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Now Hollywood, the mainstream of the seven film companies is not still controlled by the founder, between the fierce competition for market share, all of its extreme blockbuster era.
The seven major studios are basically listed companies or part of listed companies. The directors of the seven major studios may have different powers, but they are only professional managers who take care of the enterprises for the shareholders.
In such a situation, if Simon is just a young director who has just made a few blockbuster films in Hollywood, when he seriously threatens the interests of other studios, he may be mercilessly suppressed.
However, the current situation is that Simon's identity is not limited to the director.
Before the whole of Hollywood reacted, he had established danelis entertainment, an entertainment company with the strength close to the traditional large studio. Moreover, Simon himself has accumulated billions of dollars in various ways.
In such a capital dominated society as the United States, Simon's billions of dollars of personal wealth represents his strong strength. Even if this strength is not deeply rooted in the money families who have accumulated for decades, it is definitely not easy for the "professional managers" of Hollywood's major film companies to stir up.
Those people may make some small moves in private, trying to make them bet on their career prospects and fight against Denise entertainment. The possibility is very low.
As for uniting to crack down on Denise entertainment, a latecomer, it's hard for people to get together. The three monks have no water to drink, not to mention seven "monks" with the same mind competing with each other for a well.
In the office of Santa Monica headquarters.
Simon understood all this, but did not take the ongoing WGA investigation incident lightly.
It's like the Hollywood anti sexual assault movement many years later.
A lot of people were just watching a fat man who had been rampant in Hollywood for decades, but they didn't expect that in the twinkling of an eye, a destructive hurricane was rolling on everyone.
Things are hard to predict.
Although it is clear that the threat of banning union members from cooperating with Denise entertainment in the WGA statement is very unlikely to happen, if Simon belittles it and lets Hollywood competitors seize the opportunity, the worst result is likely to come true unexpectedly.
At that time, danielis entertainment, which is not stable in Hollywood after all, will suffer a heavy blow, and even cause more serious chain reaction.
Therefore, Simon decided to nip the potential crisis in the bud as soon as possible.
After making up his mind, Simon put down his pencil and said to Amy, "it suddenly occurred to me that after last year's over the air innocence and Batman, the company had not signed any cooperation projects with other film companies. Now it's time to continue this."
Amy remembers that Simon said this plan last year, and he intends to work with other Hollywood studios to dispel the fear of competitors about the rise of danilisi entertainment. However, since the end of last year, everyone has been busy in the dark. Up to now, there is no spare energy to take this matter into consideration.
Simon thought about it for a moment, and then continued, "Amy, please let us know as soon as possible that Denise entertainment will cooperate with 10 foreign films in the next two years."
Amy was surprised and asked, "what's the cooperation mode of" flying over innocence "
"Of course, and this time we don't need a copyright tie-in like wonder woman. We just need to finalize the project, and each side will invest 50% to share the copyright and income. Danielis entertainment leads the production, and the other party is responsible for the distribution of various channels. Well, the commission ratio of this issue is a little stuck, limited to 10%. "
"8% is OK," Amy said
Simon shook his head with a smile and said, "there's no need to be so harsh. The key is that the accounting team of danielis entertainment should follow up all stages of the project from production to distribution."
Amy thought about it and said, "we can set up an independent financial account for each project under the supervision of both parties, so as to avoid the phenomenon of the company's due income being concealed and defaulted again."
"You can discuss these details yourself. I'll just see the results."
Amy agreed, or asked, "what about the script, Simon, do you want to use the copyright we hoard?"
"Of course not. The studio that wants to work with us will offer the script, and I will choose it myself. In addition, remember to sign the relevant copyright agreement in advance to prevent them from reneging. "
"I don't think that's likely to happen," Amy said with a smile. Just as she was about to get up and get busy, she noticed that Simon was a little tired leaning on the leather chair and couldn't help saying, "Simon, after the news is released, you'll probably become the most powerful person in Hollywood."
The continuous success of bodyguard and sixth sense proves that the magic of dannilis entertainment is still there.
Now, the company suddenly released the news that it will cooperate with the outside world in 10 films, which will definitely make the whole Hollywood boiling up. After all, danielis Entertainment's previous series of films with Orion, Fox and MGM have all sold well at the box office, which proves that Simon westero doesn't just leave the best projects for himself.Ten films, perhaps because of the increase in the number of commercial performance can not be so good, but as long as half of them can reach the annual box office top 10 level, for the studio also has a huge attraction. If there is such a big project as sixth sense, a studio can only rely on 50% of its revenue to eat for a year.
Simon smiles, but remembers the Hollywood power list of Premiere Magazine in the original time and space.
The Hollywood power list of Premiere Magazine in memory won't be released until next year.
To many people's surprise, Michael owitz, President of CAA, ranked first in the original time and space first list.
In fact, this can once again prove Simon's idea that the power and influence of the helmsman of big Hollywood studios are not as great as ordinary people think. If it was the golden age of Hollywood a few decades ago, Jack Warner of Warner Brothers, Louis Mayer of MGM, or Daryl zanuk of fox would not have been the number one talent agent.
After a few words of advice, Simon leans back to the leather chair when Amy leaves.
