He valued Nicole Kidman's looks, and Nicole Kidman coveted his fame and connections.
In his opinion, Nicole Kidman is definitely not a smart person.
Unfortunately, he didn't know that after the divorce, Nicole Kidman would step on his reputation and directly climb to the top to become a Hollywood sister.
"Dear, there should be no conflict between the director and the actor, do you understand?"
"Especially a director with unlimited potential like Kevin."
"Although he has only succeeded in two small-budget films, no director will stop here, and he will eventually start his big production."
"At that time, there will definitely be time for cooperation between me and him."
Nicole Kidman nodded, a slightly different look flashed in her eyes.
A woman of a great director seems to have an advantage over a woman of a superstar.
....
Kevin at the party had no idea what was going on with Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
He's in touch with his team.
A stable enough team can allow him to better produce movies of his own style.
Like Chainsaw Horror and Escape from the Dead Town, although the rhythm and plot of the original work are generally maintained, Kevin also arranged some foreshadowings.
He had already thought about it when he was filming Chainsaw.
That's the cinematic universe.
The existence of a movie universe has huge benefits for the box office that belongs to this universe.
In the previous life, Marvel made tens of billions of dollars with its own IP, and there are follow-ups.
And tens of billions of dollars are just a spoonful of Marvel's gold mine.
However, before building the Marvel universe, he also wanted to practice his skills and create a horror film universe of his own.
Jigsaw, which performs divine punishment in the name of God, and Kevin added a little Cthulhu element to it to prepare the jigsaw as a believer of the evil god.
The people in the town who escaped from the fatal town and made deals with the devil have no idea that the price they pay for making deals with the devil (evil god) in this way is after a certain number of years.
Their souls and bodies belong to God.
Just like in the memory of Kevin's previous life, Shanjun's ghost, helping Shanjun to hunt more prey.
Of course, this is just a preliminary idea.
Building a cinematic universe is not that simple.
The most important thing is that, using this movie universe, Kevin wants to obtain the capital that can get Marvel.
This is his ultimate goal.
...
a day later.
The paper media is full of countless topics about getting out of Deadville.
"Escape from the Dead Town, another classic film directed by Kevin, in this film, the director integrates more humanistic care and guides others to pay attention to the black people who are discriminated against in the United States... "
"A must-see movie for black people, escape from the deadly town, nervous, exciting, and anti-discrimination, fight for the status of black people, don't watch it is not black!"
"..."
Moral kidnapping, inciting emotions, and various means are skillfully used in the hands of Warner Bros.
In the villa, lying on the bed.
Kevin looked at the news in the newspaper, rubbed his chin, and thought about how to continue to expand his influence.
Pure paper media can only give people a little impression of the name Kevin.
For building his personal image brand, in fact, far from enough.
The phone rang suddenly, and Julie quickly picked up the phone and handed it to him.
"Hey Kevin, The Oprah Winfrey Talk Show has invited you to join them!"
On the other end of the phone came Dean's cheerful voice.
The Oprah Winfrey Talk Show, one of the most famous American talk shows of the 1990s.
The host, Oprah Winfrey, with her natural eloquence and articulate ability, can always firmly grab the attention of the audience.
Although Kevin had never met her, he had heard of the name.
She is an absolute celebrity in this day and age.
Participating in her talk show will undoubtedly greatly increase the audience of Escape from the Dead Town.
As soon as he heard the news, Kevin agreed immediately.
This show can increase his familiarity in front of the public and help build his personal brand of director image.
At the same time, it is also beneficial to the box office, and he has no chance of rejecting it.
....
The time comes to May 4th, and Escape from the Deadly Town has been released for three days.
In these three days, the box office on the first day was 10.82 million US dollars, and the following two days were not to be outdone, with more than 12 million box office and 133 million box office respectively.
According to this rhythm, the North American box office is likely to exceed 100 million.
In North America, the most important time for box office revenue is the first two weeks, after which it will start to fall sharply.
Therefore, the previous publicity is the most important.
Although it may have exceeded 100 million, Warner and Kevin will naturally not be so satisfied.
Therefore, the opportunity for Oprah Winfrey's talk show is exactly what Warners got.
