Hollywood Hunter

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The next day, another Sundance Film Festival closed.

The Grand Jury Prize went to "Dangerous Waters," a low-budget black-and-white drama about a down-and-out screenwriter and a failed producer trying to raise money to make a film.

In previous media comments, although "Reservoir Dogs" was controversial, its reputation was very good.

However, because the judges of the jury did not like this film that showed violence too nakedly, "Reservoir Dogs" ended up getting nothing.

Daenerys Entertainment has purchased movies or scripts from Sundance almost every year in recent years, and the relationship between the two parties has been very close.

However, it is precisely for this reason that in order to maintain the fairness of the Sundance Awards review as much as possible, Daenerys Entertainment will not easily interfere with the award review unless necessary.

Simon returned to Los Angeles directly after participating in the closing ceremony of the film festival. As for the follow-up of "Reservoir Dogs", the $2.5 million project did not reach the level that he paid too much attention to.

Original time and space, the North American release of Reservoir Dogs ended in failure, but it also led to Miramax and Quentin Tarantino forging a long-term partnership, which was not finally until the Weinstein scandal broke out. Finish.

After a long talk that night, Catherine went to New York.

I didn't have many choices, so I had to shoot subjects that I wasn't very interested in.

Now, several films with good box office results have accumulated, and with Simon's support, Catherine no longer has the troubles of many filmmakers who have just started their careers. After being awakened by Simon, she decides to spend the next one or two years. Time to carefully sort out some projects.

I also plan to go to Europe.

The great changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, as well as the follow-up trends of these countries, made Kathryn Kwang curious and had the idea of ​​making a documentary or two first.

From "Gucci Mark" to "Reality and Brave" to last year's "Frozen World", the success of three consecutive documentaries at the box office has made documentaries a category that Hollywood is paying close attention to.

Simon himself is that Catherine can shoot whatever she wants, and it's not bad for the money.

It doesn't matter even if the "Widowmaker" in the original time and space is filmed, what Daenerys Entertainment lacks most now is a huge loss project.

Of course, in the whole of Hollywood, Simon will only be so indulgent to Katherine alone.

Even he himself would not be so laissez-faire.

After Sundance closed, it was already the end of January before I knew it.

Back in Los Angeles, the first thing to deal with is Daenerys Entertainment's second layoff.

During this month, after repeated review and evaluation by the company's human resources department, a layoff list of 800 people was initially drawn up, which was less than Simon had imagined.

The U.S. economy as a whole is still at rock bottom. In 1991, the federal unemployment rate hit a new high.

If it is another company, there is nothing wrong with layoffs at this time.

The survival of the company is the most important thing.

However, the layoffs of Daenerys Entertainment made it difficult for many people to accept.

Just looking at last year's slew of box-office figures from Daenerys Entertainment's slew of top-grossing films, the company's 1991 performance is evident.

To the outside world, a company with such an excellent operating condition still insists on layoffs, which is really a manifestation of a very lack of social responsibility and an act of unscrupulous capitalists.

In fact, the layoff of 800 people, under the comprehensive cost of all aspects, can only save Daenerys Entertainment less than 200 million US dollars in expenses each year. However, Simon insists on layoffs. The fundamental purpose is not to save expenses, but to save money. In order to keep Daenerys Entertainment able to continue to operate efficiently.

Many corporate giants' big company diseases start from bloated personnel.

If Daenerys Entertainment wants to maintain its rapid development for as long as possible, it must keep its employees in a sense of crisis at all times.

No matter how good the company is, if you don't work hard, you will still lose your job.

Therefore, without paying too much attention to the doubts from the outside world, after the layoff list was drawn up, Daenerys Entertainment began to implement it quickly, and all 800 employees were fired neatly within the following week.

Some unwilling employees also organized other organizations to initiate a class action lawsuit, which Daenerys Entertainment is naturally not afraid of.

The layoff process is strictly carried out in accordance with the selection and implementation of the US labor law, which may be lacking in morality, but there is no legal transgression.

Of course, allowing these individuals to sue will certainly continue to damage Daenerys Entertainment's reputation.

As a result, news from Hollywood quickly spread.

