Hollywood Hunter

Santa Monica Airport.

The time is September 18, Monday afternoon.

Nancy Brill stood beside the airport runway with two other bodyguards who drove over to pick them up.

Gulfstream IV landed and the cabin door opened. Nancy saw Simon and two other beautiful women who were so high that she could not catch her. They laughed and walked off the plane. One of the women wearing a navel T-shirt and denim hot pants was still intimate. The ground was holding Simon's arm, and the two long legs exposed outside dazzled.

As the three approached, Simon was a little surprised about Nancy's appearance, and he still smiled and introduced the women around him: "Nancy, this is Ella, and this is Jerry."

Ella McPherson was a little curious about the still petite woman who stepped on the hate and didn’t quite understand what Nancy was. She released Simon’s arm and politely shook hands to introduce her, and Jerry Hall also stepped forward. call.After the three girls chatted a few words, Simon said to Ella McPherson and Jerry Hall: "There is still work, how about letting you send you back first?"

"Okay," Ella McPherson responded with a smile, and leaned in to hug Simon and kissed again, "It's a great weekend, Simon, I hope there will be a chance next time."

"Sure."

Simon patted the woman's slender waist, and hugged with Jerry Hall, and ordered Neil Bennett to drive the two women away.

Sending the two women away, Simon and Nancy got into another car.

The black luxury Mercedes-Benz drove out of the airport, and Simon asked Nancy, who was still looking at him with strange eyes: "I am so anxious to get me back, what's going on at Alista Records?"

Instead of rushing to answer, Nancy asked, "You, with those two women, together?"

Simon smiled and raised his hand over Nancy's head, scratching his chest and laughing, "Envy?"

Nancy sees Simon joking about her height, apparently shifting the subject, and criticizes unkindly: "Humanity."

Then he gave the man a threat.

Simon immediately "retired" and lowered his voice: "Help me keep it secret and give you processing resources."

Nancy disdain: "This is your private business, I will not gossip. Um, but, Ella McPherson is just fine, that, that Jerry Hall, it seems... who seems to be here?" "

Simon interrupted Nancy's thinking and smiled and aggravated the bargaining chip: "Give twice the salary."

Nancy rolled her eyes, no longer entangled in this matter, but did not forget to add another sentence: "Ridiculous man."

Simon folded his expression and said, "Well, to tell the truth, I had planned to come back tomorrow morning."

The night before yesterday, I went to a party at the Jonathan's house. Simon left two women afterwards.

The two worlds were human, and Simon never intended to treat himself badly in such things, and he didn't care what other people would think.The fancy woman, as long as there is a chance to eat, it will not be missed.

Recently, the paparazzi around me are too close to chase, and I don’t want to be bothered by the messy things. I inquired about it and borrowed a vacation villa with a private beach on Lanai, Hawaii. A woman flew over and played happily day and night.

I have to say that the four long legs are really tangled up.

Ben was reluctant to come back tomorrow. Los Angeles had several consecutive calls and had to return early.

Simon felt that if it was only the company's business, he would never burn his eyebrows in such a hurry.

There is probably a "hand behind the scenes" behind the incident.

Ok.

For example, a female assistant who likes to be jealous.

Simon certainly wouldn't tell Jennifer about this, but women probably have an instinctive instinct for such things.

Nancy disregarded Simon’s private affairs and took out a stack of documents from her shoulder bag and handed it over, saying: "According to the contract we signed with Alistar Records, the revenue of the original sound recording is settled every three months, and the record is June 5. On the shelves, the first income settlement should be ended on September 3,

Simon looked at the information Nancy handed over and asked, "What then?"

"When the person in charge on our side asked for settlement, Alistar Records President Clive Davis has been trying to shirk, hoping to change the contract terms to settle in each quarter of the natural year, saying this is convenient for Alistar The record was audited financially. Although it was all three months, Alistar Records was obviously only delaying the payment. I personally communicated with Clive Davis and tossed for two weeks until it was close to work last Friday Alistar Records only sent the statistical accounting report, saying that it would take another week for the funds to be transferred."

