Chapter 267

At the same time that bodyguard is popular, Batman's later stage is still advancing steadily.

Recently, the film has begun the soundtrack stage, Simon hesitated among several major Hollywood soundmakers, and finally decided to do it himself. After all, no one in Hollywood knows the effect he wants better than he does.

Warner Studios has the best recording studio and other related equipment, and this part of the work is still carried out in Burbank.

After a busy morning, Simon left Warner studios for the nearby Denise entertainment Burbank branch.

Today is June 9, Friday.

Ella doechman returned from Europe yesterday. Simon came to the company's branch and everyone chose a restaurant nearby for lunch. Doechman talked about the work of this European tour.

"In order to get paradise cinema, globegroup has offered a transaction plan of $5 million in advance plus later share. It's just a pure North American distribution right. It's already a sky high price. I can only give up. Tonadore got the Palme d'Or this time. There are many people who want to invest in his next film. There are also differences between him and me on the script of the "journey to heaven". This matter also failed to come to an agreement. "

As expected, Simon just asked, "what about the others?"

"Considering the situation at that time, I selected 10 films from the main competition unit and each exhibition unit, carefully communicated with each producer, and then sent them time limited offers with only one night to consider," said Ella doichman. Finally, in the movie I saw, the jury award winner "too beautiful" still didn't get it. Jane Campion's "sweet sister" got it. The omni channel copyright in North America was sold at a price of $300000 in advance plus 50% of the net box office profit. There is also a Swedish film called "the woman on the roof", with a $100000 advance payment and the same 50% share of the net box office profit

Simon noticed the smile on Ella doechman's face when she talked about it, and could probably imagine him fighting with other film makers who were watching Denise's entertainment.

"The woman on the roof" is just an addition, the focus is still "sweet sister".

The price of $300000 plus 50% of the net box office profit is not worth mentioning at all for Hollywood commercial films. However, according to Simon's judgment, the production cost of sweet sister will not exceed $500000. Just for the sale of North American copyrights, New Zealand film makers can basically recover most of the costs, not to mention the sharing terms.

Simon is actually more inclined to buy out, but he also understands that this idea is not realistic.

Just as he did in "Lola Run", filmmakers are looking forward to miracles. Doechman's offer, in fact, also reduced the risk for danielis entertainment.

Moreover, the division only involves the box office, and the later income from video and TV broadcasting rights is from danielis entertainment, which can also avoid long-term financial disputes and is a transaction mode that both parties are willing to accept.

The prepayment cost is $300000, and then about $500000 will be invested for publicity. The box office of sweet sister in North America needs to be more than $1.5 million to make ends meet.

Simon doesn't expect much of sweet sister's box office potential, as long as he can get $3 million, he will succeed.

According to this figure, gaomen film can make a small profit at the box office, and the later video and TV broadcasting can also bring good revenue. New Zealand film makers can also get another $300000 to $400000 share of the revenue, which is very happy for both sides.

Simon was about to ask about something else when he noticed Robert REM's slight frown as he listened to the conversation and asked, "Bob, what's the problem?"

Robert REM glanced at doechman and said, "Simon, I just think you value these small businesses too much."

"It's not a small business, Bob. Just like" Lola Run "and" vulgar novel ", both of which are artistic in nature, their box office is amazing. Now that I can do this, I believe other filmmakers can do the same. I don't expect that every year gaomen film will find a movie similar to "Lola Run", but as long as there is a well-selling literary film in two or three years, that's success. " Simon explained carefully, and finally said: "moreover, for me, there has never been the concept of big business and small business. I hope I can do every job well. For you, I am also looking forward to that. This is a very important issue of attitude. If a person can't take a $300000 "small business" seriously, he can't do it well by giving him $3 million or even $30 million. "

When doechman, Jennifer and new world film president Denny Morris, who had dinner together this time, were refuted, Simon's tone was very calm, but REM still could not hang up. He still insisted on his just point of view, but only reluctantly showed a smile and nodded: "OK."

Simon sighed and turned to doechman.

Without waiting for Simon to ask, doichman took the initiative to say, "according to your request, I successfully signed two film contracts with Campion. Next, she is going to shoot a biographical film called" the angel is at my table ". I have seen the script, which is also a prize winning film suitable for the European Film Festival. In addition, she has the idea of an original script, which tells the story of an aphasic woman who married to New Zealand with a piano. Because the script has not yet been formed, I can not judge whether it is good or bad for the time being. She said that she will draw up an outline in the near future. "The story of piano and dumb girl is obviously Simon's favorite piano farewell.

He didn't see the script, and Simon didn't express too much opinions. He continued to chat. He looked at the director of new world film, Denny Morris, and asked, "Denny, how are the preparations for the sequel of the corn field kids?"

At first, Denny Morris was appointed as the head of gaomen film industry. Because he was not optimistic about the prospects of art films and had a negative attitude, Simon sent him to take charge of the new world film industry, which specializes in horror films.

In the process of communication, he felt that Simon attached great importance to doichman and his comments on "big business" and "small business". Denny Morris regretted giving up his position as president of gaomen film.

New world pictures is not responsible for many projects now, mainly the sequel of scream 2, the third sequel of ghost 3, and the sequel of corn 2, which Simon asked about.

The first three films are all commercially successful.

Therefore, if the sequel is done well, unless it is done more than before, the credit will not be too great, but if it is messed up, it will certainly seriously affect their future.

With this in mind, Denny Morris quickly said: "the script has been completed, and we are looking for a director recently. In addition, I plan to shoot this film in Australia, which can save at least 10% of the budget. "

The budget scale of "cornfield kid" is 3 million US dollars. Because it is a low-cost film, shooting in Australia can't get the favorable tax rebate conditions like "Batman". A 10% reduction in the budget actually saved only $300000.

