Hollywood Hunter

Janet is going to a fund-raising reception in the Malibu city lobby in the evening. The woman is now a member of the community committee.Simon is not interested in this kind of entertainment. After get off work, he invited Kevin Costner and others to have dinner together and discuss the upcoming "Bodyguard".

"Batman" will start shooting in January next year. Simon will lead the crew to Australia after New Year's Day. This departure will take more than three months. During this period, there will be no important things.

"Bodyguard" and "Sixth Sense of Insanity" are the top priorities of Daenerys Entertainment next year. In order to be able to personally confirm whether the shooting of the creators is in line with their own ideas and make adjustments in time before leaving Los Angeles, the two films Both chose to boot in December.

It’s more than eight o’clock in the night to return to Malibu. Before Janet returns, Simon sits alone on the living room sofa and reads the screenplays collected by Ella Doichman, while focusing on the TV from time to time. The sample played here.

According to the information in the memory, Simon has found the producer of "Sex, Lies and Videotapes", and this film has not been cut off by the butterfly.

Although "Sex, Lies and Videotapes" was planned by a less well-known independent producer Robert Newmayer, the main investor is MCA/Columbia Home Entertainment, a joint venture between Universal and Colombia, the two major film companies. The main business of the companies with 50% of their shares is to purchase copyrights for distribution of video tapes worldwide.

Because of the nature of the MCA/Columbia family entertainment company, after investing the largest sum of $500,000 in the total budget of $1.2 million into the "Sex, Lies and Videotapes" project, it has obtained the videotape copyright for this film.

The late stage of "Sex, Lies and Video Tape" has been completed, and the application for the Sundance Film Festival has been submitted. Simon also obtained the samples very "reasonably" through the Sundance channel and has transferred it to Ella Doe Chiman.

Simon did not see the familiar movie from the samples that Ella Deichman handed over, but found a very interesting script, "Crossover in Life."

The multi-line narrative mode has always tested a director's ability to guide. "Intersection of Life" is definitely a masterpiece of Hollywood multi-line narrative.In memory, this film, adapted from a series of short stories by novelist Raymond Carver and directed by Hollywood group drama master Robert Altman, is cleverly interspersed by up to eight groups of family characters through a ukiyo-e style The model perfectly shows the life of ordinary people in Los Angeles.

After the film was released that year, some film festivals even set up the "Best Group Play Award" for "Cross Life". Paul Thomas Anderson's later "Magnolia Flower" was completely influenced by "Cross Life".

Although the influence of "Magnolia Flower" seems to be greater due to the participation of Tom Cruise, Simon still prefers the pure story of "Intersection of Life" without deliberately adding the so-called connotation to the film.

The original "Intersection of Life" was only released in 1993, and Simon was not surprised to get the script at this time.

According to Ella Doichman's remarks, Raymond Carver just died this year. Robert Altman, who loves Carver's novels, always hopes to put his work on the big screen.

The reason why the "Intersection of Life" in the original space and time was dragged to five years is mainly because the current Robert Altman is really too bad.The Hollywood director who has made classic films such as "Army Field Hospital" and "Nashville" in the 1970s and has been nominated twice for Oscar no longer has a masterpiece after entering the 1980s ,

Hollywood is very practical, even if the previous resume is brilliant, if you can not bring benefits to the film company, it is destined to be abandoned soon.Moreover, the disadvantages of "Crossing Point of Life" are also very obvious. Not only does it lack commercial selling points, but the expected duration will be up to three hours, which will deter investors.

However, after reading the script for only a small half, Simon had already decided to give the project a green light.

There is no doubt that "Intersection of Life" will definitely become another classic by Robert Altman.

Since the quality of the film can be guaranteed, and there are gimmicks like multi-line narrative peak, as long as it is operated properly, it is absolutely easy to achieve profitability.What's more, the film is not without the elements of the audience's "love to hear and see", Simon is still very impressed with Julian Moore's memory in the memory.

