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WMA headquarters in Beverly Hills.

Courteney Cox and Jonathan Friedman were about to leave after talking about a script she had just received, remembering the progress of the investigation of the attack a few years ago in the newspaper yesterday, Courteney I couldn't help sitting down again and said to Jonathan: "Joe, about Christy Swanson, you know?"

Jonathan Freedman paused and nodded: "I know."

The Santa Monica Police Department's investigation into the attack four summers ago is still ongoing.

Yesterday, the media suddenly exposed further news of the case, and Hollywood actress Christy Swanson was involved. It is said that Christie Swanson revealed to them where Westeros was working before Matthew Broderick rushed to intercept Simon Westeros that night.

This evidence further skewed the situation to Simon's side.

In fact, since the investigation has been carried out, no one has believed Matthew Broderick's remarks when he took the lead in holding a press conference. The matter is very clear. However, the Santa Monica Police Department must give the media and the public an unquestionable result of the investigation of the case, which is why they continue to dig out everything related to the original attack.

Although the public is prone to sympathize with the weak, it is not that they have no ability to distinguish right from wrong. Once they find themselves deceived and fooled, their anger will only increase.

The six people who held the press conference in an attempt to 'preemptively' were already considered to be street rats at this time. Even, most of the few people wanted to take the initiative to reconcile and get rid of this incident, but Simon didn't have any intention of letting go.

Courteney Cox pondered the wording for a while, then suddenly changed the subject and said, "Joe, Simon's birthday party, did our company get the invitation this time?"

Simon and the parties that Daenerys Entertainment had organized in the past would send a batch of invitations to wma for them to distribute themselves.

Courteney's question could not have been more obvious.

However, Jonathan shook his head and said, "Curt, Simon doesn't plan to hold a birthday party on a large scale this time, and will probably only invite some company executives and relatives and friends."

After saying that, both of them were suddenly silent.

Today is February 19th, only 3 days before Simon's birthday. In theory, for a party such as Simon's birthday party that many people take very seriously, invitations will be sent out a week in advance.

Jonathan naturally got his own invitation.

However, Courteney, whom Simon had met shortly after his arrival in Los Angeles, was excluded from what he just called "friends and relatives."

The ups and downs of life are sometimes really unpredictable.

Jonathan also remembered Sandra Bullock, who was also a client under his own name. As Simon's closest friend of the opposite sex, he almost developed into a lover at the beginning. Sandra's career development in the past few years can be described as smooth sailing.

In comparison, as the heroine of the "Scream" series, although Courteney is also a first-line actress, after this year's "Scream 3" ends, she may face an uncertain future. .

The transformation of a horror movie star is very difficult.

After all, there are not many opportunities for actresses in Hollywood, but the competition is just very fierce.

In the current Hollywood, the veteran Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Cher, etc., the Mesozoic Melanie Griffith, Michelle Pfeiffer, etc., the new generation Sander La Bullock, Julia Roberts, etc. These actresses are very strong, and major studios are more inclined to hand over high-quality projects to these people when selecting suitable roles.

Jonathan could roughly understand Courteney's mind at this time.

The actress who had the best chance to rise with Simon has now been excluded from Simon's social circle. The two things that had just been mentioned suddenly were probably that Courteney wanted to use the opportunity of the next Simon's birthday party to explain to him the incident of the attack in person, and at the same time to bring the relationship between the two sides.

However, Jonathan knew that Simon didn't really care about the attack that year, but Janet was holding on to it.

So women are the ones who hold grudges the most.

As for Christie Swanson, who "guided" Matthew Broderick and others to attack Simon, he is still a customer of wma.

It's just that in recent years, this little actor who has only been able to play supporting roles in some youth horror films, Simon didn't even mention it after the news was exposed. Although wma will not block the other party too deliberately, so as not to cause any problems Trouble in public opinion, but it is impossible to obtain any resources in the future.

After a while, Courteney finally plucked up her courage and said, "Joe, can you help me get an invitation?"

