Chapter 217 212 The Most Ridiculous Case in Hollywood History

Chapter 213 212. The most absurd case in Hollywood history

The Guardian: The Golden Globe Awards have come to an end. "The Lord of the Rings 3" has become the biggest winner, winning all five nominations and winning three heavyweight awards: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.

NBC Entertainment: A new record was born at the Golden Globe Awards. Eric Cooper broke the record again and won the Best Screenwriter Award. The Olsen sisters won the Best Actress Award at the same time, becoming the first double yolk egg in the history of the Golden Globe Awards.

Sina Live Streaming: Eric Cooper, President of MGM Pictures and Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of MGM Oriental, won the Best Screenwriter Award and is expected to hit the Oscars and win three consecutive championships.

The New York Times: The 61st Golden Globe Awards are star-studded, and homosexual-themed films shine. The market has ushered in a wave of homosexual-themed explosions.

The Independent: Sean Penn's performance in "Mystic River" is brilliant. It's a pity that he didn't win the Best Actor Award, but Elijah Wood's performance is also worthy of the title of Best Actor. On the contrary, some films won awards by relying on public opinion and political correctness, which is not worthy of the title!

Los Angeles Post: The biggest surprise of this year's Golden Globe Awards is undoubtedly the Olsen sisters, or the most surprising actors in 2003 are Ashley and Mary.

Unknowingly, when the public has not reacted, the twins have grown up. They have completely abandoned the past exaggerated and superficial performance style and stepped into a new realm in one fell swoop. They deserve the title of queen of the film.

Of course, all this is inseparable from Eric Cooper's training. He is definitely a genius who is born to eat this bowl of rice. He can always exceed people's imagination. I am looking forward to his next masterpiece.

BBC News: The most tragic character of the Golden Globe Awards was born. Charlize Theron did not hesitate to make herself ugly and gain weight, turning herself into an unapproachable murderer, but the Golden Globe Awards still failed her.

Her performance is enough to be the queen, but it's a pity that the theme collision made "Monster" lose to "Blue Is the Warmest Color". This does not mean that Charlize Theron lost to the Olsen sisters, but the public prefers sunshine. I hope she can bring better performance in the future.

With the end of the Golden Globe Awards, reports from all sides came out, and the hot searches in the entertainment section were occupied.

With the fermentation of good word-of-mouth, "Blue Is the Warmest Color" really boosted morale, and the box office decline trend slowed down significantly, only falling by 19% this week.

At present, the global box office has officially exceeded 200 million US dollars, raising the box office of homosexual-themed movies to a higher level in one fell swoop.

Although "Monster" won two nominations, it didn't have much effect without winning. The North American box office barely exceeded 20 million US dollars.

The situation overseas is also not good, only about 11 million, and the screening range is only a thousand theaters, which is ten times less than "Blue Is the Warmest Color".

The biggest beneficiary is naturally "Lord of the Rings 3", the global box office has reached 810 million US dollars, the attendance rate is still amazing, and the appeal of classics is indeed very strong.

Every year at this time, it is the award season for major awards, such as the film industry and the music industry.

A few days ago, Eric received an invitation to the 46th Grammy Awards at the same time as the Golden Globe Awards.

At that time, I was still wondering why I would send myself an invitation since I don’t play music.

Then Michael told Eric that because "Rolling in the Deep" was nominated for an award, and your name was written on the lyrics and music of this song, Grammy would of course send you an invitation.

Eric had never watched the Grammy Awards and had no intention of going, but Michael said that the chances of winning were very high, so he would just go for fun.

Eric went because of Michael's invitation, and the venue was right next to his home in Los Angeles anyway.

After going there, I found that the Grammy Awards are really many, with a total of 105 awards, all kinds of and varied.

There are 30 major categories alone, such as music video, classical, packaging, children, jazz, rap, etc.

The most valuable award is the comprehensive category, with a total of four awards: production of the year, album of the year, single of the year, and new artist of the year.

"Rolling in the Deep" was nominated for the production of the year and single of the year.

The former is awarded to the performers and production team of a single. Producers, recording engineers, mixers, etc. can go on stage to receive the award as long as they participate.

The latter is exclusive to the songwriters of the song, that is, Eric and Michael.

