Hollywood Hunter

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In a screening room at Daenerys Entertainment Headquarters, when another sample on the screen ended, the assistant stepped forward and whispered to remind Terry Semel that it was only five o'clock in the afternoon.

After recalling the movie watching experience of more than three hours before, Semel was filled with a strong shock.

Today is Friday, May 5.

Simon’s accidental coma in February, as a representative of Warner, flew to Australia to visit. Because of the special circumstances at that time, he failed to take the time to watch the lens. Today is the first time to see the sample.

Because the post-editing and other work were synchronized with the shooting, Simon returned to Los Angeles in only one week and roughly completed the first half-hour rough-cut sample of the film.

Terry Semel arrived in the afternoon and originally planned to spend only an hour to roughly look at the effect of the sample, but he spent a whole afternoon in this projection room, even when Simon who initially watched the sample with him left. Unaware.

Although it was already off work, Terry Semel still had the urge to read all the remaining three hours of samples.

Can the movie be made like this?!

This is an idea that Semel repeated countless times while watching the samples.

In the preparatory stage, he heard that Simon would use live shooting as much as possible, and Semel expressed concern.

Real shooting can indeed increase the audience's sense of substitution, but at the same time it is easy to make the whole movie mediocre.Because in essence, it should be a science fiction movie, but also a soft science fiction, this type of film should pursue a sense of surrealism.

Too close to reality, the creator failed to fill the film with enough rich and exciting superhero elements, the result will be easy for the audience to produce a psychological gap of'this is not the superhero world in your imagination'.

Once this happens, the film is doomed to failure.

Therefore, in many years of Warner's unsuccessful preparations, the directors who intend to take over the project basically tend to shoot on the scene and create a Gotham city in the studio.

Now, Terry Semel has no worries at all.

It's just that most of the sample lenses have not been as fine-tuned as before, and they already show the same level of stunning lenses as they were, so Terry Semel confirmed this.Simon had already become a teaching sample in many film schools, but in Semel's view, many of the lens standards in the sample even exceeded.

Through the exquisite use of lighting, color, composition and other elements, Simon took the shots taken from the street scenes of real cities as oil paintings elaborately drawn by the top painters. Some pictures are even enough to be printed and hung on the wall as art Goods.

Moreover, the overall preference for the cool, dark and rich tone style is also enough to give the audience a surrealistic psychological hint, giving people a feeling that this is not only their city but also Gotham in the comics.

Of course, if it is just stunning in the lens style, it will not make Semel feel shocked.

Although the young man's control of the technical details of the film reached the Oscar level, other films want to imitate, as long as they are willing to spend money to invite a group of master-level behind-the-scenes teams, it is not impossible.

What really makes Semel shocked is the content, especially the action scene in the sample.

In Hollywood traditional action movies, the more high-end ones are the performances of Bruce Lee’s kung fu, Shang Ge Yundun and other strong action stars on the screen, but most of them are still you. Ordinary boxing without a sense of beauty.Because of the lack of highlights, the most popular Hollywood in recent years is instead a shootout action movie by Stallone and others. The naked muscular man carries a machine gun and ignores the enemy's bullet rain.

Terry Semel has actually seen some oriental Kung Fu movies, but he also feels that the motion design of those films is too complicated and lacks practicality.

Simon's action design in this movie made Semel feel strongly that he seems to have seen the future of Hollywood action movies.

Fighting, no old-fashioned street drunks fight, Batman punches to the meat but is not simple, the sense of violent strength makes people bloody, the lightness of Catwoman and the ultimate display of the advantages of women are also bloody.

There was no unexplainable impact explosion when chasing the car, but the car that crashed and rolled against the big screen was more shocking than directly blowing up a bunch of cars.

In the shootout, there was no brainless rushing in the rain of bullets, the thrilling confrontation between the death shooter and Batman. In the slow motion, the sense of oppression that the CG synthetic bullet whistled made Semel couldn't help but hold his breath.It turns out that a bullet can also become the protagonist of the lens at a certain moment.

In addition to these mainstream action scenes, details such as Batman’s winged flying, bat darts and other props, Catwoman’s leap between city rooftops using gymnastic skills, etc., are all enough to become future Hollywood commercial movies in Semel Textbook.

Terry Semel can’t wait to see the final production of the film. Simon has perfected these details. As Hollywood’s best screenwriter, Semel doesn’t think the plot of the film will be better than that. These details are inferior.

Even, Semel has a feeling in his heart that this groundbreaking superhero action movie will also get a groundbreaking box office figure.

However, this feeling is not good.

Recalling that DC had already sold Batman and Wonder Woman to Daenerys Entertainment, Warner did not object to the transfer of Superman's copyright, and Semel gave birth to a strong regret.He now firmly believes that Warner must have made a series of irreparable mistakes in the copyrights of these three superheroes.

After all, although there are time limits on those licensing contracts, in fact, if the interests involved are too great, it is impossible for the copyright holder to let go anyway.

Like the original copyright, although the box office failed, according to Semel's knowledge, Simon bought back only five years of copyright from the Salkind family and still spent a huge amount of $6 million.

