Hollywood Hunter

It's not easy to stick to the early days in winter. Simon, Chen Qing and Lin Su all got up after 7 o'clock the next morning.

Chen Qing accompanied the man to exercise.

Lin Su, who was refreshed by Xiaoguan last night, ran to prepare breakfast.

I already knew my destiny.

Except for a ridiculous guy who always makes her feel powerless, she has no dissatisfaction with her current life.

In the gym, Chen Qing accompanied Simon to run, and at the same time, like a tireless little squirrel, picked various ideas from the man piece by piece.

There are too many things in Simon's memory, but many times it takes a certain amount of stimulation to remember.

Yesterday, Chen Qing agreed to dig into the management team of Xiaobawang, and gave the two women a certain share of equity. Although the Xiaobawang team may still be the best "education electronic product" after doing it alone, Chen Qing was not satisfied. herein.Relying on the recent understanding of the Westeros system, Chen Qing feels that he is fully qualified to involve some more popular and profitable industries.

For example, personal computers.

Unlike the Western PC market that has begun to explode, the domestic PC industry in China is still in a very initial stage. It is expected that in the coming 1994, the annual sales will be only about 700,000 units, a huge market with more than 1 billion people. The scale is less than 2% of the total global sales, an absolute blue ocean market.

Simon is not optimistic about this.

The domestic PC market in China is limited to the overall level of economic development. However, this field has been operated by many domestic and foreign brands for many years. Not to mention overseas brands such as IBM, HP, Toshiba, etc., but domestic, Lenovo, Founder, Tongfang and other companies were established in the 1980s, both in technology and market have a deep foundation.

If that's the case, it's no problem trying it now.

The most important point is that the core software and hardware such as CPU, hard disk, and operating system are all in the hands of foreign manufacturers. Establishing a PC brand in China will eventually be only the lowest-end profitable and least assembler.In comparison, the Westeros system, which holds large shares of Microsoft and Intel, is still more willing to enjoy this big cake that quietly enjoys the highest end of the PC industry.

Although not optimistic about Chen Qing's establishment of a personal computer company, Simon still thought of another industry during the dialogue between the two.

VCD.

This is the only popular electronic product in the Greater China region in the 1990s, with an overall market size of tens of billions of RMB

Not only that, but now in 1994, because the domestic VCD market is just budding, the Westeros system is fully capable of eating the richest piece of cake by monopolizing VCD core components.

It was discussed yesterday, after the Xiaobawang team left, if you continue to make products similar to the old club, you will inevitably encounter pressure from outside the business. The initial plan is to let the team leave as far as possible and go to other provinces and cities to set up new companies. .Now, if you can skip the game console field and enter the emerging VCD market directly, some potential conflicts will be much smaller.

After a deep discussion in the morning, Chen Qing and Lin Su hurriedly left to collect VCD related information.

Simon continued to stay on the East Coast for a day. At noon, he also received a phone call from the White House. The two talked a bit obscurely and learned that Clinton had communicated with the Republican Party. The former Republican Pennsylvania Representative Kevin Mu The incident provoked by Erhaus will end here.

Of course I won't believe it absolutely.

However, Washington's attitude actually satisfied Simon.

When I left in the afternoon, I met with Joseph Shrap and learned that the operation was still related to the Southern Republican conservatives. Simon was no longer polite, and asked Paul Spitz to lay out Florida according to the original "deep cultivation" plan.

This time is ample.

There is no need to consider the 1996 election, and there are six years to go before the 2000 election.

Those in Florida have a world.

After reading "The Book of Shangjun" recently, some of Simon's ideas have quietly changed.

I was very unhappy with the Bush family.

It is different now.

If you let Bush Jr. come to power and struggle for eight years, it fits well with the "weak people" policy in The Book of Merchants.The people are weak enough to stay busy all day long enough to get the most basic living materials, and that is the best state to rule.Eating too much and not being full at all can easily cause trouble.

Of course, this is under the premise that the Bush family will not threaten the Westeros system.

Otherwise, Simon does not mind completely changing history.

After dealing with the matter here, Simon set off for the west coast the next morning.

This is December 1.

The last month of 1992.

The “Information Age” marketing plan initiated by the Westeros system has entered the second stage and is still in full swing.

Mid-term elections have unknowingly passed half a month.

Many initiatives to divert public attention are continuing. In addition to the restlessness of some local states, the topic of midterm elections has been minimized.

Therefore, returning to Los Angeles, most of Simon's attention also began to focus on Daenerys Entertainment's recent series of key film projects.

Privately chatting with Grace is the idea of ​​a new version of "This man is from the earth". The script has been completely completed under the personal leadership of Simon and the addition of professional details by a group of invited university professors.

The previous "This man is from the earth", because the production cost is very low, look carefully, in fact, there are many quite unsatisfactory details.

This time, although the production cost is still not high, because it is Simon's personal project, all the production specifications of the film are carried out in accordance with the highest standards.There are so many actors who want to participate in Simon’s new screenwriting project, and pay is already the least important thing. So, given the most basic compensation standards set by the actors’ union, a large number of Hollywood first- and second-line actors still only hope to be able to Such a project shows its face.

Hollywood is a circle of human relations after all, and people around him are lobbying everywhere. Simon wants to find a group of pure new people, so it simply does not work.

However, the actors selected in this way have absolutely no problem in acting.

It's actually a script.

Unlike the past ten years or so, in the early 1990s, the proportion of religious belief in Western society was still very high. Atheists like Simon are actually aliens.

Simon won't take the gimmick of most people's beliefs, this is a horse honeycomb, so the details about the hero being Jesus are completely deleted.

