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After accompanying Sophia for a week, Simon left Rome on February 6 to return to Los Angeles, while the woman stayed in the manor in the southern suburbs of Rome to continue to raise the baby. Then, until the baby was born, most of melisandro's affairs would be handed over to her deputy Angela arenz.
During Simon's absence from Hollywood, in addition to the successful ending of the Sundance Film Festival and another local $300 million level "suicide team", the box office revenue was $10.37 million in the seventh week from January 27 to February 2, with a cumulative box office of $278.36 million. There was only a gap of $22 million from the $300 million mark. It was only a matter of time before Simon successfully crossed the threshold.
In addition, the release of "Hongfan district" on January 27 is also a good start for danielis entertainment in 1995.
In the first seven days of the first week, with its excellent reputation and 1736 screens, the box office of "Hongfan district" reached 14.19 million US dollars in the first week, and the weekly average exceeded 8000 US dollars. Although it did not reach the sales level of more than 10000 US dollars, it was still a small number of Hong Kong films at the end of January, which was beyond everyone's expectation.
By the time Simon returned to Los Angeles, the box office of "red zone" had already been released in the next weekend, with a year-on-year decline of only 27% in the next three days, with a revenue of $6.34 million. The cumulative box office of "red zone" exceeded 20 million in ten days, reaching $20.53 million.
In contrast, the production cost of "red zone" is only US $7.5 million. As a cooperative investor, new world pictures, owned by danielis entertainment, originally obtained the omni channel distribution rights of the film in North America and Europe with an investment share of US $2.5 million, and the initial investment budget of the film in North America was only US $3 million.
Now, with a total investment of US $5.5 million, the box office will return more than US $20 million in 10 days, and the total box office in North America is likely to reach US $35 million to US $40 million. Moreover, there are European and follow-up channels such as video and television. Taken together, the total return of this movie to Denise entertainment may exceed many blockbuster projects.
Since "Hongfan district" has been successful, "rush hour" can also be put on the agenda smoothly.
In the past, the script of rush hour was basically saved immediately according to the routine of Hong Kong movies, and it was specially tailored for Jack. It was also the Hollywood standard and even some flooding Brother movie mode. Simon came up with a similar idea that there was no possibility of a car crash.
However, Simon didn't do it himself. He just talked to new world's president, Denny Morris, about the idea of the script and asked the other side to look for a screenwriter to improve it. The key to the success of rush hour is that Jack Cheng and Chris Tucker are wonderful partners, but the details of the plot are not so important.
Malibu, daenerys studios.
It's already February 8, Wednesday.
Back in Los Angeles, most of Simon's energy is devoted to a series of film projects that Denise entertainment is preparing or has entered the production state.
This morning, we started work at 9 o'clock. For three hours, there were three production meetings in a row. They were about "baby thunderbolt", "Mummy" and "game of the brave". These were three of the four foreign cooperation projects finalized last year. The other one, "spy film", as a part of "secret agent movie universe", will not be launched until after "baby thunderbolt" is released Move.
Among the three projects that have been started, the first one to be released is mummy in cooperation with Fox, which is tentatively scheduled for the summer of next year. Both "baby thunderbolt" and "game of the brave" will wait until the end of next year.
The three partners are not satisfied with this arrangement, but they have nothing to do.
After all, there are too many projects.
Unless you want to kill each other, there will be no suitable schedule for this year. Even next year, there will be a new 007 movie, deathbed Valley directed by Tim Burton, mission impossible 2 CO produced by Denise and paramount, and wonder woman 2, another sequel to DC movie universe.
In addition, there are essential sequels to "the universe of evocation" and other low - and medium cost key projects. In addition, the schedule of these three films in 1996 is already too crowded. Simon's original plan of "Independence Day" and the early idea of "justice alliance" have to be delayed, otherwise all films will not be able to play their box office potential.
In the morning meeting, Simon and the production team basically finalized the production ideas of the three projects.
The mummy, which works with Fox, will adopt Simon's original plot without much modification.
With MGM's "Thunderbolt baby" is a new idea, Simon personally plays the script.
In the final game of the brave, Simon decided to use the version starring Johnson in 2017 after weighing the 1995 version and the 2017 version in his memory. He was invaded by the game and invaded the game. Obviously, the latter is more likely to bring a sense of substitution to the audience.
Even excluding inflation, the box office of the 2017 version is much higher than that of the 1995 version, and the global box office in memory is close to $1 billion.
