Hollywood Hunter

Los Angeles.

The time is Monday, March 27.

In the past Easter weekend, Daenerys Entertainment's new movie "Hunting Ghost 2" officially opened in North America with a screen of 1,117.

Amy Pascal got the box office data for the first weekend of "Hook and Soul 2" early in the morning.

After three days of opening, the sequel to the "Hunting Ghost Street" series created by the new line "Hunting Ghost Street" earned US$4.61 million. Its box office performance is comparable to that of the first part of the "Hunting Ghost Street". It is expected that the total box office in North America is still US$15 million. up and down.

The production cost of "Hunters and Ghosts 2" is only 3 million US dollars, which is already three times the production cost of 1 million US dollars for the first part, and the company's investment budget is also 3 million US dollars. The North American box office forecast of 15 million US dollars means that Daenerys Entertainment can achieve good profits only on the local theater release.

The box office data was released, and in the morning meeting with the management of New World Pictures, "Hunting Ghost 3" was included in the development plan.

The 61st Academy Awards ceremony will be held on March 29.

After the meeting with the management of New World Pictures, Amy organized another meeting in the same conference room back to back to discuss preparations for the Oscars with the team in charge of Ella Deutschman.

The reason why the Oscars ceremony has become a big business with an annual output value of hundreds of millions of dollars is that all parties involved in this event can profit from it.

On Daenerys Entertainment’s side, in addition to popular nominated films such as "Rain Man", in order to increase the exposure of the company’s upcoming "Bodyguard" and "Sixth Sense", Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro and other stars will also attend the awards ceremony, even Valerie Galino was sent back from Australia by Simon.

Valerie is not only the heroine of "Rain Man" in the hot award season, and the heroine of "Batman" that will be released at the end of the year, no matter which aspect, it is very necessary for her to attend this awards ceremony.

The meeting room of the Burbank Daenerys Entertainment Division.

Approaching noon, Amy looked at her memo again and looked up at Docman and said: "The last thing, Ella, how confident are you that Simon is nominated for the best soundtrack?"

"I have tried my best, but the probability of Simon winning the prize is very low," Ella Deutschman shook his head. "In this nomination, in addition to Simon, David Grusin from "Battle of Soybean", John Williams of "The Unexpected Traveler", George Fenton of "Dangerous Relationship", and Morris Weir of "Mistlock Dangerous Love", the four soundtracks, all have at least 3 or more Oscar music awards Nominations, including David Grusin, who has nominated 5 times, and George Fenton, who has nominated 4 times, have not yet won the award."

Amy took a look at the information on the best soundtrack nominations handed over by Ichman, and found that the other four were all very old soundtrack masters. Only Simon was a newcomer and was nominated for the first time.

Although "Rain Man" has a very high voice for the award, Amy also feels that Simon is unlikely to win the award with such a nomination.

Putting down the information in her hand, Amy thought for a while, and said: "I told Simon about this, he just let me deal with it casually, and he doesn't expect much to win the prize. But in any case, I still have to prepare. ."

Ella Deutschman said: "Usually, in this case, other people from the same crew help to receive the award. In the "Rain Man" crew, probably only Valerie Galino is suitable."

"Then Valerie," Amy clapped directly, "You take the time to chat with her, and at least prepare an acceptance speech."

After talking about this, Amy rechecked her memo, confirmed that there was nothing missing, and announced the end of the morning meeting.

In the afternoon, Santa Monica arranged an audition for the supporting role of "Pretty Beautiful Lady", and the filming of this film will start in early May at the latest. At noon, Amy had an appointment with Angela Ahrendts, the president of Gucci America, for lunch, so she didn't plan to stop in Burbank.

Just as Amy left the meeting room with her assistant, Ella Docman chased him out again, and went downstairs alongside them, while saying: "I heard that the actor of "Pretty Beautiful Lady" has not been finalized yet? "

"Yes," Amy said with a smile, knowing that Duichman must be recommended by someone, "Several candidates have already been reported to Simon. If you plan to recommend, you must be strong enough."

