Chapter 598 (1/2)

Natasha henschucci is about to take the initiative to turn her lunch into her own. Simon has withdrawn her hand. With another word of warning, she turns and leaves the bedroom.

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

After getting out of bed, I thought for a moment, chose a long black knitted skirt suitable for indoor wear in winter, simply put on light makeup, and came downstairs in only 15 minutes.

Simon was sitting on the sofa in the living room flipping through a play when he saw Natasha go downstairs, look at it, and say, ”it's beautiful.”

”Thank you,” Natasha agreed. She came to Simon and sat down. She looked 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 script.”

Natasha nodded, quickly searching her mind for information about the pirate movie, but she couldn't find it. Fortunately, the man didn't mean to wait for a response. He put down the script and ordered girl a not far away. He got up and took her to the restaurant.

In the dining room, the maids served lunch and red wine to them, then they went back.

Simon picked up the cutlery and asked the opposite girl, ”what do you want to do this afternoon?”

Natasha cut the pan fried cod in the plate, smelled the words, stopped and said, ”I don't know. I'll do whatever you do.”

Simon said with a smile: ”there are only two things that people come to park city, movies and skiing. Which one do you choose?”

Natasha hesitated and said, ”is skiing OK? But I'm not very good at it

Born in Canada, Natasha is actually good at skiing, but of course she has to be clumsy in front of men. After that, she even worries that if he can't ski, it will be embarrassing.

Simon just nodded and said, ”well, let's go skiing in the afternoon, go to the premiere of a movie in the evening, and then there will be a party here.”

Natasha finally took up the topic this time: ”is it the” Four Weddings and a funeral ”

”Yes, you know?”

”I came over yesterday with the two main characters of this movie,” Natasha said. ”But it doesn't seem like this movie is a Sundance movie?”

Danelis Entertainment's support and cultivation of the independent film market is the key to the rapid rise of the Sundance Film Festival. In recent years, danelis Entertainment's films are bound to enter the main competition unit every year.

Natasha did some film festival related homework before she came to park city. She knew that there were two films that danielis entertainment was shortlisted for the main competition unit of Sundance this year: Barcelona by whit Stillman and monkey beating by David Russell.

Whit Stillman is a direct born in Sundance. His last work ”metropolises” has a good reputation and box office. Barcelona is his second directing work. ”Beating monkey” is the first work written and directed by new director David Russell. It's a ethical film about mother and son. ”Beating monkey” is a slang related to sex.

The film will be shown on the Saturday before the closing of the festival, and Simon will be present in person, which shows the importance of Denise entertainment to the film. That being the case, Natasha was puzzled that the film failed to enter the main competition.

”Four Weddings and a funeral” was not shortlisted in the main competition, of course, because of the lack of qualification. Simon explained: ”the film is positioned as a commercial romantic comedy, focusing on Valentine's day in February. If it is shortlisted in the main competition unit of Sundance, it may be misunderstood by the audience as a literary film and limit the audience.”

Natasha suddenly said, ”well, I thought it would be the best to be shortlisted for the film festival and win the prize.”

Simon smiles and shakes his head: ”of course not. All kinds of films have their own distribution models.”

Hollywood film distribution is easy to say and difficult to say.

Large scale advertising bombing on various media platforms is undoubtedly the most effective way to promote a movie, but it is only suitable for a few super blockbusters with enough box office potential, such as DC movie universe series.

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

There is no doubt that the quality of a film is the foundation of its commercial success. However, once the marketing strategy is seriously wrong, the result can be disastrous.

Knowing that Natasha won't be too interested in these business details, Simon didn't talk much about similar topics. Instead, he asked about the girl's recent situation.

They had a good lunch and sent the girl upstairs to change clothes for skiing. Simon went back to the living room and picked up the script of ”cut throat island” which he had read before lunch.

This is a project that karock pictures is promoting to Hollywood studios recently. All seven mainstream studios have received scripts.

Relying on German and other overseas capital support, karock film industry has a great reputation in Hollywood. This independent film company is different from other thrifty second-line studios, but is famous for its high budget films. In the original time and space, Hollywood's first production of Terminator 2, with a budget of more than 100 million US dollars, was the project invested by karock pictures. In addition, karock also produced films such as instinct and full memory.Simon's appearance led to the cutting off of the most successful film projects of karok, such as Terminator 2 and instinct, in advance. However, in recent years, karok pictures has invested in many films of action stars, such as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and directly pushed the Hollywood stars' film salaries up to $15 million.

As an independent studio that does not undertake the distribution work, karock pictures has been cooperating with Columbia Pictures in the past few years.

Last year's turmoil in Columbia film industry led to the collapse of the cooperation between the two sides. Karock is looking for a new partner recently, and ”cut throat island” is a stepping stone.

Speaking of Hollywood's film history in the 1990s, we can't escape the most successful Titanic and the most unsuccessful cut throat island.

In my memory, the production budget of ”cut throat island” was as high as $98 million, but after the film was released, the total box office in North America was only more than $10 million. The tragic failure not only cost investors nothing, but also included in the Guinness Book of records.

Is cut throat Island really useless?

This is not the case.

The film is excellent in lens, editing and soundtrack, and the large-scale naval battle scene can be called epic level, including Pirates of the Caribbean many years later. Even the weakness of the story plot is not fatal to a blockbuster movie, because it is a common fault of many big budget movies.

The blockbuster movies in the North American film market were far from saturated in the mid-1990s. They were just gimmicks with huge investment of nearly 100 million US dollars. If they were used well, they could attract a large number of audiences, and the total box office was only 10 million US dollars.

So why is the failure of ”cut throat island” so thorough?

The reasons also involve many aspects.