Chapter 423

Back in the No. 1 office building of the District, Amy Pascal has been waiting for him in the rest area next to Simon's office on the fifth floor.

Simon has lunch with Spielberg at noon, and Amy has no spare time. Instead, she invites Robert rem.

After the merger and acquisition of new world entertainment, Robert rem, CEO of new world entertainment, was left by Simon to serve as the president of Denise Entertainment's film distribution business. The contract period was from August 1988 to July 1991, a total of three years, which was due next month.

Because of the unpleasantness of salary increase and job hopping, Simon doesn't really recognize REM's ability, and the other party is a little older, so he doesn't intend to renew his contract this time.

At noon, Amy talks with REM about their departure next month.

after Robert REM leaves, his position will be taken over by mark Belford, whom Simon has been cultivating in recent years.

Motioning Amy not to get up, Simon sat down opposite her and asked, "how was your conversation with Bob?"

Amy put a newspaper she had just flipped through on the round table in front of her and said, "Bob signed a contract with paramount yesterday. He will leave the company next month when he finishes the handover."

Since Denise entertainment acquired MCA, Lehman has actually started to look for the next home.

Simon also knew about it, and Martin Davis, chairman of paramount communications, also said hello to him.

Although there have been some disagreements, REM has been doing his best in the past three years. Therefore, Denise Entertainment's disclosure is only due to the normal job adjustment.

There is no negative news. In recent years, Denise Entertainment's performance in film production and distribution is obvious to all. Robert rem, who witnessed the rise of Denise entertainment, naturally became the object of other studios.

Sherry Lansing, who was expected to join Paramount Pictures, was removed to MGM by Simon. In order to revive Paramount's declining film business in recent years, Martin Davis invited REM to be the new president of Paramount Pictures.

"That's not bad," Simon said. After thinking about it, he said, "besides, I'd like to make time to arrange a departure party for Bob in the name of the company. All the courtesy I should give him."

Amy nodded and said, "you're going to England next week, so make it the middle of next month?"

"Wonder Woman" has been shooting in the UK for two weeks. After the early running in, some key scenes will be shooting next week.

As an independent project of danielis entertainment, Simon is no longer able to check the shooting samples regularly by remote control, just like flash. Instead, he plans to follow up for a week in person.

"I'd better arrange it at the end of July. In addition to wonder woman, I'm going to Finland, maybe Italy. Finally, it may be a few days on the east coast, and AOL's IPO has been confirmed on July 12. "

Amy agreed, and said, "I'm afraid you'll leave danielis alone one day."

"I can't put it down," Simon said with a self mocking smile. "I'm actually one of those guys with a strong desire for power."

Amy shook her head slightly, looked at Simon and said, "I don't think it's bad. Danielis entertainment, and all the other companies in the westero system, it's hard to say what they would be like without your own control."

Simon took a sip of the coffee from his female assistant, nodded with a smile and said, "it's a good compliment. I'll say more about it in the future."

Amy laughs, gossips and talks about business again: "I've finished the layoff quota of 1000 people in this period of time, but there are still serious redundancy problems in the production department and Distribution Department of the company. Many of the former MCA employees also complain that we have not raised their salary to the same level as danielis entertainment employees. Some are still trying to contact the trade union to intervene. "

After winning MCA, Simon initially planned to cut 3000 employees and reduce the total number of employees of the two companies from 15000 to 12000.

However, as soon as some news came out, it attracted strong attention from the media, trade unions and federal government departments.

In order to avoid the two acquisitions that had just been completed at that time, danilisi entertainment had to make a public commitment to lay off only 1000 employees.

Before the merger, the salary level of danilisi entertainment employees was significantly higher than that of MCA and other studios in the same industry. Because the layoff plan was not fully implemented, Simon did not raise the salary level of MCA employees who were merged into danilisi entertainment to a certain level according to the Convention.

In addition, in order to divert employees, Simon also strengthened the construction of various overseas branches of Denise entertainment during this period, and constantly dispatched many employees to overseas markets such as Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Now hearing Amy mention it again, Simon put away his expression and thought about it seriously for a moment. He said: "the staff in the production and Distribution Department can be sent out as much as possible, or they can be transferred to Nancy's records and games departments. These businesses are largely common. In terms of salary, you can give them a formal notice. If you want to adjust it at least one year later, the company needs to make a precise assessment of their ability. "Amy said: "in fact, most people don't want to be sent out. Especially Eastern Europe and Latin America, and some countries in Asia, you know

"These are the top priorities of Denise Entertainment's overseas expansion in the next step. Even if we can't make money now, we will gain something sooner or later by cultivating the market in advance and making people there familiar with the brand of Denise entertainment. The next expatriate plan, um I'll talk to mark in person tomorrow. I don't need to be too accommodating to the wishes of the employees. Since they have been paid, they should be transferred if they want to get more in the future. "

Simon said so. After a little deliberation, he added: "let's wait until the beginning of next year. If there are still redundant staff by then, we will make a second layoff. At that time, it doesn't matter what someone says. "

two people later discussed the preparations for some universal studios in Osaka, Japan. Amy also needs to fly to Losangeles from Japan next week.

Just then, a greeting came from behind.

Simon turns to look. The female assistant comes with a middle-aged man and stands up with Amy.

Tom Pollack is the former president of MCA's Universal Pictures.

Tom Pollack is in his 40s. He is not tall. He has a typical Jew with a big nose, some baldness and a pair of discerning drooping eyes.

Lu wassalman, chairman of MCA, and Sid schinberg, President of MCA, just hung up the title of consultant after the completion of the transaction, and then formally left.

After the merger of the two companies, because Amy needed to take charge of the whole danilisi entertainment, it was impossible for him to take care of danilisi film at the same time, so Simon left Tom pollack.

