Exploiting Hollywood 1980

  Chapter 630 The Hollywood interview was completely changed

   "Where's your Aunt Karen?"

   "She went to Yosemite with her new boyfriend."

  Ronald picked up Douglas Hansen, Jr., at the airport. He made a special trip to join Ronald to participate in the investment in the "Evil Husband" project.

  The two had made a verbal agreement back then that Ronald would have the right to invest the same share in the films he invested in.

The trio of   Jerry Zucker carefully calculated each scene and gave a budget of nine million dollars.

   Ronald checked it out with his accountant Lawrence. Except for some of the usual Hollywood inflated costs, the Zach trio didn't bother Ronald too much.

Ronald took out the whole year of shooting advertisements, MVs, and dividends, plus selling a little stock, collected 750,000 US dollars, and Douglas Jr.'s 750,000, the two made a hundred Five hundred thousand, plus the $1.5 million from Zach's trio production company, and the six million from Touchstone's screen fund, made up the budget.

   Douglas Jr. also promised that if the crew exceeds the standard, he can make up the investment.

"cheers!"

  Jerry Zucker looked at Ronald, very satisfied. He did not compete with himself for the priority of investment, but also brought in this rich fool, who would rather guarantee all risks than take the final dividend right.

"cheers!"

   Douglas Jr. looked at Ronald Jr. and was very satisfied. He actually allowed himself to be involved in the touchstone, no, it was actually a Disney project. He also hired well-known comedy director Zach to guide him. Who can grab this opportunity? Not only did he facilitate the filming of the movie, but he could also be named a co-producer, and he would become a real Hollywood insider in the future.

   "Who will be the hero and heroine in our movie?" Little Douglas was very happy and immediately began to play the role of producer.

"If the budget is sufficient, we plan to try to invite Jack Nicholson for the male lead. The female lead also hopes to find a topical and popular person, and it doesn't matter if it is outside the circle." Jerry Zucker's eyes flashed A bit of joy.

  I didn't expect that he was not only a rich fool, but this fool was also a movie enthusiast. Anyway, if he can figure it out, he will go to the big-name actors.

   "Jack Nicholson is good! How much does he want?" Little Douglas was overjoyed. There are well-known actors and topics, and the media can promote it for free.

   "For a mere four million dollars, we can ask him to be the protagonist. We can revise the script for him." Jerry Zucker saw that the other party was really interested, and immediately began to lobby.

   Ronald stepped on little Doug lightly.

"Four million is too expensive, and it doesn't match the heroine's temperament in the original script. If the heroine can use outsiders, why not try Madonna? She is very famous now, especially after Ronnie shot her a MV. She As a newcomer in the film industry, the salary should not be high."

   "This is a good candidate. Let's find her agent." Jerry Zucker quickly calmed down when he heard the salary, and also put out his mind.

   "How was my performance?" High school classmates and wrestling club friends, Douglas Jr. and Ronald still had a tacit understanding. He felt that Zack was trying to fool himself, and immediately turned around.

   Several people will go to the joint interview meeting for the film project.

"Very good, your proposal is actually good. Madonna has an annoying temperament. If she can bring out this temperament, I think she can act well." Ronald also thinks that this choice is OK, although his acting skills are not good. , but she is very hot now.

"This is the main creator of this film, Ronald Lee, Jerry Zucker... This is the film's investor and co-producer, Mr. Douglas Hansen Jr." The executive producer sent by Touchstone, Begin to introduce reporters participating in the interview.

   "Excuse me, Mr. Hansen, according to my information, it is your first time to participate in Hollywood investment, why did you participate in this film?"

   "Because of the great script, and the fact that I especially like Zach's films. I'm sure they will be successful again."

   "Jerry, will this film still be a comedy with a lot of parody and laughter?"

   "This time will be different, we will not follow the traditional farce method, Ronald and I discussed it for a long time, we decided to make it a different comedy."

   "Excuse me, Ronald. What do you think of the coverage of the Hollywood Boys?"

   "This does not belong to the scope of this film, please ask questions related to this film." The executive producer of Touchstone interrupted immediately.

   "Excuse me, will Touchstone Pictures be a distribution and production entity independent of Disney?"

  …

   "Why do you still ask the Kid Gang?" The executive producer of Touchstone was very dissatisfied with the reporter and drew a thick line on his name.

   "Now everyone is in a rut, trying to avoid getting in touch with the Boys Gang. Reporters must ask questions that have been communicated in advance. He also saw hot news there and no one answered." Ronald said a good word for the reporter.

   "There's no way, that big **** Emilio, now Hollywood has messed up for him, and no one is willing to give in-depth interviews. That **** reporter has also completely destroyed the mutual trust between the media and Hollywood.