If this batch of employees who left Daenerys Entertainment continues to make trouble, the doors of all Hollywood studios will be tightly closed to them.

To put it more bluntly, people who are restless will not want to hang out in Hollywood in the future.

With the current influence of Daenerys Entertainment, many people will not doubt that this company has such strength.

You know, even big names like Dustin Hoffman have career plans under Daenerys Entertainment, not to mention their little fish and shrimp.

Moreover, even if you really don't plan to hang out in Hollywood, everyone still has to live. However, probably no boss would like an employee who struggles with their employer after being fired.

What's more, Daenerys Entertainment did not have any violations. Forcing a lawsuit, the result is hard to predict.

As a result, the so-called class-action lawsuit soon died down.

Completing another round of layoffs, Daenerys Entertainment then announced a salary increase package.

The employees who joined Daenerys Entertainment from mca last year still maintained a relatively low salary level during the mca period. In this salary increase plan, most of the employees from mca have been raised to the same level as Daenerys. The staff of the entertainment company are of a very high standard.

After careful media calculations, it was found that such a salary increase is basically equivalent to completely offsetting the labor cost saved by Daenerys Entertainment's just completed layoffs.

After the news was announced, the negative impact of the layoff plan was largely reduced.

The world has never been short of discerning people.

The salary increase followed by layoffs made many people understand that the layoffs of Daenerys Entertainment were not for increasing profits, but for the development of the company itself.

After the salary adjustment, Daenerys Entertainment overall remains the company with the highest average salary in Hollywood.

To a large extent, this also makes Daenerys Entertainment employees value their work more, thus increasing the vitality of the entire company.

Time entered February 1992.

In the last box office week of January, "The Flash", which ran for exactly six weeks, officially broke the $200 million total in North America, reaching $211.81 million.

At the same time, from January 23 to January 30, the single-week box office of "The Flash" still reached 10.77 million US dollars. With the long-term box office trend of this film, it will not be a problem to make another 40 million US dollars in the follow-up, and "The Flash" is sure to break through the total box office of 250 million US dollars in North America.

The Flash was a box-office success, and the execution of the DC Cinematic Universe plan became smoother.

The post-production of "Wonder Woman" scheduled for this summer is coming to an end, and the preliminary preparations for "Superman", "Cyborg" and "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" are continuing to advance.

Simon returned to Los Angeles from Sundance, and Warners began asking questions about the Flash sequel.

The copyright of "The Flash" is entirely held by Warner, and even if Simon aside, Warner can develop a second film according to its own ideas.

However, the first film of "The Flash" has achieved such excellent results, such a good situation, the entire Time Warner and down, even a group of people who are tit-for-tat with Steve Ross, dare not easily destroy it.

Therefore, the actual control of this series is equivalent to being in the hands of Simon, the first producer.

Because in addition to "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "The Flash" last year, Warner Bros. also released box office hits such as "Robin Hood" and "Desperados". The resentment is also much less.

Anyone with a little bit of brains probably understands the truth of long-running water.

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

The time is February 5th.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner rushed to the administrative area from the northern entrance of the studio, and learned that Simon was in the Daenerys special effects on the second floor of the studio, so he was brought here again.

The appointment time was four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was just right now.

Simon had just spent two hours reviewing the later stages of Wonder Woman, while in the model effects department for Daenerys Effects.

Although cg is a major trend in Hollywood special effects, the demand for model special effects will be greatly reduced in the future, but it will never disappear.

The model special effects department of Daenerys special effects is not only the production of monster models that ordinary people imagine, but also the superhero cars of the "Batman" series, the large-scale dinosaur props of the just-started "Jurassic Park" and the large-scale production films. The props required for the scenes such as the speeding car explosion and so on are all in charge of the model special effects department.

Taking advantage of the gap between the meeting with Eisner, Simon wanted to see the Poison Ivy look.

The last "Batman: The Dark Knight", the two villains are the Joker and Poison Ivy.

According to the plot settings that have been basically completed, the Joker will also shine at the end of this opening trilogy, but for Simon, he is actually looking forward to the performance of Poison Ivy.

In addition, the role of Poison Ivy has also been determined.

