Hollywood Hunter

The pressure from the media and political circles during this time did not have much impact on the already behemoth Daenerys Entertainment.

In late March, Daenerys Entertainment's pre-IPO employee stock subscription plan has come to an end, and all subscription quotas have been cashed out.The company's movies, television, cinema, peripherals, games and other businesses have maintained very strong growth in the first quarter of the past.

Among the most important movie businesses, as of last Friday, March 18, three brands under Daenerys Entertainment had released a total of 9 movies in 11 box office weeks in 1994.

"Four weddings and a funeral", which was painted on the Valentine's Day calendar, included the box office receipts of US$5.15 million in the past three days in the past weekend. This alternative love comedy has reached US$80.76 million at the box office in five and a half weeks.

It is expected that across the box office week of the Oscar Awards from March 18 to March 24, the total box office for the seven days of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" will be around US$7 million. With the arrival of the Easter period, the film will follow through There is no suspense in the release of the breakthrough 100 million box office mark, so it will become the first film in North America in 1994.

On the other hand, as of March 17 last Thursday, the total box office in North America in 1994 totaled 10 box office weeks was $670 million.Of all the 670 million US dollars in the 10-week total box office, only a movie of "Four Weddings and One Funeral" took away 75.61 million US dollars, accounting for 11.1%.

Last year, a series of films that extended to the 1994 show cycle, including "The Lion King", "Schindler's List" and "In the Name of the Father", were at the box office in the first 10 box office weeks of 1994. US$ 43.56 million, US$ 55.39 million, and US$ 18.79 million. Some other projects also contributed US$ 22.19 million. This part of the total amount reached US$ 129 million, accounting for 19.2% of the 10-week box office.

In addition to a Mia Kosina starring "Sexy Club" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" on Valentine's Day last Friday, the other 7 films that are not too heavy are cumulative at the box office of $51.76 million , Accounting for 7.6%.

There are many highlights in the seven films.

New World Films bought the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, which was copyrighted by Texas Chainsaw Massacre, with a budget of US$5 million. After it was released on January 14, it had a cumulative total of US$23.79 million.

Gaomen Pictures released a basketball-themed documentary "Basketball Dream" on January 21, which only earned US$7.83 million at the box office with a production budget of US$700,000. A success.

Kevin Smith's "Crazy Shop Clerk", which appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, was bought by High Gate Films and launched on February 4. The production cost of 27,000 US dollars earned $5.16 million in six weeks in the theater line. It's the same time to be small and broad.

Ron Howard, who has been a hardcore collaborator of Universal Pictures, re-cooperated with Daenerys Entertainment after filming "Earth Ambitions" with Columbia Pictures and Tom Cruise.

In addition to the recently signed high-budget blockbuster movie "Apollo 13", Howard last year also completed a low-cost satire comedy "Media Pioneer" in cooperation with New World Pictures, the film budget is only 6 million US dollars, March Released on the 11th, the first week of receipts reached 7.05 million US dollars.

The New World Pictures team responsible for the release of "Media Pioneer" last Friday increased the number of screens from 1017 to 1531. The total box office in North America is expected to be between 30 million and 40 million US dollars, which is a small dark horse.

Simon approved the project casually last year, and he didn't expect the film to be so good at the box office, which also confirmed his idea of ​​holding Ron Howard firmly under Daenerys Entertainment.

There are successes and of course failures.

The new film "Trauma" directed by Dario Archido, director of "Breeze", invested by Gaomen Pictures,

Simon signed three projects "Four Weddings and a Funeral", "Blood Romeo" and "Love in" after signing several producers of the "provisional film industry" famous in the British film circle last year. "In My Heart" has basically been completed, and "Four Weddings and One Funeral" has achieved unexpected success.

However, "Love is in the depths of my heart", which is scheduled for March 4, has become a bigger float than "Trauma", with a budget of 20 million US dollars, a screen size of 523 screens, and only a seven-day box office in the first week. At 1.19 million US dollars, the museum barely exceeded 2,300 US dollars. The two-week deposit of 1.81 million US dollars was completely drawn.

As Simon's personal project, the failure of this film has also become the focus of much discussion in the media, thinking that Simon Westero has no longer the magic.

In fact, this completely unfamiliar project in memory is basically intentional by Simon.

Even though the script was revised after the project was finalized, it still failed to escape the fate of the box office fiasco. However, Simon was pleased with this.

