Chapter 1567
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Demi Moore got off alone outside the hillside mansion in palisade and put on a very cooperative pose for a moment. She allowed the reporters here to take photos. After hearing a question about why her husband didn't come together, she stopped and stepped up to enter the gate of the mansion.
There are already people and lively assets here.
Accurately greeting the heavyweight guests who needed greetings, Demi Moore finally found someone in a living room in the villa.
Simon is discussing with David giller about the latest "alien" project at fox. He is still surrounded by the little Scarlett Johnson, as well as Tom Pollack, President of danilis pictures, Sherry Lansing, female leader of fox, Jonathan Friedman, head of wma and other celebrities.
Knowing that it was not the right time to come forward, Demi Moore just nodded to Lansing who could just see, quietly walked to a man's sofa, gently leaned down on the sofa deputy, ignored Scarlett's vigilant expression and listened with a smile.
"The market feedback of alien 4 has proved that this sci-fi series continues to follow the line of sci-fi thriller style, and it will be difficult to last for a long time in the future. Of course, I admit that your idea of alien war iron blood warrior is also an innovation, and it is very likely to make a profit, but it will only consume the market potential of these two brands. After all, alien war iron blood Warrior , the name sounds like a B-movie. "Alien" series has a lot of loyal fans. If we want to last for a long time, we are not suitable to do so. "
Simon took a glass of red wine in his hand and took a sip. Because of the fragrance of women coming from the side, he turned his head and glanced here, looked at Moore and nodded, Then he continued to turn to everyone: "in this case, how can we continue? It's actually very simple, like tonight's Golden Globe Award. Why do filmmakers pursue awards? They say it's noble for honor. But, to be frank, it's actually to improve their style."
Everyone smiled knowingly when they heard the speech.
The world is bright and the benefits come and go. For all the people in Hollywood, if they win the prize, they can't get the corresponding benefits, so they naturally don't bother to chase it.
Just like 20 years later, the popularity of both the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar is getting lower and lower. A very important reason is that the awards are becoming more and more politicized. Politics is higher than commerce. All kinds of small films that cater to the political correctness at that time won awards. Films that are both box office and connotation, but have little to do with politics are no longer favored, so on the contrary, The whole circle no longer likes these awards.
This is a digression.
Seeing that everyone knew it, Simon stopped playing tricks and continued: "so, no matter whether the latest alien is commercially successful or not, for the future of this series, one thing we should determine is to add some connotation and thinking to this brand and add the style of the project."
Then, the thought naturally turns to Simon's memory that Ridley Scott returns to Prometheus, the beginning of the alien series.
At the commercial level, the former Prometheus can only make a small profit, but on the other hand, when the alien series is almost abandoned by Hollywood in the superhero era, this new work directly sublimates this old classic science fiction series and revitalizes the whole alien series.
In fact, Simon can follow the track once, first make two "aliens vs. iron soldiers" to make a profit, and then consider the follow-up. However, this is really boring. After all, he personally likes the alien series and doesn't want to mess around. What's more, Comrade Lei is only in his early 60s. He is still young and strong. He can start now and do more in the future.
If you put it ten years later, an old man in his 70s and 80s will inevitably have a bad experience, and many things will be difficult to say.
After chatting for a while, we know that many guests are looking forward to meeting Simon, so they don't take up much of the young tycoon's time and go out to socialize.
When everyone left, Demi Moore smiled and touched Scarlett's head: "little girl, can you make room for me?"
Scarlett shook Moore's hand, twisted her face and glared angrily.
Demi Moore just looked at the man next to the girl.
Simon pushed the girl around him: "well, don't bother people. Go and play by yourself."
Scarlett was more aggrieved by the tone of dealing with children, but when the man spoke, she got up obediently. She was not reconciled, so she went to the other side of the man and pulled up Lily sobowski, who was also sitting next to the man with an innocent face: "lily, let's go and eat something together. The buffet here is great."
Compared with the Johnson sisters, Lily sobowski had much less chance to see the men around her. Of course, she didn't want to leave, but she didn't dare to pull with Scarlett in front of the men. She had no choice but to get up and go out together.
Before the two girls disappeared at the door, Demi Moore had snuggled up to Simon.
Feeling the closer pleasant fragrance, Simon smiled and asked, "where's Bruce? Why didn't he come together?"
Of course, Demi Moore would not say that she sent her husband back after the award ceremony, let alone mention that her husband had no objection to it, but said, "he went to New York to talk about a project."
Simon thought of having dinner with Lina and watching the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Award. The camera obviously caught Bruce Willis and Demi Moore under the stage. However, he didn't expose the little lie of women. He just smiled and said: "Bruce has a new project. It seems that fox can only postpone tiger bravery 4."
"I also want to tell you about it," Demi Moore said to the man without trace. "Simon, what are you going to do about Tiger bravery 4?"
Simon deliberately showed some displeasure when he heard a woman talking for another man: "do you care about it?"
Demi Moore, keenly aware, shrunk her neck. "Well, I won't ask."
Simon raised his lips and continued: "5 million film pay, 10% of the global gross profit, and the budget is controlled at $80 million. You can tell Bruce that if you can agree to such conditions, the project can continue."
