Hollywood Hunter

The party in the villa ended at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night, and guests left almost at eleven thirty.

Simon personally blasted Madonna who wanted to stay here after being drunk and returned to the living room of the villa. The party company's waiter team was cleaning up, and the Victorian housemaid led by Naomi also joined it.

Girl A saw Simon and came over and asked, "Boss, will Miss Kesina stay tonight?"

"Send her back, contact her agent tomorrow, and collect another piece of information for me." Simon instructed, went straight to the stairs, motioned to Alison to follow up, and asked in a low voice: "How about the script? ?"

Alison followed Simon and whispered: "A lot of people should have seen it."

Simon nodded and said again: "The next room will be cleaned again carefully tomorrow, and the one that should be thrown away will be thrown away; Ella will come over to have breakfast with me tomorrow morning, remember to send a car to pick it up, the traffic is not convenient here; "Wedding and a funeral" media feedback, so that Los Angeles will organize it before tomorrow noon..."

Thinking about something, the two came to the third floor, and after Alison finished writing on the memo, Simon finally said: "Also, let Nata come up."

Alison agreed, seeing Simon turned to the corridor, and subconsciously kept up with the previous step: "Boss, do you want me to prepare bath water for you?"

Simon heard that he stopped and turned to look at the girl behind him.

Alison regretted her words. She noticed that her boss's gaze dropped her head guilty, and her white fingers held the small memoir uncomfortably.

Just a moment, the voice of the man in the ear: "This is the first time, no greed, I usually don't like giving people a third chance."

Girl A is like a little girl who made a mistake and said softly: "Boss, I'm wrong."

Simon said: "Go down and rest early."

Looking at the man in front of him, Alison looked up again, and suddenly he misleaded: "Boss, if you make a mistake, you will be punished."

Simon stopped again, turned his head and looked at the girl wearing a black OL suit with a graceful and graceful figure and asked, "Are you afraid of pain?"

Girl A's eyelashes are low-convergent: "You can remember things when you hurt."

Simon nodded: "Come."

He said that he turned back to the main bedroom.

Alison stepped up with her head down and heard a slight click in front of him. This was the sound when the men's belt was pulled out, and suddenly felt his strength seemed to be evacuated instantly.

The 10th Sundance Film Festival came to a successful conclusion the next day. Highgate Films was the finalist of the two films "Playing Monkey" and "Barcelona". Only "Playing Monkey" won a relatively marginal audience award. The other core awards have nothing to do with Daenerys Entertainment.

This result is not disappointing.

For Sundance, Simon's most important thing is the ability of this platform to train newcomers to movies. Daenerys Entertainment's film talents, excellent scripts and finished films tapped from Sundance in recent years have brought far more gains than simple The meaning attached to the award.

This year's Sundance's indifference to the awards at Highgate Films is also the result of Simon's deliberate restrictions.

Even if he already has the most powerful public relations team and network resources in Hollywood, Simon absolutely does not want the major film festivals to become the reserved place for Daenerys Entertainment, which is harmful.

Of course, there are definitely exceptions to the absolute strength.

For example, this year's Oscar, and next year.

The day after Sundance ended, on Monday, January 31, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially announced the 66th Oscar nominated film list.

Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" about the history of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II has no suspense as the biggest hit of this year's Oscar, accumulating the best film, best director, best actor, most 12 nominations for the script adapted by Jia.

Not only that, Daenerys Entertainment has created another record.

The 3D animated movie "The Lion King" by Pixar,

The best screenwriter among them also represents another Oscar nomination by Simon.

In the history of history, the first animated film shortlisted for the best Oscar movie was Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 1992. Because of the appearance of Simon, this animated film project that was abandoned by Disney has fallen under Daenerys Entertainment. In the hands of the Pixar team, it will be made into a 3D animated version at a glance like "Lion King".

This year's "Lion King" is actually more deserved than "Beauty and the Beast".

As of January 27, the cumulative total box office of "Lion King" in North America, which just happened in the 10th week, has reached 286.55 million US dollars, and it takes only three weeks at most to break through the 300 million US box office mark.

The Oscars before the new century are still very optimistic about the commercial performance of the film.

As Hollywood's first domestic animated film with a box office of US$300 million, if such phenomenal box office performance cannot be nominated for an Oscar for best film, Hollywood will not have many films with such qualifications.

