Heads Up Hollywood

The traditional Hollywood film model often has a script first, and then finds suitable producers, directors and actors based on the script.

With the advent of the commercial tide in the 1990s, this traditional model has undergone fundamental changes.

Today's Hollywood is based on the core system of producers, especially commercial films with a large investment.

It is the producer who first has an idea, and then cooperates with the film company to establish a project, set up a crew, write the script, hire directors and actors.

Both modes have pros and cons -

The traditional model is based on screenwriting, so the structure, story, and plot of the movie are better. This is why more and more film critics criticize today's movies as frivolous, simple, and full of loopholes.

But a good story does not mean a high box office.

With more and more capital invested in movies, it is impossible for film companies to put all their hopes on screenwriters' scripts like in the past. Once the box office makes a mistake, it is very likely that they will lose all their money!

So they started to change the way the film was made and became a producer core system. The most fundamental reason is that most of Hollywood's gold medal producers have high "market judgment" attributes, and their film ideas are far more in line with market trends than those from screenwriters.

And these producers usually don't have high "screenwriting" ability, so they can only hire some temporary screenwriters to write stories. The screenwriter team formed in a hurry, the stories written are naturally simple, wrong, and full of flaws, and the movies they make are more and more famous. It's getting worse.

Film companies are aware of such disadvantages, but the two evils are the lesser of two evils. Compared with losing all their money, the film's reputation is almost nothing.

This is the fundamental reason why the older generation of film critics and filmmakers are heartbroken and constantly attacking.

It's not that they are against special effects technology without thinking, but against the new film model under the control of capital.

However, Twain was different. He borrowed the sunglasses system to create an unprecedented new model - "responsibility system for screenwriters with analysts as the core".

Tang Encao has built a dedicated team, but as a film company, these people are still too few. He has already thought about it. With the gradual increase in strength, Tang En Pictures will build three core departments-market analysis department, art Analysis Department, Major Screenwriting Department.

The market analysis department, which has a strong "market judgment" attribute, provides ideas, and the other two departments complement each other to construct a commercial film script, which is then handed over to the production department for project approval;

The art analysis department with a very high attribute of "literary and artistic aesthetics" provides creativity, and the other two departments cooperate to construct an award-winning literary film script, and then let the production department approve the project.

This new model restricts the power of the production department and makes the producers the status of wage earners. It integrates the power of the crew into a centralized centralization, avoids turmoil, and at the same time eliminates the need for traditional and emerging Hollywood film models. disadvantages.

Most importantly, how many gold medal producers are there in Hollywood? How many golden ideas did they come up with?

Tang En is different, he can easily recruit dozens of talents with extremely high attribute of "market judgment" to join the market analysis department. Let these special geniuses discuss and research, so that the excellent ideas put forward by the market analysis department within a month are enough to exceed the sum of ordinary film companies in a year!

This is Tang En's greatest backing to realize his great ideals and ambitions!

Even without the sunglasses, with the backing of these three major departments, Tang En can rest easy.

...

Three days later, the script of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" tailored for Nicole Kidman was sent to her managing agent Pat Kingsley.

Tang En and his assistant, George Paxton, got on the plane to New York.

September 1st is Sunday, and tomorrow, the stock market reopens.

"Tang En, Yahoo's stock...the price is too high. Last Friday's opening price was 56, and the closing price rose to 60. What if..." George didn't know much about finance and the stock market, and his face was sad.

Tang En smiled and said, "Are you afraid that Yahoo's stock will suddenly drop?"

George nodded, "Since investing in the stock market, I think it's more appropriate to hire a stockbroker."

Tang En looked cold and shook his head firmly.

stockbroker?

It's just a group of big liars who can speak well, and there is no need to pay at least 10% commission.

Tang En has future information that transcends the world, and if he makes a move on the stock market, he will definitely hit it!

If stockbrokers are involved, the consequences...

Tang En shook his head. Wall Street is full of wolves and tigers who are open to money. Before they have absolute strength, they can hide as far as they can.

He only knows about a few stocks, Yahoo, Cisco, Microsoft, Google... Why should he share such important information with Wall Street?

"I know it."

Tang En didn't need to talk about this topic. He clearly remembered that Yahoo's stock price even exceeded 450 US dollars before the bubble crisis broke out.

As long as you don't get too greedy, you'll be fine.

And at that time, the daily trading volume reached 50 to 60 million shares, so they didn't care about the small amount in Tang En's hands, just quietly fished in troubled waters.

When the market opened on September 2, Yahoo's stock price dropped to 40 yuan per share. Tang En sold at the right time and bought 2.1 million shares at an average price of 39.9, with a total investment of more than 83 million US dollars.

Although the amount is large, in 1997 when technology stocks were in full swing, this investment was nothing.

Tang En happily left the New York Stock Exchange, but received an unhappy call.

"Boss, Nicole Kidman's matter is a bit troublesome." Tang En's production assistant Glenn Fierro sighed, "Her manager Pat insisted on a salary of 6 million dollars,"

Tang En frowned, "Has she read the script we wrote?"

Glenn Fierro said: "Look, Pat said that the script is very good and it is very suitable for Nicole Kidman, but she can't lower her own value for this kind of commercial film."

"This is really difficult..." Tang En squeezed his chin. After investing in stocks, the total investment budget for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" must not exceed 15 million US dollars.

Nicole Kidman's salary is a bit high.

"Yeah, she was paid 5 million dollars for the role of "Strategic Killer" last year..."

"Wait!" Tang En keenly grasped something, "When will that movie be released?"

""Strategic Killer"? It should be in the middle of this month."

Tang En said with a smile: "Then let's wait and talk about it after the movie is released!"

Nicole Kidman...when did a commercial hit at the box office?

The title of box office poison is not for naught, and it is exasperating to say that her agent, Pat Kingsley, is really not good at selecting films.

It's no wonder that the two superstars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman left one after another.

In contrast, Kate Winslet's agent Hilda Qualley is much more powerful. First, she starred in Peter Jackson's "Sinful Angel", which made her famous in Hollywood; Emotion" was directly nominated for an Oscar; and then, the famous "Titanic"!

And another artist under Hilda Querry, Cate Blanchett, has a bright star career, not only successfully entered Hollywood, but also recently won the number one female role in the historical film "Elizabeth"!

Tang En remembered that it was this film that allowed Cate Blanchett to be nominated for an Oscar, and thus embarked on the road to superstardom.

Both are Australians. Nicole Kidman's ups and downs in the future and Cate Blanchett's coming from behind are really a reflection of the agent's ability.

"If Nicole is willing to cooperate, I can give her a push..."

Tang En hasn't met Nicole Kidman yet, so he doesn't know what this movie goddess looks like in real life. If she is really beautiful...