While Simon was accompanying Erin on the East Coast Masa Vineyard Island, Los Angeles on the West Coast was still in the mansion on the hillside of Palisade, bordering Malibu and Santa Monica. Daenerys Entertainment held a large party here in the evening.

Mainly to celebrate the box office of "Annabelle" exceeded 100 million yuan and the complete formation of the soul-summoning movie universe. The creators of "Bully Night" that have recently sold box office, and many other Hollywood filmmakers who are familiar with Daenerys Entertainment have also been invited, which is a large gathering for contact with love at the end of the year.

First of all, I have to talk about the recent film market overview.

Today is November 15th, Friday, and the 1996 Thanksgiving schedule officially begins.

In the past box office week, from November 8 to November 14, "Annabelle" released in the third week continued to earn US$27.29 million with a single-week box office decline of 21%. In three weeks, the new series of the Soul Conjuring Movie Universe has a cumulative box office of US$109.2 million, easily advanced to the 100 million club, and is expected to impact the first film of the Soul Conjuring Movie Universe with a local box office of US$150 million.

Another film "Bully Night", produced by Gaomen Pictures, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, closed at another $6.69 million in its fourth week of release with a steady decline of 24%, with a cumulative box office of $35.49 million, basically recovering a total of $20 million in production and promotion investment, entering the profit stage.

In sharp contrast to the two blockbuster films of Daenerys Entertainment, there is undoubtedly the pressure and anxiety of other Hollywood studios at the end of the year.

This pressure mainly comes from three movies, the new DC movie universe film "Wonder Woman 2" released on November 22, and the continuous "The Brave's Game" and "Charlie's Angels" during the Christmas period.

Three super bombshells.

Among them, "Wonder Woman 2" was the first DC movie universe blockbuster after "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" with a global box office of $1.938 billion at the end of last year. The industry expects that the local box office of the film will be easily bottomed out at $400 million.

As for "The Brave Game" and "Charlie's Angels", one is a special effects blockbuster with Stallone, and the other is a major project that forms a linkage with the 007 series and is expected to develop into the Agent Film Universe. As long as the reputation does not collapse after it is released, it is basically a local box office level of 200 million US dollars.

So, just three super bombs basically locked in the box office of US$800 million in the two major periods at the end of the year, leaving room for other studio projects to be freed up.

Speaking of which, since the schedules of three movies have been announced one after another since last year, Hollywood has been planning to actively reduce or delay development plans in an attempt to avoid them.

Sony Pictures, which was really unbearable, simply adjusted the schedule for its new film "Ransoft Storm" with $80 million before its marketing launch at the end of September this year, withdrew from the established Thanksgiving Day in 1996 and switched to the 1997 summer season.

Sony gave the reason that he hoped the film would have more time to post-production, but an old-school criminal action movie is not a special effects blockbuster, so why does it take too much post-production time?

There is inevitably a lot of discussion, which inevitably has a negative impact on the film.

Sony had to do that.

Not only that, Sony also brought back the new Barbara Streisan film "Double-sided Mirror" that was originally scheduled for Christmas to the gratitude period. To be precise, the week before the gratitude period on November 8, and ultimately to get more turning points.

The first week from November 8 to November 14 has passed. Barbara Streisan followed the well-known "The Stunning Times" and another self-directed and self-acted psychological film "Double-sided Mirror". The production cost of 42 million US dollars, 2489 yuan was launched on the screen, and the box office was only 16.08 million US dollars in seven days of release. The museums have just exceeded 6,000 US dollars. The total local box office is expected to be only about 40 million US dollars, and the defeat is determined.

However, in the industry comments, Sony took a pretty good move.

If "Double-sided Mirror" is not upgraded, but continues to collide with a group of new and old blockbusters during Christmas, this drama film with a reputation far less than "The Stunning Waves of Time" will only end up becoming cannon fodder. Even if the local 40 million yuan is not enough, it will not be possible to think about it. Once the local theaters are released completely, the subsequent channels will only be more difficult.

Let’s talk about the beginning of the gratitude period. The week before the release of "Wonder Woman 2", the two strong players were still competing, namely "Slam Dunk" produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount’s classic science fiction series "Star Trek 8".

Needless to say, the rare Hollywood sci-fi evergreens cost $45 million in this sequel.

