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The time is Thursday, February 1.

Simon arrived at the company's headquarters at eight o'clock. Jennifer, who had arrived early, followed him into the office with a stack of documents.

Because Simon has been letting off a lot of things intentionally or unintentionally, and is often not in Los Angeles during this time, Jennifer's authority has grown larger and larger under Simon's mandate, and almost has to assume the role of Simon's spokesperson within the company.

In recent weeks, the female assistant has personally led the team in charge of the financial audit work of the past year.

In the second half of last year, because of the big sales of "Bouncer", "Sixth Sense of Soul", "Scream 2", the sale of the original soundtrack of "Bouncer", the success of the "Ninja Turtles" video game, TV projects With continued accounting and the overseas and video distribution of films such as "Rainman" at the end of 1988, Daenerys Entertainment's revenue has experienced an explosive growth.

Compared with the net profit scale of US$110 million in the first half of last year, even after excluding large expenditure projects such as the construction of Daenerys Shadow City and the investment in the acquisition of ea equity, Daenerys Entertainment’s net profit after tax for the whole year last year The scale is also expected to exceed US$500 million.

With the abundant funds that Daenerys Entertainment continues to deliver, James Rebold has continued to increase investment in new technology.

Right now, Westeros's shareholding in Microsoft has reached 21.3%, of which 10% is received in the form of loans from Microsoft's two major shareholders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and the other part is by Daenerys Entertainment The funds provided were absorbed from the open market, and Gates personally went to Simon for this matter.

With the release date approaching, because of the outflow of the beta version, Microsoft's stock price has begun to rise again during this time.

Microsoft’s 21.3% stake has exceeded Simon’s expectations, and Westeros does not plan to increase its stake in Microsoft.

Westeros' shareholding in Intel also increased to 15.6%, which is also the result of continued absorption last year.Westeros has invested nearly US$300 million for these 5% shares on the basis of the original holdings, all of which were funded by Daenerys Entertainment.

In addition, Westeros continues to increase its investment in new technology companies such as Igret.

Simon sat down at the desk and the female assistant handed over today’s work schedule while putting down the documents in her hand and said, "The financial audit work will probably end next week. Here is a briefing. In addition, there is a Warner for you. As the compensation plan provided by the producers of "The Flash" and "Steel Bone", the basic salary of each film is 2 million US dollars plus 10% of the local box office. Finally, there are several novels and script materials that the company has recently bought. The dinosaur science fiction you mentioned about Michael Clayton."

Hearing Michael Clayton's dinosaur novel, Simon raised his head and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Jennifer noticed Simon’s expression and actively explained: “Amy personally communicated with Mr. Friedman because other studios also noticed the project in Clayton’s hands, and the final price negotiated was $2.5 million. , $2 million is the cost of buying out the novel, and $500,000 is the cost of adapting the script. The latter point is insisted by Mr. Friedman."

Simon nodded, understanding why Jonathan asked for this.

Participating in the adaptation of the script, Michael Clayton can also obtain additional revenue sharing according to the "Basic Agreement" of the screenwriter union after the film is released.

For an unpublished novel, the offer of $2.5 million is indeed somewhat high.

Although Michael Clayton has made a lot of fame in the novel world these years,

This is why Jonathan can easily dig the other side from caa to wma.

Speaking of that, if it wasn't Simon's intention, Jonathan probably didn't have much interest in Clayton.

Thinking about this, Simon asked the female assistant: "When will the novel be published?"

"Clayton just finished the outline of the story, at least until the end of the year."

"Transfer this project information to a special effects studio, and let them come up with a cg dinosaur development plan for me recently. Let me temporarily put the rest on hold."

Jennifer nodded, recorded the matter on his memo, and continued: "Also, Fox's Joe Rose called yesterday, about "Terminator", he asked you if you have time to talk about it tomorrow night? "

Simon wondered: "Tomorrow evening?"

"Ross organized a reception at his Cold Water Canyon home tomorrow evening," the female assistant tore a page from her pocket memo and handed it over, "This is the address."

"You help me keep it," Simon pushed the page over again and smiled at the female assistant. "Or, will we go together tomorrow night?"

Jennifer shook his head: "I'm tired recently, I'm going home to sleep."

"Well, if I go to you after the wine party, Bel Air is still close to Cold Water Canyon, remember to leave me a window."

The female assistant bent her mouth and said, "Uncle has a good shotgun at home and will treat you like a wild boar."

Jennifer has always lived with her uncle George Norman's house. In this respect, it may be because of close enough, the female assistant does not have the psychological barriers like Simon.

Simon's face showed a fearful expression, but he was curious: "Why is it a wild boar?"

The female assistant crooked her prickly tail, and said: "It may also be a rabbit."

Not as good as wild boar!

Simon waved his hands pretending to be angry: "Go out, the boss is going to work."

Jennifer smiled and helped Simon organize the table and asked, "Do you want coffee?"

"Mineral water is enough, just stop caffeine."

The female assistant nodded and turned away.

Simon lowered his head and glanced back at today's work schedule. At 9 o'clock, he started the production meeting of "Pink Pink League", which is expected to last all morning.

The preparatory preparations for the "Red Pink Alliance" are ready and will start shooting next week.All in all, because of the female movie, Amy is basically in charge of this project.However, as one of the projects in the 10 film plan, Simon still had to attend the final production meeting in person.

The rough cuts of the two films "Human Ghost Love" and "Ninja Turtles" have been completed. In the afternoon, we will discuss the final cut and soundtrack with the original team.

Just these three things, it is probably busy until six o'clock in the afternoon.

Putting the work schedule aside, Simon took the information that the female assistant had just left and took away the top financial briefing. He planned to wait until the audit was completely completed before looking at the final financial report, which would save time.

