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Chapter 1069 Two "Comets Hit the Earth"

Chapter 1069 Two "Comets Hit the Earth" Bob White was not dizzy by Simon's rhetoric, and his tone was a little more sour: "The problem is, Simon, what you called 'tent poles' in recent years, Most of it comes from Daenerys Entertainment, so that's not fair, is it?"

"You are wrong, Bob. Compared with other fields, the competition in Hollywood is the fairest. As long as you can produce good enough movies, the audience will buy it. Daenerys Entertainment has only done better in recent years. It's just that we're not holding back other studios from making good movies, that's someone else's problem."

"Okay," Bob White didn't mean to continue arguing, and he didn't go around the corner, and said, "Simon, I came to Los Angeles this time because I hope that Warner Bros. can develop more DC series besides the existing ones." Superhero movie."

Simon restrained his expression: "If I remember correctly, Bob, Terry should be in charge of Warner's film business."

"That's right, but it's clear that Terry hasn't done his due diligence in this regard, at least in terms of the development of superhero movies, he has completely failed to stimulate the potential of the DC brand."

"So, what I want to know is..." Simon looked at Bob White: "Does Jack know about this?"

Bob White paused, and said, "I haven't told him yet."

Simon directly raised his glass to White, and said: "In this case, have a better night. Moreover, I can make my attitude clear, and I disagree. If you plan to push forward forcefully, of course I can't stop it, but I will change the current situation." The development plan of the DC movie universe project."

After saying this, Simon ignored Bob White and turned directly to go elsewhere.

Asking about Jack Welch, it was just that Simon wanted to confirm whether this incident tonight came from Welch's inspiration.However, for the DC movie universe, Simon's tough attitude will not change at all.Unknowingly, he has regarded Hollywood as his own territory. In order to prevent the premature flood of comics and to maintain the diversity of Hollywood, Simon has been suppressing his own Marvel. Of course, he will not allow DC to mess around.

If the conflict intensifies, even in the DC movie universe, Simon can stop and stop.

As soon as he separated from Bob White, Jonathan Friedman greeted him and congratulated him again. Jonathan said another thing: "Simon, Daenerys Entertainment's two comets hit the earth recently. Movies, "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation", when do you plan to start preparations?"

"Peerless Catastrophe" was an idea that Simon gave to MGM at the time, the blockbuster infectious disease film "Terror Zone", an idea that Robert Poole, the screenwriter, had a long time ago. After the success of "Terror Zone", Poole also became popular. The script of the next "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" was successfully selected by Daenerys Entertainment.

"Clash of Heaven and Earth" is Simon's idea inspired by "Peerless Catastrophe". In the past, the two films competed in the same year, which was very lively.The original version of "Clash of Heaven and Earth" has been dropped by the butterfly, Simon picked it up again, and handed it over to the original screenwriter Michael Tolkien to write.

The two projects have recently been added to Daenerys Entertainment's list of projects. Although the preparations have not yet officially started, the two super blockbusters that focus on special effects have quickly attracted the attention of major Hollywood agencies and stars of all sizes.

no way.

In today's Hollywood, the films produced by Daenerys Entertainment are the most likely to make actors popular. At the same time, if they want to stabilize their positions and not be overtaken by latecomers, even big stars must try their best to win these opportunities.

Jonathan Friedman was apparently scouting for the WMA star at this time.

Of course, Simon would not hide anything from Jonathan, and said: "For the time being, it is just a project. However, next year's schedule is already full. "Clash of Heaven and Earth" will be released in 1998, and "Peerless Heaven and Heaven", I hope Michael Bay As director, it will have to wait until he finishes Jurassic Park 3, which will be released in 1999."

Jonathan nodded when he heard the words, basically as expected, so he didn't rush to recommend candidates, but said again: "Jin has already finished filming the "Cable TV Repairman", and Daenerys Entertainment has not released it yet." A project news, Simon, I can only ask you?"

"Cable TV Fixer" is a comedy tailor-made for Jim Carrey as the behind-the-scenes team members of the bad boy gang Ben Stiller and Judd Apatow that Simon has been quietly supporting.

In the past, Jim Carrey won Hollywood's first basic salary of 2000 million US dollars with this movie, and since then opened the 2000 million era.

Because of the original contract and Simon's suppression of Jim Carrey, of course there is no $2000 million this time.Moreover, including this movie, it was also deliberately arranged by Simon. The "Cable TV Repairman" in the original time and space, the box office performance can be described as the worst one after Jim Carrey's popularity. The box office barely exceeded 5000 million.

This is Simon's deliberate suppression of Jim Carrey, and by the way, let the bad boy help him.

Hearing Jonathan's obvious pleading tone at this time, Simon didn't insist, and said, "I'll take the time to get someone to send him the script."

