Chapter 443

"William Friedkin can't, Tom. The Exorcist was really brilliant, and the French drug network was classic enough. However, William has been just eating his old books all these years. What "the bell at midnight" needs is a style breakthrough which is quite different from the traditional Hollywood horror films. I don't think William can achieve "

danelis studio.

Simon is in his office discussing with new world's president, Denny Morris, the director of "the midnight bell.".

Although William Friedkin is the husband of sherry Lansing, MGM's director, and understands that Denny Morris is is the first to mention that Lansing must be a human factor, Simon does not hesitate to veto it.

After "Exorcist" and "French drug trafficking network", William Fredkin has the richest resources in Hollywood, but he has not directed a film with excellent performance in word-of-mouth and box office in more than ten years.

In fact, Denny Morris was not optimistic about William Friedkin, and continued, "so, Simon, what about Wes Craven?"

"Wes is better at plasma films, which is totally out of the style of this film."

"Jonathan Demi?"

Today is October 9th, Wednesday.

It has been eight and a half weeks since the release of "the silent lamb" directed by Jonathan Demi on August 9. Just last weekend, the classic horror film, whose stars were changed to Sandra Bullock and Robert Duval, just broke through the $100 million mark, reaching $102.71 million.

Simon thought about it, nodded and said, "Joe can be an alternative. However, "midnight bell" is very focused on the creation of the atmosphere of the lens and soundtrack, I hope the director can have a stronger foundation in these two aspects "

Denny Morris said with a smile:" Simon, in this case, only you are the most suitable. "

"I feel the same way," Simon shrugged. "But, unfortunately, I don't have the time."

Denny Morris just mentioned it casually, and then said, "there's Joe dent, but if you set a schedule for next year's Halloween, Dante's schedule won't be open."

Joe dent is famous for his piranha in the 1970s and little monster in the 1980s. Just as it happens, the director Simon chose is Joe dent for the sixth sense of the supernatural, which was the box office blockbuster of danielis entertainment last summer.

Because he has become a famous director, the two sides only signed a film contract at the beginning.

Although everyone in the industry knows that Simon is the key to the success of sixth sense, Joe dent is still in hot demand because the film has sold for more than 600 million dollars worldwide. He has been robbed by other studios and is still full of time.

If there is no other good choice, Jonathan Demi will continue to be in charge.

Still, Simon has some concerns.

"The bell at midnight" will be a completely different style from the traditional Hollywood horror film.

However, these veteran directors who have been in Hollywood for many years have basically formed their own fixed directing style. It is very difficult to change the past habits and achieve a breakthrough.

After thinking about it for a moment, Simon said, "well, Denny, you can screen out some relatively young alternative directors, and I'll watch the project myself. So it's better for a director to have enough plasticity. "

When Simon said that, Denny Morris nodded quickly.

Simon was directly responsible for this project. At this time, the boss said that he would watch it personally, which means that he would spend more energy on this project.

In this way, the director will be younger and less qualified, but he will be more obedient and easy to use.

To settle the matter, Denny Morris read his memo and continued, "and the heroine..."

Simon waved his hand and said, "I've given the heroine to Nicole Kidman. You can just talk to her agent about the contract."

Denny Morris paused and nodded again.

I'm sorry for those actresses who have been racking their brains to get this project recently.

The original American version of "midnight bell", the heroine is Nicole's best friend Naomi Watts, the actress now do not know where, just Simon decided to let Nicole as the spokesperson of van cletta, then the project is expected to sell to each other.

"The bell at midnight" is a female dominated film. Although it is a horror film, as long as it has enough box office, it will certainly help Nicole Kidman to improve her reputation and stabilize her coffee position.

After discussing some details, they turned to other projects of new world pictures.

An hour later, Denny Morris left, and Ella doichman arrived.

As of last weekend, Katherine's "the last flower" grossed $25.41 million in four and a half weeks.

Because of its excellent reputation and continued weak decline, the box office of the film is still around 4 million US dollars a week, and it is expected to exceed 40 million US dollars before the next stage, which is enough to recover all the production and publicity costs of the film.

