Hollywood Hunter

Malibu.

On the new Monday, the window was not closed last night, and the cool morning breeze constantly flicked the floor curtains leading to the terrace into the bedroom.

The sky was completely lit, and Janet opened her eyes, knowing that Simon must have been awake, but he didn't move because of the self wrapped around him, so he rubbed and rubbed, and quickly fell completely on the man, his face stuck on He was confused on his chest: "Shall we sleep a little longer?"

Simon stretched his hands around Janet's waist, enjoying the feeling of skin fit, and said softly: "The designer hired by the company has already made a model of a bat. Will you come and see it in the afternoon?"

Janet hummed a little dumbly, and then said again: "No."

"Ok."

Simon smiled and patiently allowed Janet to leave him alone for a while before putting her aside in the grunt of the woman's dissatisfaction and starting to dress and wash.

The time is seven o'clock in the morning.

After jogging for half an hour on the treadmill, Simon simply took a shower, changed his clothes, and began preparing breakfast for the two.

Just put the folded two sandwiches into the oven, Simon took out a few oranges from the refrigerator and was about to make juice, and Janet, who was only wearing a large men's shirt, floated in from the outside.

Using a knife to cut the orange, Simon turned his head to look at the woman and smiled, "Why don't you sleep?"

"Without you," Janet came over and hugged Simon, tipped her feet slightly and kissed the man's lips, then suddenly stopped, raised her hand and cut over the top of his head to Simon's mouth, making a few strokes in a row Next, his eyes suddenly widened: "Little, little boy, are you tall again?"

Janet's beautiful eyes always have an attraction that Simon can hardly resist, especially the look of his eyes widening in surprise.

Nodding, Simon looked at the woman's beautiful eyes and smiled, "It seems to be a little longer."

Janet felt sad immediately, reaching out to hug Simon tightly, burying his head on his shoulder and murmuring, "God, my boyfriend is still tall, woo, I am already an old woman."

Simon felt the obvious insecurities in Janet’s half-truths, holding up the delicate face of a woman no less than an eighteen-year-old girl, bowed her head and kissed her, consoling: "Okay, baby, you are so Pay attention to maintenance, even after ten or twenty years, it will definitely be the same as now."

Janet put a paste on Simon's cheek with her face, but asked a little bit cunningly: "What about thirty years later?"

"Uh, thirty years later, I am also fifty years old."

Janet heard the word and buried her head on Simon's shoulder again: "The fifty-year-old man must be more attractive to the little girl."

Simon reluctantly said, "I am very attracted to the little girl right now, this kind of thing cannot be prevented."

Janet couldn't help laughing, raising his hand and thumping on Simon: "Little bastard."

The two kissed each other for a while. Simon sent the woman to get dressed and quickly brought two breakfasts to the restaurant.

When Janet returned, she had changed her daily small T-shirt and slacks. Although it was sad to find that her boyfriend was taller again, since she realized some of Simon’s potential tendencies, women seldom wear them again. He likes high heels.

High heels will deform your feet after wearing them for a long time.

People usually sit opposite each other at the dining table, but Janet likes to be beside Simon.

Picking up the orange juice and taking a sip, Janet took the sandwich and bit it down, as if she had completely forgotten what she had just said, "Mom called yesterday and asked when will you go to Australia?"

Confirm that the shooting location of "Batman" is arranged in Melbourne. Daenerys has already sent someone to rush to the scene, and Simon himself must definitely visit Melbourne in person before the shooting.

After thinking about it for a moment, Simon said: "Next month, after receiving New World Entertainment, I will focus my energies on the preparation of Batman."

"In recent years, Australia has strongly supported the film industry,

After breakfast, Neil Bennett and Ken Dixon had already prepared the car. Simon rushed to work at Santa Monica. Janet was going to an architectural design company in Beverly Hills.

The plot at Dumei Point Park has been taken. Simon provided a sketch based on the Iron Man mansion he remembered. During this time, Janet has been staring at the specific design work.The project is expected to start next year.However, it is not difficult to build such a villa in the sharp corner of Dumei Cape. Simon wants to live in and may need to wait patiently for two or three years.