Demi Moore was really asking for her husband just now, which was also some tacit understanding between the two sides. Morton was a little disappointed when he heard the man say so.
Last year's film "the Apocalypse", Willis paid 5 million, no share. Although this science fiction series is not a big hit, it is also very popular. Under normal circumstances, it's Willis's life to start the series of "tiger courage and dragon power" with the trend. There's no need to talk about it if the film pay is less than 10 million.
Now, Hollywood is different.
Moreover, although someone has given a dilemma, in fact, as long as the project can reach a gross profit of 50 million in the world, a 10% share, including the base salary, is also $10 million. If it can be higher, it is not impossible to earn 15 million or more in the future.
Of course, if the project loses money, there's nothing to talk about.
In short, this is to bind the main creators to take risks, and in the past, big stars would not take such risks.
After a little hesitation, since he got a word from Simon, he also explained to his man. Moore didn't mean to bargain for Willis. He was about to talk about other things and get close to this man. Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves entered the door together. Moore immediately lost his short-term monopoly and could only watch Bullock easily pull the man's attention away, Balabala began to talk.
Then came a group of main creators of Chicago.
Demi Moore could only take the initiative to leave and socialize elsewhere.
Fortunately, Moore also received a quiet notice from the waitress beside the man.
Before the party at the hillside mansion in palisade was over, Simon had quietly left and flew to San Lucas, Mexico as usual.
The next day was January 24.
New week.
I woke up in the seaside manor of St. Lucas in the morning and didn't let the women last night bother me. Simon ate alone and paid attention to the feedback of last night's golden ball award in today's media.
No accident, still can not escape the dispute.
For example, Catherine Zeta Jones and Madonna's double yellow eggs, the Hollywood Reporter criticized the Golden Globe judges for giving up their professional standards again. After all, even two women performed very well, but obviously Catherine Zeta Jones was better.
Speaking of it, an old man killer also complained to Simon in bed last night. However, this is the operation of the following people, and Simon ignored the details. As long as the general direction is OK, he didn't ask.
Then there is the best film in the plot category, which is also criticized. The focus of criticism is the pork of the Golden Globe Award, so that it ignores the matrix and the genius Ripley. Some media also mentioned the Lord of the rings: the guardian, which is still popular at present. They think that this film is more powerful to win the Golden Globe Award for best film in the plot category, but it didn't even get a nomination, It's an unjust case.
In short, Hollywood awards season has never been like this.
After breakfast, the women here are not in a hurry to return to Los Angeles. They obviously want to stay here for fun. After all, it's too luxurious here to spend their own money.
Simon just got on the Boeing 767 flying back to Los Angeles.
Still can't be too lazy.
After the Boeing 767 took off at St. Lucas airport, Simon began a day's work in the study in the front cabin.
First of all, I paid attention to a business plan from China. Jinshu plans to cooperate with China film to establish a large-scale film, television and audio-visual product sales and leasing chain company, and the goal is still to promote the genuine version.
In the past, Simon did not remember any genuine leasing chains in China, but this does not mean that there is no such market in China.
Or the shoe theory.
In fact, the shoe theory has a premise that sellers should first determine whether people who do not wear shoes in an area have the ability to consume shoes. If so, it is worth promoting. If it is not because of habits, but because they are too poor to afford shoes, it is useless to promote it.
On the Chinese side, the answer to this question is yes.
China has a broad mass base for consuming genuine audio-visual products, and the population with consumption power is not small. At present, if it is replaced by leasing, the price will drop sharply compared with the direct purchase of genuine CDs, and the consumer group will certainly be larger.
Like later video websites.
To some extent, video websites are also a kind of film and television leasing, just like Naifei's development from online entity leasing to streaming media. China has not experienced the previous stage, mainly because the 1990s happened to be the most depressed period of China's film industry.
At present, this industry has development soil.
With these in mind, Simon specially commented on this plan, except that the company can cooperate with blockbuster appropriately, such as introducing the management system here, or directly establishing a joint venture if conditions permit.
In addition, Simon's most important suggestion over there is the video website.
YouTube video websites in the United States have developed for several years and expanded their business to most western developed countries. However, with the continuous improvement of basic network facilities in China, they can also try to establish their own video websites.
Of course, Simon has not forgotten how the first batch of video websites in China developed.
Or piracy.
After all, it still involves resources. There are not enough genuine resources, or even if there are enough genuine resources, the public just likes to watch various types of films that can not pass the trial in the mainland. There is no way, so they can only find them on the video website or download website.
This time, if we can get official support and set up the rules from the beginning, although the follow-up development will not be too easy, we can finally take the lead.
As for the follow-up, Simon is not sure.
However, one thing, as long as the concept is fried, even if it is only an IPO, at least the return on investment on the book will be very rich.
In short, in the current commercial barbarian era in China, whether you want to do something or just want to make money, there are enough opportunities. The key is to do it and know how to do it.
Back in Los Angeles, Simon arrived at danilis studios directly from the airport, but the first thing he paid attention to had nothing to do with the film and television industry.