Nancy said, reaching over and flipping the documents in front of Simon a few times, saying: "That's it. 12.16 million album sales, according to the original agreement, the share we should get should be more than 30 million US dollars, Allista The record only gave us $23.19 million. This is too much. Clive Davis probably counted all the expenses of their company in the past few months in the cost of the original record."

Simon had some understanding of the record industry very early.

For those singers who want to come forward, the production and distribution costs of the record are indeed a big expense. Some unknown singers can do almost anything to get the record company to help themselves release the record.

However, once the record is a big success, the profit is also very rich.

For hot-selling records, the gross profit that the record company can obtain from each record will not be less than 50% of the selling price. Like the soundtrack, such phenomenally popular records, because the sales volume is large and the cost is diluted, the profit margin is higher.

The original contract signed between Daenerys Entertainment and Alistar Records was that both parties each received 50% of the gross profit of the original record, which is precisely the revenue from record shipments minus expenditures on production, marketing, distribution, and singer sharing. Both parties divide the remaining profit before tax by 50%.

In just three months of sales, the local sales of the original soundtrack reached 12.16 million copies, with sales exceeding US$120 million.According to industry practice, Daenerys Entertainment’s expected share revenue should indeed not be less than $30 million.

Simon was not surprised that Alistar Records did this.

A low-cost movie with a production cost of 5 million in Hollywood sold 300 million globally, but it was still calculated as a loss by the film company and refused to pay the main share. Arista Records included a large amount of other expenses in the report. The way to dilute profits is completely the rest of Hollywood play.

Just turned a few pages, Simon closed the report and asked Nancy: "Have you talked to Clive Davis?"

"I went to Burbank this morning, and Clive Davis insisted that there was nothing wrong with this report. I asked for a financial review. He said that if we had to do this, it might affect the subsequent release of the original soundtrack. Simon , He is threatening us."

The expected global sales of acoustic records are between 40 million and 50 million copies. According to current sales data, there is at least 10 million copies of sales potential in North America, and overseas has basically not been released to match the release of the film.

The success of the film was largely stimulated by the success of the original sound recording, and everyone knew it.Clive Davis said this, and it was indeed a clear threat.Daenerys Entertainment does not yet have the ability to publish a blockbuster record alone, let alone a worldwide distribution.By comparison, Alistar Records is backed by the German Bertelsmann Music Group and has a comprehensive global distribution network.

If the two sides are in a stalemate, as long as Alistar Records'passes on the negative' in the subsequent release of this record, it is not only the sales of the record, but the overseas box office of the movie will also be seriously affected.

Clive Davis dared to engulf Daenerys Entertainment's deserved score, that is, the distribution of the original sound recording must rely on Alista Records and the entire Bertelsmann Music Group's global distribution channels.

However, Clive Davis may think that Daenerys Entertainment can only swallow this dumb loss in order to ensure the overseas distribution of the film and the subsequent sales of the original soundtrack of the film, but he ignored one thing. Daenerys Entertainment does Very fancy all aspects of the benefits, however, for Alistar Records, this original record is also very important.

After all, the only singer currently under the control of Alistar Records is Whitney Houston. The soundtrack is a phenomenal hit record. Although Alistar Records only accounts for half of the revenue, it is enough to support this. Most of the record companies' performance over the next year or two.

However, for Daenerys Entertainment, even if there is no profit, a large number of other selling projects can still bring huge profits to the company.

The most important thing is that Daenerys Entertainment now has a lot of projects in cooperation with other Hollywood studios. If Simon chooses to be patient in this matter, other studios will only follow suit in the future.

Santa Monica Airport is not far from Daenerys Entertainment Headquarters and the two arrived quickly.

Outside Simon’s office, the female assistant was busy sitting behind the desk in the outside room. Seeing Simon and Nancy appearing, they greeted each other casually, but with a little care in their eyes.

Simon also pretended to order Jennifer to prepare two cups of coffee casually, then went into the office with Nancy and sat down, asking, "What are you going to do?"

Nancy sat across from Simon’s desk and said, “We share the copyright of the original sound record with Alistar Records. If I were to decide, I would immediately suspend all publication and sales of this record until the dispute between the two parties was resolved. However, this will have a great impact on the subsequent release of this record, including the overseas release of the film. The last two months have happened to be the time for intensive overseas releases. Several major overseas ticket warehouse countries such as the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy have opened The painting, France, East Germany and Japan will also be released next month, which all need to cooperate with the sale of acoustic records. So, Simon, it is up to you to decide what to do."

