Hollywood Hunter

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Santa Monica Airport.

The time is September 18, Monday afternoon.

Nancy Brill was standing by the runway with two other bodyguards who had driven to pick them up.

The Gulfstream iv landed and stopped, the cabin door opened, and Nancy saw Simon and two other beautiful women who were too tall for her to get off the plane talking and laughing. One of the women in a cropped t-shirt and denim hot pants was still intimate. Holding Simon's arm, the two long legs that were exposed were dazzling.

The three approached. Simon was a little surprised by Nancy's appearance, but he still introduced the woman around him with a smile and said, "Nancy, this is Ella, and this is Jerry."

Ella Macpherson was a little curious about this petite woman who was still standing on the sky in front of her. She didn't know who Nancy was. She released Simon's arm and shook hands with her politely. Jerry Hall also stepped forward to say hello. . After the three girls chatted a few times, Simon said to Ella Macpherson and Jerry Hall, "I still have work, how about having someone send you back first?"

"Okay," Ella Macpherson replied with a smile, then leaned over and hugged Simon and kissed, "It's a very pleasant weekend, Simon, I hope there is another chance next time."

"Definitely."

Simon patted the woman's slender waist, which was so adorable, hugged Jerry Hall again, and told Neil Bennett to drive the two girls away.

After seeing off the two women, Simon and Nancy got into another car.

The black luxury Mercedes-Benz car drove out of the airport. Simon asked Nancy, who was still looking at him with strange eyes, and said, "So eager to let me back, what's going on at Alista Records?"

Nancy didn't rush to answer, but instead asked, "You, with those two women, together?"

Simon smiled and raised his hand to touch the top of Nancy's head to his chest, and said with a smile, "Envy?"

Seeing that Simon was joking about his height, Nancy was obviously changing the topic and criticized unceremoniously, "A man with a heart."

As he spoke, he gave the man a threatening look.

Simon immediately 'defeats' and said in a low voice, "Keep me a secret and give you a raise."

Nancy said disdainfully: "This is your personal business, and I won't gossip. Well, but Ira Macpherson is just fine, that, that Jerry Hall, it seems... who is it? "

Simon interrupted Nancy's thinking, smiled and added more chips: "Twice the salary."

Nancy rolled her eyes and stopped worrying about this matter, but did not forget to add: "Absurd man."

Simon put away his expression and said, "Okay, let's get down to business, I originally planned to come back tomorrow morning."

At a party at Jonathan's house the night before, Simon left with two women.

In two lifetimes, Simon never intended to treat himself badly in this kind of thing, and he didn't care what others would think. The woman you fancy, as long as there is a chance to eat it, you will not miss it.

The paparazzi around me have been chasing too closely recently, and I didn’t want to be bothered by any mess. After some inquiries, I borrowed a vacation villa with a private beach from Steve Ross in Lanai, Hawaii, and brought two A woman flew over and played happily all day and night.

I have to say that the entanglement of the four long legs is really memorable.

Ben reluctantly wanted to come back tomorrow, but there were several consecutive calls from Los Angeles, and he had to return early.

Simon felt that if it was just a matter of the company, no matter how anxious it was, it would not be so frustrating.

It is very likely that there is a 'man behind the scenes'.

Um.

For example, a female assistant who likes to be jealous.

Of course Simon wouldn't tell Jennifer about it, but women probably have instinctive intuitions about this kind of thing.

Nancy ignored Simon's personal affairs, took out a stack of documents from her satchel and handed it over, saying: "According to the contract we signed with Alistar Records, the income of the original soundtrack of "The Bodyguard" is settled every three months, and the record It was released on June 5th, and the first revenue settlement should end on September 3rd, which is Sunday, and the album has been sold for exactly 14 weeks.

Simon flipped through the information handed over by Nancy and asked, "Then what?"

"When the person in charge on our side asked for the settlement, Clive Davis, president of Alistar Records, kept pushing the buck, and also wanted to change the contract terms to be settled by each quarter of the calendar year, saying that this would be convenient for Alista. Records conduct financial audits. Although they are all three months, Alistar Records is obviously just delaying the payment. I personally communicated with Clive Davis and tossed it for two weeks until it was close to get off work last Friday. Alistar Records just sent over the accounting report, saying that it will take another week for the funds to be allocated."