Celia Miller, who flew from the east coast early, has been waiting here to report something to Simon. In Eastern Europe, the time was 11 hours earlier than the west coast of the United States. This morning, local time, the Russian army completely cleared the last military stronghold outside Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, and realized the complete siege of Grozny.
Next, unless the United States or NATO send troops directly to Chechnya, the Chechen War situation will basically be settled in the next half month.
Simon has been quietly watching things in Russia.
During this time, history has deviated again.
In the original time and space, Yeltsin should have voluntarily resigned as president of Russia on the last day of 1999. But now, until now, something hasn't happened. It was discussed with Celia. The following week, when Simon was considering whether to push Moscow again, he was a month late. On January 31, Yeltsin suddenly announced his resignation.
History is back on track.
Simon also let go and set off again with the goal of Asia.
In China, this year's Lunar New Year is on February 5. Make an appointment with Chen Qing in advance. Of course Simon won't break the appointment.
However, the first stop was South Korea.
As usual, I paid attention to the development of a series of projects in South Korea, as well as routine inspection and declaration of territory.
For the major pillar industries in South Korea, Westeros system is still in-depth penetration and control step by step. Simon will only know about things he is not familiar with and will not rashly intervene in micro management.
As for the more familiar film and television entertainment.
During this time, South Korea is very lively.
First of all, the previous two "women's high strange talk", the American version of "women's high strange talk" and the Korean version of "women's high strange talk 2", which were released on December 31, 1999, were widely hyped in advance. In addition, the quality of the two films could stand the test, and the final box office results were very excellent.
As of the week before Simon's arrival, in the four weeks of release, the two horror films in various markets were low-cost, and the cumulative number of viewers in South Korea exceeded 2 million.
Moreover, as expected, the Korean version of women's high strange talk 2 is slightly better. The cumulative number of viewers in four weeks has reached 2.59 million. It is expected that after the next spring festival, the complete number of viewers can easily exceed 3 million.
According to the average ticket price of about 3500 won in South Korea, 3 million film viewers are 10.5 billion won at the box office. Even if the first film is successful, the budget is still only 1 billion won. Therefore, only at the cinema stage, we can make a lot of money this time.
Then there is the American version of "strange talk about women's high", which has been released for four weeks. The cumulative number of film viewers is 2.13 million, and the total number of film viewers is expected to be about 2.5 million.
It's not as good as the Korean version of women's high strange talk 2. However, it can't be ignored that how much this film makes in Korea is a profit. After all, North America has realized all costs and realized profits.
Moreover, even if the Korean version surpasses the American version, but globally, the current total box office has reached more than 100 million, and the American version of women's high strange talk is not comparable to the Korean version.
In addition to the two "women's high strange talk", there is the "Ming Liang naval battle" which is in full swing recently.
This is the last of the three blockbuster films originally planned.
Compared with the first two films "espionage of life and death" and "common security area", which initially cost US $10 million, they actually didn't spend that much. This time, because it was an ancient costume drama, a war film, or a sea war film that was difficult to shoot, and many special effects were used, the final budget cost of "Mingliang sea war" reached 16 billion won. According to the current exchange rate of about 1300, Equivalent to 12 million US dollars.
At present, coupled with the same huge publicity expenses, even if they still receive a large subsidy from the Korean authorities, if the number of South Korean film viewers of the film does not exceed 10 million, the possibility of returning to the capital is not too great.
Fortunately, not only the reputation of the internal pilot film is very excellent. In recent South Korea, the pride of South Koreans has also reached the highest point because of the confrontation between the two "women's high strange talk". Not surprisingly, "Ming Liang sea battle" will once again create a South Korean film viewing record.
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Demi Moore got off alone outside the hillside mansion in palisade and put on a very cooperative pose for a moment. She allowed the reporters here to take photos. After hearing a question about why her husband didn't come together, she stopped and stepped up to enter the gate of the mansion.
There are already people and lively assets here.
Accurately greeting the heavyweight guests who needed greetings, Demi Moore finally found someone in a living room in the villa.
Simon is discussing with David giller about the latest "alien" project at fox. He is still surrounded by the little Scarlett Johnson, as well as Tom Pollack, President of danilis pictures, Sherry Lansing, female leader of fox, Jonathan Friedman, head of wma and other celebrities.
Knowing that it was not the right time to come forward, Demi Moore just nodded to Lansing who could just see, quietly walked to a man's sofa, gently leaned down on the sofa deputy, ignored Scarlett's vigilant expression and listened with a smile.
"The market feedback of alien 4 has proved that this sci-fi series continues to follow the line of sci-fi thriller style, and it will be difficult to last for a long time in the future. Of course, I admit that your idea of alien war iron blood warrior is also an innovation, and it is very likely to make a profit, but it will only consume the market potential of these two brands. After all, alien war iron blood Warrior , the name sounds like a B-movie. "Alien" series has a lot of loyal fans. If we want to last for a long time, we are not suitable to do so. "
Simon took a glass of red wine in his hand and took a sip. Because of the fragrance of women coming from the side, he turned his head and glanced here, looked at Moore and nodded, Then he continued to turn to everyone: "in this case, how can we continue? It's actually very simple, like tonight's Golden Globe Award. Why do filmmakers pursue awards? They say it's noble for honor. But, to be frank, it's actually to improve their style."
