[US Entertainment] Superstar

Chapter 274

Thunderous applause rang out in the Nokia Theatre, and the audience, film critics, even the staff and the invited stars all sent their most sincere encouragement to the film.

Amy Pascal, the president of Sony Pictures, was all smiles. She stood up and said to the others: "This movie is very good. We have worked so hard this year. We can't have nothing for two consecutive years."

It was only the second year of taking over Sony, and she urgently needed some excellent films to support Sony's performance in film and television, otherwise the position would be unstable.

It's okay to say that last year's performance was a bit poor. After all, the new executive took office, and the projects released were all formulated by the previous president.

But this "Almost Famous" is her stand against the crowd, not only agreeing to Cameron Crowe to shoot such a movie that does not seem to have much box office potential, but also giving the film a budget of 6000 million US dollars.

Normally, the budget of an Olympic movie is 3000 to 4000 million US dollars, a little more than 5000 million to [-] million is very strong, and it is very easy to cause losses.

Then Amy Pascal took these people's confusion and unsightlyness, and signed Eve and Keanu.

At that time, no one knew that the two were in love, but after the reporter accidentally announced the relationship, it was discovered that the two were going to star in the same movie!

Now the performance of Eve and Keanu also proves that her choice at the time was not wrong. When she signed Eve, she only used 100 million US dollars in salary.

But look at the audience's liking for Eve's role, look at the topic and attention she brought to the movie, which can't be bought for $1000 million.

It's a bargain!

"Congratulations, Ms. Pascal. It's an excellent movie, one of the few thought-provoking ones I've seen this year."

"This year's Oscars are really exciting. You Sony have several excellent movies coming together."

"I wish the box office a big boost. This movie is very suitable for young and middle-aged people to watch."

"I have a hunch that this movie will definitely be popular!"

Hearing such praise from the senior executives in the same industry, Amy Pascal was really radiant and in a very good spirit.

Here, both Eve and Keanu saw the movie for the first time, and she said to the director: "Mr. Crowe, your movie is so well completed that it completely exceeded my expectations."

"The main reason is that you all acted very well, and I will work hard for you next, let's run publicity together."

Cameron integrated his own story into the movie. Now that the movie is very popular, he is actually the happiest person.

It was only then that Eve remembered that she was still shouldering the heavy responsibility of publicity, and she suddenly had the urge to drop the pick.

However, Keanu will also promote it together, which makes the trip feel like a business trip at public expense and a relationship.

Charlize Theron said with some envy: "Congratulations, you performed so well in this movie, several shots are amazing."

She has a strong sense of crisis now. Eve, who debuted later than herself, has improved too fast in acting and business. If she is still such a Buddhist, she will really have to lag behind.

Eve hugged her and said, "Thank you for the compliment, it's my honor to be able to appear in this movie."

Fortunately, I really didn't expect to shoot this effect at the time. "

Thanks to the advantages of film length and role positioning, Penny Lane's playing time is actually not shorter than that of the heroine in ordinary movies, but it is placed in the supporting role column in the division of movies.

Now the people in Colombia are having some headaches. Should Eve be transferred to the heroine to compete, or should she stay in the supporting actress?

Columbia is already promoting Julia Roberts in "Never Compromise". Now if Eve is pushed to the heroine's side, it will inevitably cause internal resource allocation problems.

So now we can only keep it unchanged for the time being. After the specific comments come out, we will call the managers of both parties to discuss. They are both signed artists of CAA, and the senior management of CAA must come forward to coordinate.

When formulating the strategy before, everyone felt that Julia Roberts is now the first lady in Hollywood. In addition, she has performed very well in movies and has been nominated for many actresses.

But Eve's performance is really outstanding. It has been so long since the awards season, and she suddenly contributed an excellent film and outstanding performance. If there is a fight internally, maybe both of them will fail.

It's better for Eve to back down and let Julia Roberts provide some contacts and compensation. Anyway, if the two people have different projects, there will be no conflict of votes.

Different people have different ideas in their hearts, just like Robert is both happy and a little tangled at this time.

If Eve is the heroine this year, she has a great chance of being nominated.

But if you honestly want to be a female supporting role, then you have a great chance of winning a statuette.But this will make her an Oscar winner at a young age, and when she wants to win the Best Actress award, she will be ignored or her standards will be raised.

