Hollywood Hunter

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As the Westeros system successively completed the financing transactions of Igret and the acquisition of Christie's, the time also entered May 1993.

The summer season is approaching, and many blockbuster films this summer have begun the final sprint promotion stage.

Daenerys Entertainment's main theme this summer should theoretically be "Superman". However, according to the original agreement, the distribution rights of the film are in charge of Warner Bros. Pictures.

A few other films, "Sleepless in Seattle" is a co-project with Disney, "Gankan Assassination" is a co-project with Warner Bros., and only Keanu Reeves' "Sugar-Coated Trap" is Daenerys The film industry is responsible for the distribution itself. In addition, during the four-month summer vacation, the other two labels of Daenerys Entertainment, New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures, will also launch their own films in the summer vacation.

While paying attention to the upcoming summer season, after this period of operation, the official transformation of Daenerys Entertainment’s record business has been initially completed. Daenerys Record Group (dmg) has been initially completed. Too much adjustment.

On the other hand, Barry Weiss, president of jive Records, who once created teenage pop singers such as Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, successfully jumped ship to join Daenerys Records Group at the invitation of Daenerys Entertainment.

After the reorganization of the record business, Richard Palmes, the former president of Universal Music, was adjusted to the ceo of Daenerys Records Group, responsible for the overall situation of dmg.

After years of development, large record groups are basically composed of many record companies at this stage.

The original Universal Music seems to be a company, but in fact, there are 7 record subsidiaries that are still active, such as Geffen Records where Guns and Roses is located, Decca Records where Cher is located, and Futuristic which focuses on death rock. records, etc. There are countless sub-labels that were once active and fell into the opportunity when their artists terminated their contracts or became out of breath.

The position Simon gave to Barry Weiss is the president of infinity records, a record subsidiary of dmg. Although the position is similar to that of jive record company under rca records, the resources and permissions that can be invoked are far more than jive. record.

In the future, Infinite Records will focus on creating teen pop singers, and the parent company dmg will do its best to ensure the promotion and promotion of this subsidiary's contracted singers.

Simon can actually give Barry Weiss a higher position, but for the huge dmg, too high a position will only make Barry Weiss fall into unnecessary administrative affairs. Handing over a subsidiary of Infinite Records to the other party will allow Barry Weiss to focus more on the field of teen pop.

The initial adjustment of the record business has been completed, and Barry Weiss has also successfully joined the job. The next step is to find a signed singer.

Compared with Hollywood, which has a clear hierarchy of actors and actresses, the music industry is roughly divided into two types of singers, one is already famous, and the other is not famous.

This is not to say that there is no distinction between singers, but that the competition in this industry is far more intense than that of Hollywood. When actors are not famous, they can still live in the bottom and wait for opportunities. For singers, it is impossible to have many movies. TV shows let you run the gamut, and if you're not signed to a record company, you're not famous, you're nothing.

However, compared to the actor industry, which still requires talent and skills, the threshold for singing is much lower for most people.

This also leads to the number of young people dreaming of singers, which is not much less than the number of unknown little actors who are at the bottom of Hollywood.

Therefore, many record companies can receive a large number of self-recommended test tapes submitted by potential singers almost every day.

However, the larger the record company, the more cautious the singer will be, because once the singer fails to succeed after spending a lot of resources, the person in charge is likely to lose his job.

Now that Infinite Records' development goals were set, and Barry Weiss joined, Simon began to personally participate in the search for suitable teen pop singer seeds.

In fact, I want to find some singers who are more familiar in my memory.

Among the large number of candidate singers, Simon did find a combination he wanted: Backstreet Boys.

Backstreet Boys is a recently formed group of five young people in Orlando, Florida. After learning from the media that dmg is selecting teen singers, they submitted their own audition tape to Infinite Records, and was picked by Simon at a glance.

However, there are still some problems with this.

