Chapter 243

After a false alarm, Denise Entertainment's operations quickly recovered as usual.

However, after this incident, Amy and other leaders of the westrow system also realized how fragile Simon's business empire was in some ways.

When all kinds of rumors suddenly came from Melbourne, Amy even heard that the Los Angeles County government once planned to set up a special working group to take over danilisi entertainment. Because in law, Simon is actually alone. He has no legal heir.

Janet is undoubtedly Simon's closest person, but legally, they have nothing to do with each other.

Moreover, during the whole process, no one thought that Simon, a young man in his early twenties, would think of making a will or something.

When they arrived in Melbourne, Amy and James suggested Simon reestablish his will and, in some cases, his asset agent. They've learned that Simon left a will with George Norman, but it involves billions of dollars in assets, and it can't be too cautious.

Howard Hughes, who died in 1976, has a huge legacy lawsuit that is still going on more than a decade later.

A lot of information confirms that Hughes left his will at that time. However, due to the lack of a clear legal successor, all the true and false wills were declared invalid under the trend of huge interests. Hughes' huge legacy has become a feast for many people.

Simon naturally didn't want to end up like Hughes, so he listened to Amy's suggestion and redrawn the relevant wills and agency documents under multiple guarantees.

In March, after rain man, Denise Entertainment's other two films "steel Magnolia" and "dead poets club" which were scheduled at the end of last year also achieved a box office of more than 100 million in North America.

As a result, in 1988, there were 11 North American Club films with a total box office of 100 million yuan, seven of which were produced by danielis entertainment, and the other four were Disney's Who Framed Roger the rabbit, Paramount's journey to America, fox's flying over the future and Paramount's Crocodile Dundee 2.

At the end of 1988, the two films "white headed detective" and "brother dragon and brother mouse", which were also box office hits, were finally unable to reach the threshold of 100 million yuan under the attack of many popular films of danielis entertainment.

The two films are still on show, but according to the current box office data, the North American box office volume of "white head detective" is only about $73 million, and the domestic box office volume of "dragon brother and rat brother" is only about $95 million.

Among the seven films that have made the North American box office exceed 100 million, six have entered the top ten of the box office list in 1988, and only the last one, death poetry society, is still catching up with its top one, Crocodile Dundee 2.

However, "death Poetry Society" is not a hot award season like "Rain Man", but the topic degree is not low recently. It is not difficult to catch up with "Crocodile Dundee 2", which was released last summer.

On the other hand, "bodyguard" and "sixth sense" have been successfully completed in recent years, and John Hughes's "Uncle buck" is more than half finished. Denise entertainment also officially announced the schedule of three films, which are June 2, June 30 and August 11.

In addition, on February 24, after "Thunderbolt Blue Angel", Denise Entertainment's gaomen film company released its first film "metropolitan". The boy art film directed by whit Stillman did not win the award at the Sundance Film Festival in January, but it has a good reputation.

The production cost of "Metropolis man" is $3 million, which is far more than the hundreds of thousands of dollars that whit Stillman originally planned to gather his family and friends to help shoot.

Thanks to the use of some well-known actors and the film's reputation, "Metropolis man" opened the screen with 127 yuan. The box office of the first week of its release reached 1.39 million US dollars, and the box office of a single Museum reached a hot level of more than 10000.

Ella doechman has invested $2 million in the film's publicity budget.

With a revenue of US $1.39 million in the first week, the total box office in North America is expected to reach about US $8 million to US $10 million depending on the long-term release after appropriately increasing the screening scale, which is enough to enable danilisi entertainment to recover its cost only by the North American box office.

Although the estimated North American box office of metropolitan may not be as big as the first week of some of Denise Entertainment's blockbuster films, the positioning of gaomen film industry is just like this. Simon is very satisfied with Ella doichman's operation.

This year's Easter is March 26, earlier than usual.

After metropolises, gaomen's other film sisters will be released on March 17, and new world's ghost 2 will also be released on March 24 of the Easter schedule.

Overseas.

Because it is from scratch to establish overseas distribution channels, Robert REM's work progress is relatively slow. However, with the help of the four best-selling film copyrights of scream, steel magnolia, death Poetry Society and rain man, everything is going well.

It is expected that in the first half of this year, Denise entertainment will be able to release four of its best-selling films at the end of last year in major overseas ticket warehouse countries. Moreover, as long as the channel expansion is completed, the film overseas distribution of Denise entertainment will be much faster.Finally, with a large number of films in various stages of preparation, such as pretty girl, ghost, ninja turtle, driving for Miss Daisy and so on, the film business of Denise entertainment has really entered a sustainable and benign development state.

Los Angeles.

Sofia Fissi arrived here yesterday after leaving Melbourne.

Because the fashion week in the second half of the year is very important for Gucci's recovery. Despite Simon's funding and commitment, she flew to Los Angeles in person and planned to communicate with Amy face to face.

Moreover, gucci also has a franchise store on Beverly Avenue. Sofia also plans to carry out some financial audit and personnel adjustment for the franchise store here. These jobs also need the help of danelis entertainment. She can't find a suitable accounting team in a short time, and the same is true for the franchise store in New York.

After signing the equity transfer agreement, Sofia appointed itself as the president of Gucci, because melisandro company has taken the absolute control, gucci no longer set up a board of directors, and some core members of the original Gucci family only got some titles such as consultant.

