Hollywood Hunter

Remember in one second [End of the God Station] Mobile phone user input address: m.xinwanben.com

After the meeting between Simon and Ovitz, although the public opinion wave caused by Barry Levinson's dismissal did not dissipate immediately, several of the main creators of "Rain Man" died in the media.

However, this matter does not end there.

In the production process of "Rain Man", compared with many more powerful film companies in Hollywood, Simon has given several main creators enough space to play, and his intervention in this film even only stayed to prevent the project from going completely out of control. .

What Barry Levinson and others have done to escape the negative effects that the film's failure may have on them has gone far beyond Simon's tolerance limit, and he didn't intend to let it go from the beginning.

However, although it was created by a few people that I didn't like very much, "Rain Man" was a hugely expensive project for Daenerys Films. Simon naturally wouldn't deliberately destroy this project. Doing so would be tantamount to being angry with others. If you drop your own porcelain, you will lose two birds with one stone.

Only by letting "Rain Man" win the annual box office championship of the original time and space can this slap be beaten back.

Simon didn't intend to just slap it back.

That's not enough pain.

People are always too easy to forget such small injuries and pains that are not profound enough.

While Simon personally took over "Rain Man", another film "Scream" by Daenerys Pictures was completed in late July, and the rough cut was also successfully completed. Under the condition that the two sides have been maintaining communication on the creative ideas, Wes Craven's work has been successful, but there is nothing that makes Simon dissatisfied. The film is expected to be completely completed by early September at the latest, and it can also be used for Halloween at the end of October. The schedule is reserved for nearly two months of announcement time.

In addition, the filming of "Steel Magnolia" and "Dead Poets Society" is also coming to an end, which will not delay the release at the end of the year.

On the other hand, after the American Film and Television Producers Union proposed the latest contract proposal to the WGA, the WGA, who was completely cornered, had to vote again.

Because the Producers Union has only given one week to respond, this vote can only be conducted by lottery in the two major cities of New York and Los Angeles. Of the 2,500 screenwriters who voted, 2,137 voted in favor.

Finally, on August 12, the five-month strike in Hollywood history finally came to an end. The whole process lasted 160 days, 5 days more than the 155 days in the original time and space.

Although the wga announced a compromise, the aftermath of the strike continued.

The most serious point is that after reaching a new agreement with WGA, the Producers Alliance still did not forgive those second- and third-tier production companies that signed an agreement with WGA in advance. The relevant antitrust lawsuits are still going on. Although WGA may eventually win the case, but Those production companies that have been blocked have had a hard time getting business from the Big Seven film companies and the Big Four TV networks, at least this year.

In addition, the strike that lasted for more than five months, not only in the autumn TV season, but also in the following movie schedules, there was a shortage of projects, which also made it easy for Daenerys Pictures to push several projects in its hands to the hospital. Wire.

The strike ended, and a large number of Hollywood projects that had been stranded due to a lack of writers were quickly restarted.

Robert Iger, who was originally in charge of TV production at abc, started to restart a series of TV series projects under New World Entertainment very smoothly.

Because of the good foundation, this matter did not encounter too many difficulties. Although there are some voices within the Writers Guild of America hoping that members will boycott the cooperation with Daenerys Films, however, the blockade of a large number of second- and third-tier film companies in Hollywood has greatly reduced the choice of screenwriters. In Daenerys Films In the face of a large number of job opportunities in the industry, not many screenwriters have enough confidence to launch a boycott.

A union of more than 10,000 people, if you don't want this job, too many people are waiting to take over.

The relaunch of the film business comes as the integration of Daenerys Pictures and New World Entertainment progresses rapidly.

On August 15th, the new company that completed the initial adjustment officially held a small press conference to announce that the original Daenerys Pictures and New World Entertainment were reorganized into Daenerys Entertainment Group.

After this integration, Daenerys Entertainment will retain three film labels, namely Daenerys Pictures, New World Pictures and another independent label originally owned by New World Entertainment, Gaomen Pictures ( highgate-film).

