Chapter 601

The party in the villa ends at 11 o'clock in the night, and at 11:30, the guests basically leave.

Simon himself takes Madonna, who wants to stay here after getting drunk, and goes back to the living room of the villa. The waiters team of the party company is cleaning up, and the waiters led by Naomi also join in.

Seeing Simon, girl a came over and asked, "boss, is Miss Kirchner going to stay tonight?"

"Send her back, contact her agent tomorrow, and collect another information for me." Simon told him to go straight up the stairs, motioned for Alison to follow him, and asked in a low voice, "what about the play?"

Alison followed Simon and whispered, "a lot of people should have seen it."

Simon nodded and said, "the room below will be cleaned carefully tomorrow, and the one that should be lost will be thrown away. Ella will come to have breakfast with me tomorrow morning, and remember to send a car to pick it up. The traffic is not convenient here. The media feedback of Four Weddings and a funeral asks Los Angeles to sort it out before noon tomorrow."

Thinking and explaining something, they went to the third floor. After Alison finished writing the memo, Simon finally said, "besides, let Nata come up."

Alison agreed. Seeing Simon turning to the corridor, she subconsciously followed: "boss, do you want me to prepare the bath water for you?"

Simon stops and turns to look at the girl behind him.

Alison regretted her words, noticed her boss's eyes, and hung her head with a guilty heart. Her white fingers were holding a small memo uneasily.

Just for a moment, the man's voice in his ear: "this is the first time. Don't be greedy. I usually don't like to give people a third chance."

Girl a, like a little girl who made a mistake, whispered, "boss, I'm wrong."

Simon said, "go down and have an early rest."

Looking at the man turning around again, Alison looked up and suddenly said, "boss, if you make a mistake, you should be punished."

Simon stopped again, turned his head and looked at the girl in a black ol suit, with elegant temperament and wonderful figure, and asked, "are you afraid of pain?"

A girl eyelashes low convergence: "pain in order to remember things."

Simon nodded, "come on."

Said to turn back to the direction of the master bedroom.

Alison dropped her head and stepped up. She heard a slight click in front of her. It was the sound of a man's belt being pulled out. Suddenly, she felt as if her strength had been emptied.

The 10th Sundance Film Festival came to a successful end on the second day. The two films "beating the monkey" and "Barcelona" shortlisted by gaomen Film Co., Ltd. in the main competition unit, only "beating the monkey" won a relatively marginal Audience Award, and other core awards have nothing to do with danielis Entertainment.

This result is not disappointing.

For Sundance, what Simon values most is the ability of this platform to cultivate new film talents. In recent years, danelis entertainment has dug up film talents, excellent scripts and finished films from Sundance, bringing much more than the significance attached to simple awards.

Gaomen film's indifference in the awards of this session of Sundance is also the result of Simon's deliberate restriction.

Even with Hollywood's most powerful public relations team and networking resources, Simon absolutely doesn't want the major film festivals to become Denise's private property, which is harmful and useless.

Of course, in the face of absolute strength, there must be exceptions.

Like this year's Oscars, and next year.

On Monday, January 31, the day after Sundance closed, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially announced the list of films nominated for the 66th Academy Awards.

Steven Spielberg's Schindler's list, which tells the history of the Holocaust during World War II, has become the biggest hit of this year's Oscar. It has won 12 nominations for best picture, best director, best actor and best adapted screenplay.

Not only that, Denise entertainment has set another record.

Pixar's 3D animated film "the lion king", after winning the Golden Globe Award for best picture in musical comedy category, has further become the first animated film in Hollywood history to win the Oscar nomination for best picture. At the same time, it has won six nominations for best picture, best screenwriter, best soundtrack and three best original songs.

One of the best screenwriters, Simon also represents another personal Oscar nomination.

In history, the first animated film that was shortlisted for the best picture Oscar was Disney's 1992 "beauty and the beast". Because of Simon's appearance, this animated film project abandoned by Disney has fallen into the hands of danilisi Entertainment's Pixar team, and will be made into a 3D animated version just like "Lion King".

This year's "the lion king" is more worthy than "beauty and the beast".

