Hollywood Hunter

Simon lowered his head and glanced at some of the records in the reporting process of Nancy Brill, and looked at the woman in front of the stage: "Nancy, you have just explained very comprehensively, toys, clothing, accessories, books, video games, Image authorization and the release of the original sound recordings for the time being by the Consumer Goods Department, but these are very broad long-term plans. Tell me about your recent work focus, within a month?"

"In the past month, I plan to hire people to form a product design and sales team. In this regard, I will tap talents from other companies based on the contacts in the past work process to ensure that employees can invest in derivatives of the company's existing film and television projects as soon as they join the job. Development and promotion work," Nancy Brill answered fluently without thinking. "In addition, I think the planning of movie derivatives should be forward-looking. The company cannot wait for a movie to really become popular before Consider developing peripheral products. Therefore, I also hope to be able to obtain approval to conduct a derivative potential assessment of all projects that Daenerys Entertainment is developing."

Simon nodded slightly and asked again: ""Survivor", "Beverly Wife", "Scream" and so on, the surrounding types of these projects will be very complicated, how do you plan to deal with this problem?"

Nancy Brill still replied immediately: "In the short term, I will choose to develop and promote the most commercially valuable peripheral types in these projects, so as to ensure that the limited resources and manpower of the team are not dispersed. Wait for the company to develop enough copyright resources to form a scale effect, and then continue to expand the surrounding categories to maximize the value of derivatives."

"So, what about terminal channels?"

"Seek a nationwide chain store as a partner and open a counter if possible. This is convenient for marketing and promotion. We have a number of very popular copyrights for movies and TV series. The terminal will be happy to cooperate with us. This is a comprehensive aspect. Applicable to all types of film and television projects around. We can also use traditional theater stores, toy houses and other traditional channels to lay out goods. This operation is mainly familiar with the market and training channels. The company also needs to wait for the accumulation of enough commanded copyrights. To start pursuing profits," Nancy Brill said here, thinking about it and saying, "In addition, I found that the company will generate large profits in the next few years. I suggest investing in the video chain that has developed rapidly in recent years. Compared with the fiercely competitive cinema system, the development of the video tape market is far from being saturated. If we can have hundreds of thousands of video tape rental stores in the country and even the world, the company can not only share the emerging video tape market, but also Can also have a complete derivative terminal sales network."

Even though Daenerys Entertainment has not been enterprising from now on, with the copyright of several popular reality shows in hand, the company will be able to secure large profits in the next few years.

Although he has been planning to accumulate cash for some things two years later, Simon has not given up the idea of ​​continuous expansion of Daenerys Entertainment. The big deal is to continue to loan. The company's debt ratio has not yet reached Simon's tolerance limit.

Nancy Brill’s sudden proposal is indeed very tempting. The video chain can not only provide Daenerys Entertainment with a complete terminal sales network. This type of company, like supermarkets, also has a strong cash flow advantage. .In memory, Viacom completed the acquisition of Paramount through the cash support provided by the Blockbuster.

However, those involved in the video chain business will certainly face some potential problems.

The biggest disadvantage of Daenerys Entertainment is that the content accumulation is not rich enough.

"Good advice, I will seriously consider it."

Simon briefly thought about it for a moment, and responded to this sentence, then turned to the theme of this meeting again.

Nancy Brill continued to accept some questions from Simon and several other executives before leaving the meeting room. Everyone continued to discuss other matters of the company. The meeting was over and the time was already over six o'clock.

Amy sorted out her files and left it to the end as usual, asking Simon who was still sitting at the conference table: "So, what do you think of Nancy?"

"A wonderful woman," Simon acknowledged: "I am looking forward to turning her written plans into reality."

"Nancy is very valued in Hasbro's marketing department. I suddenly dug her over and Hasbro almost tried to sue us," Amy said with a smile. "She came forward to solve this problem herself." ."

There are more and more male executives in the company. Simon actually knows that Amy is recruiting a female executive to join the company this time to increase her confidence, so she will not praise it.

Just smiled, Simon turned a page of the material that had not been read in front of him, not in the interface.

Amy also realized that her mind must have been peeped through by Simon, and she was embarrassed to change the subject, saying: "Simon, what do you think Nancy has just set foot in the video chain company's proposal?"

Simon nodded and said: "It's very good. You can make a plan with me and find some suitable companies for investment. We don't need to start from scratch."

The two continued to talk about something. Simon finished reading the file in his hand and got up and was about to leave. Amy remembered another thing and walked out of the meeting room with Simon. "In addition, Simon, the company's office space It’s not enough. This time Nancy set up a consumer goods department, so he can only rent another office nearby. I think we need to consider this matter carefully."

The current Daenerys Entertainment does appear to be a bit'scratching'. New York is okay. The company has successfully bought the building in Greenwich Village, but Los Angeles has a total of four office locations, including St. Monica’s Daenerys Entertainment Headquarters on 4th Street, Daenerys Special Effects and Pixar Animation on 2nd Street, Burbank’s Daenerys Entertainment Division and even Marvel’s studio near Burbank This decentralized state is indeed not conducive to the company's development.

When he returned to Malibu by car, Simon rarely took the opportunity to read some document scripts and the like, thinking about the problem by the window.

In recent months, Simon has indeed considered the idea of ​​establishing a Daenerys entertainment studio, but some of the sites I have seen have various problems, either the area is not large enough, or the land price is too high, or just Some are remote.

Land Rover Range Rover turned from Santa Monica to Linhai Highway, entered the Malibu area, Simon thought, inadvertently noticed a fork on the side of the road, suddenly a flash of light, ordered Neil Bennett in the front row said: "Parking , Neil, stop quickly."

Neil Bennett was unclear, but he quickly parked the car on the side of the road and looked up through the rearview mirror and asked, "Boss, what's wrong?"

