Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

The most anticipated movie in the summer of 1999 was not "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" produced by Galaxy Films. It can even be said that everyone was looking forward to another movie throughout 1999.Lucas, who had been away from the big screen for a long time, finally made his comeback and brought his "Star Wars Episode" back to the world.Murdoch's 2th Century Fox Film Company finally invited Lucas out to reproduce the style of "Star Wars" back then.

As the largest shareholder of Industrial Light & Magic, Jed naturally knew that Lucas was about to launch "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace", but Jed was not afraid of colliding with such a blockbuster.In addition to his self-confidence, the more important thing is that the genre of "The Sixth Sense" is completely different from "Star Wars", so Jed doesn't have to worry about being compared.

It's a pity that the above is just Jed's self-feeling. Since "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" was released on May 5, the box office has shown a state of collapse, and it has won the weekend box office champion for four consecutive weeks. It was only squeezed to No.19 by "Tarzan" in five weeks.But so what?The biggest topic of the whole summer is "Star Wars". The plot of Lucas' Return of the King is really perfect.The reporters will naturally not let go of any situation that creates topics. Lucas spends most of his time as a visual effects supervisor when he is silent, and he has collaborated with Jed in many classic movies. " was about to be released, the reporters finally brought the two directors together for discussion.

Although sci-fi films and horror films are completely incompatible genres, in the omnipotent writing of reporters, Lucas and Jed seem to be feuds for generations.For the reporter's description, Lucas' company naturally came out to clarify.The current Lucas is not the stunned young man he was back then. He dared to break with the directors' union for ten years just because of a subtitle issue. He would rather not make a film himself than compromise.Now Lucas has become much smoother, and he understands how hard it is to live without a movie.

Although he has a good relationship with Jed, he can't guarantee whether there will be any problems in the relationship between the two in the reporter's fear of chaos.Jed is quite powerful in the directors' union now, and he was able to reconcile with the directors' union this time because of the efforts of Jed and others.Especially the industrial light and magic company where the two cooperated. Lucas was very aware of Jed's role in it, so he had to issue a clarification statement through the company.

Seeing the kindness expressed by Lucas, Jed also said in an interview with reporters, "Star Wars is a milestone work in the history of American film, and I am very happy to see that there is a new film released for this work. Mr. Lucas and I are very good friends. Although some of our works have to face competition for the annual box office, this does not hinder our friendship. I certainly hope that my film can beat Lucas to become the number one box office of the year. , but it seems very difficult at present. But even if my work is No.2, I have won many films released in the United States, how can it be considered a failure?"

Jed's words made many reporters feel hot. They have been hyping that if Jed is No.2, it will be a big failure, but it is against their will to say such things.There are 1 or 9 movies that are released in the United States every year. If you count the movies that go directly to the videotape or DVD market without being released, at least 2 movies are released in the United States every year, ranking second among the 2 movies. Such a result is not a failure anyway, right?

What's more, Jed clearly remembers that "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is the overall champion of the supernatural horror genre since the statistics of American film history, and it was also the No. Or becoming the runner-up at the box office of the year is not a failure, is it?After all, the production cost of "The Sixth Sense" was only 1999 million U.S. dollars, while the production cost of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" was as high as 13 million U.S. dollars. Jed really didn't think his work could successfully counterattack Gao Shuai rich.

With countless topics, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" was released on August 1999, 8. New films released in the same week included MGM's remake "Game of Thrones", Universal Pictures' "Mysterious Man", Warner Bros. Animated "The Iron Giant" and Columbia Pictures' comedy "Dick."The top three at the weekend box office last week were Paramount's "Runaway Bride", Artison Entertainment's "The Disappearance of the University of Maryland Graduate" and Warner Bros.' "Deep Sea Shark".In terms of new films, Jed is not worried. Except for MGM's remake of "Stealing the Sky" that year, which may attract the attention of a group of old movie fans, other films really do not pose any threat.

On the contrary, it was the old films that made Jed a little worried. He was well aware of the box office performance of "The Disappearance of the University of Maryland Graduate". Although Jed had already filmed "The Blair Witch", the real "Blair Witch" still appeared up.Of course, compared to Jade's version, this version has been greatly modified.And the main creators also said without hesitation that they borrowed Jade's ideas, so Artison Entertainment even shamelessly hung the words "The Witch Again" on the movie poster.And importantly, both films are the same type of film.This will not only be compared by reporters, but also can boost the box office with each other.Jade doesn't want to boost the box office of "The Disappearing University of Maryland Graduate", but the audience doesn't think so. They will definitely see which of the two horror films is scarier.It can be said that as long as the box office performance of "The Sixth Sense" is better, even "The Disappearance of University of Maryland Graduates" can get a lot of box office.Thinking about the production costs of the two films, I am afraid that my "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" is very likely to be made into trash by some reporters.

