Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 412 The Magic World

   After deciding to let Christopher Nolan take over "Terminator 3", this project became much simpler, because while introducing him, Jonathan Nolan, who is closely related to him and talented, will also enter the scene.

Jonathan Nolan is the younger brother of Christopher Nolan, the screenwriter of "Memento", "The Prestige", "Unknown Death", "The Dark Knight", "The Dark Knight Rises" and "Interstellar", not only that, He also created CBS's "Suspect Tracker" series and HBO's "West World" series, and he was only forty years old after completing all this.

  Like Kevin Feige.

  Some people may be geniuses.

  Of course, grades are not the best label attached to him, because while having grades, he is also the only guy in the entire circle who can control Christopher Nolan.

  Making the work serve the public while possessing imagination is his first consideration when writing the script. If his brother deviates from the center during filming, then he will unceremoniously let those wild ideas die on the set.

Do not believe?

  Both box office and word of mouth will not lie.

   While working with his brother Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan made Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar.

   After leaving his younger brother, Christopher Nolan, who let himself go, produced "Dunkirk" and "Creed".

If before, some people thought that Christopher Nolan’s biggest weakness was action scenes, and the action scenes in the "Batman" series and "Inception" were simply hip-stretching, then now, all the capital has seen it, his weakness …

   is actually his brother.

And after Jonathan Nolan was willing to complete the script of "Terminator 3" based on Roland Allen's brain hole, and acted as the executive producer of the film, the budget of 200 million made "Terminator 3" a Warcraft movie. The largest project handled since its inception.

Although the process of creation, discussion, and formation of the entire project has never been made public, except for Roland, Kate, and the future governor, even Evelyn Watson, the president of Warcraft Films, does not know what the specific content of the film is, but in the filing After it was made public, the Hollywood moguls still flocked like bugs smelling bad smells.

Disney, which has already signed a live-action film outsourcing agreement with Warcraft, hopes that "Terminator 3" can become one of their cooperation projects. Even if the "Pirates of the Caribbean" that the two parties are preparing has already used up next year's share, Disney doesn't care. Because the film and television project in 2003 is still blank;

Warner, who hadn’t seen the establishment of the DC project for a long time, sent people to insinuate, wanting to know whether Christopher Nolan is the director specially trained by Roland Allen for DC superhero movies. 3" This 200 million giant production is full of expectations, and is willing to contribute half of the investment to co-produce it;

  Global, which was acquired by Napoleon Water, that is, Vivendi, and whose life is miserable, wants to participate in the investment in an attempt to turn around;

  As for Paramount and Fox, which had a good cooperation with Roland Allen...

  The former expressed his willingness to undertake the distribution of the film after carefully inquiring about the project establishment plan;

After the latter learned that this was a 200 million project launched by Roland Allen himself, they had tasted the sweetness on "Titanic", and they expressed their willingness to form a joint venture with Warcraft Film and Television to ease the pressure on the company. financial pressure on the company.

When Evelyn Watson, the president of Warcraft Film and Television, found that she couldn't handle these unknown invitations at all, it became her first choice to hand them over to her boss. After the project he worked on was able to gain so much popularity, those giants in the eyes of the public suddenly became fat sheep in his eyes!

  Because when the prospect of a project is uncertain, pulling others to work together can share a lot of risks.

  It's just like Fox in the previous life pulled Paramount to invest in "Titanic".

  Although this move finally made Fox the laughing stock of the whole world, but while being ridiculed, Fox still made a lot of money at the overseas box office with the exaggeration of "Titanic"?

   This is luck and success!

  And what if "Titanic" hits the street like "Future Water World"?

  Fox, which has Paramount to share the risk, will not lose money in its pants like Universal!

  So, this kind of afterthought like "I would have bought a house if I knew it earlier" is meaningless.

   In the case of failure cases, amortizing risks is what capital should do!

   Not to mention, the box office curve of "Titanic" also proves that it is not a commercial film that makes money through orthodox methods.

  In this way—

  When the memories of his previous life could not tell Roland whether this adaptation would be successful, recruiting people into the group became his first choice.

   But now, he decided to wait.

  Because Roland knew that those fat sheep in Hollywood were also waiting.

   No way, who made "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" be released soon!

  ...

