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Recently, the box office of "Rain Man" was unexpectedly popular, and the situation of CAA in this turmoil is very embarrassing.Moreover, CAA should have already felt that Daenerys Entertainment has completely banned its artists.

Not to mention anything else, it's just the reception tonight. Except for the few people who have worked with Redford, Daenerys Entertainment didn't invite the other big names from CAA. The big names at the party are basically WMA and ICM. The company's banner is obvious.

In fact, Daenerys Entertainment and CAA have never publicly split their faces. The few meetings between Simon and Ovitz can even be said to be pleasant. However, after a series of entanglements in "Rain Man", the huge rift between the two parties almost well known.

Ovitz asked Radford to help spread the word this time, probably because he considered that Simon would probably refuse to contact him personally.If Ovitz had been able to dissuade Barry Levinson and others from seeing their faces, if CAA hadn't made those little tricks in private before the release of "Rain Man", if CAA hadn't asked for a lot of money on the issue of Meg Ryan, both parties Perhaps there is still some room for maneuver.

Now, Simon does reject each other, and he feels that he and Ovitz have nothing to talk about.

As for the complete fallout with CAA, Simon didn't care too much.The very nature of the talent agency is one of dependency, not dominance, on Hollywood studios.In all fairness, because CAA has continued to substantially increase the studio's budget for film and television projects in recent years, even without this incident, Daenerys Entertainment and CAA are bound to confront each other due to conflicts of interest.

Although he has a good friendship with Radford, it is impossible for Simon to agree to his matchmaking without principle, so he shook his head regretfully and said, "I'm sorry, Bob, my schedule is already full for tomorrow."

Redford did not give up, and said: "Simon, it's just a movie, not to mention that Daenerys Entertainment has already achieved success, there is no need for everyone to do this."

Because of his alienation from the world in his bones, Simon rarely gets too emotional about things, but at the same time, he has never been a forgiving person.How could one person almost vomit blood when he punched another person in the back, and then said "you don't have to do this" and wanted to reconcile?

Shaking his head again, Simon smiled and changed the subject: "Bob, what is your next movie plan, I am looking forward to it?"

Robert Redford could only sigh inwardly when he saw that he was unsuccessful.Although he has some friendship with Simon, with Simon's current status, he doesn't think he can influence this young man too much.Now that the words had been passed on, Radford did not waste any more words.

Chapter 225 So Short (Repair)

After the lively New Year's countdown, the New Year's Eve reception began to wrap up.

At one o'clock in the morning, Simon sent away the three members of James Raybould's family and returned to the villa. In the empty living room, there were only waiters cleaning up the mess. There should be some guests in the backyard, but Simon didn't need to personally send off.

Along the stairs to the second floor, Simon heard Janet's chuckle outside a living room.

After entering the door, four women, Janet, Catherine, Amy, and Nancy Brill, were cuddling on the sofa in different postures and chatting about something. The women were obviously drunk with goblets in their hands. Jenny His extremely fair face had turned red at this moment.

Walking to Janet's sofa and sitting on the armrest, Simon gently took the red wine from the woman's hand and refused to let her drink any more. He looked at Amy and said, "Ladies, it's getting late, do you want to continue?"

Amy raised her wrist to look at her watch, and then showed a surprised expression: "It's already 1:25, Simon, have you seen Cliff?"

Cliff is Amy's new boyfriend, introduced as the owner of a French restaurant in Brentwood.

Simon thought for a moment and said, "He should be on the lawn in the backyard."

"Then, I should go." Amy put the goblet in her hand on the coffee table in front of her, stood up with the arm of the sofa, shook her head slightly, and said to Simon with a smile: "Boss, I will go to the company later tomorrow." , the reason should be very legitimate, right?"

Simon nodded with a smile: "Of course."

The tomorrow that Amy said is actually today, and Simon will naturally not be serious about such small details.

New Year's Day is supposed to be a legal holiday in the United States, but Simon will fly to Australia tomorrow, and there are still many things to be arranged before leaving. At least Daenerys Entertainment's high-level executives need to continue to appear in the company tomorrow.

As Amy stood up, the other three women also stood up.

Simon hugged Janet who was dangling softly on his body after standing up, and noticed Nancy Brill inadvertently with his eyes, and couldn't help but said: "It's so short."

It turned out that Nancy Brill, who had just curled herself up on the armchair, had taken off her high heels.

