Hollywood Hunter

Nowadays, the seven mainstream film companies in Hollywood are no longer in the era of large studios where the founders still control the competition for market share.

The seven major studios are basically listed companies or part of listed companies. The helms of the seven major studios may have varying degrees of power, but they are all just professional managers who manage the enterprise for shareholders.

In this situation, if Simon is just a young director who has just made a few blockbuster films in Hollywood, he may be ruthlessly suppressed when he seriously threatens the interests of other studios.

However, the current situation is that Simon's identity is no longer limited to director.

Before the entire Hollywood reacted, he had already established Daenerys Entertainment, an entertainment company whose strength was close to the size of a traditional large studio. Moreover, Simon himself quickly accumulated billions of dollars in wealth through various means.

In a society where capital is king in the United States, Simon’s billions of dollars in personal wealth represent a strong strength. Even if this strength is not deeply rooted in those old money families that have accumulated for decades, it is definitely not the big Hollywood film company. Professional managers' can easily provoke shock.

Those people may do some small moves in private, wanting them to bet on their career prospects and fight against Daenerys Entertainment. The possibility is very low.

As for joining forces to suppress Daenerys Entertainment, the latecomer, it is difficult to gather together. The three monks have no water to drink, not to mention there are still seven, seven ‘monks’ who are equally different and vying for a well.

Inside the Santa Monica headquarters office.

Simon understood all of this, but he did not take the WGA investigation incident lightly.

Just like that vigorous Hollywood anti-sexual assault movement many years later.

A lot of people originally just relished as the crowd to watch a fat man who had been rampant in Hollywood for decades, but they didn't expect that a devastating hurricane would be on everyone in a blink of an eye.

The world is unpredictable.

Although it is clear that the threat of prohibiting union members from cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment in the WGA statement is unlikely to happen, if Simon treats it contemptuously and allows Hollywood competitors to seize the opportunity, this worst result is likely to be unexpected. come true.

At that time, Daenerys Entertainment, which is not too stable in Hollywood after all, will be hit hard, and even cause a more serious chain reaction.

Therefore, Simon did not hesitate to decide to kill this potential crisis as soon as possible in the bud.

After making up his mind, Simon put down the pencil he was playing with and said to Amy: "I suddenly remembered that after last year's "Flying the Innocence" and "Batman", the company has not signed any cooperation projects with other film companies. Time to continue this matter."

Amy remembered that Simon had mentioned this plan last year. He planned to cooperate with other Hollywood studios to dispel competitors' fear of Daenerys Entertainment's rise. However, since the end of last year, everyone has been busy until now, and there is no extra energy to take care of this matter.

Simon thought about it for a while and continued: "Amy, you will release the news as soon as possible. Daenerys Entertainment will cooperate with 10 foreign films in the next two years."

Amy's expression was surprised, and asked, "What's the cooperation mode of "Flying over the Innocence?"

"Of course, and this time there is no need for copyright tying like "Wonder Woman". As long as the project is finalized, the two parties will invest 50% each and share the copyright and revenue. Daenerys Entertainment will lead the production, and the other party will be responsible for distribution through various channels. Well, the commission ratio for the issuance is a bit stuck this time, and the limit is 10%."

Amy said: "8% is actually okay."

Simon smiled and shook his head, and said: "There is no need to be so harsh. The key is that Daenerys Entertainment's accounting team must follow up the project from production to release at all stages."

Amy thought for a while, and said: "We can set up independent financial accounts for each project under the supervision of both partners to avoid the phenomenon of underreporting and defaulting on the company's due income."

"Discuss these details yourself, I only look at the results."

Amy agreed, still asking, "Where's the script, Simon, do you want to activate the copyright we have stocked?"

"Of course not. The scripts provided by the studios that want to work with us will take the initiative and I will personally choose them. In addition, remember to sign the relevant copyright agreements in advance to prevent them from going back."

"I don't think this situation is likely to happen," Amy smiled, and was about to get up to go busy with the matter. When he noticed that Simon was leaning on the leather chair a little tiredly, he couldn't help saying: "Simon, after the news was released, You will probably become the most powerful person in Hollywood."

The continuous success of "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural" proves that the magic of Daenerys Entertainment is still there.

Now, the company suddenly released the news that it would cooperate with the outside world for 10 films, which will definitely make the whole Hollywood boiling. After all, Daenerys Entertainment's previous series of films with Orion, Fox and MGM have all achieved box office sales, which proves that Simon Westero is not just leaving the best projects to himself.

10 movies, perhaps because of the increase in the number, the commercial performance can not be as good, but as long as half of them can reach the top ten of the annual box office list, it also has a huge appeal for studios. If there is a big explosion project like "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural", a studio can only use 50% of its revenue to last a year.

Simon smiled, but thought of the Hollywood Power List of "Premier" magazine in the original time and space.

The Hollywood Power List of the "Premiere" magazine in memory will not announce its first list until next year.

To many people's surprise, the first time of the original time and space list, the number one was CAA President Michael Ovitz.

