King of Hollywood

“Feeling? Let's see... Not bad, I'm a fan of Al's, and I think the tango jump and the final reprimand is amazing," said a young man with a baseball cap on the TV, excited about the camera.

“Thank you, thank you for your answer.” After getting the answer, the reporter made a gesture to the photographer, and the camera then shifted from the guy who also wanted to show up on the screen to another black young man who walked out of the cinema with his girlfriend.

“Hello, may I know your names?” Journalists were the first to ask.

“Um... my name is Woody? Andrews, this is my girlfriend Mia? Harrison.” The young black man seemed a little slutty, but her girlfriend greeted the reporter vibrantly: “Hello. ”

“Did you see the movie" Smell the Incense Woman "?” The journalist went on to ask, immediately after receiving a positive answer, the question arose: "Can you tell me what you think of the film? Why are you showing your girlfriend this movie? ”

“Great movies, especially when Al dances tango, are really fascinating.” The black girl named Mia answered first, while the black youth thought carefully: "A very trendy film, especially Al's final speech in the auditorium, resonated with me when I and the people around me couldn't help applauding. When I was in high school, I went through something like this, and fortunately I made the same choice as Charlie. And the reason I came to see this movie with Mia was because I had a date with her, and it had nothing to do with that. ”

“That sounds really good. Thank you for your answers.” The reporter said thumbs up to them and put the microphone in his mouth and looked at the camera: “Well, George, now I have good news and a bad news to report to you, the good news is that 80% of the audience who responded thought the film Smell the Fragrant Woman was excellent; and the bad news is that after so long of investigation, I was exhausted and wanted to rest, so let's get Billy back to the studio. ”

“Thank you, Todd. Thank you for the live survey.” With the host's voice, the TV came back to the studio and the host of the news smiled. “Apparently, everyone loved the film from the heart. Adrian, the director and producer, believed that he should be very proud. After all, for a long time, the film that he had frozen had not been enjoyed by people, and he must have put a lot of effort into it. Well, that's it for today, and we'll see you next time. ”

With a bang, the TV screen turns black, Claude puts the remote on the coffee table and looks at Adrian sitting on the other side with a smile, “Are you proud of yourself now, Director Wonder? ”

“Sure, why not?” Adrian shrugged, naturally, "but now is not the time to be most proud, and I'll surprise more people when Howard Manor comes out next month. ”

“Still so confident.” Claude smiled and said, getting up in front of the liquor cabinet and pouring a glass of whiskey for himself, then turning to Adrian: “You've surprised a lot of people now - would you like a drink? ”

“No, not yet.” Adrian shook his head looking at the documents on the coffee table again.

“Well, let's have a drink, let's say a celebration.” Claude couldn't help but pour another drink in front of him.

“Celebrating?” Adrian looked up a little surprised.

“Yeah, celebrate your first movie North American box office over a hundred million.” Claude raised his glass with a smile.

Adrian picked the eyebrows, and the cup laughed, “That's true. ”

Although the box office in Low Novel has been unflattering, it has lasted quite a long time, maintaining two or three million box offices a week, even a small fire on Halloween holidays, returning to the top 10 North American box office that week with 2.6 million. So 22 weeks after the show, the film finally got more than $100 million in box offices in North America because of the long line show, at which time the proportion of the exhibitors was much higher, but it didn't hurt much compared to almost $10 million invested in the film as a whole. Besides, it is a miracle that the Low Volume Novel still maintains one or two million box offices every weekend when it is now offline and the movie season is approaching.

“The box office, the reputation, the honor are all quite harvesting, and the Golden Palm Awards at the Cannes Film Festival are not random - I only realized two months after you took them.” Claude's tone brought a little emotion.

“It's just an addition," Adrian doesn't seem to think, "Oscar is the most important thing for Americans, Golden Palm... unless they really can't get anything from Oscar and are anxious to recover their downward popularity, the directors and actors will think about the European Film Festival, but they will eventually have to go back to Hollywood if they want to go any further. ”

“It's amazing how you feel about all three European film festivals once.” Claude joked.

