Chapter 583 Next Year's Movie Project

She still has other MVs to shoot. After Song Ya finished her task, she took the time to travel to Los Angeles to plan the tasks for the A+ film studio next year.

First of all, it is naturally the sequel of Dancing Out of My Life, which is basically set to start shooting in the second half of next year, and will be released on Valentine's Day in early 1996.

But something went wrong with the investors. Among the four investors, Amblin Entertainment and Geffen Films had some changes.

This matter has to start with Katzenberg. After he left Disney sadly, he got the support of his old friends Spielberg and David Geffen, and started a DreamWorksSKG from scratch, DreamWorks Studio, planned by Carson Berg is in charge of specific operations and animated films, Spielberg is in charge of live-action films, and David Geffen is in charge of the soundtrack department.

SKG are the initials of the three people's names, and they raised a total of more than 30 million dollars, and the studio started, which is considered a trivial matter for them.

"The question now is how to arrange the investment for the sequel of my life." Universal President Sinberg asked, because he saw that Katzenberg also came to the preparatory meeting, "APLUS?"

"I have no objection, it has nothing to do with me anyway." Song Ya spread his hands, and Spielberg was not here. He signaled to Catherine, Katzenberg and David Geffen that there was no news of these Jewish people preparing a new film company. I didn't tell myself, I made it clear that I still don't want to play with myself.

"We mutually agreed that the new company will not compete with the original business, so... this time, we, Amblin Entertainment and Geffen Films, will participate in the investment and production." Catherine said.

"Leave me alone, I just came here to take a look." Katzenberg raised his hand and smiled. He is a little embarrassed now. Not long ago, he was the number two of the giant Disney, but now it is just a new film with a capital of more than 30 million. The president of the company, there is not a single project in progress right now.

"Don't be depressed, I guess I will be unemployed like you soon."

Simberg's mood is not high, the trade dispute between the United States and Japan is in full swing, book companies are withdrawing a large amount of capital from the United States, and Panasonic, the parent company of Universal, is not doing well. The owner will change next year. As the president, he may not be able to keep his position at that time, "but the work will continue." He said.

Now that it has been decided that it will be a campus movie for grades eight to ten, the leading role must still be a newcomer, and the production cost of the sequel of Dancing Out of My Life is not much higher, which is a slight increase from the first film's 12 million to 1. 14 million, Geffen Films and Universal each invested 2 million, Amblin Entertainment 4 million, and A+ Film Studio 6 million. Amblin Entertainment is still in charge of film production, with William Morris providing partial packaging and A+ Records handling the soundtrack.

Without the guidance of Apocalypse, Song Ya no longer insisted on the investment ratio. After all, there are many precedents for Hollywood sequels, and he did not save songs for the soundtrack. I don't know, so he is very Buddhist now.

The money for the second part will be mainly spent on bigger and more sophisticated group dance dramas to make up for the disadvantages of the first part that the outside world thought the dance scenes were not big enough and not exciting enough. An issue about the wealth gap and race was also wiped out.

"Have you read the first version of the script?"

Universal picked an old script from the script library. It was a middle school version of the 1980s song and dance movie Lightning Dance. Talking with the characters is all about adapting to the times.

"It still needs to be revised." Catherine was not satisfied.

"APLUS?" Simberg asked Song Ya.

"Uh... let's change it first."

In the first version of the script, the male protagonist in the second part was set up as a good white boy, and the villain became the standard villain template of the American high school who bullied him, the quarterback of the football team. The heroine got acquainted during the dance and talked about a romantic relationship with a comedy twist. In the end, it must be the same group dance happy ending as the first one.

The skeleton of a typical high school youth film, just with street dance and modern dance elements added.

Song Ya's intuition is mediocre, but this kind of film is a major category of Hollywood with a small reputation, and the target audience loves it very much. As long as it is produced to a standard, it should not lose money.

"OK, let's start the preliminary preparations."

First of all, it is still necessary to engage in custom-made film rights. Song Ya won the chief producer for Yeremov, Catherine personally acted as co-producer, and the executive producer was served by someone from Universal.

Then there is the director. After all, it is best to have a director participate in script changes, but old Larry is no longer what he used to be. He just accepted an art film contract from 20th Century Fox, and began to focus on artistic ideals and film awards. strain.

"How about Zack Schneider, the assistant director of the first film?" Song Ya spoke for his own people.

