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Jonathan and Amy have been working on the project for the past week after Simon came up with the Instinct script.

The original "Instinct" grossed more than $350 million worldwide in 1992 with a $49 million production budget. The success of this film is mainly due to the strong controversy caused by the subject matter of the film and the super-large scale that is almost nc-17. Sharon Stone's leg-exposing shot has still made many audiences remember many years later. .

Even, the box office hit of "Instinct" also led the trend of shooting thriller pornographic films with femme fatale as a gimmick throughout the 1990s.

The original director of "Instinct" is Paul Verhoeven, a Dutch director who has directed "Total Recall", "Starship Troopers" and other films. Simon, however, passed the story directly to Brian de Palma after completing the script outline.

Compared to Paul Verhoeven, Brian De Palma, who prefers voyeurism, is obviously more suitable for directing this film.

Although Simon clearly stated in the process of communicating with Brian De Palma that this movie is like "The Butterfly Effect", the media reputation in the future will still not be very good, and it may cause a lot of controversy. Brian De Palma Erma nodded quickly and agreed.

The next male lead, Simon still prefers Michael Douglas.

Michael Douglas also happens to be a client of wma. The unexpected success of "Fatal Attraction" has brought this middle-aged actor from a movie family to a higher level. After several contacts, the other party quickly agreed to participate in the role.

After getting the two main creators, Jonathan and Amy officially started negotiations with Fox Pictures. Now that enough capital has been accumulated, and the business prospects of "Instinct" are also very secure, Simon decided to participate in the investment this time.

Simon initially hoped that Daenerys would finance the film entirely, and then distribute it on Fox, while the contract for the original three scripts ended.

However, after the success of the three films "Lola Run", "Butterfly Effect" and "Death Is Coming", although Simon's story still deviates from the mainstream, there are three Simon, DePalma and Douglas. With the participation of box office bigwigs, Fox is naturally unwilling to let go.

After a week of negotiations, Fox and Daenerys Films formally negotiated a production plan.

After "The Butterfly Effect" and "Fatal Attraction", Brian De Palma and Michael Douglas' remuneration quotations both rose to $6 million, Simon's script was still nominally $1, and the film's budget was initially determined as $20 million.

With a production budget of $20 million, Fox Pictures and Daenerys Pictures each bear $10 million. Daenerys Pictures is solely responsible for the production of the film. Fox ensures the distribution and directly determines the schedule for July 15 next year. The number of guaranteed screens has been increased to 1500.

benefit distribution.

After several rounds of tug-of-war, it was finally determined that all channel income of the film would be settled according to the 50-50 share of the investment ratio. To put it simply, the publicity budget invested by Fox will no longer participate in the distribution of benefits as a film investment cost, which also allows Daenerys Pictures to avoid the most watery area in the 'Hollywood Ledger'.

The distribution cost of a Hollywood movie is usually about half of the production cost.

The production budget for "Instinct" is $20 million, and the theoretical distribution budget will reach $10 million. According to the investment ratio, it is divided into fifty-fifty with Daenerys Pictures. It seems that Fox Pictures has suffered a big loss, but it is not.

Daenerys Pictures did not invest a cent in the "Death Comes" project, and the expected revenue will reach 10 million US dollars.

This time, if he does not participate in the investment, Simon will at least be able to get a sharing clause equivalent to that of "Death is Coming" on the "Instinct" project. Now, Daenerys Pictures has given up this part of the extra income, and at the same time, Fox Pictures has also given up the due income of the announcement and distribution budget, and the investment of both parties is still equal.

Moreover, a series of clauses in the contracts detailing how long TV trailers should run would also ensure that Fox invests enough publicity resources.

Fox Studios.

The time is already on Tuesday, November 10th.

In a conference room in the studio's administration building, Ronald Goldberg, Amy Pascal, Jonathan Freedman, and a number of other executives from Fox, Daenerys, and wma, A group of stars and agents officially signed several investment and actor contracts related to the "Instinct" project.

However, Simon was not present today.

After the official press conference, at the next dinner arranged by Fox Pictures, Ronald Goldberg approached Amy Pascal and asked Simon about his recent history, although he had already received an explanation call from Simon. trend.

Since the middle of last month, many people around Simon found that he was obviously absent-minded during this time. Norman Broca, president of Orion Pictures, couldn't help complaining about the slow progress of "Pulp Fiction". For many months, the rough cut of the film has not been completed.

When Amy Pascal heard Ronald Goldberg's question, recalling Simon's erratic behavior recently, he could only shake his head, but on the surface he still wanted to speak for his boss, saying: "Rona. De, you know, Simon has been busy for a whole year since last year, and it should be okay to relax a little now."

Ronald Goldberg does not

Believing Amy's excuse, he hesitated with one hand in his pocket with the red wine in his pocket, lowered his voice slightly, and said, "Amy, tell me the truth, is Simon the money he made from "Lola Run"? Invest in the stock market and lose money?"

Amy immediately thought about Simon's absence from the company for a week after the North American stock market crashed last month.

During this period, although the North American stock market has stabilized, the Dow Jones index is still only hovering around 2,000 points, far below the 2,700 points that were the highest in August. Simon has made more than 100 million US dollars in revenue with "Lola Run" in the past six months. When the stock market was still booming, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not want to make another profit.

"This, Ronald, I really don't know." Although there was already some speculation, Amy shook her head again, thought for a while and added: "However, Ronald, you can rest assured, no matter what It will not affect Daenerys Pictures' investment in Instinct."

