Chapter 495

Simon's last song "bad romance" left to Madonna helped queen McGregor create another album with sales exceeding 10 million in North America.

So whenever she had a chance, Madonna would try to ask Simon for a song.

As one of the top singers of this era, after listening to paradise, Queen Mai immediately realized the gold content of the song. Although it's not suitable for her style, it's enough for any singer to make a hot album.

Later, she learned that Simon would write several theme songs for the show. Madonna immediately pestered the man to listen to other songs.

Simon has no choice but to let Queen Mai do what he wants.

Of course, although there are also songs that are more suitable for Madonna's style, Simon still insists on keeping the fat and water out of the field.

With the continuous rehearsal of the Weimi show, news about several songs will inevitably appear in the media.

Danielis entertainment is just noncommittal about this. This show, which lasts for several months, will continue to release all kinds of revelations, such as who joined the team, who became the spokesperson of the show, the release of angel wings, background music information of the t-channel, potential guests, tickets of the show, etc.

Through a series of continuous exposure lasting for half a year, before the big show officially opened, the brand awareness of Weimi will go up to a higher level.

This is also the fundamental purpose of this marketing operation.

July 31, the last day of July, another Friday.

Summer season is coming to an end. On this day, a total of two films have been registered in North American Theaters, namely, Paramount Pictures' fantasy space, which combines real people with animation, and fox's Vampire Horror Film Buffy the vampire hunter.

Paramount's "illusory world" tells a series of ironic stories about the hero in order to stop the fusion of the real world and the cartoon world. The film is obviously following the original "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

Simon pays more attention to Fox's Buffy the vampire hunter.

This vampire movie written by Jos waden is the origin of the later TV series "Buffy the Vampire Hunter". Joyce weden is also one of the important directors of Marvel movie universe on the original time line, directing two "Avengers".

Although he pays attention to Witten, Simon only regards him as a potential talent reserve for danielis entertainment for the time being.

In August, the summer archives are basically settled.

"Wonder Woman" is undoubtedly the winner of this summer camp.

As of July 30, the ninth week of release, wonder woman continued to earn $11.53 million, with a cumulative box office of $333.69 million.

Taking into account the decline curve of wonder woman in recent weeks and the box office base still reaching tens of millions in a single week, this superhero movie will earn at least $30 million in the future, and the cumulative box office in North America is expected to be between $360 million and $370 million.

"Wonder Woman" is followed by "lethal weapon 3" starring Mel Gibson. The box office in North America has exceeded $140 million, and it is approaching the next stage.

Later, Disney's Aladdin gradually attracted the attention of the industry.

This 2D animated film is not brilliant at the beginning, but it is full of stamina, and the box office curve is very strong.

During the six weeks from June 19 to July 30, the cumulative box office of Aladdin has reached 128 million US dollars unconsciously. Although there is a big gap between Aladdin and wonder woman, its box office performance in this summer season is also second only to Lethal Weapon 3.

Disney's other reality comedy "nuns are crazy" has become the studio's second summer blockbuster.

After careful calculation, in addition to danielis entertainment, Disney, which has two domestic movies with a box office of over 100 million, also has a good harvest in this summer season.

Denise Entertainment's "peach trade", "time to kill" and "the last Mohican" are also popular, but to be fair, the box office of all three films are about 100 million yuan, which are lower than Simon's expectation. What's more, the box office performance of the three films is largely due to the fact that they occupy too much resources for summer programs.

Of course, for a few collaborators, all three films have sold well enough.

Now, in the early 1990s, a film with a box office of 100 million yuan in North America is not so common.

In addition to the three cooperative films that have not yet reached their goals, only four films, magic woman, Lethal Weapon 3, Aladdin and nun madness, have really achieved more than $100 million.

Other films, such as Columbia Pictures' great ambition, fox's alien 3, Paramount's game of patriots and Disney's honey, I've made my kids big, are not cheap, but they can only be regarded as the accompaniment of other blockbusters.

In August, Simon went to Australia again.Another superhero film "steel bone" under DC movie universe started shooting on August 3.

"Steel bone" is scheduled for the end of next year. It should not be so urgent, but Warner insists on starting shooting at this time, which can reserve enough time for the later stage and publicity of the film.

Simon, on the other hand, understands Warner's considerations.

Superman is still in the process of production. The shooting schedule of steel and Superman is two months away. Simon went to Australia during this period to follow up Superman. At the same time, he can't turn a blind eye to steel again.

Warner was right about Simon's integrity.

For a week to Australia, Simon's time is basically half of Superman and steel.

Janet came along as usual to see the little guy and keep an eye on her man.

Back in Los Angeles on August 10, Simon's last summer movie, unforgivable, has also sold at the box office in the first weekend.

Clint Eastwood's old-fashioned Western surprised Warner Bros. at the beginning. It earned $15.01 million three days in the first weekend, which exceeded the production cost of $14 million.

Moreover, considering the excellent reputation of the film and the not fierce competition in the late summer season, "unforgivable" will easily make a beautiful long-term box office.

In my memory, "unforgivable" is still the biggest winner of next year's Oscar, winning many awards such as best picture, best director and so on.

Of course, this year the Oscars have been handed over to Warner Bros., and Denise entertainment will not continue to hibernate next year.

Barbara Streisand, who won the award in the controversy by relying on "the waves of time", also consumed part of Warner's luck in the awards. In the voting process this year, the Oscar judges will obviously avoid Warner's works a little.