This is exactly the opportunity that Kevin knows how to share.
Otherwise, even if the film is good, such an opportunity will be difficult to obtain.
...
Kevin and Will Smith and Angelina Jolie joined The Oprah Winfrey Show.
A black aunt with curly hair came over with a smiling face.
"Hello, Kevin, Julie, Smith, how are you!"
Kevin, Steve, and Julie all responded enthusiastically.
After a few simple chats, the show officially started recording.
Oprah Winfrey's talk show focuses on empathy, of course, in Kevin's opinion, it is actually a miserable sale.
So Kevin revealed his orphan status on this show, relying on his own efforts to become a genius director at the University of Southern California, and the news that two consecutive movies were sold out.
"Kevin, you are a typical American dream. Relying on your own efforts, you have become a billionaire step by step. By now, your net worth should be in the tens of millions, right?"
"I heard that you bought a multi-million dollar luxury villa in Beverly Hills."
Oprah Winfrey performed with an exaggerated expression.
After simply showing off a wave of wealth, the talk show came to the point.
"Kevin, how did you come up with the idea of making a movie with a black person as the protagonist?"
Oprah Winfrey asked curiously.
"Why can't black people be the protagonists?"
Kevin first asked a question, and then continued:
"In my films, I only arrange actors according to specific roles, and don't care about race."
"As long as he's really suitable for my movie, I'll just be sure."
Oprah Winfrey followed Kevin's words and played with the trend.
Chatted with Kevin about the problems of discrimination against blacks in American society, and Kevin showed a very sympathetic face for blacks.
Interspersed with Will Smith's words from time to time, as a black rapper, amusing is also his ability.
The talk show was recorded for more than two hours. After Kevin and Oprah Winfrey exchanged contact information, they left here and went home.
A day later, Oprah Winfrey's talk show was broadcast, and it immediately attracted countless black and white left viewers to escape from the fatal town.
On the same day, the box office successfully broke through the gate of 20 million.
Don't think this is too much, you must know that the Oprah Winfrey talk show now has a fixed weekly audience of 30 million people.
And if it is scattered every day, it will be watched by more than four million people.
It's only increased by a few million dollars, not really much.
.....
MGM Studios, one of the eight major Hollywood studios.
Of course, according to Kevin, there are actually only five.
Since MGM was acquired by the casino tycoon in 1970, it has not produced any classics, and has completely relied on its money.
007, cat and mouse is their final glory.
MGM executives, however, didn't want that.
They're looking for a way to get MGM out of the woods and back to greatness.
In such a situation, MGM eyed Kevin.
Unlike other film companies that have regular cooperation with big directors, Steve Kevin, as a director who has just become famous, has not yet been marked by any film company.
MGM's idea is to break the boat and be Steve Kevin's Bole.
Inside the MGM President's Office.
"Everyone, invite Steve Kevin to make a moderate investment movie. Can we accept this cost?"
As the president, Leiter said with a serious face.
At this time, MGM was in debt of hundreds of millions of dollars, carrying heavy debts, so they were naturally timid to do things, especially in film investment.
But Reiter, as the president, knew that if it continued like this, MGM would be just a slow death.
We must find a way to reverse this situation.
For studios, nothing has changed the situation more than a blockbuster movie.
But the real famous director, the big director, now either makes a literary film with a high probability of losing money, or it is a big investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Both are unacceptable to MGM.
Of course, there are also famous directors who are willing to make small productions, but such famous directors have long been hooked up by other film companies.
Nothing to do with them MGM.
The only director with a chance, so far, is only MGM.
"Yes, but if you fail..."
The meaning of the speaker is obvious. If it fails, the president of LTECH will bear the main responsibility.
The consequence is likely to be to take the blame and resign from MGM.
As a middle-aged person, who can become a senior in MGM, no one wants to leave the blame like this.
But everyone also knows that if it goes on like this, MGM will not be able to last for many years, and it must find a way.
Therefore, from the bottom of my heart, everyone supports the president of LTECH. Of course, it is impossible to take the blame.
"I will take all responsibility, please support my decision."
Having said that, other people will naturally not refuse
As a result, the president of MGM began to find Kevin's contact information in various ways.