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As a country with separation of powers, the legislative power of the United States is mainly in the hands of Congress.
After being elected, the core work of members of the house and Senate is to propose, formulate, amend or repeal various bills according to the actual situation of all walks of life in the United States.
Every year, the U.S. Congress accepts thousands of bills of various types, ranging from the national economy and the people's livelihood to trivial matters.
Of course, there are differences in the importance of the bill.
Take Hollywood as an example. One of the recent lobbying focuses of the American Film Association (MPAA), which is mainly responsible for lobbying major Hollywood studios, is to abolish the merger restriction act between Hollywood studios and American public television networks.
The repeal of this bill will involve tens of billions of industrial changes.
On the other hand, members of Congress can't just sit in their offices and conceive certain bills out of thin air.
Most of the bills are obtained through communication between the public, trade unions, business owners, interest groups or federal government agencies and members of the house and the Senate.
As a result, countless professional lobbying companies have emerged in the United States, which are responsible for bridging the gap between various groups and members of Congress.
Although the so-called lobbying in the United States can not avoid the power game or interest exchange behind the scenes, it is very formal as a whole. On the surface, at least, no member would be so stupid as to know that some people ask for something from themselves and accept the other party's treat, give gifts and stuff red envelopes.
If you want to promote the establishment of a bill, you must first contact people, usually lobbying companies.
If we can't find the "temple gate", everything is in vain.
It is worth mentioning that most of the lobbying consulting firms are often set up by politicians who have left their jobs at all levels in the United States. The more top politicians are, the higher their fees will be. This is another form of high salary.
With the huge number of bills submitted by the US Congress every year, we can imagine the huge income of these people.
When it comes to contacts, it is impossible for others to help you persuade a member to submit a motion without any reason, and it is also impossible for them to put money into someone's hands for you. If you want to promote any bill, you must collect and sort out the corresponding data to prove the necessity of making or repealing a bill.
After obtaining enough data, members draft bills and submit them to Congress, and then go through the process of deliberation, debate and voting.
The process after the bill is submitted is often the focus of the game.
Most of the time, the more important a bill is, the more important it is that you can ensure that it is passed with good evidence and detailed data.
This requires the promoters of the bill to continue to show their skills, such as political strife, mutual compromise, public opinion building, interest exchange and so on.
The most direct manifestation of this kind of game is that the White House and Congress often fight against the annual government budget bill and even cause the government to shut down.
Of course, most of the dark battles hidden behind the scenes are not what ordinary people can see.
The bill Simon discussed with Joseph schrap that operators should not participate in the field of telecommunication equipment manufacturing is an important economic bill. It will take about two or three years from the proposal to the vote, and it may also be necessary to lobby together with other telecommunication control bills.
After more than an hour's discussion, the two settled on some details, saw off Joseph schrap, and Simon boarded at Westchester County Airport near Greenwich and returned to the west coast.
Back at Cape Dumay, on the west coast, it's lunchtime.
After lunch with Janet and chatting about the trip to New York, Simon went to work in Daniels studio in the afternoon.
Today is May 20th, Monday.
The next Friday, the summer program of 1991 will open.
However, today is another day. Another Cannes Film Festival in France ends today.
Los Angeles and Cannes have a 9-hour time difference. In the afternoon, when he came to Denise studios, Simon soon received the awards from Cannes, which is already at night.
Denise Entertainment's two films, Barton Fink by Cohen brothers and jungle fever by Spike Lee, failed to win Cannes' highest Palme d'Or. Fortunately, they did not return empty handed. Barton Fink won the best director award, and Samuel Jackson in jungle fever won the best supporting actor award.
In Simon's memory, Barton Fink should have won the Cannes Palme d'Or.
However, two of the three palms of gold works in the previous three years, vulgar novel, cinema paradise and wild my heart, were American films. There are two American films, one is produced by danielis entertainment and the other is released by danielis entertainment.
This time, the Cannes jury has clearly given birth to some balance.
The final Golden Palm award-winning film is the French director Jacques Levitt's "uninhibited beauty".
Jacques Levitt's fame is not too big, but one of the heroines in "unruly beauty" is known as Jane platinum. The platinum bag of Hermes, which is so expensive that it is popular with many celebrities and ladies, is named after Jane platinum.Because of such a gimmick and the blessing of Palme d'Or, Ella doichman has been in contact with the copyright owners, hoping to get the North American distribution right of "uninhibited beauty".
"Barton Fink" and "Jungle Fever" did not win the Palme d'Or, but only won two minor awards, which actually met Simon's expectations.
Danielis entertainment can not occupy all the light after all, it is necessary to keep a low profile properly.
What's more, the focus of gaomen film's overseas awards this year is actually the Venice Film Festival.
