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"Simon, since you don't feel the story just now, what about this: Danny is a dignified policeman outside, but in front of his harsh and irritable mother, he is like a mouse that has seen a cat. One day during the course of duty , Danny met his favorite girl, Tereza, and the two quickly fell in love. However, Danny was worried that his mother would not be satisfied with Tereza, and everything with his girlfriend seemed to be careful and sneaky, so he made trouble. A string of jokes."

Inside the office.

John Hughes showed Simon several story ideas in a row, but Simon never made a statement.

After John Hughes introduced another story, the two discussed a few words, and Simon pretended to have no intention of saying: "John, I think the box office performance of "Uncle Buck" should be very good, so you have thought about making a more pure Some children's films?"

John Hughes shook his head as if thinking of some terrible scene: "Simon, children's films have always been a forbidden area in Hollywood. I deeply realized this during the filming of "Uncle Buck" this time. Those little guys Tossed me so hard that sometimes I wanted to make a substitution. So, I really don't want to go through it a second time."

"Uncle Buck" tells the story of the Russo couple who had to temporarily leave their three children in the care of their bachelor brother Buck Russell due to some family changes.

According to the original agreement, John Hughes was solely responsible for "Uncle Buck". Simon did not pay too much attention to the production process, and he did not expect such entanglements.

As we all know, children and animals are two of the most difficult elements to deal with in Hollywood movies.

Simon heard John Hughes say this, and roughly understood why he failed to produce the idea of ​​"Home Alone" again.

John Hughes in the original time and space should be very happy to work with the three young actors in "Uncle Buck", especially Macaulay Culkin left a deep impression on him, which is why the subsequent "Home Alone" birth. However, in the new version of "Uncle Buck", the three small actors are no longer the original actors, and they caused a lot of trouble for John Hughes during the shooting process.

In a bad mood, it is naturally difficult for the filmmaker to think about another children's film.

Confirming that "Home Alone" was completely 'fanned', Simon stopped circling around and said: "Actually, it was an idea that came to me after watching the demo of "Uncle Buck", John, I think this project suits your style very well, Also, some of the ideas you just introduced gave me some other inspiration, like the story of a young man and a woman who met two burglars during a convenience store vigil. So, how about another children's film? If you If you don’t want to be the director, you can let someone else take charge. The salary plan you get in this project can be referred to as “Uncle Buck”. However, this time Daenerys Entertainment also needs to be involved in the decision-making of the project, especially the casting of actors. "

In the "Uncle Buck" contract negotiated by the two parties, John Hughes received a salary plan of $5 million in base salary plus 10% of the North American box office share as a screenwriter, director and producer.

John Hughes is a very shrewd man.

Simon Westeros was inspired by his film, and it was also Simon Westeros's idea. Looking at the box office performance of Simon Westeros films in recent years, just the recent "Sixth Sense", the North American box office has soared to 300 million US dollars.

What's more, you can also refer to the $5 million base salary of "Uncle Buck" plus 10% of the North American box office share. John Hughes is not a director with a strong personality who only does his favorite movies. He is very clear that he is just a film businessman, so he is completely Can't think of any reason for rejection.

"Then, Simon, can you tell me more about your idea?"

Seeing that John Hughes agreed without any hesitation, Simon also began to explain the general plot of "Home Alone".

As for returning the project to John Hughes, and maintaining the $5 million base salary plus 10% North American box office share plan, Simon has no regrets.

John Hughes as the main creator can ensure the "authentic" of the new version of "Home Alone" to the greatest extent. Moreover, if the new version of "Home Alone" can achieve the stunning box office results of more than 280 million US dollars in North America just like the original time and space, John Hughes is also fully qualified to take a salary of 30 million US dollars.

Speaking of which, this decision was also influenced by Simon's recent shift in thinking.

The reason is actually similar to the recent 10 foreign cooperative film plans. If you blindly pursue to maximize profits, all the profits will fall into the pockets of Daenerys Entertainment, and Hollywood filmmakers will not have much motivation to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment.