It is very difficult to win the Best Supporting Actress first, and then the Best Actress!

Moreover, there is still a gap in the weight of the Best Supporting Actress Award compared to the leading actress. People generally call the winner of the Best Actress Award the Best Actress Queen.

Of course, the media will always say that they are Oscar winners when they call them.

If an actress wants to enter and stay in the front line, she must win the Best Actress Award, and it is not enough to win the Best Supporting Actress Award.

Eve's advantage now is that she is young, she can afford to wait!

Now in her 20s, if she successfully wins the Best Supporting Actress Award, it will take ten or eight years to continue honing her acting skills and enhance the judges' impression of her, and then winning the Best Actress Award after the age of 30 will just improve her performance. A wave of popularity, to help during the transition period.

At that time, one lead and one paired with two performance awards will naturally be flattering, with status and fame, no matter how old they are, they will not fall into the second tier.

Of course, all of this is just Robert's imagination, and it is completely unknown whether the reality will develop like this.

At this moment, Robert was so excited that he hugged Evan next to him, although he was immediately pushed away with disgust.

"Hey, aren't you excited? Eve and Keanu are doing great, everyone is praising them!"

Evan had already secretly celebrated before, and now calmly replied: "Eve really went for the award this time, Keanu himself has enough star power and popularity, and the film is so good, the Golden Globe Award should be It can be nominated, but I don’t know if it can be nominated for an Oscar.”

He wants too much to wash off Keanu's paralyzed expression and get an Oscar nomination

It is the best proof, I dare not even think about winning an award, but there is still a lot of room for improvement.

"Eve's performance deserves more public relations resources. I don't think we should rush to accept the show for the time being. Let's wait for the box office to come out and the Golden Globes or Oscars to be announced gradually. She will definitely receive more good resources."

If the schedule is confirmed too early, the treatment given by the studio will definitely not be as good as after winning the award.

This is a process of mutual game.

If Eve really wants to play a certain role, then the studio will definitely lower the salary and treatment, and want to sign the contract as soon as possible, so that it will not be delayed until after the Golden Globes or even the Oscars.

At this time, Robert looked at Amy Pascal who was laughing at Yanyan over there, and said in a low voice: "There is basically no problem with the word of mouth now. It depends on whether the box office of the movie can explode. If the box office is good, it should be able to convince Amy."

"Spider-Man is going to the box office. If Eve can prop up the box office for the movie, then Ms. Pascal should not object. Let's wait and see."

The brokers here are more patient and want to procrastinate.

But the rest couldn't wait so long.

No, Amy Pascal, the president of Sony Pictures, came directly to Eve. She hugged Eve with a smile on her face, and then said, "Just now everyone praised you for your good acting skills. In the movie Very beautiful. But I think you are also very beautiful in reality, especially this red hair, which is very conspicuous in the crowd."

Can people from DreamWorks not praise Eve?

First of all, Petunia Lane is a great character.Secondly, this is a film produced by DreamWorks as the second sponsor. Can you still say bad things at the premiere?In the end, Eve has more cooperative films with DreamWorks. The second dubbing of "Shrek" was done in the UK, and "How to Get Away with Law" was not filmed.

Due to emotion and reason, DreamWorks hopes that Eve can win the Oscar on the Oscar, so that his two films can also enjoy the benefits of the Oscar.

After all, among Eve's next films, only "Shrek" was released after the Oscars, a little earlier than "The Bourne", and it is the best successor of the Oscar effect.

"I hope my performance can satisfy the Oscar judges. It would be the best if I can win the award." Eve was not too modest, but brought the topic to the Oscars. She wanted to know that Sony still had dreams with Columbia. How will the factory public relations.

Amy Pascal nodded with a smile, "We have already copied the disc of the movie and sent it to the judges after Thanksgiving. At the same time, in order to allow them to listen to the episodes and For music, we also prepared vinyl records and other peripheral products.”

To get the judges to vote, they first have to see your performance or know your name.

Sending discs to Oscar judges is the most common operation, and inviting them to participate in various screenings and activities, and using various methods to swipe their face cards.

The Weinstein brothers sent projectors to the judges, nominally because they were afraid that the judges would not be able to watch the movie discs, but in fact they were all gifts and bribes.

