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Santa Monica.

In a screening room at Daenerys Entertainment's headquarters, when another "Batman" demo on the screen ended, the assistant stepped forward to remind him in a low voice, and Terry Semel realized that it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

Recalling the experience of watching the movie for more than three hours before, Semel was filled with a strong shock.

Today is Friday, May 5th.

Simon's accidental coma in February, Semel flew to Australia to visit as a representative of Warner. At that time, the situation was special. He couldn't find time to watch the "Batman" footage. Today is the first time to see the sample.

The post-editing and other work of "Batman" was synchronized with the shooting. It only took Simon a week after returning to Los Angeles to roughly complete the first version of the film's six and a half hours of rough cut samples.

Terry Semel arrived in the afternoon, intending to spend an hour just looking at the dailies, but instead he stayed in the screening room for an entire afternoon, and even Simon, who had originally watched the dailies with him, didn't even know when to leave. Nothing.

Although it was time for get off work, Terry Semel still had the urge to watch the remaining three hours of dailies.

Can a movie still be made like this? !

It was a thought that Semel repeated countless times as he watched the dailies.

In the preparatory stage of "Batman", Semel expressed his concerns when he heard that Simon would use live shooting as much as possible.

Live-action shooting can indeed increase the audience's sense of substitution, but at the same time it is easy to make the whole movie mediocre. Because in essence, "Batman" should be a science fiction film, and it is soft science fiction, and this type of film should pursue a sense of surrealism.

Too close to reality, and the creators failed to fill the film with enough rich and exciting superhero elements. As a result, the audience will easily have a psychological gap of "this is not the superhero world they imagined".

If so, the film is doomed to fail.

Therefore, in the many fruitless preparations of Warner over the years, directors who intend to take over the "Batman" project basically tend to set the scene and create a Gotham City in the studio.

Now, Terry Semel has completely disappeared from the original worry.

It's just that most of the sample shots have not been carefully graded, and they have already shown the level of stunning shots that are no less than the original "Lola Run", so Terry Semel confirmed this. Simon's "Lola Run" has become a teaching sample for many film schools, but in Semel's view, many of the shots in the "Batman" sample are even better than "Lola Run".

Through the exquisite use of lighting, color, composition and other elements, Simon shoots each lens based on the real city street scene like oil paintings carefully drawn by the top painters. Some pictures are even enough to be printed out and hung on the wall as art. Taste.

Moreover, the overall preference for a cold and rich dark tone style is enough to visually give the audience a surreal psychological hint, making people feel that this is not only the city where they live, but also Gotham City in the comics.

Of course, if it's just the stunning style of the lens, it's not enough to shock Semel.

Although the young man's control of the technical details of the film is at the Oscar level, it is not impossible for other films to imitate, as long as he is willing to spend money to form a master-level behind-the-scenes team.

What really struck Semel was the content, especially the action scenes in the dailies.

Hollywood's traditional action movies, the more high-end ones are Bruce Lee's kung fu back then, and the performance of action stars with deep skills such as Shange Winton on the screen is also remarkable, but most of them are still you and me. Ordinary punches that lack aesthetics.

Because of the lack of bright spots, the most popular in Hollywood these years is the shooting action movie by Stallone and others. The naked muscular man carries a machine gun and ignores the enemy's bullets all the way.

Terry Semel has actually seen some oriental kung fu movies, but he also feels that the action design of those movies is too complicated and lacks practicality.

The action scenes in Simon's "Batman" made Semel feel like he had seen the future of Hollywood action movies.

Fighting, there is no old-fashioned street drunken fight, Batman punches to the flesh but is not simple, the sense of strength and strength makes people excited, Catwoman's lightness and fierceness and the extreme display of the female body's advantages are equally exciting.

When chasing a car, there is no unreasonable collision and explosion, but the car that smashes and rolls against the big screen is more shocking than blowing up a bunch of cars directly.

In the shootout, there was no brainless dash against the rain of bullets, the thrilling confrontation between Death Shooter and Batman, in slow motion, the oppressive feeling of the CG synthetic bullet whistling made Semel hold his breath. It turns out that a bullet can also become the protagonist of the camera at a certain moment.

In addition to these mainstream action scenes, Batman's wingsuit flight, the use of props such as bat darts, Catwoman's use of gymnastics skills to leap between city rooftops and other details, in Semel's view, are enough to become future Hollywood commercial movies textbook.

Terry Semel can't wait to see the final film. Simon has perfected these details. As Hollywood's best screenwriter, Semel doesn't think the finished movie will be better than the movie. These details are inferior.

There was even a faint feeling in Semel that this groundbreaking superhero movie would also achieve groundbreaking box office numbers.

However, this feeling is not good.

Thinking that DC has sold the copyrights of Batman and Wonder Woman to Daenerys Entertainment, and Warner did not object to the transfer of Superman's copyrights, Semel felt a strong sense of remorse. He is now very adamant that Warners must have made a series of irreparable mistakes with the rights to the three superheroes.

After all, although there is a time limit on those licensing contracts, in fact, if the interests involved are too great, the copyright holder is unlikely to let go anyway.

Just like the original copyright of "Superman", although "Superman 4" failed at the box office, according to Semel's knowledge, Simon bought back the copyright of "Superman" with only 5 years left from the Salkind family. A huge sum of $6 million.

And, although the original dc contract with British producer Alexander Salkind will expire in 1992. However, according to the automatic renewal clause in the agreement, as long as the copyright of "Superman" is not put on hold for a long time, after 1992, if Salkind still intends to make a sequel, the license period will be automatically extended.

The power of these terms is now in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment.