It's another busy week coming to an end. I have to discuss the fine cutting plan of the film with the main creative team of "flying over innocence" soon. I can only take a short rest.
Inexplicably again want to suddenly fly to Australia, let go of everything, and Janet tired of two days.
However.
Think about it and stop tossing the Japanese stock market.
A moment later, Jennifer pushes the door in to signal that the main creative team of "flying over innocence" has arrived, and Simon stands up.
At the same time, the news that daenerys entertainment will cooperate with other Hollywood film makers in the next two years, 10 films, like wings, spread all over Hollywood in just one morning.
All of a sudden, Simon, Amy, Robert rem, Ella doechman, and even Robert egger of the east coast, all of danilisi's entertainment executives' phone calls were blown up, and all kinds of appointments such as parties, dinners and cocktail parties poured into the public.
As the final decision maker of this plan, Simon is naturally the focus of all people's attention.
However, Simon just let Jennifer push all the invitation. Although he didn't fly to Australia at the weekend, he went to San Francisco quietly. The main purpose is to have a rest and check the development progress of various projects of igrit company by the way.
When Simon's trail is found by some boiling media like Hollywood, the weekend is over.
August is also coming unconsciously.
Although we realize that it is possible that the sudden attack of WGA triggered the plan of danielis Entertainment's 10 foreign film cooperation, and some people in the circle think that westero's reaction is a bit of a fuss, in the new week, it seems that the originally aggressive WGA has suddenly lost some kind of dependence, and its attitude has obviously softened.
George COGO, chairman of the Western Branch of the American Writers Union, said in a statement last week that the WGA would set up a special investigation committee to investigate Denise's violation of the entertainment agreement. Over the weekend, this so-called Committee seems to have been forgotten by everyone. Only the legal department of WGA is still following up.
Obviously, compared with the WGA's Denise entertainment survey, everyone thinks that the 10 film projects are the most important.
Hollywood's seven major film companies, carefully calculated, have no completely irresoluble contradiction with danielis entertainment. Well, maybe we have robbed one or two projects, maybe we have robbed one or two talents, maybe we are preparing to file a lawsuit, but these are just normal business activities, not personal complaints.
As long as everyone has a positive attitude and takes the initiative, it is possible to get a piece of these 10 films.
As a result, when WGA's upcoming investigation is almost over, major studios have begun to show their love to danielis entertainment.
Orion pictures, whose performance has been sluggish for more than half a year, immediately contacted Amy Pascal, claiming that the company has recently recovered a sum of money to pay the share of Denise entertainment in the vulgar novel. I just hope the two sides can sign another contract.
Amy is also unambiguous, insisting that Orion pay the share first, and then talk about other things.
MGM just said last week that it would insist on filing a lawsuit. On Monday, MGM changed its tone of speaking and took the initiative to send a batch of scripts.
The head of Columbia's Samsung pictures also passed on a call to Simon through Jonathan Friedman. Samsung pictures decided to terminate its contract with Matthew Broderick for a film called "the godfather of the lizard.".
Simon's entanglement with Matthew Broderick is no secret in Hollywood.
Matthew Broderick moved from wma to CAA a few months before Norman Broca left. "Lizard Godfather" was originally a favorite film of Samsung film industry. The story was set as a double male protagonist. In addition to Matthew Broderick, another male protagonist is Marlon Brando, the famous old movie emperor in Hollywood.
After signing the contract, Samsung pictures has to pay liquidated damages.It's really sincere.
The circle also realized that after this incident, Matthew Broderick's career in Hollywood was completely over.
Originally, I felt that I had no interest in danielis entertainment, and other studios didn't have much scruples about opening Matthew Broderick. Now, everyone is fighting for 10 film contracts of danielis entertainment. Samsung pictures is willing to pay liquidated damages to draw a clear line. It's so obvious that if other studios cooperate with Matthew Broderick again, it would be a provocation to Simon westero.
After all, there is only one westero, but there are a lot of Hollywood students who can replace Matthew Brodrick.
It can be imagined that Matthew Broderick will not get any role from the mainstream first and second tier film companies in Hollywood in the next few years, even if he wants to turn to the television industry. In a few years, the actor will only be completely forgotten by Hollywood.
Danielis entertainment released the details of the two plays "scream" and "sixth sense", because the announcement of 10 foreign film plans attracted Hollywood's attention, and no other forces came out to stir up the media trend, and the public opinion almost fell on one side to support Simon.
For the sake of their own face, the American Writers Union did not end the investigation of danielis entertainment as soon as possible, but just delayed without anger.
However, due to the good control of public opinion, the screenplay event of the sixth sense of the supernatural has little impact on the box office of the film. The three new films released on July 28, namely "lucky star and lucky general", "Friday the 13th 8" and "cinema in heaven", have no threat to the sixth sense of the supernatural.
From July 28 to August 3, another week later, the box office decline of "sixth sense" continued to be controlled at a very good 23%, with another $23.96 million.
At the same time, the total box office of "sixth sense" in five weeks totaled 173.98 million US dollars, which also surpassed "Raider 3", which originally ranked first in the year.
In the ninth week, the cumulative box office of "Raider 3" was $172.16 million, nearly $2 million behind "sixth sense". Moreover, the box office of "Raider 3" has fallen to less than $5 million in a single week. Whether it can break through $200 million in the next few weeks depends on luck.
