Hollywood Hunter

Simon is in a duplex apartment on Fifth Avenue in the Upper East Side.

Continuously tossing and going, and entertaining late into the night last night, Simon still got up at 6 o'clock in the morning here in New York and began to prepare breakfast for the two himself.

Today is already Friday, October 6.

Planning to spend another day in the movie "Ninja Turtles", Simon and Janet will leave again.Daenerys Entertainment has many things that Simon needs to deal with recently, and Janet has to return to Melbourne headquarters to personally sit in this operation.Moreover, since it is confirmed that the crisis in the US junk bond market is about to erupt, it is easy to be associated with staying in New York, which is not a good thing.

The next reunion is in early November. The Boeing 767 scheduled from Boeing happened to be delivered. Some of the most urgent things in the hands of the two should also be busy.

After having breakfast, Janet hurried to Westeros Midtown, Simon and Jennifer round, first sent a female assistant to the Daenerys Entertainment New York branch building in Greenwich Village, and listened to some work reports, and then Hurry to Brooklyn, Brooklyn in east Manhattan, "Ninja Turtles" was filmed in Brooklyn.

Los Angeles is still at six in the morning, but the box office data for the previous week has been released.

From September 29 to October 5, the 14th week of the release, Daenerys Entertainment's "Sixth Sense of Soul" received another 5.09 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office has reached 277.56 million US dollars.

The release of "Uncle Buck" released on August 11 also enters the eighth week. The box office will receive another 3.26 million US dollars in a single week, and the cumulative box office will reach 57.02 million US dollars. The film has a box office potential of about 10 million US dollars. Uncle is expected to be John Hughes' second-highest box office movie in recent years after "Spring is not a book day".

The earliest summer release of "Bodyguard" due to the recent dispute between Daenerys Entertainment and Alistar Records, the box office data that has begun to close has shown a small rebound in recent weeks, and the box office received another 510,000 US dollars last week. The box office is $118.31 million.

"Bodyguard" currently has only 286 screens left, and it is expected that the local box office will hopefully break through the $120 million mark before the next gear.

In addition, in September, Highgate Films launched "Sweet Sister" and "Woman on the Roof" bought from the Cannes Film Festival. The two films were released on September 8 and September 22, respectively.

Ella Doichman has explored a set of effective radial distribution models through the release of films such as "Metropolis", "Sisters", and "Sister Sister Gang" in the first half of the year, namely in New York, Los Angeles, etc. The small cities in the central cities started to test the market response and then gradually spread to other cities.

Jane Campion's "Sweet Sister" conducted fixed-point marketing in the three major cities of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. After the word-of-mouth publicity was recognized by the media, Doichman decisively invested $300,000 in advertising costs in the three cities."Sweet Sister" opened on September 8 with a screen size of 26 screens. In the first week, it created an outstanding result of more than 19,000 US dollars in single-house receipts, and the box office revenue reached 710,000 US dollars in seven days.

Taking into account the audience of the film, the distribution team of Gaomen Films predicts that the total box office of "Sweet Sister" in North America is expected to reach about 5 million US dollars.

Gaomen Pictures bought "Sister Sweet" at a cost of only $500,000 in advance, and the overall cost of the announcement after the increase can be controlled within $1 million, although 50% of the box office’s net will be paid in the future. Profit sharing, but after counting the sales revenue of video tapes and TV broadcasts, this project is also a small gain.

As for "The Woman on the Roof", Gaomen Films did not seek media approval, but instead hyped the lesbian elements and fragrant scenes in the film. Doiqiman also arranged the two heroines of the film to board. A local adult male magazine in New York.

In response to the habit of viewers who do not like to watch subtitles, Gaomen Film Industry has specially produced a dubbed version of this Swedish film.

Gaomen Pictures invested a total of US$300,000 in film purchase, dubbing and publicity,

However, in the second week of the painting, with the screen size unchanged, the screening area was still limited to New York's "The Woman on the Roof". From September 29 to October 5, the box office fell by 36%, and the curve was far less than "sweet." "Sister" is strong, it is expected that after several months of long-term reflection, the North American box office forecast should be able to reach about 3 million US dollars.

Speaking of which, the two small businesses of Gaomen Films are not worth mentioning in front of blockbuster films such as Daenerys Entertainment's "Sixth Sense of Soul" and "Bodyguard", but Simon has not taken it lightly at all. The attitude of 500,000 USD business and 50 million USD business.

After all, if only a main tree lacks branches and leaves, a big tree is destined to die. These'small businesses' are actually the branches and leaves of Daenerys.What's more, no one is sure whether these obscure branches and leaves suddenly become another towering tree one day.

In addition to local box office data, some overseas box office data for "Bodyguard" also appeared in this week's report.

In this era, the overseas release of Hollywood movies will generally be delayed by more than three months than the local. Daenerys Entertainment is also very cautious about the overseas hairstyle of "Sixth Sense of Soul." Therefore, the only three films in the summer season are "Bodyguard". In September, they successively logged on overseas markets.