Nancy said, reached out and turned over the documents in front of Simon a few times, and said: "This is it. 12.16 million records were sold. According to the original agreement, we expected to get more than 30 million US dollars. Alistar. The record only gave us $23.19 million. That's outrageous, and Clive Davis probably counted all of their company's spending over the past few months in the cost of the 'Bodyguard' soundtrack."

Simon did a little bit of an early look at the recording industry.

For those singers who want to get ahead, the production and distribution costs of records are indeed a huge expense. Some unknown singers can almost do anything to get the record company to release their albums.

what matter.

However, once the album was a huge success, the profits were also very lucrative.

For hot-selling records, the gross profit that the record company can obtain from each record will not be lower than 50% of the selling price. For a phenomenal hit album like the "Bodyguard" soundtrack, the cost is diluted by the huge sales volume. Profit margins are higher.

The original contract signed by Daenerys Entertainment and Alista Records was that each party would receive 50% of the gross profit of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack record, which is precisely the revenue from record shipments minus production, marketing, distribution, and singer share. After spending, the two parties will divide the remaining pre-tax profits by 50-50.

Just three months after it was on the shelves, the domestic sales of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack reached 12.16 million copies, with sales exceeding 120 million US dollars. According to industry practice, Daenerys Entertainment's expected revenue share should not be less than 30 million US dollars.

Simon was not surprised that Alistar Records did this.

A low-cost movie with a production budget of 5 million in Hollywood sold 300 million globally, but it was still forcibly calculated as a loss by the film company and refused to pay the main creator. The way to dilute profits is entirely up to Hollywood.

After just turning a few pages, Simon closed the report and asked Nancy, "Have you talked to Clive Davis?"

"I was in Burbank this morning and Clive Davis insisted there was nothing wrong with the statement. I asked for a financial review and he said that if we had to do it, it might affect the follow-up to the 'Bodyguard' soundtrack. Release. Simon, he's threatening us."

The expected global sales of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack is between 40 million and 50 million copies. According to the current sales data, there is still at least 10 million sales potential in North America. In order to cooperate with the release of the "Bodyguard" movie overseas, basically None yet.

The success of The Bodyguard was largely fueled by the success of the soundtrack, as everyone knows. Clive Davis said these words, it is indeed a clear threat. Daenerys Entertainment does not yet have the ability to release a single hit record on its own, let alone a worldwide release. In contrast, Alista Records is backed by the German Bertelsmann Music Group and has a complete global distribution network.

If the two sides are in a deadlock, as long as Alista Records "slow down" on the subsequent release of this album, not only the album sales, but also the overseas box office of the "Bodyguard" movie will be seriously affected.

Clive Davis dared to blatantly swallow Daenerys Entertainment's due credit, that is, relying on the release of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack must rely on Alista Records and the entire Bertelsmann Music Group's worldwide distribution channels.

However, Clive Davis may think that Daenerys Entertainment can only swallow this dumb loss in order to ensure the overseas distribution of the "Bodyguard" film and the follow-up sales of the film's soundtrack, but he has overlooked one thing, Daenerys Silk Entertainment is indeed very interested in the benefits of "Bodyguard" in all aspects, however, for Alistar Records, this soundtrack album is also crucial.

After all, Whitney Houston is the only singer under Alista Records. The soundtrack of "Bodyguard" is a phenomenal hit album. Although Alista Records only accounts for half of the revenue, it is enough. Support most of the record company's performance in the next one or two years.

However, for Daenerys Entertainment, even without the proceeds from "Bodyguard," a slew of other blockbusters could still be lucrative for the company.

The most important thing is that Daenerys Entertainment has a lot of projects with other Hollywood studios now, and if Simon chooses to back down on this matter, other studios will only follow suit in the future.

The Santa Monica Airport is not far from the Daenerys Entertainment headquarters, and the two arrived quickly.

Outside Simon's office, the female assistant was busy sitting behind the desk outside. When she saw Simon and Nancy appear, they greeted them casually, but they were somewhat cautious.

Simon also pretended to indifferently ordered Jennifer to prepare two cups of coffee, then entered the office with Nancy and sat down, asking, "What are you going to do?"

