Exploiting Hollywood 1980

   Chapter 695 Spring is not a reading day

  Jackie Chan is a rough guy on the surface, but he is actually very smart inside. He saw the benefits of Ronald's new type of clip tape.

  Although this product can't make much money, it has one advantage. With this kind of editing tape, after editing and copying, the editing interface is only one-sixteenth of the original tape, which can be directly previewed to the audience.

   In Xiangjiang, where the filming pace is very fast, this is an excellent invention, so that the filmmaker can save the time and cost of a new reprint, and the editing will be released first.

   As the exclusive distributor of the new clip tape in Hong Kong, JackieChan can sell the bosses who invest in the film business, a big favor.

   While Panavision's cameras are affordable equipment for big productions, JackieChan can give those directors and producers who are full of creativity and aim at big productions a great favor.

  Although the things are supplied by Ronald, but they are rented out in his studio in Xiangjiang, and whoever does not give them to whom, isn't it all a matter of his words?

So he readily agreed to Ronald that all films with Panavision cameras and the new type of editing tape would have the name of Daydream on the subtitles, which is also from Panavision. required by the lease contract.

   With two very good things in hand, including the lightning machine that doesn't seem to be of great use, JackieChan also promised Ronald to keep two of them here and borrow them for those who need them.

   Made several business deals and expanded the business to Ronald in the East Asian continent, and I am also very satisfied. A movie market has a lot to learn, and he has already reached out to Dongying and Xiangjiang, the two largest box office markets in East Asia.

   Next, with these two bases, we can slowly penetrate into it. It is hard to say about the movie. Who knows how big it will be in the future?

   Next, Ronald completed the task of attending the marketing promotion stipulated by "Top Gun" and returned to Los Angeles.

And Tom Cruise has to continue his India and Singapore itinerary. This movie is the key to his becoming a big star. At that time, signing the contract was a bit harsh, and many of the itineraries were led by him as a live star and audience. Interact and give the local media an entertaining headline.

  Ronald had just recovered from the jet lag, and in a blink of an eye it was the weekend.

   The box office of "Top Gun" continued to make great progress in the middle of the week.

  Paramount and CAA saw this anomaly and treated Ronald more cautiously.

   Even Ned Tanin, who wanted to use the non-stunt camera in "Top Gun", also specially invited Ronald in and apologized to him alone in the office, hoping that he would not mind and continue to cooperate with Paramount.

   Anyway, no outsiders saw it, Tanin kept his posture low and said a lot of soft words. In the end, Ronald couldn't bear to look down on the president of a big studio, so servilely treated himself, who was equivalent to the other's junior, and let him go with a haha.

  Ned Tanin personally sent Ronald downstairs in order to calm him down, then let Ronald sit in the back seat of his car, and sat in the cab himself, when the driver sent him to CAA.

   "Everyone at Paramount now knows how important you are."

  In the CAA office, Nisita laughed happily when she saw Ned Tanin being the driver himself.

   This statement not only let everyone know the importance of Ronald at Paramount, but also let the CAA agents know what Paramount thinks of Ronald.

   "I don't know why Tanin is so humble. In fact, I would rather he respect my creative freedom than remind everyone in this way."

   "It's up to him." Nisita understood Tanin's intentions very well.

   "Top Gun" saw two abnormal rises at the box office, and the new week's decline continued to slowly decline at a rate that was barely visible to the naked eye.

   This shows one thing, "Top Gun" has become a phenomenal film.

Many missing viewers of "The Sound of Music", middle-aged couples who don't usually go to the cinema once in two or three years, this time they also know that there is such an air combat movie, and they must go to the cinema to see the Tomcat beat up MiG. .

   Every two or three years, there will be a movie like this. I don’t know why, but all the time, the world is working together, and various limitations are very good for it, and they are in the best position. Box office can no longer be extrapolated from rules of thumb.

  For example, "Rocky" ten years ago, such as "ET Alien" five years ago, has a magic power that breaks all the rules and kills the Quartet at the box office. You can compete for box office champions with new films in a month or even a few months later.

   "So you forgive Tanin?" Nisita also wanted to hear Ronald's thoughts on whether the new film will continue to work with Paramount.

   "I just promised him to go to the premiere of Paramount's new film. As for my new film, I'll have to look at the conditions of the studio."

