novelraw Chapter 307 Mamma Mia
Chapter 307 Mamma Mia
After coming out of the CAA office building, Eve immediately cleared all bad emotions from her head.
She had to temporarily withdraw from the vortex of Hollywood's vanity fair. If there are all kinds of complicated thinking when the crew is filming, it will definitely not be a good thing for the performance.
Although "The Notebook" is a romantic love movie, it does not mean that the hero and heroine are all vases in it.
On the contrary, Eve and Christian Bale are both acting players. If there is enough chemical reaction on the spot, the film can break through the limitations of genre.
In fact, romantic movies are the biggest nominees for Hollywood acting awards.
Every year, actors get Oscar nominations and even awards through their wonderful performances in this type of film, which makes actors soar, not only enjoying the influence of commercial films, but also being recognized by professional awards.
For example, Julia Roberts' hit "Pretty Woman" cost only 1400 million US dollars and grossed 4.6 million US dollars at the global box office. Roberts' superb acting skills in the movie also earned her her second Oscar nomination.
People's love for romantic movies is waning these days, and there are various reasons.
For example, women are becoming more and more independent and self-reliant, and they are busy with their careers instead of indulging in family and romantic fantasies; or there are not enough influential actors to attract audiences to the cinema, and everyone thinks that love movies are not very good. Fresh, even if you are interested, wait for the DVD release.There is also the excessive pursuit of happy endings in Hollywood, and tragic endings rarely appear.
People who study drama may know very well that tragedy is actually more impressive and empathetic.
Hollywood professionals have been analyzing, now that Meg Ryan can't afford the box office, and Julia Roberts is tired of chick movies and plans to change careers, so who can support the sky of romantic movies?The originator of this type of film is Audrey Hepburn's classic love film "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and it has continued to develop.
Actresses almost all made their debut through chick movies, and then moved to other types of movies after being widely known.
Now that the backbone is constantly transforming, only the new generation is left to take over, so several young actresses in Hollywood have been widely mentioned.
Cameron Diaz was the first to take the lead. She played against Julia Roberts in "My Best Friend's Wedding" and successfully handed over the title of romantic sweetheart. Mad" hit the box office and officially became America's sweetheart.
Then Drew Barrymore quietly transformed from a child star, reborn like a prodigal son back from the ashes.
Sandra Bullock has been famous for many years. After reaching the peak of "Speed" with Keanu Reeves, she quickly became the sweetheart of the people in "Love at Second Sight", but then her star road began to float Shen Chen, when everyone thought she was going to say goodbye to the front line, this year's "Beauty Pageant Undercover" finally made a splendid comeback.
Eve was not originally in the ranks of chick flicks, but the "Legal Blonde" she released last Christmas was a small upgrade of chick flicks, not just about love, It is more inspirational, and it has become a female inspirational film, which makes the scope of chick movies wider!
Just like among the top 10 best chick movies in film history compiled by the authoritative Hollywood media "Empire", "Legal Blonde" ranked third, and only "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "When Harry Met Sarah" were ranked in front of it. Even "Pretty Woman" can only be ranked fourth, and "A Couple Made in China", "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "Sleepless in Seattle" are all behind.
In fact, the image of Eve is not a standard sweetheart. It doesn't have the feeling of being too sweet, but it has the feeling of mints, which can bring a fresh taste to people.
Not any beauty can be called America's sweetheart. Eve's temperament and appearance are very changeable. She can not only play the temperament of a sweetheart silly big sister, but also transform herself into a hot-sexy beauty, and she can also control the role of a queen .
The most important thing is that acting skills, appearance, and temperament all coexist, no matter what genre it is.
It can be said that her appearance made Hollywood studios see more possibilities of romantic love movies!
Romantic romance films are also known as chick movies. For movies made specifically for female audiences, the proportion of male audiences is much smaller than that of female audiences.
There is actually nothing wrong with subdividing the audience in this way. For example, war blockbusters focus on the male market, and manga movies focus on the youth market.It’s not that love movies are all women, and war movies don’t have female audiences, but they don’t have such a large numerical proportion.
But Hollywood has clearly divided the market, but they don't believe that the number of female audiences can be as large as that of male audiences.
So some war movies are usually big-budget movies, while romantic movies are almost all medium-budget movies.