Because of the production progress, Jane Campion's "farewell to the piano" can not participate in the just concluded Cannes Film Festival, but has declared the main competition unit of this year's Venice Film Festival.
Last year, Jane Campion's "the angel is at my table" won a very good evaluation at the Venice Film Festival. It is obvious that "farewell to the piano" is more suitable for the artistic temperament of Venice than Cannes. This film is very likely to impact this year's Venice Golden Lion Award.
On the other hand, the contacts of Ella doichman and Sophia Fisi in the Italian entertainment industry are enough to support the success of farewell to the piano.
In addition to Cannes, Simon's main busy job in the week of returning to the west coast is "flash" which has been successfully completed in Melbourne and returned to North America.
As the first producer of flash, Warner expressed his misgivings and dissatisfaction about Simon's not going to visit Melbourne during the filming period.
Simon didn't retort, and he really didn't have the time. However, Simon actually invested a lot of energy in this film, enough for him to get the remuneration in the original producer contract.
For several working days in a row, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel took time to review the samples with Simon every day.
Terry Semel was not relieved until he confirmed that there was no big problem with the sample film and Simon personally presided over the post production plan of the film.
In a flash, it's Friday, May 24.
In 1991, the summer program was officially opened.
But this week, six new films of above scale were released. In addition to the Antarctic documentary "ice and snow world" released by gaomen film and the comedy "troublemaker Fred" released by Xinxian film, the opening screen scale of the other four films reached more than 1000 yuan.
The four films are the fire type crime action film tempering, which is still under the brand of Universal Pictures, starring two male stars William Baldwin and Kurt Russell, with a screen size of 2036.
Columbia film's Samsung brand released Bruce Willis funny action film "the ultimate Eagle", with a screen size of 1621.
Last year, Chris Columbus, who was promoted to the front line by directing "the kid in charge of the house", started his new romantic comedy "the man in charge of the marriage", with a screen size of 1561.
And finally, Disney produced a real adaptation of the trainer theme movie "horse hero", with a screen size of 1521..
The opening screen sizes of "ice and snow world" and "troublemaker Fred" are 687 and 821 respectively.
Maybe it's because the competition is too fierce, or because none of the six new films has the potential to sell well. From May 24 to May 30, in the first week of production, none of the films in North American Theaters made more than $20 million a week.
Universal Pictures' backfire finally won the box office champion in a single week, with only $19.21 million in the first seven days.
Next on the list came Disney's old movie genius is crazy, which tells a series of jokes made by the hero starring Bill Murray because of his worrying insecurity about the world.
"Genius is crazy" opened last week and opened in the second week. Because of word-of-mouth fermentation, under the attack of a lot of old films, it even got a 5% box office decline, earning $13.53 million.
Bruce Willis, who starred in the new movie "the flying tiger and the eagle", came in third, but the box office dropped to $8.64 million.
The production cost of "Flying Tiger and Eagle" is as high as $65 million.
With a bad reputation, the film has a dismal start of $8.64 million. According to the commercial action, the film may drop by 50% next week, and the total box office in North America may be less than $20 million. Columbia film is doomed to lose all its money. Sony, the big owner behind the scenes, has once again paid Hollywood an expensive "tuition fee.".
Chris Columbus's new film, big man, came in fourth with $7.73 million.
In terms of the production cost of the film of 20 million US dollars, it is also a failure.
Then, No. 5 is not Disney's "vaulting horse hero" or the new line of "troublemaker Fred", but to bring a cool summer of "ice and snow world".
In the first week, ice and snow world won a box office of 6.97 million US dollars, which was unexpected.
If you think about it carefully, "ice and snow world" has become the only film with an average box office of more than 10000 in the first week of the summer season.As we all know, only when the number of new films with large scale is more than 10000 in the first week can they reach the level of big sales.
From the original fashion documentary "Gucci mark", to this year's Easter Madonna Music Documentary "truth and courage", and then to the Antarctic Scenery Documentary "ice and snow world", Hollywood finds that its studio has been trying to follow up the pace of danilisi entertainment, launch fashion documentary, brew Music Documentary, and now, it has jumped out of the world There's a landscape documentary.
What's more, it's said that the budget of the documentary is only 3 million dollars. It's just a birthday gift given to a little girl by the Westeros.
The box office of $6.97 million in the first week directly recovered the production cost.
According to the opening data, the publicity will be strengthened, the word-of-mouth and popularity will be slightly improved, and the screening scale will be appropriately expanded. The documentary will easily accumulate US $30 million at the box office.
Although the $30 million box office is far away from Simon's memory of the emperor penguin diary, it is a rare success in the eyes of other Hollywood studios.
Compared with the budget cost of $3 million, only the North American box office, the rate of return is 10 times!