In contrast, the box office of "sixth sense" is still more than $20 million a week. With the box office trend shown by the film, it is absolutely not a problem for North America to receive another $100 million. Whether it can break through 300 million US dollars may also depend on luck, but this kind of luck is only enviable and enviable compared with "Raiders 3".
Disney's "lucky stars and lucky generals", starring Tom Hanks and Michael fox, took second place with a box office of $19.12 million in the first week.
Warner Bros.'s "lethal weapon 2" received another $15.68 million, ranking third, with a total box office of $94.12 million in four weeks.
The box office of the eighth film of Paramount Pictures' classic horror film "Friday the 13th" series "Friday the 13th 8" in the first week was 8.48 million US dollars, ranking fourth.
Disney's "honey, I've made my kids smaller" fell to fifth place this week, with another $7.61 million and a total of $98.47 million at the box office.
In addition to the top five on the list, Universal Pictures' paradise cinema doesn't repeat the luck of sex, lies and video in early July.
"Sex, lies and video" finally made $6.31 million at the box office in the first week of its release at the beginning of this month. With excellent media reputation and continued weak decline, it continued to earn $3.76 million this week, totaling $22.19 million.
According to this box office trend, "sex, lies and videos" can almost safely break through the $30 million box office barrier before it is released.
In contrast, due to its eagerness to push "Cinema Paradise" to the cinema, Universal Pictures is hard to improve on film re editing and English dubbing.
Cinema Paradise won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, but the North American re cut dubbing version has a bad reputation. Even director Giuseppe tonadore has publicly declared that this is another film.
In the first week, Paradise cinema's 553 opening screens, similar to sex, lies and videotapes, only received $1.86 million at the box office, with only $3000 for each single Museum. If we lose at the beginning, we can't talk about the long term. It is expected that the cinema will withdraw the film at the end of the two-week contract period, and the total box office of the film in North America is only about $3 million.
Paradise cinema has lost both in media reputation and box office, and Universal Pictures is doomed not to win the best foreign language film award for the film as Miramax did in the original time and space.
In order to get paradise cinema, globegroup only paid the film manufacturer $5 million in advance for the copyright. It also promised the sharing terms, and recently invested no less than $2 million for publicity and distribution. Now, this project will surely be a total loss.Of course, globegroup can afford the loss of millions of dollars. However, for many people who are full of expectations for "cinema in heaven" because of Denise's good entertainment, they are extremely disappointed.
Not only globegroup, but also Giuseppe tonadore, who is interested in winning the best foreign language film Oscar after Cannes Palme d'Or, and is trying to get into Hollywood, is like being beaten with a stick. The producers who won the right to make Tony Torre's new film at a high price because of danielis entertainment are not so confident.
After the North American box office of Cinema Paradise came out, TF1, the French producer who had seized the investment right of tonadore's new film, re contacted danelis entertainment to explore the possibility of cooperation between the two sides.
Simon has seen the script of "journey to heaven" before. Although he has little impression of the original Italian film, he remembers that the film was remade into the American version in the original time and space, starring Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore. French film makers offered to be friendly, and Simon didn't let Ella doechman refuse, asking the other side to participate in the capital injection to win the North American distribution right of "Tianlun journey".
"Sex, lies and video" and "cinema in heaven", a big sale, a hit on the street, the two films have different ends, but also let the Hollywood studio executives gradually realize a fact: danelis entertainment value project, not necessarily 100% can succeed, obviously, the key thing is Simon westero's own participation.
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Now Hollywood, the mainstream of the seven film companies is not still controlled by the founder, between the fierce competition for market share, all of its extreme blockbuster era.
The seven major studios are basically listed companies or part of listed companies. The directors of the seven major studios may have different powers, but they are only professional managers who take care of the enterprises for the shareholders.
In such a situation, if Simon is just a young director who has just made a few blockbuster films in Hollywood, when he seriously threatens the interests of other studios, he may be mercilessly suppressed.
However, the current situation is that Simon's identity is not limited to the director.
Before the whole of Hollywood reacted, he had established danelis entertainment, an entertainment company with the strength close to the traditional large studio. Moreover, Simon himself has accumulated billions of dollars in various ways.
In such a capital dominated society as the United States, Simon's billions of dollars of personal wealth represents his strong strength. Even if this strength is not deeply rooted in the money families who have accumulated for decades, it is definitely not easy for the "professional managers" of Hollywood's major film companies to stir up.
Those people may make some small moves in private, trying to make them bet on their career prospects and fight against Denise entertainment. The possibility is very low.
As for uniting to crack down on Denise entertainment, a latecomer, it's hard for people to get together. The three monks have no water to drink, not to mention seven "monks" with the same mind competing with each other for a well.
In the office of Santa Monica headquarters.
Simon understood all this, but did not take the ongoing WGA investigation incident lightly.
It's like the Hollywood anti sexual assault movement many years later.
A lot of people were just watching a fat man who had been rampant in Hollywood for decades, but they didn't expect that in the twinkling of an eye, a destructive hurricane was rolling on everyone.
Things are hard to predict.
