Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 65 Good Fortune Boy

   "Oh, Mike, you're the last one of all my friends to call."

When Roland held the mobile phone weighing about 750 grams and complained to Mohamy on the other end of the phone, the young guy in Los Angeles had a smile on his face and ignored the hidden words. Dissatisfied in the media, Mohamy justified his behavior: "But, of all your friends, I should be the one with the most opportune time to dial in, right?"

   "I watched your talk show the whole way, and I counted the time to call you."

   "If I'm not mistaken, now should be your most free time, right?"

   "No, No, No..."

Although the two sides did not face each other, Roland still shook his head again and again, but with a smile on his face, he did not agree with the other party's words at all, "Now is not my most leisure time, but my rest time, you disturbed me I'll have a rest…"

   "Really? Then should I apologize to you? Now I ran to the gate of Los Angeles Airport, crying and waiting for your forgiveness?" The smile on Mohamy's face became wider, and the tone of his speech was quite brisk.

"Of course, if you're sensible, you should also book me a table at the best restaurant in Orange County. You know, I haven't had a good meal for a week because of the announcement. It's either an airplane meal or a work meal. I almost vomited..."

   "No problem, which restaurant do you want to eat, I can order now..."

  The sudden call made Roland, who had been tired for several days, relax.

Not only because of the friendly relationship between Roland and Mohamy, but also because Mohamy knew a lot about Roland, and when he communicated with him, Roland didn't have to hide it, let alone worry that Mohamy would be like everyone else. , Dig a hole for him.

   After teasing each other for a few words, Roland also successfully got a meal from the other party, and when the laughter faded away, Mohamy also said congratulatory words, "Congratulations, the movie is a big hit."

   "Compared to Charlie Cosmo, who made "The Rascal," your rate of ascension is astonishing."

   "I've been trying to catch up on Hollywood-related knowledge during this time. If you get a box office bonus of 3 million, won't you be officially promoted to the top of the B-list?"

  B-list?

  Roland felt that Mohamy's imagination was limited.

  The North American box office given by those forecasting agencies is 300 million, do you think the global box office of the whole movie can only stop at 300 million?

   Is this looking down on overseas markets?

   You know, Hollywood film companies can make money by relying on global distribution.

  Once the global market is fully expanded in December, judging from the current upward momentum, 500 million is easy.

  Five billion!

   This is a box office figure that many actors and directors can't touch in their lifetime!

Many people's lifetime cumulative box office can't reach this figure, let alone what kind of public opinion tsunami will be triggered after a single film exceeds 500 million. It's a pity that in this era, without the blessing of the Internet, Roland can only Use the box office figures to feel the audience's love for you, but you can't feel the tsunami when the fans pick you up like those big names in the previous life.

  However, it’s good that no one is surrounding him, and he doesn’t want to be a green Franklin, where people will chase him wherever he goes.

Without entanglement in the unclear issue of coffee position, Roland just accepted Mohamy's congratulations with a smile, "However, I'm curious, aren't you going to play games? Why do you have time to make up for it?" Knowledge about Hollywood?"

   Hearing Roland's question, Mohamed, who was still smiling, straightened his face, and said helplessly, "Hey, don't mention it, we haven't been playing games in the past six months..."

"Alan, Frank and I originally wanted to develop a game based on the FamilyComputer (Nintendo's red and white machine), but when we contacted them, they rejected our proposal because the SuperFamicom (Super Nintendo) will be released on the 21st of this month. Well, they felt that it would be unwise to develop a game on FamilyComputer in more than four months, so they gave us a list on SuperFamicom, and we are working on..."

have to…

  This is really not fair.

  Mohamy's words made Roland shake his head helplessly.

  He originally thought that with his intervention, Mohamy and the others would be able to work out Blizzard Entertainment some time in advance, but unexpectedly, even if they had money and people, they still died at the time when Nintendo's new machine was released.

Before the release of the next generation of home game consoles, it is a wise decision for every manufacturer to stop the content development of the previous generation of game consoles. Just like Naughty Dog in the future, the project of "The Last of Us 2" has been postponed It's been many years, but in the end, when the PS game store started to pre-sell the game, they still chose to skip the ticket, and looking at their appearance, they had a strong desire not to **** the PS5.

