Chapter 174

On June 10, three new films will be released in the new week, including Disney's family comedy "four daughters and two mothers", Paramount's thriller suspense "puccidi base" starring Sean Connery, and MGM's horror sequel "haunted by ghosts 3".

The strategy of questioning the fairness of the golden palm of Cannes Film Festival "vulgar novel" failed, and some media pointed to the excessive violence of the film and its reference to many films.

However, in the background that vulgar novel has once again become a movie watching craze, just like last year's Lola Run, these off disk moves will only increase people's curiosity about the film.

To be fair, for most of the audience, especially the mainstream youth audience of vulgar novel, it is very difficult for them to realize what is good about the film without the influence of external public opinion. However, when a large number of media around and many classmates and friends are discussing "vulgar novel", these people often know something about the film and have their own expectations before entering the cinema.

As a result, countless rich details such as Vincent and Mia's swing dance, golden watch's Deer Hunter foreshadowing, Esmeralda and taxi driver are very interesting. Coupled with the novel circular closed structure of the plot, the whole film is unconsciously labeled as "cool".

Because of the popularity of vulgar novel, several celebrities who took part in the film have become more and more popular. New people such as Samuel Jackson and Nicole Kidman have also begun to enter the public view. Even Janet, who just appeared in the film for a few minutes, has become the object of much media discussion because of the wonderful performance of Esmeralda, the taxi driver. Jonathan Friedman is a private actor I also jokingly asked Janet if she was interested in signing with wma.

In the second week of its release, "vulgar novel" continued to be the box office champion with a 15% drop. During the seven days from June 10 to June 17, the film made another $23.38 million.

In the first two weeks, the North American box office of "vulgar novel" broke through the $50 million mark, reaching $50.91 million.

In two weeks, it easily won $50 million at the box office. The major media and box office statistics institutions in North America generally predict that the total box office of vulgar novel in North America will reach about $150 million, and the film is likely to break through $100 million in North America within six weeks.

Coincidentally, "vulgar novel" and "instinct" are just six weeks apart.

"Crocodile Dundee 2" ranked second in the list, after a sharp drop of 41% last week, the box office of this week still fell by 31%, closing another $12.35 million, accumulating $65.15 million.

Although it has more than $30 million opening, according to the current decline trend of the film, "Crocodile Dundee 2" is likely to barely break through 100 million in North America box office, far less than the $174 million of the first film.

After "Crocodile Dundee 2", Tom Hanks starred in "flying into the future" unexpectedly fell by only 4.7% in the next week, almost the same as last week, and closed another $12.01 million, with a total box office of $24.6 million in two weeks.

The $24.6 million box office in North America may not be comparable to "vulgar novel" and "Crocodile Dundee 2", but compared with "funny farm", which has fallen behind to the eighth place in the box office this week, we can see how gratifying the box office figure of "flying into the future" is.

In the second week of release, the box office of funny farm, which is similar to flying over the future, dropped by 26% to only $6.01 million, including $8.11 million in the first week and $14.12 million in the two weeks.

According to the decline curve of funny farm, the film's total box office in North America may be only about $25 million.

Moreover, if the box office decline in the next few weeks can be as weak as that in the first week, "flying over the future" can obviously hit North America's box office again as it did in the original time and space. Completely did not expect this good fox has begun to prepare to increase the layout matters.

Apart from vulgar novel, Crocodile Dundee 2 and leap into the future, the other films this week have not performed well, and the box office figure of four thousand gold and two mothers, the best of the three new films, is only $911 million.

When Harry meets Sally, which has fallen to No. 10 in the list after breaking the box office of 100 million in North America last week, quietly received another $2.15 million, with a cumulative box office of $102.36 million.

Not surprisingly, when Harry meets Sally, the box office figure will drop to less than one million dollars next week, and Disney has cut the screen size of the film to 635. It is expected that when Harry meets Sally, the total box office in North America will finally be around $110 million when it comes down in August.

North American summer films are in full swing, and Hollywood writers' strike continues.

On June 13, the Federation of film and television producers proposed a new contract again after another tug of war. Although the plan made some concessions, it still failed to meet the original expectations of the writers' Union.

The strike lasted for more than three months, and the autumn TV show was doomed to be seriously affected. However, the writers, who had no income for a whole quarter, were getting worse and worse. Therefore, the writers' union finally decided to give the choice to the writers themselves and vote again to decide whether to accept the new contract provided by the producers' Union.Simon doesn't think that his butterfly has reached the point where it can affect the overall situation. The trial broadcast time of who will be a millionaire, which may have some impact on the situation, is June 20. By that time, most of the writers have already sent their votes.

As a result, the result of the vote is clear, and the strike is sure to last another two months.

After several contacts, Ge, which owns $220 million debt of new world entertainment, has made a positive response to Simon's debt to equity swap plan. CEO Jack Welch of GE has also made several phone calls with Simon himself.

However, in the process of communication, Ge put forward a plan similar to that of Steve Ross, chairman of Warner. They want to use new world entertainment as a chip to participate in danielis pictures.

Just as a person who has made enough money often begins to pursue fame, many big enterprises in the world like to enter the entertainment media industry. Of the seven major Hollywood companies, half of Columbia Pictures is owned by Coca Cola, and Paramount's parent company is Gulf West industries.

