Hollywood Hunter

As a country with three separate powers, the legislative power of the United States is mainly in the hands of Congress.

Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the core work after being elected is to propose, formulate, amend, or repeal various bills based on the actual conditions of various circles in the United States.The United States Congress accepts thousands of various types of bills every year, from the national economy and the people's livelihood, to the petty skin.

Of course, the importance of the bill also differs.

As far as Hollywood is concerned, the American Film Association, which is mainly responsible for helping Hollywood studios lobby, one of the key points of recent lobbying is to abolish the merger restriction law between Hollywood studios and the US public television network.

The repeal of this bill will involve tens of billions of industrial changes.

On the other hand, it is impossible for congressmen to conceive certain bills out of thin air just sitting in the office.

Most bills are obtained through communication between the public, trade unions, business owners, interest groups, or federal government agencies and members of the House and Senate.

Therefore, the United States has produced countless professional lobbying companies, which are responsible for matching between various groups and members of Congress.

The so-called lobbying in the United States, although unavoidable behind-the-scenes game of power or exchange of interests, is very formal overall.At least on the surface, no MP would be stupid enough to know that some people are asking for themselves and accept each other’s invitations to dinner and gift red envelopes.

If you want to promote the establishment of a bill, you first need to contact people, usually lobbying companies.

Can't find the'Miaomen', everything is in vain.

It is worth mentioning that most lobbying consulting companies are often established by politicians who have left the US at all levels. The more top politicians are, the higher the fees are, and the higher the fees will be. This is another form of high salary.

Given the huge number of bills submitted by the US Congress each year, one can imagine the rich income of these people.

In connection with the network, it is impossible for others to help you persuasively to persuade a member of the Congress to submit a bill, and it is impossible to directly put money in the hands of some people for you.What bill you want to promote, you must collect and organize the corresponding data to prove the necessity of enacting or repealing a certain bill.

After obtaining sufficient data, lawmakers draft bills and submit them to Congress, and then enter the process of deliberation, debate, and voting.

After the bill is submitted, the process is often the focus of the game. In most cases, the more important the bill, the more often you have more than just evidence and detailed data to ensure the passage of the bill.

Then the promoters of the bill need to continue to show their magical powers, such as political dumping, mutual compromise, public opinion creation, interest exchange, etc., and so on.

The frequent exchanges between the White House and the Congress against the annual government budget bills and even the closure of the government are the most intuitive manifestation of this game.

Of course, most of the obscure confrontations hidden behind the scenes are often not seen by ordinary people.

Simon’s discussion with Joseph Schlapp this time that operators are not allowed to participate in the telecommunications equipment manufacturing field bills is a relatively important economic bill. It takes about two to three years from the proposal to the vote to pass, and may have to be with other The Telecommunications Control Act is lobbying together.

The two discussed for more than an hour, preliminary details were finalized, and Joseph Schlap was sent away. Simon boarded the plane and returned to the west coast at Westchester County Airport near Greenwich.

Back to Dumei Point, just west of the west coast at lunch time.

After having lunch with Janet and chatting about the trip to New York, Simon rushed to work at Daenerys Studios in the afternoon.

Today is May 20, Monday.

The following Friday, the summer season of 1991 will open.

However, today is another day, and another Cannes Film Festival in France ends today.

Los Angeles and Cannes have a time difference of 9 hours. When they came to Daenerys Studios in the afternoon, Simon quickly received the results of the festival awards from Cannes, which was already night.

Daenerys Entertainment entered the two films of the main competition this time,

In Simon's memory, he actually won the Golden Palm of Cannes.

However, the three Golden Palm works in the previous three years, and, two are American movies, two American movies, one produced by Daenerys Entertainment and one released by Daenerys Entertainment.

This time, the Cannes Jury clearly gave birth to some balance of mind.

The final Golden Palm award-winning film was created by French director Jacques Levitte.

Jacques Levitte's fame is not too great, but one of the heroines is known as Jane Platinum.The platinum bag made by Hermes that is so expensive that it has made countless actresses and ladies so popular is named after Jane Platinum.

Because of such a gimmick, coupled with the blessing of Golden Palm, Ella Doichman is already in contact with the copyright side, hoping to get the North American distribution rights.

He failed to win the Golden Palm, but only won two secondary awards, which also met Simon's expectations.

After all, Daenerys Entertainment can't take up all the light, and it is necessary to maintain a good reputation.

Moreover, the key focus of this year's overseas awards for Gaomen Pictures is actually the Venice Film Festival.Because of the production progress, Jane Campion was unable to participate in the Cannes Film Festival just ended, but has already declared for the main competition unit of this year's Venice Film Festival.

Jane Campion won a good evaluation at the Venice Film Festival last year, which is obviously more suitable for the artistic temperament of Venice than Cannes. This film is very promising to impact this year's Venice Golden Lion Award.

The contacts that Ella Doicman and Sofia Fisci have developed in the Italian entertainment industry are also enough to support the winner.

Apart from the events in Cannes, returning to the West Coast this week, Simon's busy main job has been successfully completed in Melbourne and returned to North America.

As the first producer, Warner expressed considerable doubts and dissatisfaction with Simon’s never going to Melbourne for personal visits during the filming period. Simon did not refute this, and he really had no time.However, Simon actually put enough energy into this film, enough for him to get the reward of the original producer contract.