In fact, this can once again prove that Simon’s idea just now is that the power and influence of the current major Hollywood studio is not as powerful as ordinary people imagine. If it were the golden age of Hollywood a few decades ago, the first place on such a list would be either Jack Warner of Warner Bros., Louis Meyer of MGM, or Darryl Za of Fox. Nuuk, it is impossible to fall into a talent agent.

Continued to exhort a few words, and when Amy left, Simon leaned back in the leather chair.

It's another busy week that is about to end. I will soon discuss the film's fine-cutting plan with the main creative team of "Flying Over Childhood", and I can only take a short nap.

Inexplicably, I want to fly to Australia suddenly again, let go of everything, and get tired of Janet for two days.

but.

Think about it or stop tossing the Japanese stock market.

After a while, Jennifer opened the door and came in, signaling that the main creative team of "Flying Through the Innocence" had arrived, and Simon stood up.

At the same time, the news that Daenerys Entertainment is about to cooperate with other Hollywood studios in 10 films in the next two years, like wings, quickly spread throughout Hollywood in just one morning.

All of a sudden, Simon, Amy, Robert Rem, Ella Docman and even Robert Iger of the East Coast and other executives of Daenerys Entertainment’s phone calls were all blown up. Various parties and meals. Reservations for Syria, cocktail parties and the like also flocked to everyone.

As the final decision maker of this plan, Simon is naturally the focus of everyone's attention.

However, Simon just asked Jennifer to push all the invitations. Although he did not fly to Australia on the weekend, he quietly rushed to San Francisco. Mainly for rest, by the way, check the development progress of each project of Yigrete.

When the media that was boiling like Hollywood found Simon's trail, the weekend was over.

August also came unconsciously.

Although I realized that it was likely that the sudden attack of WGA triggered Daenerys Entertainment’s plans to cooperate with 10 films, some people in the circle felt that Westeros’ response was a bit fussy. However, the new week was originally aggressive. WGA seems to have suddenly lost some kind of support, and its attitude has obviously softened.

George Cogo, chairman of the West Section of the American Screenwriters Guild, also stated in a statement last week that WGA will establish a special investigation committee for Daenerys Entertainment's violation of the agreement. Over the weekend, this so-called committee seems to have been forgotten by everyone, and only WGA's legal department is still tepidly following up.

Obviously, compared to WGA's Daenerys Entertainment survey, everyone agrees that the 10 film projects are the most important.

The seven major Hollywood studios, carefully calculated, and Daenerys Entertainment are not completely insoluble contradictions. Well, maybe one or two projects were robbed, maybe one or two talents were robbed, or maybe a lawsuit was being prepared, but these are just normal business practices, not private complaints.

As long as everyone is more positive and proactive, it is still very possible to get a share of these 10 movies.

As a result, when the WGA's upcoming investigation was almost an end, the major studios also began to show their favor to Daenerys Entertainment.

Orion Pictures, whose performance has been sluggish for more than half a year, immediately contacted Amy Pascal, claiming that the company had recently recovered a sum of funds that could pay Daenerys Entertainment's due score on Pulp Fiction. However, I hope that both parties can sign another film contract.

Amy is also unambiguous, insisting that Orion pay the share first before discussing other things.

MGM just stated last week that it would insist on filing a lawsuit. On Monday, it changed its tone directly and sent a batch of scripts to it.

The head of Samsung Pictures under Columbia also relayed a message to Simon through Jonathan Friedman. Samsung Pictures decided to cancel the contract with Matthew Broderick for a film called "The Godfather of Lizards."

Simon and Matthew Broderick's entanglement is no secret in Hollywood.

A few months before Norman Broca left, Matthew Broderick moved from WMA to CAA. "The Godfather of the Lizard" was originally a favorite film of Samsung Pictures. The story is set as a double actor. In addition to Matthew Broderick, the other actor is the famous Hollywood veteran Marlon Brando.

After signing the contract and canceling the contract, Samsung Pictures is to pay liquidated damages.

This is indeed very sincere.

The circles also realized that after this incident, Matthew Broderick's career in Hollywood was completely over.

Originally consciously not interested in Daenerys Entertainment, other studios wanted to use Matthew Broderick without much scruples. Now, everyone is fighting for Daenerys Entertainment’s 10 film contracts. Samsung Pictures will pay the penalty fee to draw the line directly. The attitude has become so obvious. If other studios cooperate with Matthew Broderick, It was a provocation to Simon Westeros.

After all, there is only one Westeros, but there are a lot of Hollywood niches who can replace Matthew Broderick.

It is conceivable that Matthew Broderick will not be able to get any role from the mainstream first- and second-tier film companies in Hollywood in the next few years, even if he wants to turn to the development of the television industry. A few years later, the actor will only be completely forgotten by Hollywood.

Daenerys Entertainment announced the details of the two scripts of "Screaming" and "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural", because the announcement of 10 foreign cooperation film plans has attracted Hollywood's attention, and no other forces have come forward. The media was disrupting the situation, and public opinion almost overwhelmingly expressed support for Simon.

