Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

The next day, early summer, the scorching sun shone on Kevin's face from outside the curtains.

Kevin woke up in a daze from the room he had bought.

First closed his eyes for a few seconds, and when his head cleared, Kevin said softly to Hyak next to him:

"Honey, today I am going to MGM to see how the box office is on the first day, you can rest at home for a day."

"I'll prepare breakfast for you."

Then after looking at the confused Hyak and humming on the bed in agreement, Kevin got up to get dressed and tidy up his personal hygiene.

After preparing a simple breakfast for Hayak, Kevin went out and got directly into the car driven by Chen Zhiwen.

I have to say that being Kevin's bodyguard part-time driver is really hard.

When Kevin is not in the villa area, he often has to guard the neighborhood all night.

Of course, Kevin's salary is also enough.

Let Chen Zhiwen really not complain, will only honestly follow his duty.

....

MGM, inside the President's Office.

LTECH is anxiously waiting for his statisticians to convey to him the box office of Pirates of the Caribbean in various states in the United States.

As a film company with deep roots, since Kevin joined MGM, MGM's stake has increased by 20%.

And this value has the possibility of rising higher at any time.

People in the market are waiting for the box office results of Kevin's latest work, Pirates of the Caribbean, in order to choose whether to snap up MGM's shares in circulation in the market.

That said, MGM is now too influenced by Kevin.

As MGM's president, LTECH is very uneasy about this.

Although Kevin's joining is an absolute good thing for MGM, it is not a good thing if it has too much influence.

After all, Kevin is only the third shareholder, with only 10.5% of the shares.

On this premise, LTECH is also actively pursuing other directors and projects.

But so far, there are people who make small money, but compared with Kevin, it is undoubtedly a world of difference...

...

Stepping into MGM, Kevin walked energetically towards the president's office.

As a major shareholder of MGM, and at the same time showed his face fiercely at the Oscars, in the company, it can be described as unimpeded.

"Director Kevin."

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People who saw Kevin greeted him one after another, and everyone knew that he was one of the most powerful people at MGM at present.

Don't look at LTECH as president, Kevin is MGM's majority shareholder and MGM's most powerful supporter of current performance.

Kevin spoke, in MGM, more powerful than Ret.

In the face of these staff greetings, Kevin responded kindly.

A few minutes later, Kevin arrived in the president's office.

Looking at Reiter, who kept pacing, Kevin asked directly:

"Did the first day box office of Pirates of the Caribbean come out?"

June 28, it's Saturday.

Warner and MGM are specially arranged for this holiday.

And today, it's time for the harvest.

The production cost of 100 million, plus 20 million publicity, is a masterpiece that is higher than the original Pirates of the Caribbean production cost.

You know, although the original Pirates of the Caribbean claimed a production cost of 120 million US dollars, it was damaged due to an accident in the middle.

At least $30 million to $40 million more in production costs were wasted.

Kevin, on the other hand, not only did not have this situation, but also cooperated with the tourism board to create a Caribbean town and save a lot of costs.

Coming and going, the investment in the film is not only not less, but more.

LTECH looked expectant, forced himself to calm down, and said slowly:

"Don't worry, Kevin, the box office data is being summarized, and it will come out in a while."

"However, although all of them have not come out yet, according to the initial reaction, the box office has exploded on the first day."

Looking at Ret's expectant face, Kevin just smiled calmly.

"Rayther, I'm not nervous, Pirates of the Caribbean will definitely succeed in my hands."

"Don't look at the success of pirate films in the last ten years, I will be an exception to this."

Kevin said confidently.

In the previous life, when Disney filmed Pirates of the Caribbean, pirate films were twenty years old, and there were no money-making blockbusters, and Disney's shooting was actually a large-scale promotional film for the Pirates of the Caribbean Ship project in their amusement park at that time.

In other words, Disney actually wants to spend a lot of money to advertise its own amusement park project.

Unexpectedly, Pirates of the Caribbean's box office actually exploded like this, making Disney make a fortune.

How can a movie that can reverse the decline of pirate films for twenty years and lead the trend be on the street because it is ten years ahead of schedule.

This is a movie that sets the trend of the times.

Kevin is very confident about this.

Kevin's confidence couldn't help but make Late look sideways.

Kevin's background, MGM, Warner, Paramount, and many other Hollywood companies have investigated.

Orphan, relying on his own efforts all the way to the University of Southern California, shot a short film, won the title of genius director in the University of Southern California.

Subsequently, relying on CAA's connections, he officially debuted and received investment in the first movie Chainsaw.

Here, Kevin directly chose not to get paid, but to get a little box office share, this choice, in fact, the film companies are not surprised, and are willing to accept it.

The reason is very simple, in fact, many fledgling directors have their own dreams of making their first movie a big hit, but in fact, not even one percent can really explode at the box office.

And putting this part of the director's salary into the film will only make the film better, and there is no reason for film companies not to accept this condition.

The only thing I didn't expect was that Kevin actually planted a foreshadowing in the play, and the film company didn't think so much about this kind of new director, so he wanted to make a cold bet and make a small profit.

Unexpectedly, the salary plus the subsequent copyright made Kevin directly rich.

Then it was out of control, chainsaw horror, escape from Desperate Town, Mission Impossible...

Kevin's continuous success has made his status in Hollywood continue to rise.

In one fell swoop, he became a big man in Hollywood.

This journey has grown up like a legend.

Reiter looked at the confident Kevin with complicated eyes.

..

A staff member in a suit walked in, holding a stack of materials.

The staff showed an excited look on their faces, and said in a quick tone:

"President, the first day of Pirates of the Caribbean box office came out and exploded."