Chapter 511： Dispel worries

In the drawing room of the Embassy Pictures, the company's top executives gathered together, all of them watching the movie being shown attentively.

Mel Gibson, who looked a little wild, sat quietly on the sofa, and occasionally passed Monica Bellucci next to him and fell on Ronan Anderson on the other side.

Whether the film can get the green light of Embassy Pictures is all on this young man.

Although Mel Gibson is a violent savage, he is somewhat more reliable without drinking.

Besides, during the recent period of time, for the sake of this film, it is related to the investment of 30 million US dollars. If you have a temper, you have to endure it for a while.

For the American market, this is a foreign language film. The film's dialogue is all in Latin and Aramaic, but fortunately there are subtitles.

To a certain extent, this is a very documentary and expressive film.

But the culture is incomprehensible to people like Ronan.

The understanding of **** basically stays on Leonardo’s "Last Supper".

The film was very bloody, and the scale was relatively large. If Embassy Pictures sent it to the rating committee, there might be some trouble, but before the filming session started, he had an exchange with Mel Gibson, and Aiken Pictures had Sent for rating, MPAA graded as R.

If you really cooperate, this will also reduce some of the troubles of the Embassy Pictures.

After understanding the basic situation with Mel Gibson, Ronan also roughly understood why he had run into walls before. At the beginning, Mel Gibson had no plans to add subtitles to the film!

How many people can understand Latin and Aramaic?

Constantly hitting walls also dispelled Mel Gibson's too idealistic ideas, and gradually became realistic.

The version screened by Embassy Pictures not only added English subtitles, but also cut some **** shots appropriately.

For directors and producers, compromise is also an art.

Monica Bellucci played Maria Magdalene in the film.

This name suddenly reminded Ronan of an overlooked-"The Da Vinci Code".

Speaking of it, the content of "The Da Vinci Code" is more sensitive than "The Passion of the Christ" and it has simply subverted the tradition of the church.

Let people look back to see if this book has been published.

It seems that the movie and the movie have caused a sensation, even involving the glass pyramid of the Louvre.

When the movie is over, the lights are turned on, and the pull will come to an end temporarily.

Mel Gibson immediately stood up, walked to Ronan, and asked in a huff, "Mr. Anderson, is this film okay?"

This person spoke very loudly, and his daily behavior was somewhat rude. Ronan ignored him. After all, he was just talking about business and not trying to make friends with each other.

"Very good movie." Ronan said all formulaic words: "Very impactful work."

Mel Gibson was somewhat disappointed when he heard this, smiled and said, "I hope we can cooperate."

Ronan didn’t give him much hope at this time for the consideration of the subsequent negotiations. He politely said, “I hope so.” He glanced at the embassy film executives who were walking out one after another: “Mr. Gibson, please wait a moment. For a while, we have to discuss it."

In this situation, Mel Gibson was a little patient and said, "Okay, please."

Leaving the drawing room, Ronan went directly to the conference room on the other side, including Garcia Rodríguez, who were discussing the film "The Passion of the Christ".

Ronan patted his palm lightly: "Explain your opinion."

Allen Albert, Director of Overseas Distribution Department, took the lead: "The risk is great. This is a foreign-language film, and foreign-language films have always been poor at the North American box office."

"R-rated film." said Terry, director of offline distribution. "This is a disadvantage."

Ronan said, "These are my concerns."

Danny Donald said at this moment: "Will the content of the film cause controversy."

"I'm afraid the film is not controversial." David Villa, the director of the propaganda department, said: "Apart from the content of the film, from a controversial point of view, this is a very selling movie."

Ronan has made a lot of propaganda suggestions with the propaganda department in recent years, probably influenced by Ronan, David Villa increasingly feels that controversy is not a bad thing.

Thomas of the theater distribution department also felt that this was not a bad thing, saying: "If the film can cause controversy, even if there is no selling point, we can also create a selling point."

Alan Albert is still more cautious: "Controversy is indeed not a bad thing, but as far as the content of this film is concerned, will controversy become criticism?"

Ronan looked at Garcia Rodriguez: "What do you think?"

García Rodríguez said: "The concerns of the criticism are that it may involve religious and some ethnic issues. I am not good at judging the film, but we can let go of the concerns of the criticism."

He looked at Alan Albert and said with a smile: "We are just the distributor and have nothing to do with the creation of the film. Even if there is a criticism, there are also the producer and Mel Gibson in front."

