Made in Hollywood

Manhattan, the place that Hollywood movies are most willing to destroy. In 1994's "Independence Day", it once turned this place into a sea of ​​fire and then razed it to the ground. Three years later, another film has its eyes on this place. Samsung Columbia Pictures, a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment. Ye decided to put a monster from Japan in Manhattan to demonstrate the monster's terrifying power in a way that the world's financial center was severely damaged.

At this time, there was chaos near the Brooklyn Bridge, and the crew was nervously filming under the supervision of municipal staff.

Dahe Ren stood on the terrace of a nearby building, looking at the blonde German director standing behind the camera, frowning a little.

"Michael, are you sure Director Emmerich won't screw up?" he asked aside.

The person standing on the side is Michael Ovitz, who has returned to the entertainment brokerage industry. After the painful lessons of Disney's failure, Ovitz established an artist management company, and used a huge network of contacts and a well-functioning company. Packaged service, after several months of hard work, got the big production project "Godzilla" from Samsung Columbia.

Michael Ovitz returned to the familiar entertainment brokerage industry, no one dared to underestimate it, not only the Godzilla project, he also dug Martin Scorsese, one of the four major directors from CAA, the entire artist management company The momentum of the rise in the short term is quite amazing.

"Congratulations..." Michael Ovitz was as confident as ever, "I think you should have seen "Thunderbolt", "Rebuilt Warrior" and "Spacecraft" directed by Roland before, and it is not difficult to find his directing style. , this is a director who is equally obsessed and good at special effects big scenes!"

"If you can invite Duke Rosenberg, this film will be at least half successful!" Dahe Ren said in a low voice.

Michael Ovitz did not refute, but agreed and said, "It is true. No one in Hollywood can compare to Duke Rosenberg in destroying a city in the film, but he has already rejected you! He, believe me, aside from Duke Rosenberg, Roland Emmerich is definitely the best director in the world who is good at destroying the earth!"

Dahe Ren is very clear. It's impossible to get Duke, and although Roland Emmerich's first three films are not big hits, they are quite profitable compared to the investment. Michael Ovitz once assisted Sony Entertainment in those years. After winning Columbia Pictures, the executives of Sony Entertainment also trusted his vision and ability, so they packaged the project and handed it over to him.

Although Martin? Scorsese invested in the artist management company. But Michael Ovitz is very clear that if the company wants to really rise in Hollywood, it must have a successful operation project. It took him nearly three months in the first half of the year to get this project. It even invited Hollywood's top model master Stan Winston, who joined the digital field, to design and produce Godzilla special effects.

Even if the artist management company doesn't actually get much of a cut, it will contribute to the success of the project.

"Is the film sure to catch up with next year's summer season?" Dahe Ren asked again.

"I have communicated with Roland." Michael Ovitz vowed, "He will complete all the production of the film by April at the latest, and Sony Entertainment can fully activate the media resources. Start to promote the film."

He went on to emphasize, "Da He. Why has Duke Rosenberg been so successful in recent years? Especially the niche genre of "Chicago", why can it sell so well? Because under his promotion, Warner Bros. attaches great importance to publicity. The production cost of "Chicago" was only $25 million. But it invested $15 million in publicity expenses! And what about other films in the same period? Many films with an investment of $50 million did not have such high publicity and distribution. Budget!"

Dahe Ren nodded lightly. In fact, for the films released this summer, the cost of publicity and distribution was significantly higher than before.

"If Duke Rosenberg picked up the camera was a successful director." Michael Ovitz continued, "When he put down the camera, he was definitely a standard businessman, using the propaganda method, It's lower than 99% of the directors in this world, and his face is definitely thicker than the vampires on Wall Street!"

"So, Sony must come up with more effective plans in publicity!" he stressed.

Having said this, Michael Ovitz turned his head to look in the direction of the Empire State Building, where the projects of CAA, once his empire and now a strong competitor in the entertainment agency industry, were filmed there.

Judging from the announced release date, the other party's film is also scheduled to be released in May, two weeks ahead of "Godzilla".

According to the general situation, after a weekend apart, there will not be too fierce competition between the two sides, but now it seems that other films are avoiding these two super big productions, staggering the weekends in between, and instead get together to grab dead soldiers On the anniversary date, maybe we should think of some ways to curb the overheating of the projects packaged by CAA, so as not to impact "Godzilla"!

