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After chatting with Girl A about something, after a while, Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, arrived.

The Easter schedule opens this Friday, and Danny Morris came here. In addition to discussing the Easter schedule of "Fighting Wisdom 2" and the development progress of a series of projects being promoted by New World Pictures, there is another thing, About completely destroying the already crumbling New Line Cinema.

Daenerys Entertainment has successively snatched blockbuster projects such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and has faced strong competition from New World Entertainment in the field of horror films. New Line Pictures, which has relied on the rise of the "Monster Street" series, has been in the past few years. It's getting worse.

Not only that, at the beginning of the year, Simon also used some means to dispel Time Warner's idea of ​​acquiring New Line Pictures and cut off the most important way of life for New Line.

You know, the former New Line, after being acquired by Time Warner in 1993, had a steady stream of funds and media resources to support it, and it won the "Rush Hour" and "Ace Big" from the late 1990s to the beginning of the new century. A series of successes such as Power Spy and The Lord of the Rings. Miramax also became the leader in the field of art films by being affiliated with Disney.

In contrast, those second- and third-tier film companies that want to maintain their independence for a long time lack the support of the entire industry chain of large media groups, and have low risk resistance capabilities, which are basically short-lived.

The success of the "Nightmare Street" series in the 1980s made New Line the envy of many other second- and third-tier film companies, and the childhood really nourished it for a while. However, as the economic situation took a turn for the worse in recent years, the new line was blindly eager to expand under Simon's intentional or unintentional sniping, and there was never a new blockbuster series, so it quickly declined.

In 1984, "Nightmare Street", which made a risky investment of 1.8 million US dollars, became a big hit, and the new line evolved from a small workshop that could only distribute low-cost B-grade films to a second-tier film company with independent production and distribution capabilities.

With the company in decline, the head of New Line Cinema is once again betting on Elm Street.

This time, New Line invited back Wes Craven, the director of the first "Evil Street" series, and invested 12 million US dollars to create the seventh movie "New Elm Street" since 1984. ", and invested a budget of 5 million US dollars, and the schedule was selected on April 9, the week of Easter, at the same time as "Fighting Wisdom 2".

The total investment of 17 million US dollars is not worth mentioning for Daenerys Entertainment, but it is a last-ditch effort for New Line Pictures.

As long as the local box office of "New Elf Street" reaches the level of 50 million US dollars, through the local box office revenue and other follow-up income, New Line will be able to repay this year's debts due this year, and its own financial pressure will also be relieved, so as to continue to survive in Hollywood go down.

Before being acquired by Daenerys Entertainment, New World Pictures was actually New Line's most direct competitor.

Both companies are involved in the horror film space, and New World Pictures has also followed the trend of "Evil Street" to create its own "Evil Souls" series.

It's just that the original New World Pictures failed to create such a relatively blockbuster "Monster Street" after all, and it could only be acquired by Daenerys Entertainment in the end.

Danny Morris used to be a high-level executive at New World Entertainment, so it's not surprising that Simon is cracking down on New Line.

After all, Hollywood's plate is limited.

New Line Pictures, which is good at acquaintances in the field, was erased. Even if the market vacated by the other party was very small, it could allow the New World Pictures label to gain more room for maneuvering, and at the same time prevent the company from suddenly creating another explosive series. Compete with New World Pictures in the market.

Teachers always have to be famous.

Inexplicably targeting New Line Cinema will definitely arouse criticism from peers.

Coincidentally, in order to promote "New Elf Street", the new line management also pulled in "Scream" during this period.

It is also a series directed by Wes Craven, and the popularity of the three "Scream" is much higher than that of the "Nightmare Street" series. Not only did New Line put suggestive words like 'New Elm Street, give you a screaming Easter' on some of its advertising posters, but Wes Craven was even more direct in an interview with The Tonight Show. It is said that "New Street on Elms" combines the horror elements of the two series of "Street on Elms" and "Scream".