Simon gave the role to Nicole Kidman.

There are some small coincidences.

In the original timeline, the role of Mia in Pulp Fiction was played by Uma Thurman, who then played Poison Ivy in 1997's Batman and Robin.

Now, Nicole has landed the role of Mia in the new version of Pulp Fiction, and at the same time, she has also been selected by Simon to play Poison Ivy.

Of course Simon didn't deliberately create such a coincidence, but compared to several other actresses of the same age, Nicole is indeed very suitable for this role in terms of acting skills, fame and even temperament and figure.

In comparison, Simon felt that the poison ivy girl played by Uma Thurman could no longer be described as bad, and it was completely nonsense. It's just the green tights that look very cheap, which completely makes people lose their fantasy of poison ivy.

Poison Ivy was meant to be green, not just a green bodysuit.

Simon's original setting was to refer to the poison ivy setting in the game version of "Batman: Arkham Knight". However, after testing, the shirt with only one button exposed is obviously not suitable for actual shooting.

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Repeated adjustments by the stylist, the long sleeves and hem of the 'shirt' were cut, and after another attempt, the revised 'shirt' became a more textured crimson leather 'jacket', again, of course, with short sleeves and hem The length is also just below the breast, which is somewhat similar to a women's sports vest.

In fact, I also considered wrapping with plants.

This is also more in line with many settings of Poison Ivy, but it is really difficult for Simon to accept the false feeling brought by plastic plants.

If it is many years later, it is completely possible for actors to put on motion capture suits and directly apply a layer of 'real plants' to the body. Although the current technology can do this, the effect is not very good, and the cost is also obvious. too high. So I chose a sexy burgundy half-length jacket.

In addition, the setting of Poison Ivy's briefs with reference to the game version has also been modified to more conservative hot pants.

This is also done for actual shooting considerations. Once the character modeling in the game is completed, it will definitely not be 'lost', which is not necessarily true in reality.

Moreover, the actual effect of briefs is not as good as hot pants.

The most crucial Poison Ivy skin, Simon of course will not let the character wear a cheap green tights like Uma Thurman, but really paint the skin green.

This is also the most complicated part of the Poison Ivy image.

Just a simple coat of green will look absolutely fake.

What Simon wants is a very natural green, a feeling that the audience instinctively thinks that this person should be green after seeing it.

Therefore, the green makeup of the poison ivy girl needs to show a natural sense of chlorophyll quality, and even the details of natural skin texture flaws must be involved.

All in all, it gives a sense of authenticity.

In order to achieve the effect Simon wanted, Daenerys Special Effects specially mobilized a team of special effects artists and make-up artists to take charge of this matter. After several months of repeated attempts, they recently came up with a product that gradually satisfied Simon. Makeup effect.

Michael Eisner entered the office area of ​​the special effects department of Daenerys' special effects model, and his eyes were immediately attracted by several hot and slender 'poison ivy girls'.

If he didn't understand where he was, he would even think that he might have seen another race.

This is the end result of Daenerys' special effects team for Poison Ivy.

Nicole Kidman definitely didn't have time to follow up on the styling development in person, so several of the "Poison Ivy" were model stand-ins that Daenerys special effects found.

In the bottom of my heart, I was a little dissatisfied with Simon's double-mindedness when meeting him, but Eisner didn't show it either.

I followed the comments enthusiastically. At the same time, as a filmmaker, I couldn't help but admire the technical level of Daenerys' special effects. After a while, I sent away a few people who spent four hours wearing makeup only to be seen by a certain man. After a few eyes, Simon and Eisner started talking about business.

It's about Simon's original deal with Disney for the release of When Harry and Sally.

Seeing that Simon's status in Hollywood is getting higher and higher, it has been rumored more than once that Simon may no longer direct the film himself, and Disney does not plan to wait any longer.

After several communications in advance, Disney's intention is to hope that this film contract can be replaced by a cooperation project with Daenerys Entertainment.

It is definitely impossible to direct any more films in the short term, and Simon did not reject Disney's suggestion.

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment also needs to add some external cooperation projects to ensure close ties with other studios, so today I asked Eisner to talk in person.

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