Everyone smiled knowingly when they heard the speech.
The world is bright and the benefits come and go. For all the people in Hollywood, if they win the prize, they can't get the corresponding benefits, so they naturally don't bother to chase it.
Just like 20 years later, the popularity of both the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar is getting lower and lower. A very important reason is that the awards are becoming more and more politicized. Politics is higher than commerce. All kinds of small films that cater to the political correctness at that time won awards. Films that are both box office and connotation, but have little to do with politics are no longer favored, so on the contrary, The whole circle no longer likes these awards.
This is a digression.
Seeing that everyone knew it, Simon stopped playing tricks and continued: "so, no matter whether the latest alien is commercially successful or not, for the future of this series, one thing we should determine is to add some connotation and thinking to this brand and add the style of the project."
Then, the thought naturally turns to Simon's memory that Ridley Scott returns to Prometheus, the beginning of the alien series.
At the commercial level, the former Prometheus can only make a small profit, but on the other hand, when the alien series is almost abandoned by Hollywood in the superhero era, this new work directly sublimates this old classic science fiction series and revitalizes the whole alien series.
In fact, Simon can follow the track once, first make two "aliens vs. iron soldiers" to make a profit, and then consider the follow-up. However, this is really boring. After all, he personally likes the alien series and doesn't want to mess around. What's more, Comrade Lei is only in his early 60s. He is still young and strong. He can start now and do more in the future.
If you put it ten years later, an old man in his 70s and 80s will inevitably have a bad experience, and many things will be difficult to say.
After chatting for a while, we know that many guests are looking forward to meeting Simon, so they don't take up much of the young tycoon's time and go out to socialize.
When everyone left, Demi Moore smiled and touched Scarlett's head: "little girl, can you make room for me?"
Scarlett shook Moore's hand, twisted her face and glared angrily.
Demi Moore just looked at the man next to the girl.
Simon pushed the girl around him: "well, don't bother people. Go and play by yourself."
Scarlett was more aggrieved by the tone of dealing with children, but when the man spoke, she got up obediently. She was not reconciled, so she went to the other side of the man and pulled up Lily sobowski, who was also sitting next to the man with an innocent face: "lily, let's go and eat something together. The buffet here is great."
Compared with the Johnson sisters, Lily sobowski had much less chance to see the men around her. Of course, she didn't want to leave, but she didn't dare to pull with Scarlett in front of the men. She had no choice but to get up and go out together.
Before the two girls disappeared at the door, Demi Moore had snuggled up to Simon.
Feeling the closer pleasant fragrance, Simon smiled and asked, "where's Bruce? Why didn't he come together?"
Of course, Demi Moore would not say that she sent her husband back after the award ceremony, let alone mention that her husband had no objection to it, but said, "he went to New York to talk about a project."
Simon thought of having dinner with Lina and watching the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Award. The camera obviously caught Bruce Willis and Demi Moore under the stage. However, he didn't expose the little lie of women. He just smiled and said: "Bruce has a new project. It seems that fox can only postpone tiger bravery 4."
"I also want to tell you about it," Demi Moore said to the man without trace. "Simon, what are you going to do about Tiger bravery 4?"
Simon deliberately showed some displeasure when he heard a woman talking for another man: "do you care about it?"
Demi Moore, keenly aware, shrunk her neck. "Well, I won't ask."
Simon raised his lips and continued: "5 million film pay, 10% of the global gross profit, and the budget is controlled at $80 million. You can tell Bruce that if you can agree to such conditions, the project can continue."
Demi Moore was really asking for her husband just now, which was also some tacit understanding between the two sides. Morton was a little disappointed when he heard the man say so.
Last year's film "the Apocalypse", Willis paid 5 million, no share. Although this science fiction series is not a big hit, it is also very popular. Under normal circumstances, it's Willis's life to start the series of "tiger courage and dragon power" with the trend. There's no need to talk about it if the film pay is less than 10 million.
Now, Hollywood is different.
Moreover, although someone has given a dilemma, in fact, as long as the project can reach a gross profit of 50 million in the world, a 10% share, including the base salary, is also $10 million. If it can be higher, it is not impossible to earn 15 million or more in the future.
Of course, if the project loses money, there's nothing to talk about.
In short, this is to bind the main creators to take risks, and in the past, big stars would not take such risks.
After a little hesitation, since he got a word from Simon, he also explained to his man. Moore didn't mean to bargain for Willis. He was about to talk about other things and get close to this man. Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves entered the door together. Moore immediately lost his short-term monopoly and could only watch Bullock easily pull the man's attention away, Balabala began to talk.
Then came a group of main creators of Chicago.
Demi Moore could only take the initiative to leave and socialize elsewhere.
Fortunately, Moore also received a quiet notice from the waitress beside the man.
Before the party at the hillside mansion in palisade was over, Simon had quietly left and flew to San Lucas, Mexico as usual.
The next day was January 24.
New week.
I woke up in the seaside manor of St. Lucas in the morning and didn't let the women last night bother me. Simon ate alone and paid attention to the feedback of last night's golden ball award in today's media.
No accident, still can not escape the dispute.
