Chapter Eighty: First Brush of Luck

  After the movie ended, Ryan greeted Warner's people and quickly pulled Nicole away, as all the reporters went to attend the press conference. If they didn't leave at this opportunity, would they wait for them to start surrounding and chasing?

  He had informed Warner Bros. in advance that he would not be attending the press conference after the premiere, he's no fool and will not automatically become a target for media firepower, besides, with Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, there's enough gossip for them to write about.

  Reporters and paparazzi were indeed concentrated in the press hall of the theater, they had a tacit understanding that they must bring up the original conflict in front of Ryan Jenkins again, re-igniting the topic, if they could provoke him to fire at Tom Cruise, it would be even more wonderful.

  It wasn't until the crew members arrived that they discovered that little guy had... run away!

  Everyone knows that Ryan Jenkins is young but no pushover, yet backing down without a fight is extremely rare.

  After Thanksgiving, Ryan packed his bags and walked back into the campus, putting most of his energy into the script for "Hitman Leon". As for the reporters who once again besieged him after the release of "Bodyguard", he completely ignored them. Anyway, he was now just going back and forth between two points, home and school, and rarely went anywhere else, so those guys couldn't do anything to him.

  "The Bodyguard" features a fresh selection of materials, successfully combining excitement, action, gunplay, entertainment and romantic sentiment to present audiences with an outstanding work that is both familiar and captivating!

  "This film doesn't have many intense scenes, but instead uses a large amount of footage to describe the most beautiful human emotions. The word 'love' runs throughout, from the initial repression to the final violent outburst, expressing this emotion thoroughly and completely. It's hard not to say that this is an extremely excellent romance film."

  "Compared to the somewhat clichéd plot of the movie, we should pay more attention to its soundtrack and the songs interspersed throughout it. Without a doubt, Whitney Houston's rendition of 'I Will Always Love You' at the end of the film will become a classic!"

  "Kevin Costner brings to life a tough, rugged and unyielding exterior with a passionate and sincere heart, while Whitney Houston makes her big-screen debut in a performance that is as expansive as it is effortless, bringing to vivid life a strong-willed, worldly, proud but kind-hearted and love-hungry pop star."

  A new movie is released, and naturally, there are all sorts of comments. Amidst the chaotic discussions, the film has passed its first week.

  Actually, as many comments have said, this movie is indeed very clichéd, but it's a cliché that moves people. Whether it's Kevin Costner or Whitney Houston, they are now both undoubtedly superstars with great appeal.

  Moreover, the audience across the United States has been filled with curiosity about this film. Even if they heard some fragmented plot from news footage, it didn't stop them from crazily buying tickets to witness with their own eyes what kind of miracle Ryan Jenkins could create in just over three hours.

  It turns out that hype, propaganda and promotion, as well as Ryan Jenkins' gradually erected golden signboard, have a huge impact on the box office numbers of a movie.

  After four days of its first week, the film dropped to number one at the North American box office, taking in a total of $41.15 million, and after the second week, the box office experienced some volatility, but still took in $29.55 million, by which time the film had not only recovered its cost but also made a profit.

  On the other hand, the impact of "The Bodyguard" was no less than its box office numbers. When the movie was released, the original soundtrack was released in advance, and the single "I Will Always Love You" became the champion single on Billboard after the first week, breaking the record for single-week sales, selling over 6,320,000 copies.

  Whether it's box office or singles, or even the soundtrack album, both Ryan and Jenkins have a share.

  Of course, there are people who like it and those who oppose it. For example, a film critic from "Hollywood Reporter" wrote: "This is a movie without any creativity, clichéd plot, pretentious acting, except for a few good songs, it's completely useless! Whitney Houston should go back to singing instead of starting a new career on the big screen! Especially Ryan Jenkins, if his script is at this level, then his reputation as a genius is somewhat exaggerated!"

  Unfortunately, his views do not represent the views of the film company. The script written by Ryan has been continuously successful. If it's just once or twice, it's still accidental, but three or four times? Even the most insensitive people in the industry understand that Ryan Jenkins has an extremely keen intuition for the taste buds of the vast majority of audiences.

  So far, the four screenplays he has created, except for the stunning "The Sixth Sense", have all borrowed clichés from Hollywood and applied them to new ideas, selling old wine in new bottles to audiences again, yet extremely popular in the market.

