Nb!?0P??_?c??3lQ?n?|??7?w?Y???=ZPx=?m?Kw??@o^w???uIu??·Ovi I thought WMA poaching Kirstie Alley was Daenerys Entertainment's counterattack against CAA due to the "Rain Man" incident, but this is not actually the case. When it comes to enemies, Simon is more accustomed to continuing to move forward than stopping to fight with the opponent, leaving the opponent far away to the point where they can only look up.
Just like the original entanglement between Simon and Matthew Broderick.
When the incident first happened, the general view in Hollywood was that a big star wanted to deal with a small screenwriter. Although the result was a failure, a small person like Simon was more of a talking point for many people after dinner.
But now, with the rise of Daenerys Entertainment, although Simon has never talked about the original incident either publicly or privately, the top executives of various Hollywood film companies can't help but have an idea. Will Matthew Broderick's cooperation cause dissatisfaction with Simon Westeros, which will lead to criticism, or cause both parties to lose possible cooperation opportunities
There are actually many popular young actors with good box office appeal in Hollywood. Michael Fox, Matt Dillon and others can replace Matthew Broderick. In comparison, there is only one Simon Westeros.
Therefore, after Universal Pictures' "The Genius" last Easter, as Simon soared in Hollywood, major film companies became cautious about whether to cooperate with Matthew Broderick.
In the second half of 1988, Matthew Broderick only starred in New Line Cinema's literary gay comedy "Gay". The production cost was 8 million US dollars, and it was not popular in October. After the film was released, The North American box office total was less than $5 million.
It is conceivable that even if the Hollywood film company continues to cooperate with Matthew Broderick, taking into account Simon's factors, it will be impossible to hand over the company's key high-quality projects to the other party.
Without excellent scripts and high-quality schedules, there will naturally be no box office success. Without the support of box office performance, the original Hollywood first-line niche will soon be reduced to second- and third-line actors, and then completely disappear from the public eye.
This kind of powerful crushing without having to do it yourself is what Simon is pursuing.
As for Kirstie Alley, the reason why Daenerys Entertainment hired her was actually because the actress was the original heroine of "One Flew Over the Child". Since CAA has set up obstacles for Meg Ryan to star in "One Flew Over the Wild", while using the original heroine, WMA's poaching is just a matter of convenience.
Michael Ovitz was on the verge of a major enemy and was restless all weekend after returning to Los Angeles, but Daenerys Entertainment was not affected at all.
Monday, January 9th.
Due to the time difference, Simon, who was far away in Melbourne, had finished the first day of filming for "Batman", and Amy arrived at the company at 8 a.m. Western time.
After an hour-long conference call with the New York TV department, at nine o'clock, "One Flew Over the Child" director Amy Heckerling, actor Mel Gibson and newly signed actress Kirstie Alley and others The creators came to Santa Monica, and there was another hour-long production meeting.
As the CEO of Daenerys Entertainment, Amy is currently mainly in charge of the operation of Daenerys Pictures and the daily administrative management of the company. Although Robert Rem, Robert Egger, Nancy Brill, and Eileen Supervisors such as La Deutschman perform their respective duties and share most of the company's business. Amy's own work still requires her to be busy for more than ten hours a day.
The heroine has been finalized, and "One Flew Over the Innocence" will begin the selection of supporting roles and pre-scenery work, and is expected to start filming in early March.
At ten o'clock, after seeing off Amy Heckerling and others, Amy's assistant Vanessa reminded her that Gensler's team was already waiting in the conference room.
Gensler is an established architectural design firm headquartered in San Francisco with a very broad international reputation.
Daenerys Entertainment's Malibu Studios Park has begun design bidding. Such a large-scale comprehensive office park covering an area of 50 hectares has naturally attracted competition from many top architectural design companies, and Gensler is one of them.
Before Simon left Los Angeles, he drew a rough sketch of the Daenerys Studios in Malibu according to his preferences. The bidding architectural design companies only needed to improve Simon's sketch and make it practical.
