Chapter 725

On October 28, the same day Simon returned to Los Angeles, the 1994 Halloween show officially opened.

"The morgue haunted event", the second part of daenerys Entertainment's "evocation movie universe" series, was released on this day. Relying on the good start of the summer file "evocation", the number of screens in the mortuary haunted event has reached 2361, and the production cost of the film is 15 million US dollars. Although it has accumulated considerable popularity with the gimmick of "evocation movie universe", the new world film distribution team has invested the same 15 million US dollars in the publicity budget.

Film publicity is as important as film quality. This is the deepest feeling of more and more film companies after the rise of full distribution mode in recent years.

Although it is less than the exaggeration ratio of the $15 million budget plus $25 million publicity for the summer season of "evocation", the equivalent capital investment for the production and publicity of "the morgue haunted event" is still quite rare in Hollywood, where the publicity investment is only half of the production cost.

Moreover, as long as the box office of the film meets the expectation, the new world film team will continue to invest more in the future.

Simon's goal is to make the "evocation universe" brand more popular as far as possible.

As long as this can be achieved, the publicity of the follow-up series of "evocative movie universe" will get twice the result with half the effort, and the peripheral income of the series, such as video tapes and television broadcasting, will also increase significantly.

In the early internal audition, the reputation of "the morgue haunted event" is about 7 points, which is obviously not as good as "evocation".

However, through the operation of the danilisi entertainment publicity team, on the first day of the large-scale opening of the film, the open comprehensive media score still reached 7.8, which was close to excellent. In addition, the film spared no effort to widely publicize, many audiences chose to buy tickets to watch the film at the first time.

As Hollywood's major studios pay more and more attention to the second-line schedule, "the morgue haunted event" has more than 1000 screens in the same period, as well as Sony's "Frankenstein", Warner Brothers' "the trap of silence" and Disney's "the ultimate warrior".

In the past two years, Sony no longer followed some of its original promises and began to gradually abandon the Columbia brand and use the Sony Pictures logo to produce and release films. Frankenstein, a film aimed at this year's Halloween schedule, cost 45 million US dollars, and invited three first-line movie stars, Robert DeNiro, Kenneth Branner and Helena birham Carter, to join in and start painting The number of screens also reached 2177.

However, after the large-scale production of Frankenstein, the media's comprehensive word-of-mouth score was only 3.9, which inevitably cast a layer of haze on the film's box office prospects.

Warner Bros.'s "the trap of silence" tells the story of a down-to-earth psychologist who is accidentally investigated for a strange murder. The film is starred by Hollywood veteran Richard Dreyfus, terminator series actress Linda Hamilton and Hollywood new actress liv Taylor. The production cost is $30 million and the number of screens is 1251.

Compared with the 3.9 comprehensive media score of Frankenstein, the reputation of silent trap can only be described as collapse.

On the first day of the painting, the media almost gave one-sided poor comments, and the comprehensive media score was only 2.2.

In fact, despite its poor reputation, "Frankenstein" still has a good chance to reap a wave of box office revenue by relying on its strong main creator lineup, and even has a chance to become a dark horse. Because horror movies are similar to vulgar spoof comedies, media evaluation is not the decisive factor, but the key is to see whether the audience likes them.

However, media word-of-mouth is of course not dispensable. Public opinion evaluation like "the trap of silence" reaches the bottom directly, and it is almost impossible to become a dark horse.

Richard Dreyfus, an old male star who once starred in Spielberg and directed "Jaws", "third kind of contact" and "forever", has passed out in recent years, and the box office appeal is not satisfactory. The two female stars Linda Hamilton and liv Taylor do not have the strength to carry the box office alone. Therefore, the box office prospect of the silent trap can be imagined.

Finally, Disney's "the ultimate warrior", which tells the story of an Indian's adventure, has a budget of $20 million and 1022 screens.

