Hollywood Hunter

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For the following week, the North American media were discussing the Michael Ovitz and "Infantry Warrior" incident.

The embarrassed Ovitz had to quickly publish a public reply, firmly denying that he had threatened Joe Ezette Haas in the dispute, saying that Ezette Haas could leave caa at any time, and he would definitely not. will block.

Joe Ezette Haas did not buy Ovitz's account. In an interview with a "Los Angeles Times" reporter, he again accused Ovitz of verbal violence against him, and claimed that he had suffered severe psychological trauma and had completely lost his life. Feeling safe as Ovitz threatened to ruin his career, Ezette Haas also said he had to sell the property he just bought with his family in case something happened.

Immediately afterwards, I don't know if it was because of Ovitz's push. Many caa's customers began to publicly support Ovitz. Sean Connery, Sidney Pollack and other big names expressed their disbelief The polite and rarely gaffe Ovitz would have said those words to Joe Ezettehas, implying that Ezettehas was probably trying to gain sympathy on purpose.

This possibility certainly exists.

However, Joe Ezette Haas did not argue for himself, and continued to play the sad card wisely, and suggested that the voices of many celebrities were Ovitz pressing himself to shut up.

The media, who are not too concerned about the excitement, continue to fan the flames.

In the midst of such excitement, on August 23, Japan's Sony suddenly interrupted the media's heated discussion of the 'Infantry Soldier' ​​incident, and announced that it had reached an agreement with Columbia Pictures to acquire Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion in cash. business, while taking on $1.6 billion in debt from the veteran film company.

On August 25, Columbia's board of directors voted to approve Sony's acquisition.

So far, after a year-long tug of war, Sony has officially acquired Columbia Pictures from the seven major Hollywood studios.

The total value of the deal, worth $5 billion, brought Sony's Columbia Pictures assets including Columbia and Samsung's two major labels, a huge library of more than 4,000 film and television program rights, the loews theater chain with 820 screens, and some TV station assets.

In the late 1980s, the TV field in the United States was not yet open to foreign investors. Therefore, Sony also stated in the announcement of the agreement that it would divest the TV assets of Columbia Pictures after the completion of the transaction.

And then, on Monday, August 28th.

Sony has yet to finalize the head of Columbia Pictures, and it held its fourth recent press conference with Daenerys Entertainment to announce the fourth "Pink League" in Daenerys Entertainment's 10-film plan.

Like "Sleeping with the Enemy," "Hand Shaking the Cradle," and "Desperados," "Pink League" is also a rookie screenwriter's work, based on real events during World War II in the United States, about an out-of-date baseball player The story of the star trying to build a women's baseball team after the men rushed to the field.

This North American sports-themed film is not well-received internationally, but it is also one of the top 10 box-office works in Simon's memory that exceeded 100 million.

On August 30, the fifth press conference after "Pink League", Universal Pictures and Daenerys Entertainment jointly announced the fifth of 10 film plans, based on Stephen King's novel "Dangerous" Ten days". "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" tells the story of a crazy book lover who accidentally rescued his favorite writer, found that the other party had written the character he valued to death, and kidnapped and imprisoned him to force a rewrite of the plot.

After Stephen King became famous, because of his high production, his novels were adapted into movies very frequently. Over the years, his works have been put on the big screen every year. Daenerys Entertainment owns the copyright of Stephen King's "Children of the Cornfield", and also has a "Pet Graveyard" adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same name in the Easter period in the first half of the year.

However, with the exception of "Pet Graveyard", which was released at Easter this year, which received more than $57 million at the box office, most of Stephen King's other novel adaptations have a box office of only 10 to 20 million, and the producers will not lose too much. More, you can't earn too much.

"Ten Days of Dangerous Love", a novel without ghosts and ghosts elements, was not favored at first. It was not until Simon took a fancy to it that Universal Pictures, which had reserved the copyright in advance, got up and took it seriously.

Five consecutive projects and five press conferences were also intentional by Simon. He hopes the 10-film project will create an influence similar to a 'brand effect'. Judging from the recent media response, the effect has been achieved. These films will not lack the attention of the media on various platforms from casting, shooting, post-production to release, but this is enough to offset the millions of dollars in publicity costs.

Five projects were announced, and Hollywood stars were even more eager to move.

Century City.

More than a week has passed, and the media's criticism and ridicule attacks on Michael Ovitz have not stopped. Ovitz sometimes even wonders if someone is deliberately targeting him. However, the root cause of this incident was that Ovitz was too low-key in the past. The media was full of curiosity but lacked understanding of him. A little bit of relevant information broke out, and everyone naturally swarmed him.

