Hollywood Hunter

After talking about some things with girl A, after a while, the president of New World Pictures Danny Morris arrived.

The Easter schedule opens this Friday, and Danny Morris arrives. In addition to discussing the Easter schedule of "Retro Fight 2" and the progress of a series of projects being promoted by New World Pictures, there is another thing. About completely ruining the already shaky new line of film industry.

It has been successively taken away by Da Ni Lisi Entertainment, such as "Ninja Turtles" and other selling projects, and has been subjected to strong competition from New World Entertainment in the field of horror films. Relying on the new line of film industry that the "Meng Gui Street" series has risen in recent years It can be described as getting worse.

Not only that, at the beginning of the year, Simon also used some means to dispel the idea of ​​Time Warner acquiring the new line of film industry, and cut off the most important life of the new line.

You should know that the new line was acquired by Time Warner in 1993, and it has a continuous flow of funds and media resources. This has won the "Peak Moment" and "Ace Card" from the late 1990s to the beginning of the new century. A series of successes such as "Spy" and "The Lord of the Rings".Miramax also became a leader in the art field by anchoring under Disney.

In comparison, those second- and third-tier film companies that want to remain independent for a long time lack the support of the entire industry chain of large media groups, and their ability to resist risks is very low. They are basically short-lived.

The success of the "Meng Gui Street" series in the 1980s made the new line the envy of many other second- and third-line film companies, and it really moistened for a while.However, as the economic situation has turned sharply in recent years, the new line has been blindly eager to expand under Simon's intentional and unintentional sniping and no new selling series has been born, so it quickly declined.

In 1984, he ventured to invest $1.8 million in the production of "Meng Gui Street", making the new line evolve from a small workshop that can only distribute low-cost B-level movies to a second-line film company with the ability to produce and distribute alone.

With the decline of the company, the leaders of New Line Pictures once again put their bets on "Menggui Street".

This time, the new line invited Wes Craven, the director of the first "Meng Gui Street" series, to invest $12 million to create the seventh "Meng Gui Street" movie "New Meng Gui Street" since 1984. ", and invested 5 million US dollars in the announcement budget, selected on April 9, the week of Easter, the same period as "Fight Fight 2".

The total investment of 17 million US dollars is not worth mentioning to Daenerys Entertainment, but it is the last fight of New Line Pictures.

As long as the local box office of "New Meng Gui Street" reaches the level of 50 million US dollars, through the local box office revenue and subsequent other receipts, the new line will be able to pay off this year's due debts, and its own financial pressure will be eased to continue to survive in Hollywood. Go on.

Before New World Pictures was acquired by Daenerys Entertainment, it was actually the most direct competitor of the new line.

Both companies are involved in the field of horror films, and New World Pictures has followed suit "Menggui Street" to create its own "Menggui Chasing Soul" series.

However, the original New World Films failed to create a relatively popular blockbuster such as "Meng Gui Street", which could only be acquired by Daenerys Entertainment.

Danny Morris used to be a senior executive at New World Entertainment, so it's not surprising that Simon is suppressing New Line Pictures.

Hollywood plates are limited after all.

Erased the new line of film industry that is good at knowing the field. Even if the market vacated by the other party is very small, it can allow the New World Film brand to get more space to move, while avoiding this company suddenly creating an explosive series. Compete with the market of New World Pictures.

Teachers must always be famous.

Inexplicably targeting the new line of film industry will certainly arouse criticism from peers.

It happened that, in order to promote "New Meng Gui Street", the management of the new line also brought in "Scream" during this time.

Also in the series directed by Wes Craven, the three "Screams" are much more popular than the "Ghost Street" series.The new line not only printed'new fierce ghost street on some advertising posters,

At this time, if you publicly protest the new line's deliberately rubbing the popular propaganda strategy of "Scream", it will only promote the propaganda of "New Mengjie".