In a word, there are gains and losses.

Back in Los Angeles, David finch also handed Simon the budget for seven crimes.

As a director who has just finished a film work under many restrictions, Simon knows very well that the plan with the star recommendation list should be planned by the behind the scenes agency of finch, but he has not studied it deeply.

The budget cost of David finch's "seven sins" finally reached $30 million, which Simon can be sure that finch himself meant.

If it's the ICM behind Finch, it's certainly inclined to control the budget of such a crime thriller movie at about $20 million.

30 million has reached the level of A-level production.

Given the box office size of the crime thriller genre, most movie companies don't take such a risk.

Rivan Phoenix, the name for many years after Hollywood fans may be a little strange, but in the early 1990s, Hollywood is a very eye-catching star.

When he took part in "Raider 3" a few years ago, because he was worried that he would be robbed of the limelight by the young actor, Harrison Ford used all kinds of relations to put pressure on him. He was not allowed to imitate his own performance, and he was not allowed to discuss the inside story of the film publicly. Even in the publicity process of "Raider 3", rivan Phoenix's appearance was very few.

However, none of this can suppress the brilliance of the 19-year-old actor who has been nominated for best supporting actor at the Oscars.

Although rivan Phoenix, born in 1970, is only 22 years old, he has starred in a large number of movies that are popular or popular. Simon knows that if the timeline does not change, this rising Hollywood star will suddenly fall in 1993.

The reason seems to be a little common in Hollywood, drug overdose.

In addition to Simon's Morgan Freeman, David finch recommended another actor in seven sins, which is Revan Phoenix.

Of course, this is not only the fame of rivan Phoenix himself, but also the artist of ICM.

On the original timeline, rivan Phoenix fell outside Johnny Depp's club. It's no accident, because Depp is also an artist under ICM, which is a circle.

In addition, last year, they played Gus Van Sant's "unruly sky" together, which made Revan Phoenix and Keanu Reeves good friends.

Hollywood is small.

Since we don't plan to use the original Brad Pitt, rivan Phoenix is just right.

22 years old is just the age of a young policeman. In terms of fame, rivan Phoenix is just right.

In addition, ICM's offer is also very reasonable, 2.5 million US dollars. According to the current popularity of Revan Phoenix, the price is low when he plays in mainstream commercial films.

obviously, ICM hopes that Revan Phoenix can have a star level blockbuster movie, not just a supporting role like "Raider 3" or "uninhibited sky" Public praise movies, or group plays like "walk with me.".Just as it happens, the box office of Simon's projects is often very secure.

After crossing a certain threshold and getting older, rivan Phoenix will be able to support commercial films on his own.

Simon used to pay little attention to the private lives of Hollywood stars. However, since he agreed to Starr in seven crimes, he must ensure that the young actor will not have any problems, at least in the process of filming.

As long as the film is finished, it doesn't matter what happens afterwards.

Everyone needs to be responsible for their actions.

Therefore, after negotiating the basic agreement, Simon personally proposed that during the film shooting process, rivan Phoenix must ban all drugs, and Denise entertainment will conduct spot checks on Phoenix regularly. If he breaks the contract, the young actor will have to pay a huge amount of foil.

Hollywood stars, sometimes in the process of film shooting, directly go back and forth between the drug treatment center and the film set.

As long as it's big enough, studios tend to be very accommodating.

However, the qualification of rivan Phoenix has obviously not reached this level.

What's more, Simon spoke in person, which was ignored by ICM.

Of course, rivan Phoenix can also choose to quit. It's just that he can't turn down a project with great potential because he can't get rid of drugs. If this kind of thing gets out, the young actor won't easily get a good project in the future. Danelis Entertainment's films, but also a do not think.

Therefore, the president of ICM personally assured Simon that during the filming period, he would send someone to watch over rivan Phoenix to ensure that the artist would not have any problems during the filming period of seven crimes.

Daniels studios.

Today is Wednesday, August 19.

At the end of the production meeting of seven crimes, I heard the producer of Forrest Gump report the casting results of the film in recent days. It's past six o'clock in the afternoon.

Tom Hanks is still shooting "sleepless in Seattle", but the preparation for "Forrest Gump" continues.

As a large production film with many roles, the problem of casting is very important.

Simon only appointed the actor of Jennie himself, who is still the original Robin white.

Robin white is already a member of the DC movie universe.

Although he is the girlfriend of flash man Barry Allen, he doesn't play too many roles in Forrest Gump, which doesn't seem abrupt.

Simon did this mainly for the sake of reducibility.

It's more than six o'clock when I come home from work.

Janet has just returned from the east coast in the afternoon. Simon has just returned to domay point manor. The woman has just arranged dinner. She is huddled in the sofa beside the glass curtain wall of shell villa. The setting sun is showing. She reads a magazine at will.

Handing the coat to the Indian girl, Simon went up to Janet, hugged the woman, gave her a kiss, and asked with a smile, "what are you looking at?"

"Forbes."

Janet casually showed the magazine to Simon, leaned over the man and said, "yesterday in New York, Steve Forbes called me, hoping we could provide some information. "Forbes" will release the new year's 400 rich list of the United States next month

Simon asked, "how do you respond to him?"

Janet said with a smile, "of course I don't care about him."

Simon smiles, and suddenly a question comes to mind.

Another year later, the westero system is expanding too fast. He really didn't know how much money he had.