After chatting with Girl A about some things, Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, arrived after a while.
The Easter schedule starts this Friday, and Danny Morris came here. In addition to discussing the Easter schedule of "Toy Fighter 2" and the development progress of a series of projects being promoted by New World Pictures, there is another thing. About the complete destruction of the already crumbling New Line Cinema.
Daenerys Entertainment has successively taken away blockbuster projects such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and has encountered strong competition from New World Entertainment in the field of horror films. New Line Cinema, which has relied on the rise of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series, has in recent years It can be said that things are getting worse.
Not only that, at the beginning of the year, Simon also used some means to dispel Time Warner's idea of acquiring New Line Cinema, cutting off New Line's most important way of survival.
You know, it was after New Line was acquired by Time Warner in 1993 that it had a steady stream of financial and media resources to support it, and it was able to obtain "Rush Hour" and "Ace Big" from the late 1990s to the beginning of the new century. "Austin Powers", "Lord of the Rings" and a series of other successes. Miramax also became the leader in the field of art films by being affiliated with Disney.
In comparison, those second- and third-tier film companies that want to remain independent for a long time lack the support of the entire industry chain of large media groups, have very low risk resistance, and are basically short-lived.
The success of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series in the 1980s made New Line the envy of many other second- and third-tier film companies, and the small life was really nourishing for a while. However, as the economic situation has taken a turn for the worse in recent years, New Line has been blindly eager to expand under Simon's intentional or unintentional attacks and has never had a new blockbuster series, so it quickly declined.
In 1984, "A Nightmare on Elm Street", which was produced with a risky investment of US$1.8 million, was a hit, allowing New Line to evolve from a small studio that could only distribute low-cost B-level films to a second-tier film company with independent production and distribution capabilities.
With the company in decline, New Line Cinema bosses are once again betting on "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
This time, New Line invited back Wes Craven, the director of the first "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series, and invested US$12 million to create the seventh "A Nightmare on Elm Street" movie since 1984. ", and invested a publicity budget of 5 million US dollars. The schedule was selected on April 9, the week of Easter, during the same period as "Toy Fighter 2".
The total investment of 17 million US dollars is not worth mentioning for Daenerys Entertainment, but it is New Line Cinema’s last ditch effort.
As long as the local box office of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" reaches US$50 million, through local box office revenue and other subsequent income, New Line will be able to repay its debt due this year, and its own financial pressure will also be alleviated, so as to continue to survive in Hollywood. Go down.
Before New World Pictures was acquired by Daenerys Entertainment, it was New Line's most direct competitor.
Both companies have dabbled in horror films, with New World Pictures following the lead of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" with its own "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series.
However, the original New World Pictures failed to create a relatively blockbuster hit like "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and was ultimately acquired by Daenerys Entertainment.
Danny Morris was once a top executive at New World Entertainment, so it's not surprising that Simon would suppress New Line Cinema.
After all, Hollywood's plate is limited.
Eliminating New Line Cinema, which is familiar with the field, even if the market vacated by the other party is very small, it can give New World Pictures more room to move, and at the same time prevent the company from suddenly creating another hit series. Competing with New World Pictures for the market.
A teacher must be famous.
Targeting New Line Cinema inexplicably will definitely arouse criticism from peers.
Coincidentally, in order to promote "A Nightmare on Elm Street", New Line management also brought in "Scream" during this time.
Also a series directed by Wes Craven, the three "Scream" films are much more popular than the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series. Not only did New Line print suggestive words like 'The new Nightmare on Elm Street, giving you a Screaming Easter' on some advertising posters, Wes Craven even said it directly in an interview with "The Tonight Show" Said that "A Nightmare on Elm Street" combines the horror elements of the two series "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Scream".
At this time, if we publicly protest New Line's publicity strategy of deliberately trying to capitalize on the popularity of "Scream", it will only fuel the promotion of "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
However, rumors quickly spread in the circle that Daenerys Entertainment was very dissatisfied with New Line's publicity strategy.
