Hollywood Hunter

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Staying in the hilltop mansion in the small town of Cannes, Simon has gradually clarified the shooting ideas of "Batman" these days.

In the initial plan, the "Batman" single movie trilogy will be produced first, and the name will follow Nolan's "Batman: Hour of War", "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises". However, in terms of content, Simon intends to adopt a completely different plot setting, paving the way for the entire DC movie universe through appropriate interludes with the "Superman" series.

In order to realize the plan of the movie universe, the beginning of "Batman" is crucial.

Simon actually has a very easy and successful shortcut to take, and that is to use the Joker as the villain of the first movie.

As Batman's biggest enemy and the most popular villain in the Batman series, the original time and space, Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan's two peak versions of the "Batman" series all use the Joker as the anti-one No. The Joker, Batman's lifelong enemy, does have an irreplaceable popularity and status, both in comics and in reality.

However, after much consideration, Simon gave up this idea.

With Joker enabled, the first episode must have a matching atmospheric pattern. The starting point of the story is too high, and it is difficult for the sequel to satisfy the audience's appetite. Repeatedly saving Gotham and saving the world can easily cause aesthetic fatigue. As such, Simon intends to put the Joker in the final episode as the final boss of the trilogy.

As for the current opening, Simon does not intend to spend too much time on the experience of Bruce Wayne's transformation into Batman, but intends to start with the running-in process of Batman and the whole city after he started to fight.

A vigilante suddenly appeared in Sin City, and the public, media, officials, criminals and other classes responded and responded. At the same time, these sub-lines will revolve around a high-concept mode of the main story line of justice defeating evil. The villain appears, Batman defeats the villain, begins to gain the recognition of the city, and the story ends.

Simon hid in Cannes to create the script for "Batman". In North America, this year's film summer program also officially opened in May.

On May 13, Paramount launched the seventh sequel to the classic horror film series "Friday the 13th", which made Simon the envy of the 1,796-screen opening screen scale, and earned $9.8 million in the first week. Although the box office fell far short of the producers' expectations, Paramount recovered most of the production and publicity budget in the first week compared to the film's ultra-low production cost of only $2.8 million.

Except for "Friday the Thirteenth 7", the other two new films from independent film companies did not make any waves. The second place was "When Harry Met Sally", which is also "When Harry Met Sally" Eight weeks after the large-scale opening, it was officially squeezed out of the box office champion for the next week.

In the tenth week of its release, "When Harry Met Sally" received another 6.13 million US dollars, with a total box office of 90.12 million US dollars, and continued to move towards the 100 million yuan mark without any suspense.

Although Hollywood has always been envious of Daenerys Pictures for making its first film with a box office of over 100 million in 1988, Simon was not satisfied with this achievement.

Paramount can arrange nearly 1,800 opening screens for a horror film that costs only $2.8 million. During the entire release of "When Harry Met Sally", the number of screens failed to exceed 1,500. During the golden box office harvest period of the week, the number of screens shown in the film was only over 1,000, which made Simon feel strongly that the traditional forces of Hollywood were deeply guarded and restrained by the latecomers.

If "When Harry Met Sally" can get enough screen resources, the box office of this film must have exceeded the threshold of 100 million yuan, instead of being stuck at the embarrassing figure of 90 million US dollars. Although it will not be difficult to break through 100 million in the future, with the arrival of a series of new films in the summer, the release scale and subsequent box office of "When Harry Met Sally" is destined to shrink rapidly.

Immediately after.

On May 20th, the first big-budget movie of the summer, "The Storm", was launched in North American theaters. This medieval fantasy film based on Western mythology was jointly produced by MGM and Lucasfilm, using a large number of State-of-the-art special effects technology from ILM Studio.

However, the $35 million blockbuster film has a poor reputation, with Variety magazine calling it "a medieval version of Star Wars with a lot of mythology and fables, with an old-fashioned story and a lack of innovation."

Due to the bad outlook of the film, the distributor MGM only arranged 1,024 opening screens for "The Gathering", not even "Friday the 13th 7", not to mention the upcoming "Crocodile Dundee". 2" and "First Blood 3", according to the publisher's public data, the two heavyweight new films are expected to have 2,800 and 2,500 screens respectively. The era of publishing is coming.

Unfortunately, as the most watched new film this summer, Pulp Fiction is expected to have only about 1,500 screens, and Simon can do nothing about it, because this is already the limit of resources that Orion Pictures can use.

Moreover, the reputation of "Pulp Fiction" has been constantly changing since its premiere in Cannes, especially in North America. Many well-known film critics have criticized the film's excessive violence and Simon's criticism of various Plagiarism of a classic film.

The reason for this situation is actually obvious. Too many people do not want to see Pulp Fiction succeed.

Simon has no way of finding out which side is in the middle of it.

Pulp Fiction's release date is June 3, with

Paramount Pictures' Crocodile Dundee 2 and Columbia Pictures' Samsung-owned Rambo 3, along with Fox's "Future" and Warner's "Funny Farm," followed a week later. Disney's "Four Daughter and Two Moms", Paramount's "Psidi Base", MGM's "Haunted 3".

