Hollywood New Century

New York, Manhattan, Simon meets Wendy Fineman in a hotel.

"Unexpectedly, I'm still involved in the production of this movie," Wendy Fineman smiled. A few years ago, his own Dune Entertainment was going to make it, but 20th Century Fox somehow stopped it.

"Haha, God's will," Simon smiled, "By the way, the lease of the scene building has been negotiated?"

"It's the Mike Green-Hill Publishing Building in the middle of Manhattan! It fits our requirements, and the other is about sponsorship. Like Versace, Chanel, CK, etc., all agreed to provide clothing sponsorship, and there are many famous designers who are willing to create their own works. Appearing in a movie," says Wendy Fineman,

"In this regard, I really need to thank the film's costume designer Patricia Field. She was a costume designer in "Sex and the City" before, and she is also an old partner with David. She has a lot of fashion in New York. people!"

"However, according to her, this is not enough, because it is fashionable, so the cost of clothing needs to be increased!"

"So, is there any solution? In terms of sponsorship, those brands should be able to provide more, right?" Isn't it stupid that Simon spends a lot of money on clothing for this kind of movie?

"There is a solution. Prada is willing to provide more than 40% of the overall clothing, but we need our movies to better show their brand, and we need Prada to appear in our movie name!" Wendy Fineman said Prada requirements.

"Help us provide 40% of our fashion clothes for free," Simon smiled and said calmly.

"Then we should change "The Devil Wears Prada" to "The Devil Wears Prada", so we should be satisfied."

Wendy Fineman thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement. That's a good name, too.

"Meryl Streep plays a harsh, swearing fashion queen. It's exciting to think about it. I saw Meryl Streep's makeup photo, the silver hair queen, it's amazing!" Wendy Fineman didn't feel like she could make the movie better than Simon Pike.

Simon nodded, agreed with Wendy Fineman, and continued: "The movie will start shooting soon, so don't worry about funding! It will be filmed in a studio in Los Angeles for a while, and then the crew will start shooting. Come to New York for the main scene!"

In early December, "The Devil Wears Prada" received attention from Twentieth Century Fox and participated.

"Fox invested 12 million US dollars to distribute this film. You invested 15 million and I invested 10 million. The three-party copyright revenue share is 5:3:2. You have the most, but I have the least," Nicole Key said. Deman said.

"This is the share of the producers. The income of the distributors is owned by Fox. The 15% distribution commission at the box office is theirs. Similarly, the distribution commission in the DVD and other peripheral markets is 12%. At that time, we will still direct the global copyright of DVD and TV broadcasts directly. Forget it, if you want us to sell it at the overseas box office!" Simon doesn't have much opinion on the proportion of the producer's share, after all, Fox is very willing to pay Nicole's $10 million investment.

Simon is the main controlling producer and has revenue sharing. Fox has a platform and distribution. Compared with Nicole, she is just a pure investor and a nominal producer.

"Twentieth Century Fox is too stingy. My advance payment as a producer was only $1.5 million. I gave out $15 million in cash, and I gave out another 3 million for the script, and the producer split, adding up to only 50. % of the producer's share," Simon can't help it, the publisher is strong, and the conditions given by 20th Century Fox are not bad, at least they didn't let themselves pre-sell the North American copyright.

Moreover, Fox Searchlight Pictures, a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, also agreed to distribute "Little Miss Sunshine", which is a film by Xinghai Pictures, with a 15% distribution commission.

"Okay, next year I'll be busy, so I'll leave the film production to you. I'll take over New Line Cinema's "Golden Compass," and I'm going to star in two films next year," Nicole Kidman said. , the corners of his mouth are still upturned.

"The Golden Compass" is a magical children's giant based on the internationally best-selling novel "The Golden Plate", and it is likely to be the next "Harry Potter".

"Okay, I'll pay attention," Simon's eyelids jumped when he heard "The Golden Compass", New Line Pictures is really expanding, and independent development of such a big production.

The success of "The Lord of the Rings" really gave New Line Cinema an idea. Now it is on the same level as Warner Bros. under Time Warner and has its own movie distribution rights.

"Disney's just-released The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe did well and seems to have given New Line a lot of confidence," Simon said casually.

"There must be a reason for this. New Line Cinema has done very well in recent years. The release of "Wedding Australian" at the North American box office of 200 million US dollars is really accurate," Nicole Kidman said and shrugged. .

