Janet was going to attend a fundraising reception for Malibu City Hall in the evening. The woman was now a member of the community committee. Simon was not interested in this kind of social interaction, so he made an appointment with Kevin Costner and others for dinner after get off work. By the way, Discussing the upcoming filming of "The Bodyguard".

"Batman" will start filming in January next year. Simon will lead the crew to Australia after New Year's Day. This departure will take at least three months. During this period, he will basically not return to Los Angeles unless there is something too important.

"The Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense" are Daenerys Entertainment's top projects for next year. In order to personally confirm whether the creators' filming is in line with their own ideas and make timely adjustments before leaving Los Angeles, the two films

They all chose to start in December.

It was already past eight o'clock at night when we returned to Malibu, and Janet hadn't come back yet. Simon was sitting alone on the sofa in the living room, flipping through the scripts collected by Ella Deutschman, while glancing at the TV from time to time.

Sample clips played here.

Based on the information in his memory, Simon has found the producer of "Sex, Lies and Videotape" and the film has not been dropped.

Although "Sex, Lies and Videotape" was planned by a little-known independent producer Robert Newmeyer, the main investor is MCA/Columbia Home Entertainment, a joint venture between Universal and Columbia, two major film companies.

The main business of the company, which each holds 50% of the shares, is to purchase film and video tape copyrights from around the world for distribution.

Because of its nature as MCA/Columbia Home Entertainment, it has acquired the video rights to the film after investing $500,000, the largest portion of the $1.2 million total budget, into the "Sex, Lies and Videotape" project.

The post-production of "Sex, Lies and Videotape" has been completed, and an application has been submitted to the Sundance Film Festival. Simon also obtained the sample film very 'reasonably' through Sundance channels, and has handed it over to Ella Doe

Chiman.

Simon didn't see any familiar movies in the samples sent by Ella Deutschman, but he did find a very interesting script, "Intersections of Life."

The multi-line narrative model has always tested a director's guidance ability. "Intersection of Life" is definitely a masterpiece of Hollywood's multi-line narrative production. In my memory, this film was adapted from a series of short stories by the novelist Raymond Carver

And the film directed by Hollywood ensemble master Robert Altman perfectly shows the lives of ordinary people in Los Angeles through an ukiyo-e style model through the clever interweaving of up to eight groups of family characters.

After the film was released that year, some film festivals even set up a "Best Ensemble Award" specifically for "The Crossing of Life". Paul Thomas Anderson's later "Magnolia" was completely influenced by "The Crossing of Life".

Although "Magnolia" seems to be more influential because of the participation of Tom Cruise, Simon still prefers "Intersections", a film that is purely story-oriented and does not deliberately add so-called connotations.

The original "Intersections" was only released in 1993, so Simon was not surprised to get the script at this time.

According to Ira Deutschman's note, Raymond Carver just passed away this year. Robert Altman, who liked Carver's novels very much, has always hoped to put his works on the big screen.

The reason why "Intersection of Life" in the original time and space was postponed to five years later is mainly because the current Robert Altman is really too bad. In the 1970s, this man successively filmed "Army Field Hospital" and "Nash".

The great Hollywood director who has been nominated for two Oscars and other classic films such as "Vail" has never had a successful film since entering the 1980s. Most of the films shot in recent years have box office results of only a few hundred thousand.

Dollar.

Hollywood is very practical. No matter how brilliant your past resume is, if you cannot bring benefits to the film company, you are destined to be abandoned quickly. Moreover, the disadvantages of "Intersection of Life" are also very obvious. Not only does it lack commercial selling points,

The estimated duration is also up to three hours, which will deter investors.

However, after only reading less than half of the script, Simon had already decided to give the project the green light.

"Intersection" will definitely become another Robert Altman classic, there is no doubt about it.

Since the quality of the film can be guaranteed, and there are gimmicks such as the peak of multi-line narratives, as long as it is operated properly, it is absolutely easy to achieve profitability. What's more, there are elements in the film that the audience "loves to see". Simon's memory of Julianne Moore

The physical scenes left a very deep impression.

Simon was immersed in the script of "Intersections of Life" when there was a sound in the living room. Before he could get up, Janet, wearing a beautiful black evening dress, floated in from outside. She was obviously drunk and her face was red.

Blushing, she jumped into Simon's arms laughing and joking.

Simon hugged the woman lovingly, nodded to Sofia Fesi, who followed with a women's windbreaker in her arms, lifted Janet up and followed the woman's wishes to the bedroom to take a shower.

After some fussing, I put Janet on the big bed after taking a bath and changing into pajamas. It was already past ten o'clock.

Simon didn't feel much sleep, so he planned to finish reading the script of "Intersections of Life".

When he came to the living room, he found Sophia sitting in his original position. The woman had changed into a very homely loose sweater and slacks. She was lazily curled up on the sofa with her bare feet, holding a script in her hand.

Another sample film is already playing on the TV.

Sofia didn't seem to expect that Simon would appear again. She wanted to get up, but Simon had already waved his hand and said: "You go on, I'm just here to get a script."

After hearing what Simon said, Sophia immediately relaxed again and changed her posture without leaving any trace.