With the announcement of the Oscar nomination, the week from January 28 to February 3, the single-week box office of "Lion King", which once again attracted public attention, fell only 13%, and received another 6.75 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 239.3 million US dollars. .If Daenerys Entertainment is willing to spend some money at the box office, it will break through 300 million in the following week.

"Lion King" has won enough glory, more than 300 million is also a certainty, naturally there is no need to buy the box office to give people the handle.

In addition to the two most-watched Oscar-nominated films, another Daniel Day Lewis starring in the literary film "In the Name of the Father" produced by Daenerys Entertainment also won the best director, best actor, best 6 nominations including script adaptation.

The previous "In the Name of the Father" also received a best film nomination.

This time, Daenerys Entertainment has already occupied the two best film nominations through "Schindler's List" and "The Lion King", it is impossible to ask for more, "Nomination for the Best Film in the Name of Father" The declaration can only be abandoned.

Coupled with the nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in Tina Turner's Biography Film "With Love" and Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in "The Wedding", the 66th Oscar in 1994, Dan The total number of nominations received by Nellis Entertainment for the direct production and distribution of films reached 29, which is not counted as the distribution rights to Disney’s Sleepless in Seattle and various other nominations for films such as Superman released by Warner Brothers.

In addition, "Philadelphia Story", which was transferred to MGM by Simon, also won five nominations including Tom Hanks' best actor.

Considering the almost inevitable result of the award, it is no exaggeration to say that Daenerys Entertainment has monopolized this Oscar.

Many people have the impression that Daenerys Entertainment still knows how to converge in awards, so Hollywood generally believes that after this year, next year’s Oscars will be the stage for other studios to play, but they don’t know that this summer’s summer season, still There is another phenomenon-level "Forrest Gump" ready to go.

On the other hand, at the Sundance party, Simon used the pits dug out of the "Cutting Throat Island" script, and it really worked for the next few days.

When the news spread, both the executives of major studios and the management of talent agency companies got the script of "Cut Throat Island" in the first time, and many filmmakers began to inquire about the project. Warner Terry · Semel called Simon directly to test the news.

Play a full set.

Under the direction of Simon, Amy Pascal personally held a meeting with the management of Carlock Pictures.

Of course, the two sides have not reached an agreement.

The conditions given by Daenerys Entertainment are actually not harsh, and it is a common practice to cooperate with foreign films. Both parties jointly shoulder 50% of the investment, but this time it is definitely responsible for the release of Daenerys Entertainment, and the distribution commission rate proposed by Amy Not too high, refer to 12.5% ​​of the DC movie universe project.

According to Amy's feedback, there are obvious differences within Carlock Pictures.

The most indispensable thing in Hollywood is the shrewd people. With the momentum of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood at this time, there are many people in the management of Carlock Pictures who can see at a glance that the estimated budget for such a cut Throat Island reaches 7000. For the 10,000-dollar super blockbuster, working with Daenerys Entertainment is undoubtedly the most secure option. This studio has already proved this on too many projects.

However, there is also a lack of popular support in this world.

Since Simon Westero is very optimistic about this project, it is natural that some people think that Carlock Pictures does not need to give up so much.After all, Carlock Pictures, which is supported by overseas capital, is not short of money. Cooperation with Daenerys Entertainment is regarded as investment and distribution income, at least equal to giving up 60% of income.

The parties tried to contact each other for a week, and the form quickly became clear.

Projects that other Hollywood studios have robbed from Daenerys Entertainment have failed more than once. For example, films such as "Rocket Expert" a few years ago and Disney robbed Daenerys Entertainment last year. Radford's new film "The Lies Behind the Scenes" that was still smashed in his hand.

Although there is no evidence to prove that those failed films were traps deliberately thrown by Simon Westeros, Hollywood has gradually formed a concept that Daenerys Entertainment's fancy project, other studios grabbed it, does not It can be done well.

Therefore, at the last moment, other studios are in a wait-and-see state, except for Paramount Pictures.

Seagram Group bought Paramount Communications last year and succeeded in taking over Hollywood. Like the original Sony, Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman hopes to gain the reputation of his company through one or two blockbuster movies as soon as possible.