The two discussed for about an hour and the meeting ended.

John Hughes then decided to stay in Los Angeles for a week in order to keep in touch with Simon at any time, and first write the outline of "Home Alone".

After the weekend, after negotiating some details, Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures jointly held a press conference, announcing the project of "Sleeping with the Enemy", the first of the 10 film plans.

"Sleeping with the Enemy" is an original novel of the same name completed by a female writer named Nancy Price in 1987. The novel's popularity and sales were not large after its listing. The script department of Fox Pictures paid 150,000 After the low price of the US dollar won the adaptation rights, it has been shelved.

After the announcement of this project, the original novel "Sleeping with the Enemy", which was originally unknown, immediately attracted a lot of media attention, and the sales of the novel soared for a while, and the publisher had to urgently reprint it.

Then, on Wednesday, August 16th.

Daenerys Entertainment and Disney jointly held another press conference, announcing the establishment of the second project in the 10-film plan. The new project is called "The Hand That Shakes the Cradle", which is an equally classic plot in Simon's memory. A thriller about a housewife who disguises herself as a nanny after her husband commits suicide and then miscarries her own revenge on the family that caused her family tragedy.

Similar to "Sleeping with the Enemy", "The Hand That Shakes the Cradle" is also poorly known, and it is also a screenplay by a female screenwriter named Amanda Silver.

The difference is that "The Hand That Shakes the Cradle" does not have an original novel, but an original script.

Coupled with the special confidentiality measures taken by Daenerys Entertainment and Disney, this time the media can only roughly guess the content of the story of "The Hand Shaking the Cradle" based on some scattered information.

The reason why the two scripts are not well-known is actually not accidental.

Those copyrights that are very famous and are very optimistic about various film companies are generally not shared with Daenerys Entertainment, just like Simon will not use the quietly established "Home Alone" project to jointly invest with other studios Same. Most of the projects that can be sent to Simon are not well-known or have uncertain prospects.

The following Friday, August 18.

Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures held their third press conference, announcing the third film in a 10-film plan, another 'blockbuster' that Simon expected, called "Desperados" .

The story is adapted from a TV series owned by Warner Bros. It tells the story of a surgeon's wife who was murdered and framed and tried to clear her grievances.

In the original time and space, "Desperados" starred Harrison Ford, and the global box office exceeded 360 million US dollars. However, compared to the next year's schedule for the first two projects, Simon also explained to Warner from the beginning that this project would be pushed to next year, and the earliest schedule would be in the summer of 1991.

Because, according to Simon's plan, the 1990 schedule was too crowded.

Confirmed "Home Alone", Simon's memory of the box office blockbuster in 1990, Daenerys Entertainment accounted for five, namely "Pretty Woman", "Ghost Love", "Dancing With Wolves", Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

According to Daenerys Entertainment's established plan, "Pretty Woman" will be released during Valentine's Day in February next year. " and "Home Alone" are scheduled for the end of next year.

If "Desperados" starts production now, because it is a big-budget movie, it is not like "Sleeping with the Enemy" that can be quickly prepared and shot, and the schedule is scheduled for the end of next year, which will be similar to "Dances with Wolves". " and "Home Alone", two films with a box office potential of 200 million, collided.

In my memory, the North American box office of "Desperados" exceeded 180 million US dollars, which can be regarded as reaching the 200 million level. If the three box office blockbusters are crowded into the end of the year at the same time, the result will only be three losers. Simon confirmed that the year-end schedule of this era cannot accommodate three domestic box office 200 million movies.

What's more, there are definitely more than these three movies in the corresponding schedule, so the competition will only be more intense.

Warner understands Simon's decision, but still hopes to announce the news immediately, because it will be a good news for Warner and can boost the stock price.

After Paramount suddenly scuttled the share-swap merger agreement that Time Inc. and Warner Bros. almost negotiated in June, the original plan has now been scrapped. After winning Paramount's lawsuit to block the Time-Warner merger, the two sides still need to renegotiate the merger plan.