Although it is clear that the threat of banning union members from cooperating with Denise entertainment in the WGA statement is very unlikely to happen, if Simon belittles it and lets Hollywood competitors seize the opportunity, the worst result is likely to come true unexpectedly.
At that time, danielis entertainment, which is not stable in Hollywood after all, will suffer a heavy blow, and even cause more serious chain reaction.
Therefore, Simon decided to nip the potential crisis in the bud as soon as possible.
After making up his mind, Simon put down his pencil and said to Amy, "it suddenly occurred to me that after last year's over the air innocence and Batman, the company had not signed any cooperation projects with other film companies. Now it's time to continue this."
Amy remembers that Simon said this plan last year, and he intends to work with other Hollywood studios to dispel the fear of competitors about the rise of danilisi entertainment. However, since the end of last year, everyone has been busy in the dark. Up to now, there is no spare energy to take this matter into consideration.
Simon thought about it for a moment, and then continued, "Amy, please let us know as soon as possible that Denise entertainment will cooperate with 10 foreign films in the next two years."
Amy was surprised and asked, "what's the cooperation mode of" flying over innocence "
"Of course, and this time we don't need a copyright tie-in like wonder woman. We just need to finalize the project, and each side will invest 50% to share the copyright and income. Danielis entertainment leads the production, and the other party is responsible for the distribution of various channels. Well, the commission ratio of this issue is a little stuck, limited to 10%. "
"8% is OK," Amy said
Simon shook his head with a smile and said, "there's no need to be so harsh. The key is that the accounting team of danielis entertainment should follow up all stages of the project from production to distribution."
Amy thought about it and said, "we can set up an independent financial account for each project under the supervision of both parties, so as to avoid the phenomenon of the company's due income being concealed and defaulted again."
"You can discuss these details yourself. I'll just see the results."
Amy agreed, or asked, "what about the script, Simon, do you want to use the copyright we hoard?"
"Of course not. The studio that wants to work with us will offer the script, and I will choose it myself. In addition, remember to sign the relevant copyright agreement in advance to prevent them from reneging. "
"I don't think that's likely to happen," Amy said with a smile. Just as she was about to get up and get busy, she noticed that Simon was a little tired leaning on the leather chair and couldn't help saying, "Simon, after the news is released, you'll probably become the most powerful person in Hollywood."
The continuous success of bodyguard and sixth sense proves that the magic of dannilis entertainment is still there.
Now, the company suddenly released the news that it will cooperate with the outside world in 10 films, which will definitely make the whole Hollywood boiling up. After all, danielis Entertainment's previous series of films with Orion, Fox and MGM have all sold well at the box office, which proves that Simon westero doesn't just leave the best projects for himself.Ten films, perhaps because of the increase in the number of commercial performance can not be so good, but as long as half of them can reach the annual box office top 10 level, for the studio also has a huge attraction. If there is such a big project as sixth sense, a studio can only rely on 50% of its revenue to eat for a year.
Simon smiles, but remembers the Hollywood power list of Premiere Magazine in the original time and space.
The Hollywood power list of Premiere Magazine in memory won't be released until next year.
To many people's surprise, Michael owitz, President of CAA, ranked first in the original time and space first list.
In fact, this can once again prove Simon's idea that the power and influence of the helmsman of big Hollywood studios are not as great as ordinary people think. If it was the golden age of Hollywood a few decades ago, Jack Warner of Warner Brothers, Louis Mayer of MGM, or Daryl zanuk of fox would not have been the number one talent agent.
After a few words of advice, Simon leans back to the leather chair when Amy leaves.
It's another busy week coming to an end. I have to discuss the fine cutting plan of the film with the main creative team of "flying over innocence" soon. I can only take a short rest.
Inexplicably again want to suddenly fly to Australia, let go of everything, and Janet tired of two days.
However.
Think about it and stop tossing the Japanese stock market.
A moment later, Jennifer pushes the door in to signal that the main creative team of "flying over innocence" has arrived, and Simon stands up.
At the same time, the news that daenerys entertainment will cooperate with other Hollywood film makers in the next two years, 10 films, like wings, spread all over Hollywood in just one morning.
All of a sudden, Simon, Amy, Robert rem, Ella doechman, and even Robert egger of the east coast, all of danilisi's entertainment executives' phone calls were blown up, and all kinds of appointments such as parties, dinners and cocktail parties poured into the public.
As the final decision maker of this plan, Simon is naturally the focus of all people's attention.
However, Simon just let Jennifer push all the invitation. Although he didn't fly to Australia at the weekend, he went to San Francisco quietly. The main purpose is to have a rest and check the development progress of various projects of igrit company by the way.
When Simon's trail is found by some boiling media like Hollywood, the weekend is over.
August is also coming unconsciously.
Although we realize that it is possible that the sudden attack of WGA triggered the plan of danielis Entertainment's 10 foreign film cooperation, and some people in the circle think that westero's reaction is a bit of a fuss, in the new week, it seems that the originally aggressive WGA has suddenly lost some kind of dependence, and its attitude has obviously softened.
George COGO, chairman of the Western Branch of the American Writers Union, said in a statement last week that the WGA would set up a special investigation committee to investigate Denise's violation of the entertainment agreement. Over the weekend, this so-called Committee seems to have been forgotten by everyone. Only the legal department of WGA is still following up.
