Chapter 19: Why Orion Pictures died!

"Just give me the storyline of all these movies one by one please," Sunny told them while reading the list. He could hardly remember any of these movies in his mind and believed most of these were either flop or never made big money at the box office.

"Love Field – A white woman in an abusive relationship is fascinated with the life of the First Lady and goes to meet the President's family but he is assassinated when she reaches that location.

Then she meets a black man and girl and soon develops a relationship, but she has called the cops on the man before and he is arrested. Finally, in end, he is released and reunited with the black girl and the white woman follows them."

Sunny heard the first storyline and wanted to curse the stupid script.

"What are we selling here? The assassination of Kennedy or the Interracial relationships or simply a housewife pursue of her freedom? This is too chaotic. Drop it. Next?" Sunny threw this script away and discussed others.

Then there was a horror movie with a budget of 15 million dollars which Sunny didn't even read and cancelled it. He is not crazy to invest 15 million in a horror movie.

One after another Sunny kept rejecting films and the tension in the room grew. No one wants to be in a meeting where the boss is not satisfied with their work. These movies are prized possessions of Orion, but the boss feels they are only suitable for dustbin.

(Sunny had thrown all the scripts in the dustbin under the table.)

"Sir, this one, Blue Sky – a movie about a woman who is a little mentally imbalanced and is very sexy. Her husband works in the military and his boss develops an affair with his own wife and traps him in a scheme to put him into a mental institution or get court-martialled.

He confesses the incident at the military site that was part of the scheme by his senior officer and then she works alone, puts her life in danger and manages to rescue him in end and prove his innocence."

Sunny heard the story and felt a little familiar with this one. Then he read the script, but it didn't click anything. It was only when he saw the leading actors, that his eyes brightened.

Tommy Lee Jones is the main lead and Jessica Lange is the main woman in the story.

"Do we have the tape of this movie?" Sunny asked.

"Yes sir, it was finished filming last year on July 16, 1990, and it took a total budget of 15 million dollars." The executive replied.

"Okay. Let's watch this first before making a final decision," Sunny said, and all the executives moved to the screening room.

This room is basically a theatre inside the company where distributors and managers can sit and watch the movie and then decide the promotion and marketing strategies for it.

The movie lasted for more than 100 minutes and Sunny was already bored during the middle of the movie. The lead actress – Jessica Lange was terrific but seriously, a woman cheats on her husband and does a sexy striptease kind of thing in front of military officers and wives?!

Her husband loves her but pushes her out a window and she needs hospitalization?!

Fuck!

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"This movie can win awards, even Oscar, but seriously, it won't make any money for us. This is pure literal shit. American families will never accept this kind of family, American men will never accept such kind of wife and basically, the movie never talks about cheating and that is not even mentioned later.

It's basically shit."

Sunny said massaging his eyebrows.

"Sir, then?"

"Release it. But focus on awards first, do a limited release and then hit Oscars. Focus on the actress - Jessica Lange. If she is ready to pay for public relations, we can help her and get her an Oscar.

Only and only then, release it on a big scale. Forget about overseas. Just directly release it on the VHS."

Sunny thought carefully and then finally made a bitter decision. He knew awards will love this movie but the audience will simply not buy it. However, by using awards he can still create a small hype for the movie.

This is the only hope.

"Understood Sir." The executive replied.

"Throw everything else away. Orion pictures are finished. Let him die on their own and drag others with themselves." Sunny didn't even take other scripts and simply dumped them.

It is a clear reason why Orion pictures will die in future. They have no idea what kind of scripts they are producing and have lost touch with the audience.

"Gentleman, give me an idea. These pictures won't work. We need a low-budget movie that we can distribute to major theatre chains and make a big profit. Are there any other companies from which we can source these types of movies or something?" Sunny asked all the executives who were following him.

"Sir, If I may, why don't we go to the Film Festivals to look for this kind of movie. We generally find low-budget movies there made by Independent Filmmakers. It's a great place to start. Besides, Sundance will start soon, and we cannot ignore it." A young executive said.

Sunny felt the clouds that were covering his mind open up. Yes, wasn't this his own idea? He himself decided to find distributors in film festivals. There must be many others like him out there.

"Good. Prepare a plan, select a team and a budget. I will also join this time. Let's do proper hunting and for the rest of the people, please go to other countries. Go to the UK or anywhere. I don't care.

Don't limit yourself to the USA but look outside and check the best films in these regions that can be distributed. As long as it can offset your expenses, it's a great bargain.

We can develop our distributing channels and find new partners for the future."

"Understood, Sir." With a more enthusiastic voice from the executives, the meeting finally ended.

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