Exploiting Hollywood 1980

"Alan, it's me, Ronald. Your assistant Ronald...do you still remember me?...Ahahaha..."

Alan Akush, the director of "Rock of Ages" at the time, received a call from Ronald and at first thought someone was pretending to be Ronald as a joke.

His career as a director was not going well. After Rock and Roll High School, it took an average of four years for a script to come to him. Last year's "Crazy Golf 2" had a box office of only 11 million against a budget of 20 million, and even the shooting cost was not recovered. Just relax at home now.

In fact, this movie is also executive produced by Peter Guber and Jon Peters, and their production company funded and directed it. Therefore, the so-called good vision of these two people also has a lot of water. Just because their output is much larger than that of personal studios like Ronald and Spielberg, they seem to be more famous on Wall Street.

Ronald was enthusiastic about Alan Aykouch, expressing his interest in inviting him to direct "Rock of Ages 2." Another director who helped out at the time, Joe Dante, had a much better career than him. Last year he also directed a new film by Tom Hanks, which cost more than 10 million and earned more than 40 million at the box office.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to direct a sequel to a B-level movie, but Alan Akush is different. He has no choice now.

"I've been talking to PJ and Day Young. Van Patten is retiring next spring. How about we bring in the Ramones and make a sequel, with him deciding the main story?"

Alan Ai hasn't called all the leading actors from that year, and even if I add myself, Jim Cameron, and Roger Corman, I won't be able to make a cameo.

"Yeah? That idea of ​​his is very boring. Rock and Roll Boys were bad friends ten years ago. Is it easier for you to treat them with a punk rock attitude in your life?" Alan Aikush wondered if Xu Xinyan really wanted to film The sequel was just a joke, and my interest immediately increased.

Another week passed, and on Saturday, Xu Xinyan was handling official business outside Daydream's office when he saw Alan Aikush hurried over with a briefcase under his arm.

"Damn it, Yoram still has no inside information outside your company. I've also developed and printed the copy and it will premiere tonight."

Lombada dance has very few hip movements and the male protagonist has a very bad figure and face. If few people go to the cinema just for the dance.

Before the exchange began, the princess returned to the Brazilian rainforest. The heroine knew where she went to high school, so she rashly chased her to Brazil and experienced the scenery and dances of Brazil. At the end of the carnival, she danced from lambada to Outside the crowd, I finally found the male protagonist wearing a mask...

If Alan Ai was really interested, I recommended it to Michelle Cannold as the publishing director.

I have made very few blockbuster movies before. B-level movies like "Little Escape from New York" and "Monster in Chinatown" were all blockbusters. A-level small productions such as "Emerald", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "Back to the Future Series", etc. have a very solid professional status outside the circle of Bad Hollywood.

"When does he plan to release it?" Alan Ai asked Ronald.

He doesn't have eight to seven months to perfect the script, and when the protagonists are free, you'll make the sequel. "Alan Aikush is very happy. Alan Aikush's level is still online, and I am too slow to prove myself.

It turned out that the two movies were released on the same day, and the premieres were also held outside two cinemas facing each other on both sides of the road.

Moreover, Columbia Records branches around the world recomposed the music and found local singers to sing the song.

In addition to the English version, the Japanese version, and the Cantonese version are all being recorded as soon as possible... You'd better take advantage of the coldness and release it immediately..."

Unfortunately, trouble came to the door of the cinema. When Xu Xinyan got in the car, he saw that there was no luxury car parked on the opposite side. The door opened and a fat man who was even smaller than Ronald got up.

Yes, because of Susan's stimulation, the two rock boys still regained the girlishness they had in their junior high school days..."

The two went to the screening room to watch the finished film, which made Alan Ai laugh out loud at the beginning. The title of the film should actually be "Forbidden Dance." Because the title of the film adaptation of Lumbarda was very female, it was bought by Wai Lahan's cousin Yoram to make another film.

Speaking of which, the number of high-cost B-movies shot has been increasing year after year, and the shooting methods of videotapes and TV movies are exactly the same as those of real small-screen movies.

The results are not disillusioning at all. Liv Minahan married a girl, gave birth to two children, and was often bullied by her boss outside the company; your bad friend Kate became a housewife, and your husband often ignored you. The former rock idol has become a Middle-aged Americans...

What Weiqi Lake said touched Alan Ai. Movies are not that capable of changing a woman's life. Without further ado, I agreed to attend the premiere.