The Oscars really don't necessarily mean good performances. Many judges are actually voting with their feet.Maybe many people haven't even watched the nominated film, just write a few names and throw it on it.If you receive something from someone else, you are more likely to remember the name.

There are many people in this situation.

Sony and Columbia are just giving away vinyl records, and if the budget is a bit bigger, they can even give away Polaroids.

"I saw your dazzling hair just now when I was behind. When I saw you, I thought of a role that suits you very well." Amy Pascal had laid the groundwork before, and now she directly asked: " Now I have a comic film project in my hand, which is Spider-Man in Marvel Comics. You know this superhero, right?"

Eve was a little stunned, this trick caught her by surprise.

She was still planning to discuss with Kevin Feige later on how to modify the heroine's character design, but she was asked face to face by the president. Now if she wants to change the character design of the script, she seems a little unprepared.

So I could only fool around first, so Eve replied: "Of course I know, the character of Peter Parker is very famous and one of my favorite comic characters."

"I sent the script of "Spider-Man" to your agency before. The investment of this film is as high as 1.3 million U.S. dollars. It is one of the commercial films with the largest investment in the mainstream market. It's red hair, but she wants to be an actress, and you're already a good actor."

Amy Pascal went on to say: "Because this story is filmed from Peter Parker's high school days, I don't think there is much sense of incompatibility for you to play a high school student. What do you think? If you agree, let Ian will keep in touch with you, and he will definitely not treat you badly."

"I did see this script before, but I just came back from England not long ago, and I haven't had time to read the script." Eve planned to use a procrastination tactic. The current situation is not suitable for talking directly, and I will postpone it until after Thanksgiving.

She didn't lie this time, she didn't read the script at all, it was Keanu who read it.

"Then you can take a look. This character is very popular in the movie, just like Petunia Lane has always been liked by every character. Don't worry about the other salary, we will never let you down."

"I'm very interested in superhero movies, so I'll read the script carefully when I get home today." Eve didn't say whether to agree or not, and pushed everything to the script.

"Then I will wait for your good news, this role will always be reserved for you."

If he didn't know, he would have thought that the relationship between Eve and Sony Pictures was really close to the limit, and they actually kept the heroine of a commercial movie with an investment of hundreds of millions.

But in fact, it's nothing more than Eve's adaptability to the role and box office appeal.

Adults are all looking at interests, not relationships.

Faced with this situation, Eve nodded and gave full play to her acting skills: "Then thank you very much, this is completely my honor."

Amy Pascal didn't stay here any longer, she had to chat with the rest of the people.

After the president left, director Cameron Crowe had time to chat with Eve.

"Did Ms. Pascal talk to you about Spider-Man just now?" Cameron's face was flushed with excitement and excitement. He obviously didn't drink, but his whole brain was already a little dizzy.

The meaning of this "Almost Famous" to him is different from that of other films. He is not only the screenwriter, but also the director, and the prototype of the leading actor, which is equivalent to fulfilling one of his own dreams.

Who knows how many Oscars can be made for this type of autobiographical film?

With so many people around listening, Eve replied truthfully: "Yes, there is such an intention at the moment, but we haven't talked about it yet."

In fact, the actors and colleagues have long been envious. A film that is eligible to participate in the Oscar competition has just premiered here. The boss of Sony Pictures over there personally came to keep the heroine of the A-level production film. The treatment is really different. extraordinary.

"Ian told me about it, he wanted to know what we think of you and whether you are suitable for a commercial film. Almost everyone has a high opinion of you, including Ian himself. As a producer himself, he is in The crew has seen your performance and the media’s evaluation of you. To be honest, acting in that kind of commercial film can expand your influence. Basically, this type of film will not lose money.”

Produced by Sony Pictures, and one of the most famous superheroes in the United States, tens of millions of dollars was spent on visual effects, which is indeed a very reliable combination.

"Thank you director for your kind words, I hope I can get this role."

Who would have thought that Cameron Crowe changed the subject and said jokingly: "Even if you don't get this role, don't worry, I have a suitable role waiting for you here."

Let alone the actors of the new generation, even Mrs. Coen envied Eve's powerful resources.

"Almost Famous" has just premiered, and it turns out that "Spider-Man" and Cameron's new film, can the timing be arranged?

