Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Julia Roberts knows how to use her charm. She is lobbying director Garry Marshall, hoping to change the script to a better ending and not let the actor Lewis go bankrupt, so that Vivian can be like the princess in the fairy tale , and live happily with the prince forever.

In order to achieve his goal, Julia Roberts and his agent worked together. On the one hand, he accompanied director Garry Marshall every day to discuss his views on the character and script. On the other hand, her agent began to invite Hollywood male stars, but the effect was not particularly good.

This made Diane very angry because it was Julia Roberts who she found to replace herself as the heroine. If the script was changed like this, she would also want to act. Such an ending and role will not affect my image at all, nor will it embarrass my future children watching movies in which their mother has acted.

Even if you are pregnant now and cannot act for the time being, you can still act after you have recovered for a while after giving birth.

"Hmm... um... If I had known I could do this..."

Diane felt a little remorseful and hit herself on the head. She was not very used to the role of the wife of a Hollywood star director.

"If you really like this character so much, I can make other arrangements..." Ronald couldn't see that Diane was in a bad mood, so he made her happy.

"Hey, is this really okay? But if you have to wait for me, will the crew have to stop and invest in Disney?" When Dane heard what Ronald said, the grievance and depression in his heart suddenly disappeared. Disseminated. She in turn thought about Ronald...

"The loss will not exceed 10 million. It's not that I can't afford it now... It's just that this movie must have a good box office before I can explain it to Mr. Katzenberg and Eisner of Disney..."

"Well, let's forget it. This movie is just a low-cost romantic movie..." Upon hearing this, Diane realized that if she had to be in the role, her husband would have to lose so much and take a lot of risks. , immediately shook her head and quit... In fact, what she was most unhappy about was that Julia Roberts was actually smarter than herself and knew how to use her influence to achieve the goals she wanted.

"Don't worry, I'm going to find people from Disney, Paramount, and 20th Century Fox right now and take out all the scripts in stock from their warehouses. We'll make preparations for whichever one you like, waiting for you..." Luo Nader touched Diane's belly. It was still relatively flat now. When she gave birth to their child next spring, and after a period of recovery, she would be able to make movies again...

"Really? Ronnie, I'm so happy..." Diane is actually a relatively pure actor, and she is not the best at these intrigues in Hollywood. This is one of the reasons why Ronald likes Diane.

If an actress really wants to get ahead, she still has to be like Julia Roberts and use every possibility to exploit and achieve what she wants. But now with Ronald's help, Diane no longer has to practice those tricks.

"I will star in the next movie and you will direct it, okay?" Diane began to dream about the scene of the husband and wife cooperating again, how happy it would be for the husband to sing and the wife to follow.

"That's not okay, Diane, if you are the starring role, I don't want to be the director..." Ronald heard this, and the hair on his body stood up in fright, and he quickly refused.

"Why? Aren't there many husband-and-wife teams of directors and actors in Hollywood?" Diane asked doubtfully.

"I don't want to get angry at you on the set, honey." Ronald told Diane his thoughts.

After seeing and hearing a lot in this industry, he had a big psychological barrier to directing movies in which his girlfriend or wife was the heroine.

The relationship between directors and actors is naturally conflicting, and it is inevitable that there will be various different opinions on the performance effects. If it is his wife, it will cause interference to this relationship. Many director-actor couples break up because of a movie.

In the end, often director-actor, or husband-wife, both relationships are damaged.

And with Dane's beauty and age, her movies will never lack some romantic love scenes. Ronald felt uncomfortable all over at the thought of directing Diane on the set, kissing another actor, or looking at each other affectionately. I am not as generous as Bogdanovich, who could tolerate Sybil Shepard being intimate with the leading actor on the set...

"You're really cute, Ronnie...well..." Dai Ran felt regretful on the one hand, but on the other hand, he felt that Ronald valued their relationship very much, and he was still very happy in his heart.

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After comforting Diane, Ronald called Michelle Cannold, who was daydreaming, to tell him about the progress of "Seinfeld Chronicles" and to have a meeting with all the executives tomorrow morning to discuss "Working Girl" "Preparations for the TV series version.

"That's really good news. We should also have our own TV series production department..." Michelle Cannold laughed the most. A manager who a few years earlier had been nearly fired from a small studio making videotapes had become an executive at a studio capable of producing three mid-sized productions simultaneously and now launching a new TV series production line.

