Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Rick, what happened?" Ronald returned home and immediately called his agent, Nisita, "It seemed that the audience was crazy, they shouted not to let the main creator go, and dragged them to sign half a contract. What a name. You must know that they were still young actors that no one cared about before."

"You're going to get rich, Ronald." Nisita put the receiver on the other side, and took the note from the secretary, "I heard about the premiere and sent five assistants to watch it in movie theaters in various districts. , the scene is hot, I guess you should print a copy."

"Wait, hang up, Ronnie", Nisita picked up another phone, "Hi, it's me, I'm Ronald Lee's agent. You want to ask him to talk about the new script? He But the hot new star... yes, I will arrange it, after he comes back from Cannes."

"Ronnie, the agent and producer with a good sense of smell have already started contacting me. I will answer them uniformly and talk about it when you come back from Cannes."

"Hello?" Another phone rang, and Nisita seemed to be on a hotline. Every time he put the phone back, it rang again after a while.

"Ronald, I have to hang up first. You have a good rest. It is estimated that starting tomorrow, many people will come to you, or the media will interview you. I will send Richard to help you deal with the matter. Paula also Go, she's more experienced in PR, you're hot, man."

Ronald put down the phone excitedly, walked around the room twice, and then punched violently, "Yeah!", Are you going to get angry?

"But why?" Ronald still didn't understand. You didn't perform particularly well yourself? He picked up the phone again and called Donna in New York.

"Donna? My new movie 'Breakdance' is out, have you seen it yet?"

"I bought a ticket for the first show tomorrow." Donna was going to watch it on Saturday, and she had to learn calculus in advance on Friday.

"Okay, do me a favor. When you watch it, talk to other people and why they like to watch it. The audience here in Los Angeles seems to be very enthusiastic. I'm not sure."

"Okay, but New York may not be hot here, I'll call you after I finish watching." Donna hung up the phone.

"That's right, not necessarily the East Coast also likes this kind of dance, they have their own style of hip-hop and rap music." Ronald calmed down a little, "But even if the West Coast is popular, the box office is far beyond expectations Alright."

Ronald at home,

Unable to bear walking up and down the house, he felt a puff of breath in his chest. He is very sure of his directing results every time, but this time he did not expect such a strong reaction from "Breakdance".

What is it for?

Ronald picked up the phone again and called former boss Roger Coleman.

"Roger, you are going to become famous, and the audience loves your performance very much."

"Hahaha, isn't that right? You're not bad, you gave me a lot of lines, and I had a great time acting." Roger Coleman hadn't gone to see his performance yet.

"I have a question. Today the audience seems to be crazy. It is estimated that the box office will exceed expectations. I don't understand what happened."

"Hahaha, do you feel that the movie I made became popular for no reason, and I don't know where to make it right?" Coleman has decades of filming experience and is very experienced in this.

"Yes, yes, I'm a little dizzy. A voice in my heart seems to be saying, I'm not that good, but another voice says, maybe you are that good!"

"Yes, you are still able to keep a clear mind, much better than when I was young." Roger Coleman said a story of the past.

"One year I read in the newspaper that there was a group of gangsters on motorcycles who called themselves Hell's Angels, so I asked Peter Bogdanovich, who was still a film critic at the time, to change a script, and then Starring Henry Fonda.

I think it's okay, but just average. Who knows what happened to this movie suddenly, and it sold tens of millions of dollars all of a sudden. All the films I've done before, combined, can't compare.

Sometimes, God will be on your side. As long as you stay in this industry long enough, there will always be one or two encounters. Your movie just hits the trend of the times, and it will be inexplicably popular. "

"So that's the case!" Ronald put down the phone, realizing something. He felt that he should have stepped on the trend of the times in the form of break dancing.

Break dancing has been developed for more than ten years since it was invented by blacks. After Latinos took over and continued to develop in the 1980s, their skills have continued to improve. Now the skill and art of break dancing has reached a very high level, more and more people are dancing, and it is slowly becoming popular and gradually entering the mainstream media's field of vision.

Last year, there was a "Lightning Dance", in which there was a one-minute breakdancing scene, which made more people pay attention to this kind of dance, and more and more teenagers danced this kind of dance in the streets and alleys. Break dancing seems to be on the verge of breaking out, and it is due to the finishing touch.

From this point of view, it was a huge advantage for me to shoot quickly and get ahead of Orion's movie "Hot Street Kid" with the same theme.

