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"Simon, since you didn't feel the story just now, what about this: Danny is a majestic policeman outside, but he was like a mouse that saw a cat in front of his harsh and fierce mother since he was a child. One day on duty In the middle, Danny met her favorite girl Theresa, and the two quickly fell in love. However, Danny was very worried that her mother would be dissatisfied with Theresa, and she seemed to be cautious about everything with her girlfriend, so she broke out. A series of jokes."

In the office.

John Hughes temporarily gave Simon a few story ideas, and Simon has never expressed his position.

After John Hughes introduced another idea, the two discussed a few words. Simon pretended to be unintentional: "John, I think the box office performance should be very good, so you thought about making a more pure children's film. ?"

John Hughes seemed to think of some terrible scene and shook his head: "Simon, children's films have always been the restricted area of ​​Hollywood. I experienced this very deeply during the shooting process. The little guys tossed me It’s choking, sometimes I want to change people. So, I really don’t want to go through the second time."

Tell the story of the Russell couples who had to temporarily hand over their three children to their bachelor brother Buck Russell because of some family changes.

According to the original agreement, under the sole responsibility of John Hughes, Simon did not pay much attention to the production process, and did not expect such entanglement.

As we all know, children and animals are the two most difficult elements in Hollywood movies.

Simon heard John Hughes say this, and also understood why he failed to regenerate his thoughts.

Originally, John Hughes should be very happy to work with the three small actors in the sky, especially McCaury Calkin left a deep impression on him, and this was followed by the birth.However, in the new version, the three small actors are no longer the original actors, and John Hughes caused a lot of trouble in the shooting process.In a bad mood, the filmmaker naturally has a hard time contemplating another children's film.

Confirmed that it was completely fanned out, Simon no longer turned around and said, "In fact, it is a children's film idea that I produced after watching the sample. John, I think this project is very suitable for your style, and the few you just introduced Creativity also gave me some other inspiration, like the story of a pair of young men and women who met two thieves during a vigil in a convenience store. So, how about making another children’s film, if you don’t want to be a director, you can let others Come in charge, you can refer to the salary plan you get in this project. However, this time Daenerys Entertainment also needs to participate in the project decision, especially the casting of actors."

The contract negotiated by the two parties, John Hughes received a salary of 5 million US dollars as a writer, director and producer in the triple role of a basic salary plus 0% of the North American box office.

John Hughes is a very smart person.

Simon Westero was inspired by his film, which is also Simon Westero's idea.Looking at the box office results of Simon Westero's films in recent years, only the recent box office in North America has rushed to $300 million.

What's more, you can also refer to the $5 million base salary plus a 0% North American box office share. John Hughes is not a strong director. He knows that he is just a movie businessman, so he can't think of any reason for rejection.

"So, Simon, can you explain your idea in more detail?"

Seeing that John Hughes agreed with almost no hesitation, Simon also began to elaborate the general plot.

As for the reassignment of this project to John Hughes, and maintaining the $5 million base salary plus 0% of the North American box office share program, Simon is also not afraid.

John Hughes as the main creator can ensure the new version of the "authentic" to the greatest extent.Moreover, if the new version can achieve the stunning box office results of more than US$200 million in North America, as in the original time and space, John Hughes is also fully qualified to take the salary of US$30 million.

Speaking of which, this decision was also influenced by Simon’s recent change of concept.

The reason is actually similar to the recent 0 foreign cooperation film plan. If you blindly pursue maximum profits, the profits will all fall into the Daenerys entertainment pocket, and Hollywood filmmakers will not have much incentive to engage with Daenerys again. Entertainment cooperation.

The two discussed for about an hour, and the meeting ended.

John Hughes then decided to continue to stay in Los Angeles for a week, in order to continue to communicate with Simon, first write the outline of the story.

After the weekend, after some detailed consultations, Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures jointly held a press conference and announced the first project in the 0 film plan.

It is an original novel of the same name completed by a female writer named Nancy Price in 1997. After the novel was listed, its popularity and sales were not large. The script department of Fox Pictures won at a low price of 50,000 US dollars. After the right of adaptation, it has been shelved.

After the announcement of this project, the obscure original novel immediately attracted a lot of media attention. The sales of the novel increased sharply for a time, and the publisher had to urgently print it.

Immediately after that, on Wednesday, the 6th.

Daenerys Entertainment and Disney Company jointly held another press conference, announcing the second project in the 0 movie plan, the new project is named, this is a classic classic thriller in Simon’s memory, about a family The housewife pretended to be a nanny and retaliated against the story of the family that caused her family tragedy after her husband committed suicide and aborted again.

Similarly, the reputation is also very low, and this is also a script written by a female screenwriter named Amanda Silver.

The difference is that there is no original novel, but an original script.

Coupled with the confidentiality measures taken specifically by Daenerys Entertainment and Disney, this time the media can only roughly guess the content of the story based on some scattered information.

The reason why the two scripts are not famous is not accidental.

Those copyrights that are well-known and highly valued by various film companies are generally not used to share with Daenerys Entertainment, just as Simon will not invest in other studios that have quietly established projects.Most of the items that can be sent to Simon are projects with little reputation or uncertain prospects.

The following month and day, Friday.

Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures held the third press conference, announcing the third movie in the 0 movie plan, which is also another'blockbuster' expected by Simon, named.

The story is adapted from a TV series owned by Warner Bros. It tells the story of a surgeon's wife who was killed and framed after trying to resolve the grievances.