Simon pointed backwards and said, "Reverse and retreat to the intersection."

At the peak of off work, there was a lot of traffic on the Linhai Highway. Neil Bennett carefully steered the steering wheel and slowly retreated the Land Rover Range Rover to a fork a few tens of meters away. He turned directly at Simon's signal.

This is a slowly upward slope, which was obviously just opened up, but the road was leveled, and there was no time for paving.The car traveled inward for about two hundred meters, and a U-turn occurred again.

When the car stopped, Simon pushed the door and got out of the car. In front of him, there was a large area of ​​relatively gentle open space. Except for a temporarily built wooden house and construction material props piled in the open air, other places were still bushy.

An unshaven old man heard the sound of a car and pushed the door out of the board room. He realized that it was not the little bastard who wanted to steal something. He grinned at them and looked at Simon who seemed familiar: "Guys, Is there a problem?"

Simon responded with a smile and said, "I'll look around, can I?"

"of course."

The old man nodded, subconsciously wanting to remind, glanced at the expensive Land Rover Range Rover, no more nonsense, and turned back to the board room.

Simon stepped on the bushes and continued to walk a distance, and soon came to the edge of a cliff more than ten meters high, at the foot of the road next to the sea.Near seven o'clock, the winter sunset has sunk into the horizon, leaving only some dark red afterglow spattering on the dark and magnificent sea level in the distance, and the coastal situation of Malibu in the west and downtown Santa Monica in the east Lights that gradually light up.

Stopping for a moment, Simon did not mean to get on the bus and left, but instead turned around along some trivial information in his memory and continued walking towards the gentle slope in the north.

This area with a triangular layout is surrounded by left and right ridges, and to the south is a cliff adjacent to the Linhai Highway.In the dim light, Simon stepped upwards on a rugged ramp for more than a kilometer before reaching the top.

I picked a foothold and looked down again, the view was more open, just because the ridges on both sides were blocked, I couldn't see too much downtown scenery.

In memory, here will become a residential community in more than 20 years. Except for Simon, who has built some luxury houses in this golden zone at the top, other areas can only be regarded as mid-range.But now, here is still a barren desert in the stage of development.

Because of the information in his memory, Simon glanced around and quickly formed a simple planning plan in his mind.

Extending from the highest point to the cliff near the sea, the entire triangular area surrounded by ridges on both sides exceeds 50 hectares in total. It is possible to open up three vacant areas from top to bottom like half of the terraces, each of which can exceed 10 hectares.

In addition to Universal Studios in Hollywood covering an area of ​​200 hectares, the other Warner Studios, Fox Studios, Paramount Studios and MGM Studios are only about 20 to 30 hectares.At present, it is conservatively estimated that the construction land can exceed 30 hectares, which is enough to build a brand-new film and television base.

Moreover, the geographical location of this plot is also just right.

To the west, directly to the city of Malibu, the distance to Dumei Point is less than 20 kilometers from here, which is convenient for Simon to commute.

To the east, five kilometers away is Palisades and the adjacent downtown Santa Monica.Moreover, the California Highway 1 near the sea can also be connected to the west end of Sunset Boulevard in Palisades.Connected to Sunset Boulevard, it is equivalent to connecting the wealthy area where a large number of Hollywood filmmakers gather, such as Palisades, Brentwood, Bellaire, Beverly Hills, etc. from the west to the east. Wear downtown Hollywood.

Generally speaking, the biggest difficulty in establishing a cinema in this area is the cost problem compared to the urban area with gentle terrain. But for Simon, as long as he is satisfied, this problem is not the most problem.

Back home in the dark, Simon had dinner and began to design the general plan of Daenerys Studios.

The top-down three-segment layout, the uppermost layer is the administrative area, and the middle is the work area of ​​subsidiary companies such as Daenerys special effects, Pixar animation, Marvel comics, etc. The lowermost area is the largest and can be used to build large-scale studios And post-production center.

In the future development process, Daenerys Entertainment will inevitably embark on the road of annexing Hollywood's other major film companies to rapidly expand its own development, and will definitely get some other film and television bases by then.However, this did not affect Simon's idea of ​​building a separate Daenerys Studio.

As long as the development of the enterprise is strong enough, no amount of film and television bases can be supported.

On the second day, Simon showed a few of the company's core executives, such as Amy, a sketch of the Daenerys Studios design that he designed overnight. After a brief discussion with everyone, he quickly began to acquire the plot.

On the other hand, with the opening of small-scale mapping, the major media in North America have also published film reviews on "Steel Magnolia" one after another.

Due to the CAA’s refusal, the director of "Steel Magnolia" is no longer Herbert Rose, and the role of Sally Field is also replaced by another post-film actress Jessica Lange, several others Actresses such as Julia Roberts, Daryl Hanna, Dolly Parton and other actresses have not changed.

Moreover, under the personal control of Simon, the quality of the new version is no less than the original version. The director recommended by WMA is the moving director of the "Golden Pond" Mark Redell, compared with Herbert Ross, Mark. Reddale more accurately controlled the essence of the story of "Steel Magnolia" that moved the audience through the seemingly dull plot.

In addition, compared to "Scream", which is aimed precisely at the young audience and does not deliberately pursue the market positioning of film criticism, the market positioning of "Steel Magnolia" is a warm drama film suitable for the whole family to watch the festival. Word-of-mouth marketing route.

Compared to other film markets, North American media and film critics are relatively less disturbed by film companies in evaluating a film, but they are only relatively speaking.When Daenerys Entertainment spared no effort to spend a large amount of advertising money on the major paper media, plus "Steel Magnolia" itself was of sufficient quality, the film immediately received almost one-sided praise in the media. .