Hollywood Hunter

More than five o'clock in the afternoon, the audition for the leading actor of "The Ten Days of Danger" ended.

There were only three candidates for this final round of small-scale auditions. The last one to participate in the audition was Don Johnson, the husband of Melanie Griffith.

Simon didn't think Tang Johnson, who was biased towards the tough guy, could play the role of a writer, but with the help of some connections from the Griffith family, he also watched the audition video tape carefully prepared by Don Johnson, which changed his view. .

Moreover, Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon are of the same age, and an alternative CP effect can also be formed between the two.

Discussing character perception, performing script fragments, and finally the heroine Susan Sarandon came to play in person. This audition took a full hour and a half. Don Johnson’s protagonist was basically finalized. The film side discusses details such as film remuneration with Johnson's agent.

It was already after get off work, everyone said they left the audition room with a smile.

Saying goodbye to each other and waiting for most of the others to leave, Don Johnson said to Simon: "There is one more thing, Simon, me and May plan to hold a baptism ceremony for Dakota on the 16th of next month. I don’t know if you have time to attend, small You got the name of the guy."

A few months ago, "Lethal Weapon 2" at the box office sales celebration, Simon took the "born" Dakota Johnson name for the daughter of the Johnsons to be born out of fun. He almost wanted to forget this later. thing.The baby was born in October, but the Johnsons really used the name and spread the news that Simon personally named him.

A newly born little girl has attracted a lot of media attention. After Vanity Fair opened an expensive price tag, a group photo of the Johnson family finally entered the cover of Vanity Fair in November. Speaking of Simon's name, Simon's explanation of Dakota's name'eternal smile' even caused controversy among some linguists.

"Next month on the 16th," Simon Wenyan thought about it and said, "Tang, I'm not sure if I will be in Los Angeles at that time, and if so, I will definitely attend."

"Batman" is released on December 22, the Los Angeles premiere determined by Warner Bros. is on December 20, Simon does not intend to participate in specific publicity matters too much, so it is likely that he will not return before December 20. .

Don Johnson was not clear about Simon’s arrangement. He heard that he promised to be present as long as he was in Los Angeles. He reached out happily and said, “That’s the deal.”

Simon and Don Johnson shook hands and smiled, "Of course."

The main creation of "Dangerous Ten Days" is basically finalized, and only the "Pink Alliance" will be the project that will be released next year in the 10 movie plans.

Now that the ban on CAA has been lifted, the crew officially sent an invitation to Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks has become a top-tier actor after "Flying Over the Future". However, he has not yet shown the strong box office appeal of many veteran actor, so the offer for the remuneration is also a reasonable $5 million. Simon did not bargain.

Sony, who has just won Columbia Pictures, is at a stage of lavishness, but Simon limited the budget of "Pink Pink League" to 25 million US dollars.

Tom Hanks took 5 million US dollars, Gina Davis paid 2 million US dollars, the original director Penny Marshall and Hanks have also been promoted to the front line after working on "Flying Over the Future", and the director's salary is also 500. Ten thousand US dollars, after ensuring the filming costs of 10 million US dollars, the salary reserved for other supporting actors is not much left.Madonna who played soy sauce in the original version is definitely not going to ask anymore, many supporting actors can only get a low weekly salary.

However, Simon’s personally led projects now have absolutely no shortage of actors even in Hollywood, so a tight budget will not affect the quality of actors.

In addition to officially starting the production project, Simon has been looking for the remaining list in the 10 film plan.

The next day is Thursday, November 16.

"Flying Over Childhood" will be officially released tomorrow, and the film's premiere will be held in the evening at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The lively premiere began at 5 pm, and Simon attended the event alone. After a short stay on the red carpet and taking pictures, he went directly into the theater.

At 8 o'clock, the premiere was over, and most of the invited guests turned to a nearby hotel for a party.

Simon planned to leave early, but was stopped by Terry Semel.

