Hollywood Hunter

After lunch between Simon and Semel, Daenerys Pictures and Warner Bros. soon began negotiations on the specific cooperation of Batman.

Although money cannot ensure the success of a movie, it is obviously easier to make a great movie with a high budget.Since Simon smashed $50 million with an ignorant and fearless upstart temperament, Warner also made up his mind to let Daenerys film first test the water.

After finishing Batman, Simon accepted the eyes of some people looking at the fat sheep happily, and continued to accelerate the other things in the plan as a fat sheep.

On the other hand, on the Saturday after Simon and Semel negotiated "Batman", the 45th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards Ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. Bertolucci’s "The Last Emperor" Without any suspense, he became the biggest winner of this year's Golden Globe Awards, and all five nominations for "Rola Run" failed.

Regarding the encounter of "Rola Run" at the Golden Globe Awards, the media's reaction was questioned, there was ridicule, regret, and gloating, but Simon quickly brought it over.The nomination for the American Screenwriter Union Award was ignored, and he did not expect much from the Golden Globe Awards, and he would not have much regret in the face of this result.

Although "Laura Run" has the joint strength of Warner and Orion, but in terms of the strength of the public relations resources, "Laura Run" certainly cannot be compared with Spielberg's "Sun Empire"., Spielberg also returned empty-handed this time.

However, the 60th Oscar nominations announced immediately after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, once again allowed Simon to see the conservative side of Hollywood.

Many people originally thought that "Rola Run" would certainly win a few heavyweight nominations even if it could not win the award, but the result was that "Rola Run" received only one nomination for the best editing, and the others got nothing.

After analysis, everyone thinks this is mainly because of Simon's complex identity.

If Simon is just a young director who has just risen in Hollywood, "Roller Run" has achieved such dazzling results, Oscar will definitely not mind to bring back.

But now, in addition to the director, Simon is a super rich with a billion-dollar net worth.The judges may feel that since Simon Westero has made a huge amount of money in just over a year, it is not suitable for him to be honored immediately.

In any case, no matter what kind of mentality it is, "Laura Run" has only received one technical best editing nomination.

Of course, the nominee for this award is still Simon.

At the beginning of February, the cooperation negotiations of "Batman" continued, but Westeros signed a low-key contract with the Tolkien Heritage Foundation of the United Kingdom involving a US$20 million.

Although the price paid is double the copyright of The Lord of the Rings, Simon actually got more.

In addition to successfully winning the "Elven Treasure Diamond", Westeros also re-signed a licensing agreement with Tolkien's several works with the Tolkien Heritage Foundation at a cost of $20 million.

In the 1969 contract, the producer holding the copyright was required to pay the 7.5% net profit share of the Thor King Heritage Foundation.

Now, Westeros pays a one-time payment of US$20 million, and the original sharing clauses of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" are cancelled. The "Evening Diamond" contract also does not include a sharing clause. Simon will hold these three Work copyright until the end of the legal copyright protection period.

In addition, the new contract also expands the scope of Westeros products that can be developed to avoid future disputes.

In Simon's memory, because the 1969 contract did not explicitly cover the power of digital game development, the Thor King Heritage Foundation claimed $80 million for Time Warner's illegal production of the "Lord of the Rings" series of online games.Although the lawsuits of both parties were settled in private, the amount of compensation involved was definitely not US$20 million.

The manager of the Thor King Heritage Foundation may not lack a long-term perspective,

Perhaps both parties feel that they have taken a lot of advantage and the deal is concluded. Neither the Tolkien Heritage Foundation nor Westeros has disclosed this matter publicly.As for the future, no matter what the result is, they have already decided to leave.

In all fairness, Simon himself did not dare to 100% guarantee that the Thor King Middle-earth series could achieve the same success as the original time and space, but his win must be too much.

From mid-January to mid-February, the negotiations between Daenerys Pictures and Warner Bros. continued for a month, and the detailed cooperation plan for Batman was finally finalized.