“It turns out, it's a paradise for small cost films, filming self-talking films in the name of 'art', never caring what the audience - the majority of them - thinks. If you can't balance it, it's sooner or later." Speaking of which, Adrian's eyebrows are slightly wrinkled, something seems to have occurred to him.

“Well, not to mention, as long as Howard Manor goes live and meets expectations, my goal for this year is half done.” He waved.

“Oscar?” Claude picked the eyebrows.

“Exactly, Oscar.” Adrian smiled and made a gesture, “I told you. ”

“I have to exclaim once again, Ed," Claude holds the whiskey in his hand, "more ideas have emerged in your head than in the last 20 years combined, and as far as I know, the film company's writers have been writing a lot of scripts over the last few months based on your ideas, and it doesn't seem to be what you were telling me. ”

“They're actually there, but only now,” Adrian pointed to his head, "I used to just focus on something else. ”

“Well, let's just say,” Claude didn't get into this, “let's start with the movie company, frankly, the novel ~ comes ~ wapoo I think there's a little bit more to invest in right now and the movie to invest in. ”

“Is that your opinion, or what?” Adrian watched him make a gesture.

Claude smiled slightly, “What, Ralph said the same thing to you? Oh, of course, he's a great CEO, and it's not surprising that I have the same opinion. Although I don't know anything about making movies, I do know the market and the risks, think about it, Ed, if...”

“Okay, Claude.” The first time Adrian reached out and stopped him, he sighed after making a few gestures: “I know I can't convince you on this, but I was wondering, how many of the films I had invested or made with my consent didn't make a profit? ”

“No.” Claude gave the answer just a little thought.

Adrian stopped talking, just staring at him.

“Can you guarantee it will always be the same?” Claude frowned and asked, "For example, the Schindler List. ”

“That's not necessarily true, and I told you that the Schindler List gives us more than monetary benefits.” Adrian then rebutted.

“But what you just said was economic gain.” Claude shook his finger and laughed.

Adrian looked at what he seemed to want to say, but eventually he spread his hand: "Not 100 percent, but 80 percent. On top of that, I'm sure I have a much better view than you, because what you need is a global package. And, as we all know, it's hard for a movie company to scale up without a huge library of great quality movies. ”

That's right, one of the reasons why the seven big companies are sitting on the throne of the Hollywood giant is that they have a huge library of films, and that's why Adrian wants to put all the great films of the '90s in their bags.

“Besides, didn't you complain about too much liquidity before? Invest in a movie.” He continued.

“Okay, okay, you're always right.” Claude gave up arguing with him.

Adrian smiled and let go of this topic and turned to another one: "Speaking of excessive liquidity, how about we buy another movie company? Acquisition of a bigger film company than the Bosworth Film Industry. Let me see, Miramax Film? Or a new line movie company? ”

“I want to ask, why do you suddenly want to buy a new movie company?” Claude asked.

“Because of the distribution," Adrian said, “if two movie companies are in hand, a lot of small cost movies can be handed over to another distribution after this production, just like big companies handing over profits from left to right, and this will help to build our own distribution channels. ”

“Well, that's a good reason, but Ed, if you buy another movie company, is your main focus on the Bosworth movie industry or the newly acquired movie company?” Claude warned.

Adrian was stunned and frowned and didn't speak again, so Claude paused for a few seconds before opening up again: "By the way, the two movie companies you mentioned are currently negotiating with Disney and TBS, respectively, and according to intelligence, are likely to be bought by them separately. ”

“You mean...” Adrian's eyes lit up.

“Based on previous contacts, ABC has negotiated with a number of companies, and it was Dinesh who was most interested in them, so I preferred the acquisition of Lloyd to explain a little bit.

“Sounds good.” Adrian nodded, knowing what he meant, but it was hard to remember for a moment when he seemed to think of something that didn't match his memory.

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