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Tom Pollack was talking about Daenerys Entertainment's "Secret Deal" project with Paramount.

After Brian De Palma quit because he was worried that he would not be able to control the subject, Simon sent an invitation to the original director of the film, Adrian Lane.

Speaking of Adrian Ryan, maybe not many people know it, but when it comes to "Love You for Nine and a Half Weeks", probably many people will immediately think of the various flowers of Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. Lingering style.

Adrian Ryan is the director of "Loving You for Nine and a Half Weeks".

However, although "Love You for Nine and a Half Weeks" is famous for its controversy, it is not Adrian Ryan's top-grossing film. In fact, "Love You for Nine and a Half Weeks" has a very poor box office.Adrian Lane's highest-grossing movie was "Fatal Attraction," which starred Michael Douglas and sold $[-] million worldwide four years ago.

Prior to this, Adrian Lane also filmed "Lightning Dance", which was among the top ten box office in 1983. The musical film that roughly followed the trend of "Grease" also caused strong controversy, but it sold for 400 million US dollars. The cost only earned a box office of more than 9000 million US dollars in North America, ranking No.3 on the annual box office list at that time.

Despite successes like "Lightning Dance" and "Fatal Attraction," the box office performance of Adrian Lane's production films has been inconsistent over the years.

After "Fatal Attraction", Adrian Ryan collaborated with Bruce Joy Robin, the gold medal screenwriter who became famous with "Ghosts" last year. The production cost of 2500 million US dollars, the North American box office Just over $2600 million.

Coupled with the director's low-production rhythm of directing a film for an average of three years, it is difficult for Ryan to maintain a first-line salary.

Simon listened to Tom Pollack's general introduction and was very satisfied with the results of his work.

Since the two want to share, Robert Redford's base pay of $500 million and Adrian Ryan's base pay of $300 million are exactly what Simon expected.

至于10%的本土票房毛收入分成，这里是指丹妮莉丝娱乐从院线方面获得票房分账那部分的10%。如果按照1亿美元本土票房和55%的制片厂分账比例计算，10%大致相当于550万美元。

As long as the two of them can ensure that the local box office of "Peachy Deal" exceeds 550 million, and they each take another [-] million US dollars, they deserve it.

Tom Pollack confirmed that Simon has no objection to the two salary plans, and then said: "In this case, I will sign the contract with Bob and Ryan as soon as possible. In addition, the salary offer given by Demi Moore's agent is 500 I have talked with ICM several times, and the other side has not backed down, they said that Moore is not short of film contracts now."

Demi Moore is the original heroine of "Sexy Deal".

During this period of time, Simon has been hesitant about whether to let Demi Moore play this role again. He has read the original book and the script and thinks that the heroine Diana should be Xiaojiabiyu's type.

As for Demi Moore.

Probably because of too many mnemonic scandals about the other party, it is difficult for Simon to replace Moore in this role.

Hearing what Tom Pollack said at this moment, Simon thought for a moment and said, "In this case, forget about Demi, and try to contact Valerie."

"Valerie Golino?"

Simon nodded and said, "Yes. Her performance in "Rain Man" fits Diana's temperament very well."

Chapter 424 Business Trip (Revision)

In a blink of an eye, it was another Friday, June 6.

《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士》结束第三周的放映，6月21日到6月27日七天，影片票房跌幅相比上周收缩到25%，再次进账4513万美元。

At the same time, the cumulative North American box office of this superhero blockbuster officially broke through the $2 million mark, reaching $2 million.

Breaking through [-] million in the first week!

Breaking [-] million in three weeks!

Such a box office record, in the eyes of many people, is probably only broken by other films in the DC movie universe.

In addition, Paramount Pictures' new film "The White-headed Detective 2", which opened last week, earned $3154 million at the box office in the first week, exceeding Paramount's expectations.

As "Batman: The Dark Knight" began to quickly release market space, the industry gradually discovered that this unstoppable superhero movie actually played a very obvious role in stimulating the market.