For film critics, Jade's "The Sixth Sense" is the type of film they pay attention to.Although Jed chose to start with the genre of horror films, according to the plots that have been revealed so far, the whole movie is still a movie full of humanistic care, which is similar to last year's "Saving Private Ryan".Critics love that it's Jed, making films that make people think, and films that are full of depth...instead of just showing off how deep his understanding of special effects is.Whether it's Los Angeles, or New York, or Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco... Tonight, countless film critics choose to buy movie tickets with ordinary actors. How far has the realm been raised.And Jed's performance in the movie didn't disappoint anyone, because it's a good movie.

From the beginning full of religious metaphors, the tone of the whole movie is full of dark gray, and the background music also uses a lot of weeping violin and mournful cello. The tune in the music makes this movie seem like a religious movie. Many film critics wrote the same line in their notebooks, paying homage to Murnau?Murnau is one of the greatest directors of Hollywood's golden age, and his films are full of metaphors for religion.But obviously Jed didn't intend to pay tribute to the great director, because soon everyone discovered the main plot of the movie.

The story of a boy who can see ghosts and his single mother, and the boy and a therapist, and the therapist and his wife.The three relationships are linked together because of the boy and the doctor.What makes many viewers feel strange is that these three relationships are obviously very close, but they do not intersect with each other, which makes people feel that something is missing.And the horror scenes in it are actually not that scary, but the director rendered it too scary. In fact, this is a relatively warm movie.But when it came to the end, the audience discovered why the plot of the movie seemed very logical, but there were some unreasonable things...

Because the psychiatrist who counsels the little boy is also a ghost.He had been killed in a shooting incident earlier, but he hadn't noticed it all along.Therefore, the audience finally understood why he and his wife did not have any verbal communication, even in the Cold War.Therefore, everyone understands why the boy's mother has no intersection with the doctor, even though the mother's child is tutored by the doctor.

When all the plots were reversed at the end, when re-examining the film, many film critics sighed, "Where is this a horror film that scares people? This is clearly a family film for self-reflection!" Bruce Willis succeeded. He finally changed from a macho man who can only fight and kill to an actor who can act. His performance in the film is perfect, whether it is his language or his body movements, Even one of his eyes is very playful, I think this year's best actor will definitely be nominated for him. And Haley Joe's acting skills are even more amazing, the little Forrest Gump back then has finally grown into an actor who can take on the plot I've seen some of the comedies he's starred in in the past, and I just want to say that those directors nearly ruined him, and only something as deep as "The Sixth Sense" is what Haley Joe should do. If it's possible , Let him cooperate with director Jed Sherman a few times, I think the next star of Hollywood will be born! As for Mr. Jed Sherman, I don’t think I have any words to praise him. Being able to make a movie Adapting an extremely bad script into such an excellent movie and successfully filming it, I think a talented director is no longer enough for him. With a few more years of experience, he will be the youngest master director in Hollywood!"

"The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" not only received unanimous praise from film critics, but also performed well at the box office.Jed's master of psychological horror movies is really not a fool. Many people's nerves have been tightly gripped by Jed from the beginning of watching the movie, and everyone was relieved when the plot was reversed at the end.But everyone was surprised that they would watch horror movies and burst into tears.These tears are definitely not because of fright, but because of emotion.

With the audience's word-of-mouth and critics' praise, "The Sixth Sense" won the weekend box office champion in the first week and continued to win the weekend box office champion for five consecutive weeks, and it did not fall out of the top weekend box office until the 16th week. ten.But even so, "The Sixth Sense" was released in North America for a total of 4 weeks, spanning nearly a year, slightly exceeding the 37 weeks of "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace".

And "The Sixth Sense" finally earned $3 million at the domestic box office and $4 million overseas, almost becoming the first horror film to hit the billion-dollar club.But even so, "The Sixth Sense" has become the highest-grossing horror film in American history, and it has also made Jed the "Master of American Horror Films" in one fell swoop.

However, after Jed finished working on "The Sixth Sense", the focus of his work shifted back to the we TV network. At this time, the we TV network has basically been established, and the rest is the reorganization and divestiture of related companies.In order not to embarrass other TV networks, Jade has transferred the original Dongfeng brand to Warner Dongfeng Broadcasting Company, while the company that produces programs and TV dramas for other TV networks has switched to the Galaxy brand.