Now that he has decided to give up the competition for next year's Oscars, Simon takes "the last flower" as the focus of his application for the next Oscars, mainly to accumulate a best director nomination for Katherine.Awards are not extravagant.

Barbara Streisand's "the waves of time" will also be a hit for next year's Oscars at the end of the year.

Therefore, next year's Oscars are very hopeful that there will be two female best director nominees at one time. As long as we operate it a little bit and stir up the topic, with Hollywood's political right attribute, the first female Oscar best director will be ready to come out.

Catherine certainly can't be compared with Streisand, who has extensive contacts in Hollywood.

It's not impossible to fight by force.

However, Simon has no idea to fight for Katherine. On the one hand, it's danielis's entertainment strategy. On the other hand, it's not bad for Katherine to miss the Oscar. After all, women's accumulation is insufficient, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future.

After talking about the Oscars, Simon and Ella doechman discussed several key projects of gaomen next year.

Basically, Simon himself picked them out.

One is the copyright obtained after the acquisition of universal, which is called "smell and know women".

This is a remake of the 1974 Italian film "fragrance of women". In my memory, the original is starring Al Pacino, and there is a tango dance that has been talked about by fans for many years.

Simon doesn't plan to change the lineup of smell and know women, which will be the main feature of gaomen film's schedule at the end of 1992.

Another work is a little "different", called "crying game".

This film directed by Neil Jordan tells a very complicated love story, involving many elements such as war, politics, love and transvestism.

Crying game in my memory, because of its bizarre reversal, triggered a wave of film watching craze in North America. Finally, with a production cost of about $3 million, it won more than $60 million at the box office. Therefore, it is also one of the turnaround works of Miramax, the North American distributor.

It was the film's big sale that brought Miramax to Disney's attention and eventually became a part of Disney.

Now, Miramax has been basically unsustainable, Simon will not give the Weinstein brothers any chance to turn over.

Neil Jordan, the director of cry game, has been preparing for this project for several years. After gaomen took over, the film's specifications have not been improved, and the budget cost is still $3 million.

However, due to the interest of danielis entertainment, the project negotiation naturally attracted the attention of other studios.

In order to finalize the project, danielis entertainment has additionally agreed to Neil Jordan's 10% share of the North American box office net profit and the same proportion of the follow-up video and television revenue.

If "crying game" can get $60 million of the original North American box office, according to the agreement, Neil Jordan will get at least $5 million of follow-up revenue, which is the salary level of first-line directors.

Of course, if the box office is not satisfactory, the dividend will be out of the question.

Simon agreed to the plan.

Five million dollars, which is not a small expense, is still not much for the expected revenue of Denise entertainment. Moreover, this relatively generous sharing scheme can also attract more filmmakers to cooperate with Denise entertainment.

With the whole westrow system becoming larger and larger, Simon is more and more inclined to attract talents through benefit sharing.

Money can never be earned out. Through benefit sharing, more people can be tied to the westero system to form a community of interests.

After Ella doechman left, the assistant knocked on the door and came in, holding a stack of cards similar to bank cards. She came to the reception area and handed them to Simon, saying, "this is just from San Francisco."

Simon took the card, took the little hand of the female assistant and sat down beside him. Then he looked at the things in his hand.

It took more than half a year to prepare for the development. In fact, the card in hand is the consumption point card that igritte company will launch in the near future. The point card only has two denominations of $10 and $50.

This shows the prudence of igritte's management team.

Online payment has just begun to promote, security is absolutely the first.

If the user has just come into contact with online payment, he or she will encounter such bad things as account theft, which will definitely leave a bad impression.

As a new means of payment, it is easy to be over interpreted by traditional media.

In the plan, this kind of consumption point card will be sold through Internet bar channels and blockbuster chain stores all over the country. Although AOL has sold its Internet bar business, the westero system still has a strong influence on it. Blockbuster belongs to danilisi Entertainment's own channel. At present, there are nearly 3000 chain stores all over North America It is absolutely the most suitable retail distribution network.

