Chapter 598

Natasha henschucci is about to take the initiative to turn her lunch into her own. Simon has withdrawn her hand. With another word of warning, she turns and leaves the bedroom.

Watching the man go out, Natasha touched her watch on the bedside table and looked at it. It was 11:30 in the morning.

After getting out of bed, I thought for a moment, chose a long black knitted skirt suitable for indoor wear in winter, simply put on light makeup, and came downstairs in only 15 minutes.

Simon was sitting on the sofa in the living room flipping through a play when he saw Natasha go downstairs, look at it, and say, "it's beautiful."

"Thank you," Natasha agreed. She came to Simon and sat down. She looked at the script in the man's hand and asked, "what are you looking at?"

Simon showed her the cover and said, "cut throat Island, a pirate script."

Natasha nodded, quickly searching her mind for information about the pirate movie, but she couldn't find it. Fortunately, the man didn't mean to wait for a response. He put down the script and ordered girl a not far away. He got up and took her to the restaurant.

In the dining room, the maids served lunch and red wine to them, then they went back.

Simon picked up the cutlery and asked the opposite girl, "what do you want to do this afternoon?"

Natasha cut the pan fried cod in the plate, smelled the words, stopped and said, "I don't know. I'll do whatever you do."

Simon said with a smile: "there are only two things that people come to park city, movies and skiing. Which one do you choose?"

Natasha hesitated and said, "is skiing OK? But I'm not very good at it

Born in Canada, Natasha is actually good at skiing, but of course she has to be clumsy in front of men. After that, she even worries that if he can't ski, it will be embarrassing.

Simon just nodded and said, "well, let's go skiing in the afternoon, go to the premiere of a movie in the evening, and then there will be a party here."

Natasha finally took up the topic this time: "is it the" Four Weddings and a funeral "

"Yes, you know?"

"I came over yesterday with the two main characters of this movie," Natasha said. "But it doesn't seem like this movie is a Sundance movie?"

Danelis Entertainment's support and cultivation of the independent film market is the key to the rapid rise of the Sundance Film Festival. In recent years, danelis Entertainment's films are bound to enter the main competition unit every year.

Natasha did some film festival related homework before she came to park city. She knew that there were two films that danielis entertainment was shortlisted for the main competition unit of Sundance this year: Barcelona by whit Stillman and monkey beating by David Russell.

Whit Stillman is a direct born in Sundance. His last work "metropolises" has a good reputation and box office. Barcelona is his second directing work. "Beating monkey" is the first work written and directed by new director David Russell. It's a ethical film about mother and son. "Beating monkey" is a slang related to sex.

The film will be shown on the Saturday before the closing of the festival, and Simon will be present in person, which shows the importance of Denise entertainment to the film. That being the case, Natasha was puzzled that the film failed to enter the main competition.

"Four Weddings and a funeral" was not shortlisted in the main competition, of course, because of the lack of qualification. Simon explained: "the film is positioned as a commercial romantic comedy, focusing on Valentine's day in February. If it is shortlisted in the main competition unit of Sundance, it may be misunderstood by the audience as a literary film and limit the audience."

Natasha suddenly said, "well, I thought it would be the best to be shortlisted for the film festival and win the prize."

Simon smiles and shakes his head: "of course not. All kinds of films have their own distribution models."

Hollywood film distribution is easy to say and difficult to say.

Large scale advertising bombing on various media platforms is undoubtedly the most effective way to promote a movie, but it is only suitable for a few super blockbusters with enough box office potential, such as DC movie universe series.

Most Hollywood films still need to develop targeted publicity strategies in order to get the best marketing effect within the marketing budget.

There is no doubt that the quality of a film is the foundation of its commercial success. However, once the marketing strategy is seriously wrong, the result can be disastrous.

Knowing that Natasha won't be too interested in these business details, Simon didn't talk much about similar topics. Instead, he asked about the girl's recent situation.

