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After the weekend, the time came to the last week of June.

Prior to this, "Wonder Woman" was officially filmed in the UK on June 17 last Monday.

This time I did not choose to shoot in Australia, mainly because the origin story still follows the World War I background of the Gael Gado version of Simon’s memory, and Australia does not have similar views as London and Amazon Paradise Island during World War I. Ground.

Therefore, the film will mainly be shot in the UK and Italy in Europe.

With the initiation and shooting of a series of films in recent months, the list of important projects for Daenerys Entertainment in 1992 has been basically determined.

It is estimated that in 1992, the key projects independently produced and released by Daenerys Entertainment will be a total of four temporarily, namely "Ninja Turtle 2" in the Easter period, "Wonder Woman" in the summer period, and "Ghost House 2" in the Thanksgiving period. "And "Jurassic Park" during the Christmas period.

At the same time, the film list of the external cooperation of Daenerys Entertainment has been determined. They are "The Last Mohigan" with Warner Brothers, "Peach Deal" with Paramount and MGM. "Moment of Kill".

All seven films are selling items in Simon's memory.

After clarifying some of the laws of the film produced by Daenerys, these seven projects have also become the focus of attention of all filmmakers in Hollywood.

"Thank you for coming here today, Sam, and Renee."

"You're welcome, Simon, this is what I should do."

"It's an honor to work with you, Steven."

Daenerys Studios, Malibu.

The final audition for the main character of "Jurassic Park" is finally over.

After this period of screening, Simon and Spielberg passed the audition just today and finally finalized Sam Neil and Renee Russell as the middle-aged biologist Dr. Alan Grant and the paleobotanist Ai The role of Dr. Li Steller.

The original version of "Jurassic Park" is more like a group play, except that the pair of Dr. Grant and Dr. Steller have more plays.

Simon does not intend to make too many changes to the plot of the original "Jurassic Park", but this time it will change some of the mistakes made by the original series.

The most critical thing is to maintain the continuity of the series.

In the 1990s "Jurassic Park" trilogy, except for the first global box office of more than 900 million US dollars, the latter two box offices are not as good as one.In Simon's view, in addition to the plot seriously imitating the lack of innovation in the first part, the most important reason is the lack of coherence in the story.

In "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", the protagonists of the first part all withdrew, except for the dinosaur element, which is basically another story, which largely caused the sequel to the North American box office compared to the first part. Shrinked by half.

In Jurassic World, which restarted many years later, the producer no longer made such mistakes.

The protagonists Chris Parat and Bryce Dallas Howard are still participating in the first box office of the US$1.6 billion box office after the big explosion. The consistent story makes the sequel's word-of-mouth sequel still win more than US$1.3 billion. Global box office.

Therefore, this time Simon determined at least two permanent roles from the beginning.

It is a pair of scientists played by Sam Neal and Renee Russell that Daenerys Entertainment will directly sign three contracts with the two.

Among the two, Sam Neal is the original actor, not much to mention.

Renee Russell replaced Laura Dunn.

In addition to personal factors, Simon feels that Renee Russell is more suitable for the role of a paleobotanist regardless of age or temperament.

Laura Dunn looks like the 30s in the original film, and it seems to be quite right with Sam Neal, but in fact, the actress who is very old looks only 25 years old this year.

In memory, the reason why Laura Dunn was able to get this role,

Steven Spielberg doesn't like to work with actors who are too high, and Laura Dunn, who has an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, is just right in terms of popularity and acting.

This time, "Jurassic Park" is one year ahead of schedule, and the "Passion Rose" that nominated Laura Dunn for best supporting actress has not yet been released.As it happens, Renee Russell won the Best Supporting Actress nomination at this year's Oscar for his role in "Good Guy", which Simon played last year.

Simon has no feeling for Laura Dunn, and Renee Russell is very suitable, naturally there is no need to toss others.

At the end of the audition, Sam Neal and Renee Russell left first. Simon discussed with Spielberg about other supporting roles, and went to the special effects of Daenerys to check out the special development for Jurassic Park. Motion capture technology effect.

The velociraptor in the film will be shot this time using motion capture technology that can make the picture more vivid and vivid, instead of pure cg animation.

At the same time, the motion capture technology has matured in advance, and can also be applied to other more films.

So busy until noon, having lunch with Spielberg, Simon personally sent the other party to the parking lot, just about to separate, Spielberg seemed to suddenly remember something, said: "There is still a little thing, Simon."