Hollywood studios, which were trying to support the success of Gucci mark and truth and bravery, have turned their attention to various scenic sites on earth after the box office of ice and snow world.
Some filmmakers are also taking the opportunity to sell exploration projects such as the Antarctic and Arctic Amazon jungle and the Sahara desert to the studio. Even Simon's desk has a documentary plan to explore the African savannah.
However, in this series of films, Simon pays more attention to "trouble maker Fred".
Or new line pictures, the production company of "trouble maker Fred.".
The original time and space in the new line of the film industry rely on the "ghost Street" series, in the "Ninja Turtle" box office broke 100 million, into the mainstream studio vision, and finally was acquired by Time Warner, and created the "Lord of the rings", "rush hour" and other popular series.
Now, "Ninja Turtle" has been cut off by danielis entertainment.
With the loss of a Ninja Turtle series, which is enough to sustain the profits of a second tier studio for several years, the potential of the ghost Street series is basically exhausted. Coupled with the blind expansion of the film production and distribution scale of the new line in the past few years, this summer film "trouble maker Fred" is one of the last attempts before the decline of the new line film industry.
"Trouble maker Fred" is starred by Kelly Fisher and Phoebe Katz. According to Simon's information, the budget of the film is about $6.7 million. It is not difficult to see the fineness of the new line from this figure.
Although after so many years of accumulation of distribution resources, the new line forced this fantasy comedy film into the summer file, but the opening box office was not ideal, only $4.39 million, basically no hope to break the 10 million mark.
However, with the cost of publicity taken into account, the total budget for the film is about $10 million.
Obviously, this is a failed project.
For Denise entertainment, the failure of the $10 million project didn't matter.
After all, the new line film industry, which has a shallow foundation, can not afford several similar losses.
Simon inquired about the 1991 film list of the new line, and there are as many as 11 films planned to be released.
Except for "ghost Street 6: the last nightmare", Simon didn't find any potential blockbuster in other films.
A film company that barely gets into the second tier will toss 11 films a year, which is basically equivalent to consuming all the family wealth accumulated in the past few years. If Simon's Secret sniping is included, the film company will only be in a miserable situation again.
In other words, Miramax pictures of Weinstein brothers, another company that Simon has been secretly staring at, has now fallen into a completely small business mode because it has missed such films as sex, lies and videos and cinema in paradise.
Because they have no production ability at all, the two brothers can only swindle some copyrights from Europe to earn a little in North America in the past two years.
In the final analysis, just as the total number of viewers in the American film market is relatively fixed every year, Hollywood's fortune is also fixed.
With the rapid development of danielis entertainment for several years in a row, it has not only won a large number of blockbuster films originally belonging to other studios, but also carved up a large part of Hollywood's other resources.
Even the other major studios feel pressure in front of Denise entertainment, not to mention the second - and third tier film companies that can't form scale effect and have mediocre anti risk ability.
Over the past few years, Denise entertainment has been constantly devouring the best scripts, the best filmmakers, the most popular film schedules, the most popular public opinions, and the best publicity resources in Hollywood
Even if we lose the studio that originally belongs to our own box office project, we can still produce other films of good quality. However, with the shrinking of film and television production and marketing resources, those films that have been captured a lot of attention by dannilis entertainment can no longer compete with dannilis entertainment at the box office.
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As a country with separation of powers, the legislative power of the United States is mainly in the hands of Congress.
After being elected, the core work of members of the house and Senate is to propose, formulate, amend or repeal various bills according to the actual situation of all walks of life in the United States.
Every year, the U.S. Congress accepts thousands of bills of various types, ranging from the national economy and the people's livelihood to trivial matters.
Of course, there are differences in the importance of the bill.
Take Hollywood as an example. One of the recent lobbying focuses of the American Film Association (MPAA), which is mainly responsible for lobbying major Hollywood studios, is to abolish the merger restriction act between Hollywood studios and American public television networks.
The repeal of this bill will involve tens of billions of industrial changes.
On the other hand, members of Congress can't just sit in their offices and conceive certain bills out of thin air.
Most of the bills are obtained through communication between the public, trade unions, business owners, interest groups or federal government agencies and members of the house and the Senate.
As a result, countless professional lobbying companies have emerged in the United States, which are responsible for bridging the gap between various groups and members of Congress.
Although the so-called lobbying in the United States can not avoid the power game or interest exchange behind the scenes, it is very formal as a whole. On the surface, at least, no member would be so stupid as to know that some people ask for something from themselves and accept the other party's treat, give gifts and stuff red envelopes.
If you want to promote the establishment of a bill, you must first contact people, usually lobbying companies.
If we can't find the "temple gate", everything is in vain.
It is worth mentioning that most of the lobbying consulting firms are often set up by politicians who have left their jobs at all levels in the United States. The more top politicians are, the higher their fees will be. This is another form of high salary.
