Inside the 20th Century Fox Studios in Century City.
This is June 26th.
Monday afternoon.
Simon's car stopped directly in front of the office building. As soon as he got off the car, a group of people came to greet him.
After politely hugging Shirley Lansing, who controlled the new Fox after the merger, Simon turned to the others and said with a smile: "There is no need for such a big battle, I am already stressed."
Barbara Broccoli, the producer of the 007 series, also stepped forward to hug Simon and said with a smile, "Because everyone is looking forward to this meeting."
After greeting like this, it was Ron Meyer again.
After the history of Hollywood was changed beyond recognition by the big butterfly Simon, the co-founder of caa, who was supposed to take over Universal a few years ago, finally succeeded in finding his first job in a major studio last year as the director. President of Canada's Seagram-controlled Paramount Pictures.
The original president of this major studio, Robert Rehm, who was once the CEO of Daenerys' New World Pictures, sadly retired because Seagram did not renew his contract.
This is the case in Hollywood. If you do well enough, you can control a major studio for more than ten or twenty years. However, if you fail to achieve results, it is uncommon for you to be replaced within a few years or even a few months.
After the three of them were Lena Kane, who they hadn't seen for a while, Mei Chen Amick, one of the Charlie's Angels trio, 'Female Angels', Nicolas Cage, the leading actor of the Mission: Impossible series, and Yue Zhong, who had just finished spying. The film's director Paul Greengrass and the leading actors and actresses Matt Damon and 'Root Girl' Amy Acker were re-shot.
For those who are familiar with Hollywood dynamics, just looking at the current lineup, it is easy to think of the long-rumored 'Agent Cinematic Universe' plan in the circle.
This is actually true.
This afternoon is a meeting specially organized for the 'Agent Cinematic Universe' project.
Speaking of which, Simon proposed this idea a long time ago, but in recent years he has not been too interested in it and has been procrastinating until now. On the one hand, personal energy is limited after all, and subconsciously, Simon still hopes that Hollywood can let a hundred flowers bloom, instead of being occupied by too many commercial film series. On the other hand, copyrights such as Mission: Impossible, which Simon wanted to include in the series, have not been secured. Even the 007 series, the British Broccoli family that previously controlled half of the copyrights of this super IP, was quite resistant.
Until now.
Seeing the miraculous success of the DC Movie Universe series, Simon's growing power in Hollywood, and the increased strength of MGM after the merger with Fox, which is enough to support a huge movie universe plan, all parties are gradually coming to terms with it. Understand that joining this series must be a win-win choice.
Everyone exchanged simple greetings and came together to a large conference room in the office building behind them.
Simon sat down in the middle of one side of the long conference table, with Shirley Lansing on one side and Meichen Amick occupying the other side without leaving any trace.
Everyone just smiled when they saw this, there was nothing to fight for. However, the seats across the long table were naturally occupied by Ron Meyer, Barbara Broccoli and Lena Kane, while other celebrities and filmmakers could only sit aside obediently.
While the meeting secretary was distributing information, Meichen Amick took the initiative to chat with Simon and talked about Charlie's Angels 2, which just started filming last Friday: "Simon, what do you think of my performance in the sequel to Angel?"
"Great."
Simon said, remembering the North American box office data for the weekend he had seen this morning.
Last Friday, after four years, countless movie fans finally waited for the release of Charlie's Angels 2. The three Charlie's Angels, Kate Beckinsale, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Merchen Amick, once again starred on the big screen. Brilliant.
With an excellent comprehensive media score of 8.3 points and an equally outstanding reputation among the audience, Charlie's Angels 2 earned a box office of US$60.28 million in the first three days of the weekend, and is expected to reach a box office of US$90 million in the first week. In comparison, the first film in 1996 only had a box office of more than 72 million in its first week, and the sequel's box office increased by 25% in the same period.
Although the final box office volume depends on the film's subsequent box office trend, with this opening, the film's subsequent development plan can be advanced without hesitation.
Thinking about this, Simon saw that the girl next to him was still trying to find something to say, so he took the initiative to ask: "The film is still being promoted recently, why do you have time to come here?"
"I happened to be recording a talk show in Los Angeles, which was also used for promotion," Meichen Amick said: "Kate and Catherine went to the UK. They are British. When they come back in a few days, we will fly to Asia together. Attend the premiere in Japan.”
Simon nodded slightly.
I remember that this time Charlie's Angels 2 still failed to achieve synchronization in Japan, where the film market is still relatively closed. This is not good. If you take the time, Washington should pay attention to it. It cannot always be like this.
After the meeting secretary distributed the materials, Simon stopped talking to Amick and signaled the meeting to begin.
First, Sherry Lansing introduced the specific execution plan of the Agent Cinematic Universe plan that has been quietly planned for several months and passed Simon's review.
After the copyright and other issues are resolved, the initially planned Agent movie universe will be composed of the first batch of five major IPs, a 007 series, a Mission: Impossible series, a Charlie's Angels series, a Bourne series, and the last one. , Simon only recently personally intervened and joined in. It is also an IP that Daenerys has hidden for a long time, the Fast and Furious series.
For Fast and Furious, Simon's vision is that the entire plan cannot be all agents, even if it is a variety of agents of men and women inside and outside the system, but in the end it still needs some non-staff teams as a replacement.
The drag racing party is perfect.
Imagine a scene where Ethan Hunt, who looked embarrassed, got into a seemingly inconspicuous dilapidated sports car on the side of the road, pointed forward and said, "Catch up with that Aston Martin." Boss Tang didn't say a word, and pressed the accelerator. He rushed up.
How exciting.
It can be further extended. In Aston Martin, there is a guy named James Bond. The two parties, um, three parties had a brawl. It turned out that the flood had washed away the Dragon King Temple. Bond and Hunter were officially dispatched. Boss Tang Then he accepted an odd job from the Angel trio. They were all investigating a plan called "Treadstone", and finally found Jason Bourne together.
Bourne is so miserable.
In short, a secret agent movie universe was connected in the blink of an eye.
correct.
Finally, of course, Mr. Tang's words "we are family" cannot be missing, and his voice should be very magnetic and rich.
Simply perfect!