"That's really, really good news..." Bannon, who was present at the meeting, also beamed. Those dozen Wall Street investors were about to start questioning his vision and ability in Hollywood.

Once Ronald takes action, not only will old dramas have the opportunity to be piloted again, but there will also be a new drama that can fool those investors into investing a large sum of money.

"In terms of financing, what do you say?" Ronald looked at Bannon. He doesn't want to pay for the TV series production money himself. There is a lot of money on Wall Street that has nowhere to go.

"As long as you and the working girl's names are known, those people can just put it together," Bannon said with a smile. One million is not a big sum of money to those investors, but a dozen people can put it together. It's enough to cover the filming expenses of this series.

"We will talk about this alone later..." Ronald nodded. He also wanted to talk to Bannon about recruiting Douglas Jr. to join the team. The production of the first TV series cannot be completely controlled by Bannon. constitute.

"What do you say about the script?" Ronald looked at David Simkins, the director in charge of the script. "Dances with Wolves" failed in its first attempt to cultivate him as a filmmaker, but Simkins was still very capable at his old job, selecting and producing scripts.

"I plan to find a core of three to five experienced TV drama screenwriters, and then hire a group of full-time screenwriters who specialize in writing the main plot, dialogue, atmosphere rendering, and industry details to form a screenwriting room..."

TV screenwriters and movie screenwriters are two completely different professions. Generally speaking, film screenwriters can work alone. Or the producer can come up with a story idea, and then find a screenwriter to write the script, no more than 3 people.

However, TV drama screenwriters need to have an office of screenwriters to work simultaneously. In the public television market in America, TV series are filmed and broadcast simultaneously.

Moreover, after the broadcast, the subsequent plot must be adjusted based on the audience's feedback. Which characters are more popular with the audience, and the actors must be given more roles. Which characters are hated by the audience should be written to death.

Under this situation, the screenwriting of TV series is more like an assembly line operation. Some people write the backbone and key plots of an entire season, while others fill in the flesh and blood.

"Do you have a suitable candidate?" When Ronald was planning the pilot episode, he would first find one to three screenwriters to write it, and then find actors to play it. If we can sign a broadcast contract with NBC in the future, we will use these people as the backbone to form an entire writers room.

"Lawrence Connor", Simkins threw out a resume. This is a high-quality screenwriter he has tried to attract to Daydream several times. However, because Daydream originally had no TV drama business, the screenwriter was reluctant to join Daydream and become a long-term employee.

"Ha..." Ronald saw a long list of familiar names on Lawrence Connor's resume.

Not only did he co-write a screenplay for Helen Slater's theatrical film "The Legend of Billie King," he also wrote a bunch of scripts for bad sequels, such as "Superman IV," Michael ·The sequel to Douglas' blockbuster adventure film "The Jewel of the Nile," and the recent box-office flop "Star Trek Part 5."

In the field of TV dramas, he also wrote a TV series called "The Legend of Remington Steele", which was the famous work of Pierce Brosnan, the male protagonist of the Coke commercial directed by Ronald.

"Would he like to daydream?"

"He was always overpowered by his partners before, but he also wants to lead a team and create a series that is entirely his own."

"That's very good. Of course we can give him this opportunity in our daydream..." Ronald knew the ambition of Lawrence Connor, and he definitely wanted to be a producer of TV series in the future. Anyway, it just so happens that Daydream needs such talents to be responsible for the production of his first TV series. This is definitely a win-win situation.

Everyone has finished discussing the production of the TV series "Working Girl". Daydream's senior executives said goodbye and left in tacit agreement. Bannon was left in Ronald's office, knowing that the two of them still had some private matters to discuss about investment.

"NBC has a lot of complaints about Seinfeld Chronicles, mainly because the pilot they found had very low ratings from viewers. I read the original questionnaire, and most of the people in the responses found the heroine's personality unlikable. ..." Ronald started with the Seinfeld incident...

"I can replace it. Do you have any suitable candidates here?" Bannon reluctantly fired this heroine who had a close relationship with him. He knew that in order to get Ronald's help, these costs It's what he has to pay for.

"No, you misunderstood, I don't have any female leads to recommend. I'm just telling you one way to potentially change NBC's opinion of your series... We can get another pilot out as soon as possible and then go NBC and other networks promote..."