"Really," Simon smiled and changed the subject: "The press conference of the movie has been arranged, right?"

"Well, tomorrow in the studio area of ​​Universal City!"

"The Devil Wears Prada" rented a studio in Universal City in Los Angeles, and it was close anyway.

With Meryl Streep, and Anne Hathaway, "The Queen Wears Prada" is not like "Juno" before, "Little Miss Sunshine" was unknown before filming began.

"Simon, in fact, we at 20th Century Fox planned to invest in this novel before, but it was not developed because of the director's reasons.

Unexpectedly, now that you have developed it, we, 20th Century Fox, are still involved! "The producer from Twentieth Century Fox chatted with Simon outside the press conference.

"Maybe it's God's destiny, anyway, Fox is still connected with the movie based on this novel!" Simon said while watching the reporters in the conference hall asking questions about the creator of the movie.

The media conference, of course, is the pre-promotion of the movie, and the focus is on the stars, and no one pays attention to the people behind the scenes like Simon.

Back at Xinghai Pictures, my "Little Miss Sunshine" has been closed and is being edited in the editing room.

"Fox Searchlight, it seems that it is going to counterattack with the reputation of the movie again," Simon said helplessly, sitting in front of the computer.

The schedule is scheduled to be released on 3.9, and the Oscar ceremony will be held on 3.6. Simone intends to fight for this time because he wants to create momentum for himself through "Juno" and to drive "Little Sunshine" by the way.

"Juno" has already been nominated for an Oscar, and Simon is not worried about not being nominated. Next year, Oscar himself, the producer and screenwriter, should really become famous.

On the computer, Simon clicked on a YouTube video, and his mind flashed.

Youtu was only established this year, and video uploading was only realized in the middle of the year, and it has not been acquired by Google yet.

Sonia Roman was quickly called to discuss the matter.

"What's the matter, Simon?"

"This video sharing website seems to have been established this year. It can share some short videos for free, as well as movie promotional footage. I think it's good," Simon said while staring at the computer.

"Their headquarters is in San Bruno, California. You go there and say I am interested in this company and I want to invest in their company!"

"You want to invest in this company?" Sonia Roman was a little surprised, just because short videos can be shared for free on it?

"It's true, look at it in the past, I'm just an investor and I don't participate in management. The more shares, the better. They are small in scale and don't have many profit channels, so they shouldn't cost much money," Simon said. The roughness of web design and the small flow of people make it cheaper to invest as early as possible.

The Internet is developing rapidly, and it will be acquired by Google for more than one billion US dollars by the end of next year. It must be taken early.

"Then, I'll go there and I'll contact you at any time!" Sonia Roman is now Simon's employee. The boss has something to do, and his subordinates must cooperate.

"As soon as possible, let's go tomorrow!" Simon shouted from behind when Sonia Roman went out. Sonia Roman almost hit the door, and it turned out to be the impatient Simon Pike.

I don't know how many shares the founders will give themselves, and how much will they value their company?

In December, as the month of Christmas, not only will some blockbusters be released, but more literary and artistic films that are ready to hit the Oscars next year will also be released this month.

After all, the list of Oscar-nominated films ends at the end of this month, and the release this month can also deepen the impression of the judges.

On 12.14, the sci-fi blockbuster "King Kong" produced by Universal Pictures held a grand premiere at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

Simon Parker actually received an invitation letter, no matter what, he must go, not to mention that Universal Pictures still owes him money.

"King Kong" heroine Naomi Watts also supported the premiere of "Juno."

Nicole Kidman in a low-cut dress walked on the red carpet with Simon Parker's arm on his arm, smiling to the reporter next to him, and fans waved insistently.

"The temperature is a bit low now, are you wearing cold clothes like this?" Simon asked in a low voice as he walked.

The temperature is more than ten degrees Celsius, will this evening dress be cold?

"Okay, by the way, what about your little girlfriend, why are you here alone? If you hadn't met me, would you plan to walk the red carpet alone, or arrange with the actress at the venue?" Nicole whispered. .

"No, I'll walk through the staff aisle by myself, and I won't walk the red carpet at all. I'm a producer and screenwriter, who will pay attention to me," Simon said. The North American box office of "Juno" was ultimately 148 million US dollars, Focus Pictures has not yet allocated to itself.

48 million US dollars, 47% of the theater, 19% of Focus Pictures, there is still 16.32 million US dollars, and my own share has 3.26 million US dollars!

Nicole Kidman really made $100 million for this movie.