Three Hundred and Ninety-Seven-1 What Does It Take to Create a Movie?

The initial stages of the film industry can be traced back to inspiration, conception, and scripts. The importance of this stage and the large number of participants involved make film scripts unique in their own right, forming a huge industry.

Similar to other industries, whether a movie idea or script ultimately succeeds depends to a large extent on its chances and luck.

"I have an idea for a movie. If I can get a little more money..." The end of the cigarette suddenly lit up with a flash of bright red, followed by a large cloud of thick fog, which was sprayed out from Wayne's nostrils. None of this affected him. When he opened his mouth to sigh. “I can turn this idea into a concept!”

The Rolls-Royce Silver Spur drove quietly in the dark night. Nina covered her mobile phone with both hands and responded softly from time to time. It didn't last long, and she hung up the call in less than a minute.

When she raised her head and looked at her boss, she saw that Wayne was staring at the receding street outside the window, and his sighs could also be heard in the smoke.

"Boss, that Charles Leonardo, followed his mentor to the premiere party." Seeing that he didn't express anything, the assistant lady showed a playful look on her face. "You would never guess that not only is he not a fool, he is also a young man with excellent academic performance."

"I got it."

Wayne put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray and looked away from the car window. "I guess that Charles Leonardo not only had excellent academic performance, but also received a lot of recognition in school. He may even have won awards for short films and the like."

"Yep." Nina opened her mouth in surprise, nodded unconsciously, and simply spoke out the information she had just obtained. “The short films he shot have indeed won many awards, and he is very famous in the school. Because of his shooting style, some media have reported on this person, describing him as like a Wayne Greenberg who has not yet started... "

Before Nina could finish speaking, Wayne shook his head and waved his hand to interrupt her. "It seems that this talented man from the film and television production department really took the words of some media seriously, didn't he? He should understand the process of the birth of a movie, but he thought the process was too simple."

For gossip entertainment media, normally just take a look. When these media practitioners want to praise someone, it is indeed quite confusing.

Before the arrival of the 1990s, the media would associate the future of a certain talented young director with Steven Spielberg and others. In the past two years, the tone has unknowingly changed, and filming has appeared again. As a young man with an alternative style and seemingly bright future, the media will associate him with Wayne.

These are just a way to attract attention. As long as movie fans like to watch and are willing to pay for the colorful gossip tabloids, they will not mind describing these so-called young geniuses as templates for anyone.

Nina also understands this. She has been in this industry for several years, and she has a thorough understanding of the general operating rules of Hollywood.

Of course she heard what Wayne just lamented. It takes a lot of energy and money for a movie to go from an idea to a concept, and then from an idea to a script.

When a script appears in the hands of a screenwriter or project initiator, the work on a movie has just begun, and there are still a lot of difficulties waiting behind it.

Putting aside the most difficult financial issue, even if someone invests in the filming and the post-production work goes perfectly, a film with relatively complete integrity and commercial value can be successfully produced. At this point, the work is only half done.

Then comes the key point, the release of Hollywood movies. This step can be described as a power constraint. After the film is produced, it must go through the distribution process before it can reach the audience. Therefore, film distribution is the core business of the film. In fact, it is these film distributors who control the distribution power that dominate the entire Hollywood.

If you are lucky enough and the movie successfully finds a reliable distributor, it will enter the next step, the screening and retailing of Hollywood movies. The goal here is relatively simple, that is, box office is king, and box office is the basis of all achievements. .

The profit sharing ratio between movie distributors and theater company theaters is 90/10. However, because the distributor has greater rights, in the cooperation agreement between the two, the distributor is usually limited to an absolute guaranteed minimum price. Normally, In the end, the box office split between the two was about half and half.

In addition to ticket sales, theaters also generate income through other methods such as selling food and beverages, screen advertising, and taking commissions from product sales.

When talking about the popularity of movie peripherals, we must mention the development of the Hollywood film industry. It can be summed up in four words: profit comes first.

By the 1980s, product placement, which involves arranging products to appear in movies and receiving some kind of compensation for doing so, had developed into a mature industry. Major film production companies had established dedicated departments for this purpose, and product placement work evolved from scripts to scripts. The writing phase has already begun.

Later, it will also involve the promotion and marketing of the film industry, the myth created by the Hollywood monopoly formed by the film companies headed by the six giants, and so on.

