When talking about the producer, Catherine Bigelow couldn't help but said: "Why do I need another producer? Actually, I can do it myself."
Eric smiled in surprise: "Your proposal is really bold. For such a project with an investment of more than 50 million U.S. dollars, few directors in Hollywood dare to ask to be the producer in person so confidently. lost their jobs."
Catherine also seemed to feel that her request was a little too much. In Hollywood, it is a very important rule for the director to be restricted by the producer. The final editing rights of most movies are often in the hands of the producer, which can prevent the director from doing things unscrupulously. Shooting according to your own ideas will affect the quality of the film, and also prevent investors' funds from being squandered by the director.
Of course, this kind of rule also has great disadvantages. Many originally excellent films were destroyed beyond recognition because of the producer’s intervention in the editing. In the end, the director was badly criticized by the audience, and the film company often released the director’s cut version many years later. , The film was rectified. The most famous case is "Once Upon a Time in America" by the famous Italian director Sergio Leone.
After watching the woman put forward this suggestion, she awkwardly stretched out her slender fingers and rubbed the script paper in front of her. Eric smiled slightly and said: "Of course, the biggest advantage of Hollywood is that it is more competitive than other industries. It's easy to work around. If you really want to be the producer of Saving Private Ryan yourself, I can say yes to you."
Catherine raised her head and asked tentatively, "Then... what about the final editing rights?"
Eric raised his eyebrows: "Hey, woman. Don't be too pushy."
"Women..." Catherine slightly dragged her voice and repeated Eric's words: "You are discriminatory. Are you saying that I am a man, so you can get the final editing rights?"
Eric stared at Catherine's beautiful face that showed no signs of aging: "If you were a man, you wouldn't even be able to get the position of producer."
Catherine couldn't help avoiding Eric's fiery gaze: "I warn you, little guy, don't do this again, or I won't answer."
"Are you starting to feel unconfident?" Eric asked back.
"What?"
Eric put on a cool pose, looked at Catherine and repeated: "I mean, you're starting to lose confidence, are you afraid that you won't be able to stand my... temptation?"
Catherine opened her mouth slightly and stared at Eric's 'hateful' expression in surprise. He stayed in a daze for a few seconds, stood up abruptly, picked up the file bag in front of him that contained the script and the sketches of the shots, and slapped Eric on the head mercilessly: "Little bastard, narcissist."
Eric took a few hits without pain, leaned back on the chair to avoid the woman's attack range, and laughed at the woman's rare gaffe.
The two were sitting in the conspicuous seats in the center of the restaurant, but Catherine suddenly stood up and 'attacked' Eric, immediately attracting the attention of all the guests dining in the restaurant. Feeling the gaze of these strange gazes, Catherine's face, which was holding the file bag, instantly seemed to be stained with a layer of delicate wine red, and mechanically retracted her outstretched arms little by little. Putting down the file bag in his hands awkwardly, he turned around in a panic and walked quickly out of the restaurant.
Eric looked at the back of the woman running away. The smile on the corner of his mouth grew stronger. Ignoring other people's pointing, Eric picked up the document bag opposite, got up and followed.
Catherine returned to her room, went into the bathroom and washed her face with cold water. The heat on her cheeks slowly receded. Looking at herself in the mirror with a few strands of wet hair on her forehead, the woman patted her face lightly. , speeding up the blush on his cheeks to dissipate, he muttered to himself: "Damn guy, damn... little guy."
She was muttering to herself in the mirror, but there was a knock on the door suddenly, she took a towel and wiped her face, and she walked outside. Thinking that it might be Eric outside the door, she stood behind the door and hesitated for a few seconds before she felt that she should not show timidity just because of his teasing words, which would make him more proud instead. Well, absolutely can't make that little guy more proud, and... tempting, really arrogant, megalomaniac.
Cheering herself up, Catherine opened the door, but blocked the door and did not let Eric in. Her gaze became cold, and her chin slightly raised: "What else?"
Eric looked at the woman's proud posture, and jokingly handed over the document bag: "My Lady Queen, your things have been left in the dining room."
Catherine looked at the thing in front of her, but she didn't intend to take it: "Give it to someone else, I..."
Eric stuffed the script into Catherine's arms, watched the woman take it in a panic, and wanted to push it back, Eric took a step back and said: "Okay, it's just a joke, study the script carefully, since If you want to be a producer, then make a detailed production plan as soon as possible, and I will leave first if there is nothing else to do."
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Because this time was much more prepared than in August, Eric didn't need to stay in New York for too long. On February 5th, after staying in New York for more than half a month, Eric returned to Los Angeles again. Of course, it is also because many people are prepared this time. Although they have invested 2 billion US dollars in principal, the profit ratio is not as high as last time because of the reduction in leverage ratio and the number of players in the futures market. According to statistics, the profit this time is only about 4 billion US dollars at most. However, plus the profits in August, Eric already has a huge amount of nearly 8 billion US dollars in his hands, which is more than enough to fully acquire Disney in the future, and maybe he can do other things by the way.
In Los Angeles, since the end of last year, the annual awards season has come to an end. Because of the war, this year's awards season in Hollywood is not as lively as in previous years. Due to public image considerations, even the Golden Globes are held It's quite low-key. But now the outcome of the war has been decided, so it is conceivable that the Oscar Awards Ceremony scheduled for March 24 will still be as beautiful as Wannian.