Obviously, as long as Daenerys Entertainment doesn't give it up, Warners won't get back the rights to "Superman" anyway, and the same goes for the rights to "Batman" and "Wonder Woman."

Mistake.

After continuing to sit in the screening room for a few minutes, Semel stood up and walked towards the door, asking the assistant next to him, "Is Simon still in the company?"

The assistant followed Semel out and replied, "Mr. Westeros left the company at three o'clock to go to the film crew of Pretty Woman."

Terry Semel was a little puzzled: "Pretty Woman"?"

The assistant explained: "Daenerys Entertainment just started shooting a project this week, a romance film. Some time ago, the competition for the male lead was very fierce, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Alec Baldwin, Daniel · Male stars such as Day Lewis have tried to win the script, but the role finally fell on a second-tier British male star. It is said that Westeros personally decided, named Pierce Brosnan. The heroine is "Steel Magnolia" Julia Roberts in Flowers, this seems to have been decided very early on."

Terry Semel, Steve Ross's right-hand man, has been busy in recent months in the merger talks between Time Inc. and Warner Bros., ignoring a lot of news from the Hollywood side.

After reminiscing about Pierce Brosnan's information, Semel ordered his assistant to organize a copy of the other party's resume for himself. He was also a little surprised. I didn't expect Harrison Ford to start fighting for Daenerys Entertainment's project. , and have not been able to negotiate.

Think carefully but relieved.

The two series of "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", which began in the late 1970s, have allowed Harrison Ford to continue to maintain the status of several super-first-line male stars that are rare in Hollywood.

However, the release of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" at the end of the month also means that Harrison Ford's two trump cards will be silent for a long time. Ford's films other than "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" have not been very good at the box office in recent years. If he wants to continue to maintain his position after the two series dormant, he must actively pursue some projects that are easy to sell.

Terry Semel left the screening room with his assistant. Simon didn't come back from the "Pretty Moon" crew, but asked the staff to hand over an invitation to tonight's cocktail party.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon was back to work after a short weekend of refurbishment.

The first thing to deal with is "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense".

The later stages of the two films have been basically completed, and Simon did not completely let go of his attention to these two projects when he was in Melbourne, and the final results achieved his expectations. During this week, Simon personally adjusted some details of the two films, and they will be officially sent to MPAA for rating next week.

The first TV trailer for "Bodyguard" starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston has officially aired on June 2, with 2,021 screens.

Although the "Sixth Sense of Spirituality", which is scheduled to be released on June 30, has already begun to release promotional materials, the final stage of the publicity strategy has not yet been finalized.

Simon requested that the plot of "The Sixth Sense" be kept strictly confidential during the production stage of the film.

Up to now, apart from the core creators of the crew, many supporting actors don't even know the complete plot of "The Sixth Sense". However, after the completion of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", high-level executives such as Amy and Rem generally felt that except for the final plot reversal, the film as a whole seemed very ordinary, and there were basically no bright spots.

If it wasn't for the screenwriter of the film, signed by Simon himself, and with Robert De Niro in the role, and the company had no other choice, Amy would even propose to Simon to adjust the schedule of "The Sixth Sense".

According to Amy, John Hughes' "Uncle Buck" had a good sample effect, but the film could not be completed in mid-June, so the company had to schedule the schedule for the end of the summer season like August 11.

In addition, John Hughes' second film this year, "Crazy Christmas Holiday", is also in the shooting stage. This film started shooting after "Uncle Buck" was completed. The investor is Warner Bros., and it is planned to be released in the Christmas file.

Simon's original purpose of working with John Hughes on "Uncle Buck" was for "Home Alone," for which he retained a rights-of-first-selection agreement for Hughes' script.

The script of "Crazy Christmas Holiday" was first sent to Daenerys Entertainment, and Simon naturally chose to give up.

However, the late stage of "Uncle Buck" is more than halfway through, and the script of "Home Alone" inspired by "Uncle Buck" by John Hughes in the original time and space has not even a shadow, and Macaulay Culkin did not appear in "Uncle Buck". Uncle Buck.

Simon plans to wait until the end of the year, and if John Hughes still doesn't come up with the script for "Home Alone", he will have to "reluctantly" himself.

In the afternoon, I watched the demos with Semel at the company headquarters for a while, and Simon rushed to the "Pretty Woman" crew to visit and stayed until after get off work before leaving.

Except for the actor who did not use Richard Gere, "Pretty Moon" is basically the original cast.

The reason for dropping Richard Gere is similar to Simon's previous failure to consider Sharon Stone in Instinct. As for Pierce Brosnan, although he left the deepest impression on the audience in the original time and space was James Bond, but Brosnan's tall and handsome appearance and British gentleman style completely fit the character of Edward Lewis, a handsome Wall Street businessman.

The evening cocktail party was held at the mansion in Palisades.

After leaving North America for a few months, it is necessary to reconnect with everyone.

This kind of thing should have been prepared by Janet. Janet was in Australia, and Simon wanted to give it to Catherine.

However, in recent months, Catherine helped Simon look after the construction of the Dumay Cape Manor. When Simon passed out, she flew to Melbourne for the first time. Coupled with the past, this kind of open closeness was even too lazy for the gossip tabloids to tease. Now, the thin-skinned Catherine has always kept her ears away.

Simon returned to Los Angeles. Catherine, who was originally staying at Janet's villa on the east side of Dumay Point, flew to New York on the grounds of preparing for her next movie. This time, she obviously did not intend to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment again. The appearance of the deputy draws the line.

In the end, the preparations for the reception were handed over to Jennifer.

The female assistant was also not thick-skinned, and took this matter seriously as an official business. Even the guest list was drawn up with Amy's assistant Vanessa. So the originally planned small-scale cocktail party has completely turned into a lively business reception.

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