Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 147 To fight against me is to fight against the whole world!

   After "pressing" Roland on the ground and "exploding the hammer", the refreshed truck driver left humming a little tune.

  If the plaid shirt on his body hadn't rotted into strips, his image might be more handsome.

Stepping on the accelerator, there was a roar, and as he left, Roland was not idle, holding the four scripts rubbed by the other party, and he was so happy that he asked the bodyguards to send him to Spielberg's house .

  Buy three and get one free. The most important gift is still the top-grossing project in film history. Plus Peter Parker, who won’t lose money no matter how the movie is made, Roland is so happy now.

  After watching so many movies in his previous life, Roland also understood one thing: actors have high or low acting skills, and scripts are good or bad.

A project with a good script and poor acting skills may have a high box office and receive a lot of complaints; but for a project with a bad script and good acting skills, almost no actor can single-handedly save it; the most typical one is Nicolas Cage, who was sprayed as a bad movie King, but few people will diss his performance in bad movies, people will only feel sad that he was implicated by the script.

  In fact, the script is the real core of a movie. After all, no matter how a movie is made, it is also a storyteller. The director is the storyteller. They control the actors and describe the world in the story.

  Roland has always felt that acting skills are very important, but far less important than the story told by the director. As long as the story is good enough, it can move the world, and what actors do is to live wonderfully in that world according to the director's requirements.

  In Roland's memory, many people in later generations felt that it was a pity that Xiao Li didn't win Best Actor for "Titanic", or in other words, not even being nominated was the most unfair manifestation.

   But who knows, when "Titanic" held an internal viewing meeting, Fox's staff and others didn't know what Leonardo was playing there! He has nothing but handsomeness! so-called love—

   Isn’t the special thing about two people falling in love once in the crew?

   You must know that he played a mentally retarded person in "A Different Sky" before!

   What Fox wants is the kind of acting skills that can be nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, but what Leonardo brings to them is the peerless beauty, sweet love, and life that is so bitter in ordinary romance movies!

   And this kind of thing, just find a creamy niche, you can act it out!

  Just like "Top Gun", play handsome and pick up girls!

  The point is, the truck driver doesn’t even know how to make a romance movie, how can the male protagonist die in a sugary movie!

but-

   This is exactly the shock that the truck driver emphasizes!

  The story that is so sweet to the bone will never be remembered in people's hearts!

  Life is precious, but the price of death is even higher!

   Marilyn - Monroe is like this, Michael - Jackson is like this, Paul - Walker is more typical!

   Of course, this is not the point!

  The focus is on Roland's fan base!

  What is Roland's fan base?

   Peers, older sisters with purchasing power, and older married couples with families!

  In this case, a fairytale love story would have hit their nails right there!

People of the same age are already at the age of fantasy, the elder sister party with purchasing power is more emotional than men, and the elderly married couples have tasted the taste of love, and when these target groups walked into the theater at Roland …

   Lore!

  As long as these people walk out of the theater crying, what kind of project will be unstable for Roland in the future?

  Compared with rice, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea, this story is indeed illusory, but—

  Who doesn't want romance?

Indeed, this project was not liked by film critics, or in other words, for more male compatriots, the whole story was too naive, but Roland didn't care whether the story was naive or not, because it was naive to others, but to him It's different!

  Men compatriots encourage their girlfriends to watch "Spider-Man" with them, and female compatriots ask their boyfriends to watch "Titanic" with them.

  Even if the female compatriots think that "Spider-Man" is not interesting, the box office contributes anyway!

  And even if the male compatriots think "Titanic" is boring, and don't know where the girlfriend's tears are, but it doesn't matter!

   "Spider-Man 2" made the two of you cuddle together and cry, isn't it over?

right!

  The main viewers of the "Spider-Man" trilogy are men, and the main viewers of "Titanic" are women!

   But combining the two of them together, isn’t it the whole world who watch Roland’s movies?

   At that point, it doesn't matter what the critics are trying to say, it won't work!

  Because fighting against me is fighting against the whole world!

   Well, this sentence is not nonsense...

   The Oscars in 1998 were still the one with the highest ratings.

   Because of Titanic.

  It doesn't matter if you don't like it, your wife likes it, your children like it, that's enough.

  ...

And just when Roland was daydreaming and ran to Spielberg's house, it was the old man's wife Kate Capshaw who received him. After inviting him to sit down, the other party directly Said the whereabouts of her husband, "After the Oscars, Steven was very busy. Except for coming back for dinner on time every night, the rest of the time was outside."

"He's going to deal with Universal's affairs first, and then he's going to clear up Sony's affairs. Not only that, Warner also invites him to various dinner parties every day, but he refuses them all. "

"In recent days, he has been in close contact with Jeffrey (Katenberg) and David (Geffen). He knew that you might come to him, so he told me, if you come with the script, then Just put it directly in the safe in his study where the script is kept. He said that you know the password, and there is a document in a leather bag with your name written on it. You can take it away, it is yours. Things, and the script... He will find time to read it, but he has no time to interview you recently, so if there are any problems, we will all discuss them at George’s birthday party on May 14th.”

