In any case, Steven Spielberg's complete withdrawal from the "Jurassic Park" series will inevitably be subject to various interpretations and speculations by the media. Amy was told to pay attention to media and public relations matters. Seeing Robert Redford from the guest Walking through the crowd, Simon took the initiative to stand up and greet them.
Robert Redford is presenting the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture - Musical or Comedy tonight.
If Hollywood stars appear at the major film award ceremonies that year, they either have nominated films under their names, or there are new films released that year to increase their exposure for publicity, so not everyone competes to attend these awards ceremonies every time. .
Redford is the latter.
This also mentions the movie "The Lie" directed by Redford himself last year. At that time, Simon made a casual move and induced Disney to grab the project. I originally thought that it could consume part of Disney's high-quality schedule at the end of last year, but the film's results were really poor after it was completed. Although it cost 40 million US dollars, Disney decisively gave up last year's end-of-year schedule, and even wanted to throw it into the January and February schedule of this year. In the cemetery.
As a director, Redford naturally disagreed.
Movie schedule has always been an important factor affecting box office. If "The Lie" is released in January or February, the already unpopular film will do even worse at the box office, which will inevitably become a stain on Redford's career.
After many negotiations between the two parties, Disney reluctantly made some concessions. The schedule at the end of last year was still unavailable, but it also adjusted the schedule to a slightly better Easter this year. Redford attended the Golden Globe Awards this time to give "The Lie" The release of the film will create some buzz, and it will definitely attend the Oscar Awards ceremony in March.
Even without the release of "The Lie", Disney's end-of-1993 schedule was bleak. The high-anticipated "Sisters 2" had a total North American box office of only 26.56 million US dollars as of last week, and is expected to barely break through before it is released. At the US$30 million mark, compared to the film’s total production and publicity investment of US$55 million, it would be difficult for this project to recover the full cost even through overseas distribution and other post-production channels.
Speaking of which, due to the strength of Daenerys Entertainment, other Hollywood studios have not had an easy time in the past year.
Amy and Simon stood up together, greeted Redford and walked away.
Simon and Redford sat down in the booth again.
This year's Sundance Film Festival happens to be the 10th one, which is a very memorable year. The festival only opened on January 20th, which is slightly later than in previous years. The closing date is January 30th and lasts for 11 days.
They became friends because "Run Lola Run" participated in the film festival, and the conversation between the two naturally started at Sundance.
Faced with Redford's invitation, Simon readily agreed to attend the Sundance closing ceremony next Sunday.
The two discussed some of the outstanding films at this year's Sundance. Redford also talked about "The Lie" and regretted not choosing to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment. He had spent all his energy in the past year. They are all involved in this film that may be doomed to failure, and they have not yet started looking for other projects.
Simon knew what Redford meant and took the initiative to say that he would keep an eye out for projects suitable for him. In fact, this is also the purpose of Redford coming to this after-party. Although he is grateful to Simon, he cannot make an appointment with this increasingly shining young man at any time.
The two chatted enthusiastically for about ten minutes. Redford also knew that many people at the party wanted to meet Simon. When it was almost time, he stood up to say goodbye to Simon and planned to leave the party.
Simon personally sent Redford to the door of the party hall and said goodbye to Redford. As soon as he turned around, Nancy Josephson, the daughter of ICM founder Marvin Josephson, came over with another tall girl, but It's Natasha Henstridge.
Coming closer, Nancy Josephson smiled and stretched out her hand to Simon: "Simon, are you leaving?"
Simon shook hands with the other party, nodded and said: "Absolutely, it's already very late."
Nancy Josephson retracted her hand and gestured to the girl next to her: "Actually, it's Natasha who wants to say hello to you."
If he hadn't seen Natasha Henstridge, Simon would have almost forgotten that he had collected a beautiful vase at the end of last year.
Recently, "Alien" has started filming. Because it is an MGM project and it is not a major focus, Simon did not pay much attention to it. He only spent some time last year to finalize the basic "original team", which can be regarded as a guarantee for the film's box office.
Taking a look at the tall girl who was wearing a black deep-V dress tonight and showing off her beautiful figure, Simon smiled and pointed to the booth at the edge of the hall where he had just been chatting with Redford and the others: "Let's go over there and chat."
Nancy Josephson naturally agreed.
