Hollywood Hunter

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Janet is attending a fundraiser for the Malibu city-building lobbying party that night, and the woman is now a member of the community committee. Simon was not interested in this kind of entertainment. After get off work, he asked Kevin Costner and others to have dinner together, and by the way, they discussed the upcoming "Bodyguard".

"Batman" will start filming in January next year, and Simon will lead the crew to Australia after New Year's Day. This departure will take at least three months, and there will be basically no important things during the period. Return to Los Angeles.

"Bodyguard" and "Sixth Sense" are the top priorities of Daenerys Entertainment next year. In order to be able to personally confirm whether the filming of the creators conforms to their own ideas and make timely adjustments before leaving Los Angeles, the two films Both choose to start in December.

It was past eight o'clock in the evening when I returned to Malibu, and Janet hadn't come back. Simon sat alone on the living room sofa, flipping through the scripts Ira Deutschman had collected, while staring at the TV from time to time. samples played in.

According to the information in memory, Simon has found the producers of "Sex, Lies and Videotape", which has not been butterflyed.

Although "Sex, Lies and Videotape" was planned by a lesser-known independent producer, Robert Neumeier, the main investor is mca/columbia Home Entertainment, a joint venture between Universal and Columbia, the two major film companies. The main business of the companies, each holding 50% of the shares, is to purchase video and video rights from around the world for distribution.

Because of the nature of mca/columbia Home Entertainment, it has acquired the video rights to the "Sex, Lies, and Video" project after committing the largest $500,000 of its $1.2 million total budget.

The post-production of Sex, Lies, and Videotape has been completed and an application has been submitted to the Sundance Film Festival. It is through the Sundance channel that Simon got the sample very 'reasonably' and has passed it on to Ella Doe. Cheman.

Simon didn't see the familiar movie from the dailies handed over by Ella Deutschman, but found a very interesting script, "Intersection of Life."

The multi-line narrative mode has always tested a director's guiding ability. "Intersection of Life" is definitely a masterpiece of Hollywood's multi-line narrative. In memory, this film, adapted from a series of short stories by novelist Raymond Carver and directed by Hollywood ensemble master Robert Altman, uses as many as eight groups of family characters ingeniously interspersed in a ukiyo-e style. The model perfectly captures the life of ordinary people in Los Angeles.

After the film was released that year, some film festivals even set a "Best Ensemble Award" for "Intersection of Life". Paul Thomas Anderson's later "Magnolia" was completely influenced by "Intersection of Life".

Although "Magnolia" seems to have more influence because of Tom Cruise's participation, Simon still prefers "Intersection of Life", a film that is purely story-oriented without deliberately adding so-called connotations.

The original "Intersection of Life" was only released in 1993, and Simon was not surprised that he got the script at this time.

According to Ella Deutschman's note, Raymond Carver just passed away this year, and Robert Altman, who likes Carver's novels very much, has always wanted to put his works on the big screen.

The reason why "Intersection of Life" in the original time and space was delayed five years later is mainly because the current Robert Altman is too bad. The Hollywood director, who made classic films such as "Army Field Hospital" and "Nashville" in the 1970s and has been nominated for two Oscars, has never had a work that he can handle since he entered the 1980s. , most of the films shot in recent years have generally only achieved a few hundred thousand dollars at the box office.

Hollywood is very practical, and even if you have a brilliant past record, if you can't bring benefits to the studio, it is destined to be quickly abandoned. Moreover, the disadvantages of "Intersection of Life" are also very obvious. Not only does it lack commercial selling points, but the estimated duration will be as long as three hours, which will discourage investors.

However, with only a small half of the script read, Simon had already decided to give the green light to the project.

The Crossroads of Life will definitely become another Robert Altman classic, no doubt about it.

Since the quality of the film can be guaranteed, and there are gimmicks such as the peak of multi-line narrative, as long as it works properly, it is absolutely easy to achieve profitability. What's more, the film is not without the elements that the audience "likes to hear and see". Simon is still very impressed with Julianne Moore's stylistic scenes in his memory.