At this time, if you openly protest New Line's publicity strategy to deliberately steal the popularity of "Scream", it will only fuel the publicity of "New Ghost Street".

However, rumors quickly spread that Daenerys Entertainment was very dissatisfied with the new line's promotional strategy.

If you have an excuse, it will be logical to do some action.

New Line originally hoped to win more than 2,000 yuan for the opening screen for "New Elf Street", but under the operation of Daenerys Entertainment, it finally won only more than 1,300 yuan.

In terms of publicity and marketing, "New Nightmare Street" can't be compared with "Reverse Wisdom 2", because Daenerys Entertainment's target of $5 million in distribution budget, the publicity effect is even more unsatisfactory.

Now, the film has not yet been released, and many people in Hollywood have smelled the imminent failure of "New Elm Street".

Unless the film can get more than expected word of mouth in the media.

However, under the cover of the media network that Daenerys Entertainment has vigorously developed in recent years, this is obviously not very likely.

In the office, after listening to some arrangements from Danny Morris, Simon thought for a moment and said: "The traditional paper media can say hello a little bit, but don't deliberately publish negative articles on the Igret portal. In this way, directly Just make New Elm Street disappear from the Yggreit portal, as much as possible

Do any reporting. "

It's too obvious to deliberately use your own media platform to target a movie.

Simon is still more interested in the credibility of the Igaret portal.

Danny Morris nodded and continued: "Also, Simon, New Line has accumulated some good movie rights over the years, do we need to take action?"

Simon shook his head and said: "Let's wait for "New Elm Street" to be released. Before a movie is released, no one can be sure how its box office will be. In addition, what we need to do is to avoid the new line in "New Elf Street". After "Street", find other ways out."

As an independent second-tier film company, New Line’s main source of funds used to rely on loans. At present, the company’s debt is large enough, and it is impossible to obtain funds from bank channels. Therefore, there are not many ways out for New Line. One is to sell to other major Hollywood studios and become their sub-labels.

Time Warner's channel was snuffed out by Simon, but Hollywood is not without other studios that may launch an acquisition of New Line.

What Daenerys Entertainment has to do is to prevent this possibility and let New Line truly go into bankruptcy.

After a day's work, Simon returned to the Dumay Cape Manor at about six o'clock.

Unconsciously, Alia, an Indian girl from Janet yoga instructor who became a maid of the Westeros family, greeted her and said a few words. Simon came to a living room of the villa facing the sea.

In the living room, Janet was lying lazily on the sofa, making a video call with the Melbourne side. The projection screen on the wall showed the picture across the ocean.

Calculate the time, Australia should be noon.

Veronica in the picture is also feeding Melbourne. The little guy is very dishonest and always wants to grab things with his hands. When Simon entered the door, he happened to see the little guy almost crawling to the dining table.

Seeing Simon coming, Janet immediately threatened: "Mel, Dad is back, eat well, and don't let Dad spank you."

Simon smiled and squeezed Janet to sit next to him, took a swipe on the woman's butt, and nodded to the big screen.

The camera is on the projection screen, the distance is farther, and the viewing angle is very wide.

Veronica happened to see Simon's little gesture of hitting Janet's butt, and nodded to Simon with an unnatural expression, wiped the corner of his mouth for the little guy who wanted to climb on the dining table, and asked softly, "How is it today? "

Since she started taking care of Melbourne, Veronica has been much more relaxed and normal in front of Simon, and even the cold personality that Janet once called "Iceberg" has changed a lot.

The reason, Simon can actually understand.

Holding a small hand of Janet who was lying on her back from behind, Simon said, "Very good, how about you?"

Veronica is actually not used to this kind of greeting, she sighed, and seemed to feel inappropriate, and added: "Mer learned another word today." She looked down at the child in her arms and guided the little guy. say.

The one-year-old child obviously didn't have much concept of video communication, so he ignored Veronica's guidance at all. After a lot of hard work, he finally climbed to the dining table. deliver.

