Chapter 443 (1/2)

”William Friedkin can't, Tom. The Exorcist was really brilliant, and the French drug network was classic enough. However, William has been just eating his old books all these years. What ”the bell at midnight” needs is a style breakthrough which is quite different from the traditional Hollywood horror films. I don't think William can achieve ”

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Simon is in his office discussing with new world's president, Denny Morris, the director of ”the midnight bell.”.

Although William Friedkin is the husband of sherry Lansing, MGM's director, and understands that Denny Morris is is the first to mention that Lansing must be a human factor, Simon does not hesitate to veto it.

After ”Exorcist” and ”French drug trafficking network”, William Fredkin has the richest resources in Hollywood, but he has not directed a film with excellent performance in word-of-mouth and box office in more than ten years.

In fact, Denny Morris was not optimistic about William Friedkin, and continued, ”so, Simon, what about Wes Craven?”

”Wes is better at plasma films, which is totally out of the style of this film.”

”Jonathan Demi?”

Today is October 9th, Wednesday.

It has been eight and a half weeks since the release of ”the silent lamb” directed by Jonathan Demi on August 9. Just last weekend, the classic horror film, whose stars were changed to Sandra Bullock and Robert Duval, just broke through the $100 million mark, reaching $102.71 million.

Simon thought about it, nodded and said, ”Joe can be an alternative. However, ”midnight bell” is very focused on the creation of the atmosphere of the lens and soundtrack, I hope the director can have a stronger foundation in these two aspects ”

Denny Morris said with a smile:” Simon, in this case, only you are the most suitable. ”

”I feel the same way,” Simon shrugged. ”But, unfortunately, I don't have the time.”

Denny Morris just mentioned it casually, and then said, ”there's Joe dent, but if you set a schedule for next year's Halloween, Dante's schedule won't be open.”

Joe dent is famous for his piranha in the 1970s and little monster in the 1980s. Just as it happens, the director Simon chose is Joe dent for the sixth sense of the supernatural, which was the box office blockbuster of danielis entertainment last summer.

Because he has become a famous director, the two sides only signed a film contract at the beginning.

Although everyone in the industry knows that Simon is the key to the success of sixth sense, Joe dent is still in hot demand because the film has sold for more than 600 million dollars worldwide. He has been robbed by other studios and is still full of time.

If there is no other good choice, Jonathan Demi will continue to be in charge.

Still, Simon has some concerns.

”The bell at midnight” will be a completely different style from the traditional Hollywood horror film.

However, these veteran directors who have been in Hollywood for many years have basically formed their own fixed directing style. It is very difficult to change the past habits and achieve a breakthrough.

After thinking about it for a moment, Simon said, ”well, Denny, you can screen out some relatively young alternative directors, and I'll watch the project myself. So it's better for a director to have enough plasticity. ”

When Simon said that, Denny Morris nodded quickly.

Simon was directly responsible for this project. At this time, the boss said that he would watch it personally, which means that he would spend more energy on this project.

In this way, the director will be younger and less qualified, but he will be more obedient and easy to use.

To settle the matter, Denny Morris read his memo and continued, ”and the heroine...”

Simon waved his hand and said, ”I've given the heroine to Nicole Kidman. You can just talk to her agent about the contract.”

Denny Morris paused and nodded again.

I'm sorry for those actresses who have been racking their brains to get this project recently.

The original American version of ”midnight bell”, the heroine is Nicole's best friend Naomi Watts, the actress now do not know where, just Simon decided to let Nicole as the spokesperson of van cletta, then the project is expected to sell to each other.

”The bell at midnight” is a female dominated film. Although it is a horror film, as long as it has enough box office, it will certainly help Nicole Kidman to improve her reputation and stabilize her coffee position.

After discussing some details, they turned to other projects of new world pictures.

An hour later, Denny Morris left, and Ella doichman arrived.

As of last weekend, Katherine's ”the last flower” grossed $25.41 million in four and a half weeks.

Because of its excellent reputation and continued weak decline, the box office of the film is still around 4 million US dollars a week, and it is expected to exceed 40 million US dollars before the next stage, which is enough to recover all the production and publicity costs of the film.

Now that he has decided to give up the competition for next year's Oscars, Simon takes ”the last flower” as the focus of his application for the next Oscars, mainly to accumulate a best director nomination for Katherine.Awards are not extravagant.

Barbara Streisand's ”the waves of time” will also be a hit for next year's Oscars at the end of the year.

Therefore, next year's Oscars are very hopeful that there will be two female best director nominees at one time. As long as we operate it a little bit and stir up the topic, with Hollywood's political right attribute, the first female Oscar best director will be ready to come out.

Catherine certainly can't be compared with Streisand, who has extensive contacts in Hollywood.

It's not impossible to fight by force.

However, Simon has no idea to fight for Katherine. On the one hand, it's danielis's entertainment strategy. On the other hand, it's not bad for Katherine to miss the Oscar. After all, women's accumulation is insufficient, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future.

After talking about the Oscars, Simon and Ella doechman discussed several key projects of gaomen next year.

Basically, Simon himself picked them out.

One is the copyright obtained after the acquisition of universal, which is called ”smell and know women”.

This is a remake of the 1974 Italian film ”fragrance of women”. In my memory, the original is starring Al Pacino, and there is a tango dance that has been talked about by fans for many years.

Simon doesn't plan to change the lineup of smell and know women, which will be the main feature of gaomen film's schedule at the end of 1992.

Another work is a little ”different”, called ”crying game”.

This film directed by Neil Jordan tells a very complicated love story, involving many elements such as war, politics, love and transvestism.

Crying game in my memory, because of its bizarre reversal, triggered a wave of film watching craze in North America. Finally, with a production cost of about $3 million, it won more than $60 million at the box office. Therefore, it is also one of the turnaround works of Miramax, the North American distributor.

It was the film's big sale that brought Miramax to Disney's attention and eventually became a part of Disney.

Now, Miramax has been basically unsustainable, Simon will not give the Weinstein brothers any chance to turn over.

Neil Jordan, the director of cry game, has been preparing for this project for several years. After gaomen took over, the film's specifications have not been improved, and the budget cost is still $3 million.