After more than half a year of release, "Rolling in the Deep" is still on the top 100 of the B list. At the beginning of its release, it won the championship of the list for 9 consecutive weeks.

At the award ceremony, many people wanted to get to know Michael, but they were all black about those rappers.

It's not a metaphor, it's really black, all black.

Except for Jayz invited by The Voice of China and the obvious dog, I don't know any of the others.

However, the blacks have a good impression of him and asked Eric when "Barbershop 2" will be released? I will definitely bring my family to support it.

The leading actors of this movie are all black. It was a project before Eric joined MGM and made him a fortune.

The main creator, Ice Cube, is a rapper and producer who crossed over to the film industry.

Probably because of this reason, these black people have a good impression of him, just like "Black Panther" was nominated for an Oscar.

Relatively speaking, he is more familiar with pop songs, such as Avril Lavigne and the badly deceived Lacy Nerd.

Also chatted with Celine Dion and Janet Jackson. The recording of "The Voice of America" ​​is in progress. Eric has been busy with film affairs and has not had time to watch it.

As for the stupid idiot Emmi Am, he did not attend the Grammys. How could he show up when his album was removed from the shelves? He might also be worried that Eric would scold and beat him on the spot.

In the end, "Rolling in the Deep" successfully won the two awards of the annual production and the annual single, becoming the biggest winner of the night.

Eric also stood on the Grammy stage in a daze and took away the golden gramophone as an outsider.

I have to say that this scene is still very interesting.

At the same time, a new round of box office battles in the outside world has also kicked off. The protagonist who has attracted much attention this time is James Wan, who is known as a rising star director.

Because the two newly released horror films are both masterpieces he participated in, MGM's "Saw 2" and Lionsgate's "Dead Silence".

Although he was only the producer of the former, in fact, Ray Whannell completed the film under his direction, and the latter was completely dominated by him.

Now the two movies are competing, and everyone is waiting to see who can make the best use of James Wan's sword.

James Wan is running between the two places, promoting "Saw 2" and "Dead Silence" at the same time.

He was still in Los Angeles in the morning, flew to Boston in the afternoon, and had to go to New York to do a show in the evening, which made the child exhausted.

Lionsgate is confident that "Dead Silence" is well made, after all, it has invested 30 million US dollars.

When Eric and James Wan chatted privately, he said that the data was exaggerated but not much, and it actually cost 25 million US dollars, and the movie has many big scenes.

But after all, "Saw" has the first one as a pearl, so Lionsgate is still a little worried.

So they played a little trick. Originally, the two movies were scheduled to be released on January 30.

But after "Saw 2" announced its release date, "Dead Silence" was suddenly moved up and chose to be released three days earlier.

The idea of ​​creating a time difference is also very simple. Once the reputation of "Dead Silence" ferments, it will be enough to suppress the later "Saw 2".

Judy and Volvo therefore hope to advance the release date of "Saw 2", but Eric ignored it.

Are you kidding? What's your quality? Do you really think that gold plating is real gold? You are not even worthy of brass!

Beverly Hills, Cooper's house.

After winning several Golden Globe Awards, Eric chose to hold a party at home, one to celebrate, and the other to connect with everyone.

The company's senior executives, several best friends, and good friends were all invited. There were dozens of them, which was much more than last time.

Mom and nanny Lisa must be too busy, so they simply invited a chef from Michelin to cook at home.

Everyone gathered in groups of three or two to chat and brag. Judy was drinking with Chris Evans, and Warren was eating snacks with Ryan Reynolds with a big belly.

Evangeline Lilly and Gadot were smiling glamorously, and no one knew what they were talking about.

James Yimei was introducing Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy to the Olsen sisters.

Charlize Theron had calmed down, but she chose not to participate when she heard that Ashley and Mary would come.

Eric sat on the sofa with James Wan and Ray Whannell to watch TV, which was playing Jet Li's "Black Mask".

Gulp!

He drank a cold drink to relieve his greasiness. This Michelin chef was just so-so.

"James, don't you like the mango flavor? Do you want to change to beer?"

Seeing that James Wan didn't eat or drink much, Eric asked.

Ray Whannell said, "I think James doesn't have much appetite now. The comments about "Dead Silence" have come out."