Because of the recent negative news, or the ban of Daenerys Entertainment and the announcement of five films in the 10-film plan, caa's customers have continued to lose recently.

After Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, Geena Davis, who just won the Oscar for best supporting actress last year, was also poached by wma, and wma also poached a man named Michael Crichton. work

A client, Ovitz remembered, this client didn't have a well-known blockbuster, just a very interesting idea for a dinosaur novel I discussed with him the other day.

I don't care about that now.

If neither of them is too important, wma's reaching out to Tom Hanks, who has gradually become popular in the past two years, makes it difficult for Ovitz to keep his composure.

Last year's "Flying Over the Future" by Tom Hanks not only exceeded 100 million at the North American box office, but also won an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. This summer's "Lucky Star and Lucky General" is also very good at the local box office, and it is now firmly in the top tier. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, who are already on the decline, are good to go. If a rising star like Tom Hanks leaves, it will be a kind of caa's reputation. A very serious blow.

Customers continue to lose, and it is difficult to guarantee that other stars will not have the illusion that caa has begun to decline and is not worth staying any longer.

Once the domino effect is formed, the result is disastrous.

And, when Columbia Pictures suddenly announced on August 31 that Geena Davis, who had just jumped from caa, would be the heroine of the 10-film planned "Pink League," Michael Ovitz knew he had to quickly make some kind of decision.

Friday, September 1.

In the new week, only a low-cost B-level thriller from New Line Pictures was quietly released, indicating that this year's summer season has come to an end.

Judging from the existing data, this summer, the confirmed box office films that have exceeded 100 million include "Indiana Jones 3", "Ghostbusters 2", "Honey, I Made My Children Smaller", "Lethal Weapon" 2", "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense", of which Daenerys Entertainment accounted for two.

Considering that Daenerys Entertainment and Warner's "Batman" and "Flying Innocent" and Universal Pictures' "Back to the Future 2" will be released at the end of the year, if there will be one or two dark horses, the box office of the whole year will be released. It is still very likely that there will be more than 10 films that break 100 million.

Ticket prices in North America have not increased significantly in recent years. In the past few years, Hollywood had only four or five or even less films that exceeded 100 million at the box office every year. Now there are 10 films. The rapid rise of Hollywood after the silence in the 70s and 80s can be called Unstoppable.

In my memory, in 1990, the emergence of a series of blockbusters such as "Home Alone", "Pretty Woman" and "A Ghost Story", as well as the further expansion of the global film market, heralded the re-emergence of Hollywood. The annual 100 million yuan box office films will basically fill the top ten of the list.

In this time and space, people later sorted out the development trajectory of Hollywood, probably in advance to 1988, when Hollywood made a blockbuster film of more than 1 billion yuan a year for the first time.

The emergence of Simon, the big butterfly, can be said to have brought Hollywood's recovery two years ahead of schedule.

Around eight o'clock at night.

At the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Sony, a latecomer, is hosting a reception for Hollywood's rogues.

Simon is accompanied by Famke Janssen and is chatting with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, who are a couple and both are currently at the quasi-first-tier level.

"Batman" is nearing completion. As long as the box office meets expectations at the end of the year, "Wonder Woman" will probably start the early planning, and Simon has also accelerated the speed of making Famke Jansen "familiar". The other two candidates, Helena Christensen and Erica Anderson, have given up trying to compete with Famke, and Simon is no longer doing useless work.

For more than a year, Famke has rolled a few small roles in some film and television dramas. This time Simon arranged for her in Robert Altman's group play "Intersection of Life" and the company's cooperation with Columbia Pictures. He played two small roles in the "Red and Pink Alliance".

Both films will attract more attention, and Famke Janssen's physical appearance is enough to attract the attention of the audience.

Everyone was chatting about the "Pink League", Michael Ovitz appeared nearby, found Simon's figure, and walked straight over.

The people who were able to appear in the banquet hall tonight were all well-informed people. Seeing Ovitz walking towards Simon Westeros, they all looked over curiously, while not forgetting to whisper a few words.

Michael Ovitz came to Simon without concealing it, and said straight to the point: "Simon, can you talk alone?"

Simon said readily: "Okay."

Nodding to Geena Davis and the two, Simon and Ovitz walked to a sofa in the corner of the hall and sat down together. Famke Jansen was very sensible and did not follow.

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