Simon left London the next day, and his next stop was Helsinki.

The official schedule for this trip to the UK was basically completed, but there were two other trivial things, and none of them were settled. It was the hot girl group and Harry Potter I remembered on the plane when I came.

Let’s not talk about the hot girl group for now.

Regarding "Harry Potter", Simon privately searched for online platforms such as Facebook social networks in the UK, but could not find a lady named J.K. Rowling. Then he remembered that Western women often took their husband's surname after marriage. J.K. Rowling was a single mother, but this time it was not necessarily true.

Then, they tried different ways to search mainly with J·K prefix, and even some online literature communities still found nothing.

Only give up.

In the end, he decided to try it out for himself. In the next trip to Finland and Italy, Simon took the time to roughly list the outline of the first part of the Harry Potter series based on his memory, and wrote a story summary, which he passed to Los Angeles to ask them to find the Gunner to write.

As for story inspiration.

Simon also adopted the former saying, and accidentally caught a glimpse of a wizard wearing black-framed glasses on the side of the road, and also spent a sketch of Harry Potter.

Of course, Simon does not intend to sign the story in the future. Considering the layout of this IP, he does not intend to give the gunman the right to sign, but gives a pseudonym, J·K.

Forget about the "Rolling" behind it.

As for what will happen in the future, Simon can only do this, let it go.

Los Angeles.

While Simon was wandering around in Europe, it was already here on April 18, another Friday.

The Easter schedule has ended, and several previous videos are still continuing.

In the past box office week, the new version of "Hurricane Rescue" starring Jeter Lee once again won the single-week box office championship. It has been released in the third week since March 28. After a good start of $31.37 million in the first week, this action movie, which combines Hollywood templates, fell slightly by 43% the next week, earning $17.88 million. The decline narrowed to 26% in the third week, and closed at another $13.21 million.

In three weeks, the cumulative box office of this medium- and low-cost budget film with an investment of US$25 million has reached US$62.46 million. Even if it includes US$10 million in publicity and development investment, the cost has basically been recovered.

Judging from the current trend, "Hurricane Rescue" has a box office potential of $15 million to $20 million in the future, and the total local box office is expected to reach $80 million.

Although there is no hope for a billion yuan, even Simon has not expected this new version of "Hurricane Rescue" and the box office expectation of $80 million has exceeded everyone's expectations.

The successive Jack Cheng and Jet Lee were successful in Hollywood, which not only triggered a Chinese Kung Fu movie craze among the audience, but also various Hollywood studios have turned their attention to the other side of the ocean. Recently, many studios have begun to contact there.

Then I found out that it was still one step late.

This is about the Chinese Kung Fu movie "The Young Huang Feihong: Iron Monkey" released by Daenerys Entertainment last Friday.

Although the English name of this film was translated into "Iron Monkey" with little integrity, the wonderful Chinese Kung Fu show in it still attracted a lot of attention under the craze caused by "Hurricane Rescue".

On April 11, "Young Huang Feihong: Iron Monkey" opened in North America with a screen size of 1,514 yuan. In the first week of its release, it once again unexpectedly won $10.36 million in box office, unexpectedly breaking the 10 million mark.

In April, such a stand-alone, Chinese-language film theme, the screen size of 1,514 yuan is not much, and the first week of 10.36 million US dollars is a small miracle.

With this little miracle, "Young Huang Feihong: Iron Monkey" even ranked second in the single-week box office list.

In the same box office week, the top two movies in the North American film market were all Chinese, which is also a spectacle that has not appeared in many years.

With such a small start, the box office of "The Young Wong Feihong: The Iron Monkey" is expected to reach around 25 million US dollars in North America, which seems not much. However, this old film produced in 1993 in Hong Kong was actually bought by Daenerys Entertainment in packages.

Even though last year's "Rush Hour" attracted the attention of many people again, most people finally got used to looking forward instead of buying old movies from the past.

Daenerys Entertainment just goes the other way.