Jonathan could only shake his head.

As far as he knows, the size of this birthday party will be controlled within 100 people, with 100 party places. For other social gatherings in Hollywood, such a birthday party is not small, but for Simon Westeros birthday At the party, every invitation is required to be carefully selected.

Speaking of, these days, not just Courteney, many stars under wma, or in other words, countless people in Hollywood are doing everything possible to get an invitation to Simon Westeros birthday party.

Simon actually doesn't care about things like the birthday party list, Janet is in charge of it.

Joe

Nathan did rely on his relationship with Simon to get a few invitations from Janet for his contacts, but the party list has been basically finalized, and Courteney has not yet reached the level for him to consume his favor.

After sending Courteney Cox away, Jonathan sighed again in his heart, and quickly turned his energy to other things.

The last time I talked to Simon, he was planning to train several male stars who were around 30 years old and suitable for action movies.

Hollywood is not without action stars at this stage, such as Dolph Lundgren, Steven Seagal, etc., but they are not too first-line. Under the name of wma, Keanu Reeves and other new generations are still slightly immature for the time being. As for the hottest Mel Gibson at the moment, he is a little older.

Jonathan actually also thought of Tom Cruise. If the male star in his 30s is suitable for action movies, there is no more suitable man in Hollywood than him.

However, Simon is not at all interested in this male star who is in the front line and has a good box office appeal.

Being disliked by a Hollywood mogul of this level, with the deepening of Daenerys Entertainment's cooperation with Paramount, the resources that Tom Cruise can obtain in Hollywood will only be further compressed. It is likely that in a few years, it will gradually decline.

Daenerys Studios.

When Jonathan was thinking about the action star, Simon was also discussing the next cooperation between the two sides with the executives of Paramount.

Simon is a person who attaches great importance to commitment. In order to get Paramount to give up on hindering the acquisition of mca by Daenerys Entertainment, whether it was a paper contract or a verbal agreement, he did not intend to violate it.

The next major cooperation between the two parties will be three movies on the one hand, and USA TV, in which the two companies each hold 50% of the shares.

Among the three films, the key project that has been finalized is "Mission Impossible", which can be made into a long-term series of films. However, since he does not intend to use the original Tom Cruise, Simon will not be in a hurry to develop this project for the time being, because there is no suitable male lead candidate in the short term.

Moreover, although three movies have been agreed, the cooperation time is very loose, and neither party will be too anxious.

What everyone is discussing at this time is the development of usa.

As a basic cable station, usa was established in 1977 as a joint venture between mca, Paramount and Warner. Later, for some reasons, Warner withdrew from its own shares and became mca and Paramount each holding 50% of the shares.

After more than ten years of establishment, usa can be regarded as a very old basic cable station, but compared with the basic cable stations such as espn, cnn, mtv, etc., which were born in the same era and became more and more prosperous, usa has never found its own position. The development process is like a hodgepodge of hodgepodge. I have tried sports styles, done children's shows, played original series, made TV movies, and in recent years, with the rise of reality TV, some low-cost variety game shows have also been developed. .

In Simon's memory, the later espn, cnn, and mtv are already the overlords in their respective fields. Although usa has always existed, it has always been tepid. In the end, the style tends to be closer to several public television networks, relying only on some crime police. Original gatherings such as bandits support the ratings, but because of the pattern of basic cable stations, these episodes are destined to be unable to compare with the public television network in terms of their own quality and ratings.

At present, the only thing that satisfies Simon is the number of access users as many as 21 million.

Calculated based on an average of 3 users per household, usa already has a basic audience of more than 60 million, which is close to one-third of the total population of the United States.

Of course, because the four major public television networks are still in a monopoly state for the time being, espn, mtv, cnn and even hbo, the basic cable stations with distinctive styles, have separated most of the cable TV users. Although they have a very considerable user base, usa The clean-up of the show has been very bleak.

Because there is no TV program that can be called the mainstay, it is difficult to catch the audience's attention. USA belongs to the kind of existence that is basically difficult to remember the TV station number on the remote control.