Although the five people in the group have good singing skills and talents, two of them are still underage, and the youngest Nick Carter is only 13 years old.

Now that Simon has taken a fancy to the name 'Backstreet Boys', the rest of the problem is of course solved by Barry Weiss.

It is necessary to become famous as early as possible, and there is no rule that minors are not allowed to enter the music industry. However, since it is necessary to create a teenage boy group mainly for junior high school students, it is naturally inappropriate for the 13-year-old Xiao Zhengtai, who has just reached junior high school age.

The solution is actually very simple, remove the two minors in the group, and find two other young people as substitutes.

A few young people didn't have much expectations when they submitted the audition tape. They were overjoyed when they were suddenly selected, and the invitation to Infinite Records to make a substitution was not unacceptable.

Therefore, the two sides quickly finalized a 10-year contract.

Barry Weiss also got the name of the group 'Backstreet Boys' through a contract

Perpetual copyright, no matter if a member withdraws or the group disbands in the future, the name 'Backstreet Boys' will belong to Infinite Records, and Infinite Records can re-select people to form this group on the basis of this name, and the team members who leave will also be Any commercial activity under the name 'Backstreet Boys' is prohibited.

In fact, for Simon, Backstreet Boys is more of a practice for Infinite Records, in order to summarize a set of operation procedures for quickly copying teenage pop singers in batches.

Building a portfolio from scratch is never easy and expensive.

In order to show the importance of Infinite Records, Simon not only gave Barry Weiss a year in the operation of the 'Backstreet Boys' project, and the resources of dmg can be used by the other party, and he plans to meet with Barry Weiss at least every week in the future. Meet once to see how the other person is progressing and give your own advice based on the information in your memory.

In addition, Infinite Records has also begun scouting other potential teenage singer seeds.

Compared with the backstreet boy group that has been formed directly, Simon hopes to start signing contracts to cultivate pop singer seeds from the age of 14 or 15, just as South Korea once cultivated pop singers in batches, and singers who have undergone professional training from vocal music to body shape. The probability of becoming famous is far higher than that of grass-roots teams from the bottom, and even the career lifespan will be longer, there is no doubt about this.

Making this decision, Simon's eyes naturally fell on the famous Mickey Mouse Club of Disney.

The 'big name' here is actually for Simon, a latecomer.

Mickey Mouse Club is a teen variety show on Disney Channel, mainly performing singing, dancing and skits.

For Disney, the ratings of this show are very average. In Simon's memory, the show may have been suspended in the past two years due to low ratings.

However, among the members of the Mickey Mouse Club, famous actors or singers such as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Ryan Gosling, etc. came out one after another in the next few years. .

At the same time as "Backstreet Boys", under Simon's instruction, Barry Weiss also began to quietly pay attention to these teenagers in the Mickey Mouse Club.

Britney Spears is only twelve or thirteen years old, and dmg has no plan to raise them for five or six years, so it is not suitable for signing for the time being. Among them, those who are more age-appropriate, such as Kelly Russell, who is 17 years old this year, although the appearance and figure are very good, but compared with Britney, Christina and others, the gap in singing skills is very obvious. Age also lacks plasticity and can only give up.

Simon has actually considered creating a group of teen singers through music elective programs, which can not only provide Daenerys TV with a new hit reality show, but also provide some good singer seeds for the record company.

After thinking about it, I gave up.

At this stage, the reality shows of Daenerys TV are still several such as "Who Will Be a Millionaire" originally launched by Simon, and these shows still have a good vitality for the time being. On top of that, Simon doesn't plan to launch another phenomenal reality show until he acquires a public television network, which will be left to the network that will come from home.

Busy, the time came to May 14 unknowingly.

It's a Friday.

The most blockbuster "Superman" in the summer program will be released on June 4. In order to avoid this blockbuster, the summer program will officially open today.

On this day, North American theaters launched a total of Fox's "Condor 2", Columbia Pictures' "My Genius Family" and New World Pictures' "Bruce Bruce" three films.

