Chapter 1027 (1/2)
Simon continued to spend the weekend in Australia and left alone again on the new Monday, returning to North America first.
At the end of the day, even Amy Pascal reminded him in his personal conversation with Simon that maybe he should go to the apparently out of control ”Titanic” set to have a look at Simon's past. Besides, he also reminded the producer in charge of the project budget of danielis entertainment not to waste his time arguing with James Cameron and try to cooperate with him Fang finished the film.
This is already a hint of laissez faire.
In fact, Simon didn't completely ignore it. In private, he asked people to re estimate it. According to the schedule at this time, Cameron would need about $150 million to complete the film. Even if he exceeded it in the end, it might save a lot more than the previous $200 million.
In addition, the former ”Titanic” indirectly created James Cameron's light storm special effects studio. This time, from ”Terminator 2”, all the special effects techniques involved in Cameron's production of the film are retained in the daenerys special effects, while ”Titanic” seems to have no films like ”Star Wars” and ”Transformers” So dazzling technology, but it contains only a lot of special effects technology.
These special effects innovations are valuable technical assets for Denise special effects.
In addition, Simon really hopes that danilisi entertainment can make some progress and ”entertain” the public. After all, even if the Titanic fails completely this time, it will not hurt the foundation of danilisi entertainment group, which has completed a comprehensive and diversified layout.
In a word, Casson can play whatever he likes this time.
Simon pays.
Back in Los Angeles, the local time is still September 9.
Monday.
Simon's first concern is the summer season of 1996, which has officially ended. In fact, this is where danielis entertainment can support James Cameron's casual play.
The duration of this summer program is 17 weeks from the release of ”evaporation order” and ”Romeo and Juliet” on May 10 to the full opening of schools in North America on September 5. In the past three days from September 6 to September 8, the weekend box office of North America market dropped from more than 62 million in the same period last week to about 35 million, which also clearly announced the summer program The end of the file.
As long as 17 weeks, a total of six movies with a box office of over 100 million have sprung up in North America, all of which are more or less related to danilisi entertainment. Even though danilisi entertainment has no involvement in the investment and release of Eddie Murphy's new film ”Professor fat man”, Simon has privately pushed it to fox.
You know, Professor fat in the original time and space is a film invested by universal pictures, and now universal is a part of danielis entertainment.
In addition, in addition to the six local films with box office exceeding 100 million yuan, the whole summer program, not to mention the cooperation projects such as mummy and mission impossible 2, is only the films independently produced by the three brands of daenerys entertainment, such as ”black man”, ”police Empire”, ”ice blood storm” and so on, which have achieved quite good results.
If the time line is extended to the first eight months of 1996, from the beginning of the new year to the end of the summer program on September 5, there have been nine movies with a box office of over 100 million in North American cinemas, which are respectively:
the first place: 007 ghost party, with us $307 million.
Second place: mission impossible 2, US $216 million.
Third place: guillotine, US $177 million.
Fourth place: mummy, US $156 million.
Fifth place: rush hour, US $141 million.
Sixth place: morgue haunted event 2, US $137 million.
Seventh place: Romeo and Juliet, US $123 million.
Eighth place: Professor fat, 113 million dollars.
No. 9: top 2 of the spy plane, US $108 million.
The whole list is clear at a glance.
Among them, nine films are produced by Denise entertainment alone, accounting for five. In addition, there are two cooperative films. Even the No.1 ”007 ghost party” is also related to interests because of MGM's insufficient distribution capacity and many overseas markets are distributed by Denise entertainment.
There's only one fat Professor, which is completely exclusive to fox.
Although MGM's ”007 ghost party” temporarily occupies the first place in the list, and Simon doesn't want to compete for the limelight of this first place, considering that there will be ”wonder woman 2” in the DC movie universe series, which happens to be released by danielis entertainment at the end of the year, the final result of the list is still unknown.
In any case, just look at the list so far, Denise entertainment is no less than Disney at its peak in Simon's memory.
It's no exaggeration to say that Simon has basically controlled the whole Hollywood at this time. Louis Meyer, who was once in the limelight in Hollywood's 100 year history, has far less power than Simon at that time.Daniels studios.
In Simon's office, as an insider, David Geffen, who has watched the whole process of Simon westero's rise, can't help but feel a lot of emotion when he looks at the young man opposite him. Even the Geffen record, which he created in those years, is now a part of danielis record.
Now, not to mention anything else, the power of this young man in Hollywood is enough for everyone to look up to.
On the sofa in the reception area, Simon took a sip of the soda that girl a had just given him. He was a little uncomfortable with David Geffen's look. You know, this is a Hollywood recognized big man. He put down his glass and Simon went straight to the theme: ”David, I have a meeting later, so let's make a long story short.”
”Oh, of course,” David Geffen quickly put away his thoughts and said, ”I've probably sent an e-mail ahead of time. DreamWorks hopes to buy the script of Saving Private Ryan from danielis entertainment. Simon, I also inquired ahead of time. Danielis hasn't made any preparations for this project. I think you don't mind changing hands ”Yes.”
Simon was noncommittal and said, ”David, Saving Private Ryan is a World War II script, and it must be a blockbuster investment. It's very risky. Why do you want to make this project?”
”Mainly...” David Geffen wanted to give a false excuse and hesitated a little. After all, he told the truth with a wry smile on his face: ”well, Simon, it's actually Steven who is very excited after seeing this script, but we are late.”
Hollywood is full of intrigues.
However, for Simon westero, if he lies today, even if he gets the script of Saving Private Ryan, once it is revealed, this young man will not be able to admit his bad luck like other cheated film makers. In case of a rebound, the whole DreamWorks will be implicated.
It's better to be honest.
Even if Spielberg didn't ask for the job, David Geffen didn't want to accept it at all. As a shareholder of DreamWorks, his attitude is in line with what Simon just said, and he doesn't think much of such a war movie with huge investment and may not be popular with the audience in the future.
Simon had guessed the whole story. Now that Geffen was frank, he didn't make any more detours and said, ”since Steven is interested, Denise can let go. However, it's also a chance. Why don't Steven pay back the last movie he owes Daniels entertainment this time? ”
David Geffen didn't expect Simon to agree so readily, but he was stunned again.
Looking at the expression on westrow's face, this man, who has been in Hollywood for many years, feels inexplicably that he may have stepped into a pit on his own initiative.
It's just, it's just a feeling.
There is no evidence.