The main sources of revenue for basic cable stations are operator share and self-advertising.

According to the viewing status of the cable station and the number of users, the operator pays a certain share of the basic cable station on a monthly basis. For a basic cable station with high attention such as cnn, the monthly contribution of each user to the TV station can be as high as 70 cents , and advertising revenue is equally lucrative.

The average operator share of usa is only 15 cents, which is less than a quarter of that of cnn, and the number of users is also less than half of that of cnn.

Therefore, although there are 21 million access users, the monthly revenue of the operator is only over 3 million US dollars, and the annual revenue is only more than 60 million US dollars if the advertising revenue is roughly equivalent to the operator's share.

Simon understands that the main reason for this situation is that the positioning of the usa TV network is not clear enough. espn, mtv and cnn, these basic cable networks that only focus on a single field of sports, music and news, have all achieved success.

Before the acquisition of mca, Simon had already begun to consider the next development of usa.

Music, sports, news, and even movies have already been taken advantage of in areas that cable stations can focus on. So, usa, we can only start with the segmentation of the audience.

Because of the IP of "The Beverly Wife", Simon finally decided to make usa a female TV station and target a very large number of families in the United States

Housewives group.

You must know that although the United States is the most developed country in the world and has experienced many feminist movements to liberate women in recent decades, in the early 1990s, the proportion of American women who chose to give up their jobs to become full-time housewives after marriage remained the same. More than 40% of these women are taking care of the housework, and their biggest pastime is undoubtedly television.

usa happens to be a 24-hour basic cable station that is very suitable for housewives to watch.

After so many years of continuous operation, Paramount Chairman Martin Davis did not insist too much after Simon proposed to keep the shareholding structure unchanged but demanded absolute control of usa.

The two parties had an afternoon of discussions, and basically finalized the budget plan and program plan of usa for the next year.

In the next year, Daenerys Entertainment and Paramount Communications will jointly invest $100 million in usa for series development, rights purchases and advertising marketing.

On the TV show side, the reboot of "The Beverly Wife" will usually be accompanied by another "The Wife of New York" series. While focusing on the reality show series of The Wife, Daenerys Entertainment will continue to develop and purchase a number of TV programs specifically targeting women.

At five o'clock, the meeting ended on time.

Others left one after another, but Paramount chairman Martin Davis did not leave in a hurry. He proposed to walk with Simon in the Daenerys Studios park, and Simon did not refuse.

"Actually, Simon, about "Mission Impossible," can't Tom really try it? I think he's still very suitable."

The two were walking on the asphalt corridor in the park. Simon heard Martin Davis mention this, and just shook his head and said, "Martin, this is a matter of principle."

When necessary, Simon will make some compromises, such as the cooperation with Paramount, and the lifting of the ban on Meg Ryan. These are all to avoid the twists and turns of the mca acquisition case, and Simon will not lose the big because of the small. However, Tom Cruise has no bargaining chip to make him compromise, and Simon needs to insist on expressing an attitude, an attitude that the studio is the controller of Hollywood.

Moreover, the current Daenerys Entertainment, because it has too many high-quality IP reserves, does not mind the failure of one or two projects, even the previous "Mission Impossible" series.

Feeling Simon's insistence, Martin Davis didn't try too hard, and turned the topic interestingly to other places.

After all, Martin Davis is not a latecomer like Simon. It is impossible to know the connection between Tom Cruise and the "Mission Impossible" series. I just mentioned it just because of Tom Cruise and Paramount's relationship over the years. The cooperation is quite pleasant, and there are some personal friendships in it.

Moreover, as Paramount's performance has turned sluggish in the past two years, Martin Davis' control over the company is also rapidly weakening. He has a hunch that Paramount is likely to encounter the same situation as mca in the next few years. fate. Once this is the case, this company has nothing to do with him, and naturally he will not be too preoccupied at this time.

This is the main reason why the control of usa was easily relinquished at the afternoon meeting.

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