Hollywood Hunter

"Roller Run" is a blessing due to misfortune. In the eyes of many people, it is already the North American box office champion in 1987.

but.

Simon found that he is now more and more inclined to a poor ghost.

During this time, renting a luxury house, hiring Pat Kingsley, signing Amy Pascal, maintaining Daenerys Pictures, and even responding to the various expenses of public opinion storms, these are all expensive. .

Now, not to mention Simon's own pocket, even Janet's little purse has been wiped out.The more than 50,000 US dollars saved by shooting "Laura Run" was already exhausted in various expenditures.

On the other hand, although it is expected to have tens of millions of dollars in revenue, the North American box office share of "Roller Run" needs to be settled after the film is downgraded, and the distribution rights of other channels in the hands do not know when it will be realized .

then.

Simon still has a lot of bills on him.

The rent of the mansion is owed, the commission of Kingsley is owed, and the basic salary of Amy is also owed. Even after Amy joined the job, she wanted to hire an assistant for herself. For the time being, she paid her own money. Simon.

Now, getting money as soon as possible is almost imminent for Simon.

In fact, Simon had instructed Janet last month to take the contract between Daenerys Pictures and Orion's "Rola Run" to the bank for mortgage evaluation.

However, compared with the 100,000-dollar loan borrowed from the Wells Fargo Bank based on the "Butterfly Effect" script contract, Simon applied for tens of millions of dollars this time, so it is naturally impossible to achieve it in a short time.

Only a preliminary review of all aspects of the material took a full month, and then Simon encountered this public opinion storm. Several banks took into account the risks and simply rejected Simon's loan application.

In the end, what remained is Wells Fargo.

Los Angeles.

Inside the cliff mansion of Palisades.

After evaluation, Wells Fargo finally gave only a loan amount of US$20 million, which was US$10 million lower than Simon’s expected contract share.

However, clearly $20 million is definitely not a small amount.

Due to the huge loan amount, Wells Fargo Bank specially dispatched a senior vice president named Paul Olson to personally conduct the most critical customer visit process in the loan review with Simon and Janet.

Paul Olson is about forty years old, with brown hair, square face, and a gentle look. Although he is a very talkative person in private, when he officially started working, he immediately became meticulous and even a little old-fashioned.

at this time.

In the study in the mansion, three people sat on the sofa in the reception area.

Paul Olson, holding a folder in his hand, asked all the questions in the routine list verbatim, turning his words, staring at Simon and Janet, and said again: "Mr. Westeros, Johns Miss Dunton, I must ask both of you to confirm again that the loan you are applying is limited to personal consumption and will never be used for illegal operations such as movie investment, right?"

the third time.

Simon muttered something secretly, but nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes."

Janet responded with one glance.

"So, I need to reiterate that Mr. Westeros, Miss Johnston, we will regularly track the loan flows of the two. Once we find that the two use the loan for investment in movies and other irregularities, Wells Fargo has The right to recover the loan in advance. Moreover, the credit records of the two will also be seriously affected."

Simon and Janet both nodded mechanically with a stiff smile on their faces.

"In this case," Paul Olson finally closed the folder in his hand, smiled, and stood up: "It's nice to meet the two,

Simon and Janet finally relaxed, quickly got up and shook hands with Paul Olsen.

Paul Olsen was sent away, Simon returned to the living room of the villa, lying down on the sofa with some fatigue, Janet also came together in an exhausted look, and his soft body was lying on Simon.

Simon hugged the woman's thin waist, looked at the ceiling, and sighed: "Finally deceived the money."

Janet responded weakly: "Yeah."

Simon withdrew this money in advance, and the ultimate goal is to invest in stock index futures in the second half of the year, but this kind of thing can't be said.

Anyone with common sense knows that banks will never provide loans to borrowers with such intentions, even if they have a mortgage.

However, a loan application of up to 20 million US dollars always requires a legitimate loan demand.

After some consultations, the two of them filled in the "personal consumption" in the loan demand column of the original application, and the repayment period was one year.

Many big stars in Hollywood often apply for huge loans from banks for consumption purposes.

Since personal consumption is usually bought in real estate such as luxury cars, even if the borrower cannot repay the loan for some reason, the bank can recover this part of the assets to make up for the loss.Therefore, this is a very legitimate reason for borrowing.

However, Simon's application caused doubts from Wells Fargo.

The main reason is that the amount is too large.

Even if Simon and Janet are profligate, the huge sum of $20 million is definitely not a small amount of money that can be easily spent.

The two even made up an excuse to buy a private jet, but they still failed to convince Wells Fargo.

Private jets can be divided into installments. For the rich to buy private jets, they usually choose to install in installments, which also doesn't require so much money.

Considering Simon's identity, Wells Fargo is easy to think of, he is more likely to want to use the money to invest in movies.

The risks of film investment are no less than stocks and futures.

Usually, banks will not approve this type of loan.

Of course, this cannot be said absolutely. After the establishment of Orion, Mike Medova and others directly obtained a credit line of 200 million US dollars from a bank in New York.