  When Spielberg's wife mentioned Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, Roland didn't know that the old man had already started to activate his DreamWorks? Although "The Lion King" has not yet been released, Jeffrey Katzenberg is temporarily unable to leave Disney, but this does not prevent the Big Three from talking about things first!

  Think through all the rules and regulations first. After the box office of "The Lion King" is released, you can give Di Mouse a backstab. The most popular animated film operator of the year and set a record is gone?

  Do you feel distressed? Is it difficult?

Perhaps it was because of their good fortune that these guys were retaliated by their peers on the first day they set up the company. In addition, the three of them fought on their own and frantically poached people. Those giants hated them even more .

   But unfortunately, even if Roland knew about these things, he couldn't change them.

It is a common business practice for a company to poach talents. It is a more normal business practice for the three giants to form a group and be suppressed by established studios. It is impossible to avoid, Roland has no way to change all this, and even if Ronald Perelman and Carl Icahn join in, it will only make the whole situation more chaotic, because there are so many cakes, If you want to raise your knife and fork to get a share of the pie, isn't that just grabbing other people's jobs? You came to my house with a punch, so why don't you allow me to slap you?

  There is never anyone right or wrong in business, as long as you can have the last laugh, you are the most successful one.

  With Roland's current size, he can't play this game.

However, he did everything he should do, regardless of whether it was the shares of Sony's publishing company, or the pile of Marvel copyrights he got, or the Harry Potter that the other party finished writing, and gave them IMDb of Development Time…

   These behaviors are all trying to pick up the old background of those film companies!

   Curb them on content! Take a loophole in the channel! Get a foot in the door on new media!

  Roland is not short of money now, all he lacks is time, and with the old man around, he can spend the first Internet outlet with peace of mind.

  Let the old man who is backed by Microsoft, Samsung, and Chase Bank fight them first!

   There was no distribution channel in the previous life, and I was beaten on the ground by someone, and now...

  They have channels and content, but they really don’t know who is beating whom!

And when Roland Cat entered the old man's study, opened the other's safe, and stuffed the script into it, he also saw the document bag left by the other party; the document wrapped in kraft paper was neither thin nor thick, and Roland thought it was Sony's The issuing company documents beside him, but when they were torn open, Roland was taken aback.

What should have been left in the hands of Fox's "X-Men" and "Daredevil" copyright transaction contracts; as early as 1986, "Fantastic Four" was bought by Constantine Pictures; "Namor", that is, the horse king who wears the same as corn in DC; and a bunch of tattered Marvel copyrights...

  Roland counted carefully, it seems that those copyrights sold by Marvel are now in the file bag given to him by the old man.

   Not only that, there is also a half note inside—

  【Roland, all the copyrights sold by Marvel are here.

Fox wants to exchange their copyright for your portrait authorization. If you are willing, the subsequent re-screening of the "Home Alone" series, radio broadcasts, various audio-visual products and derivative products will all be divided into 2.5%. Of course , they want to pull you to do a new project, and it can no longer be a two-year contract;

  Universal is the same, they hope to reach a consensus with you on the follow-up issue of "Jurassic Park";

As for Constantine's "Fantastic Four" and other copyrights, I bought them. Sony now wants to increase the shares by 10%, that is, split the shares of the publishing company in half with us, in exchange for Seventy-five percent of the investment rights in the "Spider-Man" series, as well as game distribution, they hope that the game studio under your name can only use their platform when making "Spider-Man" games, if you agree , They can let people bring engineering machines to America to assist in the development.

I personally think the ideas of the three of them are okay, but if you count your games, I personally think that "Spider-Man" can be worth my "Jurassic Park", plus each extra percent Twenty-five investment rights, our previous distribution plan is obviously not applicable, so I bought the Marvel copyrights on the market and exchanged them with you, so that you can eat all the copyrights sold by Marvel on the market, And I hope that the company of the two of us will eventually hold half of the shares. 】

  The old man didn't leave much text, but Roland read it three times in a row.

  The more he looks at it, the more he will lose (↗) energy (↘)!

   Grab the grass!

  These film companies have learned a lot!

   Knowing that we should follow the mass line first!

   That's right, when Roland saw the old man's message and the copyrights sent by various companies, Roland immediately thought of Forbes magazine in March, and the reports of major news media after that!

On the bright side, regardless of whether it is Forbes, which focuses on the business field, or the major news media who are afraid of chaos in the world, they all boast that Roland, a newcomer to the A+list, is hype, which is rare in the world. If he is an executive of an industry company, he will not be at a disadvantage, but these are just small tricks played by those film companies!

  Looking at the news at first glance, Roland is indeed awesome.

   But actually?

   It's just a bunch of giants throwing the blame crazily!

At the end of this year, Sony's PS game console will not only be launched, but the 135-minute storage disc format developed by them and other technology companies will also be announced; let's not say when this standard will be finalized, but the technology is At present, it is true. In this way, the video tapes of the past will definitely be swept into the garbage dump of history by the advancement of technology. If this is done, it seems reasonable for those classic movies to be released in the form of DVD. up!

   Don’t think that old movies can’t be sold at a high price. As long as the film company releases CDs, it proves that there is demand in the market!

