Hollywood Hunter

Malibu.

On a new Monday, the window was not closed last night, and the cool morning breeze kept pulling the floor-to-ceiling curtains leading to the terrace into the bedroom.

When the sky was completely lit, Janet opened her eyes, knowing that Simon must have woken up, but she did not move when she was entangled in him, so she rubbed her body, and quickly fell completely on the man, with her face pressed He was confused and said, "Shall we sleep for a while?"

Simon stretched out his hand to wrap around Janet's waist, enjoying this skin-to-skin feeling, and whispered softly: "The designer hired by the company has already made a model of the Batmobile. Would you like to come and see it this afternoon?"

Janet gave a dull hum, and then said again: "No."

"Ok."

Simon smiled, and patiently allowed Janet to lie on her for a while, then put her aside in the woman's dissatisfaction and began to dress and wash.

The time is seven o'clock in the morning.

After jogging on the treadmill for half an hour, Simon briefly took a shower, changed his clothes, and began to prepare breakfast for the two.

Just put the two sandwiches in the oven, Simon took out a few oranges from the refrigerator to make juice, and Janet, who was wearing only a large men's shirt, floated in from outside.

After cutting the orange with a knife, Simon turned his head and glanced at the woman, then smiled and said, "Why don't you sleep?"

"Without you by my side," Janet came over to hug Simon, slightly raised her toes and kissed the man's lips, then suddenly stopped, raised her hand and cut the top of her head to Simon's mouth, making a few consecutive gestures. When I stepped down, my eyes widened: "Little, little boy, are you taller again?"

Janet's beautiful eyes always carry an attraction that Simon is hard to resist, especially the look of her eyes widened in surprise.

Nodded, Simon looked at the woman's beautiful eyes and smiled: "It seems to be longer."

Janet was immediately sad, stretched out her hand to hug Simon tightly, buried her head on his shoulder and muttered: "Oh my God, my boyfriend is still growing, oh, I'm already an old woman."

Simon felt the obvious insecurity in Janet’s half-truth and half-truth. He held up the delicate face of a woman no less than an eighteen-year-old girl. He bowed his head and kissed, and said, “Okay, baby, you are so Pay attention to maintenance, even ten or twenty years later, it will definitely be the same as it is now."

Janet put a sticker on Simon's cheek with her cheek, but asked a little bit tricky, "What about thirty years from now?"

"Uh, thirty years later, I will also be fifty years old."

When Janet heard the words, she buried her head on Simon's shoulder and whimpered: "A fifty-year-old man must be more attractive to a little girl."

Simon helplessly said: "I am very attracted to little girls now, this kind of thing can't be prevented."

Janet couldn't help but laugh, and threw her hand on Simon: "Little bastard."

The two were intimate for a while, and Simon sent the woman to get dressed, and soon brought two breakfasts to the dining room.

When Janet came back, she had changed into a small T-shirt and slacks. Although she was sad to find that her boyfriend had grown taller again, since she realized some of Simon’s potential tendencies, women rarely wear them again. High heels that I like very much.

The feet will deform after wearing high heels for a long time.

People always sit opposite the dining table during daily meals, but Janet likes to be next to Simon.

Picking up the orange juice and taking a sip, Janet picked up the sandwich and took a bite. As if completely forgot about what happened, she said: "Mom called yesterday and asked when you are going to Australia?"

It was confirmed that the filming location of "Batman" was arranged in Melbourne, Daenerys Films had already sent people to Kanjing there, and Simon himself would definitely have to go to Melbourne for a visit before shooting.

After thinking about it for a moment, Simon said: "Next month, after receiving New World Entertainment, I will focus on the preparation of "Batman"."

"In recent years, Australia has been very supportive of the film industry. Shooting there can get a large tax rebate for this project," Janet tilted her head, obviously not clear, said: " Anyway, Dad will definitely help you."

After breakfast, Neil Bennett and Ken Dixon had their cars ready, Simon hurried to Santa Monica to work, and Janet was going to an architectural design company in Beverly Hills.