With the huge number of bills submitted by the US Congress every year, we can imagine the huge income of these people.
When it comes to contacts, it is impossible for others to help you persuade a member to submit a motion without any reason, and it is also impossible for them to put money into someone's hands for you. If you want to promote any bill, you must collect and sort out the corresponding data to prove the necessity of making or repealing a bill.
After obtaining enough data, members draft bills and submit them to Congress, and then go through the process of deliberation, debate and voting.
The process after the bill is submitted is often the focus of the game.
Most of the time, the more important a bill is, the more important it is that you can ensure that it is passed with good evidence and detailed data.
This requires the promoters of the bill to continue to show their skills, such as political strife, mutual compromise, public opinion building, interest exchange and so on.
The most direct manifestation of this kind of game is that the White House and Congress often fight against the annual government budget bill and even cause the government to shut down.
Of course, most of the dark battles hidden behind the scenes are not what ordinary people can see.
The bill Simon discussed with Joseph schrap that operators should not participate in the field of telecommunication equipment manufacturing is an important economic bill. It will take about two or three years from the proposal to the vote, and it may also be necessary to lobby together with other telecommunication control bills.
After more than an hour's discussion, the two settled on some details, saw off Joseph schrap, and Simon boarded at Westchester County Airport near Greenwich and returned to the west coast.
Back at Cape Dumay, on the west coast, it's lunchtime.
After lunch with Janet and chatting about the trip to New York, Simon went to work in Daniels studio in the afternoon.
Today is May 20th, Monday.
The next Friday, the summer program of 1991 will open.
However, today is another day. Another Cannes Film Festival in France ends today.
Los Angeles and Cannes have a 9-hour time difference. In the afternoon, when he came to Denise studios, Simon soon received the awards from Cannes, which is already at night.
Denise Entertainment's two films, Barton Fink by Cohen brothers and jungle fever by Spike Lee, failed to win Cannes' highest Palme d'Or. Fortunately, they did not return empty handed. Barton Fink won the best director award, and Samuel Jackson in jungle fever won the best supporting actor award.
In Simon's memory, Barton Fink should have won the Cannes Palme d'Or.
However, two of the three palms of gold works in the previous three years, vulgar novel, cinema paradise and wild my heart, were American films. There are two American films, one is produced by danielis entertainment and the other is released by danielis entertainment.
This time, the Cannes jury has clearly given birth to some balance.
The final Golden Palm award-winning film is the French director Jacques Levitt's "uninhibited beauty".
Jacques Levitt's fame is not too big, but one of the heroines in "unruly beauty" is known as Jane platinum. The platinum bag of Hermes, which is so expensive that it is popular with many celebrities and ladies, is named after Jane platinum.Because of such a gimmick and the blessing of Palme d'Or, Ella doichman has been in contact with the copyright owners, hoping to get the North American distribution right of "uninhibited beauty".
"Barton Fink" and "Jungle Fever" did not win the Palme d'Or, but only won two minor awards, which actually met Simon's expectations.
Danielis entertainment can not occupy all the light after all, it is necessary to keep a low profile properly.
What's more, the focus of gaomen film's overseas awards this year is actually the Venice Film Festival.
Because of the production progress, Jane Campion's "farewell to the piano" can not participate in the just concluded Cannes Film Festival, but has declared the main competition unit of this year's Venice Film Festival.
Last year, Jane Campion's "the angel is at my table" won a very good evaluation at the Venice Film Festival. It is obvious that "farewell to the piano" is more suitable for the artistic temperament of Venice than Cannes. This film is very likely to impact this year's Venice Golden Lion Award.
On the other hand, the contacts of Ella doichman and Sophia Fisi in the Italian entertainment industry are enough to support the success of farewell to the piano.
In addition to Cannes, Simon's main busy job in the week of returning to the west coast is "flash" which has been successfully completed in Melbourne and returned to North America.
As the first producer of flash, Warner expressed his misgivings and dissatisfaction about Simon's not going to visit Melbourne during the filming period.
Simon didn't retort, and he really didn't have the time. However, Simon actually invested a lot of energy in this film, enough for him to get the remuneration in the original producer contract.
For several working days in a row, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel took time to review the samples with Simon every day.
Terry Semel was not relieved until he confirmed that there was no big problem with the sample film and Simon personally presided over the post production plan of the film.
In a flash, it's Friday, May 24.
In 1991, the summer program was officially opened.
But this week, six new films of above scale were released. In addition to the Antarctic documentary "ice and snow world" released by gaomen film and the comedy "troublemaker Fred" released by Xinxian film, the opening screen scale of the other four films reached more than 1000 yuan.