However, the circle quickly spread rumors that Daenerys Entertainment was very dissatisfied with the new line's promotional strategy.

With an excuse, it's logical to do some actions.

The new line originally hoped to win more than 2,000 open screens for "New Fierce Ghost Street". Under the operation of Daenerys Entertainment, it finally won only more than 1,300 blocks.

In terms of publicity and marketing, "New Mighty Ghost Street" could not be compared with "Anti-intellectual Multi-Star 2" because of the target of Daenerys Entertainment and the $5 million release budget, the publicity effect is even less satisfactory.

Now that the film hasn't been released, many people in Hollywood have already smelled the impending failure of "New Mighty Ghost Street".

Unless the film can get more word of mouth than expected in the media.

However, under the media network that Daenerys Entertainment has vigorously developed in recent years, this is obviously unlikely.

In the office, after listening to some arrangements by Danny Morris, Simon thought about it and said, "Traditional paper media can say a little hello. Don't deliberately publish negative articles over the Igreat portal. It’s enough to let “New Ghost Street” disappear from the Igret Portal, and try not to report anything.”

It is too obvious to deliberately use your own media platform to target a movie.

Simon still prefers the credibility of Igret's portal.

Danny Morris nodded and then said: "Also, Simon, the new line has accumulated some good movie rights over the years, do we need to shoot?"

Simon shook his head and said, "Let’s wait for the release of "New Mob Street". Before a movie is released, no one can be sure what its box office will be. In addition, what we need to do is to avoid the new line in "New Mob Ghost". After Street, find other ways out."

As a independent second-line film company, the new line's previous source of funding mainly relied on loans. At present, the company's debt scale is large enough that it is impossible to obtain funds from bank channels. Therefore, the new line's outlet is actually not much, it is best One of them is to sell to other big Hollywood studios and become a sub-brand of the other party.

Time Warner's channel was strangled by Simon, but Hollywood is not without other studios may initiate acquisitions to the new line.

What Daenerys Entertainment has to do is to stop this possibility and make the new line truly go bankruptcy and liquidation.

After finishing the day's work, Simon returned to Dumei Point Estate at more than six o'clock.

Unconsciously, the Indian girl Alia, who became a maid of Westeros from Janet Yoga coach, greeted him and said a few words, Simon came to a living room in the villa by the sea.

In the living room, Janet lay lazily on the sofa, making a video call with Melbourne, and the projection screen on the wall showed the picture across the ocean.

Counting time, Australia should be noon.

Veronica in the picture is also feeding Melbourne. The little guy is not honest and always wants to grab things with his hands. When Simon enters the door, he happens to see the little guy almost climbing to the table.

Seeing Simon coming, Janet immediately threatened: "Moore, Dad is back, eat well, don't let Dad spank you."

Simon squeezed Janet down next to him with a smile, slammed a note on the woman's hip, and nodded to the big screen.

The camera is on the projection screen, the distance is far, and the angle of view is wide.

Veronica happened to see Simon's little movement of hitting Janet's ass, nodded to Simon with an unnatural expression, helped the little guy who wanted to climb the table to wipe the corner of his mouth, and asked softly, "How is it today?" "

Since starting to take care of Melbourne, Veronica has shown a lot of ease and normality in front of Simon, and even the cold personality that Janet once called'Iceberg' has changed a lot.

Simon can actually understand the reason.

Holding a small hand Janet lying on his back from behind, Simon said: "Good, how about you?"

Veronica is obviously not accustomed to this kind of greeting, um, it seems inappropriate again, adding: "Moore learned another word today." He looked down at the child in his arms and guided the little one speak.

The one-year-old child obviously didn’t have much idea about video communication, and ignored Veronica’s guidance at all. After some hard work, he finally climbed up to the dining table, caught a seasoning bottle as expected, and naturally entered his mouth give away.

Janet, who was lying on Simon's body, couldn't help but laugh, and encouraged: "Aunt, don't stop him, let him suffer a little bit, and be at peace."

