Hollywood Hunter

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Natasha Henstridge, who was huddled in bed, was about to take the initiative to make lunch into herself. Simon had withdrawn his hand, and after reminding again, he turned and left the bedroom.

Watching the man go out, Natasha touched her watch on the bedside table and looked at it. The time was 11:30 in the morning.

After thinking about it for a moment after getting out of bed, I chose a long black knitted dress suitable for indoor wearing in winter, simply put on light makeup, and came downstairs in only 15 minutes.

Simon was sitting on the sofa in the living room flipping through a script at random. When he saw Natasha coming downstairs, he looked at it and praised: "It's very beautiful."

"Thank you," Natasha agreed, came to sit next to Simon, glanced at the script in the man's hand, and asked, "What are you watching?"

Simon showed her the cover and said, ""Cutthroat Island," a pirate movie script."

Natasha nodded and quickly searched for information about pirate movies in her mind, but unfortunately she couldn't find it. Fortunately, the man didn't mean to wait for a response, put down the script and instructed the girl a not far away, got up and took her to the restaurant.

In the restaurant, the maids served lunch to the two of them and poured red wine before retreating.

Simon picked up the cutlery and took the initiative to ask the girl opposite: "What do you want to do in the afternoon?"

Natasha cut the pan-fried cod on the plate, stopped when she heard the words, and said, "I don't know, I'll do whatever you want."

Simon smiled and said, "Everyone comes to Park City for two things, movies and skiing. Which one do you choose?"

Natasha hesitated and said, "Is it okay to ski? However, I'm not very good at it."

Born in Canada, Natasha is actually very good at skiing, but of course she has to be clumsy in front of men, and she is even a little worried after saying that, if he can't ski, it will be embarrassing.

Simon just nodded and said, "Then, let's ski in the afternoon, go to the premiere of a movie in the evening, and then there will be a party here."

Natasha finally picked up the topic this time: "Is that "Four Weddings and a Funeral"?"

"Yeah, you know?"

"I came with the two protagonists of this movie yesterday," Natasha said. "However, this movie doesn't seem to be a Sundance entry?"

Daenerys Entertainment's support and cultivation of the independent film market is the key to the rapid rise of the Sundance Film Festival. In recent years, Sundance will inevitably have films produced by Daenerys Entertainment shortlisted for the main competition unit every year.

Before Natasha came to Park City, she had done some homework related to the film festival. She knew that Daenerys Entertainment had two films in competition at Sundance this year: Whit Stillman's "Barcelona" and "The Big One". "Fighting the Monkey" by David Russell.

Whit Stillman is a direct-line director from Sundance. His last work, Metropolis, has a good reputation and box office, and Barcelona is his second directorial work. "Fighting the Monkey" is the debut film written and directed by the new director David Russell.

The screening was selected on the Saturday before the closing of the film festival, and Simon attended in person, which shows that Daenerys Entertainment attaches great importance to this film. That being the case, the failure of the film to enter the main competition unit made Natasha a little puzzled.

"Four Weddings and a Funeral" was not shortlisted for the main competition, of course, not because of insufficient qualifications. Simon explained: "This film is positioned as a commercial romantic comedy, with a focus on Valentine's Day in February. If it is shortlisted in the main competition unit of Sundance, it may be misunderstood by the audience as a literary film and limit the audience."

Natasha was stunned: "It turns out to be the case. I thought it would be the best to be nominated for a film festival and win an award."

Simon smiled and shook his head: "Of course not, each type of movie has its own distribution model."

Hollywood movie distribution is easy and simple, and difficult.

Large-scale advertising bombing on various media platforms is undoubtedly the most effective way to promote a movie, but it is only suitable for a small number of super blockbusters with sufficient box office potential, such as the DC Movie Universe series.

Most Hollywood movies still need to develop a targeted publicity strategy in order to obtain the best marketing effect within the marketing budget.

There is no doubt that film quality is fundamental to the commercial success of a film. However, when a marketing strategy goes horribly wrong, the results can be disastrous.

Knowing that Natasha wouldn't be too interested in these business details, Simon didn't talk much about similar topics, and instead asked about the girl's recent situation.