"Then pause," Simon said without hesitation: "Moreover, this matter can't be just a matter of retrieving the scores engulfed by Alistar Records. How much they swallowed, they spit it out and counted it as a punishment. The cost of making a mistake Low, without lessons, some people will easily forget, and will continue to do so next time."

Nancy looked at her boss uncertainly. She originally wanted Alistar to spit out the swallowed parts as soon as possible. The method of suspending the sale of records was already very tough. She did not expect Simon to do even better.

Alistar has swallowed at least US$7 million this time, and now not only has to return all of it, but also to give another US$7 million in compensation.It should be known that if there is no big explosion, Alistar Records, a small household with a small door, may have a net profit of only 20-30 million US dollars in the past year.7 million is definitely a lot of money for Alistar Records.

After a pause, Nancy asked, "Simon, are you sure you want to do this?"

"Of course, we have so many projects with the Seventh Congress. If this time is not tough enough, you should be able to imagine how many similar troubles we will face in the future. This is also a warning to other collaborators if they think they have grasped something. The chips just want to threaten Daenerys, I don’t mind turning the table directly."

Nancy was also a strong woman in her heart. Since the boss had fixed her attention, she stopped persuading and hurriedly left.

As soon as Nancy left, Jennifer sent several documents: "This is the announcement plan. Mr. Rem passed it in the morning. The initial budget is 25 million US dollars. Also, this is a few important supporting actors. List; Mr. Deichman returned from Venice yesterday afternoon. He selected three films at this year’s Venice Film Festival. This is the information..."

Simon watched the female assistant introduce him to the stack of documents one by one, smiled and picked up the Xuanfa plan, and said, "I'm such a lucky guy. Without Jenny, Westeros' life must be a mess."

When Jennifer heard the words, he relaxed some of the official business expressions, staring at the man opposite him, with a slight entanglement in his tone: "Which Jenny are you talking about?"

Simon decisively said: "Of course it is Jenny standing opposite me."

The female assistant grunted, stopped running against Simon, put away the coffee cups that he and Nancy had just drank, and turned back from the office with a pony tail.

Burbank.

In the morning, Nancy Brill was sent away. Alista Records President Clive Davis was still wondering how to intercept the profits of more original records in overseas releases. Unexpectedly, the little woman a few hours later Just come home again.

Now that he is sure to engulf the soundtrack's share, Clive Davis has not expected to have another chance to collaborate with Daenerys Entertainment.

Although Daenerys Entertainment has repeatedly created miracles in the film industry, in the field of recording, a phenomenon-level big-selling work that is enough to squeeze into the top ten in the history of the best-selling album list, it is definitely not something that can appear casually. .

The record industry is as variable as the movie. Even if it is a top-tier singer, the global sales of the previous record exceeded 20 million, and the sales of the next record may be only four or five million. Clive Davis There is no lack of long-term vision, but he can be sure that a big-selling album such as an original sound record does not necessarily appear in about ten or eight years. The expected sales of more than 40 million copies in the world represent too much interest, even if you give up With the potential cooperation with Daenerys Entertainment in the future, he still decided to get the benefits of this time first.

Having made up his mind, Clive Davis still politely welcomed Nancy Brill into the office with a smile.

However, Nancy Brill did not sit down this time, and the words almost made Clive Davis jump from the office chair.

"Mr. Davis, because Alista Records breached the contract first, Daenerys Entertainment decided to suspend the worldwide distribution and sales of acoustic records. We have notified the record production plant to temporarily suspend shipment. The overseas promotion and sales of the record will also be suspended until the differences between our two sides are resolved. As the copyright sharer of the original sound record, Daenerys Entertainment has the above powers. If Alista Records continues to forcefully promote the record related to this record For any work, Daenerys Entertainment will apply to the Recording Association of America and the Federal Court of Los Angeles for enforcement. In addition, Daenerys Entertainment will also make a claim against Alistar Records for this breach of contract."