hunt hollywood

then.

One, two, three, four, five, six... That's right, six zeros before the decimal point.

this is.

$100 million? !

Immediately, I was a little stunned.

"Wonder Woman" was already ten years ago. In these years, the largest check she received was only US$50, which was a three-year endorsement contract for a bedding company.Recently, I came here to audition for a TV movie. If I can sign it, the salary is only about 5 US dollars.Participating in these film and television series is mainly to increase her exposure, so that she can continue to receive relatively lucrative advertising endorsements and ensure her entry into the high-income class in the United States.

However, the sum of all endorsement remuneration and the like is only a few hundred thousand dollars per year on average.

As for his husband's money, the two are financially independent and had signed a prenuptial agreement.Although he is responsible for family expenses, even if she divorces, she may not be able to get a one-time alimony of more than one million dollars.

Continue to stand for a while.

Thinking about her reaction in the morning, she thought that even if he was generous, he would only sign a check for $10 at most. 10 US dollars, compared to her own insistence, she still looks down on it.

It seems that he is still very rude to let him roll.

just now.

Suddenly, he couldn't help but think that he must have done it on purpose, to torture himself on purpose.

It sure is!

nasty man.

Scum!

jerk!

douchebag!

You are so generous, why don't you sign 1000 million US dollars, and see if I will take it away!

Chapter 283 Change of Concept (Revised)

"Batman" has already started the final stage of editing. Simon is still busy with the post-production of the film in the morning, and the half-day release meeting in the afternoon.

Today is Monday, June 8th.

After the release of the last new film "Uncle Buck" this Friday, Daenerys Entertainment's summer release work will officially come to an end this year.

Up to now, Daenerys Entertainment has released a total of 7 films this year, namely "Blue Angel", "Metropolitan", "Sisters", "Hell Ghost 2", "Sisters of Sid", " Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", among them, only two films of "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" are enough to support Daenerys Entertainment's performance for the whole year, and other released films are not lacking in highlights.

Next, counting "Uncle Buck", there are 10 films related to Daenerys Entertainment waiting to be released in the second half of the year.

Among them, "Children's Flight" and "Batman" are released by Warner Bros. Pictures, and the schedules are confirmed as November 11 and December 17 respectively.

The other 8 films are "Uncle Buck", "Sweet Sister", "The Woman on the Roof", "Angel", "Scream 2", "My Left Foot", "Gucci Documentary" and "For "Lady Daisy's Driving" is operated by three labels under Daenerys Entertainment respectively, and the schedule covers all five months of the second half of the year.

At the same time, because Daenerys Entertainment has established branches in major overseas countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and Australia, starting from the four films of "Scream" at the end of last year, Dani Neris Entertainment's overseas distribution work has been going on continuously without interruption.

The focus of overseas distribution in the second half of the year will be the three films in the summer file.

Burbank.

Daenerys Entertainment Division, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the four-hour meeting ended.

Most people started leaving from get off work, and Simon and Ella Deutschman made an appointment to see the dailies of "Driving Miss Daisy" and stayed for another two hours.

conference room.

Amy noticed that Simon was obviously in a very good mood since breakfast today, and when the crowd dispersed, she called to stop Simon, then motioned to Ella to leave first, pulled a chair and sat down at the conference table.

Knowing that Amy had something to talk about, Simon sat down again and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"

"It's like this," Amy said after considering her words a little, "Simon, Rem came to me this morning."

Simon roughly realized what was going on, and just motioned for Amy to continue.

Amy continued: "From what I've heard during this time, Sony originally intended to invite Bob to take charge of Samsung Pictures after the acquisition. Because of the recent 10 films, Sony should have dismissed this idea. Bob Bob means he is no longer asking for a raise. However, he wants the company to help pay for a property he’s fancying on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for $300 million.”

Robert Rehm's contract has just expired for one year at the end of July, and he has already received the full bonus of 7 million US dollars on the original contract last week.

In fact, Simon is also concerned about Rem's actions.

Perhaps Rem would have offered Simon his resignation by now if it wasn't for Sony's fight for Daenerys Entertainment's 10-film slot.

Seeing that Simon tapped his finger on the table lightly, but did not give an immediate response, Amy had no choice but to continue: "Simon, compared to the $1500 million extra reward plan for the main creators of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", Rem's request is not as big as it is. It’s not too much, the results of his work this year are obvious to all.”

The release of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality" has entered its sixth week.