However, although "Roller Run" had a big box office explosion, because there was only one successful box office movie, Simon obviously could not enjoy the same treatment as Orion.

So there appeared the process that Paul Olsen repeatedly reminded or warned Simon.

If Wells Fargo knows Simon’s true intentions, perhaps even today’s conversation will not be there.

Moreover, accidentally being discovered in the course of operation in the future is also a lot of trouble.

Anyway.

Not so much for the time being.

This is actually the case with loans.Not many people are completely honest after getting the money.

Otherwise, banks will not have so many bad debts.

Taking a deep breath relaxed, thinking that the money will not be available until next week at the earliest, Simon is still a little worried, arms around Janet tightened tightly, said: "Baby, there is still no money now, or shall we come next Save a little, how about eating only two meals a day?"

Janet's face rubbed on Simon's chest and said, "I'm afraid of being hungry. Eat three meals. You have a good meal."

Simon nodded: "Well, I understand."

"what?"

"You count as one meal, so there will be two."

"Well, otherwise I would call Kate too."

"Ok?"

"She also counts as one meal, so it's another three meals."

"Good Federation girlfriend, come on, my dear."

"Yuck, little bastard."

After a few laughs, the two fell silent again.

Simon started to sort out the latest things again, and the most curious thing in his mind was still where the ABC videotape came from.

Looking back at the situation that day, Simon still can't remember who recorded the video.

Moreover, I made several phone calls and rushed to the ABC headquarters for inquiries during New York. I also didn't get an answer. ABC's response was that the video provider requested that the source be kept secret, and I don't know why.

Today is already March 24, Tuesday.

The storm dispersed.

Yesterday, Simon finally signed a contract with Fox Pictures on "The Grim Reaper".

Fox’s budget for the film will also be available next week, and it is not a one-time payment.The total budget of 8 million US dollars, the first is only 500,000 US dollars, is used in the early stage of the project selection, Kan Jing and other work.

In addition, Orion Pictures has already started talking about Simon's next movie, and it needs to be started recently.

Both projects have their own merits,

Simon's final movie, Nora Efron's "When Harry Meets Sally", is still hanging.

In fact, Simon has not completely won the script.

Although due to the failure of the previous "Heartfire" and the rather different story structure of "When Harry Meets Sally", there is no film company interested in this script for the time being.But during the initial contact, Nora Efron stated that if Daenerys Pictures wants to buy the script, it must come up with a viable production plan.

Obviously, Nora Efron is worried that Daenerys Pictures is just an empty shell, has no production ability at all, but wants to hoard her own script.

The hoarding of scripts in Hollywood is actually very common, and movie companies often even buy exclusive rights to some scripts for a few years.If the project is put into production within the contract period, then pay the follow-up script remuneration. If the project still does not start after the expiration, the script copyright will automatically return to the screenwriter.

The box office of "When Harry Meets Sally" is the most box office guaranteed among the three films in Simon's preliminary plan. His original consideration was that if he could not find an investor, he would simply do it himself. Invest in this movie.

but now.

If you want this movie to be released next summer, then the project must start immediately.

Therefore, all the problems returned to a starting point.

money!

Nothing can be done without money.

Moreover, it is estimated that the investment in "When Harry Meets Sally" may still be the highest of the three movies in the plan, even reaching $15 million.

To be fair, Simon really didn't want to invest in the movie himself.

Although the expected income of "Rola Run" is quite a lot, he hopes to invest this money in other goals with greater value-added potential.

After thinking about it for a while, Simon patted Janet and said, "Get up, wait for dinner with Medova, are you going?"

Janet whispered, nodding.

Now that the North American box office potential of "Rola Run" has been determined, the issue of the film's other channels should also be put on the agenda.Since signing a North American theater distribution contract with Orion, Orion naturally enjoys priority in the distribution of the remaining channels of the film.

Simon's plan is to sell off all other issuance rights at once, so that he can get a fund as soon as possible for the operation of stock index futures and other investments in the second half of the year.

However, with the North American box office size of "Rola Run", the overseas distribution rights of the film, video distribution rights and subsequent TV broadcasting rights, the profit scale is at least twice that of the North American box office.

Simon is not clear about Orion’s subsequent share agreement with other theaters, but even if it is averaged only on the basis of a five-to-five share calculation, “Roller Run” is expected to bring Orion and Daenerys to a total share of 100 million US dollars.

Relative to insignificant investment in production and distribution, this $100 million is almost a net profit.

Based on this reference, the remaining channels are issued with a profit of at least about 200 million US dollars.

According to the profit distribution rules of the box office in North America, Simon will be able to call out a $60 million sell-off offer for other channels.

60 million US dollars, even if it is a huge sum of money for the Seventh Congress, Orion Pictures will naturally be unable to eat.

Therefore, with the remaining channels issued, Simon wants to complete the sell-out operation in a short period of time, or can only sell them separately.

However, due to contractual restrictions, Simon must obtain Orion's consent before doing so.