, and the disadvantages in other aspects sometimes become advantages.

As for the movie Crash, it was able to beat Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain because of the vigorous operation of Lionsgate.

For example, after Ronan read related reports and discovered the possible threat of Brokeback Mountain, several well-known film critics in the United States publicly criticized and accused Brokeback Mountain in their columns and TV programs, and even directly criticized Brokeback Mountain. Call this movie disgusting.

If there is no shadow of competitors behind this, and there is no exchange of interests...

These few played an important role in dragging Brokeback Mountain back. The smearing for more than two consecutive months also caused Brokeback Mountain to suffer a lot of negative effects.

If another ten years pass, do these film critics still have the guts to discredit Brokeback Mountain?

Another point is that the theme and background of Crash naturally have advantages.

Nearly half of the Oscar judges have settled in Los Angeles and Southern California all year round. The events reflected in Crash may have coincidences and exaggerations, but they are not uncommon in Los Angeles.

This will lead to the tendency of the judges.

Still the same sentence, the movie is closely connected with the social environment of the times. After more than ten years, let alone a car crash, even if it crashes into a plane and a spaceship, it will not stop LGTB from reaching the top.

Crash has the value of Oscar operation, Ronan met, of course he will not let it go.

Soon, Ronan got the exact news that Harvey Weinstein of Miramax did buy the copyright of The Spring of the Cowherd Class, but the price was not the $7 million that Tony Koch said, but It's $6 million.

It is said that Harvey Weinstein won the on-site bidding with 7 million US dollars, and the formal negotiations began to drag on. After all, the French producers are not those small companies that have not entered the international film market much, and rejected Harvey Weinstein. The request was to be negotiated after the film festival, but considering Miramax's commitment to the Olympics, an agreement was finally reached with a reduction of US$1 million.

But for Ronan, spending $6 million on a French film is still a risk.

Most of the non-English films that are internationally famous have suffered miserably in the North American market. It costs a lot of money to get an overseas film to come to the North American market, and the results are often not very satisfactory.

Unless you can really get a heavier award at the Oscars.

Will Smith also rushed to Toronto. After meeting with Ronan, he devoted himself to the promotion of When Happiness Knocks on the Door.

At present, the Toronto Film Festival does not have individual performance awards. The most important one is the Audience Choice Award, as well as the Discovery Award, Best Canadian Feature Film, Best Canadian Short Film, Best Canadian First Film and International Film Critics Award.

Relativity Entertainment and Will Smith certainly want to win the Audience Choice Award.

Not only Relativity Entertainment is promoting the event, after obtaining the North American copyright of The Spring of the Cow Herding Class, Miramax is also stepping up the promotion of this French film, and it seems that it also wants to win several awards.

At a publicity event convened by the organizing committee, Ronan also met Harvey Weinstein.

I didn't expect to meet you here, Ronan. Harvey Weinstein was very polite.

Ronan shook hands with him and said, Harvey, I've heard about your generosity.

There was competition between the two, and there was even an unpleasant quarrel on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, but Harvey Weinstein knew very well that this was a normal competition in business, and there was absolutely no need to have a bad relationship with Ronan Anderson.

For Miramax, Relativity Entertainment is already a behemoth.

While he's not intimidated by Relativity Entertainment or Ronan Anderson, he doesn't have to be on the opposite side either.

Harvey Weinstein put a smile on his chubby face and said, Didn't you gain something as well?

Ronan also smiled and said, I have a few films that I want to hit the Oscars this year, and I need to ask you more about this.

I don't dare to ask for advice. Harvey Weinstein said a correct way to go to the Olympics that no one would deny: Invest more and spend more money, so that you can see the Oscar statuette.

Ronan pointed to his forehead: I wrote it down. He said deliberately: Which awards are you eyeing this year? I hope we don't have conflicts.

Harvey Weinstein said vaguely, Not yet.

Ronan was puzzled: I remember Martin Scorsese's The Aviator was released by Miramax, right?

Harvey Weinstein didn't seem to want to talk more about the film, saying: Now that the company is in chaos, I don't have the heart to run the Oscars.

These words really diverted Ronan's attention, and he tentatively asked, Between Miramax and Disney?

As usual, irreconcilable contradictions. This is almost public, and Harvey Weinstein has nothing wrong with saying: Michael Eisner wants to oust me and Bob, and completely strip Miramax.

Ronan looked like he was fighting against the enemy: Michael Eisner is too domineering. Pirates of the Caribbean has no conflict of interest with him, and he actually attacked this film.

Harvey Weinstein certainly knew: He's used to being domineering and strong.

Ronan said, Harvey, I'm on your side against Michael Eisner.

Harvey Weinstein said in his heart, what's the use of you standing on my side? He still said, Thank you.

Hold on, Harvey. Ronan was especially encouraging: Michael Eisner can't be allowed to succeed, at least not let him succeed easily. Miramax is the hard work of you and Bob.

Harvey Weinstein is silent. As long as he can, he will not give up Miramax, which he created.

Ronan deliberately pulled it on himself: If someone wants to take away my relativity entertainment, I will fight him forever!

Bob and I are not that easy to lose. Harvey Weinstein said with a smile: Michael Eisner wants to oust us, he thinks too easily!

Ronan then brought the topic back to the movie, chatting about The Aviator and Martin Scorsese.

Miramax is a subsidiary of Walt Disney and one of Disney's unstable factors and Michael Eisner's opposition. The longer the Weinstein brothers insist on Disney, the more chaotic Disney may become.