Simon's hesitation is mainly due to the fact that if the version of Jushi Johnson is used, he needs to choose a high paid man, perhaps Schwarzenegger or Stallone. If it's just a one-time cooperation, it's OK to pay 15 million or even 20 million. The key is that if the first film is successful and cooperates with big names like Schwarzenegger, the sequel will be very difficult.Simon still clearly remembers that Schwarzenegger specially prepared a strong team of lawyers to negotiate with the film makers for Terminator 3, and finally invested as much as $200 million in Terminator 3, barely breaking through the global box office of $400 million, which only made a lot of investors busy. Only Schwarzenegger easily gained a huge film reward of $30 million, which is a typical case of film companies working for stars Example.
Simon won't allow that to happen to Denise entertainment.
What's more, the 2017 version of the game of the brave is still set with four main characters. Once the first song is successful, the salaries of the four main characters will go up.
Now that the plan has been finalized, Simon's first task is to solve the actor problem.
The 2017 version in my memory, Sony is actually very economical. Except for Jushi Johnson, whose film remuneration has reached 20 million US dollars, the others are not big names. Therefore, the total production cost is only 90 million US dollars. The budget of less than 100 million US dollars is not a big bomb after more than 20 years. However, the final global box office of the film has exploded to nearly 1 billion US dollars.
This time, Simon won't save money on special effects. Instead, he's hammered out a $100 million budget.
The $100 million in 1995 and $100 million in 2017 are obviously not a concept.
In addition, Simon also plans to limit the cost of first-class creators to 25 million US dollars, including the producer, director and four main characters, so as to provide a certain profit share. If this version of game of the brave can still hit the world by 1 billion US dollars, even if he pays 100 million US dollars for first-class creators, Simon will be very happy.
There is also the need to sign the package contract in advance.
Simon doesn't want the sequel to run aground for a long time or even miscarry completely because of all kinds of disputes about film payment after the success of the first song.
Of course, if the project fails, daenerys entertainment also has the right to cancel the sequel directly without any additional compensation. Now Denise entertainment has the absolute initiative in Hollywood. Once stars pressed the studio to sign all kinds of unequal contracts. At least Denise entertainment has changed its tune.
If you don't want to, then the opportunity is someone else's. No matter how big the stars are, they can't stand the ups and downs.
After a busy morning, I had lunch with Amy Pascal in the executive restaurant of the studio at noon.
As soon as the waiter delivered lunch and left, Amy Pascal said with a smile, "there's been a lot of noise in the media about your donation of AOL stock recently?"
Simon picked up the tableware, shrugged his shoulders and said, "no matter what you do, you can't avoid controversy. Let them quarrel. If they annoy me, they won't donate in the future."
A few days ago, when Simon was still in Rome, in North America, the Westeros began to fulfill their charitable promise at the beginning of the year, donating the first $1 billion of AOL shares to the Simon & Janet westero foundation to help public schools and colleges across the United States build modern professional computer classrooms.
The promised donation is $3 billion, and Simon certainly won't cash it in one go.
The first consideration is that the stocks in hand are still increasing in value. If you donate them in batches, you can always save a little. No matter how rich you are, you should be careful when you need to be careful.
However, this immediately triggered the first controversy. Some media thought that Simon's $3 billion donation had seriously shrunk, and they criticized and crusaded against him. Even though the press spokesman of the Westeros family clarified many times, some people were still diehards who said "I don't believe I don't believe I don't believe you, I don't believe you".
In fact, even with this $1 billion donation, the Simon & Janet westero foundation has caught up with the family foundation of many old money families for more than half a century.
However, for those who don't want to see it, it's obviously useless to say so.
Not only that, but some people soon objected to Simon's donation of shares instead of cash, saying that he was deliberately avoiding taxes.
According to the charity rules of the United States, if Simon cashes out the stock and then donates it, even if you declare that the money will be used for charity, he must pay capital gains tax before donating it.
The current capital gains tax rate is still 28%.
This means that if Simon donates cash directly, according to the donation commitment of $3 billion, he will have to spend more than $1.1 billion on capital gains tax in the process of cash out. Of course, Simon will not do this kind of thing, and not many other rich people will do it.
Direct donation of shares, the stock into charitable funds, and then cash out there is no tax problem.
Not only that, Simon can also get a huge tax deduction.