Obviously, compared with the WGA's Denise entertainment survey, everyone thinks that the 10 film projects are the most important.
Hollywood's seven major film companies, carefully calculated, have no completely irresoluble contradiction with danielis entertainment. Well, maybe we have robbed one or two projects, maybe we have robbed one or two talents, maybe we are preparing to file a lawsuit, but these are just normal business activities, not personal complaints.
As long as everyone has a positive attitude and takes the initiative, it is possible to get a piece of these 10 films.
As a result, when WGA's upcoming investigation is almost over, major studios have begun to show their love to danielis entertainment.
Orion pictures, whose performance has been sluggish for more than half a year, immediately contacted Amy Pascal, claiming that the company has recently recovered a sum of money to pay the share of Denise entertainment in the vulgar novel. I just hope the two sides can sign another contract.
Amy is also unambiguous, insisting that Orion pay the share first, and then talk about other things.
MGM just said last week that it would insist on filing a lawsuit. On Monday, MGM changed its tone of speaking and took the initiative to send a batch of scripts.
The head of Columbia's Samsung pictures also passed on a call to Simon through Jonathan Friedman. Samsung pictures decided to terminate its contract with Matthew Broderick for a film called "the godfather of the lizard.".
Simon's entanglement with Matthew Broderick is no secret in Hollywood.
Matthew Broderick moved from wma to CAA a few months before Norman Broca left. "Lizard Godfather" was originally a favorite film of Samsung film industry. The story was set as a double male protagonist. In addition to Matthew Broderick, another male protagonist is Marlon Brando, the famous old movie emperor in Hollywood.
After signing the contract, Samsung pictures has to pay liquidated damages.It's really sincere.
The circle also realized that after this incident, Matthew Broderick's career in Hollywood was completely over.
Originally, I felt that I had no interest in danielis entertainment, and other studios didn't have much scruples about opening Matthew Broderick. Now, everyone is fighting for 10 film contracts of danielis entertainment. Samsung pictures is willing to pay liquidated damages to draw a clear line. It's so obvious that if other studios cooperate with Matthew Broderick again, it would be a provocation to Simon westero.
After all, there is only one westero, but there are a lot of Hollywood students who can replace Matthew Brodrick.
It can be imagined that Matthew Broderick will not get any role from the mainstream first and second tier film companies in Hollywood in the next few years, even if he wants to turn to the television industry. In a few years, the actor will only be completely forgotten by Hollywood.
Danielis entertainment released the details of the two plays "scream" and "sixth sense", because the announcement of 10 foreign film plans attracted Hollywood's attention, and no other forces came out to stir up the media trend, and the public opinion almost fell on one side to support Simon.
For the sake of their own face, the American Writers Union did not end the investigation of danielis entertainment as soon as possible, but just delayed without anger.
However, due to the good control of public opinion, the screenplay event of the sixth sense of the supernatural has little impact on the box office of the film. The three new films released on July 28, namely "lucky star and lucky general", "Friday the 13th 8" and "cinema in heaven", have no threat to the sixth sense of the supernatural.
From July 28 to August 3, another week later, the box office decline of "sixth sense" continued to be controlled at a very good 23%, with another $23.96 million.
At the same time, the total box office of "sixth sense" in five weeks totaled 173.98 million US dollars, which also surpassed "Raider 3", which originally ranked first in the year.
In the ninth week, the cumulative box office of "Raider 3" was $172.16 million, nearly $2 million behind "sixth sense". Moreover, the box office of "Raider 3" has fallen to less than $5 million in a single week. Whether it can break through $200 million in the next few weeks depends on luck.
In contrast, the box office of "sixth sense" is still more than $20 million a week. With the box office trend shown by the film, it is absolutely not a problem for North America to receive another $100 million. Whether it can break through 300 million US dollars may also depend on luck, but this kind of luck is only enviable and enviable compared with "Raiders 3".
Disney's "lucky stars and lucky generals", starring Tom Hanks and Michael fox, took second place with a box office of $19.12 million in the first week.
Warner Bros.'s "lethal weapon 2" received another $15.68 million, ranking third, with a total box office of $94.12 million in four weeks.
The box office of the eighth film of Paramount Pictures' classic horror film "Friday the 13th" series "Friday the 13th 8" in the first week was 8.48 million US dollars, ranking fourth.
Disney's "honey, I've made my kids smaller" fell to fifth place this week, with another $7.61 million and a total of $98.47 million at the box office.
In addition to the top five on the list, Universal Pictures' paradise cinema doesn't repeat the luck of sex, lies and video in early July.
"Sex, lies and video" finally made $6.31 million at the box office in the first week of its release at the beginning of this month. With excellent media reputation and continued weak decline, it continued to earn $3.76 million this week, totaling $22.19 million.
According to this box office trend, "sex, lies and videos" can almost safely break through the $30 million box office barrier before it is released.
In contrast, due to its eagerness to push "Cinema Paradise" to the cinema, Universal Pictures is hard to improve on film re editing and English dubbing.
Cinema Paradise won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, but the North American re cut dubbing version has a bad reputation. Even director Giuseppe tonadore has publicly declared that this is another film.
