Hollywood Hunter

Ed Warren and Rowling Warren were born in the 1920s, and the couple began to work on spiritual investigation and exorcism in the 1950s.

In the 1970s, influenced by the fever of "The Exorcist", the spooky events across North America began to receive frequent media attention. The Warrens and Mrs. became famous from that era.

The two horror materials of this time, "The Soul" and "The Haunted Morgue in the Mortuary", are both adapted from the personal experience of the Warren couple. Both stories also happened in Connecticut in northern New York.

However, the copyright sources of the two projects are different.

After becoming famous, the Warrens were interviewed everywhere, and authorized some writers to create books, so a lot of real and false stories appeared.

In addition, the experiencers of the spiritual events themselves will also be interviewed by the media.

For the two projects this time, the former comes from the personal storytelling of the Warrens and the latter, and the latter is based on the novels of the event experiencer Snedek's family after being interviewed.

After lunch, Simon took Danny Morris to his office and the two continued the discussion.

"About the creation of the script, I will take the time to prepare an idea for you," the two sat at the desk, and Simon said: "The most important issue now is copyright. The Warrens should have received many interviews and Authorization. Next, I need you to investigate in detail all the external authorization status of the couple. Danny, I don’t want someone to jump out and sue us for infringement and other things like 100 million dollars after the release of the film."

On the original timeline, after the release of "The Soul" and the excellent box office, the Warrens once authorized an author who wrote the experience of the two people's spiritual investigation to claim Warner's $900 million for the lion's mouth.

Hollywood’s similar lawsuits are numerous each year. Of course, $900 million will only be a joke.

However, because of more ambitions for this series, Simon also does not want to encounter these bad things that could have avoided repeated rashes.

Danny Morris is naturally clear about the frequent copyright disputes in Hollywood, but he is sure: "Simon, the copyright should be no problem. In the spirit of "The Soul", we retained the recordings of the Warrens and signed a license agreement. "The Haunted Morgue in the Mortuary" is also related to the Warrens, but it is a novel written by the horror novelist Ray Caton after interviewing the Sneijder family. We have also signed an agreement with Caton."

Simon nodded and shook his head again, saying: "In fact, Danny, I think the experience of the Warrens is far more than the value of this "soul". The material you gave me shows that Warren The couple has been engaged in spiritual investigation for thirty years and has saved a large number of items that have been cursed or infested. Have you ever thought about making these two experiences of the couple into a long-term series."

The story of "The Soul" is just a capture of the long and spooky investigator career of the Warren couple. Danny Morris didn't think about it for too long. When Simon said this, he immediately burst out: "This is indeed a good The idea, Simon, I will immediately ask people to investigate what the Warrens might authorize."

"Actually, you still don't quite understand it," Simon smiled at the corner of his mouth, saying: "I mean, since we have successfully created a DC movie universe, then, for 30 years, the Warren couple's supernatural investigator Career as a material, we may also be able to create a universe of horror movie interlocking."

The DC movie universe is definitely one of the biggest innovations since the birth of Hollywood.

For most Hollywood filmmakers, the only thing that can compete with the DC movie universe is probably the Marvel movie universe waiting to be developed by Daenerys Entertainment.

Danny Morris did not expect that Simon would attach so much importance to the Warrens, even to create a dedicated film universe.

This is the'movie universe'.

Although it is clear that the market capacity limit of horror movies,

What's more, compared to the DC movie universe that now has an investment of US$70-80 million, the biggest advantage of horror movies is the low cost, so the risk is lower.

After a moment of thought, Danny Morris couldn't help but swallowed subconsciously, realizing his state of affairs, he laughed ridiculously, but then said seriously, "It seems that I will next There are many things to do."

"This is just an idea for me," Simon slightly lowered the temperature for Danny Morris, saying: "The key is to see whether these two projects will succeed, if the box office of "The Soul" and "The Haunted Morgue in the Morgue" The performance is too mediocre, so the idea of ​​the film universe is impossible to talk about, so before at least two films are released, you better not talk about this casually with others."

