Hollywood Hunter

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Santa Monica.

The time is Thursday, February 1st.

Simon arrived at the company headquarters at eight o'clock, and Jennifer, who had arrived early, followed him into the office with a stack of documents.

Because Simon has been letting go of many things consciously or unintentionally, and he is often not in Los Angeles during this time, Jennifer's authority is getting bigger and bigger under Simon's behest, almost taking on the role of Simon's spokesperson in the company.

In recent weeks, the female assistant has personally led the team responsible for the financial audit of the past year.

In the second half of last year, because of the big sales of films such as "Bodyguard", "The Sixth Sense of the Supernatural", "Scream 2", the hot sale of the "Bodyguard" soundtrack, the success of the video game "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", TV projects The continued revenue of Daenerys Entertainment and the overseas and videotape releases of films such as "Rain Man" at the end of 1988 saw an explosive growth in Daenerys Entertainment's revenue.

Compared with the net profit scale of US$110 million in the first half of last year, even excluding large expenditure items such as the construction of Daenerys Studios and the investment in the acquisition of ea equity in the second half of the year, Daenerys Entertainment’s net profit after tax last year The scale is also expected to exceed $500 million.

With the abundant funds that Daenerys Entertainment continues to deliver, James Raybold has continued to increase investment in new technology fields.

At present, the Westeros company's shareholding in Microsoft has reached 21.3%, of which 10% has been taken over from Microsoft's two major shareholders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen in the form of loans, and the other part is taken over by Danielle. The funds provided by Silk Entertainment were absorbed from the open market, and Gates personally approached Simon for this matter.

With the release date of windows 3.0 approaching, because of the outflow of the beta version, Microsoft's stock price has begun to rise again during this period.

Holding a 21.3% stake in Microsoft has exceeded Simon's expectations, and Westeros will not plan to increase its stake in Microsoft next.

Westeros' shareholding in Intel also increased to 15.6%, the same result of re-acquisition last year. The Westeros Company invested nearly $300 million for the 5% or so shares on top of its original holdings, all of which were provided by Daenerys Entertainment.

Simon sat down behind the desk, and the female assistant handed over today's work schedule, put down the document in her hand and said: "The financial audit work will probably be over next week, here is a briefing. In addition, there is a Warner for you. The salary package provided by the producer of "The Flash" and "Cyborg", the base salary of each film is 2 million US dollars plus 10% of the local box office share. Finally, there are several novels and script materials that the company has just bought recently, including That Michael Crichton dinosaur science fiction novel you mentioned."

Hearing Michael Crichton's dinosaur novel, Simon raised his eyebrows slightly.

Jennifer noticed Simon's expression and took the initiative to explain: "Amy personally communicated with Mr. Friedman, because other studios also noticed this project in Clayton's hands, and everyone made an offer. It was finally negotiated. The price is $2.5 million, $2 million for the buyout of the novel and $500,000 for the screenplay, the latter being the result of Mr. Friedman's insistence."

Simon nodded, understanding why Jonathan asked for this.

Participating in the adaptation of the screenplay, Michael Crichton can also receive additional revenue sharing according to the Screenwriters Guild's "Basic Agreement" after the film is released.

For an unpublished novel, $2.5 million is indeed a bit high.

Although Michael Crichton has made a lot of fame in the novel industry in recent years, before "Jurassic Park", the film and television projects he participated in were not successful. Last year, Clayton personally directed a crime thriller The film "Edge of the Trap", which cost $17 million to produce, only earned a measly $3.3 million at the box office, and the investor Columbia Pictures lost everything.

This is why Jonathan can easily dig the opponent from caa to wma.

Speaking of which, if it wasn't for Simon's stated intentions, Jonathan probably wouldn't have much interest in Clayton.

Thinking of this, Simon asked the female assistant, "When will the novel be published?"

"Clayton just finished the outline, at least until the end of the year."

"Transfer the information of this project to the special effects studio, and let them come up with a development plan for cg dinosaurs to me in the near future, and put the rest on hold for the time being."