In any case, Daenerys Entertainment really needs some loss-making projects to prove that Simon is not omnipotent.Reluctant to look like a bombshell with a budget of more than US$50 million, a mid-range project like US$20 million is just right.

Finally, there is a B-class sci-fi thriller "Puppet Life" produced by New World Pictures, which tells the story of aliens invading the parasitic human body on the earth, a budget of 5 million US dollars, and the painting on February 4 in the same period as "Crazy Shop Assistant" The cumulative box office was US$ 5.19 million before the next stage.The film's box office in North America is temporarily losing money, and it can be easily recovered through overseas distribution and video sales. It is considered lukewarm.

Taken together, the main series of "Four Weddings and One Funeral", a series of old films last year, as of 8 new films before March 17, the box office accounted for 37.9% of the total box office share of $670 million in the first 10 weeks, Hollywood All other studios can only share the remaining 62.1%.

This is not a cooperative project such as "Mission Impossible", and one of the top seven Hollywoods where the actual control of MGM is also held by Simon.

See big from childhood.

It can be said that the situation of Daenerys Entertainment's dominance of Hollywood with more than one enemy has been completely stabilized.

Simon handles the recent affairs of Daenerys Entertainment in the Studio Office, and the results of the Oscar Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Theater in downtown Los Angeles continue to be heard.

Spielberg's "Schindler's List" is in full swing, winning consecutive pre-technical awards such as best soundtrack, best editing, best art direction, and the phenomenal animation movie "The Lion King" also successfully won the most Two golden figures with good soundtrack and best original songs.

Around eight o'clock, Simon's private cell phone rang.

Catherine Bigelow called.

Catherine had just had dinner with some friends in Santa Monica, tried to contact Janet without success, and called Simon.

After many years of acquaintance, both friends and intimacy, the relationship between the Simons and Catherine has always been the same.The woman has lived in New York for the past two years. Simon and Janet have spent most of their time on the East Coast with Catherine. Especially Janet, few photos appeared in the media. They were shopping in Manhattan with Catherine for dinner. beat.

Simon deliberately pretended to be pitiful on the phone and said that he was still working overtime. Janet went to Australia. He was lonely, lonely, cold, and pitiful.

You can feel Catherine's helpless roll on the other side of the phone, but she was still concerned about asking if you would like to bring Simon a dinner.

of course yes.

Catherine arrived about twenty minutes later, and when she entered the door, she really carried a small take-out box containing food.

Simon buried in the pile of papers looked up from behind the desk. The woman habitually had long hair shawls, exquisite faces that had not been soaked in years. She was wearing a light gray turtleneck ladies windbreaker with a piece of washed jeans and feet Stepping on leather boots, the tall and slender figure matched with this dress, Yu Jie Fan'er is full.

Seeing the little man looking at himself unabashedly as always, Catherine glared at him with some disdain and asked, "Why are you still working at this late hour?"

Simon closed a document in front of him and sneered at himself: "Work harder to get richer."

Thinking of the recent media about him, Catherine didn't know how to speak for a moment, so she had to deliver the take-out: "Pepper and Salt Prawns, the restaurant that you just ate was very good, and served you as a snack."

Simon didn't crap anymore, he hadn't eaten dinner yet, got up and picked up the box, turned out from behind the desk and walked to the reception area to sit down, opened the paper box and asked, "Who had dinner?"

Catherine was sitting on the sofa next to Simon, still habitually with her back straight, her posture pleasing, her eyes softly looking at Simon eating, and said, "Rockwell them."

Simon nodded.

I understand that all of them are filmmakers in New York circles, such as Alexander Rockwell, Allison Anders, Whit Stillman, etc., and I am sitting in the Chandler Theater in anticipation of the best foreign language for "Festival" Li An, who was the winner of the film award, is also a member of the New York gang.

This time Li's best foreign language film award is very stable, and, in terms of time, the result of the award has probably been released.Catherine was here, Simon didn't call the A girl outside to ask.

Catherine did not continue this topic, but said: "Last week Jenny also said that I came to dinner together, why did you suddenly go to Australia?"

Simon said: "Homesick, go back and see."

Catherine looked at Simon suspiciously and asked carefully, "Are there any conflicts?"

The latest things about men, especially the group of little goblins in London, she has deliberately read them, and they are really some of the best beauty embryos.

Think about his nature.

It's ridiculous.

If you are yourself, you must be very angry.

Simon smiled and shook his head: "This is not true, you should not expect Jenny to give you a chance to take advantage of it."