The four films are the fire type crime action film tempering, which is still under the brand of Universal Pictures, starring two male stars William Baldwin and Kurt Russell, with a screen size of 2036.
Columbia film's Samsung brand released Bruce Willis funny action film "the ultimate Eagle", with a screen size of 1621.
Last year, Chris Columbus, who was promoted to the front line by directing "the kid in charge of the house", started his new romantic comedy "the man in charge of the marriage", with a screen size of 1561.
And finally, Disney produced a real adaptation of the trainer theme movie "horse hero", with a screen size of 1521..
The opening screen sizes of "ice and snow world" and "troublemaker Fred" are 687 and 821 respectively.
Maybe it's because the competition is too fierce, or because none of the six new films has the potential to sell well. From May 24 to May 30, in the first week of production, none of the films in North American Theaters made more than $20 million a week.
Universal Pictures' backfire finally won the box office champion in a single week, with only $19.21 million in the first seven days.
Next on the list came Disney's old movie genius is crazy, which tells a series of jokes made by the hero starring Bill Murray because of his worrying insecurity about the world.
"Genius is crazy" opened last week and opened in the second week. Because of word-of-mouth fermentation, under the attack of a lot of old films, it even got a 5% box office decline, earning $13.53 million.
Bruce Willis, who starred in the new movie "the flying tiger and the eagle", came in third, but the box office dropped to $8.64 million.
The production cost of "Flying Tiger and Eagle" is as high as $65 million.
With a bad reputation, the film has a dismal start of $8.64 million. According to the commercial action, the film may drop by 50% next week, and the total box office in North America may be less than $20 million. Columbia film is doomed to lose all its money. Sony, the big owner behind the scenes, has once again paid Hollywood an expensive "tuition fee.".
Chris Columbus's new film, big man, came in fourth with $7.73 million.
In terms of the production cost of the film of 20 million US dollars, it is also a failure.
Then, No. 5 is not Disney's "vaulting horse hero" or the new line of "troublemaker Fred", but to bring a cool summer of "ice and snow world".
In the first week, ice and snow world won a box office of 6.97 million US dollars, which was unexpected.
If you think about it carefully, "ice and snow world" has become the only film with an average box office of more than 10000 in the first week of the summer season.As we all know, only when the number of new films with large scale is more than 10000 in the first week can they reach the level of big sales.
From the original fashion documentary "Gucci mark", to this year's Easter Madonna Music Documentary "truth and courage", and then to the Antarctic Scenery Documentary "ice and snow world", Hollywood finds that its studio has been trying to follow up the pace of danilisi entertainment, launch fashion documentary, brew Music Documentary, and now, it has jumped out of the world There's a landscape documentary.
What's more, it's said that the budget of the documentary is only 3 million dollars. It's just a birthday gift given to a little girl by the Westeros.
The box office of $6.97 million in the first week directly recovered the production cost.
According to the opening data, the publicity will be strengthened, the word-of-mouth and popularity will be slightly improved, and the screening scale will be appropriately expanded. The documentary will easily accumulate US $30 million at the box office.
Although the $30 million box office is far away from Simon's memory of the emperor penguin diary, it is a rare success in the eyes of other Hollywood studios.
Compared with the budget cost of $3 million, only the North American box office, the rate of return is 10 times!
Hollywood studios, which were trying to support the success of Gucci mark and truth and bravery, have turned their attention to various scenic sites on earth after the box office of ice and snow world.
Some filmmakers are also taking the opportunity to sell exploration projects such as the Antarctic and Arctic Amazon jungle and the Sahara desert to the studio. Even Simon's desk has a documentary plan to explore the African savannah.
However, in this series of films, Simon pays more attention to "trouble maker Fred".
Or new line pictures, the production company of "trouble maker Fred.".
The original time and space in the new line of the film industry rely on the "ghost Street" series, in the "Ninja Turtle" box office broke 100 million, into the mainstream studio vision, and finally was acquired by Time Warner, and created the "Lord of the rings", "rush hour" and other popular series.
Now, "Ninja Turtle" has been cut off by danielis entertainment.
With the loss of a Ninja Turtle series, which is enough to sustain the profits of a second tier studio for several years, the potential of the ghost Street series is basically exhausted. Coupled with the blind expansion of the film production and distribution scale of the new line in the past few years, this summer film "trouble maker Fred" is one of the last attempts before the decline of the new line film industry.
"Trouble maker Fred" is starred by Kelly Fisher and Phoebe Katz. According to Simon's information, the budget of the film is about $6.7 million. It is not difficult to see the fineness of the new line from this figure.
Although after so many years of accumulation of distribution resources, the new line forced this fantasy comedy film into the summer file, but the opening box office was not ideal, only $4.39 million, basically no hope to break the 10 million mark.
However, with the cost of publicity taken into account, the total budget for the film is about $10 million.
