Chapter 319: Strong Competitors
ps: Today's fourth update~~~
After returning to Los Angeles, the USC Film Academy had already had a holiday. He, the biggest student, had almost missed a whole semester of courses. Faced with Professor Grett's slightly helpless speech, Ryan promised that he would make up for the lost homework. Anyway, graduation is not a difficult thing for him.
Although he has been in school less and less in recent years, Ryan has learned a lot of useful knowledge. With his rich experience in the set, his understanding of Hollywood production will not be inferior to any classmate.
And he was named, and the pseudo-documentary horror movie produced by David, Darren and others had been completed. As planned, it was handed over to Flower Pictures for distribution. Ryan just gave some tips, and those professional propagandists understood the specific operation method.
Viral marketing is not a novel thing. This thing has been around for many years. Now, with a sound network in North America, coupled with the first large-scale application, it should be able to achieve ideal results.
However, if you use this kind of hurtful thing, you will lose it once.
Anyway, he is the largest shareholder of Flower Pictures, except Drew, and most of the funds will flow into his pockets. Of course, he is not a vampire, and the people who shoot the film are his own classmates and friends. If they can succeed, their corresponding dividends will definitely be indispensable.
In addition, the two scripts planned when they were in Australia.
Although there was some surprise in the middle, Ryan was still following the initial plan and released a movie that he played the leading role every year, which was both popular and popular.
Well, it shouldn't be a problem for the movies you plan to be well-received next year. It would be difficult to be popular. According to the experience of previous life, it would be good to be able to recover the cost.
This movie is naturally the autobiographical novel by Varadesro Spearman that Ryan got. This pianist who had suffered the persecution of the German Nazis. After meeting the person who sent Pykinsley to negotiate, he did not pay a sky-high adaptation fee just because the purchaser was Ryan, but asked to donate half of the movie's income to several Jewish survivors organizations.
Ryan had agreed long ago. Perhaps with his name, this movie would make a profit, but how much could it be?
After all, people who like this kind of dull movie are among the few in the world. And the cold smell in autobiographical novels is not as dramatic as Schindler's List.
However, in order to increase his bargaining chips, Ryan doesn't mind whether the person he works with or whether the work is an angel or a devil.
Therefore, the first director candidate that Ryan thought of was Roman Polansky, an old guy who hid in France and never dared to return to North America in his life, was a survivor of Nazi concentration camps. There are natural advantages to shooting this kind of subject.
As for another movie, he published it in Vanity Fair a few years ago. David Geffen once contacted Pig Kinsley. He wanted to buy the movie adaptation rights, but after Ryan politely rejected it, he probably understood something and gave up completely.
If you follow the general idea, you will definitely film "Gladiator" first to increase your qualifications, and then use "Pianist" so special that it cannot be ignored to compete for the best actor.
Unfortunately, I met Ryan, who didn't like literary and artistic movies very much. He would rather put "Gladiator" behind him than use a purely so-called art movie to reach the peak of his acting career.
A dull movie that will make many people fall asleep, even if you get the Little Golden Man, how many viewers will remember that character?
Because he loved popcorn too much in his previous life, he inevitably wore tinted glasses in his understanding of movies.
Of course, all of this is still uncertain factor. If you want the movie to appear, he must first come up with the complete script.
In addition to writing scripts, Ryan’s most urgent thing is to diet and exercise to meet the requirements of the remaining shots of "The Rest of the Desert Island". Fortunately, he is not the former Tom Hanks, and he does not have the trouble of being fat and fat. He just needs to follow the plan formulated by the nutritionist and fitness coach.
The only difficulty lies in the nutritional package. After eating too much monotonous food, it is difficult to have appetite.
Time slowly came to June 6th. Today in 1944 is the famous "D" Day. The premiere of "Save the Private Ryan" in North America, and it was specially selected for the Normandy Landing Anniversary. Such a special time and theme that echoed it, coupled with the huge appeal of Ryan, Tom Hanks and Spielberg, immediately attracted a lot of attention.
The film participated in the Cannes Film Festival, and the media praised it unanimously, which led to a craze for watching movies.
