Hollywood Hunter

Inside Twentieth Century Fox Studios in Century City.

It's June 26.

Monday afternoon.

Simon's car stopped directly in front of the office building, and just after getting off the car, a group of people greeted him.

Politely hugged Shirley Lansing, who was in charge of the new Fox after the merger, and Simon turned to the others, smiling and saying, "There's no need for such a big battle, I'm under pressure."

The producer of the 007 series, Barbara Bullocky, also stepped forward to hug Simon and said with a smile, "Because everyone is looking forward to this meeting."

So greeting, and then Ron Mayer.

After the history of Hollywood was changed beyond recognition by the big butterfly Simon, one of the founders of CAA, who was supposed to be in Universal a few years ago, finally managed to find his first big studio job last year, serving as a director. President of Seagram-controlled Paramount Pictures.

The former president of the big studio, Robert Rehm, who was the CEO of Daenerys's New World Pictures, retired sadly because he didn't get Seagram's renewed contract.

That's what Hollywood is like. If you do it well enough, you can control a big studio for ten or twenty years, but if you can't make it, it's not uncommon to be replaced in a few years or even a few months.

After the three, there are Lena Kane, who has not seen each other for a while, Meichen Amick, one of the "Charlie's Angels" trio, and Nicholas Kay, the hero of the "Mission Impossible" series. The film director Paul Greengrass and the hero and heroine Matt Damon and the 'root sister' Amy Acker have just completed the filming of "The Bourne Bourne" in the middle of the month.

Those who are familiar with Hollywood dynamics, just look at the current lineup, it is easy to think of the long-rumored "Agent Cinematic Universe" plan in the circle.

Actually it is.

This afternoon was a meeting specially organized for the "Agent Cinematic Universe" program.

Speaking of which, Simon came up with this idea very early, but in recent years he has not paid much attention to it, procrastinating until now. On the one hand, personal energy is limited after all, and, subconsciously, Simon still hopes that Hollywood can flourish, instead of being occupied by too many commercial film series. On the other hand, the copyrights such as "Mission Impossible", which Simon wanted to pull into the series, have not been secured. Even the 007 series, the British Brockley family who previously controlled half of the copyright of this super IP, are quite popular. resist.

until now.

Seeing the miraculous success of the DC Cinematic Universe series, as well as the growing power of Simon in Hollywood, coupled with the huge increase in strength after the merger of MGM and Fox, it is enough to support a huge cinematic universe plan, and all parties are gradually becoming more and more powerful. Understand that joining this series is bound to be a win-win choice.

Everyone exchanged simple greetings and came to a large conference room in the office building behind them.

Simon sat down in the middle of one side of the long conference table, with Shirley Lansing on one side, but Machen Amick on the other side was quietly crowded out.

Everyone just smiled when they saw this, and there was nothing to contend for. However, Ron Mayer, Barbara Bullockley, and Lena Kane were naturally in the positions across the long table, and some other stars and filmmakers could only sit obediently to the side.

Between the meeting secretary's distribution of materials, Meichen Amick took the initiative to chat with Simon, talking about "Charlie's Angels 2", which just opened last Friday: "Simon, what do you think of my performance in the Angel sequel?"

"very good."

Simon said, thinking of the North American box office data for the weekend just seen in the morning.

Last Friday, after four years of hiatus, countless fans finally waited for the release of "Charlie's Angels 2", three Charlie's Angels, Kate Beckinsale, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Machen Amick once again. Brilliant on the big screen.

With an excellent comprehensive media score of 8.3 and the same excellent reputation among the audience, "Charlie's Angels 2" won the box office of 60.28 million US dollars in the first weekend and three days, and the box office is expected to reach 90 million US dollars in the first week. In comparison, the first film in 1996 only made more than 72 million at the box office in the first week, and the box office of the sequel increased by 25% in the same period.

Although the final box office volume depends on the subsequent box office trend of the film, but this is just the beginning, the follow-up development plan of the film can be advanced without hesitation.

Thinking of this, Simon saw that the girl around him was still looking for something to say, and he asked: "The film is still being promoted recently, why do you come here when you have time?"

"I happened to be recording a talk show in Los Angeles, and it was for publicity," Machen Amick said. "Kate and Catherine went to the UK, they are British, come back in a few days and we'll fly to Asia together. , for the premiere in Japan."

Simon nodded slightly.

Remembering that this time, "Charlie's Angels 2" still failed to achieve synchronization in Japan, where the movie market is still relatively closed. This is not good. If you have time, you should let Washington pay attention, it can't always be like this.

After the meeting secretary distributed the materials, Simon stopped the conversation with Amick and signaled the meeting to start.

The first is Shirley Lansing's introduction to the specific execution plan of the Agent Cinematic Universe plan, which has been quietly planned for several months and reviewed by Simon.

After the copyright and other issues are resolved, the initially planned secret agent movie universe will be composed of the first batch of five IPs, a 007 series, a "Mission Impossible" series, a "Charlie's Angels" series, and a "Bourne Bourne" series. , and, the last one, Simon personally intervened to join in recently, it is also an IP that Daenerys has been hiding for a long time, the "Fast and Furious" series.

For "The Fast and the Furious", Simon's vision is that the entire plan cannot be all agents, even if it is a variety of agents of men and women within and outside the system, but in the end it still needs some extra-staff teams as adjustments.

A drag racing party is perfect.

Imagine a picture where the embarrassed Ethan Hunt got into a seemingly inconspicuous dilapidated sports car on the side of the road, pointed to the front and told me to catch up with that Aston Martin, Mr. Tang said nothing, a The accelerator jumped up.

Much stimulation.

It can be extended further. Aston Martin is a guy named James Bond. The two sides, um, three sides fought, and it turned out that the flood washed the Dragon King Temple. Bond and Hunter belonged to the official dispatch, Tang The boss took a job from the angel trio, and everyone was investigating a plan called 'Stumbling Block', and finally found Jason Bourne together.

Byrne is miserable.

In short, a spy movie universe is connected in a blink of an eye.

correct.

In the end, of course, the sentence "WeAreFa fanly" by Mr. Tang cannot be missing, and the voice should be very magnetic and strong.

Simply perfect!