King of Hollywood

Chapter 103 A Trip to Japan (1)

What the tabloids like most is these gossip news. Gossip means that they can use the words "possible" and "guess" at will, which also means an increase in income. As for whether it will bring anything to the parties Bad influence, that's not within the scope of their consideration, who made you celebrities? Don't think that you can confuse yourself with ordinary people by saying that celebrities are also people

So various versions of the triangle relationship quickly appeared on the tabloids, but although "The Masquerade" was produced by Bosworth, the relationship with Adrian was not very deep-at least not like Blanchett So deep in "Speed"-he has the best relationship with Jim Carrey in the crew, and the focus of "My Best Friend's Wedding" is on Adrian and Julia, and the so-called Sentences such as "quoting from well-informed sources" are designed to shirk responsibility in making up the story, so the original version is not very convincing.

What's more, Cameron Diaz himself was very ambiguous in front of the reporter: "He is an elegant man, very charming, I would like to date him, if he is willing to invite me."

Although the tabloids immediately claimed that she was making love to the director of Miracle or something, it also made the previous triangle relationship rumors unbreakable. This is why Adrian doesn't mind playing a friendly match with Cameron. Although this woman is very slutty, she knows her position and knows what can and can't be done. For a friendly match, it's better to always wink a woman.

But tabloids are tabloids after all, and their ability to fabricate stories is absolutely first-class. The rumors of this triangle relationship disappeared, and they immediately fabricated another end. The most plausible theory is that the role of Cameron in the triangle relationship is actually another one. Someone, Adrian formally came up with the idea of ​​"My Best Friend's Wedding" based on his own personal experience, and also let Julia play the leading role

So who would the other woman be? What is Adrian trying to tell Julia? Who did he choose? More topics came into play again, and people were delighted to discuss these gossips.

It's a pity that this situation didn't last long. A few days later, a piece of news grabbed most people's attention. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nomination list for the 68th Academy Awards. "Heart" received a total of ten nominations, and all of them are very important nominations.

Best film, best director, best actor, best supporting actress, these four awards alone are enough to surprise people, not to mention the best original screenplay, best soundtrack, best costume, etc. awards. Although the original version also received ten nominations, it did not have Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, but Best Makeup and Best Cinematography.

There will be such a change, and Adrian is also a little surprised. Sophie's Best Supporting Actress was obtained by his efforts to get the people below to do public relations, but it was to increase Sophie's qualifications. Although the performance in "Heart" is not bad, it is still very reluctant to get nominated. As for winning the award, don't even think about it. But Russell Crowe's Best Actor was completely natural, signed up and got it.

It's not surprising if you think about it carefully, the best director is more important than the best actor anyway, and it can be seen from the order of awards that the best director is always the second to last, so Mel Gibson completely gave up It is normal for the best actor to strive for the best director. After all, his directing skills are not very good. To put it a little bit exaggerated, the best director is basically based on the last sentence of "freedom".

But now this version is different, the director and the actor are separated, Adrian has modified some plots that are too unreasonable, and there are a lot less goofs, and Russell Crowe's role in the movie Acting is indeed better than Mel Gibson, so it should be nominated.

In view of the memories of his previous life, Adrian originally wanted to beat Russell a little bit, but he didn't expect to get him a nomination for Best Actor. However, Russell has always been very respectful to him, and he called to express his thanks after being nominated, so there is no need to do so for the time being, since he can only get one nomination anyway.

As soon as the nomination list came out, it immediately aroused countless heated discussions. Last year, Adrian became the youngest best director Oscar with "Forrest Gump", and he also has the record of being the youngest best director nominee. Consecutive best director, and intends to break the record of the youngest consecutive best director?

"Even if he won the best director again and again, it's not surprising. The director of Miracle can always grab the Oscar's appetite. He doesn't care about anything for the Oscar." A certain British media wrote so sarcastically, with a sour tone. Although after arguing for so long, everything about "Braveheart" has subsided, and the British are still uncomfortable.

Of course, no one cared about their complaints. Except for the sentence in the middle, Director Miracle was indeed able to capture Oscar's appetite. Needless to say, "Braveheart", there are quite a few people in this nomination that have something to do with Adrian.

Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Shue and Simon Stone were nominated for Best Actress and Best Director respectively for "Escape from Las Vegas," while Kevin Spacey was nominated for "Very "The Suspect" won the best supporting actor, and "The Usual Suspect" was also nominated for the best original screenplay, which means that Adrian has two nominations for the best original screenplay? Although he participated in the writing of both scripts, this...

"Is it true that as long as there is something related to him, he will be favored by the Oscars? I believe he bought the film academy." The executives of major film companies complained and lamented after the nomination list was released.