"Slam Dunk" is a live-action and animation film, similar to Disney's box office hit "Who Framed Roger" this time. Moreover, Warner not only launched its famous cartoon character Bunny, but also invited legendary basketball superstar Michael Jordan to participate, which cost 80 million US dollars and is full of ambitions.

It’s a pity that there is more than just a movie "Wonder Woman 2" ahead of me. Even the schedule from November 15 to November 21 is a bad one. Because the next box office week, November 18 is the highly anticipated fifth Victoria’s Secret show TV broadcast, and November 19 and November 21 are the second "American Idol" autumn finale drama, which is still in full swing. Even if both of these two phenomenal TV shows that occupy three nights on weekdays, they will still seriously impact the movie viewing data of the first box office week of the Thanksgiving.

If "Ranstorm" hadn't run away early, "Slam Dunk" might have been unable to help but run away.

However, if you think about next year's summer vacation and the end of the year, "Tornado", "One Day", "Titanic", etc., there is actually not much room for a run, and you can't run until 1998.

In the final analysis, the root of all this is that Daenerys Entertainment is too strong at the moment. Hollywood plate is so big, Daenerys Entertainment occupies too much, and other studios naturally have smaller and smaller living space. In order to avoid the investment of film projects that continue to become cannon fodder, other Hollywood studios will only fall into a vicious cycle of being forced to reduce the scale of production and thus causing their own strength to decline.

At the party at the Mansion on the Hillside of Palisade.

The heads of the two talent agency giants, WMA and CAA, happen to be discussing this issue.

Michael Orwitz, who was also a glorious in the 1980s, was full of emotion: "If the current situation continues, at most five years, the seven major Hollywood statements will become the past. I think that at that time, while Daenerys Entertainment is dominant, it will be accompanied by two or three second-tier companies that cannot compete with the combined strength. Other brands will probably only have brands left."

Now they are all younger brothers, so Jonathan Friedman, who had met his former rival but was quite calm, nodded slightly and asked, "Who do you think can be left?"

"With GE back and having DC movie universe, Warner is definitely one. Even if MGM can make the Agent movie universe, it can only be half. The remaining one and a half places depends on who can hold on to Fox, Disney, Paramount, Sony, and their reserve capital. In addition, Simon's attitude."

"Considering News Corp., I think Fox should be able to count as one."

"Not necessarily," Orwitz said: "News Corporation is News Corporation, Fox is Fox, and Simon will definitely make friends with News Corporation. On Fox, even Murdoch himself is not very concerned. He prefers to make TV rather than movies with too high uncertainty. In fact, Eisner and I have talked about this recently. He is even more sorry that Disney has fallen into the hands of the French and has the greatest possibility of decline."

Friedman agrees with this: "Simon doesn't seem to like France. However, Simon should be interested in Disney's theme park business."

"This is certain, so Disney's label can definitely be retained, just like Universal Studios. Moreover, even if you already own Universal Studios, Daenerys Entertainment is enough to eat Disney," Orwitz said, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's really incredible to have achieved this level in ten years."

Jonathan Friedman showed a little nostalgia in his expression and smiled: "Every time I think of the ambitious young man when I first met Simon, I feel that everything is normal now."

"It's a pity that you got the advantage back then, otherwise I would have beaten the WMA completely."

"To be honest, given the bad situation in WMA at that time, I once thought about changing jobs and working with you, but fortunately I met Simon."

When the two said this, they looked at each other and smiled. Under the lights of the cliff lawn, they raised their glasses to each other and sipped champagne. Jonathan asked again: "Speaking of it, how about the LinkedIn you and Eisner made?"

"The IPO has started. If everything goes well, it will be listed in January next year," Orwitz said, and he was worried again: "I hope I can catch up."

Of course, Jonathan knew what Orwitz was worried about and felt quite the same: "Nasdaq is really crazy now. I sold out all the technology stocks I held before the election. To be honest, I made a lot of money. However, in the future, I plan to buy back some of the Big Three stocks, just as long-term investments. I absolutely trust Simon."

"Ha, I cleared my position earlier than you, and sold it all in early October. Recently, my wife complained to me that it was sold earlier and hoped to buy some more."

"Don't listen to women in this way."

"Of course," Orwitz smiled, "I was a little worried that I could not control myself, so I simply invested in two-year closed funds."