Veronica apparently didn't follow Janet's suggestion, got up and picked up Melbourne, and didn't forcibly remove the seasoning bottle from the child's hand, just blocking the little guy from sprinkling salt into her mouth.

Janet was disappointed and complained: "Auntie, you are so fond of Moore."

Veronica took the little guy and sat down at the dining table again, letting the child throw out the seasoning bottle that soon lost interest, and made a few tinkling sounds outside the field of vision. Small, of course naughty."

Talking on this side, and continued to toss for more than ten minutes, the little guy finally finished eating.

Veronica said she wanted to take the child out for a walk. The little guy liked to stay outside, so he hung up the video call.

Turning off the call screen, Janet still lay on Simon's body, intimately touching the man for a moment, and said, "I originally wanted to take Moore back to take care of it for a while."

Simon felt the smoothness of Janet's delicate face and said, "Yes."

"However, my aunt likes Moore very much, what if my aunt takes the child back?"

Simon paused and said casually: "Come here together."

Then the ear was bitten.

Feeling the threatening engagement of two rows of small teeth, Simon immediately surrendered: "When I didn't say."

Janet used a little force, and then let Simon go, and continued to stick on his back: "Actually, I also thought of asking my aunt to help. On the east coast, only Rebold looked bad. You know, my aunt used to be responsible for the company’s finances, which is just right. I can also bring Moore back for a while."

With that said, Janet probed Simon's expression and hummed a few times, saying, "However, you won't let you succeed."

Simon was smart enough not to pick up the stubble. He kissed Janet's face on his side and said, "What do you want to eat for dinner? I'll tell them?"

"I have arranged it."

When the man changed the subject, Janet didn't chase it, so he said, and turned: "The financing negotiations between Igrid and Goldman Sachs and Morgan are not very smooth."

"The initiative is on our side, I really don't want to, this batch of shares can be given to Solomon or Bear Stearns, and First Boston is also very interested."

"But this effect will be much smaller."

"Then it is impossible to take the initiative to compromise. In fact, I have withdrawn many times over the years. Our family is so deep that there is no need to keep retreating.

In the original "Rola Run", although Simon made his fortune, most of the profits were still taken by Orion.

Later, he actively cooperated with other studios in Hollywood to carefully avoid conflicts in the financial market. Last year, he even gave up such a great opportunity as the pound crisis. It can be said that Simon’s opportunities for voluntary concessions in these years are really countless.

Janet walked along with Simon, knowing all the arrangements for men, knowing how to put them on his face again, and said: "It is a fool who thinks you are giving in actively. If you are always there How can it become the first billion-dollar billionaire in the world to lose money?"

Simon also smiled and said: "I still want others to find it easy to take advantage of me, but the Westlok company wants to expand next, the difficulty will definitely continue to increase, because it will touch the interests of many people."

Hollywood's initial impression of Simon was a film genius who turned out to be able to bring a lot of profits to everyone, so it is inevitable to relax his guard.

So, as if suddenly, Daenerys Entertainment has developed into a behemoth that leads Hollywood's traditional studios and is unstoppable.

In the field of new technology, this is a completely new market.

No traditional interest class has encountered fierce conflicts in reshuffle, so development can be described as smooth sailing.

Next, this state of smooth wind and water will inevitably change as the Westeros system continues to expand.

Not only are traditional media such as the Hearst Group increasingly jealous of the Internet’s new media platforms, but in view of the tremendous benefits contained in the Internet industry, traditional capital will also inevitably continue to increase its efforts to enter the market.

Simon's holdings in Cisco and AOL have basically reached the safety line. For Igrid destined to become a behemoth in the Internet field, Simon will also make a'concession', not only this active financing, Simon even The future split plan has been planned in advance.

It's just that Simon will choose to share some benefits.Simon will never let go if he does not intend to give up.