The "Twilight Saga" and "The Hunger Games" of later generations may have to teach Hollywood filmmakers how to behave, and see how others exchange high costs for higher box office.
Just falling in love must have limitations, and sometimes various elements need to be added to make the audience feel fresh and curious.
For example, love + time travel = "Time Traveler", "Time Traveler's Wife", "Love You Through Time and Space", love + singing and dancing = "Mamma Mia" and "La La Land", love + fantasy = "Twilight" City of Light, love + fashion + inspiration = "The Devil Wears Prada", love + royal family = "The Sparrow Turned into a Queen", "Princess Diaries" and so on.
Although Eve knew the titles and contents of these films, she didn't know the main plot. At the same time, she didn't want to write these contents, but planned to purchase copyrights.
Buy the original if you have the original, and buy the script if you don’t have it. Anyway, don’t have legal disputes or moral issues.
If I write out the outline of the story by myself, and someone else has already written the script, then if I crash a car, I will definitely go to court, which is very bad for me.
It doesn't cost too much money to buy copyrights, and you can earn so much money by filming yourself, so there is no need to grab other people's jobs.
Just as Eve was driving to Beverly Hills, she suddenly saw a billboard on the side of the street, which said, "The new West End drama "Mamma Mia" officially lands in North America, and will be on a limited-time tour in Los Angeles and Chicago!"
"Break London theater box office record, "Mamma Mia" is coming to Broadway Winter Garden Theater!"
"The brand new musical, detonating the West End of London, the perfect fusion of abba music, an audio-visual feast not to be missed!"
"The national premiere at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. It will open at 1:8 p.m. on January [-]th. Tickets can be purchased here..."
Eve, who was waiting for the traffic lights, was immediately attracted by these advertisements. She didn't even respond when the traffic lights ahead turned green, and her eyes kept on looking at the billboards.
The musical has only just landed in the US?
The musicals that can be compared with "The Sound of Music" by later generations, and the musicals that have swept theaters all over the world have just been born at this time!
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The drivers behind the traffic lights saw that the rest of the lanes had started to move, but there was no movement on their own side, so they could only honk their horns.
Eve finally remembered after hearing the piercing sound of the whistle. She immediately came back to her senses, saw the indicator light ahead, and immediately started to drive towards her home.
After she got home, she didn't care about the deserted appearance of the house, but quickly ran to the computer to inquire about the "Mamma Mia" musical.
However, there are only a handful of news about it on the Internet, but there are reports in London that the musical version of "Mamma Mia" premiered at the Prince Edward Theater in London the year before last, that is, in 1999.
But it was not officially performed at the Royal Alexandria Theater until May 2000. Since then, every Monday night has been full of audiences.
But British dramas have a certain cultural gap in the United States. After a long time of preparation, the original cast arrived in Los Angeles, preparing to tour the United States, and then revised with the opinions of American audiences before entering Broadway in the second half of this year. Critics check with audiences.
The reason why this play chose to have its North American premiere in a theater in Beverly Hills may be because the audience in Beverly Hills has a high level of consumption and strong appreciation ability, and at the same time it is not a place where film critics and drama critics gather. Get socialites to promote the musical.
The most popular people in Beverly Hills are celebrities. Although the use of star effects to promote musicals may seem low to some people, the effect is absolutely outstanding and the driving force is very strong.
Eve carefully recalled it in her mind. She followed the trend and went to the Chinese version of the musical "Mamma Mia". Fans of the show despised it, saying that the Chinese version did not have the charm of the English version at all.
However, the plot and songs are very comfortable to listen to, and the stories told are also very bloody.
There is a beautiful trail in the Mediterranean Sea in Greece. The middle-aged woman Donna, her daughter Sophie and her daughter's fiancé opened a small hotel here for tourists to live temporarily.
But Sophie and her fiancé are about to hold a wedding, but before the wedding, Sophie has always had a wish, that is to let her father walk out holding her hand and send herself to her fiancé.
However, her mother, Donna, has never disclosed the identity of her father. She has kept it a secret since she was a child, and she has no idea who her father is.So Sophie secretly read her mother's letter, and found that there were three men who might be her father.
Suspect No. [-] Sam is a businessman, Suspect No. [-] Bill is an explorer, and Suspect No. [-] is a banker.