   As for "Soul of Tsushima"—

   Most likely the same is true.

   But there is no way, who made their big boss Sony?

  Since Roland has experienced all this, he can certainly understand Mohamy's frustration.

  Because of delaying R&D and skipping tickets for games, in most cases, the enthusiasm of creators and players will be dampened, and Mohamy, who is now starting a business, is naturally the kind of passionate creator.

  However, understanding is understanding, as for comfort...

  When Mohamy raised the money with him, he was probably using the cold Franklin to comfort the other party's wounded heart.

   And this prescription should be able to take effect quickly and cure the disease immediately, right?

   "Well, then I wish you success."

Roland responded dryly, but in order to make the other party think of himself when he was short of money, he added at the end of his words, "If you need it, call me directly. Of course, if it is March In the future, you can also drive directly to my house, after the filming of "Terminator 2", I may not leave Los Angeles for a long time."

   "After all, "Captain Hook" is all inside the studio."

   "Ok, no problem."

Mohamy called today, one is to congratulate Roland, and the other is to ask Roland for a promise; starting a business is difficult, and if there is a friend who is not bad at money and is willing to help, then they, maybe Much to my liking.

  As for Roland saying on the talk show that he would hand over all the box office bonuses of "Home Alone" to the Olsen couple?

  Mohammy, who has been with Roland for half a year, believes that Roland is a person who keeps his word, but—

  He believed even more that even if the Olsen couple collected the money, they would give it back when Roland needed it.

  So, he didn't worry about such things as not being able to raise money.

   Chatted a few words casually, and Roland, who was sitting in the car, was a little discouraged by the rickety environment.

And just as he was about to say goodbye to Mohamy, squinted his eyes and took a nap, waiting for the vehicle to arrive at the airport, Mohamy's last words before saying goodbye aroused his interest and made him stop hanging up the phone .

   "Roland, did you know that with the release of "Home Alone", your popularity in the newsgroup is getting higher and higher."

   "Among the more than 300 new posts, there are more than 170 related to you."

   "Don't you want to know, where did I get the knowledge about Hollywood?"

   "It's not a printed movie guide, the kind of thing that can only hold 20,000 rough movie information, but actually an outline of the movie's release date. I checked the information from the leisure and entertainment movie online discussion group."

  What?

  When a series of words that should have nothing to do with Internet, movies, and materials came out of Mohamy's mouth, Roland, who was yawning, almost bit his tongue.

   "Mike?"

"What did you say?"

   "On the current Internet, can you find detailed information related to movies?"

Although as early as 1977 to 1979, ARPA introduced the future TCP/IP architecture and protocol, and around 1980, they established the initial Internet, but before 1988, these things did not exist at all. It has been opened to the outside world.

To put it bluntly, compared with the popularity of billions of Internet users in later generations, the current Internet is really just two or three kittens. When the sprouts were just born, as a senior Internet user in later generations, Roland After getting the computer that David bought for himself, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​looking for the paper man - the Internet is still blank, he can find a ghost!

  Because of this, apart from recording the treasures in his mind, Roland has never been in contact with the Internet in this era.

   In this way, he doesn't even know what kind of things are on the Internet in this era.

After hearing the doubtful voice from the other end of the phone, Mohamy, who had just explained casually, was taken aback for a moment, and then continued with a smile: "Yes, what's the problem? Doesn't that computer at your home also have access to the Internet? Is it?"

   "Oh, I see. You are either filming or on the way to filming recently. You may not have time to understand these things."

   "Let me tell you, since I met you, I have checked a lot of news related to movies."

   "At that time, I discovered that there are tens of thousands of movie entries and four movie lists in Internet movie discussion groups."

   "And, according to the newsgroup creator, there's a lot more to him."

   "Because I have nothing to do recently, I sent an email to the other party, hoping that he could disclose the usage rights of the movie database. After receiving my email, the founder from the UK agreed to my proposal."

"Due to insufficient manpower, we have no game development, so we helped them, using the email protocol to write programs, until the 17th of last month, that is, one month before the release of "Home Alone", the database was officially announced to the public. .”

   "This database was named rec.arts.moviesmoviedatabase (newsgroup movie database) by the British founder Cole Needham. As long as the database is installed, information can be shared."