   Not only will he not expect anyone to agree to his interviews in the future, but now all entertainment reporters, including people from studios like me, feel that in the future interviews in Hollywood, they can only ask irrelevant questions. "

  …

   "You idiot. Now everyone is eager to clear up their relationship with you, and you still want to find Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and the others to clean up your relationship?"

   Martin Sheen actually found a public relations company when he saw his eldest son, delusionally trying to find a few good people named in the "Boy Gang" to correct his name, and by the way attack the reporter David Bloom who wrote the report.

   "Don't you know that journalists like you to quarrel with them the most? Your PR manager, didn't you remind you?"

   "Tom and Sean, they were on my side on the phone. That reporter David Bloom was talking nonsense and distorting our image, why can't I fight back?" Emilio was still stubborn.

  Martin Sheen, as an old Jianghu, is of course well aware of the sinister consequences of doing so. The eldest son, Emilio, is very stupid. After making two blockbuster movies, he thought he was a star.

   Those actors who are more popular than him are all his competitors. He has not yet seen who is the real friend and who is the real enemy in this game.

"If you want to do it, use your own money. I'm not going to sign a check for your special PR campaign." Emilio makes a lot of money, but his expenses are also high, if Martin Sheen doesn't give him the money , he couldn't afford the PR.

   "Emilio, if you want to be successful, you have to rely on yourself." The younger brother Charlie Sheen supplemented the knife next to him.

"Humph!"

  Emilio's heart was in chaos, and his future was bright, and now many of the movie invitations he originally sent have been withdrawn. If you can't get a new role, your expenses will far exceed your income.

   The restaurants and hotels that used to rely on the name of the star can be free of orders, and now they have to be settled now. If you want to maintain a decent life as a star, your savings is rapidly depleting, and there is a fixed monthly payment of $2,000 for the woman... If it breaks, the woman will come out again.

   "You can do it yourself." Martin Xin hates the iron and leaves, the eldest son is the best among the children, and he has to show his old face and ask Emilio for a role among his old friends.

   "If you want me to say, you either come out and admit your mistake now..." Charlie Sheen gave his brother a bad idea next to him.

   "Well..." Emilio was angry, why did he become the biggest target and was madly sprayed. Other people in the boy gang may not be more disciplined in their private lives than they are. It is normal to rely on celebrities to take advantage of them. Everyone in Hollywood does this. As for acting, you don't need to study acting so much when making a movie, and it's not a live performance in the theater.

   It is impossible to admit mistakes. Once you admit mistakes, it is impossible to become the leader of the new generation of stars.

   "Either?" Emilio heard something in his brother Charlie's words.

   "Or, you can find a bigger target for the media."

   "A bigger target..."

"Demi, you told me about Emilio's movements this time. You did a good job. When he is confused like this again, you must inform me as soon as possible." Martin Sheen found Emilio outside the door. girlfriend. If it wasn't for Demi secretly tipping off the news and Emilio secretly looking for a public relations operation, it would have been a big joke again.

   "I love him, I just hope he doesn't do stupid things." Demi was very graceful in front of her future father-in-law.

  Send Martin Sheen out, Demi came back secretly, and overheard the brothers chatting through the door.

   "Who can I turn to to divert the media's attention?" Emilio knew about this younger brother. Although he was not as good as himself in acting, he was a little bit crazy.

   "Among people your age, who do you think is the most popular right now and can help you share the firepower of the media?"

  Charlie Sheen gave some hints and went out.

   "Demi", Charlie Sheen nodded to Demi.

   "Charlie", Demi jumped several meters away from the door when she heard the movement just now, pretending to be just back.

   "Fuck," Emilio scolded, tore a piece of paper from the sticky note, picked up his wallet and was about to go out, "I'll go and discuss with Rob Law about the response."

   "You come back early."

  Demi cursed inwardly, saying that she was discussing with Rob Law, and she didn't know that she was going to date that female fan again.

   Seeing Emilio walking away, she double-checked on the desk, trying to find out who was the target that attracted firepower just discussed.

   "Huh?" Demi found a little trace of the torn piece of paper on the top of the sticky note.

   She quickly picked up the notepad and carefully changed the angle to the light, trying to find traces.

  “R…O…N…LEE”

   "It's Ronald?" Demi thought it was funny, this Emilio's brain is not very clear, Ronald is the director, what competition does he have with him? He was chosen to attract firepower out of jealousy.

   "But his stupidity, isn't it his chance?" She rolled her eyes, picked up her bag, and hurried to the phone booth two blocks away, and made a call.

   "Hey... Ronnie. I'm Demi, and Emilio seems to be pulling you into the water..."

   (end of this chapter)