Hollywood Hunter

I talked about something with Girl A. After a while, Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, arrived.

The Easter schedule opens this Friday, and Danny Morris is here to discuss the Easter schedule of "Fighting Wisdom 2" and the development progress of a series of projects that New World Pictures is advancing, as well as one more thing. Regarding the complete destruction of the shaky new line of film industry.

Daenerys Entertainment has successively taken away blockbuster projects such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and has faced strong competition from New World Entertainment in the field of horror films. It has relied on the new line of film industry that has risen from the "Men Ghost Street" series. It can be described as getting worse.

Not only that, at the beginning of the year, Simon also used some means to dispel Time Warner's idea of ​​acquiring New Line Pictures and cut off the most important way of life for New Line.

You must know that the former new line was acquired by Time Warner in 1993, and it had a steady stream of capital and media resources. It won the "Rush Hour" and "Ace Big" from the late 1990s to the beginning of the new century. A series of successes such as "Spy" and "The Lord of the Rings". Miramax also became the leader in the field of art films by being affiliated with Disney.

In contrast, those second- and third-tier film companies that want to remain independent for a long time lack the support of the entire industry chain of large media groups, and their ability to resist risks is very low, and they are basically short-lived.

The success of the "Meng Ghost Street" series in the 1980s made Xin Xian the envy of many other second- and third-line film companies, and the little days really moistened for a while. However, as the economic situation in recent years has taken a turn for the worse, the new line has been blindly eager to expand under Simon's intentional or unintentional attack, and there has never been a new hit series born, so it quickly declines.

In 1984, "Meng Ghost Street", which was produced with a risky investment of 1.8 million US dollars, became a big hit, allowing the new line to evolve from a small workshop that can only distribute low-cost B-level films to a second-line film company with independent production and distribution capabilities.

With the decline of the company, the head of New Line Pictures once again placed his bet on "Meng Ghost Street".

This time, Xin Xian invited back the director Wes Craven of the first "Most Ghost Street" series, and invested 12 million US dollars to create the seventh movie "New Ghost Street" since 1984. ", and invested 5 million US dollars in the publicity budget. The schedule is April 9th, the week of Easter, and the same period as "Anti-Wisdom Multi-Star 2".

The total investment of 17 million US dollars is not worth mentioning for Daenerys Entertainment, but it is the last fight of New Line Film.

As long as the local box office of "New Ghost Street" reaches 50 million US dollars, through the local box office income and other subsequent income, the new line will be able to repay the debt due this year, and its own financial pressure will also be relieved, so as to continue to survive in Hollywood Go down.

Before New World Pictures was acquired by Daenerys Entertainment, it was actually the most direct competitor of New Line.

Both companies are involved in the field of horror films, and New World Pictures has also followed the trend of "Hunting Ghost Street" and created its own "Hunting Ghost" series.

It's just that the original New World Pictures failed to create a relatively high-profile hit such as "Hunting Ghost Street", and it could only be acquired by Daenerys Entertainment.

Danny Morris was once a senior at New World Entertainment, so it is not surprising that Simon suppressed New Line Pictures.

After all, Hollywood's plates are limited.

Erase the new line film industry that is good at field acquaintances. Even if the market vacated by the other party is small, it can still allow the New World Film industry label to gain more room for maneuvering, and at the same time prevent the company from suddenly creating a burst series Compete with New World Pictures in the market.

Teachers must always be famous.

Inexplicably targeting the new line of film industry, will certainly cause criticism from peers.

It just so happened that, in order to promote "New Ferocious Ghost Street", the management of the new line also brought in "Scream" during this period.

It is also a series directed by Wes Craven. The popularity of the three "Screams" is much higher than the series of "Most Ghost Street". The new line not only printed suggestive words like "New Ghost Street, I'll Scream Easter" on some advertising posters, but Wes Craven was even more direct when interviewed by The Tonight Show. It means that "New Ghost Street" combines the horror elements of the two series of "Screaming Ghost Street" and "Screaming".

At this time, public protests against the new line's deliberate promotion of the popularity of "Screaming Scream" will only encourage the publicity of "New Monster Street".