Once you have an excuse, it becomes logical to do some actions.
New Line originally hoped to obtain more than 2,000 opening screens for "A Nightmare on Elm Street", but under the operation of Daenerys Entertainment, it ultimately only obtained more than 1,300.
In terms of publicity and marketing, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" can't be compared with "A Nightmare on Elm Street". Because of Daenerys Entertainment's targeting and release budget of US$5 million, the publicity effect is even more unsatisfactory.
Now, before the film is released, many people in Hollywood have already smelled that "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is about to fail.
Unless the film can get more than expected word-of-mouth in the media.
However, under the shadow of the media network that Daenerys Entertainment has developed vigorously in recent years, this is obviously not very likely.
In the office, after hearing some arrangements from Danny Morris, Simon thought for a while and said: "We can give a little greeting to the traditional print media. The Yigrit portal should not deliberately publish negative articles. In this way, directly Just let A Nightmare on Elm Street disappear from the Ygritte portal and give it as little coverage as possible."
It is too obvious to deliberately use your own media platform to target a movie.
Simon is more interested in the credibility of the Ygrit portal.
Danny Morris nodded and continued: "Also, Simon, New Line has accumulated some good film rights over the years. Do we need to take action?"
Simon shook his head and said: "Let's wait until "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is released. Before a movie is released, no one can be sure how its box office will be. In addition, what we need to do is to avoid New Line's failure in "A Nightmare on Elm Street" Street" and then find other ways out."
As an independent second-tier film company, New Line's source of funds in the past mainly relied on loans. Now the company's debt scale is large enough and it is impossible to obtain funds from bank channels. Therefore, New Line actually has few options. It is best to One of them is to sell themselves to other major Hollywood studios and become their sub-labels.
Time Warner's channels were eliminated by Simon, but there are other Hollywood studios that may initiate acquisitions of New Line.
All Daenerys Entertainment has to do is head off that possibility and allow New Line to actually go into bankruptcy and liquidation.
After a day's work, Simon returned to Dume Point Manor at around six o'clock.
Aaliyah, an Indian girl who unknowingly became a member of the maids of the Westeros family from Janet's yoga instructor, came up to her and after saying a few words, Simon came to a living room near the sea of the villa.
In the living room, Janet was lazily lying on the sofa, making a video call with the Melbourne side. The projection screen on the wall showed the scene on the other side of the ocean.
Calculating the time, it should be noon in Australia.
Veronica in the picture was also feeding Melbourne. The little guy was very dishonest and always wanted to grab things with his hands. When Simon came in, he happened to see the little guy almost crawling onto the dining table.
Seeing Simon coming, Janet immediately threatened: "Mer, dad is back, eat well and don't let dad spank you."
Simon smiled and squeezed to sit next to Janet, casually slapped the woman on the buttocks, and nodded to the big screen.
The camera is just above the projection screen, so it is far away and has a wide viewing angle.
Veronica happened to see Simon spank Janet's butt, and nodded towards Simon with a somewhat unnatural expression, wiped the corners of the mouth of the little guy who wanted to crawl on the dining table, and asked softly: "How was your day? "
Since starting to take care of Melbourne, Veronica behaves much more relaxed and normal in front of Simon, and even the cold personality that Janet once called an 'iceberg' has changed a lot.
Simon can actually understand the reason.
Holding Janet's little hand lying on his back from behind, Simon said: "That's great, what about you?"
Veronica was obviously not used to this kind of greeting. She hummed, but seemed to feel it was inappropriate again, and added: "Mer learned another word today." As she spoke, she lowered her head to look at the child in her arms, guiding the little one. say.
The child who was only over one year old obviously didn't have much idea about video communication. He ignored Veronica's guidance at all. After a lot of hard work, he finally climbed onto the dining table, grabbed a condiment bottle as he wished, and put it into his mouth naturally. deliver.
Janet, who was lying on Simon, couldn't stop laughing, and encouraged: "Auntie, don't stop him, let him suffer a little and settle down."