In fact, it's not just the point of consumption card. With the opening of igritte app store, ypay, the igritte online payment tool, will also be launched at the same time. Users of igritte portal can handle special online consumer credit cards through two banks that have signed agreements with the company, Bank of America and Citibank.Jennifer sat quietly beside Simon, waiting for the man to play with his consumer card for a moment, and then said, "the official product launch will take place next Monday, and the igritte app store will also officially open.

Simon nodded.

In private, he has actually experienced the beta version of the online app store.

In the early stage of the app store, the main focus is still video games, and there are not many apps. Jeff Bezos has contacted Bill Gates. Microsoft's operating system is definitely not good, but he hopes to put office series applications on the app store for sale, but he was rejected by his classmates.

However, Simon is very optimistic about the future of the app store.

In the field of computer, developing a set of operating system is not as difficult as imagined. The real difficulty lies in building a software ecosystem that matches the operating system. Otherwise, no matter how excellent and fluent your operating system is, without application software, everything will be in vain.

On the other hand, the technical talents who can develop software in the industry can also be described as unknown. In the past, it was mainly the software developed that limited the enthusiasm of these people, so it was difficult to promote sales.

Distribution through physical sales is definitely a very expensive thing.

Now, igritte company provides a platform, a platform that can bring profits to developers, which can naturally enhance the enthusiasm of developers.

In the long run, igritte's online app store can do it, and even affect the popularity of an operating system to a great extent.

In fact, from this time on, igritte's online app store will only be open to two types of operating system users: Microsoft's windows and Apple's Macintosh.

As for the old DOS system or other non mainstream operating systems on the market, igrit app store will not support it.

With the increasing popularity of the Internet, this choice of igrit portal is destined to affect the user's tendency.

Users who purchase computers, considering that they choose other non mainstream systems, may not be able to get the support of igrit portal, and will naturally take the initiative to switch to windows and Macintosh.

Even.

If one day the igritte app store closes Apple's Macintosh version

Of course, it's just an idea.

Even if he is already a major shareholder of Microsoft, Simon will not do it easily, or it is because he is a major shareholder of Microsoft that Simon can not do it.

Apple's market value has been rising this year, and its recent peak is close to $8 billion.

However, this will also be Apple's "peak" in the 1990s. Next, the company will only go all the way down.

It's good to keep apple and avoid all kinds of troubles caused by Microsoft's complete monopoly of the market. The reason why zhongdamen chose to inject capital into apple at the end of the 1990s was also out of this consideration. Including Intel's later support for AMD, both overtly and covertly, is the reason.

Putting down his consumption card, Simon said to the female assistant beside him, "you can arrange it. We'll go to the new product launch next Monday."

Jennifer blinked her eyes a few times, and then gave a little hum.

Monday is over and the day is sure to come back.

That's it, but it's too late.

Simon smiles, knowing that the female assistant actually wants to go over at the weekend. She turns over and kisses her cheek and says, "you know, Jennie has been in a bad mood for more than seven months. I'm not going to leave Los Angeles for a long time in the next few months."

Janet had nothing unusual at the beginning of her pregnancy. She was looking forward to it very much, and she was happily preparing for the arrival of the little guy.

However, as the baby's birth date is approaching, it's hard for a woman to feel uneasy and even have the idea of driving the baby out of her stomach in advance.

Simon understands that Janet is naturally unrestrained and likes to be free. At first, she expected to get pregnant and have a baby. A large part of the reason is because of Simon. There are also some traditional ideas. Women grow up in a very traditional and conservative western family.

At the end of the day, Janet has a deep-seated aversion to someone who might change her life.

Jennifer sniffed, nodded understandably, and said nothing more.

Seeing the quiet and submissive appearance of the female assistant, Simon felt a little excited and put his arms around her.

Jennifer was caught in Simon's arms and shrunk subconsciously.

I'm not used to making friends in the office.

What's more, it's still working hours.

However, the female assistant quickly softened down, raised her chin slightly, and allowed the man to kiss her white neck. She whispered, "Ms. Brill In a minute, it's coming. "