Originally in time and space, starring Harrison Ford, the global box office exceeded 360 million US dollars.However, compared with the next two projects in the next year's schedule, Simon also told Warner from the beginning that this project will start shooting next year, the earliest schedule is arranged in the summer of 1999.

Because, according to Simon's plan, the 990 year schedule is too crowded.

It is confirmed that in the 990 box office blockbuster in Simon's memory, Daenerys Entertainment accounted for five, namely,,, and.

Daenerys Entertainment's established plan will be released during Valentine's Day in February next year, and the schedule for Harmony is next summer, and the schedule for Harmony is the end of next year.

If you start production now, because this is a big budget movie, unlike that, you can quickly prepare for it and start shooting quickly. The schedule can only be arranged at the end of next year. This will be in conflict with two movies with a box office potential of 200 million. .

The North American box office in memory exceeds $100 million, which is considered to be 200 million.If the three box office blockbusters are crowded at the end of the year at the same time, it will only result in three defeats. Simon confirmed that the end of the era of this era can not accommodate three local box office movies of 200 million.

What's more, the corresponding schedule is certainly not only these three movies, so competition will only become more intense.

Warner understands Simon's decision, but still hopes to announce the news immediately, because it will be a good news for Warner and can boost the stock price.

After Paramount made a sudden move in June to disturb the exchange and merger agreement that Time Company and Warner Bros. were about to negotiate, the originally agreed plan is now completely null and void.As long as Paramount can win a lawsuit to prevent the merger of Time and Warner, the two sides also need to renegotiate the merger plan.

Time Company has also proposed a new cash and stock merger and acquisition plan, but the specific price has not been completely finalized.

Now that Warner’s share price is up one more point, Time Company will then need to pay one more point.

This is indeed the case, and it was announced that Warner Bros.’s stock rose significantly by 2.% before the afternoon close.

At the same time that Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures' third film cooperation plan was announced, the box office data for the new week from the end of the North American summer file to the 7th of the month was also officially released.

John Hughes personally wrote and directed the screen. He opened 202 screens and made a total of 6.94 million dollars at the box office in the first week, ranking first.

Although the museums around $1,000 have not reached the hot sale level, they are still in line with expectations.With a box office close to US$7 million, the total box office in North America should be able to reach between US$50 million and US$70 million. The original forecast of Daenerys Entertainment was quite similar, which was also in line with the previous box office level of Hughes movies.

Counting the initial salary of $5 million that John Hughes took away, the production budget of the film is only $5 million, although Hughes will have to pay another $5 million to $7 million at the box office. The box office is also sufficient to achieve profitability.

It is also the second place in the seventh week of the release of Daenerys Entertainment's release, and it received another $670,000.

At the same time, the total box office of this phenomenal horror movie in North America officially broke through the $200 million mark, reaching $200.6 million.

Although the start of a family comedy starring Steve Martin in Universal Studios is not obvious, the weekly box office champion has not been obtained, but the box office curve has gone very beautifully. This week's decline is only 22%, and the painting has entered the fourth Zhou received another US$660,000, and the total box office of the film unconsciously has reached US$47.32 million.

New Line Pictures opened this week with a scale of 902 screens, and reached $0, 000 at the box office in the first week, lagging behind with a slight disadvantage, ranking fourth in the list.

James Cameron's release fell 39% in the second week of the show, closing at only $0.69 million. The two-week box office totaled $2.22 million, ranking fifth.The film was hopeless, and a lot of executives at Fox Pictures continued to feel bad.

In addition to the top five on the list, all other popular movies in the summer file have entered the final stage.

The North American box office exceeded 200 million US dollars, and it is also clearly expected to hit the 300 million US dollar mark, making the three movie projects announced by the three partners of Daenerys Entertainment and Hollywood highly concerned.

In fact, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com Simon has identified more than these three projects. For example, Fox has started contact with the copyright side, and there is a project of Columbia Pictures.Colombian subsidiary Samsung Pictures decisively abandoned Matthew Broderick some time ago, and Simon is not indifferent.

However, Sony's acquisition negotiations for Colombia have not been completely finalized.Compared with the mergers and acquisitions of Time and Warner, because all aspects have begun to close, in recent years, Colombia’s sluggish performance has no other competitors jumped out to compete with Sony, this acquisition is almost a finale.Sony has now begun to take over all aspects of the operation of Columbia Pictures. The decision to abandon Matthew Broderick is the Japanese pressure to take over.

After Daenerys Entertainment communicated Simon’s selected project with Colombia, the Sony negotiating team hoped that Daenerys Entertainment would postpone the publication of the results so that Simon’s fancy project would serve as a “starter” after Sony won Colombia. Dan Nellis Entertainment naturally does not mind cooperation.

While various film companies began to invest their energy in various projects, many talent agencies in Hollywood began to spoil them.

Of course, except for AA.

From the beginning of the second half of last year, Daenerys Entertainment started to produce discords. During the year, many key projects produced by Daenerys Entertainment did not have AA stars at all.For the two projects during the summer, the actor Kevin Costner is an artist under I, and the actress Whitney Houston's actor film was signed by industry A.As for Robert De Niro, all the leading actors should also be A's customers.

This situation was originally nothing.

AA's stars are not short of films.

However, with the announcement of Daenerys Entertainment's 0 foreign cooperation movie plan, AA felt very obvious pressure.