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Simon's expression paused, he couldn't say in advance that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Titanic" are the focus of this year's awards.For the executives who do not have the prophetic advantage of Simon, these two films, judging from their appearance, are considered successful if they do not completely fail. How can they think of Oscar?

After thinking for a moment, Simon said: "Last year we invested in several projects in Europe that you followed up, the British film "Six Heroes of Light Pigs", and two Italian films, Tonadore's "Sea Piano" Teacher" and Roberto Bernini's "Life is Beautiful", they should both have the potential to be award-winning films."

Ella Deutschman nodded and shook her head again: "But none of them can be considered mainstream, and the box office volume will not be too high. Boss, I want to do "Shakespeare in Love". This project has been under pressure for two years. Now it will start. Just in time for the end of the year."

Not to mention "The Pianist on the Sea" and "Life is Beautiful", the previous "Six Heroes of Light Pig" cost a mere 200 million pounds, and the global box office exceeded 2.5 million U.S. dollars. Is this not too high?

However, you can't be a magic stick.

Simon could only hold back, and his thoughts turned to "Shakespeare in Love", the Oscar-best picture that was once full of controversy in history.

"Shakespeare in Love" is a well-known script that has been circulating in Hollywood for a long time. The idea of ​​the story was born in the late 80s. In the past, Julia Roberts, who was a popular actress in Hollywood in the 90s, worked on this project personally for various reasons. In the end, it failed to be shot, and after going around for ten years, it was finally produced by Miramax.

Then hit it big.

The quality of this movie is of course very good, but in 1998 it defeated the more outstanding "Saving Private Ryan", "The Thin Red Line", "Life is Beautiful" and other films to reach the top of the Oscars. One of Hollywood's best water actresses was born.

Daenerys Entertainment won the script a few years ago, and Simon has been pressing him to wait for the right time. Seeing Ella Deutschman looking at him expectantly, Simon felt a little helpless.Since "A Room with a View" that started back then, Ella Deutschmann has always had a soft spot for classical literary and artistic films, and "Shakespeare in Love" has naturally become her favourite.

Faced with the executive's expectations, Simon couldn't say Ella, let's wait a little longer, or the movie would become cannon fodder when it was made.

Still can't be a magic stick.

After a little hesitation, Simon finally nodded: "Okay, by the way, do you think about the hero and heroine?"

Either way.

As if this movie "last life" ruined my character, this time I will pay off the debt.

Seeing the boss nodding, Ella Deutschman was very happy: "I would like to invite Daniel Day Lewis for the male lead and Julia Roberts for the female lead. Julia just participated in the "BJ's Diary" last year. , specially received accent training, so she can get started directly, and she also likes this script very much."

Daniel Day-Lewis can be said to have been the candidate for the first male lead of "Shakespeare in Love", but because of the schedule, he was not invited several times.

As for Julia Roberts, Simon was not very satisfied. This actress really lacked a kind of British classical beauty.

Thinking of this, Simon said: "Daniel is fine, as long as you can get it. As for the heroine, let Kate try it first. Kate Beckinsale, she has performed very well in the last few movies, and she also won the role of " Good Will Hunting was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Supporting Actress, but the key point is that she is still British."

Appointing a heroine is one of the pleasures of my boss.

Who is it not fun?

Ella got the promise to start filming, so of course she won't make fun of herself in this matter, not to mention that her boss didn't mess around. Thinking about it for a while, Kate Beckinsale is indeed more suitable than Julia Roberts, Ella Deutschmann couldn't find a reason to refute at all, so he nodded quickly.

The matter was finalized, and Nancy Brill, who was a bit suspicious of the fun, said, "Boss, I want to restart "A Nightmare on Elm Street". Shea recently gave a very good plan, and, you Isn’t it also promoting the youth film project, I think you can try it.”

Under the operation of Simon, New Line and Miramax, which were supposed to shine in Hollywood in the 90s, went bankrupt one after another. Nancy Brill, as the controller of Blockbuster, once invited the heads of these two companies to try to In general, Blockbuster's production department, Simon also acquiesced in this matter, which can be regarded as laying the foundation for the future streaming media era.

The Weinstein brothers were subsequently fired by Nancy for misbehavior, leaving only New Line founder Robert Shea.

Simon has also paid attention to it in recent years.

Robert Shea was born in publishing. Although the performance of Blockbuster’s production department, which he presided over, was mediocre, mainly because there were not many resources available, he did a very good job in purchasing films and helped Blockbuster buy a lot of movies. Few high-quality and low-cost film copyrights.

Hearing Nancy's sudden mention, Simon also realized that Xie Yi probably had the idea of ​​making a comeback, but said: "I didn't see the memo you gave me in advance, Nancy, how much do you plan to spend, and how do you set the schedule? "

"1500 million US dollars, Shay hopes to use some CG special effects this time. In order to save money, we plan to find an independent special effects studio. Boss, if you think the cost is too high, Blockbuster can contribute part of it. Regarding the schedule, if you give the green light If so, I hope it will be released in mid-September."

