Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1535: : The stronger the stronger

October 1st, this is a Friday.

China is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, but on the North American side, when Simon woke up, according to the time difference, it was already the afternoon of the day on the other side of the ocean.

Simon arrived at the company in the morning. In addition to some things about “Dragon Babu” which happened to be finished last night, there is another project, the documentary “Mount Everest”, which was released in the first week of the box office.

In a box office week from September 24 to September 30, “Mount Everest”, with Daenerys’s publicity and excellent reputation, can be regarded as a good start. The entire North America has a total of 139 screens, and it has been paid in seven days. Up to 7.78 million U.S. dollars, the museum averaged 56,000 U.S. dollars.

Even though Simon believed that this project would be very good from the beginning, the first week’s box office of $7.78 million still exceeded expectations. Not only that, according to the feedback from the Gaomen Films team responsible for this project, the box office trend of this documentary has a counterattack attitude. With the further spread of word-of-mouth, it is likely to achieve a reversal in the next week.

The Gaomen Pictures team therefore put forward a suggestion, hoping to start the release of the show on ordinary screens.

Simon also found a problem.

The former “Mount Everest”, in the same 1999, IMAX’s commercial operation has just started, so the content resources are lacking, so a documentary, it is likely that after a long release of no less than six months, it will accumulate more. Land got more than 80 million U.S. dollars at the box office.

This time, it was different.

The current time has entered October, and in mid-November, when the Thanksgiving holiday schedule opens, there will be a new IMAX blockbuster release. After all, with the support of Daenerys Entertainment, the IMAX team has broken through the early IMAX copy. With a time limit of tens of minutes, it is not a problem to meet the two-hour level of regular movie screenings.

In short, before the Thanksgiving file opens, “Mount Everest” can still monopolize the length of IMAX, and there are about six weeks left.

Then, at least part of the screen resources must be surrendered.

In fact, if it weren’t for budget saving, Daenerys’s three blockbuster summer films, “Peerless Tribulation”, produced an IMAX version, and planned to have a long line. After all, the cost of IMAX conversion and copying is too high, and the number of screens is too high. That’s all, all three of them are made, and the price/performance ratio is very low. As a result, the trend of “Peerless Tribulation” is a bit sluggish, so on September 24, all of them were given to “Mount Everest”. Otherwise, the documentary began. You can’t get too many IMAX screens.

In any case, there is not enough time, and if you want to accumulate less than 80 million as before, the chance is not great.

Therefore, in order to maximize the benefits, it is undoubtedly a good choice to release the ordinary screen version of this documentary as soon as possible. Otherwise, the full IMAX version, this documentary this time the market volume of up to 50 million US dollars level.

Relative to the cost, the IMAX box office at the $50 million level is of course a big profit, but the current documentary has such a good reputation, it is really a bit sorry for the popularity of the film if it does not take the opportunity to expand the market.

So of course it was approved.

As for the inability to get the highest quality IMAX experience on ordinary screens, there is no way. After all, there are only 139 IMAX screens in the United States, and only a few people can see the IMAX version.

The Gaomen Pictures team was already planning, and Simon agreed to implement it immediately. It is expected that more than 1,500 ordinary screen versions of “Mount Everest” will be rolled out quickly across the United States next week. In addition, this documentary got a good start in the first week, and naturally there is no need to hesitate for overseas distribution. Of course, it will be rolled out as soon as possible.

Except China.

Simon’s attitude is to let the bullet fly for a while.

Only if the box office in North America accumulates higher, it will form a sufficient driving effect for the audience in China.

After dealing with these daily routines, Simon rushed to the Pixar studio on the second floor of Daenerys Studios.

The remaining two hours in the morning will be spent on Frozen.

The general story and character setting of this cartoon, including the theme song that used to brainwash the world, Simon has already made, and the next step is the execution of the Pixar team.

This time I will mainly discuss this matter.

Speaking of which, although Pixar’s animation film production progress is about a year and a half, in fact, there are often two or three films in production at the same time, mainly an animation film. After all, the number of teams cannot be too large. If there are too many, it is impossible to ensure the unity of the animation film style here. Therefore, the average is half a year. But in fact, if an animation film wants to be completed, if it is not in a hurry, it will be as short as three years, as long as five years, or even longer. It is not impossible. Just like Disney’s “Rapunzel”, because of some stumbling, nine years of work, the budget has also been greatly exceeded, and the final results are not tepid. Of course, this is an exception.

The work in the morning is over, and after lunch, the first is a production meeting.

During this time, Daenerys has set up a batch of brand-new projects. The “Frozen” just discussed in the morning is actually one. The production meeting discussed in the afternoon was the “Man in Black” who was suppressed by Simon for a long time. “.

Recently, he has signed a trilogy agreement with Will Smith, the new actor of ‘Steel Bone’ in time and space.

Speaking of it in a hurry.

After watching “Steel Bones 2”, Simon decided that the next sequel will get a very good result. In addition, there is the previous “Independence Day”. In short, the later the production is, if you still want to use the original version. , Will Smith’s price will only be higher.

