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Taking back post-production rights to Rain Man, Simon didn't expect Barry Levinson to remain as silent as he had hoped.

What Simon didn't expect was that the next day, The Hollywood Reporter quickly ran the front page of 'Barry Levinson forced out of Rain Man' late period, the article completely put Barry Levinson on the victim From the standpoint of the critics, the whole process of Simon's wanton interference in the production of the film from the filming stage of "Rain Man" until Barry Levinson was forcibly kicked out of his project by Simon yesterday is vividly described.

As arranged in advance, on the day the news was published, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, the two leading actors of "Rain Man", accepted an interview with CNN at the same time, accusing Simon of disrespectful behavior towards the film creator.

Immediately afterwards, the Directors Guild of America released a statement on Friday, claiming that it would investigate whether Daenerys Films violated the rights of directors.

In just a few days, Daenerys Pictures was quickly pushed to the center of a public opinion storm.

Hollywood has always been producer-centric.

Whether it was the high-profile "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" director Toby Hopper in the "Ghostbusters" project by producer Spielberg in the early 1980s, or Simon's memory of "Justice" many years later In the "Union" director change tragedy, it is very common for the director to be kicked out during the film production process.

However, more ordinary people obviously don't care too much about these things.

Under the hype of the media accustomed to grandstanding, an event that is commonplace in Hollywood was quickly rendered into a major event that bordered on scandal.

New York.

Morton Street in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan.

In a nine-story red-brick building not far from New York University, this is the East Coast headquarters of New World Entertainment.

New World Entertainment occupies six of the nine-story red-brick building, where half of the company's more than 110 employees other than Marvel are based, and the other half are in Los Angeles. The six-story office space is more than enough to accommodate more than fifty employees. The current staff size of New World Entertainment is actually the result of several layoffs.

Because of its focus on TV program production, New World Entertainment originally had nearly 100 employees on the east coast, and nearly half of them have been laid off in the past six months. This has been taking up a lot of vacant space only because the lease of the office building has not yet expired.

The time is August 2. After a month-long financing and auditing work, Simon officially signed an acquisition agreement with Larry Kupin, chairman of New World Entertainment, at the company's east coast headquarters. High-rises, big and small, have gathered in New York as a result.

In the morning, the various signing and handover and other processes were completed. The two companies mainly gathered in the largest conference room in the office building after lunch.

Simon plans to use the six-story office building directly as the East Coast headquarters of Daenerys Entertainment. Although he has already bought several better buildings in Uptown, residents there will not start moving out until around 1990, according to the plan.

Although it is the longest summer season, lengthy meetings involving personnel adjustments, financial planning and project discussions are held until the dawn of Manhattan. Fortunately, it avoided a company bankruptcy and everyone lost their jobs, and also followed a promising new owner, and everyone's interest was very high.

After the meeting, Daenerys Pictures also arranged a dinner party at a nearby hotel, so that until ten o'clock in the middle of the night, everyone dispersed.

Simon, however, was not able to relax, but returned to the New World Entertainment headquarters with Amy Pascal, Robert Rehm, and Robert Iger, who had successfully left abc to join Daenerys Pictures, and others.

Everyone sat down in a small conference room. Jennifer personally made coffee for everyone and brought it up. Simon took the coffee handed over by the female assistant and thanked him softly, but his expression was not so relaxed.

"Simon, if things continue to ferment like this, many directors in Hollywood will definitely avoid cooperating with us out of scruples. This is a very difficult issue," said Robert Rehm, the oldest qualified person on the scene: " We must clarify and fight back as soon as possible."

If it is not necessary, after a busy day, everyone will naturally not gather together late at night.

The discussion at this time is naturally the Barry Levinson firing incident that suddenly broke out a few days ago. Simon did not let this matter affect the work rhythm of Daenerys Pictures, completed the acquisition of New World Entertainment step by step, and finally settled this company and his most important Marvel Entertainment.

However, Daenerys Pictures will definitely have to face this issue anyway.

What Simon has not been able to understand these days is why Barry Levinson made this matter known to everyone, and even, there is obviously a shadow of caa behind it. Although he is a first-line director, without the support of the entire caa, it is impossible for Barry Levinson to make such a big deal in just a few days.

Everyone is a businessman after all.

If there is a demand, caa can completely contact him, and he should not tear his face so unabashedly, which is actually not good for both parties. While the media winds are generally in Barry Levinson's side, there is no shortage of discerning men in Hollywood.

Which film company has not made several directors?

The people in your caa family are so squeamish, and if they feel a little wronged, they will make a big issue. All parties will definitely be very careful when choosing cooperation.

However, these days, Simon has not received any news from caa.

With a pencil in his hand habitually, Simon glanced down and suddenly found one thing, he always seemed to be able to find a pencil at hand. He looked up suspiciously and noticed Jennifer's figure, and then he understood.

Unable to take a few more glances at the swaying ponytail of the female assistant, Simon quickly retracted his attention, nodded to Robert Rem, who had already entered the state, and looked at the other people: "What do you mean?"

Amy shook her head silently.

Robert Iger had been thinking about it just now, and when he heard Simon's question, he said, "I always feel a sense of 'can't wait' in this recent incident."

Simon wondered: "Huh?"

Robert Iger sorted out his thoughts again and said, "If I understand the information correctly, you just fired Barry Levinson, and the incident broke out the next day, which seemed too deliberate and impatient."

Robert Rehm said: "Bob, it's nothing, you should know how much energy Ovitz has in Hollywood, he only needs to make a few phone calls."