For several consecutive working days, Warner Bros. ceo Terry Semel will spend time every day reviewing samples with Simon.

Until it was confirmed that the film sample was not a big problem, Simon personally presided over the final plan of the film, and Terry Semel felt relieved.

The moment came on May 24, Friday.

The summer file in 1991 was officially opened.

Only this week, a total of six new films above the scale were released. In addition to the Antarctic documentaries released by Gaomen Pictures and the lively comedies of New Line Pictures, the other four films have reached more than 1,000 screens.

The four films are temporarily linked to the Universal Studios release label, a fire-type crime action film starring William Baldwin and Kurt Russell, and the screen size is 2036.

The Bruce Willis funny action film released by the Samsung brand under Columbia Pictures has a screen size of 1,621.

Last year, with the promotion of the leading Chris Columbus love comedy new film, the screen size was 1561.

And in the end, Disney produced a real-life story adaptation of a trainer-themed movie, opening a screen of 1521 blocks..

The scales of the opening screens of and are 687 and 821 respectively.

Perhaps it is because the competition is too fierce, or because the six new films do not have the potential to sell big. From the first week of May 24 to May 30, there is no film in the North American theater that has a weekly box office of more than $20 million. appear.

Universal Studios finally won the single-week box office championship, and the box office was only $19.21 million in seven days in the first week.

Subsequently, the second place in the list is an old Disney film. The film tells a series of jokes made by the lead actor Bill Murray because of a series of insecure feelings about the world.

The painting was opened last week, and the second week was released. Because of the fermentation of word of mouth, a 5% of box office declines under the influence of a group of old films, and the amount was 13.53 million US dollars.

Bruce Willis ranked third in the new film, but the box office slipped directly to 8.64 million US dollars.

The production cost is as high as 65 million US dollars.

Bad reviews, a dismal start of US$ 8.64 million, according to commercial action movies, the next week may drop by 50%, the total box office of the film in North America may be less than US$ 20 million, and Columbia Pictures is destined to make no return. The owner, Sony, once again paid Hollywood an expensive tuition fee.

Chris Columbus's new film ranked fourth, with an income of 7.73 million US dollars.

Calculated by the production cost of the film at $20 million, it was also a failure.

Immediately afterwards, the fifth place was not Disney's or new line, but brought a refreshing coolness to the coming summer.

In the first week of painting, with a screen size of 687 pieces, many people unexpectedly obtained a box office of $6.97 million.

After careful consideration, it also became the only film with a box office average of over 10,000 in the first week of the summer season.

As we all know, new films opened on a larger scale can only reach the standard of big sales if the number of galleries in the first week breaks at 10,000.

From the original fashion documentary to the Madonna music documentary this Easter, and then to the Antarctic scenery documentary at this time, Hollywood has no choice but to find that its own studio has been following the pace of Daenerys Entertainment as much as possible and launching a fashion documentary , Brewing a music documentary, and now, there is another landscape documentary.

Even more disturbing, it is said that this documentary is just for Daenerys Entertainment, with a budget of only 3 million US dollars, just a birthday gift from the Westeros to a little girl.

At the box office in the first week of $6.97 million, the production cost was directly recovered.

According to such opening data, the next step is to strengthen the publicity, and the word-of-mouth and popularity will accumulate, and the scale of the screening will be appropriately expanded. This documentary easily accumulates US$30 million at the box office, which is no problem.

The $30 million box office is still far from Simon’s memory, but it has been a rare success in the eyes of other Hollywood studios.

Compared with the budget cost of 3 million US dollars, only the North American box office, the rate of return has reached 10 times.

Originally still following the trend to try to support the previous and successful Hollywood studios, after the box office was released, they have set their sights on various scenic sites on the earth.Some producers have also begun to take advantage of the opportunity to sell to the studios such as the Antarctic Arctic Amazon jungle Sahara Desert and other expedition projects, even the Simon table case has appeared in the African savannah documentary project.

However, in this series of films, Simon is more concerned, but it is.

Or yes, the production company New Line Pictures.

Timeline's new line of film industry relied on the series to make a fortune. After the box office broke 100 million, it entered the mainstream studio business. It was eventually acquired by Time Warner, and created and waited for the big-selling series of films.

Now, being cut off by Daenerys Entertainment, the potential of the series is basically exhausted. In addition, the new line has blindly expanded the number of film production and distribution in the past few years. It is no surprise that this summer file is regarded as the new line of film industry. Attempt before the last wave of decline.

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Compared with the budget cost of 3 million US dollars, only the North American box office, the rate of return has reached 10 times.

Originally still following the trend to try to support the previous and successful Hollywood studios, after the box office was released, they have set their sights on various scenic sites on the earth.Some producers have also begun to take advantage of the opportunity to sell to the studios such as the Antarctic Arctic Amazon jungle Sahara Desert and other expedition projects, even the Simon table case has appeared in the African savannah documentary project.

However, in this series of films, Simon is more concerned, but it is.

Or yes, the production company New Line Pictures.

Timeline's new line of film industry relied on the series to make a fortune. After the box office broke 100 million, it entered the mainstream studio business. It was eventually acquired by Time Warner, and created and waited for the big-selling series of films.

Now, being cut off by Daenerys Entertainment, the potential of the series is basically exhausted. In addition, the new line has blindly expanded the number of film production and distribution in the past few years. It is no surprise that this summer file is regarded as the new line of film industry. Taste before the last wave of decline.