Los Angeles, Daenerys Studios.
This is the afternoon of Sunday, January 23, and the Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be held in the evening. Simon is still here today to deal with the work accumulated in recent times.
The afternoon started with a production meeting about a fairy tale book-turned-live-action project called "The Grinch Stole Christmas."
Yes, that's "The Grinch."
Historically, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" was the domestic box office champion in the United States in 2000, starring Jim Carrey. It took in a domestic box office of US$260 million that year. However, even compared to the box office runner-up "Cast Away" in the same year ”, the popularity of this film on a global scale is also very low, mainly due to regional reasons, and it is just a popcorn film with a festive atmosphere.
The reason why it was able to win the annual crown with 260 million US dollars undoubtedly shows that 2000 was a box office year.
For the millennium, it was theoretically supposed to be a big year, which is interesting to say.
The original comic book was published in 1966. However, the original author Dr. Seuss refused to make a film and television version of the story until his death a few years ago.
On Daenerys' side, after several contacts, Dr. Seuss's family gave very positive feedback. After all, "The Grinch Stole Christmas" is not considered the top IP. It once won the annual box office championship. Before, few people had high expectations for this project.
So it's easy to win.
At present, the script has been completed and the director has been confirmed. The former original director, Ron Howard, mainly discussed the issue of actors in the afternoon.
It is undoubtedly the safest thing to continue to refer to the original version completely. However, because of the original discord, even if Simon did not kill Jim Carrey, he has already blacklisted him and will definitely not use him.
The candidate initially discussed was Ben Stiller.
At present, "The Hangover 2" has been completed, and the schedule is this summer. Ben Stiller happens to be in a vacant period. Moreover, compared to the simple and honest Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller has the kind of funny character The horse's temperament and even his own image are very suitable for the role of Grinch.
Moreover, this will not be a series, and there is no need to consider long-term issues. After all, there is already "The Hangover". Simon does not want to praise Stiller too highly, so that the follow-up "Night at the Museum" will be used. Amazing.
As long as the film appointment with Ben Stiller is finalized in the near future, this project can start shooting after Easter. Because it will mainly use old-fashioned model special effects, the production cycle will not be too long. The initial schedule is at the end of the year, Thanksgiving or Christmas. The specific production rhythm is to be determined.
Then it’s a movie viewing.
Next month, there’s a Valentine’s Day comedy, Crazy About Mary starring Lena Kane and Annika Settle.
Compared with before, not only the schedule, except for the director and screenwriter are still the Farrelly brothers, the other main actors and creators have changed. Initially, Lena and the two considered inviting Adam Sandler, but it was too expensive and they did not negotiate. In the end, it was decided to use the American sweet girl Jennifer Aniston from "Friends" as the core. The roles of several male stars were mainly selected from "Saturday Night Live". In the film industry, they are basically novices.
Therefore, the new version of "Crazy About Mary" was completed with a budget of only US$16 million. This number also shows the sophistication of the two girls.
As for the finished film, Simon personally feels that it is no worse than before. Simon is not sure whether the audience will buy it next. However, again, the current Daenerys Entertainment has enough error tolerance, and it doesn’t matter if a few projects fail.
The film's schedule has been set for February 11th, which is less than 3 weeks away. Modifications are impossible. Simon has also seen some samples in advance. At this time, the finished film has been rated and the trailer has been released. There is not much room for modification, and everything depends on market feedback at the time.
After watching this project, I paid attention to "300", which was continued to be directed by Zack Snyder, who was represented by Lena Kane after last year's "Resident Evil". The film was filmed in the second half of last year and is currently being filmed. At a later stage, the schedule has been determined as this year’s summer schedule.
Compared to the smaller films like "Crazy About Mary", the two girls obviously paid more attention to "300". After all, the budget this time reached 60 million US dollars, which was also a blockbuster. Simon also gave it a summer release If they don't get good results during a popular period, unlike "Absolutely Crazy About Mary", they will have to continue to work in the low-budget field in the future. Even Lena knows that her future Hollywood plans may be affected by this.
Unknowingly, I was busy until about 7 o'clock in the evening.
On the other side, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony officially started at 6 p.m.
After a day's work, Simon took the two girls directly to the mountainside mansion in the nearby Palisades, where Daenerys Entertainment's Golden Globes after-party was held tonight.