Although it is not a full tax credit, and the tax credit ratio of stock donation is only 30%, which is far less than 50% of cash donation, it is still a large amount of tax credit according to the donation amount of 3 billion US dollars. Moreover, according to the tax law, this amount of money can be gradually cashed out for five years as the tax credit for enterprise losses.
By calculation, if all the $3 billion worth of shares are donated, the Westeros can get up to $900 million in tax credits.Simon's direct donation of shares has saved $1.1 billion in capital gains tax, and he can get another $900 million in tax deduction after he has donated all his $3 billion shares. In many people's opinion, Simon westero has saved $2 billion, which is actually equivalent to donating only $1 billion, and the other $2 billion is equivalent to doing charity with the tax due to the federal government.
This is insane!
For unscrupulous media, which is very far fetched but can attract the public's attention, even if he has been psychologically prepared before, Simon can only be helpless.
Moreover, with the fermentation of the discussion, some media also questioned Simon's charity project.
Spending $3 billion to build computer classrooms for public schools in the United States, whether it's purchasing equipment or connecting to the network, basically can't get around the new technology enterprises such as Microsoft, Intel, AOL and so on of westero system. The money is equal to eventually returning to Simon himself.
If you calculate that again, Simon westero may not have donated a cent from the beginning to the end.
It's no longer insane.
In the end, the media industry in the United States is still too developed. This kind of questioning is not the direct personal attack of last year. If others question it, they will sue and start litigation bombing, which will inevitably lead to a stronger rebound.
Simon is just trying to refute the media power of the westero system.
Moreover, it's impossible to stop giving money like he just said.
Charity should be done.
After all, this is the basic strategy related to the future wealth inheritance of the Westeros.
Such a huge asset, if you want to cross the threshold of inheritance tax many years later, you must pass it on in the name of the foundation as far as possible in the future. Of course, at that time, compared with the individual foundations of some old money families, if the relevant foundations of the Westeros family do not want to be too dazzling in scale, they will certainly break up into parts as much as possible.
Amy could also feel the helplessness in Simon's voice, and asked, "is too much money beginning to worry?"
Simon heard this question, but shook his head and said with a smile: "this is really not. I enjoy it, and I like to see many people envy and hate my personal assets."
Amy couldn't help laughing: "yes, I think about it occasionally, but I'm so jealous."
After a month's continuous rise in January, the NASDAQ index has broken through 2000 points, and the price of a large number of technology stocks held by Simon has continued to increase with the rise of the stock market. Now Simon's personal wealth has reached 500 billion US dollars, at least from the stock book, there is no water at all.
With a net worth of $500 billion, Simon has gone beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The media and politicians who think Simon's personal wealth should be limited to continue to grow may also gradually not know how to deal with it.
Judging from the current situation, if we want to stop Simon westero's personal wealth from increasing, we can only break the rules of capitalist society and forcibly confiscate westero's assets.
This obviously doesn't work.
After all, no one wants the United States to become the former Soviet Union. If we can do this to Simon westero, other rich people may be treated in the same way.
It's even going to fill your eyes.
By then, everyone will have no sense of security.
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After accompanying Sophia for a week, Simon left Rome on February 6 to return to Los Angeles, while the woman stayed in the manor in the southern suburbs of Rome to continue to raise the baby. Then, until the baby was born, most of melisandro's affairs would be handed over to her deputy Angela arenz.
During Simon's absence from Hollywood, in addition to the successful ending of the Sundance Film Festival and another local $300 million level "suicide team", the box office revenue was $10.37 million in the seventh week from January 27 to February 2, with a cumulative box office of $278.36 million. There was only a gap of $22 million from the $300 million mark. It was only a matter of time before Simon successfully crossed the threshold.
In addition, the release of "Hongfan district" on January 27 is also a good start for danielis entertainment in 1995.
In the first seven days of the first week, with its excellent reputation and 1736 screens, the box office of "Hongfan district" reached 14.19 million US dollars in the first week, and the weekly average exceeded 8000 US dollars. Although it did not reach the sales level of more than 10000 US dollars, it was still a small number of Hong Kong films at the end of January, which was beyond everyone's expectation.
By the time Simon returned to Los Angeles, the box office of "red zone" had already been released in the next weekend, with a year-on-year decline of only 27% in the next three days, with a revenue of $6.34 million. The cumulative box office of "red zone" exceeded 20 million in ten days, reaching $20.53 million.
