After Monday, with the strong force of Fox Pictures, the media trend about "Butterfly Effect" has changed significantly in just a few days.

Compared with media film reviews that focus on subjective tendencies, ordinary people are obviously more susceptible to actual data.

The first week's box office was $21.69 million.

A slight decline of 17% the next weekend.

An average audience rating of 7.7.

All of this undoubtedly shows that the quality of "Butterfly Effect" is far less bad than that critics criticized. Under the guidance of Fox Pictures' deliberate public opinion, the public gradually realized that the one-sided negative reviews of "Butterfly Effect" are likely to be the result of someone deliberately slandering them.

Subsequently, the News Corp.'s New York Post published an article further convinced many people.

Things will still turn back to the media's sudden media doubts that Simon was questioned in March. A reporter from the New York Post found that Mark Hollington, the independent writer who published an article in the New York Times, recently suddenly bought a brand new Ferrari sports car.

So, the problem arose.

Mark Hollington's previous income was simply not enough to make him pay for such an expensive sports car.

So.

Where does the money come from?

Is it the extra money that suddenly earned because of someone being instructed to criticize a talented boy?

As a gossip tabloid with a huge circulation, the New York Post is well-known for its various unconventional news. In order to avoid libel lawsuits, this article did not directly question Mark Hollington, but guided the audience in one aspect in its words.

Faced with the accusations from the New York Post, Mark Hollington was very "cooperating" and refuted immediately, claiming that the sports car was bought by him in installments and did not pay the full amount, so naturally there was no "extra money".

The New York Times may not want to wade into this muddy water again, and Mark Hollington's clarification article can only be published in another newspaper, Daily News.

This is even more lively.

As we all know, the market positioning is similar to that of the daily news and the New York Post, which have similar circulations, have always been mortal rivals. The two newspapers that are not honest in nature are almost completely distorted and often quarreled from each other, and they even brought out the other's bosses Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zachman to a worthless price.

Now, as Mark Hollington clarifies on the Daily News, war between the two sides begins again.

This kind of media tearing is usually difficult to have any results.

The unlucky one was Mark Hollington.

The matter became more and more troubled, and the fact that he charged money to discredit Simon Westeros was inexplicably confirmed in the rift.

It was so lively until Friday, April 24.

Due to the change in media trends and Fox Pictures' increased marketing offensive, the box office decline in the entire week of the second week of the Butterfly Effect continued to narrow by only 15%, with an additional $18.28 million.

In two weeks, the total box office of "Butterfly Effect" has reached $39.97 million.

However, this box office of nearly 40 million US dollars has already squeezed "Butterfly Effect" into the fourth place in the total box office of the movies released in 1987, second only to "Rolla Run", "The Deadly Weapon" and Disney's "Cruel Destiny" released in January.

Simon is busy with a lot of things at hand, and he also cooperates with Fox Pictures to be a guest on NBC's Tonight Show again, spending a few minutes discussing the inspiration for the creation of "Butterfly Effect".

In the contract between the two parties, although Simon has the obligation to cooperate with the video promotion, he is actually the kind of person who doesn’t like to show up very much.

However, when Peter Sanders invited Simon to participate in the talk show, he directly sent a check of $300,000, and said that the film's box office in North America exceeded $100 million, and Fox Pictures will pay Simon another bonus.

With the other party being so good, Simon naturally tried his best to cooperate.

At the same time, after Michael Orwitz's visit, Robert Redford responded the next day, willing to accept a pay clause of $500,000 plus a 5% profit share.

After the party last Saturday, Madonna and his wife considered it for a few days and also responded, expressing their willingness to play the role of Little Bunny and Little Pumpkin. The final agreement was that the couple would take a $500,000 salary together.

In addition, Simon also agreed to write a song for Madonna's new album in the second half of the year.

Finalizing these, "Pulp Novel" already has three superstars, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford and John Travolta. The fame of Madonna and Sean Penn should not be underestimated.

With a $8 million budget, such a strong cast was combined. The ecstatic Orion Pictures held a press conference on Thursday, and announced the name of Simon's new work "Pulp Novel" and a list of actors.

In the afternoon.

Daenerys Films Headquarters in Santa Monica.

In Simon's office, Meg Ryan, dressed in a white shirt and a black tube skirt, carefully helped Simon and Amy pour coffee, and then turned around and went out.

Amy held the coffee cup and looked at Meg Ryan leaving, saying to Simon: "She seems to be a little afraid of you. It's not a good phenomenon to scare a woman."

These days, Meg Ryan officially started to '9-to-5' at Daenerys Pictures.

Simon just wanted to restore Meg Ryan to the state that a 26-year-old woman should have through regular life, and did not expect any substantial work she would do, so he just arranged for her to be her secretary outside and with Susan.

After hearing Amy say this, Simon, who was looking through a thick stack of actor information, just shook his head slightly and said, "It's not that he's afraid, it should be embarrassing."

It would be strange if I didn’t feel embarrassed if I ‘touched’ myself twice.

Amy naturally couldn't understand Simon's explanation, but she just smiled and didn't ask.

Seeing Simon lowering his head and carefully looking through the actor's information, he noticed that there was a novel on his desk close to him. Amy put the coffee cup back on the table and curiously took the book over.

These days, Simon always has one or two books of personal readings. Amy thinks this is a good habit of her boss, so she doesn't think much about it. At such a young age, she has made achievements that many people will never achieve in their entire lives. It seems natural to maintain reading habits at all times.

Amy even felt that she might have to take the time to charge more.

Thinking to myself, Amy looked at the name of the book in her hand, "Forrest Gump", the author is Winston Grum. Although she didn't know her, the novels selected by the young man opposite would not be too bad, so she opened them with great interest.