Obviously, this is a failed project.
For Denise entertainment, the failure of the $10 million project didn't matter.
After all, the new line film industry, which has a shallow foundation, can not afford several similar losses.
Simon inquired about the 1991 film list of the new line, and there are as many as 11 films planned to be released.
Except for "ghost Street 6: the last nightmare", Simon didn't find any potential blockbuster in other films.
A film company that barely gets into the second tier will toss 11 films a year, which is basically equivalent to consuming all the family wealth accumulated in the past few years. If Simon's Secret sniping is included, the film company will only be in a miserable situation again.
In other words, Miramax pictures of Weinstein brothers, another company that Simon has been secretly staring at, has now fallen into a completely small business mode because it has missed such films as sex, lies and videos and cinema in paradise.
Because they have no production ability at all, the two brothers can only swindle some copyrights from Europe to earn a little in North America in the past two years.
In the final analysis, just as the total number of viewers in the American film market is relatively fixed every year, Hollywood's fortune is also fixed.
With the rapid development of danielis entertainment for several years in a row, it has not only won a large number of blockbuster films originally belonging to other studios, but also carved up a large part of Hollywood's other resources.
Even the other major studios feel pressure in front of Denise entertainment, not to mention the second - and third tier film companies that can't form scale effect and have mediocre anti risk ability.
Over the past few years, Denise entertainment has been constantly devouring the best scripts, the best filmmakers, the most popular film schedules, the most popular public opinions, and the best publicity resources in Hollywood
Even if we lose the studio that originally belongs to our own box office project, we can still produce other films of good quality. However, with the shrinking of film and television production and marketing resources, those films that have been captured a lot of attention by dannilis entertainment can no longer compete with dannilis entertainment at the box office.
As a country with separation of powers, the legislative power of the United States is mainly in the hands of Congress. After being elected, the core work of members of the house and Senate is to propose, formulate, amend or repeal various bills according to the actual situation of all walks of life in the United States. Every year, the U.S. Congress accepts thousands of bills of various types, ranging from the national economy and the people's livelihood to trivial matters. Of course, there are differences in the importance of the bill. Take Hollywood as an example. One of the recent lobbying focuses of the American Film Association MPAA, which is mainly responsible for lobbying major Hollywood studios, is to abolish the merger restriction act between Hollywood studios and American public television networks. The repeal of this bill will involve tens of billions of industrial changes. On the other hand, members of Congress can't just sit in their offices and conceive certain bills out of thin air. Most of the bills are obtained through communication between the public, trade unions, business owners, interest groups or federal government agencies and members of the house and the Senate. As a result, countless professional lobbying companies have emerged in the United States, which are responsible for bridging the gap between various groups and members of Congress. Although the so-called lobbying in the United States can not avoid the power game or interest exchange behind the scenes, it is very formal as a whole. On the surface, at least, no member would be so stupid as to know that some people ask for something from themselves and accept the other party's treat, give gifts and stuff red envelopes. If you want to promote the establishment of a bill, you must first contact people, usually lobbying companies. If we can't find the "temple gate", everything is in vain. It is worth mentioning that most of the lobbying consulting firms are often set up by politicians who have left their jobs at all levels in the United States. The more top politicians are, the higher their fees will be. This is another form of high salary. With the huge number of bills submitted by the US Congress every year, we can imagine the huge income of these people. When it comes to contacts, it is impossible for others to help you persuade a member to submit a motion without any reason, and it is also impossible for them to put money into someone's hands for you. If you want to promote any bill, you must collect and sort out the corresponding data to prove the necessity of making or repealing a bill. After obtaining enough data, members draft bills and submit them to Congress, and then go through the process of deliberation, debate and voting. The process after the bill is submitted is often the focus of the game. Most of the time, the more important a bill is, the more important it is that you can ensure that it is passed with good evidence and detailed data. This requires the promoters of the bill to continue to show their skills, such as political strife, mutual compromise, public opinion building, interest exchange and so on. The most direct manifestation of this kind of game is that the White House and Congress often fight against the annual government budget bill and even cause the government to shut down. Of course, most of the dark battles hidden behind the scenes are not what ordinary people can see. The bill Simon discussed with Joseph schrap that operators should not participate in the field of telecommunication equipment manufacturing is an important economic bill. It will take about two or three years from the proposal to the vote, and it may also be necessary to lobby together with other telecommunication control bills. After more than an hour's discussion, the two settled on some details, saw off