Chapter 353: "beautiful Mind"

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After leaving the Oscar nomination luncheon, everyone came to Ryan's mansion in Bel-Air, went directly to the wine cellar to select several expensive bottles of famous wine, and did not leave until late at night.

The Oscar nomination luncheon ended, and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was nominated not only for Best Foreign Language Film, but also for Best Director and Best Picture.

Although the theater companies did not increase the scale of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", they increased the film scheduling rate.

The scale of screenings refers to the number of theaters in which a film is shown, while the screening rate refers to the number of screenings in theaters.

In other words, theater companies have increased the number of screenings of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

At the same time, the promotion and release of the film across the Pacific Ocean, Xiangjiang, Wanwan, Singapore, and Malaysia has reached a peak. Many movie fans are looking forward to the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on March 1.

It is said that many news media on the other side of the Pacific predict that the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is likely to exceed the box office record of 360 million yuan set by "Titanic".

Although compared with the box office of billions or even billions in the previous life, "Titanic" is not so dazzling.

But for the box office market across the Pacific in this era, not to mention the box office record set by "Titanic", even if there are only a few films that can exceed 100 million yuan in box office.

It shows that the evaluation of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is very high.

In fact, Orion Films originally set the release time not on March 1, but chose to officially release it in the summer.

However, a movie company felt that the time was too long, and finally chose March 1st. As compensation, a TV station can apply for an extension of the screening time.

After the announcement of the Oscar nomination list, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was nominated for ten Oscars, and became one of the most popular Oscar-winning films this year, along with "American Beauty" and "There's Always a Sunshine".

In addition to the North American box office market, it has made a great contribution to the overseas box office market including the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

It's not a Golden Globe nomination, it's an Oscar nomination.

The most important point is that Orion Pictures not only did not stop the promotion of the Oscar awards for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but instead invested more money, holding multiple public relations banquets almost every day.

However, Ryan did not expect to win important awards, just as a way of publicity.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is only a Chinese-language film dressed in an oriental cloak. It is not a film that discredits one's own country, ethnicity, or belief. It is almost impossible to win important awards.

In this respect, the Oscars are as rogue as the three major European film festivals.

Of course Orion Pictures will try.

As for the final result, the only choice is to leave it to those old men from the academy.

Early the next morning, Ryan found time to meet with Steven Spielberg, and the two talked for a long time, eventually closing a deal.

Orion Pictures received half of the investment ratio and overseas distribution rights of "A Beautiful Mind", while DreamWorks was responsible for the other half of the investment and North American distribution.

And "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" gave up the public relations for the Oscars for best picture and best director awards, and gave some support for "American Beauty" in public relations.

In fact, Ryan's public relations strategy is very clear. The key public relations direction of Orion Films has always been the Oscar for the best foreign language film, rather than the best director and best film awards.

What's more, the transaction conditions offered by Steven Spielberg are simply impossible to refuse.

"A Beautiful Mind" is adapted from a true story, telling the story of John Forbes Nash, a mathematician with schizophrenia, who devoted himself to research in the field of game theory and differential geometry, and finally won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Ryan is very familiar with the name of this film.

With an investment of US$60 million, the original version of DreamWorks earned US$170 million at the North American box office and US$313 million at the overseas box office, and won two Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture.

Faced with "A Beautiful Mind"'s global box office of 480 million US dollars, Ryan could not choose to refuse, nor could he choose to refuse.

As for Ang Lee's expectations!

Obviously it can't compare with the $480 million box office.

Ryan returned to Orion Films, and Sofia Coppola came over immediately, "Ann Lee, I called several times and wanted to see you in person."

"Reject, just say that I don't have time." Ryan knew why Ang Lee called without asking. It was nothing more than Oscar's best director statuette. "When I am free, I will find time to meet him."

Ang Lee still has a certain commercial value, and Ryan cannot always avoid it. Orion Pictures will still need him to direct "Brokeback Mountain" in the future.

After all, not everyone can make such a film.

"In addition, ask someone to buy the rights to adapt the short story "Brokeback Mountain" written by Anne Proulx with the same name."

While talking, Ryan pointed to a document on the table, and continued: "And give this draft project cooperation plan to Jon Fertimer."

"Brokeback Mountain"!

Sofia Coppola's expression became very strange, "You must have read this novel before!"

A novel about a complex love relationship between two men.

"I'm not that bored yet, I just think the story is not bad." Ryan rolled his eyes, he couldn't stand "Brokeback Mountain".

Sofia Coppola showed the original eyes, did not continue to mention "Brokeback Mountain", reached out to pick up the file and flipped through it, "A Beautiful Mind? John Forbes Nash!"

She couldn't help looking at Ryan in surprise, this doesn't seem like his investment style, what is suitable for becoming literary.

"You plan to make art films and Oscars a direction of development in the future!"

Hollywood film companies not only focus on commercial films, art films and Oscars are also a focus.

For example, the Miramax film industry acquired by Disney, the Fox studio lights under the 20th Century Fox, and so on.

"This is DreamWorks' production plan, not mine."

Ryan explained a bit, "Orion Films is only responsible for half of the investment and overseas distribution, and DreamWorks is responsible for the remaining half of the investment and North American distribution."

Obviously, through the income brought by "American Beauty", Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks have tasted the sweetness brought by art films and Oscars, and want to continue investing in art films.

In Ryan's view, the choice between Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks was not so correct.

Even art films such as "American Beauty" and "A Beautiful Mind" can bring a lot of money to DreamWorks.

But the mainstream of Hollywood will always be commercial films ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ rather than art films and Oscars.

Of course, if DreamWorks becomes one of the seven major film companies, it can and is qualified to disperse its energy and invest in some art films appropriately.

It's a pity that DreamWorks is only a second-tier Hollywood film company at the moment.

Hearing Ryan's explanation, Sofia Coppola curled her lips. This is the Ryan Gosling he knew. In his eyes, commercial films are the focus.

"By the way, I remind you of one thing, don't get too close to Tom Cruise."

Sofia Coppola flashed a sarcasm and said, "He's a Scientologist."

To put it nicely, it is Scientology or Scientology.

To put it bluntly, it can be regarded as a cult organization.

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in sects."

Ryan shrugged indifferently, and said, "If you have to talk about belief, I'm one of the Taoist believers."

"What!" Sofia Coppola looked puzzled.

"A traditional sect in the Eastern world, somewhat similar to the gods of Athens." Ryan gave a brief introduction.

Compared with Taoism, what Scientology sect is simply weak.

What's more, he has long been clear about the tricks of Tom Cruise and Scientology.

In the next few days, the box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" rose sharply, and the trend was very stable.

The film is expected to approach the $100 million mark ahead of the Oscars.

By the way, the Oscars are on March 26th.

As the main producer of the film, Fang Jiahe was full of cheers. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was a big box office hit in North America and Europe, which meant that they would have a large bonus income.

I suddenly felt that it was a good thing that Golden Harvest was fully acquired by Orion Films.