In the hotel banquet hall, after some entertainment, Semel and Simon came to a corner together: "That's it, Simon, next month's "Time" Weekly annual figure, Time Company has confirmed it. "

Seeing Semel's congratulatory expression, how could Simon not understand, said: "I?"

"Of course, who has this qualification besides you?" Terry Semel said with a smile: "Speaking of it, you already had this qualification in the first two years, so you can arrange for a group recently. The cover art, of course, you will definitely not be able to shirk this interview."

"Time" Weekly figure of the year.

Simon sighed in his heart, of course he knew what it meant.

As a current affairs weekly with great influence all over the world, the cover characters of each issue have attracted much attention.In order to gain fame, some people may even fake the fake cover of "Time" magazine.The annual characters of Time Magazine are the top priority of the cover figures of Time Magazine each year.

Therefore, the cover of such a magazine is definitely not so good.

In fact, last year, some media predicted that Simon would become the annual figure of Time magazine in 1988, but in the end, Time Company would rather give the quota to the "endangered earth", and did not fall on Simon.Faced with doubts from the outside world, Time magazine explained that Simon was too young and did not meet the standard of being an annual figure.

This year suddenly reached the'standard'.

This is of course not accidental, but it is taken for granted.

If you think about it for a while, you can understand that this is the result of Warner’s efforts. Time Company and Warner Bros. got rid of Paramount’s entanglement and formally reached an M&A agreement.

Simon reached the top richest man in the Federation at the age of 21 this year, with sufficient qualifications. In addition, in order to be able to build momentum for the "Batman" release next month, this year's "Time" weekly annual characters will naturally not fall on others.

After all, there has never been a truly fair and neutral media in this world. Since Time magazine has belonged to the new Time Warner Company, it naturally needs to favor the company's interests.

Simon clearly remembers that after the release of "Wonder Woman" in the original space and time, as the treasure of Warner Bros., all the main creators of the "Wonder Woman" project received the "careful care" of Time Warner's media. "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins was short-listed in the "Time" magazine's annual trend of the year, the reason is that it is far-fetched to make the heinous'Patty Jenkins redefines how the world should treat women'.

Thinking about this, Simon did not refuse, just said: "However, Terry, I am going to Europe this weekend."

"This is not a problem. As long as you cooperate, someone will be sent there to take pictures and interviews in Europe. The time will probably be at the end of the month."

"Let them contact my assistant at that time." Simon nodded. He has received too much attention in recent years, and he has not produced much excitement. He changed the topic and said: "You are here for Cooper- Peters Production Company claims Sony $1 billion, which is really cruel."

Sony has determined that two old Hollywood producers, Peter Cooper and John Peters, will be in charge of Columbia Pictures. To this end, he has not only provided high salary terms, but also acquired the production of the two for $200 million in cash. the company.However, the Cooper-Peters production company was originally affiliated with Warner Bros. Pictures. Sony had just completed the acquisition of this production company. Warner filed a lawsuit against Sony, claiming that the Cooper-Peters production company defaulted. One billion dollars.

Terry Semel listened to Simon mentioning this and laughed: "You know Steve, but he can't bear the Japanese to reach into Hollywood. This is our territory."

Simon knew that Warner had finally knocked out US$600 million from the Japanese and became Sony's first'tuition fee' paid in Hollywood. At the same time, he admired Steve Rose's means while secretly reminding himself not to make similar mistakes.

After the premiere, the next day, "Flying Childhood" was officially opened in North America on a large scale with 2,206 screens.

Universal Pictures produced the sequel to the 1985 annual box office champion "Back to the Future", "Back to the Future 2", which is scheduled for Wednesday, November 22nd.

In order to avoid the edge of "Back to the Future 2", a total of 6 new films were released on November 17th, including "Flying Over Childhood" by Daenerys and Warner Brothers, and "Harlem Nightclub" by Paramount The number of screens released by Orion Pictures' "Magic Sea Children" is close to the scale of 2,000 screens.

