Chapter 1027

Simon continued to spend the weekend in Australia and left alone again on the new Monday, returning to North America first.

At the end of the day, even Amy Pascal reminded him in his personal conversation with Simon that maybe he should go to the apparently out of control "Titanic" set to have a look at Simon's past. Besides, he also reminded the producer in charge of the project budget of danielis entertainment not to waste his time arguing with James Cameron and try to cooperate with him Fang finished the film.

This is already a hint of laissez faire.

In fact, Simon didn't completely ignore it. In private, he asked people to re estimate it. According to the schedule at this time, Cameron would need about $150 million to complete the film. Even if he exceeded it in the end, it might save a lot more than the previous $200 million.

In addition, the former "Titanic" indirectly created James Cameron's light storm special effects studio. This time, from "Terminator 2", all the special effects techniques involved in Cameron's production of the film are retained in the daenerys special effects, while "Titanic" seems to have no films like "Star Wars" and "Transformers" So dazzling technology, but it contains only a lot of special effects technology.

These special effects innovations are valuable technical assets for Denise special effects.

In addition, Simon really hopes that danilisi entertainment can make some progress and "entertain" the public. After all, even if the Titanic fails completely this time, it will not hurt the foundation of danilisi entertainment group, which has completed a comprehensive and diversified layout.

In a word, Casson can play whatever he likes this time.

Simon pays.

Back in Los Angeles, the local time is still September 9.

Monday.

Simon's first concern is the summer season of 1996, which has officially ended. In fact, this is where danielis entertainment can support James Cameron's casual play.

The duration of this summer program is 17 weeks from the release of "evaporation order" and "Romeo and Juliet" on May 10 to the full opening of schools in North America on September 5. In the past three days from September 6 to September 8, the weekend box office of North America market dropped from more than 62 million in the same period last week to about 35 million, which also clearly announced the summer program The end of the file.

As long as 17 weeks, a total of six movies with a box office of over 100 million have sprung up in North America, all of which are more or less related to danilisi entertainment. Even though danilisi entertainment has no involvement in the investment and release of Eddie Murphy's new film "Professor fat man", Simon has privately pushed it to fox.

You know, Professor fat in the original time and space is a film invested by universal pictures, and now universal is a part of danielis entertainment.

In addition, in addition to the six local films with box office exceeding 100 million yuan, the whole summer program, not to mention the cooperation projects such as mummy and mission impossible 2, is only the films independently produced by the three brands of daenerys entertainment, such as "black man", "police Empire", "ice blood storm" and so on, which have achieved quite good results.

If the time line is extended to the first eight months of 1996, from the beginning of the new year to the end of the summer program on September 5, there have been nine movies with a box office of over 100 million in North American cinemas, which are respectively:

the first place: 007 ghost party, with us $307 million.

Second place: mission impossible 2, US $216 million.

Third place: guillotine, US $177 million.

Fourth place: mummy, US $156 million.

Fifth place: rush hour, US $141 million.

Sixth place: morgue haunted event 2, US $137 million.

Seventh place: Romeo and Juliet, US $123 million.

Eighth place: Professor fat, 113 million dollars.

No. 9: top 2 of the spy plane, US $108 million.

The whole list is clear at a glance.

Among them, nine films are produced by Denise entertainment alone, accounting for five. In addition, there are two cooperative films. Even the No.1 "007 ghost party" is also related to interests because of MGM's insufficient distribution capacity and many overseas markets are distributed by Denise entertainment.

There's only one fat Professor, which is completely exclusive to fox.

Although MGM's "007 ghost party" temporarily occupies the first place in the list, and Simon doesn't want to compete for the limelight of this first place, considering that there will be "wonder woman 2" in the DC movie universe series, which happens to be released by danielis entertainment at the end of the year, the final result of the list is still unknown.

In any case, just look at the list so far, Denise entertainment is no less than Disney at its peak in Simon's memory.

It's no exaggeration to say that Simon has basically controlled the whole Hollywood at this time. Louis Meyer, who was once in the limelight in Hollywood's 100 year history, has far less power than Simon at that time.Daniels studios.

In Simon's office, as an insider, David Geffen, who has watched the whole process of Simon westero's rise, can't help but feel a lot of emotion when he looks at the young man opposite him. Even the Geffen record, which he created in those years, is now a part of danielis record.

Now, not to mention anything else, the power of this young man in Hollywood is enough for everyone to look up to.

On the sofa in the reception area, Simon took a sip of the soda that girl a had just given him. He was a little uncomfortable with David Geffen's look. You know, this is a Hollywood recognized big man. He put down his glass and Simon went straight to the theme: "David, I have a meeting later, so let's make a long story short."