The five-year licensing scheme remains unchanged, and Daenerys Pictures paid $2 million for the copyright of "Batman", compared to $200,000 for "Spider-Man", and made a fat sheep again.The two parties agreed that the first movie will be invested by Daenerys Pictures, and Warner Bros. Pictures will be granted worldwide distribution rights for the movie.If the first part is successful, Warner owns up to 50% of the investment rights in the sequel.However, after the sequel is established, Warner must decide whether to participate in the investment within one month, and if it exceeds the deadline, it will be deemed to be automatically abandoned.

In the film distribution, Warner's position was very firm. Daenerys Pictures finally only got the opportunity to renegotiate the sequel in terms of distribution commission, and did not get the right to distribute it independently.

In terms of peripheral products, because of the success of the "Star Wars" series of peripherals, this part of the revenue has become the focus of the two parties' sawing.

In the final contract, it took more than ten pages to confirm that the surrounding products are from real people and comics, and the first and sequel. The conditions negotiated between the two parties are that Warner Bros.’s DC comics company can get the real Batman in the future. The 10% net profit share of movie-related peripheral products, and the rest of the income is determined by the investment shares of both parties.

All in all, this is another cooperation plan that is very unfavorable to Daenerys like the "Rainman" some time ago.

but.

Taking down the copyright of "Batman" is an absolute victory for Simon.Since he had eaten the copyright, he had no plans to let go.As long as the copyright of "Batman" is firmly grasped, the initiative of many things in the future is destined to be on its own side.

In order to be more'active', one week after Daenerys Pictures and Warner Bros. officially signed a contract, Simon once again bought the copyright of "Superman" from British producer Alexander Salkind by smashing money.

Obtained "Superman" and "Batman", collected the middle-earth series of Thor King, Simon's operation of collecting copyright has come to an end.

Unconsciously busy, time came to the end of February, and a very special day also came.

February 22.

Simon's 20th birthday.

In a mansion halfway up Beverly Hills, this is Sandra Bullock's new home.

After kissing a guy impulsively one night, she had to change her place in the face of the mad chase of the paparazzi.Too many things have happened in the past six months. After Simon and Janet reunited, plus some guilty conscience, Sandra found himself inevitably alienated from Simon a lot.

but.

Today is his 20-year-old birthday party, for such a legitimate reason, I definitely want to go.

However, it always feels weird.

Think about your 20th birthday, when you were in college at the time, and you don’t know what your future will be like.

He is 20 years old.

Ugh.

Standing so high, people can't feel it, and they are not afraid of falling.

Hum.

The time is already five o'clock in the afternoon.

Put on the carefully prepared water blue evening dress, just came out from the cloakroom, the doorbell rang, and asked the makeup artist to come, and it happened to be here now.

Assistant Gina ran to open the door, and Sandra carefully sat down on the living room sofa with the skirt.The TV in the living room had just been on, and I noticed that the CNN host and two other guests happened to be talking about Simon, and the screen behind several people showed a live picture of the guy outside Palisades mansion.

Is this too exaggerated?

It's just a birthday party, and even CNN has been recruited, and it's live broadcast.

but.

Thinking about what he did from the summer two years ago to the present, CNN's reaction now seems not too excessive.

Picking up the remote control and turning up the TV sound a bit, Gina came in with a makeup artist. She motioned to the other party to help her make up in the living room, but her eyes were fixed on the TV screen, listening with interest to the host and the host. Discussion of the two guests.

"Yes, Jim, Simon Westero also reminded me of Howard Hughes, but he is more legendary than Hughes. The first film produced by Westero won the North American box office championship, the global box office 4 One hundred million US dollars, which is a miracle compared to his age. What is more amazing is his operation in the stock index futures market last year, five months, Westeros is completely close to the S&P 500 The ups and downs of the index are buying and selling, as if he can fully predict the ups and downs of the index."