After this period of adjustment, Tom Pollack is now the president of Denise pictures, and is also responsible for the separation and integration of Universal Pictures and Denise Entertainment's three brands.

As the most core film brand of danielis entertainment, Simon handed over the position of president to Tom pollack. It seems that Simon is unfair to the two "old men" who are the president of gaomen film and the president of new world film. But in fact, Tom Pollack's power is much smaller than the other two.

Next, gaomen film and new world film will become two independent production and distribution systems focusing on their own subject areas.

Therefore, both doichman and Denny Morris belonged to the rank of feudal officials.

The real power of danielis film is still in Simon's hands. Tom Pollack only plays an auxiliary role, mainly responsible for contract negotiation, personnel communication, budget making and other administrative affairs of the Department.

As the core creative power of a studio, Tom Pollack can't get hold of it, and mark Belford, who is going to replace Robert rem, will be responsible for the distribution of its films.

In addition, Nancy Brill has replaced Tom Pollack as a director of MCA's cineplex Odeon cinema chain.

However, Tom Pollack himself is not satisfied with his present situation, but he doesn't complain too much.

Even a little lucky.

Because of Simon's insistence on the control of MCA, Tom Pollack thought that after the deal was concluded, he also needed to leave like Lou wassalman and Sid schinberg, but he didn't expect to be able to stay.

You know, now Hollywood is like a radish and a pit.

Just now, the number of Studios has been reduced from eight to seven, with the same positions as Terry Semel at Warner Brothers, Peter Cooper and Jon Peters at Columbia, Joe Ross at Fox, Sherry Lansing at MGM and Jeffrey carsenberg at Disney.

The last paramount is basically locked by Robert rem, who is about to leave danielis.

As for danielis, he has a strong army.

Tom Pollack doesn't have a large amount of money to support his old age like vassalman and simberg. He is only in his 40s and is not willing to support his old age. However, if he leaves, the first-line studios will not have his place, and the second and third line studios won't be able to accommodate him, so he can't find a suitable job in the short term A bit.

Now, it's not powerful to get the position of president of danielis pictures, but danielis pictures, a subsidiary of danielis entertainment. Hollywood executives with a little experience understand that this is definitely a very gilded position.

Hollywood studio executives are always changing. If they have been in this position for a few years, even if they can't climb up, they will surely be able to easily get the position of head of a studio with real power like Robert REM when they leave. Even the head of the whole media group at a higher level is not impossible.

After everyone said hello, Amy left for her own business.

Simon didn't go back to the office next to him. He continued to sit next to the table and chair in the rest area with French windows and a wide view. He talked about his work with pollack.

"I met with the agents of Robert Redford and Adrian Lane in the morning. They should have communicated in private. Compared with the initial base salary of $5 million plus 15% of the gross domestic box office revenue, they made some concessions this time. I finally talked about 10% of the share, and Adrian's basic film salary was reduced to 3 million. "Tom Pollack is talking about Denise Entertainment's peach trade project with paramount.

After Brian De Palma quit because he was worried that he couldn't control the subject, Simon sent an invitation to Adrian lane, the original director of the film.

When it comes to Adrian lane, maybe not many people know about it, but when it comes to love you for nine and a half weeks, many people will immediately think of Mickey Locke and Kim Basinger.

Adrian lane is the director of nine and a half weeks of love.

However, "nine and a half weeks of love you" is famous for its controversy, but it is not Adrian Ryan's most popular movie. In fact, the box office of "nine and a half weeks of love you" is very poor. Adrian Lane's best-selling movie was "fatal temptation," starring Michael Douglas four years ago, which sold $300 million worldwide.

Prior to that, Adrian Lane also made a dance of lightning, which was one of the top ten box office movies in 1983. That song and dance movie, which was similar to grease, also caused strong controversy. However, it earned more than 90 million US dollars in North America at a cost of 4 million US dollars, ranking third in the annual box office list at that time.

Despite the success of "dance of lightning" and "fatal temptation", Adrian Lane's box office performance has been unstable over the years.

After fatal temptation, Adrian lane and Bruce Joey Robin, the gold medal screenwriter of ghost last year, had a production cost of 25 million US dollars, but the box office in North America was only more than 26 million US dollars.

In addition to the director's low production rhythm of directing a film for an average of three years, it's difficult for Ryan to maintain the first-line level in film remuneration.

Simon listened to Tom Pollack's general introduction and was very satisfied with the results of his work.

Since the two want to share, Robert Redford's $5 million basic film payment and Adrian Lane's $3 million basic film payment are exactly Simon's expectations.

As for the 10% gross domestic box office revenue share, this refers to 10% of the share of the box office revenue from the cinema. Based on the $100 million domestic box office and 55% of the studio's share, 10% is roughly equivalent to $5.5 million.

As long as the two can make sure that the local box office of "the peach trade" breaks through 100 million, and each takes another $5.5 million, they also deserve it.

Tom Pollack confirmed that Simon had no problem with the two pay plans, and then said, "in that case, I will sign a contract with Bob and Ryan as soon as possible. In addition, Demi Moore's agent's offer is $5 million. I talked with ICM several times, but the other side didn't give in. They said that Moore is not short of a film contract now. "

Demi Moore is the original heroine of the peach trade.

Simon has been hesitant about whether to let Demi Moore play the role again. He has read the original work and script and thinks that the heroine Diana should be a little Jasper.

As for Demi Moore.

It's probably because there are so many rumors about each other in memory that it's hard for Simon to replace Moore in this role.

When Tom Pollack said this, Simon thought for a moment and said, "in that case, Demi is OK. You try to get in touch with Valerie."

"Valerie Gallino?"

Simon nodded and said, "well. Her performance in Rain Man fits Diana's temperament