The Gensler team is going to introduce their design plan and project quotation to Amy today.
Arriving at the conference room, Amy unexpectedly found Janet already sitting at the desk, chatting animatedly with several Gensler staff members. Seeing Amy come in, everyone stood up to greet Amy and introduce each other. Janet also stood up and stood beside her with a smile. After everyone had finished the introduction, she said to Amy: "I'm just listening, you can do whatever you want."
During these days when Simon is away from Los Angeles, Janet will basically show up at the company on time to participate in Daenerys Entertainment’s annual financial audit.
However, Janet still gave full play to her eldest daughter's temperament, which was accustomed to "the superior and the inferior", and directly transferred three accountants from the Johnston Group to participate in this work.
Speaking of which, the company's financial data is not suitable for disclosure to outsiders. But everyone knows that Janet plays a supervisory role in this audit. Since Simon didn't object to Janet's approach, Amy and others couldn't object.
The area of 50 hectares is really large. Fox Studios in Century City is only 500 meters long from north to south. Although the land bought by Daenerys Entertainment is triangular in shape, its depth from the entrance to the highest point is more than 1.5 kilometers. Even excluding unusable slopes, the remaining building land exceeds that of any other major studio lot in Los Angeles except Universal Studios.
Therefore, although there are plans to move Daenerys Entertainment's subsidiaries including Daenerys Special Effects, Pixar Animation and Marvel Entertainment into the studio, this land still appears to be more than enough. Daenerys Entertainment also directly requested the design company to plan according to the scale of 2,500 permanent employees.
Gensler's team spent more than an hour just introducing their design plan. After the two parties discussed the quotation, it was already noon.
The men who sent Gensler off, Robert Rem and Ella Deutschman, also came from Burbank to have lunch with Amy and discuss the new week's work. Since Janet was there, Amy took the opportunity to invite her along.
Everyone sat down in a restaurant near the company's headquarters. Robert Rehm smiled and asked Janet: "Jenny, how is the progress of the audit? I am very curious about how much money the company made this year?"
"There must be a lot," Janet said with a smile, while flipping through the menu, she suddenly added seemingly casually: "However, there are also a lot of problems."
Ella Deutschman did not feel the change in Janet's tone and continued easily: "Our company has only been established for more than two years, so there will definitely be some problems."
Amy and Rem were keenly aware of Janet's strange tone, and couldn't help but look at her.
Janet put down the menu in her hand and narrowed her beautiful eyes that were always eye-catching. She used to look harmless, but now she looked like a cat about to pounce on its prey. She glanced at the three of them lightly and said: “I found out that someone spent $16,000 on a party at his home but charged the bill as entertainment expenses for a film project, and flew a company plane on a business trip when actually he was sending his son to college. "
Robert Rehm, whom Amy watched with Deutschman, was probably the only one of the four here who had a son in college.
Robert Rem shrugged calmly and said, "Jenny, I have never done that."
"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here eating with you," Janet's expression seemed to slow down a bit, and she directly revealed the mystery: "It's actually Ron MacMillan."
When the three Amy heard this, they were both surprised but not surprised.
Ron MacMillan was Simon's producer when he was producing "Run Lola Run."
After the success of "Run Lola Run", Ron MacMillan also became a contracted producer under Daenerys Films. In the past two years, he has also completed two projects, "The God of Death" and "Scream", both of which achieved very impressive box office results.
Ron MacMillan has thus become one of the most sought-after producers in Hollywood.
Because of these connections, everyone was a little surprised that Janet would suddenly point her finger at the company's veteran producer. However, after following Simon's fortune, Ron MacMillan's reputation in the industry in the past two years has not been very good, so it is not surprising that he has these dirty tricks.
After a moment of silence, Amy raised her hand to stop the waiter who wanted to come over, and asked Janet in a low voice: "Jenny, have you told Simon about this?"
