Hollywood Hunter

The next day, another Sundance Film Festival closed.

The jury award gave a low-cost black-and-white drama "Deep Water", telling the story of a poor screenwriter and a failed producer who tried every means to raise funds to shoot a movie.

In previous media reviews, although "Waterfall Dog" was controversial, its word of mouth was very good.

It's just that because the judges of the jury didn't like this movie, which was too naked to show violence, "Luo Shui Dog" ended up with nothing.

Daenerys Entertainment has purchased movies or scripts from Sundance almost every year in recent years, and the relationship between the two parties has been very close.

However, it is for this reason that, in order to maintain the fairness of the Sundance Awards judging as much as possible, Daenerys Entertainment will not easily interfere with the judging of the awards unless necessary.

Simon attended the closing ceremony of the film festival and returned directly to Los Angeles. As for the follow-up of "Water Dog", the $2.5 million project did not reach the point where he paid too much attention.

In the original time and space, the North American release of "Water Dog" ended in failure, but it also allowed Miramax and Quentin Tarantino to establish a long-term cooperative relationship. It was not until the Weinstein scandal broke out that this cooperation was finally End.

After a long talk that night, Catherine went to New York.

I didn't have many choices, so I had to take pictures of topics that I was not very interested in.

Now, several films with fairly good box office results have accumulated, and they have the support of Simon. Catherine no longer has the trouble of many filmmakers who have just started her career. She is awake by Simon and she decides to spend the next year or two Time to carefully sort out some items.

The plan also plans to go to Europe.

The dramatic changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and the follow-up trends of these countries, made Catherine Guang curious, and the idea of ​​shooting one or two documentaries first.

From "Gucci's Mark" to "Reality and Bravery" to last year's "Snow World", the success of three consecutive documentaries at the box office has made documentaries a category that Hollywood is quite concerned about.

Simon himself is what Catherine wants to shoot, not bad money.

It doesn't matter if the "Widow Maker" was filmed in the original time and space. What Daenerys Entertainment is missing most is a huge loss project.

Of course, throughout Hollywood, Simon will only be so indulgent to Catherine alone.

Even he himself would not be so laissez-faire.

After Sundance closed, it was already the end of January.

Back in Los Angeles, the first thing to deal with was the second layoff of Daenerys Entertainment.

This month, after repeated review and evaluation by the company's human resources department, a layoff list of 800 people was initially drawn. This number is less than Simon's assumption, but the matter has been announced and it has caused controversy in the media.

The U.S. economy as a whole is still at its bottom. In 1991, the federal unemployment rate reached a new high.

If it is another company, there is nothing wrong with layoffs at this time.

The survival of the enterprise is the most important.

However, the layoffs of Daenerys Entertainment made it difficult for many people to accept.

Just looking at a series of box office data from Daenerys Entertainment last year, the company's performance in 1991 can be seen.

A company with such excellent operating conditions also insists on layoffs. From the outside, it is a very lack of social responsibility and a behavior of unscrupulous capitalists.

In fact, the layoffs of 800 people can only save less than US$200 million per year for Daenerys Entertainment under the combined costs of all aspects. However, Simon insisted on layoffs, the basic purpose is not to save expenses, but For the sake of keeping Daenerys Entertainment able to operate continuously and efficiently.

Many large corporate giants' illnesses start with bloated personnel.

Daenerys Entertainment wants to maintain its high-speed development momentum as long as possible, it must keep its employees a sense of crisis at all times.

No matter how good the company is,

Therefore, I didn't pay much attention to the doubts of the outside world. After the layoff list was drafted, Daenerys Entertainment began to carry out quickly, and 800 employees were simply fired in the following week.

Some unwilling employees also organized class action lawsuits by others, and Daenerys Entertainment was naturally not afraid of it.

The layoff process is strictly in accordance with the selection and implementation of the US labor laws, which may be morally lacking, but there is no legal overstep.

Of course, letting these people initiate litigation will certainly continue to damage the reputation of Daenerys.

Therefore, news soon spread in Hollywood.

This group of employees who leave from Daenerys Entertainment will close the doors of all Hollywood studios if they continue to make trouble.

