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"MGM Studios suddenly announced yesterday afternoon that it will be taking over the release of the family comedy My Stepmom is an Alien, starring Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger, and it's set for December 23rd. 'My Stepmother is an Alien' was produced by Hollywood studio Weintraub Entertainment and Catalina Productions at a cost of $20 million."

"According to public information, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' was originally to be distributed by Columbia Pictures. Our reporter called Franklin Levy, the film's producer, about this. Levy said that the producer and Columbia Pictures could not agree on some of the distribution terms. Agreed, so I switched to MGM."

"However, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' is set for December 23rd, and will compete directly with another MGM release, 'Rain Man', which is set for December 16th."

"Rain Man" is directed by "Good Morning Vietnam" director Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. This film has previously exposed the fierce conflict between the creator and the producer. Ting Hoffman and Tom Cruise once publicly supported Barry Levinson and condemned Daenerys Film's wanton interference in the creation of the film. Barry Levinson immediately quit the film, and it was rumored that Simon Westeros Take over the post-production work in person.”

"In response to whether MGM's sudden introduction of "My Stepmother is an Alien" is due to lack of confidence in "Rain Man", whether the release of "Rain Man" will be canceled, or whether it involves other inside information, the author called MGM and Danielle respectively. Silk and caa, neither received a response."

"This newspaper will pay close attention to the follow-up progress of this matter."

Santa Monica.

In Simon's office at Daenerys Entertainment headquarters.

Putting down the "Daily Variety Show" in his hand, Simon looked up at Amy Pascal and Robert Rem who had just sat down opposite him.

Amy took the initiative: "I asked a friend in Colombia that the audience for the internal preview of "My Stepmother is an Alien" had a very poor response. Colombia wanted to increase the commission ratio and also asked the producer to share the cost of publicity. It broke up."

Simon picked up the pencil and turned it around in his hand, saying, "I'm not interested in this movie."

Seeing Simon looking at himself, Robert Rehm said: "MGM, I just saw their announcement plan for "Rain Man" yesterday. It was very hasty, and I even suspected that it was just an intern. Tony Tomopoulos also complained to me that Rain Man was useless, and MGM asked us to pay $5 million in advance as soon as possible, but from the current situation, we should only get the contract The guaranteed minimum of 1,000 screens is not much. Even if MGM gets the money, it will definitely not try its best to promote the film. Although we can send an accountant to follow up the release of the film according to the agreement, MGM will not try to promote the film. There are still many ways to avoid our oversight.”

Simon has long understood that the success of a film's distribution depends not only on the quality of the film, but also on strength and luck. There are too many uncertain factors in it. But if you want to screw it up on purpose, it's very easy.

He lowered his head and glanced at the newspaper on the desktop again, without Amy and Rem reminding him, Simon was clearly aware of caa's shadow.

Dan Aykroyd is also an important client of caa, and the actor made his way to the front line with the box office runner-up "Ghostbusters" in 1984.

Moreover, if there is no other external push, as an independent producer, Columbia Pictures suddenly asked for a higher commission when it was approaching the end of the year. In order to avoid missing the new year's schedule, the producer may only recognize it by pinching its nose.

In recent years, caa, which has become more and more powerful, just has the strength to facilitate this.

Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, and even "Rain Man" director Barry Levinson, all three are caa's ace clients. Since everyone has completely broken down on the "Rain Man" project, and several main creators have successfully passed the responsibility to Daenerys Entertainment, caa obviously does not want "Rain Man" to have the slightest possibility of turning over. The result can only be failure, the more failure the better.

Simon listened to the two of them, raised his wrist and looked at his watch. There was a role audition for "Batman" in the morning, and he had a schedule for noon, afternoon and even night. Today is another busy day.

Stop talking too much nonsense, Simon said to Robert Rem: "In this case, you go to MGM now and get the distribution rights of "Rain Man" back."

Robert Rem hesitated: "Simon, what if MGM doesn't want to let go?"

Simon got up, buttoned his suit, and said, "This is your business, Bob. If MGM doesn't want to, unfortunately, your year-end bonus this year will shrink."

Robert Rem watched Simon walk straight out of the office, looked at Amy helplessly, and said, "Simon doesn't seem very happy today?"

Amy also stood up and said, "Maybe it's too tired recently, and anyone else wouldn't be too happy to encounter such a thing."

"Okay," Robert Rem stood up together, followed Amy out, and continued: "In the final analysis, "Rain Man" is a dispute between us and caa, although the Seventh Congress has not been very friendly to us recently, But Tomopoulos should also be reluctant to completely offend Daenerys Entertainment, and it is not a big problem to get the distribution rights back. Just, Amy, how much do you think my offer is appropriate?"

"MGM owns the distribution rights of "Rain Man" in all North American channels. The cinema, videotape and TV platforms take a 15% cut. The overseas copyright is in our own hands." Amy recalled the original agreement.

He said: "The North American box office of "Rain Man" is calculated at $20 million. If you want to take back the distribution rights, I think $5 million is more appropriate."

Robert Rem nodded, and the price in his heart was roughly the same.

According to the North American box office of 20 million US dollars, MGM can get a distribution commission of 3 million US dollars, not counting overseas, but the combined sales commissions of video tapes and TV platforms in North America should be equal to the box office revenue, which is about 3 million US dollars. But this means a long payment cycle that can last for several years.

If Daenerys Entertainment is willing to spend $5 million to redeem the distribution rights early, MGM has no reason to refuse.

However, Robert Rehm then asked sarcastically: "Amy, do you think "Rain Man" only has a box office potential of 20 million US dollars?"

The two walked to the corridor outside Simon's office. Amy rolled her eyes gently and said, "Don't you think so?"