Today is Saturday.

Sofia spent two days at the Beverly Boulevard store and arrived in Malibu in the evening.

There's a public relations party organized by Denise entertainment.

Thanks to Denise Entertainment's ongoing public relations campaign for the Oscars at the end of this month, palisade's mansion has become the target of many tabloids, and the company has to change places to hold parties.

Today's party is held in a mansion Amy just bought in Malibu, which is located in Paradise Bay, not far from domay point.

After the 87 stock market crash, the house prices in North America continued to fall, and Malibu was unable to escape. In the early 1980s, Malibu's hot real estate development almost stagnated in the past two years, and the house prices were at the lowest point in these years.

However, Amy is acutely aware that with the construction of danielis entertainment studio and domay point manor, Malibu will definitely become a gathering place for celebrities and superstars.

It's a good time to buy a house in Malibu.

Although she won't get her last year's salary until the end of March, Amy has been looking for a nice seaside mansion in Malibu.

It's going to be late. Seeing that the guests have already arrived, Amy, who has been greeting with her restaurant owner's boyfriend, is a little more relaxed.

When the party was officially announced, Amy went to the living room next door.

As Simon inadvertently predicted, Sophia fishy and Nancy Brill were exactly the same at first sight. Because they arrived early, they had been talking for more than an hour.

Amy sat down on the sofa next to Sophia and Nancy with a glass of red wine and asked, "what are you talking about?"

Nancy said: "Sophie is going to ask her boss to help shoot Gucci's commercials. I don't think that's a good idea at all. Although I don't doubt Simon has enough strength to shoot a group of amazing commercials, the promotion ability of such a gimmick to the brand is not as great as expected. "

When Amy hears the words, she looks at Sophia for some unknown reasons. Sometimes, Nancy's thoughts always make people unable to keep up.

Sophia explained with a smile: "regarding Gucci's promotion, I hope Simon can shoot a group of advertisements for Gucci himself, but Nancy has put forward another better suggestion, that is, to make a Gucci brand documentary for the theme of fashion week in the next half of the year."

"Fashion documentary, this is a very novel idea, if you are going to do it, I can help you like this."

Sophia said, "I couldn't have done it without the help of daenerys entertainment."

Amy realized that Sophia wasn't joking, so she took it seriously and thought, "if you really want to do it, you can put it under the banner of gaomen pictures, which Ella is responsible for, and operate it as an art film. But, Sophie, I remember luxury brands should be as reserved and low-key as possible? Is this going to be a bit of publicity? "

Before Sofia answered, Nancy shook her head and said, "those low-key luxury brands have probably disappeared. I have privately studied Dior and LVMH operated by Bernard Arnault of France. When Bernard Arnault acquired the parent company of Dior, bossack group, that company was on the verge of bankruptcy and Dior could hardly operate any more. Arnold sold most of bosack group's assets and reorganized Dior to make the brand live again. Arnold's mode of operation is a large-scale advertising campaign and a variety of eye-catching public relations activities. In this respect, we obviously have more advantages. "

Amy nodded, looked at Sophia and said, "in that case, you can talk to Ella later."

Sophia had already begun to figure out how to make the documentary. She agreed and asked Amy, "what are you doing, Amy

Amy said with a smile: "a lot of things, I feel like I'm going to fly."

"I can share it for you," Nancy said suddenlyAmy raised her hand and stabbed Nancy on the waist, saying, "don't worry, I will never give you a chance to replace me."

Nancy opened Amy's hand and said, "well, why did the boss faint last time? I don't think he was overworked. He always felt strange."

"Well, the doctor didn't check out any problems, no one can tell. But you know what happened to him Amy couldn't say why, so she looked at Sophia and asked, "Sophie, you just came back from Melbourne. What do you think is the matter?"

"I don't know."

Sophia shook her head, only with a different expression.

She didn't tell the two girls that although she didn't get along with each other much, she could obviously feel that Simon had some different changes compared with the past. However, he can not be too specific about this change.

It's not very interesting, too clear.

After talking for a while, the three women got up again and went to the party.

Sophia also found Ella doichman, who was chatting with guests in the crowd, and talked about Gucci documentary under the introduction of Nancy.

Ella doechman's main thoughts during this period are on the public relations of several films such as rain man. However, after hearing the introduction of the two women, he still showed interest.

There is not a very successful fashion documentary in the industry, but this is just an opportunity.

Moreover, the Gucci brand is full of topics.

If it works properly, this documentary can even be put on the big screen. What's more, this documentary doesn't need too much production cost.

According to Ella doichman's experience, it only takes about three or five million dollars to complete. He has a budget of US $30 million in his hands. In addition to the release of several films such as "metropolis" and "sisters", only two films have been confirmed by gaomen pictures, namely "my left foot" and "driving for Miss Daisy". The cost of these two projects is very low, and he has a large budget in his hands.

What's more, the money for documentary production doesn't need to be paid by Denise entertainment.

The basic purpose of the documentary is to promote Gucci brand. Gucci definitely needs to provide some funds, which is probably equivalent to the sponsorship fee. Danielis entertainment only needs to pay half of the production cost to get all the rights of a documentary.

After a detailed discussion, the three quickly decided on the production plan of Gucci documentary.

After the party, Ella doechman and Sophia agreed to continue to talk about it tomorrow, and energetic Nancy Brill also participated in it.