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The biggest loss of 515 for a comeback

Hugo flipped through the mountains of scripts in front of him, including the love movie "Love Story (., which must have come to Hugo because of the success of "Night Sleep in Seattle"; there was also the horror science fiction movie "Frankenstein (Mary). shelley, s. This surprised Hugo very much. He didn't expect that the producer would actually want him to act.

There is also the "shadow tycoon (the... co-founded by the Coen brothers and Sam Remy (sam.), which is full of fantasy and color. This social fairy tale with satirical metaphors is obviously very eye-catching; "Instinct. Ability" and the strong rise of the thriller suspense large-scale theme movie, "Night'color' (. of. This really makes Hugo dumbfounded.

These works are good or bad. Obviously, there were still many bad works in 1994 when the excellent works were gathered. For example, the quality of the finished products of "Night's Color" and "Frankenstein" are not high, but the "shadow tycoon" Such independent masterpieces also make people shine.

I have to say that this is a very interesting process. I appreciate the scripts that I have read and haven’t read, heard of and haven’t heard of. As long as I want to, I can become a member of this crew. It feels very subtle. It is not only the condescending feeling of dreams come true or the power of life and death, but also the wonderful experience of watching these scripts truly appear in their hands as a traverser.

But when Hugo saw the script of "Cut Throat Island" in his hand, he couldn't help laughing, not happily, but playfully.

"Cut Throat Island" is not a 1994 work, but 1995. The work is famous not because of its beauty or badness, but because of its loss of money. It is the most money-losing movie in Hollywood history. It occupies an unshakable place in the top ten, and was even included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most loss-making movie in film history.

Investing 92 million U.S. dollars, the result was only 9.5 million U.S. dollars in the box office, which directly led to the bankruptcy of the production company. It is definitely a model for a work to bring down the entire company! Hugo was curious, but To find out what kind of movie it was, I wanted to find out what kind of work it was that led to the bankruptcy of a company.

In fact, mentioning "Cut Throat Island" Hugo thinks this is a decent movie, even more ‘colorful’ than "Pirates of the Caribbean (. of. the.. Indeed, "Cut Throat Island" is a pirate movie!

When the movie was released, professional film critics thought that the plot design of the film was full of ‘holes’ and nothing new, making this work one of the most infamous action-adventure films in the 1990s. But in fact, this movie is a work that tells a pirate story in a down-to-earth manner. Compared with the later works of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, which rely on special effects to support the scene, it is much more'colorful', even if compared to the first "Pirates of the Caribbean". The story is not inferior to'colorful'.

"Cut Throat Island" production company Carlock Films (.) has a strong background. Prior to this, it has continuously produced "Terminator 2", "Jie Ling Xiong Feng (., "Ben. Neng" and other box office successes. Popular works, this has gained them enough self-confidence.

In the early 1990s, Carlock Pictures was willing to invest 90 million US dollars to shoot "Cut Throat Island". It is undoubtedly a big deal. The preliminary budget for this work has actually exceeded 100 million US dollars. "The box office giant crocodile just appeared in the movie and "spended" five million US dollars to build it! When the special effects are not yet mature, the crew all use real-life shooting on the water, just to make the film more beautiful. The actors and actresses also personally went to battle to complete the thrilling scenes.

However, during the production process, because the original script was too rough, it was impossible to shoot after only the beginning of the filming, so I had to find someone to rewrite it temporarily. When the producer was anxious, I found four screenwriters to write together. As a result, the four sets of scripts began to pull and merge with each other, causing the shooting situation to be delayed again and again.

After the filming was finally finished, Carlock Pictures also spent a lot of effort to promote the film, hoping to achieve good results, but "Cut Throat Island" has a fatal injury, that is, its protagonist is a female. "Sex", this is a story told from the perspective of "female" pirates. This is undoubtedly a destructive "sexual" for Hollywood, where patriarchal power is supreme, and for the pirate field dominated by traditional male "sex". Blow.

The result...The result is that "Cutting Throat Island" has a gross box office revenue of less than 10 million, so that the loss of Carlock Pictures was noticed by Guinness Records. In the end, Carlock Pictures completely lost itself and declared bankruptcy. , Was acquired by MGM United Arts.

The original script of "Cut Throat Island" was so rough that Hugo had less than twenty pages in his hand, but Joseph still kept it. Hugo quickly got the answer from Anna because of Carlock The film industry took a fancy to Hugo's box office appeal, and offered a $10 million remuneration plus box office dividends to invite Hugo to appear.