Veronica obviously didn't listen to Janet's suggestion. She got up and picked up Melbourne. She didn't take the cruet away from the child's hand by force. She just gently blocked the little one from sprinkling salt into her mouth.
Janet was immediately disappointed and complained: "Auntie, you really dote on Moer too much."
Veronica hugged the little kid and sat down at the dining table again, letting the kid throw out the cruet that quickly lost interest. It made a few ding-ding-dong-dong sounds outside of the screen, and chuckled: "More still." As a kid, of course he’s a bit naughty.”
After chatting and fussing for more than ten minutes, the little guy finally finished eating.
Veronica said she wanted to take her child for a walk. The little one liked staying outside, so she hung up the video call.
Turning off the call screen, Janet still leaned on Simon, and was intimate with the man face to face for a moment, and said, "I originally wanted to take Moer back and take care of him for a while."
Simon felt the smoothness of Janet's delicate face and said, "Okay."
"But, my aunt likes Moer very much. What will my aunt do if she takes the child back?"
Simon paused and said nonchalantly: "You can come together."
Then the ear was bitten.
Feeling the two rows of small teeth meshing menacingly, Simon immediately surrendered: "Pretend I didn't say anything."
Janet used a little force, then let Simon go, and continued to stick to his back: "Actually, I also thought about asking my aunt to come over to help. On the east coast, it doesn't look good to be the only one with Raybould. , you know, my aunt used to be in charge of the finances of the family company, which is just right. I can also bring Moer back to take care of him for a while. "
Saying this, Janet poked her head over to look at Simon's expression, then hummed a few more times and said, "But I won't let you succeed."
Simon smartly refused to answer the question, turned his head and kissed Janet on the cheek, and said, "What do you want for dinner? I'll tell them?"
"I've already made arrangements."
The man changed the subject, and Janet did not pursue him. After saying this, she also said: "The financing negotiations between Yigret and Goldman Sachs and Morgan did not go well."
"The initiative is on our side. If we really don't want to, these shares can be given to Salomon or Bear Stearns. First Boston is also very interested."
"However, the effect will be much smaller."
"It's impossible to take the initiative to compromise. I have actually given in many times over the years. Our family has such a deep foundation, there is no need to keep retreating."
Although Simon made a fortune from the original "Run Lola Run", most of the profits were still taken away by Orion.
Later, he took the initiative to cooperate with other studios in Hollywood, carefully avoided conflicts in the financial market, and even gave up a great opportunity such as the pound crisis last year. It can be said that Simon has had countless opportunities to give in over the years.
Janet accompanied Simon all the way and was well aware of the man's various arrangements and considerations. She pressed her cheek against the man's face again and said: "Those who think you are giving in on your own initiative are fools. If you have really been How can you become the world's first billionaire when you suffer a loss?"
Simon also smiled and said: "I still prefer that others find it easy to take advantage of me. However, if Westeros Company wants to expand in the future, the difficulty will definitely continue to increase because it will touch the interests of many people."
Hollywood's initial impression of Simon was that he was a sudden film genius who could bring huge profits to everyone, so it was inevitable that he would let down his guard.
So, seemingly suddenly, Daenerys Entertainment grew into an unstoppable behemoth ahead of traditional Hollywood studios.
In the field of new technology, this is a completely new market.
There is no fierce conflict among traditional interest groups, so development can be said to be smooth sailing.
Next, this smooth situation will inevitably change as the Westeros system continues to expand.
Not only are traditional media such as the Hearst Group increasingly wary of new Internet media platforms, seeing the huge benefits contained in the Internet industry, traditional capital will also continue to increase their efforts to compete for food.
Simon's shareholdings in Cisco and AOL have basically reached the safety level. Simon will also make concessions to Yigrit, who is destined to become a behemoth in the Internet field. Not only this time of active financing, Simon will even Future split plans have been planned in advance.
However, Simon will choose to share some of the benefits that should be given up. Simon will never let go if he doesn't intend to give it up.