The two had a pleasant lunch and sent the girl upstairs to change clothes to go skiing. Simon returned to the living room and picked up the script of Cutthroat Island that he had read before lunch again.

It's a project Carlock Pictures is pitching to Hollywood studios recently, with all seven major studios receiving the script.

Carlock Pictures, which relies on German and other overseas capital to support, has a lot of fame in Hollywood. This independent film company is different from other thrifty second-tier studios, but instead is known for high-budget films. The first "Terminator 2" in Hollywood with a production budget of more than 100 million US dollars in the original time and space was a project invested by Carlock Films. In addition, Carlock also produced films such as "Instinct" and "Total Recall".

Simon's appearance led to Carlock's most successful film projects such as "Terminator 2" and "Instinct" being cut off in advance, but Carlock Pictures still invested in Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarz in recent years. Singh

Many movies such as action stars, and directly push the salary of Hollywood stars to 15 million US dollars.

As an independent studio that does not undertake distribution work, Carlock Pictures has been working with Columbia Pictures for the past few years.

The turmoil at Columbia Pictures last year led to the collapse of the partnership between the two parties. Carlock is currently looking for a new partner, and "Cutthroat Island" is a stepping stone.

Speaking of Hollywood film history in the 1990s, we cannot escape the most successful "Titanic" and the most unsuccessful "Cutthroat Island".

The production budget of Cutthroat Island in my memory is as high as 98 million US dollars. After the film was released, the total North American box office was only over 10 million US dollars. The tragic failure not only made the investors lose all their money, but was even included in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Is Cutthroat Island really worthless?

This is absolutely not the case.

The film is very good in terms of shots, editing and soundtrack, and the large-scale naval battle scenes are even more epic, including the "Pirates of the Caribbean" many years later. Even the weakness of a weak storyline isn't really fatal for a blockbuster movie, as it is a common problem with many big-budget films.

The blockbuster movies in the North American film market were far from reaching saturation in the mid-1990s. They were just a gimmick with a huge investment of nearly 100 million US dollars. If you take advantage of them, you can attract a large number of audiences. It will never reach a total box office of 10 million US dollars. .

So, why is Cutthroat Island's failure so complete?

The reasons are also multifaceted.

As a studio supported by overseas capital such as Germany, Carlock Pictures is naturally suppressed by the Hollywood local snakes.

Director Renee Harling pushed his wife Geena Davis to the position of the heroine, and she was the first protagonist whose role overwhelmed the male lead, but Geena Davis was far from supporting a super heavyweight movie. The box office appeal of the pound bomb.

"Cutthroat Island" is an original script that does not have the popularity accumulation of superhero movies.

MGM Studios, which is responsible for the film's distribution, is in a state of serious internal turmoil and has no intention of promoting the film.

so many kinds.

The accumulation of multiple reasons led to the infinite amplification of the not fatal plot weaknesses of "Cutthroat Island", which made the audience hesitate to enter the theater to watch the movie, and finally created a Guinness record in the film industry.

Even if he understands that if Daenerys Entertainment manages this time and space, "Cutthroat Island" will definitely be much better at the box office, Simon has no intention of taking over. Moreover, according to the 'one and one' strategy that Daenerys Entertainment has been hinting and promoting, Simon also intends to throw this box office dud to others.

The success of blockbusters such as the DC Movie Universe and "Jurassic Park" has made the entire Hollywood look for big-budget projects, and "Cutthroat Island" should be a very good option.

If Simon Westeros personally valued it again, other studios would definitely scramble for it.

Speaking of which, there is another giant pit project in memory that was also released in 1995, Kevin Costner's "Future Water World".

Because it was once invested and produced by a big studio like Universal, the box office of "Waterworld" was not as bleak as "Cutthroat Island". However, the huge cost of the film of 175 million US dollars also created a new production cost for Hollywood films. For the record, Universal therefore still suffered serious losses even though the box office of the film was not bad.

"Future Water World" was not fanned out by Simon, the butterfly.

However, the former producer was Universal, but now it has become Warner.

After cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment in "Dances with Wolves" and "Bodyguard", Kevin Costner has moved to Warner Bros. Pictures in recent years. The Perfect World, co-created with Clint Eastwood late last year.