Ella Deutschman was also polite, saying: "We just watched the "My Left Foot" sample last week, Daniel Day Lewis, what do you think?"

Amy remembered Lewis' impeccable performance in "My Left Foot", and the other party's acting skills were obviously fine. Lewis's appearances before "My Left Foot" were basically love movies, such as "A Room with a View" released by Deutschman when he was at Xinying and the adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel last year. The "Love in Prague".

However, after thinking about it for a moment, Amy shook her head: "Ira, the actor in "Pretty Beautiful Lady" is a businessman, but Daniel's temperament is more biased towards an artist. He is not suitable for this role.

Deutschman did not give up easily, saying: "Danny happened to be in Los Angeles recently. Amy, if possible, how about giving him an audition opportunity?"

Daniel Day Lewis’s performance in "My Left Foot" still impressed Amy very deeply. After hesitating, she said: "Santa Monica just happens to be performing a supporting role in "Pretty Beautiful Lady" in the afternoon. Audition, Ella, at four o'clock in the afternoon, I can only give Daniel twenty minutes. Moreover, Simon finally decided on this matter."

Ella Docman heard Amy agree and said gratefully: "Thank you, Amy, I will let Danny pass on time."

Amy smiled and said, "On your side, has Robert Altman finished the script of Raymond Carver's novel?"

Ella Deutschman shook his head and said: "Ultraman has produced an outline, and the movie name will definitely be "Life Intersection". However, this year is definitely out of play."

At the end of the awards season PR, Doichman completed the release of the "Sisters of Sid" left over from last year, and the remaining work this year is mainly "My Left Foot", "Drive for Miss Daisy" and the Gucci documentary. For the three projects, if possible, look for opportunities to buy the copyright of some other artistic films from channels such as the Cannes Film Festival.

However, Daenerys Entertainment is still the target of other Hollywood film companies, and the plan to buy the copyright is not feasible. At least if the price is reasonable, it is not easy to achieve this.

Leaving the Burbank branch, Amy's assistant Vanessa drove the car, while she sat in the back seat and flipped through a script.

This is a sequel to a horror film in the original New World Entertainment copyright library. It is adapted from Stephen King’s horror novel "Children in the Cornfield". The first film was released in 1984, and the production cost was only 800,000 US dollars. The North American box office score of nearly 15 million US dollars, the market performance is comparable to the "Hunter Chaser" series.

During the recent release of "Hunting Ghost 2", Danny Morris, president of New World Pictures, released the project.

"Children in the Cornfield" did not originally have a basis for developing a sequel. If you want to do this, the story may have to be restarted, unlike the horror film series such as "Hunter Street" and "Hunter Chase" which have nightmares or hells. Elements of the same origin, such as the magic box.

However, in Hollywood, as long as a movie is still profitable, these problems are obviously not a problem.

As a film adapted from Stephen King’s novel, and the first film has achieved amazing box office results relative to cost, it is inevitable to develop a sequel.

Reading the script intently, taking a pen to annotate a few words on it from time to time, unknowingly, the car had stopped outside a restaurant not far from Daenerys Entertainment headquarters in Santa Monica.

Amy took Vanessa out of the car, Angela Ahrendts had arrived early, and Valerie Galino unexpectedly appeared in the restaurant.

Noting Amy’s doubts, Angela Ahrendz took the initiative to explain: “I accompanied Valerie to try on the clothes in the Gucci store in the morning, so I came here together.”

Amy doesn’t mind having Valerie alone. In fact, even if it’s not this time, she will take time to eat with Valerie Galino, and talk about the shooting of "Batman" in Australia by the way. .

Four women sat down in the dining room and ordered a meal, and Amy asked Ahrendts, "How about you here?"

Since joining the job at the beginning of the month, Angela Ahrendts has been living the life of a trapeze throughout North America. These days, she has visited most of the Gucci stores in major cities on the East Coast. However, she wants to make Gucci stores in North America It will take at least one or two months to sort it out.

This time I suddenly stopped working and came to Los Angeles, but it was for Gucci's promotion.