Jim Carrey signed a five-part contract with Daenerys Entertainment at the beginning. After two "Aeroplanes", "Mask in Disguise" and "Cable TV Repairman" that have not yet been released, only The last one.

In fact, the script has already been prepared.

"Truman".

This is also a script that has been circulated in Hollywood for a long time and has not been fanned by Simon, the big butterfly. In the hands of Daenerys Entertainment, it was quietly taken down by Simon.

If it hadn't been for Jim Carrey's attempt to break the contract with Daenerys Entertainment and make trouble with Daenerys Entertainment, Simon might have taken it out a long time ago, and he could even push him at the Oscars.

Speaking of which, there are actually quite a few scripts that have been quietly suppressed by Simon in recent years.

Just like this year-end schedule in 1996, the top-grossing film should have been "Mr. Sweetheart" starring Tom Cruise. Cruise has been reduced to the second and third tiers under the constant suppression of Daenerys Entertainment. "Although the script was not fanned out, it was also sealed by Simon to make way for other movies.

Seeing Simon let go, Jonathan was relieved.

In fact, I can understand Simon's approach.

At the beginning, Daenerys Entertainment signed several long-term contracts in a row, including a series of key DC movie universe actor contracts. If Jim Carrey, who tried to break the contract, was not taught a lesson, other actors would definitely make trouble. It is likely that it will not end, and it is even hard to say whether the DC movie universe can achieve the glory of last year's Super Bat War.

Jim Carrey, who voluntarily succumbed, switched to WMA. With Jonathan's words, he got rid of the situation of being hidden. However, the bad feeling on Daenerys Entertainment's side has already formed.If not, with the box-office momentum shown by the comedian's first two films, the current achievements are definitely more than that.

Fortunately, there is only the last film appointment left.

Jonathan can imagine that after finishing the last movie, the two parties will never have any intersection again.However, Daenerys Entertainment, who is in full swing, obviously doesn't care too much about the intersection.

Even times have changed.

Today's Hollywood is obviously the era of super blockbuster movies, and it is no longer the year when the big directors and stars were admired by the stars of the major studios, just like the DC movie universe, there are no big directors and stars, the same It can create a miracle at the box office, and even in these years, it has produced a group of brand new big directors and big stars.

Jonathan just asked about two comet hit the earth movies, which were also requested by some big names under WMA.Otherwise, Daenerys Entertainment gave these opportunities to those newcomers, and many big names who have been in danger in recent years may really be shot to death on the beach.

In the final analysis, a young man born ten years ago has completely changed the landscape of Hollywood.

On the second day of the premiere, the word-of-mouth ban on "Wonder Woman 2" was immediately lifted, and the comprehensive score of various media reached 8.7 points, which is close to a classic.

Moreover, the word-of-mouth of this latest DC masterpiece is even irrelevant. When the major theaters put up the last poster of the three superheroes, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Cyborg, on the second day of the premiere, it has already made people A large number of movie fans who didn't know that The Flash will participate in the show have raised their expectations to a higher level.

Immediately afterwards, on November 11, after the hot midnight show, the much-anticipated "Wonder Woman 22" was officially rolled out on a large scale on 2 screens in North America.

At the same time, the first week of the Thanksgiving schedule from November 11 to November 15 has also come to an end.

In fact, after the three-day box office was released on the weekend from November 11th to November 15th, the two producers of "Space Jam" and "Star Trek 11" already felt bad. The TV broadcast of the fifth Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and the subsequent two consecutive episodes of "American Idol" with an average viewership of more than 17 million on Tuesday and Thursday, the final box office results were released, and the results of the two new films The producer is completely heartbroken.

The total box office for the first seven days of the Thanksgiving schedule was US$9546 million, of which US$7923 million was accounted for in the three days of the weekend, while the box office for the four-day working day was only US$1622 million, accounting for only a poor 17% of the box office for the week. Under normal circumstances, this proportion is often around 30%.

In other words, the three popular dramas this week are equivalent to eating up more than 1200 million US dollars in box office in North American theaters.

The films produced by Daenerys Entertainment over the years have made other studios more and more helpless. Now even the TV shows of Daenerys Entertainment are coming to compete with everyone for market share, which is really tempting. Cry without tears.

In the end, in the first week of the Thanksgiving schedule, the box office champion was not the $8000 million live-action movie "Space Jam" led by Bugs Bunny and Jordan, but Paramount's sequel to the classic long-term sci-fi series "Star Trek 8". ".

In the first week of its release, "Star Trek 8" earned $3467 million in the seven days of its opening.

This result is not considered a failure, but it is also significantly lower than Paramount's $4000 million first-week box office expectations.

