Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 673 Chapter 303 First Weekend Box Office Breaking Records

"I recently watched my friend Ronald's new movie 'Top Gun' and honestly it will make young people like it, the movie is top-notch, the flying stunts, the dogfights of the fighter jets are very good, he can make war scenes 's first class.

  I can't make this kind of movie. My movie is the other extreme, telling the cruelty of war and the destruction of human nature.

   Top Gun preaches that wars are clean and easy to win...but no one in the movie mentions that Tom Cruise's character just started World War 3! "

"Ha ha ha ha……"

   Ronald couldn't help laughing at the interview Oliver Stone gave. This top student at Yale University and George Jr.'s classmate is a wonderful person. Throughout the interview, where he said "Top Gun", he was cursing and helping.

The best part about    is that this interview was published in the latest issue of Playboy magazine.

   In a book about male teenagers, the most popular adult magazine for "Top Gun", saying that Ronald's movie fighter is very good-looking is like adding a box office to himself.

As for the final episode where the Mavericks shot down three Souvelle MiG-28 fighter jets in the Indian Ocean, to be honest, even if this happened in the real world, it was unlikely to spark World War 3. .

   This is Hollywood, **** it. In the end, if there is no heroic behavior, how can the audience buy tickets obediently and come in?

   But what Stone said, it actually aroused the curiosity of the teenage audience. They wanted to see the plot of this movie, how could it arouse the third world war?

   The New York premiere was followed by a premiere by Paramount in San Diego, California.

The premiere of    was held at the Naval Air Base in Miramar.

All the Naval Airmen who have supported the filming, the pilots who participated in the filming, Kristen Fox, the prototype of Charlie played by McGillis, "Bozo" who did the hardest aerobatics shots Lloyd Abel, the Navy's Liaison officer Matthew and TopGun's former instructor Pete Pettigrew brought their families to the premiere.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

   Bozo, who has switched to an airline to fly a passenger plane, was very happy to see the opening shot of the Tomcat taking off from the deck of the aircraft carrier.

  The Boeing 707 series doesn't have the Tomcat's function of flipping the sky and the ground upside down. I'm used to flying a passenger plane that requires a smooth and stable landing, and it is best that passengers don't feel it when landing. Bozo misses his navy years.

   "Hey, why are there so many rolls, what's the use of this in a dogfight?"

The pilots saw Ronald interspersed a lot of rolls in the dogfight, and complained to Pettigrew, who was a consultant, "My 8-year-old son knows that rolls can't avoid the MiGs behind. Cannon, can't you have more barrel rolls?"

   "Don't scold me, I've done my best, if I hadn't blocked, that young director Ronald, could make a dog fight a break dance?"

   "Oh my God, it's good to have you, Pete."

  Pettigluhan is raining like rain. The dog fight scene in this movie is fake. There's only a dozen or so seconds of scissor maneuvers that a real TopGun pilot would use in a dogfight.

   Several wingmen cooperate with the leader to exchange positions when chasing, so that the enemy aircraft in front can be exposed to the position where the missiles and cannons can be locked for as long as possible.

"Relax, Pete," Ronald noticed Pettigrew's distressed appearance, and a film made in this way may, in his eyes, be like a novel about making a film, changing the camera from a long shot to a close-up instead of Changing the lens made him unbearable.

   "God, I didn't expect this movie to be so unbearable after a few months, I hope these pilots don't bother me after it's officially released."

   "Boom...bang!"

  The movie is placed at the end of the Lone Ranger fighting 5 MiG-28s alone. A Sidewinder missile flew out from under the wing of the F-14 Tomcat fighter and hit the wing of the MiG-28. The MiG-28, with half of its wings cut off, rolled and fell, and then a fireball rose and disintegrated in the air.

   "Oh... it's a rattlesnake!" The 8-year-old child of the pilot clapped his hands very happily when he saw this scene. He often took his father's F-14 model and played games with the boy in the neighbor's house at home. He thought about this shot of a rattlesnake hitting an enemy plane a million times in his mind, but he didn't expect it to look so good on the screen. .

   "This missile shot is not bad." His father, the pilot, touched his chin next to him. "Top Gun" still has a real place to shoot.

   "This is the third round? Is there a fourth round?" Matthew, the Navy's liaison officer stationed on the crew, silently counted the Sidewinder missiles fired in the movie, and then wrote it down in his notebook. At that time, the Secretary of the Navy specially approved two sidewinders to be used for real shooting. Why are there four here?

   "Could it be that the weaponmen at the Miramar base were bought by them? Such a real launch scene is likely to be a secret launch! Report to the Admiralty immediately to see if the Minister wants to set up an investigation team to start an investigation!"

   Ronald didn't see the liaison officer Matthew's face, he was immersed in the views of real naval officers and men on the film. Although they disapproved of some battle scenes, the rest of the scenes were still very much in line with their tastes.

   After all, who doesn't want a handsome guy like Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer to play himself?