Simon was immersed in the script of "Intersection of Life", when there was a sound in the living room, and before she could get up, Janet, who was wearing a beautiful black evening dress, floated in from the outside, obviously drinking, her face Red Pupu, giggling, threw himself into Simon's arms.

Simon hugged the woman dotingly, nodded to Sophia Fisher, who followed up with a women's trench coat in his arms, hugged Janet horizontally, and went to the bedroom to take a bath as the woman wanted.

After some tossing, Janet, who had taken a bath and changed into pajamas, was placed on the big bed. It was already more than ten o'clock.

Simon didn't have much sleepiness, so he planned to finish the script of "Intersection of Life".

When he came to the living room, he found that Sophia was sitting in his original position. The woman had changed into a very homely loose sweater and rest pants, curled up lazily on the sofa with bare feet, holding a script in her hand, Another demo is already playing on the TV.

Sofia didn't seem to expect Simon to be out again

Now, wanting to get up, Simon has waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, I'm just here to get a script."

Hearing what Simon said, Sophia immediately relaxed again, and changed her posture without a trace.

The coffee table where some scripts and videotapes had been spread out had obviously been tidied up. Simon rummaged through the cardboard box for a while before looking up at the woman on the sofa and pointing to the script in her hand: "The Crossroads of Life "?"

Sophia Fisher nodded: "Yes."

Simon stood up and reached out to the woman.

Sophia didn't hand over the script, but held it in her arms, looked up at Simon, and said, "Boss, don't you like me living in your house?"

Simon looked at the charming and familiar woman on the sofa, took a slight step forward, lifted the woman's chin and stroked it like a fine porcelain, "I'm just afraid that I won't be able to bear it, I think I'd be an indulgent person easily."

Sophia obviously didn't expect Simon's action. If it was another man, she might have slapped her with a slap in the face, but, looking up at the young and handsome face, she was haunted by the wealth and power of this young man in her mind. There was no resistance, but his body became a little weak.

After a while, Sophia finally picked up some strength, feeling the fingers still rubbing her face, and said softly: "You, you can't do this."

Simon retracted his hand, took out the script from the woman's arms, and said, "Go to bed early."

Sophia didn't expect Simon to be so straightforward, and suddenly felt a little lost. Seeing that the man had turned and walked out, she pursed her lips and said, "I have something to discuss with you when the man has reached the door."

Simon stopped, turned around and looked over: "Huh?"

Sophia dodged the man's eyes a little, and then said after a while: "I will take care of those properties in Europe for you. But, beyond that, I hope to do something more."

Simon simply leaned on the door frame and said, "You can actually discuss this with Jenny."

"Jenny doesn't care about this," Sophia looked at Simon and said, "Also, it's more convenient to discuss with you."

"Okay, so what do you want to do?"

"I have studied the LVMH Group that Bernard Arnault just integrated last year," Sophia said, without seeing the daze in Simon's eyes, and continued: "I want to start with red wine."

"LVMH," Simon smiled, stood in place and carefully looked at the woman on the sofa, and said, "I like ambitious women very much, but do you think it's a good idea to take LVMH as a goal? Does it make sense?"

Many people know Louis Vuitton, Hennessy, Dior, and Tiffany, but they don't know that these luxury brands belong to a huge luxury empire, LVMH. Bernard Arnault, the founder of LVMH, has also made it to the forefront of the Forbes rich list many times with the LVMH Group.

The LVMH group was just integrated by Louis Vuitton and some other luxury brands last year, and it is not as strong as it has been since then, but this is not something that anyone can easily reach.

There was no guilty expression in Sophia's eyes, but she raised her face again and said, "Don't let me try it, how do you know?"

Simon said: "What if it fails?"

Sophia's tone seemed to be a bit more assertive: "If you fail, I will continue to be your housekeeper."

"Do you think I'm too kind to women?"