5月24日暑期档开局六部新片密集开画的那一周，北美院线单周总票房只有8600多万美元。但从6月7日《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士》开画以来，北美电影市场连续三周的单周总票房数字分别达到1.79亿美元、1.46亿美元和1.31亿美元。

Calculated, the cumulative box office of the three weeks minus the $2 million of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is equivalent to the average weekly income of other films of $8300 million.

Obviously, affected by the recent movie-watching craze triggered by "Batman: The Dark Knight", many viewers have watched more than one movie during this period.

Specific to the films of the same period, apart from "The White-headed Detective 2" whose box office exceeded expectations in the first week, the firefighting theme film "Backfire" produced by the original Universal Pictures, opened on May 5 to now, and the box office has accumulated 24 in five weeks. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

Although the single-week box office has dropped to around US$500 million, the final North American box office of "Backfire" is still expected to hit the US$7000 million mark.

"Backfire" had a production budget of $4000 million. The North American box office of 7000 million US dollars, including the expected overseas box office revenue, is basically enough for the film to recover the production and distribution costs.

In the four weeks since its release on May 5, "Urban Hillbilly" starring Billy Crystal, under the shadow of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has also reached a cumulative box office of 31 million US dollars.

Unlike "Backfire" whose box office fell into the $500 million range, the weekly box office of "Urban Hillbilly" in the past week is still as high as $1418 million, ranking second only to "Batman: The Dark Knight" and "Batman: The Dark Knight". White-headed detective 2", ranked third.

According to this box office trend, it is easy for "Urban Hillbilly" to break through [-] million domestic box office in North America.

Not only these mainstream commercial films, but also the Antarctic documentary "Frozen World" produced by Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Films has been like a small but eye-catching "dark horse" since it was released.

Although the box office is not big, it has attracted the attention of the media and the public because of the outstanding market performance and the alternative theme besides the mainstream films in the summer. Even under the limelight of "Batman: The Dark Knight", it still maintains A very good topic heat.

Therefore, although the highest single-week box office of this non-mainstream Antarctic documentary was only US$766 million, which fell in the second week, the cumulative box office has continued to exceed the expectations of all parties.

截止6月27日，《冰雪世界》的累计票房已经达到3112万美元。这一数字相当于影片微不足道的300万美元制作成本的10倍，绝对是这个暑期档回报率最高的电影。

Moreover, given that "Frozen World" still earned $461 million at the box office last week and its decline has been controlled within 20% for four consecutive weeks, the film's next North American box office is very likely to hit the $5000 million mark.

There are blockbuster movies, so naturally there is no shortage of cannon fodder.

The most bleak performance in the summer market is undoubtedly Bruce Willis's "Ultimate Condor" with a production cost of 6500 million US dollars. The film's reputation and box office both failed.

As of June 6th, the box office of "Ultimate Condor" only received a little over 20 million US dollars in the four weeks after its release, and it could not even earn back the promotion fee. files.

Others, such as Disney's "The Prancing Horse," Fox's "The Ugly Face" and Paramount's "Soap Platter," also struggled at the box office.

Spike Lee's new film "Jungle Fever" produced by the original Universal Pictures with a production budget of 1400 million US dollars, due to mistakes in the release schedule and publicity strategy, the market also failed to meet expectations. The total box office in North America is expected to be only a little over 2000 million US dollars.

The overseas market potential of all-black lineup films is limited, and Daenerys Entertainment can only expect to recover the full production and publicity costs of US$1900 million through subsequent distribution in other local channels.

The problem of "Jungle Fever" is obvious. It directly hit the schedule with "Batman: The Dark Knight". This caused the box office of this movie with a good reputation to be unsatisfactory.

As the scale of Daenerys Entertainment becomes larger and larger, Simon is very clear that this kind of problem is inevitable, and it is impossible for him to take care of everything by himself.

This is actually one of the reasons why Simon has recently insisted on streamlining and integrating the production and distribution teams of Daenerys Entertainment.Big company disease is inevitable for any corporate giant, but the impact of this negative factor can be mitigated through constant adjustment of an efficient company team.

