Chapter 280 (1/2)
Normally, Sunday is not a good time to have a party because the next day is a weekday.
However, today's situation is somewhat special.
Warner Bros.'s fifth week of ”lethal weapon 2” officially broke through $100 million in North American box office after two days of release on Friday and Saturday, so the film's celebration party was specially arranged today.
Because ”lethal weapon 2” is Warner Brothers film's first domestic film with a box office exceeding 100 million five years after the release of ”elf” directed by Joe dent in 1984. The celebration party at Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills is very grand. Steve Ross, Warner Brothers' helmsman, has been engaged in the incessant merger and acquisition of time company, Warner Brothers and paramount communications The most intense moment of litigation game still came to Los Angeles.
More than that, it is said that in the banquet for the main creators of lethal weapons 2 at noon today, Steve Roth also rewarded a group of main creators with an expensive sports car, and personally handed the key to everyone.
Steve Roth's generous personality is indeed the reason why Warner Bros. has been able to attract a group of top filmmakers to work with him. Clint Eastwood, the ”old cowboy”, has only been working for Warner Bros. in the past ten years. Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Cher and other famous Hollywood filmmakers have also made friends with Ross.
Simon also received two consecutive enthusiastic invitation calls from Steve Ross before he could no longer refuse and had to agree to attend the party tonight.
After the announcement of danielis Entertainment's 10 foreign film cooperation plans, Simon doesn't know whether he has become the most powerful person in Hollywood, but he is definitely the one who receives the most invitation in Hollywood recently. It's not hard to understand why Hollywood is so crazy about Simon just by watching Warner Bros. celebrate the film after its box office success.
The box office performance of lethal weapon 2, which made Warner Brothers overjoyed, is expected to be less than half of that of sixth sense in North America.
Because of Simon's partner's initiative to provide scripts, the seven major Hollywood studios, the mainstream second and third tier film companies, the top producers in the circle, and even the major talent agencies have sent a large number of scripts to Denise entertainment.
These days, wherever he is, Simon has a pile of plays waiting to be read.
Next year's films such as ghost, pretty girl, dancing with the wolf and Ninja Turtle have all been identified. However, with the news of 10 films coming out, talent agencies and Hollywood stars are also boiling up.
Ten movies, naturally, mean a lot of opportunities.
Denise's ability to entertain a series of films is obvious to all. The second and third tier actors are crazy about these opportunities that may promote them to the first tier. Even the top stars in the first tier can't be calm in the face of the plans of these 10 films.
After all, the resources of Hollywood are limited, but the opportunities for the latecomers to be promoted to the first line will not increase too much, so the original first-line stars will inevitably decline.
In the banquet hall of the Hilton Hotel.
When Simon appeared, the sight of all the guests, like countless compasses encountering powerful magnets, converged on the young man at the door.
Steve Ross brought some people to meet him for the first time. Although it's not proper to invite Simon, a young man destined to be the focus of the audience, on today's occasion, Ross is also helpless. He will fly to Delaware tomorrow, and he can't squeeze out any other time to ask Simon again in a short time.
”Simon, I'm so glad to see you again,” he hugged Simon warmly, and rose joked, ”Why are you alone, but it doesn't matter. You can just find a girlfriend.”
Simon and rose hugged each other and said, ”how are you, Steve
”You know, I'd love to fight Martin Davis if I could.”
Simon said with a smile, ”then he can't beat you.”
Rose also laughed, patted Simon on the shoulder and looked at other people: ”you all know, well, this is Barbara. She just asked me to introduce her.”
Simon nodded to Terry Semel, Mel Gibson, Joe Percy, and the director of lethal weapons 2, Richard downer. He shook hands with Barbara Streisand, whom Rose had mentioned, and said, ”Hello, Ms. Streisand.”
Barbara Streisand shook hands warmly with Simon and said, ”just call me Barbara, Simon.”
”Of course, Barbara.”
After a few words, Mel Gibson and others scattered the party again.
Steve Ross took Simon to the dining table in the corner of the hall and sat down. He beckoned for the waiter to serve them with drinks. He said, ”I called George COGO this afternoon. Simon, WGA's investigation on danielis entertainment should stop here. You can get in touch with someone there tomorrow and it will be over soon.”Simon was no longer worried about WGA's investigation, but he nodded gratefully and said, ”thank you, Steve. What is the outcome of this lawsuit? ”