Jennifer nodded, wrote the matter on the memo in her hand, and continued: "Also, Joe Ross from Fox called yesterday about Terminator, and he asked if you were free to talk about it tomorrow night. thing?"

Simon wondered: "Tomorrow night?"

"Ross organized a reception at his home in Coldwater Canyon tomorrow night," the female assistant tore a page from her pocket memo and handed it over, "This is the address."

"Keep it for me," Simon pushed the page over again, looked at the female assistant and smiled, "How about we go together tomorrow night?"

Jennifer shook her head and said, "I'm very tired recently. I'm going home to sleep."

"Otherwise, I will go to your place after attending the reception. Bel Air is still very close to the Cold Water Canyon. Remember to leave a window for me."

The female assistant curled her lips and said, "Uncle has a very good shotgun at home and will shoot you like a wild boar."

Jennifer has been living at her uncle George Norman's house. In this regard, it may be because she is close enough that the female assistant does not have the same psychological barriers as Simon.

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With a frightened expression on his face, he asked curiously, "Why a wild boar?"

The female assistant tilted her delicate head with a ponytail and said, "It could also be a rabbit."

Not as good as a wild boar!

Simon pretended to be angry and waved his hand: "Go out, the boss is going to start work."

Jennifer smiled and helped Simon organize the table and asked, "Do you want coffee?"

"Mineral water is fine. I've recently quit caffeine."

The female assistant nodded and turned to leave.

Simon lowered his head and glanced at today's work schedule again. The "Pink League" production meeting started at nine o'clock, which is expected to last all morning.

The preliminary preparations for "Pink League" have been completed, and shooting will start next week.

Because it's a women's film, this project is basically Amy in charge. However, as one of the 10-film projects, the final production meeting, Simon still has to attend in person.

Next, the rough cuts of the two films "The Ghost Story" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" have been completed. In the afternoon, I will discuss with the main creative team the plans for fine cutting and soundtracking in the later stage.

Just these three things, probably will be busy until six o'clock in the afternoon.

Putting the work schedule aside, Simon took the information just left by the female assistant, and removed the financial briefing at the top. He planned to wait for the audit to be completed before looking at the final financial report, which would save time.

The information on "Jurassic Park", which the female assistant has already introduced, is also put aside.

"The Flash" and "Cyborg" producer compensation plan, Simon read it once, and signed the agreement. The detailed contract still has the following people to continue to negotiate with Warner.

The last is a stack of novels and screenplay copyright materials.

Like other Hollywood studios, Daenerys Entertainment has continued to acquire the rights to various novels and screenplays after it got on the right track. Of course, most of them may end up falling apart.

That's how Hollywood spends its huge script development budget every year.

However, these expenditures are actually calculated into various other film projects according to the rules of the Hollywood ledger.

In addition to "Jurassic Park", a total of seven novels and script materials were sent. Simon roughly turned it over. In addition to the basic information of the project, there were also various annotations on it, or which director had a feeling for the project. Interest, or which star is interested in starring, or the corresponding producer's opinion of the script.

The Hollywood circle is very small, or maybe the information in Simon's mind is too rich. Among the seven materials, Simon easily found a fairly familiar work: "The Wild Flowers".

As far as I can remember, it was a Ridley Scott-directed film starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, and it seemed to be doing very well both in word of mouth and at the box office.

The project comment was written by Amy herself, indicating that actresses such as Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, etc. who have read the script are interested in starring, so they can The project is progressing, and the project budget is about 15 million US dollars.

15 million was still a big production a few years ago, but now it can only be regarded as low-medium.

Simon read the outline of the story, and suddenly remembered that this story might be something Catherine could try.

Catherine is definitely a feminist at heart, and just happened to have completed a similar road-style movie "Blood of the Dead", which is very suitable for directing this project.

Thinking of this, Simon took the pencil and wrote his own comments on it, and asked Amy to transfer the script to Catherine.

Catherine is about to start filming on Panic Point, but as long as women are interested in the project, Daenerys Entertainment can of course wait for her to finish the project before launching the film.