In contrast, the production cost of "red zone" is only US $7.5 million. As a cooperative investor, new world pictures, owned by danielis entertainment, originally obtained the omni channel distribution rights of the film in North America and Europe with an investment share of US $2.5 million, and the initial investment budget of the film in North America was only US $3 million.
Now, with a total investment of US $5.5 million, the box office will return more than US $20 million in 10 days, and the total box office in North America is likely to reach US $35 million to US $40 million. Moreover, there are European and follow-up channels such as video and television. Taken together, the total return of this movie to Denise entertainment may exceed many blockbuster projects.
Since "Hongfan district" has been successful, "rush hour" can also be put on the agenda smoothly.
In the past, the script of rush hour was basically saved immediately according to the routine of Hong Kong movies, and it was specially tailored for Jack. It was also the Hollywood standard and even some flooding Brother movie mode. Simon came up with a similar idea that there was no possibility of a car crash.
However, Simon didn't do it himself. He just talked to new world's president, Denny Morris, about the idea of the script and asked the other side to look for a screenwriter to improve it. The key to the success of rush hour is that Jack Cheng and Chris Tucker are wonderful partners, but the details of the plot are not so important.
Malibu, daenerys studios.
It's already February 8, Wednesday.
Back in Los Angeles, most of Simon's energy is devoted to a series of film projects that Denise entertainment is preparing or has entered the production state.
This morning, we started work at 9 o'clock. For three hours, there were three production meetings in a row. They were about "baby thunderbolt", "Mummy" and "game of the brave". These were three of the four foreign cooperation projects finalized last year. The other one, "spy film", as a part of "secret agent movie universe", will not be launched until after "baby thunderbolt" is released Move.
Among the three projects that have been started, the first one to be released is mummy in cooperation with Fox, which is tentatively scheduled for the summer of next year. Both "baby thunderbolt" and "game of the brave" will wait until the end of next year.
The three partners are not satisfied with this arrangement, but they have nothing to do.
After all, there are too many projects.
Unless you want to kill each other, there will be no suitable schedule for this year. Even next year, there will be a new 007 movie, deathbed Valley directed by Tim Burton, mission impossible 2 CO produced by Denise and paramount, and wonder woman 2, another sequel to DC movie universe.
In addition, there are essential sequels to "the universe of evocation" and other low - and medium cost key projects. In addition, the schedule of these three films in 1996 is already too crowded. Simon's original plan of "Independence Day" and the early idea of "justice alliance" have to be delayed, otherwise all films will not be able to play their box office potential.
In the morning meeting, Simon and the production team basically finalized the production ideas of the three projects.
The mummy, which works with Fox, will adopt Simon's original plot without much modification.
With MGM's "Thunderbolt baby" is a new idea, Simon personally plays the script.
In the final game of the brave, Simon decided to use the version starring Johnson in 2017 after weighing the 1995 version and the 2017 version in his memory. He was invaded by the game and invaded the game. Obviously, the latter is more likely to bring a sense of substitution to the audience.
Even excluding inflation, the box office of the 2017 version is much higher than that of the 1995 version, and the global box office in memory is close to $1 billion.
Simon's hesitation is mainly due to the fact that if the version of Jushi Johnson is used, he needs to choose a high paid man, perhaps Schwarzenegger or Stallone. If it's just a one-time cooperation, it's OK to pay 15 million or even 20 million. The key is that if the first film is successful and cooperates with big names like Schwarzenegger, the sequel will be very difficult.Simon still clearly remembers that Schwarzenegger specially prepared a strong team of lawyers to negotiate with the film makers for Terminator 3, and finally invested as much as $200 million in Terminator 3, barely breaking through the global box office of $400 million, which only made a lot of investors busy. Only Schwarzenegger easily gained a huge film reward of $30 million, which is a typical case of film companies working for stars Example.
Simon won't allow that to happen to Denise entertainment.
What's more, the 2017 version of the game of the brave is still set with four main characters. Once the first song is successful, the salaries of the four main characters will go up.
Now that the plan has been finalized, Simon's first task is to solve the actor problem.
The 2017 version in my memory, Sony is actually very economical. Except for Jushi Johnson, whose film remuneration has reached 20 million US dollars, the others are not big names. Therefore, the total production cost is only 90 million US dollars. The budget of less than 100 million US dollars is not a big bomb after more than 20 years. However, the final global box office of the film has exploded to nearly 1 billion US dollars.
This time, Simon won't save money on special effects. Instead, he's hammered out a $100 million budget.
