After the list of the main creative lineup of the Red Flame Battlefield was exclusively revealed by the Los Angeles Times, it immediately caused quite a stir in Hollywood.
Leet is together to make people realize his speciality, and it is enough to convince the Coen brothers, who hate commercial films, to be the director of the film, and what is even more surprising is that the average age of several leading actors in this movie is 53 years old, which is still the result of counting the heroine Charlize Theron in her twenties, and some media even joked that this is the most serious "aging" movie in Hollywood.
All kinds of gimmicks about the film are enough, but this also scares a lot of Hollywood studios.
Although many film companies hope to invite the Coen brothers to make commercial films, but the Coen brothers really come to make commercial films, and some people are worried about the box office of the film, many directors who are famous for making literary films are basically not very optimistic about the box office of commercial films, especially directors like the Coen brothers with outstanding personal styles, their previous films are all niche styles, although they are highly evaluated and have won many awards, but they basically do not do much at the box office.
On the other hand, the film's starring lineup also makes filmmakers a little worried.
If it was placed twenty years ago, the lineup of the Red Flame Battlefield would have been enough for all Hollywood studios to scramble to invest in this movie, but now these people are old, and the fans who supported them at the beginning are also old, and the film market has always been dominated by young people.
G "glue-like" Universal Pictures was the first to retreat, of course, the reasons they gave are also sufficient, Universal currently cooperates with AG in two films, in addition to the Matrix that is being filmed, there is also a comedy directed by the Ferrari brothers, starring Adam Sandler Meet the father-in-law is in preparation, because of the problem of financial occupation, Universal will not consider a new cooperation with AG for the time being.
Externally, Universal announced this, but people who know a little about the industry know that the reason why Universal gave up this opportunity to cooperate with AG is mainly because of a series of controversial practices of AG in the near future, such as changing the starring Brosnan in the new OO7 movie and supporting the Titanic, which everyone is not optimistic about, These uncertain factors have affected the enthusiasm of the film company to cooperate with AG.
The second company that clearly announced that it would not invest in the Red Flame Battlefield is Disney, and the reasons they gave are similar to those of Universal, because the extreme cold is still being filmed, and the male protagonists of the film are all from AG, and Disney will not consider further cooperation with AG before the release of this movie.
Fox and Paramount are now being overwhelmed by the Titanic affair and have no interest in interfering with it again, while MGM, Sony and Warner have been wavering.
Just when many people thought that the Red Flame Battlefield might be difficult to give birth, an unexpected company approached Lee.
"Mr.
Shay, I really didn't expect you to be the first to come to the door."
Leet got up and walked around his desk and shook hands with a stocky, middle-aged man who walked into his office.
"Isn't Mr.
Leeter welcome?"
Leet took the coffee from his assistant Fury, handed it to the other party himself, and dragged a swivel chair to sit down.
"Of course not, it's just a bit of a surprise."
Shay lowered his head and blew the hot air from the coffee cup, and explained to Leet with a smile: "I know the Coen brothers very well, and this reason should be enough."
Li Jie nodded, with the same expression on his face.
The Coen brothers' films over the years have basically come from the support of production companies, and Shay, as the president of New Line Films, is not surprised to know the two brothers.
Although the company was acquired by Time Warner Group in 93, because President Shay still holds a major stake in New Line and enjoys the company's independent management rights, although New Line also belongs to Time Warner Group, its film business is not related to Warner.
Based on this equity relationship, Leet did not associate Shay's visit with Warner at first, but felt that most production companies liked to go off the rails, and Shay knew the Coen brothers, so he was interested in the film.
Shay's own statement is similar to this, he told Leet that he never expected the Coen brothers to agree to be the director of a commercial film, but after seeing the starring lineup of this commercial film, he felt that the Coen brothers' decision had a certain reason, the Red Flame Battlefield is indeed a different commercial film, maybe it will become a classic black irony film in the hands of the Coen brothers, and the new line company is willing to invest in the film.
Shay set out an investment budget of $6ooo for the Red Flame Battlefield, and the ideal investment amount in Lee's mind was so much, the two sides should be said to have reached a consensus immediately, but in the process, Shay showed excessive enthusiasm, which aroused Lee's suspicions.
After seeing Shay off, Littlet walked into Ovitz's office with a cup of coffee.
"The talk collapsed" Owitz received the news as soon as Leet and Shay met, and Littlet has been frowning since he walked into the office, which makes it easy for Ovitz to associate in some bad directions.
Litt shook his head, because the truth was quite the opposite.
"The negotiations went so smoothly that I always felt that there was something wrong with it."
"You suspect that there is something wrong with Shay's motive for coming to us to cooperate, right?"
Ovitz said something in Lee's mind, and seeing that Littlet did not object, he continued: "Maybe you have been ignoring such a problem, although the new line company has the right to operate independently, but after all, it is now a subsidiary of Warner, and he came to us to cooperate, most likely at the behest of Warner." ” "If Warners are interested in this movie, why don't they just come to us and talk to us," Litt asked, puzzled.
"You don't know why," Ovitz asked meaningfully.
Littlet was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood what Ovitz meant.
Originally, the Wachowski brothers were going to ask Warner to invest in the movie The Matrix, but they were intervened by Leete, and the investor finally became Universal.
In the past, Warner has been obsessed with this matter, but now the situation is different, the rise of AG is too fast, so fast that Warner has to give up prejudices to try to ease relations with it, but directly to the door to cooperate, Warner has a lot of concerns, in addition to the recent controversy about AG, the group's senior management has a difference of opinion, so the new line company was pushed out.
All the big studios in Hollywood don't put their eggs in one basket, and although AG's recent series of moves are not favorable, it doesn't mean that AG is not likely to succeed at all, although there is little hope, but in the eyes of these big studios, this is enough for them to make potential investments in AG.
G cooperates without worrying about any criticism, and if it fails, it will only affect the new line company more, at least on the surface, Warner can dissociate the relationship.
Of course, in order for the new line to be willing to do this "test stone", Warner must also pay some price.
After figuring out these relationships, Leet also made a decision in his heart.
Warner doesn't want to put all its eggs in one basket, so it will try to repair the relationship with AG, the same AG can't put all its eggs in one basket, although it is very pleasant to work with Universal now, and has reached a secret cooperation agreement with MGM, but this encounter on the Red Flame Battlefield also gave Li Teh a wake-up call, I thought that this film plan would find an investor soon after it was proposed, but I didn't think that after the plan was proposed, it was pushed back and forth between these film companies, If there were more options like Warner, it wouldn't be so passive. r1152 t1706231537: