Hollywood Hunter

As the Westeros system successively completed the financing transactions of Igret and the acquisition of Christie's, the time also entered May 1993.

The summer season is approaching, and many blockbuster movies this summer have begun the final sprint promotion phase.

Daenerys Entertainment's main summer title should be "Superman" in theory, but according to the original agreement, Warner Bros. Pictures was responsible for the distribution rights of the film.

In several other films, "Sleepless Night in Seattle" is a cooperation project with Disney, "Assassination Order of the Goose" is a cooperation project with Warner Brothers, and only "Sugar Trap" starring Keanu Reeves is Daenerys. The film industry is personally responsible for the distribution.In addition, for the four-month summer season, Daenerys Entertainment's two other brands, New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures, will also launch their own films in the summer season.

Concerned about the upcoming summer file, after this period of operation, the recording business of Daenerys Entertainment has officially been transformed. The Daenerys Recording Group (DMG) has been initially completed. In fact, it is mainly the name. Too much adjustment.

On the other hand, Barry Weiss, the president of Jive Records, who has created back-street boys, Britney Spears and other young pop singers, successfully joined the Daenerys Records Group at the invitation of Daenerys Entertainment.

Richard Palmes, the former president of Universal Records, was reorganized to the position of CEO of Daenerys Records Group after the reorganization of the record business, and he was responsible for the overall situation of DMG.

After years of development, large record groups are basically composed of many record subsidiaries.

The original Universal Records seems to be a company. In fact, there are 7 record subsidiaries that still remain active, such as the Geffen Records where Guns Rose is located, the Dika Records where Cher is located, and the futuristic focus on death rock. Records, etc.There have been countless sub-brands that were once active as their artists broke the contract or died out.

Simon gave Barry Weiss the position of president of Infinity, a record subsidiary of DMG. Although the position is equivalent to that of Jive Records, a subsidiary of RCA Records, the resources and permissions available are far beyond Jive Records. .

Infinite Records will next focus on creating young pop singers. The parent company DMG will do its utmost to ensure the promotion and promotion of singers signed by this subsidiary.

Simon can actually give Barry Weiss a higher position, but for a huge DMG, too high a position will only allow Barry Weiss to fall into unnecessary administrative affairs.Handing a subsidiary of Infinity Records to the other party will make Barry Weiss more focused on the youth pop field.

The initial adjustment of the record business was completed, Barry Weiss also successfully entered the job, the next step is to find a signed singer.

Compared with Hollywood, where the actor's coffee is hierarchical, the music industry is roughly divided into two types of singers, one is already famous and the other is not famous.

This is not to say that there is no difference between the singers, but that the competition in this industry is far more intense than Hollywood. When the actors are not famous, they can still wait for opportunities at the bottom. For singers, it is impossible to own many movies. TV shows let you go for a run. If you don’t sign a record company and don’t make a name, then you are nothing.

However, compared to the actor industry that still requires talented skills, the threshold for singing is much lower for most people.

This also leads to the number of young people who are dreaming of singers, no less than the scale of the unknown little actors who are on the bottom of Hollywood.

Therefore, many record companies can receive a large number of self-recommended test tapes submitted by potential singers almost every day.

However, the larger the record company, the more cautious the contracted singer will be, because once the contracted singer fails to succeed after paying a lot of resources, the person in charge is likely to lose his job.

Now that the development goals of Infinity Records have been determined, after Barry Weiss joined the company,

In fact, I want to find some singers who are more familiar in memory.

In the list of a large number of candidate singers, Simon did find a combination he wanted: Backstreet Boys.

Backstreet Boys is a recently formed group of five young people in Orlando, Florida. After learning from the media that DMG is selecting young singers, he submitted his audition tape to Infinity Records, and then was selected by Simon.

However, there are still some problems with this matter.

Although the five people in the group all have good singing skills and talents, two of them are underage, and the youngest Nick Carter is only 13 years old.

Now that Simon fancyd the name'Backstreet Boy', the remaining problems were of course solved by Barry Weiss.

It is famous to be early, and there are no regulations in the music industry that minors are not allowed to enter. However, since it is necessary to create a group of teenager boys mainly for junior and high school students, it is naturally inappropriate for 13-year-old Xiaozheng, who has just reached the age of junior high school.

The solution is actually very simple, remove two minors from the group, and find two young people as substitutes.

Several young people didn't have much expectations when they submitted the audition tape. They were suddenly selected, and they were naturally overjoyed. It was even more unacceptable for Infinite Records to propose a substitution.

Therefore, both parties quickly finalized a 10-year contract.

Barry Weiss also obtained the permanent copyright of the combined name of “Backstreet Boys” through a contract. In the future, no matter whether a member withdraws or the combination is disbanded, the name of “Backstreet Boys” will belong to Infinite Records. On the basis of this name, people will be re-selected to form this group, and the team members who leave will also be prohibited from using the name of “Backstreet Boy” for any commercial activities.

In fact, backstreet boys are more of a practice for Infinity Records for Simon, in order to sum up a set of rapid copying operation process of young pop singers.

Creating a combination from scratch has never been an easy task, and it is costly.

In order to express the importance of Infinity Records, Simon not only gave Barry Weiss a year in the operation of the'Backstreet Boys' project, the resources of DMG were allowed to be used by each other, and he planned to at least work with Barry Weiss every week. Meet once to understand the progress of each other's work and give you suggestions based on the information in your memory.

In addition, Infinite Records has begun to identify other potential young singer seeds.

Compared with the backstreet boy group that has been formed directly, Simon hopes that, like the Korean mass training of pop singers, he has begun to sign up to cultivate pop singer seeds from the age of fourteen or five, and professionally trained singers from vocal to body. After the launch The chance of fame is far higher than that of the grass-roots team from the bottom, and even the professional life will be longer. This is beyond doubt.

With this decision, Simon's eyes naturally fell on Disney's famous Mickey Mouse Club.

The “famous name” here is actually for the latecomer Simon.

Mickey Mouse Club is a Disney variety show on the Disney Channel, which mainly performs singing, dancing and short plays.

For Disney, the ratings of this program are very general. In Simon's memory, this program may have been stopped due to the low ratings in the past two years.

However, among the members of the Mickey Mouse Club, famous actors and singers such as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, etc. have emerged in the following years. .

While operating the'Backstreet Boys', under the direction of Simon, Barry Weiss also began to quietly follow the group of teenagers in the Mickey Mouse Club.

Britney Spears are only twelve or three years old. DMG has no intention of raising them for five or six years, so it is not suitable for signing.Among them are age-appropriate, for example, Kelly Russell, who is 17 years old this year, although the body shape is very good, but compared with Britney, Christina and others, the gap in singing skills is very obvious. The 17-year-old Age also lacks plasticity and can only be given up.

Simon actually considered creating a group of young singers through music elective programs. In doing so, it can provide Daenerys TV with a brand-new hot reality show and also provide some excellent singer seeds for record companies.

After giving consideration, he still gave up.

At this stage, the reality show of Daenerys TV is still several such as "Who Will Be a Millionaire" originally launched by Simon, and these programs have a good life for the time being.The most important point is that before acquiring a public television network, Simon does not plan to launch a phenomenal reality show. These are still left to the television network that will come from home.

In a busy time, time came unconsciously on May 14.

It's a Friday.

The most important summer game "Superman" will be released on June 4, in order to avoid this blockbuster, the summer game officially opened today.

On this day, the North American theater launched a total of three films: Fox's "Fighting Condor 2", Columbia Pictures' "My Genius Family" and New World Pictures' "Bruce Bruce Lee".

However, on this day, most of the media in North America paid most attention to the "Jurassic Park", which was released last Christmas and was officially painted in the North American theater.

After a five-month screening, "Jurassic Park" eventually accumulated US$35.671 million at the box office in North America.

At the same time, the screening of "Jurassic Park" in overseas markets has basically ended. Among them, only Japan has obtained a box office equivalent to 120 million US dollars. In addition, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany have achieved box office figures. Forty or fifty million dollars.

After the following weekend's statistics, Jurassic Park's overseas box office also reached $57,311 million, and it is expected that there will be about $50 million in overseas follow-up payments.

Therefore, as of mid-May, "Jurassic Park" was painted in North America, the global box office of this dinosaur sci-fi blockbuster reached US$92.982 million, and in the next few months, it was completely painted worldwide. This phenomenon is heavy The global box office for pound bombs will be around US$980 million.

Even if there are still some regrets that it is difficult to break through the $1 billion mark, the global box office of $980 million is enough to surpass the global record of 960 million dollars in Batman: Moment of Battle to advance to the position of global box office champion in film history.

At the US$980 million box office worldwide, excluding all the production and distribution budgets and the share of Spielberg and other creatives, Daenerys Entertainment can still obtain revenues of US$200 million.

Moreover, the box office is only part of the profit contribution of "Jurassic Park".

This project's revenue and peripheral products have also accumulated sales of 1.3 billion US dollars in recent months, contributing a profit of nearly 200 million US dollars. It is expected that the sales of peripheral products of this movie will be expected before the "Jurassic Park 2" Reached 2 billion US dollars.

In addition, taking into account the future video and television broadcasts, and even the benefits of Universal Studios Jurassic Park theme park, this movie alone will bring a net worth of not less than $1 billion to Daenerys Entertainment profit.

As "Jurassic Park" went down in North America, while overseas countries discussed the Hollywood invasion, North American media also noticed the slow development of this series of sequels.

Spielberg's "Schindler's List" has been successful, and began to return to Hollywood for post-production.

However, in recent interviews, Spielberg’s answers to the “Jurassic Park” sequel were ambiguous, and the response from Daenerys’ entertainment executives in the interview was unclear, which made many Everyone smelled something different.

According to the original Spielberg contract with Universal, after the "Schindler's List", the veteran movie star just owed Daenerys an entertainment contract.

However, the two sides clearly disagreed on the sequel to Jurassic Park.

The greatest possibility is undoubtedly a dispute of interests.

Daenerys Entertainment expects to earn $1 billion through the Jurassic Park project. Spielberg’s salary, including the base salary and share, is about $45 million.

For Hollywood filmmakers, the figure of $45 million is definitely already sky-high.

But Spielberg was clearly not satisfied with his salary figures.

If according to the previous share strategy, such as the 20% net profit share of the previous channel when working with Colombia, the salary he can get is at least US$200 million.

Daenerys Entertainment seemed to give a very secure plan to directly extract from the box office. With the movie box office selling, this other Hollywood filmmaker can only greedy the share plan. In Spielberg It seems that it is a bit like a trap.

This mental state is well understood.

However, since the contract was originally signed, it is naturally impossible to change it.

However, if you want him to continue to direct the "Jurassic Park" sequel, Daenerys Entertainment must give a price tag that is sincere enough.

In the past history, Spielberg took a crazy $250 million in the first "Jurassic Park", and the second part of the salary was greatly reduced to $70 million.This time, the first song received only $45 million, and Spielberg clearly hoped to get a higher return through the sequel to compensate for his potential loss in the first part.

Moreover, according to a certain mentality formed by the top Hollywood filmmakers for a long time, in Spielberg's view, Daenerys Entertainment should and will not rashly replace him and direct this series by others..