"Oh, of course," David Geffen quickly put away his thoughts and said, "I've probably sent an e-mail ahead of time. DreamWorks hopes to buy the script of Saving Private Ryan from danielis entertainment. Simon, I also inquired ahead of time. Danielis hasn't made any preparations for this project. I think you don't mind changing hands "Yes."

Simon was noncommittal and said, "David, Saving Private Ryan is a World War II script, and it must be a blockbuster investment. It's very risky. Why do you want to make this project?"

"Mainly..." David Geffen wanted to give a false excuse and hesitated a little. After all, he told the truth with a wry smile on his face: "well, Simon, it's actually Steven who is very excited after seeing this script, but we are late."

Hollywood is full of intrigues.

However, for Simon westero, if he lies today, even if he gets the script of Saving Private Ryan, once it is revealed, this young man will not be able to admit his bad luck like other cheated film makers. In case of a rebound, the whole DreamWorks will be implicated.

It's better to be honest.

Even if Spielberg didn't ask for the job, David Geffen didn't want to accept it at all. As a shareholder of DreamWorks, his attitude is in line with what Simon just said, and he doesn't think much of such a war movie with huge investment and may not be popular with the audience in the future.

Simon had guessed the whole story. Now that Geffen was frank, he didn't make any more detours and said, "since Steven is interested, Denise can let go. However, it's also a chance. Why don't Steven pay back the last movie he owes Daniels entertainment this time? "

David Geffen didn't expect Simon to agree so readily, but he was stunned again.

Looking at the expression on westrow's face, this man, who has been in Hollywood for many years, feels inexplicably that he may have stepped into a pit on his own initiative.

It's just, it's just a feeling.

There is no evidence.

However, David Geffen quickly reflected that if this project can be made into a cooperative film with danielis entertainment, it will be good for DreamWorks, which is ambitious but not so smooth after its establishment.

The problem is that Spielberg asked him to talk about the script, but he didn't want to have any contact with danielis entertainment. After all, the fact that danielis kicked him out after the success of the Jurassic Park series is still fresh in my mind. Spielberg produced two blockbusters for danielis entertainment, Jurassic Park and Schindler's list .

It's really chilling that the young man on the other side turned away from Spielberg to use a new man.

Simon saw that David Geffen was hesitant, and then said, "David, you can go back to discuss with Steven. If he wants this project, my conditions are very simple. Our two companies will invest together, and Denise entertainment will be responsible for the distribution. Oh, in terms of production, I'm very relieved of Steven, so I won't interfere at all."

Simon didn't say one more thing. It's easy for Geffen and Spielberg to think about it. With the completion of this project, Spielberg's film contract owed by global times will be completely cleared this time.

Seeing that Simon had made a definite offer, David Geffen nodded slightly, but said, "the problem is, Simon, we have an agreement with paramount."

"It's not a problem. I think paramount can talk about it. Denise, I only ask for half of the investment share and the distribution right of the film."

David Geffen was not very optimistic about Saving Private Ryan, but at this time, seeing that Simon westero, who had expressed the same attitude before, immediately confirmed some new intuition. Naturally, he felt that it was not enough to leave half of the investment share to DreamWorks and paramount.

However, Simon would not give in to the discussion, so he had to leave for a while, thinking about how to go back to discuss with Spielberg and whether he could get rid of paramount completely.

Seeing Gefen off, Simon was just about to attend the production meeting of American pie, which had just been approved some time ago, when he was temporarily stopped by another thing.

Girl a brought the news from San Francisco.After this period of secret negotiations, dinkober, who is in charge of C girl, successfully negotiated the acquisition agreement with apple.

After all, it's just a small business with billions of dollars. Simon told girl c last month, and only one month later, apple agreed to Tinkerbell's offer.

The main reason is that apple is at a dead end.

It is clear that in recent years, the new technology industry has been booming. As an old giant who created the PC era, Apple has gone against the trend under the impact of Microsoft. The most direct performance is its market value. Compared with the market value of more than $7 billion in the early 1990s, apple's market value has almost fallen to the threshold of $2 billion recently, which has shrunk by more than 70% compared with the peak period .

Moreover, apple, which was able to barely maintain its profits in the past few years, has been in a loss trap since last year. In the first two quarters of this year, Apple's total loss has reached US $300 million, and the annual loss is expected to exceed US $600 million.

Unless a miracle happens, Apple will go bankrupt in two years at most.

On the other hand, this time, jobs, who has already sold Pixar to Simon, has unconsciously fallen into a state of obscurity. Without the appeal of toy story, the other party can no longer return to take charge of apple, and Simon does not intend to allow this to happen.