For example, Catherine Zeta Jones and Madonna's double yellow eggs, the Hollywood Reporter criticized the Golden Globe judges for giving up their professional standards again. After all, even two women performed very well, but obviously Catherine Zeta Jones was better.
Speaking of it, an old man killer also complained to Simon in bed last night. However, this is the operation of the following people, and Simon ignored the details. As long as the general direction is OK, he didn't ask.
Then there is the best film in the plot category, which is also criticized. The focus of criticism is the pork of the Golden Globe Award, so that it ignores the matrix and the genius Ripley. Some media also mentioned the Lord of the rings: the guardian, which is still popular at present. They think that this film is more powerful to win the Golden Globe Award for best film in the plot category, but it didn't even get a nomination, It's an unjust case.
In short, Hollywood awards season has never been like this.
After breakfast, the women here are not in a hurry to return to Los Angeles. They obviously want to stay here for fun. After all, it's too luxurious here to spend their own money.
Simon just got on the Boeing 767 flying back to Los Angeles.
Still can't be too lazy.
After the Boeing 767 took off at St. Lucas airport, Simon began a day's work in the study in the front cabin.
First of all, I paid attention to a business plan from China. Jinshu plans to cooperate with China film to establish a large-scale film, television and audio-visual product sales and leasing chain company, and the goal is still to promote the genuine version.
In the past, Simon did not remember any genuine leasing chains in China, but this does not mean that there is no such market in China.
Or the shoe theory.
In fact, the shoe theory has a premise that sellers should first determine whether people who do not wear shoes in an area have the ability to consume shoes. If so, it is worth promoting. If it is not because of habits, but because they are too poor to afford shoes, it is useless to promote it.
On the Chinese side, the answer to this question is yes.
China has a broad mass base for consuming genuine audio-visual products, and the population with consumption power is not small. At present, if it is replaced by leasing, the price will drop sharply compared with the direct purchase of genuine CDs, and the consumer group will certainly be larger.
Like later video websites.
To some extent, video websites are also a kind of film and television leasing, just like Naifei's development from online entity leasing to streaming media. China has not experienced the previous stage, mainly because the 1990s happened to be the most depressed period of China's film industry.
At present, this industry has development soil.
With these in mind, Simon specially commented on this plan, except that the company can cooperate with blockbuster appropriately, such as introducing the management system here, or directly establishing a joint venture if conditions permit.
In addition, Simon's most important suggestion over there is the video website.
YouTube video websites in the United States have developed for several years and expanded their business to most western developed countries. However, with the continuous improvement of basic network facilities in China, they can also try to establish their own video websites.
Of course, Simon has not forgotten how the first batch of video websites in China developed.
Or piracy.
After all, it still involves resources. There are not enough genuine resources, or even if there are enough genuine resources, the public just likes to watch various types of films that can not pass the trial in the mainland. There is no way, so they can only find them on the video website or download website.
This time, if we can get official support and set up the rules from the beginning, although the follow-up development will not be too easy, we can finally take the lead.
As for the follow-up, Simon is not sure.
However, one thing, as long as the concept is fried, even if it is only an IPO, at least the return on investment on the book will be very rich.
In short, in the current commercial barbarian era in China, whether you want to do something or just want to make money, there are enough opportunities. The key is to do it and know how to do it.
Back in Los Angeles, Simon arrived at danilis studios directly from the airport, but the first thing he paid attention to had nothing to do with the film and television industry.
Celia Miller, who flew from the east coast early, has been waiting here to report something to Simon. In Eastern Europe, the time was 11 hours earlier than the west coast of the United States. This morning, local time, the Russian army completely cleared the last military stronghold outside Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, and realized the complete siege of Grozny.
Next, unless the United States or NATO send troops directly to Chechnya, the Chechen War situation will basically be settled in the next half month.
Simon has been quietly watching things in Russia.
During this time, history has deviated again.
In the original time and space, Yeltsin should have voluntarily resigned as president of Russia on the last day of 1999. But now, until now, something hasn't happened. It was discussed with Celia. The following week, when Simon was considering whether to push Moscow again, he was a month late. On January 31, Yeltsin suddenly announced his resignation.
History is back on track.
Simon also let go and set off again with the goal of Asia.
In China, this year's Lunar New Year is on February 5. Make an appointment with Chen Qing in advance. Of course Simon won't break the appointment.
However, the first stop was South Korea.
As usual, I paid attention to the development of a series of projects in South Korea, as well as routine inspection and declaration of territory.
For the major pillar industries in South Korea, Westeros system is still in-depth penetration and control step by step. Simon will only know about things he is not familiar with and will not rashly intervene in micro management.
As for the more familiar film and television entertainment.
During this time, South Korea is very lively.
First of all, the previous two "women's high strange talk", the American version of "women's high strange talk" and the Korean version of "women's high strange talk 2", which were released on December 31, 1999, were widely hyped in advance. In addition, the quality of the two films could stand the test, and the final box office results were very excellent.
As of the week before Simon's arrival, in the four weeks of release, the two horror films in various markets were low-cost, and the cumulative number of viewers in South Korea exceeded 2 million.