More straightforward, restless people, don't think about mixing in Hollywood in the future.

With the current influence of Daenerys Entertainment, many people will not doubt that this company has such strength.

You have to know that even big men like Dustin Hoffman are planning their careers under Daenerys Entertainment, not to mention these little fish and shrimp.

Moreover, even if you really don't plan to mix in Hollywood, you still have to live a life.However, probably no boss will like this kind of employee who has been entangled with the employer after being fired.

What's more, Daenerys Entertainment does not have any violations of the rules, forcing a lawsuit, the result is difficult to predict.

As a result, the so-called class actions soon disappeared.

After completing another round of layoffs, Daenerys Entertainment subsequently announced a salary increase plan.

The employees who were merged from MCA to Daenerys Entertainment last year originally maintained relatively low salary levels during the MCA. In this salary increase plan, most of the employees from MCA have been raised to the same salary as Daenerys. The staff of the entertainment department is quite standard.

Careful media calculations revealed that such a salary increase was basically equivalent to completely offsetting the labor costs saved by Daenerys Entertainment's just completed layoffs.

After the news was announced, it also greatly reduced the negative impact of the layoff plan.

This world is never short of sighted people.

Immediately after the layoffs, the salary increase made many people understand that the layoffs of Daenerys Entertainment are not for the purpose of increasing profits, but are more likely to be considered by the development of the enterprise itself.

After the salary adjustment, Daenerys Entertainment is still the company with the highest average salary in Hollywood.

To a large extent, this also makes Daenerys Entertainment employees more cherish their work, thus enhancing the vitality of the entire company.

The time entered February 1992.

In the last box office week in January, the total box office of "Flash" North America, which lasted exactly six weeks, officially exceeded 200 million US dollars, reaching 211.11 million US dollars.

At the same time, from January 23 to January 30, the single-week box office of "The Flash" still reached 10.77 million US dollars.Based on the long-term box office trend of this movie, it will be no problem to add another 40 million US dollars in the follow-up.

"The Flash" was a big success at the box office, and the implementation of the DC Film Universe project became smoother.

The post-production of "Wonder Woman", which is scheduled for this summer, is nearing completion. The preparatory preparations for "Superman", "Steel Bone" and "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" are all continuing.

Simon returned to Los Angeles from Sundance, and Warner began asking questions about the sequel to The Flash.

The copyright of "The Flash" is entirely owned by Warner. Even if Simon is set aside, Warner can develop the second part according to his own ideas.

However, the first episode of "The Flash" has achieved such outstanding results, such a good situation, the entire Time Warner up and down, even a group of people who are tit-for-tat against Steve Rose, dare not easily destroy.

Therefore, the actual control of this series is in the hands of Simon, the first producer.

Because in addition to "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "The Flash" last year, Warner Brothers also released box office blockbuster projects such as "Grand Theft Robin" and "Death", Warner originally planned for Simon to lengthen the DC film universe project production cycle. The resentment is also much smaller.

As long as they are a little minded, they probably understand the truth of the long stream.

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

The time is February 5.

Disney CEO Michael Eisner rushed to the administrative area from the northern entrance of the studio, learned that Simon was on the second floor of the studio, and he was brought here.

The appointed time is four o'clock in the afternoon, and now the time is just right.

Simon has just spent two hours checking out the latter part of Wonder Woman, when he is in the model effects department of Daenerys effects.

Although CG is a major trend of Hollywood special effects, the demand for model special effects will be greatly reduced in the future, but it will never disappear.

The model special effects department of Daenerys special effects is more than just the monster models that ordinary people imagine, the superhero car of the "Batman" series, the large-scale dinosaur props of the "Jurassic Park" just started shooting, and the big production videos. The props required for the scenes such as the explosion of the speeding car are all in charge of the model special effects department.

Taking advantage of the gap between meeting with Eisner, Simon wanted to see the shape of Poison Ivy.

The last "Batman: The Dark Knight", the two villains are the clown and poison ivy.

According to the plot settings that have been basically completed, the clown will also shine in the end of the opening trilogy, but for Simon, he actually looks forward to the performance of Poison Ivy.