Going to Australia to shoot was just an idea that Denny Morris hesitated about. However, after hearing Simon's words, he made a decision without hesitation.

At least, this attitude can win the boss a lot of favor.

Simon is really satisfied.

Although a company's profits are not saved, if it can be careful, it must be careful.

After a few words, Simon didn't ignore REM and talked about the bodyguard.

The box office of bodyguard in the first week was $23.63 million, which was slightly lower than Simon's expectation, and even worse than the same period of "Raiders 3".

Fortunately, the original album of "bodyguard" sold as unexpectedly as in the original time and space, which made Simon full of expectations for the next box office trend and overseas box office performance of the film.

Moreover, Simon is more concerned with the box office than the original record.

If "bodyguard" can achieve the global box office of $400 million of the original version, Denise entertainment will make a net profit of at least $100 million in the next year or two, and the later video and other channels will also start to provide revenue.

In comparison, the expected revenue of original records is also amazing, but in memory, the sales volume of more than 45 million albums is the result of long-term accumulation in the next 10 or 20 years.

In addition, Simon is worried about the impact of this week's ghost hunters 2 on bodyguard.

I don't remember much about the box office figures of ghost hunters 2, but the $37 million blockbuster movie is clearly one of the top 10 best sellers on the annual list.

Moreover, "ghost hunting and death squads 2" is on a par with "Raider 3" and "bodyguard" in terms of both the release scale and the publicity offensive.

After lunch, we just returned to the Burbank office building and heard another piece of explosive news.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, paramount communications suddenly held a press conference, saying that it would launch the acquisition of time company, and offered a high price of $175 per share, totaling $10.7 billion.

Prior to this, the merger negotiation between time and Warner Bros. has been open for three months, and has recently come to an end.

Paramount communications suddenly shot, time and Warner Bros. executives were unprepared for a time.

Time company issued an announcement for the first time, saying that it did not welcome the malicious acquisition of paramount communications. Warner Brothers also quickly followed up and expressed support for the announcement of time.

It's hard for ordinary people to know the details of the acquisition, but the whole of Hollywood is paying close attention to it.

The entanglement of the three companies is also very interesting.

In fact, the previous transaction between time and Warner was the acquisition of Warner Bros. by time, which was the acquirer. Now, paramount communications launched an acquisition of time company, and time company immediately became the acquired party.

The main reason why the senior management of time company reacted so strongly is this kind of host guest translocation.

In the acquisition transaction between time and Warner, as the acquirer, the top management of time will still be the controller of this new large media group after the merger.

What's more, according to Simon's news, many senior executives of time company have even prepared a ten-year excellent salary contract for themselves. Even if some people have to leave after the merger, they will still get compensation income for ten years.In contrast, if time company is acquired by Paramount communications, after the merger, the management of time company is likely to be kicked out of the company, and the 10-year salary contract is even more impossible.

After the announcement of paramount communications was released, both sides came and went in the media for a few days. Paramount communications soon publicly stated that for the benefit of shareholders, paramount would file a lawsuit in Delaware federal court to stop the transaction between Time Inc. and Warner Brothers.

In the trading plan between time company and Warner Bros., both sides adopt the mode of stock swap. Time company's share price for itself is about $7 billion. Paramount Telecom's $10.7 billion cash acquisition plan is obviously much better than that of time and Warner.

However, the simple number is only an appearance.

According to the capital gains tax rate of 28% in the United States at this time, if the cash acquisition of paramount communications is accepted, the shareholders will cash in and pay taxes, and the final income will be roughly equivalent to the offer of the merger plan of time company and Warner Bros. Because stock swap transactions do not need to pay capital gains tax.

Therefore, paramount communication's statement on safeguarding the interests of shareholders is not so tenable.

As a spectator, Simon knows the final result of the acquisition.

What's more, Simon was envious of the deal.

Not to mention Warner Brothers. Time owns HBO, the most profitable pay cable network in North America, which makes Simon greedy.

Moreover, the paper media business of time, which owns platforms such as time magazine, is now equally profitable.

However, when it comes to the large-scale acquisition of tens of billions of dollars, danielis entertainment has no strength to participate at this time.

Simon is now focusing on the acquisition, just to accumulate experience for the future layout of Denise entertainment. In fact, this day will not be too far away, even if it only needs to wait until next year.

On the other hand, a week after the original record of "bodyguard" was put on the shelves, the sales volume of the first week also came out quickly.

For the sake of later stage marketing, alista records and danielis entertainment originally decided that even if the sales volume of this record could not exceed 1 million in the first week, both sides would push the number to more than 1 million in private.

Fortunately, the final sales volume of "bodyguard" original record is 1.02 million, so we don't have to take the risk of counterfeiting. The two companies soon launched large-scale follow-up publicity on this sales data.

In the fierce competition of summer stalls, the box office data of the new week came out on June 16.

In the first week of the painting, the box office of ghost catcher 2 was as good as that of Raider 3, which received 44.91 million US dollars, and won the first place in this week's box office.

The fourth week's box office of "Raider 3" also remained at $23.88 million, ranking second. The cumulative box office of the film also officially exceeded 100 million yuan, reaching $110.65 million.

Stimulated by the popularity of original sound records, the box office of bodyguard fell only 15% in the next week, and received another $2006 million, reaching a cumulative box office of $43.96 million.

Although the box office of "bodyguard" in two weeks is not as good as the complete first week data of "Raiders 3" and "ghost hunters 2", it is not uncommon for "bodyguard" to maintain such a strong box office curve under the attack of two blockbusters.