Considering that the first song of "Mission Impossible" by the two parties is still being released, and the sequel development has also been put on the agenda, Edgar Branfman understands that it is not appropriate to offend Simon at this time, so he specifically called Simon to communicate.

The fish has bite the hook, Simon decisively changed a strategy, and directly said on the phone that Daenerys Entertainment has abandoned the project of "Cutting Throat Island" because he is not optimistic about the prospect of pirate films, and at the same time half-truth. To persuade Bronfman not to mess with this project.

Simon's attitude is very real this time, but Branfman obviously did not believe it, and soon began further negotiations with Carlock Pictures.

Immediately, news of Daenerys Entertainment's abandonment of the "Cut Throat Island" project also quickly spread, and Simon's personal statement on this script.

Hollywood was suddenly confused again.

Many people have seen the "Cut Throat Island" script in the Villa in Westeros Park City. Daenerys Entertainment has also discussed cooperation with Carlock Pictures, which is enough to prove that Daenerys Entertainment is interested in participating in this The project.

Simon's sudden statement suddenly made him feel a little better.

Obviously.

This is to want everyone else to quit because of scruples, and Daenerys Entertainment is waiting for an opportunity to shoot.

Can anyone believe such a clumsy routine?

So the negotiations continued.

In order to attract more competitors, Carlock Pictures quietly leaked out the cooperation terms of Paramount. It is roughly that Paramount Pictures is willing to join "Cut Throat" with a budget ratio of 30% and a commission of 10%. The "Island" project also gives the best quality schedule for next year's summer schedule, and guarantees the opening of more than 2,500 screens.

Converted, Carlock Pictures can retain about 60% of its earnings.

And the conditions given by Daenerys Entertainment do not include schedule and screen guarantee clauses, as long as people who know Hollywood a little bit understand the importance of schedule and screen.In the same film, the box office performance of the popular summer and unpopular spring stalls is absolutely different. The commercial potential of the opening scale of 1000 screens and the opening scale of 2000 screens are certainly quite different.

One of the most important gaps between Hollywood independent producers and major studios is that the seven major film companies basically monopolized the most popular Hollywood high-quality screens and marketing resources. Without these resources, second and third-line independent producers are very It is difficult to be among the top film companies.

Now, unless they are willing to take on distribution only, other Hollywood studios can't come up with more favorable cooperation conditions than Paramount.Given the fact that it is impossible to predict the effect of a film, it will give a hot schedule and a large number of screens. This condition is also a bit risky.

Moreover, several other studios are still waiting to wait for further reactions from Daenerys Entertainment.

Unless Daenerys entertains at the last minute and triggers a bidding war, in the current state, this project almost falls on Paramount.

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Even MGM CEO Shirley Lansing was rejected when he tested whether Simon could take over the project.

Of the seven major Hollywood studios, only MGM is able to offer more favorable conditions than Paramount. Because its vitality has not been restored, at this stage, MGM can avoid completely the blockbuster project. Not participating in the investment, only seeking rights to issue and drawing commissions, which is exactly 100% in line with Carlock Pictures’ expectations.

The original "Cutting Throat Island" was released by MGM.

However, under the control of Simon, MGM now does not lack high-quality film projects, and Simon does not allow this film company to waste schedules.Even if this time under the strong attention of the film company and the original team, "Cut Throat Island" can be renewed, if MGM only pays the commission for the release, it is better to focus on the development of one or two completely own medium-budget movies.

After the incident was aroused, Simon's attention soon turned to other aspects. His most recent concern was "Four Weddings and One Funeral".

After the premiere of the Sundance Film Festival, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" received a very good media evaluation, because the media invited to watch the film at the premiere basically had good relations with Daenerys Entertainment. More than ten mainstream newspapers and magazines have scored an astonishing 9.5 points for "Four Weddings and One Funeral".

Entering February, the Valentine's Day is coming soon.

After the last wave of intensive marketing publicity with Daenerys Entertainment combined with the film's excellent media reputation, "Four Weddings and One Funeral" officially landed on the North American theater on February 11, with a screen of 1,672 screens. To avoid audience misunderstanding that "Four Weddings and One Funeral" is a literary and artistic film, the distribution of the film has also been transferred to the mainstream Daenerys Films.