"Rain Man" has always been a project that many Hollywood film companies are not optimistic about. There was such a big storm in the later stage of the film, and now several main creators will definitely not participate in the film's publicity work. These are all It is a negative factor that hinders the film's success at the box office.

Although the circle is very fond of Simon's ability, in addition to five films such as "Lola Run", he also proved his vision in "When Harry Met Sally". But in the eyes of many people, the finished film of "Rain Man" is too mediocre, without many of the highlights of "When Harry Met Sally".

$20 million at the North American box office, which is actually overrated.

Amy feels that the reason why Simon is supporting this movie now is more of a juvenile temperament.

After all, his boss is just a young man in his twenties.

Robert Rehm was noncommittal to Amy's rhetorical question, but just smiled. Noticing Amy walking down the stairs with him, he asked again, "Are you going out too?"

"For the consumer goods department, I recently found a manager, and I will meet at Century City in the morning."

Although the acquisition of New World Entertainment has been completed, the company's adjustment and expansion have not stopped in the past few months.

Starting from "Star Wars", the development of film and television derivative products has attracted more and more attention from major film companies, and it has also created a new profit growth point for Hollywood. As Daenerys Entertainment has more and more self-distributed titles, this aspect will also bring in good revenue for the company.

A recent focus of Amy's work has been the creation of Daenerys Entertainment's consumer products division responsible for peripheral product development and image licensing.

"Oh, actually, I think we should acquire a record company as soon as possible, or set up a record department. Starting from "Lola Run," the soundtracks of movies produced by our company are selling very well. It is said that the soundtrack of "Pulp Fiction" has already It sold more than 6 million copies." Robert Rem couldn't help shaking his head when he said this, and said: "It's a pity, from the current situation, "Pulp Fiction" is likely to be the box office champion this year, but This movie has propped up Orion's performance this year, and those profits should have belonged to us."

Last year's stock market crash made life very difficult for most Hollywood studios.

Without Pulp Fiction, Orion Films, which has released more than a dozen films this year without a single hit at the box office, would definitely be in trouble, and even go bankrupt like Canon Pictures, De Laurentiis Entertainment and other companies.

Now that Pulp Fiction has grossed close to $150 million locally and may even reach $300 million globally, Orion's losses on all other projects can be made up from the film's gains.

"Who knew that Pulp Fiction would be so successful, maybe even Simon himself didn't expect it, this is something that can't be done," Amy said with some regrets, "As for the record department, Simon talked to me a long time ago. . Do you know the best-selling single he wrote for Madonna? Simon's talent in music is no less than that in movies. It's just that we are not familiar with the record business, and we can't tell enough energy to juggle them now, only can be put on hold for now.”

Robert Rehm nodded understandingly, and said, "I've seen the video of Simon playing the "Flight of the Bumblebee" with his guitar. It's amazing. I really don't know how he grew into what he is now."

The two chatted casually, came to the parking lot, and each got in the car and rushed to their destination.

On the other side, Simon went downstairs to the audition room and started the morning work.

It has recently been the last round of auditions for a major supporting role in "Batman". In addition to Batman Bruce Wayne and Catwoman Selena Kyle, the three most important characters in the first film are Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth, Gotham Police Chief James · Gordon and the most important villain 'Black Mask'.

Several "Batman" movies in the original time and space, starting from Tim Burton, are basically a group of classic villains such as The Joker, Riddler, Two-Face, etc. The black mask has never appeared. In fact, Black Mask really can't be regarded as the well-known villain of "Batman" comics. This character only appeared in 1985, only three years ago.

However, after careful study of a series of comic works of "Batman", Simon found that the role of Black Mask is very suitable as the villain of the film's first film.

In the comics setting, Black Mask's original name is Roman Siennes, who was also born in a wealthy family in Gotham City and was a classmate of Bruce Wayne when he was a child.

Moreover, Roman Siennes also had an unhappy childhood.

Although it is a rich family,

The Siannis family has inherited a violent gene that is very prone to hysteria. Roman Siennes almost grew up under the shadow of his parents' domestic violence from words to fists, so he became closed, and developed a habit of collecting masks to hide himself. Eventually, after his parents who disliked his hobby burnt the masks they had collected over the years, Roman Siennes broke out, killed his parents by arson, and inherited a large amount of the family's fortune.

Losing the control of his parents, Roman Sionnis's family-run violent genes began to revive, becoming irritable and aggressive. Because of poor management, the Siennis family's industry was soon on the verge of collapse.

Bruce Wayne returned to Gotham after traveling abroad for many years. He heard about the plight of Roman Sienis. Out of the friendship of his classmates, the Wayne Group took over the company that was on the verge of bankruptcy of the Sienis family. Roman Sinnis, left with nothing, takes his anger on Bruce Wayne and gradually degenerates into Gotham's most notorious criminal.

In the plot of the comics, Roman Siennis also has a deep entanglement with Catwoman, which can provide the relationship between Bruce Wayne, Selena Kyle and Roman Siannis in the movie version of the plot. Adapt the basics.

Of course, Simon's movie script did not copy the comic settings, but made a considerable degree of modification.

There are two people with similar backgrounds, one who tries to punish criminals and eliminate evil, and becomes a 'Batman' who makes criminals fearful, and the other who completely falls into darkness and becomes a 'black mask' who does all kinds of evil. There are many things worth thinking about.

The fledgling Batman experienced this encounter and completed the first transformation of his advanced dark knight. The relatively simple duel between good and evil also conforms to the small-to-large pattern of the "Batman" series in Simon's plan.

Simon has a very clear positioning for "Batman" in his hands, which will be a series of popcorn-type commercial blockbusters. However, on the premise of ensuring commerciality, he did not completely give up adding some thoughts about human nature and good and evil.

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