I didn't notice in the past that the woman was standing barefoot on the carpet at this time, and Simon discovered that Nancy Brill's height should be less than 1.6 meters, not to mention Catherine, even Janet and Amy who are about 1.7 meters tall In front of the two women, they are obviously shorter.However, the woman's curvaceous mature charm is combined with her height, but it has a very attractive style.

When Simon said that, the three of Janet, who suddenly realized this, also showed surprise expressions.

Nancy Brill was watched by several people, but she sat down again as if nothing had happened, and found her at least 10cm high heels on her feet from the side, and glanced at Catherine casually, her tone seemed a little more defensive , Said: "Boss, are you discriminating?"

"Of course not," Simon denied with a smile, watching Nancy Brill quickly get up again, her pair of hats were hidden under the hem of the rose-colored dress, and her head had obviously jumped a lot, saying: " Actually, it doesn’t seem so good to wear shoes that high all the time.”

Nancy Brill obviously didn't want to continue this topic, but said indifferently: "If you don't wear it, the result will be even worse."

Since Nancy didn't like discussing her height, Simon stopped.But I couldn't help thinking in my heart, did this woman care about her height because she was too strong, or did she become so strong because of her height. The small head of 1.5 meters is indeed a bit short among Western women.

Everyone went downstairs together. Amy found her boyfriend among the last group of guests in the backyard. Watching the valet drive the two away, Simon noticed that Nancy Brill was still alone.

The parking officer drove a black Mercedes-Benz car over, and Simon watched Nancy say goodbye to everyone, then got into the driver's seat, stepped forward and pressed the door that the woman wanted to close, and asked, "You yourself? "

Nancy sat in the driver's seat, took off her high heels and put them aside again, looked at Simon and said, "Boss, is there a problem?"

Simon opened the car door a little and moved to the side: "Sit in the back and let the driver take you back."

Nancy shook her head: "No need."

Simon looked at the woman persistently: "Get out of the car."

Nancy stared at Simon for a while, and finally said: "I'm not used to strangers sending me home."

Simon looked up to find Neil Bennett, gestured to him, looked back at Nancy, and said, "I'll ask my driver to take you back."

Nancy hesitated for a moment, then got out of the car and turned to the back seat.

Simon explained a few words to Neil Bennett, and watched him drive Nancy away before turning around.Janet was looking at him with a smile, with a little teasing: "Nancy obviously wants you, the boss, to send her back in person. You really don't know how to be funny."

Neil Bennett was going to send Simon and the two back to Malibu, but now he can only wait a little longer.

Simon ignored Janet's teasing, and asked Catherine next to him, "Let's go back to Malibu together later?"

"Okay," Catherine nodded to Simon unexpectedly, but then added: "I just recently rented a house in Paradise Bay, not far from Dumei Point, just on the way."

After the time when the three of them were together, Catherine never gave Simon another chance to be ridiculous.

Seeing Simon's depressed expression, Janet walked forward to the villa with a smile, grabbed Catherine's arm, and said, "Go to Australia the day after tomorrow, Kate, and you will come and live with me then."

Catherine glanced at Simon, who was falling beside the two, and asked, "Aren't you going with him?"

"Our house in Cape Dume Park is about to start construction," Janet shook her head, and said, "Besides, Daenerys Entertainment will conduct a financial audit in the next month or so, and I will stay in Los Angeles to help him keep an eye on it." So, um, when his birthday is in February, we will visit the class together again."

After Neil Bennett sent Nancy Brill home, he went through another toss, and it was already past two o'clock in the morning when he fell asleep.

Wake up the next day and the new year has officially started.

A high-level meeting was held at ten o'clock in the morning and lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. The main topic was the company's work arrangements during the time Simon left Los Angeles.

In the next few months, Daenerys Entertainment will focus on establishing overseas distribution channels and promoting the overseas distribution of several films such as "Scream" at the end of last year.

In this era, the overseas release of Hollywood films is rarely able to be released at the same time as in North America, and it is very common for them to be delayed by two or three months.Therefore, at the end of last year, Daenerys Entertainment did not get distracted overseas at all, and put all its energy on local distribution.

Now, several films such as "Scream" have all achieved great success at the box office, which has also created very good conditions for the expansion of Daenerys Entertainment's overseas distribution channels.With these few blockbuster films as bargaining chips, Daenerys Entertainment can easily establish connections with overseas cinema operators.

In addition to film distribution, the next most important job is the financial audit of the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Because it is not a listed company, Daenerys Entertainment does not need to announce its annual financial report.