Before that, because of the start-up of the company, whether it was a romance film like "When Harry Met Sally", an anti-genre film like "Pulp Fiction", or a B-level horror film like "The Death Comes", all Daenerys Pictures is produced by a label, which is actually very detrimental to the company's branding.

Now, Simon intends to use the three labels to produce different types of films.

Daenerys Pictures will focus on mainstream commercial films such as "When Harry Met Sally", "Rain Man" and "Batman" in the future, and New World Pictures will take over "Scream", "Scream" and "Batman". The production of low-budget horror films like Death is Coming.

As for Gaomen Pictures, Simon intends to let it dabble in the field of art films dedicated to award winning.

Miramax of the Weinstein Brothers has not yet risen, and art films are still tasteless in the eyes of many big film companies, and reality does tend to this.

Now in Hollywood, a good quality art film, after a few months or even more than half a year of operation, is lucky to make a profit of 10 million US dollars. This is definitely a very successful, but in the eyes of big studios

, which may only be equivalent to their income for a week.

However, what many people in Hollywood fail to notice is that if you can run multiple successful arthouse films each year, then the combined revenue of this business will be very significant. Not only that, but doing so can quickly expand a film company's film library resources.

The videotape and dvd industry in Hollywood can still thrive for at least 20 years, and the development of the cable TV industry has also continued to increase the demand for film resources. Companies are very beneficial.

In order to implement this as soon as possible, Simon put all of the original foreign film team under New World Entertainment into Gaomen Pictures.

The film production cycle is long, but when it expands all over the world, there will be a new film completed every day. The first thing the team of Gaomen Pictures will do is to collect all kinds of films from all over the world. The film rights are brought to North America for distribution.

In addition to the three major labels, the company has also integrated the original distribution teams of the two companies and established the Daenerys Distribution Company, which is in charge of Robert Rem and undertakes the distribution of all Daenerys Entertainment films. Daenerys Television has Robert Iger in charge, focusing on the development of the television business. Daenerys special effects company, headed by Mark Silvey, focuses on the research and development of film cg special effects technology and 3D animation technology.

As for Marvel Entertainment, Simon has no plans to make Marvel movies in the short term. This subsidiary will maintain a completely independent operation status and report directly to Simon personally.

After completing all this, the summer of 1988 has also come to an end.

On August 11, "When Harry Met Sally", which was released in North American theaters for a full 20 weeks, was all offline, and the final cumulative box office was 110.92 million US dollars.

As of the following August 18, the 11th week of its release, "Pulp Fiction" has accumulated a total of 131.51 million US dollars at the North American box office.

In the fifth week of its release, "Instinct" received another $10.21 million at the box office, bringing the cumulative box office to $82.76 million. The film, which was drawn amid the controversy, performed significantly better at the box office than the original, and was destined to break 100 million in the next three weeks, becoming the third Daenerys film to break 100 million at the box office in 1988.

Santa Monica.

Although New World Entertainment also has a larger office in Burbank, Daenerys Entertainment is headquartered in a two-story office building on 4th Street in Santa Monica.

In the blink of an eye, it was already August 22.

Although he gave up the company's business to several executives as much as possible, Simon was still very busy during this time. In addition to the preparations for "Batman", he also has to take care of the post-production work of the four films "Rain Man", "Scream", "Steel Magnolia" and "Dead Poets Society".

That alone basically took him most of the week.

In addition, after the integration is completed, Simon will also need to participate in many details of the company's movies, and it is impossible for him to completely ignore the several movies that the TV department is promoting.

Although New World Entertainment was in serious trouble before the acquisition, the number of film and television projects it is advancing is still quite large. Although he has not been able to find any films with box office potential, it is impossible for Simon to cut all the projects that have already invested in them.

Moreover, in order to avoid the embarrassing situation of breaking the film project next year, Simon also needs to separate his experience and select a new project.

