The Best Actor in the Vase of Meiyu

Chapter 1433 Seizing food from the tiger’s mouth
The infamous Weinstein brothers have not yet fallen from grace; of course, the two brothers are not at the top of Hollywood for the time being.

Climbing.

In March 1999, "Shakespeare in Love" unexpectedly defeated "Saving Private Ryan" to win the Oscar for Best Picture, which was only five years ago.

The Weinstein brothers have completely changed the rules of the game and established a new Academy public relations strategy for the awards season. It is still in the early development stages, and it is sometimes effective and sometimes not, with mixed results. It has not yet completely overturned the Oscars' long-standing pattern.

To be precise, the Weinstein brothers are also trying to change the landscape of Hollywood.

Miramax Films, the film company named after their mother by the Weinstein brothers, was acquired by Disney in 1993. They took the opportunity to join Disney and specialize in producing and distributing award-winning works for Disney.

Ten years have passed in a blink of an eye. The Weinstein brothers have been challenging Disney's bottom line and launching a series of works that do not conform to the traditional style of the Disney family. Finally, Disney could no longer tolerate it and officially announced the breakdown of the relationship this year.

The Weinstein brothers also realized that if they wanted to be the chess players, they had to have their own voice, just like Jungle Pictures.

On the one hand, the Weinstein brothers have been arguing with Disney because the name Miramax comes from the brothers' mother, so they hope to get the name back.

On the other hand, because Disney has always refused to compromise, the Weinstein brothers had to temporarily start a new business under the name of Weinstein Pictures and start all over again.

However, the Weinstein brothers have been in Hollywood for many years. Long before they left Disney, they had already begun to make overall plans. Dimension Films, which specializes in horror and thriller films, is one of their hiding places, and the "Scream" series is their trump card series.

This time, Quentin approached the Weinstein brothers in the hope that Dimension Pictures would provide support.

Quentin can be said to be a director who comes from Miramax. "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill" were all produced and released by Miramax. Among them, works such as "Kill Bill" are an important reason for Disney's anger. Quentin and the Weinstein brothers have a close personal relationship.

Although the Weinstein brothers had reservations about "Sin City", Dimension Pictures still gave Quentin a sum of money, and then Quentin and Robert paid out of their own pockets to fill the gap and raised 40 million US dollars to complete the filming. This led to the birth of the classic "Sin City".

So…are the Wood brothers now preparing to take food from the Weinstein brothers?

If you think about it carefully, is all this a coincidence?

Jungle Pictures and Weinstein Pictures were established at almost the same time. The Weinstein brothers had a falling out with Disney, so they realized they had to become chess players. Anson was caught up in the power struggle between Sony and Columbia and fell into crisis, so Lucas realized they had to take the initiative.

One after the other, they set up their own business, ready to show their talents.

Of course, at this point in time, it's just a coincidence.

After all, Weinstein Pictures has just been established, but the Weinstein brothers have established their own fame and momentum in Hollywood over the past five years. "Shakespeare in Love", "The English Patient" and "Chicago" have won the Oscar for Best Picture, which undoubtedly makes them popular.

Although the film company has just been established, they already have abundant resources and experience, and are more than one step ahead of Forest Pictures.

I'm afraid the Weinstein brothers don't take Forest Pictures seriously at all——

Anson?

She's just a vase. No matter how popular or famous she is, can she ever surpass the peak ceiling of Tom Cruise and Leonardo Dicaprio?
What's more, even Tom and Leonardo are no exception. If they are preparing to compete for the Oscars, the Weinstein brothers are still the most secure operators in Hollywood.

In the eyes of the Weinstein brothers, Anson poses no threat and has no weight.

However, now, Anson is preparing to snatch food from the Weinstein brothers. Things are a little dangerous. However, this is not something Anson needs to worry about. He has confidence in Lucas.

The Weinstein brothers are not that scary.

Lucas briefly fell into deep thought, but did not stay there for too long. He raised his eyes again and said, "30 million US dollars. I think this cooperation can be realized."

Anson raised his eyebrows slightly——

Looking back at the past, "Sin City" cost 40 million U.S. dollars to produce and spread across the globe as a cultural trend. Both the visual style and Jessica Alba were extremely popular, and they are still unique even 20 years later.

But in fact, the box office of the movie was not as good as expected, with $74 million in North America, $84 million overseas, and ultimately $158 million worldwide.

From a purely commercial perspective, the film brought Dimension Pictures $20 million in profits, which is indeed worth celebrating; however, the real success of the film lies in its profound cultural explosion, which has aroused heated discussions in all directions and even had a series of impacts on the Hollywood film industry.

Later, exactly nine years later, the film gave birth to a second film.

The same model, the same production, but it ended up with a disastrous failure in both reputation and box office, even causing Dimension Pictures to face a loss of more than 40 million US dollars.

This time, all the income and reputation earned from the first film were lost again by the second film.

Ultimately, in Anson's opinion, the sudden emergence of "Sin City" was due to the deviation in the positioning of publicity and promotion. The market still felt a sense of freshness, fresh image style, fresh narrative method, fresh fusion of comics and movies, which brought success to the film, but did not really touch the sense of fate behind the bloody violence of the film's images, a kind of despair and pain that could not escape the shackles of the city, and lost the aftertaste.

It is precisely because of this that Anson believes that the focus of Jungle Films' production of "Sin City" is to build a reputation, and profit is secondary.

But if Lucas could control costs while still completing the filming with quality and quantity, and combined with Anson's publicity strategy, perhaps this movie could have created a different impact.

It's just... $30 million, really? Are you sure it won't affect the quality?

Anson looked at Lucas, "Are you confident you can convince them?"

Lucas put the script back on the coffee table. "Didn't you just say that Robert paid for the title sequence out of his own pocket just to convince Frank Miller?"

"People who work with passion believe in hope and dreams, not numbers or rational analysis. As long as I can satisfy this, they will exert 200% of their energy to complete the work."

Anson: ... "Luka, I think you are implying something to me."

Lucas looked calm, "So, you are also working for your dream? Then we don't need to worry about the salary game for Spider-Man 3."

Anson sneered, "Tsk, only children make choices, adults want everything, I want both the dream and the check, I can't have one less."

He looked so matter-of-fact, without any guilt or shyness, completely open and aboveboard.

Lucas nodded gently, "As expected of you."

(End of this chapter)