Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

Louis on the side obviously felt the stiffness of his girlfriend's arm beside him.

"Honey, what's wrong?"

"No, nothing."

The thoughts in Pera's heart naturally could not be said clearly, and quickly explained, while comforting herself in her heart that Kevin did not have any advantages compared to Louis.

The first movie, if you want to be a big success, that's impossible.

As long as she fails once, Kevin will never have another chance, and she doesn't care at all.

......

The other side.

Coming to the CAA building again, Kevin's mindset was completely different.

Three film companies have become interested in his film projects at the same time, which shows that everyone is optimistic about his script, which also means that his chainsaw horror from 04 has also gained the favor of others in this 91 year.

In this way, he also relaxed a little.

The next thing to do is to choose a suitable investor from these three film companies.

Called Dawson, and soon Dawson came down from upstairs in a hurry.

While leading him inside, he introduced the situation of the three film companies.

"Through the contact of CAA, your project proposal was submitted to a dozen or so medium-sized film companies."

"And in the end, there are three companies that came to CAA to discuss with you specifically."

"There are three companies: New Line Films, Big Jazz Films, and Damei Pictures."

Listening

to Dawson's story, Kevin recalled the news of these film companies in his mind, and Big Sir and Great Beauty basically disappeared in the future, without any sense of existence.

Presumably it died out a long time ago.

Even Hollywood's five largest studios have been in danger of closing, and have even been acquired by others in the future, let alone two independent studios.

However, the new line film company, Kevin is deeply impressed.

After '93, the new line would be acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures and become part of the Time Warner Group, which owns a number of companies including Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Animation, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Games, DC Comics and The CW.

How scary it is, naturally there is no need to mention more.

However, New Line Pictures' favorite thing is to invest in low-cost horror films, and it is no surprise that they value their chainsaw.

It is worth mentioning that New Line Pictures made their company's reputation grow tremendously last year, that is, in 1990, by buying the Hong Kong Jiahe movie "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" from Fox that they did not dare to hairstyle and achieved great success.

Simply put, the wallet is more sufficient.

In this way, among the three film companies today, it is not surprising that nine out of ten of the final buyers are new line film companies.

Kevin nodded at Dawson, indicating that he had a preliminary understanding of the three film companies, and then pushed open the door of the room.

In the room, two large sofas surround the glass table in the middle, and three people lie on the sofas on both sides looking very leisurely.

It is not yet time for formal negotiations, and the heads of the three film companies now have to consider whether Kevin has the ability to really direct the film.

After determining which studio company will invest in it, it will enter the stage of serious negotiations.

Seeing that the door was pushed open, the three stood up and shook hands with Kevin one by one, no matter what the result was, at least on the surface, these three people gave Kevin a high degree of respect.

This made Kevin a little stunned, he remembered that in his previous life he had read a lot of American entertainment online literature, and many of them put on a condescending attitude at every turn.

I didn't expect that the people of these film companies would respect him so much in the face of a director who did not have a real work.

But just after thinking about it, Kevin knew that this was normal.

In the absence of a conflict of interest, in the face of him, a director who has the potential to succeed, even if it is true, at least for the time being, it will not show itself in front of him.

Unless, in the future, he fails in a row.

Presumably, at that time, he will be able to see the true faces of several people in front of him.

Of course, he didn't want to have that time.

After shaking hands, Kevin picked a place to sit across from them.

As an executive at the new line film company that most wanted to produce Chainsaw Horror, Dean took the lead in asking his own questions.

"Why do you want the heroine of the chainsaw to be a hottie-like character?"

Dean had some guesses, and it was because of this speculation that they thought the project would succeed.

But all this still has to be determined from Kevin, the director.

Kevin smiled calmly, of course he knew what he meant.

There are many directors who only have the word art in their minds, and such directors are often very difficult to get investment from film companies.

Among these studios, there is their own category of film directors.

Commercial film director and art director.

Most of the funds invested by art directors in making films come from overseas investors, and they make very little money.

And commercial film directors, as long as they are not successive failures, are often more likely to obtain investment.

Dean of this new line movie seems to want to find out what kind of director he is.

And Kevin's choice is naturally a commercial film director.

"Because young people like hot girls."

Kevin's words immediately made everyone present laugh, but the subtext in the words was obvious.

He is not a director who is for the sake of art and does not think about the audience.

With this premise, the rest of the conversation was very pleasant.

The three film companies gave him similar conditions, a total of 1.3 million US dollars in production costs, including his director salary of 50,000 US dollars, and all production costs.

This amount is undoubtedly a low cost among low costs in Hollywood.

And his salary is also very small, but Kevin does not care.

As long as Chainsaw can achieve one-third of what it should have, he Steve Kevin will never again only make such a meager income as he does now.

The copyright of Chainsaw Horror held in his hands will bring him great benefits.

As for talking to them about sharing income, although unwilling, the reality is not Long Aotian, a rookie director who has not yet proven himself in Hollywood.

It's impossible to talk to them about shares.

But...

With a hint of anticipation, perhaps possibly agreeable, Kevin offered his own idea.

"Guys, I'm very confident in my film, I have an idea."

"What thoughts?"

As a film company, there is naturally a connection between each other, and there will be no vicious competition as ordinary people imagine.