"It's fine to share the investment, you can discuss it with Danny first, and submit a memo to me."

After talking about this, Simon took back the initiative of the topic and said: "Next, regarding overseas, last year we launched a number of projects in European and Asian countries, and there will be more in the future. Considering cultural factors, these projects will be expanded in the future. It will be released in its own country first, or even limited to local distribution, and will no longer be introduced to North America. This requires further strengthening of our overseas production and distribution network. Mark, you have always been responsible for this matter. I hope that I will not be asked to Disappointed."

Mark Belford nodded confidently: "Of course, boss."

"Specifically, some films this year, "Two Smoking Barrels" and "Six Heroes of Light Pig" in the UK have a strong localization style. They will be released in the UK first and introduced to North America depending on the situation. Similarly, these two films will also carry out award-winning operations, which requires the cooperation of you, Mark, and the Gaomen Films team. In China, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will be directly introduced, and the rest will be ignored for the time being."

Mark Belford and Ella Deutschman chimed in, taking notes.

Confirmed overseas, Simon began to sort out the most important local film list with everyone.

This year, the three labels of Daenerys Entertainment are expected to release more than 40 films in total. Ting's new work "Dangerous Liaisons", and the Hong Kong film "Once Upon a Time: The Iron Monkey", which was bought by Simon after the success of "Black Man" last year, are only secondary.

Of course, there is no chance of a dark horse among these projects. Perhaps Nolan's "Follow" will be an instant hit. After all, Simon has seen the sample, which is very Nolan-style, and the cost is only 300 million U.S. dollars. It's a breeze, but these items are not the focus of attention.

Specifically, starting from the Valentine's Day schedule on February 2, the first key project in 14 was "BJ's Single Diary" starring Julia Roberts, which Simon bought the copyright last year.

The former "BJ's Diary", frankly speaking, the global box office is still close to 3 million U.S. dollars when the heroine can't explain it in a word, which can be called a miracle.

This time, Simon chose the more pleasing Julia Roberts. The two male protagonists are still Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. In addition, the main creative team behind the scenes is basically the same, at least for achieving the previous box office results. , Simon is full of confidence.

Determining the schedule for Valentine's Day is also a counterattack strategy for unpopularity.

In addition to the overcrowded summer vacation and the end of the year, Valentine's Day is also perfect for "BJ's Single Diary".

Subsequently, during the Easter schedule, four major films will be featured.

Peter Jackson's "Spectre," Jeter Lee's "Taken," Jim Carrey's "Cable TV Fixer," and Natasha Henstridge's "Alien 2."Frankly speaking, none of the four films has the appearance of exceeding [-] million in the local area, and this time it can be regarded as winning by volume.

Among them, "Alien 2" was released by MGM. As the first film released in the "Foreign Cooperation Program" to attract overseas funds, it is similar in nature to "Independence Day" and "Contact" that followed this year.

Then there is the summer file.

五部电影先后上映：《变脸》，5月23日；《龙卷风》，6月6日；《美国派》，6月20日；《独力日》，7月4日；《卧虎藏龙》，7月25日。

Finally, there are three major schedules at the end of the year.

The Halloween schedule is "The Conjuring 3", the new work of the Conjuring movie universe.

Thanksgiving is the star of the trio of "A Bug's Life", "Contact" and "The Wedding Singer".

"A Bug's Life" and "Contact" needless to say, "The Wedding Singer" starring Adam Sandler is actually Adam Sandler's famous work.

In the past history, if 1994 was a brilliant year for Jim Carrey, and the three hits of "Mask in Masquerade", "Dumb and Dumber" and "Aeroplane" were big hits, then 1998 should be regarded as the year of Adam Carrey. In the year when Sandler broke out, "The Wedding Singer" and "Tea Boy" were also big sellers.

Among them, "The Wedding Singer" was scheduled for Valentine's Day in 1998. Although it encountered "Titanic", it still won a box office of 1800 million US dollars at a cost of 8000 million US dollars. It can be said that if there was no "Titanic", the schedule would be better. Breaking through [-] million is easy.

This time, Simon gave such a condition.

Another "Tea Boy", which was released at the end of the year, also had a low cost of 2300 million U.S. dollars and a domestic box office of 1.6 million, which directly rushed to No.5 on the annual list.

However, although Adam Sandler does not belong to the gang of bad boys, but has some intersections, but similar to the gang of bad boys, this comedy star also lacks overseas box office appeal, which is mainly due to cultural factors. Comedy plots, overseas can't understand.Unlike Jim Carrey, body language, global accessibility.

last of the last.

Christmas file: "Titanic".

And, without knowing it, Ella Deutschman asked for "sacrifice" of "Shakespeare in Love".

After carefully analyzing the film list, it is not difficult to find that compared with previous years, the biggest difference in 1997 is that the number of cooperative films decreased significantly.