  There's no denying that Ryan Jenkins' high productivity in screenwriting is largely due to this shortcut, which has helped him a great deal. However, everyone knows he's taking shortcuts, and it's hard to deny the fact that whether it's the chaos of "Home Alone", the warmth of "Sleepless in Seattle", or the bloody romance of "The Bodyguard", they all have a brand new coat on top of the clichés.

  And this outer garment is creativity. Creativity can sometimes be cheap, but creative ideas that bring benefits are the most valuable things.

  The media's interpretation of "The Bodyguard" continues, and Ah Tong Ge can't escape being pulled in front of the public by reporters and paparazzi again. This big star is very straightforward, after the movie was released, he directly went to a private island in the Caribbean for vacation.

  "This film is most notable for Ryan's bold creativity in placing a sincere and passionate love affair between two people of different skin colors, and presenting it on screen, an achievement that represents progress for America!" — Vanity Fair

  Whether the screenwriter and director of this film had such an intention, Ryan is not clear, but he absolutely did not mean that. Perhaps the term "brain supplement" has not appeared yet, but the media and the public's interpretation of many films have undoubtedly demonstrated this vocabulary.

  America is progressing, none of his business!

  Anyway, this kind of thing is just talk, the status of blacks... okay, this problem can never be solved, even in the entertainment industry it's still the same, don't even get me started on Michael Jackson's experience, let alone Whitney Houston, if it weren't for skin color issues, she would have been mentioned alongside Madonna.

  On the other hand, the huge sales of the Bodyguard soundtrack forced the entire entertainment industry to reevaluate Ryan's value. They all knew he could write songs, but that his songs would be so good and sell so well was beyond everyone's expectations.

  "Renee Jenkin's gift and polish in music is no less than any other area, even more outstanding, think of that song still on Billboard top ten 'he', also the champion position 'I.will.always.love.you' and fourth place 'I.have.nothing'!"

  The article from Rolling Stone magazine also interviewed other people, "Whitney Houston admitted in an interview that she accepted many suggestions from Ryan when performing the song, and confessed that the ten songs created by Ryan were as brilliant and precious to her as the stars in the night sky!"

  Ryan's eight original songs, although not as stunning as the two plagiarized ones, are still excellent, and two of them even made it onto Billboard's charts, which is a testament to the album's sales.

  On Christmas Eve, the North American box office of "The Bodyguard" exceeded $100 million, and the original soundtrack sold over 2 million copies. But Whitney knew that album sales were just the beginning. In its previous life, this album had created a record for female singer's album sales.

  Jenkins' film career also welcomed its first income, after the first box office accounting, the company's account increased by nearly 10 million US dollars, compared to the box office numbers is not eye-catching, but they only accounted for a quarter of the film's investment, which is 6 million US dollars, and the film is still far from the next tier, there will be overseas box office and various derivative product accounting.

  Ryan and Nicole also came to the company's office in Burbank for the first time, a separate two-story building with an area of no more than 300 square feet. The formal staff expanded to nine people, and the person in charge was no longer Scott Swift, but a professional performance supervisor and producer from Australia, named Julie Stewart, who is a standard female strongman.

  Jinsili and Scott had been waiting in the office for a while, chatting idly and feeling somewhat sentimental. When did movies become such a lucrative industry? The investment they made half a year ago was about to double, and with "The Bodyguard" being shown overseas, the profit would probably more than double.

  Now even Scott is an insider, they naturally know that movies don't have such high profits, otherwise those arms dealers would promote the army to change their equipment and just make a movie.

  It's all because of that boy who just walked in, he's like someone kissed by God, always creating best-selling works.

  "Hi Ryan, and Nicole."

  The four of them didn't have much small talk to exchange, so after a simple greeting, they started discussing some company matters.

  Ryan is a layman in all these, unless it involves movies, he won't speak easily. Fortunately, Nicole knows his shortcomings and uses her spare time to learn some financial knowledge. After all, being careful has no big mistakes.

  Ryan was still a minor and, by law, could not directly hold shares in the company. As his guardian, Nicole Kidman became the trustee, naturally taking care of the family business on his behalf.

  "Nico, here's your invitation!" Jin Silie handed over a simple script.

  "What's this script?" Ryan was very curious, under Nicole's glare, took the script over, flipped through a few pages, and his forehead twitched with anger, "Instinct?"

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