In the first week, Paradise cinema's 553 opening screens, similar to sex, lies and videotapes, only received $1.86 million at the box office, with only $3000 for each single Museum. If we lose at the beginning, we can't talk about the long term. It is expected that the cinema will withdraw the film at the end of the two-week contract period, and the total box office of the film in North America is only about $3 million.
Paradise cinema has lost both in media reputation and box office, and Universal Pictures is doomed not to win the best foreign language film award for the film as Miramax did in the original time and space.
In order to get paradise cinema, globegroup only paid the film manufacturer $5 million in advance for the copyright. It also promised the sharing terms, and recently invested no less than $2 million for publicity and distribution. Now, this project will surely be a total loss.Of course, globegroup can afford the loss of millions of dollars. However, for many people who are full of expectations for "cinema in heaven" because of Denise's good entertainment, they are extremely disappointed.
Not only globegroup, but also Giuseppe tonadore, who is interested in winning the best foreign language film Oscar after Cannes Palme d'Or, and is trying to get into Hollywood, is like being beaten with a stick. The producers who won the right to make Tony Torre's new film at a high price because of danielis entertainment are not so confident.
After the North American box office of Cinema Paradise came out, TF1, the French producer who had seized the investment right of tonadore's new film, re contacted danelis entertainment to explore the possibility of cooperation between the two sides.
Simon has seen the script of "journey to heaven" before. Although he has little impression of the original Italian film, he remembers that the film was remade into the American version in the original time and space, starring Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore. French film makers offered to be friendly, and Simon didn't let Ella doechman refuse, asking the other side to participate in the capital injection to win the North American distribution right of "Tianlun journey".
"Sex, lies and video" and "cinema in heaven", a big sale, a hit on the street, the two films have different ends, but also let the Hollywood studio executives gradually realize a fact: danelis entertainment value project, not necessarily 100% can succeed, obviously, the key thing is Simon westero's own participation.
Now Hollywood, the mainstream of the seven film companies is not still controlled by the founder, between the fierce competition for market share, all of its extreme blockbuster era. The seven major studios are basically listed companies or part of listed companies. The directors of the seven major studios may have different powers, but they are only professional managers who take care of the enterprises for the shareholders. In such a situation, if Simon is just a young director who has just made a few blockbuster films in Hollywood, when he seriously threatens the interests of other studios, he may be mercilessly suppressed. However, the current situation is that Simon's identity is not limited to the director. Before the whole of Hollywood reacted, he had established danelis entertainment, an entertainment company with the strength close to the traditional large studio. Moreover, Simon himself has accumulated billions of dollars in various ways. In such a capital dominated society as the United States, Simon's billions of dollars of personal wealth represents his strong strength. Even if this strength is not deeply rooted in the money families who have accumulated for decades, it is definitely not easy for the "professional managers" of Hollywood's major film companies to stir up. Those people may make some small moves in private, trying to make them bet on their career prospects and fight against Denise entertainment. The possibility is very low. As for uniting to crack down on Denise entertainment, a latecomer, it's hard for people to get together. The three monks have no water to drink, not to mention seven "monks" with the same mind competing with each other for a well. In the office of Santa Monica headquarters. Simon understood all this, but did not take the ongoing WGA investigation incident lightly. It's like the Hollywood anti sexual assault movement many years later. A lot of people were just watching a fat man who had been rampant in Hollywood for decades, but they didn't expect that in the twinkling of an eye, a destructive hurricane was rolling on everyone. Things are hard to predict. Although it is clear that the threat of banning union members from cooperating with Denise entertainment in the WGA statement is very unlikely to happen, if Simon belittles it and lets Hollywood competitors seize the opportunity, the worst result is likely to come true unexpectedly. At that time, danielis entertainment, which is not stable in Hollywood after all, will suffer a heavy blow, and even cause more serious chain reaction. Therefore, Simon decided to nip the potential crisis in the bud as soon as possible. After making up his mind, Simon put down his pencil and said to Amy, "it suddenly occurred to me that after last year's over the air innocence and Batman, the company had not signed any cooperation projects with other film companies. Now it's time to continue this." Amy remembers that Simon said this plan last year, and he intends to work with other Hollywood studios to dispel the fear of competitors about the rise of danilisi entertainment. However, since the end of last year, everyone has been busy in the dark. Up to now, there is no spare energy to take this matter into consideration. Simon thought about it for a moment, and then continued, "Amy, please let us know as soon as possible that Denise entertainment will cooperate with 10 foreign films in the next two years." Amy was surprised and asked, "what's the cooperation mode of" flying over innocence " "Of course, and this time we don't need a copyright tie-in like wonder woman. We just need to finalize the project, and each side will invest 50% to share the copyright and income. Danielis entertainment leads the production, and the other party is responsible for the distribution of various channels. Well, the commission ratio of this issue is a little stuck, limited to 10%. " "8% is OK," Amy said Simon shook his head with a smile and said, "there's no need to be so harsh. The key is that the accounting team of danielis entertainment should follow up all stages of the project from production to distribution." Amy thought about it and said, "we can