Hollywood Hunter

As the Westeros system successively completed the financing transactions of Eaglet and the acquisition of Christie's, the time also entered May 1993.

The summer holiday is approaching, and many blockbuster films this summer have begun their final sprint propaganda stage.

Daenerys Entertainment’s main summer file should be "Superman" in theory. However, according to the original agreement, Warner Bros. Pictures is responsible for the distribution rights of the film.

Several other movies, "Night in Seattle" is a cooperative project with Disney, "Gannet Assassination" is a cooperative project with Warner Bros. Only "Sugar Trap" starring Keanu Reeves is Daenerys The film industry is personally responsible for the distribution. In addition, during the four-month summer vacation, the other two labels under Daenerys Entertainment, New World Pictures and Gaomen Films will also release their own films in the summer vacation.

While paying attention to the upcoming summer files, after this period of operation, Daenerys Entertainment’s record business has been officially transformed. Daenerys Records Group (DMG) has been initially completed. In fact, it is mainly the name. Too much adjustment.

On the other hand, Barry Weiss, the president of Jive Records, who has created young pop singers such as Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, successfully joined Daenerys Records Group at the invitation of Daenerys Entertainment.

Richard Palmes, the former president of Universal Music, changed his position to Daenerys Records Group CEO after the reorganization of the recording business, responsible for the overall DMG situation.

After years of development, large-scale record groups are basically composed of many record subsidiaries at this stage.

The original Universal Records seemed to be a company, but in fact there are 7 record subsidiaries that are still active, such as Geffen Records where Gunsner Rose is located, Dika Records where Cher is located, and the futuristic focus on death rock Records and so on. There are countless sub-labels that were once active when their artists terminated their contracts or passed away.

Simon gave Barry Weiss as the president of InfinityRecords, a record subsidiary of DMG. Although the position is equivalent to that of Jive Records under RCA Records, the resources and permissions that can be used far exceed those of Jive Records. .

Infinite Records will focus on creating young pop singers. The parent company DMG will do its best to guarantee the promotion and promotion of singers signed by this subsidiary.

Simon can actually give Barry Weiss a higher position, but for a huge DMG, too high a position will only make Barry Weiss fall into unnecessary administrative affairs. Handing over a subsidiary of Infinite Records to the other party will allow Barry Weiss to focus more on the youth pop field.

The initial adjustment of the record business has been completed, and Barry Weiss has successfully joined the company. The next step is to find a contracted singer.

Compared with Hollywood, where actors and actresses are clearly hierarchical, the music industry is roughly divided into two types of singers, one that has become famous, and the other is not.

This is not to say that there is no distinction between singers, but that the competition in this industry is far more intense than that of Hollywood. When actors are not famous, they can still spend their lives waiting for opportunities. For singers, it is impossible to have many movies. TV dramas let you run the trick. If you don't sign with a record company or become famous, then you are nothing.

However, compared to the actor industry, which still requires talent and skills, singing has a much lower threshold for most people.

This has also led to the number of young people dreaming of a singer, no less than the unknown small actors who have mixed in the bottom of Hollywood.

Therefore, many record companies can receive a large number of self-recommended auditions from potential singers almost every day.

However, the larger the record company, the more cautious the signing singer will be, because once the signing singer fails to succeed after spending a lot of resources, the person in charge is likely to lose his job.

Now that the development goals of Infinite Records have been determined, after Barry Weiss joined, Simon began to personally participate in the search for suitable young pop singer seeds.

In fact, I want to find some singers who are familiar in my memory.

In the large list of candidate singers, Simon has indeed found a combination he wants: Backstreet Boys.

Backstreet Boys is a recently formed group of five young people in Orlando, Florida. After learning from the media that DMG is selecting young singers, they submitted their audition tape to Unlimited Records, and Simon gave it a glance.

However, there are still some problems in this matter.

Although the five people in the group all have good singing skills and talents, two of them are underage. The youngest Nick Carter is only 13 years old.

Now that Simon has taken a fancy to the name ‘Backstreet Boy’, of course Barry Weiss will solve the remaining problems.

To become famous as early as possible, there is no rule that minors are not allowed in the music industry. However, since it is necessary to create a group of teenagers and boys mainly for middle and high school students, it is natural that Xiaozheng, who has just reached the age of 13 years old, is too inappropriate.

The solution is actually very simple. Eliminate the two minors in the group and find two young people as substitutes.

Several young people didn't expect much when they submitted the audition tape. They were suddenly selected, and they were overjoyed. The invitation for substitutions from Infinite Records was even more unacceptable.

Therefore, the two parties quickly finalized a 10-year contract.

Barry Weiss also obtained the perpetual copyright of the name of the group "Backstreet Boys" through the contract. In the future, whether members quit or the group is dissolved, the name "Backstreet Boys" will belong to Unlimited Records. Based on this name, re-select people to form this combination, and the team members who leave will also be prohibited from using the name of Backstreet Boys to conduct any commercial activities.

In fact, for Simon, Backstreet Boys is more of just a practice of Unlimited Records, in order to summarize a set of operating procedures for quickly copying young pop singers in batches.

Building a portfolio from scratch has never been an easy task, and it is expensive.

In order to show the importance of Infinite Records, Simon not only gave Barry Weiss for one year on the operation of the "Backstreet Boys" project, and DMG's resources were allowed to be called by the other party, and planned to meet with Barry Weiss at least every week. Meet once to understand the other party's work progress and give your own suggestions based on the information in memory.

In addition, Infinite Records also began to look for other potential young singer seeds.

Compared with the backstreet boy group that has been formed directly, Simon prefers to sign up to cultivate pop singer seeds from the age of fourteen or five, just like the Korean pop singers who have been trained in batches. After the launch, singers who have been professionally trained from vocal to physical There is no doubt that the chances of becoming famous are much higher than those of the grass-roots team, and even the professional life expectancy will be longer.