Therefore, selling to Tinkerbell is almost the only way out for apple.

Even a lot of people probably won't understand Ting Cobell's intention to buy apple for a while.

Continue to a nearby conference room to signal that new world's president, Denny Morris, can start the meeting, while Simon holds the draft acquisition agreement between tincobail and apple.

Tincobail company will purchase apple in the form of cash and stock. The final transaction price is US $2.8 billion, 33% higher than the market value of US $2.1 billion at this time, of which US $1 billion is paid in cash, and the other US $1.6 billion is tincobail's stock.

At the same time, tincobail will also bear Apple's debt of about $1.2 billion.

By calculation, the total amount of the transaction is $4 billion.

This is a significantly higher price than Apple's current downturn. However, a higher offer is also the key for dinkbaier to negotiate a goodwill acquisition agreement within one month. After all, once the time drags on too long and the news leaks, Apple's share price may rise by more than 30% in a few days.

Simon doesn't want to dream too much at night, and the C girl who gets Simon's advice in private doesn't want to dream too much at night. As for the apple side, at this time, there is no confidence to take Ting Cobell as a fat sheep, probably do not want to dream too much at night.

Therefore, this is basically the final plan.

As long as Simon has no objection here, the news will be announced tomorrow morning.

In addition, such an acquisition, the authorities will not encounter any resistance to audit, Simon can now consider the next layout.

The first is the system.

Since igritte got the original source code of Linux system in 1991, Simon began to plan a graphical interface PC operating system with Linux as the kernel. At present, igritte's team has been developing it for five consecutive years, and began to use it for the operating system of igritte's self built data center.

As for the PC version, the original plan was to officially launch it in 1997. Now, with apple and a series of core patents for the graphical interface operating system, westero system will not be afraid of Microsoft's patent barriers.

The big deal is a lawsuit.

Second, hardware.

Many people may not know that the British arm company, which proposed the arm architecture, was first invested by apple. Now apple is still the major shareholder of arm. In recent years, Newton tablet is the processor using ARM architecture.

Take apple, and then take control of arm.

Then, we will make full use of the resources of westero system to promote the research and development of arm architecture chips suitable for mobile electronic devices. Even though the era of mobile Internet may take another 10 years to fully come, when ICAM, iPlayer and other products have been successful, we will take arm chips as the core to develop more portable mobile electronic devices, and through Bluetooth which has already appeared at this time , WiFi and other technologies to create a mini family mobile Internet Ecosystem, more than enough.

Simon saw the draft agreement between Tinkerbell and apple, and quickly began to write down all kinds of brainstorming on the draft paper in front of him. Unconsciously, an hour had passed.

It wasn't until Denny Morris reminded that this was the production meeting for American pie.

Simon quickly glanced at the meeting notes handed over by a girl nearby, and finally recovered his mind and turned to the theme of the meeting. He said to Denny Morris and others, "about this project, on the public level, we need to package the film as a story about youth and growth with special connotation, but you have to understand that, in fact, the sale of this film is very important Point has only one word, sex. Only when we firmly grasp this point, whether it is the production of the film or the future distribution, can we not go astray. "Over the years, many movies in Simon's memory have been lost by butterflies, and many of them have never been heard before.

The American pie, which is under discussion, is a story that is lucky not to be lost by the butterfly. Although the details of the play are quite different from Simon's memory, the whole story has not changed much. Therefore, Simon won it decisively and gave the green light.

Once upon a time, the first song of "American Pie" sold well in the world at a cost of only 11 million US dollars. After more than 200 million box office, even Simon can't remember how many sequels he made.

Although there are various analyses of the core of the film, such as youth, growth, Balabala, in fact, the key to the success of this series is only one word, sex. The film even created a proper term such as "milf", which has become a fixed adult vocabulary.

As for the others, they are the foil outside this core.

Therefore, if this new edition of American school wants to succeed, no matter how to whitewash a vulgar theme in the future, Simon must let the new world film team understand the core of the project.

Pay attention to the main contradictions.

Although it is not comparable to the DC movie universe, or even worse than the soul summoning movie universe, according to my memory, this series is also a gold mine level big IP. As long as the first song is successful, the follow-up can be produced for many years as in the original time and space, including a number of non cinema versions only for the video and DVD market.

Danielis entertainment still has a huge blockbuster video chain system, so it can maximize the benefits of this series in an all-round way. Combined with the information in my memory, this seemingly insignificant youth film series, properly developed, will be enough to bring danilisi entertainment a billion dollars in revenue in the future.