Janet, who was lying on Simon's body, couldn't help laughing, and urged: "Auntie, don't stop him, let him suffer a little and settle down."

Veronica obviously didn't follow Janet's suggestion, got up and picked up Melbourne, and didn't forcefully take the seasoning bottle from the child, but just gently blocked the little guy from throwing salt into his mouth.

Janet was a little disappointed and complained, "Auntie, you dote on Moore too much."

Veronica hugged the little guy and sat down again at the dining table, letting the child throw out the seasoning bottle that quickly lost interest, making a few ding ding dong dong sounds outside the screen's field of vision, and chuckled: "Mel is still Small, of course a little naughty."

While chatting like this, after more than ten minutes of tossing, the little guy finally finished eating.

Veronica said she wanted to take the child out for a walk, and the little guy liked to stay outside, so he hung up the video call.

Turning off the call screen, Janet still leaned on Simon, kissing the man face to face for a moment, and said, "I originally wanted to take Moore back to take care of him for a while."

Simon felt the smoothness of Janet's delicate face and said, "Yes."

"However, Auntie likes Moore very much. What will Auntie do if she takes the child back?"

Simon paused and said casually, "You can come over together."

Then the ear was bitten.

Feeling the threatening engagement of the two rows of small teeth, Simon immediately surrendered: "When I didn't say it."

Janet used a little strength, then let Simon go, and continued to stick to his back: "Actually, I also thought about asking my aunt to come and help. On the east coast, only Raybould looks bad. , You know, my aunt used to be in charge of the family's company finances, which is just right. I can also bring Moore back for a while."

Having said that, Janet poked her head over to look at Simon's expression, hummed a few times, and said, "However, I won't let you succeed."

Simon was very smart not to answer this question, he turned his head and kissed Janet's cheek, and said, "What do you want for dinner, I will tell them?"

"I've already arranged it."

The man changed the subject, but Janet didn't pursue it. After saying this, she also said, "Igret's financing negotiations with Goldman Sachs and Morgan are not going well."

"The initiative is on our side, I really don't want to, this batch of shares can be given to Solomon

Or Bear Stearns, First Boston is also very interested. "

"However, the effect will be much smaller."

"It's impossible to compromise on the initiative. In fact, I have given in many times over the years. Our family background is already so deep, there is no need to keep retreating."

In the original "Lola Run", although Simon made a fortune, most of the profits were taken away by Orion.

Subsequently, he took the initiative to cooperate with other studios in Hollywood, carefully avoided conflicts in the financial market, and even gave up such a great opportunity as the pound crisis last year. It can be said that Simon has voluntarily retreated in these years.

Janet accompanied Simon all the way, and she knew all about the man's arrangements, and put a sticker on the man's face with her face again, saying, "Those who think you are giving in are the fools, if you really keep How can you become the world's first billionaire with $100 billion?"

Simon also smiled and said: "I still want others to find it easy to take advantage of me. However, if Westeros wants to expand next, the difficulty will definitely increase, because the interests of many people will be affected."

Hollywood's initial impression of Simon was that of a film genius who turned out to be a big profit, so it was inevitable to let down the guard.

So, it seems, all of a sudden, Daenerys Entertainment has grown into an unstoppable behemoth ahead of traditional Hollywood studios.

In the field of new technology, this is a completely new market.

There is no fierce conflict between traditional interests and shuffles, so the development can be described as smooth sailing.

Next, this state of smooth sailing will inevitably change as the Westeros system continues to expand.

Not only are traditional media such as Hearst Group more and more wary of new Internet media platforms, but seeing the huge benefits contained in the Internet industry, traditional capital will inevitably continue to increase their efforts to enter the market to grab food.

Simon's holdings in Cisco and America Online have basically reached the safety line. Simon will also make a 'concession' to Igret, who is destined to become a behemoth in the Internet field. Not only this active financing, Simon even Future split plans have been planned in advance.

It's just that Simon will choose to share some of the benefits that should be given up. Simon will never let go if he doesn't intend to give it up.

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