Hollywood Hunter

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An open-air restaurant halfway up the mountain in Beverly Hills.

In the rising sun, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner, two Hollywood bigwigs, sat leisurely on the terrace overlooking Los Angeles.

After ordering, Michael Eisner said to Barry Diller: "You haven't seen last week's box office report, haven't you? $13.88 million, 53.85 million in three weeks. Goldberg won't be there again this year. So embarrassing."

Today is May 1st, Friday.

Michael Eisner didn't mention the name of the movie, but Barry Diller understood that the only movie that can make a single-week box office breakthrough of $10 million in this unpopular schedule is now only Fox's "Butterfly Effect". "This one.

Due to his focus on the operation of the Fox network, Barry Diller did not pay much attention to the film business, and asked: "What about "Lola Run"?"

Michael Eisner's expression became more emotional, shook his head slightly, and said: "7.59 million US dollars, a total of 175.6 million, Orion may earn more than 80 million from the box office. Coupled with "Field Platoon", Since February, Orion's share price has tripled, and its market value is now close to $1 billion. I heard that Summer Redstone and John Kruger are both plotting to take control of Orion."

Barry Diller also felt a little incredible. Thinking of a young man who was talking about everywhere around him during this time, he couldn't help but say, "What a miraculous little guy, maybe he should take time to meet."

Michael Eisner smiled. "If you want to see him, you can come to Burbank with me later."

Barry Diller gave a suspicious look.

The waiter brought the breakfast for the two of them, and the conversation paused for a moment. When the waiter left, Michael Eisner picked up the utensils to eat breakfast, and then said, "That little guy opened a production company, Did you hear that?"

Barry Diller nodded with a smile, and said, "Of course, Daenerys Pictures also poached one of our Fox production vice presidents."

Michael Eisner showed a schadenfreude smile and continued: "Denerys Pictures is looking for a film distribution cooperation, and Disney should be one of their options. In addition, Simon Westeros also handed a Give us the animation script and want to commission Disney to produce it. I have an appointment with Amy Pascal to talk formally today. Just wait for someone to call and let Westeros come along.”

Barry Diller nodded, paused, then shook his head slightly.

The two were colleagues during the ABC days, and Michael Eisner knew Barry Diller very well. Noticing his small movements, he realized that the shaking behind him was actually aimed at Ronald Goldberg.

Simon Westeros has already worked with Fox on two films, and "Death Is Coming" may be yet to be verified, but "The Butterfly Effect" has been very successful. In this case, Fox should have been the best partner for Daenerys Pictures.

Now, Ronald Goldberg has apparently passed up another chance.

Michael Eisner didn't really like Ronald Goldberg in his heart. However, he also understands the deep friendship between Ronald Goldberg and Barry Diller, so he said: "It's not really Ronald's fault. The film, the director and the writer were not Westeros himself. , the script is also more anti-mainstream. Daenerys Pictures is not only willing to give up the film's local theatrical distribution rights, but also wants next year's Easter schedule."

Barry Diller listened in silence and asked, "How about your side?"

"Next Easter, we were going to re-release Bambi, plus there's no distribution pressure for a live-action movie. Also, you should have seen Lola Run, despite the success of the film. There are many accidental factors, but Westeros's film skills are absolutely impeccable, and I plan to take the opportunity to sign a few film contracts with him." Michael Eisner said with a smile: "So, Barry, go see him. The little guy?"

...

When Barry Diller and Michael Eisner had breakfast, Simon also woke up a little earlier in his Century Tower apartment.

The place is the library.

Sighing that the life of a bachelor is really bleak, Simon packed up a pile of books on finance by the sofa, got up and walked to the writing board embedded in the wall of the study.

At this time, on the large writing board, two general trend charts of the Dow Jones index and the S\u0026P 500 index in the next few months are drawn, and various languages ​​such as Chinese, French, Spanish, Hebrew and so on are densely mixed around. text annotation.

It is not easy to collect this information from the more than ten memories in my mind, and sometimes it is just a flash of thought. So it took Simon a week to get these.

Just in case, Simon did not use English labels, and the other languages ​​are all suggestive words that only he can understand. Except for the two index charts, it is unlikely that even if others are discovered understand.

After looking at it for a while, he carefully wiped the two trend charts that had been drawn many times and completely engraved in his mind, leaving only various scattered text annotations before Simon left the study.

In the morning, the audition for the supporting role of "Pulp Fiction" was originally scheduled. Simon received a call from Amy at breakfast. Michael Eisner wanted him to participate in today's meeting in person, so he had to temporarily change the schedule.