"As the opponent of "Saw 2", I hope it fails, but as your friend, I hope you succeed."

James Wan smiled bitterly. It has been three days since the release of the movie, and the reputation of the movie has been lifted, which is far from what he and Lionsgate expected.

The imagined scene should be that the audience is enthusiastically pursuing it, but the actual situation is just the opposite.

The audience and critics who have seen it sneered, and he would dream about those bad reviews.

"Dead Silence is simply the worst movie I have ever seen. The plot is ridiculous. Who came up with the idea of ​​puppetry? It is so boring."

"Today, I went to see Dead Silence with my girlfriend, the new work of director James Wan. I like his Saw and my girlfriend likes his Get Out."

"We thought Dead Silence would also be an exciting and excellent horror film, but the fact is that it failed. Only the episode where the male protagonist's father was hollowed out was amazing, but that's all."

Chicago Herald: "It seems that Saw and Get Out have worn away James Wan's spirit, causing him to shoot a bad movie like Dead Silence. A rising star director? Maybe it's just a meteor that flashes in the pan. "

Fox Entertainment: "From the poor performance of "Dead Silence", it can be seen that James Wan is not serious about this assignment. The movie lacks the surprise of "Saw" and "Get Out". After watching the beginning, I guessed the ending. This is not his level. "

The bad reviews kept lingering in his mind, and James Wan sighed: "I screwed up. 25 million US dollars is 7 times that of "Saw" and 5 times that of "Get Out", but I really screwed up. "

"Through this filming, I feel that I still have a lot of shortcomings in controlling the big scenes, and horror movies are really not the bigger the scenes, the better. The audience taught me a lesson. "

Looking at Ziren Wen with a depressed look on his face, Eric was happy deep down in his heart. Only when the child goes out on his own to make a career will he realize that society is not easy to live in.

Only when you feel the cruelty outside will you become more attached to the warmth of home.

What's more, the first two times were huge successes, but this time it was a huge failure, which must have been a big blow to him.

He patted James Wan on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "James, you are already great for being able to realize your own shortcomings."

"Come back, come back to MGM and help me make a movie. There is a place for you here."

"I believe that after this failure, you will become more mature."

Hearing this, James Wan felt moved in his heart. The failure of "Dead Silence" made Lionsgate doubt him, and the next film he originally planned has not been completed.

"Eric, are you going to let me do 'Saw 3'?"

"No, let Ray take charge of the "Saw" series. I plan to start a new series for you. Have you ever heard of the Warrens, a pair of exorcists from the last century?"

Wen Ziren shook his head.

"It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it. You can buy the novel "The Demon Master" and read it. I have already written the outline of the script, and you can add to it."

"When you're almost ready, the movie can start shooting."

The Warrens and "Master of Evil" are actually the prototype of the horror film "The Conjuring", and Eric plans to start filming this most profitable horror film series in film history.

To say that the series is all aggrieved, The Conjuring Universe is the right one, because it also expanded into the "Annabelle" and "The Nun" series.

But when Warner and New Line made a lot of money, they caused a lawsuit because "The Conjuring" was adapted from the story of the Warrens.

But the Warrens actually sold their story very early, and the buyer used it to write the novel "The Demon Master."

The writer therefore took Warner and New Line to court for film infringement, demanding more than $900 million in damages.

Warner and New Line were naturally furious. They found an excuse to say that we were not adapting your novel, but the true events of the Warrens. They had never read your crappy novel from beginning to end.

The result was embarrassing. Since it was claimed to be adapted from real events, Warner and New Line were required to prove that there was a ghost and that Annabell could kill.

It's your choice, idol!

Warner and New Line are stupid, this is fucking proof.

In the end, this most absurd case in Hollywood history ended with the two major companies giving in to the individual.

It is impossible to compensate 900 million, but it is rumored that the compensation was tens of millions of dollars, which can be described as a huge hemorrhage.

In order to prevent himself from becoming a defendant, Eric had already asked Billy to buy out the copyright of the novel for a mere US$500,000.

After all, he was just an unpopular writer. When he saw the 500,000 yuan, he went crazy with joy. Eric also went crazy with joy when he got the copyright.