Hollywood Hunter

Normally, since the next day is a working day, Sunday is not a good time to hold a party.

However, today's situation is somewhat special.

Warner Bros. Pictures opened its fifth week of "Fatal Weapon 2". After two days of release on Friday and Saturday, the total box office in North America officially exceeded 100 million US dollars, so the celebration party of this film was specially arranged today.

Because "Fatal Weapon 2" is the first home-grown film of Warner Bros. Films with a million-dollar box office five years after the release of "The Elf" directed by Joe Dante in 984, this time at the Beverly Hills Hilton The celebration party was very grand, and Warner Brothers helm Steve Rose still took the time to come to Los Angeles at the most fierce moment of the entangled M&A lawsuit between Time Company, Warner Brothers and Paramount Communications.

More than that, it is said that at noon today at the banquet for the "Lethal Weapon 2" creative team, Steve Rose also rewarded a main creator with an expensive sports car per person, and personally handed the key to everyone.

The generous character of Steve Rose is indeed the reason why Warner Bros. can win over a group of top filmmakers to cooperate with it.'Old Cowboy' Clint Eastwood has exclusively filmed for the Warner Brothers in the last ten years. Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Cher and other famous Hollywood filmmakers have also collaborated with Ross Intersect Mobi.

Simon also couldn't continue to refuse after receiving two enthusiastic invitation calls from Steve Rose, and had to agree to join the party tonight.

After the announcement of Daenerys Entertainment's 0 foreign cooperation movie plan, Simon does not know whether he has become the most powerful person in Hollywood, but he has definitely been the one with the most invitations in Hollywood recently.Just look at the grand celebration of Warner Bros. for the film after the "lethal weapon 2" box office sale, it is not difficult to understand why Hollywood is so fanatical about Simon.

The box office performance made Warner Brothers overjoyed "Deadly Weapons 2", and it is expected that the total box office in North America may not reach half of "Sixth Sense of Spirit".

Because of the requirements of Simon’s partners to provide scripts actively, the seven major Hollywood studios, mainstream second- and third-tier film companies, top producers in the circle, and even major talent agency companies all sent large numbers of scripts to Danny. Lisi entertainment here.

These days, no matter where he is, Simon almost always has a stack of scripts on hand waiting to be read.

Daenerys Entertainment’s next year’s “The Ghost Story is Gone”, “Wind Moon Beauty”, “Dancing with the Wolf”, “Ninja Turtles” and other films have been roughly identified. However, with the The news broke, and various talent agencies and Hollywood stars, big and small, were also boiling.

0 movies naturally means a lot of opportunities.

The ability of Daenerys to entertain a series of movies as a popular actress is obvious to all. Second- and third-line actors are crazy about these opportunities that may promote themselves to the first line. Even if they are first-line top stars, the plan to face these 0 movies cannot be calm. .

Hollywood’s resources are ultimately limited, and the latecomers will be promoted to the front line, but the opportunities will not increase. The original first-line stars will inevitably decline.

In the banquet hall of the Hilton Hotel.

When Simon showed up, all the guests' eyes were like the compasses of countless powerful magnets, all converging on the young man at the door.

Steve Rose greeted him with some people for the first time. Although he knew that it would be inappropriate to invite Simon, a young man destined to be the focus of the audience, to come over today. Rose was also helpless. He will fly to the special tomorrow In the short term, Lahua can't squeeze out Simon at another time.

"Simon, I'm so happy to see you again," Hug enthusiastically embraced Simon, and Rose teased again: "Why are you alone, but it doesn't matter, just find a female partner."

After Simon and Ross hugged and said hello, "How about you, Steve, how are you doing?"

"You know, if you can, I would love to play Martin Davis.

Simon smiled: "Then he can't beat you."

Rose also laughed, patted Simon on the shoulder, and looked at the others: "Everyone you know, um, this is Barbara, she just wanted me to help recommend it."

Simon nodded to Terry Semel, Mel Gibson, Joe Percy, and Richard Donner, director of "Deadly Weapon 2", and shook hands with Barbara Streisand, mentioned by Roster Start, said: "Hello, Ms. Sui Shanshan."

Barbara Streisand shook hands with Simon enthusiastically and said, "Just call me Barbara, Simon."

"Of course, Barbara."

Everyone chatted a few words, and Mel Gibson and others regrouped the party crowd.

Steve Rose took Simon to the dining table in the corner of the hall, beckoned the waiter to serve the two of them, and said: "I called George Kirgo in the afternoon. Simon, GA targeted Daenerys. Entertainment’s investigative farce should stop here. You will get people in touch with you tomorrow, and it will be settled soon."

Simon no longer worried about GA's investigation, but he nodded affectionately and said, "Thank you, Steve. Speaking, how is the outcome of this lawsuit?"

What Simon said was naturally a dispute over the merger and acquisition of the three companies.

