Hollywood Hunter

Michael Ovitz thought that WMA poached Kirsty Avery as Daenerys Entertainment's counterattack against CAA because of the "Rain Man" incident, but in fact it was not. For the enemy, Simon is more accustomed to moving forward, throwing the opponent far away, to the point where they can only look up, rather than stopping to fight with the opponent.

Just like the entanglement between Simon and Matthew Broderick.

When things first happened, the general view in Hollywood was that a big star wanted to clean up a small screenwriter. Although it turned out to be ashamed, little people like Simon were more of a conversation after dinner.

But now, with the rise of Daenerys Entertainment, although Simon did not talk about the original incident in public or private, the executives of various Hollywood studios could not help but have an idea that their own Matthew Broderick's cooperation, will it cause Simon Westero's dissatisfaction, even trigger the opponent's targeting, or lose possible cooperation opportunities?

There are actually many popular niches with good Hollywood box office appeal. Michael Fox, Matt Dillon and others can replace Matthew Broderick.

In contrast, Simon Westeros has only one.

As a result, after Universal Pictures’ "Genius Soldiers" last Easter, with Simon's soaring in Hollywood, mainstream film companies became cautious about whether to cooperate with Matthew Broderick.

In the second half of 1988, Matthew Broderick only starred in a literary and **** comedy by New Line Pictures, "Same-Sex Three Points", with a production cost of 8 million US dollars, and the unpopular period in October. After the film was released The total box office in North America is less than $5 million.

It is conceivable that even if the Hollywood film company continues to cooperate with Matthew Broderick, taking into account Simon's factor, it is impossible to give the company's key high-quality projects to the other party.

Without a good script and losing quality schedules, the box office will naturally be out of the question. Without the support of box office performance, the original Hollywood first-line niche will soon be reduced to a second- and third-line actor, and then completely disappear from the public eye.

This kind of strong crushing that does not need to be done by himself is what Simon pursues.

As for Kirsty Avery, Daenerys Entertainment enabled the other party because the actress was the original heroine of "Flying by the Innocence". Since CAA has set up obstacles in Meg Ryan's "Flying Through the Innocence", while enabling the original heroine, WMA's digging is just smooth.

Michael Ovitz was on the verge of an enemy, and the whole weekend after returning to Los Angeles was restless, but Daenerys Entertainment was not affected at all.

Monday, January 9.

Because of the jet lag, Simon, who was far away in Melbourne, had finished the first day of shooting of "Batman", and Amy arrived at the company at eight o'clock in the morning Western time.

End of the one-hour conference call with the New York Television Department. At nine o'clock, Amy Hecklin, the director of "Flying Through the Innocence", the male protagonist Mel Gibson, and the newly signed female protagonist Kirsty Avery, etc. The creator came to Santa Monica, and then another one-hour production meeting.

As the CEO of Daenerys Entertainment, Amy’s current main responsibility is the operation of Daenerys Pictures and the daily administration of the company. Although Robert Rem, Robert Iger, Nancy Brill, Ai La Docman and other supervisors perform their duties and share most of the company's business. Amy's work that she needs to take care of often still keeps her busy for more than ten hours a day.

The heroine has finalized that "Flying Through the Innocence" will begin supporting role selection and preparatory work, and it is expected to start shooting in early March.

At ten o'clock, Amy Hecklin and others were sent away. Amy's assistant Vanessa reminded her that Gensler's team was already waiting in the meeting room.

Gensler is an established architectural design company headquartered in San Francisco and has a very wide international reputation.

Daenerys Entertainment's Malibu Studios Park has begun design bidding. Such a large-scale integrated office park covering an area of ​​50 hectares has naturally aroused competition from many top architectural design companies, and Gensler is one of them.

Before leaving Los Angeles, Simon drew a rough sketch of Daenerys Studios according to his own preferences. The architectural design company bidding only needed to refine and make it practical based on Simon's sketch.

The Gensler team today is going to introduce their design proposal and project quotation to Amy.