"You are very generous to your woman, even indulgent," Sophia looked at Simon and said, "I can do this."

"Oh, prove it to me."

Sophia said without thinking: "You support what I want to do, shares, options and even salary, I don't want anything, you can take everything at any time and make me nothing, can this prove it?"

"Very good," Simon nodded and said, "The money from Lyon's credit should have more than 20 million dollars left after paying all the expenses."

"$26.73 million."

"Well, it seems that you have already started planning," Simon smiled and said: "This money should be used as your start-up capital. Let's see how you do it first, and then I will consider adding it."

After Simon finished speaking, he turned around and left the living room without asking too much.

The last month of 1988 came in a blink of an eye.

Friday, December 2.

In the past week, the box office drop of "Steel Magnolia" in the second week of the large-scale opening was similar to the previous three-day weekend, and it was still controlled at around 5%. The next week's seven-day period collected another 12.15 million US dollars, ranking firmly in the single-week box office. Championship.

In two weeks, including the previous screenings, the cumulative box office of "Steel Magnolia" has reached 28.82 million US dollars.

After "Steel Magnolia", "Scream" finally saw a big box office drop in its fifth week of release. Compared with last week, the box office fell 27% and collected another $8.76 million because there were no strong new films this week. Released, the film is still ranked second on the list.

Moreover, the five-week cumulative box office of "Scream" has reached 73.37 million US dollars.

Considering that there will be a certain rebound in the box office of the next Christmas film, in four weeks at most, the North American box office of "Scream" will be enough to break through 100 million, and the total domestic box office of the film is expected to reach between 120 million and 130 million US dollars. between.

Compared with the box office success of "Scream", the most gratifying thing is that Daenerys Entertainment got the first settlement of the film this week.

Daenerys Entertainment had previously signed contracts with the Big Seven for films such as "When Harry Met Sally", "Instinct" and "Pulp Fiction", and the company would not be able to get its own application until the film was released in North America. earned share.

Therefore, the companies "Pulp Fiction" and "Instinct", which were released in November, will not be able to settle their final box office earnings until this month.

But for a self-released film like "Scream", Daenerys Entertainment will naturally not allow the theater chain to delay the payment until the film is down, but instead adopt a monthly payment method in the original contract. settled contract.

"Scream" grossed $60.51 million in its first four weeks.

According to the original agreement, the share that Daenerys Entertainment can get from the theater chain will be reduced by 10% every two weeks. In the second week, you can get 90% of the remaining shares and get 90% of the income. The third and fourth week splits are reduced to 80%. And so on, until the minimum 20% share ratio will not drop.

After an audit, Daenerys Entertainment’s share from the theater in the previous four weeks was equivalent to 71% of the total box office ratio, and the final amount was $46.15 million.

Just this $46.15 million box office share is equivalent to Daenerys Entertainment's more than 100% profit from the "Scream" project. Moreover, the settlement of this money also indicates that Daenerys Entertainment has started a healthy cash flow turnover process for a company.

Before that, Daenerys Entertainment mainly relied on last year's $100 million loan, the buyout share of "Death Comes" and "When Harry Met Sally", "Who Will Be a Millionaire" and several others. Funding sources such as upfront payments from reality shows and cash transfers from The Westeros Company remain in operation.

Although there is no shortage of money, and the company can obtain loans from banks at any time, such operations always give people the illusion that the capital chain may break at any time.

Now, the settlement of "Scream" can even be said to be the beginning.

Because this December is totally harvest season for Daenerys Entertainment.

Next, the settlement of "Instinct" and "Pulp Fiction" will also be received. With the arrival of the winter break, the new phase of payment for several reality shows such as "Who Will Be a Millionaire" and "Survivor" will also be Will pay, and Daenerys Entertainment will also release a videotape of "When Harry Met Sally" over Christmas, which will bring in constant cash for the company.

It can be said that with the flow of funds into a sustainable and healthy development turntable, the operation of Daenerys Entertainment will also be completely under the right track.

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