   "Very well, you already have the mentality of a Hollywood achiever." Nisita said happily.

  …

  Paramount's other teen-oriented masterpiece, "Spring is not a reading day (FerrisBueller's DayOff is about to premiere.

   The film released by Paramount and the fourth teen film directed by acquaintance John Hughes, Ronald went to the premiere.

   This is the first time John Hughes has left the teenage muse, Molly Ringwald, directed and filmed.

Because Molly no longer wants to repeat her role as a flower girl, and Hughes wrote or directed three consecutive films "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "Beauty in Pink", she played the same role. , A 16-year-old girl, after self-awakening and the boy she liked became a couple, she completed the first big change in her life.

  Without a long-term deal tied to Molly Ringwald, John Hughes' plan to make a teen movie around a real teen actor also went bust halfway through. In this "Spring is not a reading day", he must also use overage actors.

  24-year-old Matthew Brodick plays the leading role high school student, 29-year-old Alan Luck plays the second male classmate, 21-year-old Charlie Sheen plays the supporting actor, and 25-year-old Jennifer Gray plays the leading actor's sister.

   are all overage actors who have passed puberty. Only 19-year-old Mia Sara starred in the hero's girlfriend, but her role is not heavy.

   Ronald arrived at the scene just as the lead actors were chatting with Molly Ringwald.

"I really don't understand how Jean-Luc Godard directed, he directed King Lear, and let him lie down on a big rock by the sea. I asked him if my character was asleep or dead . He just looked at me like I was asking a really stupid question. Pfft…”

Molly Ringwald let out a breath and blew her red bangs, a hairstyle that became popular in America and was featured on the cover of Time Magazine last month, with the caption "She really is. sweet!"

The two actresses around   , Mia Sara and Jennifer Gray, have also acted in several Hollywood movies, but they are obviously very envious and jealous of such a hot star as Molly Ringwald.

Although he complained, he was showing off faintly that he could be selected by Jean-Luc Godard of the Three Jerrys of the New Wave of the Hairstyle to shoot the modern version of "King Lear", and to tell the story in such an intimate tone Godard's guidance to her performance was not a good feeling for several others to listen to.

   "John Hughes made his debut to shoot a commercial film, and it was a big hit and a hit, and now he's going to Europe to perform in a literary film, how can you take advantage of all the good things?"

   "Ronald, here you are!"

  A classmate in the acting class, Jennifer Gray, saw the new hot director walk into the lounge. This is a better director than John Hughes at the box office. Rather than envy Molly Ringwald's luck, try your luck here.

   With a bang, all the people who had been surrounding Ringwald ran around Ronald, wanting to hear his views on art.

   "Ronald, what do you think of Godard's approach to directing?"

   Molly Ringwald was completely disappointed with Godard and wanted to hear Ronald's advice.

"I am in the new wave of the hair country, and my favorite is Truffaut. He does not reject Hollywood commercial films, and he also starred in Spielberg's 'Third Contact'. Maybe if he is alive, he will be with me. The director of a copper-smelling commercial speaks."

"Hahaha……"

  Everyone was thoroughly amused by Ronald's "humour", it seems that his level of comedy performance can be even funnier than Bill Murray, the highest-grossing comedian recently.

   Molly Ringwald pouted, this director is indeed not very proficient in art, as he mocked himself.

   Several people chatted for a while, Ronald took the opportunity to call Jennifer Gray, "I heard that your father is a famous dancer, can you dance?"

   The starring star of "Spicy Dance" in the dream is this classmate of the acting class, who happened to ask her about her dancing level.

   "Actually I won't..." Gray smiled, she didn't inherit her father's dance career, "But I can learn..."

   She suddenly realized that Ronald wouldn't ask her if she could dance for no reason. Is there a role?

"You don't need to learn, I just ask casually." Ronald rejected Gray's idea with a smile. In that dream movie, Gray's heroine, Baby, danced at a beginner's level, and she was in the script with her. The image is in line with the image, if you go to learn to dance now, it will not be good.

   "What role is Ronald looking for you to play?" Matthew Brodick, who played the leading role in "Spring is not a day for books", then pulled over Jennifer Gray to chat.

  Although in the movie, Gray played his sister, but in private, Brodick did not like Mia Sarah who played his girlfriend, but became a pair with her.

