Exploiting Hollywood 1980.

Chapter 1106 The Joy and Sadness of Longwei Boy 3
"Ronald, you have helped me a lot, and I want to thank you very much."

Jack Nicholson reached out to Ronald through CAA on Thursday night, the second week of "Batman" release, and invited him and Diane to his house.

"Why? I didn't do anything to help you?" Ronald was eating the weird snacks prepared by the cook at Nicholson's house, with a dazed expression on his face.

"You guy, there's no one else here..." Jack Nicholson sat next to Ronald and whispered in his ear, "I listened to your suggestion and signed the global box office share, now I want Got rich. Huh?"

Nicholson's agent and accountant had already held a meeting with him. According to Batman's box office trend, he made a lot of money.The film was ill-fated. Polygram Films started the project, then went through Universal, and finally Warner Bros. took over. With a production cost of more than 4000 million, no one has the ability to guarantee that it will be able to make money.

So at that time, they tried their best to let the leading actors sign a sharing contract and share the risk.After consulting Ronald, Nicholson finally agreed, and according to Ronald's suggestion, he signed a sharing agreement for all media channels.

Whether it's domestic box office, international box office, videotape revenue, he can split the money.

"That's why you keep a low profile, man. I think you are also signing very high in the order of sharing. If you let other investors know, you will cause unnecessary trouble." Ronald also said in Nicholson Lower your voice.

Rebecca Brossard, Jack Nicholson's girlfriend, who was chatting with Diane next to him, had already glanced over here.She is a model and also wants to develop in the showbiz, but so far she has only played a role in Die Hard.Otherwise, how could this 26-year-old young lady move into the house of Nicholson, who is more than [-] years older than her and [-] years older?

"That makes sense..." Nicholson bumped Ronald with his shoulder, "Honestly speaking, didn't the Dirty Dancing that you produced yourself earn you tens of millions of dollars?"

"My film production cost is only a few million, which is only one-tenth of Batman's. Of course, I also provided filming funds, so I earn a little more than ordinary directors." Ronald felt that Rebecca Brossard's facial muscles were a little distorted, and he looked over with straight eyes.

She clearly and intuitively felt that the two men were chatting about green...a piece of paper.

"You are right. I worked for Roger Coleman for ten years, and I could only get the minimum wage of tens of dollars each time. Who would have thought..." Jack Nicholson has acted for so many years , this is the first time he has made so much money for a movie.

"Roger is a nice guy...", Ronald laughed.

"Yeah, if he didn't give me the opportunity to play the leading role and be a screenwriter, I would either starve to death or quit the profession of actor. If this stingy old man is willing to pay me a little more, maybe He's already made a fortune."

"Haha...", Ronald successfully changed the subject, and of course his "dirty dancing" made tens of millions of dollars... every year.

But this topic is too easy to cause jealousy. It seems that Nicholson's girlfriend, the expression on her face has been distorted to the point where her mouth is crooked. It seems that she has made up her mind to earn a long-term meal ticket.

"Honey..." Rebecca Brossard had come over, tightly wrapped her arms around Nicholson's arm, and pressed her whole body against it.

"Where is your bathroom here?" Ronald saw the problem and left quickly, not wanting to get involved in this kind of thing.

"It's upstairs...well, why don't you go to the one on the first floor, go ahead and turn right." Nicholson said halfway, then changed the subject, and pointed to the one on the first floor to Ronald.

"This guy doesn't know what he put in his bedroom bathroom..." Ronald heard the problem, got up and walked to the corridor on the first floor.

"Beep beep..." Ronald was whistling and thinking about things in the mirror. From now on, his own room should be more convenient, and Diane will be inconvenient to move for a while...

Suddenly, Ronald noticed from the mirror that there was a golden thing moving in the corner behind. It looked like a very thick rope...

"Fuck...what the hell is this..." Ronald was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, it was a snake...

After tidying up my mind, I took a closer look, and it turned out to be a golden python.Fortunately, this thing is not poisonous...

Ronald calmed down, probably Nicholson's pet, this bastard, trying to scare himself... Fortunately, Diane didn't come alone...

"Hey hey..." Sure enough, Nicholson looked at Ronald who came in from the outside, and looked at him with a smirk, "Didn't you find anything interesting?"

"Jack, it's not a good idea to scare people with a python..." Ronald supported Diane's waist and decided to leave early.