Moreover, although the original contract between DC and British producer Alexander Salkind will expire in 1992.However, according to the automatic renewal clause in the agreement, as long as the copyright is not shelved for a long time, after 1992, if Salkind intends to make a sequel, the authorization period will be automatically extended.

Now, the power of these terms is in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment.

Obviously, as long as Daenerys Entertainment refuses to let go, Warner can't get the copyright of the film and television anyway, and the copyright of the same is true.

Missed.

Continuing to sit in the screening room for a few minutes, Semel stood up and walked to the door, asking the assistant beside him: "Is Simon still in the company?"

The assistant followed Semel out and replied: "Mr. Westero left the company at three o'clock and went to the film crew."

Terry Semel is puzzled: "?"

The assistant explained: "Daenerys Entertainment has just started a project this week, a love movie. Some time ago the film's actor competition was very fierce, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Alec Baldwin, Daniel ·Dai Lewis and other actors have tried to fight for this script, but the role finally fell on a second-tier British actor. It is said that Westero personally decided to call it Pierce Brosnan. The heroine is medium Julia Roberts, this seems to have been set very early."

As the left and right arms of Steve Rose, Terry Semel has been busy participating in the merger negotiations between Time Company and Warner Brothers in recent months, but has ignored a lot of news from Hollywood.

Recalling that I was unable to find the information of Pierce Brosnan, Semel ordered the assistant to compile a resume of each other for myself, and I was also surprised. I didn't expect Harrison Ford to start fighting for the Daenerys entertainment project. , And have not been able to talk.

Think carefully but relieved.

The two series that began in the late 1970s allowed Harrison Ford to maintain the status of a few super first-line actor stars in Hollywood.

However, the release at the end of the month also means that the two major trump cards that Harrison Ford will rely on will fall into a long period of silence.Ford's movie box office outside and outside has not been outstanding in recent years. If you want to continue to maintain your own coffee after the two series sleep, you must actively pursue some items that are easy to sell.

Terry Semel left the studio with his assistant. Simon did not return from the crew, but asked the staff to forward an invitation to the cocktail party tonight.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon just trimmed for a short weekend, and then started working again.

The first thing to deal with is peace.

The later stages of both films have been basically completed, and Simon did not completely let go of these two projects when he was in Melbourne. Eventually, the effect of the film reached Simon's expectations.This week, Simon personally adjusted some details of the two films, and the company will officially send it to MPAA for rating next week.

The first TV trailer starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston has been officially aired, and the schedule is June 2, with a total of 2021 screens.

It is scheduled to be released on June 30. Although the publicity materials have also begun to be released, the final stage of the announcement strategy has not yet been finalized.

Simon requested strict confidentiality of the plot during the film production stage.

Until now, in addition to several core creators of the crew, many supporting actors did not even know the full story.However, after the film was made, senior executives such as Amy and Rem generally felt that, except for the final plot reversal, the film as a whole was very ordinary, and there were basically no highlights.

If it wasn't for the movie's screenplay, named Simon himself, and Robert De Niro, the company had no other choice. Amy would even propose to Simon to adjust the schedule.

According to Amy, the sample effect of John Hughes is quite good, but the film has to be completed in the middle of June, and the company has to arrange the schedule on the tail of the summer holiday like August 11.

In addition, John Hughes' second film this year is also in the shooting stage. This film was shot after the killing. The producer is Warner Bros. and plans to release it in the Christmas file.

The purpose of Simon's cooperation with John Hughes was to retain a priority agreement for Hughes' script.

The script was first sent to Daenerys Entertainment, Simon naturally chose to give up.

However, half of the later period, John Hughes was inspired in the original time and space to create a script that has no shadow, and McCauly Calkin did not appear in it.

Simon plans to wait until the end of the year, if John Hughes still does not come up with the script, he will have to "make it difficult for him" himself.

After watching Semel at the company headquarters in the afternoon for a while, Simon hurried to the crew and waited until after get off work to leave.

Except for the hero, Richard Gere is no longer used, basically the original team.

The reason for giving up Richard Gere is similar to Simon’s previous disregard for Sharon Stone. As for Pierce Brosnan, although he still left the audience with the deepest impression of James Bond in space and time, Brosnan The tall and handsome appearance and the style of the British gentleman fully fit Edward Lewis, the handsome Wall Street businessman.

The evening cocktail party was held in the mansion in Palisades.

After leaving North America for a few months, it is necessary to reconnect with everyone.

This kind of thing should have been prepared by Janet. Janet was in Australia, and Simon wanted to give it to Catherine.

However, in recent months, Catherine helped Simon watch over the construction of the Dumei Point Estate. Simon collapsed and the woman flew to Melbourne for the first time. In addition to all the past, this open closeness even the gossip tabloid is too lazy to ridicule. Catherine, who was very thin-skinned, kept covering her ears and stealing bells.

Simon returned to Los Angeles. Catherine, who had originally stayed at Janet’s villa on the east side of Dumei Point, flew to New York on the grounds of preparing for her next movie. This time, she obviously did not intend to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment again. The appearance of demarcation.

Finally, the preparation for the reception was handed over to Jennifer.

The female assistant's face is also not thick, and she took this matter seriously as a business. Even the guest list was prepared with Amy's assistant Vanessa.So the original small-scale cocktail party became a lively business cocktail party.