Because of the way down, Janet and Simon took a car until downtown Santa Monica before changing to the burgundy Land Rover driven by Ken Dixon and rushing to Beverly Hills.

Simon's original Chevrolet SUV had been dealt with by Janet, and it was also replaced by a black Land Rover at this time.The car had just entered the 4th Street in downtown Santa Monica where Daenerys Film's headquarters was located. Simon saw that there were more people gathered outside the company's headquarters today.

After the success of "Who Will Be a Millionaire", it is not just a few reality shows of Daenerys Pictures, many other production companies and even the TV network are brewing various reality show projects that do not require the participation of screenwriters.Moreover, after the proposal provided by the producers’ union was rejected by the screenwriters’ union last month, Simon heard that the producers’ alliance is brewing new contracts even more than last month because of the changing situation brought about by “Who will become a millionaire”. The copy is more demanding.

The strike lasted for half a year, and WGA had little choice.

If the two sides can't reach an agreement next month, anyway, the autumn stall has been completely delayed, and the producers' league may break the jar and continue to stand still.But tens of thousands of mouths are waiting to be eaten. If WGA continues, it may really cause the tragedy of the union to collapse.

As the "starter" that caused the current situation to reverse, there were always non-stop screenwriters who expressed their dissatisfaction outside the headquarters of Daenerys Films.

However, when Simon's car came outside the headquarters parking lot, he discovered that the newcomers were not members of the screenwriter union, or that they were two people.

There are still some members of the WGA trade union who have come tirelessly, but more people today are coming to protest "Instinct".

Moreover, looking at the slogans such as "Instinct is garbage", "Westeros, San Francisco no longer welcomes you", "discrimination, this is discrimination", "stop discrediting homosexuality" and the rainbow flag in the hands of some people, Simon I understand what is going on.

In recent days, "Instinct" has indeed caused a strong controversy in the media, but after all, it has not reached the extent that the original belief in the release of "Angry Sky" by Lionsgate Films has caused thousands of people to gather.However, on the other hand, as the home base of homosexuality in North America, gay organizations in the San Francisco area are very dissatisfied with the portrayal of homosexuality in Instinct.

According to his own thinking, Simon can hardly understand why homosexuality would be so resistant to this movie. He even heard that in the past few days, many gay groups in the San Francisco area specially distributed spoiler flyers like "Catherine is the murderer" at the gate of the theater. Prevent the audience from entering the theater.

The car slowly passed through the crowd and entered the parking lot. Simon entered the office building directly from the side door of the company office building. The company employees have basically arrived, because the situation outside the headquarters is already commonplace, and everyone does not care too much, as long as these people do not interfere The operation of Daenerys Pictures, the two sides will be at peace.

An hourly weekly meeting was held to confirm the progress of the company's various projects. A number of executives dispersed and busy, Simon and Amy continued to stay in the meeting room.

Jennifer also sent the box office data report just past the weekend.

After being busy for so long, I finally want to see the result today.

Three days after the first week of release, "Instinct" finally achieved a box office of $16.75 million, successfully winning the first place on the three-day box office weekend.The scale of the 1776 block of screens was $16.75 million in three days, and the box office's box office was close to $10,000 in three days. This clearly indicates the film's great success.

"A Journey to the United States" starring Eddie Murphy enters the third week. Following the 45% drop in the box office last week, this week's box office decline narrowed to 21% at the weekend and received another 10.41 million US dollars for two and a half weeks The cumulative time at the box office reached 66.51 million US dollars, and it will undoubtedly become a box office blockbuster this year.

By comparison, the third-ranked new film this week, "Tiger Detective Soul", produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, the veteran starring in Clint Eastwood, received three million dollars at the box office for three days in the first week. .

Although this box office score is not bad, it is expected to reach about 13 million US dollars in the first week, but this movie's first week box office is also destined to be incomparable to the three days of the first weekend of Instinct.