  Yes, when the eyes of the whole world are attracted by the September 11 incident and everyone is paying attention to the anti-terrorist war initiated by the small bushes, the Thanksgiving and Christmas files have actually quietly arrived!

Although due to the war, various film companies are actually not optimistic about the last two schedules of this year. After all, on September 28, Fox's "Silent Words" ended dismal at the box office with a box office of more than 50 million. Zulander, which was released by Paramount the other day, hasn't even made $50 million at the box office, and "Training Day," which opens on October 5th and stars Denzel Washington, hasn't made it out of the war public opinion either. , and Kevin Spacey's "K-Star Stranger" is even less than the box office of the cost line. Only "Black Hawk Down", a movie that conforms to the trend, has been slashed in the past two months. With a box office of 250 million, he became the biggest winner under the shadow of the war, but people, you have to think about it, right?

  It's like twenty years later, when faced with the crazy impact of the epidemic, Time Warner must be the first to push "Creed" and "Wonder Woman 1984" to the market on time!

  Since they think that man will conquer nature, then...

  As the audience, what choice do we have besides applauding?

Not to mention, before this severe moment, the guys who take the lead in the charge are not those second- and third-tier directors who are eager to become famous, let alone those second- and third-tier actors who want to be famous, but those who have been in the rivers and lakes for more than 30 years. Steven Spielberg, under such circumstances, everyone dares to think about the desire for a new life in the market.

  Especially since Steven Spielberg directed or Roland Allen picked the project...

  The so-called superstition appeared naturally...

  After all, so far, Roland has only made a mistake once on "Memory Fragments", a project he didn't personally handle.

   After betting on specific films such as "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Black Hawk Down" that rely on public opinion to make a comeback, the word "failure" was forcibly erased from Roland's dictionary by his colleagues.

  Because no one would believe that a guy with an outrageous winning streak would miss a project he pulled off with his own hands.

   But what about the truth?

   Well, in fact, Roland himself didn't know.

Because after getting married last year, he was kidnapped by the old man from Kauai Island to London, talked about everything related to DreamWorks, and shot a few scenes of "Harry Potter" by the way, Roland didn't care about this at all. item up.

  The reason is also very simple, trust the old man's level!

And it is precisely because Roland has never been in charge of all this, so when the world premiere of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" arrives on November 16th, I don't know what the old man will make of the movie Roland was a little anxious.

  After thinking twice, he took his wife with him, and after some disguise, he got into a movie theater near his home.

Although the temperature in London in the middle of the night in November is only about 5 degrees Celsius, the cold and humidity can't stop the fanaticism of the fans at all. The young people wearing sweaters and coats lined up at the entrance of the theater to buy tickets. The scene of huddling in groups to keep warm, It reminded Roland of his youth when he stayed up all night chasing movies with his dormitory friends when he was in college in his previous life.

But looking around, I found that the people who came here were all teenagers and twenty-year-olds of the same age. There was no audience for "Harry Potter", let alone the wallet of the audience, holding his wife's hand, Roland inserted it into his pocket, his face was filled with regret, "Hey, Steven is still old, and his influence is not as strong as before."

Kate rolled her eyes with such emotion, and replied angrily: "Today is Thursday! Tomorrow is Friday! When teenagers need to go to school, and adults in their thirties and forties need to go to work, How many guys come to the theater in the middle of the night to watch a midnight show? Unless they're out of their minds! Because that's when they sleep!"

   Having said that, Roland was still dissatisfied, "But if they don't come, the midnight show's box office will not look good!

  If the box office of the midnight show is not good, then the box office of the first day will not be good either!

  If the box office on the first day is not good, then the box office on the first weekend may not meet expectations!

   And once the box office does not meet expectations in the first weekend, won't theaters in various countries cut down on the number of films?

   And once the theaters in various countries reduce the schedule of "Harry Potter", then our movie will hit the street! "

  The rambling words made Kate curl her lips again and again.

  Although she thought her husband was naive, she still asked, "According to what you said, if "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" failed, it must be the fans' fault?"

"certainly!"

  Roland nodded confidently, "Love costs money! You don't even want to spend money, so why do you say love?"

   "Pfft!" Kate, who thought it was funny, laughed on the spot.