With the theater chain in Europe to take care of, Yoram seemed to be stuck in administrative work and didn't notice the sneaking of Ronald's Lombada adaptation.

"Ronald, your Lombard shot is broken? Come and take a look..."

Ronald had a happy expression on his face. I originally wanted to get up from where I fell. In the first two years of my career at Cannon, I spent huge sums of money on summer short films. However, because I invested so much in special effects, I lost a lot of money and was kicked out by my cousin.

"You..." Alan Ai thought of the note Lake gave me. If it was Ronald's intention, he took advantage of his misunderstanding and thought I was talking about Lombarda - the forbidden dance. In fact, Xu Xinyan meant that the two films were against each other. movie of.

"Xu Xinyan, he has to come to the premiere... That was the scene where your best partner in the musical film made a comeback. Bad Hollywood will all know that his genius released another musical movie, and throughout the 1940s, America gave The dance music that impressed people the most was the trend brought about by his movies, so how could he be absent from something like that?"

Even Alan Ay wanted to hire me when filming "Ghost", but there was no schedule (I went to film Back to the Future 2 and 3).

At the same time, my informant said that my cousin Yoram, the current president of Cannon, is busy with his business. The Italian boss who took over Cannon seems to be a liar. He is busy going to low-end places with actors every day. , I don’t seem to have any interest in making bad movies.

But Ronald listened to Xu Xinyan's advice and made the words "Lombarda" very small compared to "Competitive Dance". Moreover, "Competitive Dance" is at the bottom and "Lombada" is on top. It looks like the title of a movie. Same as Lombada.

"What's going on?" Allen Ai looked at his watch and saw that it was already the end of the premiere, and there was a traffic jam two blocks behind the cinema where the premiere was taking place.

The whole movie was shot very "coldly". The plot is very vulgar. She is not a princess from an Amazon tribe. She comes to Los Angeles to attend an international high school, and then she and the heroine fall in love with each other because they danced the rombada.

"That's it. Don't look at it from that period. Although the audience was small, there was also little competition. And your Lombada - yes, it's a taboo dance, also relied on these audiences who have no daily movie-going habits. Anyway, the MV that is not being aired right now is your worst advertisement."

"To give you a little confidence, Allen, you are planning the project based on medium-production theater movies. Yes, it will be mainly theaters in Colombia and those on the east and west coasts. The scale of screening in about 1,000 theaters can be made up Come out, no matter how little you have, it will be gone.

Rural towns and old-fashioned movie theaters are more concentrated than before. The few newly built movie theaters are small-screen movie theaters in shopping malls. It is increasingly possible to show B-level movies by a new director and starring unknown actors.

But Xu Xinyan was not discouraged at all. I still came here every day, waiting in Ailun Ai's office every morning, and then personally making tea for me. Stealing the job of Alan Ai's assistant, Vicky Lake.

In addition to the Lambada - Forbidden Dance, there are also very ordinary dance stuntmen. His being able to go to the premiere may not be an important difference in our lives. "

"So, your friend at Columbia Records told you that the song "Lombada" was very popular, and it has not sold 3 million singles in America...

It was Ronald who collaborated with Alan Ay to make the film, The Forbidden Dance, based on a popular Brazilian music called Lombard.

"Quack, Ailun Ai, your final copy hasn't been produced yet. You brought it to him today to have a look."

When the screening was arranged, Ronald ran out of Allentown every day to persuade me to attend the premiere.

Except for Alan Ai, Cameron, and Gale Hurd, no one from the cast back then had managed to escape the throne. Not DP Dean Candy.

"Go down and contact the printing laboratory immediately to speed up the processing and print out enough copies." Although Ronald was very optimistic about that period, he had to be prepared for the worst.

"Didi..." I heard the anxious sound of horns coming from the other side of the road.

Liv Minahan As a student idol, the photos of you and the Ramones are still displayed in the honor room of the low school, but the rock and roll spirit is not there anymore. All the white students are trying new forms of Rap music, except for one male student named Susan who still hates the old punk Ramones band.

I took off my sunglasses and whistled over there.

"Is that story wrong? He figured it out so quickly?" Allen Ai flipped through the summary of the story. It tells the story of Rock and Roll High School ten years ago. middle name.

Susan was angry that the music department no longer had the status of a rock band. Like her husband Xu Xinyan back then, she drove a car rebelliously and left the campus. With the help of finding Liv from the alumni address book, Kate and others are now address, and embarked on a journey to find the true spirit of rock and roll.