Coming to the conference room, Amy unexpectedly found that Janet was already sitting at the desk, talking with several Gensler staff. Seeing Amy coming in, everyone got up to say hello to Amy. Janet stood beside her with a smile. After everyone had introduced each other, she said to Amy: "I'm just listening, you are free."

In the days when Simon left Los Angeles, Janet basically appeared at the company on time to participate in Daenerys Entertainment’s annual financial audit.

However, Janet still gave full play to her eldest lady's temperament, who was accustomed to ‘the upper hand’, and directly transferred three accountants from the Johnston Group to participate in this audit.

Speaking of, the company's financial data is not suitable for disclosure to outsiders. It’s just that everyone knows that Janet played a supervisory role in this audit. Since Simon did not object to Janet's actions, it would be hard for Amy and others to object.

The area of ​​50 hectares is really big. The length of Fox Studios in Century City is only 500 meters from north to south. Although the plot purchased by Daenerys Entertainment has a triangular layout, the depth from the entrance to the highest point is more than 1.5 kilometers. , Even if the unusable **** is removed, the remaining construction land exceeds that of any other major studios in Los Angeles outside of Universal Studios.

Therefore, although Daenerys Entertainment's subsidiaries including Daenerys Special Effects, Pixar Animation, and Marvel Entertainment are also planned to move into the studio, this plot is still more than enough. Daenerys Entertainment also directly requested the design company to plan according to the permanent staff size of 2,500.

Gensler's team just introduced their design proposal and it took more than an hour. After the two parties discussed the quotation, it was already noon.

After finishing the morning work, Robert Rem and Ella Docman also came from Burbank to have lunch with Amy and discuss the work schedule for the new week. Now that Janet is here, Amy invites her to join him.

Everyone sat down in a restaurant near the company headquarters. Robert Rem asked Janet with a smile: "Jenny, how is the audit progress? I'm very curious about how much money the company made this year?"

"There must be a lot," Janet said with a smile, flipping through the menu, and suddenly seemed to add casually: "But there are a lot of problems."

Ella Deutschman did not feel the change in Janet’s tone, and easily continued: "Our company has only been established for more than two years, and there must be some problems."

Amy and Rem were keenly aware of Janet's unusual tone, and they couldn't help looking at her.

Janet put down the menu in her hand, and her beautiful eyes, which were always noticeable, narrowed slightly. At this time, she looked like a cat about to pounce on its prey, and said: "I found that someone spent $16,000 to have a party in his own home, but the bill was recorded as the entertainment expenses of the movie project. He also used the company's private jet under the name of a business trip, but actually to send his son to college. ."

Amy and Deutschman looked at Robert Rem together. Probably only he could have a son in college.

Robert Rem shrugged calmly and said, "Jenny, I haven't done this before."

"Yeah, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here to eat with you," Janet's expression seemed to slow down a bit, and directly revealed the mystery: "It's actually Ron Macmillan."

Upon hearing the words, the three Amy were both surprised and not surprised.

Ron Macmillan was his producer when Simon made "Lola Run".

After the success of "Lola Run", Ron Macmillan also became a contract producer of Daenerys Pictures. In the past two years, he has successively completed two projects, "Reaper is Coming" and "Screaming", and both have achieved very impressive box office results.

Ron Macmillan has therefore become one of the hottest top producers in Hollywood.

Because of these connections, everyone was a little surprised that Janet would suddenly point the finger at the company's veteran producer. However, after following Simon's fortune, Ron Macmillan's reputation in the industry in the past two years is really not very good, and everyone is not surprised that he has these dirty little hands and feet.

After a moment of silence, Amy raised her hand to stop the waiter who wanted to get in, and asked Janet in a low voice, "Jenny, did you talk to Simon about this?"

"That said, he let me figure it out," Jane asked her back, "Amy, what do you think should be done?"

Amy was a little uncertain and could only remind her: "Jenny, the preparations for "Scream 2" have already begun."

In the past week, "Scream and Scream" received another US$5.61 million. In the 10th week of its release, this youth horror film officially broke through the 100 million mark, with a cumulative box office of US$103.97 million. Simon originally gave a trilogy outline, and the heroine Courteney Cox also signed a trilogy contract. The film was so successful that preparations for the sequel were naturally on the agenda, and at the same time it was once again scheduled for Halloween this year.