Ronald Goldberg continued to ask a few more questions, but couldn't find anything from Amy, so he turned and left.

Amy Pascal frowned as she watched Ronald Goldberg walk away. I couldn't help but think of Simon and himself discussing the investment in "Instinct" some time ago.

Although I don't think it's a good choice to invest my own money in movies, Amy originally thought that Simon would use the money he earned from "Lola Run" to participate in this investment. Simon's decision deviates from Amy's prediction. He hopes that Amy will take the "Death Come" contract to the bank as collateral and use the loan to invest in "Instinct".

A large part of the production capital of Hollywood movies comes from bank loans.

Daenerys Pictures did not have enough background to obtain production funds from the bank during the financing process of "When Harry Met Sally". Now, Simon has successfully made three consecutive films, and "Instinct" is a script written by Simon himself. It is not too difficult to get a loan from the bank.

However, contact this matter, plus Simon rushed to New York again yesterday morning without any explanation after the end of October, and even missed the signing ceremony today. These series of clues are connected a little bit, and it is obvious that this little boss, and his girlfriend must have really lost a lot of money in the stock market crash.

More than 100 million US dollars, I don't know how much I lost.

Thinking of the tragic stock market crash on October 19, Amy couldn't help shaking her head. After all, she was still a young man.

only.

I don't know if the little boss will encounter such a waterloo in the movie next.

You must know that the income of "Death is Coming" should still be 5% of her income. For "Instinct", or most of Hollywood's films made with loans, usually they should apply for a loan from the bank with the film's pre-sale contract, but neither Fox nor Simon agree to the pre-sale. The film production funds must be required. Mortgage, Daenerys Pictures can only use the income contract of "Death Comes" as a bargaining chip.

If Instinct fails.

If "When Harry Met Sally" also failed.

Even if Pulp Fiction fails.

Then you will have to work in vain for more than a year, and you may have to find a job again.

These thoughts flashed through Amy Pascal's mind, and the more she thought about it, the more worried she became. After the dinner, just after returning to her residence in Palisades, Amy couldn't help but pick up the phone, thinking that it was already early morning on the east coast. , this did not rashly hit the past.

Drinking alcohol last night, going to sleep with worry, and having a nightmare of myself pitifully begging Ronald Goldberg to put myself back on Fox after Daenerys went bankrupt, when a piercing phone call The bell woke up, and Amy Pascal looked at her watch. It was just past four in the morning.

Omg.

Four o'clock, what's the urgency now?

Did aliens attack Earth?

Are you all fleeing?

So complaining, Amy still touched the microphone.

The call was from Jonathan Friedman. The agent didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked Amy to receive the fax.

After a while.

Pulling out a newspaper clipping from the fax machine, Amy Pascal just glanced at it, her eyes widened immediately, and the drowsiness just now was completely swept away.

"Simon Westeros Makes Another Miracle, Hollywood Kid Makes $1.6 Billion"

This.

Must be a joke, right?

It would be better to say that the aliens have hit Los Angeles. I can drive to Mexico to hide, and I want to take a break recently.

The fax machine did not stop after receiving a page of newspaper clippings, and then a few more clippings were sent.

"$75 million to $1.62 billion, the youngest billionaire is born"

"Westeros to be questioned by the Federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission, may be suspected of insider trading"

"Quantum Fund Sues Lehman Brothers, Simon Westeros Involved"

"Simon Westeros' $1.1 Billion Hits the Tech Sector"

"..."

After reading several clippings in a row, Amy Pascal finally confirmed that, while it was a little unreal, it was really not a joke.

My own little boss has somehow become a billionaire.

wrong.

$1.6 billion.

God, how did he do it.

Amy receives

At the same time that Jonathan Friedman was faxing, in Los Angeles, where the sky had not yet lighted up, countless people's telephone faxes began to work frantically. When the rising sun in the winter of Los Angeles slowly poked out of the horizon, the whole Hollywood still got and repeatedly confirmed. some explosive news.

In just a few months, Simon Westeros has made a crazy profit of more than 1.6 billion US dollars through the operation of the stock index futures market.

Although many people also think about taxes subconsciously, in any case, suddenly, a little guy who has just emerged in this circle has become one of the richest people in Hollywood, and his personal wealth is even more than Most of the seven behind the scenes control people's wealth.

How on earth did he do it?

what's going on?

Is this a big joke for Hollywood by the 'unscrupulous media' collective on the East Coast?

but.

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and so on, obviously wouldn't make such a clumsy joke, and today is not April Fool's Day.

However, the news was exposed almost on the same day, and many people still smelled a different meaning.

Something big is bound to happen next.

After confirming the news, Amy Pascal, Jonathan Freedman, George Norman and others related to Simon all flew to New York. In any case, it's exciting to have your employer or client suddenly become a billionaire.

East Coast.

In the presidential suite of the Plaza Hotel, Simon stood on the terrace and looked at the road in front of the hotel. He also felt his scalp tingling as he looked at the densely packed group of reporters of one or two hundred people.

Last week, Simon suddenly received a notice from the Federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission, requiring him to submit all Westeros trading records on S\u0026P 500 futures and stocks during this period. Simon knew that trouble was coming.

However, Simon still transmitted a series of documents to Watsonton without reservation according to the request of the other party. After all, there was nothing illegal about his operation.

However, today's events have once again made Simon realize that this matter may have just begun, and in the eyes of many people, he may have become a fat sheep. It's just that Simon didn't expect that things would really break out and it would appear so aggressive.

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