Time Inc. has also proposed a new cash-and-stock merger plan, but the specific price has not been fully finalized.

Now, Warner's stock price goes up a penny more, and Time Inc. needs to pay an extra penny next.

And it did, with Warner Bros. shares up a notable 2.1% by the afternoon's close on the news.

At the same time that Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures announced the third film cooperation plan, the box office data for the new week from August 11 to August 17 at the end of the North American summer season was also officially released.

"Uncle Buck", written and directed by John Hughes himself, opened 2,021 screens and earned $16.94 million at the box office in its first week, ranking first.

Although the $8,000 or so "Uncle Buck" pavilions did not reach the best-selling level, they also met expectations. With a close to $17 million box office start, the North American total should be able to hit between $50 million and $70 million, matching Daenerys Entertainment's original forecast and in line with the previous box office levels of Hughes films.

Including the $5 million base salary that John Hughes took away, the production budget of the film is only $15 million, although Hughes will be paid another $5 million to $7 million in the box office. The box office is also enough to make a profit.

Also produced by Daenerys Entertainment, "The Sixth Sense" still ranked second in the seventh week of its release, with another $16.71 million.

Meanwhile, the phenomenal horror film officially crossed the $200 million mark at the North American box office, reaching $211.06 million.

Although Universal Pictures' family comedy "Hot Family" starring Steve Martin had a poor start and never won a weekly box office championship, the box office curve went very beautifully, with a drop of only 22% this week. The painting entered its fourth week and received another 11.66 million US dollars, and the film's cumulative total box office has reached 473 unknowingly.

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New Line Cinema's "Monster Street 5" opened this week with a scale of 1,902 screens, with a box office of $11.1 million in its first week, trailing "Hot Family" by a slight disadvantage, ranking fourth on the list.

James Cameron's "Abyss" dropped 39% in its second week of release, collecting only $10.69 million, and its two-week box office totaled $28.22 million, ranking fifth. There is no hope for the film to return to its original value, and many executives of Fox Film continue to feel bad.

In addition to the top five on the list, many other popular films in the summer archives have entered the final finishing stage.

"The Sixth Sense" North American box office exceeded 200 million US dollars, and it is obviously expected to hit the 300 million US dollars mark, making the three film projects announced by Daenerys Entertainment and three Hollywood partners attract much attention.

In fact, Simon has confirmed more than these three projects, such as "Terminator 2", which Fox has begun to contact with the copyright owner, and a project by Columbia Pictures. The Columbia subsidiary Samsung Pictures decisively abandoned Matthew Broderick some time ago, and Simon is not indifferent to this.

However, Sony's acquisition of Columbia talks have not yet been finalized.

Compared with the merger between Time and Warner, because all aspects have begun to wrap up, and no other competitors in Colombia, whose performance has been sluggish in recent years, have jumped out to bid with Sony, this acquisition is almost a certainty. Sony has now begun to take over a series of operations at Columbia Pictures, and the decision to dump Matthew Broderick was the result of Japanese pressure.

After Daenerys Entertainment communicated with Columbia about the project selected by Simon, Sony's negotiating team hoped that Daenerys Entertainment would suspend the announcement of the results, so that the project that Simon was interested in would be a "good start" after Sony took Columbia.

Daenerys Entertainment naturally doesn't mind cooperating.

At the same time that various film companies began to devote energy to various projects, many Hollywood talent agencies were also pampered.

Except caa, of course.

Since the second half of last year, Daenerys Entertainment had a feud because of "Rain Man". During this year, many key project creators produced by Daenerys Entertainment did not have caa stars at all. In the two summer projects, the actor Kevin Costner of "Bodyguard" is an artist under ICM, and the actor film contract of the heroine Whitney Houston was also signed by wma. As for "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", including Robert De Niro, all the leading and supporting characters are WMA clients.

This kind of situation is nothing at all, and the stars under caa are not short of film appointments.

However, with the announcement of Daenerys Entertainment's 10 foreign cooperative film plans, caa has felt very obvious pressure.

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