Moreover, as expected, the Korean version of women's high strange talk 2 is slightly better. The cumulative number of viewers in four weeks has reached 2.59 million. It is expected that after the next spring festival, the complete number of viewers can easily exceed 3 million.
According to the average ticket price of about 3500 won in South Korea, 3 million film viewers are 10.5 billion won at the box office. Even if the first film is successful, the budget is still only 1 billion won. Therefore, only at the cinema stage, we can make a lot of money this time.
Then there is the American version of "strange talk about women's high", which has been released for four weeks. The cumulative number of film viewers is 2.13 million, and the total number of film viewers is expected to be about 2.5 million.
It's not as good as the Korean version of women's high strange talk 2. However, it can't be ignored that how much this film makes in Korea is a profit. After all, North America has realized all costs and realized profits.
Moreover, even if the Korean version surpasses the American version, but globally, the current total box office has reached more than 100 million, and the American version of women's high strange talk is not comparable to the Korean version.
In addition to the two "women's high strange talk", there is the "Ming Liang naval battle" which is in full swing recently.
This is the last of the three blockbuster films originally planned.
Compared with the first two films "espionage of life and death" and "common security area", which initially cost US $10 million, they actually didn't spend that much. This time, because it was an ancient costume drama, a war film, or a sea war film that was difficult to shoot, and many special effects were used, the final budget cost of "Mingliang sea war" reached 16 billion won. According to the current exchange rate of about 1300, Equivalent to 12 million US dollars.
At present, coupled with the same huge publicity expenses, even if they still receive a large subsidy from the Korean authorities, if the number of South Korean film viewers of the film does not exceed 10 million, the possibility of returning to the capital is not too great.
Fortunately, not only the reputation of the internal pilot film is very excellent. In recent South Korea, the pride of South Koreans has also reached the highest point because of the confrontation between the two "women's high strange talk". Not surprisingly, "Ming Liang sea battle" will once again create a South Korean film viewing record.
Demi Moore got off alone outside the hillside mansion in palisade and put on a very cooperative pose for a moment. She allowed the reporters here to take photos. After hearing a question about why her husband didn't come together, she stopped and stepped up to enter the gate of the mansion.There are already people and lively assets here.Accurately greeting the heavyweight guests who needed greetings, Demi Moore finally found someone in a living room in the villa.Simon is discussing with David giller about the latest "alien" project at fox. He is still surrounded by the little Scarlett Johnson, as well as Tom Pollack, President of danilis pictures, Sherry Lansing, female leader of fox, Jonathan Friedman, head of wma and other celebrities.Knowing that it was not the right time to come forward, Demi Moore just nodded to Lansing who could just see, quietly walked to a man's sofa, gently leaned down on the sofa deputy, ignored Scarlett's vigilant expression and listened with a smile."The market feedback of alien 4 has proved that this sci-fi series continues to follow the line of sci-fi thriller style, and it will be difficult to last for a long time in the future. Of course, I admit that your idea of alien war iron blood warrior is also an innovation, and it is very likely to make a profit, but it will only consume the market potential of these two brands. After all, alien war iron blood Warrior , the name sounds like a B-movie. "Alien" series has a lot of loyal fans. If we want to last for a long time, we are not suitable to do so. "Simon took a glass of red wine in his hand and took a sip. Because of the fragrance of women coming from the side, he turned his head and glanced here, looked at Moore and nodded, Then he continued to turn to everyone: "in this case, how can we continue? It's actually very simple, like tonight's Golden Globe Award. Why do filmmakers pursue awards? They say it's noble for honor. But, to be frank, it's actually to improve their style."Everyone smiled knowingly when they heard the speech.The world is bright and the benefits come and go. For all the people in Hollywood, if they win the prize, they can't get the corresponding benefits, so they naturally don't bother to chase it.Just like 20 years later, the popularity of both the Golden Globe Award and the Oscar is getting lower and lower. A very important reason is that the awards are becoming more and more politicized. Politics is higher than commerce. All kinds of small films that cater to the political correctness at that time won awards. Films that are both box office and connotation, but have little to do with politics are no longer favored, so on the contrary, The whole circle no longer likes these awards.This is a digression.Seeing that everyone knew it, Simon stopped playing tricks and continued: "so, no matter whether the latest alien is commercially successful or not, for the future of this series, one thing we should determine is to add some connotation and thinking to this brand and add the style of the project."Then, the thought naturally turns to Simon's memory that Ridley Scott returns to Prometheus, the beginning of the alien series.At the commercial level, the former Prometheus can only make a small profit, but on the other hand, when the alien series is almost abandoned by Hollywood in the superhero era, this new work directly sublimates this old classic science fiction series and revitalizes the whole alien series.In fact, Simon can follow the track once, first make two "aliens vs. iron soldiers" to make a profit, and then consider the follow-up. However, this is really boring. After all, he personally likes the alien series and doesn't want to mess around. What's more, Comrade Lei is only in his early 60s. He is still young and strong. He can start now and do more in the future.If you put it ten years later, an old man in his 70s and 80s will inevitably have a bad experience, and many things will be difficult to say.After chatting for a while, we know that many guests are looking forward to meeting Simon, so they don't take up much of the young tycoon's time and go out to socialize.When everyone left, Demi Moore smiled and touched