Simon noticed Amy's actions and explained while reading the information: "Amy, I will ask Jonathan to help me talk about some scripts, novels and remakes these days, but it will be placed on Westeros for the time being. You know, there is a lot of money on the books there, so we will definitely make these in the future."

Since he already has a certain amount of capital, Simon has recently begun to implement what he has always wanted to do since he returned to this era, and has taken the copyrights of many future movies that are destined to be popular in advance.

Looking at the gold mine that I could almost pick up, I was sorry for not doing this.

Amy smiled and nodded, saying, "I understand."

Amy wasn't surprised by a little ambitions.

Daenerys Pictures only has the operating funds that Simon borrowed and the production budget for the two movies "The God of Death" and "Pulp Novel". If you want to do this, you must be unable to do it, so you can only do it by Westeros.

While chatting casually, Simon quickly picked out a document of actresses, pressed the call button on the desktop, and called Susan Landis in. He noticed Amy's curious expression, handed over the document and said, "Hey, this is my Mia."

Amy took the information and looked at her name.

Nicole Kidman.

Who is this?

This thought flashed through my mind at the first time, Amy glanced at the photo again and said to Simon: "If there is a videotape, you should at least watch her performance, right?"

Simon shook his head and said, "There is no need to waste time."

As she said this, Susan walked in, Simon pointed to the information in Amy's hand and said, "Transfer this actor information to Jonathan and tell him that they will have two days to dig her to WMA. In addition, I am not satisfied with the black actors who play Jules, and I ask them to choose another batch to send it over. It doesn't matter if they are famous. Also, the female taxi driver is the same, charming, charming, and accent. I think I've said it very clearly. I don't need to recommend local actors anymore, choose European ones."

Amy handed the information to Susan. He listened to Simon's series of instructions, smiled helplessly and shook his head, and found that it was always difficult for him to guess what his young boss thought.

Simon was actually helpless.

A group of big names have been finalized, and the budget he can use to select other actors is only $1 million left, but there are still a large group of characters in the film.

Among them, Jules, the role of the original Samuel Jackson, Simon still hopes that the other party can play. But now, Samuel Jackson doesn't know where it is.

In this era without the Internet, it is very difficult to find an unknown man.

Even Mia had some twists and turns.

Simon originally wanted Michelle Pfeiffer to give it a try, but it doesn't matter if it's expensive.

However, after a brief audition, Simon discovered a very serious problem.

John Travolta is nearly 1.9 meters tall, but Michelle Pfeiffer is only over 1.7 meters tall. The height difference between the two of them is on the stage and their composition is directly tilted. How could they perform that classic swing dance?

After Michelle Pfeiffer, Simon added a height limit of over 180CM in the casting conditions.

"Pulp Novel" is scheduled to start filming in July, and Simon still has too much work to do. After a simple selection, he chose Nicole Kidman, who was once very familiar.

When she waited for Susan's office, Simon glanced at the watch and asked Amy opposite, "Didn't she say it was three o'clock?"

Amy also looked at the time and said, "Or why I'll have someone call me to ask."

As he was speaking, the office door was knocked again, Meg Ryan leaned in and said, "Mr. Westeros, Ms. Pascal, Mr. O'Brien has arrived."

Hearing this, the two stood up and greeted each other.

Office door.

A middle-aged man with a round face of about forty years old also walked in at this time, and reached out to Simon and Amy with apologies, saying, "I'm sorry, Mr. Westeros and Ms. Pascal, I encountered some minor problems on the way."

Simon listened to the typical British accent of middle-aged people, walked over and smiled and shook hands with the other party, saying, "It's okay, Danny, just call me Simon."

Amy also shook hands with the other party and introduced.

Simon signaled Meg Ryan to send some coffee in. The three of them sat down in the reception area and couldn't help but look at each other.

The middle-aged man named Dennis O'Brien, a film producer, and runs a film company called Crafts Films with former Beatles guitarist George Harrison.

George Harrison founded the film company in 1978 to support one of his friends.

Later, the film produced by Harrison's friend won $20 million in North America for only $4 million, and the Crafts Films became uncontrollable. It then launched a big-selling film such as "Time Robbers" starring Sean Connery, which has gradually become a well-known British production company in recent years.

but.

But Crafts Film just fell a big frustration last year, and it was the movie "Marvel" starring Madonna and Sean Penn.

A budget of $17 million, the final $2.31 million North American box office may not be enough to pay for the promotional and distribution expenses of MGM Pictures.

Due to the overheating of the global economy in recent years, a large amount of capital has poured into the film industry. The Crafts Film Company did not go bankrupt because of the failure of "Marriage" but instead contacted Daenerys Film Company through Madonna's relationship, but became interested in "When Harry Meets Sally".

The success of "Butterfly Effect" has solved the deadlock that "When Harry Meets Sally" has been ignored before. Over the past week, not only many second- and third-tier film companies, but also the Seven Majors have basically re-expressed their interest in "When Harry Meets Sally".

However, Simon has other plans now.

Daenerys Pictures will not be able to establish its own distribution channel in the short term, so the promotion and distribution of "When Harry Meets Sally" will naturally have to cooperate with the Seven majors. However, in terms of production, in order to maintain absolute control of the entire project, Simon plans to invest with some independent filmmakers.

By doing this, as long as you can obtain some of the funds first, the entire project can be started.

By the time Simon completes the stock index futures operation in the second half of the year, Daenerys Pictures can inject subsequent funds into the entire project. At the same time, due to the success of the two films "Rola Run" and "Butterfly Effect", even if it is a cooperative investment, Daenerys Pictures has enough confidence to require more profit sharing.
Chapter completed!