The Oscar awards ceremony has always been an important publicity platform for many big names. Gucci has not paid much attention to this aspect of promotion in the past, and at the same time it lacks access to the Hollywood circle. Now, since everyone has a boss, Gucci will naturally not let this opportunity go.

"Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Melanie Griffith, Michelle Pfeiffer, Madonna, Valerie, oh, and Bruce Willis’ wife Demi Moore, a total of 7 actresses will be wearing Gucci dresses at this awards ceremony," Angela counted with excitement, and added: "In addition, Iger has also passed through the ABC. We can get a lot of live broadcasts. Close-up."

Amy was about to nod, suddenly remembered, and said, "Isn't there Nicole Kidman, she is the guest of the best art direction award this time?"

"No, I talked to Mr. Friedman of WMA. He said that Miss Kidman had made an appointment with Dior in advance to wear each other's dress. Mr. Friedman also introduced me to some other actresses, but , You know, the coffee positions of those actresses are a bit low, so there are only these seven."

Amy certainly does not think that the 7 female stars wear Gucci dresses to attend the Oscars. In fact, this number is already a lot. Except for Bruce Willis, the lesser-known wife, other women have high coffee positions.

Speaking of which, Bruce Willis’s wife, um, Demi Moore, is still on the shortlist for the heroine of "The End of the Ghost" When the other party did this this time, it obviously meant to take the initiative.

If it weren't for Bruce Willis, who just started to become popular with "Die Hard", few people would have noticed his model wife.

As for "Human Ghost Love Is Not Over", Amy privately prefers Michelle Pfeiffer or Julia Roberts.

Of course, Julia has already scheduled "Pretty Girl in Wind and Moon", and it will definitely not be able to catch up with "The Love Between People and Ghosts". If the two sides have fallen out, Meg Ryan is also a good choice, and perhaps Nicole Kidman, who has emerged with the heroine of "Pulp Fiction". However, this woman seems to have a lot of thoughts.

Overall, Michelle Pfeiffer was the first choice.

As for that Demi Moore, Amy wouldn't look at him differently because of this kind of favor. As Angela Ahrendts just revealed in her words, many actresses with lower positions who are lucky enough to attend this Oscar also look forward to wearing Gucci dresses. Obviously, Daenerys Entertainment does not lack this kind of favor.

"Seven are seven. I suggest you don't add them. It's not a good thing that a brand appears too frequently."

"I think so too," Angela Ahrendz nodded, and said: "I'm thinking about taking back as many Gucci counter authorizations as possible recently. If a luxury brand is everywhere, it is not a luxury brand. ."

Everyone chatted a few words, and Amy and Angela started talking about business again.

About Daenerys Entertainment's official celebration party after the Oscar.

Last year, because he didn't get many nominations, although Simon unexpectedly won an award for best editing, there was no special celebration.

This year is different.

With Daenerys Entertainment’s box office results for a series of hot movies last year, even if nothing was won at the upcoming Oscars, the company still has enough to hold a grand and comprehensive celebration party to reward Daenery for participating in last year’s performance. Silk Entertainment is the main creator of a series of blockbuster films, and at the same time lays good relations for further cooperation in the future.

Prior to this, Amy had communicated with Sophia several times. Daenerys Entertainment’s Oscar party will be named “Gucci Night” this year. At that time, not only will there be a large number of stars, but the media will also be invited to cooperate. Publicity.

Although Angela Ahrendts just said that luxury goods should be controlled not to be too flooded, Gucci has been silent for several years, and its original reputation in North America has also been suppressed by brands such as Dior and LV. This time it happens to be an opportunity to stand out. .

Gucci's recent operation idea is to re-spread the popularity as much as possible, and then more refined operation of the brand image of this classic luxury brand.

After the last two days of busy schedule, the 61st Oscars ceremony finally arrived on time on March 29.

5 o'clock in the afternoon.

With the opening of the red carpet ceremony, a large number of stars gathered from all over Los Angeles to the Sacred Citizen Auditorium where the Oscars were held this year.