Although Eric did not participate in the film and television Golden Globe Awards on January 19, he has been paying attention to the trends here, at the Golden Globe Awards. The two most important works related to fireflies are "The Love of Ghosts" and "Friends". Whoopi Goldberg is not only the same as in the previous life. Without any suspense, she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Comedy. To Eric's surprise, Nicolas Cage, who replaced Patrick Swayze as Sam, also won Best Actor in a Musical Comedy. However, in Eric's opinion, although Cage's acting skills are beyond doubt, but The public relations component of this award is bigger. In addition to the public relations of Firefly, the connections of the Coppola family must have played a big role.
And the subsequent "Friends" not only won the best musical comedy series in the TV series, but Aniston also won a best actress in a musical comedy category. Too bad Eric wasn't there. Otherwise, I will definitely meet the little stubborn girl whom I haven't seen for a long time.
Although "The Silence of the Lambs" produced by Elizabeth is recognized as an Oscar hit, and even has a tendency to overwhelm Francis Coppola's "The Godfather 3", it does not seem to be favored by the judges at the Golden Globe Awards. Love, although the nominations won are almost the same as the Oscar nominations announced later, but only Jodie Foster won the Best Actress award, and all the others fell through.
This result made Elizabeth uneasy for a while, and she made a special phone call to New York to discuss with Eric. However, the public relations focus of "The Silence of the Lambs" has always been on the Oscars, and the Golden Globes are not too important. And, while the Golden Globes are known as the Oscars' outpost. But it is not the Golden Globes that can really reflect the tendency of the Oscars. On the contrary, it is like the directors' union, actors' union, or screenwriters' union. In these awards, "The Silence of the Lambs" has received a lot of recognition, so Eric is sure that there will not be too many twists and turns in this Oscar.
As usual, "The Godfather 3" should be a big threat, because of Eric's accidental insertion, Sofia Coppola, who received a lot of bad reviews in her previous life, voluntarily withdrew from the crew of "The Godfather 3", Francis Coppola invited acting The well-received young actress Winona Ryder, but this change is also doomed to not save "The Godfather 3", which seems to be a work that seems to be a bit of a dog.
After all, many people know that Coppola did not have any plans to shoot "The Godfather 3", but because the film company run by the Coppola family suffered losses in the first two years, Coppola had to agree to Paramount Pictures. industry to produce this sequel.
It is said that Coppola originally planned to release the film on Easter next year. Because of the urging of Paramount Pictures, the film was advanced by more than three months. Correspondingly, the sequel was not as good as the first two. So far, "The Godfather 3" has only received a box office of 60 million U.S. dollars. According to the current attendance rate, it will definitely not be able to enjoy the box office rebound after winning the Oscar. For this reason, Paramount is not so enthusiastic about the public relations "Godfather 3" award. Although Coppola did not publicly express his position, he is also quite dissatisfied with Paramount's forced production schedule that has affected the quality of the film. , and even less in the mood for public relations.
Therefore, although the first two films in the "Godfather" series both won the best film, the quality of "The Godfather 3" is completely incomparable with the previous two films, and the possibility of winning the best film is even slimmer. Excluding "Dances with Wolves", there is not a single film that can compete with "The Silence of the Lambs" at this year's Oscars.
After returning to Los Angeles, Eric only asked about this matter a little bit, and devoted most of his energy to the reorganization of Firefly and the preparation of "Tornado".
After all, even if "The Silence of the Lambs" wins an award, on the surface it doesn't seem to have much to do with Eric.
As for "Ghostly Love", although it was nominated for the best picture, Eric had no intention of public relations at all, and Firefly was only two of Whoopi Goldberg's Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay. Put some effort into the project. Although Bridget Fonda and Cage were both nominated for the Golden Globes, neither one was nominated for the Oscars.
After more than half a year, the development of Maya, the special effects software hosted by Ed Cameron, has entered the final testing stage. Of course, this is only version 1.0 according to the traditional definition, and its main function is to satisfy the special effects related to "Tornado". Production work, in the production process of "Tornado", will continue to invest energy and funds to improve.
The fluid simulation software that was handed over to a scientific research team at Stanford University has been completed, and it has realized the connection with maya and the rendering software renderman. It looks more realistic.
The problem of special effects was preliminarily resolved, and "Tornado" began the most important pre-casting work. Of course, the heroine Eric has already decided on Joanna Pakula, and this cannot be changed. However, the male lead and the second female lead, as well as the many supporting roles in the film, have also become the objects of competition among major brokerage companies.
Although many people in the Hollywood circle know that CAA has some issues with Eric, the third part of "Home Alone" was stranded because CAA insisted on a huge salary. But this time, caa took the initiative to contact Eric, trying to win the roles of the male lead and the second female lead in "Tornado". Many people can see that this is caa's initiative to show favor, because the Hollywood agency caa, wma and icm are now in a three-legged situation. The list falls below five places.
If it was the past two years, Eric would still care about the festival with caa, but now he doesn't care much about it, his eyes have been on the whole of Hollywood, and caa is no longer the one in his previous life who made all Hollywood movies Big Macs that the company is afraid of, and there have been no rumors of so-called CAA agents breaking into the high-level offices of major film companies in the past two years. Jiao's assistant director accepted the resume handed over by the other party.
Eric's movies have been recognized as a "star-making machine". Almost every movie he made before has produced a first-line Hollywood star. With Eric's production cut, the competition for roles related to "Tornado" is increasing. The intensity has also reached a very high level. After the news of the casting of "Tornado" was revealed, not only CAA, but also the other two companies did not hold back at all. Some second- and third-tier brokerage companies also got involved, trying to get some supporting roles quota. Therefore, as long as there is a slightly indirect connection with Eric, they are all trying to contact Eric himself. After all, Eric has the final decision on the role. (To be continued..)