King of Hollywood

The reason why Venice is called a water city is naturally because it is located on the water. The large and small water lanes in the city, the Venetian sharp boats called gondolas and more than 400 bridges constitute a unique scenery. , attracting tourists from all over the world.

The specific location of the film festival is on the slender Lido Island in the southeast of Venice, which is a holiday resort on par with Libera in France, Miami and Hawaii in the United States. There are both private beaches and public baths here, as well as entertainment facilities such as casinos, restaurants, nightclubs, theaters, etc. It is a perfect place to hold a film festival here.

The opening ceremony was on August 27, and Adrian arrived in Venice with the team one day earlier. Speaking of the team, there are actually only five people, including himself, Catherine, Dennis, and two assistants. As for other things such as declaring the competition, Lavern personally flew over from the United States a week ago to take on the responsibility.

Adrian was a little worried at first. Because of the tight deadline, the edited first version did not achieve the best effect in his mind, but it passed smoothly under Laverne's operation. I have to say that his Ability is excellent. Think about it, too. The CEO of Paramount 7 years ago is now Disney CEO Michael Eisner. As one of the assistants of a powerful figure who can develop Disney to the point where it is today, Laverne must not be underestimated. This is why Adrian finally acquired Bosworth Films when he clearly had a cheaper and more beautiful choice.

After arriving at the hotel where he was staying, Adrian took a short rest and found Laverne to discuss. Although he has been paying attention to his film company, Los Angeles and London are separated by the Atlantic Ocean and the American continent, and the current bulky mobile phones do not support global communication. If you want to contact you, you have to use a wired phone to make international calls or use a satellite phone. trouble. Moreover, after the shooting, most of his energy was spent on post-production, and a small part of his energy was spent on Catherine, so it was very necessary to have a face-to-face talk and ask about the specific situation.

"Edie Black from the planning department, Clarice Sandor from the editorial department." After a few chats, Adrian entered the topic, "Although I promised them, I won't dismiss any employee within half a year. , but I also said that they will be examined during this period. Frankly speaking, the performance of these two did not satisfy me."

"I think there must be some misunderstanding," Laverne said after flipping through some of the materials that Adrian brought over. "Edie and Clarice are not the best employees, but they are also responsible."

"But it's always the truth that goes wrong, isn't it?" Adrian smiled, then raised his hand before Laverne spoke, "Well, Laver, I'm just giving my opinion and. Since By handing the company over to you during this time, I will certainly trust you and respect your opinion."

"Thank you, Mr. Cowell," Laverne said after a few seconds of silence.

"Just call me Ed—let's talk about the festival now." Adrian changed the subject.

"Okay, Ed, the organizing committee has accepted the participation of "Two Smoking Guns" as an independent film." Laverne said and handed the documents he was carrying with him to Adrian.

"Very good, so we can save some money." Adrian looked over and nodded.

The key reason why the film company gave up the name of the film company and participated in the film festival as an independent film is that there is a law in the United States that a film production company cannot juggle the production and distribution of the same film. That is to say, if a film company makes a film and wants to distribute it, it must be handed over to another film company, which is an extension of antitrust magic.

For those groups in Hollywood that own several film companies, this law is just a piece of paper, and the distribution is just handed over from the left to the right - you know, even if the antitrust law expressly stipulates that film companies must not own theaters, these Big groups are still trying to find ways to exploit loopholes in the law and indirectly control the theater chain - and small and medium-sized film companies have to abide by this law.

In fact, it's nothing. Hollywood has a perfect hairstyle channel, so you don't have to worry about someone interrupting in the middle, but Adrian doesn't want to waste that distribution fee. Starting a business, all the money should be used on the edge, so why not go to a film festival in the name of an independent film and then hand it over to your own film company for distribution? Anyway, he did everything from investment to production - well, there are people from the company to help, but that's not a problem, isn't it?

"Have you seen the demo? What do you think?" Adrian asked at this time, seeing Lavern hesitating and adding: "It's okay, I just want to hear your opinion."

"Well... it should be said to be interesting, but I'm not sure how many people will like this British-style cut film, and it's basically impossible to be below the R rating, which will have a big impact on the number of viewers." Fern said, mulling over his words.

