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Simon returned to Los Angeles, and this year's summer season officially opened with the release of Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones 3".

Raiders of the Lost Ark 3 took an unconventional Wednesday opening date, with a release date of May 24. The film has already been drawn on 2,327 screens. On Wednesday and Thursday, it earned $9.9 million at the box office, easily surpassing the action film "Dragon Killing Array", which was also drawn in the first week by United Artists.

"Dragon Killing Array" will be released on May 19th. On a normal Friday, the box office in the first seven days is 8.24 million US dollars, and the total North American box office is expected to be around 30 million US dollars. Although it is far from comparable to "Indiana Jones 3", "Dragon Kills" is not a failure at the box office relative to the production cost of 17 million US dollars.

It is worth mentioning that the male protagonist of "Dragon Killing Array" happens to be Patrick Swayze, the male protagonist of the original "Ghost Love".

In order to ensure the success of "The Ghost Story", Simon did not plan to change the hero and heroine. While he was away from Los Angeles, Daenerys Entertainment had negotiated deals for the classic romance with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze.

Patrick Swayze was promoted to the first-tier male star two years ago with a global box office blockbuster of more than 200 million US dollars.

Demi Moore has nothing to offer except as the wife of Bruce Willis. If it wasn't for Simon's insistence, Amy would not want to use the other party at all, so during the negotiation process, the remuneration was very stuck, only offering a salary of $300,000, which was slightly higher than the newcomer's price, and an additional preference for a movie. rights contract. A group of Hollywood actresses were closely watching this project, Demi Moore knew that she had no bargaining chips to rely on, and she quickly agreed after a little care about the details.

In addition, black actress Whoopi Goldberg has also agreed to play the role of psychic Odyssey Brown in "Ghostbusters."

On May 29, Daenerys Entertainment officially announced the main creative information of "Ghost Love". The film will officially start shooting in August, and it will be tentatively scheduled for next summer.

However, because Daenerys Entertainment has set up a large number of movies in recent months, this incident has not caused much waves in the media. What Hollywood pays more attention to is the upcoming Daenerys Entertainment summer program. A movie "Bodyguard".

In the past few months, a series of films released by Daenerys Entertainment have not achieved much success. If "Bodyguard" continues this tepid state, the halo that the fast-rising company accumulated in 1988 will undoubtedly dim.

Moreover, according to some vague rumors in the circle, the effect of the internal preview of "Bodyguard" was not very good.

Daenerys Entertainment kept a close eye on the film's reputation until a week before the film's release, and never held any public test screenings for the media or fans, which undoubtedly proves this rumor.

Los Angeles.

Century City Hotel in Beverly Hills.

The time is already May 31. This morning, the press conference of the original soundtrack album of "Bodyguard" was held in the Century City Hotel. Before that, "Bodyguard" actress Whitney Houston had done her homework for her screen debut and this third album.

At the end of the press conference, Daenerys Entertainment hosted a luncheon at the Century City Hotel to entertain some of the film's creators and the media reporters who were invited to attend today.

Inside the banquet hall.

Whitney Houston's signed record company, Clive Davis, president of Alista Records, chatted with Simon for a while with a glass of champagne, turned and walked towards Whitney Houston, his expression could not help but become more serious .

Alista Records was originally a record subsidiary established in the 1970s with the support of Columbia Pictures. It has been established for more than ten years and is now a subsidiary of the German Bertelsmann Music Group. Clive Davis has been president of the company since its inception, and after ups and downs, Alista Records finally ushered in a turnaround because of Whitney Houston's popularity four years ago.

Whitney Houston and Daenerys Entertainment's "Bodyguard" is also the result of Clive Davis' push.

Now, he has some regrets.

It seems that since the end of last year, Daenerys Entertainment has lost its popularity, and none of the films released in the first half of the year have exploded. It's nothing more than that. However, now that "Bodyguard" has not been released, some doubts about the quality of the film have spread.

As for the soundtrack album of "Bodyguard", in order to facilitate this cooperation, Alistar Records made a big concession on the contract. The album was jointly produced by Alista Records and Daenerys Entertainment's unformed record department. , with Simon Westeros personally serving as a consultant.

As a condition of the partnership, Daenerys Entertainment will take 50% of the record's gross profit.

Clive Davies thought Simon Westeros would be able to deliver a song as good as the "celebration" he wrote for Madonna, but what Alistar Records got was a song that basically consisted of cover and A mashup album composed of Whitney's own old songs, the album's title is actually an old song "i-will-always-love-you" originally sung by Dolly Parton in the 1970s.

Since Whitney Houston's debut, the two albums have achieved global sales exceeding 10 million copies. Seeing that this great situation is likely to be ruined, Clive Davis has found a self who is socializing.

Jiataizhu, pulled her aside, and began to whisper the skill of dumping the pot.

Once "Bodyguard" fails, the prospect of this soundtrack album is even more worrisome.

Clive Davis is now only looking forward to putting the blame on Daenerys Entertainment as much as possible to avoid a hit to Whitney Houston's career.

On the other side of the banquet hall.

Clive Davis walked away, and Amy Pascal joined Simon.

Compared to Clive Davis, who only cares about "The Bodyguard", Amy is worried about the commercial performance of "The Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense" in the following June. However, she walked up to Simon and talked about another thing: "Bob went to New York on Monday, it was nothing special, but someone in New York happened to see him and An executive from Sony America was having dinner."

Simon understands that Amy's Bob here is Robert Rehm.

At the lunch on the trip to Cannes, Simon could naturally hear Rem's hint that he wanted a raise, but he didn't respond. He just mentioned it to Amy in private to get her to pay attention.

I didn't expect Rem to contact Sony so quickly.

Or, it is more likely that Sony took the initiative to contact Rem.

