Exploiting Hollywood 1980

Jackie is a rough guy on the surface, but he is actually very smart on the inside. He saw the benefits of Ronald's new type of clip tape.

Although this product does not make much money, it has one advantage. With this kind of editing tape, after editing and copying, the editing interface is only one-sixteenth of the original tape, which can be directly previewed to the audience.

In Hong Kong, where the filming pace is very fast, this is an excellent invention, so that the filmmaker can save the time and cost of a new reprint, and the editing will be released first.

As the exclusive distributor of the new clip tape in Hong Kong, Jackie can sell the bosses who invest in the film business, a big favor.

And Panavision's cameras are affordable equipment for big productions, and Jackie can give those creative directors and producers a big favor.

Although the things are supplied by Ronald, but they are rented out in his studio in Xiangjiang, and whoever does not give them to whom, isn't it all a matter of his words?

So he readily agreed to Ronald that all films with Panavision cameras and the new type of editing tape would have the name of Daydream on the subtitles, which is also from Panavision. required by the lease contract.

With two very good things in hand, including the lightning machine that doesn't seem to be of great use, Jackie also promised Ronald to keep two of them here and borrow them for those who need them.

I have made several deals and expanded my business to Ronald in the East Asian continent, and I am also very satisfied. A movie market has a lot to learn, and he has already reached out to Dongying and Xiangjiang, the two largest box office markets in East Asia.

Next, with these two bases, we can slowly penetrate into it. It is difficult to say about the movie. Who knows how big it will be in the future?

Next, Ronald completed the task of attending the marketing promotion stipulated by "Top Gun" and returned to Los Angeles.

And Tom Cruise has to continue his India and Singapore itinerary. This movie is the key to his becoming a big star. At that time, signing the contract was a bit harsh, and many of the itineraries were led by him as a live star and audience. Interact and give the local media an entertaining headline.

Ronald had just recovered from jet lag, and in a blink of an eye it was the weekend.

The box office of "Top Gun" continued to make great progress in the middle of the week.

Paramount and caa both saw this anomaly,

Treat Ronald more cautiously.

Even Ned Tanin, who wanted to use the non-stunt shots in "Top Gun", specially invited Ronald in and apologized to him alone in the office, hoping that he would not mind and continue to cooperate with Paramount.

No outsiders saw it anyway, Taning kept his posture low and said a lot of soft words. In the end, Ronald couldn't bear to look down on the president of a big studio, so servilely treated himself, who was equivalent to the other's junior, and let him go with a haha.

In order to calm Ronald down, Ned Tanin personally sent him downstairs, then let Ronald sit in the back row of his car, and sat in the cab himself, when the driver took him to caa.

"Everyone at Paramount now knows how important you are."

In caa's office, Nisita smiled happily when she saw Ned Tanin himself as the driver.

This statement not only let everyone know the importance of Ronald at Paramount, but also let caa's agents know what Paramount thinks of Ronald.

"I don't know why Tanin is so humble. In fact, I would rather he respect my creative freedom than remind everyone in this way."

"It's up to him." Nisita understood Tanin's intentions very well.

The box office of "Top Gun" has risen abnormally twice, and the new week's decline continues to slowly decline at a rate that is almost invisible to the naked eye.

This shows one thing, "Top Gun" has become a phenomenal film.

Many missing viewers of "The Sound of Music", middle-aged couples who don't usually go to the cinema once in two or three years, this time they also know that there is such an air combat movie, and they must go to the cinema to see the Tomcat beat up MiG. .

Every two or three years, there will be a movie like this. I don't know why, but all the time, the world and the earth are working together, and all kinds of limitations are very good for it, and they are in the best position. Box office can no longer be extrapolated from rules of thumb.

For example, "Rocky" ten years ago, such as "et Alien" five years ago, has a magic power that breaks all the rules and kills the Quartet at the box office. You can compete for box office champions with new films in a month or even a few months later.

"So you forgive Tanin?" Nisita also wanted to hear Ronald's thoughts on whether the new film will continue to work with Paramount.

"I just promised him to go to the premiere of Paramount's new film. As for my new film, I will see the conditions of the film studio."

"Very well, you already have the mentality of a Hollywood achiever," Nisita said happily.