However, rumors that Daenerys Entertainment was very dissatisfied with the new line's promotional strategy quickly spread in the circle.

With the excuse, it is logical to do some actions.

The new line originally hoped to win more than 2,000 yuan for the opening screen of "New Ferocious Ghost Street", but under the operation of Daenerys Entertainment, it finally only obtained more than 1,300 yuan.

In terms of publicity and marketing, "New Ghost Street" could not be compared with "Anti-Wizards 2", because Daenerys Entertainment's target of the US$5 million distribution budget, the publicity effect is even more unsatisfactory.

Now, the film has not been released yet, and many people in Hollywood have already smelled the impending failure of "New Ghost Street".

Unless the film can gain more than expected reputation in the media.

However, under the cover of the media network that Daenerys Entertainment has vigorously developed in recent years, this is obviously not very likely.

In the office, after listening to some arrangements made by Danny Morris, Simon thought for a while, and said: "Traditional paper media can say hello a little bit. Don't deliberately publish negative articles on the Igreat portal. In this way, directly Just let "New Ghost Street" disappear on the Eaglet portal, and try not to make any reports."

It is too obvious to deliberately use my own media platform to target a movie.

Simon is still more concerned about the credibility of the Eaglet portal.

Danny Morris nodded, and then said: "Also, Simon, New Line has accumulated some good film rights over the years. Do we need to take action?"

Simon shook his head and said, "It's better to wait for the release of "Xin Menggui Street". Before a movie is released, no one can be sure what its box office will be. In addition, what we need to do is to avoid the new line in "Xin Menggui Street". "The Street" will find another way out."

As an independent second-tier film company, New Line’s previous source of funds mainly relied on loans. At present, the company’s debt scale is already large enough to be unable to obtain funds from banks. Therefore, New Line’s outlets are actually not many. One of them is to sell themselves to other major Hollywood studios and become their sub-labels.

Time Warner’s channel was smashed by Simon, but Hollywood is not without other studios that may initiate acquisitions to the new line.

What Daenerys Entertainment has to do is to prevent this possibility and let the new line truly go into bankruptcy and liquidation.

At the end of the day's work, Simon returned to the Du Mui Manor at around six o'clock.

Unknowingly, Aaliyah, an Indian girl who became a maid of the Westeros from the Janet Yoga coach, greeted her and said a few words, Simon came to a living room of the villa facing the sea.

In the living room, Janet was lying lazily on the sofa and was having a video call with Melbourne. The projection screen on the wall showed images from across the ocean.

Calculating the time, it should be noon in Australia.

In the picture, Veronica is also feeding Melbourne. The little guy is very dishonest and always wants to grab things with her hands. When Simon walked in, she happened to see the little guy almost climbing to the dining table.

Seeing Simon coming over, Janet immediately threatened and said: "Moore, Dad is back, eat well, don’t let Dad spank you."

Simon smiled and squeezed Janet down to sit down, twitched the woman's hip, and nodded to the big screen.

The camera is on the projection screen, and the distance is far, and the viewing angle is also very wide.

Veronica happened to see the little action of Simon hitting Janet’s ass, nodded to Simon with an unnatural expression, wiped the corners of her mouth for the little guy who wanted to crawl on the table, and asked softly: "How is today? "

Since she started taking care of Melbourne, Veronica has become more relaxed and normal in front of Simon, and even the cool personality that Janet once called an "iceberg" has changed a lot.

Simon can actually understand the reason.

Holding a small hand of Janet lying on her back from behind, Simon said, "Very good, how about you?"

Veronica was actually obviously not used to this kind of greeting. She hummed and seemed to feel wrong again. She added: "Moore has learned another word today." She looked down at the child in her arms and guided the little guy. speak.

Children who are only over one year old obviously don’t have much idea about video communication, so they ignore Veronica’s guidance at all. After a lot of hard work, they finally climbed onto the dining table, grabbed a spice bottle as they wished, and put it in their mouth naturally. give away.

