Hollywood Hunter

After the weekend, time came to the last week of June.

Prior to this, "Wonder Woman" officially started shooting in the UK on June 17 last Monday.

This time I did not choose Australia to shoot, mainly because the origin story still followed the Gal Gadot version of World War I in Simon’s memory. Australia did not have similar sceneries such as London during World War I and Amazonian Paradise Island. Ground.

Therefore, the film will mainly be shot in two European countries, Britain and Italy.

With the establishment and shooting of a series of films in recent months, Daenerys Entertainment’s 1992 important project list has basically been confirmed.

It is estimated that in 1992, Daenerys Entertainment will temporarily produce and publish four key projects, namely "Teenage Ninja Turtles 2" for Easter, "Wonder Woman" for summer, and "Home Alone 2 for Thanksgiving". "And "Jurassic Park" at Christmas time.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment's external cooperation film list has been confirmed three, namely "The Last Mohican" with Warner Bros., "Peachy Deal" with Paramount and Cooperation with MGM "Moment of Killing".

The seven films, all of which are blockbuster projects in Simon's memory.

After understanding the rules of Daenerys's films, these seven projects have also become the focus of all Hollywood filmmakers.

"Thank you for coming over today, Sam, and Renee."

"You're welcome, Simon, this is what I should do."

"It's an honor to work with you, Steven."

Daenerys Studios in Malibu.

The final audition for the hero and heroine of "Jurassic Park" is finally over.

After this period of screening, Simon and Spielberg passed the audition together today, and finally finalized that Sam Neal and Renee Russell will serve as the paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant and the paleobotanist Alan Grant in the film. The actor of Dr. Lee Steller.

The original version of "Jurassic Park" is more like a group drama, except that the couple of Dr. Grant and Dr. Steller have more roles.

Simon does not intend to make too many changes to the plot of the original "Jurassic Park", but this time it will change some of the mistakes made by the original series.

The most important thing is to maintain the continuity of the series.

In the "Jurassic Park" trilogy of the 1990s, with the exception of the first global box office exceeding 900 million US dollars, the latter two are not as good as one at the box office. In Simon's view, apart from the lack of innovation in the first part of the plot, the most important reason is the lack of coherence in the story.

In "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", all the protagonists in the first part withdrew. Except for the dinosaur element, it was basically another story, which to a large extent caused the sequel to compare with the first North American box office. Shrunk in half.

The "Jurassic World" restarted many years later, the producer did not make this mistake again.

The actor and actress Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard continued to perform after the US$1.6 billion global box office hit for their first song. The coherent story made the sequel a mediocre reputation and still won more than US$1.3 billion. Worldwide box office.

Therefore, this time Simon identified at least two permanent roles from the beginning.

It is a pair of scientists played by Sam Neal and Renee Russell, Daenerys Entertainment will directly sign three contracts with them.

Of the two, Sam Neal is the original actor, not much to mention.

Renee Russell replaced the original Laura Dunn.

In addition to personal factors, Simon felt that Renee Russell was more suitable for the role of a paleobotanist regardless of age or temperament.

Laura Dunn looks like her in her thirties in the original film. She seems to be right against Sam Neal, but in fact, the very old actress is only 25 years old this year.

In my memory, Laura Dunn was able to get this role, largely because she won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress a year before the film began.

Steven Spielberg doesn't like to work with actors with too high a rank. Laura Dunn, who has an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress, is just right in terms of popularity and acting skills.

This time, "Jurassic Park" is one year ahead of schedule, and the "Passion Rose" that gave Laura Dunn nominated for Best Supporting Actress has not yet been released. It just so happened that Renee Russell won a Best Supporting Actress nomination at this year's Oscar for her role in Simon's "Good Guy" last year.

Simon has no feelings for Laura Dunn, and Renee Russell is very suitable, naturally there is no need to toss other.

At the end of the audition, Sam Neal and Renee Russell left first, Simon and Spielberg discussed other supporting roles, and went to Daenerys's special effects to check out the special effects developed for "Jurassic Park" Motion capture technology effects.

The Velociraptor in the film will be shot this time with motion capture technology that can make the picture more vivid and vivid, instead of pure cg animation.

At the same time, motion capture technology has matured in advance and can also be applied to other films.

After being so busy until noon, I had lunch with Spielberg. Simon personally drove each other to the parking lot. Just about to part, Spielberg suddenly remembered something and said, "There is one more little thing, Simon."