However, due to the rapid expansion of the company, even Simon himself is not very clear about the revenue data of Daenerys Entertainment including its subsidiaries, let alone whether there are potential problems in it. A very detailed financial audit of Daenerys Entertainment is required.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the financial report, Simon also specially authorized Janet to supervise the audit throughout today's meeting.

Finally, there are several films produced by Daenerys Entertainment's award-winning strategies in the awards season in the next few months.

Simon has never been too enthusiastic about Oscars and other awards. Although he has established Gaomen Films, which specializes in literary films and relies heavily on major film awards, in his opinion, Oscars and other awards should always be 'icing on the cake' The existence of such things should not become the fundamental goal of a movie to be anti-objective.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after a simple lunch, Simon, Amy and other senior executives met with Blockbuster Chairman Wayne Huizenga to discuss the specific plan for Daenerys Entertainment to invest in Blockbuster .

After several hours of consultations, the two sides reached a preliminary agreement.

Daenerys Entertainment invested US$1.2 million to obtain a 35% stake in Blockbuster. At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment promised not to intervene in the management of Blockbuster within the next three years.Correspondingly, Blockbuster also guarantees that the shares of Daenerys Entertainment will not be diluted in the next three years.If Blockbuster needs to continue financing, Daenerys Entertainment can give priority to the capital injection share that ensures the company's shareholding ratio.

Nancy Brill was also identified as a Blockbuster board member following this meeting.

That night, Simon once again invited the Raybould family to have dinner in Malibu. During the period, he and James Raybould discussed some matters of Westeros in private. Simon had completed his arrangements before leaving.

Although he still has some concerns about letting go of the steering wheel of Daenerys Entertainment's fast-moving 'sports car', Simon also understands that he must do so.A company cannot continue to operate without someone, and the company is doomed to fail to grow.

On January 1, Simon officially flew to Melbourne, Australia with a group of entourage in the morning.

The preliminary preparations for the "Batman" project have been completed. After arriving in Melbourne, Simon only needs to spend a few days to familiarize himself with the environment. The film will officially start shooting on January 1. The planned shooting period is 9 weeks and 13 days.If all goes well, the movie will wrap up in early April and take three months.

Simon left Los Angeles, and everything in Hollywood was not affected much.

Daenerys Entertainment's award-winning public relations work this year was handed over by Simon to Ella Deutschman, the person in charge of High Gate Films. After Simon left, Ella Deutschman began to contribute At the same time, it is preparing for the Oscar nomination declaration of related films under Daenerys Entertainment.

With the unexpected box office success of "Rain Man", Hollywood is also very concerned about the film's Oscar public relations strategy.

Daenerys Entertainment had completely given up on this year's Golden Globe Awards on "Rain Man" before. Many people speculated that due to the conflict with the main creators of "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment is likely to continue to give up this year's award. Oscar for this film.

"Rain Man" has become a complete phenomenon. If this film enters the Oscar battle, the other films of this year basically have little chance.

Therefore, the whole of Hollywood is looking forward to Simon Westeros being a teenager.

However, "Rain Man" gave up the Golden Globe Award, but Simon was paving the way for "Dead Poets Society". He still had the same view as before, and he would not do such stupid things as being angry with others and smashing his own family. "Rain Man" will declare all possible awards as scheduled.

However, Ella Deutschmann also got a very difficult job because of this.

Among the nominations declared by "Rain Man", the best director and best actor are obviously easy to get.In the original time and space, these two nominations also successfully won the statuettes for Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman.

But this time, Simon's task for Ella Deutschman is to let Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman only get nominations and no awards, just like Daenerys Entertainment Time has continued to send invitations to C's artists for role auditions, but it's the same as not hiring them.

Such things as reverse public relations often happen between competitors, but it is still very difficult to prevent your own film from winning awards.

This is also one of Simon's tests for Ira Deutschmann.

In addition to "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment will continue to focus on public relations for "Dead Poets Society". The company's goal is for "Rain Man" to win the best picture and "Dead Poets Society" to win the best director.

The major Hollywood film companies have clearly shown a tendency to work together to suppress Daenerys' entertainment. At this time, the many "disadvantages" that were difficult to influence the Oscar judges have instead become "advantages".

There are more than 3000 members of the Oscar judging committee. As long as Daenerys Entertainment is not stingy with investment and has high-quality films, the possibility of getting nominations and awards is still very high.

In private, Simon specially gave Ella Deutschman a face-to-face opportunity to teach him the public relations methods of the Weinstein brothers in his memory.

Before I knew it, the New Year's Eve week passed again.