With this decision, Simon's gaze naturally fell on the famous Mickey Mouse Club under Disney.

The ‘famous’ here is actually for Simon, a latecomer.

The Mickey Mouse Club is a variety show for teenagers on the Disney Channel, mainly performing singing, dancing and skits.

For Disney, the ratings of this program are very average. In Simon's memory, this program may have been suspended in the last two years due to the low ratings.

However, among the members of the Mickey Mouse Club, famous actors or singers such as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, etc., have been called star-studded. .

While operating the "Backstreet Boys", under Simon's instruction, Barry Weiss also began to quietly pay attention to the group of teenagers in the Mickey Mouse Club.

Britney Spears are only twelve or thirteen years old. DMG has no intention of raising them for five or six years, so it is not suitable for signing for the time being. Among them, those who are more suitable for their age, such as Kelly Russell, who is 17 years old this year, are very good in appearance, but compared with Britney, Christina and others, the gap in singing skills is very obvious. The 17-year-old Age also lacks plasticity and can only give up.

In fact, Simon has also considered creating a group of young singers through music elective programs. By doing so, it will not only provide Daenerys TV with a new hot reality show, but also provide some excellent singer seeds for record companies.

After consideration, I gave up.

At this stage, Daenerys Television's reality show is still Simon's original "Who Will Be a Millionaire" and other shows. These shows still have good vitality for the time being. The most important point is that before acquiring a public television network, Simon does not plan to launch phenomenal reality shows. These will still be left to the television network that will come from home.

Busy, time came to May 14 unconsciously.

This is a Friday.

The heaviest summer file "Superman" will be released on June 4. In order to avoid this blockbuster, the summer file will officially open today.

On this day, the North American theaters launched a total of three movies from Fox's "Fighting Condor 2", Columbia Pictures' "My Genius Family" and New World Pictures' "Bruce Lee's Biography".

However, on this day, most of the North American media paid the most attention to the "Jurassic Park" that was released on Christmas last year and was officially released in North American theaters.

After five months of screening, the cumulative North American box office of "Jurassic Park" finally reached 356.71 million US dollars.

At the same time, the screening of "Jurassic Park" in overseas markets has basically ended. Japan alone has won a box office equivalent to 120 million U.S. dollars. The other three countries, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, have also reached box office numbers. Forty to fifty million dollars.

After the subsequent weekend statistics, the overseas box office of Jurassic Park also reached 573.11 million US dollars, and it is expected that there will be about 50 million US dollars in overseas follow-up payments.

Therefore, as of mid-May, "Jurassic Park" was painted in North America. The global box office of this dinosaur science fiction blockbuster reached 929.82 million US dollars. In the next few months, it will be completely painted on a global scale. The total global box office of the pound bomb will be around US$980 million.

Even though there are still some regrets that it is difficult to break through the $1 billion mark, the global box office of $980 million is enough to surpass the global record of $960 million in "Batman: Hour of War" and advance to the global box office championship position.

At the global box office of 980 million US dollars, except for all production and announcement budgets and the share of original creators such as Spielberg, Daenerys Entertainment can still earn 200 million US dollars.

Moreover, the box office is only a part of the profits contributed by "Jurassic Park".

The revenue of this project is the bulk of its peripheral products. The cumulative sales in recent months have reached 1.3 billion U.S. dollars, and the profit contribution is close to 200 million U.S. dollars. Reached 2 billion US dollars.

In addition, including future video tapes and TV broadcasts, and even Universal Studios’ "Jurassic Park" theme park revenue, just this movie will bring Daenerys Entertainment a net worth of no less than $1 billion. profit.

As "Jurassic Park" went down in North America, overseas countries were discussing the Hollywood invasion. At the same time, the North American media also noticed the slow development of this sequel.

Spielberg's "Schindler's List" has been finalized and he has returned to Hollywood for post production.

However, in recent interviews, Spielberg’s answers to the "Jurassic Park" sequel are ambiguous. Daenerys Entertainment executives’ responses in the interview were not clear, which made many Everyone smelled something different.

According to the original contract between Spielberg and Universal, the veteran movie star after "Schindler's List" happened to owe Daenerys Entertainment a film contract.

However, the two sides clearly had differences on the sequel to "Jurassic Park".

Most likely, it is undoubtedly a conflict of interests.

Daenerys Entertainment expects to earn $1 billion through the "Jurassic Park" project. Spielberg's salary, including the base salary and share, is about $45 million.

For Hollywood filmmakers, the figure of $45 million is definitely a sky-high price.

But Spielberg is obviously not satisfied with his salary figures.

If according to the previous sharing strategy, such as the 20% omni-channel net profit sharing during the previous cooperation with Colombia, the salary he can get is at least US$200 million.

Daenerys Entertainment originally seemed to have given a very guaranteed plan to draw a share directly from the box office. With the big box office sales of the film, this share plan that other Hollywood filmmakers can only greedy, in Spielberg It seems even a bit like a trap.

This state of mind is well understood.

However, since the contract was signed at the beginning, it is naturally impossible to change it at this time.

However, if you want him to continue directing the "Jurassic Park" sequel, Daenerys Entertainment must give a price that is sincere enough.

In the history of the past, Spielberg took $250 million in the first "Jurassic Park", and the salary for the second part was drastically reduced to $70 million. This time, the first piece only received 45 million U.S. dollars, and Spielberg clearly hopes to get a higher return through the sequel to compensate for his potential losses in the first piece.

Moreover, according to a long-term mentality of top Hollywood filmmakers, in Spielberg's view, Daenerys Entertainment should not rashly replace him and direct this series by others. .