Hollywood Hunter

Natasha Henschy, who was shrunk in the bed, was about to take the initiative to turn lunch into herself. Simon had withdrawn his hand, and once again reminded him, he turned and left the bedroom.

Watching the man go out, Natasha touched her watch on the bedside table and looked at it, at 11:30 in the morning.

After getting out of bed for a moment, I chose a long black knitted dress suitable for winter indoors. I simply lightened my makeup and came downstairs in only 15 minutes.

Simon is sitting on a sofa in the living room reading a script at random. When Natasha went downstairs, she looked around and praised, "It's beautiful."

"Thank you," Natasha agreed, came to sit next to Simon, glanced at the script in the man's hand, and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Simon showed her the cover and said, ""Cut Throat Island", a pirate movie script."

Natasha nodded and quickly searched for information about pirate movies in her mind, but unfortunately couldn't find it.Fortunately, the man didn't mean to wait for a response. She put down the script and asked Girl A, not far away, to get up and take her to the restaurant.

In the restaurant, the maids served lunch to the two and poured red wine before they retreated.

Simon picked up the cutlery and asked the girl across from him: "What do you want to do in the afternoon?"

Natasha cut the pan-fried cod in the dinner plate and stopped when she heard the words, "I don't know, I will do whatever you want."

Simon smiled: "Everyone comes to Park City only two things, movies and skiing, which one do you choose?"

Natasha hesitated and said, "Is it OK to ski? But I don't know very much."

Born in Canada, Natasha is actually very good at skiing, but of course he is awkward in front of men. After talking, he is even a bit worried. If he can’t ski, he will be embarrassed.

Simon just nodded and said, "So, we ski in the afternoon, attend the premiere of a movie in the evening, and there will be parties here."

Natasha finally caught the topic this time: "Is that "Four Weddings and a Funeral"?"

"Yeah, you know?"

"I came here yesterday with the two protagonists of this movie," Natasha said: "However, this movie does not seem to be a Sundance entry film?"

The support and cultivation of Daenerys Entertainment for the independent film market is the key to the rapid rise of Sundance Film Festival. In recent years, Sundance will inevitably have films produced by Daenerys Entertainment each year in the main competition unit.

Before Natasha came to Park City, she did some homework related to the festival. Knowing that Daenerys Entertainment has been shortlisted for the main competition of Sundance this year, there are two films: Whittleman’s "Barcelona" and the big David Russell's "Beating the Monkey".

Whit Stillman is the direct director of Sundance. The previous work "Metropolis" has good reputation and box office. "Barcelona" is his second director's work."Beating the Monkey" is a debut film directed and directed by the new director David Russell. This is a mother-child ethics film. "Beating the Monkey" is a slang related to sex.

The selection was screened on the Saturday before the closing of the film festival, and Simon attended in person, which shows that Daenerys Entertainment attaches great importance to this film.In this case, Natasha was puzzled if the film failed to enter the main competition unit.

"Four weddings and one funeral" failed to qualify for the main competition unit, of course, not because of insufficient qualifications.Simon explained: "This movie is positioned as a commercial love comedy. It will focus on the Valentine's Day in February. If it is shortlisted for the Sundance main competition unit, it may be misunderstood by the audience as a literary film and restrict the audience."

Natasha suddenly said: "It turned out to be the case, I thought it was the best finalist and won the award."

Simon smiled and shook his head: "Of course not, every type of movie has its own distribution model."

Hollywood film distribution is simple and simple, and difficult to say.

Large-scale advertising bombardment on various media platforms is undoubtedly the most effective way to promote a movie, but it is only suitable for a very small number of super bombshells with sufficient box office potential.

Most Hollywood movies still need to develop targeted advertising strategies in order to get the best marketing effect within the marketing budget.

There is no doubt that film quality is fundamental to the commercial success of a film.However, in the event of a serious mistake in the marketing strategy, the result can also be catastrophic.

Knowing that Natasha would not be too interested in these commercial details, Simon did not talk too much about similar topics and instead asked about the girl's recent situation.

The two happily ate lunch, sent the girl upstairs to change clothes to go skiing, and Simon returned to the living room, again picking up the "Cut Throat Island" script that was read before lunch.