To Ryan's expectation, "Save Private Ryan" gained a lot at the Cannes Film Festival. Although Tom Hanks lost Best Actor, Spielberg won the Palme d'Or. Even if American audiences don't look down on awards outside North America, it can be regarded as adding a layer of halo to the film.
In fact, it is not very strange to be able to get the Palme d'Or. "Save Private Ryan" is under the banner of commemorating the victory of the anti-fascist war. The premiere of the film France is the location of Normandy, and the Cannes Film Festival is infinitely close to the Normandy landing anniversary. Anti-fascist and anti-Nazis and the humanistic ideas in it are the mainstream values of the West.
First of all, the quality of the movie is guaranteed, and with various external factors, the judges will naturally consider it carefully. Even if some people don’t like the theme of the movie, in this era, they are not as idiotic as to openly shout slogans that support the Nazis.
This premiere is similar to the premiere of other movies. The only difference is that, just like what the Cannes Film Festival did, many veterans who participated in World War II were invited, many of whom were veterans of the 101st Airborne Division.
After watching this movie on the big screen again, Ryan attended a regular press conference. Many of the questions asked by reporters were answered when he was in Cannes, and at this time he just repeated them.
"Ryan, your role and performance in the movie have changed a lot compared to before. From my perspective, this is an extremely successful attempt. How did you do it?" Finally, a reporter asked about the performance.
"It's very simple, play every role with your heart."
Ryan gave a very standard answer. If this was not the scene of the press conference, I believe many reporters would roll their eyes at him.
Opportunities are very important for actors, but if you can play every role well with your heart, then Hollywood is not full of acting people. Looking at the guy who turned around and left, many reporters thought so.
As expected, the day after the movie was released, major media gave positive reviews. "Milestones in the history of war movies" and "the best war movies ever" have almost become synonymous with "Save Private Ryan". Even the media is picky, it will not target the theme of the movie. At most, it will only accuse the actors of their performances and a bit of misleading shots.
Just like in Cannes, Ryan's performance in the movie was praised by most media, believing that he has made great progress in his performances in "The Cat and Mouse Game" and "Titanic".
On this day, Ryan left Los Angeles and brought Julius Stewart the surprise brought from Russia to New York. He not only celebrated Natalie's seventeenth birthday, but also attended another movie premiere.
Pixar Studios' second fully computer-made 3D animated film is about to be released. Although it has a completely different audience group from the R-level "Save Private Ryan", Pixar's senior executives decided to choose the premiere of the film in New York, far from Los Angeles.
This movie is not "Toy Story 2", but "The Crisis of Bugs". This life is missing from Disney's constraints. In addition to a few expenses, the profits of "Toy Story" are almost all owned by Pixar, and the stock price rose faster than in the previous life after its listing, thus raising a large amount of funds.
Without those messy worries, the film was made more well. Out of confidence in Ryan and Pixar Studios, Paramount Pictures, as the publisher, has also invested enough theaters in the film.
Ryan certainly won't put this movie on the same week as "Save Private Ryan" is released, and the movie will be released next weekend.
Pixar Studios faces an extremely strong opponent this time. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Walt Disney puts the hand-painted cartoon "Mulan", which has invested nearly $100 million, at the beginning of the summer season. However, under the strong opposition of some voices within Disney, this animated film, based on the other side of the ocean, was released on the same weekend of "The Crisis of the Bugs", but chose the next week of a fair competition model.
But everyone can see that those who now control most of Disney's power are targeting Pixar Studios, and they seem to want to prove their unshakable position in animated films in this way.
Ryan has watched these two movies many times in his previous life, and naturally knows a lot of advantages and disadvantages. According to the rules of Hollywood in this era, based on themes from distant countries, he will definitely not be a rival to "The Crisis of the Bugs" in North America, but he will have an absolute advantage in overseas markets, especially the Far East market.
But what if that is the case? The decline of hand-drawn animation is an irreversible trend. In a few years, not only Disney, but also DreamWorks will cancel its own hand-drawn animation department and devote all its energy to computer animation.
Chapter completed!