Early the next morning, Simon and Janet flew to Utah together.
As the plane took off, Janet asked what happened yesterday: "So, how was the conversation with Fox?"
Feeling that the plane was no longer bumpy, Simon unbuckled his seat belt and thought of a series of rapidly changing expressions on Peter Sanders's face when he saw the age information on his driver's license yesterday afternoon. He smiled and shook his head: "You know, I hope After signing a share-sharing contract, Sanders insisted on a buyout. So, it may have to wait until after Sundance, but hopefully the situation will turn around by then."
Yesterday, although Simon explained to Peter Sanders in detail the distribution strategy of using his age as a gimmick for publicity, Peter Sanders was obviously a little moved, but the other party did not agree in the end, and did not even give another one. New price tag.
Simon also realized that this was probably because Peter Sanders did not have enough authority.
The power structure of major Hollywood studios is basically decided by the person at the helm. Although Peter Sanders is the vice president and has certain powers, when it comes to movies, the decision-making power still rests with Ronald, the president. In the hands of Goldberg.
Janet was obviously just asking casually. When she heard Simon's answer, she was not discouraged at all and said: "No matter what, we can do the distribution ourselves. Maybe we can also accumulate some experience."
Simon smiled and nodded in agreement.
Speaking of which, it is not impossible to do the distribution yourself, but it is a waste of time.
It only took Simon four months to produce "Run Lola Run", but if he wanted to personally complete the distribution of the film through various channels, it would probably take a year or two. Moreover, the final income is probably not as good as selling the film directly to the film company, which is completely outweighed by the gain.
After chatting for a while, Simon opened a copy of "The Hollywood Reporter" he had brought with him on the plane and was about to flip through it when he suddenly remembered something and asked Janet next to him: "Hey, I'm suddenly curious. These days, Why does Catherine always look so strange when she looks at me?"
Janet blinked innocently: "Huh?"
Noticing Janet's appearance, Simon became even more suspicious. He stared at her and said, "Did you say something to Catherine?"
Janet's eyes flickered again, and she became even more innocent: "What can I say, I'm too lazy to talk to you."
"This must be what he said," Simon looked at Janet's appearance at this time and became more sure. He rolled up the newspaper in his hand and raised it: "You can do it yourself. What bad things have you said about me?"
Seeing Simon raise the newspaper, Janet shrank her small body towards the seat, but then raised her thin white neck, looking like she would rather die than surrender, and shouted in a hoarse little voice: "I don't have it!"
With this shout, all the passengers in the cabin looked over.
Feeling the eyes of everyone who was attacking the domestic violence man, Simon had no choice but to sit down and unfold the newspaper again, pretending as if nothing had happened.
After a moment, Janet leaned over again and scratched Simon a few times with her little paws. Seeing that he didn't respond, she hesitated for a moment and then leaned into the man's ear: "I, I just bullied you on Christmas Eve." I told Kate what happened throughout the night."
Simon looked confused: "How did you bully me?"
Janet raised her beautiful little hand and waved it in front of Simon, and said nonchalantly: "That's it, that's it, five times."
Simon's thoughts went around in his mind several times before he understood what the 'five times' meant. He immediately leaned on his seat with a dejected look on his face and had the urge to jump out of the plane.
well.
destroyed.
All ruined.
You are not a kind person when you meet someone.
She must have become an overindulged animal in Catherine's mind.
Although he has identified the woman next to him, no one wants to become this image in the minds of other women.
Why am I so miserable
Seeing Simon's dejected look, Janet put a sticker on him again and whispered: "Simon, don't worry, I've already told Kate, I don't mind."
Simon said feebly: "You didn't tell Kate that I suddenly caught a cold in the middle of the night that day, and I also had a severe fever. I was so upset that I refused to go to the hospital. You did your best to stay by my bedside all day and night. You were a role model." Girlfriend.”
Janet blinked in confusion: "Hey, didn't I catch a cold?"
Simon weakly raised his hand to the passing stewardess: "Miss, can you help me change seats? I need to calm down."
…
It had just snowed in Salt Lake City, and the plane landed on a runway surrounded by pure white. Simon and Janet then rented a car and drove east along the mountain road for nearly an hour before arriving at the Sundance Film Festival. Hosted in Park City.
The Sundance Film Festival originated as a film festival in Salt Lake City in the late 1970s, and later moved to Park City.
As the founder, Robert Redford’s original intentions when launching the Sundance Film Festival were not too innocent. The Hollywood star bought a ski area in Park City and built a resort, but it failed. In order to change the status quo, Robert Redford decided to imitate the experience of Aspen, another ski town in the United States, and hold an art festival to stimulate the local tourism market and support the independent film industry.
Through the development of the following two decades, the Sundance Film Festival has become more and more influential, and many Hollywood directors who later became world-famous have emerged through the Sundance platform.
Of course, these are all things for later.
Now in 1987, Park City is still unknown, and the Sundance Film Festival is far less influential than it was later.
Utah is in the U.S. Mountain Time Zone and is one hour ahead of California.
Simon took Janet to Park City, where it was past twelve o'clock noon.
Janet booked accommodation in a resort in advance, located east of Park City. There are more than ten exquisite wooden apartments scattered in the mountains and forests, connected by flat asphalt roads. Each house is beautiful and the transportation is very convenient.
Of course, it's definitely not cheap.
Simon is now basically penniless, and all of his credit cards are overdrawn. However, he still had to pay for the resort apartment, and he just had to put his fingerprint on Janet's IOU.
Occasionally I thought that if I couldn't make money as soon as possible, I might really have to use Shel Westeros to pay off my debts.
After settling in and having lunch, the two hurried to the Sundance Institute at the foot of Park City West Ski Resort to go through some necessary procedures to participate in the film festival, and also delivered the film copy of "Run Lola Run" to the organizer. square.
Speaking of which, today is January 15th, and Simon is definitely the last exhibitor to submit a film copy.
As early as December last year, the Sundance Film Festival had announced the shortlist of films in the feature film and documentary categories. If Robert Redford, the film festival chairman, had not personally recommended it, and the current Sundance competition is far less fierce than it was later, "Run Lola Run" would definitely not be able to qualify for the exhibition.
After completing the registration procedures, Simon had just left the entrance of the institute when he happened to meet Robert Redford and his party walking from the parking lot.
"Hey, Simon, you're finally here. David just asked about you."
After greeting Simon warmly, Robert Redford introduced several people around him to him and Janet, all of whom were judges of this film festival.
Simon inquired in advance that Sundance currently only has two sections: feature films and documentaries. Each section has five judges, for a total of ten. Robert Redford was accompanied by only four people, which was obviously not enough.
And, listen to the names of four people, David Anson, Randa Haynes, Kit Carson, Jane Benix.
These people should all be film and television practitioners.
However, Simon didn’t recognize any of them.
In fact, this is not surprising. Even more than ten years later, the judges at the Sundance Film Festival are still biased towards the "unpopular", far less popular than the series of big-name judges at several major film festivals.
As Robert Redford was introduced, Simon smiled and shook hands with several people.
Hearing that one of the judges named David Anson had just mentioned him, Simon looked at the other judge several times during the greeting process, and found that David Anson was also looking at him curiously.
"We are about to watch the shortlisted films. Since you sent us the copy, we can take a look first. Everyone is very curious about your film."
With that said, after introducing each other, Robert Redford patted Simon on the shoulder again, gave some instructions, and walked into the research institute with the other four people.