As of January 27, the cumulative box office of "Lion King" in North America has reached 286.55 million US dollars, which is just the 10th week of its release. It only takes three weeks at most to break through the $300 million box office.The Oscars before the new century are still very interested in the commercial performance of films.

As Hollywood's first domestic animated film with a box office of 300 million US dollars, if such phenomenal box office performance can not get an Oscar nomination for best picture, Hollywood will not have many films with such qualifications.

With the announcement of the Oscar nomination, from January 28 to February 3, the box office of the lion king, which once again attracted the public's attention, fell only 13% in a single week, and received another $6.75 million, totaling $293.3 million. If Denise entertainment is willing to pay for the box office, it will break through 300 million in the next week.

"The lion king" has won enough glory, and it is certain that it will break through 300 million. Naturally, there is no need to buy the box office and give others a handle.

In addition to the two most popular Oscar nominations, danielis Entertainment's other artistic film "in the name of my father", starring Daniel Day Lewis, has also won six nominations, including best director, best actor and best adapted screenplay.

The former "in the name of my father" also received a best picture nomination.

This time, daenerys entertainment has won two best picture nominations through Schindler's list and the lion king. It is impossible for daenerys entertainment to ask for more. The nomination for best picture in father's name can only be abandoned.

In addition, the nominations for best actress and best supporting actor in Tina Turner's biographical film "what do you want to do with me" and the best foreign language film in the wedding banquet were scattered. In the 66th Oscar in 1994, Denise entertainment directly produced and released the film, and the total number of nominations reached 29. This does not include Disney's "sleepless in Seattle" and the "sleepless in Seattle" film by China Nabbros released a variety of other nominations for films like superman.

In addition, Philadelphia story, which was originally transferred to MGM by Simon, also won five nominations including Tom Hanks' best actor.

Considering that the award is almost inevitable, it's not too much to say that danielis entertainment has monopolized this year's Oscars.

Many people have the impression that Denise entertainment still knows how to be restrained in terms of awards, so Hollywood generally believes that after this year, next year's Oscar will be the stage for other studios to play, but they don't know that there is another phenomenal "Forrest Gump" ready to be released this summer.

Simon, on the other hand, used the script cut throat island to dig a hole at the Sundance party, and the next few days really worked.

When the news spread, both the executives of major studios and the management of talent agency companies got the script of "cut throat island" at the first time, and many filmmakers began to inquire about the project. Terry Semel of Warner even called Simon directly to test the news.

Play and do the whole thing.

At Simon's instigation, Amy Pascal personally held a meeting with the management of karock pictures.

Of course, there was no agreement.

In fact, the terms offered by danilisi entertainment are not harsh, and they are the usual practice of foreign film cooperation. The two sides share 50% of the investment, but this time danilisi entertainment is definitely responsible for the distribution. Amy's distribution commission ratio is also not high, referring to 12.5% of DC film universe project.

According to Amy's feedback, there are obvious differences within karock pictures.

Hollywood is not short of smart people. With Denise Entertainment's momentum in Hollywood at this time, there are many people in the management of karock film industry who can see at a glance that cooperation with Denise entertainment is undoubtedly the most secure choice for such a super blockbuster as cut throat island with a rough estimated budget of 70 million US dollars. This studio has been working on too many projects This has been proved on the Internet.

However, the most important thing in this world is the lack of people.

Since Simon westero is very optimistic about this project, naturally, some people think that there is no need for karock pictures to give up so much. After all, karock pictures, which relies on overseas capital support, is not short of money. The cooperation with Denise entertainment can be regarded as investment and distribution income, which is at least equal to giving up 60% of the income.

All parties contacted each other for a week, and the form soon became clear.

Other Hollywood studios have failed more than once to snatch projects from Denise entertainment, such as "rocket expert" a few years ago and Redford's new film "behind the scenes lies" which Disney snatched from Denise entertainment last year.

Although there is no evidence to prove that the failed films are the traps deliberately thrown by Simon westero, Hollywood has gradually formed a concept that other studios may not be able to do a good job in the projects that danielis entertainment likes.

So, until the last minute, other studios were on the sidelines, except Paramount Pictures.

Sigram group bought paramount communications last year and successfully entered Hollywood. Just like Sony, sigram CEO Edgar Bronfman also hopes to make his company famous through one or two blockbuster movies as soon as possible.