Nancy sat across from Simon's desk and said: "We share the copyright of the original soundtrack album of "Bodyguard" with Alista Records. If I decide, I will immediately suspend all publicity and sales of this record until the two parties agree Until the dispute is resolved. However, doing so will have a great impact on the subsequent release of this album, including the overseas release of the film. The last two months have happened to be the time for the intensive overseas release of "Bodyguard". The overseas ticket warehouse countries have already opened, and France, East Germany and Japan will also be screened next month, all of which need to be coordinated by the sales of acoustic records. So, Simon, it is up to you to decide what to do.”

"Then pause," Simon said without hesitation. "Also, this matter can't be just a matter of getting back the share engulfed by Alistar Records. They spit out as much as they swallowed, which is considered punishment. The price of making mistakes is too high. Low, if you don’t get a lesson, some people are easy to forget, and it will be like this next time.”

Nancy looked at her boss uncertainly. She originally only wanted to let Alistar Records spit out the swallowed shares as soon as possible. The method of suspending the sales of records was already very tough, but Simon did not expect to do it even more.

Alistar Records swallowed at least $7 million this time, and now not only has to return it all, but also pay another $7 million in compensation, which will definitely make Clive Davis feel distressed. You know, if there is no explosion of "Bodyguard", the net profit of the small family of Alistar Records in the past whole year may only be 20 to 30 million US dollars. 70

00,000 is definitely a lot of money for Alistar Records.

After a pause, Nancy asked, "Simon, are you sure you want to do this?"

“Of course, we are working with so many projects with the Big 7 now, and if this time is not tough enough, you can imagine how many similar troubles we will face in the future. This is also a warning to other collaborators if they think they are holding something Just trying to threaten Daenerys Entertainment, I don't mind flipping the table."

Nancy is also a strong woman in her bones. Now that the boss has made up her mind, she will no longer persuade her and leave in a hurry.

As soon as Nancy left, Jennifer sent in several documents: "This is the publicity plan for "Batman", which Mr. Rem sent in the morning, with an initial budget of $25 million; The shortlist for several main supporting roles in "Sleeping Together"; Mr. Deutschman came back from Venice yesterday afternoon, and he has selected three films at this year's Venice Film Festival, here is the information..."

Simon watched the female assistant introduce the stack of documents to him one by one, smiled and picked up the "Batman" announcement plan and opened it, saying: "I'm really a lucky guy, if there is no Jenny, life in Westeros will definitely be A mess."

Hearing the words, Jennifer relaxed her official expression and looked at the man opposite her, with a little entanglement in her tone: "Which Jenny are you talking about?"

Simon said decisively: "Of course it's Jenny standing opposite me."

The female assistant snorted, stopped running on Simon, put away the coffee cups he and Nancy had just drank, turned around and left the office with a ponytail.

Burbank.

After dismissing Nancy Brill in the morning, Clive Davis, president of Alista Records, was still figuring out how to capture more of the profits from the "Bodyguard" soundtrack from overseas releases. The little woman came to the door again.

Now that he has decided to devour the share of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack, Clive Davis is no longer looking forward to the next opportunity to collaborate with Daenerys Entertainment.

Although Daenerys Entertainment has repeatedly created miracles in the film industry, in the field of records, a phenomenal blockbuster work that is enough to squeeze into the top ten of the best-selling albums in history is definitely not something that can appear casually. .

The record industry, like movies, is very variable. Even if it is a top-tier singer, the global sales of the last album exceeded 20 million, and the sales of the next album may only be four or five million. Clive Davis There is no lack of long-term vision, but he can be sure that a big-selling album such as "Bodyguard" will not necessarily appear in ten or eight years. The expected sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide represent too much interest. , even if he gave up the potential future cooperation with Daenerys Entertainment, he still decided to get the benefits of this time first.

Making up his mind, Clive Davis was still polite on the surface, welcoming Nancy Brill into the office with a smile.

It's just that Nancy Brill didn't sit down this time, and Clive Davis almost jumped out of his office chair with what he said.

"Mr. Davis, Daenerys Entertainment has decided to suspend the worldwide promotion and sales of the 'Bodyguard' soundtrack due to the breach of contract by Alista Records. We have notified the recording factory to temporarily suspend shipments. , the overseas promotion and sales of this record will also be completely suspended until our differences are resolved. As the copyright sharer of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack, Daenerys Entertainment has the above power. If Alistar Records continues to force Going forward with any work on this record, Daenerys Entertainment will file an application with the Recording Association of America and federal court in Los Angeles for enforcement. In addition, Daenerys Entertainment will seek compensation for this breach of Allista Records ."

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