With the exception of "The Endless Flower", several other projects failed to attract Simon's interest.

Daenerys Entertainment's key projects next year are basically foreign cooperative films such as "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Desperados", and there are still many vacancies. Simon therefore gave the heads of the three labels enough projects to set up. permission, and he didn't want the increasingly large Daenerys Entertainment to rely on him alone.

After reading the information sent by the female assistant, it was almost nine o'clock.

The production meeting of "Pink League" was held at the Daenerys Entertainment headquarters. Jennifer pushed the door and came in to remind the film director Penny Marshall and others that they had arrived, and Simon got up and rushed to the conference room.

The next day is Friday, February 2.

Another week passed from January 26 to February 1.

Although "Batman: Hour of War" in the past week is still firmly locked in the single-week box office champion position with 23.4 million US dollars, the cumulative box office has also reached 326.76 million US dollars. However, Hollywood's attention was drawn to another stage film adaptation that was not too conspicuous.

"Driving for Miss Daisy".

Apparently, this is another film from Daenerys Entertainment.

Prior to this, at the 47th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards on January 20, "Driving for Miss Daisy" won three awards for Best Picture in a Musical Comedy, Best Actor in a Musical Comedy and Music Three awards for best actress in a comedy category.

Subsequently, in the nominations for the 62nd Academy Awards announced on January 22, "Driving for Miss Daisy" won 9 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and other awards, becoming the award winner. The film with the most Oscar nominations.

Counting the nominations for "My Left Foot," "Bodyguard," "The Sixth Sense," and "Metropolis," Daenerys

Entertainment has a total of 21 nominations at the upcoming Oscars, which also ranks first among studios.

Warner Bros. had the rights to distribute Batman: Hour of War, and Terry Semel had hoped to publicize a best picture nomination for the film in order to boost the box office later on. However, the Oscar judges were obviously not interested in this commercial-heavy comic book movie, and the film finally won only 3 technical awards, and the related nominations were not counted in the name of Daenerys Entertainment.

Of course, this is off topic.

Going back to "Driving for Miss Daisy", until January 25, the film remained in a small-scale screening state, and the two weeks before and after the Golden Globes only increased the number of screens to more than 200 yuan.

To sum up, from December 8th to January 25th last year, although the word-of-mouth and popularity of "Driving for Miss Daisy" continued to rise, the cumulative box office of the film only exceeded 1,000 due to the limitation of the screening scale. Ten thousand U.S. dollars. .

On January 26, taking advantage of the high attention brought by the Golden Globe Awards and Oscar nominations, Gaomen Pictures increased the number of screens for "Driving for Miss Daisy" from 278 to 895 at one time. The box office potential has finally been released.

In the first week of the large-scale opening, "Driving for Miss Daisy" won the box office of 8.03 million US dollars with 895 screens, and the weekly box office ranking also jumped from the seventh place last week to second only to "Batman: The second-highest place in The Hour of War.

After eight weeks of release, the cumulative box office has only reached 18.37 million US dollars, which does not seem to be comparable to the one-week box office of "Batman: War Hour" in its sixth week.

However, the first week of large-scale opening of the box office number rushed to the second place on the weekly list. In this award season with many awards between the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the box office popularity of "Driving for Miss Daisy" is easy to continue. Going down, this movie is destined to walk out of a very dazzling growing box office curve.

According to the basis of the box office of 8.03 million US dollars in the first week of the large-scale opening, the industry predicts that the total North American box office of this film is likely to rush to more than 60 million US dollars.

The production budget of "Driving for Miss Daisy" is only $7 million, and the scale of the announcement is completely incomparable to "Batman: War Hour". Eight-week cumulative box office of $18.37 million is enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recover all production and distribution costs.

With an estimated gross of $60 million, it's already a big hit.

Of course, Simon knows that "Driving Miss Daisy" has a box office potential of more than 60 million.

In any case, however, it's an obvious fact that Daenerys Entertainment has unknowingly created yet another box-office dark horse.

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