And, the $500 million forecast gap happens to match the box-office share eaten up by several hit TV shows.If there is no "Wonder Woman 2", the opening is 3467 million US dollars, and the follow-up of "Star Trek 8" is actually expected to hit the local box office of 8000 million to 1 million US dollars. The production cost of the film is 4500 million US dollars, and the production cost can be recovered only by relying on local distribution.

Now, "Wonder Woman 2" is so aggressive that it was even slashed by a TV show produced by Daenerys Entertainment in the first week of its opening.However, the popularity of the "Star Trek" series overseas is far less than that in China, and it is already lucky to get half of the domestic box office.

Calculated, it should be Paramount's stable Star Trek series. In this sequel, even if it does not lose money through all channels, it will inevitably become the worst commercial performance in these years.

However, "Star Trek 8" is actually lucky.

"Space Jam", No. 2 on the box office list, is the real failure.

Warner imitated the model of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and spent 8000 million US dollars to produce this combination of live-action and animation. It also invited the familiar Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan. The average media score is only 4.3 points, not even a passing grade, far from the praise of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" back then.

Even though the North American market is very mature, there is actually no shortage of bad movies selling well.

It's just a matter of timing.

In the past, "Space Jam", in the absence of a strong opponent, won more than 9000 million US dollars at the local box office, and 2.3 million worldwide, which is also considered a blockbuster.

This time, we only talk about the first week of painting, not only to collide with "Star Trek 8", but also Barbra Streisand's "Double-sided Mirror" last week and "Annabelle", which still has enough time to draw in the Halloween schedule. , the ending can be imagined.

In the first week and seven days, relying on 2650 opening screens, the box office revenue of "Slam Dunk" was only 2514 million US dollars, and the average box office failed to reach the 1 US dollar sales level.

It started with 2514 million US dollars, and next week it will be "Wonder Woman 2", which is enough to cut the box office data of the same period.

In addition to the two new films, "Annabelle", which successfully broke through 43 million last week, this week, under the impact of the two new films, although the box office fell by 1556%, it still won a box office of 1 million U.S. dollars. $2476 million.

This new film from The Conjuring Cinematic Universe, with a total investment of only US$3000 million in production and publicity, sits firmly on the Diaoyutai.

No.4 is Barbra Streisand's "Double-sided Mirror". The next week's box office fell by 29%, earning 1140 million US dollars, and the two-week box office accumulated 2749 million US dollars. Through subsequent releases, it is expected to reach the expected local 4000 million. , can be regarded as the best result of this project produced by Sony.

No.5 is "Boogie Nights", which is still produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

Compared with No.4 "Double Mirror"'s $1140 million, the box office of "Boogie Nights" in the fifth week of its release dropped directly to $431 million. "In addition to the top four, the last 13 films of the 9 films included in the box office statistics report this week only received a total box office of less than 900 million US dollars.

However, all these movies, no matter how good or bad they are, have all been reduced to floating clouds in the face of "Wonder Woman 2", which is crushing vigorously.

Chapter 1070 Returning to China

Man is a standing creature.

Boston.

On the afternoon of Sunday, November 11th, I watched the afternoon show with my three sons and my daughter who came to the United States to visit me. I heard the three boys talk about this film with their sister with admiration in their voices. At the box office, Maria Bezruk, who walked quietly beside the children, inevitably felt a sense of pride in her heart.

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And in her stomach, there was a little guy of his at this time.

Thinking about the news she saw in the newspapers in the past two days, compared to last year when she was outside the office, Maria felt a certain kind of shock.

On the first day of November 11nd, it was considered a midnight show. It only earned 22 million US dollars at the box office on the first day of the filming, which was higher than the box office of the first seven days of the new film called last week. According to the trend, the media even predicted that this film will once again reach the first three-day box office breakthrough of 3561 million.

The box office reached 1 million U.S. dollars in three days, and Maria couldn't help but convert it with the currency units of Ukraine and even the former Soviet Union, thinking it was a miracle.

The person who created this miracle happened to be the father of the child in his womb.All kinds of emotions involuntarily surfaced in her heart, which made Maria's fading sense of strangeness towards him because of a certain child even more dissipated.Even, because he usually takes a week or two to come and see him, some grievances will emerge unknowingly.

After walking for more than 20 minutes from the nearby community theater back to the manor where she lived, Maria and her four children had just entered the door when they saw Angourie Davis guarding the door of the villa.

The housekeeper greeted the children, and waited for the siblings to enter the door before she stopped to say to Maria who had a premonition: "Ms. Bezluk, it's so cold now, you should ask the driver to drive you out, and It's not that far away."

Of course Maria understood that the housekeeper was concerned about her unborn child, and explained: "It's okay, my hometown is much colder than Boston."