Catherine looked around. There was nothing to throw around, only to raise her leg and kicked him gently.

Simon hid next to each other without hiding, and changed the subject: "How is the script for "Detroit" going to be prepared?"

After receiving a Oscar nomination for Best Director by Simon's recommended "The Last Flower", Catherine has not filmed again in the past two years. Occasionally helping friends as producers is to investigate some of the recent history of the United States that is enough to make people reflect. Famous historical events, from the Detroit riots in 1967 to the Iran Gate in 1979 to the Los Angeles riots in 1992, and so on, last year, the woman also eyeed the fall of the US military's Black Hawk in Somalia.

To a large extent, Catherine is a leftist anarchist.

However, although Catherine's lens images are often full of violent breath, the views are not extreme.

This is probably related to the growth experience. As an only girl from a rich middle-class family, she has never suffered many setbacks and social injustices since she was small. Therefore, Catherine's early works in the film, inevitably bring a little bit of'sorry for the new words'. Pretending to be sharp.

Catherine's personal style didn't really mature until "Bomb Sipper" many years later.

Among several topics, Catherine wanted to shoot the Los Angeles riot.

It’s just that Simon was discouraged because the time was too close to objectively judge the incident from the perspective of the spectator. As for the Iranian gate and the shadow fall, this kind of movie is likely to be taken abroad, too dangerous, and at this stage too much Sensitive, and finally selected "Detroit" that Catherine once shot in Simon's memory.

Catherine asked Simon about this and said, "I have already started looking for actors."

Simon just twisted a salt and pepper shrimp from the take-out box and heard the words: "Well to say this, when will you show it to me?"

Catherine shook her head directly: "I won't show you."

"Well, I'm an investor."

Catherine looked at the little man's deflated appearance, and smiled at the corner of her mouth, explaining: "After seeing you, I have to make a lot of comments."

Simon vowed: "I promise not to make any comments this time."

Catherine insisted and repeated: "I won't show you."

"..."

Simon actually understands that Catherine has been somewhat guilty about the Oscar nomination for Best Director that she previously obtained with "The Last Flower". In the past two years, she intentionally stopped herself, just want to accumulate more, as far as possible to get recognition by her own strength. .

Refusing to let Simon read the script, mainly because he didn't want him to help himself.

Catherine is a very strong woman in her bones, but the stronger the woman, the more likely she is to lose.

Just like Simon.

In terms of movies, Simon, who inherited the life-long talent experience of more than ten filmmakers, is really enough to get rid of the distance of most Hollywood filmmakers. In this regard, Catherine can only be regarded as just entering the entry threshold.If you ask Simon to help her watch the script, Simon will naturally put forward opinions after discovering the problem. The key opinions must be right. It’s okay if you don’t hear it. Once you hear it, the strong but unsettled Catherine feels that it’s hard for her not to. Accept his suggestion.

Thinking this, Catherine suddenly asked: "Are you planning to make another movie in the future?"

Simon tells the truth: "I don't know."

At this stage, there is no project that can produce Simon’s interest in directing personally. Moreover, with his status in Hollywood at this time, it is better to control behind the scenes. If he continues to walk to the stage to direct the film, it will inevitably become a loss. Big toss.

Feeling Simon's hard-to-speak emotional answer, Catherine sighed in her heart.

Life is like a river boat.

The scenery on both sides of the strait may be better or worse, but it will not remain the same forever, and it will never be the same again.

Simon didn't hurt anything, but in fact, even if the assassination was really successful the other day, it was just for himself that there was really no regrets in these years.

Throwing the empty takeaway box into the trash can, Simon got up and went to the bathroom to wash his hands. When he returned, he said to Catherine: "The awards ceremony is coming to an end. Let's go to the Melisandre party with me. It will be very lively there. ."

Catherine didn't want to go: "There is no one to talk about."

"If you call or call Rockwell, a few of them, and, why is there no one, aren't you familiar with Lee, he may have won the best foreign language film award now, always congratulate."

Simon said that he had walked to Catherine's side, reaching for the woman.

Catherine opened Simon's hand, but she had to get up and said: "It was already made. If Li wins the prize, everyone will meet tomorrow night."

"Oh, I will be free tomorrow night, go together."

Catherine followed Simon to the door and said, "Don't go."

Simon laughed: "Worried that the two of us have been exposed, are they talking gossip?"

Catherine did not answer, intending to stop talking to the little man next to her for a minute.

Where to gossip?

Because of him, no man even dared to chase her in recent years.