Last Friday, Daenerys Entertainment received its first box office share of $1 million from the total box office of $5002 million in the previous four weeks, according to the company's step-by-step sharing plan with theaters.According to the global box office forecast of "The Sixth Sense" of 1 million US dollars, this movie will only be box office next, and at least it can bring Daenerys Entertainment no less than 613 million US dollars in revenue.

Excluding all costs, Daenerys Entertainment will earn no less than US$2.2 million in net profit through the theatrical release of "The Sixth Sense" in the next year, and the income from video tapes and TV broadcasts in the later period is also huge.

On a comprehensive basis, during the entire profit cycle, the net profit contributed by "The Sixth Sense" to Daenerys Entertainment will not be less than US$5 million.

On the other hand, many things that have happened recently are changing some of Simon's ideas.

The billions of dollars of funds hoarded overseas and a series of huge assets that continue to appreciate under the name of Westeros made Simon realize that although some things cannot be implemented for the time being, the wealth he now has probably cannot be spent in his entire life .

Immediately afterwards, Daenerys Entertainment's 10 foreign cooperation film plans sparked a frenzy in Hollywood, making Simon understand that sometimes sharing benefits can not only protect himself, but also gain unexpected power and more benefits from it.

The announcement of the 10-movie plan immediately resolved the WGA investigation, prompting Orion to settle the arrears of "Pulp Fiction", MGM no longer mentioned the "Rain Man" lawsuit, and Sony, which was about to complete the acquisition of Columbia, voluntarily gave up its Daenerys Entertainment's poaching plan, and the fact that Simon encountered more eager stars than ever at the party last night, all mean that Daenerys Entertainment and Simon's personal influence in Hollywood has suddenly increased.

Obviously, these are undoubtedly a kind of hidden power.

At the same time, although Daenerys Entertainment only accounted for half of the investment in the 10 films, and voluntarily gave up the income from distribution, but because of Simon's prophetic advantage, the projects he selected should have been very successful, and now they are Daenerys Entertainment. Entertainment takes nearly half of the revenue that should all go to other Hollywood studios.

In addition, hearing yesterday that Steve Ross rewarded the "Lethal Weapon" crew with a sports car, it also made Simon understand another truth. Spending money is not just about buying real objects. Spending money on people is also a kind of "consumption" ', and often get unexpected rewards.

Therefore, Simon and Amy discussed an additional incentive plan for the main creator of "The Sixth Sense" at breakfast this morning, totaling 1500 million US dollars.

Among them, De Niro is 500 million U.S. dollars. This reward can make his total salary from the project reach the top 1000 million U.S. dollars in Hollywood. The small actors of the film will receive US$200 million, and the rest of the supporting cast will share the final US$200 million with the main creator of the film.

Such a bonus is not much compared to the expected huge income of "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", but it is still rare for the production company to actively distribute additional bonuses after the box office hits. In the memory of Simon II, On the contrary, there are many cases where film companies tried their best to swallow up the due share of the main creator after the box office hit.

The salaries of Hollywood's current first-line stars have begun to reach tens of millions of dollars.

In order to control the budget cost and prevent the film company from becoming a supporting role for the stars, Simon will still try his best to suppress the stars' remuneration, but at the same time, he also plans to set up more reasonable sharing plans so that the main creators can get more after the box office hits. income.

As for the matter at hand.

Although some of Simon's ideas have begun to change, one thing has not changed. He still dislikes people who break the contract very much.

The most fundamental reason for the smooth expansion of Daenerys Entertainment's distribution network this year is the support of a series of blockbuster films.Without these bargaining chips, it is impossible for Daenerys Entertainment to attract major theaters in North America, and it is even more impossible to quickly open up the situation overseas.

In fact, Simon also has a positive attitude towards Robert Rem's work results, and he is still a person who is very nostalgic, advocating the concept that clothes are not as good as new people.If Rem can work hard to complete his three-year contract period, Simon will definitely give him a satisfactory renewal salary plan.

just now.

Stopping his finger tapping on the desktop, Simon nodded and said, "Since he wants it, then give it to him. In addition, I plan to integrate the various overseas branches into a unified subsidiary to be responsible for the operation of the overseas distribution network." As for the investment in overseas film projects, as for the name, it is called Daenerys International. You should look for management candidates recently. Also, last year's "Scream" and other films have ended their vacancy period in theaters. There's going to be an explosion in the down video business, and Daenerys Home Entertainment needs a dedicated head."