Simon looked at Spielberg's expression, probably realized something, and smiled and motioned for the other person to speak.

Spielberg also smiled and said: "About the "Last Mohican" you are preparing, I have a goddaughter. She hopes to try the role of the sister of the kidnapped sisters in the script."

"Your goddaughter, Steven, is that little girl from "Aliens et", Drew Barrymore?"

Spielberg shook his head and said, "No, the other one is called Gwyneth Paltrow. I met his father very early and worked together at Universal. She is 19 years old this year and just joined me. There was a cameo in the "Captain Hawke" that was released."

So, with such a godfather, what else can others say?

Simon sighed in his heart, but didn't hesitate. This favor must still be given, so he nodded and said: "No problem, I will arrange it."

Michael Mann has been writing the script of "The Last Mohican" during this period. Simon has read the first draft, and the sisters are not too much.

Moreover, since it can reach an Oscar queen, Gwyneth Paltrow will never be completely talented in acting. Although it is the godfather, the other party should understand that Spielberg's favor is not unlimited, and he will not be as slow as the "god daughters" in Simon's memory.

Simon's rapid rise is concealing the light of Spielberg and other first-line directors.

If there is no grudge in the heart, it is impossible.

Originally, with Spielberg's position in Hollywood, such a role may just need a phone call. The reason why it is necessary to meet Simon in person in advance is because Daenerys Entertainment's key projects, all the main creative candidates need to be approved by Simon himself.

Seeing that Simon had promised so simply, Spielberg couldn't help but eliminate a lot of barriers to this young man in his subconscious mind.

The two continued to chat by the car for a while before Spielberg drove away.

Sending Spielberg away, Simon had just turned around, and the female assistant came over with a folder.

"AOL just sent the revised prospectus. If you have no comments, you will submit it to sec tomorrow. The ipo roadshow will be officially launched on July 1, and the listing will be officially launched on July 12."

In accordance with the US stock listing process, AOL’s prospectus was submitted two months ago, and this time it was just a modification of some details.

As he walked, Simon took the document handed over by the female assistant, opened it, and found the revision that had been marked.

After the recent split and adjustment, AOL's total share capital is roughly determined to be 150 million shares, of which Westeros holds 112.9 million shares, which is slightly more than 75%. About 25% of the remaining shares belong to the companies that participated in the investment and the management of AOL.

In addition, this ipo of AOL will adjust the company to a dual equity structure.

The original 150 million shares belonged to Class A stocks, and the upcoming 22.5 million shares belong to Class B stocks.

The voting power of class b stocks is only one-tenth of that of class a stocks.

After issuing new shares equivalent to 15% of the total share capital, Westeros’ voting rights have actually been reduced by less than 1%, still reaching 74.1%.

Therefore, unless Simon voluntarily gives up in the future, almost no one will be able to seize the absolute control of AOL from Westeros, even the original shareholders who also own part of the Class A shares.

In the revised document in Simon's hands, the main adjustment this time is the release price range of AOL.

Morgan Stanley, who was responsible for the underwriting of the new shares of the Ipo, gave the AOL Ipo a valuation of US$2.5 billion more than two months ago. During this period, due to the continuous outbreak of AOL users and the market’s expectations for AOL Ipo, initially The valuation of the company has also been adjusted upwards.

For this revision, the issue price submitted by AOL is between $19 and $21 during the period.

Calculated on the basis of the highest issue price of new shares of US$21, it is equivalent to a valuation of US$3.15 billion for AOL.

With the growth rate of AOL users, the total number of users is expected to reach 3.5 million in the first half of 1990, and it is expected to exceed 7 million throughout the year.

Calculated on the basis of a monthly payment of 30 US dollars per user, the number of users reaches 3.5 million, and AOL's monthly revenue can exceed 100 million, which does not count the additional user growth in the second half of the year. Therefore, Simon actually feels that the valuation of US$3.15 billion is still low.

However, he does not plan to increase the offering price range.

Leaving the excess stock price growth potential to the market will only benefit AOL and the entire Internet industry.

You know, Cisco's ipo is also in preparation.

Cisco is geared towards isp companies throughout the United States. Taking advantage of the rise of the Internet and the Westeros system’s monopoly on World Wide Web technology, this company has actually grown more rapidly over the past year. Just as a hardware manufacturer, Cisco's performance growth is not as clear as AOL.

Simon put Cisco on the market after AOL, also out of this consideration.

If AOL can get a good start, the capital market will definitely like Cisco.