Chapter 821 (1/2)

Hollywood is a circle full of personal heroism. When you can create a box office miracle, you are the hero pursued by all people, and the whole world will revolve around you.

However, few Hollywood filmmakers can be treated as heroes forever.

It's another cruel side of Hollywood.

When you are no longer able to create miracles and are abandoned by everyone, almost in a moment, there are too many people in Hollywood who have experienced such a strong gap in the past century. Therefore, many people have spared no effort to maintain their own scenery.

Steven Spielberg's recent mood is probably like this.

The fate of the veteran filmmaker, who made his name with ”great white shark”, has changed since the summer of 1986. Without the appearance of a young man, the name of Spielberg will still be a symbol of Hollywood after the new century.

The strong rise of danielis Entertainment Group has changed the fate of almost every filmmaker in Hollywood.

Steven Spielberg is undoubtedly the one who has been most affected.

Because Hollywood's resources are limited after all, the reason why Spielberg has been prosperous for a long time is that in addition to his personal film talent, the most critical point is that this filmmaker has always been able to enjoy the top resources in Hollywood, such as abundant production funds, top production team, generous publicity investment, high-quality film schedule, golden cinema resources, and so on wait.

Now, it's all taken away by Denise entertainment.

From ”Lola Run”, the American public's attention has been attracted by the name of Simon westero. Even in the first ”Jurassic Park” three years ago, many people think that this is mainly due to westero's insight. Instead, Spielberg, as a director and producer, was placed in the second place, and later he was directly kicked out.

It's the first time in so many years that 29 year old Spielberg has been treated like this since jaws put him at the top of the Hollywood pyramid.

However, what makes Spielberg more uncomfortable is the great success of Jurassic Park 2.

When the box office of Jurassic Park 2 came out on the first day, Spielberg felt very bad. Counting the morning and night show, the first day income of $28.79 million was already the total box office of many blockbuster movies in the first week, but for Jurassic Park 2, it was just a day's income.

Three days after the first weekend, the cumulative box office of this phenomenal dinosaur blockbuster was as high as $83.16 million, directly surpassing the seven day box office of Jurassic Park three years ago with $72.17 million in the first week. It is widely predicted that Jurassic Park 2 will break the box office record of Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight last year with $113 million in the first week, creating a new opening box office High.

There is almost no doubt about that.

So, even though he was very careful, when he went to a meeting in Paramount Studios on Tuesday, June 6, Spielberg was stopped by the paparazzi who had been watching for a long time and asked him about the box office of Jurassic Park 2. Several paparazzi came forward with obvious preparation and deliberately blocked the collision. Spielberg, who had been cared for by Hollywood for a long time, had not suffered this This kind of treatment, even if he finally repressed his mood and didn't get angry on the spot, he was still photographed by the paparazzi with a black face on the car.

The next day, the news appeared in the media that ”Spielberg left indignantly after hearing the box office data of Jurassic Park 2”.

Any circle, no matter how deep the contradiction between them is, will not easily tear their faces open.

What's more, Denise entertainment is now so strong, and the media is making such a fuss, as if the two sides are already at odds, which is very bad for both Spielberg and DreamWorks.

Just like after the success of the film due to the discord of ET, Spielberg, in order to retaliate for Frank price, the then president of Universal Pictures, who had made trouble with the project at the beginning, wrote the clause of not cooperating with each other in the agreement every time he signed the film contract. The situation of Frank price in Hollywood can be imagined.

This time, if the circle also thinks that the contradiction between danielis entertainment and Spielberg is irreconcilable, then, whether it is active or passive, there may be the phenomenon of choosing the side. In the current situation of Hollywood, it is self-evident which side those people will choose. At that time, DreamWorks will be in a dilemma.

Therefore, even though he was choked, under the pressure of other DreamWorks executives and partner paramount, Spielberg still had to respond quickly to the gossip. He publicly issued a clarification statement, saying that there was no contradiction between the two sides. He also specifically mentioned that there was a contract left over from the global age with Denise entertainment, and he was very satisfied with ”dwarf” Congratulations on the success of rocky Park 2.

Danielis entertainment also showed great magnanimity and soon made the same response. In an interview with the media, Jurassic Park 2 director Michael Bay also highly praised his predecessor.

This seems to be the end of the storm.

However, early this morning, Spielberg was still having breakfast with his family when he received bad news. Michael Clayton, the original author of Jurassic Park, whose CAA is in contact with him, finally got the latest sci-fi play tornado into the hands of Denise entertainment.The success of the series of Jurassic Park and the story of the emergency room has made Michael Clayton famous. Many Hollywood studios hope to win each other's latest plays.

In order to stabilize his position in Hollywood as much as possible, Spielberg took the initiative to postpone the lock breaking fury, which tells the history of slave trafficking, and planned to direct a blockbuster bomb again. Tornado is his favorite project. If it was a few years ago, not to mention directing in person, even if it was just hanging the name of a producer, as long as Spielberg spoke, those writers would cry and shout to send the script to him.

All this scenery has become the past.

Obviously, even if DreamWorks and paramount are willing to bid a higher price, Michael Clayton is still more willing to hand over the project to danielis entertainment group. Danielis's strong technical background of special effects can undoubtedly better show tornado on the big screen.

Michael Clayton's current coffee table can enjoy a higher profit share.

If the project is handed over to danielis entertainment, the film will be more successful. As a screenwriter, Clayton will get more.

Spielberg didn't know about the Matthew effect, but he realized that he was getting less and less resources in Hollywood.

CAA headquarters in Century City.

When he heard the news, Spielberg came here from his mansion in palisade to see if there was any way to recover. Michael Clayton's brokerage contract was in CAA.

As one of CAA's most important clients, Michael owitz personally received him, but owitz could not help him in this matter.

If it was in the 1980s, Michael owitz could make tornado a package project, and he had a big say in which studio to sell the project to. Now everything has changed. The huge investment in blockbusters, the rise of the film, let the studio regain the initiative of film production, strong danilisi entertainment, is CAA need to try to make friends.

Just like this time.

Michael owitz also tried his best to make Clayton and Spielberg cooperate again, but the attraction of Spielberg alone can't be compared with the whole Daniels entertainment group. If owitz obstructs and forcibly gives the script to Spielberg, it will not only offend Daniels entertainment, but also lose Michael Clayton, the gold medalist Households.

Of course, Michael owitz is not a snob who likes to be swayed by the wind.