Chapter 193

At noon.

In an Italian restaurant near Santa Monica Beach, when Simon arrived, Terry Semel had arrived early and was sitting at the table reading a newspaper. Seeing Simon appear, Terry Semel gets up and shakes his hand. They sit down together.

Simon took the menu from the tall, eager looking waitress next to him, opened it and asked Semel at random, "what's the news today?"

It's hard for Simon to devote too much time to the news because he has been too busy recently.

Terry Semel also opened his menu and said with a smile: "the two presidential candidates spoke at the same time in an interview, saying that once they were elected, they would formulate stricter supervision measures on the financial derivatives market to avoid the recurrence of the" westero incident. "

Simon quickly got a lunch, handed the menu to the waitress and said, "it's none of my business. They're just going to offend their Wall Street Gold owners."

Terry Semel looked up at Simon from the menu and said, "you're not going to tell me that you'll never be in the futures market again, are you?"

Simon was noncommittal about Semel's question, saying: "stricter regulatory measures will only affect those who want to make huge profits through unconventional means such as insider speculation. "Forbes" list, at least in the top ten can not rely on those means to get into the list, of course, I am not

Terry Semel can not help thinking of some rumors in the circle. New York Southern District Court and other major regulatory agencies have not completely abandoned the covert investigation of Simon. However, so far, there is still no news against Simon.

As time goes on, those investigations are doomed to be over.

After ordering and dismissing the waitress who had been peering at Simon, Terry Semel said, "Simon, we've recently acquired lorimar. Do you know about that?"

Simon nodded, probably understanding why Semel mentioned it.

Lorimar production company, founded in the 1960s, is the largest TV program studio in this era. The company rose in the 1970s and reached its peak in the past few years. Then it rapidly declined with the stock market crash last year and the writers' strike this year.

A few months ago, Simon and Amy went to see the MGM set in Culver City that lorimar wanted to sell.

At the beginning of this month, when he heard Warner's acquisition of lorimar, Simon realized that this was probably the reason why Warner's TV Department produced many popular American dramas such as friends and the story of the emergency room in the 1990s. Before that, Warner's TV business was not good.

Seeing Simon nodding, Terry Semel said, "I heard you are interested in MGM Studios in Culver City. We are just going to sell this part of the property. Do you want it now? I guarantee the price will be very affordable. "

Warner Bros. has a very large shooting base in Burbank and obviously does not need a second set.

However, Simon didn't hesitate, so he shook his head and said, "Terry, that set is too shabby. Instead of buying it for a large-scale renovation, I'd better choose a new piece of land to start from scratch. It's cheaper."

Terry Semel said, "but Simon, unless it's suburban, it's hard to find another 50 acre plot in downtown Los Angeles."

Simon said: "the suburbs are nothing. When these studios were just built, they were all in the suburbs. Only with the continuous development of the city did they circle in the urban area."

Terry Semel thought he could take nine out of ten to push MGM set to Simon. Unexpectedly, he looked like he had no interest, so he had to give up and said, "well, Simon, about the last thing we discussed, you've got Marvel Entertainment and a large number of superhero copyrights such as spider man, magic four and X-Men. I'm curious, why are you still interested in DC superheroes? It's hard for Warner to give wonder woman to you without a good reason? "

"Marvel's superhero movies are too difficult to make, such as Spiderman. With the current technology, it's very difficult for us to realize Peter Parker's scenes in the metropolis," Simon replied without thinking too much. "Compared with DC's superhero movies, it's very possible. As for my purpose, Terry, it's obvious that I want to accumulate more copyright, which Hollywood studios do. There's nothing to hide. Before me, Canon pictures bought the shooting rights of Marvel's most popular spider man and DC's superman. Of course, the rights of these two superheroes are now in the hands of danielis entertainment. "

"You're different from them," Terry Semel said, shaking his head. "I remember at the Oscars after party earlier this year, you told me that you were going to let Superman and Batman work together. Well, Batman vs Superman. That's what you said, right? Now, you want wonder woman again. "

"Terry, I don't want to waste my time on such nonsense. Can you just be Warner's condition?"

Terry Semel no longer beat around the Bush and said: "Simon, warner can give you both" spy "and" Wonder Woman ". We can let go of" spy ", but Warner must reserve 50% of the investment right of" Wonder Woman ". However, unlike Superman and Batman, Denise entertainment can reserve the distribution right of" Wonder Woman " . In exchange, Denise and Warner need to work together on a project with a box office of more than 100 million yuan, whether it's your own script or other projects selected by Denise entertainment. Our profit sharing mode of instinct is to share the profits. However, if the local box office of the project we cooperate with does not exceed 100 million yuan, the contract will be automatically extended until it exceeds 100 million yuan. "Simon thought about Terry Semel's offer quickly and said, "in this case, I can't give the distribution right to Warner. It's hard to make a film break the box office of 100 million in North America, but it's too easy to make it fail to achieve that."

"Of course I understand that," Terry Semel said with a smile on his face. "So the distribution rights go to Denise entertainment."

Simon thought for a moment, and suddenly realized that it seemed to be more detrimental to Denise's entertainment.

Because the distribution ability of danielis entertainment is certainly not as strong as that of Warner, and the profit sharing mode of instinct means that danielis entertainment can't take Hollywood account books or other means, but needs to spare no effort to publicize.

After weighing it over and over for a moment, Simon made a decision, reached out to Semel and said, "deal."