Hugo put all the three scripts in his hand next to him. Rick was stunned for a moment, and then burst out laughing, "Long is going to be sad now." Hugo raised his head and cast his eyes at Rick in confusion. Rick had to explain, "The scripts just now are all from Universal Pictures."

Hugo suddenly realized and shrugged, "I don't know, but why the scripts of Universal are like this, and they can't see the direction at all. They have nothing to do with personal grudges, but it is really a difficult challenge for the director to make such a work."

Rick had a little more gratitude in his smile. On the surface, Lang Mayer is now the CEO of Universal Pictures and is full of glory, but only Lang himself knows the hard work. Now Lang does not have a clear direction for Universal Pictures' planning. He wants to invest in high-cost works, but the board of directors always disagrees. After all, Universal Pictures started out by making comedy. Now, Lang hopes to find a breakthrough in top actors such as Hugo, Tom Cruise, and Brad Pitt, but the project's own limited strength has left him with his hands.

The future development direction of Universal Pictures is worrying. Of course, fortunately, this is not the part that Rick needs to worry about. Thinking of Lang's friendship in recent months, Rick can't help but feel that in this circle where interests are paramount, people always become cold and ruthless.

"But these are just my own speculations, not books handed over by Global Times, so the specific situation should be based on Long," Rick added.

Having said that, Hugo knew that Rick's preparations must be in place, and there would be no surprises in general. While speaking, Hugo picked up the script in his hand, frowned and laughed and cried, and showed it to Rick, "You must be kidding me!"

Rick leaned over and looked, and his eyes couldn't hide the surging smile inside. "No, I'm not kidding." Rick sorted out his expression and explained seriously, "Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount are in a dilemma now, especially Kevin. The budget of the 'Titanic' has been overspending, and the production progress has been severely delayed. This has been filmed intermittently for nearly eight months, but it has not been finished. At present, the news of the 20th Century Fox is strictly blocking, and there are no rumors in the circle, but I looked at the projects they are preparing for recently..." Rick paused and shook his head, "The situation is not good."

It is common to trap the entire production company because of a work. For example, Karlock Pictures, which broke the bankruptcy because of "Cutting the Throat Island", MGM Pictures, which became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and DreamWorks, which was repeatedly in bankruptcy and was finally forced to sell after being "Sinbad: legend.of.the.sex.sex as" and "escape from the clone island" and "island" frequently.

Of course, 20th Century Fox is still a long way from bankruptcy, but due to the previous market recession, their working capital has bottlenecked. This is not surprising. Although works such as "life and death speed" and "Independence Day" have made 20th Century Fox make a fortune, the black hole of "Titanic" has been constantly devouring their flexible funds, and it is very normal for the ineffective dispatch in a short period of time.

In fact, Twentieth Century Fox is already very good. They still have enough space to prepare for new projects at this time. In 1997, Rick knew at least four projects costing more than 60 million. Although Twentieth Century Fox's move was also a stopgap measure, giving shareholders more confidence and covering up temporary internal difficulties, it can still be seen from this detail that Twentieth Century Fox has not yet reached a time of embarrassment, but it is inevitable that it is difficult to be held back.

Rick came to this conclusion just because several projects prepared by Twentieth Century Fox seemed to be inconvenient, and there were almost no highlights that could be shown in addition to the investment cost. This is very abnormal for a top film production company.

"However, Kevin didn't mention this project at all. I just thought it was very interesting, so I added it." Rick simply explained, looking at the helplessness in Hugo's eyes, Rick was also a little embarrassed, "Why, don't you think it's funny?"

"Ha! Ha! It's very funny." Hugo replied with a smile without a smile, which made Rick laugh dryly, and wiped the sweat from his palms on his thighs.

At this time, the project Hugo was holding had a very simple and clear name, "Active Fire Molten City (volcano: literally translated as volcano)", which obviously echoes the young volcano of glory to death. This is the most active group in the United States in the past two years, and has attracted countless attention both inside and outside the industry.

When Rick saw this project at Twentieth Century Fox, his first reaction was very funny. If Kevin really found Hugo with this project, the topic gimmick would definitely be very funny. However, Kevin has not revealed any news at the moment except for the "Life and Death Speed ​​2" that was criticized by Hugo. Rick brought it today, just a simple joke.

