Raising Dragons in Hollywood

Sammy and the others never meant to take advantage of it on purpose.

Well, no one will believe this.

Rossi received a very satisfactory gift, which seemed to be the signature of a certain quarterback of a football star; Michelon let go of his stomach and ate for days; even Sammy, who was eccentric and hard to please Received several extremely ugly (Maiqi) dinosaur models.

What a beautiful day!

But this matter cannot be dragged on forever.

So, they had to reluctantly give up those warm invitations, went back to the room for a meeting, looked at the list of buyers together, and determined to negotiate a result.

Among all the publishers who took the initiative to contact them, there are three that Rossi is personally optimistic about.

So, he seriously started to introduce them to Sami.

The first is Tomorrow Films.

The scale of this company is not big, even in the whole of Hollywood, it is as small as a drop in the ocean.

But it has a unique advantage in the circle of independent films. It was established early and has an excellent reputation over the years; it has released many independent films with good responses before, and its strength is also very strong.

Generally speaking, this is a good choice.

But unfortunately, the representative of their company told Rossi frankly: "In this film festival, in addition to your "Snake Trouble", we also took a fancy to another film called "Lily on the Street". ". Therefore, the company is more inclined to win that film first, and there are already negotiations over there."

"Snake Wreck is wonderful, but..."

He paused for a few seconds, and continued to say sincerely: "At present, I can only promise you, if you are willing to continue to cooperate with us, I will try my best to find the most reasonable price and promotion plan for you."

The movie "Lily on the Street" happened to be a big hit this year, and it also won two awards for Best Picture and Best Actress, which can be said to have attracted much attention.

Therefore, the comparison between "Snake Misfortune" and it is like the contrast between "a dark horse from a poor student who has made significant progress but is still performing unstable, and an excellent student who has always performed steadily and firmly occupied the first place". vulnerable.

Rossi can naturally understand the company's choice.

But no matter how much he likes this company, considering that if he signs with the same company as the popular "Lily on the Street", "Snake Misfortune" may have to make way for it in the follow-up, thus failing to achieve the expected income. A little hesitant, he tactfully expressed that he needed to think about it.

The representative of Tomorrow Film Company didn't mind either, and readily agreed.

This kind of reliable attitude of "not concealing, telling the truth, and being polite from beginning to end" successfully raised Rossi's favorability.

so that...

Even if I really don't want "Snake Misfortune" to compete with "Lily on the Street" or even become a foil...

He still included this company in the ranks of the candidate list.

The second option is Kerry Brothers Films.

This is a brand new film company that has not been established for a long time.

The boss is the Kerry brothers, a pair of twins.

In order to distinguish them, people habitually call them Big Kerry and Little Kerry.

The brothers started out in music in the early days, signed many popular bands, and sold many hit records.

However, due to the rapid development of the Internet, people gradually lost the habit of buying records, and the music market was forced to enter a period of ice.

With many music companies going bankrupt, the brothers had to start thinking about finding another way out.

So, after much deliberation, they decided to get involved in the film industry.

In their view, there is not much difference between filming and MV.

So, they not only quickly set up a film production company, but also made a movie in the same way they used to shoot music videos for bands.

The results were astonishing!

That movie was later written (as a negative example) into the teaching materials of the USC School of Film and Television Arts - becoming a famous representative work of 'PPT movie'.

Obviously, interlacing is like a mountain.

If you succeed in the music market, you may not necessarily succeed in the movie market.

The two brothers fully understood the facts, and finally stopped tossing and insisting on taking pictures by themselves.

Instead, they look outside, wielding piles of money and wanting to invest.

But a layman is still a layman.

Even if the two brothers can keenly sense which musician's record can sell well and find music themes suitable for the market at any time, they still don't know what can be popular in the movie market.

So, as of today.

The two brothers have already won the reputation of 'Hollywood's most taken advantage of'. It is really exciting to invest in one and lose one!

Since I'm not good at shooting skills, and I don't have enough investment vision...

The two brothers had no choice but to take aim at the film festival again.

They pondered 'although they do not understand'.

But you can buy a film that has a high attendance rate during the screening period of the film festival, and it is best to get some awards.

In this way, at least some money can be earned and blood can be recovered.

Otherwise, no matter how rich you are, it will be unbearable to keep losing like this.

As it happens, "Snakes" meets all their requirements.

They immediately offered the highest price for the film, trying to win it in one fell swoop.

However, Rossi had to tell Sami honestly: "These two brothers are really amateurs, very, very amateurs! They don't understand anything, so they asked me when they met, do you think this movie about 'snakes eat people' will Make money? Snakes eat people? Well, there's nothing wrong with that summary, but listen... Forget it. Anyway, he asked me like that, and I would have answered 'I think it should make money'. And then... guess what? They Immediately tell me 'OK, let's talk about the price'."

These brothers are too funny!

Sammy laughed.

Instead, Mai Qi asked suspiciously: "What about the third option? There is a third one, who are you talking about?"

Rossi simply continued: "The third choice is Louie Madsen, he is the most enthusiastic of all publishers."

He paused before introducing in detail: "His company is currently very small. It's more like a temporary studio than a company. But this person has a wide network of contacts, and he comes from a real Hollywood family. The family is not powerful. Big, but the elders are definitely the older generation of Hollywood filmmakers. Therefore, it may be because of the influence from childhood, this person is also very professional in movies. I tried to chat with him a few times and found that he knows all aspects of movies They can understand clearly, and at the same time, give some very good suggestions.”

Sammy said thoughtfully, "That sounds like a good guy, too."

"Not only is it good, but I also really like your movie."

Rossi said dumbfoundedly: "This person is probably the one who wants to buy our film the most. He called me fifty times, and sent messages every day, asking me to hand over this film to me." Give it to him! And, stalking me every day. God, you guys don't know how tough this guy is... If only my girlfriend Ellie knew 'I haven't answered her calls lately' just to chat with this guy , she will definitely kill me."

"Sounds like fun."

Sammy sighed without backache while standing and speaking.

Rossi rolled his eyes and continued: "Actually, if it wasn't for a serious flaw on his side... I probably would have succumbed to this stalking and agreed to sell it to him."

Sammy asked curiously, "What defect?"

Rossi tried hard to think back before saying: "That's what he told me that day."

He began to imitate the sincere and slightly pleading tone of that Louis Madsen:

[I really like your movie "Snake Trouble" so much!I watched it more than ten times in a row in the cinema!Listen, Rosie, I'd give anything to get it, big bucks, top dollar, no problem!But... God, God, I don't have money, I don't have money, what do I do?What should I do!I can't give you that much money.But losing it would break my heart! ]

Sammy: ...

Mikey: ...

Rossi spread her hands helplessly.

Then, he took the initiative to help summarize: "In terms of advantages, Tomorrow Film Production Company has the best reputation, and its facts are reliable; the Kerry Brothers are rich; Louis has connections and is very professional. So... who do we choose? ?”

However, there was not a second of hesitation.

Sammy replied, "Choose the rich one."

Mikey replied, "Choose the rich one."

"You two have a good understanding."

Rossi looked at the two speechlessly, and said casually: "Louis will be very disappointed, he said before, his heart will be broken."

There was no fluctuation in Sammy's heart, but he asked solemnly: "Has he never read Oscar Wilde?"

Then, without waiting for Rossi to answer, he recited Oscar Wilde's famous line: "The heart was made to be broken." (The heart was made to be broken.)