On the other hand, the collapse of Hong Kong films since last year has made many film companies urgently need funds, even if they want to wait for a price. Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment spent less than $10 million on North American omni-channel copyrights in the name of releasing video tapes, including "Young Wong Feihong: Iron Monkey" and other such as "The Iron Monkey". Daenerys Entertainment only spent less than $10 million, with an average of less than $500,000 per movie.

Of course, converting into Hong Kong dollars, the average price of nearly 4 million Hong Kong dollars per piece is still quite considerable.

Now, "Young Huang Feihong: Iron Monkey" earns more than $10 million in a week. The film's producers, including Jiahe, Huanya, etc., are no longer so "appreciable". The feeling of being cheated is even worse than that of a producer of "Black Man" last year.

If more than 20 videos sold... not to mention all of them, even if only half of them have such market potential, it would be a loss.

I thought that I would never let Hollywood make too much money by guarding against new projects like "Police Story 4". Unexpectedly, an old film that has been released for so many years can still be sold in Hollywood.

In addition to worrying, Hong Kong filmmakers, who had a worrying prospect due to the collapse of the Hong Kong film market, inevitably saw a way out after success in Hong Kong films in Hollywood. In addition, the tests from Hollywood can be said to be a perfect match.

After all, it was an unpopular period between Easter and the summer season. After "Hurricane Rescue" and "Young Wong Feihong's Iron Monkey", the third-place "The Ghost of Terror" fell to the $10 million range this week.

In the third week of release, "The Ghost of Horror" narrowed its box office by 32% in three weeks after $14.51 million, with a cumulative box office of $9.86 million, with a cumulative box office of $53.91 million.

Considering the film's box office curve, the film's local total box office is expected to be between $60 million and $70 million, which is not as good as the possible $80 million expected in Hurricane Rescue, but it was once considered satisfactory compared to the $30 million production cost.

The fourth place on the list is "Alien 2".

In the fourth week of the release, this alien alien-themed science fiction film earned $8.16 million again, with a cumulative box office of $71.55 million, which has easily surpassed the first predecessor. Not only that, with the film's box office at this time, it is not a big problem to break through 80 million locally. "Hurricane Rescue" is only expected to be close to 80 million. "Alien 2" is enough to easily break the 80 million mark and go higher, so it will also become the most popular film during the Easter period, and of course it is the most popular among the four movies related to Daenerys Entertainment.

The fifth place on the list is "Cable TV Repairman".

However, in the fourth week of the release, Jim Carrey's comedy's box office has dropped to $4.51 million in a single week, barely surpassing the second place "BJ Single Diary"'s $4.19 million in the 9th week of the release of "BJ Singles Diary", with a cumulative box office of $52.5 million, and it is expected that it will be difficult for the local area to break through $60 million.

Considering the $35 million production and $15 million in publicity and promotion investment, Daenerys Entertainment obviously cannot recover costs from local distribution and can only look forward to overseas.

In addition to the top five, it is worth mentioning that "BJ Single Diary" is the sixth place.

In its 9th week of release, with a box office of $4.19 million, the cumulative box office of this love movie has reached $138.26 million. Although the box office in a single week is much less than "Cable TV Repairman", the box office curve of "BJ Single Diary" is very stable, and it may not be impossible to hit 150 million.

Daenerys Entertainment senior executives reviewed the entire Easter schedule and were regretful.

Except for "BJ Single Diary" which is counted on Valentine's Day, there are no local movies that have exceeded 100 million.

However, the four movies were released at the same time, and the result was not surprising at all.

Just say, "Alien 2" that performed beyond expectations, if it were not for the joint impact of "Hurricane Rescue" and "Horror Ghost" on Easter week, it would be very easy to exceed 100 million yuan in local areas. However, the cake in the movie market is so big, if you get more, others will definitely have fewer.

Therefore, the internal friction between the four films during this Easter period is obvious.

Of course, considering that the four films were released simultaneously and stimulated by many viewers, it was also worth it. Without the four films of Daenerys Entertainment, the extra share would definitely be eaten by other studio films. In addition, the Easter schedule may not have the box office of a single week of two consecutive weeks, and even reached a high of 130 million US dollars that was comparable to the summer and the end of the year in Easter.

