Chapter 305

At more than 5 p.m., the audition for the hero of "ten days of danger" ended.

There were only three candidates in the final round of the audition, and the last one was Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith's husband.

Simon didn't think that Don Johnson, with a tough style, could play a good role as a writer, but he changed his point of view after seeing the audition video carefully prepared by Don Johnson at the request of some contacts of the Griffith family.

Moreover, Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon are the same age, and they can form an alternative CP effect.

The audition took one and a half hours, and the actor of Don Johnson was basically finalized. Next, the producer and Don Johnson's agent only need to discuss the details such as the film's salary.

After work, everyone left the audition room jokingly.

When the others left and stayed at the end, Don Johnson said to Simon, "one more thing, Simon, may and I are going to hold a baptism ceremony for Dakota on the 16th of next month. I don't know if you are free to attend. You took the little guy's name."

A few months ago, at the box office Gala of lethal weapon 2, Simon casually named the Johnson couple's daughter "original" Dakota Johnson for fun. Later, he almost forgot about it.

When the baby was born in October, the Johnsons actually used the name and spread the news of Simon's personal name.

As a result, a little girl who was just born attracted a lot of media attention. After Vanity Fair magazine offered a high price, a group photo of the Johnson family finally appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in November. In the interview article, Simon's name was specifically mentioned again.

Simon's explanation of Dakota's name "eternal smile" has even aroused controversy among some linguists.

"On the 16th of next month," Simon thought about it and said, "don, I'm not sure I'll be in Los Angeles. If I am, I'm sure I'll be there."

The release time of "Batman" is December 22. Warner Bros. has decided that the Los Angeles Premiere of "Batman" will be on December 20. Simon does not intend to participate in the specific publicity of the film too much, so he is likely not to come back before December 20.

Don Johnson didn't know Simon's arrangement. He promised that he would attend as long as he was in Los Angeles. He reached over happily and said, "that's settled."

Simon and Don Johnson shook hands and said with a smile, "of course."

The main creator of "ten days of danger" has been basically finalized. Among the 10 films planned to be released next year, only "pink League" is left.

Now that the CAA ban has been lifted, the cast has officially invited Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks has been a top male star after "flying over the future". However, he has not shown the strong box office appeal of many old male stars. Therefore, the price offered is also a modest $5 million. Simon did not bargain.

Sony, which has just won Columbia Pictures, is in the stage of spending money, but Simon has limited the budget of the pink League to 25 million dollars.

Tom Hanks took $5 million, Gina Davis paid $2 million, and PANI Marshall, the original director, was promoted to the front line after working with Hanks on "flying over the future". The director's pay was also $5 million.

The three main creators took $12 million and ensured $10 million of shooting expenses, leaving little money for other supporting roles. Madonna, who has made soy sauce in the original version, will definitely not be invited again. Many supporting actors can only get low weekly salary.

However, Simon himself led the project, Hollywood now even inverted will never lack actors, so the compact budget will not affect the quality of actors.

Simon has been looking for the rest of the list of 10 films in his plan, in addition to the project that officially started production.

The next day was November 16, Thursday.

"Flying over innocence" will start painting tomorrow. The premiere of the film will be held in the evening at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The lively premiere ceremony started at 5 p.m., Simon attended alone, stopped on the red carpet for a short time to take photos, and then went directly into the theater. At 8 o'clock, the premiere was over, and most of the guests were transferred to a nearby hotel for the afterlife party.

Simon was going to leave early, but Terry Semel stopped him.

In the banquet hall of the hotel, after a dinner party, Semel and Simon come to a corner together: "well, Simon, next month's time man of the year has been confirmed by time."

Seeing Semel's congratulatory expression, Simon didn't understand and said, "me?"

"Of course, besides you, who has such qualifications?" Terry Semel said with a smile: "in fact, you already have this qualification in the first two years, so you can arrange to shoot a set of cover movies recently. Of course, you can't shirk this interview."Time man of the year.

Simon sighed from the bottom of his heart. Of course, he knew what it meant.

As a world-wide influential current affairs weekly, the cover characters of each issue have attracted much attention. In order to gain fame, some people even fake the cover of time.

Time magazine's person of the year is the top priority of time magazine's cover characters every year.

Therefore, the cover of such a magazine is definitely not so good.

Last year, some media predicted that Simon would become time's man of the year in 1988, but in the end, time would rather give the quota to "endangered earth" than fall on Simon.

In the face of doubts from the outside world, Time magazine explained that Simon is too young to meet the standard of being the man of the year.

This year, it suddenly reached the "standard.".

Of course, it's not accidental, it's more like a matter of course.

If you think about it a little bit, you can see that this is the result of Warner's efforts. Time company and Warner Brothers have got rid of paramount's entanglement and have formally reached an acquisition agreement.

Simon is 21 years old and has enough qualifications to be the richest man in the Federation. In addition, in order to build momentum for Batman, which will be released next month, time's man of the year is unlikely to fall on others.

There has never been a truly impartial and neutral media in the world. Since time magazine is under the brand new Time Warner company, it is natural for Time magazine to favor the interests of the company.

Simon clearly remembers that after the release of "Wonder Woman" in the original time and space, as the treasure of Warner Brothers, all the main creators of the "Wonder Woman" project have been "carefully cared" by Time Warner's media. Patty Jenkins, director of "Wonder Woman" who is not qualified at all, was selected as the man of the year of time magazine "Patty Jenkins redefined how the world should look at women.".

