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The Port of Long Beach south of Los Angeles.

For a whole day, Simon was personally supervising the packing and packing of all kinds of props needed for the filming of "Batman". He did not leave until all six large containers were placed on a freighter of Johnston Holdings' shipping company. Dock back to Santa Monica.

The Johnston family and the Batman crew in Australia will take over the rest of the process. Because many media are staring at the preparation details of "Batman", in order to avoid leaks, the local Australian customs will also specially organize a team that has signed a non-disclosure agreement to be responsible for the customs clearance and acceptance of this batch of props.

In December, Simon began to spend most of his time on "Batman". Now he will only appear on Daenerys Entertainment for an hour a day, and then he will rush to the Fox Studios "Batman" crew to rent it exclusively. The studio discussed the shooting details with the main creators.

It was off-duty time, and Simon returned to the Santa Monica Daenerys entertainment headquarters, but Amy and Deutschman were waiting for him.

The three entered Simon's office and sat down, and Amy said, "About the heroine of "Flying Innocent", Simon, caa still hasn't let go. I think we'd better change people and force Meg Ryan to perform the contract. She's definitely not putting much thought into this movie, and it's only going to get worse."

"Then change someone," Simon nodded and said, "As for our option contract with Meg Ryan, let's drag it on for a year, and then let her lose money."

Option contracts in Hollywood are very common, but once a star becomes popular, in order to maintain a relationship and promote future cooperation, the film company is usually the party that makes concessions. If Simon's approach is followed, Daenerys Entertainment and Meg Ryan will never think about working together again, and the relationship between the company and caa will deteriorate as a result.

However, since Simon had made a decision, Amy did not persuade her much, and she was also very disgusted with caa's sky-high asking price.

After Simon finished speaking, he took a sip of the coffee that the secretary Susan had just brought in, and raised his eyes to notice that the female secretary was still packing something with her back to herself by the shelf in the corner, and doubtfully said: "Susan, there are What's the problem?"

Susan Landis turned around and raised a few folders towards Simon. One of them seemed to be unsteady and fell to the ground. She quickly leaned over to pick it up and said, "Mr. Westeros. , I think it's a little messy here, so I'll clean it up."

Simon looked at the female secretary who had been in the company since the establishment of Daenerys Pictures, rubbed his fingers on the coffee cup, and said, "Go out when you're done."

When the female secretary left, Simon continued to say to Amy: "Also, from now on, all future projects of the company will continue to send invitations to caa's artists, but none of us will be hired, Ella, the same is true for you here. ,do you understand?"

Amy and Deutschman looked at each other, and this strategy was simply too damaging.

If Daenerys Entertainment can continue to create this year's box office glory, then caa's obvious is equivalent to watching projects that she can obviously get my hands on slip away before her eyes. When this happens too many times, the ability of caa's agents is called into question, and it may even eventually lead to the departure of stars from caa.

However, both Amy and Deutschman also understood why Simon, who has always been gentle, would leave no room for him today.

Today is December 8th, and there are only eight days left before the release of "Rain Man".

These days, the publicity work of "Rain Man" can be said to be difficult. Although it is not expected that several main creators will be able to participate in the promotion of the film, it seems to be to completely cut off Daenerys Entertainment's 'ideas' in this regard. Ting Hoffman left Los Angeles for a holiday in the UK last month, and Tom Cruise has been in Mexico for Oliver Stone's new film Born on the Fourth of July.

Moreover, in an interview with a British media, Dustin Hoffman also unabashedly said publicly that the experience of shooting "Rain Man" was as bad as "Isda", last year Dustin Hoffman "Ista" starring Warren Beatty burned through a budget of $55 million, but the North American box office was only more than $10 million, and the producer, Columbia, could be said to have lost everything.

Dustin Hoffman made such a public statement that "Rain Man" has not been released yet, and has been painted by the media into an "Isda"-style bad film.

In addition, the budget cost of "Rain Man" has also become one of the hot topics in the media.

