Simon returned to Los Angeles this time, and his main work for the next week will be to finalize the final plans for the two projects "The Flash" and "Wonder Woman" in the DC movie universe plan, including scripts, main creators, budgets and other details.
In addition, after repeated consideration during this period, Simon also plans to re-plan the advancement speed of the DC movie universe.
Next year's two planned DC Cinematic Universe films, "The Dark Knight" and "The Flash," have been confirmed, and the 1992 summer release of "Wonder Woman" is also confirmed.
These can no longer be changed.
However, Simon hopes to adjust "Superman", which was originally planned to be released at the end of 1992, to the summer of 1993. Other projects in the DC movie universe such as "The Dark Knight Rises", "Suicide Squad" and "Batman v Superman" are also planned. With appropriate delays, a production rhythm of one film a year or three films every two years will eventually be formed, instead of the original intensive two films a year.
In the original time and space, Hollywood's 1990s were an era of great films.
By doing this, Simon can, on the one hand, prevent superhero movies from taking over the big screen too early and give the once-shining "Jurassic Park", "Alone Day", "Forrest Gump", "Men in Black" and "Twister" , "The Shawshank Redemption", "Scent of a Woman", "The Crying Game" and other outstanding commercial or literary films retain enough market space to realize the blooming of Hollywood. On the other hand, these superhero movies can also be given more preparation time in terms of scripts, special effects, etc.
Especially the special effects.
Because Daenerys Special Effects Company was founded in advance and spared no effort in the research and development of CG technology, Daenerys Entertainment's accumulation of special effects technology at this time has reached the level of technology that can produce the 1993 "Jurassic Park" in the original time and space. level.
After Daenerys Entertainment obtained the rights to adapt the unpublished "Jurassic Park" novel from Michael Crichton in advance in the first half of the year, the Daenerys special effects team, under Simon's instructions, took only one month to A CG dinosaur clip was produced that was realistic enough to look real.
As for the liquid metal robot special effects currently being filmed in "The Terminator," the team at Daenerys Special Effects Company is more than capable of handling them.
However, the reboot version of "Superman" planned by Simon hopes to refer to the memory of Zack Snyder's version of "Superman: Man of Steel" and to achieve the world-destroying moment when Clark Kent fought General Zod. For horror effects, the technical accumulation of Daenerys’s special effects is far from enough.
The next best thing, Simon hopes that the special effects level of this version of "Superman" can reach the level of "Day of Independence" in 1996 in the original time and space. To achieve this, it will take at least a year to carry out targeted technology research and development.
I returned to Los Angeles at about nine o'clock last night and worked as usual on Saturday.
After a busy day, in the evening, the female assistant knocked on the door and entered Simon's office, carrying a black suit in her hand. The female assistant's female assistant followed behind the female assistant, holding a shoe box.
Simon raised his head from the project information of "The Stars" in front of him and said with a smile: "It's just a party. We can just go there directly after dinner. No need to change clothes, right?"
Jennifer asked the attendant to put down the shoe box and sent him out, saying: "There are a lot of people, and Jenny had someone send this back from Europe yesterday. She said that while she was away, if your outfit at a public event was criticized by someone, It’s a joke, just deduct my salary.”
Simon was only wearing a shirt. When he saw the female assistant taking out her coat from the dust jacket and walking over, she stood up and extended her hand, smiling and said: "I seem to be paying your salary, right?"
"Yes," the female assistant nodded, unfolded the suit for the man to put on, and said, "Both of you are bullying me."
“…”
The female assistant helped Simon button up the buttons virtuously, stepped back to take a look, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Why don't you say anything?"
"I was thinking about how to bully you tonight."
The female assistant rolled her eyes at Simon, handed over the trousers, and said: "I have asked Neil and the others to prepare. We will go to Seattle after the party. I like the house on Mercer Island in Lake Washington very much. We will meet again on Monday. return."
“…”
The female assistant took out a pair of custom-made leather shoes from the shoe box, held it in her hand and watched Simon change into his trousers. Seeing his silence, she curled her lips and said, "What's wrong?"
