Chapter 159： "Whole Sober"

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In an apartment in North Hollywood, a bottle of premium red wine was opened and placed on top of a decanter.

The dishes on the table are authentic French foie gras, caviar, wild white truffle and other dishes.

These are all Ryan specially called the restaurant to deliver.

Not long after, Monica Bellucci came out from the bedroom on the second floor.

She changed into a silk pajamas. The red pajamas and her flawless white skin were a perfect match. There was a hint of excitement on her delicate face, as if she was extremely happy.

Monica Bellucci has always been very confident in her appearance and figure. This evening, she even dressed up carefully. She put a pair of black stockings on her long legs, and a pair of red high-heeled short boots under her jade feet.

It was a stark contrast to the appearance on the stage of the Golden Globe Awards just now, as if the Monica Bellucci in front of her was not a graceful and luxurious Golden Globe actress, but a **** stripper .

Ryan was sitting on the sofa downstairs, facing Monica Bellucci who came down the stairs, shaking the wine glass in his hand, "Wow, Miss Golden Globe, what's your acceptance speech! "

Monica Bellucci came over, picked up another glass of red wine on the table, touched the glass with Ryan, and asked: "Then, may I ask the future best director, do you want to hear the acceptance speech, or is it a special one?" programme?"

Tonight was considered the happiest day for her. Unsurprisingly, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, which has unexpected help for her future development.

Even, just now, she received a call from Helen, a well-known fashion brand from Italy, intending to invite her to be the next global spokesperson, and the annual endorsement fee is as high as 2.7 million US dollars.

This is not a local Italian endorsement, but a global endorsement. For her, it is simply an unimaginable thing.

Don't think that the endorsement fee of 2.7 million US dollars is a bit small.

This is a long-term meal ticket. You only need to participate in a limited number of endorsement activities each year, and you can earn 2.7 million US dollars. You can even use the influence of the brand to increase a certain degree of popularity.

For example, a certain Ha Shui and a certain Leehom in the previous life.

Every luxury endorsement, apart from money, is also a kind of recognition, a recognition of the actor's own commercial value.

"What do you think?" Ryan had a meaningful smile on his face.

"Really!" Monica Bellucci took a sip of red wine, but she didn't swallow it right away, but held it in her mouth, sat in Ryan's arms, hugged her neck, and gave a pair of soft red lips , and the red wine in the mouth.

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Early the next morning, Ryan didn't bother to sleep for a while, and drove Monica Bellucci to the airport. She needed to return to the crew to continue filming, otherwise Roland Emmerich would have to go crazy.

Leaving the airport and returning to the digital realm, Ryan devoted himself to the production of bullet-time special effects.

As for "Terminator 3"?

It is true that Orion Films and 20th Century Fox have reached an agreement, but 20th Century Fox needs a certain amount of time to raise funds, and the pre-production work of the crew is expected to take a while.

After more than ten days passed, 20th Century Fox still had no movement, but Ryan had some gains.

"Sophia, contact Tom Rothman and tell me that I want to show the bullet time special effects." Ryan, who was sitting behind the desk, looked at Sofia Coppola who walked in, and said good news.

"The exact time!" Sofia Coppola showed a hint of curiosity. She was already curious about the time when Ryan's mouth was full of magical bullets, but even she had never seen it before.

"The sooner the better." Ryan said with a confident expression, "I need to let Twentieth Century Fox know that the emergence of bullet time will definitely change the special effects shooting mode of Hollywood movies."

Of course, all of this is due to Digital Domain and Industrial Light & Magic. Ryan only made suggestions, and they are the specific implementers.

Sofia Coppola nodded, and became more and more curious about the bullet time that made Ryan confident, but she didn't ask any more questions, and she would naturally see the magic of the bullet time.

"Nate Shyamalan has already sent over the revised script."

While speaking, she put a script on the desk and continued: "At the same time, he hopes that Orion Films can release a film "Full Awake" directed by him. It is said that the budget of the film is as high as 6 million U.S. dollars, and the main funder is his parents."

(The one written on Baidu is called "Little Ghost in a Basket", and the Google translation software is "Totally Awake". I don't know which one is right, so I just wrote one casually.)

Ryan really knows this film. It was filmed in 1995 and was not released until 1998. The box office was pitifully low, only about 300,000 US dollars. Not to mention cost recovery, it is estimated that even the distribution fee will not be recovered.

Of course, it does not mean that the quality of this film is too bad, but that the distribution company of the film is limited in strength, and only a few theaters are showing it. In addition, the box office of a single show is not very good. Knight-Shyamalan is another unknown new director. , the final result can be imagined.

So it is very important to choose a strong distribution company.

"Tell him that Orion Films can pay 200,000 US dollars to buy out the North American distribution copyright of this film, and guarantee that the film can be released in North America, and the number of screens will not be less than 300." Ryan said after thinking for a while.

As for distribution?

It is almost out of Ryan's scope of consideration. Firstly, the risk is too great, and secondly, no Hollywood film company will agree to share the distribution.

"$200,000?"

"It's only one-thirtieth of the film's cost!" Sofia Coppola shrugged and said, "If I were him, I wouldn't agree unless I was crazy."

"After all, you paid $3 million for the copyright of a script, but only $200,000 for the North American distribution rights of a film with an investment of $6 million?"

"At most 300,000 US dollars." Ryan said the fact, "The price of any Hollywood film company will not be higher than 300,000 US dollars, or even only tens of thousands of dollars."

"When he comes back from Hollywood, he will naturally know that Orion Films is his best choice."

"What's more, whether the shooting cost of this film is 6 million US dollars, I'm afraid only he knows."

His family conditions are really good, and he can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund him to shoot an experimental film.

But it's hard to believe that $6 million will be spent again to shoot a movie.

"Wide Sober" is his first official film.

However, with the cast of "Fully Awake", the filming budget must be more than one million dollars.

As for whether it is 6 million US dollars, it is difficult to say.

"I'll convey your thoughts to him." Sofia Coppola finished speaking, turned and left the office.

Ryan picked up the script on his desk and read it carefully, while thinking about "Fully Awake" at the same time.

If there is no "Sixth Sense", even if Knight-Shyamalan gave this film to Orion Films for distributionhe would have to think about it.

It's not that there are any risks in the distribution of "Fully Awake". As long as the purchase price is low enough, there is almost no possibility of losing money, and the offline videotape distribution rights alone can recover half of the cost.

What Ryan considered was that the first film released by Orion Films alone was facing failure and could not recover the shooting cost, which would cause some negative effects.

Of course, he will not push this film to theaters now, but wait until "The Sixth Sense" is released. With the help of the film's box office sales, he will take the opportunity to push "Totally Awakened" to theaters to strive for more benefits.

In the 20th Century Fox Building, Tom Rothman put down the phone in his hand, showing a little thought, "Bullet time?"

"I hope Ryan Gosling can continue to create miracles."

Starting with "The Blair Witch", followed by "Saw" and "The Evil Spirit", as well as "The Truman Show", which is currently being released, the success of four consecutive films is a miracle.

Many film companies have included him in the list of first-line commercial directors.

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