Adrian originally wanted to say a few words, but gave up the plan after thinking about it. Lavern only analyzed it from the perspective of the American market, so it cannot be considered a mistake.

"How is the release time arranged?" Adrian asked again.

"On the 31st, Fleet Theater." Laverne answered briefly.

"Then let's talk about it after the release," Adrian smiled and changed the subject again, "How about the adaptation rights of those novels? I heard you say that you have encountered some troubles before?"

"Mr. Stephen King has agreed to sell us the adaptation rights of the novel, and may have signed a contract now; Mr. Michael Crichton's novel is still under negotiation, and the possibility of getting it is still very high according to the current situation; the main problem It came from Mr. Winston Groom, who insisted that he must be involved in the adaptation of the script." Laverne explained.

Adrian's brows suddenly wrinkled, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "Clayton's novel adaptation rights are best obtained as soon as possible, and if necessary, you can make some concessions, and even let him participate in the adaptation— —Groom can’t… doesn’t he mean to let go?”

"Yes, Mr. Groom said it was a must." Laverne sighed.

Adrian was silent for a few seconds: "I can understand his thoughts, a work is equivalent to his own child, and no one would like others to dress up their children at will, but the problem is... this work of his It's a political satire, and I want to adapt it into an inspirational film. If he's involved in the adaptation, it's inevitable that we won't have a conflict - which is why I emphasize that the book must be fully adapted. "

What a troublesome guy. Paramount is probably forced to do that, right? He squeezed his fingers and thought for a while before saying: "Well, Laffer, you can agree to this condition, but at the same time prepare a special contract, to ensure that when conflicts arise during the adaptation and cannot be reconciled, we can Kick him off for the first time without a hitch and make it alone."

Laverne raised his eyebrows in surprise, but then nodded and said nothing. The conversation between the two ended, and Adrian went back to his room to rest.

The next day, the film festival officially opened in front of countless reporters' cameras and cameras. The opening film was a work made in Italy. After walking on the red carpet, which is not considered a red carpet, after attending the opening ceremony and listening to the speech of the chairman of the organizer, Adrian took Catherine to the streets of Venice.

He has little interest in communicating with European directors, his goal is not here, and he is only a rookie director. Of course, several heavyweights still came from the United States. Martin Scorsese came to the film festival with his new work "Goodfellas". He was originally an Italian-American, and naturally he was independent of the Venice Film Festival. There is love. Even his film themes are often Italian-American identity, sin and redemption in the Catholic sense, and violence in American society, etc. This is probably one of the reasons why Oscar has not dumped him for more than ten years.

Now that Scorsese is here, Robert De Niro, who has worked closely with him since the 1980s and is also one of the protagonists of this "Goodfellas", will naturally not be left behind. Adrian doesn't have any feelings for Scorsese, but he likes De Niro's performance very much, but as I said before, he is just a rookie director now. So why does he have to join in the fun?

In addition, all the film matters have been handed over to Laverne, and the vacation was originally part of the film festival, so he and Katherine played in Venice with peace of mind.

The Governor's Palace, the Bridge of Sighs, the Rezzonico Palace, St. Mark's Square and St. Mark's Church are naturally indispensable places to visit. Sitting on a gondola and walking through the cobwebbed water lane is also one of the must-do things. The two even went to the library where "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" was filmed. In three days, they visited most of Venice.

"Venice is so beautiful, I like this place!" Catherine couldn't help but praised when she came out of the water alley and looked at the undulating seagulls on the gondola.

"If you like it, we can take time to travel once a year in the future." Adrian said with a smile on her waist.

Catherine didn't speak, with a slight smile, she looked at Adrian with her bright eyes for a while, then wrapped around his neck and kissed his mouth. Adrian took advantage of the situation and hugged Catherine deeply into his arms, kissing them deeply. The two were entangled with each other, completely disregarding the surrounding scenery, just like those couples who were in love.

Seeing this, the boatman sitting at the end of the oars suddenly started to sing. Although he used Italian, the sentimental taste was very real. Perhaps because of this love song, the two people who were kissing became more enthusiastic.

(Finally over, I really don't know where this chapter is sensitive... The next chapter is finally going to be pushed...)