Danny Morris nodded again, even if Simon did not remind him, he would do so.

Not only to avoid becoming a joke after failure, if the outside world learns that Daenerys Entertainment plans to create a new movie universe, it will definitely attract a lot of troubles such as copycats and follow-up imitations. .

Danny Morris is already thinking about how to sign an exclusive agreement with the Warrens.

Seeing that Danny Morris was in thought, Simon did not disturb for a while, opened a document and read for a while, and after a short time, he looked up again and said, "There is also the matter of "Detective Aircraft Head," I think the name is called The actors of Kim Carey have their own performance characteristics. You can give each other as much room as possible during the production process. Well, yes, how was the contract signed?"

Danny Morris heard Simon change the subject and temporarily withdrew his mind.

"The Soul" and "The Haunted Time in the Mortuary" are the earliest summer events next year. "Detective Aircraft Head" is the scheduled movie for Easter next year.

Regarding Kim Carey, Danny Morris also didn't quite understand why Simon took a fancy to this unknown little actor's performance.

Kim Carey is thirty years old and has been playing small roles in various films before. The more well-known is a supporting character in the film "Peggy Sue Will Marry" directed by Coppola in 1986.

It wasn't until two years ago, relying on a TV comedy "Vivid Colors" that had a good rating, that the popularity of Kim Carey barely reached the second line.

Since Simon designated the other to appear in "Detective Aircraft Head", Danny Morris would not be polite to the unlucky little actor, saying: "According to the original Julia Roberts contract, there are five in total. "Head" has a pay of $200,000, followed by four, with a cap of up to $5 million, and a contract period of 15 years."

If he can predict the future, Simon is sure that Kim Carey will not sign such a contract.

The original timeline, 1994, was not only a year of great Hollywood movies, but also the most glorious year of Kim Carey. The comedian released three films at one time, "Detective Aircraft Head", "Dumb and Agua" and "Disguised Geek", not only did all three films sell at the box office, but "Dumb and Agua" and "Disguised Geek" also squeezed into the top ten of the annual box office list.

Ordinary people always talk about which Hollywood star has joined the 20 million remuneration club. What many people don’t know is that the first Hollywood star to reach $20 million without relying on a fixed remuneration is just gold. ·Kerry.

If after participating in the movie box office big sale, the highest film reward can only get 5 million US dollars, although this is already the salary standard of first-line superstars, but Simon knows Kim Carey, this star will certainly not be reconciled.

However, this world obviously has no regrets to take.

Of course, there is one more point. Simon will have a little control this time, and won’t give Kim Carey another chance to hit three big movies a year.

The three films of Kim Carey in 1994 in the memory, the script of "Detective Aircraft Head" has been in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment, and the "Disguised Geek" adapted from a comic book of Dark Horse Comics has also been won, and finally A dumb and agua is a bit troublesome.

The original version of "Dumb and Agua", the director and screenwriter in the main list are all Ferrari brothers.

This is actually not the case.

The script for "Dumb and Agua" was originally from John Hughes.

However, because the script is not complete, it is similar to a story outline, and it is not valued by John Hughes. After New Line Pictures paid for this story, the two parties negotiated and John Hughes gave up the signature. As a result, the film became the work of the Ferrari brothers who took over the responsibility of improving the script.

After the success of the series "Home Alone", John Hughes has completely abandoned his directorial work in recent years, focusing on running his own Hughes Entertainment Company as a screenwriter and producer, and at the same time again adding to his requirements for creating films. Profit sharing, Hughes, who recently cooperated with Warner Bros. Pictures, directly opened an overweight 10% gross revenue share for all channels.

Gross revenue and net profit are completely two concepts.

Take the box office as an example. The gross income is equivalent to the share of the studio’s income from the movie box office. Without deducting the production and advertising costs, John Hughes directly draws 10% from it.

