The next day.
Golden Dawn Entertainment Group.
"Alexander, these are the scripts I've written recently. Take them to the Writers Guild and the Copyright Application Department to register them."
Soon after Kyle entered the company, he handed Alexander three movie scripts:
"The Shallows";
"Napoleon Dynamite";
"The Butterfly Effect";
"Boss, a total of three movie scripts?" Alexander asked.
"That's right. How long will it take you to get it done?" Kyle said.
Upon hearing this, Alexander immediately replied, "Boss, our Golden Dawn Entertainment Group is quite large now, and Page Pictures is also a leader among Hollywood's second-tier companies. Three days, seven days at most, and the copyrights can be registered."
Kyle nodded in satisfaction.
This is the advantage of a large company!
Generally speaking, it takes a long time for ordinary screenwriters to submit scripts and register them with the Writers Guild and the Copyright Application Department, usually 15 to 45 days. However, it's different for major film companies; these departments prioritize their reviews, and it can be done in 3 to 7 days.
"These guys in charge of copyright registration, they all look down on people."
Kyle sighed, "I'll always remember in early '96, when I was shooting my first film, 'Run Lola Run,' those people dragged their feet for 42 days before the copyright registration was finalized."
Alexander smiled but didn't say anything.
Throughout the world, priority and queue-jumping exist, provided you have the power!
Undoubtedly, Kyle was now one of those with power.
After Alexander left, Kyle took out the original drafts of the three movie scripts and looked at them again.
Page Pictures is indeed developing well, but compared to major companies, its ability to write and acquire scripts is indeed far behind. The works written by Hollywood's top screenwriters are basically the exclusive domain of the Hollywood Big Six,
Leaving no room for other medium and small film companies to get involved.
What could Kyle do?
Naturally, he had to painstakingly plagiarize!
"It's a good thing I watched a lot of Hollywood movies in my previous life, otherwise it would be very difficult to plagiarize now."
Of course, Kyle couldn't fully restore the original scripts when plagiarizing.
Kyle was a human, not a god!
He could only write to the greatest extent possible, and then hand it over to the company's screenwriters for additions.
Three drafts.
Striving for the best!
Knock knock knock~~~!
Just then, there was a knock on Kyle's office door.
"Come in!"
The person who walked in was none other than Christopher Nolan.
"Hi, Nolan, you're here. Come in and sit down quickly."
Kyle was naturally very happy to see Nolan; he was his trusted subordinate. And Kyle was counting on him to make more money for him in the future.
"Mr. Page, are you looking for me because you have a new movie to shoot?" Nolan asked directly.
Kyle immediately nodded!
"The Butterfly Effect"
Not long after Kyle finished writing this script, Christopher Nolan was the first person he thought of when looking for a director.
"The Butterfly Effect" tells a story of time travel.
"A butterfly in the Amazon rainforest of South America occasionally flapping its wings can cause a tornado in Texas, USA, two weeks later."
The male protagonist was unwilling to accept his fate, annoyed by the repeated bad situations that ruined his otherwise perfect life.
By chance, he traveled through time!!!
Every change he made in the past, when he returned to the present, he found they brought unexpected and even more severe consequences, making things worse and worse. To fix his mistakes, the male protagonist returned to the past again to try and erase the traces, but things went against his wishes, and his actions only led to the gradual collapse of the real world again.
So, it went back and forth!
He shuttled between an increasingly chaotic past and present, until an irreversible ending.
Each misfortune brought the male protagonist to the brink of collapse!
The movie "The Butterfly Effect" also had three endings.
One of the endings was tragic; to reverse the worsening situation, the male protagonist even traveled back into his mother's womb and strangled himself with the umbilical cord.
Overall, this film is a tragic story!
"Nolan, what do you think after reading it?" Kyle took a sip of coffee.
"The overall setting is very good."
Nolan put down the script and said, "'The Butterfly Effect' involves knowledge of psychology, psychiatry, and chaos theory, and I've had a lot of exposure to this. Mr. Page, if you let me direct it now, I'm absolutely OK."
"Hahaha, that's the confidence I want!" Kyle immediately clapped his hands in approval.
"It's alright."
Nolan was full of confidence.
If you've seen Nolan's "Inception," you'll realize he's very good at these mysterious settings!
If he could handle such fragmented details and scenes in "Memento," what about "The Butterfly Effect"?
It must be said that Nolan was very suitable to direct "The Butterfly Effect."
In the original timeline, "The Butterfly Effect" was released in 2004, produced and distributed by New Line Cinema, with a production budget of 12 million US dollars, and a North American box office of over 57 million US dollars;
It was also released in various countries and regions overseas, achieving relatively good box office results.
The film's reputation and reviews were also excellent.
Its rating on IMDb was as high as 8.7, making it a very good low-budget soft sci-fi feature film.
In the original timeline, New Line Cinema produced three films in this series in one go, each making a substantial profit.
"12 million US dollars production cost?"
"Hehe!"
"This official data report was provided by New Line Cinema."
"In Hollywood, who doesn't know New Line Cinema's notorious reputation? They say the production cost is 12 million US dollars, but in reality, it's probably less than 8 million US dollars, or even lower."
And so, the film "The Butterfly Effect" was officially greenlit.
Of course, the script still needed a bit of refinement from Nolan and the screenwriters at Page Pictures, as Kyle was not a professional screenwriter.
"The Shallows" and "Napoleon Dynamite"... these two scripts were also low-budget films carefully prepared by Kyle.
When a film company produces film projects, it cannot blindly pursue high-budget blockbusters; it must produce a sufficient number of low-budget films to maintain the company's profitability and basic vitality.
"The Shallows" and "Napoleon Dynamite" were two very good low-budget films.
"The Shallows" is even more so.
It is a story where the entire film features only one female protagonist, fighting a shark alone on a beach, with a production cost of only 300,000 US dollars.
However, this film, made for 300,000 US dollars, achieved a North American box office of over 21 million US dollars when it was released in 2016; it also achieved good revenue in the offline DVD market.
You know, it's not a high-budget blockbuster!
"Napoleon Dynamite" was also a low-budget film, with a production cost of only 5 million US dollars, but it achieved a North American box office of over 50 million US dollars.
In the overseas market, it even raked in over 100 million US dollars at the box office.
"Films that are good and cheap are my favorite," said the thrifty Kyle, back online.
That evening.
Kyle did not go home but went to Golden Dawn Television Group to watch TV with Ms. Donna, the group president, and other senior executives of the group!
That's right, just watching TV!
The group's first self-produced TV series, "Prison Break," was scheduled to officially premiere tonight at 8 PM on the group's WB channel!
The "Prison Break" TV series was a key project for the entire group's operations this year, and the beginning of a series of subsequent plans!
Kyle attached great importance to it!