Joseph schrap, and Simon boarded at Westchester County Airport near Greenwich and returned to the west coast. Back at Cape Dumay, on the west coast, it's lunchtime. After lunch with Janet and chatting about the trip to New York, Simon went to work in Daniels studio in the afternoon. Today is May 20th, Monday. The next Friday, the summer program of 1991 will open. However, today is another day. Another Cannes Film Festival in France ends today. Los Angeles and Cannes have a 9-hour time difference. In the afternoon, when he came to Denise studios, Simon soon received the awards from Cannes, which is already at night. Denise Entertainment's two films, Barton Fink by Cohen brothers and jungle fever by Spike Lee, failed to win Cannes' highest Palme d'Or. Fortunately, they did not return empty handed. Barton Fink won the best director award, and Samuel Jackson in jungle fever won the best supporting actor award. In Simon's memory, Barton Fink should have won the Cannes Palme d'Or. However, two of the three palms of gold works in the previous three years, vulgar novel, cinema paradise and wild my heart, were American films. There are two American films, one is produced by danielis entertainment and the other is released by danielis entertainment. This time, the Cannes jury has clearly given birth to some balance. The final Golden Palm award-winning film is the French director Jacques Levitt's "uninhibited beauty". Jacques Levitt's fame is not too big, but one of the heroines in "unruly beauty" is known as Jane platinum. The platinum bag of Hermes, which is so expensive that it is popular with many celebrities and ladies, is named after Jane platinum.Because of such a gimmick and the blessing of Palme d'Or, Ella doichman has been in contact with the copyright owners, hoping to get the North American distribution right of "uninhibited beauty". "Barton Fink" and "Jungle Fever" did not win the Palme d'Or, but only won two minor awards, which actually met Simon's expectations. Danielis entertainment can not occupy all the light after all, it is necessary to keep a low profile properly. What's more, the focus of gaomen film's overseas awards this year is actually the Venice Film Festival. Because of the production progress, Jane Campion's "farewell to the piano" can not participate in the just concluded Cannes Film Festival, but has declared the main competition unit of this year's Venice Film Festival. Last year, Jane Campion's "the angel is at my table" won a very good evaluation at the Venice Film Festival. It is obvious that "farewell to the piano" is more suitable for the artistic temperament of Venice than Cannes. This film is very likely to impact this year's Venice Golden Lion Award. On the other hand, the contacts of Ella doichman and Sophia Fisi in the Italian entertainment industry are enough to support the success of farewell to the piano. In addition to Cannes, Simon's main busy job in the week of returning to the west coast is "flash" which has been successfully completed in Melbourne and returned to North America. As the first producer of flash, Warner expressed his misgivings and dissatisfaction about Simon's not going to visit Melbourne during the filming period. Simon didn't retort, and he really didn't have the time. However, Simon actually invested a lot of energy in this film, enough for him to get the remuneration in the original producer contract. For several working days in a row, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel took time to review the samples with Simon every day. Terry Semel was not relieved until he confirmed that there was no big problem with the sample film and Simon personally presided over the post production plan of the film. In a flash, it's Friday, May 24. In 1991, the summer program was officially opened. But this week, six new films of above scale were released. In addition to the Antarctic documentary "ice and snow world" released by gaomen film and the comedy "troublemaker Fred" released by Xinxian film, the opening screen scale of the other four films reached more than 1000 yuan. The four films are the fire type crime action film tempering, which is still under the brand of Universal Pictures, starring two male stars William Baldwin and Kurt Russell, with a screen size of 2036. Columbia film's Samsung brand released Bruce Willis funny action film "the ultimate Eagle", with a screen size of 1621. Last year, Chris Columbus, who was promoted to the front line by directing "the kid in charge of the house", started his new romantic comedy "the man in charge of the marriage", with a screen size of 1561. And finally, Disney produced a real adaptation of the trainer theme movie "horse hero", with a screen size of 1521.. The opening screen sizes of "ice and snow world" and "troublemaker Fred" are 687 and 821 respectively. Maybe it's because the competition is too fierce, or because none of the six new films has the potential to sell well. From May 24 to May 30, in the first week of production, none of the films in North American Theaters made more than $20 million a week. Universal Pictures' backfire finally won the box office champion in a single week, with only $19.21 million in the first seven days. Next on the list came Disney's old movie genius is crazy, which tells a series of jokes made by the hero starring Bill Murray because of his worrying insecurity about the world. "Genius is crazy" opened last week and opened in the second week. Because of word-of-mouth fermentation, under the attack of a lot of old films, it even got a 5% box office decline, earning $13.53 million. Bruce Willis, who starred in the new movie "the flying tiger and the eagle", came in third, but the box office dropped to $8.64 million. The production cost of "Flying Tiger and Eagle" is as high as $65 million. With a bad reputation, the film has a dismal start of $8.64 million. According to the commercial action, the film may drop by 50% next week, and the total box office in North America may be less than $20 million. Columbia film is doomed to lose all its money. Sony, the big owner behind the scenes, has once again paid Hollywood an expensive "tuition fee.". Chris