The plot of Dume Point Park has been taken, and Simon provided a sketch based on the Iron Man mansion in his memory. During this time, Janet has been staring at the specific design work. The project is expected to start next year. However, it is not easy to build such a villa on the tip of Cape Du Mui. If Simon wants to live in, he may have to wait patiently for two to three years.

Because of the way, Janet and Simon rode in a car until downtown Santa Monica, before changing to a wine-red Land Rover driven by Ken Dixon to Beverly Hills.

Simon's original Chevrolet SUV has been disposed of by Janet, and it was replaced by a black Land Rover. As soon as the car entered the 4th Street in downtown Santa Monica where Daenerys Pictures' headquarters is located, Simon saw that there were more people gathered outside the company's headquarters today.

After the success of "Who Will Be a Millionaire", not only Daenerys Pictures’ reality shows, but many other production companies and even TV networks themselves are brewing various reality show projects that do not require screenwriters to participate. Moreover, after the plan provided by the Producers Union was vetoed by the screenwriters’ union last month, Simon heard that the new contract being brewed by the Producers Union was even worse than last month because of the changes brought about by "Who Will Be a Millionaire". That one is even more demanding.

The strike lasted for half a year, and WGA has few options.

If the two sides cannot reach an agreement next month, and the autumn file has been completely delayed anyway, the producer alliance may break the pot and continue to stalemate. But with tens of thousands of mouths waiting for dinner, if WGA continues, it may really cause the tragedy of the union's collapse.

As the ‘initiator’ who led to the current reversal of the situation, during this period, there are always screenwriters outside the headquarters of Daenerys Films to express their dissatisfaction.

However, when Simon's car arrived outside the headquarters parking lot, he discovered that the new group of people were not members of the screenwriters' union, or that they were two groups of people.

There are still some WGA union members tirelessly rushing, but today more people come to protest "Instinct."

Moreover, looking at those slogans such as "Instinct is rubbish", "Westeros, San Francisco no longer welcomes you", "Discrimination, this is discrimination", "Stop discriminating against homosexuality" and the rainbow flag in the hands of some people, Simon I understand what is going on.

In recent days, "Instinct" has indeed aroused strong controversy in the media, but after all, it has not reached the point where Lionsgate’s release of "Furious Offense" in the original time and space caused thousands of people to gather by touching the fundamental beliefs. However, on the other hand, as the home base of homosexuality in North America, homosexual organizations in the San Francisco area are very dissatisfied with the depiction of homosexuality in Instinct.

According to his own thinking, it is difficult for Simon to understand why gays are so resistant to this movie. He even heard that in the previous few days, many **** groups in San Francisco specially distributed spoiler flyers like'Catherine is the murderer' at the entrance of theaters. Prevent audiences from entering the theater.

The car slowly passed through the crowd and entered the parking lot. Simon entered the office building directly from the side door of the company office building. The company employees have basically arrived, because the situation outside the headquarters is commonplace, and everyone does not care too much, as long as these people do not interfere. The operation of Daenerys Films, the two sides are in peace.

A one-hour weekly meeting was held to confirm the operation progress of the company's various projects. The executives dispersed and busy, Simon and Amy continued to stay in the meeting room.

Jennifer also sent over the box office data report for the past weekend.

After having been busy for so long, I will finally see the results today.

On the first Wednesday of the show, "Instinct" finally won $16.75 million at the box office, and successfully won the first place in the box office list for the weekend three days. The scale of the opening screen was 1,776, and it received $16.75 million in three days, and the box office of the single library was close to $10,000 in three days. This obviously indicates the great success of the film.

"A Journey to America" ​​starring Eddie Murphy has entered its third week of release. After last week's box office drop of 45%, the box office drop narrowed to 21% this week, and it closed at $10.41 million in two and a half weeks. The cumulative box office time has reached 66.51 million U.S. dollars, which will undoubtedly become a blockbuster film with a box office of over 100 million this year.

In comparison, this week’s new film "Tiger Quest", which ranked third this week, was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. Lao Niu starred in Clint Eastwood, and got $9.77 million in the box office for three days in the first week. .

Although this box office result is not bad, it is expected to reach about 13 million US dollars in the first week, but the film's first week box office is also destined to be unable to compare with the first weekend of "Instinct."

