When Shaye read trade stories about Miramax’s plans for the Tolkien books, “I thought it was a really good idea,” he says. They wanted to sell us from the moment the merger took place between Time Warner and Turner.” We were just kind of left over from some crazy moment that Ted Turner had. On The Lord of the Rings, we had Time Warner behind us at that point, but nobody understood who we were, including Jerry Levin, and the entire Time Warner staff. “Until we got to the Ted Turner financing thing, we were always the last guy in town that anybody would think of to pitch a project. “We had always been the outsider,” recalls Shaye. It became one of the ballsiest executive decisions in Hollywood history. It should be a trilogy a holiday blockbuster for three years straight. And then he gave the filmmaker another no.
Shaye watched a VHS presentation and listened to how Jackson would execute his plan. If Jackson found no takers, he would withdraw, and Miramax would find another filmmaker willing to tell the sprawling tale in a single film. The Weinsteins gave Jackson a daunting challenge: a week to shop a project that would call for them to get 5 percent of first dollar gross. Other studios had also said no, and Shaye was Jackson’s last chance. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy into two films, after Disney’s Michael Eisner turned down Miramax bosses Harvey and Bob Weinstein. No matter what else he does, Bob Shaye will be defined by this: saying yes to Peter Jackson’s last-ditch attempt to turn J.R.R. Says Shaye: “If you were there that night in Cannes, it would be something you’d always remember.” Twenty years on, Deadline has gathered some of the principals who took one of the most pressurized rides in all of Hollywood history, to recall the films and that memorable night in Cannes where everything clicked, presaging three straight years of blockbusters, a near $3 billion global gross, and a collective 30 Oscar nominations and 17 wins, including Best Picture for 2003’s Return of the King. Get it wrong, and you’ve made the biggest miniseries in the history of TNT.” Get it right and you are on your way to something really important and powerful. “‘Let’s blow people away.’ But of course, once you decide you’re going to spend $2 million dollars on a party and treat 26 minutes like a premiere, the stakes are total. “It was Bob who came up with the idea of leaning into Cannes of 2001,” says Jackson’s longtime agent/manager Ken Kamins.
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But it would prove to be an important chapter on the route to release for what would become the most successful series of independent movies ever made. It would be another $2 million gamble for Shaye and his team. Still, they treated it like a film premiere, with distributors and junket press brought to Château de Castellaras, a castle in nearby Mouans-Sartoux, that was transformed into Middle earth by the art departments and set designers of the trilogy. Cannes has always been an international launchpad for films, but Shaye and Jackson came armed only with 26 minutes of footage of a film that would not be finished for months. The Cannes Film Festival would play a major role in turning around the skeptics and settling the nerves of all involved. Boardgamegeek.With Four Films In Cannes, Léa Seydoux Will Rule The Croisette - Interview New Line Cinema/Everett.Game of the Week Calendar Related Sites & Subreddits The simplest use is to bold game names in your comment and add " /u/r2d8 getinfo" at the end of the post, but this post/sub has other features identified. You'll see people using bold to highlight games, that gives the opportunity to interact with /u/r2d8, a bot that can be used to grab data from BGG on games included in a post.
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