   But she did not refute it, because she understood that in the eyes of capital, the so-called loss does not mean that a project really lost money, but that a project did not earn the expected income.

   Well in this case...

  Wishing everyone to watch the movie in one day is what Roland wants to see.

  Oh no, if possible, Roland definitely hopes that fans can buy one billion box office in one day.

   Surrounded by bodyguards pretending to be ordinary fans, they chatted one after another. When the clock struck midnight, the logos of each party finally appeared on the screen where the advertisement was still displayed.

  First, Time Warner, the global publisher with half of the investment, and then the orc silhouette of Warcraft Film and Television, the copyright owner.

   As for the old man's Amblin entertainment?

   This company used by the old man to make money has no logo all the year round.

   Keep a low profile! low key!

And as the logo faded, the scene switching on the screen directly brought the story to the point. At night, Dumbledore appeared on the streets of Privet Drive and met Professor McGonagall, the catwoman. During the conversation, Hagrid, who was riding a flying motorcycle, descended from the sky and handed over the baby in his arms to the two. During their dispute, the toddler with the lightning pattern on his forehead also had his own destiny—he will be born in Malayan. He grew up in a melon family until he was able to accept his own life experience.

  To be honest, even though Roland could no longer remember the plot of the "Harry Potter" movie in his previous life, after seeing the opening scene shot by the old man, the absurdity across time and space still made him shake his head, because...

Can not Understand it!

   Seriously! Roland in his previous life was very strange. There are many people who fell in love with this IP without reading the original book of "Harry Potter". This kind of behavior simply made him unable to understand, okay?

  When the movie opens, all three characters are playing charades.

Dumbledore did not explain why Harry Potter became famous, and Giant Hagrid did not explain why it is a good thing for Harry Potter to stay away from the wizarding world. If these are the plot content, dig out first It's not a big problem to pit and then explain, so what about the word Muggle in Professor McGonagall's mouth?

  As a term pioneered by J.K. Rowling, it refers specifically to die-hards in the world who don’t believe in magic. This kind of vocabulary is not the key that everyone can understand! And shoot without explaining the word?

   To be honest, this kind of behavior of creating a threshold for ordinary movie fans is really a trap.

   But even so, the whole movie was a success!

   Here it is...

   Kind of weird, right?

But when the title of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" flashed by, and ten-year-old Daniel Radcliffe woke up from the storage room under the stairs of his aunt's house, the sudden exclamation sounded Let Roland understand what it is that drives those guys who have never seen the original to like this movie and are willing to take the time to understand the story behind it—

   "Wow~ Harry is so cute!"

   "He's so cute in his ill-fitting clothes!"

   "The appearance of being wronged but not daring to resist is so obedient!"

   "I really want to touch his head and kiss his face!"

Yes…

  Daniel Radcliffe, or Harry Potter, actually relies on his face for food.

Note: ①Christopher Nolan's younger brother, Jonathan Nolan, is super awesome. Those projects that sell high scores are written by him, especially "Interstellar Crossing". At the beginning, he was written by Steven Spielberg Guerra went to write the customization, but because of the financial crisis, Kaizi who could care about DreamWorks basically died, so this project was abandoned by the old man. After that, Jonathan Nolan felt that it was a pity not to shoot, so he wrote Let the elder brother who just filmed "The Dark Knight" prepare this project, and then...his elder brother ascended to the altar. ②There were movies released during 9/11, such as Paramount’s “Dream Chaser” starring Keanu Reeves, and Sony’s “The Glass House” starring Diane Lynn. It was released on the Friday of September 11th, so there is no such thing as no one watching the movie after September 11th. It's just that there are few people watching and the box office is freezing, but the market that is less than 10 million a day can still run. ③The reason why Amblin does not want a logo is very simple, that is, low-key. As I wrote before, when he left Universal, Steven Spielberg left all the movie copyrights in Universal, and exchanged them for Universal Studios’ annual ticket income dividends, but at the same time, other copyrights are still in Ampere. Lin, like the logo of DreamWorks, according to the normal transaction, Universal would be sued, but the old man never sold the copyright of the silhouette logo of the film and television works to Universal, so Universal could only pinch his nose and recognize it. Really, this The old man knows better than anyone else in business, he can be generous with those who are his own, but he will not give anyone who is not his own.

  (end of this chapter)