...

Paramount's other teen-oriented masterpiece, "ferris bueller's day off" is about to premiere.

The film also released by Paramount, and the fourth teen film directed by acquaintance John Hughes, Ronald went to the premiere.

This is the first time John Hughes has left his teenage muse, Molly Ringwald, for a film directed and made.

Because Molly no longer wants to repeat her role as a flower girl, and Hughes wrote or directed three consecutive films "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "Beauty in Pink", she played the same role. , A 16-year-old girl, after self-awakening and the boy she liked became a couple, she completed the first big change in her life.

Without a long-term deal tied to Molly Ringwald, John Hughes' plan to make a teen movie around a real teen actor also went bust halfway through. In this "Spring is not a reading day", he must also use overage actors.

Matthew Brodick, 24, played the leading role as a high school student, Alan Luck, 29, played the second male classmate, Charlie Sheen, 21, played the supporting role, and Jennifer Gray, 25, played the leading role's sister.

They are all overage actors who have passed puberty. Only 19-year-old Mia Sara starred in the hero's girlfriend, but her role is not heavy.

When Ronald arrived at the scene, several of the lead actors were chatting with Molly Ringwald.

"I really don't understand how Jean-Luc Godard directed, he directed King Lear, and let him lie down on a big rock by the sea. I asked him if my character was asleep or dead . He just looked at me like I was asking a really stupid question. Pfft…”

Molly Ringwald let out a breath and blew her red bangs, a hairstyle that became popular in America and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine last month, with the caption "She really is. sweet!"

The two surrounding actresses, Mia Sara and Jennifer Gray, have also acted in several Hollywood movies, but they are obviously very envious and jealous of such a hot star as Molly Ringwald.

Although he complained, he was showing off faintly that he could be selected by Jean-Luc Godard of the Three Jerrys of the New Wave of the Hairstyle to shoot the modern version of "King Lear", and to tell the story in such an intimate tone Godard's guidance to her performance was not a good feeling for several others to listen to.

"John Hughes asked you to debut in a commercial film, and it was a big hit and a hit, and now you're going to Europe to perform in a literary film, why are you taking advantage of all the good things?"

"Ronald, here you are!"

Jennifer Gray, a classmate in the acting class, saw the new hot director walk into the lounge. This is a better director than John Hughes at the box office. Rather than envy Molly Ringwald's luck, try your luck here.

With a bang, all the people who had been surrounding Ringwald ran around Ronald, wanting to hear his views on art.

"Ronald, what do you think of Godard's approach to directing?"

Molly Ringwald was completely disappointed in Godard and wanted to hear Ronald's advice.

"I am in the new wave of the hair country, and my favorite is Truffaut. He does not reject Hollywood commercial films, and he also starred in Spielberg's 'Third Contact'. Maybe if he is alive, he will be with me. The director of a copper-smelling commercial speaks."

"Hahaha……"

The crowd was thoroughly amused by Ronald's "humour," as if his comedy performance could be even funnier than Bill Murray, the highest-grossing comedian of late.

Molly Ringwald pouted, this director is indeed as self-deprecating as he is, he is not very proficient in art.

A few people chatted for a while, Ronald took the opportunity to call Jennifer Gray, "I heard that your father is a famous dancer, can you dance?"

The starring star of "Spicy Dance" in the dream is this classmate of the acting class, who happened to ask her about her dancing level.

"Actually I won't..." Gray smiled, she didn't inherit her father's dance career, "But I can learn..."

She suddenly realized that Ronald wouldn't ask her if she could dance for no reason. Could it be a role?

"You don't need to learn, I just ask casually." Ronald smiled and denied Gray's idea. In the movie in the dream, Gray played the heroine baby, who obviously danced at a beginner's level, and she was in the script with her. The image is in line with the image, if you go to learn to dance now, it will not be good.

"What role is Ronald looking for you to play?" Matthew Broddick, who played the lead actor in "Spring Is Not a Day for Reading," pulled Jennifer Gray over to chat.

Although in the movie, Gray played his sister, but in private, Brodick did not like Mia Sarah who played his girlfriend, but became a pair with her.

"He just asked me if I could dance and said I don't need to go to school."