Janet, who was lying on Simon, couldn't help but urged: "Auntie, don't stop him, let him take a bit of hardship and be safe."

Veronica obviously didn't follow Janet's suggestion. She got up and picked Melbourne up. She didn't forcibly remove the seasoning bottle from the child, but gently blocked the little guy from sprinkling salt into her mouth.

Janet was a little disappointed, and complained: "Auntie, you really dote on Moore."

Veronica sat down at the dining table again with the little guy in her arms, letting the child throw out the seasoning bottle that quickly lost interest, making a few ding-ding-dong-dongs out of the screen, and chuckled softly: "Moore still Small, of course naughty."

While chatting like this, after continuing to toss for more than ten minutes, the little guy finally finished eating.

Veronica said she would take the child out for a walk. The little guy liked to stay outside, so she hung up the video call.

Turning off the call screen, Janet still leaned on Simon, and kissed the man face to face for a while, and said, "I originally wanted to take Moore back to take care of him for a while."

Simon felt the smoothness of Janet's delicate face and said, "Yes."

"But, my aunt likes Moore very much. If I bring the child back, what will aunt do?"

Simon paused, and said if nothing had happened: "You can come together."

Then the ear is bitten.

Feeling the threatening meshing of two rows of small teeth, Simon immediately surrendered: "When I didn't say."

Janet used a little bit of strength before she let Simon go, and continued to stick to his back and said, "Actually, I also thought about asking my aunt to come and help. On the east coast, Rebold was the only one who looked at it, which was not so good. , You know, my aunt used to be in charge of the family’s company finances, which is just right. I can also bring Moore back for a while."

With that said, Janet poked her head over to look at Simon's expression, then hummed a few times, and said, "However, I won't let you succeed."

Simon was very clever not to pick up the stubble, and kissed Janet on the cheek with his head sideways, and said: "What do you want for dinner, I'll tell them?"

"I have arranged it."

The man changed the subject, and Janet did not chase after him. After saying this, she also turned to: "The financing negotiation between Igreat, Goldman Sachs and Morgan is not going well."

"The initiative is on our side. I really don't want to. This batch of shares can be given to Solomon or Bear Stearns. First Boston is also very interested."

"However, this effect will be much smaller."

"It is impossible to take the initiative to compromise. I have actually backed down many times over the years. Our family is already so deep, there is no need to keep retreating."

Although Simon made his fortune in the original "Lola Run", most of the profits were taken away by Orion.

Subsequently, he took the initiative to cooperate with other studios in Hollywood and carefully avoided conflicts in the financial market. Last year he even gave up such a great opportunity as the pound crisis. It can be said that the opportunities for Simon to voluntarily retreat in recent years are beyond count.

Janet accompanies Simon all the way, knowing all the arrangements of the man, and once again put a sticker on the man’s face with her cheek, saying: “Those who think you are taking the initiative to give in are fools, if you have been At a loss, how can you become the world's first billionaire with a hundred billion dollars."

Simon also smiled and said: "I still want others to find it easy to take advantage of me. However, the difficulty of Westeros company's next expansion will definitely increase because it will touch the interests of many people."

Hollywood's initial impression of Simon was a film genius who turned out to be a big profit, so it is inevitable to relax his guard.

So, it seems that all of a sudden, Daenerys Entertainment has developed into a behemoth ahead of traditional Hollywood studios, unstoppable.

In the field of new technology, this is a completely new market.

There is no fierce conflict between traditional interest classes and shuffling, so the development can be described as smooth sailing.

Next, this smooth state will inevitably change as the Westeros system continues to expand.

It is not just that traditional media such as Hearst Group are becoming more and more afraid of new Internet media platforms. Seeing the huge benefits contained in the Internet industry, traditional capital will inevitably continue to increase the intensity of entering the market.

Simon’s holdings in Cisco and AOL have basically reached the safety line. For Igreat, who is destined to become a behemoth in the Internet field, Simon will also make a “concession”. The future split plan has been planned in advance.

However, Simon will choose to share some of the benefits that should be surrendered. Simon will never let go if he is not going to give up.