The media also had to get involved, half-jokingly writing whether Adrian really bought Oscar.

The film academy is also very depressed. All the selection work is strictly in accordance with the procedures. Even if it is affected by public relations, it is within the rules. Besides, it is only the nominations that have not yet been awarded.

"It's very simple, as long as someone can produce so many high-quality movies and have such amazing results, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is fair." The then chairman answered the reporter.

This is true. Adrian's achievements over the past few years have also been seen by everyone. Although it cannot be said that there is no one who has come before, it is certain that there has been no one before. However, when the reporters want to contact the director of Miracle for another interview But when he was told that Adrian was not in Los Angeles, of course he would not let them know where he had gone.

As the plane leaned against the aisle smoothly, the announcement in the cabin immediately rang. Adrian opened his eyes and looked outside a little tiredly. The sun had not completely sunk, and there was still a faint yellow afterglow in the sky. He yawned involuntarily. Although he was already immune to jet lag due to frequent trips between the United States and the United Kingdom, the long-distance flight across the Pacific Ocean was still a bit of a torture.

"Dan, wake up." Adrian turned his head and called to Dennis Knight who was sitting behind him, while sighing inwardly.

Originally, he planned to bring his own women here, but everyone has their own things to do. Kate has to take care of her daughter and prepare for the new movie. Monica has been back to Italy for several days. Gwyneth , Blanchett, Liv, Rachel, and Zeta-Jones are all still working, and Sarah just promised her mother to accompany her on a trip.

Julia was free, but she declined the invitation: "I want to rest, and I have Emma to take care of."

It is obviously an excuse to show her different style by throwing out her temper from time to time, but seeing her with her chest up and her head up high, she would not agree even if she was exposed, so Adrian had no choice but to give up. Well, even if they didn't have time, at least there was Charlize by her side, who would have expected her to take a vacation.

"It's been a long time, and I've never had an official vacation." She said with a very serious expression.

Adrian was so depressed that he wanted to roll his eyes. Although Charlize was always by his side, he was not there all the time. Sometimes when he needed to go to New York or other places alone, Charlize was on vacation. . But Charlize was also aware of this, so she kept emphasizing the word "formal" in her tone.

"You're going on vacation anyway." When Adrian wanted to continue persuading her, Charlize said with her chin raised, with a half-smile expression on her face.

Obviously, she made up her mind not to go with him, and Adrian had no choice. In the end, not only did she not bring a woman, but there was an extra man beside her.

"Have we arrived in Japan?" Dennis rubbed his eyes and woke up from a deep sleep, appearing groggy because of the deep sleep.

The reason why he came to Japan with Adrian was mainly because of the fire in the backyard, and it took a lot of effort to settle it. When he was having a headache, he heard Adrian lament that he was going to Japan but had no friends, so he immediately said that he could accompany him. he goes together. Adrian was just talking casually, but he didn't expect him to come out. It was hard to refuse, and he heard about his plight, and finally agreed.

Since he took all the responsibility on himself, although he was criticized by many people at the beginning, his popularity has increased a lot, but he still has no clear relationship with Aniston when he has Winona as his real girlfriend. It is said that at a party at his house, two women met unexpectedly. Although no conflict broke out, there would inevitably be a verbal war between them.

Although I don't know the specific content, according to Dennis, Winona cried a lot afterwards, and the grief was so sad that it almost broke the hearts of those who heard it; but Aniston was also very sad, and asked him if he had done everything. After reaching this point, why didn't he get an affirmative response? Dennis in the middle is really in a dilemma.

This is the case in front of him, anyway, the women are not around, Dennis is still the one he picked out by himself, and it is not a big deal to bring him, so he followed him to "escape" to Japan, and he even gave him a idea.

"It's very simple, hug them to the bed at the same time." Adrian said so, of course, all he got was a wry smile from the other party.

"Yes, there is Tokyo Airport outside." Adrian said while unfastening his seat belt and stood up to move around. The first-class stewardess had already taken out their small luggage and handed it over to the person in charge sent by the company to follow him. hands.

Soon, the three of them came outside along the VIP passage, and a middle-aged man who looked about forty years old was already waiting at the exit, with an oriental face and a suit, respectfully.

"Hi, Mr. Shanmu." As the person in charge sent by the company, Sam Wood greeted him from afar.

"Very glad to see you, Mr. Wood." The other party bowed respectfully, with fluent and standardized English, and then set his sights on Mr. Adrian.

"This is Mr. Adrian Cowell, and this is Mr. Dennis Knight." Wood immediately introduced.

"It's an honor to meet you, Mr. Adrian." After shaking hands with Dennis, Shan Mu suddenly bowed to Adrian.