This set of aspects is a variety of difficulties that cannot be avoided from the conception to the release of a movie.

So the birth of a movie is never just about the knowledge learned in school. No matter how good your academic performance is, when you dive into the muddy waters of Hollywood, most of your pride will be smoothed away by reality, and you will become a screw in this huge film industry chain. Those who succeed are always lucky and lucky. Someone with both talent and background.

The Rolls-Royce Silver Thorn remained silent. While Wayne and Nina were thinking about each other, the car drove smoothly into Mulholland Drive and parked at the Greenberg Manor.

Today is the beginning of another summer war. Countless people closely related to the two films "Twister" and "Mission: Impossible" are waiting with their eyes wide open for the result of the first collision.

However, this did not include Wayne. He had not thought about the movie at all since he returned to the manor. He quietly watched the cute little princess sleeping for a while, then turned around and fell on the bed and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, a photo of Wayne and Steven Spielberg appeared on the front page of most entertainment media. Putting these two great Jewish directors in Hollywood together is destined to arouse quite a few fans. Interested, and also gave birth to curiosity about this "Tornado".

The remarks made by Wayne at the press conference also aroused considerable media discussion, especially the response from overseas media, which appeared in the entertainment section of almost all newspapers.

“I never consider what losers think, and I never want to listen to losers’ cries.”

"My films can easily enter their market and be recognized by local movie fans, but those film colleagues who slander me cannot achieve any good results with their films."

"They couldn't stop "Joker" from taking the Europa continent by storm, and they also couldn't stop the advancement of the Hollywood film industry!"

The North American media unanimously published a large number of comments made by Wayne at the press conference. These media, which deal with entertainment gossip all day long, may deliberately smear celebrities in order to attract eye-catching news reports, but when it comes to the outside world, The caliber has become quite synchronized.

After these words were published, they resonated with countless movie fans. We are now in the mid-to-late 1990s, an era when national confidence in the national service is the most expanded, and Wayne's remarks happened to hit most fans. Above the human g-spot.

When the media interviewed some passerby movie fans on Friday, most ordinary movie fans said that they would bring their family or friends with them to the theater to support "The Matrix" and "Tornado" mentioned by Wayne.

Even Warner Bros. and Steven Spielberg did not expect that the remarks made by Wayne at the press conference would have such a good effect, and all of this was reflected in the box office on the first day.

When the last working day of the week ends, the sun gradually moves westward, and the sky slowly gets dark, the number of moviegoers in the cinema begins to increase at a rate visible to the naked eye.

Movie fans have a lot of reasons to show enough enthusiasm for the cinema. This weekend will be a movie-watching carnival for a lot of ordinary viewers, including the action blockbuster "Mission: Impossible" starring Tom Cruise, and "Mission: Impossible", which has been gaining reputation since its opening. "Tornado", if there are young people who haven't had time to watch "The Matrix", this is also a very good choice.

"Haney, haven't you come out yet?"

It's late at night, and Los Angeles, which has been noisy all day, has returned to calm. In the living room of a villa not far from Greenberg Manor on Mulholland Drive in Beverly Hills, Nicole Kidman is wearing silk pajamas. The white and shiny figure of her youth made her look even more charming under the light.

"It should be soon."

On the sofa in the living room, not only Tom Cruise was waiting, but also the couple's manager Pat Kingsley.

This famous agent, who had entered the 10% ranks with his superstar clients a few years ago, had a rare hint of worry on his face.

Now "Mission: Impossible" is facing a situation that no one expected. Not only does it have a strong competitor "Tornado" that opens on a large scale on the same weekend, but it may also be the same weekend as "The Matrix" that has received both word-of-mouth and box office success. extrusion.

This is equivalent to two major Warner Bros. productions, simultaneously attacking "Mission: Impossible". Now even the popularity of Tom Cruise does not necessarily guarantee that more movie fans will choose to watch movies.

Nicole Kidman raised her head and glanced at the antique clock leaning against the wall. It was already a while after twelve o'clock, and the clock hand was about to go to one o'clock. The first-day box office numbers should be faxed soon. come over.

"coming."

Suddenly the fax machine beeped, and Pat Kingsley and Tom Cruise looked at it at the same time.