Hollywood starts with an agent

Chapter 95 PolyGram's Ambition
With the holding of the 48th Golden Globe Awards, "Dances with Wolves" produced by Orion was the biggest winner. Kevin Costner won the Best Picture and Best Director in the Drama category for his debut film.
You know, Kevin Costner's competitors are not weak at all, including "Goodfellas" directed by Martin Scorsese, "The Godfather 3" directed by Francis Coppola, and so on.

"Orion can survive for a while longer," Aaron leaned on the sofa in his West Hollywood apartment, thinking.

At present, the North American box office of "Dances with Wolves" has exceeded 9000 million US dollars, and it has become the biggest winner at the Golden Globe Awards. The upcoming Oscars cannot be underestimated.

"Kathy Bates also won the Best Actress in a Drama Series for 'Days of Danger'!"

Nicole Kidman came over and poured Aaron a glass of champagne.

Aaron took it and took a sip, "Is this any good?"

Two days ago, the multinational force led by the United States officially invaded Iraq!
Nicole Kidman smiled. "Um, aren't Kevin Costner and Kathy Bates the main characters in Ghost?"

Aaron nodded. Yes, the more successful Kevin Costner is now, the more helpful it will be for "Ghost" which will be released in the summer.

"Didn't you say you were going to audition for Tom Cruise's movie 'Far and Away'?"

Aaron inquired.

Nicole Kidman shook her head and said, "The leading actress is not decided by the director and producer, but by Tom Cruise;"

"My agent said I didn't even make it to the final round of auditions!"

"Is it because of the height?"

Nicole Kidman nodded, and everything was said without words.

"That's fine. She's just a vase anyway. Even vases aren't very prominent in Tom Cruise's films. Who remembers the heroines in Days of Thunder and Rain Man?"

Aaron shook his head and said, "After Ghost is released this year, you will have no shortage of scripts."

"Even if you can't compare to Julia Roberts, it's enough to make you famous overnight!"

Julia Roberts also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for "Pretty Woman";

As for the script, it was overwhelmingly popular.

"By the way, have you paid attention to the Saint Denis Film Festival that just concluded?"

Nicole Kidman sat in the man's arms and asked intimately.

“There’s not much attention paid to it, and there aren’t many new directors worth cultivating!”

Now that Shuguang Pictures is just starting out, it is bound to cooperate with some new directors, and the St. Denis Film Festival is a good way to discover new directors.

"What about 'Poison,' which won the Best Film Award at the Saint-Denis Film Festival? It's a very artistic film!"

Aaron thought about it and rubbed the thigh of the girl in his arms for a few times, "It's just artistic, not commercial. It's just a controversial new queer movie." "Poison" is similar to "My Own Private Idaho", but there are not many stars, and the scale exceeds the R rating.

"Poison" is really a genuine independent film, which mainly tells the sexual stories of three men:
The first story is presented in a documentary style. A boy who likes to be abused, when he sees his mother being beaten by his father, shoots his father to death and then runs away and disappears.
The second story is about a scientist who extracted a liquid but accidentally drank it. His skin then began to rot, and the rot gradually spread to those who came into contact with him. Although his female assistant remained loyal to him, she also died of the infection, and finally the scientist himself died after completely rotting away.
The third story is about a homosexual prisoner who often recalled the scenes of men being abused that he had seen in the past. After having contact with a prisoner several times, he sexually assaulted him!

All three stories are related to sex. The boy's abuse is related to sex, the liquid extracted by the scientist is also related to sex, and the prisoner is directly homosexual.
The theme of the film is somewhat vague, but it can be seen that the "poison" the director wants to express is sex.

"Of course I'm not interested in a work that will only have a limited release at best!"

NC-17 rated work, this kind of art, is not what Aaron needs.

Moreover, now that Quentin Tarantino is preparing Reservoir Dogs , Dawn Pictures has already worked with first-time directors David Fincher and John Singleton;
There is really no need for that. We must find a new director to make the film.

Aaron also values Edward Zwick, the director of "Ghost", and Jonathan Demme, the director of "The Silence of the Lambs"!

After the Golden Globe Awards, "Dances with Wolves" also shined at the Directors Guild and Producers Guild Awards, as well as various American Film Critics Awards.

Now the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, and the Boston Society of Film Critics are collectively known as the five major film critics associations in the United States;
In addition to the Golden Globe Awards, the British Academy Awards, the two major union awards, etc., they are all important indicators of the Oscars!

In the evening, PolyGram held a party at the Marmont Hotel in West Hollywood as PolyGram officially established an office in Los Angeles to develop Hollywood films.

"Congratulations, Michael," PolyGram's move heralds the independent development of American films.

Michael Kuhn smiled and said, "PolyGram has participated in several Hollywood films. Now it is just getting on the right track."

"Wild at Heart", "Barton Fink" and "My Own Private Idaho" were all invested by PolyGram.

"Let me introduce you to someone!"

With that, Michael Kuhn introduced Paul Webster, the head of PolyGram USA, to Aaron Anderson.

"Good evening, Mr. Anderson!"

Paul Webster raised his glass and clinked it with Aaron's.

Aaron nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Just call me Aaron. Shuguang and PolyGram have cooperated, and we can continue to cooperate in the future."

Later, Aaron also learned that Paul Webster was preparing a debut film, Bob Roberts, which would be directed and starred by Tim Robbins and distributed by Paramount.
Although "Bob Roberts" was just a low-budget political comedy, it also marked the official start of PolyGram's independent production business in the United States.

Watching the two leave, Aaron drank the wine in his glass in one gulp and muttered to himself, "It seems that PolyGram really wants to make a breakthrough in the film business?"

Today’s foreign film companies are mainly involved in investment, while production still relies mainly on local American film companies!

Aaron shook his head. Hollywood has never been afraid of competition. There are already so many film companies in China that the competition is extremely fierce.
As for foreign companies, the difficulties they face are even greater.

(End of this chapter)