"As he said, he asked me to figure it out," Janet nodded and asked, "Amy, what do you think we should do?"
Amy was a little unsure and could only remind: "Jenny, preparations for "Scream 2" have begun."
In the past week, "Scream" collected another US$5.61 million. In its 10th week of release, this youth horror film officially exceeded the 100 million yuan mark, with the cumulative box office reaching US$103.97 million.
Simon originally gave a trilogy outline, and the heroine Courteney Cox also signed a trilogy contract. The film was so successful that preparations for the sequel were naturally put on the agenda, and it was also scheduled to be released for Halloween this year.
As the producer of "Scream", Ron MacMillan's withdrawal will undoubtedly affect the development progress of the project.
Janet heard Amy's hesitant tone and said: "Actually, Ron and I are also very familiar with each other. We helped Simon film "Run Lola Run" together. However, he has crossed too many boundaries. I actually don't care if he is there." For those messy things in the circle, if he can work wholeheartedly for Simon, Daenerys Entertainment will try its best to protect him. But he should not use these little thoughts on Daenerys Entertainment, Simon has given him enough Remuneration, and promoted him from an unknown small producer to his current position, he should not take things that do not belong to him, let alone deceive Simon. So, Amy, called him in the afternoon, he was Fired."
Amy was stunned and said: "Jenny, don't we need to discuss this matter with Simon?"
"No need," Janet said firmly, staring at Amy closely, and said, "Simon is actually a very soft-hearted guy, and he doesn't like to care about such trivial matters. But, Amy, I'm not, I'm just a little woman , as long as I feel that a person is no longer trustworthy and may even be a danger to my boyfriend, I will not hesitate to remove him from Simon."
Amy was stared at by Janet. She was silent for a moment, but nodded and said: "I will call Ron in the afternoon, but what should I do with "Scream"?"
"This is not something I need to care about." Janet was very satisfied with Amy's answer, but she even waved her hand away from the shopkeeper. After speaking, she glanced at Rem and Deutschman, seeming to be joking, and said: "This year The financial report is not a big problem. However, I will help Simon keep an eye on it next year. The reward Simon gives you is very generous, so unless you can confirm that you will not be caught by me, please do not take anything that does not belong to you. .”
After saying this, Janet slowly picked up the menu without waiting for any response from the three of them, and as if nothing happened just now, she was laughing and joking with Amy and others in the blink of an eye.
So, after finishing the meal, Janet obviously enjoyed it very much, but Amy and the three of them all felt like they had eaten fish bones. In fact, looking at Janet's smiling face, the three of them felt a creepy feeling in their hearts.
After lunch, Janet did not stay in the company in the afternoon.
Amy also sent Rem and Deutschman away. Due to the overseas distribution of several films such as "Scream" and the affairs of Gaomen Pictures, the two will fly to the UK together.
Rem and Deutschman rushed to the Santa Monica Airport in downtown Santa Monica. Nancy Brill had just returned from the East Coast on a private jet owned by Daenerys Entertainment. The woman flew there yesterday New York, in the morning, we discussed with several banks in New York about the loans needed to buy a stake in Blockbuster.
Although Daenerys Entertainment has very abundant funds on its books this year, Simon decided to transfer all the excess funds to Westeros company accounts. He did not explain the reason for this to Amy and others, but when he bought shares in Blockbuster, he had no choice but to take out a loan again.
Including the previous purchase price of US$200 million, Simon's current total debt is only US$650 million. Therefore, adding an additional US$100 million in debt is still within Simon's tolerance.
When Nancy returned to the company, she came directly to Amy's office to discuss the results of her trip to New York with her.
Amy also just got off the phone with Ron MacMillan. She still did not directly inform Ron MacMillan on the phone that he was fired as Janet had told him. Instead, she made an appointment for dinner tonight. Compared to Janet, Amy still hopes to get back together with Ron MacMillan, which will not hurt Daenerys' entertainment.