This is a project that Carlock Pictures is currently marketing to Hollywood studios, and seven major studios have received scripts.

Relying on the support of German and other overseas capitals, Carlock Film has a great reputation in Hollywood. This independent film company is different from other frugal and second-tier studios, but it is famous for its high-budget films.The first production of "Terminator 2" with a budget of more than 100 million US dollars in Hollywood from Space Time was a project invested by Carlock Pictures. In addition, Carlock also produced films such as "Instinct" and "Comprehensive Memories".

The appearance of Simon led to the termination of Carlock’s most successful film projects, such as Terminator 2 and Instinct, but in the past few years Carlock has invested in Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarz Singer and other action superstars have many movies, and directly pushed the Hollywood star's remuneration to 15 million US dollars.

As a independent studio that does not undertake distribution work, Carlock Pictures has been cooperating with Columbia Pictures for the past few years.

The turmoil of Columbia Pictures last year led to the collapse of the cooperative relationship between the two sides. Carlock is looking for a new partner recently. "Cut Throat Island" is a stepping stone.

Speaking of Hollywood's movie history in the 1990s, the most successful "Titanic" can not escape, nor can the most failed "Cut Throat Island".

The production budget of "cut throat island" in memory is as high as 98 million US dollars. After the film was released, the total box office in North America was only 10 million US dollars. The tragic failure not only made the investors lose their blood, but even was included in the world Guinness record.

Is Cut Throat Island really useless?

This is by no means the case.

The film is excellent in terms of lens, editing and soundtrack, and the large-scale naval battle scene is even epic. Many years later, "Pirates of the Caribbean" has made many references to this film.Even the shortcomings of the storyline are not fatal for a blockbuster movie, because this is a common problem with many big budget movies.

The blockbuster movies in the North American film market were far from saturation in the mid-1990s, but they were close to the huge investment gimmick of US$100 million. Once used, they can attract a large number of audiences, not to the total box office of only US$10 million. .

So, why is the failure of Cut Throat Island so complete?

The reason also involves many aspects.

As a studio supported by German and other overseas capitals, Carlock Pictures was naturally suppressed by the Hollywood Snake.

Director Renee Haring pushed his wife Gina Davis into the lead role, and it was the first protagonist to overwhelm the male lead, but Gina Davis was far from supporting a super heavy Box office appeal for pound bombs.

"Cut Throat Island" is an original script that does not possess the popularity of a superhero movie.

MGM Pictures, which is responsible for film distribution, is in a serious internal turmoil and has no intention of promoting the film.

As such.

The accumulation of multiple reasons led to the fact that the weakness of the original story of "Cut Throat Island" was magnified indefinitely, which made the audience discouraged from entering the cinema and finally created a Guinness record in the film industry.

Even if it is understood that if the time and space are handled by Daenerys Entertainment, the box office of "Cutting Throat Island" will definitely be much better, and Simon has no intention of taking over.Moreover, in accordance with the strategy of'this trade-off' that Daenerys Entertainment has been hinting at, Simon also intends to throw this box office dumb bomb to others.

The success of blockbusters such as DC Movie Universe and "Jurassic Park" have made the entire Hollywood seek large budget projects. "Cutting Throat Island" should be a very good option.

If it is valued by Simon Westero himself, other studios will definitely scramble to snatch it.

Speaking of which, there is another Jupiter project that was also released in 1995, Kevin Costner's "Future Water World".

Because it was once invested and produced by a large studio like Universal, the box office of "Future Water World" was not as bleak as "Cut Throat Island", but the huge cost of the film of 175 million US dollars also created a new production cost of Hollywood movies. For the record, Universal still suffered serious losses when the box office of the film was not bad.

"Future Water World" was not fanned out by Simon this butterfly.

However, the former producer was Universal, but now it has become Warner.

After cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment in "Dancing with Wolves" and "Bodyguard", Kevin Costner switched to Warner Bros. Pictures in recent years. The two sides have continuously cooperated with Oliver Stone's "Assassination of Kennedy" and The "Perfect World" co-created with Clint Eastwood at the end of last year.

