Chapter 591 (1/2)
In any case, Steven Spielberg's complete withdrawal from the Jurassic Park series is bound to be interpreted and speculated by the media. He tells Amy to pay attention to media public relations. Seeing Robert Redford coming from the crowd, Simon takes the initiative to greet him.
Robert Redford is the guest of the Golden Globe Award for best picture in musical comedy category tonight.
Hollywood stars, if they appear at the major film awards ceremony of that year, either have nominated films under their names, or have new films released in that year. For the sake of publicity, they need to increase their exposure. Therefore, not everyone competes to attend these awards ceremonies every time.
Redford is the latter case.
This also refers to the movie ”behind the scenes lies” directed by Redford himself last year, when Simon made a random move to induce Disney to seize the project. Originally, Disney thought that it could consume part of Disney's high-quality schedule at the end of last year, but the effect after the film was finished was really poor. Although it cost 40 million US dollars, Disney decided to give up last year's final schedule, and even wanted to throw it into the cemetery in January and February this year.
As a director, Redford naturally disagrees.
Film schedule has always been an important factor affecting the box office. If ”behind the scenes lies” is released in January and February, the box office of the film which is not expected will be even worse, which will inevitably become a stain in Radford's career.
After many negotiations between the two sides, Disney reluctantly made some concessions. At the end of last year, the schedule was still out, but it was also adjusted to a slightly better Easter this year. Radford's attendance at the Golden Globes this time is to create some heat for the release of ”behind the scenes lies”. He will definitely attend the Oscar ceremony in March.
Even if there is no behind the scenes lie, Disney's schedule at the end of 1993 is bleak. By the end of last week, the box office of Nun crazy 2 was only $26.56 million, which is expected to barely break through the $30 million mark. Compared with the total investment of $55 million in film production and publicity, this project even after overseas distribution It is also difficult to recover the full cost of the bank and other later channel operations.
In a word, the past year has been a tough one for other Hollywood studios because of the strength of Daniels entertainment.
Amy and Simon stood up together, said hello to Radford and walked away.
Simon and Redford sat down again in the seat they just had.
This year's Sundance Film Festival happens to be the 10th, a very Commemorative Year, and the festival opened on January 20, a little later than in previous years. The closing date is January 30, lasting for 11 days.
Once because of ”Lola Run” to participate in the film festival and make friends, two people's topic is very natural from the beginning of Sundance.
Faced with Redford's invitation, Simon readily agreed to attend the Sundance closing ceremony next Sunday.
The two discussed some of the best films of this year's Sundance, and Radford talked about ”behind the scenes lies”. He regretted that he had not chosen to cooperate with danielis entertainment at the beginning. His energy in the past year has been involved in this film which may have been doomed to failure, and he has not started to look for other projects.
Simon knows what Redford means and takes the initiative to say that he will pay attention to the project that suits him. In fact, this is also the purpose of Radford's coming to this after party. Although Radford is very kind to Simon, he can't meet this shining young man at any time.
The two chatted enthusiastically for more than ten minutes. Redford also knew that many people at the party wanted to meet Simon. After seeing the time, he got up to say goodbye to Simon and planned to leave the party.
Simon personally takes Redford to the door of the party hall. Just as he turns around, Nancy Josephson, daughter of Marvin Josephson, founder of ICM, comes with another tall girl, but Natasha henschucci.
As she approached, Nancy Josephson reached out to Simon with a smile and said, ”Simon, are you going to leave?”
Simon shook hands with each other, nodded and said, ”almost. It's late.”
Nancy Josephson drew back her hand and motioned to the girl next to her: ”it's Natasha who wants to say hello to you.”
If he hadn't seen Natasha henschucci, Simon would have forgotten that he had collected a beautiful vase at the end of last year.
Recently, the production of ”alien” has started. Because it is MGM's project, and it's not important, Simon didn't pay much attention. He just spent some time last year to finalize the basic ”original team”, which can be regarded as a guarantee for the box office of the film.
Looking at the tall girl in a black deep V dress tonight, Simon smiles and points to the card seat at the edge of the hall where he has just chatted with Redford: ”let's talk over there.”
Nancy Josephson naturally agreed.
When they arrived at the card seat, they noticed Natasha henschucci's hesitation. Nancy Josephson quietly pushed each other. When the girl sat down beside Simon, they sat opposite each other. They called the waiter to come and change a glass of champagne. They looked for the topic and said, ”Simon, have you seen the two projects that Denise TV just signed with us recently?”Simon nodded and said, ”I happened to be in New York the other day. It's a very good play. I heard that you recommended friends to egger in person?”
Nancy Josephson quietly looked at the young man's face and weighed it. She didn't see any other difference. She was disappointed at the bottom of her heart, but with a smile on her face, she said, ”yes, the story of Seinfeld is so successful. I think the same type of urban sitcom should be very marketable.”
After the new year, Denise TV began to look for TV projects for the new year.
Recently, I just signed two scripts with ICM. One is an old-fashioned crime movie, which Simon doesn't attach much importance to. The other is the famous friends.
In the original time and space, friends was packaged and recommended by Nancy Josephson, the daughter of ICM founder, to Warner Bros. TV production company, and then logged on to NBC TV network, becoming NBC's most successful sitcom around the new century. Because of the phenomenal success of this sitcom, time warner can even get hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Netflix a few decades later Amount of copyright revenue.
CAA established a very successful project packaging mechanism in the 1980s.
After the rise of danilisi entertainment, although Simon did not completely reject this kind of cooperation mode which is very unfriendly to the studio, he never accepted the mandatory project packaging. The agency company has the right to recommend the main creator for the project it seeks, but if danilisi entertainment feels inappropriate, it also has the final decision-making power.
Nancy Josephson's words just now are actually intended to test Simon's attitude towards the project, so as to guess how many ICM artists can be recommended.
If westero is very optimistic about friends, ICM can be stronger in the follow-up cooperation and have more say in the process of fighting for the role. After all, in order to promote the big boss to pay close attention to the smooth progress of the project, Robert egger and other executives inevitably give in during the implementation process.
In addition to the six leading roles in friends, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, George Clooney and other big names who have been guest stars in the following years are actually ICM customers, which shows ICM's influence on this project.
A lot of things have changed in this time and space.
At least this time, Courtney Cox, who signed up under wma and has a small reputation, will definitely not play Monica Geller again.
Except for Courtney Cox, Simon is very inclined to keep other actors original, so he will interfere in the casting of the TV series in private.
It's just that of course it won't show up in front of Nancy Josephson.
After a few perfunctory remarks, Simon turned to Natasha henschucci, who occasionally pretended to have a body touch with him. He put his arm around the girl's waist and asked with a smile, ”how's Natasha doing?”
Natasha henschucci only felt that she had had a rough few years.