By the next morning, Ronald got up early, picked up the newspapers from the past few weeks, and began to study the box office situation.

March is the peak season, and a large number of blockbuster films were released at that time, and nearly ten weeks have gradually passed by today.

Like Robert Zemeckis's "Emerald," Ronald himself almost directed "Between Up," the comedy "Police Academy," and finally a Diane almost starring Tom Hanks. "Mermaid", these four films have received a box office of 40 to 50 million, gradually showing signs of fatigue, and the box office is declining week by week.

Right on the bottom of a flat, "Breakdancing" comes out and should be blowing up this weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, Donna first called to report from the phone booth outside the movie theater, "I went to see it, Ronnie. There are so many people. The audience is crazy. After watching, many blacks and Latinos jumped in front of the screen The stage danced on its own. There are also many white people who are learning on the spot below..."

"Ah? Do you think it looks good? Where is it good?" Ronald asked loudly, and he became excited again. Looks like the east coast is blowing up too.

"I don't know, anyway, those few dances are so exciting, by the way, is it true that Ma Da taught mj's space walk..."

"Is that so?" Ronald began to hold his breath happily again.

It seems that the blacks and Latinos on the east coast didn't mind that the dance in this movie was West Coast style at all. They were ecstatic to see their own dance on the big screen. The small style gap between the east and west coasts should be nothing.

This is really going to make a fortune.

"Minahan, congratulations, you are going to get rich." Ronald immediately called Minahan.

"We're going to get rich, you bastard, we're going to get rich! You're a genius, you're a genius, a genius! Quack quack..."

Minahan was also incoherent. For so long, the two Israeli brothers have always suffered from the eyes of other big studios in the American film circle, and they finally succeeded.

He put down the phone and looked at his cousin Yoram who was also in tears. The two hugged each other tightly and cried.

"Yoram, Yoram, it turns out that we can still make money making movies in America!"

"Yeah, let's sell it to Europe, East Asia, and the whole world!"

"Stop, stop..."

Donna walked out of the phone booth on the New York side, ready to hail a taxi and go home with her best friend Diane. But the taxi didn't seem to be able to see them, and didn't intend to slow down.

"You should come this way." Diane took out a ten-dollar bill and waved to the driver.

"Gah..." The taxi stopped.

The two chattered in the taxi, talking about Ronald's new movie.

"Ronnie is going to be famous this time!" Donna whispered in Diane's ear.

"The dance is so beautiful. In fact, the acting in this movie is not difficult." Diane looked reserved, but the regret in his heart was also clearly displayed on his face.

"Then let Ronnie take you to take pictures." Donna snorted Diane's armpits.

"I do not want it."

The two girls were laughing and playing in the car.

Cars rounded the end of the street, and there was a long line outside the theater, all waiting patiently for tickets to "Breakdance."

The big billboard put up by MGM was lifted out from the corner by the staff and placed in the most conspicuous position in the lobby.

Everyone was very happy, except for a thin Latino youth who squatted on the ground remorsefully and kept patting the ground.

"I'm so stupid! I'm so stupid! I believe in your ghost!"

He was the one who turned Ronald down to play his own "crazy legs" in Orion Pictures' "Hot Boys."

This was supposed to be mine!

"Hot Street Kid" hasn't been released yet, and breakdancing stole everyone's limelight. For a while, all the New York kids are practicing the authentic West Coast dance steps of Boogaloo prawns in "Breakdancing", and no one comes to practice "Lightning Dance" ", New York East Coast-style space pace.

Originally a kind of mature dance, through mass media such as movies, it is magnified and shown on the big screen. It seems that the dance steps of the East Coast will be completely overwhelmed by the West Coast in the future.

"Orion sucks, sucks!"

Ronald hid at home, and was so excited that he didn't sleep most of the night.

On the third Sunday, the day when the first weekend schedule ended, Ronald simply waited at Cannon Pictures, staring at the fax machine with Minahan, looking at the numbers reported by MGM.

After midnight, after the early morning, until the sky is already bright.

"Squeak..." The fax finally began to stick out a piece of paper.

"Crack", Minahan tore off the fax paper, on which were the preliminary statistics of MGM.

The box office of "Breakdancing" reached 7.86 million in the first weekend, and it was released in 1,000 theaters. It beat "Sixteen Candles" in 1,240 theaters, and the box office of a single theater broke 7,300. , which is twice as large as "Sixteen Candles".

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