Although "Cut Throat Island" is a work dominated by ‘female’ pirates, there are also many roles for the male protagonist. It can now be seen that Carlock Pictures hopes to use a big-name actor to boost the appeal of the film. The salary of 10 million U.S. dollars was already at the top level, and he was still willing to pay dividends. As expected, it was an invitation to be cruel and grit his teeth.

Joseph still hopes that Hugo's next work will be able to take over the production of more than tens of millions of films, which is helpful to Hugo's entire career as an actor; but Hugo still does not believe that the salary is never the most important key. The work itself is. This is also the reason for their huge divergence in their views on "Pulp Fiction", and it continues to this day.

Hugo thought for a while, and threw the script of "Cut Throat Island" back into the pile of rejected scripts on the desktop.

If Hugo read the script of "Cut Throat Island" just now, he couldn't laugh when he saw the script of "Future Water World ( now.

Obviously, Joseph showed that it is a way to the end. He just hopes that Hugo can take over a film with a remuneration of more than 10 million. He is not willing to communicate with Hugo at all. Even if Hugo has his own ideas, he With an attitude of "whatever you love...", he directly handed over the script communication task to Anna, and then left the scripts such as "Cut Throat Island" and "Future Water World". Here, show his own attitude, and that's it.

This made Hugo sneered directly, without even thinking about it, he just threw the script of "Future Water World" in the pile of rejections, not to say that "Future Water World" was originally a cheating script, he didn't. The plan to accept; even if he originally planned to accept the script, he will never accept it now!

The script of "Future Water World" is a wonderful work. Before "Titanic" came out, it was the most invested work in the world. The investment of 175 million U.S. dollars will remain the same even 20 years later. It is the top super production. It invited the director of "The Rogue Robin Hood" Kevin Reynolds (.) to direct, and Kevin Costner to play the lead role. Jeanne Triplihorn, who previously took the opportunity to perform in the "Sugar Coated Trap" from Uma Acting as the protagonist of the'female'.

This work has been troublesome from the preparatory stage. After the shooting, budget overruns and production bottlenecks have emerged in an endless stream. Even the actor Kevin Costner almost died in Jiuquan, and the rumors of incompatibility between the main creators are even more troublesome. It's going to be up and down. From the screenwriter to the actors to the other staff behind the scenes, the filming process was described as a "hell-like period..." The degree of incompatibility of the entire crew was almost too much for the producers to suppress. Director Kevin Reynolds was very dissatisfied with the crew two weeks before the finale, and left directly with the burden. This made Kevin Costner, who once won the Oscar for Best Director Golden Man by relying on "Dancing with Wolves" Had to take up this mess and finished the filming of the movie.

In fact, the story frame of "Future Water World" is a common science fiction blockbuster in the 21st century. The storyline is relatively simple and rough, and it relies on countless special effects to attract attention. Those special effects that burn money will not be too far behind even after ten years. , Especially the special effects of many climax scenes are commendable. But the problem lies in the fact that the entire worldview setting is too advanced, the special effects pictures do not conform to the aesthetics of the mid-1990s, and the crude and inferior story line makes it impossible to look directly at it. The most important thing is that the "female" protagonist's Serious mistakes in the character setting and huge problems with casting have caused the whole movie to fail to win positive responses from the audience.

In the end, "Future Water World" received 88 million U.S. dollars in North America, and the global box office was 264 million U.S. dollars. If the cost is 175 million, the book cost is recovered, at least Unlike "Cutting Throat Island," it is not as bad as even the book cost is invisible.

But the problem is that the box office has never been solely for production companies. Production companies can only get about 20% of it, and the rest have to rely on video tapes, television copyrights and other peripherals to make profits. Therefore, the "future water world", which has collapsed in word of mouth, has almost no harvest in the surrounding area, which makes the production company suffer from heartburn.

If the "Future Water World" is placed ten years later~www.wuxiahere.com~ For example, in 2007, when "Transformers" became popular, even if the story is simple and rough, the special effects of the "fine" color plus the new "wave" of the Internet age The world view, maybe the "future water world" can recover the cost. However, it is a pity that the "Future Water World" is too advanced, which directly led to this work becoming a model and negative teaching material for academic critical commercial films.

The producer of "Future Water World" is Universal Pictures. Obviously, this script was just handed over. No one knows the added value of "Schindler's List" to Hugo better than Universal Pictures. Universal Pictures put forward 15 million U.S. dollars in remuneration plus box office dividends. This is undoubtedly the compensation of top actors. Once it is announced, countless reporters are expected to be jealous, but Hugo did not even watch it. The script is lost.

Anna watched Hugo directly throw the script of "Future Water World" onto the pile of "garbage", and her heart was suddenly surging. She finally knew what it meant to be too painful for herself. That was value. A 15 million dollar remuneration script!

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