"Haha, I suddenly realized that I need this too, so let me introduce it?"

"Then I'll ask the assistant to send you the information tomorrow."

The two were chatting when they saw Amy Pascal, who was six months pregnant, walking with her husband Bernard Wynraub, walking with him and quickly took a few steps.

"Good evening, Amy, and Bernard."

"Good evening, Joe."

After Jonathan greeted her, Orwitz also stepped forward and hugged Amy gently, looked at her belly and asked, "Do you know it's a boy or a girl?"

"It's a boy, we're going to name him Daniel."

"Oh, congratulations."

"Thanks."

After a greeting, Jonathan asked about something that Hollywood has paid close attention to recently: "Amy, I heard that "Titanic" in Australia is very troublesome now?"

"Yes, Tom has already flew to Brisbane to stare. Fortunately, if nothing unexpected happens, the filming will finally be completed next month."

Michael Orwitz also curiously said: "What does Simon mean? I remember he went to Australia for vacation last month?"

Amy didn't know what to say about her boss. When she recalled the entire project, she always felt that her boss was deliberately allowing Cameron to lose control. Anyway, the 'big ship' is now unable to handle it without $200 million, but of course she couldn't tell others about this kind of thing casually, just said: "Simon has been staring at it all the time, and everyone has a headache."

Jonathan comforted: "It's nothing to do whenever this happens. Hollywood has always been like this. You should rest more now and pay attention to your children."

"Thank you, Joe, you're so considerate."

The two did not ignore Amy's husband Bernard, and talked to each other about some current affairs after Clinton's re-election recently.

Since she is in her current position, Amy cannot have too much rest time. Seeing the topic of the three men, she asked her to leave alone and walked to the main creators of "Annabel" to express her congratulations.

As the most powerful woman in Hollywood at this time, she happened to be pregnant again. All the guests along the way took the initiative to greet him with diligence and carefulness. Some people were inevitably envious when they saw Amy chatting with the director of "Annabelle".

The director of "Annabelle" is named William Malon, 43 years old this year, another typical latecomer.

Or maybe it wasn't too late to become a big shot. William Malon raised $70,000 as early as 1980 to shoot his first science fiction horror feature film. It sold well after its release. Later, his second work was nominated for the Saturn Award and was invited to be the director of the drama "The Story of the Ghosts".

Unfortunately, I got caught in the TV circle.

This time, "Annabelle" is a turnaround. Although he signed a harsh long-term contract with Daenerys Entertainment and had less autonomy as a director, with the success of "Annabelle", William Malong also became famous and tonight he felt a sense of stardom as the stars were supporting the moon. The 43-year-old middle-aged man, facing the closeness of all kinds of big names around him, even had the urge to cry.

That's what Hollywood is like.

There has never been a shortage of talents, but what is lacking is just opportunities.

When Bernard Wynraub found his wife, Amy had just finished socializing with the crew of "Bully Night" and was talking to Linda Waggs. After entering, he heard about "Save Private Ryan".

"Simon means that. Steven's strength is unquestionable. This time, we don't participate except to send an accounting team to follow up on finance. By the way, the male protagonist of "Space Contact" has been delayed for so long. Is the list you gave Simon a few days ago? "

"Well, Simon finally chose one this time, from Australia, named Hugh Jackman."

Amy thought about it and had no impression, but said, "That's good. If the movie starts filming early next year, it's still impossible to deal with the male lead, Bob will go crazy. I really don't understand why Simon is entangled with such a small role."

Linda smiled and said, "Simon said he was very religious. If he chose an actor who was completely different from a priest, he would have a shadow."

Amy just wanted to roll her eyes.

After chatting for a few more words, Amy waited for her husband to say hello to Linda, and walked towards the other guests with his arm in his arms.

Separated from Amy, Linda Waggs looked a little in the crowded crowd of guests, locked in the target, and walked over directly.

Several men and women who were chatting saw Linda approaching and stopped talking and greeting each other.

Simon Westeros’s official casting leader is more popular than any big director and big producer in Hollywood now, because big director and big producer may not necessarily make the actors famous, and the opportunities given by this Simon Westeros spokesperson are much more valuable.

Linda just nodded slightly to the others and signaled a little girl to come to the railing near the cliff with the short-haired man in her thirties who accompanied her.
Chapter completed!