Compared to Daenerys Entertainment, which is only 10% of the local box office share, and John Hughes’s 10% this time, although it is only half of the share of Daenerys Entertainment at the local box office, it includes global box office and video tapes. All channels including sales, TV broadcast revenue and even movie peripheral sales.

Under such conditions, if the movie box office is not good enough, the studio may lose money with little attention, but Hughes is making a profit and taking no risk at all.

Simon roughly knows that the series "Home Alone" is basically the pinnacle of John Hughes. After the 1990s, with the rise of blockbusters, Hughes' movie style was quickly eliminated by Hollywood.

Therefore, "Home Alone 2" is the last project of Daenerys Entertainment and John Hughes.

In the original time and space, the new line can spend a lot of money from Hughes, who is still hot after making two "Ghosts", and just bought a script idea, and finally succeeded in picking up the leak. Daenerys Entertainment is obviously impossible to do so now.

Moreover, now Simon is not interested in risking creative crashes to toss out Dumb and Agua.

Not surprisingly, this vulgar comedy is likely to be completely fanned out.

Continue to discuss with Danny Morris for half an hour, basically finalizing the two projects of "Detective Aircraft Head" and "Disguised Geek" will be produced continuously, and the protagonist is naturally Kim Carey.

"Detective Aircraft Head" will be produced in the second half of the year and will be scheduled for Easter next year. "Ghost in Disguise" will be filmed early next year and will be scheduled for the end of next year. This will save at least a lot of money."Detective Aircraft Head" is not released, and the pay for Kim Carey's participation in "Transformer" can still be controlled at the level of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

After Danny Morris left, the female assistant came over to remind that there was a regular meeting of Dannilis Entertainment on the recent annual financial review.

The financial report for 1992 won't be released until February, this time is only a weekly report.

In the plan, Daenerys Entertainment will start preparing for the IPO from the end of this year, and no surprise, it officially went public in the summer of 1994.

Therefore, the financial data of 1992 is very important for promoting Daenerys Entertainment's IPO process.

In 1992, the most important business of Daenerys Entertainment was still movies.

According to the deadline of December 31, 1992, the top ten films of the North American box office in 1992 are calculated as follows:

First place: "Wonder Woman", $371 million

Second place: "Aladdin", $176 million

Third place: "Jurassic Park", $163 million (in release)

Fourth place: "Fatal Weapon 3", $143 million

Fifth place: "Home Alone 2", $142 million (in the show)

Sixth place: "Midnight Bell", $131 million (in the show)

Seventh place: "Moment of Kill", $114 million

Eighth place: "Ninja Turtles", $113 million

Ninth place: "Nun is crazy," $108 million

Tenth place: "Peachy Deal", 93.11 million US dollars

It is not difficult to find that this list is not only, except for "Aladdin", "Fatal Weapon 3" and "Nun Is Crazy", the other seven movies are all related to Daenerys Entertainment.

This ratio is basically the same as last year.

However, compared with 1991, after the acquisition of MCA by Daenerys Entertainment, the increased distribution strength of the three movie labels in 1992 increased significantly again, thus also bringing more market share to the rapidly rising Hollywood giant.

Throughout 1992, the total box office of the North American film market reached 5.36 billion US dollars.

Among the films directly released by Daenerys Entertainment, all 41 films are calculated in the period from January 1 to December 31, 1992 (including the 1992 box office portion of the films released in 1991, and the 1992 films are not counted. In 1993, the total box office figure reached 2.13 billion US dollars, with a market share of 39.7%.

If you count the $294 million at the box office of the three foreign cooperative films "Moment of Kill", "Peach Deal" and "The Last Moxigan", the proportion will be further increased to 45.1%.

The annual box office market share of other major studios can exceed 20%, which is enough to open champagne to celebrate.In a fiercely competitive market such as Hollywood, which has seven coexisting and a large number of second- and third-tier film companies, there is suddenly a Big Mac with a market share of nearly 40%. This is an oligarch level that is completely upholding.