Carefully counted, the two films of the Warner Bros. this summer, the "Funny Farm" in June and the "Tiger Detective" in July, happened to be the same as the two films "Vulgar" produced by Daenerys Pictures "Fiction" and "Instinct" collide.

Last month’s “Funny Farm” by Chevy Chess is now close to the next stage, with a cumulative box office of less than 25 million US dollars.

The box office results of "Tiger Detective Soul" may be slightly better, but it is absolutely impossible to be too successful.

On the other side, Sandra starred in "A Fish Named Wanda", and received another 5.63 million US dollars three days last weekend. Because of the strong word of mouth, the movie has been released for two and a half weeks, and the cumulative box office has reached 30.96 million US dollars. .

When Simon and Amy checked the box office data for the past weekend at Daenerys Studios, similar box office reports have spread throughout Hollywood.

It took $16.75 million in three days. Even if it was calculated based on the ratio of 70% of the box office for three days on the weekend, the first-week box office of Instinct would not be less than $23 million.

Although the previous "Journey to the United States" has just obtained a box office score of more than 30 million US dollars in the first week, in this era, the film that can exceed 20 million US dollars in the first week of the box office has been absolutely successful."Instinct" got $23 million in the first week, which is much higher than March's "When Harry Meets Sally".

Therefore, as long as there is no significant box office drop of 45% the following week, as in "America's Journey", "Instinct" has the potential to continue to sprint North American box office to break the 100 million box office.

In fact, when looking at the box office numbers for the first weekend of Instinct, most people would not doubt that this movie will be like the other two films of Daenerys Pictures "When Harry Meets Sally" and "Vulgar" "Fiction" sprinted to the 100 million yuan mark.

After all, the topic of this movie is too high. Even if some people did not enter the cinema for the first week because of controversy, in the following weeks, it is likely that the topic has spread further and some word of mouth has passed. Effect and step into the theater.

Even if it is 23 million US dollars in the first week, then the box office of the next week is counted as a 20% drop. This movie can also receive another 18 million US dollars at the box office. The two-week period of more than 40 million US dollars in receipts, not only enough to let Danieli Shadow The industry and Fox Pictures recovered all the production and distribution costs, and this result has been enough to squeeze into the top 20 in the North American box office annual list.

then.

With the release of the box office in the first weekend, the entire Hollywood began to study the successful experience of Instinct.

Viper beauty.

This is an important element that many film companies generally capture. In addition, of course, there is "sex". Although the Hollywood strike still continues, various studios have begun to collect scripts that have these elements.

Simon knows that the root cause of the success of Instinct is actually the strong topic of the movie caused by various controversies.The box office performance of the film industry, the quality of the film itself is certainly important, but according to the survey of many research institutions, the topic of a movie has reached a certain level of heat, even if it is a thoroughly bad film, it can get a very good box office. .

This is actually the fundamental reason why the marketing costs of Hollywood movies have become higher and higher and even reached the level of production costs.

In the final analysis, many of Simon's previous works are also blessed by the topic's aura.

The 18-year-old director of "Rola Run", the youngest Golden Palm winner of "Pulp Fiction", and the current "Instinct".

Simon also knows that after "Instinct", the public's curiosity about him will gradually cool down. In addition to the success of the previous works and the continued production of excellent quality films, Daenerys Pictures needs to be in the film Invest more energy in the publicity aspect, and there can be no shortcuts now.

In such discussions, the first week passed quickly.

In the final seven days from July 15 to July 21, Instinct's box office score was higher than media generally expected, reaching 23.92 million US dollars.

The "United States Journey" that followed, the box office slipped to 16.03 million US dollars in the third week of the release, with a cumulative total of 72.34 million US dollars.

Warner Bros.'s "Tiger Detective Soul", the box office at the end of the first week was only 13.19 million US dollars.According to the current situation, Warner is likely to repeat the mistakes of last year.In 1987, one of Warner's best box office movies was "Lethal Weapons", which was thrown into the popular stage at the beginning of the year.This year, as of now, Warner's best box office performance is still the Tim Burton movie "Beetle Juice", which is not very optimistic for the Easter period. The cumulative box office of this film near the next stage is just over $70 million.