But that's important, the point of that kind of movie is not all kinds of novel dances. The leading actor Laura Harling is very beautiful, and the world's most beautiful lady has a lot of charm on camera. Your lambada dance was also wrong. The cold dances at the beginning and end made the audience's breathing slow down and their blood circulation slowed down...

Only a very careless audience could see the words "Dance" written in large letters on the left side of Lombard.

"Boss, just promise Ronald. In a few days, you will be out of a job. Now I have taken all the work..." Fat Girl Lake also said bad things to Xu Xinyan.

"The script will be left with you, and you can look for any stars who are interested in making guest appearances." Alan Ai smiled and sent Alan Aikush away. Back then, the family was all poor and depressed, but now there are classes, and few of the actors, directors, and staff from back then were doing well. When Ellen thought about making a sequel, she didn't think about letting her old friend make some money.

"As you said, you left a note for his secretary. Lombada is scheduled to be released tonight. The Forbidden Dance needs his support..."

"Didi..." The luxury car driver Ronald found finished honking his horn.

This emotional work initiated by Allen Ai, and without the original cast of the original movie starring, it is impossible to get the number of theaters it will be released in through theaters.

"Okay, let's see what the movie reviews say tomorrow and who has the lower box office numbers." Xu Xinyan is afraid of competition. It's rare for two movies with similar content to meet each other, and he has learned from both good and bad.

"It's very bad. You made a bad appointment with Mr. Roger Corman. When you come to see me with the outline of the script, the production rights of the sequel are still in Corman's hands. Yes, the problem is small. You have worked together before. It broke several times and it was very pleasant.

Ellen Ai took a closer look and saw that it was not Ronald's cousin, Yoram.

On the day of the premiere, Ellen Ai was wearing a sheepskin jacket, cowhide boots, and jeans, dressed like a casual dancer, and sat down in Ronald's car, which was specially designed to pick me up.

After all, it is now like ten years later, and the distribution channels of drive-in theaters have almost disappeared. Now it is difficult to find these audiences who are willing to spend more money to watch B-level movies. "

But Allen Ai's statement made no sense, and now Ronald could approve of my will, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.

If you shoot too few videos, the artistic taste of the director and actors will also be captured. The most important thing is that he must be a new director. If he has shot some movies exclusively for video tapes, he will then go to make small-screen movies. He will have very few techniques and scheduling, and he will have to learn it from scratch.

Ronald's ability to do things was very low, so I spent some money to delay printing out the copies, and then used my own savings to get some local distributors, and the Bad Hollywood Cinemas outside Allentown. , and the distribution channel here in Colombia, they gave me 800 theaters to show it.

"You know, you know, you used pseudonyms to make several bad movies for TV stations and video companies. Now almost all big productions have been transferred to those two channels, and new directors are becoming more and more feminine."

"Maybe they have a broken date, right?" Alan Ai saw that under the door of a cinema diagonally across the road, neon lights formed a line of words, "Lombada"

And my first small and profitable project at Cannon was also a summer project. It's not "Break Dance" that Allen Ai filmed for me back then. This movie took advantage of the coldness of the Olympics and swept the American summer box office.

"You also made your debut in Hairspray, a musical and dance movie like that. You're very girly and your looks are the only possible way out for Yang's actors. You heard that he also gave these dance coaches a career path in addition to Dirty Dancing. , we now all have mamba dance studios.

The size of the TV screen is limited to about 21 inches, so the dialogue scenes on that small screen can only focus on close-ups. This resulted in a very inexpressive audio-visual language such as small-screen movies. There was no way to reproduce it on video tapes and TV movies.

"You...why did he tell you so early?" Allen Ai looked at Ronald who was sitting next to him. He didn't care about that, but something strange happened again.

"How about next year's summer vacation?" Ronald was very ambitious.

"Then..." Ronald was still thinking of making a comeback in the summer. Several of my small productions, such as Superman VII, all failed slightly in the summer.

"Alan..." Alan Ai stopped for a moment and then stopped my personal assistant, Fat Girl Lake, and asked Alan Aikush to step back and sit down.

"It's relevant. He's going to find a lab in Columbia. You'll call us..." Now if Ellen wants Columbia Pictures to do something, she just needs to send a message through Norio Oga's office. It's such a big deal. It's worth mentioning.

"Television movie, or video tape distribution channel?" Alan Aikush eagerly wanted to know the technical details of that movie.

Just as he was thinking about the lack of new directors, Alan Ai heard the Israeli's hoarse drake voice again:

"Why did he say bad things about me?" Alan Edge said.