The coffee table where some scripts and video tapes were originally spread out had obviously been tidied up. Simon rummaged in the cardboard box for a moment before looking up at the woman on the sofa and pointing to the script in her hand: ""Intersections of Life"

"?"

Sofia Feisi nodded: "Yes."

Simon stood up and extended his hand to the woman.

Sophia did not hand over the script, but instead held it in her arms, looked up at Simon, and said, "Boss, you don't like me living in your house?"

Simon looked at the charming and sexy woman on the sofa, took a slight step forward, lifted the woman's chin and caressed it like she was tasting a delicate porcelain, and said: "I'm just afraid that I won't be able to help it. I think

I could easily become an indulgent person."

Sofia obviously didn't expect Simon's actions. If it were any other man, she might have slapped him. However, looking up at that young and handsome face, her mind was filled with the wealth and power this young man possessed. She didn't even think about it.

He couldn't resist, and his body felt a little weak.

After a while, Sophia finally gathered some strength, felt the fingers still caressing her face, and said softly: "You can't do this."

Sure enough, Simon retracted his hand, took out the script from the woman's arms, and said, "Go to bed early."

Sofia didn't expect Simon to be so straightforward, and she suddenly felt a little disappointed. Seeing that the man had turned around and walked out, she pursed her lips. When the man had already reached the door, she said, "I have something to discuss with you."

Simon stopped and turned around to look over: "Huh?"

Sofia dodged the man's eyes for a moment, and then said after a moment: "I will help you take care of those properties in Europe. But, besides that, I hope to do some more things."

Simon simply leaned against the door frame and said, "You can actually discuss this kind of thing with Jenny."

"Jenny doesn't have the time to care about this," Sophia looked at Simon and said, "Besides, it's more convenient to discuss it with you."

"Okay, then what do you want to do?"

"I have studied the LVMH group that Bernard Arnault just integrated last year," Sophia said. Without seeing any confusion in Simon's eyes, she continued: "I want to start with red wine."

"Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy," Simon smiled, stood there and carefully looked at the woman on the sofa, and said: "I like ambitious women, but do you think it's okay to regard LVMH Moët Hennessy as a goal?

Does it make sense?”

Many people know about Louis Vuitton, Hennessy, Dior, and Tiffany, but they don’t know that these luxury brands belong to a huge luxury goods empire, LVMH. The founder of LVMH, Bo

Nader Arnault has also been among the top of the Forbes rich list many times with his LVMH group.

LVMH Moët Hennessy Group was just integrated by Louis Vuitton and some other luxury brands last year. It is far from as powerful as it was later, but it is not something that just anyone can easily achieve.

There was no guilty expression in Sophia's eyes. Instead, she raised her face again and said, "How would you know if you don't let me try?"

Simon said: "What if it fails?"

Sophia's tone seemed to be more confident: "If it fails, I will continue to be your housekeeper."

"Do you think I'm generous to women?"

"You are very generous and even indulgent to your woman," Sophia looked at Simon and said, "I can do this."

"Oh, prove it to me."

Sophia said without thinking: "You support what I want to do, shares, options and even salary. I don't want anything. You can take everything away at any time and leave me with nothing. Can this be proved?"

"Very good," Simon nodded and said, "The money from Credit Lyonnais, after paying all the expenses, there should be more than 20 million US dollars left."

"$26.73 million."

"Well, it seems that you have already started planning," Simon smiled and said, "Let this money be used as your start-up capital. Let's see how you do first, and then I will consider adding more."

After Simon finished speaking, he turned around and left the living room without asking any further questions.

The last month of 1988 has arrived in the blink of an eye.

December 2nd, Friday.

In the past week, the box office of "Steel Magnolias" in its second week of large-scale opening was as low as the previous three-day weekend, still controlled at around 5%. It collected another US$12.15 million in the next seven days, ranking first in the single-week box office

Championship throne.

In two weeks, including previous screenings, the cumulative box office of "Steel Magnolias" has reached 28.82 million US dollars.

After "Steel Magnolias", "Scream" finally experienced a large box office drop in its fifth week of release. Compared with last week, the box office dropped 27%, taking in another US$8.76 million, because there were no strong new films this week.

After its release, the film still ranked second on the charts.

Moreover, the cumulative box office of "Scream" in five weeks has reached 73.37 million US dollars.

Considering that there will be a certain rebound in the box office of the next Christmas movie, in at most four weeks, the North American box office of "Scream" will be enough to exceed 100 million US dollars, and the total domestic box office of the film is expected to reach between 120 million and 130 million US dollars.

between.

Compared with the box office success of "Scream", the most gratifying thing is that Daenerys Entertainment received the first settlement share of the film this week.

Daenerys Entertainment has previously signed contracts with Big Seven for films such as "When Harry Met Sally", "Basic Instinct" and "Pulp Fiction". The film must be released in North America before the company can obtain its own rights.

The share earned.

Therefore, the company will not be able to calculate the final box office revenue of "Pulp Fiction" and "Basic Instinct", which were successively released in November.

But for a self-distributed film like "Scream", Daenerys Entertainment will naturally no longer allow theaters to delay settling the share until the film is released. Instead, it adopted a monthly payment method in the original contract.

settled contract.

The cumulative box office of "Scream" in the first four weeks was US$60.51 million.
To be continued...