Chapter 265 (1/2)

Simon returned to Los Angeles, and this year's summer program officially opened with Steven Spielberg's ”Raiders 3”.

”Raider 3” adopts an unconventional Wednesday opening date, which is on May 24. The film, which started with 2327 screens, won $9.9 million in box office only on Wednesday and Thursday, easily surpassing the action film ”battle of the dragon”, which was also launched by United States in the first week.

”Weilong Shazhen” was released on May 19. The box office in the first seven days of the normal Friday show is $8.24 million, and the total box office in North America is expected to be around $30 million. Although far from being able to compare with ”Raider 3”, compared with the production cost of $17 million, the box office of ”dragon killing” is not a failure.

It's worth mentioning that the hero of ”Weilong” happens to be Patrick Switz, the hero of the original ”ghost”.

In order to ensure the success of ghost, Simon has no plans to change the hero and heroine. While he's away from Los Angeles, Denise entertainment has negotiated a contract with Demi Moore and Patrick Switz for the classic love movie.

Patrick Switz was promoted to a leading male star two years ago with a global box office hit of more than 200 million US dollars, and finally negotiated a salary of 5 million US dollars.

Demi Moore has nothing to offer but his wife, Bruce Willis. If not for Simon's insistence, Amy was not willing to use the other party at all. Therefore, during the negotiation process, she stuck her pay card to death and only offered a $300000 pay that slightly exceeded the price of the newcomer, with an additional preferential contract for a movie.

With a group of Hollywood actresses focusing on this project, Demi Moore knew that she had no chips to rely on, but just thought about the details and agreed to it soon.

In addition, black actress ubie Goldberg has agreed to play the role of psychic Audrey brown in ghost.

Danielis entertainment officially released the main information of ghost on May 29. The film will be officially filmed in August, with a budget of $20 million. It is tentatively scheduled for next summer.

However, because Denise entertainment has launched a large number of films in recent months, it has not caused much controversy in the media. Hollywood is more concerned about the upcoming danylis entertainment summer season's first movie ”bodyguard”.

In the past few months, a series of films released by danelis entertainment have not achieved very good box office results. If ”bodyguard” continues to maintain this tepid state, the rapid rise of the Hollywood rookie in 1988 accumulated a huge Aura will undoubtedly fade down.

Moreover, according to some indistinct rumors in the circle, ”bodyguard” internal audition effect is not very good.

Until the week before the release of the film, dannilis entertainment has been holding the word-of-mouth of ”bodyguard”, and has never held any public media or fan auditions, which undoubtedly proves this rumor.

Los Angeles.

Century City Hotel in Beverly Hills.

It's May 31. This morning, the original album of bodyguard was launched in Century City Hotel. The album will be on sale next Monday, three days later than the release date of the film. Before that, Whitney Houston, the heroine of bodyguard, had done a lot of homework for her screen debut and her third album.

At the end of the press conference, Denise entertainment held a luncheon at Century City Hotel to entertain the film's main creators and media reporters who were invited to attend today.

In the ballroom.

Clive Davies, President of allista records, a record company signed by Whitney Houston, chatted with Simon warmly for a moment with a glass of champagne. He turned and walked to Whitney Houston. His face turned serious.

Allista records was originally a record company founded in the 1970s with the support of Columbia Pictures. After more than ten years of development, it is now a subsidiary of German Bertelsmann music group. Clive Davis has been the president of the company since its establishment. After ups and downs, alista records finally got a turn for the better because of the popularity of Whitney Houston four years ago.

Whitney Houston's partnership with Denise entertainment is also the result of Clive Davis' efforts.

Now, he has some regrets.

It seems that since the end of last year, Denise entertainment has lost its popularity, and none of the films released in the first half of the year have been popular. However, now that bodyguard has not been released, a series of questions about the quality of the film have spread.

As for the original album of bodyguard, in order to facilitate this cooperation, alista records made a big concession on the contract at the beginning. The album was CO produced by alista records and danilisi Entertainment's unformed recording department, and Simon westero acted as the consultant himself.

As a condition of cooperation, Denise entertainment will take 50% of the gross profit of the record.

Clive Davis originally thought that Simon westero could offer as good a song as the one he wrote for Madonna, but what allista got was a mixed album composed of cover and Whitney's own old songs. The main theme of the album was an old song originally sung by Dolly Parton in the 1970s《 I-Will-Always-Love-You》。Since her debut, Whitney Houston's two albums have achieved a global sales volume of more than 10 million. Seeing that this good situation is likely to end, Clive Davis finds her own stage in the social intercourse, pulls her aside and begins to teach her the skills of throwing the pot in a low voice.

If bodyguard fails, the prospect of this original album is even more worrying.

Clive Davis is now only looking forward to putting the blame on Denise entertainment as much as possible to avoid the impact on Whitney Houston's career.

On the other side of the ballroom.

Clive Davis walks away and Amy Pascal comes to Simon.

Compared with Clive Davis, who only cares about bodyguards, Amy is worried about the commercial performance of the next two films in June, bodyguards and sixth sense. However, she came up to Simon and said something else: ”Bob went to New York on Monday. It was nothing special, but someone in New York happened to see him having dinner with a senior executive of Sony's American branch.”

Simon understands that Bob in Amy's room is Robert rem.

During the lunch in Cannes, Simon naturally heard REM's suggestion that he wanted to get a raise, but he didn't respond. He just mentioned it to Amy in private to let her pay attention.

I didn't expect REM to get in touch with Sony so soon.

Or, it's more likely that Sony took the initiative to contact rem.

During this period, Sony's acquisition negotiations for Columbia Pictures have been fully open.