"Hey, you are really a character." Jack Nicholson always looked up at the guests who were not afraid of snakes.Those high-level studio executives who have the power to yell and drink in the office will all scream in fright when they see his little pet.

"What python?" Diane couldn't help asking after getting into the car.

"It's nothing, Nicholson has a pet, and somehow escaped into the bathroom. It's a good thing you didn't go..."

"My God, boa constrictor?" Diane patted his chest, glanced at brother Ronnie, and buried his head on his shoulder happily.

"The quirks of these actors are really not small..." Ronald learned a bit, and he respected his agent even more in his heart.These people are really powerful. For work, they can serve any weird person.

……

"Ronald, do you want another group photo?"

At the Los Angeles premiere of the third part of Long Wei Boys, Ronald and a group of creators posed in various poses in front of the camera to meet the needs of reporters.

The director, Tsui Hark, and the heroine Rosamund Kwan, who came here from Xiangjiang to attend the premiere, can speak fluent English, so there is no problem accepting interviews with reporters.

"Excuse me, Ronald, why don't you direct the third film yourself?" The reporter is a fan of the series and asked Ronald immediately.

"The third part added a lot of content about the origin of karate, and the action scenes have been greatly upgraded. In this regard, director Tsui Hark is the most suitable talent. You will know how exciting it is after watching the movie. gone."

Ronald replied with a smile, he definitely couldn't say it was because he didn't want to direct the third film, which was suitable for the occasion.

"Ronald, will Diane play the Dragon Boy? Why not let her be Daniel LaRusso's new girlfriend?" Another reporter asked.

"Daniel is lucky enough, he has two girlfriends, Ali and Kumiko, and Diane is mine..." Ronald put his arms around Diane to protect her, as if not to let the boy The lead actor, Ralph Mazio, approached, causing a crowd of reporters to laugh.

"We arranged for Daniel a beautiful woman from the East, this is Rosamund Kwan, to be his girlfriend in the third part, let me tell you a secret, Rosamund Kwan plays Amei, the level of karate is even higher than Daniel... She is the one who can fight the most in the third part besides Master Miyagi..."

"Miss Rosamund, please give us a positive..." Those reporters saw Ronald introducing himself, and they were very face-saving, surrounded Rosamund Kwan and Ralph Mazio, and asked them to do a lot of karate poses together, flashing lights non-stop.

"Director Luo... Luo Sheng..." Rosamund Kwan was very grateful, and would like to thank Ronald later.He was fixed by the wedding ring on his ring finger... Hey, I don't know if I can play more roles in Hollywood?
"Everyone go in..." Ronald's personal assistant Fat Girl Lake came to urge everyone, and the manager of the marketing department, Claudia Wells, was also greeting the reporters, which caused their photos to be taken, which made Wells still I have to explain to them that I have become a behind-the-scenes worker, not an actor.

The movie is in the form of a prequel. It tells the story of Daniel and Mr. Miyagi. When they went to Ryukyu in the next vacation, the yacht was brought into a mist by the ocean current. The two seemed to travel through time and came to the coastal city in the south of the ancient Huaguo.

They met the first ancestor of Master Miyagi, who was a sailor on a trading ship here.They were also brought here by ocean currents, and a few of them ran into Japanese pirates, were robbed of everything, and were driven into the sea.

Several people desperately swam ashore and were rescued by kind fishermen.They settled down in a village by the seaside of Huaguo, and saw that fishermen were practicing a martial art that was similar to karate but different in addition to fishing.

A few of them also learned this kind of martial arts from Southern Shaolin. Finally, with the help of the villager girl Amei, they learned the essence of this kind of martial arts - internal strength. Together, the martial arts of several people rose greatly.

The pirates in Dongying took a fancy to this peaceful fishing village again and wanted to seize it as a base for pirates. Under the resistance of the local villagers, the pirates were defeated.

The large force of pirates came, and the fishermen were outnumbered. No matter how strong the martial arts skills of Amei and them were, they were no match. At the moment of crisis, General Zheng, the local commander-in-chief, led the navy and defeated the pirates together.

Daniel, Master Miyagi, together with his ancestor and Amei, chased and killed the villains who were released and then attracted pirates to slaughter the village, and defeated them together with martial arts.

Finally, with the consent of General Zheng, they boarded the boat again and drove to Ryukyu, the hometown of Master Miyagi.

On the boat to Ryukyu, Daniel and Master Miyagi were very happy. Their ancestors went to Ryukyu in the end, so that Master Miyagi would not disappear because of affecting history.