The $100 million in 1995 and $100 million in 2017 are obviously not a concept.
In addition, Simon also plans to limit the cost of first-class creators to 25 million US dollars, including the producer, director and four main characters, so as to provide a certain profit share. If this version of game of the brave can still hit the world by 1 billion US dollars, even if he pays 100 million US dollars for first-class creators, Simon will be very happy.
There is also the need to sign the package contract in advance.
Simon doesn't want the sequel to run aground for a long time or even miscarry completely because of all kinds of disputes about film payment after the success of the first song.
Of course, if the project fails, daenerys entertainment also has the right to cancel the sequel directly without any additional compensation. Now Denise entertainment has the absolute initiative in Hollywood. Once stars pressed the studio to sign all kinds of unequal contracts. At least Denise entertainment has changed its tune.
If you don't want to, then the opportunity is someone else's. No matter how big the stars are, they can't stand the ups and downs.
After a busy morning, I had lunch with Amy Pascal in the executive restaurant of the studio at noon.
As soon as the waiter delivered lunch and left, Amy Pascal said with a smile, "there's been a lot of noise in the media about your donation of AOL stock recently?"
Simon picked up the tableware, shrugged his shoulders and said, "no matter what you do, you can't avoid controversy. Let them quarrel. If they annoy me, they won't donate in the future."
A few days ago, when Simon was still in Rome, in North America, the Westeros began to fulfill their charitable promise at the beginning of the year, donating the first $1 billion of AOL shares to the Simon & Janet westero foundation to help public schools and colleges across the United States build modern professional computer classrooms.
The promised donation is $3 billion, and Simon certainly won't cash it in one go.
The first consideration is that the stocks in hand are still increasing in value. If you donate them in batches, you can always save a little. No matter how rich you are, you should be careful when you need to be careful.
However, this immediately triggered the first controversy. Some media thought that Simon's $3 billion donation had seriously shrunk, and they criticized and crusaded against him. Even though the press spokesman of the Westeros family clarified many times, some people were still diehards who said "I don't believe I don't believe I don't believe you, I don't believe you".
In fact, even with this $1 billion donation, the Simon & Janet westero foundation has caught up with the family foundation of many old money families for more than half a century.
However, for those who don't want to see it, it's obviously useless to say so.
Not only that, but some people soon objected to Simon's donation of shares instead of cash, saying that he was deliberately avoiding taxes.
According to the charity rules of the United States, if Simon cashes out the stock and then donates it, even if you declare that the money will be used for charity, he must pay capital gains tax before donating it.
The current capital gains tax rate is still 28%.
This means that if Simon donates cash directly, according to the donation commitment of $3 billion, he will have to spend more than $1.1 billion on capital gains tax in the process of cash out. Of course, Simon will not do this kind of thing, and not many other rich people will do it.
Direct donation of shares, the stock into charitable funds, and then cash out there is no tax problem.
Not only that, Simon can also get a huge tax deduction.
Although it is not a full tax credit, and the tax credit ratio of stock donation is only 30%, which is far less than 50% of cash donation, it is still a large amount of tax credit according to the donation amount of 3 billion US dollars. Moreover, according to the tax law, this amount of money can be gradually cashed out for five years as the tax credit for enterprise losses.
By calculation, if all the $3 billion worth of shares are donated, the Westeros can get up to $900 million in tax credits.Simon's direct donation of shares has saved $1.1 billion in capital gains tax, and he can get another $900 million in tax deduction after he has donated all his $3 billion shares. In many people's opinion, Simon westero has saved $2 billion, which is actually equivalent to donating only $1 billion, and the other $2 billion is equivalent to doing charity with the tax due to the federal government.
This is insane!
For unscrupulous media, which is very far fetched but can attract the public's attention, even if he has been psychologically prepared before, Simon can only be helpless.
Moreover, with the fermentation of the discussion, some media also questioned Simon's charity project.
Spending $3 billion to build computer classrooms for public schools in the United States, whether it's purchasing equipment or connecting to the network, basically can't get around the new technology enterprises such as Microsoft, Intel, AOL and so on of westero system. The money is equal to eventually returning to Simon himself.
If you calculate that again, Simon westero may not have donated a cent from the beginning to the end.
It's no longer insane.
In the end, the media industry in the United States is still too developed. This kind of questioning is not the direct personal attack of last year. If others question it, they will sue and start litigation bombing, which will inevitably lead to a stronger rebound.
Simon is just trying to refute the media power of the westero system.