Compared with Frankenstein and the trap of silence, the media reputation of the ultimate warrior is also good, reaching a passing grade of 6. However, compared with the media popularity of "the haunted morgue", "Frankenstein" and even "silent cash", there are not many people paying attention to this biographical film.

Disney's production of "the ultimate warrior" is obviously to copy the success of "dancing with the wolf" or "the last Mohican". Unfortunately, in recent years, many similar films have become cannon fodder, because such films are too far away from the mainstream.

Besides, Kevin Costner and Daniel Day Lewis take part in "dancing with the wolf" and "the last Mohican", respectively. In Disney's "the ultimate warrior", Gus MacDonald and don Carmody are both unknown. The film's reputation has not exploded, and the ending can be imagined.In any case, four mainstream films with more than 1000 screens, plus some lucky films from other small studios, make the start of the Halloween season very lively.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon spent four days in a row with women and children at domay point estate.

It wasn't until November 2, after Halloween, that it was back to work.

During the four days of rest, I was not completely idle.

Inspired by the chat with grace, Simon personally conceived a new version of the general script of this man from the earth in his spare time. On the first day of work, he handed the script to Ella doechman, the director of gaomen film, and asked him to gather some university professors to discuss how to make up for the scientific loopholes. At the same time, he went directly into the program of project selection and other programs, intending to It will be completed in two months at the end of the year to attend the Sundance Film Festival early next year.

After careful consideration, Simon decided to write in person.

Such a story about immortality is bound to arouse some association. Simon has heard about "psychics" and "aliens", and it's nothing to add the label of "immortal".

However, as a result of his own name, it was impossible for Simon to make the film at an ultra-low cost of $100000 at first.

In the budget that Ella doichman submitted two days later, Simon's play alone was valued at $250000, with a 10% share of the global box office net profit.

Simon westero's own script, not to mention $250000, plus a zero, won't lack buyers.

The main reason for such a low value is the positioning of the low-cost film "this man comes from the earth". If it is a commercial film, Simon's current value can be directly increased by zero, and his profit share will only be much higher.

Although Simon is the boss of danielis entertainment group, all the projects he participates in actually have all kinds of clear contracts, which are still managed by Jonathan Friedman.

It's like the DC movie universe.

Even though danielis entertainment is not involved in the single project of "flash" and "steel bone", Simon can still get a huge share of the profits from the two films because of his producer status. At the beginning, the local box office of "flash" reached 253 million US dollars. According to the contract, Simon, who directly took 10% of the local box office, had a personal share of 25.3 million US dollars. According to the business miracle of DC movie universe in recent years, no one thought Simon should not take so much.

Simon's personal wealth now amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars, and he certainly doesn't care about these gains.

However, rules are rules. If you work hard, you should get something. This is the rule of Hollywood. Simon is very willing to abide by the rules.

Including the whole Denise entertainment.

Among the contracts re established before the listing, except for Simon's symbolic base salary of US $1, there are many other contracts with 5% of the group's annual net profit share and additional options.

Now, for this man from the earth, only the script valuation is 250000 US dollars, and the total budget of the project can't be 100000 US dollars any more. After all, the money is actually paid to Simon. Therefore, after careful evaluation, the team of gaomen film has made a budget of 1.5 million US dollars.

No matter how little it is, it's really useless.

Although the whole circle has been paying close attention to Denise Entertainment's latest foreign cooperation plan recently, with the news that Simon westlow personally wrote a new play, it immediately became the focus of the whole Hollywood.

The content of the script is still kept secret for the time being, but the major brokerage companies have begun to operate one after another for their artists.

It's good to be in a Simon westero movie, even if it's for nothing.

Many Hollywood director's projects are not popular. The most typical one is Steven Spielberg, the legendary Hollywood director. In recent years, whether he is a director or a producer, if he catches a fan to tell him who Spielberg is popular with, it is estimated that eight out of ten can't tell.

Because it's not.

In contrast, in recent years, Simon's films, whether they are screenwriters, directors or producers, are really popular with a large number of people.