Eve didn't expect that she would be so popular now, and she shouldn't refuse it emotionally or rationally at this time, so she asked curiously, "Why don't we talk about this story in private?"

There are too many people now, and it is a little uncomfortable to talk about this kind of thing. It is better to keep a low profile and keep it secret.

"What's the matter, the project has already been determined. Originally, the name of that movie should have been placed on top of this one, but it turned out that the word "almost famous" is really good, so I changed it."

This aroused Eve's curiosity, and she asked, "Isn't "Almost Famous" originally called that?"

Cameron said with a smile: "Of course, that was changed later. It was originally planned to be called Vanilla Sky."

This name reminded Eve of the fact that the movie "Vanilla Sky" was actually shot by Cameron, and it was an abandoned movie name for waste use!

She knew that this movie was purely because Cruise starred, and there were two goddess-level characters joining in, the overall story was very interesting.

So now I'm curious, should I replace Cameron Diaz or the Spanish beauty Penelope Cruz?

"What does this name mean?" Eve asked curiously.

"That's the name of a painting. The hero and his mother both like that painting. It represents the life of ordinary people. You can tell it after reading the script."

Cameron found that Eve was really suitable for the movie he was going to make next, and now that she was very popular, if he didn't seize the time to decide on the role, maybe he really didn't have a schedule.

"So that's the case, then what role will I be?"

Now it's Cameron's turn to hesitate, "First of all, this movie is a remake. When I was watching a movie with Tom Cruise, I discovered the movie called "Open Your Eyes". It's about a million people

This is the story of the disfigured male lead, who inexplicably regained his face, but couldn't tell the difference between dreams and reality. "

"This should be regarded as a sci-fi suspense. Dreams and reality are intertwined. It is a bit similar to your "Mulholland Drive". We need to concentrate on judging. Now the role left for you is the second female lead and the male lead. It has been confirmed that it is Tom Cruise, and the heroine is Penenoppe, the heroine of the original film."

He himself was a little embarrassed, since Eve was already so popular, but he still wanted to invite her to play a supporting role.

And it's a little difficult to say that it's a supporting role for an unknown Spanish actress.

At this time, Penelope Cruz had just come to Hollywood to develop, and her overall reputation was not that great, far inferior to Eve's current momentum.

But what can Cameron do? This role was appointed by Tom Cruise. Tom cruise felt that Penelope performed well in the original Spanish version of the movie, and at the same time had a bit of an exotic flavor.

Eve frowned slightly, she had already been told by her agents that she could no longer play a supporting role.

If the famous roles are all supporting roles, then it will be difficult to receive the leading role in the movie, and Hollywood will treat her as a very good green leaf actor.

Originally, excellent actors were those who could be both green leaves and red flowers.

"You can show me the script, but I'm not sure I will act in this movie, because the homogenization of the script is a bit serious. If it really discusses dreams and reality like "Mulholland Drive", then I may would refuse."

Some things have to be said before, Eve will still consider her own future, not to say that Cameron Crowe and Tom Cruise must act.

She still has a supporting role waiting to be played next year, and if she gets another one, it will really exceed the standard!

"I understand, anyway, you are the best candidate in my heart." Cameron knew from Eve's attitude that this cooperation was suspended. Not much, but also to shoot some passion-scenes.

Originally, his idea was to let Eve play the female lead, so that there would be a sense of contrast, but Tom Cruise, as the producer, did not agree.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Keanu, who was listening silently, jokingly said, "It's not fair, why do you all ask Eve to film? You should also give me a role!"

"You know why no character is looking for you." Cameron took the topic.

"I don't know." Keanu snapped his fingers and said, "I'm good at acting, I can also play, and I'm also handsome. I'm serious and dedicated in filming, and I'm dedicated to my duties in publicity. There are countless advantages."

"But you have a fatal flaw, that is, it's too expensive, we can't afford to hire a superstar like you." Cameron also joked, the next movie will be produced by another superstar, how could he invite Keanu to steal the limelight? Well, basically they all belong to the kind where the king does not see the king, and each other will not appear in a movie.

Eve laughed out loud, "This is indeed a big shortcoming. If no one finds you, then I will find you for filming next time."

"All of you have heard it. If she doesn't speak up at that time, it won't count, you will all be my witnesses!"