"I don't really want to use newcomers. The production cost of our campus film is already quite sufficient." Simberg said.

"He has accumulated a lot of experience in the first film." Song Ya said.

"It's a bit young, but the performance is not bad, let's put it in the observation target." Catherine smoothed things over, "It's too early to leave the filming, so there is no rush."

After leaving Universal Studios, Song Ya went to the headquarters of Hollywood Pictures again.

Linton, the president of his family, thought that Song Ya wanted to make a movie that satirized Mira's father, so he refused to let go of the right to adapt the original novel of the game of cat and mouse.

He guessed Song Ya's intention wrong, but the goal has been achieved. Song Ya, who has apocalypse, is indeed determined to win the right to adapt. If he fails to buy it several times, he can only compromise and cooperate.

"Besides starting to shoot the sequel of Dancing My Life next year, our A+ film studio only plans to invest in one more movie, which is this cat and mouse game."

Song Ya also knew that it was unrealistic and too risky to complete the original cast, so she lowered her expectations, first signed a letter of intent with Hollywood Pictures for a project with a budget of about 20 million dollars, and then paid another two With a deposit of 150,000 knives, he got all the historical scripts of the cat and mouse game from their copyright library. Of course, it was just for research and research. The investment intention alone was not enough to get him the right to adapt.

"Hollywood Films is not Amblin Entertainment. An investment of tens of millions can be regarded as a gamble for us." Linton held Song Ya's hand tightly when he sent people out, "I hope you can bring me Come and get lucky."

"Don't worry, I haven't missed a shot in Hollywood yet." Song Ya boasted jokingly.

Linton laughed again.

"Katenberg has left Disney, and now Linton has a good relationship with his new bosses, and his internal reform of Hollywood studios is also very effective..."

Yeremov asked with some concern: "But the relationship between Linton and Katzenberg is still very bad, although Katzenberg has already failed and left, and we..."

"Don't worry, since those guys don't take me to play, then they have nothing to say when I expand my contacts in Hollywood."

Song Ya reassured him, "You can't hang yourself on a tree in Universal, and the actual situation after their parent company changes next year is unpredictable."

There is no shortage of buyers for Hollywood film giants. I heard that many powerful wealthy people and large companies have already contacted Panasonic. It will definitely be another billion-dollar deal by then.

"Too."

The two returned to the small office rented by A+ Film Studio in Hollywood. Yeremov added a few clerks, and it is still a basically empty film company.

The bodyguards put a few dusty cardboard boxes on the desk. Inside was the script of the game of cat and mouse. A film company obtained the right to adapt the novel from the legendary liar Abagnale in the early 1980s. In the beginning, the right to adapt changed hands several times, and all the companies that owned him spent some effort on it, and found no less than twenty screenwriters to adapt it, so there are many versions.

Song Ya and Yeremov took out bags of neatly marked documents, found the latest version, opened them and browsed them roughly.

"Where's the second male?"

He quickly discovered the biggest problem. Compared with the original movie in his mind, the role of the anti-fraud detective played by Tom Hanks almost never appeared. The overall script is still in accordance with Abagnell's self-boasting, It tells a self-promotional story about how a liar can be. Although the subsequent result is still the French Open, but the concept is much worse than the original movie in the future.

"Um……"

Song Ya took the document bag over to check. It had the logo of Hollywood Films and a warning seal not to be circulated privately. Below it was the name of the screenwriter and the sealing date. The sealing date was at the beginning of 1994. It seems that they did not completely abandon this No wonder Linton refused to let go of the project.

He dug out the first version of the script again, which belonged to another unknown small film company. He saw the name of the famous talk show host Johnny Carson in the screenwriter column, and he himself participated in his Tonight Show. Although it was Jay Leno who took over as host at that time.

Johnny Carson bought the adaptation rights when Abagnell was on his show, and...

Song Ya closed the script that had been turned over and looked for it in chronological order. Johnny Carson sold the adaptation rights to Columbia Pictures, and then Columbia Pictures sold it to a producer. The producer died Later, the heirs of the inheritance sold the adaptation rights to Disney. The Disney production department judged that the production cost of the film was not high, and internally transferred it to Hollywood Pictures, which was in charge of low-cost films.

But all the scripts are far from the 'finished film'.

"It seems that you are going to help me find the shooter again, Yeremov." Song Ya said, rubbing his sore eyes after studying until late at night.