They had a good lunch and sent the girl upstairs to change clothes for skiing. Simon went back to the living room and picked up the script of "cut throat island" which he had read before lunch.

This is a project that karock pictures is promoting to Hollywood studios recently. All seven mainstream studios have received scripts.

Relying on German and other overseas capital support, karock film industry has a great reputation in Hollywood. This independent film company is different from other thrifty second-line studios, but is famous for its high budget films. In the original time and space, Hollywood's first production of Terminator 2, with a budget of more than 100 million US dollars, was the project invested by karock pictures. In addition, karock also produced films such as instinct and full memory.Simon's appearance led to the cutting off of the most successful film projects of karok, such as Terminator 2 and instinct, in advance. However, in recent years, karok pictures has invested in many films of action stars, such as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and directly pushed the Hollywood stars' film salaries up to $15 million.

As an independent studio that does not undertake the distribution work, karock pictures has been cooperating with Columbia Pictures in the past few years.

Last year's turmoil in Columbia film industry led to the collapse of the cooperation between the two sides. Karock is looking for a new partner recently, and "cut throat island" is a stepping stone.

Speaking of Hollywood's film history in the 1990s, we can't escape the most successful Titanic and the most unsuccessful cut throat island.

In my memory, the production budget of "cut throat island" was as high as $98 million, but after the film was released, the total box office in North America was only more than $10 million. The tragic failure not only cost investors nothing, but also included in the Guinness Book of records.

Is cut throat Island really useless?

This is not the case.

The film is excellent in lens, editing and soundtrack, and the large-scale naval battle scene can be called epic level, including Pirates of the Caribbean many years later. Even the weakness of the story plot is not fatal to a blockbuster movie, because it is a common fault of many big budget movies.

The blockbuster movies in the North American film market were far from saturated in the mid-1990s. They were just gimmicks with huge investment of nearly 100 million US dollars. If they were used well, they could attract a large number of audiences, and the total box office was only 10 million US dollars.

So why is the failure of "cut throat island" so thorough?

The reasons also involve many aspects.

As a studio supported by overseas capital such as Germany, karoke film is naturally suppressed by Hollywood.

Director Renee halling has put his wife Gina Davis in the leading role position, and she is the first leading role in the play, but Gina Davis is far from supporting a super blockbuster box office appeal.

"Cut throat island" is an original script, does not have the popularity accumulation of superhero movies.

MGM pictures, which is in charge of film distribution, is in a state of serious internal turbulence and has no intention of promoting the film.

And so on.

Due to multiple reasons, the plot weakness of cut throat Island, which was not fatal, was magnified infinitely, which made the audience shy away from entering the cinema, and finally created a Guinness film industry record.

Even if we understand that if danelis entertainment is in charge of this time and space, the box office of "cut throat island" will definitely be much better, and Simon has no intention of taking over. Moreover, in accordance with the strategy of "trade-off" that danilisi entertainment has been hinting to promote, Simon also plans to throw the box office dud to others.

The success of DC movie universe, Jurassic Park and other blockbusters makes the whole Hollywood looking for big budget projects. Cut throat island should be a very good option.

If Simon westero's personal attention is paid to it, other studios will definitely compete for it.

In my memory, there is also a giant pit project released in 1995, Kevin Costner's future water world.

Because it used to be invested and produced by a big studio like universal, the box office of "future water world" is not as bleak as that of "cut throat island". However, the huge cost of the film of 175 million US dollars also set a new record for the production cost of Hollywood films. As a result, universal still suffered a serious loss even though the box office of the film was still good.

"Future water world" has not been fanned out by Simon's butterfly.

However, the former producer was universal, but now it has become Warner.

After working with danelis entertainment on dance with the wolf and bodyguard, Kevin Costner has switched to Warner Bros. in recent years. They have successively cooperated with Oliver Stone's "assassinating Kennedy" and Clint Eastwood's "the perfect world" at the end of last year.

This summer, Costner will also release a warner investment blockbuster western, "law enforcement shrewd.".