From kenu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, who were the first to Run Lola, to vulgar novel, which revived the career of a group of male stars and made Australian actress Nicole Kidman popular, to Adam Baldwin, Valerie Gallino, Brad Pitt, Will Smith and so on, who came out of the DC movie universe Series in recent years Brilliant.

Therefore, when the news came out from gaomen film industry that Simon's new film would not invite famous actors, but would choose roles from the second and third tier actors with excellent acting skills, Hollywood became even more excited.

In this close attention, inspired by Simon, who has begun to make the final preparations for the third WIMI show on November 12, qusi Goff posted photos of her performance class on her Facebook and instagram home pages, marked as "the little vase in Simon westero's new movie." this baby faced model, who has been on the top of the show for the past six months, has been paying close attention to the show Up.Whether it's Hollywood or the fashion circle, they can only feel the good luck of Tracy Goff.

The only thing missing is Simon's personal dynamics.

Simon has gradually realized a realm where there are legends everywhere but no real people.

The whole Hollywood is paying attention to Simon's new films. After Halloween, Simon's focus is not on such a small project as this man from the earth, but on the foreign cooperation plan of ten films of danielis entertainment..

Among the ten projects, MGM has already won the first two, namely "baby thunderbolt" and "spy film". As for the deeper "spy film universe" project, just like the original "soul movie universe", MGM will not promote this concept before the project is successful.

Compared with the previous foreign cooperation, the biggest change this time is that the ordinary low and medium cost projects have been difficult to meet the needs of other Hollywood studios.

Simon can't do it either.

As a result, after "Thunderbolt baby" and "spy", Warner Bros. soon got a place for "game of the brave", which danielis entertainment has long held the copyright, when Terry Semel called Simon in person.

Warner Bros. got the project, and fox, who has been working together all these years, naturally can't fall behind.

In fact, Rupert Murdoch is not very keen on movies. This media tycoon from Australia has always been devoted to newspapers and TV. However, given the opportunity, Murdoch certainly hopes to cooperate with danilisi entertainment.

The final project is mummy.

This is a remake of an old film by Universal Pictures in the 1930s. In the past, Universal Pictures, after the success of the mummy and King Scorpion series around the millennium, once had the ambition to restart, hoping to create a mummy movie universe. As a result, the movie universe plan failed to succeed after Tom Agger made the mummy movie into a Cruise movie Death comes first.

Four cooperation projects have been finalized, and others are no longer eager.

The four projects that have been finalized are basically Series in nature. In some small film years, one film is enough to hold up a schedule. If all ten projects are finalized at one time, the internal friction in the next few years will be very fierce.

During the negotiation of these projects, Simon also had an unexpected gain.

James Cameron's new film: Titanic.

Although Simon basically chose the cooperation project based on his memory, the outside world didn't know about it. During this time, a large number of script ideas were sent to Simon, including James Cameron's big boat script, or, to be precise, a synopsis of the story.

After shooting true lies, James Cameron started a holiday as usual, during which he went to the Atlantic Ocean to explore the Titanic, which sank for some reason after his first voyage in 1912. During this period, the story idea of Titanic came into being.

Although the previous films all cooperated with Fox, because they always overspent and failed in the abyss, the relationship between Cameron and fox is not good.

So, after the initial completion of the story, James Cameron's agent first transferred the script to danielis entertainment.

Due to the legendary nature of the Titanic, film and television works about the ship have been unknown for most of the past half century. Recently, Francis Coppola's westerscope film industry is just preparing the same project. Simon is still impressed by this, because the heroine of the film of the same name is Katherine Zeta Jones.

Danielis entertainment executives were not optimistic about this type of shipwreck disaster film.

On the one hand, the budget. On the other hand, it's hard to play too many tricks with the story of the shipwreck. The business prospect is very unstable.

In the end, it's Simon himself.

As for fox, it's a pity that Simon doesn't have the good habit of being modest when he shouldn't be.