Hollywood Starts with Animation

The best original screenplay award was lost, and in fact Zucker had predicted it before.

Isn't the script of "The Sixth Sense" not good?

Could it be better than Good Will Hunting by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck?

no!

The most important thing is age!

Matt Damon is 28 years old;

Ben Affleck also turns 26 this year;

On the other hand, Zhu Ke is 21 years old, and in terms of one year old, he is only 20 years old.

Throughout the nearly 100-year history of the Oscars, once upon a time, Patty Duke, who was only 16 years old, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1962; Timothy Hutton won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1980 at the age of 20. Best Actor Award; Tatum O'Neal, who was only 10 years old, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1973;

Did you find it?

After entering the 1980s, no one who can win the Oscar is under the age of 20. Basically, they are all over the age of 30, and very few are over the age of 25.

Oh no!

There is an outlier!

Anna Paquin, a 12-year-old Canadian girl, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1993. Well, this is the only one exception.

Therefore, Zhu Ke failed to win the 70th Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, not because the script was not good enough, but because of his age!

Moreover, there is another important factor - the box office!

A bunch of old guys in the academy have rigid thinking. They often discriminate against the type of movies that have achieved high box office. They stubbornly believe that high box office movies are not artistic enough and do not meet the criteria for winning awards. Look at the movies that have achieved high box office. How many of them have won several important Oscar awards?

Woohoo~!

The "Sixth Sense" produced by Wald Pictures has achieved a global box office of up to 690 million US dollars, which is 20 million US dollars higher than that of the original time and space film.

such a high box office,

Want to win the prize, its more difficult!

For example: on a global scale, the famous "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, which has reaped 3 billion US dollars at the box office, its director Peter Jackson was also baptized by the trilogy, so that the old men of the academy compromised and gave him the award. Oscar for Best Director.

The reason why James Cameron's "Titanic" swept the Oscars was not because the old diehards of the academy really recognized it, but because of its unprecedented high box office and world-renowned Hollywood movies, setting an amazing record. contribute.

Otherwise, do you really think the old die-hards of the academy would like the movie?

Time goes by slowly...

The next development, like the history of Zucker's previous life, did not change because of the little butterfly flapping its wings.

"Titanic" became the big winner of the 70th Academy Awards, with 14 nominations and 11 Oscars.

Director Cameron himself, also on the podium, held the golden statue high and shouted: "I am the king of the world!"

MMP!

"Let me wait and see, I will definitely get a golden statue next year!"

Zucker unceremoniously set up a flag for himself.

......

the next day.

Zucker got up early to wash up, and then signed "Memento" and "Spartan 300 Warriors" at Wald Films, witnessed by many American media, and the representative of the Carlos Foundation, Riol. terms of cooperation.

"Mr. Wald, at the 70th Academy Awards, which ended yesterday, do you think it's unfair and shady that you didn't win the Best Original Screenplay award?" a female reporter asked first.

Zucker: "......"

Another middle-aged male reporter asked, "Mr. Wald, I'm a reporter from the New York State Entertainment News, and I also think you should win the Best Original Screenplay Award. Do you have anything to say?"

What the hell!

Although I am young, you really take it as Hello Kitty!

Is this blatantly tricking me? !

Zhu Ke said sternly: "I think there is something wrong with your question. I didn't win the award, what does it have to do with the Jury? Thousands of senior filmmakers come to judge, where is the shady story? If I didn't win the award, it just means I'm not enough. excellent."

When the words fell, the surrounding media reporters were stunned for a moment.

A photographer murmured: "How can someone who can achieve a net worth of more than 1 billion US dollars at this age be a stunner?"

In fact, the media reporters present also knew the location.

However, the reason why they insist on asking these questions is just to try it out. If Zucker says something that shouldn't be said, then these will be the headlines!

They are rude enough!

"Everyone, today is a press conference for the cooperation between Wald Pictures and the Carlos Foundation, not an Oscar ceremony, so here, I will not answer topics that have nothing to do with it."

"Also, in tomorrow's newspaper, I don't want to see the so-called shady reports of me and Oscar, otherwise don't blame me for suing you!"

"Don't doubt!"

"I, who are worth more than a billion dollars, have this energy."

While Zucker was irritable, he directly warned them.

The cooperation is as follows:

First, the Carlos Foundation invested US$6 million in the film "Memento", accounting for half of the total production cost of US$12 million, and received 40% of the net profit in North America and the box office in South America;

Second, the Carlos Foundation invested US$20 million in the film "Spartan 300 Warriors", accounting for a quarter of the total production cost of US$80 million, and received 20% of the North American net profit and the box office in South America. divided into;

In the terms of cooperation, many small items are also involved.

What?

You said that the investment ratio and the income ratio are not equal? And there are only box office revenue from North and South America, excluding the box office share of overseas countries and regions such as Europe, Asia, and Australia?

The most important thing is that the profit share does not include the offline DVD and video tape market, and there is no share of peripheral licensing.

Ha ha!

What a strange thing!

Laymen enter Hollywood, how can you do without paying tuition?

Wald Pictures is quite conscientious enough, and it has not set up many traps and many invisible rules in the matter of net profit sharing. If you replace it with DreamWorks and any one of the six major Hollywood studios, they won't care who you are, and they will definitely make a lot of money from outside investors in accounting and distribution matters.

Don't say you're the richest man in Mexico, you're the richest man in the world, and those guys do the same!

In the "Titanic" project, Zucker invested 85 million US dollars, accounting for 25% of the investment share, but Zucker still dispatched a special person to review each box office data repeatedly.

If you don't keep an eye on them, those guys will play tricks!

"If you're in Hollywood, if you don't have a lot of heart, what will it be like to be deceived?" Zucker sighed.

......

a few days later.

As the "Oscar effect" gradually came to an end, the box office market returned to stability.

The new film "Deadly Bend 2" produced by Wald Pictures has also entered the fan screening and publicity link. Of course, these things don't need Zucker himself to worry about, everything is handled by Victor and Kevin Feige and others.

As for Zucker himself, under the guidance of Alexander, he began to inspect several large and medium-sized publishing houses in the United States to further expand the territory of Jinshuguang Entertainment Group.

"" Come on again.

Today's launch is relatively sudden, and the minister himself is not prepared. Tomorrow is Saturday, the Minister is fighting for a wave!