Simon is immersed in the script of "Intersection of Life", there is a sound in the living room, and it hasn't been time to get up. Janet, who wore a beautiful black evening dress, floated in from outside, apparently drinking and cheating Red fluttering, he rushed into Simon's arms.

Simon embraced the woman spoiledly, nodded to Sophia Fissi, who followed her with a women's trench coat, and then he girdled Janet horizontally, and went to the bedroom to take a shower as the woman intended.

After some tossing and putting Janet in the bath and changing her pajamas on the big bed, it was already over ten o'clock.

Simon did not have much drowsiness, so he planned to read the script of "The Crossing of Life".

Coming to the living room, it was found that Sofia was sitting in his original position. The woman had put on a very homely loose sweater and rest pants, lazily curled up on the sofa lazily, holding a script in her hand, Another sample is already playing on the TV.

Sofia didn't seem to expect Simon to appear again, and Simon wanted to get up. Simon had waved his hand and said, "You continue, I just come to get a script."

Listening to Simon's words, Sofia really relaxed immediately and changed her posture without any trace.

The coffee table, which had been spread out with some scripts and video tapes, was obviously cleared up. Simon rummaging through the carton for a moment before looking up at the woman on the sofa, pointing to the script in her hand: " "?"

Sophia Facie nodded: "Well."

Simon stood up and reached out to the woman.

Instead of handing over the script, Sofia held it in her arms and looked up at Simon, saying, "Boss, don't you like me living in your house?"

Simon looked at the woman on the sofa with a charming and familiar breath, and stepped forward slightly, provoking the woman's chin to caress like a delicate porcelain, saying, "I'm just afraid I won't be able to bear it, I think I will easily become an indulgent person."

Sofia obviously didn't expect Simon's movements. If it was another man, she might have slapped it, but, looking up at the young and handsome face, her mind haunted the wealth and power possessed by the young man. He failed to give birth to resistance, but became a bit soft.

A moment later, Sophia finally raised some strength, feeling the fingers still rubbing his face, and said softly: "You can't do this."

Simon withdrew his hand and pulled the script from the woman's arms and said, "Go to bed early."

Sofia didn't expect Simon to be so simple, and suddenly lost her heart. Seeing that the man had turned around and walked out, she pursed her lips and waited until the man had walked to the door before saying, "I have something to discuss with you."

Simon stopped and turned and looked over: "Huh?"

Sofia dodged the man's eyes for a moment, and then said after a while: "I will take care of those European properties. But beyond that, I hope to do something more."

Simon simply leaned on the door frame and said, "You can actually talk to Jenny about this kind of thing."

"Jenny didn't care about it," Sophia looked at Simon and said, "And, it's easier to discuss with you."

"Okay, what do you want to do?"

"I have studied the LVMH Group that Bernard Arnott just integrated last year," Sofia said, and without seeing the daze from Simon's eyes, I continued: "I want to start with red wine."

"Lu Wei Mo Xuan," Simon smiled, standing on the spot and carefully looked at the woman on the sofa, said: "I like ambitious women, but you think that Lu Wei Mo Xuan is the goal of struggle. Does it make sense?"

Many people know Louis Vuitton, Hennessy, Dior, Tiffany, but they do not know that these luxury brands belong to a huge luxury empire, Louis Vuitton.The founder of LVMH, Bernard Arnott, has also been on the forefront of the Forbes rich list many times with LVMH.

The LVMH Group was just integrated by Louis Vuitton and some other luxury brands last year. It is not as powerful as it was later, but this is not something anyone can easily reach.

Sophia's eyes didn't show any guilty conscience, but instead raised her face again, saying: "Do not let me try, how do you know?"

Simon said: "What if it fails?"

Sophia's tone seemed a little more straightforward: "Failure, I will continue to be your butler."

"Do you think I treat women so generously?"

"You are very generous with your woman, even indulging," Sophia looked at Simon and said, "I can do this."

"Oh, prove it to me."