Donna had a relationship with all three men 20 years ago, so it is not sure who is the real father.So Sophie, with the help of her girlfriends, sent invitation letters to the three men on the grounds of expanding the hotel business, asking them to come to the island to have a look.
So the Shura field appeared like this!
Mother Donna almost saw her three ex-boyfriends at the same time, and she panicked at this time, because Donna herself didn't know who Sophie's biological father was.
On one side of the timeline is the daughter looking for her father, and on the other side is Donna and her ex-boyfriends reminiscing about past love and hatred.
Fortunately, the three men were very kind and expressed their willingness to be her father regardless of whether Sophie was her own.
Throughout the play, it is full of family love, friendship, and even many hilarious plots.The most important thing is that the title of the film and the songs in the musical are all hits by the famous group Abba, including "dangqueen", "money, money, money" and so on.
Abba is second only to the Beatles in global sales and is a true music legend.The members of two men and two women were originally two couples, but they divorced in the following time, becoming the most famous divorced band.
It can be said that their songs have a strong reputation all over the world, and the music can be perfectly integrated with the plot.Many people think that "Mamma Mia" is a super MV collection of the Abba band, because the producers and creators completely tailor the plot according to the music, ensuring that every song and dance is just right.
The charm of music is great, but the burden is also heavy. Almost every performance needs to pay corresponding copyright fees to abba, and the same is true for film adaptations, which must be authorized by abba's copyright agent, otherwise everything is just fantasy.
The plot is interesting, the songs are nice, and the actors' performance and singing skills are all online, so of course they can attract the audience.
She clearly remembered that among the classics selected by Broadway, the work representing the artistic style of the first decade of the 21st century is this "Mamma Mia"!
In the 30s it was "Everything Is Empty", "Chicago" represented the 60s, "Cats" has been active on the stage of various theaters since the 80s, and "Crazy for You" in the 90s made the audience crazy and addicted.
If she can get the film adaptation rights of this popular global musical before everyone else, Eve feels that Eternal Pictures may make a lot of money.
Because the influence of the musical is too great, although it is not obvious now, but after the musical has been toured around the world once or twice to cultivate an audience, I will make a song and dance movie.
Many stage plays have been adapted into movies, just like Eve once received the script of "Chicago", which was also changed from a stage play to a musical.
Now the film should be still in preparation, and when the film adaptation of "Chicago" becomes popular, it will definitely raise the psychological expectations of Broadway playwrights and producers.
At that time, the cost of adapting popular stage plays will definitely be very high, and the requirements will be very strict, which cannot be afforded by ordinary companies.
Eve is now thinking about picking up the leaks, whether she can buy the film and television adaptation rights when "Mamma Mia" just landed in the United States and is not popular.
However, she did not plan to act in this adapted film herself, because there was no suitable role for her in the film.
Donna is middle-aged, Sophie is a young girl just 20 years old, and Eve is stuck in the middle age and can only be a producer.
At this moment, she only defined herself as a producer, and she never thought that she would have another identity, that is, a director!
The matter returned to Eve's side. She was flying to Charleston tomorrow, and she simply didn't have enough time to communicate with the producer of the musical, so she had to let two employees of Eternal Pictures do it.
At the same time, she can't show up at this stage, otherwise it will trigger a series of chain reactions.For example, the other party raised the price, or exposed when he tried to buy the copyright, and introduced more competitors.
Anyway, the main body that bought the copyright was Eternal Pictures, not Eve herself.
However, there are also disadvantages in this way, that is, Eternal Pictures has not made a movie since its establishment, which is very similar to the kind of leather bag company that hoards copyrights.
Thinking about it in another way, if Eve is the producer of a musical, and a little-known small company bids for the right to adapt the film, he should have enough suspicion and vigilance against this company.
Eve is now planning to take one step at a time, who made her vision too high.
I didn’t like this script, and I didn’t think that story was worth much. After finally finding a project, I started to pick on the director.
While thinking, she called Carl from Eternal Pictures.
Carl was sitting in front of the computer with a cup of coffee and reading the script, when he heard the phone ringing, he immediately answered the channel: "Good afternoon, boss."
Liz, who was across from his desk, immediately raised his head and pricked up his ears to hear what was going on.
"Turn your phone into hands-free mode, Liz also needs to get involved." Eve said simply: "Recently, a musical called "Mamma Mia" landed in North America, and I think this movie is very suitable to be adapted into a musical You should stop what you are doing first, and get in touch with the producer of this musical to inquire about the price and conditions."
