Hollywood Hunter

After Monday, under the strong force of Fox Pictures, in just a few days, the media's wind direction on the butterfly effect has changed significantly.

Compared to media criticism that favors subjective tendencies, ordinary people are obviously more susceptible to actual data.

The box office was $21.69 million in the first week.

The weak decline of 17% over the next weekend.

The average audience rating is 7.7.

All of this undoubtedly shows that the quality of the butterfly effect film is far less bad than the critics criticized.Under the guidance of Fox Films' deliberate public opinion, the public gradually realized that the one-sided criticism of the butterfly effect may be the result of someone deliberately discrediting.

Subsequently, the New York Post under the News Corporation published an article that further convinced many people of this.

Things still have to go back to the media questions that Simon was suddenly confronted in March. A New York Post reporter found that Mark Horrington, the independent writer who questioned Simon in the New York Times, had recently bought a brand new one. Ferrari sports car.

So, the question came.

Mark Horrington’s previous income was simply not enough to make him pay for such an expensive sports car.

Then.

Where did the money come from?

Is it because of being accused of attacking a talented young man and suddenly earned extra money?

As a gossip tabloid with a huge circulation, the New York Post is known for all kinds of unscrupulous news.In order to avoid defamation lawsuits, this article did not directly initiate a similar challenge to Mark Horrington, but in the language, the audience was guided in a certain way.

Faced with the New York Post's accusations, Mark Horrington came forward to refute it very'cooperatively', claiming that the sports car was bought by him in installments and did not pay the full amount, and naturally there was no'extra fast'.

The New York Times may be reluctant to revisit this muddy water. Mark Horrington's clarification can only be published in another newspaper's daily news.

This is even more lively.

As we all know, the market positioning similar to the daily news of the same circulation and the New York Post are completely rivals. The two very unruly newspapers almost completely torn their faces and often scolded each other, and even each other The bosses Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zackman came out and devalued them to nothing.

Now, as Mark Horrington clarifies on the daily news, the war between the two sides is on again.

This kind of media ripping is usually very difficult to have any results.

It was Mark Horrington who was unlucky.

Things got bigger and bigger, and the fact that he collected money to discredit Simon Westero was inexplicable in this tear, and it was settled.

It was so lively until Friday, April 24th.

Due to the shift in media trends and Fox's spare no effort in marketing offensive, the box office drop in the entire second week of the Butterfly Effect continued to narrow relative to the three days of the weekend, only 15%, and received another 18.28 million US dollars.

In two weeks, the total box office of the butterfly effect has reached 9.97 million US dollars.

It’s just that the box office of nearly 40 million US dollars has made the Butterfly Effect squeeze into the fourth position of the total box office of the movie released in 1987, second only to Lola Run, Lethal Weapons and a cruel fate released by Disney in January. .

Simon is busy with a lot of things at hand, he also cooperated with Fox Films to visit the nb's tonight show again, and spent a few minutes discussing the creative inspiration of the butterfly effect and the like.

In the contract between the two parties, although Simon has the obligation to cooperate with the promotion of the film, he is actually the kind of person who does not like to show his head.

However, when Peter Sanders invited Simon to participate in the talk show, he directly sent a cheque of US$ 0, 000, and said that the film's North American box office exceeded US$ 100 million, and Fox Films will pay Simon a bonus.

Simon is also trying his best to cooperate with each other.

At the same time, after Michael Ovitz's visit, Robert Redford responded the next day and was willing to accept the pay terms of $500,000 plus a 5% profit share.

After the party on Saturday, the Madonna and wife considered for a few days, and also gave a response, expressing their willingness to guest role of little rabbit and little pumpkin.The condition finally agreed upon was that the husband and wife took $500,000 together.

In addition, Simon also agreed to write a song for Madonna's new album in the second half of the year.

Finalizing these, Vulgar already owns three superstars including Robert De Niro, Robert Redford and John Travolta.Madonna and Cienpan’s fame is also not to be underestimated.

The $8 million budget combined such a strong cast, and the ecstatic Orion Pictures specifically held a press conference on Thursday to announce the vulgar name of Simon’s new work and a list of participating actors. .

In the afternoon.

Daenerys Pictures headquarters in Santa Monica.

In Simon's office, Meg Ryan, dressed in a white shirt and a black tube dress with an ol, carefully poured coffee for Simon and Amy before turning around.

Amy holding the coffee cup and watching Meg Ryan leave, she said to Simon: "She seems a little afraid of you and makes a woman afraid. This is not a good sign."

In the past few days, Meg Ryan officially started at nine to five in Daenerys Pictures.

Simon just wanted to restore Meg Ryan to a 26-year-old woman's status through a regular life. She didn't expect her to do any substantive work, so she just arranged for her to work with Susan as her secretary.

Listening to Amy say this, Simon, who is looking at the thick stack of actors, just shook his head slightly and said, "It's not afraid, it should be embarrassing."

It's strange not to be embarrassed when I touch myself twice.

Amy naturally couldn't understand Simon's explanation, but she just smiled and didn't ask.

Seeing Simon looking down at the actor's profile again, he noticed that there was a book on his desk close to him. Amy put the coffee cup back on the table and took the book curiously.

These days, Simon always has one or two books on his hand. Amy feels that this is a good habit of her boss, but she didn't think much about it.At such a young age, he has made achievements that many people have never achieved in his life. It is perfectly logical to keep this habit at all times.

Amy even felt that she should probably take the time to charge more.

Thinking in his heart, Amy glanced at the name of the book in her hand. Forrest Gump, the author's name was Winston Groom.Although I don't know, the young people on the opposite side chose it, and it would not be too bad, so I opened it with interest.