Hearing what Simon said, Amy knew that he was really annoyed. After thinking about it, she said, "Can these two things be separated?"

"If Sony hadn't voluntarily given up, I should have received the resignation letter by now." Simon shook his head, looked at Amy and said seriously: "I am actually a person who is very afraid of indebted to others, which makes me feel very uncomfortable. So , as long as I can, I will give you more. However, I also don't like a person who overestimates his own importance and uses it to ask for things he doesn't deserve."

After saying this, Simon stood up and walked out without waiting for Amy to respond.

When I came to the screening room of the branch, I watched the sample of "Driving Miss Daisy" with Deutschman. It was already seven o'clock, and we had dinner together by the way. Simon didn't go back to Trousdale, Beverly Hills. Instead, he returned to the villa on the west side of Cape Dume in Malibu.

On Monday night in Los Angeles, it was already Tuesday afternoon in Melbourne, and the major stock exchanges in Asia were basically closed.

On the phone, Janet told Simon that the Nikkei 225 had officially broken through 38000 at the close on Tuesday afternoon local time.

For the sake of caution, the two only touched on this topic.

Simon's goal is too obvious, and Americans have a long history of wiretapping. It's hard to say whether his home phone will be wiretapped.During this period, some important information was transmitted through the most primitive manual methods, with staff commuting between Melbourne, Los Angeles and New York every day.

Simon and Janet talked on the phone for more than two hours, mainly discussing the vacation schedule starting next month.

After hanging up at eleven o'clock, Simon read the script for another hour before resting.

The next morning saw more detailed information.

日本股市大盘在当地时间8月8日收盘时定格在38076点，这段时间依旧由珍妮特和安东尼表面上代理运营的瑟曦资本1到5号基金因为并没有按照西蒙的计划清仓离场，反而继续保持净多头状态，目前的资产净值已经达到了32.9亿美元。

Due to the strict confidentiality measures of all parties, the news that funds No. 1 to No. 5 have changed hands has not been leaked at all.

With the current growth momentum of the Japanese stock market, Simon feels that there is nothing wrong with the Nikkei 225 index hitting the 40000-point mark this time. Of course, all of this has nothing to do with him.

According to the established plan, funds No. 6 to No. 10 of Cersei Capital have recently begun to establish short contracts for companies related to junk bonds in the North American stock and bond markets.

Unlike stock index futures, the operation of shorting stocks and bonds is much more complicated, and it is also easy to be detected by the target company and counteracted.However, the junk bond market in North America with a total of 2000 billion US dollars, and the stocks of related companies with a total scale of hundreds of billions of dollars, are enough for Cersei Capital, which has only 50 billion US dollars in funds, to complete the layout without arousing too many people's vigilance.

This is actually the reason why Simon limited Cersei's capital scale in the first place.

With Simon's current appeal, Cersei Capital would be able to easily raise a huge sum of tens of billions of dollars if it were free to absorb investment. Don't try to do much more.

When I went to Melbourne last time, based on my memory and the information collected by Janet, Cersei Capital has confirmed the operation plan for North America. Simon is only paying attention to it now, and does not intervene in specific operations.

Something the Writers Guild of America investigated.

After two weeks of several negotiations, Daenerys Entertainment finally reached an agreement with the Writers Guild of America, and Daenerys Entertainment admitted to violating WGA regulations on the two scripts of "Scream" and "The Sixth Sense". , at a cost of $10 per script, and paid a total of $20 in fines in order to obtain WGA's understanding.

It's clear to everyone that this is just Daenerys Entertainment giving the WGA a step up.

As for the compensation that Bruce Joy Robin was trying to fight for, because the parties were completely voluntary during the signing of the agreement, the WGA ruled that Bruce Joy Robin also committed active violations and therefore did not support Bruce Joy Robin's claim .

The agreement signed by the two parties did not violate the relevant federal regulations. The key to this dispute lies in the attitude of the labor union.

Now, without the support of the trade union, even if the two parties go to court, it is completely impossible for Bruce Joy Robin to get any compensation.What's more, it is well-known to spend money in litigation in the United States. Bruce Joy Robin obviously does not have enough capital to file a lawsuit against Daenerys Entertainment. He can only die after the WGA ruling.

Many people understand the origin of Daenerys Entertainment's 10 foreign cooperation film plan. The dispute with the labor union is over. The selected screenplay project has not been announced, and some people have even begun to worry about whether he will go back on his word.

Chapter 284 Sleeping with the Enemy (Revision)

Beverly Hills.