  In this case, Roland's movie may not be released on CD, or what if there are still restrictions on his future contract?

   Then let the world know!

  Put him up first, to show that his project is dominant in the circle, and let those fans worship him because of it, and then come to negotiate a follow-up contract with him. If the negotiation fails, the film company can directly throw the blame—

  Why can other movies be released on DCD and HD-DVD, but not Roland?

  Because he is too greedy and the asking price is too high!

   If you fans want to see it, you have to wait for Roland to let go!

  Roland is not a fool. After savoring it twice, he understood why those guys from before praised him crazily!

   Isn't this flattery?

  They want to copy all the existing copyrights at a low price, and from now on, they don't want to sign such a contract with him again!

   However, Roland has people, and they won't push too hard. Roland likes to collect Marvel's copyrights, so let's exchange these millions of things! Universal took the copyright of "Namor" to keep "Jurassic Park", Fox took "X-Men" + "Daredevil" to keep the "Home Alone" series and the "Big Ship" on Roland's truck driver...

   Of course, the two points and five points that should be taken normally will still be given!

   It doesn't look bad at all!

   After all, Roland's value has already been reflected. The "Home Alone" series made Fox earn at least 500 million! And the follow-up income of "Jurassic Park" is absolutely impossible to be lower than that of the "Home Alone" series!

   Besides...

   Superhero fans rely on actors to make movies, and they don't plan to make them either!

   "Ginger is still old and hot! These people are really full of tricks!"

   After understanding, Roland shook his head sighingly. Although he was surprised, he was not dissatisfied.

  Authorization will eventually be let out.

  Because only in this way can the benefits be maximized.

   As for the price?

   Roland could talk before, but now...

  The price they offered is already very good!

   "Although "Namor" is not worth much, "X-Men" and "Daredevil" are also OK..."

   "The 2.5% share across the board is quite a lot, after all, the volume is huge! There is also Universal's toy income and park income over "Jurassic Park"!"

   "As for Sony adding 10 percent more, the more the better, the game PS limited-time exclusive is also fine. Compared with "Warcraft", the ACT version of "Spider-Man" is also testing the waters."

   "As for the shareholding of the issuing company is divided into half?"

   "Whatever..."

   "The old man has helped for so many years, and now he is still so clear, it is already very face-saving."

  Roland tore a piece of paper, wrote down his thoughts directly, and then threw them into the other party's safe.

On the surface, the games of "Spider-Man" and "Jurassic Park" are contradictory. The old man uses all the fragmented copyrights on the market plus "Fantastic Four" to offset the 100% of the "Spider-Man" series that was given to Sony. Twenty-five investment, Roland suffered a loss, but—

  It doesn't matter!

Not to mention that the distribution channel Roland can't stand alone against Sony, and there are really Microsoft, Samsung, and Chase behind the old man, and it is said that the old man helped him get "Terminator 2" just because of his master-apprentice status. Taking him to film "Captain Hook" and unceremoniously changing "Jurassic Park", these three times of help are worth more than the investment of 25 per movie!

   Not only that, "Spider-Man", didn't the other party help to take it down?

  If money could buy a chance to explode, the two prodigal sons of the Ellison family would have done it long ago!

  Besides, Roland will need someone for his next movie, and why should the A+list and A-list match for him?

   Isn't it still the relationship, and the affection of those old men who helped them back then?

  You asked Warner DC to invite Tom Hanks to play a supporting role that died in half a movie?

  People don't even bother to talk to you!

   And if Ron Howard called, he would really come to make a guest appearance, and no money would be charged!

   What's more, Roland and the old man have the same goal.

   They want to be the biggest, and Roland wants to **** (__)(__)(__)!

Note: ①Little Lizi was really sprayed from beginning to end. Experts felt that Rui Fan’s successor would be self-destructive if he acted in the Mary Su idol movie. It was the last death of the movie that saved him, including Kenneth Turan. The reason why the film critics, including the critics, are so harsh is that they can’t understand the plot of the movie. The young man fell in love with someone else’s fiancée, and the two eloped. It’s shredded meat, but in the end, for the sake of freedom, they turned Carl, the most unlucky character, into a villain. This movie has always been rated as a chick movie by them, and it’s the same now. Burt's top ten every year, he chose "The Big Ship" to be the ninth of the year, and gave it four stars, but Xiao Lizi also had a bad reputation in his mouth. ②The sentence that the price of death is higher has no other meaning, it is just explaining a commercial phenomenon. ③Praise first, then kill, this is not too common in Hollywood, the most typical is Tom, who has never concealed his religious beliefs, and it was made public in the 1980s, but it was sent to "Mission: Impossible" rights tear bee Ramon is used as a pawn, and a bunch of movie fans are being manipulated by Viacom. If you really resist, why don't you buy tickets for "Disc 4, 5, 6"? ④ "Namor" is Marvel's Aquaman. Since the 1990s, the copyright has been in the hands of Universal. As for "Blade Warrior" and "Deadpool", it is the distribution of interests between Perelman and Wolf King Uneven, the thing after tearing up the beep. ⑤

  (end of this chapter)