Chapter 14: Three Days

By the end of the Toronto Film Festival,  Sunny was already sitting with their film distributor partner - RKO executive, Roy William.

Roy was a 40-something guy that had a naturally soft voice that will make you listen to him and make you want to trust this kind of person. A little belly, polite language and the body language and words chosen to move from partner to dear friends within a twenty-minute conversation, show the exemplary communication skills he mad mastered over his age.

"Mr Sunny. As a dear friend, I would not recommend you to release your film so close to this other movie - My Own Private Idaho. You should understand that Keanu Reeves, your male lead, is starring in a homosexual theme movie.

No matter what, people would question his performance and there would be many simply boycotting his movie in near future.

Instead of banking on his popularity, you might get burnt by it."

Roy tried to convince Sunny about his ideas but Sunny was sure he had the right plan for this movie.

"Roy, you are focusing on the wrong target. This movie is directed by Coppola. Don't you think that should be the marketing focus?" Sunny questioned.

"It's not Ford Coppola, Sunny...Listen" before Roy could complete his sentence Sunny stopped him.

"Oh! But do people know? What if they only know that this is a Coppola movie...and no one clarifies which Coppola we are speaking about."

Sunny hinted at his idea to Roy. This kind of scheming and ideation is not morally sound to say in an open manner but intelligent people only need hints to understand many things.

"Right...Coppola...Obviously...you are right in this... I mean the movie is directed by Coppola and it is serious, dark and evokes the familiar panic and fear in the screenplay. I understand..yes...Ahem! I think Sunny, we can definitely use that. Genius..."

Roy walked out after the meeting with a big smile on his face. The young boy was devious in nature and he liked dealing with such people.

"Who knows which Coppola shot the movie! Ha ha ha...." Roy kept laughing and walked away.

He had an urgent matter to solve and that was pushing the movie out on big screens before the media could publish the news about Sofia Coppola's new movie. Right now, major media channels are busy with news about My private Idaho but once they get the chance, they will definitely push out stories about Sofia's comeback story.

Hence he must move faster.

On September 14, 1991, Toronto Film Festival ended with many filmmakers having a joyous beginning in their life while many left just footprints away from the path to success.

"Sunny, did you get a final date from the distributors?" Sofia called sunny the next day and wanted to find a chance to know the latest update on her movie.

"Yes madam. It will be in theatres across America and Canada on October 4. We can benefit from Keanu and his popularity. His movie Point Break is a big hit across all of America and his fans would definitely walk inside theatres to watch more of his looks and acting.

So yeah! This is the best window for us. In October, Halloween fever will be high and people would want to watch some good old scary films. What do you think?" Sunny selectively forgot his Coppola marketing idea and the whole discussion with Roy.

Sofia agreed with his approach and they both just talked some more gossip before Sunny put down the phone.

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His bank balance had no more than 15,000 dollars remaining. The recept money spent on VHS tapes will be refunded thankfully from RKO side otherwise he would have cried himself to death.

The whole idea of pushing his film independently was too rushed and thankfully he didn't cause any big blunder because of this idea. At least, he will get a large profit by just selling those cheap VHS tapes at market price.

He ordered some food and went back into his room. He tried to remember any big horror flick or some good movie that might have come in this period but sadly, he had no memory of 'old' films in his mind.

Sunny went back to LA alone after the festival as everyone had already left it. Sunny just wanted to watch each and every movie to enjoy a rare break before his own movie is released across America.

On October 1st, sitting in his new office, he decided to find staff and real executives for his production house. This tiny office was too big for only a single employee and he the boss of a production house didn't even have a receptionist.

He called and arranged interviews for a few staff positions and decided to close these before the movie is released. He wanted to find more important personnel after he was sure, he can pay their salary and at least have some fame to attract them.

With the help of a company that provided staff for cleaning and general maintenance, he found cleaners and caretakers. Then from old aunts to college girls, after going through six useless candidates, he met one girl from Boston University.

She was young but she had great communication skills and her resume mentions that she worked in multiple tv shows and even got a few small roles in some movies.

"Hello, Miss Alicia. If I am correctly reading this, you are barely sixteen. Why do you want to work as a receptionist in my company? I mean, I don't think you even know anything about my company. Right?" Sunny was worried that this young girl ran away from home or something and wanted to know her deal.

"I might not know this company, but I do know have seen you, Sir. I was at Toronto Film Festival and I knew you started your own studio and the movie -'MONSTER' is your first full-length feature film. Director is Sofia Coppola and the lead male actor is Keanu Reeves."

The young girl replied honestly. Her voice was melodious and sweet. Add that sweet voice with an intelligent quotient was definitely a plus.

"Very well. You are right about my production house though. I started this company, Vision Studios and my first film 'Monster' will be screened three days later in North American theatres and Canada.

I am hoping to attract some attention and then hire some key people to fill up the basic positions in the company. I am definitely satisfied by your resume and your knowledge is the plus factor that I need.

You can come on 5th October if you agree. The salary and office timings and perks will be as per the contract. You can take back the contract copy if you want to get it checked by anyone.

Have a great day."

Sunny finally sent the vixen away and decided to hire her anyway. He needs someone intelligent enough to handle the calls and her voice is pleasant enough to listen.

In this way, almost all his basic staff was there to at least give an appearance of an office. Cleaners, caretakers, receptionist and a boss. Now all that was missing is proper staff and actual work to be done in the office.

For that, he patiently needed to wait three days.

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