After careful calculation, the two Warner Bros. movies in this summer, "Funny Farm" in June and "Tiger Quest" in July, coincide with the two movies produced by Daenerys Pictures "Fiction" and "Instinct" collide.

Last month, Chevy Chase’s "Funny Farm" is now nearing its end, with a cumulative box office of less than $25 million.

"Tiger Quest" may have a slightly better box office performance, but it is definitely not too successful.

On the other side, "A Fish Named Wanda" starring Sandra, received another $5.63 million in three days last weekend. Because of the strong reputation, the movie was released for two and a half weeks and the cumulative box office has reached $30.96 million. .

When Simon and Amy checked the box office data for the past weekend at the headquarters of Daenerys Films, similar box office reports have spread throughout Hollywood.

In three days, I got 16.75 million U.S. dollars. Even if calculated according to the ratio of 70% of the box office of the whole week for three days on weekends, the box office of "Instinct" will not be less than 23 million U.S. dollars in the first week.

Although the previous "America Journey" has just won the box office score of more than 30 million US dollars in the first week, but in this era, the first week of the box office can exceed 20 million US dollars in the film is definitely considered a success. "Instinct" received $23 million in its first week, which is much higher than March's "When Harry Meets Sally".

Therefore, as long as there is no significant box office drop of 45% the following week as in "America Tour", "Instinct" has the potential to continue to sprint the North American box office to exceed 100 million yuan.

In fact, when seeing the box office numbers for the first weekend of "Instinct", most people will not doubt that this movie will be like the other two Daenerys Pictures "When Harry Meets Sally" and "Vulgar "Fiction" sprinted to the billion yuan mark.

After all, the topic of this movie is too hot. Even if some people did not enter the cinema in the first week due to controversy, in the next few weeks, it is likely to be due to the further spread of topicality and some word of mouth. Effect and step into the theater.

Even if it’s $23 million in the first week, the next week’s box office is counted as a 20% drop, and the movie can receive another $18 million in the box office. More than $40 million in two weeks’ time is not only enough to make Daenerys film. Film industry and Fox Pictures recovered all production and distribution costs, and this result is enough to squeeze into the top 20 of the annual box office list in North America.

then.

With the opening of the box office in the first weekend, the entire Hollywood began to study the successful experience of "Instinct".

Femme beauty.

This is an important element commonly captured by many film companies. In addition, there is of course ‘sex’. Although the Hollywood strike is still ongoing, various studios have begun to collect scripts with these elements.

Simon knows that the fundamental reason for the success of "Instinct" is actually the intense topicality of this movie because of various controversies. The box office performance of the film industry, the quality of the film itself is of course important, but according to the survey of many research institutions, the topic of a movie has reached a certain level, even if it is a completely bad film, it can still get a very good box office. .

This is actually the fundamental reason why the marketing costs of Hollywood movies became higher and higher and even gradually reached the level of production costs.

In the final analysis, many of Simon's previous works are also blessed by the aura of topicality.

The 18-year-old director of "Lola Run", the youngest Palme d'Or winner of "Pulp Fiction", and the current "Instinct".

Simon also knows that after "Instinct", the public's curiosity about him will gradually cool down. In order to achieve the success of the previous works and continue to produce high-quality films, Daenerys Pictures needs to be in the film Put more energy into publicity, and it is impossible to have the current shortcuts.

In such discussions, the first week passed quickly.

In the final seven days from July 15th to July 21st, "Instinct"'s box office performance was higher than the media generally expected, reaching 23.92 million US dollars.

"A Journey to the United States" followed closely, and the box office fell to 16.03 million U.S. dollars in the third week of its release, with a total box office of 72.34 million U.S.

Warner Bros.'s "Tiger Quest", the box office in the first week was only 13.19 million US dollars. According to the current situation, Warner is likely to repeat the mistakes of last year. In 1987, Warner’s best grossing film was "Lethal Weapon", which was lost to the popular schedule at the beginning of the year. This year, as of now, Warner's best box office performance is still Tim Burton's "Beatles Juice", which is very unpopular during the Easter period. This near-decline movie has a cumulative box office of just over 70 million dollars.