Gray repeated his conversation with Ronald verbatim and asked her boyfriend what to do.

"The director has a lot of ideas, and we don't know what the role is now. It's not good for you to ask more. I'll ask my agent to find out what projects Ronald is working on recently. You didn't practice before. Ballet? You can also familiarize yourself with it again, just in case."

"Well, I listen to you."

Jennifer Gray is no longer dating Michael J. Fox. He has apparently fallen in love with the actress who played his girlfriend on the TV series "The Family Bond", and he has no hope for himself, just in time for Brodick's olive branch.

John Hughes' male and female protagonists will be popular, and it is not bad to be in love with him. Besides, Brodick is Jewish of the same ethnicity and looks very handsome.

"John," Ronald had gone by this time to greet John Hughes.

"Ronald, you're welcome. This is my partner, Howard Deutch," Hughes greeted him, then introduced him to a tall friend who had been with him earlier this year." The director of "Beauty in Pink", Hughes' partner and friend.

"Or you're right, before the release of Beauty in Pink, during the test screening, the audience was very dissatisfied with Andy played by Molly Ringwald at the end, who fell in love with the neighbor and became a child. I finally asked Howard to recall the Andrew McCarthy, the lead actor who went to other films, came back and made a different ending."

Hughes complained about the poor box office of "Beauty in Pink", which was less than 40 million, which did not meet his expectations. He was a little confused whether it was the ending, or the skill of the director Howard Deutsch, which was far from his own.

"I told you... that ending doesn't quite fit America's audience values." Ronald laughed. If the story was reversed, it would be a girl when she was young, and the ugly duckling turned into a white swan after dressing up and fell in love with it. For the male protagonist, that's about the same.

"Who said no, I should listen to you."

John Hughes is about the same as Ronald, producing an average of two or three films a year, all of which are big hits. So now, apart from Ronald, who has better box office results compared to his own, he and others have their own arrogance.

After chatting for a while, everyone entered the screening room and began to watch "Spring is not a day for reading" filmed in Hughes' hometown of Chicago.

"Hahaha……"

The audience's laughter and applause showed that Hughes's films were still able to reach the average level of Hughes' youth films after the last film that fell short of expectations at the box office.

Ronald also applauded. Hughes is no longer obsessed with casting and must have real teenage actors to play teenage roles. Instead, he has changed his approach to directing.

This "spring is not a reading day" is all a high school boy's dream. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a very tough buddy, who made fun of teachers and principals, cheated his parents by pretending to be sick, and didn't go to school to play with his girlfriend buddies in Chicago.

In the end, before the gang, he returned home and let the sister and the principal who came to arrest him for lying, failed miserably.

This is the kind of daydream that probably every high school boy in America has done, and Hughes does a great job of tying him together and showing all the things to see in his hometown of Chicago.

However, John Hughes had a habit that Ronald didn't like very much. He let the male protagonist break the space of the movie many times and make an inner monologue directly to the audience.

This approach is very dramatic, and not very to Ronald's taste. The audience sometimes plays at that time too. But the other parts are very good, or cover this little flaw.

After saying goodbye to several acquaintances of actors and saying some kind words about Hughes to reporters, Ronald left and went home.

John Hughes, who remained, was not too immersed in the success of the new film, and also discussed the problems of the new film with his friend Howard Deutch.

"John, this movie, like the negative of 'Beauty in Pink,' turned the story of one woman and two men into one man and two women. We have the experience of the last time, and casting is very important. I think if we can't If you find a lead character like Molly Ringwald, you might as well not do it."

"Beauty in Pink" is Howard Deutsch's debut, and he's eager to turn it around with the new film, which doesn't reach the average box-office level of Hughes's work. Ringwald refused to repeat the role again, and Deutsch felt his future was bleak.

"You think so?" Hughes was not as modest as Ronald in front of Howard Deutsch.

"Yes, that's what I thought."

"Well then, you don't need to shoot."

"What do you mean, John. Do you want to write a new script to shoot?" Howard Deutsch still hadn't figured out the situation.

"You don't want to shoot anymore, you're fired."

John Hughes was angry at the box office failure, Muse Ringwald left him, and Howard Deutsch said the same, the anger that he had suppressed at the box office in front of Ronald broke out again come out.

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