Hollywood Hunter

Simon is in a duplex apartment on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side.

After tossing and going, and socializing until late last night, Simon still got up at 6 o'clock in the morning in New York, and began to personally prepare breakfast for the two.

Today is Friday, October 6.

Planning to spend another day on the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Simon and Janet are leaving again. Daenerys Entertainment has a lot of things that need to be dealt with by Simon in the near future, and Janet will also return to the Melbourne headquarters to take part in this operation.

Moreover, since it is confirmed that the crisis in the US junk bond market is about to break out, staying in New York is easy to be associated with. This is not a good thing.

The next reunion is at the beginning of November, and the Boeing 767 scheduled from Boeing happens to be delivered. Some of the most pressing matters in the hands of the two should also be finished.

After breakfast, Janet rushed to Westeros Company in Midtown. Simon and Jennifer met, and first sent her assistant to the Daenerys Entertainment New York branch building in Greenwich Village. He listened to some work reports by the way, and then again. Rushing to Brooklyn in the east of Manhattan, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was shot in Brooklyn.

Los Angeles is still at six in the morning, but the box office data for the previous week has already been released.

From September 29 to October 5, the 14th week of its release, Daenerys Entertainment’s "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" received another 5.09 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office has reached 275.06 million US dollars.

"Uncle Buck", which was released on August 11, also entered its eighth week, with a single weekly box office of 3.26 million US dollars, and a cumulative box office of 57.02 million US dollars. With a box office potential of about $10 million in this film, "Uncle Buck" is expected to become the second highest grossing movie of John Hughes in these years after "Spring Is Not a Book Day".

"Bodyguard", which was first released in the summer file, due to the recent share dispute between Daenerys Entertainment and Alista Records, the box office data that has begun to close has shown a small rebound in recent weeks. Last week, the box office received another 510,000 US dollars. The box office was $118.31 million.

"Bodyguard" currently has only 286 screens left, and the local box office is expected to break through the $120 million mark before the downgrade.

In addition, in September, Gaomen Films successively launched "Sweet Sister" and "The Woman on the Roof" bought from the Cannes Film Festival. The two films were released on September 8 and September 22 respectively.

Ella Deutschman has developed a set of effective radial distribution models through the release of "Metropolis", "Sisters", "Sisters of Sid" and other films in the first half of the year, namely in New York, Los Angeles, etc. The central city is a strategy of opening small-scale paintings to test the market response and then gradually spreading to other cities.

Jane Campion's "Sweet Sister" has been targeted for marketing in three cities: New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. After the trial of word-of-mouth was recognized by the media, Deutschman decisively invested $300,000 in advertising costs in the three cities.

"Sweet Sister" opened on September 8 with 26 screens. In the first week, it created an outstanding achievement of more than 19,000 US dollars in single library, and the box office revenue reached 510,000 US dollars in seven days.

Taking into account the audience of the film, the distribution team of Gaomen Pictures predicts that the total North American box office of "Sweet Sister" is expected to reach 5 million US dollars.

Gaomen Pictures bought "Sweet Sister" at the beginning and only spent US$500,000 in advance. After the increase, the overall publicity fee can also be controlled within US$1 million, although it will pay the producer 50% of the box office net in the future. Profit sharing, but the later video tape and TV broadcast income will all go to Daenerys Entertainment, this project is also considered a small gain.

As for "The Woman on the Roof", Gaomen Pictures did not seek media approval, but hyped the **** elements and glamorous scenes in the film. Deutschman also arranged for the two heroines of the film to board A local male magazine in New York.

In response to the audience's habit of not watching subtitles, Gaomen Pictures deliberately produced a dubbing version of this Swedish film.

Gaomen Pictures invested a total of US$300,000 in film purchases, dubbing, and publicity. "The Woman on the Roof" opened in New York on September 22 with 11 screens and recovered US$230,000 in the box office within seven days. Based on the $100,000 investment in publicity in New York, this has already recovered the cost, and the box office of more than $20,000 per library is also better than "Sweet Sister".

However, in the second week of the painting, with the screen size unchanged, the release area is still limited to New York's "The Woman on the Roof", but the box office dropped 36% from September 29 to October 5, and the curve is far worse than "Sweet" "Sister" is strong. It is expected that after several months of long-term screening, the North American box office forecast should be able to reach about 3 million US dollars.

Speaking of which, the two small businesses of Gaomen Pictures are simply not worth mentioning in front of blockbuster movies such as Daenerys Entertainment's "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" and "Bodyguard", but Simon did not underestimate it. The business of 500,000 dollars and the business of 50 million dollars are treated together.

After all, if a big tree only has its main trunk and lacks branches and leaves, it is destined to die. These "small businesses" are actually the branches and leaves of Daenerys Entertainment.

What's more, no one is sure whether these humble branches and leaves suddenly became another towering tree one day.

In addition to the local box office, some overseas box office data of "Bodyguard" also appeared in this week's report.