Paramount suddenly issued an acquisition quotation to Time Company in the month, disrupting the upcoming merger of Time Company and Warner Bros. After a firm boycott by Time Company, Paramount pushed this matter up in a paper suit. The Delaware Federal Court requested the court to stop the merger of Time Corporation and Warner Bros.

As we all know, due to tax avoidance and other considerations, many large North American companies are registered in Delaware.

Simon is concerned about the information. In order to resist the offer made by Paramount, Time Company has recently adjusted the Warner Bros. share swap and merger program to a combination of stock and cash.

Steve Rose heard Simon’s question and showed a confident expression on his face, saying: “The verdict will come out next month, and it’s not a big problem.”

"So, I want to congratulate you for being the head of Hollywood's largest media company."

Steve Rose smiled and raised a glass to Simon, and he was very proud.

As far as the current situation is concerned, this lawsuit is being entangled, because Time's resistance is too strong, Paramount is almost destined to return.

Moreover, because of this lawsuit, although the merger of Time Company and Warner Bros. had setbacks, the Warner Bros. led by Steve Rose unexpectedly gained more benefits.Not only did Time’s offer to Warner increase, but the senior executives of Time, which was originally an acquirer, sought to cooperate with Warner in order to avoid the fate of being acquired, and recently made great concessions in the distribution of power in the new company in the future.

Now, although Warner Brothers is still the nominal acquiree, it has actually occupied the leading position in the merger and acquisition of Time Company and Warner Brothers.

Steve Rose is a person who likes to discuss company management and business negotiation skills with people around him. He continues to reveal to Simon some of the current progress of the acquisition.

The two chatted enthusiastically for more than ten minutes before the veteran Hollywood tycoon entered the topic and asked: "Simon, Daenerys Entertainment's 0 movie, how do you plan to arrange it?"

Simon is reminiscing about the insider of some of the mergers and acquisitions that Rose has just talked about, and if he understands.He has been paying attention to this merger and acquisition case, hoping to gain some experience about his future layout, and Ross's personal explanation has given him a deeper understanding of this merger and acquisition case.

Time Inc., Warner Bros. and Paramount Communications are all listed companies. However, it is not the shareholders of the three companies that promote this progress, but the management of each company for their own benefit.

Therefore, the lawsuit initiated by Paramount Communications in order to protect the interests of the shareholders of the company of the times was wrong in the beginning.The management of the era company with decision-making power does not care whether shareholders can get more than one billion two billion US dollars. What they are looking at is whether their tens of millions of dollars of income are maintained and their control of the company. .

When Rose asked about the 0 movies, he temporarily withdrew his thoughts and smiled bitterly: "Too many scripts have been received recently, Steve. Seriously, I was still reading the scripts in the car I just came here. The key to the specific arrangement is the quality of the script."

"Simon, I have seen the samples of "Batman" in the afternoon, which is really amazing. Although neither "Flyover Childhood" and "Batman" have been released yet, I believe we will definitely have a very pleasant collaboration. So, 0 Warner also asked too many movies. How about two more films?"

"I'm also looking forward to continuing to work with Warner, Steve, but, you know, this requires a suitable project."

"I understand, Simon. Warner's copyright library is still very rich, you can choose at will. In addition, if you fancy any other script, tell Terry that he will do everything possible to get it. And, I know Dan Niris Entertainment also reserves a lot of copyrights, if you are willing to take it out to cooperate with Warner, even if the conditions are more compressed, we can accept it."

Simon has actually seen the first batch of scripts that Warner sent to him, and roughly confirmed the goal.

However, the dispute with GA has not yet settled, and out of caution, Simon is not in a hurry to announce several projects that he has already fancy.

Feeling that Rose was still staring at himself brightly, and he refused to give up without getting the right words, pretending to hesitate for a moment, Simon finally said: "I can only say, Steve, there will definitely be Warner in these 0 movies. I can’t be sure of the number of places. In addition, even if we can’t cooperate on these 0 projects, you know that Daenerys and Warner will definitely continue to develop the sequel to Batman, since you have watched After the sample, I think I must have such confidence."

What Steve Rose wanted tonight was Simon's sentence.

Warner and Daenerys are already working on two films, and Rose also sees Simon’s intention to make this decision a few days ago, so he is a little worried that the young man in front of him will give the opportunity to other film companies.Rose actually thought of "Batman", even "Superman" and "Wonder Woman".

However, the cooperation project with Daenerys Entertainment is naturally more beneficial...

"In this case, then, enjoy the party tonight," Steve Rose lifted his champagne to Simon and raised his toast with the promise he wanted. "I already feel a lot of eyes." It's taking too much time to be cruel to me."

Simon stood up and saw Steve Ross leave, just about to eat something, and Jonathan Friedman snatched up before everyone's actions and opened the door: "Simon, did you pick out the project?"