Hollywood starts with an agent

Chapter 142 Double Happiness
Santa Monica, in a villa on the Pacific Palisades hill.

Nicole Kidman came out of the shower and saw Aaron put down his phone. "What's going on?"

"Nothing, Spielberg went to the set of Jurassic Park in Hawaii. He had just finished filming Schindler's List, and he went straight to the crew of his new movie!"

Aaron shook his head, he was really in a hurry.

Nicole Kidman climbed onto the bed. "Now, Dawn has more and more projects. I heard that you are going to cooperate with Columbia Pictures to make a movie about Zorro, and the director plans to invite Mr. Ridley Scott. Is this true?"

"Yeah, are you interested?" Aaron said as he leaned over to the girl and kissed her.

"Well, what type?"

Nicole Kidman took off her bathrobe and responded to the man's kisses and caresses.

"An adventure action movie. Zorro, for example, must have a lot of fighting scenes!"

Aaron smiled and laid on top of the girl, "Do you think you can handle a lot of fighting scenes?"

Nicole Kidman thought for a moment and looked at her man. "As long as you're here, it's all right, isn't it?"

"Okay, this movie isn't really suitable for you. With your size and body shape, I'm worried you might get hurt!"

"Okay," Nicole Kidman is not short of scripts now, but she is a little overwhelmed by action movies.

"Well, if I really get injured, it will be hard to find an insurance company to cover me in the future."

"By the way, do you remember the New Zealand female director Jane Campion?"

Nicole Kidman inquired.

"Jane Campion? She was the independent female director at the Cannes Film Festival a few years ago. Her film 'Sweetheart' was also nominated for the Palme d'Or."

"It just lost to Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape. You've been in touch with her, right?"

Aaron touched the girl's smooth white body and soon remembered.

"Yes, she's currently preparing a literary drama called 'The Piano Lesson'. It tells the story of an American mute woman who left her husband and returned to New Zealand with her daughter in the mid-19th century. She met her new neighbor through a piano and fell in love with him!"

Aaron blinked. "Piano Lesson"?
"Jane Campion is going to shoot this movie in Australia, right? Does she need investment?"

"Then are you willing to invest?" Nicole Kidman lay in the man's arms, "Her movies don't seem to have much commercial value!"

But this "Piano Lesson" is different, how can Aaron let it go?
"Don't worry, an Australian film won't cost much. Jane Campion's work will always be favored by some award ceremonies;"

"You can tell Jane Campion to prepare well. Crescent Films will support it!"

Aaron's newly established Crescent Films and Twilight Films have to make a name for themselves. Films like "The Burning Lovers", "The Pain of Reality" and "Farewell My Concubine" are all art films.

"She is still perfecting the script, and with your support it will be ready for filming soon!" Nicole Kidman said as she hugged the man and gave him a kiss.

"Well," Aaron teased, "honey, can't you just repay me for what I've done?"

Nicole Kidman leaned close to the man's ear and said seductively, "Why don't you find someone else to give you double the happiness!"

"Hiss, you're so nice?"

"We'll see how you perform later..."

After entering April, the filming of "Scent of a Woman" was completed and the post-production editing began. It will be released together with "Schindler's List" during the award season at the end of this year;
"Indecent Proposal" and "Sleepless in Seattle" will be released in the summer.

As for Jane Campion's new film "The Piano Lesson" introduced by Nicole Kidman, Crescent Films invested $150 million as the other party's filming funds;

Because this movie really doesn't have many scenes or actors, it's just a story about a few actors surrounding a piano!

However, Dawn Pictures' big project right now is the action film "Speed," which has a budget of $3300 million and is being filmed primarily in Los Angeles.
Keanu Reeves, who just worked with Aaron in "400 Years of Dracula", plays the leading role in the movie. He has experience in filming "Point Break", so it is not difficult for him to act in "Speed".

On the other side of the East Coast in New York, Aaron Anderson's old acquaintance Harvey Weinstein had a sad face. Compared with the prosperous Dawn, Miramax's situation was much worse.
In the past two years, Miramax has acquired a large number of overseas art films and supported independent films, but none of them have achieved the success of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and "Cinema Paradiso"!
Last year, the highest box office revenue of Miramax's releases was only $1500 million, a documentary called "Sleeping with Madonna."
It is based on some performances and life clips of singer Madonna during her 1990 "Blond Ambition" world tour, presenting the superstar to the audience in a relatively realistic way.

"Ah," Harvey Weinstein scratched his hair in the Miramax office in New York, his jealousy and hatred towards Aaron Anderson growing stronger;
Before, the physical beating and psychological torture that Aaron Anderson inflicted on him were still vivid in his mind. Suddenly, the gap between the two became so big?
Not to mention the annual North American box office champion "Ghost" and the Oscar-winning best picture "The Silence of the Lambs";
Even "Boyz n the Hood", a film about black community issues directed by a new black director, achieved a box office of 5700 million US dollars!

"Harvey, it's time to change your thinking." Suddenly the office door was pushed open, and it turned out that it was his brother Bob Weinstein who came in.

"Miramax wants box office and commercial attributes now, not damn critics' praise!"

"Bob, what do you mean?"

Harvey Weinstein asked, looking at his brother.

"What do you mean? I want to set up a label that specializes in releasing genre films featuring violence, gore, horror, and hot beauties;"

"Distributing this kind of purely commercial film is the path that Miramax should take!"

For Bob Weinstein, nothing is more important than the commercial value of a film. The ultimate goal of a film should be to make money.

This is also the biggest difference between Bob Weinstein and Harvey Weinstein. What he cares about is always whether the movie can make money.

Instead of worrying about what awards this movie has won, how many Oscar nominations it has, etc.

Harvey Weinstein looked at his brother Bob Weinstein and expressed his support:

"Miramax's direction will not change, and it will continue to boldly develop independent art films;"

As for your desire to form a genre film label, go for it!"

(End of this chapter)