Hollywood Hunter

At noon.

In an Italian restaurant near Santa Monica Beach, when Simon arrived, Terry Semel had arrived early and was sitting at the table reading a newspaper. Seeing Simon appear, Terry Semel got up and shook his hand, and the two sat down together.

Simon took the menu from the tall waitress with eager eyes beside him. After opening it, he asked Semel on the opposite side at random, "Any news today?"

Because of being too busy recently, it is difficult for Simon to spare much time to pay attention to news and information.

Terry Semel also opened his menu and said with a smile: "The two presidential candidates spoke at the same time during the interview, saying that once they are elected, they will formulate stricter financial derivatives market supervision measures to avoid'Westeros The incident happened again."

Simon quickly ordered a lunch, handed the menu to the waitress, and said: "It has nothing to do with me. They will only offend their Wall Street gold master by doing this."

Terry Semmel lifted his eyes from the menu to look at Simon, with a tentative test: "You don't mean to tell me, you will never set foot in the futures market again?"

Simon was noncommittal about Semel’s question, saying: “Stricter regulatory measures will only affect those who want to make huge profits through unconventional means such as insider speculation. At least the top ten on the "Forbes" list. No one in the name is squeezed into the list by those means, and of course I am not."

Terry Semel couldn't help thinking of some rumors in the circle. The Southern District Court of New York and several other major regulatory agencies have not completely abandoned the secret investigation of Simon. However, so far, there is still no news that is not conducive to Simon.

Over time, those investigations are destined to fall apart.

After ordering the meal, sending away the waitress who had been looking at Simon, Terry Semmel said: "Simon, we recently acquired Lorimar. You must know about this, right?"

Simon nodded, probably understanding why Semel mentioned this.

Founded in the 1960s, Lorimar Production Company is the largest TV show studio of this era. This company emerged in the 1970s and reached its peak in the previous few years. Then with the stock market crash last year and this year’s screenwriting The strike declined rapidly.

A few months ago, Simon and Amy went to see the MGM studio in Culver City that Lorimar wanted to sell.

Hearing about Warner’s acquisition of Lorimar at the beginning of this month, Simon also realized that this was probably the basis for Warner Television’s continuous production of "Friends" and "Emergency Room Stories" in the 1990s. Prior to this, Warner's TV business was not outstanding.

Seeing Simon nodded, Terry Semmel said, "I heard you are interested in the MGM studio in Culver City. We happen to be planning to sell this part of the property. Do you still want it now? I guarantee the price will be very high. Affordable."

Warner Bros. has a very large filming base in Burbank and obviously does not need a second set.

However, Simon did not hesitate, shook his head and said, "Terry, the studio is too dilapidated. Instead of buying it for a large-scale renovation, I might as well pick a new piece of land and build it from scratch, which is cheaper."

Terry Semel said: "But Simon, unless it's a suburb, it's hard to find another 50-acre plot in downtown Los Angeles."

Simon said indifferently: "The suburbs are nothing. These studios were all in the suburbs when they were first built. It was only the continuous development of the city that they were enclosed in the city."

Terry Semel thought that he could push the MGM studio to Simon steadily, but he didn’t expect him to look like he was lacking in interest, so he had to give up and said, “So, Simon, about the matter we discussed last time. , You have already obtained Marvel Entertainment and mastered the copyright of a large number of superheroes such as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and X-Men. I am curious, why are you still interested in DC superheroes? If there is no good reason It’s hard for Warner to give Wonder Woman to you anymore?"

"Marvel's superhero movies are too difficult to shoot, such as Spider-Man. With current technology, it is difficult for us to realize the scene of Peter Parker flying over the walls between metropolises," Simon replied without thinking too much. By comparison, the possibility of DC’s superhero filming is very high. As for my purpose, Terry, it’s obvious that I want to accumulate more copyrights, and Hollywood studios will do this. There is nothing to hide. Before me , Canon Pictures bought the rights to Marvel’s most popular Spider-Man and DC’s Superman at the same time. Of course, the rights to these two superheroes are now in Daenerys Entertainment’s hands."

"You are different from them," Terry Semmel shook his head. "I remember at the Oscar party at the beginning of the year, you told me that you plan to link Superman and Batman together. Well, "Batman v Superman", you are That said, right? Now, you want Wonder Woman again."

"Terry, I don't want to waste time on these meaningless tongues. Can you just open Warner's terms?"

Terry Semel didn’t mean anything, saying, "Simon, Warner can give you both "The Bourne" and "Wonder Woman". We are willing to let go of "The Bourne," but "Wonder Woman." , Warner must retain 50% of the investment rights. However, unlike "Superman" and "Batman", Daenerys Entertainment can be responsible for the release of "Wonder Woman." In exchange, Daenerys and Warner need to cooperate A project with a box office of more than 100 million yuan, "Instinct"’s profit sharing model. If the local box office of the project we are cooperating with does not exceed 100 million yuan, the contract will automatically continue until this goal is achieved."

Simon considered the conditions offered by Terry Semel in his mind, and quickly said: "In this case, I cannot give the distribution rights to Warner. It is difficult for a film to achieve a North American box office exceeding 100 million, but I think It would be too easy for it to fail to achieve this."

"Of course I understand," Terry Semel said with a smile on his face, "So, if you insist, the distribution rights can go to Daenerys Entertainment."

Simon suddenly realized that Daenerys Entertainment would suffer a lot by doing so.

In the original profit sharing model of "Instinct", the two companies not only shared the production costs equally, Daenerys Films provided the copyright of the script of "Instinct" and invested in production, Fox was responsible for the announcement of the film, and both parties were in all aspects. The investment is basically equal.

Now, if the distribution rights are left, it is equivalent to Warner having only invested half of the film production budget, and then completely waits to share half of the proceeds. Daenerys Entertainment is responsible for the entire process of production, promotion and distribution.

This is obviously impossible.

After weighing it for a moment, Simon added: "Daenerys Entertainment reserves the right to distribute, and Warner must also share an additional half of the distribution budget."

Terry Semel nodded readily and said: "No problem."

The two are only setting up a rough cooperation framework, and the specific plan will definitely require detailed consultation to meet the interests of both parties. Therefore, Simon did not hesitate anymore and reached out to Semel, saying: "Deal."