During this time, the dispute between Daenerys Entertainment and Alistar Records on the "Bodyguard" soundtrack album was raging. Alistar singing had to accept Dan last week under the strong attitude of Daenerys Entertainment without giving in. Nellis Entertainment’s financial audit is now coming to an end.

On the other hand, the fact that the soundtrack album "Bouncer" has completely stopped selling has not hit the box office as many people imagined. This storm not only stimulated a small-scale rebound of the local box office, but also triggered overseas due to the strong topicality. The audience was very curious about the movie "Bodyguard".

The major overseas ticket warehouses have been released from the earliest UK on September 8th. Recently, the film has accumulated more than US$86 million in the UK, Spain, Italy and other ticket warehouse countries that have been drawn. This is still in Japan. , France and other large ticket warehouse countries are not released.

The box office distribution of "Bouncer" in the memory is that overseas accounts for the bulk of the box office. The North American box office in the film only broke 100 million, but the total overseas income was close to 300 million US dollars.It now appears that this movie will still reproduce the original box office distribution rules.

The overseas box office was not affected, and Daenerys Entertainment naturally took up more initiative in the dispute with Alistar Records.

Because of this initiative, Simon returned to Los Angeles on the weekend, and after completing the audit, Alistar Records invested a total of $38.25 million in cash into the Daenerys Entertainment account, of which $7.53 million was paid by Alistar Records for Danielle. Silk Entertainment's compensation for arrears.

Daenerys Entertainment has also made some'compromises' on its own initiative, and has not announced the specific amount of the settlement reached by both parties, leaving some face to Alistar Records.

However, the circle is probably well aware of this matter. Daenerys Entertainment’s strong position through the original bodyguard album of "Bodyguard" also gave all other studios that have a cooperative project with Daenerys Entertainment a strong force. Warning: If you want to engulf the benefits of Daenerys Entertainment in your cooperation, Daenerys Entertainment will never choose to compromise even if you lose both sides.

Los Angeles.

Fox Studios in Century City.

Two weeks after Simon left, Fox Pictures has quickly completed the preparation of the first "Sleeping with the Enemy" of 10 projects. The film is expected to be released in the golden period of June next year, so the green light will be given to all parties this month. It can be turned on later.

In contrast, the other three films that will be released next year, "The Hand Shaking the Cradle" are expected to be released at the end of July next year and early August. The competition at the end of the summer season will not be so fierce. You can avoid competing with the same thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy".

The period of "Dangerous Ten Days" is initially confirmed as Halloween at the end of October next year. After this year's "Scream 2", the third part of this series will be suspended for one year, so there will be no internal friction at that time.

"Red Pink Alliance" is expected to be scheduled for November next year during Thanksgiving, so that you can avoid December's "Home Alone".

The other 6 of the remaining 10 movies are probably scattered in 1991 and 1992 before they can be released one after another. Simon also admitted to many people that the first four movies are not the focus, and the real "blockbuster" must be behind.

At the end of the morning's "Sleeping with the Enemy" production meeting, everyone had dinner together. Simon was planning to return to Santa Monica, was stopped by Joe Ross, and returned to the office of Joe Ross in the studio. .

The two sat down and Rose handed over a document and said, "Simon, I have talked to the copyright owner of Terminator, Hemdale, and they are willing to sell the copyright of the film. The initial asking price is 3 million. US dollars plus 5% of the film’s full-channel net profit share. We talked with Hermdale for one month. The copyright fee of $3 million has not changed, and the share ratio has changed to 5% of the film’s box office net profit."

Simon picked up this apparently signed copyright transfer agreement and turned it over.

The $3 million copyright transfer price, although not as high as Simon’s previous purchase of the Tor Gold series, was still very high.With this amount of money, Hermdale probably no longer expects too much of a share. Only then will it agree to replace 5% of the omnichannel net profit with 5% of the box office net profit.

After all, these are completely two concepts. Anyone who knows some Hollywood accounting rules understands that Hollywood movies usually do not generate profits on the books, let alone purely box office profits.

Putting down the agreement, Simon asked Ross: "Where is Cameron?"

Joe Rose shook his head: "Cameron insisted on personally acting as director, Simon, I think we can completely throw him away and do it."

Simon asked: "So, have you seen Cameron's sequel script?"

Joe Rose nodded: "I've seen it, not bad."

Simon shrugged and said, "I've seen it too."

The two stared at each other for a moment and smiled bitterly together.

Now that I have seen Cameron’s sequel script, unless I completely abandon the idea of ​​the liquid robot, otherwise, I want to get rid of Cameron and I will wait to be sued in the future.Although Joe Rose said it was pretty good, he obviously would not know the finishing touch of the liquid robot.

Therefore, it is not difficult to completely put Cameron away.