Adrian immediately raised his eyebrows. Although he knew that the other party must know his identity, it was a little too enthusiastic, right?

After arriving in downtown Tokyo, it was already getting late. After checking into the hotel, Takuya Sugiki, the Japanese contact person, said goodbye and left. Adrian, Dennis, and Wood had something to eat in the hotel and then returned to the room.

After taking a hot shower, Adrian came to the floor-to-ceiling windows in his pajamas. The Tokyo outside was colorful under the night, and various neon lights flickered from time to time, which reminded him of the various nicknames of Japan in his previous life. , suddenly chuckled in my heart. Although Japan is an earthquake-prone country, there are still many high-rise buildings in downtown Tokyo.

After taking a long breath and stretching himself, Adrian closed the curtains, sat on the sofa and turned on the TV, but he forgot that it was all Japanese dramas, and he couldn’t understand it at all—it’s not that he couldn’t understand, because Japanese has some pronunciation It's very similar to English, you can guess what you're talking about after listening to it a lot, but this kind of half-understanding situation is the most annoying, he doesn't have the mood to guess.

After changing a few channels and shaking his head with a smile, Adrian immediately turned off the TV, took out the information given by Sugi Takuya in the car that came, and flipped through it. Because of the time difference, he didn’t feel sleepy at all at the moment, so he might as well think about it. Next itinerary. To be honest, when he asked Lavern if there was anyone he could contact in Japan, he never expected that the Sugi Takuya he recommended was actually Sony's department manager.

They really do take their chances. Adrian rubbed his chin, recalling Shan Mucong's expression and attitude when he picked up the plane in the car. Out of trust in Laverne, he didn't ask Laverne what he did at the time. Anyway, he just came here for a vacation, to rest, and to disgust the Japanese by the way. He didn't expect Sony to intervene in it.

"Really, if I knew it, I wouldn't have come here under the banner of testing the Japanese market." Adrian scratched his head with a wry smile.

The "Resident Evil" version was released in January because of the appearance of Adrian, and the Japanese version was also released simultaneously. Also because of him, this game has basically not changed. Because the characters are produced by European and American employees, the difference in aesthetics makes them slightly changed, but the cutscenes of the live-action version are more beautifully produced.

Because the publicity was in place, the original novel sold well, and the game method was quite groundbreaking, so it quickly became a hit, and the same is true in Japan. However, the studio that was separated from Blizzard or the original Silicon and Synapse Studio and merged with Pixar's abolished game department has no branch in Japan, so the release of the Japanese version is extremely difficult under Adrian's suggestion. Disgusting to Capcom.

Whenever he thinks of this, Adrian can't help but want to laugh a few times, wondering what expression Mikami will have after seeing this game. According to representatives from the studio to Capcom, during the few days after the game was released, there seemed to be some conflicts within Capcom, and it was a pity that I couldn't see it with my own eyes.

So he just happened to be free now, thinking about it, it seemed that he hadn’t made it yet, so he ran over here under the pretext of trying to test the Japanese market, and while on vacation, he was looking for someone to contact with the other party, trying to get the right to adapt it, and teasing the Japanese again. . It seems meaningless to do so, and it is hard to say whether there will be a market for the adaptation without the original version, but so what? With such a status, if you can't do whatever you want in certain things, what's the point?

But Adrian did not expect that the person who received him in Japan would be someone from Sony, which is really interesting.

He can roughly guess what Sony is thinking. Since they acquired Columbia, the Americans look down on them and don’t understand the rules, which has led to years of losses. The guy who can only talk in the vernacular, the loss gap is getting bigger and bigger. That alone has led to a loss of 2.7 billion US dollars. Even if the Sony family can afford a big loss, it will inevitably feel painful.

Although after the other party resigned, the new recruit Sony hired had some ability to stabilize the situation, but Columbia still had mediocre results and failed to turn the situation around, so Sony turned its idea on Adrian.

Today, everyone knows that Director Miracle has the keenest vision. The film companies he has worked with, such as Universal, Warner, and Fox, have produced many well-received movies. Sony naturally wants to build a relationship with him and strive for To a good script to reverse the current situation. But among the seven major Hollywood companies, even if the media and Disney are having an unhappy fight, they have cooperated before. Only Columbia and MGM have nothing to do with him.

Needless to say about MGM, everyone knows some things in their hearts. Adrian is also a person with a clean background, but why is he so lukewarm about Colombia?

Faced with this situation, Sony is very puzzled by it, but the situation must always be opened, and now they just come across such an opportunity, they must make good use of it. Novel reading and downloading can be done on the Chinese website to update ultra-fast novels More: m/\u003c/p\u003e

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