For the sake of its own face, the American Screenwriters Guild did not end the investigation of Daenerys Entertainment as soon as possible, but just procrastinated.

However, due to good control of public opinion, the "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" script incident basically did not have much impact on the film’s box office. The "Fortune Stars and Fortune Generals", "Friday the 13th 8" and "Heaven" released on July 28 The three new films of "Cinema" also did not pose a threat to "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural".

From July 28 to August 3, another week passed, the box office drop of "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" continued to be controlled at a very good 23%, and another $23.96 million was collected.

At the same time, the "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" accumulated a total box office of 173.98 million U.S. dollars in five weeks, which also surpassed "Indiana Jones 3", which was originally ranked first of the year.

In the ninth week of its release, "Indiana Jones 3" had a cumulative box office of US$172.16 million, which was nearly US$2 million behind "Sixth Sense of Supernatural". Moreover, the single-week box office of "Indiana Jones 3" has fallen to less than $5 million. Whether it can exceed $200 million in the next few weeks, it depends on luck.

In comparison, the weekly box office of "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" still remains above US$20 million. With the box office trend shown in the film, it is definitely not a problem for North America to collect another US$100 million. Whether it can break through 300 million US dollars, it may also depend on luck, but this kind of luck is only enviable and hateful for "Indiana Jones 3".

Disney produced "Fortune Stars and Fortune Generals" starring Tom Hanks and Michael Fox, with a box office of $19.12 million in the first week, ranking second.

Warner Bros.'s "Lethal Weapon 2" received another 15.68 million US dollars, ranking third, with a total box office of 94.12 million US dollars in four weeks, full of stamina.

The eighth installment of the veteran classic horror film "Friday the 13th" series "Friday the 13th 8" from Paramount Pictures, the first week of the box office was 8.48 million US dollars, ranking fourth.

Disney's "My dear, I made my child smaller" slipped to fifth place this week, with another $7.61 million, and a cumulative box office of $98.47 million. It is also full of stamina and is about to break 100 million.

In addition to the top five on the list, the "Paradise Cinemas" released by Universal Pictures has not reproduced the luck of the "Sex, Lies and Videotapes" in early July.

"Sex, Lies, and Videotapes" at the beginning of the month ended up with a box office score of 6.31 million US dollars in the first week. For four consecutive weeks, with excellent media reputation and continued weak decline, this week continued to receive 3.76 million US dollars, and the total four-week box office was 22.19 million US dollars.

According to this box office trend, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" can almost safely break the $30 million box office mark before it goes down.

In comparison, due to the eagerness to push "Paradise Cinemas" to the theaters, Universal Pictures has difficulty in re-editing the film and dubbing in English.

"Paradise Cinemas" won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, but the North American dubbed version was a mess. Even director Giuseppe Tonadore publicly stated that this is another movie.

Word-of-mouth failure, and lack of commercial attributes itself, "Paradise Cinemas" opened 553 screens similar to "Sex, Lies, and Videotapes" in the first week, but only received 1.86 million US dollars in the box office, and the single museums were only in early 3,000 US dollars. The start failed, and the long-term is naturally impossible to talk about. It is estimated that after the two-week contract period is over, the theater will withdraw the film, and the total North American box office of the film is only about 3 million US dollars.

"Paradise Cinema" lost both media reputation and box office, and Universal Pictures was also destined to be unable to win the best foreign language film award for this film like Miramax did in the original time and space.

In order to get "Paradise Cinema", Universal only paid a prepaid copyright amount to the film maker to reach 5 million US dollars, and also promised a sharing clause. The recently invested publicity fee is no less than 2 million US dollars. Now, this project is definitely To lose everything.

The millions of dollars in losses Universal could certainly bear, but for many people who are looking forward to "Paradise Cinema" because Daenerys Entertainment is optimistic, they are extremely disappointed.

Not only Universal, but after the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Giuseppe Tonadore, who intends to hit the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film Award, and tries to further break into Hollywood, is like being sap. The producers who grabbed the right to produce Tonadore's new film at a high price because of Daenerys Entertainment's shots are no longer so confident.

After "Paradise Cinemas" was released at the North American box office, the French producer TF1 Film Production, which had grabbed the investment right to Tonadore's new film, re-contacted Daenerys Entertainment to test whether the two parties could still cooperate.

Simon has seen the script of "Journey to Heaven" before. Although he didn't have much impression of the original Italian film, he still remembers that the film was remade into the American version in the original time and space. It was written by Robert De Niro and Kate Beckinsale. Starring stars such as Er and Drew Barrymore. The French filmmaker took the initiative to express his favor, and Simon did not let Ella Deutschman refuse, and asked the other party to participate in the capital injection to win the North American distribution rights of "Journey of Heaven".

"Sex, Lies, and Videotapes" and "Paradise Cinemas", one big hit, the other hit the street, the two films have completely different endings, and the Hollywood studio executives gradually realized a certain fact: Daenerys Entertainment The projects that are valued are not necessarily 100% successful. Obviously, the key thing is the participation of Simon Westeros himself.