Hollywood Hunter

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noon.

In an Italian restaurant near Santa Monica Beach, when Simon arrived, Terry Semel had arrived early and was sitting at the table reading a newspaper. Seeing Simon appear, Terry Semel got up and shook hands with him, and the two sat down together.

Simon took the menu from the tall and slender waitress beside him with eager eyes, opened it and asked Semel on the other side, "Is there any news today?"

Because he has been too busy recently, it is difficult for Simon to spare much time to pay attention to the news.

Terry Semel also opened his menu and said with a smile: "The two presidential candidates spoke at the same time in an interview, saying that once elected, they will formulate stricter financial derivatives market supervision measures to avoid 'Westeros' The event' happened again."

Simon quickly ordered a lunch, handed the menu to the waitress, and said, "This has nothing to do with me. If they do this, they will only offend their Wall Street patrons."

Terry Semel looked up at Simon from the menu, with a hint of tentativeness: "Aren't you going to tell me that you'll never set foot in the futures market again?"

Simon was noncommittal about Semel's question, saying: "Stricter regulatory measures will only affect those who want to make huge profits through unconventional means such as insider speculation. In the "Forbes" list, at least the top ten Not a single person in the name made it to the list by those means, and neither did I."

Terry Semel couldn't help but think of some rumors in the circle that the Southern District Court of New York and several other major regulatory agencies have never completely given up on Simon's secret investigation. However, so far, there is still no news that is unfavorable to Simon.

Over time, those investigations are destined to fade away.

After ordering the meal and sending away the waitress who had been staring at Simon, Terry Semel said, "Simon, we recently acquired lorimar, you must know about this, right?"

Simon nodded, probably understanding why Semel brought this up.

Lorimar Productions, founded in the 1960s, is the largest TV studio in this era. The company emerged in the 1970s and reached its peak in the previous years, and then with last year's stock market crash and this year's screenwriting big The strike quickly declined.

A few months ago, Simon and Amy went to the Culver City MGM studio that Lorimar wanted to sell.

Hearing the news of Warner's acquisition of lorimar at the beginning of the month, Simon also realized that this was probably the basis for Warner's TV department to continuously produce "Friends", "Emergency Room Story" and other popular American TV series in the 1990s. Before that, Warner's TV business wasn't great.

Terry Semel nodded when he saw Simon, and continued: "I heard that you are interested in the MGM studio in Culver City. We happen to be planning to sell this part of the property. Do you still want it now? I guarantee the price will be very high. Affordable."

Warner Bros. has a very large production base in Burbank, and obviously doesn't need a second set.

However, Simon didn't hesitate and shook his head and said, "Terry, that studio is too dilapidated. Rather than buying it for a large-scale renovation, I might as well pick a new piece of land and build it from scratch, which is cheaper."

Terry Semel said: "But, Simon, unless it's a suburb, you'll be hard-pressed to find another 50-acre lot in downtown Los Angeles."

Simon said indifferently: "There's nothing wrong with the suburbs. When these studios were just built, they were all in the suburbs. It was only because of the continuous development of the city that they were enclosed in the urban area."

Terry Semel thought that he could give Simon the MGM studio with a certain degree of certainty, but he didn't expect him to show a lack of interest, so he had to give up, saying: "So, Simon, about the thing we discussed last time. , you have already acquired Marvel Entertainment and mastered the copyright of a large number of superheroes such as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men. I am curious, why are you still interested in DC's superheroes? If there is no good reason , is it difficult for Warners to hand over Wonder Woman to you again?"

"Marvel's superhero movies are too difficult to make, such as Spider-Man. With current technology, it is difficult for us to achieve the scene where Peter Parker is flying between the big cities," Simon replied without thinking too much: "It seems that In comparison, the possibility of dc's superhero movie is very high. As for my purpose, Terry, obviously, I want to accumulate more rights, Hollywood studios will do it, there is nothing to hide. Before me , Canon Pictures bought the filming rights of Marvel’s most popular Spider-Man and DC’s Superman at the same time. Of course, the copyrights of these two superheroes are now in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment.”

"You are different from them," Terry Semel shook his head: "I remember at the Oscars after-party at the beginning of the year, you told me that you planned to make Superman and Batman linked, um, "Batman v Superman", you are So, right? Now, you want Wonder Woman again."

"Terry, I don't want to waste time on these useless words, you can directly offer Warner's conditions?"

Terry Semel also stopped beating around the bush, saying: "Simon, Warner can give you both The Bourne and Wonder Woman, we're willing to let go of The Bourne, but Wonder Woman. , Warner must retain 50% of the investment rights, however, unlike "Superman" and "Batman", Daenerys Entertainment can be responsible for the distribution of "Wonder Woman". In exchange, Daenerys and Warner need to cooperate A project with a box office exceeding 100 million, the profit sharing model of "Instinct". If we cooperate with each other

The domestic box office of this project did not break 100 million, and the contract was automatically extended until this goal was achieved. "

Simon considered the conditions offered by Terry Semel in his mind, and quickly said: "In this case, it is impossible for me to hand over the distribution rights to Warners. It is very difficult for a movie to break through 100 million at the North American box office, but I want to It would be too easy to let it fall short of that."

"Of course I understand," said Terry Semel, with a smile on his face. "So, if you insist, the distribution rights can go to Daenerys Entertainment."

Simon suddenly realized that Daenerys Entertainment would be very disadvantaged in doing so.

In the original profit sharing model of "Instinct", the two companies not only shared the production costs equally, Daenerys Pictures provided the script copyright of "Instinct" and devoted energy to the production, and Fox was responsible for the publicity of the film. The input is basically equal.

Now, leaving the distribution rights would be the equivalent of Warners putting in only half of the film’s production budget and then completely ditching it and waiting to share half of the proceeds, while Daenerys Entertainment is responsible for the entire process of production, promotion and distribution.

This is clearly not possible.

After weighing for a moment, Simon added: "Daenerys Entertainment retains the distribution rights, and Warners must also share an additional half of the publicity budget."

Terry Semel nodded readily and said, "No problem."

The two have only set a general framework for cooperation, and specific plans will definitely require detailed consultations to meet the interests of both parties. Therefore, Simon didn't hesitate any more, stretched out his hand to Semel and said, "Deal."

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