Considering that the first song of mission impossible is still on and the sequel development has been put on the agenda, Edgar brownfmann knows it's not appropriate to offend Simon at this time, so he calls Simon to communicate.The fish has already bitten the hook. Simon resolutely changed his strategy and directly said on the phone that danielis entertainment has given up the project of "cut throat island" because he is not optimistic about the prospect of pirate films. At the same time, he also half truely advised Bronfman not to stick to the project.

Simon's attitude this time was very sincere, but Bronfman obviously didn't believe it, and soon started further negotiations with karock pictures.

Immediately, the news that danelis entertainment gave up the project of "cut throat island" quickly spread, and Simon's personal statement on the script.

Hollywood suddenly got confused again.

A lot of people have seen the script of "cut throat island" in the villa in westropark City, and Denise entertainment has discussed the cooperation with karock film, which proves that Denise entertainment intends to participate in this project.

Simon's sudden statement of his position made him feel like he wanted to cover up.

Obviously.

This is to want other people to quit because of scruples, and danielis entertainment will wait for another opportunity.

Can you believe such a bad routine?

So the negotiations continued.

In order to attract more competitors, karock pictures also quietly leaked the terms of cooperation offered by Paramount Pictures. It is generally that Paramount Pictures is willing to join the project of "cut throat island" with 30% of the budget and 10% of the distribution Commission. Meanwhile, it gives the best schedule for next summer's summer, and guarantees to open more than 2500 screens.

At a discount, karock pictures can retain about 60% of its revenue.

What's more, the terms given by danielis entertainment do not include the schedule and screen guarantee terms. People who know Hollywood a little know the importance of schedule and screen. For the same film, the box office performance of popular summer and unpopular spring shows is absolutely different. The commercial potential of the scale of 1000 screens and 2000 screens is certainly quite different.

One of the most important gaps between Hollywood independent producers and big studios is that the seven major film companies basically monopolize the high-quality screen and marketing resources of Hollywood's most popular schedules. Without these resources, it is difficult for the second and third tier independent film companies to be among the first tier big film companies.

Now, unless they are willing to undertake only the distribution work, several other Hollywood studios will not be able to offer better cooperation conditions than paramount. There is no way to predict the effect of a film, so it is risky to give a popular schedule and a large number of screens.

Moreover, several other studios remained on the sidelines, waiting for Denise Entertainment's further response.

Unless daenerys entertainment makes a last-minute move to intercept Hu Jin and trigger a bidding war, at present, the project will almost definitely fall on paramount.

Of course, danielis entertainment won't do it.

Even MGM CEO Shirley Lansing was rejected when she tried to see if Simon could take over the project.

MGM is the only one of the seven major Hollywood studios that can offer more favorable conditions than paramount. Because its vitality has not yet recovered, MGM, which avoids blockbuster projects as far as possible at this stage, can not participate in the investment at all, but only seek the distribution right and draw Commission, which is exactly 100% in line with the expectation of Carlock pictures.

MGM was the publisher of "cut throat island".

However, under Simon's control, MGM does not lack high-quality film projects, and Simon does not allow the film company to waste its schedule. Even if "cut throat island" can take on a new look this time with the strong attention of the film company and the main creative team, if MGM only takes the distribution Commission, it is better to focus on developing one or two of its own medium budget films.

After the incident started, Simon's attention quickly shifted to other aspects, and his recent focus was four weddings and a funeral.

After the premiere of the Sundance Film Festival, "Four Weddings and a funeral" won excellent media reviews, because the media invited to watch the premiere were basically friendly with danielis entertainment. In the following days, more than 20 mainstream newspapers and magazines scored an astonishing 9.5 points on "Four Weddings and a funeral".

In February, Valentine's day will come soon.

After the last wave of intensive marketing promotion by danielis entertainment combined with the film's excellent media reputation, "Four Weddings and a funeral" officially landed in North American cinemas on February 11, with 1672 screens. In order to avoid the audience's misunderstanding that "Four Weddings and a funeral" is a literary film to the greatest extent, the release of the film has also become the mainstream of danielis film Responsibility.