Another female guest wearing glasses said: "But, Daniel, however, I think Simon Westero has been completely out of control after last year's stock market crash. Especially in recent times, his various capital operations have been almost completely Zhangfa, and Motorola betrayed, sold all of the other's shares. After trying to acquire New World Entertainment, they quickly gave up after being frustrated. And Daenerys Pictures, Westeros was spending money indiscriminately, we The rich young man is said to have established eight movies now. If you count the recent "Batman" and "Superman", this is ten. I specially collected a film list, according to public information, these movies are basically all There aren’t many sellers, but the budget is generally higher than the Hollywood average. Just like that "Rainman", have you heard?"

The male guest named Daniel nodded and said, "I heard that a movie starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise was said to have been rejected by all major Hollywood film companies before, and, Danny Lisi Films also seems to have signed a very unequal contract with MGM-United States. But, I always think Westero should consider otherwise, if anyone thinks that a 20-year-old can earn more than ten The young man with billions of dollars of wealth is a fool. Then, don’t doubt that he is the fool himself."

"Hey, Daniel, are you talking about me?" The female guest smiled and refuted the sentence, saying: "But I do think that Simon Westero's behavior at this time is completely arbitrary. Go on like this, maybe Within a few years, his net worth will shrink significantly."

"This is just your guess, Katie. Howard Hughes produced "Angel of Hell" at that time, everyone also thought that he might be bankrupt, but the result was that "Hell Angel" reached $8 million at the box office, 800 in 1930. Ten thousand dollars is definitely higher than the box office of "Star Wars" or "ET Alien." And, I think Simon Westero's personal assets should be mainly concentrated in those stocks of technology stocks. Reduce Motorola After the stock, according to the latest stock price, Simon Westero is only this part of the asset, worth more than 1.3 billion US dollars."

"There should be more," the host sitting next to him said: "According to the information we have received, after the failure of the acquisition of New World Entertainment, Westeros has recently absorbed some stocks of technology companies. For example, Silicon Map, it is said that Simon Westero specifically visited the San Francisco graphics workstation production company last month. According to the latest filing data, Westero's shareholding in silicon maps has reached 11%. Oracle also holds shares. The proportion is 9%. Next, several companies such as Microsoft and Intel have increased their shareholding ratio from the original 5% to more than 7%. Calculated, Simon Westero has at least half of the Motorola stock after cashing out Funds have been invested in the stocks of these companies. Many investment institutions on Wall Street have recently started to follow suit again, and once again sharply boosted the technology stocks. Now, the value of Simon Westero’s stock assets should be close to $1.6 billion. "

The male guests and other hosts finished speaking, and the female guests said: "Look, it's still $1.6 billion. Simon Westero's profit from the stock market disaster last year was about $1.6 billion. Now, Katie, according to your It is said that Westero's arrogance for a period of time, not only did his net worth not decrease, but increased again."

The female guest said: "But I still don't think that as long as Simon Westero is a normal person, he won't create miracles forever."

The host suddenly said: "Katie, then, do you think Simon Westero is normal?"

The male guest suddenly laughed.

The female guest also smiled and said: "Well, Westeros is indeed not normal. But I mean, as long as he is not an alien, I think there should be no such possibility, then he will definitely face Failure. Like the films of Daenerys, Westeros may be able to guarantee the box office success of one, two, or three movies, but he is absolutely impossible to guarantee all. Hollywood major film companies are not lacking every year. Box office sales, but their financial reports are often loss-making, I also know the Hollywood books, but I am not referring to these, but the real loss. Why, it is because they are in the high-profile movie In addition, there are a large number of failed videos."

The host and other female guests finished and gently patted: "No matter what the future is, today is Simon Westero's 20th birthday. This young man who has suddenly risen for more than a year has created too much. Miracle, I believe everyone must be very curious about him, so let us give the camera to the reporter in front again."