"You still have to pay attention." Angorui has always kept his duty in front of the master's house, so after a little dissuasion, he stopped talking, but said: "Besides, I will return to New York soon, Angorui Ms. Rui, if you have anything, you can call me anytime."

"Okay," Maria nodded, hesitated for a while, and looked at the children in the living room with a guilty conscience, before asking Angorui in a low voice, "Ange, what has he been up to lately?"

"It was released recently, and there will definitely be a lot of things at the end of the year, and it will be Thanksgiving soon, and the boss will not be able to spare time to come," Angore said, before Maria showed too much disappointment, he said again: "However, boss Definitely coming to the East Coast for a few days in early December, when Westeros Tower in Manhattan is topped out."

At the beginning of December, not a specific date, but it must be at least a week later.

Thinking about it this way, although I was disappointed, I finally had some hope.

Angourie Davis explained some trivial matters to Maria, and not forgetting to say hello to the four children, he took these entourages away.

Return to New York by helicopter in the evening.

The housekeeper had just arrived, and rushed to arrange for Jian Xin and Tao Yuelei to see them off. The two oriental girls returned to China today. As her boss's recent favorite, she should pay more attention.

Kennedy International Airport.

Jian Xin and Tao Yuelei were assigned a Gulfstream V ultra-long-range business jet this time. Although it was inevitable to stop in Hawaii, the two girls were filled with the excitement of returning home. Anyway, they only came to the United States for half a year If you have time, you can take a private jet back. If your relatives and friends know this, even if they think of certain things, it will probably be difficult to have any prejudice.

In this era, private jets are almost like legends in China.

Saying goodbye to the housekeeper who came to see him off, as well as friends such as Roberta and Annelis, Jian Xin and her two daughters boarded the Gulfstream V, and the private jet departed soon.

Finally arrived at the destination, the time was already around five o'clock in the evening Beijing time on Monday.

The location is also the Capital Airport.

In this day and age, those who can use private jets in the country are all big shots. Seeing that the two girls are accompanied by several foreign women as attendants, the airport staff are even more attentive when they welcome them. Some people recognize Jian Xin and the two girls. Signatures are required, but for the two international supermodels who have even become popular in China recently, the words are full of compliments.

Originally, I was timid because of the closeness to the hometown, but in this way, the sense of estrangement that did not arise at first dissipated quickly.

As soon as they walked out of the airport, the two girls saw a girl about two meters tall who was still arrogantly stepping on high heels rushing over, hugged the two girls enthusiastically, and almost kissed them in public. The attention of the surrounding passengers.

After Zhu Momo said hello to the two girls, she quickly introduced the same tall, slender woman who looked somewhat similar to her. It was Mo Wuling who was arranged by Zhu Momo's mother to become the girl's personal assistant.

In the end, it was the turn of a woman with short hair and a capable temperament in a black women's suit.

We had contacted many times in advance, of course we knew each other.

An Xiaohan.

President of China Branch of Elite Model Agency.

Originally, Elite's headquarters was set up in Shanghai, which is more open, but because it was arranged in advance to talk about some work in the capital tomorrow, everyone gathered here.

After exchanging pleasantries like this, a group of quite eye-catching women walked towards several luxury Mercedes-Benz waiting outside the airport.

Zhu Momo, who had a lot to talk with the two sisters, took the initiative to squeeze into a car with Jian Xin. When the car started, the girl couldn't help but threw herself on Jian Xin who was sitting in the middle and acted like a baby. She looked at the other side Tao Yuelei felt inexplicably... guilty, and secretly reached a tacit agreement, intending to squeeze Zhu Momo out completely.

"Now, let's live together in the courtyard in Mao'er Hutong tonight. Even if we want to talk at night by candlelight, my aunt will never find a reason to stop me."

Hearing what Zhu Momo said, Jian Xin was half joking: "You broke up with Simon, and it's not appropriate to live in Simon's house again?"

Zhu Momo was still clinging to Jian Xin, because of the excitement she hadn't seen for a long time, she didn't feel the temptation in her tone, but said: "I didn't intend to break up, it was all arranged by my mother."

Tao Yuelei on the other side changed the subject a little bit and asked, "Momo, how did your movie go?"

"The filming started in early October. I didn't have many scenes, and the filming was finished at the end of the month. Moreover, the film was completed last week, and the post-production has already begun," Zhu Momo said by analogy: "However, it was not so easy there. Not only do you have to run around the country, the filming will not be finished until next month, but you are also very tired, especially the martial arts scene. Youhu also said on the phone last week that she fell off a lake hanging from Wia, and she was so tired that she didn’t want to think about it for a moment. People saved me, and I felt that drowning in the lake was easier than filming."

"So scary?"

"Yeah, martial arts drama, the kind that flies around."