Moreover, it's impossible to stop giving money like he just said.
Charity should be done.
After all, this is the basic strategy related to the future wealth inheritance of the Westeros.
Such a huge asset, if you want to cross the threshold of inheritance tax many years later, you must pass it on in the name of the foundation as far as possible in the future. Of course, at that time, compared with the individual foundations of some old money families, if the relevant foundations of the Westeros family do not want to be too dazzling in scale, they will certainly break up into parts as much as possible.
Amy could also feel the helplessness in Simon's voice, and asked, "is too much money beginning to worry?"
Simon heard this question, but shook his head and said with a smile: "this is really not. I enjoy it, and I like to see many people envy and hate my personal assets."
Amy couldn't help laughing: "yes, I think about it occasionally, but I'm so jealous."
After a month's continuous rise in January, the NASDAQ index has broken through 2000 points, and the price of a large number of technology stocks held by Simon has continued to increase with the rise of the stock market. Now Simon's personal wealth has reached 500 billion US dollars, at least from the stock book, there is no water at all.
With a net worth of $500 billion, Simon has gone beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The media and politicians who think Simon's personal wealth should be limited to continue to grow may also gradually not know how to deal with it.
Judging from the current situation, if we want to stop Simon westero's personal wealth from increasing, we can only break the rules of capitalist society and forcibly confiscate westero's assets.
This obviously doesn't work.
After all, no one wants the United States to become the former Soviet Union. If we can do this to Simon westero, other rich people may be treated in the same way.
It's even going to fill your eyes.
By then, everyone will have no sense of security.
After accompanying Sophia for a week, Simon left Rome on February 6 to return to Los Angeles, while the woman stayed in the manor in the southern suburbs of Rome to continue to raise the baby. Then, until the baby was born, most of melisandro's affairs would be handed over to her deputy Angela arenz. During Simon's absence from Hollywood, in addition to the successful ending of the Sundance Film Festival and another local $300 million level "suicide team", the box office revenue was $10.37 million in the seventh week from January 27 to February 2, with a cumulative box office of $278.36 million. There was only a gap of $22 million from the $300 million mark. It was only a matter of time before Simon successfully crossed the threshold. In addition, the release of "Hongfan district" on January 27 is also a good start for danielis entertainment in 1995. In the first seven days of the first week, with its excellent reputation and 1736 screens, the box office of "Hongfan district" reached 14.19 million US dollars in the first week, and the weekly average exceeded 8000 US dollars. Although it did not reach the sales level of more than 10000 US dollars, it was still a small number of Hong Kong films at the end of January, which was beyond everyone's expectation. By the time Simon returned to Los Angeles, the box office of "red zone" had already been released in the next weekend, with a year-on-year decline of only 27% in the next three days, with a revenue of $6.34 million. The cumulative box office of "red zone" exceeded 20 million in ten days, reaching $20.53 million. In contrast, the production cost of "red zone" is only US $7.5 million. As a cooperative investor, new world pictures, owned by danielis entertainment, originally obtained the omni channel distribution rights of the film in North America and Europe with an investment share of US $2.5 million, and the initial investment budget of the film in North America was only US $3 million. Now, with a total investment of US $5.5 million, the box office will return more than US $20 million in 10 days, and the total box office in North America is likely to reach US $35 million to US $40 million. Moreover, there are European and follow-up channels such as video and television. Taken together, the total return of this movie to Denise entertainment may exceed many blockbuster projects. Since "Hongfan district" has been successful, "rush hour" can also be put on the agenda smoothly. In the past, the script of rush hour was basically saved immediately according to the routine of Hong Kong movies, and it was specially tailored for Jack. It was also the Hollywood standard and even some flooding Brother movie mode. Simon came up with a similar idea that there was no possibility of a car crash. However, Simon didn't do it himself. He just talked to new world's president, Denny Morris, about the idea of the script and asked the other side to look for a screenwriter to improve it. The key to the success of rush hour is that Jack Cheng and Chris Tucker are wonderful partners, but the details of the plot are not so important. Malibu, daenerys studios. It's already February 8, Wednesday. Back in Los Angeles, most of Simon's energy is devoted to a series of film projects that Denise entertainment is preparing or has entered the production state. This morning, we started work at 9 o'clock. For three hours, there were three production meetings in a row. They were about "baby thunderbolt", "Mummy" and "game of the brave". These were three of the four foreign cooperation projects finalized last year. The other one, "spy film", as a part of "secret agent movie universe", will not be launched until after "baby thunderbolt" is released Move. Among the three projects that have been started, the first one to be released is mummy in cooperation with Fox, which is tentatively scheduled for the summer of next year. Both "baby thunderbolt" and "game of the brave" will wait until the end of next year. The three partners are not satisfied with this arrangement, but they have nothing to do. After all, there are too many projects. Unless you want to kill each other, there will be no suitable schedule for this year. Even next year, there will be a new 007 movie, deathbed Valley directed by Tim Burton, mission impossible 2 CO produced by Denise and paramount, and wonder woman 2, another sequel to DC movie universe. In addition, there are essential sequels to "the universe of evocation" and other low - and medium cost key projects. In addition, the schedule of these three films in 1996 is already too crowded. Simon's original plan of "Independence Day" and the early idea of "justice alliance" have to be delayed, otherwise all films will not be able to play their box office potential. In the morning meeting, Simon and the production team basically finalized the production ideas of the three projects. The mummy, which works with Fox, will adopt Simon's original plot without much modification. With MGM's "Thunderbolt baby" is a new idea, Simon personally plays the script. In the final game of the brave, Simon decided to use the version starring Johnson in 2017 after weighing the 1995 version and the 2017 version in his memory. He was invaded by the game and invaded the game. Obviously, the latter is more likely to bring a sense of substitution to the audience. Even excluding inflation, the box office of the 2017 version is much higher than that of the 1995 version, and the global box office in memory is close to $1 billion. Simon's hesitation is mainly due to the fact that if the version of Jushi Johnson is used, he needs to choose a high paid man, perhaps Schwarzenegger or Stallone. If it's just a one-time cooperation, it's OK to pay 15 million or even 20 million. The key is that if the first film is successful and cooperates with big names like Schwarzenegger, the sequel will be very difficult.Simon still clearly remembers that Schwarzenegger specially prepared a strong team of lawyers to negotiate with the film makers for Terminator 3, and finally invested as much as $200 million in Terminator 3, barely breaking through the global box office of $400 million, which only made a lot of investors busy. Only Schwarzenegger easily gained a huge film reward of $30 million, which is a typical case of film companies working for stars Example. Simon won't allow that to happen to Denise entertainment. What's more, the 2017 version of the game of the brave is still set with four main characters. Once the first song is successful, the salaries of the four main characters will go up. Now that the plan has been finalized, Simon's first task is to solve the actor problem. The 2017 version in my memory, Sony is actually very economical. Except for Jushi Johnson, whose film remuneration has reached 20 million US dollars, the others are not big names. Therefore, the total production cost is only 90 million US dollars. The budget of less than 100 million US dollars is not a big bomb after more than 20 years. However, the final global box office of the film has exploded to nearly 1 billion US dollars. This time, Simon won't save money on special effects. Instead, he's hammered out a $100 million budget. The $100 million in 1995 and $100 million in 2017 are obviously not a concept. In addition, Simon also plans to limit the cost of first-class creators to 25 million US dollars, including the producer, director and four main characters, so as to provide a certain profit share. If this version of game of the brave can still hit the world by 1 billion US dollars, even if he pays 100 million US dollars for first-class creators, Simon will be very happy. There is also the need to sign the package contract in advance. Simon doesn't want the sequel to run aground for a long time or even miscarry completely because of all kinds of disputes about film payment after the success of the first song. Of course, if the project fails, daenerys entertainment also has the right to cancel the sequel directly without any additional compensation. Now Denise entertainment has the absolute initiative in Hollywood. Once stars pressed the studio to sign all kinds of unequal contracts. At least Denise entertainment has changed its tune. If you don't want to, then the opportunity is someone else's. No matter how big the stars are, they can't stand the ups and downs. After a busy morning, I had lunch with Amy Pascal in the executive restaurant of the studio at noon. As soon as the waiter delivered lunch and left, Amy Pascal said with a smile, "there's been a lot of noise in the media about your donation of AOL stock recently?" Simon picked up the tableware, shrugged his shoulders and said, "no matter what you do, you can't avoid controversy. Let them quarrel. If they annoy me, they won't donate in the future." A few days ago, when Simon was still in Rome, in North America, the Westeros began to fulfill their charitable promise at the beginning of the year, donating the first $1 billion of AOL shares to the Simon & Janet westero foundation to help public schools and colleges across the United States build modern professional computer classrooms. The promised donation is $3 billion, and Simon certainly won't cash it in one go. The first consideration is that the