Some guests who did not attend the award ceremony had already arrived in advance. After Simon greeted guests such as Jonathan Friedman and Robert De Niro, he was pestered by a little goblin. It was Scarlett Johansson, mainly Tonight, Vanessa Johnson attended the Golden Globe Awards ceremony as the heroine of "The Talented Mr. Ripley". The little fairy did not have this honor, but she was able to be here.
So I took the three women together to a restaurant upstairs, and watched the ongoing awards ceremony on the TV screen while dining.
After the waitresses served the dinner, they just picked up the tableware and happened to announce the Best Actor in a Drama Series. The two most popular candidates were James Gandolfini from "The Sopranos" and "The Sopranos". One is Kevin Spacey from "House of Cards", both from DHO, which is becoming more and more popular.
In the end, as expected, Kevin Spacey came out on top.
"Look at it this way," at the dinner table, Lina asked for a bottle of mineral water like Simon, took a sip, and said, "Next, "House of Cards" should also be the best drama series this time."
"Absolutely, I like this TV series so much," Annika answered, then looked at a man next to her: "Simon, it is said that this is also the idea provided by you, is it true?"
Simon just nodded slightly.
"Actually, I was thinking," Lina also glanced over: "Simon, do you think Annie and I can also make a TV series?"
Simon said: "As long as you get a good enough idea, of course I have no problem. However, if it's not good enough, I won't give you the green light."
Next to her, Scarlett Johansson innocently interjected: "Simon, isn't Lena an agent? It seems that agents cannot participate in the production of film and television dramas. This is illegal, right?"
Simon smiled and nodded again: "Yes."
The girl looked at the other two girls. They didn't look nervous at all. She was still eating her dinner by herself. She felt a small fist hit the empty space, so she could only change the topic and said directly: "Simon, I Can you stay tonight?"
Simon was very interested: "What are you doing here?"
The girl was not shy at all and said boldly: "I will do whatever you ask me to do."
Simon glanced at the precocious bulge on the girl's chest and realized that this girl had deliberately worn a beige cotton dress with a very girly and even lolita style today, and her waist was cinched up, which was a little tempting.
Seeing the man's eyes, the girl immediately straightened her waist, and then made Lina next to her chuckle.
A certain girl ruined the atmosphere too much, and Scarlett immediately glared at her angrily: "Why are you laughing?"
Lina was still dressed as she was at work during the day. She just took off her windbreaker indoors and wore a high-necked black close-fitting sweater. When the girl asked, Lina didn't answer. She also just straightened her curves and looked hotter than the girl. Too much upper body. Annika, who was dressed similarly on the other side, joined in and followed suit, making the little girl feel envious and aggrieved, and could only look at Simon.
With a smile, Simon saw the girl looking over and comforted: "You are still young, don't be in a hurry."
Scarlett could only be depressed.
The awards ceremony on the TV screen continues.
Not surprisingly, in the end it was "House of Cards" that won the award for Best TV Drama Series.
Hollywood doesn't like politics, but if there is a project that can expose all kinds of political hypocrisy without causing too much criticism from the Washington authorities, it will certainly not be stingy with giving it enough praise.
From a profit perspective, to put it bluntly, Hollywood also seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages.
Then, most of the second half of the awards are the major film nominations.
No surprises either.
Or, what slightly surprised Simon was that this time it was a double yolk egg. The two leading ladies of "Chicago", Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna, won the Best Actress Award in the Musical Comedy category together, and then, " "Chicago" received seven nominations and eventually won five major awards, including Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category and Best Director, making it undoubtedly the most watched film in the movie category tonight.
In comparison, Daenerys received two nominations for Best Picture in the Drama category, "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "The Matrix". The award finally fell to an original film that had never been produced before, produced by Paramount. It was released in September last year, and the domestic box office was only over 20 million yuan.
Obviously, the tendency of the Golden Globes to share pork is too obvious.
But Simon can understand it.
If there is no distinction between pork and pork, but a completely fair judgment based on the quality of the film, most of the awards will be taken away by Daenerys and her family. Over time, only Daenerys and her family will be left, and others will accompany you. Play
Not anymore.
When that time comes, the awards will become Daenerys Entertainment's own entertainment, and the Golden Globe Awards will no longer be necessary.
In any case, even if there are no awards, no one can deny the popularity of Daenerys's series of films that have achieved both word-of-mouth and box office success in the past year. When the awards ceremony ended, compared to other parties, hundreds of guests came to the Palisade, which is enough to prove the dominance of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood.