Chapter 550

With the completion of the financing transaction of igritte and the acquisition of Christie's, the time also entered May 1993.

As the summer season approaches, many of this summer's blockbuster movies have begun their final sprint.

Theoretically, the main theme of this summer program is Superman, but according to the original agreement, Warner Bros. is responsible for the distribution of the film.

In other films, "sleepless in Seattle" is a cooperative project with Disney, and "the pelican assassination order" is a cooperative project with Warner Bros. only "sugar trap" starring Keanu Reeves is released by Denise pictures. In addition, during the four month long summer season, two other brands of danielis entertainment, new world pictures and gaomen pictures, will also launch their own films in the summer season.

Focus on the coming summer archives. At the same time, after this period of operation, the record business of danilisi entertainment has been officially transformed. Danilisi record group (dmg) has been initially completed. In fact, it is mainly the name. There is not much adjustment for the record group.

On the other hand, Barry Weiss, the president of Jive Records, who has created backstreet boys, Britney Spears and other young pop singers, successfully joined the danilisi record group at the invitation of danilisi entertainment.

Richard Palmes, the former president of universal records, was transferred to the CEO of Denise records group after the reorganization of the record business, responsible for the overall management of DMG.

After years of development, large record groups are basically composed of many singing subsidiaries.

The original universal record seems to be a company. In fact, there are seven singing subsidiary companies that are still active, such as Gefen record where gunshot rose is located, Dika record where Cher is located, futuristic record focusing on death rock, etc. Once active, with the termination of its artists or expired, the number of sub brands caught in the opportunity is numerous.

Simon gives Barry Weiss the position of president of infinite records, a DMG singing subsidiary. Although his position is equivalent to that of Jive Records, a RCA record company, he can use resources and permissions far beyond Jive Records.

Infinity records will focus on creating young pop singers next, and the parent company DMG will try its best to guarantee the publicity and promotion of the signed singers of this subsidiary.

Simon can actually give Barry Weiss a higher position, but for the huge DMG, too high a position will only make Barry Weiss fall into unnecessary administrative affairs. Giving unlimited records a subsidiary to each other can make Barry Weiss focus more on the field of teen pop.

The initial adjustment of the record business has been completed, and Barry Weiss has successfully joined the company. The next step is to find a signed singer.

Compared with Hollywood, which has a clear hierarchy of actors and actresses, there are only two kinds of singers in the music world. One is already famous, and the other is not.

This is not to say that there is no talent among singers, but the competition in this industry is much more fierce than that in Hollywood. When actors are not famous, they can still stay in the bottom of the society and wait for opportunities. For singers, they can't have many movies and TV series to let you run. If you don't sign a record company and become famous, you are nothing.

However, compared with the actor industry which still needs talent skills, the threshold of singing is much lower for most people.

This also leads to the number of young people who dream of being a singer, which is no less than that of the anonymous little actors at the bottom of Hollywood.

Therefore, many record companies can receive a large number of self recommended auditions submitted by potential singers almost every day.

However, the larger the record company, the more cautious the signing singer will be, because once the signing singer fails to succeed after paying a lot of resources, the person in charge is likely to lose his job.

Now that he has set the goal of unlimited records, after Barry Weiss joined the company, Simon began to personally participate in the search for suitable young pop singers.

In fact, I want to find some familiar singers in my memory.

Simon did find a group he wanted: Backstreet Boys.

Backstreet boy is a group recently formed by five young people in Orlando, Florida. After learning from the media that DMG is selecting young singers, it submitted its audition tape to infinity records, and Simon picked it.

However, there are still some problems.

Although all the five members of the group have good singing skills and talents, two of them are still under age. Nick Carter, the youngest, is only 13 years old.

Now that Simon has taken a fancy to the name "backstreet boy", Barry Weiss will certainly solve the rest of the problem.

It's a good time to be famous, and there's no rule in the music industry that minors are not allowed to enter the industry. However, since we want to create a young boy group mainly for junior high school students, it's just not suitable for 13-year-old children who have just reached the age of junior high school.

In fact, the solution is also very simple, eliminating two minors in the combination and looking for two young people as substitutes.Several young people didn't have much expectation when they submitted the audition tape, so they were suddenly selected. Naturally, they were overjoyed, and they all agreed to the unlimited record's invitation for replacement.

As a result, the two sides quickly finalized a 10-year contract.

Barry Weiss also obtained the permanent copyright of the name of "Backstreet Boys" through the contract. In the future, whether a member withdraws or the group is dissolved, the name of "Backstreet Boys" will belong to infinity records. Infinity records can re select people to form the group on the basis of this name, and the team members who leave will also be prohibited from using the name of "Backstreet Boys" Any business activity in the name of.

In fact, for Simon, backstreet boys are just a practice of unlimited records, in order to sum up a set of operation process of fast batch copying young pop singers.

Building a portfolio from scratch is never easy and costly.

In order to show his attention to unlimited records, Simon not only gave Barry Weiss one year in the operation of "Backstreet Boys" project, but also planned to meet Barry Weiss at least once a week to learn about each other's work progress and give his own suggestions according to the information in his memory.

In addition, infinity records is also looking for other potential young singers.

Compared with the back street boys' group that has been formed directly, Simon hopes that, like the mass cultivation of pop singers in South Korea, he will start to sign a contract to cultivate pop singer seeds from the age of 14 or 15, and the singers who have undergone professional training from vocal music to physique will be far more likely to become famous than the grassroots group, and even have a longer career life beyond all doubt.

To make this decision, Simon's eyes naturally fell on Disney's famous Mickey Mouse Club.

The "great name" here is actually for Simon, a latecomer.

Mickey Mouse Club is a variety show for teenagers on Disney Channel. It mainly performs singing, dancing and short plays.

For Disney, the ratings of this show are very average. In Simon's memory, this show may be stopped in the last two years due to low ratings.

However, in the following years, the members of Mickey Mouse Club successively came out of such famous actors or singers as Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and Ryan Gosling, which can be called star shining.

While running backstreet boys, at Simon's instigation, Barry Weiss also began to pay close attention to these teenagers in Mickey Mouse Club.

Britney Spears is only 12 or 13 years old. DMG has no plan to support them for five or six years, so it is not suitable to sign a contract for the time being. For example, Kelly Russell, who is 17 years old this year, has a very good figure, but compared with Britney Spears, Christina and others, the gap in singing skills is very obvious, and the 17-year-old lacks plasticity, so she has to give up.

Simon has actually considered creating a group of young singers through music elective programs, which can not only provide Denise TV with a new hit reality show, but also provide some excellent singer seeds for record companies.

Give up after considering.

At this stage, the reality shows of danielis TV company are still Simon's original "who will be a millionaire" and other several, and these programs still have good vitality for the time being. Most importantly, before acquiring a public TV network, Simon doesn't plan to push any more elephant level reality shows, which will be left to his own TV network in the future.

Busy, time unknowingly came to May 14.

It's a Friday.

Superman, the heaviest summer film, will be released on June 4. In order to avoid this blockbuster, the summer film officially opens today.

On this day, the North American cinema launched three films, namely, fox's "anti Eagle 2", Columbia film's "my gifted family" and new world film's "Bruce Lee".

However, on this day, most of the media in North America paid most attention to Jurassic Park, which was released last Christmas.

After five months of screening, Jurassic Park grossed $356.71 million in North America.

At the same time, the screening of Jurassic Park in overseas markets has basically ended. Japan alone has won the box office equivalent to 120 million US dollars, and the box office figures of the other three countries, namely Britain, France and Germany, have also reached 40 million US dollars and 50 million US dollars.

According to the statistics of the following weekend, the overseas box office of Jurassic Park also reached 573.11 million US dollars, and it is expected that there will be about 50 million US dollars of overseas follow-up revenue in the future.

Therefore, by the middle of May, Jurassic Park had been painted in North America, and the global box office of this dinosaur science fiction blockbuster had reached 929.82 million US dollars. In the next few months, if it was completely painted around the world, the global box office of this phenomenal blockbuster would be about 980 million US dollars.

Even though there are still some regrets that it is difficult to break through the $1 billion mark, the global box office of $980 million is enough to surpass the record of $960 million in Batman: the moment of war, and promote to the top position in the global box office of film history.The global box office is US $980 million. Excluding all the production and publicity budgets and the share of Spielberg and other major creators, danelis entertainment can still earn US $200 million.

What's more, the box office is only a part of Jurassic Park's profits.

The main revenue of this project is peripheral products. In recent months, the cumulative sales volume of this project has also reached 1.3 billion US dollars, contributing nearly 200 million US dollars. It is expected that the sales volume of peripheral products of this film will reach 2 billion US dollars before Jurassic Park 2.

, in addition, the future video and TV play, and even the Universal Studios Jurassic Park theme park's earnings, is just this movie, which will bring net profit of not less than 1 billion dollars for danireis entertainment.

With Jurassic Park coming down in North America, overseas countries are discussing the invasion of Hollywood. At the same time, North American media also noticed the slow development of the sequel series.

Spielberg's "Schindler's list" has been completed and has begun to return to Hollywood for post production.

However, in recent interviews, Spielberg's answers to the questions about the sequel of Jurassic Park are all ambiguous, and Denise Entertainment's top management's reply in the interview is not clear, which makes many people smell a different meaning.

According to Spielberg's original contract with universal, the old movie star, after "Schindler's list", just owes danilisi entertainment a movie contract.

It's just that the two sides are clearly at odds over the sequel to Jurassic Park.

Most likely, it is a dispute of interests.

Danielis entertainment expects to make $1 billion through Jurassic Park. Spielberg's salary, including base salary and share, is about $45 million.

For Hollywood filmmakers, the figure of $45 million is already sky high.

But Spielberg is obviously not satisfied with his salary figures.

According to the previous sharing strategy, if he shares 20% of the total channel net profit when cooperating with Colombia, the salary he can get will be at least US $200 million.

At the beginning, Denise entertainment seemed to have given a very secure scheme of directly drawing shares from the box office. With the box office sales of the film, this scheme that other Hollywood filmmakers can only covet is even a bit like a trap in Spielberg's view.

This state of mind is easy to understand.

However, since the contract was signed at the beginning, it is impossible to change it at this time.

But if he wants to continue directing the sequel to Jurassic Park, danelis entertainment has to offer a sincere price.

Once upon a time, Spielberg madly took $250 million from the first Jurassic Park, and his salary for the second one fell sharply to $70 million. This time, the first song only received $45 million, and Spielberg obviously hopes to get a higher return through the sequel to compensate for his potential loss in the first one.

Moreover, according to the long-standing mentality of Hollywood's top filmmakers, in Spielberg's view, danelis entertainment should not rashly replace him and direct the series by others..