Simon noticed Amy's movements and explained while reading the information: "Amy, I will let Jonathan help me talk about some scripts or remake copyrights these days, but for the time being, I will put them on Westeros. You know, there is a lot of money on the books there, and we will definitely make these in the future."

Now that he already has a certain amount of capital, Simon has recently begun to implement what he has wanted to do after returning to this era, and he has held in advance the copyrights of many doomed movie projects in the future.

Looking at the gold mine that I can almost pick up, I'm sorry for not doing so.

Amy nodded with a smile and said, "I understand."

The slightly ambitious film companies will hoard some copyrights as much as possible. Simon did not surprise Amy in this way.

On the books of Daenerys Pictures, only Simon’s original operating funds and the budget of the two films of death and death are coming. It is certainly impossible to do this. It can only be carried out by Westero. .

Talking casually, Simon quickly picked out an actress profile, pressed the call button on the desktop, and summoned Susan Landis to come in.Noting Amy's curious expression, she handed over the information and said, "Now, this is my Mia."

Amy took the information and glanced at the name.

Nicole Kidman.

Who is this?

The thought flashed in my mind for the first time, and Amy glanced at the photo again, and said to Simon: "If there is a video tape, you must at least watch her performance?"

Simon shook his head: "There is no need to waste time."

With that said, Susan walked in, and Simon pointed to the material in Amy's hand, saying: "Pass this actor material to Jonathan and tell them that they have two days to dig her to ma. In addition, play Zhu I’m not satisfied with the black actors recommended by several companies, and I’m not satisfied with the candidates recommended by several companies. Let them choose another group to send them over. Their fame doesn’t matter. Also, the taxi driver is the same, charming, seductive, and accented. I think what I said is very clear. You don’t have to recommend it for local ones, but choose the ones from Europe."

Amy handed the information to Susan, listening to Simon's series of orders, but shook her head helplessly and found it hard to guess what the young boss thought.

Simon is actually helpless.

Having finalized a group of big coffee, the budget he can use to select other actors is only one million dollars.At the moment, there are still a large number of characters who are not in the film.

Among them, the more important Jules, that is, the role of the original Samuel Jackson, Simon still hopes that the other party can star.But now, Samuel Jackson doesn't know where.

In this era of no Internet, it is not as difficult as it is to find an unknown soldier.

Even Mia was ups and downs.

Simon originally wanted Michelle Pfeiffer to try, it didn't matter if it was expensive.

However, after a simple trial, Simon discovered a very serious problem.

John Travolta is nearly one and nine meters tall, but Michelle Pfeiffer is only one and seven meters tall.The height difference between the two of them, when they stepped on the stage, the composition was directly crooked. How could it be possible to perform that classic swing dance.

After Michelle Pfeiffer, Simon added a height of more than 180m to the casting conditions.

The vulgar plan to start shooting in July, Simon still has too much work to do, some simple selection, very simply chose Nicole Kidman who was once very familiar.

After Susan's office, Simon glanced at his watch and asked Amy across from him, "Isn't it three o'clock?"

Amy also looked at the time and said, "Otherwise, I'll ask someone to call and ask."

As he was saying, the office door was knocked again, and the Megrian probe came in and said, "Mr. Westero, Ms. Pascal, and Mr. O'Brien are here."

The two heard the words and stood up to meet them.

At the door of the office, a middle-aged white man with a round face of about 40 years old also came in at this time, and he extended his hand to Simon and Amy with regret, saying: "I'm so sorry, Mr. Westero, and Ms. Pascal. , Encountered some minor conditions on the road."

Simon listened to the typical British accent of middle-aged people, smiled and shook hands with each other, said: "It's okay, Danny, just call me Simon."

Amy shook hands and talked to each other.

Simon motioned for Meg Ryan to bring in another coffee, and the three of them sat down together in the reception area and looked at each other.

The middle-aged man's name is Dennis O'Brien. He is a film producer. He and the original Beatles guitarist George Harrison jointly run a film company called Handicrafts.

George Harrison founded the film company in 1978 to fund a friend of his own.

Later, the film produced by the friend of Harrison won US$20 million at the box office in North America at a cost of US$4 million, and the craftsmanship film industry was also out of control. Then he launched the time robber starring Sean Connery and other successes. The film has gradually become a famous independent production company in Britain over the years.

but.

Handicraft Pictures just planted a big head last year, and it was the magic that starred Madonna and Siempan who were amazed.

The $17 million production, and the final $210,000 North American box office may not be enough to cover the publishing costs of MGM Pictures.

However, due to the overheated global economy in recent years, a large amount of capital has poured into the film industry. The handicraft film industry did not fail because of the surprising failure of the magic, but instead connected to the Daenerys film industry through Madonna’s relationship. When Harry met Sally, he became interested.

The butterfly effect succeeded once again, unraveling the stalemate when Harry met Sally that nobody had been interested in before.This week, not only many second- and third-line film companies, but also the Seventh National Congress have basically re-expressed their interest in Harry when she met Sally.

However, Simon has now calculated otherwise.

It is impossible for Daenerys Pictures to establish its own distribution channel in the short term. When Harry meets Sally’s announcement, he still has to cooperate with the Seven Majors.But in terms of production, in order to maintain absolute control of the entire project, Simon plans to cooperate with some independent film producers to invest together.

In doing so, as long as part of the funds can be obtained first, the entire project can be started.

After Simon completes the stock index futures operation in the second half of the year, Daenerys Pictures can inject follow-up funds for the entire project.At the same time, due to the successful signatures of the two films of Rolla Run and Butterfly Effect, Daenerys Film also has enough confidence to require more revenue sharing.