The three of them came to the booth and noticed Natasha Henstridge's hesitation when she sat down. Nancy Josephson quietly pushed her. After the girl sat down next to Simon, she sat down opposite. Calling the waiter over for a glass of champagne, he looked for a topic and said, "Simon, have you seen the two projects that Daenerys TV just signed with us recently?"
Simon nodded and said: "I happened to be in New York a few days ago. It's a very good script. I heard that you personally recommended "Friends" to Iger?"
Nancy Josephson quietly looked at and weighed the expression of the young man opposite her. She didn't see any other differences. She was a little disappointed in her heart, but she said with an echoing smile on her face: "Yeah, "Seinfeld" is so successful, I think, the same kind of This type of urban sitcom should be very marketable."
After the New Year, Daenerys TV began looking for TV projects for the new year.
Recently, I just signed two scripts with ICM. One is an old-school crime film, which Simon doesn’t take too seriously. The other one is the famous "Friends".
"Friends" in the original time and space was packaged and recommended to Warner Bros. Television Production Company by Nancy Josephson, the daughter of ICM founder, and then landed on the NBC television network, becoming NBC's most successful sitcom around the new century. Because of this Due to the phenomenal success of the sitcom, Time Warner was even able to obtain high copyright income of hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Netflix decades later.
CAA created a very successful project packaging mechanism in the 1980s.
After the rise of Daenerys Entertainment, although Simon did not completely reject this cooperation model that was very unfriendly to studios, he never accepted forced project packaging. The agency has the power to recommend the main creators for the projects it is looking for, but Daenerys Entertainment also has the final say if it feels inappropriate.
Nancy Josephson's words just now were actually intended to test Simon's attitude towards this project, in order to gauge how many ICM artists could be recommended.
If Westeros is very optimistic about "Friends", then ICM can be stronger in subsequent cooperation and have more say in the process of fighting for roles. After all, in order to promote the smooth progress of the project that the big boss personally pays attention to, Robert Executives like Iger will inevitably make concessions during the implementation process.
In the past "Friends", in addition to the six leading actors, big names such as Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney who participated in guest appearances in subsequent years were actually clients of ICM, which shows ICM's commitment to this project. Influence.
Many things in this time and space have changed.
At least this time, Courteney Cox, who is signed to WMA and is well-known, will definitely not play Monica Geller again.
With the exception of Courteney Cox, Simon is very keen on keeping the rest of the cast 'original' and will certainly interfere with the show's casting in private.
But of course these would not show up in front of Nancy Josephson.
After a few casual words, Simon turned to Natasha Henstridge, who occasionally pretended to be in casual physical contact with him, put his arms around the girl's waist and asked with a smile: "How is Nata going?"
Natasha Henstridge only felt that her past few years had been rough.
She was originally selected for the Victoria's Secret show, which has become increasingly popular in the past two years. She originally thought she would become famous, but she didn't expect that she was rejected in the recent stage. The girl who took her place was named Nadja Orman. She definitely couldn't compete with the 'leg sperm' that Westeros personally held up. She almost collapsed when she learned that she was dismissed for this reason.
After losing the opportunity at Victoria's Secret and feeling that his future as a model was bleak, he began to try to switch to Hollywood.
The water here is no shallower than the fashion industry.
Then, he was suddenly selected by Simon Westeros. After a lot of hard work, he got "Alien" and became the other party's exclusive vase. During this period, he not only owned a set worth 2 million US dollars in the wealthy area of Bel Air in Los Angeles. In a luxurious villa, the stars on the set of "Alien" who were much higher in Hollywood than she were were also polite to her. Compared to other role-players, her treatment in the set was like that of a princess.
However, except for the initial meeting and chatting for half an hour on the plane, Westeros did not contact her again for more than three months.
Recalling some of the words of the female assistant next to him, she once felt that she might have been abandoned by Westeros.
At this point, he hadn't even slept with her.
Although the other party said that she would be his lover for a year, if she was abandoned like this and if others knew about it, her situation in Hollywood would definitely be very bad. Therefore, during this period, she even began to suffer from insomnia and anxiety. And besides my agent, I didn’t dare to talk about it to anyone else.
Until tonight, her agent informed her to attend the party with the daughter of the ICM boss, and also expressed that she might hope to meet Westeros.