Although the movie "Active Fire City" is not well-known, Hugo has really watched it, but now he can't remember the specific details. This typical disaster film appeared after the genre films such as "Independence Day" and "Tornado" set off a genre film frenzy. Unfortunately, the plot is too monotonous and the rhythm is too slow to reach the average level of the genre film. Even the passing line is very barely enough. It is a typical work of following the trend, but it is not a bad thing to be a dog.

Although Hugo can't remember the specific story, just look at the project introduction in his hand and knows that this is a work that completely imitates the "Tornado". If Rick comes to "the fifth element" and is still quite interesting because the story of this script is simple, then the script "The City of Active Fire" seems very nonsensical.

After reading several projects of Twentieth Century Fox, Hugo also agreed with Rick's idea. These projects obviously lacked ideas and courage. For example, the "Active Fire Melting City" project, invested 100 million US dollars, but the entire project conception and cast lineup were obviously lacking in consideration, and the market positioning only replicated the "Independence Day" strategy. It can be seen that Twentieth Century Fox is playing the conservative card.

It wouldn't be surprising if MGM or Universal Pictures chose to be conservative; but under the leadership of Kevin, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. have been the most bold company in the past two years, which is abnormal.

Looking at the last proposal left on the desktop, Hugo glanced at a thick stack of documents on his right hand, while the left was still empty and nothing was left. Then he glanced at Rick, as if saying, "I'm sure there are only these crooked melons and jujubes?" Rick also understood what Hugo meant and shrugged helplessly: After working with Hugo for a long time, Rick's vision for choosing scripts has become much more vicious and picky.

Hugo curled his lips and picked up the last project, which was named Paramount. After seeing the first name, Hugo's eyes lit up a little, "John.woo". Maybe the name doesn't seem special, as if there is a name like this among the Asians in Hollywood. But Hugo's intuition also noticed something. Looking down, it turns out that, as he expected, this project came from the famous director.

"Face/off", huge fonts are brought to your eyes.

John Wu, the action film director Wu Yu Sen, who enjoys a very high reputation throughout Asia, has won numerous praises in China and Hong Kong. He officially entered Hollywood as the "ultimate target" in 1993. Last year, he filmed the "Broken Arrow". He can be said to be the best-developed Chinese artist who has been in Hollywood.

If John's pinnacle of Chinese films is "heroic nature", then his peak moment in Hollywood is "changing his face".

Although "face change" is an action movie, the clever story design, wonderful character settings, and precise rhythm control make people unable to help but make excitement. Especially the rivalry between the two starring actors John Travolta and Nicholas Cage is even more exciting. The wonderful performances of the two actors have added a lot of color to the movie, making the work separate from the scope of ordinary commercial action movies, and triggering more chemical reactions.

"The Story of Fire" once gathered two actors, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, and performed with each other on the screen, which made people excited. However, under the control of Michael Mann, this work is slightly depressed and banned. The whole rhythm reveals its heaviness, and the characters are above the plot and rhythm, which leads to the average final box office performance. Instead, it has entered the video tape market and gained more support.

However, under the directing of John, "face change" has brought the character creation and the best setting. The actors and plot complement each other, bursting out amazing sparks, and even calculated the actors' performances and achieved outstanding performances. In the end, it not only won praise from the media, but also achieved great success in the box office.

It can be said that "face change" is the best among many works that Hugo has seen today. Moreover, Hugo also hopes to cooperate with John. Perhaps the two people are from China. The souls of China can also collide to create more sparks.

However, before Hugo could speak, Rick patted his head, "Sorry, I forgot, this work has started filming at the end of December." Then he pulled the plan out of Hugo's right hand and put it aside, muttering, "There is indeed no good project recently, but don't worry, maybe others need to worry about not having a work, but we never need it..."

Rick said, then he realized that Hugo was stunned. He couldn't help but be stunned, and said inexplicably, "What's wrong?"

Hugo just felt like he choking in one breath, and then vomited it out, "Nothing, nothing..."
Chapter completed!