After dreaming about two movies in a row, Ronald also asked David Simkins to prepare some display boards to show to the studio executives. Now that he has written a script and is interested in joining the ranks of producers, he should start to become familiar with these tasks.
David Simkins, whose workload was increased for no reason, also had to read the scripts that were still being sent to the company. While working hard overtime every day, he also felt full of motivation to fight.
Ronald himself focused on promoting "Dirty Dancing." He wanted the film to be released as the first film to be produced under the leadership of Daydream Pictures.
Turning on the computer at home, Ronald inserted the floppy disk. After a period of noise and waiting, the interface of the WordStar editing software appeared on the screen. He created a new document and began writing down the selling points and difficulties needed to sell the script.
"Advantage:
The investment is small, there is a fixed audience, and the cost of marketing is low. You don’t need to hire famous movie stars. You can find directors who shoot musicals or youth movies to guide you.
Disadvantages: The budget is not enough to hire movie stars, and distributors may have concerns. If the other party is willing to invest more resources, the script can also be modified to suit the stars.
Best sales targets:
Touchstone Pictures, owned by Disney..."
"Squeak..." The dot matrix printer printed out the document. Ronald picked up the pen and made a few corrections, then put it into the document archive labeled "Dirty Dancing".
…
What Ronald didn't expect was that the first person he saw on his "Dirty Dancing" sales display was not Touchstone Katzenberg or his agent Niceta, but someone from the "Dragon Boy" series. Producer, Weintraub.
"What is this? Your new project?" Weintraub condescended to come to Ronald's humble little apartment. This was the first time he took the initiative to come to Ronald's house to discuss things.
Before getting down to business, he first saw several display boards that Ronald placed on the wall.
"Ah, yes. My script assistant is very good. This is also a script he likes. I just bought the production rights from the original producer."
Ronald simply turned over a few display boards and placed them on the table. "This is a script aimed at teenage girls as the main market. I plan to produce it with a small budget of less than five million."
"Is it such a small production?" When Weintraub heard that it was a small production, he quickly wanted to increase the budget and grab this project that Ronald was interested in.
"How about you put it in MGM/United Arts for distribution, and I'll give you five million, and put together a budget of ten million, as the next project of 'Moonlight'?"
"This movie is from a female perspective, and teenage males may not necessarily like to watch it, so I didn't want to use celebrities, and it was only aimed at a relatively small audience. A small investment is easier to make back."
"Just in time, I came to you today to talk about getting my money back." Weintraub took Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" script and read it, then motioned to Susan to hand the two documents to Ronald. Virtue.
"These are two invitations to adapt Dragon King into a video game. You have the property rights to the characters of Miyagi-sensei and Daniel-san, and you also have a share of the rights to the second part of Dragon King. This contract requires your approval. "
Weintraub's young wife and assistant, Susan Akins, took out two documents and handed them to Ronald.
Ronald took it and saw that it was a development contract from Atlus Co., Ltd. This is a Japanese game development company that specializes in producing games for the Japanese company Nintendo to play on home game consoles.
"Is this NES game console the most popular little gray box now?" Ronald looked at the planning document. This game is developed for home game consoles. The game console needs to be connected to a TV and played with a controller.
"Yes, the American version of the game console is like that, and here is a copy of the Japanese version of the game console." Susan pointed to the picture on a page in the plan and said to Ronald.
"Huh? Isn't this a red and white machine?"
"Family machine? The name you gave is easy to understand." Susan smiled, "The other one is the development authorization for computer games."
Ronald picked up a second authorization letter, which was a game development authorization for new models of computers, Atari ST, and Commodore amiga.
"I know Kang Maode, it's just a game console with a keyboard. Didn't Atari go bankrupt?"
"That's old news for you. After Atari's reorganization, it mainly produces computer brands. ST is their new computer model. This kind of computer has 512k of memory and can also be equipped with midi equipment. Many people in the music industry like it. use.
Commodity's new model of amiga computer also does not come with a game controller, which many animation companies use to color paintings. These are computers used by many professionals. "
"Then why do you still make games for them?"
"People always want entertainment. Wouldn't it be great to be able to use your work computer for entertainment?"
"Well..." Ronald himself only used that old personal computer to write. He didn't expect that computers have developed so fast. In addition to composing music and painting, they can also be used to play games. "Do you want to update your computer too?"
He quickly found the spot where his signature was needed and signed his name. Passed it back to Susan.
"This is your script..." Weintraub next to him had already quickly turned over Ronald's "Dirty Dancing" script, but he hesitated to speak.
"Is it not suitable for large-scale production? It doesn't matter. I can slowly find investors. Do you have any ideas about releasing this film? The production budget is not very high."
"Well...what the heck, I'm still at MGM/United Artists, and we're still fighting various pre-merger factions. We'd better focus on 'Moonlight' now."
"That's right, it doesn't matter. I'll look at a few others."
Ronald looked at Weintraub. His main focus now was on managing a huge company and integrating internal human resources. He must not be as interested in such small-market, small-production works as before. .
"This script is really well written." After Weintraub put down the script, Susan picked it up and flipped through it.
"Why, do you like this script too?" Ronald did not expect that Susan Akins liked the script very much.
"Yeah, which girl hasn't imagined that she can dance well, partner with the boy who dances best, and win the envy of everyone?"
"How about you, do you want to try to distribute this movie?" Ronald said half-jokingly, seeing how fascinated she was.
Weintraub pulled Susan over and whispered a few words quickly in her ear.
"I'm sorry, Ronald. Jerry's focus is on the MGM business, and my main job is to assist him. I'm afraid I won't be able to devote more energy to distributing this movie."
Susan Aikins stated to Ronald the reasons why she could not help distribute the film. She slowly put down the script, "However, I really like this movie. If you have the chance, you must make it."
"Of course, I plan to find a distributor and start the project, and then find a director." Ronald looked at Susan, who was about the same age as himself, and thought that although this woman was already quite old, she still had a bright girl's heart.
…
"Just put it here." Ronald asked two door-to-door installation workers to come in. A new computer that looked very similar to his original computer was placed on the desk.
"Mr. Li, this is IBM's new product, pc 286, which uses the latest Intel 80286 CPU, 640kb of memory, 1.2m high-capacity double-sided 3.5-inch floppy disk, and a 20m hard drive."
Ronald looked at the characters displayed on the screen. They were no longer the green color of the old monitors, but white characters.
"This monitor looks good."
"Yes, this is a 256-color true color display." The installation engineer took the keyboard and entered the c drive.
"Is this a hard drive?" Ronald looked at the letter "C" on the drive letter. The first two drives, A and B, were floppy disks.
"Yes", the young engineer typed win, and then the monitor jumped, and a blue and white interface appeared.
"This is the latest Microsoft Windows. You can use this device and mouse to select files and other operations."
Ronald took the mouse and naturally double-clicked the close symbol on the window, and the file manager was closed.
"Ah, yes, double-clicking can..." The engineer also wanted to introduce.
Ronald double-clicked again, opened the C drive interface, and dragged the files in the floppy drive into this window.
"Yes, it seems that Mr. Li has used it before, so that he can copy files."
"Thank you," Ronald handed over a $20 tip and treated the two installation engineers to a Coke.
After sitting there and playing Windows for a while, Ronald felt bored. The system seemed familiar, but it was not fun.
He finally quit and opened the WordStar software using the DOS character interface. Hard drives are indeed much faster and less noisy than floppy disks. Ronald opened a new document and began writing his summary of feedback on the sales pitch for "Dirty Dancing."
"It seems that older women also like the story of the script very much. Maybe we can use this advantage to gain the favor of female senior executives in the company..."
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