After three consecutive collaborations, Costner successfully signed a contract with warner for the next film, the future water world, which is expected to start shooting in May and June this year and be scheduled for next summer.

Simon just looked on and didn't interfere.

The main reason why the budget of the original "future water world" is out of control is that Costner chose to shoot the film in Hawaii, ignoring the local natural factors such as tides and storms, which led to the destruction of the expensive set by the waves.

According to the information revealed, this time the "future water world" will still be shot in Hawaii.

This is no accident.

As one of the world's most famous tourist attractions, Hawaii can provide a very comfortable working environment for film crew, especially stars. The same is true of Spielberg's previous shooting of Jurassic Park in Hawaii. Danelis entertainment has borne considerable additional costs for this, and there is no tax rebate.Fortunately, "Jurassic Park" was shot on land. Even so, it suffered a storm at the beginning.

If daenerys entertainment took over the future water world, Simon would not have made the same mistake. Although Warner and maintain a fairly good relationship of cooperation, of course, he did not mean to remind each other.

"Future water world" and "cut throat island" in hand at this time not only meet the demand of big studios for blockbusters, but also make room for at least US $100 million in the box office space of Denise entertainment in next year's hot schedule. This is "the difference".

Making up his mind, Simon got up and went to a living room next to the living room of the villa, looked at it for a moment, and put the script of "cut throat island" on the shelf under the glass coffee table.

After "Four Weddings and a funeral" tonight, there will be a party in the villa in the name of danielis entertainment group, and the living room will also be open.

Alison just came in with a men's down jacket and waited on Simon to put it on. She glanced at the script that the man had just put under the coffee table. With some doubts, she asked, "boss, do you want me to put it away?"

"No, remember and don't let Naomi and them touch the script. You can take it when there are too many people at night."

Alison knew for a moment and asked in a low voice, "the boss doesn't like the play?"

"Yes, I'll try to be more like that. Don't show off."

"Well," Alison nodded gently and said, "only one script is too obvious. I'll put some magazines next to it."

"Yes, Ellie is so clever."

Two people secretly discuss bad things, Natasha quickly change clothes downstairs.

Alison saw Simon and his wife out of the house. She watched her boss's car disappear in the mountain road. She was a little disappointed. Then she quickly gave up the idea. The woman didn't see him several times a year, and it was only one year. She could stay with him for a long time. Be sure.

Simon and Natasha spent more than 4 p.m. in a ski club in the south of Park City, which is only open to members. Instead of returning to the mountain villa, they went straight to the city.

The premiere of Four Weddings and a funeral starts at 5 p.m. at the Egyptian theater, the main venue of the festival.

Because it's a key project of danielis entertainment, many well-known filmmakers including Robert Redford are invited to attend, as well as a large number of film critics from all over North America.

Just these people are enough to support the popularity of the film in the news media. Simon doesn't plan to appear in the press release himself, at least he doesn't plan to be photographed by the media. So he takes Natasha through the back door of the cinema and comes to the screening Hall of the Egyptian theater. Natasha feels that she doesn't stay with Simon, but chooses to sit with Nancy Josephson of ICM Together.

As a phenomenal film with a production cost of less than US $5 million in the original time and space, it has made a huge box office of 245 million worldwide. Although the theme is slightly different from the style of Sundance's avant-garde film festival, the first public screening of the film is still very successful, and the film has won the unanimous applause of the audience after its broadcast.

At the end of the premiere, many guests continued to set out for Simon's private villa in the mountains southeast of Park City.

After accepting Radford's invitation at last weekend's Golden Globe party, Simon decided to hold such a party, which could greatly consolidate Denise Entertainment's position in the independent film circle.

After the release of the news, this party has become the most anticipated party for film makers in Sundance this year. Many people have racked their brains to get an invitation letter in the past week, including some stars who were not interested in Sundance Film Festival. They have come to park city to get in touch with Simon westero.