"I thought you would let me bully others."
"I'm not Jenny. I won't let you bully others."
"Aren't you Jenny?"
"no."
"That's not what you said last time."
"Last time was last time."
Simon put on his trousers, took the leather shoes from the female assistant, sat on the leather chair and started to change shoes, and said: "So, you people on earth are really uncreative in naming. In the future, I will have the right to name your children. "
The female assistant took away the trousers and shoes that Simon had changed into and said, "Please make something special first and I'll listen to it."
"Where did you just say we were going at night?"
"Seattle."
"That's a good name."
"what?"
"Seattle, Seattle Westeros."
The female assistant was about to put the leather shoes in her hand into the shoe box she just had. When she heard this, she blinked her eyes and joked in a low voice: "You can give this name to Jenny's child in the future. She will definitely be very happy."
"Yes, just give it to Jenny in front of you."
"I do not want."
"No, no, no, I'm dad, I have the final say."
"I suddenly don't want to go to Seattle tonight. I want to go to, um... Hawaii."
"No, I can only go to Seattle, and I can only call it Seattle. I am the father, and I have the final say."
“…”
Regarding the issue of children, it is actually a bit sensitive.
Simon and Janet have been trying hard to have a baby since they got married. However, after half a year of busy work, Janet's belly has not moved. In his heart, Simon actually hopes to give birth to a group of super rich second-generation little bastards who will turn the world upside down.
However, this kind of thing cannot be rushed at all.
During the last days at the Tasmanian cabin, the female assistant talked to Simon about this matter. She hoped to have a child by the time she was 30 years old. He also agreed. Of course, the child would naturally have a Westeros surname.
Simon also talked to Janet about this, but the woman didn't say anything. She just bit Simon's ear hard several times that night, almost holding it in her mouth while dreaming.
After changing clothes, Simon and the two had dinner in the company's internal restaurant in the administrative area, and it was already dark.
Because the main building and interior decoration are more complex than other buildings in the studio, the large activity center in the second-floor office area of Daenerys Cinema has only recently been opened for use. The celebration party for "Intersection of Life" winning the Venice Golden Lion Award can be said to be the first large-scale gathering since the opening of the event center.
It is said to be to celebrate "The Intersection of Life" winning the Golden Lion Award, but in fact it is regarded as a comprehensive celebration after the conclusion of Daenerys Entertainment's summer season.
Not only the team of "Crossroads", Daenerys Entertainment also had great success at the box office this past summer with "The Last Days", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Rock the Cradle" The main creators of films such as "Hand" and "Pretty Woman" were invited.
As of late September, "Pretty Woman", which was scheduled for Valentine's Day at the beginning of the year, has been officially released in North America, and the film's local box office finally reached 178 million US dollars. Moreover, the cumulative overseas box office of "Pretty Woman" is even better than that in North America, and has recently exceeded the US$200 million mark.
According to estimates from Daenerys Entertainment's distribution department, the global box office of "Pretty Woman" is expected to reach $450 million.
With a production cost of US$10 million, the global box office alone was able to recover US$450 million. Even though Daenerys Entertainment has created many miracles in recent years, such box office results have amazed the entire Hollywood.
However, this is not the end yet.
At the beginning of the summer season, Daenerys Entertainment's fantasy romance film "The End of the World" has unknowingly become popular again. The tear-jerking plot has wildly harvested the tears of countless viewers. The film has been in theaters for more than three months, and its box office has also steadily increased. .
From the opening on June 1st to Thursday, September 20th, during the 16 weeks of release, the domestic box office of "The Last Days" has reached a cumulative US$181 million, successfully surpassing "Pretty Woman". Moreover, the single-week box office volume of "The Last Days" remains at around US$5 million, and there is almost no suspense about hitting the US$200 million mark.
Judging from the recent feedback from the overseas distribution market of "The Last Love", the box office performance of this film in overseas markets is no less than that of "Pretty Woman".
Therefore, just two movies, "Pretty Woman" and "The Last Day", can bring Daenerys Entertainment more than 900 million US dollars in global box office revenue. This is already the same as "Batman" directed by Simon at the end of last year. "Xia Ji: It Begins" is quite similar.