Even so, the signing of the agreement this time, Will Smith’s starting salary reached 8 million US dollars, and there is no share for the time being. Except for the popularity of “Steel Bone”, it is mainly due to “Independence Day”, after all, a movie , Which character is more popular and popular, Hollywood has a special evaluation, even if “Lone Day” is a group play, the first actor is Jeff Goblen, but Will Smith’s performance Still very remarkable.

In short, if you want to pick up the leak, it will definitely not work.

It’s another protagonist, Tommy Lee Jones. Although he also has the role of Director Gordon in the DC movie universe, in other respects, Jones’s development in recent years has been somewhat unsatisfactory. Last year he took the lead role and was directed by Bai Ge Wu. “American Police”, which cost 100 million US dollars, wanted to regain the success of “Death of the Dead”, but in fact, it was still tepid, and Paramount did not even fully recover the cost in the theater stage.

Therefore, Jones’ starting salary this time is 5 million U.S. dollars. At the same time, he signed a trilogy agreement with no sharing clauses. The latter two, if any, have a maximum salary of 10 million and 15 million pieces respectively. Compared to ordinary actors, this is of course a very luxurious agreement, but compared to Jones and Smith who used to get a maximum salary of 20 million US dollars and dividends, this time it is much more cost-effective.

In fact, the main reason is that Daenerys has been taking back more and more initiative from actors and even brokerage companies over the years.

Even if you can never return to the era of big studios, with Daenerys Entertainment’s current strength, big coffees still want to be 20/20 like they used to be in the 90s, so definitely don’t think about it. Not only that, now Daenerys Entertainment has reached the level of Disney in its heyday.

For the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in addition to the early Robert Downey Jr., there are also widow sisters, because they did not sign the long-term contract and picked up a big leak, especially widow sisters, who are basically supporting roles, but they can hold several 2000 movies in a row. Wan, that is simply too big a leak, but other Marvel actors, after the contract is locked, can only be honest and take as much as Marvel gives. Even if the box office of Marvel’s blockbuster breaks through the sky, under the constraints of cooperation, it is impossible to make a profit like Downey.

Well, this actually proves how important it is to sign a packaging agreement in advance.

Of course, the stars naturally refused to sign the packaging agreement in every possible way, which requires a game. It is now that Daenerys Entertainment’s shareholder wind has completely overwhelmed the West Wind. Stars do not have enough gaming chips, so they can only face the reality honestly.

Besides, “Men in Black” is just a project this time.

Will Smith has already participated in the filming of two back-to-back productions of “Justice League” in Australia. Here, the script is finalized, the main creators are finalized, and other work is being added. The filming is underway until the middle of next year. Therefore, The first part of “Men in Black” will be released until the summer of 2001.

Compared with “Men in Black”, another movie to be processed this afternoon is much closer. “Chicago”, which was successfully completed in mid-August, has recently completed a rough cut. Simon left the last time in the afternoon for this film, discussing post-editing and some soundtrack issues.

The final two heroines of the film are Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna. The South African diamond was originally arranged as Madonna’s spare tire. Fortunately, it was useless. After all, Simon was more inclined to Queen Mai.

Although, during the actual shooting, even if the appointment was made three chapters in advance, Queen Mai still had some moths that were at odds with Catherine. This is not the original time and space of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Renee Zellweger by Miramac. The discord between the repeated speculations, although, the two are indeed tit-for-tat, but the traces of the hype of Miramax, who is good at marketing, are also very obvious. And this time, Rob Marshall, as a novice, really got a little bit burnt, and said privately that he would never work with Madonna again.

Fortunately, the film ended smoothly.

As for the disagreement between the two heroines, since there is a successful’case’, this time, Daenerys is also constantly releasing news to ensure that it is not possible to fry, and at the same time use the gossip behind the scenes as much as possible at the end of the order. The song and dance film of the Christmas stall is gaining momentum.

After finishing the day’s work, I returned to the home of Cape Dumei Manor. It was already six o’clock in the afternoon.

Had dinner, because it was Friday night, and socializing as usual.

Of course, I didn’t plan to go to San Lucas again this weekend. After all, the theme weekend shouldn’t be too frequent or exhausting.

This time is a reception at Shirley Lansing’s house.

After all, they have just taken over the control of 20th Century Fox. After the merger of the three companies, the scale is more than three times larger than the original MGM, and the pressure has doubled. This Hollywood woman who is often mentioned by the media alongside Amy Pascal The head also had to think about twelve minutes.

Similar to this kind of entertainment, in Hollywood, the higher the position, the more necessary it is. After all, you need to keep abreast of all aspects of Hollywood’s dynamics at any time. If you just sit in the office, it will definitely not work.

Of course, people like Simon have already jumped out of the Three Realms, doing whatever they want.

Simon still hasn’t grabbed the limelight from his host, and, probably, he’s coming over tonight, the kind of mascot, let everyone confirm who is behind the brand new 20th Century Fox, but at the same time, Simon is definitely not. Will go to fight Shirley Lansing for control of Fox, although, the actual control is indeed in his hands, so, specifically, it is probably the management right.