Scarlett's head: "little girl, can you make room for me?"Scarlett shook Moore's hand, twisted her face and glared angrily.Demi Moore just looked at the man next to the girl.Simon pushed the girl around him: "well, don't bother people. Go and play by yourself."Scarlett was more aggrieved by the tone of dealing with children, but when the man spoke, she got up obediently. She was not reconciled, so she went to the other side of the man and pulled up Lily sobowski, who was also sitting next to the man with an innocent face: "lily, let's go and eat something together. The buffet here is great."Compared with the Johnson sisters, Lily sobowski had much less chance to see the men around her. Of course, she didn't want to leave, but she didn't dare to pull with Scarlett in front of the men. She had no choice but to get up and go out together.Before the two girls disappeared at the door, Demi Moore had snuggled up to Simon.Feeling the closer pleasant fragrance, Simon smiled and asked, "where's Bruce? Why didn't he come together?"Of course, Demi Moore would not say that she sent her husband back after the award ceremony, let alone mention that her husband had no objection to it, but said, "he went to New York to talk about a project."Simon thought of having dinner with Lina and watching the live broadcast of the Golden Globe Award. The camera obviously caught Bruce Willis and Demi Moore under the stage. However, he didn't expose the little lie of women. He just smiled and said: "Bruce has a new project. It seems that fox can only postpone tiger bravery 4.""I also want to tell you about it," Demi Moore said to the man without trace. "Simon, what are you going to do about Tiger bravery 4?"Simon deliberately showed some displeasure when he heard a woman talking for another man: "do you care about it?"Demi Moore, keenly aware, shrunk her neck. "Well, I won't ask."Simon raised his lips and continued: "5 million film pay, 10% of the global gross profit, and the budget is controlled at $80 million. You can tell Bruce that if you can agree to such conditions, the project can continue."Demi Moore was really asking for her husband just now, which was also some tacit understanding between the two sides. Morton was a little disappointed when he heard the man say so.Last year's film "the Apocalypse", Willis paid 5 million, no share. Although this science fiction series is not a big hit, it is also very popular. Under normal circumstances, it's Willis's life to start the series of "tiger courage and dragon power" with the trend. There's no need to talk about it if the film pay is less than 10 million.Now, Hollywood is different.Moreover, although someone has given a dilemma, in fact, as long as the project can reach a gross profit of 50 million in the world, a 10% share, including the base salary, is also $10 million. If it can be higher, it is not impossible to earn 15 million or more in the future.Of course, if the project loses money, there's nothing to talk about.In short, this is to bind the main creators to take risks, and in the past, big stars would not take such risks.After a little hesitation, since he got a word from Simon, he also explained to his man. Moore didn't mean to bargain for Willis. He was about to talk about other things and get close to this man. Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves entered the door together. Moore immediately lost his short-term monopoly and could only watch Bullock easily pull the man's attention away, Balabala began to talk.Then came a group of main creators of Chicago.Demi Moore could only take the initiative to leave and socialize elsewhere.Fortunately, Moore also received a quiet notice from the waitress beside the man.Before the party at the hillside mansion in palisade was over, Simon had quietly left and flew to San Lucas, Mexico as usual.The next day was January 24.New week.I woke up in the seaside manor of St. Lucas in the morning and didn't let the women last night bother me. Simon ate alone and paid attention to the feedback of last night's golden ball award in today's media.No accident, still can not escape the dispute.For example, Catherine Zeta Jones and Madonna's double yellow eggs, the Hollywood Reporter criticized the Golden Globe judges for giving up their professional standards again. After all, even two women performed very well, but obviously Catherine Zeta Jones was better.Speaking of it, an old man killer also complained to Simon in bed last night. However, this is the operation of the following people, and Simon ignored the details. As long as the general direction is OK, he didn't ask.Then there is the best film in the plot category, which is also criticized. The focus of criticism is the pork of the Golden Globe Award, so that it ignores the matrix and the genius Ripley. Some media also mentioned the Lord of the rings: the guardian, which is still popular at present. They think that this film is more powerful to win the Golden Globe Award for best film in the plot category, but it didn't even get a nomination, It's an unjust case.In short, Hollywood awards season has never been like this.After breakfast, the women here are not in a hurry to return to Los Angeles. They obviously want to stay here for fun. After all, it's too luxurious here to spend their own money.Simon just got on the Boeing 767 flying back to Los Angeles.Still can't be too lazy.After the Boeing 767 took off at St. Lucas airport, Simon began a day's work in the study in the front cabin.First of all, I paid attention to a business plan from China. Jinshu plans to cooperate with China film to establish a large-scale film, television and audio-visual product sales and leasing chain company, and the goal is still to promote the genuine version.In the past, Simon did not remember any genuine leasing chains in China, but this does not mean that there is no such market in China.Or the shoe theory.In fact, the shoe theory has a premise that sellers should first determine whether people who do not wear shoes in an area have the ability to consume shoes. If so, it is worth promoting. If it is not because of habits, but because they are too poor to afford shoes, it is useless to promote it.On the Chinese side, the answer to this question is yes.China has a broad mass base for consuming genuine audio-visual products, and the population with consumption power is not small. At present, if it is replaced by leasing, the price will drop sharply compared with the direct purchase of genuine CDs, and the consumer group will certainly be larger.Like later video websites.To some extent, video websites are also a kind of film and television leasing, just like Naifei's development from online entity leasing to streaming