Hollywood Hunter

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In a Boeing 747 first class flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles, Michael Ovitz has been reading various documents for the 12-hour flight journey.

Initially trying to get Sony to buy mca, after Lou Vasalman offered a high price of 8 billion US dollars, Sony, whose current market value is only more than 14 billion US dollars, chose to refuse, and Michael Ovitz turned his target to Colombia.

Coca-Cola also intends to give up non-core businesses, and the two sides have officially started negotiations.

The time is January 7th.

Michael Ovitz led the negotiating team that assisted Sony in its acquisition of Colombia and returned today after spending two days in Tokyo.

Now, that young man has set off for Australia to shoot "Batman", but these days, Hollywood still seems to revolve around Daenerys Entertainment. Several documents that Michael Ovitz flipped through along the way were also related to Daenerys Entertainment.

In the year just past, as of December 31, 1988, the total box office gross in the U.S. market was $4.69 billion.

Based on the December 31 deadline and by distributors, Hollywood's highest-grossing studio this year is Disney, with a total of $531 million and an 11.3 percent market share.

After Disney, the other three companies, Paramount, Warner and Universal, all have roughly 10% market share.

Among them, Daenerys Entertainment's self-published "Scream", "Steel Magnolia", "Dead Poets Society", "Rain Man" and "Avella's Horror", which will end on December 31 , the cumulative box office is only 256 million US dollars, and the market share is 5.5%.

From this data alone, Daenerys Entertainment doesn't seem to have anything special.

However, the whole of Hollywood actually understands that this calculation method is completely ignorant.

According to the producer's calculation, Daenerys Entertainment's seven films this year, "When Harry Met Sally", "Pulp Fiction", "Instinct", "Scream", "Steel Magnolia", " Dead Poets Society" and "Rain Man", only as of December 31, the cumulative box office reached 730 million US dollars.

At $730 million, Daenerys Entertainment's market share would rise from 5.5% to 15.6% in no time.

What's even more impossible to ignore is that this accounted for 15.6% of the market share of $730 million at the box office, generated by just 7 movies. In comparison, Disney's $531 million box office figure means 15 movies, one of which is "When Harry Met Sally" produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

And, if Daenerys Entertainment's total North American box-office estimates for these films are taken into account, the seven films are likely to gross a horrific $900 million. $900 million, which is close to 20% of the annual U.S. box office market share.

It is conceivable that if this situation continues, Daenerys Entertainment is likely to become an industry hegemon like MGM in the golden age of Hollywood.

The independent film company that has only been on the rise for two years has shown such a strong development potential. If it were otherwise, Michael Ovitz would definitely be amazed. But now, such a strong company is in opposition to caa.

Michael Ovitz doesn't regret the caa's role in "Rain Man" at all, he once said to his clients that he could kill for them if necessary. It is precisely because caa stands on the side of its clients unconditionally and protects the interests of clients as much as possible that more and more top stars are willing to join this talent agency.

If you can't be friends, then be enemies.

Daenerys Entertainment is so strong that it will definitely seriously damage the interests of the traditional big Hollywood studios. After the attempt to reconcile with Daenerys Entertainment was rejected a few days ago, Ovitz made a test to the heads of major Hollywood studios. He wanted to know if it was possible for the Seven to join forces to suppress Daenerys. entertainment.

The answer is no.

Among the seven, Warner is working with Daenerys Entertainment on "Batman" and "Flying Innocent", and it is impossible to be an enemy of Daenerys Entertainment at this time.

Disney also holds a directorial contract with Simon Westero. Judging from the box office results of "Run Lola" and "Pulp Fiction", the film directed by Simon Westero has the potential to exceed 100 million at the box office. Big, Disney is obviously unwilling to compete with Daenerys Entertainment and lose a project that is likely to break 100 million at the box office.

Then there is Fox, the cooperation of three consecutive films of "Butterfly Effect", "Death Comes" and "Instinct", plus the fact that the Murdoch family and the family of Westeros girlfriend Johnston are both Australians. Fox The odds against Simon Westeros are also very low.

With the third of the seven majors removed, it has become a fantasy to work together to suppress Daenerys Entertainment.

The remaining Paramount, Universal, Columbia and MGM, Paramount has been operating very well in the past two years, and it has no intention to compete with Daenerys Entertainment. Colombia is too busy selling itself to do it.

MGM was put on "Rain Man", but it has this kind of mind, but in the current state of MGM's dilapidation, it is completely powerless.