Sure enough, I saw it.
However, looking at his first glance, he seemed to have really forgotten about himself.
At this moment, when the big hand hugged her, Natasha Henstridge did not resist any emotions such as shyness, and all she felt in her heart was relief.
He couldn't help but glance at the other people in the hall.
Many guests have noticed the situation here, and she is not worried. Instead, she hopes that more people will see it and know that she is a woman from Westeros.
Of course, your thoughts should not be confused.
He quickly agreed to the man's question: "It's very good. Everyone takes good care of me."
In fact, I initially thought that if this young man liked me enough, he might be able to reject this movie and replace it with a script with more potential. After all, the scale of "Alien" is a bit big. It will not be easy for her to get rid of her vase image in a movie like this.
Now I don't dare to have similar thoughts again.
Even during this period of filming, when the director said that a body double could be used for some scenes, she did not dare to agree. What if he just wanted to see her body in this movie? On the other hand, some kissing scenes were arranged to be borrowed, and the agent took the initiative to communicate with the crew. Although the crew felt strange about such small details, which were much more insignificant than the nude scenes, they naturally would not object.
Simon nodded slightly and said: "Actually, you have a very good figure. If you want to continue developing in Hollywood, you can try the action actress route. Hollywood will be in great need of such actresses in the future."
After Simon finished speaking, Natasha Henstridge immediately thought of 'Catwoman' Valerie Golino and 'Wonder Woman' Famke Janssen in "Batman".
Valerie Golino is the youngest actress in Venice. She is incomparable, but think about Famke Janssen. He was just a small model who was not even a celebrity.
Nancy Josephson's eyes lit up across from her.
With the popularity of "Wonder Woman", Famke Janssen has become the most successful example of the fashion industry turning to Hollywood, and has led to more fashion models starting to develop into Hollywood in recent years.
Famke Janssen is actually an artist under ICM, but no one would dislike it if the company could have one more top action actress. After all, Famke Janssen will be locked in the role of 'Wonder Woman' for a long time, and if another action actress appears, there won't be much resource conflict between the two parties.
Natasha Henstridge applied the sticker to the man without leaving any trace and said, "But, I don't know how to do it."
"Have you ever learned to dance?"
Natasha Henstridge said: "I took dance lessons for a while when I was a child, but I stopped when I was ten."
Nancy Josephson, sitting opposite, couldn't help but roll her eyes.
Is it necessary to add the last sentence
Simon just smiled and said: "In this case, you may have to suffer a little. However, you are only 20 years old this year, so you still have a chance."
"19 years old," Natasha Henstridge said: "My birthday is August 15th, and I still have half a year until I turn 20."
Nancy Josephson couldn't help but complain from the bottom of her heart: Westeros is not one of those men who like little girls, so there is no need to talk about themselves.
Looks like I need to take some time to teach this vase a lesson.
Simon said: "It's better to be 19. Your body can still stretch. You don't have many scenes in "Alien". You can ask ICM to help you arrange some training courses in the near future."
Natasha Henstridge nodded obediently.
This time, he didn't say that he was actually very strapped for money.
I couldn't resist being greedy and bought a mansion worth 2 million US dollars. I recently discovered that for such a villa, the annual water, electricity, water, electricity, maintenance, cleaning and property taxes are a huge expense. Calculating the savings, it's probably 50,000. Dollar.
However, because she didn't play many roles in "Alien", she was not considered the leading actress, and she didn't have much celebrity status, so her salary this time was only US$50,000.
Her agent Raul said that this is still on the high side, obviously for the sake of Westeros. If it is another actress, the maximum is 30,000 US dollars. In addition, there is the need to perform nude scenes, otherwise the salary will be higher. lower.
50,000 US dollars, after excluding the broker's commission and reserved taxes, plus my own daily expenses, which are neither low nor low, there will be basically nothing left. Therefore, she recently had to apply for a loan of US$100,000. The dress she wore tonight was rented, and it was from a small, low-end brand.
In fact, this was one of the reasons why she suffered from anxiety and insomnia during this period.
If it was really forgotten by Westeros, she might have to sell the house in two or three years. Although she would get a sum of money, there would be nothing more after that. After getting a taste of the Hollywood vanity fair, what too many people care about is the 'then' after that.