Excluding all costs, the profit scale of these two blockbuster love movies at the box office will not be less than 300 million US dollars. The subsequent derivative income, video tape income and TV broadcast income of the film will mean a long period of repayment that lasts for several years. cycle, the expected revenue can reach about twice the film's box office profit.
It is this series of blockbuster projects with huge revenue that supported Daenerys Entertainment’s previous valuation of tens of billions of dollars given by Forbes magazine.
In addition to "Pretty Woman" and "The End of the World," the three films "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Sleeping with the Enemy" and "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" were also successful, with the cumulative box office reaching The $119 million "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", along with "Pretty Woman" and "The Last Day Out", is destined to become Daenerys Entertainment's top ten box office films of 1990.
The outstanding box office performance of the film produced by Daenerys Entertainment this summer is obviously more worthy of celebration than "Intersections" which just won the Venice Golden Lion Award.
However, most of the hundreds of guests attending the party in the movie theater event hall tonight came for a certain young man.
Everyone knows that Simon Westeros is the hand of God who created all this glory.
Moreover, according to the "Forbes" list of the 400 richest Americans released at the beginning of the month, Simon Westeros's personal net worth is US$21 billion, making his influence in Hollywood even more powerful.
There is an interesting story circulating in the circle during this time.
Los Angeles' "Premiere" magazine has been discussing the creation of a list of powerful people in Hollywood since the first half of this year, and Simon Westeros is the undoubted first choice. However, when "Forbes" magazine released this year's wealth list, "Premiere" magazine simply canceled the plan to produce the list.
Because the guy at the top of the list is so dazzling.
Everyone knows Simon Westeros, and everyone only sees Simon Westeros.
As for the people ranked second, third, and fourth on the list... they are not like John Kruger and Warren Buffett after Simon Westeros on the Forbes wealth list. Waiting for someone to become a household name. Therefore, even if these people were listed one by one after Simon Westeros, probably few people would care at all.
Since no one cares, there is not much point in making such a list.
In the hall.
Columbia Pictures President Jon Peters, who was originally chatting with Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, expecting them to join him in one of his films, heard his little girlfriend say something in his ear and immediately turned to Willis. Mr. and Mrs. Si raised their glasses, then turned and walked towards the entrance of the hall.
At the same time, the crowd in the entire hall seemed to suddenly feel some powerful attraction, and there was an obvious commotion.
Although everyone knew that Simon Westeros must have arrived, there were more than 600 guests in the hall at this time.
No matter how restless my heart is, it is impossible to rush through it all together.
Most people quickly calmed down again, or pretended to calm down. Only a small number of guests who thought they were qualified to get close to Simon Westeros moved.
Simon was wearing the black Armani suit he had changed into before dinner, and the female assistant was wearing a simple white dress. The two appeared side by side in the lobby, with a very obvious sense of CP.
However, Simon is no longer a bachelor after all, and the current occasion is too public. The female assistant did not hold Simon’s arm, but stood beside Simon at a slight distance like a real assistant, occasionally coming over to remind him to say hello. guest status.
"This is Barbara Broccoli, and her half-brother Michael Wilson."
I had just chatted with Fox Film President Joe Ross and saw a strange man and woman walking side by side. Noticing Simon's doubts, the female assistant quickly reminded them softly.
Just by introducing their names, Simon understood their identities.
The heir to the Broccoli family who holds half of the copyright to the 007 series and has long controlled the production rights of this spy series.
Everyone shook hands and said hello, and Barbara Broccoli, who was obviously more talkative, talked about the latest 007 movie.
MGM has stabilized and the 007 copyright dispute has been successfully resolved. The Broccoli family and MGM management can now devote themselves wholeheartedly to the production of "007: GoldenEye" which has already completed the script.
However, Barbara Broccoli was obviously not satisfied with Simon's insistence on changing the leading actor in the 007 series: "Simon, the 007 series should be a matter between the Broccoli family and MGM, isn't it? I think it needs to be There is no need to change the leading actor, it should be our own problem."