The original production budget of this film was as high as 25 million US dollars, and Daenerys Entertainment spent another 5 million US dollars in order to buy back the distribution rights of various channels in North America from MGM. The budget for entertainment has also exceeded $5 million.

Counting other expenses such as the next film copy, the total investment of "Rain Man" has reached nearly 40 million US dollars.

With a total investment of 40 million US dollars, Daenerys Entertainment wants to recover the cost through the box office. According to the 55% split ratio, "Rain Man" also needs to get more than 70 million US dollars at the box office to achieve this goal.

However, even though Daenerys Entertainment has created one box office miracle after another, not many people now believe that "Rain Man" can continue the glory of "Scream", "Steel Magnolia" and other films.

The company's Christmas program "Dead Poets Society" will start screening tomorrow. Although the audience groups of "Dead Poets Society" and "Rain Man" will not overlap too much, in order to avoid the spread of publicity effects, "Rain Man" This time there is no scheduled screening, the film will be released on December 16

Direct release, the strategy chosen by Daenerys Entertainment was once again regarded by the media as a manifestation of guilty conscience.

Simon frowned slightly, thinking about these things, and looked at Ella Deutschman again.

Ella Deutschman didn't wait for Simon to ask, and said: "Robert Newmeier called me this afternoon. They don't plan to sell the distribution rights of "Sex, Lies, and Videotape."

Simon just froze for a moment, then smiled bitterly, and was not surprised at all.

The main investor in "Sex, Lies and Videotape" is Universal and Columbia's joint venture mca/columbia Home Entertainment, affected by a series of box office miracles of Daenerys Entertainment, the company's high door film suddenly has a film in their hands Interested, it wouldn't be normal if Universal and Columbia didn't respond.

Simon wants to get "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" primarily to intercept Humira Max's rise. A film with a box office of more than 20 million US dollars in North America can make a small studio-style independent film company rise, but it cannot have too much influence on a big film company. Even, if not run properly, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" might not even be as successful as it was in time and space.

Since there was no hope, Simon didn't struggle too much and asked, "Has Robert Altman's "Intersection of Life" signed?"

"I have signed a screenwriter and director contract with Altman." Ella Deutschman nodded and added: "In addition, Simon, the chairman of the Sundance Film Festival Tony Safford told me that the company only To be able to choose one of the three films 'Sisters,' 'Metropolitan' and 'The Sid Sisters' for the festival's main competition, he let us make a decision as quickly as possible."

Simon picked up a pencil from the table and played with it in his hand. Although Daenerys Entertainment's series of successes did not receive a strong reaction from traditional Hollywood forces, Simon also felt obvious constraints from the recent events. .

There are sixteen films in the main competition unit of the Sundance Film Festival. Simon never thought of putting all three films into it from the beginning. Even, if he can get "Sex, Lies and Videotape", he plans to bypass it directly. Sundance, at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

Of the remaining three films, Simon only expects to be selected for two.

Now, Sundance has directly stated that Daenerys Entertainment has only one place, which is estimated to be due to the personal relationship between Simon and Redford. Without this connection, Daenerys Entertainment might not have been selected for any one of them this year.

"So, which one do you think is suitable?"

"Metropolis," Ella Deutschman said, "Sisters will use a teenage comedy publicity approach, so you don't have to go to the film festival. The teenage suicide problem shown in "The Sid Sisters" should be Not going to be too popular at festivals. By comparison, Whit Stillman's Metropolis suits Sundance and the media the most."

The next day was Friday, and another week passed.

From December 2nd to December 8th, Paramount Pictures' new film "The White-Headed Detective" finally pushed "Steel Magnolia" from the box office champion. In its first week and seven days, "The White-Headed Detective" grossed $12.21 million at the North American box office.

In the third week of the large-scale opening, the number of screens for "Steel Magnolia" increased again, reaching 1,215, and the box office this week was 9.68 million US dollars. Compared with last week, the box office fell by only 15%, and the cumulative box office reached 36.6 million US dollars.