set up an independent financial account for each project under the supervision of both parties, so as to avoid the phenomenon of the company's due income being concealed and defaulted again." "You can discuss these details yourself. I'll just see the results." Amy agreed, or asked, "what about the script, Simon, do you want to use the copyright we hoard?" "Of course not. The studio that wants to work with us will offer the script, and I will choose it myself. In addition, remember to sign the relevant copyright agreement in advance to prevent them from reneging. " "I don't think that's likely to happen," Amy said with a smile. Just as she was about to get up and get busy, she noticed that Simon was a little tired leaning on the leather chair and couldn't help saying, "Simon, after the news is released, you'll probably become the most powerful person in Hollywood." The continuous success of bodyguard and sixth sense proves that the magic of dannilis entertainment is still there. Now, the company suddenly released the news that it will cooperate with the outside world in 10 films, which will definitely make the whole Hollywood boiling up. After all, danielis Entertainment's previous series of films with Orion, Fox and MGM have all sold well at the box office, which proves that Simon westero doesn't just leave the best projects for himself.Ten films, perhaps because of the increase in the number of commercial performance can not be so good, but as long as half of them can reach the annual box office top 10 level, for the studio also has a huge attraction. If there is such a big project as sixth sense, a studio can only rely on 50% of its revenue to eat for a year. Simon smiles, but remembers the Hollywood power list of Premiere Magazine in the original time and space. The Hollywood power list of Premiere Magazine in memory won't be released until next year. To many people's surprise, Michael owitz, President of CAA, ranked first in the original time and space first list. In fact, this can once again prove Simon's idea that the power and influence of the helmsman of big Hollywood studios are not as great as ordinary people think. If it was the golden age of Hollywood a few decades ago, Jack Warner of Warner Brothers, Louis Mayer of MGM, or Daryl zanuk of fox would not have been the number one talent agent. After a few words of advice, Simon leans back to the leather chair when Amy leaves. It's another busy week coming to an end. I have to discuss the fine cutting plan of the film with the main creative team of "flying over innocence" soon. I can only take a short rest. Inexplicably again want to suddenly fly to Australia, let go of everything, and Janet tired of two days. However. Think about it and stop tossing the Japanese stock market. A moment later, Jennifer pushes the door in to signal that the main creative team of "flying over innocence" has arrived, and Simon stands up. At the same time, the news that daenerys entertainment will cooperate with other Hollywood film makers in the next two years, 10 films, like wings, spread all over Hollywood in just one morning. All of a sudden, Simon, Amy, Robert rem, Ella doechman, and even Robert egger of the east coast, all of danilisi's entertainment executives' phone calls were blown up, and all kinds of appointments such as parties, dinners and cocktail parties poured into the public. As the final decision maker of this plan, Simon is naturally the focus of all people's attention. However, Simon just let Jennifer push all the invitation. Although he didn't fly to Australia at the weekend, he went to San Francisco quietly. The main purpose is to have a rest and check the development progress of various projects of igrit company by the way. When Simon's trail is found by some boiling media like Hollywood, the weekend is over. August is also coming unconsciously. Although we realize that it is possible that the sudden attack of WGA triggered the plan of danielis Entertainment's 10 foreign film cooperation, and some people in the circle think that westero's reaction is a bit of a fuss, in the new week, it seems that the originally aggressive WGA has suddenly lost some kind of dependence, and its attitude has obviously softened. George COGO, chairman of the Western Branch of the American Writers Union, said in a statement last week that the WGA would set up a special investigation committee to investigate Denise's violation of the entertainment agreement. Over the weekend, this so-called Committee seems to have been forgotten by everyone. Only the legal department of WGA is still following up. Obviously, compared with the WGA's Denise entertainment survey, everyone thinks that the 10 film projects are the most important. Hollywood's seven major film companies, carefully calculated, have no completely irresoluble contradiction with danielis entertainment. Well, maybe we have robbed one or two projects, maybe we have robbed one or two talents, maybe we are preparing to file a lawsuit, but these are just normal business activities, not personal complaints. As long as everyone has a positive attitude and takes the initiative, it is possible to get a piece of these 10 films. As a result, when WGA's upcoming investigation is almost over, major studios have begun to show their love to danielis entertainment. Orion pictures, whose performance has been sluggish for more than half a year, immediately contacted Amy Pascal, claiming that the company has recently recovered a sum of money to pay the share of Denise entertainment in the vulgar novel. I just hope the two sides can sign another contract. Amy is also unambiguous, insisting that Orion pay the share first, and then talk about other things. MGM just said last week that it would insist on filing a lawsuit. On Monday, MGM changed its tone of speaking and took the initiative to send a batch of scripts. The head of Columbia's Samsung pictures also passed on a call to Simon through Jonathan Friedman. Samsung pictures decided to terminate its contract with Matthew Broderick for a film called "the godfather of the lizard.". Simon's entanglement with Matthew Broderick is no secret in Hollywood. Matthew Broderick moved from wma to CAA a few months before Norman Broca left. "Lizard Godfather" was originally a favorite film of Samsung film industry. The story was set as a double male protagonist. In addition to Matthew Broderick, another male protagonist is Marlon Brando, the famous old movie emperor in Hollywood. After signing the contract, Samsung pictures has to pay liquidated damages.It's really sincere. The circle also realized that after this incident, Matthew Broderick's career in Hollywood was completely over. Originally, I