Simon didn't refuse. He just said, "but Terry, I'm going to Europe this weekend."

"It's not a problem. As long as you cooperate, someone will be sent to Europe to take photos and interview for you. The time will probably be at the end of the month."

"Let them contact my assistant then." Simon nodded. He had received enough attention in recent years, but he didn't get excited. He changed the topic and said, "it's cruel of you to claim one billion dollars from Sony for Cooper Peters production company."

Sony has confirmed that it will let Peter Cooper and John Peters, two veteran Hollywood producers, take charge of Columbia Pictures. For this reason, Sony has not only offered high salary terms, but also bought their production company with $200 million in cash.

However, Cooper Peters production company was originally affiliated to Warner Bros. pictures. As soon as Sony completed its acquisition of the production company, Warner filed a lawsuit against Sony, claiming $1 billion for breach of contract by Cooper Peters production company.

Terry Semel heard Simon mention this and said with a smile, "you know Steve, he can't stand the Japanese putting their hands in Hollywood. This is our territory."

Simon knew that Warner eventually knocked away $600 million from the Japanese and became Sony's first "Tuition" in Hollywood. He admired Steve Roth's method and secretly reminded himself not to make similar mistakes.

After the premiere ceremony, the next day, "flying over innocence" officially opened with 2206 screens in North America.

Universal Pictures' sequel back to the future 2, the 1985 box office champion, is scheduled for Wednesday, November 22.

In order to avoid the edge of "back to the future 2", a total of six new films were released on November 17. Among them, danelis and Warner Brothers' over the air innocence, Paramount's Harlem nightclub and Orion film's magic sea innocence all had screens of about 2000 yuan.

Danielis and Warner Bros.'s "over the air" is certainly not to be underestimated, but other studios seem to think that "over the air" is better to get along with.

As for next week, in addition to the release of gucci fashion documentary officially named "Gucci mark" by daenerys Entertainment's gaomen film, back to the future 2 dominates the Thanksgiving week.

Ella doechman is also quite confused about Simon's decision to insist on the match between "Gucci mark" and "back to the future 2", but Simon didn't explain it to him too much.

In my memory, the box office of "back to the future 2" sequel has shrunk by half compared with the first domestic box office winner of the year, who grossed more than $200 million. Globegroup has invested all the resources it can use for the sequel, with a production budget as high as US $40 million. Although the box office of "back to the future 2" still exceeds US $100 million, it is far from meeting the expectations of the producers. It is not too much to describe it as a failure.

Back to the future 2 is not as strong as the outside world imagined, and Gucci imprint will not be seriously impacted.On the other hand, with Simon's permission, Nancy held another meeting on the acquisition of EA on Friday because of a lot of preparations in advance. James Leibold flew over from the east coast to attend this meeting.

Cersei capital's funds can not be transferred back to China in the short term. Nancy plans to formally contact EA this weekend, and it is likely that she will not use the money. However, after the second half of the year, even if danielis entertainment does not rely on cersei's capital, it will not be a big problem for it to win the EA within the budget of 350 million US dollars.

At the end of the meeting on the acquisition of EA, Simon sent others away and formally discussed with Amy and James about the acquisition plan of MCA.

After the Sony Colombia deal, Michael owitz should have been pushing Panasonic to acquire MCA, the parent company of universal. However, the deal, like Sony's acquisition of Colombia, will also drag on for a long time, and Simon has many opportunities to cut off.

Simon's plan to acquire MCA had only revealed a little to the female assistant before. Amy and James were very surprised, followed by excitement.

If we can win MCA, Denise entertainment will become the largest studio in Hollywood, and the company's shortcomings in record, TV, content and theme park will be made up immediately.

Of course, this is not without problems.

MCA's market value is now close to $4 billion. Amy and James both think that danielis entertainment may have to prepare $8 billion if it wants to win the company.

It's no secret that MCA chairman Lou wassalman offered Sony $8 billion last year.

Knowing the economic trend of North America in the coming year, Simon is more optimistic than Amy and James, knowing that it won't cost so much money to complete the acquisition. But even at $8 billion, that's not a big problem for Simon.

When the US junk bond market ended two years ago, cersei capital had enough capital to reach US $8 billion. Next, the oil price turbulence caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent Gulf War was enough for Simon to continue to earn a lot of money.

In the 1990s, the price of big Hollywood film companies will only get higher and higher, and the earlier they win universal, the more favorable it will be for daenerys entertainment.

Of course, it can't be done overnight.

Simon just told Amy and James their own plans this time, so that they can start some preparation work now. Compared with EA, which has a market value of less than 200 million US dollars, it is at least next year for it to take over MCA, which is already a big Mac in this era.

At the same time, Simon did not intend to take a malicious acquisition this time, so he did not let James start to absorb MCA shares in advance. Although this can save some money in the future acquisition, it is easy to cause the misunderstanding of MCA management and make Lu wassalman and others think Simon is going to launch a malicious acquisition.

In order to save $100 million or $200 million and arouse hostility among MCA management, it is not worth the loss for a multi billion dollar business.

Janet will arrive in Los Angeles at about two o'clock in the afternoon to finish the meeting with them. After lunch, Simon will rush to Los Angeles International Airport to meet them.