Chapter 334 (1/2)
Santa Monica.
It's February 1, Thursday.
Simon arrived at the company headquarters at eight o'clock, and Jennifer, who had arrived early, followed him into the office with a stack of papers.
Because Simon has been letting go a lot of things intentionally or unintentionally, and she is often not in Los Angeles during this period of time, Jennifer's authority is growing under Simon's instruction, and she almost has to assume the role of Simon's internal spokesperson in the company.
In recent weeks, the female assistant has personally led the team in charge of the financial audit of the past year.
In the second half of last year, due to the big sales of ”bodyguard”, ”sixth sense”, ”scream 2” and other films, the hot sales of ”bodyguard” original record, the success of Ninja Turtle video game, the continuous revenue of TV projects, and the overseas and video release of ”Rain Man” and other films at the end of 1988, the revenue of Denise entertainment showed an explosive growth.
Compared with the net profit of US $110 million in the first half of last year, even excluding the construction of Denise studios in the second half of last year and the investment in acquiring EA equity, Denise Entertainment's after tax net profit of last year is expected to exceed US $500 million.
James Leibold has been continuously increasing his investment in new technology with the abundant funds of danielis entertainment.
At present, westero's shareholding in Microsoft has reached 21.3%, of which 10% is taken over from Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the two major shareholders of Microsoft, in the form of loans, and the other part is absorbed from the open market by the funds provided by Denise entertainment. Gates also personally went to Simon for this matter.
With the release date of windows 3.0 approaching, Microsoft's stock price has started to rise again in this period because of the outflow of the internal test version.
Holding 21.3% of Microsoft's shares has exceeded Simon's expectations, and westero does not plan to increase its stake in Microsoft next.
Westero's stake in Intel has also increased to 15.6%, which is also the result of its re absorption last year. On the basis of its original shareholding, westero has invested nearly US $300 million for the 5% or so shares, all of which are funded by daenerys entertainment.
Simon sat down behind his desk, and the female assistant handed over today's work schedule. She put down the paper and said, ”the financial audit work will probably be finished next week. Here's a briefing. In addition, there is a salary package offered by warner for you to be the producer of ”flash” and ”steel bone”, with a base salary of $2 million per film plus 10% of the local box office share. Finally, the company recently bought several novels and scripts, including Michael Clayton's Dinosaur science fiction
Hearing Michael Clayton's Dinosaur novel, Simon raised his head and raised his eyebrows slightly.
Jennifer noticed Simon's expression and offered to explain: ”Amy communicated with Mr. Friedman in person, because other studios also noticed the project in Clayton's hands, and everyone made an offer. The final negotiated price is US $2.5 million, US $2 million for the buyout of the novel, US $500000 for the adaptation of the script, and the latter is the result of Mr. Friedman's insistence. ”
Simon nodded to understand why Jonathan wanted it.
Michael Clayton will be able to get additional revenue share according to the basic agreement of the writers union after the film is released.
For an unpublished novel, the $2.5 million offer is a bit high.
Although Michael Clayton has made a big name in the fiction industry in recent years, the film and television projects he participated in before Jurassic Park were not successful. Last year, a crime thriller ”the edge of the trap” directed by Clayton himself received only a pitiful $3.3 million at the box office with a production cost of $17 million. Columbia Pictures, the investor, simply lost blood There is no return.
That's why Jonathan can easily poach the other side from CAA to wma.
If it wasn't for Simon's intentions, Jonathan probably didn't have much interest in Clayton either.
With that in mind, Simon asked the female assistant, ”when will the novel be published?”
”Clayton has just finished the outline of the story, at least until the end of the year.”
”Transfer the information of this project to the special effects studio, and ask them to come up with a CG dinosaur development plan for me recently, and put the rest on hold for the time being.”
Jennifer nodded, wrote it down on her memo, and continued, ”and Joe Ross of fox called yesterday about terminator and asked if you'd be free to talk about it tomorrow night?”
Simon wondered, ”tomorrow night?”
”Ross is organizing a reception at his home in cold water Canyon tomorrow night,” said the assistant, tearing a page out of her pocket memo and saying, ”here's the address.”
”You can keep it for me,” Simon pushed the page over again, looked at the female assistant and said with a smile, ”why don't you go with me tomorrow night?”
Jennifer shook her head and said, ”I've been very tired recently. I'm going home to sleep.””Or I'll turn to you after the reception. Belle is still very close to the cold water canyon. Remember to leave a window for me.”
The female assistant turned her mouth and said, ”my uncle has a very good hunting gun at home, which will beat you like a wild boar.”
Jennifer has been living in her uncle George Norman's house, which may be because she is close enough. The female assistant has no psychological barrier like Simon.
Simon's face showed the expression of fear, but good strange way: ”why is the boar?”
The female assistant tilted her delicate head with a ponytail and said, ”it could also be a rabbit.”
Not as good as a boar!
Simon pretended to be angry and waved his hand: ”go out, boss is going to start working.”
”Would you like some coffee?” she asked, smiling and helping Simon clean up the table
”Mineral water is OK. I've recently given up caffeine.”
The assistant nodded and turned away.
Simon lowered his head and looked at today's schedule again. The production meeting of the pink league starts at nine o'clock and is expected to last all morning.
The preliminary preparations for ”pink League” are ready, and shooting will begin next week.
Because it's a female film, Amy is basically in charge of this project. However, as one of the 10 film projects, Simon will attend the final production meeting in person.
Next, the rough cuts of ghost and Ninja tortoise have been completed. In the afternoon, I will discuss with the main creative team about the fine cuts and soundtrack in the later stage.