For familiar fields, although Simon often micro-manages, his energy is limited after all.

Therefore, after a general greeting, Simon found a quiet corner to stay and chat with people as usual.

Tonight are two English roses, Kate Beckinsale and Rachel Weis, they haven’t seen each other for a long time. Rachel was recently discussing the “Mummy 3” project with the brand new 20th Century Fox Company, so he received an invitation to this party tonight. As a good girlfriend, Kate accompanied him.

Speaking of which, the two girls have already returned the various benefits given by the Westeros family, such as the mansion and the waitress, etc., and they are considered free. However, because of the busy business, of course, there are some labels that do not The factors have not been thoroughly washed away, and I am still single for the time being.

Simon appeared here, and the two women couldn’t turn a blind eye. Even if they knew that sitting next to someone tonight, a label that hadn’t been washed off might condense again, but they didn’t refuse.

After all, the status of this man is too high, so high that it is difficult for a woman to resist.

Or, I don’t want to resist.

Just chatted with the girl around him for a few trivial words, and then Simon mainly talked to other guests, such as Jonathan Friedman, the head of WMA sitting on the corner of the lawn with him, or heard Lansing mention a few words in advance. Harrison Ford, who is actively lobbying to promote “Indiana Jones 4” recently.

The topic inevitably comes to the past September.

Daenerys’s two new DHO dramas, “The Sopranos” and “House of Cards”, and even “Dragon Babu”, are not just Hollywood, but have recently become more and more widespread social topics.

The people around were basically unconcealed admiration and compliments from the heart in this tone.

Daenerys Entertainment is too strong at the moment.

In fact, Simon happened to discuss this issue with Amy during lunch at noon.

The strength of Daenerys Entertainment and the strength of its film, TV, games, music and other businesses are of course one in nature. In other words, it is integrated with the entire Westeros system.

Just talk about a small “Tianlong Ba Bu”, why can it get such a brilliant result on a DHO TV station that has just started broadcasting for a year?

The point is that Daenerys Entertainment, or the entire Westeros system, has too extensive resources to promote this TV series to the public. Therefore, even if the project has a publicity budget of only $100,000, it is actually better than this. It’s more, but it’s just to greet the team with Daenerys, Igreat, and even other media platforms that are not affiliated to the Westeros system but have good relations. You don’t need to spend any money. A large number of media press releases about “The Eight Parts of the Dragon” are coming.

Not only that, because Daenerys Entertainment is currently strong enough in Hollywood, and unknowingly, it has become more media attention even if it has nothing to do with the Westeros system or even engages in evil.

Therefore, when Daenerys Entertainment itself has operated the public opinion about “Tianlong Ba Bu”, more other media have noticed this news hotspot and will follow up spontaneously without lobbying and reminding them.

There are also emerging Internet platforms that have to be mentioned additionally. With the Westeros system’s control over the Internet, it is a simple matter to quietly set some parameters to make a TV show super hot. The same other platforms have nothing to do with the Westeros system, but if you want to get higher traffic support, you naturally need to focus on topics that can please the Westeros system.

For example, a Chinese martial arts drama that was unexpectedly hit in a late night theater.

If there are some other websites or forums on “Tianlong Babu” articles that have been promoted by the Eaglet portal, then the smarter related websites will naturally follow up.

As a result, the publicity budget of US$100,000 was truly released, reaching a publicity effect of US$1 million or even US$10 million.

Such an effect, let alone other small TV stations, even if it is placed on the side of DHO’s biggest competitor, HBO, is it possible?

No.

Because even if “Dragon Babu” was broadcast on HBO a little bit, it is not a rare occurrence, after all, you are still the largest paid cable station at the moment. Secondly, it just so happens that HBO and DHO are competing against each other. You are hitting it. Can you be on the Egreat portal?

Unless the phenomenon level exceeds the ratings data of prime time, people biting dogs, otherwise, of course it is impossible.

Then, many film and television websites or forums will take the initiative to help you promote it?

Maybe it will.

As long as a drama is good enough, there will definitely be running water.

However, if you want to accumulate water into an abyss, if you want to become a tsunami, it definitely needs external force. If this external force is not only a positive work, it is also resistance, then the tap water will definitely quickly dry out.

All in all, the current state of Daenerys Entertainment is probably similar to the two giants of the North American film and television industry, Disney or Netflix in 20 years’ time.

Twenty years later, if you pay attention to Hollywood entertainment information, it is not difficult to find that all kinds of eye-catching headlines are often that Netflix’s XX new drama has started shooting again, a certain assembly line blockbuster has created a 24-hour best result, and Disney is getting more and more The boring Marvel giant system suddenly broke the box office record of a certain month, Barabara, so all kinds of things, it seems that Hollywood has only these two companies left.

As for the other giants, except for some of the more popular big projects, they are basically silent.

On the one hand, the two leaders are large enough and eye-catching enough to make any of their projects receive more attention from the global media. On the other hand, they are also strong enough to have enough capital and resources to make their own projects. The project occupied the layout.

So, the end result is that the stronger gets stronger.