The boat encountered a burst of white mist again, and several people felt sleepy and fell asleep.When Daniel and Miyagi woke up, they were back on the modern yacht, and the internal skills of flying to the sky and escaping the earth were gone. The two of them didn't know whether they had the same dream or really experienced an adventure.

Daniel went to the restaurant for a drink, and met a girl from Xiangjiang who also came to travel, she looked exactly like Amei.

"Huh, huh, huh..." Those who came to the premiere were all loyal viewers of the Longwei Boys series. They were very happy to see the upgraded karate moves and the unique scenery like impressionist paintings in South China .

Daniel LaRusso is even better.

"It seems to be very popular?" Diane was very excited. It was also the first time she watched this kind of unique action movie, flying around in the sky against the laws of science, which was completely different from the common sense of American audiences. When they saw this scene, they accepted it very well.

"It's so cool, these Southern Shaolin magicians are so powerful. It's a pity that Daniel has lost his magic when he returned to modern times. If he can bring this kind of magic and participate in the karate competition, how powerful would it be?"

"I think Master Miyagi still has a little bit of magic left. Look at him in the first film, he healed Daniel, who had injured his ankle, with his inner strength. Is it the inner strength or the secret of the Miyagi family?"

"It makes sense, no wonder he is so powerful, it turned out to be Nan Shaolin's internal strength."

Ronald went to the bathroom as usual to listen to the comments.These loyal audiences have changed from high school students back then to adults, but they still have love for these characters, some obviously unreasonable plots, and they make up a pretty similar thing.

"Are we going to sell again?" Weintraub came over and asked Ronald. He saw the audience's reaction, which was the best among the three films, and he was excited. Could it be that his luck is changing again and he is about to turn around?

"Look at the box office and reviews...it's really an experiment." Ronald was not so optimistic.Those who came today are all loyal audiences, whether those ordinary audiences will accept it is still a question.

"Batman continues to sell well, smashing box office records for the three-day long weekend."

After the weekend, the box office statistics came out, and Richard brought the data to Ronald to report.

"3000 million..." Ronald was also speechless, and his results in the second week were so good.Batman's total score has already broken [-] million, and it only took ten days.Breaking through history, the fastest film to break through the [-] million domestic box office mark.

"Is it so good to adapt a comic book to a movie?" Ronald remembered the Superman back then, and it was beyond everyone's expectations, and it was a big hit.

There is a unique magic in this kind of movie. For so many years of comic fans in America, they all hope to see the comic superhero images they saw when they were young on the screen.

"Where is the third part of Longwei Boy... Well, it's not bad." Ronald scrolled down, and saw the box office results of Longwei Boy, with a score of 100 million, ranking third on the list.

This is the second-best result in the trilogy, only slightly lower than the second.However, the first film is a dark horse, and the stamina of the third film may not be as strong.

In particular, the critics' evaluation of the third part is obviously divided between good and bad.Some film critics who liked this movie gave it a high evaluation and fully affirmed Tsui Hark's directorial style.

There are also film critics who hate the third film. They are dissatisfied with the action style of the third film that destroys the first two.It can be predicted that among the audience who watched the third part, there are very few children who want to go to the karate temple to participate in training, because they will be told on the first day that karate cannot teach the inner strength of flying.

What about Ronald's own feelings?
Actually not bad.This is an attempt by him to introduce the style and aesthetics of Hong Kong's kung fu movies, to see the reaction of American audiences, and then to talk about which direction to focus on in the next cooperation with Xiangjiang's director and action actors.

"Tsui Hark must be able to gain a foothold in Hollywood. Rosamund Kwan has also been well received. Roger Ebert said that she is the best actress in the three films. He likes a woman whose karate level is higher than Daniel's." main character……"

After reading the material, Ronald made a phone call with Weintraub at home. Both of them were very optimistic and planned to cast more films with Hong Kong action actors.

"Hey, Ronald, your phone has been out of order this morning."

When he pressed and hung up the phone, his lawyer, Mitch Kanter, followed him on the phone.

"What's the matter? Is that blind actor willing to accept a settlement?" Ronald thought it was a matter of the "cyborg" crew.

"It's very possible, but that's not why I'm looking for you..." Mickey Kanter's voice was a little anxious, "Your Longwei Boys third part was sued by the Hollywood Stunt Union."

(End of this chapter)