Of course, "Flying Childhood", a collaboration between Daenerys and Warner Bros., should not be underestimated, but other studios seem to think that "Flying Childhood" is better to deal with.

As for next week, in addition to the release of the Gucci fashion documentary officially named "Gucci Seal" by Damenli Entertainment, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, "Back to the Future 2" can be described as the monopoly of Thanksgiving Week.

Ella Doichman was also puzzled by Simon’s decision to insist on the match between Gucci’s Mark and Back to the Future 2, but Simon did not explain to him too much.

In my memory, compared with the first annual box office champion data of more than 200 million US dollars at the local box office, the box office of the "Back to the Future 2" sequel has shrunk by half. Compared with the various resources invested by the global for this film, "Back to the Future" 2 "Although the box office is still over 100 million yuan, it is far from the expectations of the producers. It is not an exaggeration to describe it with a failure.

"Back to the Future 2" is not as strong as the outside world imagines, and "Gucci Mark" will naturally not be too strong.

On the other hand, because many preparations have been made in advance, after Simon's permission, Nancy held another meeting on the acquisition of EA on Friday, and James Rebold also flew over from the east coast to participate.

Simon's funds from the two major markets of Japan and the United States are still overseas. Nancy plans to formally contact EA this weekend, and it is likely that the money will not be used.However, after summing up the various gains in the second half of the year, even if Daenerys Entertainment does not rely on Cersei Capital’s funds, it is not too much of a problem to win EA within the $350 million budget.

The meeting on the acquisition of EA ended, Simon sent away others, and formally discussed the plan to acquire MCA with Amy and James.

After facilitating the deal between Sony and Colombia, Michael Ovitz should have been promoting Panasonic's acquisition of MCA, the global parent company, but this business, like Sony's acquisition of Colombia, will also be very close.Simon has a lot of chances to get out.

Simon's plan to acquire MCA was only a little revealed to the female assistant. Amy and James were very surprised, and the excitement followed.

If you can win the MCA, Daenerys Entertainment will become the largest studio in Hollywood, and the company's shortcomings in record, TV, content accumulation and theme parks will immediately make up for it.

Of course, this is not without problems.

MCA's current market value is close to 4 billion US dollars. Both Amy and James believe that Daenerys Entertainment may have to prepare 8 billion US dollars if it wants to win this company.

It is no secret that MCA Chairman Lu Wasalman made a $8 billion offer to Sony last year.

Knowing the economic trends in North America over the next year, Simon was more optimistic than Amy and James and knew that it would not cost so much money to complete the acquisition.However, even if it is to reach 8 billion US dollars, this number will not be too much for Simon.

The operation of the US junk bond market was ended years ago, and Cersei Capital’s capital volume was enough to reach 8 billion US dollars.Next, the oil price turmoil caused by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Gulf War was enough for Simon to continue to make large sums of money.

In the 1990s, the prices of major Hollywood film companies will only get higher and higher, and the sooner they win Universal, the more beneficial it will be to Daenerys Entertainment.

Of course, this matter cannot be achieved overnight.

Simon just informed Amy and James of their plans this time, so that they can start some related preparations now.Compared with the EA with a market value of less than 200 million US dollars, wanting to win a company such as MCA in this era has been regarded as a Big Mac. The official shot is at least next year.

At the same time, Simon did not intend to take a malicious acquisition this time, so he did not allow James to start absorbing MCA shares in advance.Although this can save some funds in future acquisitions, it is easy to be misunderstood by MCA management, making Lu Wasalman and others think that Simon will initiate a malicious acquisition.

In order to save US$100 million or so and cause MCA management hostility, it is actually worth more than a billion-dollar business.

Janet will arrive in Los Angeles at about two o'clock in the afternoon to end the meeting with the two. After everyone had lunch together, Simon hurried to Los Angeles International Airport to pick him up.