Cooperation relies entirely on personal relationships or mutual support in the circle to establish relationships.

With an idea in mind, Ronald called Cameron and visited him with gifts.

"Gail, this is a gift for you." Ronald took out a high-value shopping coupon for Eve Saint Laurent women's clothing and gave it to the hostess.

"This is for you, Jim." The gift to Cameron is a voucher for a set of customized modifications to Harley motorcycles. The Japanese have many professional accessories. After replacement, the rough temperament, durability and durability of Harley are maintained.

The quality will be much better.

Ronald personally presented the invitation letter to the premiere of "Moonlight", and Ronald directly expressed his intention to James.

"Jim, I need your help. I'm running this year's Oscar nominations..."

"It's funny, if you ask me, you should have been nominated a long time ago. Those old fashioned directors of the Directors Guild still use the standards of thirty years ago to judge the selection of best director, and look down on commercially successful movies. You know, in the past

In Hollywood, only commercially successful films were eligible to be nominated for awards. At that time, if a film did not do well at the box office, it would be ridiculed if it was nominated."

"Thanks, brother." Ronald hugged Cameron happily.

In fact, this trend has become more and more obvious since the 1980s. Ever since Jane Fonda's "Homecoming" invented this kind of rush to release in limited theaters at the end of the year to meet the Oscar selection requirements, in order to grab Oscar nominations

More and more movies are beginning to learn this effective method of winning awards.

After all, it is the end of the year, and the nomination selection is very close, and the judges are more impressed. Except for those movies released in the first half of the year, which have excellent box office and critical reviews, some judges may have forgotten about them.

"What projects are you working on recently?" After all, Cameron is a director, and gathering with friends is still most concerned about the film career.

"I originally wanted to plan a story that reflected Wall Street. After all, after the stock market crash, many people were curious about those bankers... However, obviously Oliver (Stone) has a more sensitive sense of smell than me."

"Oliver really has a keen sense of smell, and he can always find the subjects that the people want to see." Cameron also agreed, "Many directors can only shoot the stories they want to shoot, and can combine what they want to shoot and what the audience wants to see.

If you are united, you are a great director." Cameron let out a long sigh.

"What projects do you have recently?" Ronald heard that his old friend seemed to have something on his mind.

"'The Abyss' is a movie I have wanted to make since high school. It was inspired by the science fiction novels of HG Wells."

Cameron talked about his thoughts. HG Wells, an early pioneer of science fiction, many of his novels have been adapted into film and television dramas. This "Abyss" tells the story of diving in the deep sea.

I heard from Cameron that while editing "Alien 2", he watched a National Geographic documentary that told the story of how to operate a deep-diving robot on the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean.

This documentary awakened Cameron's youthful dreams. He made a modern adaptation of Wells' novel, changing the original protagonists of a group of scientists into blue-collar workers who are more commercially attractive to audiences.

However, the studio is very hesitant about such a movie. This kind of movie requires a huge investment, and the water tank will cost a lot to build, and the special effects images generated by computer graphics cannot meet the requirements. It must be shot while filming.

In research and development, this kind of risk is beyond the tolerance of most studios. Especially in the current economic situation, everyone still prefers to be conservative.

"Why are you saying this to Ronald? Can he still use his own money to make this kind of movie for you? I have long said that this movie should not be made now, or it should have to wait five to ten years.

Only when technology matures." Gale Hurd felt angry when he heard Cameron talking about his science fiction movie again.

Cameron's talent in commercial films is undoubtedly revealed, and I don't know why he doesn't continue to shoot some movies with commercial potential. Just like Ronald, he first makes a few more blockbuster movies, and then thinks about the movies he wants to make.

Not too late.

"If I have to wait for the technology to mature, then I can't shoot the Terminator now." Cameron was a little annoyed by Gale Hurd.

"Whatever, I wish you luck and can find a studio that is willing to pay 40 million without squandering it on you." Gale's voice became louder, and the couple obviously had a lot of arguments about this recently.

"40 million?" Ronald did not expect that the cost of filming this "abyss" would be so high.

"Maybe it's not enough. I talked in detail with the engineers from Industrial Light and Magic. They need more than a year to develop and produce at the same time."

"Well, the production cost is more than 40 million yuan. In North America, the box office needs to be around 100 million yuan to recover the cost. I don't know why you have so much confidence. It's a diving story." Gale said about the movie.

Full of complaints. The commercial potential of the story is not that great.

"This is my lifelong dream. I just want to make a movie about deep-sea diving." Cameron smiled, but Gale still couldn't understand his dream.

"40 million, with the current market price, which studio is willing to take such a big gamble?" Ronald also scratched his head. Cameron is great, but Terminator only had 38 million domestic box office, and Alien 2 took advantage of the sequel.

85 million.

Hollywood suffered from a cash shortage after the stock market crash. The cash that a large company can use is only 50 million to 100 million. Who dares to bet money on such a science fiction movie?

…

"Ronald, the Bruce Willis movie is almost ready. When will you come and see it? Twentieth Century Fox wants to hear your confirmation before letting it go to director John McTiernan."

Joel Silver found out from somewhere that Ronald had returned to Los Angeles and immediately called him. It was time to take care of the movie he was cooperating with.

"Okay, when?" Ronald thought that he should really care about this movie.
Chapter completed!