Movies released at the end of last year continued to harvest the box office, but compared to the box office explosion during the Christmas week, during the week from December 12 to January 30, the North American single-week box office market was 1 million US dollars compared to last week. It shrunk back to $5 million, a decline for most of the films.

Except Rain Man.

Due to the unexpected rise in the box office in the second week of its release, Daenerys Entertainment urgently negotiated with the theaters and reallocated 262 screens, which increased the number of screens for "Rain Man" from 1136 to 1398 this week.Coupled with the phenomenon-level word-of-mouth that "Rain Man" continued to spread, in the third week of its release, this film became the only film on the market to achieve a box office reversal this week, with a box office increase of 7%, and another $1791 million. The cumulative box office was 4623 million US dollars.

At the same time, "Rain Man" also surpassed "Dead Poets Society" and counterattacked all the way, successfully winning the single-week box office champion in the third week of its release.

Chapter 226 Market Share (Revised)

In a Boeing 747 first-class flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles, Michael Ovitz spent the 12-hour flight journey reading various materials.

Initially trying to get Sony to buy MCA, after Lou Vasalman offered a high price of 80 billion US dollars, Sony, whose current market value is only more than 140 billion US dollars, chose to refuse, and Michael Ovitz turned his target to Colombia.

Coca-Cola happens to also intend to give up its non-core business, and the two parties have officially started negotiations.

The time is July 1th.

Michael Ovitz led the negotiating team assisting Sony's acquisition of Columbia and returned today from two days in Tokyo.

Now, that young man has left for Australia to film The Batman, but Hollywood still seems to revolve around Daenerys entertainment these days.Several documents that Michael Ovitz read along the way were also related to Daenerys Entertainment.

In the past year, as of December 1988, 12, the cumulative box office generated by the US market was 31 billion US dollars.

If calculated according to the deadline of December 12 and divided by distributors, the film company with the highest cumulative box office in Hollywood this year is Disney, with a total of 31 million US dollars and a market share of 5.31%.

After Disney, the other three companies, Paramount, Warner and Universal, all have a market share of around 10%.

Among them, "Scream", "Steel Magnolia", "Dead Poets Society", "Rain Man" and "Avella Cry" independently released by Daenerys Entertainment, as of December 12 , the cumulative box office is only 31 million US dollars, and the market share is 2.56%.

Judging from this data alone, Daenerys Entertainment does not seem to have anything special.

However, the whole of Hollywood actually understands that this calculation method is completely deceitful.

If calculated according to the production side, Daenerys Entertainment's seven films this year, "When Harry Met Sally", "Pulp Fiction", "Instinct", "Scream", "Steel Magnolia", " Dead Poets Society and Rain Man, as of December 12, had a cumulative box office of $31 million.

$7.3 million will immediately increase Daenerys Entertainment's market share from 5.5% to 15.6%.

What is even more impossible to ignore is that the box office of 15.6 million US dollars, which accounted for 7.3% of the market share, was generated by only 7 movies.In contrast, Disney's $5.31 million box office figure means 15 movies behind it, one of which is "When Harry Met Sally" produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

And, if you go by Daenerys Entertainment's total North American box office estimates for these films, the total box office of the seven films is likely to reach a terrifying $9 million. 9 million US dollars, which is close to 20% of the US annual box office market share.

It is conceivable that if this situation continues, Daenerys Entertainment is likely to become an industry hegemon like MGM in the golden age of Hollywood.

An independent film company that has risen for only two years has shown such strong development potential. If it were otherwise, Michael Ovitz would definitely not be able to help admiring a few times.But now, such a strong company has formed an antagonistic state with C.

Michael Ovitz has no regrets about C's role in Rain Man, and he once told his clients that he would kill for them if necessary.It is precisely because C stands on the side of his clients unconditionally and protects the interests of clients as much as possible that more and more top stars are willing to join this talent agency company.

If you can't be friends, then be enemies.

Daenerys Entertainment is so strong that it will definitely seriously damage the interests of traditional Hollywood film companies.After trying to reconcile with Daenerys Entertainment was rejected a few days ago, Ovitz tried to test the heads of major Hollywood film companies. entertainment.

The answer is no.

Among the seven, Warner is cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment in "Batman" and "Flying Childhood". At this time, it is impossible to be an enemy of Daenerys Entertainment.

Disney also holds a directorial contract with Simon Westero. Judging from the box office results of "Run Lola Run" and "Pulp Fiction", the film directed by Simon Westero has the potential to break [-] million at the box office. Well, Disney is obviously unwilling to compete with Daenerys Entertainment and lose a project that has a good chance of breaking the box office.