David Villa suddenly thought of the original "Blair the Witch" and said: "Even if there are criticisms, you can push the creative team to the front. This is the treatment they deserve."

Garcia Rodriguez added: "Even if there is a real criticism, even if we do nothing, we will not be able to reach our side. With Mel Gibson's character and temper, someone will attack this film, he will definitely I was ignited by anger and took everyone's attention."

Thomas took the conversation: "So, don't worry about objective conditions."

Allen Albert considered these words carefully, and said: "None of these seem to be a problem. The rest is whether we want to take this film."

Ronan said directly: "Let's negotiate with Mel Gibson, it's better to buy out this film."

Garcia Rodríguez took over: "Strive for a buyout, but such a film buyout is difficult."

Ronan picked up the phone: "The specific transaction method depends on the situation before you decide."

"Your absence makes it seem that the company doesn't pay much attention to this film." David Thomas said with a smile: "Garcia is also easy to lower the terms."

Ronan smiled, did not say much, and left the Embassy Pictures.

Before stepping out of the office building where Embassy Pictures was located, Monica Bellucci caught up from behind.

"Ronan!" she greeted.

"Miss Bellucci." Ronan turned and looked at her: "Why are you here?"

When leaving the drawing room, Monica Bellucci was still with Mel Gibson.

Monica Bellucci shook the phone in her hand and said with a smile: "I came out to make a call and happened to see you."

Where did so much happen? Ronan didn't reveal it, and said, "I have something to do today, I will talk again when I have time."

Monica Bellucci tentatively asked: "Are you not talking to Director Gibson anymore?"

Ronan smiled apologetically: "I have something urgent to deal with."

Monica Bellucci certainly wouldn't believe Ronan's words, and immediately guessed that Ronan didn't pay much attention to Mel Gibson's "The Passion".

This possibility is very high...

Ronan waved his hand: "I'm leaving now, goodbye."

Monica Bellucci smiled: "Goodbye."

Seeing Ronan out of the office building, Monica Bellucci quickly edited a text message and sent it to Mel Gibson.

This film has missed many distributors, except for new market companies that she has never heard of, only Relativity Entertainment is willing to talk to the producers.

Ronan returned to Relativity Entertainment and received a call from Tony Koch. During the Cannes Film Festival, Tony Koch recommended Florian Donasma with the assistance of a producer hired by Shahai Entertainment. The preparatory work for "Eavesdropping Storm" has been completed, and it is about to enter the shooting stage. It is expected that all shooting will be completed before the end of the year and all production will be completed by the end of April.

The director wants to participate in the three major European film festivals.

The running award operation is originally Ronan's planned operation plan. This typical political film is still a German film, and nothing is more suitable than the Berlin Film Festival.

Ronan sent an e-mail to the overseas distribution department of the Embassy Film Industry, asking them to apply for the eligibility for the competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival next year for "Eavesdropping Storm".

Maybe I can bring back a Berlin Golden Bear for Relativity Entertainment.

After dealing with this, Ronan contacted the crew of "Survival in the Wild" that was far away in Amazon at night.

This reality show, which is destined to shape "the man at the top of the food chain", has already walked through the dangerous environments of glaciers, deserts, swamps and wastelands into the tropical rainforests of South America.

Although encountered various difficulties and injured several times, the program team persisted, especially the performance of Bell Grylls, which attracted many people's admiration.

After shooting in the jungles of South America, the crew of "Survival from the Wild" will return to Los Angeles to begin the same intense post-production.

This is one of the opening dramas of Netflix's streaming media business next year Another opening drama is "Prison Break".

The crew has now been formed, and the director has a suitable candidate. In order to ensure the success of the opening drama, Shahai Entertainment has invested heavily and hired Brett Ratner, who has directed "The Rush Hour" and "Red Dragon" as the director. Job.

Bright Ratner is not a man at the top of the Hollywood pyramid, but he, who is in the "middle" part, is the "backbone" of this solid industrial chain.

In addition, Bright Ratner's reputation in some aspects is not very good, and it is said that he often harassed the actresses of the crew.

These are of course not a problem for the production company. The first consideration for the production company to inspect the director is the business ability. Now it is too far away from the rise of Mi Rabbit. Before that time, Shahai Entertainment will end with Bright- Ratner's cooperation.

Besides, this crew is basically all male actors.

And Ronan intends to use a powerful actor as the leading actor.