In the last Universal, Michael Ovitz knew that the "Scream" rating incident was mainly driven by Lou Wassalman. But for some reason, Universal then did not do anything else.

All in all, want to unite the seven major Hollywood studios

It is simply impossible to suppress the rise of Daenerys Entertainment by hand. Outside of the Big Seven, Orion, the second- and third-tier film companies, has no capital to compete with Daenerys Entertainment.

Michael Ovitz also understands that, in the final analysis, there is still a lack of profit-driven. In other words, Daenerys Entertainment's share of Hollywood's box office, while huge, hasn't reached a point where other studios feel unviable.

In this case, the traditional Hollywood forces can only fight back instinctively in some aspects.

Like the next awards season.

The Oscar statuettes represent interests. In order to win awards, traditional forces will definitely suppress Daenerys Entertainment.

Also, presumably directly snatching potentially successful projects from Daenerys Entertainment.

Thinking of this, Michael Ovitz lowered his head again and found the two scripts of "Rocketman" and "Firebird Strike" from a pile of materials.

In recent days, Ovitz has read the two scripts several times, and has also inquired about how Paramount got them.

Paramount president Sidney Garnis bought off Simon Westeros' secretary, cutting both scripts. This kind of thing is actually not uncommon in Hollywood, and it can't be said to be glorious.

However, Ovitz feels that this matter does not seem to be as simple as it seems.

Because Simon Westeros's reaction was too calm, Daenerys Entertainment just fired the secretary afterwards, and did not make any attempt to save the two projects, compared to Daenerys What entertainment and caa did with the Rain Man incident, it's so out of the ordinary.

Michael Ovitz has considered many possibilities.

Or is Simon Westeros confident enough that these two projects won't work out in the hands of others?

Or was this a trap thrown by Simon Westeros in the first place?

However, these two speculations seem to be unreliable.

Michael Ovitz has always believed that as long as the studios are serious enough and dedicated enough to put enough resources into a project, the movie can't be too bad, at least hard.

In addition, because a movie goes through so many steps from script to finished film, Hollywood is unlikely to have a script that is inherently doomed. In most cases, it is just the creator who screwed up the script during the shooting process.

I don't know how long it took, the broadcast sound in the cabin reminded that the plane was about to land, and Michael Ovitz woke up from his thoughts.

Perhaps, he is really a little suspicious.

Daenerys Entertainment currently has two comics in the development of the film, namely "Batman" and "Angel God". caa's Warren Beatty is also in talks with Disney recently for a comic book adaptation of The Great Detective.

Then, if you look at the "Rocketman" in your hand again, maybe the comic book movie is really the trend in the next few years.

As for "Firebird", he personally promoted Tom Cruise's appearance in "Top Gun". Now, such a film that tries to replicate the success of "Top Gun" obviously cannot fail as long as it is done seriously.

And, Jonathan Friedman's Matt Dillon is said to be trying to win the lead role in Firebird. Jonathan Friedman's relationship with Simon Westeros speaks for itself, and that's enough to rule out the possibility that this script is a trap.

When the plane began to land, Michael Ovitz packed up the documents in front of him, fastened his seat belt, and made up his mind to let the artists under caa strive for the dominance of these two projects as much as possible. Cruise should be reluctant to repeat a similar role in "Top Gun", so the hero of "Rocketman" is still very suitable for him.

With that in mind, I got off the plane all the way.

As soon as he sat down in the car sent by the company to pick up the plane, Ovitz's assistant told him something that happened suddenly in the past two days.

Kirsty Avery, a leading TV drama actress under CAA, suddenly announced in recent days that she would be joining WMA. Kirsty Avery is still very famous in the TV circle. If a star of this level insists on changing jobs, it is usually difficult for the agency to retain it.

caa didn't care, and simply let the other party leave.

Then, just this morning, Daenerys Entertainment suddenly announced that Kirsty Avery officially joined the cast of "Flying Innocent" and played the female lead Molly Ubud in place of Meg Ryan. rica.

After listening to the assistant's narration, Ovitz, who has always been well-trained, couldn't help scolding people loudly while sitting in the carriage.

It's just a star jumping ship, and Ovitz doesn't care.

However, the sudden arrival of Daenerys Entertainment is likely to send a very unfavorable signal to Hollywood for caa: If you want to join Daenerys Entertainment's films, you must first quit caa.

It is conceivable that if this opinion spreads and if Daenerys Entertainment's box office miracle continues, CAA will definitely face a brain drain disaster.

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