Chapter 12: News
As the "Voice of Music" produced by 20th Century Fox was released in late July, the popularity of the box office exceeded 100 million yuan also dissipated in mid-August.
In the absence of major moves in Hollywood, three consecutive moves by United States Film Company attracted the attention of many people in Hollywood and attracted the attention of fans.
In more than two months, Herac solved some troubles in United States Film Company and entered the crew of "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner". As the main producer, in order to avoid the production cost exceeding the budget of the Finance Department, he controlled this level throughout the process, and observed and followed up from casting to props.
After all, the 20 million dollar movie operation fee, Herac does not want a portion of the production cost to enter some people's pockets.
"Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner" officially appeared in the entertainment newspaper by casting a role in Hollywood, letting everyone know that Lianmei Film Company's first film was launched after changing its boss.
With Herak's authorization, Terry Semer made confidential measures for filming the film, and his publicity was very conservative.
Although the efforts of Martin Luther King in the 1960s, blacks gradually gained a little status, the racial intermarriage in the script "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner" is still a sensitive topic for many states today. Terry Semer decided to keep his mystery first and let the audience know through reports step by step, and after the filming of the movie is completed, it will be promoted through entertainment media.
By then, even if someone wants to make trouble, it will not be much trouble. After all, the launch time of "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner" is expected to be in 1966, and there will be many changes in racism at that time.
The entertainment newspaper only reported the title of "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner" and directed by Stanley Kremer, and there is no trace of the story in the script.
After discussions by Stanley Kremer and Herac, the starring actor was determined to be the male and female lead roles of Spencer Queser and Catherine Hepburn.
These two are famous actors and actresses from the 1930s to 1960s, and have both been nominated for Oscars and several actors and actresses.
The script of "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner" touched Spencer Quser, and as his lover, Katherine Hepburn, naturally followed him to agree to star in it.
The two of them paid $1 million and $600,000 respectively, which together accounted for half of the production cost of $4 million. Catherine Hepburn, who had been in the film for five years, only gave her $600,000, while Spencer Qusey's $1 million was the performance pay that the two parties had negotiated for more than ten days.
The two of them have attracted the attention of many movie fans for "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner". The joint appearance of the actor and actress is very topical.
This film seems to be a sensationalist in the future, but it is easy to cause trouble from some white radicals at the moment, causing the filming of the film to slow down. This is also the case that Herac agreed to Terry Semer to take confidentiality measures at the beginning.
At the same time, "007: Thunderbolt Bullet", which everyone is most concerned about, is scheduled to be released on December 28, and the launch time is as scheduled. It is not affected by the replacement of a new boss, which makes 007 fans ecstatic.
The success of the first two films of 007 has attracted a lot of fans for this series and has long become a series of brand movies by Lianmei Film Company, and the impact has not been greatly affected.
In the 1960s, when there was no big-scale movie and "The Voice of Music", "007: Thunderbolt", which cost $9 million, naturally received a lot of attention. "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner" only reported on the title and publicity of the director, starring and others, and the attention is naturally mostly in "007 Series".
Both reports are important projects of United States Film Company. Terry Semer uses entertainment headlines and newspapers and magazines as promotional. As for the TV series "Mission: Impossible", Robert Dali has also made many people familiar with it in the form of an alternative 007 TV series.
The TV series "Mission: Impossible" was the first project to start filming. The first quarter filming was jointly filmed by Bruce Geller and Brian De Parma, and it was basically about to be completed. The subsequent promotion and distribution will be in place.
"Mission: Impossible" uses publicity similar to 007 as a highlight, making Robert Dali extremely easy when looking for distribution channels. After walking around, he found that the three major cable TV networks such as CBS, NBC, and ABC were very interested in this TV series.
The prices offered by the three companies are different. CBS CBS, which is already the leader in the TV industry, only opened the first quarter of "Mission Impossible", while ABC opened the first quarter of $5 million.
Among them, the $6 million price offered by NBC in the first quarter made Herac choose them, and "Mission: Impossible" will be broadcast simultaneously with United States TV in December 1956.
This report was also intentionally released by Herac through media reporters, and together with the other two publicity items, it became one of the hottest topics in August.
While people were discussing these three entertainment headlines, the filming location of "Guess Who Comes to Have Dinner" was Herac directing the crew to busy things that were about to start filming.
As a producer, there are many chores that need to be solved by Herac, and for this reason, Herac is the busiest in the entire crew.
His skilled service style left a deep impression on the crew these days. Obviously, some of them didn't expect that Herac was so clear about what the producers had to do in this regard.
Even Stanley Kremer, as the director and co-producer, was a little surprised by Herac's ability to handle the crew's trivial matters in an orderly manner.
"Okay, start shooting."
With the filming of the board and Stanley Kremer, Herac was able to sit next to the monitor and watch Spencer Quser and Catherine Hepburn perform.
It has to be said that both of them, as actors, actresses and actresses, have portrayed the roles they want to star in very well. Stanley Kremer does not need to ng many times, but only once or twice passed a filming.
After another period of shooting was completed, Jin Jianfu took advantage of the leisure time of Herac and placed the new entertainment newspaper in front of Herac. "This is the latest entertainment newspaper you want."
Put down the business in his hand. Herac picked up the newspaper and watched it.
Seeing that the three headlines in the entertainment newspaper were all projects of United States Film Company, Herak has been very busy these days and everything has begun to be on track.
After reading the report about United Film Company, Herac did not immediately put down the newspaper, but instead looked at the anime and comic strips in the newspaper.
The anime column reports on animation projects shot by Disney and other animation companies. Herac crossed directly and looked at the comic strip.
In the comic bar, three reports occupy the position, the image of a Snoopy dog is vivid, the following series of introduction news is extremely clear, while the other two messages are that DC's "Batman" was adapted by film and television and the sales of Marvel superheroes are continuing to break through.
These three news made Herac, who had memories of his previous life, care very much.
Chapter completed!