In a restaurant near Fox Studios, Simon is having lunch with Joe Ross, president of Fox Studios.

The time is October 8th, Friday.

Daenerys Entertainment formally signed a settlement agreement with the WGA yesterday, and Simon made an appointment with Joe Roth today to discuss the first of those 10 planned foreign collaborations.

Simon has more than one project in his eyes. The reason why he started with Fox was because of Murdoch.These days, Rupert Murdoch personally called Simon more than once, and he talked about these 10 movies. Even when talking to Janet, the woman mentioned that Murdoch told her old man about the project. matter.

In the first two years, Fox Films worked with Simon on three films, "The Butterfly Effect", "Death Comes" and "Basic Instinct", all of which were great successes.

In addition, "Butterfly Effect" and "Death Comes" also developed sequels last year, but because of the success of the first song, there were external factors that caused the public's curiosity about Simon to flourish. After the release of the second part of these two series last year, , the box office is far worse than the first one.

"Butterfly Effect 2" only took back more than 5600 million US dollars at the box office, and "Reaper 2" only earned a little over 3800 million at the box office.Such a result is actually very profitable. However, because of the deep drop compared to the first part, Fox has also become cautious in developing the third part.

Without the release of the sequels of these two ace horror films this year, the performance of Fox Films immediately slumped.

This summer, Fox's "The Boss Is Going on Vacation" released in July so far has only made a little over 7 million at the box office, without splashing any waves at all.James Cameron's new work "The Abyss", which was released last Friday, is even more of a big pit. Under Cameron's repeated overspending, the budget of the film finally reached an astonishing $2200 million.

Hollywood movies usually use an integer budget, such as 1000 million to 2000 million. Of course, the actual situation is not so coincidental, and most of them are just an overall estimate.

Fox did not round up to the customary $7000 million on The Abyss, indeed because studio execs were afraid to do so again.

After all, although there are not a few Hollywood films with a budget of 6000 to 7000 million US dollars in recent years, the only one with a production cost of 4500 million US dollars is "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".Even with this movie, Disney often veiled and lied to the outside world that the budget was not that high, but it was actually $[-] million.

If the money can be spent in exchange for a blockbuster like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", the result is not bad.However, compared to the high production cost, "The Abyss" is really a box office dud.

According to statistics released this morning, the box office figure for the first seven days of "The Abyss" was only US$7 million.In comparison, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", which was released for the sixth week, still has a single-week box office of 1753 million US dollars, ranking first in the weekly box office list.

Based on media evaluation and audience feedback, Fox's North American box office estimate for "The Abyss" is only 5000 million US dollars, and this project is almost destined to lose money.Still, it's the best-grossing result of Fox's seven films released so far this year.Among the other films, the highest box office is "The Boss Going on Vacation" last month, which has earned US$7 million so far. None of the other six films have broken through the 2200 million box office threshold.

Murdoch has never been very keen on the film business, he prefers newspapers and television.However, since it bought Fox Films, it can't be so tepid, so it is eager to get a share of Daenerys Entertainment's 10 foreign cooperation film plans.

Now that he has decided to operate Australian capital as his backing, Simon naturally has no reason to refuse Murdoch's request.Moreover, News Corporation's huge global media network is of great benefit to the expansion of Simon's personal business territory around the world.

There are only advantages and no disadvantages in getting married with the Murdoch family.

"Sleeping with the Enemy"? Hmm... I remembered, it was the story of the wife who couldn't stand her husband's torture and feigned death to escape," Joe Ross opened the folder of scripts selected by Simon in the restaurant, and then endured Can't help saying: "Simon, this story seems to have no selling point, it can only be made into a low-cost thriller. I think that "Marked for Death" seems to be better, have you seen it?"

"Sleeping with the Enemy" is actually a movie starring Julia Roberts in the original time and space. It tells the story of a wife who was trapped by a mentally disturbed husband because she couldn't bear the torture and pretended to fall into the water and drowned.

The story as a whole seems to have no bright spots, but it is a work with a box office of over [-] million in North America in Simon's memory.

Simon happened to have seen the movie.

The success of "Sleeping with the Enemy" is not only due to the participation of Julia Roberts. The key to its success is the tense plot that keeps the audience's heart interlocked from beginning to end.

Therefore, compared with a script that really doesn't see too many bright spots, details such as rhythm control, suspense setting, atmosphere creation and even theme soundtrack during the production process of the film are all very important.