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"William Friedkin can't do it, Tom, "The Exorcist" was really good back then, and "The French Drug Network" is also classic enough. However, Friedkin has been just eating his own pockets all these years, "Midnight Bell" What is needed is a genre breakthrough that is completely different from traditional Hollywood horror films."

Inside the Daenerys Studios office.

Simon is in discussions with Danny Morris, president of New World Pictures, about who to direct "The Bell."

Although William Friedkin was the husband of MGM chief Shirley Lansing, and knew that Danny Morris was the first to mention that there must be a human element to Lansing, Simon did not hesitate to reject it.

After "The Exorcist" and "The French Drug Network" that year, William Friedkin has the most abundant resources in Hollywood, but he has not directed a film that performed well in word of mouth and box office for more than a decade.

Danny Morris was actually not optimistic about William Friedkin in his heart, and continued: "So, Simon, what about Wes Craven?"

"Wes was better at plasma, which was totally out of the style of the movie."

"Jonathan Demme?"

Today is Wednesday, October 9th.

It's been eight and a half weeks since Jonathan Demme's "Silence of the Lambs" hit theaters on August 9, and just this past weekend, the starring was replaced by Sandra Bullock and Robert Duvall's classic horror The film's cumulative box office just passed the $100 million mark, reaching $102.71 million.

Simon thought for a while, nodded and said: "Joe can be an alternative. However, "Midnight Bell" focuses on creating the atmosphere of the camera and the soundtrack. I hope the director can be better in these two aspects."

Danny Morris said with a smile: "Simon, in this case, only you are the most suitable."

"Actually, I think so too," Simon shrugged and said, "But, unfortunately, I don't have time."

Danny Morris just mentioned it casually, and continued: "Wes Craven has refused, and next, there is Joe Dante, but if it is scheduled for Halloween next year, Dante's schedule will definitely be Can't get it out."

Joe Dante became famous by relying on "Piranha" in the 1970s and "Little Monsters" in the 1980s. It happened that Daenerys Entertainment's "The Sixth Sense", which was a box office hit last summer, was the director chosen by Simon. It's Joe Dante.

Because they are already famous directors, the two sides only signed one film contract at the beginning.

Although the industry understands that the key to the success of "The Sixth Sense" is still Simon, but because of the film's global sales, Joe Dante was snatched away by other studios with a lot of money, and it is still full of schedules until now.

It seems that the only choice is to continue to use Jonathan Demme.

However, Simon still had some concerns.

"Midnight Bell" will be a completely new style that is completely different from traditional Hollywood horror films. However, these veteran directors have basically formed some fixed styles of their own. It is very difficult to achieve a breakthrough in style. .

After thinking for a moment, Simon said: "So, Danny, you can select some relatively young candidate directors. I will personally watch this project. Therefore, the director had better have enough plasticity."

Hearing what Simon said, Danny Morris nodded quickly.

This project was originally directly in charge of Simon. At this time, the boss said that he would watch it in person, which meant that he would spend more energy on this project.

In this case, the director is younger and less experienced, but it will be more obedient and easy to use, and it will be more malleable.

After negotiating this matter, Danny Morris looked at his memo and continued: "Next is the heroine..."

Simon waved his hand and said, "I have given the heroine to Nicole Kidman, you just need to negotiate a contract with her agent."

Danny Morrison nodded, only to nod again.

I'm sorry to those actresses who have been racking their brains to get this project recently.

In the original American version of "Midnight Bell", the heroine was Nicole's best friend Naomi Watts. The actress doesn't know where she is now. It happened that Simon decided to make Nicole the spokesperson of Van Cleef \u0026 Arpels, so he This promising project is handed over to the other party.

"Midnight Bell" is a movie with a partial heroine. Although it is a horror movie, as long as it sells enough, it will definitely help Nicole Kidman improve his reputation and stabilize his position.

Continuing to discuss some details, the topic of the two turned to other projects of New World Pictures.

An hour later, Danny Morris left, and Ella Deutschman rushed over.

As of last weekend, Katherine's "The End of the Road" had a cumulative box office of $25.41 million in four and a half weeks of release. Due to the continuous fermenting word of mouth and a weak decline, the film's weekly box office remained at around $4 million. It is estimated that It is expected to break through the $40 million mark before the downgrade, which is enough to recover the entire production and distribution costs of the film.

Since he decided to voluntarily give up the competition for the Oscars next year, Simon took "The End of the Road" as the focus of next year's Oscar application, mainly to accumulate an Oscar nomination for best director for Catherine.

Awards are not expected.

Barbra Streisand's "A Storm of Time" is set for the end of the year, and it will also be a favorite for next year's Oscars.

Therefore, next year's Oscars are very hopeful that there will be two female Oscar Best Director winners at one time. Just operate a little bit, hype up the topic, and with Hollywood's politically correct attributes, the first female Olympic

The best director of the ska is also about to come out.

Katherine certainly can't compare to Streisand, who is well-connected in Hollywood.

If you force a fight, it's not impossible. However, Simon has no idea of ​​fighting for Catherine. On the one hand, it is the established strategy of Daenerys Entertainment. On the other hand, it is not without benefits for Catherine to miss this Oscar. of upside.

After talking about the Oscars, Simon and Ella Deutschman discussed several key projects of Highgate Pictures for next year.

It was basically picked by Simon himself.

One is the copyright obtained after the acquisition of Universal, called "Smell the Fragrance and Know a Woman".

This is a remake of an old Italian film "Scent of a Woman" in 1974. The original version in my memory is starring Al Pacino, and there is also a tango dance that has been talked about by fans for many years.

Simon does not intend to change the lineup of "Scent of a Woman", which will be the flagship of Highgate Pictures' end-of-1992 schedule.