During this time, Sony's acquisition talks for Columbia Pictures have been fully disclosed.

Coca-Cola, the largest shareholder of Columbia Pictures, intends to cash in on non-core businesses, and Sony is also in urgent need of a Hollywood studio. Both parties are very clear about their willingness to deal. Therefore, the deal is basically done.

In memory, Sony completed the acquisition of Columbia Pictures, and the directors for this company were Peter Cooper and Jon Peters, both of whom were long-established gold medal producers in Hollywood. In London" and many other films, the original script of "Rain Man" was also obtained by Cooper-Peters Productions, which the two collaborated with, and it took a while before it fell into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment. The Rain Man project has an executive producer title.

However, the two took charge of Colombia, but they pitted Sony to the point of vomiting blood. Excessive profligacy and consecutive failures forced Sony to write down the assets of Columbia Pictures by as much as $2.1 billion after firing the two, making it the largest loss in Sony's history.

Although Simon believes that Sony hires anyone to be the head of Columbia is much better than Peter Cooper, but in terms of Hollywood qualifications, he does not feel that Rem has the qualifications to compete with the two.

Peter Cooper has produced many successful movies, but Rem's specialty has always been distribution. Before taking the helm of New World Entertainment, he was the Vice President of Marketing and Marketing at Universal Pictures. Neither company has ever produced a single hit movie.

Now, Rem is still only the president of Daenerys Entertainment's distribution business.

The head of a Hollywood studio is usually promoted gradually from the production department, just like Disney's Michael Eisner and Fox Pictures President Joe Ross, etc., it is relatively rare to be the head of the studio from the distribution department.

After considering for a moment, Simon said: "In this case, you should pay more attention to the distribution department in the next period of time."

Amy nodded and said, "Aren't you going to talk to Bob?"

Simon asked back: "Do you remember when he joined?"

"Probably, last August."

Simon shrugged and said, "It's less than a year, Amy. In all fairness, I'm very satisfied with Bob's work. However, in the process of signing the contract, I had already offered enough conditions, the $3 million The amount of the bonus, which is already comparable to the executives of the announcement department of the big studio, although the company does make a lot of money, I don't think I owe him anything. If he thinks he doesn't get enough, then leave ."

Amy paused and said, "Since this is the case, I will pay attention to the replacement of Bob's position next."

Simon nodded slightly, and then talked about something else: "The marketing plan for the last month of "The Sixth Sense" needs to be adjusted. Let De Niro and the others not be too deliberate on programs such as talk shows and interviews. To hint at the reversal of the film’s plot, it’s enough to follow the normal horror film announcement process, and the same goes for the company’s marketing copy.”

Amy smiled bitterly: "Simon, this will make the film even less attractive to most audiences."

"Starring De Niro, as well as my screenwriter, this is the attraction in itself. Amy, "The Sixth Sense" can't be a commercial blockbuster with a high box office in its first week, I prefer it to come out of a long-term Word of mouth curve."

After the soundtrack album release of "Bodyguard", the film's release date is coming soon.

On June 2, "Bodyguard" was officially launched in North America with the opening scale of 2021 screens. Since the successful saturated release of several consecutive films last year, it has become very common for studios to open more than 2,000 commercial films.

At the same time as "Bodyguard" was released, the box office of "Indiana Jones 3" was officially released for the first full week. From May 26 to June 1, this Spielberg's commercial masterpiece was released in North American theaters. It collected 46.01 million US dollars, surpassing the 42.16 million single-week box office data of "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" in one fell swoop, creating a new box office record.

Under the strength of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3", the media reputation of "Bodyguard" after its release was bleak.

"Entertainment Weekly", "Variety", "The New York Times" and other mainstream media have all given "Bodyguard" negative comments, "Variety" magazine's sentence "A random seven"

The bad mess' review was so harsh that Amy was so pissed that she almost ripped off all of the company's ads on Variety.

Based on comprehensive statistics, the media rating of "Bodyguard" finally only broke through 3 points, which is very far from the passing line.

However, among such one-sided negative reviews, some magazines such as "Rolling Stone" expressed their appreciation for the soundtrack of the film, but these certainly did not affect the overall reputation of "Bodyguard".

Affected by the negative reviews, "Bodyguard" ended up with only $16.61 million at the box office for three days last weekend.

Compared with Lianmei Pictures' previous "Dragon Killing Array", such a box office result is certainly not a failure. The first weekend was 16.61 million US dollars, and it is expected that the first week box office will remain stable at more than 20 million US dollars.

However, the media also generally predict that the first week of "Bodyguard" is more the result of Daenerys Entertainment's efforts to publicize it. The first week's box office was good, but because of word of mouth, the film will go out of a very ugly place next. The box office curve of the North American box office is very likely to exceed 50 million US dollars.

Compared with the production cost of "The Bodyguard" of $20 million, the North American box office of $50 million is not a failure by any means. However, compared with Daenerys Entertainment's series of stunning box office results last year, "The Bodyguard" is now a $50 million box office. The box office results are undoubtedly a failure, which means that Daenerys Entertainment has withdrawn the miraculous box office blessing last year.

Corresponding to "Bodyguard", in the third week of its release, "Indiana Jones 3" still had a three-day box office figure of $21.23 million in the second weekend, corresponding to a drop of only 27%.

And, the following week, "Ghostbusters 2," the sequel to Columbia Pictures' classic horror-comedy "Ghostbusters," will hit theaters. In order to gain more leverage in the deal with Sony, Columbia Pictures has spared no effort to announce the sequel to this must-win film.

Under such an extremely unfavorable environment for "Bodyguard", on Monday, June 5th, the original soundtrack of "Bodyguard" was officially put on sale in North America.

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