In this era, the overseas distribution of Hollywood movies will generally be delayed by more than three months than the local ones. Daenerys Entertainment is also very cautious about the overseas distribution of "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural". Therefore, among the three summer films, only "Bodyguard" is currently available. In September, it successively entered overseas markets.

The dispute between Daenerys Entertainment and Alista Records on the original soundtrack album of "Bodyguard" during this period was raging. Alista Records had to accept Daenerys Entertainment’s uncompromising attitude last week. Daenerys Entertainment's financial audit is now drawing to a close.

On the other hand, the complete cessation of sales of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack album did not hit the film box office as many people imagined. This turmoil not only stimulated a small rebound in the local box office, but also triggered overseas due to the strong topicality. The audience is curious about "Bodyguard".

The major overseas ticket warehouses started from the earliest release in the UK on September 8. In the past month or so, the film has accumulated more than 86 million U.S. dollars in ticket warehouse countries such as the UK, Spain, and Italy. This is still in Japan. , France and other large ticket warehouse countries have not been screened.

In my memory, the box office distribution of "Bodyguard" is that overseas accounted for the bulk. The North American box office of the film only exceeded 100 million, but the total overseas income was close to 300 million US dollars. It now appears that this movie will still reproduce the original box office distribution rules.

The overseas box office was not affected, and Daenerys Entertainment naturally took more initiative in the dispute with Alista Records.

Because of this initiative, Simon returned to Los Angeles at the weekend. After the audit was completed, Alista Records put a total of $38.25 million in cash into Daenerys Entertainment’s account, of which $7.53 million was paid by Alista Records to Dany. Lisi Entertainment’s default compensation.

Daenerys Entertainment also took the initiative to make some ‘compromises’ and did not disclose the specific amount of the settlement reached by the two parties, which is considered to have saved some face for Alista Records.

However, everyone in the circle probably knows this. Daenerys Entertainment's strong voice through the soundtrack album of "Bodyguard" has also given all other studios that have cooperation projects with Daenerys Entertainment a strong force. Warning: If you want to swallow the interests of Daenerys Entertainment in the cooperation, Daenerys Entertainment will never choose to compromise even if it loses both.

Los Angeles.

Fox Studios in Century City.

In the past two weeks after Simon’s departure, Fox Pictures has quickly completed the preparations for the first "Sleep with the Enemy" out of 10 projects. The film is expected to be released in the prime time of June next year. Therefore, all parties have given the green light. It can be turned on later in the month.

In comparison, the other three movies to be released next year, "Hands Shaking the Cradle" is expected to be released at the end of July and early August next year. The competition at the end of the summer file will not be so fierce. It is just suitable for thriller films with long-term reputation. It can avoid competition with the thriller "Sleep with the Enemy".

The schedule of "Ten Days in Danger" is initially confirmed as Halloween at the end of October next year. After this year's "Scream 2", the third part of the series will be suspended for one year, so there will be no internal friction at that time.

"League of Stars" is expected to be scheduled for Thanksgiving in November next year, so as to avoid "Home Alone" in December.

The other 6 of the remaining 10 films were probably scattered in 1991 and 1992 to be released one after another. Simon also confessed to many people that the first four films were not the focus, and the real "blockbuster" must be behind.

After a one-morning "Sleep with the Enemy" production meeting, everyone had lunch together. Simon was about to return to Santa Monica, so he was stopped by Joe Rose and returned to the studio’s office of the CEO of Joe Rose. .

The two sat down, and Rose handed over a document, saying: "Simon, this is the copyright transfer agreement for "Terminator". The initial price of Hemdell is $3 million plus 5% of the film’s omni-channel net profit. , We talked with Hemdell for a month, the copyright fee of 3 million US dollars remained unchanged, and the share ratio was changed to 5% of the film’s net box office profit."

Simon took over the copyright transfer agreement that Rose handed over.

The copyright transfer price of US$3 million, although not up to the sky-high price Simon had previously secretly purchased the Thor Gold Middle Earth series, was already very high. With this money, Hemdell probably no longer asks for too much share, only then will it agree to exchange 5% of omni-channel net profit for 5% of box office net profit.

Omni-channel net profit sharing and box office net profit sharing are completely different concepts. Those who know a little about Hollywood accounting rules understand that Hollywood movies usually do not generate profit on the books, let alone pure box office profit.

Putting down the agreement, Simon asked Rose: "Where is Cameron?"

Joe Rose shook his head: "Cameron insisted on being the director personally, Simon. I think we can just put him aside and do it ourselves."

Simon asked: "So, have you seen the script for Cameron's sequel?"

Joe Rose nodded: "I've seen it, it's not bad."

Simon shrugged and said, "I've seen it too."

The two looked at each other for a moment, and smiled bitterly together.

Now that you have seen Cameron's sequel script, unless you completely abandon the idea of ​​the liquid robot, if you want to get rid of Cameron, you will wait to be sued in the future. Although Joe Rose said it was pretty good, he obviously didn't know the finishing touch of the liquid robot.

Therefore, if you want to put Cameron completely away, this is not an ordinary difficulty.