Sofia thought without hesitation: "You support what I want to do, shares, options and even salary, I don't want anything, you can take everything at any time, let me become nothing, can this prove?"

"Very good," Simon nodded. "The Lyon credit should have more than 20 million dollars left after paying all the expenses."

"$26.73 million."

"Well, it seems that you have already begun to calculate," Simon said with a smile. "This money should be used as your starting capital. Let me see how you do it. I will consider adding it."

Simon finished, without asking too much, turned and left the living room.

The last month of 1988 arrived in a flash.

Friday, December 2.

In the past week, the box office of "Magnolia Orchid", which opened the second week of large-scale paintings, has fallen like the previous three days on the weekend. It is still controlled at about 5%, and it will receive another 12.15 million US dollars in seven days the following week, stabilizing the single-week box office. Champion throne.

In two weeks' time, the cumulative box office of "Steel Magnolia" has reached 28.82 million US dollars.

After "Steel Magnolia", the fifth week of "Scream" finally showed a larger box office decline. Compared with last week, the box office fell 27% and received another 8.76 million US dollars because there are no strong new films this week. Released, the film is still ranked second in the list.

Moreover, the cumulative box office of "Scream" has reached 73.37 million US dollars in five weeks.

Considering that there will be a certain rebound at the box office of the next Christmas film, the North American box office of "Scream" will be enough to break through 100 million in up to four weeks. The total box office of the film is expected to reach 120 million to 130 million US dollars. between.

Relative to the red box office in "Scream", the most exciting thing is that Daenerys Entertainment got the film's first settlement share this week.

Daenerys Entertainment previously signed contracts with the Seventh Congress on films such as "When Harry Meets Sally", "Instinct" and "Pulp Fiction". The company can only get its own application after the film is downgraded in North America. Get the share.

Therefore, the "Pulp Fiction" and "Instinct" companies that have been downgraded in November will only be able to settle the final box office revenue this month.

However, for the self-released film "Scream", Daenerys Entertainment will naturally no longer allow the cinema line to drag down to the bottom of the film to settle the share, but instead adopted a monthly basis in the original contract Settlement contract.

The cumulative box office for the first four weeks of "Scream" is $60.51 million.

According to the original agreement, the share that Daenerys Entertainment can get from the cinema line is at a frequency of 10% decrement every two weeks. After removing the operating costs of the cinema's hydropower, sanitation, property, etc., in the first week of the company and In the second week, you can get 90% of the remaining share of the share of income.In the third and fourth weeks, the share was reduced to 80%.By analogy, it will not drop again until the lowest 20% share ratio.

After auditing, Da Ni Li Si Entertainment obtained the share from the theater line in the previous four weeks equivalent to 71% of the total box office ratio, and finally it was 46.15 million US dollars.

This $46.15 million box office share is equivalent to Daenerys Entertainment’s more than 100% profit from the "Scream" project.Moreover, the settlement of this money also indicates that Daenerys Entertainment has started a company's healthy cash flow process.

Prior to this, Daenerys Entertainment mainly relied on last year's $100 million loan, the buyout share of "The Grim Reaper" and "When Harry Meets Sally", "Who Will Become a Millionaire", etc. The pre-payments of the reality show and Westeros’ cash transfers and other funding sources remain in operation.

Although there is no shortage of money, the company can also obtain loans from the bank at any time, but such operations always give people the illusion that the capital chain may break at any time.

Now, the settlement of "Scream" can even be said to be the beginning.

Because this December is completely the harvest season for Daenerys Entertainment.

Next, the settlement of "Instinct" and "Pulp Fiction" will also arrive. With the arrival of the winter break, the new stage of several reality shows such as "Who will become a millionaire" and "Survivor" will also be paid. Will pay, Daenerys Entertainment will also release a video of "When Harry Meets Sally" during Christmas, which will bring continuous cash to the company.

It can be said that with the flow of funds into a sustainable and healthy development turntable, the operation of Daenerys Entertainment will therefore be completely on track.