Simon looked at Spielberg's expression and probably realized something, and smiled and gestured to the other person to speak.

Spielberg also smiled and said, "With regard to the "Last Mohigan" you are preparing, I have a goddess. She hopes to try the role of the sister of the kidnapped sisters in the script."

"Your goddess, Steven, is that little girl in "Alien et", Drew Barrymore?"

Spielberg shook his head and said, "No, the other one is called Gwyneth Paltrow. My father and I have known each other for a long time and have worked together at Universal. She is 19 years old and just worked in me. In the "Captain Hawke" guest came out a small role."

So, with such a godfather, what else can others say?

Simon sighed in his heart, but there was no hesitation. This human relationship must still be given, so he nodded readily: "No problem, I will arrange it."

Michael Man has been writing the script of "The Last Mohigan" during this time. Simon has read the first draft, and the two sisters are not too much.

Moreover, since I can get an Oscar movie, Gwyneth Paltrow will definitely not be completely talented in the performance.Although it is the godfather, the other party should understand that Spielberg's human relations are not unlimited, and they will not be as negligent as the "dry daughters" in Simon's memory.

Simon's rapid rise conceals the light of Spielberg's older generation of first-line directors.

If there is nothing in the heart, it is impossible.

Originally based on Spielberg's status in Hollywood, such a role may just require a phone call.The reason why you need to face Simon in advance is because of the key projects of Daenerys Entertainment, all of the main candidates need Simon to make a final decision.

Seeing that Simon had promised so simply, Spielberg subconsciously separated the young man a lot.

The two continued to chat by the car for a while before Spielberg drove away.

Seeing away Spielberg, Simon had just turned around, and the female assistant came over with a folder.

"AOL has just received the revised prospectus. If you have no comments, it will be submitted to sec tomorrow. The ipo roadshow will be officially opened on July 1 and officially listed on July 12."

According to the US stock listing process, AOL's prospectus was submitted two months ago, this time only to make some changes in terms of details.

As Simon walked, he took over the documents handed over by the female assistant, opened it, and found the revision that had been marked.

After the recent split adjustment, AOL's total share capital is roughly determined to be 150 million shares, of which Westeros holds 112.9 million shares, with a shareholding ratio slightly exceeding 75%.The remaining 25% of the shares are owned by the company that participated in the investment and the management of AOL.

In addition, the AIPO this time will adjust the company to a dual shareholding structure.

The original 150 million shares belong to Class A stocks, and the upcoming 22.5 million shares belong to Class B stocks.

The voting power of Class B stocks is only one-tenth of Class A stocks.

After issuing new shares equivalent to 15% of the total share capital, Westero's voting power actually decreased by less than 1%, still reaching 74.1%.

Therefore, unless Simon voluntarily gives up in the future, almost no one will be able to seize absolute control of AOL from Westeros, even the original shareholders who also own some Class A shares.

In the revised document in Simon's hands, the main adjustment this time was the online price range of AOL.

Morgan Stanley, which is responsible for the underwriting of the new shares of ipo, gave the AOL ipo valuation of more than two months ago at 2.5 billion US dollars. The valuation of the company has also been continuously raised.

In this revision, the period for the issue price submitted by AOL is US$19 to US$21.

Based on the new share issue price of up to $21, it is equivalent to a valuation of AOL of $3.15 billion.

At the growth rate of AOL users, in the first half of 1990, the total number of users is expected to reach 3.5 million, and it is expected to exceed 7 million throughout the year.

Based on the monthly payment of US$30 per user, the number of users reaches 3.5 million, and AOL's monthly revenue can exceed 100 million, which is not counting the additional user growth in the second half of the year.Therefore, Simon actually feels that the valuation of $3.15 billion is still low.

However, he does not intend to raise the issue price range anymore.

Leaving the excess share price growth potential to the market will only benefit AOL and the entire Internet industry.

You know, Cisco's ipo is also in preparation.

Cisco is targeting isp companies throughout the United States. Taking advantage of the rise of the Internet and the monopoly of Westeros on World Wide Web technology, this company has actually grown more rapidly in the past year.Just as a hardware manufacturer, Cisco's performance growth is not as clear as AOL.

Simon put Cisco on the market after AOL, also because of this consideration.

If AOL can get a good start, the capital market will certainly be highly sought after by Cisco.