Chapter 231 (1/2)
Los Angeles.
With the sudden departure of danielis Entertainment's producer Ron McMillan, Hollywood's not so calm January has become more lively.
Knowing that he was fired for some ”trivial” things, Ron McMillan almost immediately contacted Simon to make decisions for him. He felt that this was Amy and Janet's deliberate nonsense.
Confirming Simon's acquiescence, the angry Ron McMillan also tore his face and asked for $5 million in compensation. Danielis entertainment will not pay for it and is not afraid of Ron McMillan's threat to court.
Ron Macmillan's embezzlement of the money for the film project is well documented. Although the amount is small, it is enough for danilisi entertainment to dismiss the other party reasonably.
No matter what Hollywood insiders think about it, Ron McMillan will only end up as infamous as David Bergman in the eyes of the media and the public.
So, after a week of confrontation, Ron McMillan signed the resignation agreement without any compensation.
In exchange for another confidentiality agreement not to discuss the incident publicly, Ron McMillan also received a follow-up share of $2.6 million in several films he and danielis entertainment worked with in advance, so the two sides are not in debt.
With the deepening of the financial audit supervised by Janet, the company has laid off a number of employees who are not clean.
Although it inevitably caused some criticism, the whole danielis Entertainment Group also realized that its own company could not be as confused as the traditional Hollywood film company. Of course, because danilisi Entertainment's salary standard is significantly higher than that of her peers, few people choose to leave because of the company's strict financial system.
As for Ron Macmillan, although he signed a confidentiality agreement, there were complaints in the circle that he attacked Simon and Denise on some party occasions for being mean and ruthless.
However, because he did not publicly express these views in the media, Denise entertainment can not seriously care.
Now that he can connect his name with the top ten best-selling films in the annual list of ”Lola Run”, ”death is coming” and ”scream”, although he knows that Simon westero is the behind the scenes leader of the three films, Ron McMillan's resignation immediately caused the whole Hollywood scramble.
After several offers, Universal Pictures finally signed a three film contract with Ron McMillan with a base salary of $3 million plus a 10% share of the project's net profit.
also universal studios provided Ron Macmillan with additional grants for private aircraft, personal entertainment, administrative assistants, and so on. He opened an office for Mcmillan production company, which was founded by Ron Macmillan just now.
before that, only a few of Spielberg's Berlin pictures were able to have offices in Universal Studios.
Danielis entertainment did not deliberately cover up the reason for Ron Macmillan's resignation, which is well known in the circle. Universal Pictures in Ron Macmillan salary contract on the basis of such a generous treatment, obviously with a bit of targeted meaning.
In fact, danielis entertainment faces more than one ”target.”.
”Rocket expert” and ”Firebird strike”, which Paramount Pictures is in a hot state of preparation, will not be mentioned. It is realized that ”sex, lies and video” may be a black horse at the box office. The main investor of the film, MCA / Columbia family entertainment, together with the two parent companies, has finally won the distribution right of ”sex, lies and video”.
Close to the Sundance Film Festival, Colombia has also set up a special publicity team to promote the film.
After making $12.96 million at the box office in the fourth week, the box office of rain man fell again in the fifth week because the number of screens continued to increase to 1732. Although the reverse decline rate was only 2%, the box office revenue of $13.19 million made the total box office of rain man reach $72.38 million in North America.
What's more, five weeks in a row, and probably six weeks in a row, grossed more than $10 million a week. That's a lot more than all the other films that Denise entertainment produced last year.
Denise Entertainment's ”scream” which had the best box office performance besides ”Rain Man” at the end of last year's schedule only took four weeks to earn more than $10 million a week. Even ”vulgar novel”, which temporarily ranked the top in 1988, has only been at the box office for five weeks.
With the announcement of Oscar nominations at the end of January and the awarding of various trade union awards and Oscars in February and March, the box office potential of rain man has obviously exceeded that of vulgar novel.
Seeing the box office success of rain man, MGM, which gave up the screenplay and put on a hobbit, sold its Omni channel distribution rights in North America for a mere $5 million, could not sit still.New year's crown.
Even if the total cost of the project reaches US $40 million, the box office potential shown by rain man is only a combination of local and overseas box office revenue, and the profit may still exceed US $100 million, not to mention the follow-up video and television revenues.
This is a gold mine.
So he was cheated by Simon westero.
So they started to sue and claim for compensation. They actually hired a law firm to study the possible loopholes in several contracts between MGM and Denise.
Finally, with Fox, Warner and Disney in good relationship, almost all of the big seven in Hollywood were involved with danelis entertainment in this busy January.
If it's just simply involved, it's nothing. Even MGM, which wants to launch a lawsuit, is just trying to break it up.
Hollywood's best-selling films almost always cause all kinds of interest disputes, even in the original ”Lola Run”, the media once rumored that Simon and Janet turned against each other because of the uneven distribution of interests.
The most frustrating thing is that any project that danielis entertainment is looking at now will become the focus of the whole Hollywood.
Although Simon has a lot of foresight to hoard a large number of copyrights, but ultimately can not meet the demand of danilisi entertainment, the company can not put all the copyrights that are expected to sell on the development agenda, which requires other projects to fill the content shortage.