   "He just asked me if I could dance, and said that I don't need to go to school."

  Grey recounted the conversation between himself and Ronald, word for word, and asked her boyfriend what to do.

"The director has a lot of ideas, and we don't know what the role is now. It's not good for you to ask more. I'll ask my agent to find out what projects Ronald is working on recently. You didn't practice before. Ballet? You can also familiarize yourself with it again, just in case."

   "Well, I'll listen to you."

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  John Hughes' male and female protagonists will be popular, and it is not bad to be in love with him. Besides, Brodick is Jewish of the same ethnicity and looks very handsome.

   "John", Ronald had gone over to say hello to John Hughes at this time.

"Ronald, you're welcome. This is my partner, Howard Deutch," Hughes greeted him, then introduced him to a tall friend who had been with him earlier this year." The director of "Beauty in Pink", Hughes' partner and friend.

"Or you're right, before the release of Beauty in Pink, during the test screening, the audience was very dissatisfied with Andy played by Molly Ringwald at the end, who fell in love with the neighbor and became a child. I finally asked Howard to recall the Andrew McCarthy, the lead actor who went to other films, came back and made a different ending."

  Hughes complained about the poor box office of "Beauty in Pink", only less than 40 million, which did not meet his expectations. He was a little confused whether it was the ending, or the skill of the director Howard Deutsch, which was far from his own.

"I told you... that ending doesn't quite fit America's audience values." Ronald laughed. If the story was reversed, it would be a girl when she was young, and the ugly duckling turned into a white swan after dressing up and fell in love with it. With the male protagonist, that's about the same.

   "Who said no, I should listen to you."

  John Hughes is about the same as Ronald, producing an average of two to three movies a year, all of which are big hits. So now, apart from Ronald, who has better box office results compared to his own, he and others have their own arrogance.

   After a chat, everyone entered the screening room and began to watch the film "Spring is not a reading day" filmed in Hughes' hometown of Chicago.

"Hahaha……"

  The laughter and applause of the audience shows that after Hughes's last film that was not as good as expected at the box office, the films he directed are still able to reach the average level of Hughes' youth films.

   Ronald also applauded. Hughes is no longer obsessed with casting and must have real teenage actors to play teenage roles. Instead, he has changed his approach to directing.

   This "Spring is not a school day" is all a high school boy's dream. He has a beautiful girlfriend, a very tough buddy, who made fun of teachers and principals, cheated his parents by pretending to be sick, and didn't go to school to play with his girlfriend buddies in Chicago.

   In the end, before he broke into the gang, he returned home and let the sister and the principal who came to arrest him for lying, and they failed miserably.

   This kind of daydream, probably every high school boy in America has done, Hughes has put him together very well, and also showed all the sights worth seeing in his hometown of Chicago.

   But John Hughes had a habit that Ronald didn't like very much. He let the male protagonist break the space of the movie many times and made an inner monologue directly to the audience.

   This method is very dramatic, and it is not very suitable for Ronald's taste. The audience sometimes plays at that time too. But the other parts are very good, or cover this little flaw.

   said goodbye to several acquainted actors, and said some good things about Hughes to reporters, Ronald said goodbye and went home.

   John Hughes, who stayed behind, was not too immersed in the success of the new film, and also discussed the problems of the new film with his friend Howard Deutsch.

"John, this movie, like the negative of 'Beauty in Pink,' turned the story of one woman and two men into one man and two women. We have the experience of the last time, and casting is very important. I think if we can't If you find a lead character like Molly Ringwald, you might as well not do it."

   "Beautiful Pink" is Howard Deutsch's debut. He is eager to turn around with the new film because the film has not reached the average box office level of Hughes' works. Ringwald refused to repeat the role again, and Deutsch felt his future was bleak.

   "You think so?" Hughes was not as modest as Ronald in front of Howard Deutsch.

   "Yes, that's what I thought."

   "Well then, you don't need to shoot."

   "What do you mean, John. Do you want to write a new script to shoot?" Howard Deutsch still hadn't figured out the situation.

   "You don't want to shoot anymore, you're fired."

John Hughes was angry at the box office failure, Muse Ringwald left him, and Howard Deutsch said the same, the anger that he had suppressed at the box office in front of Ronald broke out again come out.

   There is only one chapter today

   (end of this chapter)