   "Because we helped them write the program, he directly gave us three administrator accounts, so we can see your real data in the background... how about it, isn't it amazing?"

  When the voice of showing off appeared in Roland's ears, Roland directly squeezed his thigh with his hand.

  Cao Te Niang!

  Roland could no longer control his desire to curse.

  British?

   Cole Needham?

  rec.arts.moviesmoviesdatabase (newsgroup movies database)?

  Grasshold, isn’t this special code the predecessor of IMDb?

  When Roland in his previous life was making videos, he used IMDb to search overseas news, which was commonplace. Not only that, but in order to see high-level data, he also bought the IMDbPro membership service.

  The real playback volume of each movie trailer, the real popularity of each filmmaker after dehydration, as well as the production details, box office details, company catalog and other information of the movie can be queried.

   Not only that, there is also a resume subscription service on it. Robert Pattinson, the actor in "Twilight", was discovered by the producer Summit Entertainment after submitting his resume on IMDbPro.

  After the economic crisis, there was a saying that spread throughout Hollywood—‘If you want to be a Hollywood film producer, you need two things: one is a mobile phone, and the other is IMDb. '

And the reason why Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce platform, dared to enter Hollywood directly, became a large independent film producer in a short period of time, and won two statuettes, the Oscar winner and the best screenplay, and won the best film and best director. , Best Supporting Actor and other key factors for multiple nominations. Apart from being rich, holding the world's largest Internet movie database is even more important. Those high-level background data can tell them which things are the audience's favorite. element.

  Compared with the big data resources of Google and Facebook, the data on IMDb is more accurate.

   To put it bluntly, thanks to Netflix not combining with IMDb.

   Otherwise, others won’t get much of the cake from streaming media.

   It was precisely because he knew all this that when Roland heard Mohamy's words, he immediately closed his eyes.

  In his memory, Mohami in his previous life has nothing to do with IMDb.

   That is to say, although the tens of thousands of dollars in income I brought to the other party did not accelerate the birth of Blizzard Entertainment, it did have a foot in the database that monopolized the world's movie data in the future?

  Holding the grass, the wings of this butterfly seem to be a little too big...

but…

he likes.

   After being silent for a few seconds, Roland, who had no idea what was hit by the sudden news, took a deep breath.

  Although he hasn't figured out how to eat this melon, but now, he can send words of praise.

  And, curious mind-

   "It's amazing. Hearing what you said, we will be able to search for various movie materials on the Internet in the future?"

   "It seems very convenient, we finally don't have to flip through books in the future."

   "Oh, by the way, are you short of money?"

   "You said I asked which of you is short of money?"

   "Of course it's the website of your game company and movie database!"

   "Not short of money?"

   "Hiss, how come you don't lack money?"

   "Uh, I'm just going to say, to say..."

   "It's okay, if you need it, just come to my house and find me."

   "No trouble no trouble, help a friend, no trouble at all..."

   "Yes, friends, all of them belong to friends! If you need help, just ask, it's okay!"

   Note: ①Amazon is the first Internet film company to win an Oscar, and the winning film is "Manchester by the Sea". ②IMDb was only registered in 1996. Before that, there was no such name at all. The database was officially launched on October 17, 1990. When it was officially registered in 1996, it was always called rec.arts.moviesmoviesdatabase. ③In 2015, on the 25th anniversary of the emergence of IMDb, the founder Cole Needham announced the reason why the database was launched that year, "I received an email from a netizen in California, and he hoped that I could put the movie database online. , and I agreed to his proposal. ’, in reality, the netizen who suggested IMDb to go online is really from California, but not Mohami. ④ Don't read the nonsense in my article, the reason why Amazon can quickly become an independent Hollywood film producer, IMDb has established its first merit, but compared with money, it is still a younger brother! Except for IP films, all other movies of the current Big Five are classified as low-cost. In this case, people only have two choices. The original Five Big Five movies with a level of tens of millions will not invest, so those directors who don’t want to make IP movies are not happy. , Scorsese began to scold (this is why he scolded Marvel recently), and at this time, Internet companies such as Amazon appeared, and they waved money to smash these directors. For example, a biopic Universal If only three million is given, then Amazon will ask for six million. In this case, if they can't develop, they will be damned.

  (end of this chapter)