Carl and Liz looked at each other, and question marks appeared in each other's heads.
What is this ghost?
I had never heard of the name of the musical, and the company didn't make a single movie, so it was all about finding suitable projects.
There is no standard for what items are suitable and what items are not suitable.
The boss didn't let the two of them evaluate the project at all, but just collected various materials and information.
It sounds completely unreliable to actually want to make a musical now!
Carl hesitated, and asked in a low voice: "Boss, are we really going to make a musical? It seems that this type of movie is not very popular now."
Many Chinese viewers are a little one-sided, thinking that the actors in the movie suddenly sing and dance while performing, which is the patent of Indian movies. In fact, there have been musicals in Hollywood for a long time.
It was born in the 20s and appeared almost at the same time as sound movies. It is called Broadway on the screen.
The most typical song and dance film is "Singin' in the Rain". The scene where the male lead sings and dances in the rain is an eternal classic film and television picture.
In addition, musicals such as "West Side Story", "The Sound of Music", and "Oliver Twist" have even won Oscars for Best Picture.
As Carr said, this type of film fell into a vortex of failure after the 80s, and there were not many musicals that could succeed at the box office.
There are even very few studios investing in musicals, and there are almost no musicals that can be remembered in recent years.
Only Eve knows that there may be a short peak next, because Nicole Kidman's "Moulin Rouge" has been confirmed to be released in two months, while "Chicago" is in preparation for practice and filming.
In the future, there will be excellent works such as "The Greatest Showman" and "La La Land", which are always in the alternation of decline and revival.
She is naturally very aware of Carl's concerns, but the fact that she "foresees" the future is a secret, and it is not suitable for publicity.
So Eve explained: "I know that musicals are very difficult genres, but you will know that after watching the performance tonight. I will call the theater later and buy three tickets to go to the scene to see and listen. "
"Tonight?" Liz widened her eyes, she was a little surprised, the time was too tight.
To go to the theater to watch a play, you have to dress up and attend, but I am not prepared at all!
After hearing the staff's surprised voice, Eve suddenly felt that her behavior seemed a little too much, and she quickly added: "Forget it, I'll go alone tonight. You confirm a night's itinerary within the next three days, and I will let you Mandy will help you buy tickets, two tickets per person. Don’t go to the show with a work attitude, but experience it as an audience. If it’s really good, then work hard.”
She was so carried away by the movie Mamma Mia that she forgot to give two employees advance notice.
Of course, you can be a little tougher and ask them to attend tonight, or ask them not to question or worry, as long as they are a tool person to complete the tasks they assigned.
But Eve is still going to be a kind and generous boss. If someone else has an appointment tonight, it's not good to forcefully cancel it.
There is no rush to buy the copyright on this day, and if it is a day later, it will not be bought by others.
She can't remember which major company produced "Mamma Mia", but once the musical hits Broadway, its value will definitely skyrocket.
So Eve wants to win the copyright in advance, even if it will pay a considerable price.
Many producers have the character of not seeing rabbits and not spreading eagles, and they are not willing to sell any kind of copyright without enough benefits.
Especially after a company makes an inquiry, there will definitely be more film and television companies that will follow, and it will be wonderful to be up for sale at that time!
Carl and Leeds were given this difficult task. In the next few days, they will suspend the pace of collecting scripts and news reports, and turn to deal with this musical from England.
Eve can only hope that the producers of Mamma Mia are a little short-sighted, but that's hardly likely.
To be able to create a musical out of thin air, there must be a lot of investment before the official release. Whether it is actors or music copyrights, they have invested a lot of money, so they will definitely want to earn more.
Just touring around the world is definitely not enough to meet the demand, and the cost can only be recovered by relying on various copyrights.
After she hung up the phone, she went to the cloakroom upstairs, turned on all the lights, and carefully selected clothes.
It must look young, but at the same time be solemn and highlight the temperament.
It never occurred to Eve that she would go to the theater to watch a musical the night before leaving Los Angeles.She has never been very cold about concerts, stage plays, and musical performances, and now she is breaking the rules.
"The adaptation into a movie is so wonderful, the original version is definitely better."
She was a little bit regretful, it would be great if her boyfriend was here, and they could go to the theater to enjoy it together.
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