Chapter 194 (1/2)
After lunch with Terry Semel, Simon returns to Denise entertainment headquarters and starts his afternoon work again.
These days, Simon, Amy and other senior executives have been re discussing the film production and distribution plan of the new company. Originally, he planned to work overtime for two days in the previous weekend to complete these things before his trip to Australia. Because of the release of Forbes rich list, Simon had been entangled with all kinds of things on the weekend and had to delay until working day.
Except for several reality shows and New World Entertainment TV series that have been prepared by danielis pictures, the company does not plan to develop new projects this year. Therefore, the TV business in this area will soon be straightened out.
In terms of film, it is mainly production and distribution.
After the merger, the new company's issuance business will start next month.
In addition to the seven films released in the first half of the year, New World Entertainment has another six films of various types waiting to be released.
After film review and discussion, New World Entertainment finally decided that there will be a total of three films on the cinema line, namely ”aweira”, ”Sid sisters” and ”ghost 2”, and the other three films will be released directly on video.
Avrila is a brand of horror film that actress Cassandra Peterson has been focusing on in recent years, which belongs to the style of horror comedy. However, the biggest selling point of the film is probably only the female protagonist's half covered breasts in black.
Simon's evaluation of this B-class film style is very low, and he didn't find any box office potential. He wanted to go to the video market as well. However, New World Entertainment has carried out some pre publicity before, and even asked marvel to develop a cartoon for the film.
Considering that the company has no other cinema release plan in September, Simon reluctantly agreed to re edit the film and send it to the cinema, only limiting the number of screens to 500.
”Sid sisters” is a low-cost independent film starring Winona reed, who just emerged in Tim Burton's ”beetle juice” in the first half of the year. The story explores teenagers' disappointment and confusion in life through a series of campus murders.
After seeing the sample film, Simon decided to let the film participate in next year's Sundance Film Festival together with sisters and metropolises invested by danelis pictures.
Because the box office potential of the film is too low, the schedule will be determined in February and March next year.
The final ”ghost 2” is a horror film series developed by new world entertainment to imitate the new line ”ghost Street”. The first film earned more than $14 million at the box office with a production cost of $1 million. Although it can't be compared with the ”ghost Street” series, it is also a big profit.
The production cost of this sequel has increased to 3 million US dollars. With the accumulation of reputation of the first sequel, the profit is very guaranteed.
New World Entertainment originally planned to schedule the film for Christmas at the end of the year.
This is obviously a good choice before the merger of the two companies, but now, the distribution team of the new company must focus on the publicity of several films set by Daniels pictures. Therefore, the release schedule of ”ghost 2” has been postponed to Easter next year.
In addition to MGM's ”Rain Man” scheduled for December 16, the schedule of three films ”scream”, ”steel Magnolia” and ”death poetry club” produced and released by daenerys pictures were completely finalized in this discussion.
The release date of scream is October 28.
The release date of steel magnolia is November 18.
The release date of death poetry society is December 23.
Michael Hoffman's sisters, whit Stilton's metropolitan and Catherine's blue angel are also in the late stage. The specific schedule has not yet been determined, but they are expected to enter the cinema in the first half of next year.
Film production.
New world entertainment was originally in the process of brewing several projects, Simon finally only retained the original ”angel miracle” starred by bogey Xiaosi, and all the others were cancelled.