Hollywood Hunter

Inside the 20th Century Fox Studios in Century City.

It's June 26th.

Monday afternoon.

Simon's car stopped directly in front of the office building, and as soon as he got out of the car, a group of people greeted him.

After politely hugging Shirley Lansing, who was in charge of the new Fox after the merger, Simon turned to the others and said with a smile: "There is no need for such a big battle, I am already under pressure."

Barbara Broccoli, the producer of the 007 series, also stepped forward and hugged Simon, and said with a smile: "Because everyone is looking forward to this meeting."

With that greeting, it was Ron Meyer again.

After the history of Hollywood was disturbed beyond recognition by Simon, the big butterfly, one of the founders of CAA, who was supposed to be in charge of Universal a few years ago, finally managed to find his first job in a major studio last year. President of Paramount Pictures, controlled by Seagram Canada.

The original president of this major studio, Robert Rehm, who was once the CEO of Daenerys' New World Pictures, retired sadly because he didn't get Seagram's contract renewal.

This is the case in Hollywood. If you do well enough, you can control a major studio for ten or twenty years. However, if you fail to achieve results, you will be replaced in a few years or even a few months, which is not uncommon.

After the three, there is Lena Kane, whom I haven't seen for a while, and "Female Angel" Merchen Amick, one of the trio of Charlie's Angels, and Nicolas Cage, the protagonist of the Mission: Impossible series, and In the middle of the month, the film director Paul Greengrass and the leading actors and actresses Matt Damon and 'Root Sister' Amy Acker just completed the filming of "The Bourne Shadow".

Those who are familiar with Hollywood dynamics can easily think of the long-rumored "Agent Movie Universe" plan just by looking at the current lineup.

Actually it is.

This afternoon is a meeting specially organized for the "Agent Movie Universe" project.

Speaking of which, Simon proposed this idea very early, but he has not paid much attention to it in recent years, and has been procrastinating until now. On the one hand, personal energy is limited after all, and subconsciously, Simon still hopes that Hollywood can flourish instead of being occupied by too many commercial film series. On the other hand, the copyrights of Mission: Impossible, which Simon really wanted to include in the series, have not been settled. Even the 007 series, the British Broccoli family, which controlled half of the copyright of this super IP, was quite resistant. .

until now.

Seeing the miraculous success of the DC Movie Universe series, Simon's increasing power in Hollywood, and MGM's increased strength after the merger with Fox, which is enough to support a huge movie universe plan, all parties are gradually getting closer. I understand that joining this series must be a win-win choice.

Everyone greeted briefly, and came to a large conference room in the office building behind them.

Simon took a seat in the middle of one side of the long conference table, with Shirley Lansing on one side and Machen Amick quietly occupying the other side.

Everyone just laughed when they saw this, and there was nothing to fight for. However, the seats on the opposite side of the long table were naturally taken by Ron Meyer, Barbara Broccoli and Lena Kane, and some other stars and filmmakers could only obediently sit on the sidelines.

During the time when the meeting secretary was distributing materials, Meichen Amick took the initiative to talk to Simon, talking about Charlie's Angels 2, which just started painting last Friday: "Simon, what do you think of my performance in the Angel sequel?"

"Great."

As Simon said, he remembered the North American box office data for the past weekend that he had seen in the morning.

Last Friday, after four years, countless fans finally waited until the release of Charlie's Angels 2, and the three Charlie's Angels, Kate Beckinsale, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Machen Amick once again appeared in the big screen. Brilliant on screen.

With an excellent comprehensive media score of 8.3 points and the same excellent reputation among the audience, Charlie's Angels 2 won a box office of 60.28 million U.S. dollars in the first three days of the weekend, and it is expected that the first week's box office will reach 90 million U.S. dollars. In comparison, the box office of the first film in 1996 was only more than 72 million in the first week, and the box office of the sequel increased by 25% in the same period.

Although the final box office volume depends on the subsequent box office trend of the film, but this is just the beginning, and the subsequent development plan of the film can be advanced without hesitation.

Thinking of this, Simon saw that the girl next to him was still looking for something to talk to, and asked, "The movie is still being promoted recently, why come here when you have time?"

"I happened to record a talk show in Los Angeles, and it was also for promotional purposes," Mei Chen Amick said: "Kate and Catherine went to the UK, they are British, come back in a few days, and we will fly to Asia together , to attend the premiere in Japan."

Simon nodded slightly.

Thinking of this time, "Charlie's Angels 2" still failed to achieve synchronization in Japan, where the film market is still relatively closed.

After the meeting secretary distributed the materials, Simon stopped the conversation with Amick and signaled the start of the meeting.

First, Shirley Lansing introduced the specific implementation plan of the secret agent movie universe plan that has been quietly planned for several months and approved by Simon.

After the issues of copyright and other aspects are resolved, the initially planned spy movie universe will consist of the first batch of five major IPs, a 007 series, a Mission: Impossible series, a Charlie's Angels series, a Bourne Shadow series, and, The last one, which Simon personally intervened to join in recently, is also an ip that Daenerys has kept hidden for a long time, the "Fast and Furious" series.

For The Fast and the Furious, West

Meng's idea is that the whole plan cannot be all spies, even if it is a variety of spies of men and women inside and outside the system, but in the end it still needs some non-staff teams as adjustments.

Drag racing is a perfect fit.

Imagine a scene where Ethan Hunt with a look of embarrassment got into a seemingly inconspicuous dilapidated sports car on the side of the road, pointed to the front and asked me to catch up with that Aston Martin. Boss Tang didn't say a word, a The throttle kicked up.

How exciting.

It can be further extended. Aston Martin is a guy named James Bond. The two sides, um, the three parties had a fight, and it turned out that the flood washed the Dragon King Temple. Bond and Hunter belonged to the official dispatch. Don The boss took an odd job from the trio of angels, and everyone was investigating a project called 'stumbling block', and finally found Jason Bourne together.

Bourne is miserable.

In short, an agent movie universe is connected in a blink of an eye.

correct.

In the end, of course, Boss Tang's "ily" cannot be missing, and the voice should be very magnetic and vigorous.

Simply perfect!