On June 6th, a new film box office week, North American theaters once again had two new films released.

The blockbuster movie "Terminator 2", which is a collaboration between Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Films, has an opening screen of 2506.

The sequel to the sci-fi classic ended up costing $7300 million to make, and Cameron managed to force $7000 million over Simon's $300 million budget cap.

Fortunately, in the end, it is still a lot less than the original budget of 1.02 million US dollars in time and space.

Now that the $7300 million was spent, Simon didn't save any more, and asked Fox to give a publicity budget of $3000 million, making the total production and publicity budget of this project still exceed the [-] million yuan mark.

Another new film is a gangster film "Boys from the Neighborhood" produced by Columbia Pictures. The opening screen size is only 876 yuan, which is basically a foil.

Simon checked the next phase of Universal Studios' reconstruction plan in Burbank in the morning, had lunch with Nancy Brill who was staying here, and drove back to Malibu at two o'clock in the afternoon.

The car left Universal Studios, drove westward along Ventura Avenue for more than 20 kilometers, and then turned south into the north-south Intermountain Highway 27 leading to Malibu.Along the No. 27 inter-mountain road, about 5 kilometers inward, it enters a newly built asphalt road.

The asphalt road leads directly to the administrative area of ​​Daenerys Film City. The entrance and exit are just at the top corner of the triangular film city. This was originally a mountain path leading to the water tower on the top of the mountain. After being re-opened and widened in recent months, There is a two-lane asphalt road.

With the further expansion of Daenerys Entertainment, the transportation and accommodation of employees under Daenerys Entertainment have become issues that the company needs to pay attention to.

In the past, Daenerys Studios Malibu had only one exit from the studio area leading to Linhai Highway [-].

Although the southern exit leads directly to Malibu to the west and Sunset Boulevard to the east, whether it is Malibu or the wealthy areas such as Palisades, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills that Sunset Boulevard leads to, it is not Daenerys. Most employees can afford to live there, and Santa Monica is also a high-consumption area.

After Daenerys Entertainment merged with MCA, the problem became even more serious.

Because Universal Studios is in Burbank, most of the employees also live in the valley where housing prices are relatively low.

As Simon moved most of the functions originally in Universal Studios to Daenerys Studios, many employees needed to face long commutes.

In the past, if you wanted to go to Burbank from Daenerys Studios in Malibu, you needed to enter the Linhai Highway from the south exit of the studio, go east for a while to the entrance of Intermountain Highway 27, and then go north.

After the construction of the asphalt road connecting the northernmost administrative area of ​​Daenerys Studios and Intermountain Highway No. 27 is completed, at least 15 minutes can be saved in terms of time for employees to enter and exit. The entire road can be driven into the northern valley within 10 kilometers.

Moreover, on both sides of Intermountain Highway No. 27, there are actually many scattered residential communities.

After the asphalt road to the north of the administrative area is opened, many employees can also buy or rent houses in these cheap mountain residential communities.There is no need to drive around a big bend from the southern exit, and it is no problem to go to work on weekdays even on foot.

From Universal Studios Burbank to Daenerys Studios Malibu, the total distance is about 35 kilometers, and it took exactly one hour when the traffic was smooth in the afternoon.

Simon didn't have any free time in the car either. By the time the car drove into the administrative area from the northern entrance, he had already finished reading the project materials of "The Beautiful Wife of New York" that was about to start filming next month.

Robert Iger was also in LA recently and just happened to be here from Universal Studios with Simon.

The two got off the car in the parking lot. Simon was still holding the document. As he walked, he turned to the previous page and asked, "The outline of the story is pretty good, but what's going on with this woman?"

On that page, the woman's name was Kris Jenner.

At the end-of-year party at Daenerys Studios last year, there was some woman named Kris Kardashian.

Although the original history is like this, it seems to be too fast.

and.

Also became 'The Beautiful Wife of New York'.