However, on this day, most of the media in North America paid the most attention to the "Jurassic Park" released last Christmas, which was officially released in North American theaters.

After a five-month run, "Jurassic Park" eventually grossed $356.71 million at the North American box office.

At the same time, the screening of "Jurassic Park" in overseas markets has basically ended. Among them, only Japan has won a box office equivalent to 120 million US dollars, and the other three countries of the United Kingdom, France and Germany have also achieved box office figures. Forty to fifty million dollars.

After the statistics of the following weekend, Jurassic Park's overseas box office also reached 573.11 million US dollars, and it is expected that there will be about 50 million US dollars in overseas follow-up revenue.

Therefore, as of mid-May "Jurassic Park" was released in North America, the global box office of this dinosaur sci-fi blockbuster reached 929.82 million US dollars. In the next few months, it will be completely released worldwide. Pound Bomb will gross around $980 million worldwide.

Even if there is still some regret that it is difficult to break through the $1 billion mark, the global box office of $980 million is enough to surpass the global record of "Batman: War Hour" of $960 million and advance to the global box office champion position.

At the global box office of 980 million US dollars, excluding all production and publicity budgets and the share of main creators such as Spielberg, Daenerys Entertainment can still earn 200 million US dollars in revenue.

Moreover, the box office is only a part of the profits contributed by "Jurassic Park".

The revenue of this project is the largest, and the cumulative sales of peripheral products in recent months have also reached 1.3 billion US dollars, and the contribution profit is close to 200 million US dollars. It is expected that before "Jurassic Park 2", the sales of peripheral products of this movie will be to $2 billion.

In addition, factoring in future videotape and TV broadcasts, and even the revenue from Universal Studios' Jurassic Park theme park, this movie alone will bring Daenerys Entertainment no less than

$1 billion in net profit.

With the release of "Jurassic Park" in North America, while overseas countries have discussed the invasion of Hollywood, the North American media also noticed the slow progress of the development of this series of sequels.

Spielberg's "Schindler's List" has been completed, and began to return to Hollywood for post-production.

However, in several recent interviews, Spielberg's answers to questions about the "Jurassic Park" sequel have been ambiguous, and the answers given by Daenerys Entertainment executives in interviews are unclear, which makes many Everyone smelled something different.

According to Spielberg's contract with Universal, the veteran movie star just owes Daenerys Entertainment a film contract after Schindler's List.

It's just that the two sides have clearly disagreed on the sequel to "Jurassic Park".

The biggest possibility is undoubtedly a conflict of interests.

Daenerys Entertainment expects to make $1 billion through the Jurassic Park project, and Spielberg's salary, including base salary and split, is about $45 million.

For Hollywood filmmakers, the figure of $45 million is definitely a sky-high price.

But Spielberg is clearly not satisfied with his salary figures.

If he follows the previous sharing strategy, such as the 20% share of the net profit of the omni-channel when he cooperated with Colombia, the salary he can get will be at least 200 million US dollars.

At the beginning, Daenerys Entertainment seemed to have given a very guaranteed plan to take a share directly from the box office. With the big box office sales of the film, this share plan that other Hollywood filmmakers can only covet, in Spielberg It seems, even a bit like a trap.

This state of mind is easy to understand.

However, since the contract was originally signed, it is naturally impossible to change it at this time.

However, if he wants to continue directing the "Jurassic Park" sequel, Daenerys Entertainment must offer a sincere price.

In the past, Spielberg took a crazy $250 million in the first "Jurassic Park", and his salary was significantly reduced to $70 million in the second film. This time around, the first installment only made $45 million, and Spielberg is clearly hoping for a higher return with the sequel to make up for his potential loss in the first installment.

And, in Spielberg's view, Daenerys Entertainment shouldn't rush to replace him and let someone else direct the series, based on a long-standing mentality among Hollywood's top filmmakers. .

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