felt that I had no interest in danielis entertainment, and other studios didn't have much scruples about opening Matthew Broderick. Now, everyone is fighting for 10 film contracts of danielis entertainment. Samsung pictures is willing to pay liquidated damages to draw a clear line. It's so obvious that if other studios cooperate with Matthew Broderick again, it would be a provocation to Simon westero. After all, there is only one westero, but there are a lot of Hollywood students who can replace Matthew Brodrick. It can be imagined that Matthew Broderick will not get any role from the mainstream first and second tier film companies in Hollywood in the next few years, even if he wants to turn to the television industry. In a few years, the actor will only be completely forgotten by Hollywood. Danielis entertainment released the details of the two plays "scream" and "sixth sense", because the announcement of 10 foreign film plans attracted Hollywood's attention, and no other forces came out to stir up the media trend, and the public opinion almost fell on one side to support Simon. For the sake of their own face, the American Writers Union did not end the investigation of danielis entertainment as soon as possible, but just delayed without anger. However, due to the good control of public opinion, the screenplay event of the sixth sense of the supernatural has little impact on the box office of the film. The three new films released on July 28, namely "lucky star and lucky general", "Friday the 13th 8" and "cinema in heaven", have no threat to the sixth sense of the supernatural. From July 28 to August 3, another week later, the box office decline of "sixth sense" continued to be controlled at a very good 23%, with another $23.96 million. At the same time, the total box office of "sixth sense" in five weeks totaled 173.98 million US dollars, which also surpassed "Raider 3", which originally ranked first in the year. In the ninth week, the cumulative box office of "Raider 3" was $172.16 million, nearly $2 million behind "sixth sense". Moreover, the box office of "Raider 3" has fallen to less than $5 million in a single week. Whether it can break through $200 million in the next few weeks depends on luck. In contrast, the box office of "sixth sense" is still more than $20 million a week. With the box office trend shown by the film, it is absolutely not a problem for North America to receive another $100 million. Whether it can break through 300 million US dollars may also depend on luck, but this kind of luck is only enviable and enviable compared with "Raiders 3". Disney's "lucky stars and lucky generals", starring Tom Hanks and Michael fox, took second place with a box office of $19.12 million in the first week. Warner Bros.'s "lethal weapon 2" received another $15.68 million, ranking third, with a total box office of $94.12 million in four weeks. The box office of the eighth film of Paramount Pictures' classic horror film "Friday the 13th" series "Friday the 13th 8" in the first week was 8.48 million US dollars, ranking fourth. Disney's "honey, I've made my kids smaller" fell to fifth place this week, with another $7.61 million and a total of $98.47 million at the box office. In addition to the top five on the list, Universal Pictures' paradise cinema doesn't repeat the luck of sex, lies and video in early July. "Sex, lies and video" finally made $6.31 million at the box office in the first week of its release at the beginning of this month. With excellent media reputation and continued weak decline, it continued to earn $3.76 million this week, totaling $22.19 million. According to this box office trend, "sex, lies and videos" can almost safely break through the $30 million box office barrier before it is released. In contrast, due to its eagerness to push "Cinema Paradise" to the cinema, Universal Pictures is hard to improve on film re editing and English dubbing. Cinema Paradise won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, but the North American re cut dubbing version has a bad reputation. Even director Giuseppe tonadore has publicly declared that this is another film. In the first week, Paradise cinema's 553 opening screens, similar to sex, lies and videotapes, only received $1.86 million at the box office, with only $3000 for each single Museum. If we lose at the beginning, we can't talk about the long term. It is expected that the cinema will withdraw the film at the end of the two-week contract period, and the total box office of the film in North America is only about $3 million. Paradise cinema has lost both in media reputation and box office, and Universal Pictures is doomed not to win the best foreign language film award for the film as Miramax did in the original time and space. In order to get paradise cinema, globegroup only paid the film manufacturer $5 million in advance for the copyright. It also promised the sharing terms, and recently invested no less than $2 million for publicity and distribution. Now, this project will surely be a total loss.Of course, globegroup can afford the loss of millions of dollars. However, for many people who are full of expectations for "cinema in heaven" because of Denise's good entertainment, they are extremely disappointed. Not only globegroup, but also Giuseppe tonadore, who is interested in winning the best foreign language film Oscar after Cannes Palme d'Or, and is trying to get into Hollywood, is like being beaten with a stick. The producers who won the right to make Tony Torre's new film at a high price because of danielis entertainment are not so confident. After the North American box office of Cinema Paradise came out, TF1, the French producer who had seized the investment right of tonadore's new film, re contacted danelis entertainment to explore the possibility of cooperation between the two sides. Simon has seen the script of "journey to heaven" before. Although he has little impression of the original Italian film, he remembers that the film was remade into the American version in the original time and space, starring Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale and Drew Barrymore. French film makers offered to be friendly, and Simon didn't let Ella doechman refuse, asking the other side to participate in the capital injection to win the North American distribution right of "Tianlun journey". "Sex, lies and video" and "cinema in heaven", a big sale, a hit on the street, the two films have different ends, but also let the Hollywood studio executives gradually realize a fact: danelis entertainment value project, not necessarily 100% can succeed, obviously, the key thing is Simon westero's own participation.