Robert Iger glanced sideways, with a strange expression on his face, glanced at Simon, and asked, "You don't know?"

Simon was even more puzzled: "What do I know?"

Robert Iger looked at Simon's expression again, hesitated, and said: "This, Ms. Jenna was not originally among the finalists. However, she took the initiative to contact me several times, um, implying that she and you Very, um...very familiar. So..."

Iger didn't say too much, but Simon understood, and could only smile wryly and sigh that this woman is really... amazing.

Robert Iger was still a little unsure. If the woman on the information was not familiar with Simon, why would he ask again this time.

Moreover, thinking about the posture and figure of the beautiful woman in her 30s, Iger thinks that it may really be more in line with the taste of his boss.Therefore, Iger did not ask Simon for confirmation in advance of this kind of "little matter" that only needs the understanding of subordinates.

Seeing that Simon closed the folder and handed it over, and continued to walk towards the office building, Iger thought about it and asked, "Simon, do you need a replacement?"

Simon shook his head and said with a smile: "No, this woman is very capable of tossing around, and she is indeed very suitable for this program."

Iger nodded and said no more.

Simon added: "I will stay in New York for a day before going to England next week. You can make arrangements for her to come see me."

Iger froze for a moment, then just responded again.

The two separated quickly afterwards, Iger went to a meeting, and Simon went to a screening room in Office Building [-].

There were two hours left in the afternoon, and the schedule was an in-house preview of Thelma & Louise, which Katherine Bigelow had just finished cutting.

"Thelma & Louise" is scheduled for September 9th, and the release of the film has already started. It was only completed two days ago, and it will be sent to MP for rating next week.

Entering the screening room, the screening of the film is ready.

It was probably confirmed that Simon would attend, and the small auditorium with more than 30 seats was very lively.

In addition to Catherine, the film producer and the publicity department staff, the two heroines of "Thelma and Louise" Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis also rushed over specially, and the two also brought their own Her boyfriends are also filmmakers in the circle, Tim Robbins and Renee Haring.

Tim Robbins is the actor in "The Shawshank Redemption" in the original time and space, and he also participated in Robert Altman's "Life Crossing Point" before.

Rennie Haring has emerged in Hollywood in recent years by directing "Die Hard 2" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street 4", and belongs to the rising new generation of directors.

Moreover, the latest film directed by Renee Haring is called "Passion Rose", which will also be released in the following September. The schedule is two weeks later than "Thelma and Louise". The heroine of "Passion Rose" is already doomed Miss Laura Dern in the new Jurassic Park.

If history does not change, the pair of Renny Harlin and Geena Davis will jointly complete the super 'blockbuster' "Cutthroat Island" that created a Guinness record for the loss of the film industry in Hollywood history.

So, Hollywood is really small.

Simon actually wanted to drive away other 'irrelevant people' so that he could be alone with Catherine.

Of course, just think about it.

Everyone greeted, but Simon did not hide it. He sat directly with Catherine in the back corner of the projection hall, and then signaled the staff to start playing the film.

Catherine is not as thick-skinned as Simon, but fortunately, she is in the last row, so it is not so embarrassing.

Moreover, even if it will never be admitted to anyone.

However, there is probably no one in Hollywood who does not know the relationship between the two.

After a brief moment of shyness, Catherine quickly adapted to the feeling of sitting with Simon in public.

A few years passed, and many things changed. He was even married, and she tried to deliberately indifference him. However, the intimacy accumulated between the two from the first meeting did not fade away.

Originally a celibate, Catherine has gradually adapted to the current life.

I have my own business, my own life, my own social circle, and a close man.

A few sneaky kisses now and then can satisfy for a long time.

Although he seemed to have everything for granted, he would not let her feel the possessiveness that disgusted women.

Ok.

In fact, in today's Hollywood, no man dares to pursue her.

The lights in the auditorium were dimmed, and Catherine noticed that Simon seemed to have a tendency to put his arm over him. Catherine glared at him and said softly, "Don't play tricks, someone is there."