In addition, "Scream" was also squeezed to fourth place by Warner Bros.' new film "Tequila Sunrise", starring Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer. It grossed $8.23 million in its first week.

In the sixth week of its release, "Scream" narrowed its decline to 11% compared with last week, and received another 7.79 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 81.16 million US dollars.

At the same time, on December 9, Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Dragon Brothers" also opened on 1,396 screens in North America, and Daenerys Entertainment's "Dead Poets Society" also opened on 25 screens in North America. In addition, Orion Films' "Mississippi is Burning" opened on the Internet. In Simon's memory, this film about racial issues in the United States is also this year's Oscar hit.

Although "Dragon Brother and Mouse Brother" achieved an unexpected first-day box office like "White-Headed Detective", the next day, "Dead Poets Society" immediately became the focus of heated media discussion.

Robert De Niro is also not worthy of the name of the actor who can play any type of role. The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Los Angeles Times and other mainstream media have all mentioned De Niro in "Death" in film reviews. Poetry Society is full of passionate teachers, and thinks the film will definitely give De Niro another Oscar nomination.

Compared with the media's affirmation of De Niro's performance, the views expressed by "Dead Poets Society" have caused some controversy.

"Chicago Reader" believes that, compared with the dogmatism of Wilton School towards students in the film, Mr. Keating's behavior of asking students to tear up other people's poems is also a kind of forced indoctrination of students' minds.

However, the fundamental idea of ​​"Dead Poets Society" is the yearning for freedom, which is simply a positive kind of 'political correctness' in the United States. Therefore, although there are some disputes, the overall media reputation of the film is still very high. Strong, the comprehensive film review score is close to the classic level of 8.6 points.

Monday, December 12.

As the weekend draws to a close, the most anticipated event in Hollywood this week is the announcement of the nominations for the Golden Globes.

Based on previously discussed strategies, Daenerys Entertainment submitted a total of two films for Golden Globe judging, Steel Magnolia and Death

Poetry Society", "Steel Magnolia" for best picture in musical comedy, "Dead Poets Society" for best picture in drama.

However, just like what happened at the Sundance Film Festival, "Steel Magnolia" only got one Julia Roberts nomination for Best Supporting Actress, which obviously has the additional operation factor of icm, other musical comedies. Nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress were all rejected.

"Dead Poets Society" successfully won four nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Screenplay.

In order to concentrate public relations resources to ensure maximum profits, Daenerys Entertainment gave up "When Harry Met Sally" at the beginning of the year, and did not apply for a nomination for "Rain Man", which has not been favored by everyone. However, "Steel Mulan" The failure of "Flower" made Simon very depressed.

Among the five nominations for the best film in the musical comedy category, "Flying Beyond the Future", "A Fish Named Wanda" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" are still worthy of their names, but the other "Working Girl" won The nomination makes Simon feel a little ironic. The most important reason why this film can be nominated for best picture, best director, best actor and best actress in the musical comedy category is probably that the director of this film is named Mike · Nichols, he was the director of "The Graduate" and "Spiritual Night".

"The Graduate" and "Spiritual Night" are naturally classics of the generation, but this "Working Girl" starring Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith, the plot can only be described as mediocre and old-fashioned , is also a business war movie, there is simply no comparison between "Working Girl" and last year's "Wall Street" by Oliver Stone.

In addition, Simon's "Pulp Fiction" also ironically only received two nominations for John Travolta's best actor and symbolic best screenplay. The copyright of "Pulp Fiction" is in the hands of Orion, I don't know. For what reason, Orion focused this year's public relations on "Mississippi is Burning", which successfully won four nominations including Best Picture in the Drama Series.

Seeing this situation, Simon also realized that it should be difficult for Daenerys Entertainment to make a difference in the awards this year.

In such helplessness and depression, time has come to December 16, when the controversial "Rain Man" was finally released in major theaters in North America.

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