The information on "Jurassic Park", which the female assistant has already introduced, is also set aside.

Then there is a stack of novel and script copyright materials.

Like other Hollywood studios, Daenerys Entertainment started to acquire copyrights for various novels and scripts after it was on the right track. Of course, most of them may be lost in the end.

That's how Hollywood's huge script budget is spent every year.

However, these expenditures are actually calculated into various other movie projects according to the rules of the Hollywood Ledger.

In addition to "Jurassic Park", there are seven novels and script materials sent. Simon has roughly reviewed it. In addition to the basic information of the project, there are various notes attached to it, or the director’s sense of the project. Interest, or the star's intention to appear, or the corresponding producer's view of the script.

The Hollywood circle is very small, or the information in Simon's mind is too rich. Among the seven materials, Simon easily found a relatively familiar work: "The Last Road".

In memory, this is a project directed by Ridley Scott, starring Susan Sarandon and Gina Davis, and the word of mouth and box office seem to be very good.

The project notes were written by Amy personally, indicating that women such as Gottihan, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, etc. who have seen the script are all interested in acting, so they can promote the project and the project budget It's about 15 million dollars.

Fifteen million was still a big production a few years ago, and now it can only be regarded as medium to low.

Simon read the outline of the story roughly, and suddenly remembered that the story might allow Catherine to try it.

Catherine is definitely a feminist in her heart, and she happened to have completed a similar off-road movie "Blood Corpse Night", which is very suitable for controlling this project.

Thinking of this, Simon took a pencil and wrote his comments on it, asking Amy to transfer the script to Catherine.

Catherine will start filming "Thrill Point" soon, but as long as the woman is interested in this project, Daenerys Entertainment can of course wait for her busy project to start the movie.

Apart from "The Last Flower", several other projects failed to arouse Simon's interest.

Next year, the key projects of Daenerys Entertainment are basically external cooperation films such as "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Fate of the Dead". There are still many vacancies, so Simon gave the heads of the three brands enough to establish projects. Permissions, he is not like the increasingly large Daenerys Entertainment completely dependent on him alone.

After reading the information sent by the female assistant, it was almost nine o'clock.

The production meeting of "Pink Alliance" was held on the side of Daenerys Entertainment Headquarters. Jennifer pushed in and reminded the film director Penny Marshall that the others had arrived, and Simon got up and hurried to the conference room.

The next day is Friday, February 2.

Another week passed from January 26 to February 1.

Although the last week of "Batman: The Moment of War" still firmly locked the single-week box office position with a box office of 23.4 million US dollars, the cumulative box office also reached 327.6 million US dollars.However, Hollywood's gaze was attracted by another stage change movie that was not too conspicuous.

"Driving for Miss Daisy."

Obviously, this is another movie produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

Prior to this, at the 47th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards on January 20th, "Driving for Miss Daisy" won the best film in the musical comedy category, the best actor in the musical comedy category and the music Three awards for best actress in the comedy category.

Subsequently, in the 62nd Oscar Awards nominations announced on January 22, "Driving for Miss Daisy" won nine nominations including the best film, best director, best actor and other awards. The film with the largest number of Oscar nominations.

Counting the nominations for films such as "My Left Foot", "Bodyguard", "Sixth Sense of Soul" and "Metropolis", Daenerys Entertainment won a total of nominations in the upcoming Oscars 21 items, also ranked first among the various studios.

The distribution rights of "Batman: Moments of War" belong to Warner, and Trisemer originally hoped to nominate the best publicist for this film in order to boost the late box office.

However, the Oscar judges were obviously not interested in this commercial, heavily modified movie. In the end, the film only won three technical awards, and the relevant nominations were not included in Daenerys Entertainment.

Of course, this is a digression.

Back to "Driving for Miss Daisy", until January 25, the film has been kept in a small-scale screening state, and the number of screens has only been increased to more than 200 blocks in the two weeks before and after the Golden Globe.

Taken together, from the beginning of December 8 to January 25 last year, the reputation and popularity of "Driving for Miss Daisy" has continued to rise. Due to the limitation of the screening size, the cumulative box office of the film has only broken through 10 million. US dollars..

On January 26, taking advantage of the high attention brought by the Golden Globe Awards and Oscar nominations, Highgate Films increased the number of screens for "Driving for Miss Daisy" from 278 to 895 at one time. This movie The box office potential has finally been released.

In the first week of large-scale painting, "Driving for Miss Daisy" won a total of 8.03 million US dollars at the 895 screen. The weekly box office rankings also jumped from the seventh place last week to second only to "Batman: The second highest position in "Moment of War".

Eight weeks after its release, the cumulative box office reached US$18.37 million, and it seems that it can't be compared with the week of the sixth week of "Batman: The War Time".

However, in the first week, the large-scale box office figures rushed to the second place in the weekly list. There are many awards between the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars. The box office heat of "Driving for Miss Daisy" is easy to continue. Going forward, this movie is destined to come out of a very bright long-term box office curve.

According to the basis of the US$8.03 million box office in the first week of large-scale opening, the industry predicts that the total box office in North America for this movie will likely rush to more than US$60 million.

The production budget for "Driving for Miss Daisy" is only 7 million US dollars, and the scale of the announcement is not comparable to "Batman: The Moment of War".A total of 18.37 million US dollars at the box office in eight weeks is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recover all production and distribution costs.The total box office is expected to be 60 million US dollars, which is considered to be a big sale.

Simon certainly knows that the box office potential of "Driving for Miss Daisy" is far more than 60 million.

However, in any case, the obvious fact is that Daenerys Entertainment has unwittingly created a box office dark horse again.2k fiction reading network