"I feel like it's best to start with other TV stations this time. There are some senior executives at NBC who don't like me..." Bannon finally told the crux of the matter. He got into trouble because he defended some of Seinfeld's remarks at the procurement meeting. Angry An executive in NBC’s TV drama purchasing department.

"We can go to 20th Century Fox to try it out first. Barry Diller is very familiar with me. He has told me several times. If there are any new projects, we should check it out with him first."

"Ronald, what can I say? You are my angel!" Bannon stood up and hugged Ronald hard.

"I'm leaving you here alone, and I also want to discuss the financing structure of the TV series Working Girl..."

"Do you want to invest yourself? If you want to, this is great news for Wall Street. They have always admired producers who dare to invest in their own film and television projects..." Bannon was very happy, a good thing One thing after another.

"No, Daydream will make some investments. I personally will not contribute. But I have a good friend, whom you have met, Douglas Hanson Jr.. He needs to occupy more than 15% of the investment share in this series. , 7% of which also has the highest priority dividend rights..."

"I remember when I was in New York last time, he seemed..." Bannon knew that such conditions were a bit harsh for him as a broker, and he had some doubts in his heart...

"Yeah, he's dating my sister..."

"That's a family member? There's no problem, we have to take care of the family first... But to be honest, the share and priority you want seems to be too favorable for a relative... They may not necessarily I'm asking for your favor..." Bannon said sideways, if Douglas Jr. got such favorable terms, it would make it more difficult for him to raise money on Wall Street out of thin air.

"I didn't make it clear. Douglas Jr.'s money is not entirely his own. There are other people behind him..."

"Is it the first family? I asked you last time. Many people on Wall Street are rumoring that you have a good relationship with the first family..." Bannon's eyes suddenly lit up.

"That's not the case, but this investor does have a good relationship with the first family... He is someone who can freely enter and leave the White House without notification..."

"Who is it?" Bannon's interest continued. For a broker, knowing these powerful people can greatly expand their business scope.

"It's Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia...the current Saudi ambassador to the United States..."

"Daxmn, I don't have any problem with these preferential terms. I only have one request for Ronald, and you have to introduce him to me..." Bannon was overjoyed. The Saudi oil tycoon's pockets are very deep. If he can get on the line, the consulting fees from their investment in Wall Street alone will be enough to make him full.

"Yes, Douglas Jr. will arrange it in New York, but his investment was made after cross-holdings in several funds...so there will be no trace of him or Saudi Arabia on the documents."

"I understand, I understand, the identities of these people are sensitive... In fact, some of my clients are like this..."

Bannon understood the caution of these people and left with a slightly harsh investment agreement with great satisfaction.

Ronald called Douglas Jr. and told him the details.

"I will take care of little George's side, and I will also give Bannon a little sweetness and let him meet Prince Bandar and eat camel meat together..."

Of course, Ronald did not fully explain to Bannon. Among the 15%, he also left George a share with the highest priority in dividends.

In order to collect some money, George Jr. went to take a ride on the billionaire's acquisition of the Texas Rangers. Almost sold, his early failed investments in oil companies.

He instead used the dividends from the movie box office that Ronald's Daydream paid him to buy shares in the Rangers baseball team.

This year, his investment in the oil company continued to shrink, and he also sold off his shares. Although there were losses of approximately hundreds of thousands of dollars, this also exempted him from SEC investigation. The Donkey Party always pays close attention to party politicians. A Texas politician who sold shares of the same oil company has now been reported to the SEC and an investigation has been launched.

Without Ronald's help, little George and his mother, Barbara, would now have a headache.

Similarly, in order to prevent his investment in TV series from being exposed by many meddlesome donkey party news media. Douglas Jr. hired a professional team and put in multiple layers of cover.

On the surface, George Jr. just purchased an investment from a Wall Street private equity fund. However, this private equity fund purchased the anonymous negative shares of a limited liability company registered in Delaware, and this company purchased shares of other film and television funds on Wall Street through several changes of hands and isolation. In fact, the money was invested in the production of Ronald Daydream's TV series.

If it weren't for the intervention of powerful departments, it would be impossible for ordinary people to penetrate these several layers of ownership structure to find Xiao George's investment route. Even if they found it, it would be difficult for them to connect the two things.

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