The other work is somewhat "alternative" and is called "The Crying Game".

This Neil Jordan-directed film tells a very twisty and complicated love story.

The "Crying Game" in my memory caused a movie-watching craze in North America because of its bizarre flip, and finally got a box office of more than 60 million US dollars with a cost of about 3 million US dollars, so it is also the turn over of North American publisher Miramax. one of the works.

It was the movie's smash hit that brought Miramax to Disney's attention and eventually became a part of Disney.

Now, Miramax is basically unsustainable, and Simon will not give the Weinstein brothers this opportunity again.

"The Crying Game" director Neil Jordan has been preparing for the project for several years. After Goldman Pictures took over, the film's specifications have not been improved, and the budget cost is still $3 million.

However, because it was Daenerys Entertainment's fancy, the project negotiation process naturally attracted the attention of other studios.

In order to finalize the project, Daenerys Entertainment agreed to an additional 10% of Neil Jordan's North American box office net profit.

If "The Crying Game" can get the $60 million North American box office in the original time and space, according to the agreement, Neil Jordan can also get another $2 million to $3 million in dividends.

Simon also agreed to this plan.

Two or three million dollars, while a huge sum, is still insignificant for Daenerys Entertainment's expected revenue. Moreover, this relatively generous share plan can also attract more other filmmakers to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment.

As the entire Westeros system becomes larger and larger, Simon is more and more inclined to recruit talents through benefit sharing.

The money in this world will never end. Through benefit sharing, many people can be tied into the Westeros system to form a community of interests.

After Ella Deutschman left, the female assistant knocked on the door and walked in, holding a stack of cards similar to bank cards: "This is just sent from San Francisco."

Simon took the card and took advantage of the opportunity to grab the female assistant's little hand and sit down beside him, and then he looked at the things in his hand.

It took half a year of preparation for the development, and the card in hand is actually the consumption point card that Igreit will launch in the near future. The point card has only two denominations, 10 US dollars and 50 US dollars.

This can be seen in the prudence of the management team of Igret.

In the plan, this consumption point card will be sold through Internet cafe channels and Blockbuster chain stores that gradually spread across the country. Although AOL has sold the Internet cafe industry, the Westeros system still maintains a strong influence on this. Power, Blockbuster belongs to Daenerys Entertainment's own channel, the current scale of chain stores is close to 3,000, it is simply a suitable retail distribution network.

In fact, it is not just the consumption point card, with the opening of the Ygrit application store, the Ygrit online payment tool ypay will also be launched at the same time. Users of the Igret portal can apply for dedicated online consumer credit cards through Bank of America and Citibank, two banks that have signed agreements with the company.

Jennifer sat quietly beside Simon, and waited for the man to play with the consumption point card in his hand for a while before saying: "The official product release will take place next Monday, and the Ygrit app store will also officially open at that time.

Simon nodded.

Privately, he has actually experienced the internal beta version of the online application store. The main focus of the application store in the early stage is PC games, and there are not many application software. Jeff Bezos has been in contact with Bill Gates. Microsoft's operating system is definitely not good, but he hopes to sell the office series application tools on the application store, but he was rejected by his classmates.

However, Simon is very optimistic about the prospects of the app store.

In the computer field, developing an operating system is actually not as difficult as you think. The real difficulty lies in creating a software ecosystem that matches the operating system. All in vain.

On the other hand, the technical talents who can develop software in the industry can actually be described as innumerable. In the past, the enthusiasm of these people was limited mainly by the software developed, which was difficult to promote and sell.

Distribution through physical sales is definitely a very expensive thing.

Now, Igreat has given a platform, a platform that can bring profits to developers, which can naturally increase the enthusiasm of developers.

In the longer term, Igreit's online application store can be done, and even can greatly affect the popularity of an operating system.

In fact, this time, Igreit's online application store will only be developed for users of two types of operating systems, one is Microsoft's windows, and the other is Apple's Macintosh. As for the old-fashioned DOS system or other non-mainstream operating systems on the market, the Igreit app store will not support it.

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, the choice of the Igreit portal is destined to affect the user's inclination.

Users who purchase computers, considering that they choose other non-mainstream systems, may not be able to get the support of the Igret portal, and will naturally turn to Windows and Macintosh.

even.

If one day the Igret app store shuts down Apple's Macintosh version...

Of course, this is just an idea.

Even if it is already a major shareholder of Microsoft, Simon will not do so easily, or, because it is a major shareholder of Microsoft, Simon cannot do so.

Apple's market value has been climbing this year, reaching a recent high of nearly $8 billion. However, this will also be Apple's "peak" in the 1990s, and then the company will only go all the way down.

It's actually good to keep Apple and avoid Microsoft's complete monopoly of the market and all kinds of troubles. The original time and space gate students chose to inject capital into Apple at a critical moment, also out of this consideration. Including Intel's support of AMD, either explicitly or implicitly, is also the reason.

After playing with the card in his hand for a while, Simon said to the female assistant beside him: "You make arrangements, we will go to the new product launch next Monday together."

Jennifer blinked a few times, and then gave a small hum.

Monday is over and may be back the same day.

That is, not overnight.

Simon smiled, knowing that the female assistant actually wanted to go with her on the weekend, she leaned over and kissed her cheek, and said, "You know, Jenny has been over seven months, and she's been in a bad mood recently, I'll take it. I don't plan to leave L.A. for any longer in the next few months."

Jennifer nodded again.

Seeing the quiet and submissive appearance of the female assistant, Simon was also a little moved and stretched out his arms to hug him.

Jennifer was hugged by Simon and shrank her neck subconsciously. However, her body soon softened, allowing the man to kiss her neck, and said softly, "Ms. Brill... will be here soon."

Simon ignored it and simply overwhelmed the female assistant on the sofa.

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