In the past three weeks, only the new films released, the seven major film companies have gathered six. Even in the most popular schedules, the total box office total in a single week is actually fixed. The more you earn, the less others will naturally.

In this case, Pulp Fiction just happens to be the most compelling of a bunch of new films, and even Simon himself wouldn't hesitate to take down rivals if he could.

Aware of this situation, Simon is less optimistic about the outcome of the festival's awards. Whether it is Simon himself or Orion, the network resources are obviously unable to compete with the entire Hollywood Seven, others may just make a phone call, and the awards may not be available.

It was like this until May 22, the day before the closing ceremony of the film festival, the organizer officially issued a retention invitation to the winning crew, and Simon was completely relieved until he was notified by the organizer.

Monday, May 23.

On the last day of the festival, the main event of the day is the re-screening of all the nominated films in the main competition. At the same time, the information of the crew that was retained also appeared in the local media in Cannes.

The crews of five of the 21 main competition films were retained: Simon's Pulp Fiction, Clint Eastwood's Rookie Parker, and Kieslowski's Killing Short Films, Fernando Solanas' The South and Chris Menges' A World in Quarantine.

Among the five films, Kieslowski's "Murder Short" is the most popular for the Palme d'Or. Before that, this film has won the Fabisi Award in the main competition unit, which is an award issued by the International Film Critics Association completely independent of the film festival organizer, which is similar to an awards weather vane.

As for Pulp Fiction, among the six awards of Palme d'Or, Jury Prize, Jury Prize, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director, the outside world generally believes that the Palme d'Or is unlikely, and the performance award is even more so. There is no drama, and the jury is unlikely to give the best director to Simon, a young man who is only 20 years old.

Then, the final result is likely to be either the Jury Prize or the Jury Prize.

It was nearly seven o'clock in the afternoon.

Outside the Palace of Cinema on the waterfront in Cannes, compared to the star-studded opening ceremony, the closing ceremony will be much deserted.

The "Pulp Fiction" crew received a retention notice yesterday. John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Nicole Kidman, who had already left Cannes, flew in again from the United States. Others such as Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Madonna and Sean Penn were absent from the closing ceremony for various reasons.

Speaking of which, this fundamental purpose is still for the promotion of the movie, and Orion will definitely have to bear the cost, and Simon's private jet bill will also be sent to Orion in the future. Of course, the hilltop mansions in Le Canet are not something Orion can afford.

Simon and his party rushed to the outside of the Movie Palace. The red carpet ceremony for the closing ceremony was coming to an end. This time, everyone quickly passed through the media channel and entered the Rubier Hall in the Movie Palace.

Perhaps it was specially arranged by the organizer that the seats of the crew of "Pulp Fiction" were adjacent to the crew of "The Meeting of the Wind and Clouds". This special effects film led by Lucasfilm will be the closing film of this film festival.

However, Simon did not see George Lucas, and only Ron Howard, the director of "The Storm", and the hero and heroine Fang Kilmer and Joni Wiley attended the closing ceremony.

After the opening of the film last Friday, due to the failure of word of mouth, "Fengyun Jihui" only received 8.3 million US dollars at the box office in the first three days of the weekend, far below the producer's expectations. The film can only look forward to the subsequent distribution of various channels to recover the expensive production and publicity costs.

In fact, Simon has always paid attention to "The Storm", and such a film that uses the most advanced special effects technology of this era can provide him with a lot of reference for the production of "Batman".

And, Ron Howard, a notch below Spielberg's but a very diverse commercial director, also interested Simon. The two chatted for a while before the ceremony, and exchanged business cards.

Seven o'clock in the evening.

The 41st Cannes Film Festival Closing Ceremony Awards Ceremony has officially begun.

The host was still Matilda May at the opening ceremony, and the atmosphere of the awards ceremony was as meticulous as it was at the opening ceremony.

After Matilda May's emotional speech, the guests came to the stage, and the first award was the 'Technical Award', yes, the name of the award is called the technical-grand-prize, which is also the number of the Cannes Film Festival. One of the few technical awards.

There is no result envelope and trophy for this kind of marginal technical award, only a certificate. While waiting for the actress named Jane Birkin on the stage to announce the result, Simon's heart couldn't help but mention a few.

If Pulp Fiction wins such an award, the joke is a bit big. This kind of technical award is actually equivalent to a consolation prize. Tell the main creator in advance that you will have nothing to do next.

Fortunately.

Jane Birkin quickly announced the results, and Clint Eastwood's "Rookie Parker" was lucky enough to win the award, as many expected. Watching the old cowboy walk onto the stage with a squeezed smile, Simon clapped vigorously with the crowd without hesitation.

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After several awards such as Golden Camera and Best Short Film were awarded, after a song and dance performance, Matilda May began to introduce the judges of the main competition unit to the stage, and many people in the hall also raised their spirits, because the next thing will be the most important six major awards in the main competition unit.

The judges sat on the stage, and the best actress was announced first. This time, the result of the best actress award was the rare 'three yellow eggs', the three in Chris Menges' "Isolated World". The heroines shared the honor.