media. China has not experienced the previous stage, mainly because the 1990s happened to be the most depressed period of China's film industry.At present, this industry has development soil.With these in mind, Simon specially commented on this plan, except that the company can cooperate with blockbuster appropriately, such as introducing the management system here, or directly establishing a joint venture if conditions permit.In addition, Simon's most important suggestion over there is the video website.YouTube video websites in the United States have developed for several years and expanded their business to most western developed countries. However, with the continuous improvement of basic network facilities in China, they can also try to establish their own video websites.Of course, Simon has not forgotten how the first batch of video websites in China developed.Or piracy.After all, it still involves resources. There are not enough genuine resources, or even if there are enough genuine resources, the public just likes to watch various types of films that can not pass the trial in the mainland. There is no way, so they can only find them on the video website or download website.This time, if we can get official support and set up the rules from the beginning, although the follow-up development will not be too easy, we can finally take the lead.As for the follow-up, Simon is not sure.However, one thing, as long as the concept is fried, even if it is only an IPO, at least the return on investment on the book will be very rich.In short, in the current commercial barbarian era in China, whether you want to do something or just want to make money, there are enough opportunities. The key is to do it and know how to do it.Back in Los Angeles, Simon arrived at danilis studios directly from the airport, but the first thing he paid attention to had nothing to do with the film and television industry.Celia Miller, who flew from the east coast early, has been waiting here to report something to Simon. In Eastern Europe, the time was 11 hours earlier than the west coast of the United States. This morning, local time, the Russian army completely cleared the last military stronghold outside Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, and realized the complete siege of Grozny.Next, unless the United States or NATO send troops directly to Chechnya, the Chechen War situation will basically be settled in the next half month.Simon has been quietly watching things in Russia.During this time, history has deviated again.In the original time and space, Yeltsin should have voluntarily resigned as president of Russia on the last day of 1999. But now, until now, something hasn't happened. It was discussed with Celia. The following week, when Simon was considering whether to push Moscow again, he was a month late. On January 31, Yeltsin suddenly announced his resignation.History is back on track.Simon also let go and set off again with the goal of Asia.In China, this year's Lunar New Year is on February 5. Make an appointment with Chen Qing in advance. Of course Simon won't break the appointment.However, the first stop was South Korea.As usual, I paid attention to the development of a series of projects in South Korea, as well as routine inspection and declaration of territory.For the major pillar industries in South Korea, Westeros system is still in-depth penetration and control step by step. Simon will only know about things he is not familiar with and will not rashly intervene in micro management.As for the more familiar film and television entertainment.During this time, South Korea is very lively.First of all, the previous two "women's high strange talk", the American version of "women's high strange talk" and the Korean version of "women's high strange talk 2", which were released on December 31, 1999, were widely hyped in advance. In addition, the quality of the two films could stand the test, and the final box office results were very excellent.As of the week before Simon's arrival, in the four weeks of release, the two horror films in various markets were low-cost, and the cumulative number of viewers in South Korea exceeded 2 million.Moreover, as expected, the Korean version of women's high strange talk 2 is slightly better. The cumulative number of viewers in four weeks has reached 2.59 million. It is expected that after the next spring festival, the complete number of viewers can easily exceed 3 million.According to the average ticket price of about 3500 won in South Korea, 3 million film viewers are 10.5 billion won at the box office. Even if the first film is successful, the budget is still only 1 billion won. Therefore, only at the cinema stage, we can make a lot of money this time.Then there is the American version of "strange talk about women's high", which has been released for four weeks. The cumulative number of film viewers is 2.13 million, and the total number of film viewers is expected to be about 2.5 million.It's not as good as the Korean version of women's high strange talk 2. However, it can't be ignored that how much this film makes in Korea is a profit. After all, North America has realized all costs and realized profits.Moreover, even if the Korean version surpasses the American version, but globally, the current total box office has reached more than 100 million, and the American version of women's high strange talk is not comparable to the Korean version.In addition to the two "women's high strange talk", there is the "Ming Liang naval battle" which is in full swing recently.This is the last of the three blockbuster films originally planned.Compared with the first two films "espionage of life and death" and "common security area", which initially cost US $10 million, they actually didn't spend that much. This time, because it was an ancient costume drama, a war film, or a sea war film that was difficult to shoot, and many special effects were used, the final budget cost of "Mingliang sea war" reached 16 billion won. According to the current exchange rate of about 1300, Equivalent to 12 million US dollars.At present, coupled with the same huge publicity expenses, even if they still receive a large subsidy from the Korean authorities, if the number of South Korean film viewers of the film does not exceed 10 million, the possibility of returning to the capital is not too great.Fortunately, not only the reputation of the internal pilot film is very excellent. In recent South Korea, the pride of South Koreans has also reached the highest point because of the confrontation between the two "women's high strange talk". Not surprisingly, "Ming Liang sea battle" will once again create a South Korean film viewing record.
