Hollywood Hunter

After the lunch with Terry Semel, Simon returned to Daenerys Entertainment headquarters to resume work in the afternoon.

These days, several senior executives such as Simon and Amy have been renegotiating and arranging the new company's film and television production and distribution plans. Originally planned to work two days of overtime on the previous weekend to complete these things before his trip to Australia. Because of the release of the "Forbes" rich list, Simon has been entangled with various things on weekends and had to be delayed until working days.

Except for the several reality shows and TV series renewed by New World Entertainment that Daenerys Pictures has previously prepared, the company does not plan to develop new projects this year. Therefore, the business in this area was quickly straightened out.

In terms of movies, it is mainly production and distribution.

After completing the merger, the issuance of the new company will begin next month.

In addition to the 7 films released in the first half of the year, New World Entertainment has another 6 films of various types waiting to be released.

After review and discussion, New World Entertainment finally determined that there will be a total of three movies that will be registered in the theaters, namely "Avilla Cry", "Sister Sid" and "Hunter Chaser 2", and the other three will be directly videotaped. issued.

"Evera Fright" is a horror film brand that actress Cassandra Peterson has been focusing on over the years, and it is generally a horror comedy style. However, the biggest selling point of the film is probably only the **** of the heroine under the black clothes.

Simon had a very low evaluation of this B-level film style film and did not find any selling potential. He wanted to lose it to the video tape market as well. However, New World Entertainment has carried out some pre-publicity before, and even asked Marvel to develop a set of comics specifically for this movie.

Considering that the company has no other theater release plans in September, Simon reluctantly agreed to re-edit the film and send it to theaters, but only limited the number of screens to 500.

"The Sid Sisters Gang" is a low-cost independent movie starring Winona Reid, the actress who just made her debut in Tim Burton's "Beatles Juice" in the first half of the year. The story explores the youth's impact on life through a series of campus murders. Disappointed and confused mentality.

After seeing the samples, Simon decisively decided to let this film participate in next year's Sundance Film Festival with Daenerys Films’ previously invested "Sisters" and "Metropolis".

Because the film’s box office potential is too low, the schedule will be fixed in February and March next year.

The last "Hunting Ghost 2" is a horror film series developed by New World Entertainment imitating the new line "Hunting Ghost Street". The first film earned more than 14 million US dollars in the box office at a production cost of 1 million US dollars. Compared with the "Meng Ghost Street" series, it is also a big profit.

The production cost of this sequel increased to 3 million US dollars, with the first word-of-mouth accumulation, the profitability is very guaranteed.

New World Entertainment originally planned to arrange the film for the Christmas period at the end of the year.

If it was before the merger of the two companies, this would obviously be a good choice, but now, the distribution team of the new company must focus on the announcement of several films scheduled by Daenerys Films. Therefore, the release schedule of "Hunting Ghost 2" was postponed to Easter next year.

In addition to MGM’s "Rain Man" scheduled for December 16th, Daenerys Pictures produced and will release three films "Screaming", "Steel Magnolia" and "Death Poetry Society". The schedule was also thoroughly finalized in this discussion.

The release date of "Screaming" is October 28.

The release date of "Steel Magnolia" is November 18.

The release date of "Death Poetry Society" is December 23.

Michael Hoffman's "Sisters", Whit Stilton's "Metropolis" and Catherine's "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" are also in the later stages. The specific schedule has not yet been determined, but it is expected to be Enter the theater in the first half of next year.

Film production.

For several projects that New World Entertainment was planning, Simon eventually only retained the original "Angels and Gods" starring Brooke Shields, and all others were cancelled.

Among the projects that were hacked were "Revenge" starring Kevin Costner and "The Punisher" starring Duff Ronger in Marvel comics.

"Revenge" is an ethical film about a retired naval officer who seduced his friend’s wife and was both retaliated against. It was originally scheduled to be directed by Tony Scott, the brother of Ridley Scott, who also directed it before "Beverly Detective" and other well-known films, can also be regarded as Hollywood first-line directors.

It's just that Simon can't understand the idea that "Revenge" wants to express at all. Although the film was co-invested with an affiliate company under Columbia Pictures, the production budget of 20 million US dollars still exceeded Simon's expectations, so he chose to give up.

As for "The Punisher".

Simon read the script and found that apart from the name, the story is completely out of Marvel's classic comic settings. It is purely a B-level gunfight that imitates Stallone's "First Blood" style, and naturally there is no need to keep it.

During the strike, Bruce Joy Robin had already completed the scripts for the other two "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" and "The End of Human and Ghost" that Simon had booked with him.

Simon temporarily put aside "The Love Between Humans and Ghosts", but set up a project for "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural".

Robert De Niro signed two packaging contracts for "Death Poetry Society" and "Sixth Sense of Supernatural". "Death Poetry Society" has been completed, and it happened to take over "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" at this time.

In addition, with the end of the Hollywood screenwriter's strike, Daenerys Entertainment has also begun to intensively accept various projects during this time. Simon has selected several very good scripts.

One of them is called "Bodyguard".

Yes, it was the one starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston in the original time and space.

The screenwriter of the film Lawrence Kasdan is well-known in Hollywood. He was once the screenwriter of the "Star Wars" series and the "Indiana Jones" series.

However, the script of "Bodyguard" has been coldly treated since it was written in the mid-1970s. It is said that before Simon took over, the film has been rejected by more than 60 producers in a row. Most film companies have I think the plot of this movie is too old-fashioned, and the mansion scene of the female singer Rachel in the movie is too expensive.

Therefore, despite the high rank of Lawrence Kasdan, Daenerys Entertainment bought the script for only 300,000 US dollars.

In addition to the script, there is "Flying over the Innocence" by Hollywood female screenwriter and director Amy Hecklin. The biggest feature of this comedy is that it allows babies to learn the thinking and tone of adults. In the original time and space, "Flying the Innocence" starring John Travolta, the voice of the little baby is Bruce Willis, and successfully squeezed into the top ten of the annual box office rankings that year.

Previously, this script was also not favored, so it could fall into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment. This is not surprising. The generally promising projects in Hollywood have basically fallen into the hands of major film companies a few years in advance.

Just one thing, because of participating in violent movies like "Pulp Fiction", John Travolta is no longer suitable for a warm comedy like "Flying Over the Innocence". Daenerys Entertainment can only choose other male protagonists.

In the end, "Sixth Sense of Supernatural", "Batman", "Bodyguard" and "Flying Childhood" will be the main projects of Daenerys Entertainment next year.

The original space-time "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" and the relatively inferior "Bodyguard", which won an amazing box office of more than 600 million US dollars in the world, were initially confirmed to be in the summer file next year. Christmas.

but.

Speaking carefully, this is actually just Simon's idea.

Because these four projects are basically not popular types in Hollywood, scripts such as "Bodyguard" have been coldly treated by Hollywood for more than a decade. Simon didn't intend to explain too much to others, he just needed Amy and others to do their best to complete their work.

and.

According to preliminary statistics, the films that Daenerys Entertainment will confirm to be released next year will already include "Sisters of Sid", "Sisters", "Metropolis", "Blue Sky Angels", "Sixth Sense of Supernatural", "Bodyguard" , "Rampaging Pretty Girl", "Flying Through the Innocence", and "Batman" are a total of 10 titles.

The number of films that the company is still brewing and the film purchase department plans to buy will not be lower than this number.

This means that Daenerys Entertainment’s next year’s production and distribution plan will directly reach the level of the seven major studios. Therefore, surrounded by this piece of sand, the four films "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural" are mixed in, even if they can It won't be as conspicuous as this year when it won the box office of Yuanshikong.