Because of this busyness, Simon's trip to Australia could only be delayed again and again.

The conference room at Daenerys Studios headquarters.

"Next, this is a film that New World Pictures originally planned to jointly invest with two other independent production companies. The name is "Angel God", which tells the story of a cartoonist entering his own comics and his heroine Bran. A series of adventure stories that happened in Da, the copyright and distribution rights of the project script are all in our hands. The previous management has invested about 300,000 US dollars in development, and has successfully cooperated with 007's leading actor Timothy Dalton and that year. Brooke Shields, the heroine of "Pretty Baby", signed a contract of intent. The initial budget for the project is US$15 million, and the three companies will each undertake US$5 million." After a brief introduction, Amy looked at the person sitting on the other side. Simon, suggested: "I think this project is very interesting, maybe give it a try, Timothy Dalton and Brooke Shields are well known, and if necessary, we can cancel the cooperation with the other two companies. cooperation and individual investment.”

Simon flipped through the information in his hand, looked up at Amy, and said, "What do you think is the selling point of this project?"

Amy thought for a while and said: "The story itself is the creativity of comic book writers into their own works. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" also proves that this combination of comics and real people will be very popular. In addition, Brooke Shields She also has a good box office appeal, and she seems to be still in a relationship with Michael Jackson, which can also increase the popularity of the film."

After listening to Amy, Simon shook his head and said: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit was indeed very successful, but it cost a budget of 70 million US dollars. As for this story, Amy, if you are optimistic, you can set up a project, but The script had to be reworked, and I needed a clearer thread, not a sprawling adventure."

Amy paused, looked at Simon and said, "You don't like this movie?"

Simon only remembers some sporadic information about the film's box office fiasco. However, considering all aspects of the situation, he also knows that to a large extent it was caused by the turmoil of New World Entertainment in the original time and space. A film from script to

There are too many links to complete the film. If the project is re-processed, coupled with the execution of Daenerys Entertainment, it is unlikely that the same mistakes will be repeated.

"I can't say whether I like it or not, but I don't have much feeling." Shaking his head again, Simon said: "Also, let's forget Brooke Shields, she has no acting skills at all, and she has more box office appeal before the age of 18. . I remember her last 'Sahara' was a huge box-office failure."

Amy was a little confused about Simon's attitude: "Simon, you mean, we made this film?"

"You decide," Simon shook his hand directly and said, "You are the CEO of the company, and there will be more projects under the company in the future. It is impossible for me to make up my mind about everything. Of course, if I lose too much, I will scold people. of."

After thinking about it, Amy made up her mind and said, "Then, I'll ask someone to revise the script. In addition, if Brooke Shields doesn't work, maybe I can ask Miss Kidman to try it out. The film will start shooting early next year. She had already finished filming "Across the Horizon" by then."

Simon nodded and said, "Nicole is good. The heroine of this script is a very outgoing character, and Nicole's acting skills are enough to support it."

The two were chatting when Robert Iger knocked on the door of the conference room and walked in, carrying his briefcase in his hand.

Because I just flew over from the east coast, Iger's expression was a little tired.

Simon and Amy got up to greet Iger, and they all sat down at the desk together.

"Simon, Amy, this is the draft agreement that hbo and I just negotiated," Robert Iger took out a document from his briefcase and handed it to Simon, "They are willing to order $600,000 per issue. One season of The Beverly Wife, but they also asked for only 13 episodes for the first season."

There was only one agreement, and Amy came over.

"Who Will Be a Millionaire" and other three reality shows were won by mainstream TV networks, and Simon did not give up "Beverly Wife". To his surprise, hbo, which was still under the Time Company at this time, was not interested in this project. interested. Although I don't think it's a good idea for hbo to want "The Wife of Beverly", Simon will naturally not dissuade someone from buying this project. He also wants to establish a business relationship with the most powerful cable network in the original time and space. So let Iger contact hbo.

Support (end this site) and share this site with those who need it! Can't find the book, please leave a message!