Hollywood Hunter

As the most influential newspaper on the West Coast of the United States, the "Los Angeles Times" is only a non-Sunday edition of the news and information page, which is usually more than 50 pages, compared to the "Laura Run" that was hidden in obscure corners and is difficult for readers to notice. Film review, Peter Butler's article about Simon this time directly landed on the front page of the newspaper.

Although it is still not the front page news, as the most recommended navigation information, this part of the content is almost a must-read article for most subscribers.

In this era, newspapers can be said to be the most important channel for ordinary people to obtain information. Powerful media such as the Los Angeles Times also played a role of public opinion.

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Young man rushing out of mental hospital.

madman?

Unique last name.

A script earned $200,000.

At the age of 18, he produced a highly acclaimed independent film.

Genius boy.

Peter Butler cited Simon's series of personal tags in the article. For Americans who adore miracles, adventurous advocacy, and individual heroism, they are simply the perfect embodiment of the American dream.

As a result of this article in the Los Angeles Times, Simon signed the "Butterfly Effect" screenwriting contract with Fox Pictures last year, and has continued to accumulate attention in some media.

As if suddenly, many people started to discuss, who is Simon Westero?

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A series of news from Simon's emergence last year has been re-excavated by the pervasive media, and every detail involved in Peter Butler's article has also become the object of some media discussions.

Even a local gossip tabloid in Los Angeles revealed on the front page that Simon was attacked in Santa Monica late last night.

Although it was stated that this was a real case confirmed by the Santa Monica Police Department, the tabloid newspaper completely adopted a surprisingly playful tone, describing as Simon seeing Simon with one enemy and five, and crushing five bravely The gangster's right leg and an elbow knocked out a gangster's teeth seven times. It was Bruce Lee's rebirth.

Immediately afterwards, due to its proximity to the water platform, the San Francisco Chronicle, which is also influential in San Francisco, also published a biographical biography of Simon, completing all his experiences before the age of 18.

The San Jose Children's Welfare Institute grew up.

The original surname.

Community public high school is the only senior student admitted to Stanford for many years.

Less than two months after entering Stanford, he was suddenly schizophrenic.

The San Francisco Chronicle used a very sympathetic tone to describe Simon’s growing up from childhood, and began to self-reliance at the age of 13 when he questioned the San Francisco Children’s Welfare Institute and guessed Simon’s The root cause of mental illness is probably the strong pressure caused by years of hard life.

As for why such a teenager who came out from the bottom could suddenly make a highly acclaimed independent film, the San Francisco Chronicle failed to find the root cause.However, this newspaper also did not behave too surprised, but quoted a sentence from the Simon Middle School teacher who was interviewed by the newspaper: Simon is a very hard-working child, and I will not be surprised if he creates any miracles.

This view is almost exactly the same as the argument in Peter Butler's article, and it also unwittingly created a realistic basis for the fact that Simon suddenly became a film genius.

Of course, in a tumult, there is naturally no lack of doubt.

After the "Los Angeles Times" article about Simon was published, on the countless related calls to the newspaper editorial department, many people felt incredible that Peter Butler praised a young man so much, and even felt that the "Los Angeles Times" was sensational.

For the news about Simon’s hits and fives published in that gossip tabloid,

As public opinion continues to accumulate, the public's final attention is gradually shifted to one thing, Simon's movie, "Rola Run."

Since you said that boy so well, then, show us the movie, right?

Therefore, as Simon and Hollywood's most direct partner, many calls were also made to Fox Pictures, to listen to the release date of "Laura Run", and many were watching the newspapers that had not yet joined the discussion in the lively state or sincerely or ridiculously. Urge the Hollywood film company to push "Laura Run" to the cinema as soon as possible.

Los Angeles.

Now that the public opinion campaign has succeeded, Simon returned to Park City and asked his agent Jonathan Friedman to contact him and held a small screening for Hollywood film companies in a screening room in Century City.

In the following days, Simon was frequently negotiating with senior executives of major film companies.

However, the results were not satisfactory.

Friday, January 30.

Near the end of get off work, returning from Warner Studios in Burbank, the Chevrolet SUV stopped in front of the villa door in the Montana district.

Janet pushed the door and got out of the car, looking at her boyfriend who came back empty-handed again on the other side of the car. The woman walked over to embrace Simon’s arm and put a head on his shoulder, saying, "One day, the film company will chase Looking for you to cooperate, just like Spielberg."

Simon brought the woman to the door, took out the key to open the door, and smiled, "Is it just like Spielberg? Why can't we be our own boss and instead let those executives work for us."

"Uh huh," Janet nodded like a chicken, and said firmly: "Daenerys Pictures will definitely develop into a big company like Fox and Warner."

Simon pushed open the door, saw Janet still hanging on him, reached out to copy the woman's light body, and gently threw it on the living room sofa, only to laugh: "Imagination is not enough. In the future, I will be like Morgan and Rockefeller. Same, become the master of the whole Hollywood."

I remember seeing a tree diagram of the corporate relationship of the big Hollywood film companies in the early twentieth century. The eight major film companies of the year kept going back. Half belonged to Morgan and half belonged to Rockefeller.

That was the golden age of capital.

Janet was left on the sofa by Simon, listening to what he had just said, and he was soft, barely supporting his body, blushing and looking at the man hanging the shoulder bag on the hanger: "Simon, I will help you."

"Okay," Simon promised, seeing a message on the phone in the living room, walked over and pressed it, and said, "Or, let's start cooking for me?"

"Huh."

Jenny nodded characteristically, but hugged a pillow and slouched lazily on the sofa.

On the other side, the phone message came from Mike Medova, the president of Orion Pictures, asking Simon if he had time tonight, hoping to have a dinner together.

Simon naturally understood Mike Medova's intentions, and couldn't help thinking.

In recent days, Simon has basically been in contact with all seven Hollywood film companies.However, the conditions offered by the Seventh Congress were difficult to satisfy him.

Simon is not greedy.

The current heated media discussions around his age of making "Rola Run" are just like the "Witch Blair" that was originally successful in time and space relying on online virus marketing. This may only be used once in this life.

If it works properly and luck is good enough, "Lola Run" is likely to create a little box office miracle.Simon can also use this opportunity to accumulate a good amount of original capital.

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The long-term advantages of the industry have made the seven major film companies perform very strongly in the cooperation negotiations. In addition, the lack of standard commercial film attributes of "Roller Run", the conditions for the opening of each are generally lower than Simon’s expectations. Simon Obviously there is not much room for bargaining.

After leaving Warner Studios in the afternoon, Simon had confirmed a reality in his heart.

At least for now.

The seven major film companies are not ideal partners.

After reorganizing his thoughts, Simon looked at Janet, who was still on the couch, and smiled: "Get up, don't need you to make dinner, go to rub together."

Now that the decision has been made, Simon no longer places his hopes on the seven major film companies.

Mike Medova, the president of Orion Pictures, has been very interested in this project since he read the script and storyboard of "Laura Run".Compared with the seven major film companies, Orion Pictures can also stand in a relatively equal position to negotiate cooperation with Simon.

Both parties have a tendency to cooperate, so they hit it off at the subsequent dinner.After two days of intense consultations on the weekend, Simon quickly reached an agreement with Orion Pictures.

Monday, February 2.

An announcement on The Hollywood Reporter quickly caught the attention of many people.

"Orion Pictures and Simon Westero reached an agreement, "Roller Run" will officially log on to North American theaters on February 13."