In addition, the role of Poison Ivy has also been determined.

Simon gave the character to Nicole Kidman.

There are some small coincidences among them.

In the original timeline, Mia’s role in Pulp Fiction was played by Uma Thurman, who then starred in the poison ivy girl of Batman and Robin in 1997.

Now, Nicole gets the role of Mia in the new version of "Pulp Fiction", and at the same time, she is also selected by Simon to play the poison ivy girl.

Of course Simon did not deliberately make this kind of coincidence, but compared to several other actresses of the same age, Nicole is indeed very suitable for this role in acting, fame and even temperament.

By comparison, Simon felt that the poison ivy played by Uma Thurman could no longer be described as bad, it was completely nonsense.It's just that the green tights, which are very cheap to look at, make people completely lose their illusions of poison ivy.

The poison ivy was supposed to be green, not just a green tights.

Simon's initial setting was to refer to the poison ivy setting in the game version of "Batman: Arkham Knight". However, after testing, the shirt with only one button exposed was obviously not suitable for actual shooting.

After repeated adjustments by the stylist, the long sleeves and hem of the'shirt' were cut off. After trying again, the modified'shirt' turned into a more textured dark red leather'jacket', of course, short sleeves, The length of the hem is just under the breast, and it is somewhat similar to the female sports vest.

In fact, I have considered wrapping with plants.

This is more in line with many settings of Poison Ivy, except that Simon is really difficult to accept the false feeling brought by plastic plants.

If it is many years later, the actors can put on motion capture suits and directly put a layer of'real plants' on the CG. Although the current technology can do this, the effect is not too good, and the cost also seems to be Too high.So I chose a sexy burgundy half-length jacket.

In addition, the poison shorts reference game version of the triangle shorts settings have been modified to be more conservative hot pants.

This is also due to the actual shooting considerations. Once the character modeling in the game is completed, it will definitely not be out of the way, which is not necessarily the case in reality.

Moreover, the actual effect of triangle shorts is not as good as hot pants.

The most critical poison ivy skin, Simon will of course not let the character put on a cheap green tights like Uma Thurman, but really paint the skin green.

This is also the most complicated part of the poison ivy image.

Just simply paint a layer of green, it looks absolutely fake.

What Simon wants is a natural green color. After seeing it, the audience instinctively feels that this person should be green.

Therefore, the green makeup of poison ivy needs to show a natural sense of chlorophyll quality, and even the details of natural skin texture defects must be involved.

In short, it is to give people a sense of authenticity.

In order to achieve the effect that Simon wanted, Daenerys special effects mobilized a bunch of teams composed of special effects artists and makeup artists to take charge of this matter. After several months of repeated attempts, only recently came out that gradually satisfied Simon. Makeup effect.

Michael Eisner entered the office area of ​​the special effects department of the Daenerys special effects model, and his eyes were immediately attracted by the hot and slender'poison ivy'.

If he didn't understand where he was, he might even feel that he might have seen another race.

This is the final result of the Daenerys special effects team for the poison ivy girl.

Nicole Kidman certainly didn't have time to follow up the styling development in person, so several of the "Poison Ivy Girls" were model avatars found by Daenerys special effects.

The bottom of my heart was somewhat dissatisfied with Simon's double-mindedness in meeting with himself, but Eisner didn't show it.

Following the reviews enthusiastically, as a filmmaker, I couldn’t help but envy the technical level of the special effects of Daenerys. After a few moments, I sent away a few people who used four hours of makeup but only watched by a certain man. A few eyed girls, Simon and Eisner talked about the business.

The thing is about the side contract that Simon signed with Disney for the release of "When Harry and Sally".

Seeing that Simon's status in Hollywood is getting higher and higher, there are more than one rumors that Simon may no longer direct the film himself, and Disney does not intend to continue to wait.

After communicating a few times in advance, Disney's intention is to hope that this film can be replaced with a cooperation project with Daenerys Entertainment.

It is definitely impossible to direct the film in the short term, and Simon did not reject Disney's suggestion.

In addition, Daenerys Entertainment also needs to add some external cooperation projects to ensure a close relationship with other studios, so today Eisner was interviewed in person.