In short, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

Daenerys Cinema.

As the work ended nearly a week, Amy Pascal held a summary meeting with the heads of several of its studios, returned to his office again, and began to ask his assistant Vanessa Lind about some work matters.

The main thing is a few things my boss explained recently.

Such as the concept of a romantic film called "My Best Friend's Wedding", the intercept of the negotiation of "Godzilla" between Sony and Japan's Toho, and the creativity of a fantasy novel called "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" that I just got yesterday.

"Ronald Bass has accepted the work of writing, and I have also transferred the story ideas to Julia, and ICM has not responded for the time being. As for "Godzilla", their attitude is a bit vague."

"I don't want to hear this ambiguity."

"Sorry, Amy, but it's obvious that according to the news we received, Sony was already going to negotiate with Tobo. Now, we intervene in. With Daenerys Entertainment's appeal in Hollywood, the Japanese will know who to cooperate with as long as they are not stupid. But they should be waiting for our offer now."

Amy thought a little and roughly understood: "Dongbao wants to participate in the investment?"

"Yes," Vanessa Linddow, who has been following Amy for many years: "According to the news we have received, Toho and Sony did not intend to invest, but only enjoy a certain profit share. Now Daenerys Entertainment wants to take over, and in the eyes of the Japanese, the box office will be quite guaranteed, so naturally we won't miss the investment opportunity."

"In this case..." Amy pondered for a moment and said, "Let our copyright team continue to contact Toho, but we will wait for the other side to take the initiative to propose the conditions."

Vanessa nodded. She also had this idea. Since the Japanese had already determined their minds, there was no need to lose more initiative. Let Daenerys Entertainment make better bargaining. After saying this, Vanessa handed over a folder: "Also, here are some writers who are good at children's fantasy novels."

Amy took the information and opened it while saying, "You can get off work first, I'll leave after reading these."

Vanessa nodded and agreed, and said, "Actually, Amy, you don't have to be so tired now, let alone having a baby, so it doesn't matter if you get off work early."

Amy knew that Vanessa was caring for herself, and smiled but didn't explain anything.

Simply put, there are two types of executives at major Hollywood studios, one is good at creativity and the other is good at management.

Michael Eisner was very creative at the beginning. He even added the title of chief creative officer during his tenure in Disney and personally served as the host of a Disney Channel program.

As for those who are good at management, they are often lawyers or accounting. Take Disney as an example. Eisner's original deputy, Frank Wells, was a lawyer. While Eisner was in charge of Disney's general direction, Wells helped manage various administrative affairs. The two cooperated tacitly in the 1980s, quickly rejuvenating Disney.

If it weren't for the appearance of Simon, the big butterfly, Disney would still shine in the 1990s.

Although she started as an assistant, Amy thought she should have been a creative executive after she later changed to a producer. Unfortunately...well, of course it is not a regret, but with the rapid development and growth of Daenerys Entertainment, coupled with the fact that she has a boss who is full of inspiration, Amy can only do management work wholeheartedly.

To be honest, with Daenerys Entertainment's current scale, she was actually a little helpless, so Amy had no complaints about the flat structure design that her boss dispersed her power to Nancy Brill, Robert Eiger and even the respective heads of the three studios.

But he dared not slackew.

After all, Amy knew that she could still stay in this position as she had been through the journey with her boss, mainly because of the love she had accumulated over the years, not because of her ability. Therefore, she also put her position in a good position and did what she could.

The most important one is to do what Simon personally told him as well as possible.

Just like this script of "My Best Friend's Wedding", copyright of "Godzilla", novel ideas about "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", based on the experience Amy has accumulated over the years, these things seem inconspicuous, but often later on, they will become the core highlights of Daenerys Entertainment.

The most typical one is the DC movie universe.

She was the first DC superhero copyright, and she personally took charge of discussing it one by one.

Therefore, if you do these things well, even the greatest contribution will still be counted on your own boss, and she is still indispensable in it.
Chapter completed!