Ge bought NBC two years ago for a similar motive.

Although danielis film industry has just started for less than two years, many films have achieved great success continuously, which has obviously aroused the interest of General Electric. It's definitely a very good deal to exchange a debt that might have been lost for a rising star in Hollywood.

Simon naturally chose to refuse as decisively as he did in his last contact with Steve Roth.

Ge proposes to exchange the shares of new world entertainment after debt to equity swap for 49% equity of the new company in the future. Although the other party does not ask for absolute control, the price of US $220 million, in Simon's opinion, can't even get half equity of the current Denise pictures, let alone half equity of the new company after the future merger.

General Electric, which is rich and powerful, will not give up in the process of communication, so there is no need to continue to talk about it for the time being. Simon can only expect "who will be a millionaire" to achieve the expected success.

Los Angeles.

Simon, from danielis pictures headquarters in Santa Monica, went to visit the scream crew in Bakersfield, north of Los Angeles in the morning. He had just returned.

In the conference room, Simon sits in the first place. On both sides of the oval table, besides Amy, there are ten other white men aged between 25 and 30. These are the ten candidates for the final audition of Batman.

In the plan, after confirming the actor, Simon hopes to train the actor for about half a year. Therefore, he plans to finalize the matter by the end of the month.

Simon looked up and said, "as you should see, you are the last ten. Bruce Wayne will be born among you. Today's meeting is not an audition. It's just to have a chat with you."

In a polite response in the conference room, Simon quickly continued: "first of all, I have to remind you again that the terms offered by danielis pictures will not make any concessions. To get this role, you must sign a five-year film contract for 15 years. I can also tell you very clearly that as long as everything goes well, this contract can only be completed in 10 years at most. The reason why 15 years is required is to avoid you breaking the contract halfway. Once you do so, according to the contract, you will not be able to receive any other films in the remaining period unless you take out the liquidated damages that you can't actually afford. That's right. Just like the bad singers on record companies, you're going to be refrigerated. "

There was a moment's silence around, and finally a man asked, "Mr. westrow, what about Denise's default?"

"We won't break the contract," Simon said shaking his head. "If the project doesn't go well, we can choose to terminate the contract with you."

"It doesn't seem fair."

"It's a pity that there are not many fair things in the world," Simon said, glancing at each other and sweeping around again. "Most of you have only played a few supporting roles in some films, and maybe you can only maintain this kind of state in the future. Batman gives you a chance to rise to the sky. As long as the film is successful, you can become a superstar like Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and Michael fox. I also want to remind you that playing Bruce Wayne won't bring you too much money. It will also be included in the contract, but you can make a lot of money through advertising and other films. So if someone thinks that this contract is not worth the price I just said, they can leave now. "

Simon said, patiently waiting for a moment, no one out of the office, he continued: "OK, then, let's get down to business. First of all, Congratulations, you are in the final audition. But next, Denise pictures will do some background checks on you to make sure that you don't have any black history of racism, sexual assault, robbery and so on that may cause great trouble to your upcoming roles. We have already reminded you of this at the beginning of the audition. Now, if you have a history you don't want us to know about, please take the initiative to quit, so that both of us can avoid unnecessary trouble. "Silence again for a moment, still no one left.

Simon nodded with satisfaction and said, "secondly, once you get the role, danelis pictures will arrange half a year's training in all aspects, including physical training and performance courses. Of course, we know your financial situation very well, so the bill is paid by Denise pictures. But the process will never be easy. If someone thinks they can't afford it, please leave now. "

Ten people were still sitting neatly in the conference room.

Simon went on to say some requests and answered some questions. After more than ten minutes, he said, "well, I don't think you have any questions. Finally, before the audition, you have been reminded that if you want to get the role, you can't have any drug addiction. Now, the team of doctors we invited is next door. Those of you who are sure that you can pass the test can go next door and ask the doctor to take a blood sample. On the contrary, you can leave directly. "

With these words, ignoring some of the men whose faces suddenly changed, Simon nodded to Linda WAGGS, the casting director who had been helping him in casting since "Lola Run", and then led Jennifer straight out of the conference room.

Back on the floor of his office, Simon goes to the outside door and sees a curly haired girl in a navel T-shirt and skinny jeans sitting on the sofa. Her name is Valerie Gallino, the heroine of the original rain man.

Under Simon's interference, the rain man, which is still in the final stage of shooting, also chose Valerie Gallino to play Tom Cruise's girlfriend, but her part was finished last month.

Seeing Simon appear, Valerie Gallino quickly gets up, takes the initiative to come over and reaches out to Simon: "Hello, Mr. westrow."

Simon looked up and down at the girl in front of him, showed a satisfied expression, shook hands with her and said, "didn't your agent come?"

Valerie Gallino shook her head and said, "my agent has gone to New York. I talked to Mr. Friedman and he said I could come by myself."

Simon didn't ask too much. He told Susan to deliver two cups of coffee. He said to Valerie Gallino, "come in with me."

Valerie Gallino nodded, her bag in her hands, and, somewhat restrained, followed Simon into his office.

He went to his desk and sat down. Before Simon could speak to Valerie Gallino, Susan's voice came from the phone on the desk: "Mr. westrow, Mr. Friedman's phone."