   Aircraft carrier fighter pilot is a profession that requires high IQ, high education, and incomparable courage. Any pilot who dares to land on an aircraft carrier at night is a warrior with a strong heart.

   They are very satisfied with the beautification of them by the movie. Even with the admiration of the family, their dissatisfaction with Ronald's tampering with the dogfight has also eased.

   Farewell to the pilots with a smile, Ronald drove his Ferrari and returned to Hollywood.

   He parked his car directly under CAA's office. Michael Ovitz's business is getting bigger and bigger. Several CAA-packaged movies have box office well, and they make tens of millions of dollars.

   In order to build an office that matches his identity, Ovitz also contacted the famous Chinese architect, Luming Bei, to design a brand-new office building for CAA. It is said that Ovitz still named Bei Luming to design.

  The new building will be relocated, and the old CAA office is still in the original place. Not far from CAA, construction is ramping up on Cannon's new office building. They didn't find any famous designer, they just built it well.

  Perhaps Ovitz had the idea of ​​building the CAA building, which was also stimulated by Minahan Golan.

The power of   300 million US dollars is very powerful. The Minahan brothers began to acquire the British theater chain, and also paid a lot of money to invite Stallone to go to Cannon to make a film. It is said that it was a price that Stallone could not refuse.

   On the basis of Stallone's usual $5 million salary, he increased the price by more than $8 million. There are different opinions on the specific amount, but Stallone and Brigitte Nelson both joined Cannon to shoot a new film, and it can be seen that the price makes them very satisfied.

  Today, Don Simpson and two producers, Jerry Bruckheimer, also condescended to come to CAA, and they want to discuss further marketing matters with Ronald, and by the way, chat with CAA about the idea of ​​​​a new film. Their package service, for the two producers of high-concept films, is very convenient.

   "The first collaboration object was Ray-Ban's aviator sunglasses." Paula Wagner attended on behalf of Tom Cruise.

   In "Good Boys Are Crazy", Cruise, who collaborated with Ray-Ban, did not forget to pull Ray-Ban to market together.

The   Wayfarer series of glasses is the one worn by the Lone Ranger in "Top Gun". From an old model that is about to be delisted, it has become a classic popular that is about to become popular again. Ray-Ban has launched an activity to buy sunglasses and send movie tickets at various counters.

   "The other is a navy turtleneck aviator leather jacket. We contacted Macy's, and the flight supply store, and they both started offering the same leather jacket."

   This kind of leather jacket with a high neck and waist, which is close to the buttocks, is favored by many brands, and is expected to become a popular sales model in winter.

   The linkage of multiple channels has begun to exert force, and they all want to increase the box office as much as possible on the weekend of May 16th.

"A total of 1,028 theaters screened our films on weekends, and the prints and posters, roll-up banners, have been delivered to theaters across the country. Paramount spent nearly 8 million in marketing expenses for this grand opening, waiting for the first After the weekend box office results come out, the follow-up copy and marketing investment will be decided.”

"Very good, we will definitely set a box office record in mid-May." Ronald is full of confidence, such a movie is not to grab the box office of a certain popular schedule, but should stimulate the box office of a certain small schedule. , let the latecomers follow suit.

"Top Gun, tells the story of a navy ace pilot (played by Tom Cruise) who pilots an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet and fights a MiG. According to multiple film critics, the air battle is fierce. lifelike."

   Ronald bought several newspapers such as "The Hollywood Reporter" and "Variety" on the night of the show, and read them in the department store. He went back to the pizzeria opposite the cinema on the fourth floor of the department store where "Fast Pace" was filmed, waiting to observe the box office of the first Top Gun.

"However, the ground part of the film is a bit sluggish, PG rated it, more like Tom Cruise's Ray-Ban sunglasses, and Kelly McGillis' lipstick commercials, and the Berlin band 'Take My Breath' ' an extended version of the MV."

   "Huh..." Ronald put on his Ray-Ban and put down the newspaper dissatisfied. These snobs just don't want to say good things about popcorn movies, and see how they will kneel down and say good things when they come out at the box office.

The movie released at the same time as Top Gun, as well as the sci-fi film "Thunderbolt 5" about an industrial robot's consciousness and escape, and about the Japanese-funded company's acquisition of a Detroit car factory, the two countries' workers and managers are culturally intense. Conflict movie "GongHo"

   "There are still many people watching Top Gun." Ronald watched the box office for a long time, and went home to rest satisfied.

   "Bell bell bell..."

   On Monday morning, the phone at Ronald's house rang violently.

   "I'm Ronald, I'm not at home now, please leave a message." After a few rings, the answering machine started working.

   "Ronald, it's me, Nisita. Pick up the phone, the first weekend box office is out."

   "Ah, how much?" Ronald heard Nisita's words, and quickly picked up the receiver, and the sleepiness disappeared without a trace.

   "9.01 million, your movie broke America's box office record for May."

   "Yes!" Ronald waved his fist into the air.

   (end of this chapter)