This summer, Costner will also release a blockbuster Western movie "Law Enforcement" invested by Warner.

After three consecutive collaborations, Costner successfully signed a contract with Warner for the next "Water World". It is expected to start filming in May and June this year, and it will be scheduled for next summer.

Simon just stood by and did not interfere in any way.

The main reason why the original "Future Waterworld" budget got out of control was that Costner chose to shoot the film in Hawaii, ignoring natural factors such as local tidal storms, resulting in expensive set pieces being repeatedly destroyed by waves.

According to the information revealed, this time "Future Water World" will still be filmed in Hawaii.

This is not accidental either.

As one of the most well-known tourist destinations in the world, Hawaii can provide a very comfortable working environment for film crews, especially stars, and the reason why Spielberg was filming "Jurassic Park" in Hawaii before, Daenerys Entertainment There is considerable additional cost for this, and no tax refund yet.

Fortunately, "Jurassic Park" was filmed on land, even so, it encountered a storm.

Simon certainly wouldn't make the same mistake if Daenerys Entertainment took over Waterworld. Although he maintained a fairly good cooperative relationship with Warner, of course he did not mean to remind the other party.

"Future Water World" and "Cutthroat Island" in hand at this time not only meet the needs of big studios for blockbusters, two heavyweight box office pits, but also enough for Daenerys Entertainment in next year's Free up at least 100 million US dollars of box office space in popular schedules, which is 'one trade off from another'.

After making up his mind, Simon got up and went to a living room next to the living room of the villa, looking at it for a moment,

Put the Cutthroat Island script on the shelf under the glass coffee table.

After "Four Weddings and a Funeral" tonight, there will be a party in the villa in the name of Daenerys Entertainment Group, and this living room will also be open.

Alison just happened to come in with a men's down jacket, waited for Simon to put it on, glanced at the script that the man had clearly put under the coffee table on purpose, and asked with some doubts, "Boss, do you need me to put it away?"

"No, remember not to let Naomi and the others move this script. You can take it back at night when there are many people."

Alison understood instantly, and asked in a low voice, "The boss doesn't like this script?"

"Yeah, when the time comes, pretend to be a bit like, don't reveal the stuff."

"Well," Alison nodded lightly, and added: "There is only one script that is too obvious. I'll put a few magazines next to it."

"Yes, Ellie is so smart."

The two secretly discussed bad things, and Natasha quickly changed her clothes and went downstairs.

Alison sent Simon and the two out, and watched his boss's car disappear into the mountain road. You can stay by his side for a long time, so be content.

Simon and Natasha played at a member-only ski club in the south of Park City until more than four o'clock in the afternoon. Instead of returning to the mountain villa, they rushed directly to the city.

The premiere of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" begins at 5 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, the festival's main venue.

Because it is a project promoted by Daenerys Entertainment, many well-known filmmakers, including Robert Redford, were invited to attend, as well as a large number of film critics from all over North America.

Just these people are enough to prop up the film's popularity in the news media. Simon didn't plan to appear in the press release himself, at least he didn't plan to be photographed by the media, so he brought Natasha in through the back door of the theater and came to In the Egyptian Theater screening room, Natasha consciously did not stay by Simon's side, but chose to sit with Nancy Josephson of icm.

As a phenomenal film in the original time and space with a production cost of less than 5 million US dollars and a huge box office of 245 million worldwide, although the subject matter is slightly different from the style of Sundance's avant-garde film festival, the film's first The first public screening was still very successful, and the film received unanimous applause from the audience after the film was broadcast.

After the premiere, many guests continued to set off for Simon's private villa in the mountains, southeast of Park City.

After accepting Redford's invitation at last weekend's Golden Globes after-party, Simon decided to throw a party that could go a long way to cementing Daenerys Entertainment's place in the solo movie scene.

After the news was released, this party has also become the most anticipated party for filmmakers at Sundance this year. Many people have been racking their brains to get an invitation in the past week, including some who were not interested in the Sundance Film Festival. Interested stars have come to Park City specifically for the chance to get in touch with Simon Westeros.

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