The best actor award went to Forest Whitaker, a black actor in "Rookie Parker," who Simon remembers as one of the few black Oscar winners. However, Forest Whitaker's presence in Hollywood has not been strong. Although his acting skills are very good, in most cases he can only play some inconspicuous supporting roles.

The organizers of Cannes obviously did not have the idea of ​​arranging and combining the awards to control the rhythm. After awarding the best actor and actress, it was the best director. After the Argentine director Fernando Solanas won this award for his "South", there are only three key awards left in this ceremony: the Palme d'Or, the Jury Prize and the Jury Prize.

Among the five retained works in the main competition unit, "Rookie Parker" and "Southern" have both been passed, and the last three awards are destined to only belong to "Pulp Fiction", "Murder Short Film" and "Isolated World" Three movies.

The honoree of the Jury Prize is the well-known French director Louis Mahler.

Looking at the old man on the stage introducing the award slowly, Simon felt a small hand reaching out and pressing it on the back of his hand, so he grabbed the woman's small hand and shook it, and whispered to Janet beside him, "No way. Is this?"

Janet blinked suspiciously, then shook her head: "I really don't know, Natasha didn't tell me."

The three films are ranked in terms of seniority. Both Kieslowski and Chris Mengers have been famous for a long time, "Murder Short" and "Isolated World" are also good enough, and "Pulp Fiction" fell to the last jury. The award is perfectly reasonable.

On the stage, Louis Malle finally opened the envelope, glanced down, and read the result in the eyes of everyone's expectations: "The winner of the jury award is "Murder Short Film", congratulations!"

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In the applause from the audience, Simon clearly felt that many eyes around him were looking over.

From the very beginning, Kieslowski's "Murder Short Film" has always been the most popular work of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film not only won the highest media score of 4.6, but also won the title of the wind vane. Competition Unit Fabisi Award.

Now.

Cannes awarded the final jury award of the three awards to "Murder Short", and Kieslowski apparently missed the final Palme d'Or.

As for "Separated World", this film about the past of the apartheid struggle in South Africa has been able to make it to the present, and more is still stained with the aura of absolute political correctness of the subject matter.

Although film director Chris Mengers is a two-time Oscar winner for Best Cinematography, "Isolated World" is only his first directed film. Except for his intentions, this film is completely incompatible with "Pulp Fiction" in other aspects. compared to.

However.

Compared to Berlin and Venice, Cannes is the least intentional.

After Kieslowski delivered his acceptance speech, the French Caesar Award actress Sandrina Bernaire took the stage to present the jury prize. When everyone in the Rubier Hall heard the name "Separated World" , there is no suspense in the end.

Chris Mengers was still on the stage, and out of the corner of his eyes Simon had noticed some figures around the hall quietly leaving their seats and hurried out.

Beside Simon, Janet's face turned red, and several other people's faces also showed obvious joy. After all, being able to leave their mark on a Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival will definitely help them a lot in their subsequent careers.

Even John Travolta, the first-line actor who quickly became popular with "Grease", can finally get rid of his awkward position as a youth film actor after ten years of fame. The title of 'Dance King' is no longer appropriate for an actor who is already 34 years old and approaching middle age.

The last minute has come.

This time, the honorees were the jury presidents Ito Scola and Natasha Kinski.

The double-yolk egg incident that made Simon a little worried did not happen, the two guests exchanged a few words, Ito Scola opened the envelope, and Natasha Kinski read out the result that was no suspense: "Get the The Palme d'Or is Pulp Fiction."

Even though this outcome had been expected, there was a very brief but noticeable lull on the scene.

Then.

Warm applause rang out.

In the past life, I could only be an obscure bystander, watching the glory of others and the cheers of others. At this time, feeling the applause around him, even though he was in the state of mind of two lives and had too many people's experiences in his mind, Simon couldn't help overflowing with excitement.

After getting up and hugging Janet tightly for a moment, and then hugging and shaking hands with Travolta and the others, as well as the main creators of "The Storm", Simon walked quickly onto the stage amid the unstoppable applause in the hall.

Reaching out and shaking it with Ito Scola, and thanking him softly, Simon saw Natasha Kinsky next to him with open arms and came towards him, so he hugged the woman cooperatively.

but.

Natasha Kinski took the opportunity of the veneer ceremony to get close to Simon's ear and said directly: "The house is borrowed.

give me. "

Simon was also very straightforward, smiled and whispered back: "No loan."

Natasha Kinski hugged Simon a little tighter, and continued to face him on the other side: "Do you want to see me self-destruct now?"

Simon actually wanted to watch it, but considering the consequences of the woman's madness, he surrendered decisively, nodded and said, "borrow."

Natasha Kinski snorted with satisfaction before releasing Simon. The small movements between the two did not arouse suspicion from others, and even if they noticed it, they basically thought that Natasha Kinski was congratulating Simon.

After being entangled by Natasha Kinski for a while, Simon pondered for a moment before coming to the microphone, and began to give an impromptu acceptance speech.

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