"Indeed, but if it were me, I would definitely choose to communicate with Simon first, and I would use these means only if the negotiation is not right," Robert Iger said, looking at Simon, and said: "But, Simon, Austria Weitz didn't contact you, did he?"

Simon nodded and looked at Amy.

"We tried to contact the caa, but they said Ovitz went to Japan."

"If caa intends to reconcile this matter, this is not a problem," Iger shook his head and said: "The problem now is that caa has no intention of reconciliation, they seem to just want to embarrass us."

Amy said: "Although we are not as good as the Seventh University, caa should not be stupid enough to get into trouble with us. There must be something we don't know about it."

Robert Rem also said at this time: "Perhaps, is it possible that this is the seven major forces behind it?"

Amy and Iger fell silent when they heard the words.

In this summer season, which has entered the final stage, although Paramount Pictures successfully landed two 100 million yuan club films through two neat saturated releases, during this time, the light of Hollywood has almost all gathered in Dan. On Nelith Pictures.

In addition to Pulp Fiction and Instinct, Daenerys has also launched reality shows like Who Will Be a Millionaire.

These days, the company has also successfully sold another reality show "Big Brother" to the Fox Network at a high price of $1 million per episode. Compared with "Survivor", which only has more than ten episodes per season, "Big Brother" has It is the standard 23 issues per season.

Moreover, filmed entirely in the closed environment of a house, the production cost of each issue of "Big Brother" is almost the same as that of "Who Will Be a Millionaire", both at around $30,

In addition, there is also advertising implantation income. Because of the demonstrative success of "Who Will Be a Millionaire", the in-program sponsorship fees obtained by "Big Brother" are also enough to offset the production budget, and Daenerys Pictures easily obtained 23 million yuan The net profit of the US dollar is recorded, and it also retains the right to renegotiate the price of the next season according to the viewing status of the program.

Calculated, the three reality shows sold in the past few months, just the first season can bring about 200 million US dollars of pre-tax profit for Daenerys Pictures, and the performance of the seven majors in recent years is not counted. Columbia and MGM, which are too good, may not necessarily have a net profit of $200 million for the whole year.

The truth that Mu Xiu will be destroyed by forest wind is applicable to any industry in any country. Daenerys Pictures' performance is too dazzling, and competitors will certainly not be indifferent.

but.

In the conference room, Simon immediately ruled out the possibility of the seven major shots.

Pulp Fiction and Instinct were very successful, but the studios got a share of the profits. Just like "Pulp Fiction", which is expected to get a box office of 150 million US dollars in North America, Daenerys Pictures can only get 10% of the box office share and 5% of the domestic video tape sales in North America in the later period. The big head was still taken by Orion. "Instinct" also ceded half of the revenue to Fox. As for the other companies, they still have or have a relationship with Daenerys Films or look forward to such a cooperative relationship, and there is no motivation to do this kind of harm to others. thing.

Even for the four major TV networks, except for the cbs that failed to grab "Big Brother" and "Beverly Wife" and got nothing, the other three did not have the motivation to do so in order to ensure the success of several reality shows.

motivation?

motivation!

Suddenly, Simon finally caught the crux of the matter.

Michael Ovitz is not a fool, but very shrewd and realistic. Well, he also wouldn't do it if he wasn't motivated enough.

Now the question is.

What was the motivation for this whole thing?

Listening to Amy's discussion, Simon re-combed the whole thing again and again, and suddenly, he finally understood something.

"Ok, I probably know why Barry Levinson did this," knocking on the table lightly, interrupting several people's words, Simon said: "It's very late, everyone go back to rest as soon as possible. Jenny, you arrange Get off the plane tomorrow morning and call Ovitz by the way, he should be back and I'll see him tomorrow when I get to LA."

Everyone was confused, and Amy asked, "Simon, what's going on?"

Simon stood up and said:

"Amy, do you remember the shit during Rain Man? Whether it's Dustin Hoffman or Tom Cruise and Barry Levinson, they're all very unpopular. this project."

Amy nodded.

For this reason, during the filming of "Rain Man", the entire crew was almost in a playful state of mind. Everyone felt that the project was going to fail. Dustin Hoffman was in the second week of filming because of the project The prospect was not optimistic and even yelled at the producer because of some trivial matters on the set, 'Go to Jack Nicholson, I don't want to shoot anymore', and finally was persuaded to come back. Ting Hoffman and Tom Cruise even called their characters 'two idiots in a car'.

Obviously, the same is true of the director's mentality, judging by what Barry Levinson did in the post-film process.

Simon felt the curious eyes of several people, and directly pointed out: "After all, this is a big production costing 25 million US dollars, because Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman think that this project will be a box office. If you fail miserably, and then affect your reputation and status, what would you do if it were you?"

Amy Pascal, Robert Rem, and Robert Iger looked at each other at the same time, and similar thoughts flashed in their minds.

However, the three did not speak.

Obviously.

shirk responsibility.

However, it is obviously better not to react too quickly to this kind of thing. Probably few bosses would like to see employees who like to shirk their responsibilities.

Simon looked at the expressions on the faces of the three and knew that they had understood.

Since Simon gave Barry Levinson a memo of his comments on the revision of "Rain Man" a few days ago, there have been rumors that Barry Levinson accused Simon of over-interfering with the project.

Later, because of the serious "disagreement" with Simon on the creative direction of the film, Barry Levinson logically let himself be fired by Simon. Then, a few creators who didn't want to have a bad reputation for making a box-office fiasco, of course, decisively threw the blame on Simon.

Now that things are all over the city, even if the box office of "Rain Man" hits the streets again, the public will obviously only blame Simon, and several of the film's main creators have become victims in an instant.

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