As the producer of "Scream and Scream", Ron Macmillan now removes the opponent, which will undoubtedly affect the development progress of the project.

Janet heard Amy’s hesitant tone, and said: "Actually, Ron and I are also very familiar. At the beginning, everyone helped Simon shoot "Lola Run". However, he has crossed too much, and I actually don’t care about him. For those messy things in the circle, if he can work for Simon with all his heart, Daenerys Entertainment will try his best to protect him. But he shouldn’t use these careful thoughts on Daenerys Entertainment, Simon has given him enough Remuneration, but also took him from an unknown small producer to his current position. He should no longer take things that do not belong to him, let alone deceive Simon. So, Amy, call him in the afternoon and he was opened. apart from."

Amy was stunned and said, "Jenny, don't you need to discuss it with Simon?"

"No need," Janet became firm, staring at Amy, and said: "Simon is actually a very softhearted guy and doesn't like to care about such trivial things. But, Amy, I am not, I am just a little woman. As long as I think a person is no longer trustworthy, and may even endanger my boyfriend, I will remove him from Simon without hesitation."

Amy was stared at by Janet, was silent for a moment, still nodded, and said, "I will call Ron in the afternoon, but what about "Screaming"?"

"This is not something I need to care about," Janet was very satisfied with Amy's answer, but she shook her hand at the shopkeeper even more. After speaking, she glanced at Rem and Deutschman, seeming to be joking, and said: "This year The financial report is not a big problem. However, I will help Simon to watch next year. Simon pays you very generously, so unless you can confirm that you are not caught by me, don’t take things that are not yours. ."

After that, Janet did not wait for any response from the three of them, and then slowly picked up the menu, and as if nothing happened just now, in a blink of an eye, she was laughing and joking with Amy.

So, after eating a meal, Janet obviously enjoyed it very much, but Amy and the three all seemed to have a fishbone. Even looking at Janet's smiling face, the three of them felt a creepy feeling in their hearts.

After lunch, Janet did not stay in the company this afternoon.

Amy also sent away Rem and Docman, because of the overseas release of several films such as "Scream" and the matter of Gaomen Pictures, the two will fly to the UK together.

Rem and Docman rushed to Santa Monica Airport in downtown Santa Monica. Nancy Brill just returned from the east coast on a private jet owned by Daenerys Entertainment. The woman flew off yesterday. In New York, in the morning, we discussed with several banks in New York about the loan for the funds needed to invest in Blockbuster.

Although Daenerys Entertainment had sufficient funds on the books, Simon decided to transfer all the excess funds to the Westeros account. He didn't explain to Amy and others the reason for doing this, or even James Rebald. Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment can only continue to choose loans if it wants to buy a stake in Blockbuster.

Counting the US$200 million spent on real estate purchases in Europe at the end of last year, Simon’s total debt has only increased to US$650 million. Compared to his total personal assets, his debt ratio is only 20%. Therefore, adding another $100 million in debt is still within Simon's range.

In fact, as long as there are suitable investment opportunities, Simon can even afford to increase his total debt to US$1 to US$1.5 billion.

When Nancy returned to the company, she came directly to Amy's office to discuss the results of this trip to New York with her.

Amy just put down the phone call with Ron Macmillan, she still did not directly inform Ron Macmillan on the phone that Ron Macmillan was fired, as Janet explained, instead she had an appointment for dinner tonight. Compared to Janet, Amy hopes to get together with Ron Macmillan more, which is not harmful to Daenerys Entertainment.

As for the things Janet mentioned during lunch, since she didn't talk about how to deal with it afterwards, she obviously acquiesced not to pursue it, and Amy didn't mean to mention it again. She also didn't think it was because of Janet's generosity. It's actually very difficult to pursue a matter of tens of thousands of dollars. Ron Macmillan would certainly not admit it easily if it really makes a lot of money. If legal measures are taken, the costs of litigation may be more than that, and the gains outweigh the losses.