Not only that, when I first talked to Grace, the idea that the protagonist is a series of historical celebrities was also dropped by Simon PASS. The final script, the male protagonist John will be a very pure time and space passenger, he has not left in history His own name, however, has intersected with many historical celebrities, and at the same time has greatly promoted the progress of history.

In addition, a key story detail, the relationship between the male lead John and the psychology professor Will’s father and son is no longer as abrupt as the original, but is paved from the beginning, and the final answer will not be revealed as the original Will died. , But was discovered by the heroine, and finally guessed the truth when only two people were left.

The male owner neither admits nor denies this.

It's a suspense.

Overall, the new story will only tell the story of an immortal through verbal dialogue, from beginning to end, without flaws, but it is difficult to prove this fact.

After the script was completed, according to the list of actors listed by Simon himself, the casting process also entered the final stage.

In the end there is no one who is too well-known, but the finalists are basically well-known public actors.

Even Qu Gaofu, who had no previous performance experience, was also ranked 7th in the popularity of model models in the fashion section of the Igerett portal after relying on the rapidly rising popularity in the past six months. The title of'Supermodel'.

Simon is most important to the actor.

Simon, who has lived for more than 10,000 years, is actually the one with the right to speak.

After the vicissitudes of life, the most crucial point is that kind of indifferent'bystander' temperament.Because of too much experience, everything around it is hard to affect its state of mind, so it is inevitable to be indifferent.However, as an immortal who has not remembered his age, he has lived in the world for a long time, and he has almost come to hand with others, and will instinctively produce the kind of tolerance and maintenance mentality of adults and children to the world, so it is easy to make people feel close.

Be indifferent, indifferent and personable.

Ok.

Janet, who was able to see the script in advance, felt that some guy was obviously more suitable for this role.

Of course Simon will not play in person.

Back in Los Angeles, after the final round of auditions that Simon personally participated in, the actor was finalized, and Simon was very satisfied: George Clooney, who just became famous this year with "The Story of the Emergency Room".

George Clooney is 33 years old, and he is a kind of late type actor who has been through for many years before finally coming out.

Of course, for the time being, it is just a TV actor.

Although it wasn't the old-fashioned diamond king with gray hair and graceful appearance, Clooney now meets Simon's requirements both in character and temperament.

The heroine's request is between 30 and 40 years old.

Simon initially thought of Catherine Bigelow.

Catherine has been busy with the Detroit movie about Detroit riots for the past year. The late stage of the project is nearing completion. Simon mentioned it while eating lunch with Catherine at Daenerys Studios, but was rejected.The reason for the woman is not to perform. Simon is very enthusiastic that he can teach one-on-one one by one. He is best at giving speeches to women, and then he is rejected even more simply.

Finally, Elizabeth Perkins was selected.

This temperament actress who fits Simon's aesthetic is 34 years old this year.

After cooperating with Tom Hanks in 1988, "Flying Over the Future" with a box office of more than 100 million yuan, Perkins should have had a good development, but unfortunately the luck is not good, and the performance of the film assets received in recent years has not been good. The temperature is not hot, and it didn't stand on the first-line cafes before it fell back to the second-line, and even had a tendency to slide down to the third-line.

In order to save his career, Perkins switched from CAA to WMA last year. This time it was Jonathan's key recommendation. The role acting was all right. Simon took the opportunity.

The other supporting actors are basically Hollywood old actors.

As for the director, Simon directly handed over to Brett Ratner who just completed the third Wei Mi show.

The director of the MV was exhausted for the third Wei Mi show. After the big show was completed, Ratner only had to rest for three hours a day for a week in order to edit the TV broadcast version. The final film also made Simon very satisfaction.

The current film is considered to be a ticket for Brett Ratner to enter Hollywood.

The planned shooting cycle is only two weeks.

Simultaneously with the crew of the crew, Simon has quietly made people set the scene outside of Toronto, Canada.

The filming was selected in Toronto, not near Los Angeles, mainly for confidentiality.

Many filmmakers in Hollywood are in a hurry to keep secrets during the filming process.

Simon's personal screenwriters are paying too much attention to the new films. Recently, many entertainment media are looking for relevant news. If you shoot near Los Angeles, don't think about the quietness at that time.

All in all, "This Man is from Earth" is only Simon's ticket.

Simon's focus is still a series of blockbuster bombers under Daenerys Entertainment.

Next year's summer blockbuster blockbuster projects "Jurassic Park 2" and "Apollo 13", the next work in the DC movie universe series "Batman vs. Superman: Dark Dawn", James Came quietly set up Long's new film "Titanic", the recently finalized "Thunderbolt", "Spy", "Game of the Brave", "Mummy" and so on.

These are the top priorities for Daenerys Entertainment Group.

During the busy period, the third week of Thanksgiving is officially over.

In a box office week from November 25 to December 1, the 3D animated movie "Toy Story 2" produced by Daenerys Entertainment still received tickets.

Because there are no heavyweight new films to join the competition on November 25, after the first week of "Toy Story 2" box office sales, the box office fell by only 29% the following week, which is very rare for the film at this stage of the saturated release.In the second week of release, the film was credited again at US$61.99 million, and the cumulative box office reached US$149.3 million in two weeks.

The local box office of "Toy Story 2" in memory is about 240 million US dollars, which is already a big sale.

Now, the sequel has been close to 150 million US dollars in two weeks. Considering that this 3D animated movie theme will also cross the popular Christmas period, the long-term trend is almost certain. Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment The team’s publicity team expects the film to reach US$300 million at the local box office.

Only the local government can easily recover all costs and achieve profitability, far exceeding the original expectations.