Although the man in charge of that project was Martin Bob, his former friend and right-hand man, none of that stopped the competition.

Presumably many people in Hollywood don’t want the other side’s project to succeed. The reason is too simple. It was a DreamWorks project. Anyone can see the big ambitions of the DreamWorks Big Three, but the traditional forces in Hollywood will never sit idly by and watch the rise of DreamWorks. As has happened several times in history, they will never tolerate a new company coming in and grabbing the biggest piece of the pie.

Even DreamWorks has Hollywood's most popular director, Steven Spielberg.

At this time, Spielberg and Martin Bob stood on the observation platform of the Empire State Building, watching the female director Mimi Ryder nervously arrange the crew.

Although he doesn't like Martin Bob, Spielberg doesn't show anything on his face. As a veteran who has worked hard in Hollywood for many years, he certainly understands the simplest truth of not mixing personal likes and dislikes into business.

Martin Bob took a look at Spielberg. DreamWorks' film plan didn't start well. The first film "Broken Rage" ended in failure, and "Peacemaker" and "Rotating City" were released at the same time. "The commercial revenue is far less than expected, and Spielberg's big-selling film "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" has little connection with DreamWorks. The ambitions of the three giants have just encountered serious problems. frustration.

If it weren't for these setbacks, he wouldn't have gone through a lot of work and included "Clash of Heaven and Earth" as a packaged project.

Although he has encountered some troubles in CAA, no one can ignore the strong strength of CAA in the industry, nor can he ignore the resources that he can deploy as a CAA controller.

Martin Bob believes that with Spielberg as the producer and his help, the film is still the hottest sci-fi destruction subject, and the chances of success are infinite.

"My original idea..." Spielberg suddenly said, "I wanted to find Duke to direct this film, but unfortunately he rejected both me and George..."

"what a shame!"

Unlike the rumored pawn of CAA, Spielberg didn't care about Martin Bob's face at all, obviously he just regarded him as a service staff, and said to himself, "If Duke joins, "The Great Clash of Heaven and Earth" "At least there will be a 70% chance of being a big seller."

Martin Bob not only did not refute Spielberg's words, but nodded hastily, "After Duke Rosenberg's "Independence Day", the theme of how to destroy the earth has become a guarantee for the success of Hollywood's big production. one."

He didn't like Duke, but he had to admit it in his heart.

There's nothing wrong with admitting this. Martin Bob is obviously trying to please Spielberg. Now he lacks heavyweight clients. If he can win Spielberg over, let alone nod to agree with him, even if He'd love to dance like Michael Ovitz to make the other person happy.

Thinking of Michael Ovitz, Martin Bob not only looked over to the Brooklyn Bridge, Michael Ovitz came back, poached Martin Scorsese from CAA at lightning speed, and made him disgraced, It has even become a new reason for criticism from Eno Martin and Pat Kingsley.

From the moment Michael Ovitz stretched out his hand to CAA, his interests were touched, and the previous relationship between the two sides disappeared. Maybe it may improve in the future, but at this stage it can only be a competitor!

Moreover, it is not without merit to establish such a strong competitor for CAA. It can completely consolidate his position, and temporarily unite the centrists within the company to deal with an external enemy, even if this enemy is a former CAA giant!

External enemies are often the best way to ease internal conflicts.

Since Michael Ovitz left office, there have been voices questioning his ability within CAA. Now the two packaged projects can start to collide indirectly in the summer of tomorrow. In Martin Bob's view, this is not a proof of his own. Chances are, if "The Clash of Heaven" finally wins over "Godzilla" in terms of box office, word of mouth and commercial achievements, it can also prove his ability from the side, and once it wins, it can even win more people's support for him.

Why do a group of shareholders support Eno Martin? It is nothing more than thinking that under his leadership, CAA can bring them more benefits. As long as he proves that he can do better, Eno Martin's camp will be divided.

Martin Bob is not as ambitious as Michael Ovitz. He was hyped and praised by the gossip media for a while. He really thinks he is the emperor behind the scenes in Hollywood. What he wants to do most is to completely control CAA, and then mobilize the power that he can mobilize. Strongly suppressed the director who made him lose face countless times.

Of course, if the other party is willing to take the initiative to bow his head and throw himself under his flag, he will also raise his hands to welcome him. (To be continued ~^~)

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