Columbus's new film, big man, came in fourth with $7.73 million. In terms of the production cost of the film of 20 million US dollars, it is also a failure. Then, No. 5 is not Disney's "vaulting horse hero" or the new line of "troublemaker Fred", but to bring a cool summer of "ice and snow world". In the first week, ice and snow world won a box office of 6.97 million US dollars, which was unexpected. If you think about it carefully, "ice and snow world" has become the only film with an average box office of more than 10000 in the first week of the summer season.As we all know, only when the number of new films with large scale is more than 10000 in the first week can they reach the level of big sales. From the original fashion documentary "Gucci mark", to this year's Easter Madonna Music Documentary "truth and courage", and then to the Antarctic Scenery Documentary "ice and snow world", Hollywood finds that its studio has been trying to follow up the pace of danilisi entertainment, launch fashion documentary, brew Music Documentary, and now, it has jumped out of the world There's a landscape documentary. What's more, it's said that the budget of the documentary is only 3 million dollars. It's just a birthday gift given to a little girl by the Westeros. The box office of $6.97 million in the first week directly recovered the production cost. According to the opening data, the publicity will be strengthened, the word-of-mouth and popularity will be slightly improved, and the screening scale will be appropriately expanded. The documentary will easily accumulate US $30 million at the box office. Although the $30 million box office is far away from Simon's memory of the emperor penguin diary, it is a rare success in the eyes of other Hollywood studios. Compared with the budget cost of $3 million, only the North American box office, the rate of return is 10 times! Hollywood studios, which were trying to support the success of Gucci mark and truth and bravery, have turned their attention to various scenic sites on earth after the box office of ice and snow world. Some filmmakers are also taking the opportunity to sell exploration projects such as the Antarctic and Arctic Amazon jungle and the Sahara desert to the studio. Even Simon's desk has a documentary plan to explore the African savannah. However, in this series of films, Simon pays more attention to "trouble maker Fred". Or new line pictures, the production company of "trouble maker Fred.". The original time and space in the new line of the film industry rely on the "ghost Street" series, in the "Ninja Turtle" box office broke 100 million, into the mainstream studio vision, and finally was acquired by Time Warner, and created the "Lord of the rings", "rush hour" and other popular series. Now, "Ninja Turtle" has been cut off by danielis entertainment. With the loss of a Ninja Turtle series, which is enough to sustain the profits of a second tier studio for several years, the potential of the ghost Street series is basically exhausted. Coupled with the blind expansion of the film production and distribution scale of the new line in the past few years, this summer film "trouble maker Fred" is one of the last attempts before the decline of the new line film industry. "Trouble maker Fred" is starred by Kelly Fisher and Phoebe Katz. According to Simon's information, the budget of the film is about $6.7 million. It is not difficult to see the fineness of the new line from this figure. Although after so many years of accumulation of distribution resources, the new line forced this fantasy comedy film into the summer file, but the opening box office was not ideal, only $4.39 million, basically no hope to break the 10 million mark. However, with the cost of publicity taken into account, the total budget for the film is about $10 million. Obviously, this is a failed project. For Denise entertainment, the failure of the $10 million project didn't matter. After all, the new line film industry, which has a shallow foundation, can not afford several similar losses. Simon inquired about the 1991 film list of the new line, and there are as many as 11 films planned to be released. Except for "ghost Street 6: the last nightmare", Simon didn't find any potential blockbuster in other films. A film company that barely gets into the second tier will toss 11 films a year, which is basically equivalent to consuming all the family wealth accumulated in the past few years. If Simon's Secret sniping is included, the film company will only be in a miserable situation again. In other words, Miramax pictures of Weinstein brothers, another company that Simon has been secretly staring at, has now fallen into a completely small business mode because it has missed such films as sex, lies and videos and cinema in paradise. Because they have no production ability at all, the two brothers can only swindle some copyrights from Europe to earn a little in North America in the past two years. In the final analysis, just as the total number of viewers in the American film market is relatively fixed every year, Hollywood's fortune is also fixed. With the rapid development of danielis entertainment for several years in a row, it has not only won a large number of blockbuster films originally belonging to other studios, but also carved up a large part of Hollywood's other resources. Even the other major studios feel pressure in front of Denise entertainment, not to mention the second - and third tier film companies that can't form scale effect and have mediocre anti risk ability. Over the past few years, Denise entertainment has been constantly devouring the best scripts, the best filmmakers, the most popular film schedules, the most popular public opinions, and the best publicity resources in Hollywood Even if we lose the studio that originally belongs to our own box office project, we can still produce other films of good quality. However, with the shrinking of film and television production and marketing resources, those films that have been captured a lot of attention by dannilis entertainment can no longer compete with dannilis entertainment at the box office.