This summer, Costner will also release a blockbuster western film "Warriors of Law Enforcement" invested by Warner.

After three consecutive collaborations, the next "Future Water World", Costner signed a contract with Warner very smoothly, is expected to start shooting in May and June this year, scheduled for next summer.

Simon was just watching with cold eyes, without any interference.

The main reason why the original "Future Water World" budget was out of control was that Costner chose to shoot this movie in Hawaii, ignoring the natural factors such as local tidal storms, which caused the expensive studio set to be repeatedly destroyed by the waves.

According to the disclosed information, this time "Future Water World" will still be filmed in Hawaii.

This is no accident.

As one of the most well-known tourist destinations in the world, Hawaii can provide a very comfortable working environment for film crews, especially celebrities, as did Spielberg’s previous filming of "Jurassic Park" in Hawaii, Daenerys Entertainment There are considerable additional costs for this, and no tax refunds have been made.

Fortunately, "Jurassic Park" was filmed on land, and even then it was hit by a storm.

If Daenerys Entertainment takes over "Future Water World", Simon will certainly not make the same mistake.Although he maintained a fairly good relationship with Warner, he certainly didn't mean to remind him.

"Future Water World", and "Cut Throat Island" in hand at this time, not only meet the needs of big studios for blockbusters, two heavyweight box office pits, but also enough for Daenerys Entertainment next year At least 100 million US dollars of box office space was vacated in the popular period, which is the'completion and extinction'.

Determined, Simon got up and came to a living room next to the living room of the villa, looked at it for a moment, and placed the script of "Cutting Throat Island" on the shelf under the glass coffee table.

After "Four Weddings and One Funeral" tonight, the villa will hold a party under the name of Daenerys Entertainment Group, and the living room will also be open.

Alison happened to come in with a men's down jacket, served Simon, and glanced at the script that the man had just apparently intentionally placed under the coffee table, and asked with some doubt: "Boss, do I need to put it away?"

"No, don't remember to let Naomi move this script. You will take it away at night when there are many people."

Alison knew instantly, and whispered, "Is the boss optimistic about this script?"

"Yeah, it's a bit prettier at the time, don't show it."

"Well," Alison nodded gently, and said, "There is only one script that is too obvious. I will wait for a few magazines to be next to it."

"Yes, Allie is so smart."

The two secretly discussed bad things, and Natasha quickly changed her clothes and went downstairs.

Alison sent Simon and the two out, looking at her boss’s car disappearing in the mountain road, a little lost, and then quickly dispelled the idea, the woman saw him a few times a year, and only one year, If you can stay with him for a long time, be content.

Simon and Natasha played at a ski club open to members only in the south of Park City until more than four o'clock in the afternoon. Instead of returning to the mountain villa, they rushed directly to the city.

The premiere of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" begins at 5 pm at the Egyptian Theatre, the main venue of the film festival.

Because it is a key project recommended by Daenerys Entertainment, many famous filmmakers including Robert Redford are invited to attend, and there are also a large number of film critics from all over North America.

Only these people are enough to support the popularity of the film in the news media. Simon does not intend to appear in the news release at least. There is no plan to be photographed by the media. So he took Natasha from the back door of the theater and came to In the screening hall of the Egyptian Theatre, Natasha consciously did not continue to stay with Simon, but chose to sit with NCM Josephson of ICM.

As a phenomenal film with a huge box office of 245 million in the world at a production cost of less than US$5 million in the original space and time, although the theme is slightly different from the style of Sundance's independent avant-garde film festival, the film is the first The public screening was very successful, and the audience received unanimous applause after the movie was over.

At the end of the premiere, many guests continued to rush to the private mountain villa in Simon, southeast of Park City.

Last weekend, the Golden Globe Awards Party accepted Redford’s invitation. Simon then decided to hold such a party, which would greatly strengthen Daenerys’ position in the independent film industry.

After the news was released, this party also became the most anticipated party for Sundance this year. Many people struggled to get an invitation in the past week, including some who didn’t feel the Sundance Film Festival. Interested celebrities have come to Park City exclusively, hoping to get in touch with Simon Westeros.