stocks in hand are still increasing in value. If you donate them in batches, you can always save a little. No matter how rich you are, you should be careful when you need to be careful. However, this immediately triggered the first controversy. Some media thought that Simon's $3 billion donation had seriously shrunk, and they criticized and crusaded against him. Even though the press spokesman of the Westeros family clarified many times, some people were still diehards who said "I don't believe I don't believe I don't believe you, I don't believe you". In fact, even with this $1 billion donation, the Simon & Janet westero foundation has caught up with the family foundation of many old money families for more than half a century. However, for those who don't want to see it, it's obviously useless to say so. Not only that, but some people soon objected to Simon's donation of shares instead of cash, saying that he was deliberately avoiding taxes. According to the charity rules of the United States, if Simon cashes out the stock and then donates it, even if you declare that the money will be used for charity, he must pay capital gains tax before donating it. The current capital gains tax rate is still 28%. This means that if Simon donates cash directly, according to the donation commitment of $3 billion, he will have to spend more than $1.1 billion on capital gains tax in the process of cash out. Of course, Simon will not do this kind of thing, and not many other rich people will do it. Direct donation of shares, the stock into charitable funds, and then cash out there is no tax problem. Not only that, Simon can also get a huge tax deduction. Although it is not a full tax credit, and the tax credit ratio of stock donation is only 30%, which is far less than 50% of cash donation, it is still a large amount of tax credit according to the donation amount of 3 billion US dollars. Moreover, according to the tax law, this amount of money can be gradually cashed out for five years as the tax credit for enterprise losses. By calculation, if all the $3 billion worth of shares are donated, the Westeros can get up to $900 million in tax credits.Simon's direct donation of shares has saved $1.1 billion in capital gains tax, and he can get another $900 million in tax deduction after he has donated all his $3 billion shares. In many people's opinion, Simon westero has saved $2 billion, which is actually equivalent to donating only $1 billion, and the other $2 billion is equivalent to doing charity with the tax due to the federal government. This is insane! For unscrupulous media, which is very far fetched but can attract the public's attention, even if he has been psychologically prepared before, Simon can only be helpless. Moreover, with the fermentation of the discussion, some media also questioned Simon's charity project. Spending $3 billion to build computer classrooms for public schools in the United States, whether it's purchasing equipment or connecting to the network, basically can't get around the new technology enterprises such as Microsoft, Intel, AOL and so on of westero system. The money is equal to eventually returning to Simon himself. If you calculate that again, Simon westero may not have donated a cent from the beginning to the end. It's no longer insane. In the end, the media industry in the United States is still too developed. This kind of questioning is not the direct personal attack of last year. If others question it, they will sue and start litigation bombing, which will inevitably lead to a stronger rebound. Simon is just trying to refute the media power of the westero system. Moreover, it's impossible to stop giving money like he just said. Charity should be done. After all, this is the basic strategy related to the future wealth inheritance of the Westeros. Such a huge asset, if you want to cross the threshold of inheritance tax many years later, you must pass it on in the name of the foundation as far as possible in the future. Of course, at that time, compared with the individual foundations of some old money families, if the relevant foundations of the Westeros family do not want to be too dazzling in scale, they will certainly break up into parts as much as possible. Amy could also feel the helplessness in Simon's voice, and asked, "is too much money beginning to worry?" Simon heard this question, but shook his head and said with a smile: "this is really not. I enjoy it, and I like to see many people envy and hate my personal assets." Amy couldn't help laughing: "yes, I think about it occasionally, but I'm so jealous." After a month's continuous rise in January, the NASDAQ index has broken through 2000 points, and the price of a large number of technology stocks held by Simon has continued to increase with the rise of the stock market. Now Simon's personal wealth has reached 500 billion US dollars, at least from the stock book, there is no water at all. With a net worth of $500 billion, Simon has gone beyond the imagination of ordinary people. The media and politicians who think Simon's personal wealth should be limited to continue to grow may also gradually not know how to deal with it. Judging from the current situation, if we want to stop Simon westero's personal wealth from increasing, we can only break the rules of capitalist society and forcibly confiscate westero's assets. This obviously doesn't work. After all, no one wants the United States to become the former Soviet Union. If we can do this to Simon westero, other rich people may be treated in the same way. It's even going to fill your eyes. By then, everyone will have no sense of security.