At eight o'clock, Simon and Amy met first, and then they rushed to the Disney headquarters in Burbank.

The secretary took the two to a conference room. After Simon entered the door, he found that in addition to Michael Eisner, there was another middle-aged man sitting at the conference table. Moreover, he immediately recognized the identity of the other party, the chairman and CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, Barry Diller.

Everyone greeted each other, Simon and Michael Eisner shook hands, stretched out to Barry Diller, and smiled: "Mr. Diller, it's nice to meet you, your high-concept movie mode makes all of us filmmakers feel Benefit a lot.”

Barry Diller shook hands with Simon, listening to him say this, but pointed to the "When Harry Met Sally" script he was just reading, and asked, "But, Simon, I find it has something to do with you. Are several of your projects not high-concept movies?"

Simon noticed that Amy and Eisner were looking at him with interest, waiting for his answer, and said with a relaxed smile: "Daenerys Pictures is just a child, children can be more creative. Yes. When you grow up, you will definitely be in the right place."

Barry Diller raised his eyebrows when he saw Simon's answer that was both decent and ambitious without hesitation, and said, "I'm looking forward to seeing what Daenerys Pictures will look like when it's grown up."

Having said that, everyone sat down at the conference table together. Simon saw that Michael Eisner did not intend to talk about business immediately, and also understood that the two big bosses called him here today, just wanting to see himself.

In this case, Simon did not miss the opportunity at hand, and continued to say to Barry Diller: "Mr. Diller, I heard that you are helping Mr. Murdoch improve the Fox TV network. Perhaps, we can cooperate next year."

Barry Diller looked at the young man sitting across from him and asked, "Why not this year? Simon, this month is the promotion season. If you have a good idea, you can go to New York soon."

Every year in May, the North American television network decides the new year's TV program. So, every year this month, producers from North America and around the world gather in New York to market their TV shows to the network through a variety of pitches.

Simon shook his head and said, "Daenerys Pictures definitely won't have a chance this year. Our strength is still too weak. But it won't be certain next year."

Barry Diller said: "Simon, you mean it only takes a year for Daenerys Pictures to 'grow up'?"

"Of course not," Simon shook his head and said, "I mean, the wga may have a strike next year. At that time, Daenerys Pictures may be able to get some opportunities."

If Daenerys Films now wants to cooperate with TV networks, even if there are good ideas, the best result is just to be bought and creative, and then commissioned by the TV network Daenerys Films to produce. The most important copyright must be owned by the network.

What Simon expects is to just sell the first round of broadcast rights to TV networks like Warner, Universal and other powerful program producers, and other channels are still in their hands. Only then can Daenerys Pictures get the most out of it.

However, to achieve this goal in the short term, Daenerys Pictures can only seize the opportunity next year when major TV networks are affected by the writers' strike and are unable to produce enough TV shows.

Barry Diller heard the explanation of the young man in front of him, but said: "Simon, you should also be a member of the Screenwriters Guild? If the wga announces a strike next year, don't you plan to participate?"

Simon shook his head and said, "Barry, I am not a member of wga, and I have no plans to join wga."

Hearing this, Barry Diller couldn't help looking at Simon again for a moment, then smiled, took out a business card from his suit pocket and handed it over, saying, "It's really nice to meet you, Simon. If you have anything, I can Call me."

"certainly."

Simon agreed, took Barry Diller's business card, and also took a business card and handed it over.

Barry Diller put away Simon's business card and got up to say goodbye to everyone.

After sending Barry Diller away, the three returned to the conference room and sat down.

Michael Eisner opened the memo in front of him, almost subconsciously not paying attention to Amy Pascal, who had been in contact with him several times, and said directly to Simon: "About the cooperation on "When Harry Met Sally" , Simon, Disney can give you the Easter schedule with a guaranteed minimum of 1,000 screens. However, our requirement is that you need to sign two directorial contracts with Disney, and the script can be written by you or provided by Disney, and the remuneration is based on the project. It depends on the specific circumstances of the confirmation. As for The Lion King, Disney's animation department will not OEM projects for others. So, we hope to buy this script, 300,000 US dollars, what do you think?"

Before this meeting, Michael Eisner had planned to kill the above conditions.

However, with the conversation between Simon and Barry Diller lingering in his mind just now, and recalling all the deeds of the young man in front of him over the past year, Michael Eisner almost instinctively felt that Disney should talk about this cooperation. Down, so there is a final negotiable conclusion.

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