Chapter 253： Memory pieces

For Michael Eisner, Dunn's toughness and resilience are far beyond his imagination.

At least once the "Platform Investment Plan" is successful, it will play a crucial role in the development of the entire Hollywood.

Dunn, the planner, will definitely be respected.

Recently, Michael Ovitz has completed the registration of the new company "Legendary Pictures", and is lobbying among major private equity funds and investment banks in Manhattan, New York, in an attempt to win a large sum of money.

If he really does it, then Legendary Pictures will definitely become a shining star in Hollywood, and Hollywood giants will try to cooperate with Legendary Pictures.

This is the ace project in Dunn's hands, and it is also the biggest obstacle for Michael Eisner to suppress Dunn's film industry.

If the platter investment plan fails, everything will be easy to handle. With Michael Eisner's understanding of Hollywood giants, he will definitely turn his face and deny him, and put Dunn Pictures to death.

But once this plan is successful, if you want to sanction Dunn Pictures, even the media giant Disney will have to consider three points. At least it is impossible to treat Dunn Pictures like DreamWorks.

So Michael Eisner made a high chess move, jumped out of the quagmire decisively, temporarily put aside the dispute with Dunn Pictures, and pulled Mattel into the water.

On the one hand, it relieves the pressure on Disney, and on the other hand, it can continue to target Dunn Pictures.

Mattel, Michael Eisner didn't care.

Even if Dunn really had a good hand, he fought back to Mattel, and even killed Mattel, it had nothing to do with him.

The big man, sometimes just need a word, and a younger brother will charge into the battle.

There's really no need to show up in person every time.

Dunn is too difficult to deal with, Michael Eisner must calculate the gain and loss of the conflicting interests with him.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a famous academic district in the United States, where many of the world's top universities are located, with great influence. The American University Women's Association often holds some speeches, forums or activities here to promote the values ​​and life orientation that women should have.

To put it bluntly, it is to promote women's rights!

"A Beautiful Mind" was filmed in this area, and Dunn was a little absent-minded.

Mattel's remarks made him very uncomfortable.

Especially the Disney behind him, he didn't want to let it go.

Always find a way to make some counterattacks.

A recent survey report by the American Association of College Women showed that harassment of female college students in school is extremely common. About 62% of the girls said they had been verbally or physically harassed when they were surveyed.

To this end, on Sunday, September 17th, the Harvard Chapter of the American Association of University Women will hold a forum in Hall 1 of Academic Lectures on the third floor of Sociology, and the famous feminist expert Ms. Gloria Marie Steinen will appear.

When Tang En heard the news, he immediately had an idea. The Feminist Forum is a good opportunity!

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On Friday, September 15th, the cinema chain ushered in another wave of new films.

Warner's new film "Decoy", DreamWorks' new film "Almost Famous", Dunn's new film "Memento", Lionsgate's new film "Love You", Disney's new film "A Variety of Styles" and other 11 films will all be on this day. show.

If "The Soul-moving Girl" and Dunn's named producer will be affected by some influences to boost the box office, then Christopher Nolan's new film "Memento" will rely entirely on the power of the film itself, in these 11 new films struggling in.

Memento didn't get a lot of publicity and could only stand out with its classic cult style.

Fortunately, the investment in this film is only 5 million US dollars. Dunn's expectations are not good, and he has no plans to compete with Warner's "Decoy" and DreamWorks' "Almost Famous" at the box office.

But at least...

In terms of box office data, it always surpasses Disney's "A Variety of Styles", right?

The film "Various Styles", with an investment cost of $21 million, starred Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow, and is a relatively inspirational musical comedy.

No matter in terms of cost, publicity, subject matter, or the cast, "Memento" is not the opponent of "A Variety of Styles".

There is only one magic weapon in Dunn's hand, and that is Christopher Nolan, the director of "Memento"!

Nuo God goes out, who will compete with each other?

"Memento" has low investment and weak lineup, so what?

Dunn believes that with the strength of the name "Christopher Nolan" alone, he will surely be able to kill "Various Styles" in seconds!

Disney and Dunn Pictures, another contest in the film field, is about to start.

On the same day, the Warner Bros. movie "Decoy" opened on a scale of simultaneous release in 2,352 theaters, and received $2.34 million at the box office that day, ranking second only to Universal's crime suspense film "Watchmen of Justice";

DreamWorks' "Almost Famous" is a very good musical drama, and the investment cost is as high as 60 million US dollars! However, the film did not choose to cooperate with Universal, and DreamWorks completed its own distribution.

The results can be imagined, DreamWorks continued to be suppressed. "Almost Famous" only won 131 opening theaters on that day. Fortunately, the quality of the film is quite good, and it has also received a box office income of 1.18 million US dollars, which is really surprising. .

The single-day box office revenue of 1.18 million US dollars is indeed not high, but among the new films released in the same period, "Almost Famous" was second only to Warner's action film "Decoy".

Even once the film was released, it attracted widespread attention in the media and critics, and it was agreed that the film would shine in next year's awards season.

Next, it was finally the turn of Dunn Pictures' new film "Memento".

Because the distributor is Universal, this cult film, which is obviously less in line with the market trend than "Almost Famous", has won the qualifications for 427 theaters to open the film, and the box office on the day also successfully exceeded 1 million US dollars, reaching 1.09 million US dollars .

Although the box office is not high, considering that the film cost is only 5 million US dollars, such a box office performance is enough to make any producer envious.

As for the fourth place, we finally ushered in Disney's movie "A Variety of Styles". The film was released in 581 theaters at the same time, and it only made $860,000 at the box office that day.

Disney's new film was once again overshadowed by Dunn Pictures. This is not the end. In the critics, "Memento" has received almost unanimous praise, and the box office is good.

And "Various Styles"...the reputation is extremely poor!

The performance of Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow has also been unanimously criticized by the critics.

In particular, the famous film critic David Thomson's comment on "The New Republic" is like stepping on Disney's head applaud Dunn Pictures——

"Memento is not a big production, but the young British director arranged the intricate plot under the calm and sharp language of the camera lens, combining violence, doubts and many other factors. In addition, it also reveals the philosophy and psychology of life. The thinking of learning can be called a masterpiece with the spirit of exploration.”

""A Variety of Styles" is a musical comedy. It is said that the songs in it are sung by the actors themselves. However, this cannot hide the fact that the film is vulgar, bland, old-fashioned and boring. It is also a musical film, Compared to DreamWorks' Almost Famous, this movie has nothing to offer."

"When it comes to Memento and All Kinds of Style, we have to mention the production companies behind these two films, Dunn Pictures and Disney. Since this summer, Dunn Pictures and Disney have had a lot of competition in the film field, The results are obvious, the old studio Disney has lost again."

"From 'My Great Greek Wedding' to 'Wedding Prodigy', to this year's 'Spider-Man', 'Soul Girl', and 'Memento', we can see that the films produced by Dunn Films, whether in word of mouth, At the box office, they have achieved good results.”

"On the other hand, Disney... may be that Disney is involved in too many industries, ignoring the control of film production. I heard that Disney put all its energy on "Pearl Harbor" directed by Michael Bay, but that will only explode The director, can you make such a war movie well? At least Dunn doesn't think so."

"The traditional movie model is no longer in line with the trend of the new era. There is no doubt that Dunn is the leader of the new era and new movies. If Disney does not make changes as soon as possible, it is likely to be affected by the trend of the times. Submerged, this is not an alarmist…”

(Sanqi Chinese)