As a country with separation of powers, the United States' legislative power is mainly in the hands of Congress.

The core work of members of the Senate and House of Representatives after being elected is to propose, formulate, modify or abolish various bills (Bills) based on the actual situation of all sectors of the United States.

The US Congress accepts thousands of bills of various types every year, from national economy and people's livelihood to trivial matters.

Of course, the importance of the bill is also differentiated.

Take Hollywood as an example. The Film Association of America (MPAA), which is mainly responsible for helping Hollywood studios lobby, has one of the recent lobbying focuses on the hope of abolishing the merger restriction bill between Hollywood studios and the American public television network.

The abolition of this bill will involve tens of billions of industrial changes.

On the other hand, it is naturally impossible for members of Congress to conceive certain bills out of thin air just sitting in the office.

Most of the bills are obtained by communicating with members of the Senate and House of Representatives by the public, trade unions, business owners, interest groups or federal government agencies.

Therefore, countless professional lobbying companies have emerged in the United States, responsible for connecting groups of various parties and members of Congress.

Although the so-called lobbying in the United States cannot avoid behind-the-scenes power games or interest exchanges, it is very formal overall. At least on the surface, no member of parliament would be so stupid that he knew that some people had something to ask for him that he would accept the other party’s invitation to dinner and gifts.

To promote the establishment of a bill, you must first contact people, usually lobbying companies.

If you can’t find the ‘Temple Gate’, everything will be useless.

It is worth mentioning that most lobbying consulting companies are often established by politicians who have already left their jobs at all levels of the United States. The more top politicians are, the higher the fees are. This is another form of high salary and honest support.

With the huge number of bills submitted by the US Congress every year, you can imagine the rich income of these people.

When contacting people, others cannot help you persuade a member of parliament to submit a bill without any reason, and it is even more impossible to just stuff money into some people's hands. If you want to promote a bill, you must collect and organize the corresponding data on your own to prove the necessity of the formulation or abolition of a bill.

After obtaining sufficient data, lawmakers draft bills and submit them to Congress, and then enter the process of deliberation, debate, voting, etc.

The process after the bill is submitted is often the focus of the game.

In most cases, the more important the bill is, the more you can ensure that the bill is passed by conclusive evidence.

This requires bill promoters to continue to show their magical powers, political struggles, mutual compromise, public opinion builds momentum, exchange of interests, etc., etc.

The frequent contact between the White House and Congress on the government budget bills every year and even caused the government to shut down, which is the most intuitive manifestation of this game.

Of course, most of the dark confrontations hidden behind the scenes are often not something ordinary people can see.

The operators Simon discussed with Joseph Schrapp this time are not allowed to participate in the bill in the field of telecommunications equipment manufacturing, which is a relatively important economic bill. It will take about two or three years from the proposal to the passage of the bill, and perhaps it will also be lobbying with other telecommunications control bills.

The two discussed for more than an hour and initially finalized some details. They saw Joseph Schrapp away, and Simon boarded the plane back to the West Coast at West Chester County Airport near Greenwich.

Back at Dumei Point, it was just lunch time on this side of the west coast.

After lunch with Janet, he talked about this trip to New York casually. Simon rushed to Daenerys Cinema in the afternoon to work.

Today is Monday, May 20th.

The following Friday, the 1991 summer season will be opened.

However, today is another day, and another Cannes Film Festival in France closed today.

There is a 9-hour time difference between Los Angeles and Cannes. In the afternoon, Simon came to Daenerys Cinema and soon received the results of the film festival awards from Cannes, which was already night.

Daenerys Entertainment's two films in the main competition unit this time, Coen's "Barton Fink" and Spike Lee's "Jungle Funk", both missed the highest Palme d'Or in Cannes, and fortunately they did not return empty-handed. "Barton Funk" won the Best Director Award, and Samuel Jackson in "Jungle Funk" won the Best Supporting Actor Award.

In Simon's memory, "Barton Fink" should actually win the Palme d'Or this year.

However, two of the three Palme d'Or works in the previous three years, "Pulp Novel", "Paradise Cinema" and "My Heart is Wild", are American movies. Two American movies, one is produced by Daenerys Entertainment and the other is released by Daenerys Entertainment.

This time, the Cannes jury obviously felt a little balanced.

The final Palme d'Organized Film is French director Jacques Rivet's "Unruly Beauty".

Jacques Rivet is not very famous, but a heroine in "The Unruly Beauty" is well known as Jane Platinum. Hermes' platinum bag that is so expensive that it makes people look like it but has attracted countless female ladies is named after Jane Platinum.

Because of such a gimmick and the blessing of the Palme d'Or, Ella Deutschman is already in contact with the copyright owner, hoping to get the North American distribution rights of "The Unruly Beauty".

"Barton Fink" and "Jungle Fever" failed to win the Palme d'Or, but only won two secondary awards, which actually met Simon's expectations.

Daenerys Entertainment will never take up all its light after all, and it is necessary to keep a low profile properly.

Moreover, Gaomen Pictures’ overseas awards focus this year is actually the Venice Film Festival.

Due to the production progress, Jane Campion's "Piano Love" was unable to participate in the just-concluded Cannes Film Festival, but has applied for this year's main competition unit of the Venice Film Festival.

Jane Campion's "Angel and Me Desktop" received very good reviews at the Venice Film Festival last year. "Don't Love with Piano" is obviously more suitable for Venice's artistic temperament than Cannes. This film has a great hope to hit this year's Venice Golden Lion Award.

Ella Deutschman and Sofia Fessi's connections in the Italian entertainment industry are also sufficiently supported by "Piano Love" to win the championship.

In addition to the Cannes incident, Simon's busy main work this week was that he had successfully completed the filming in Melbourne and returned to North America.

As the first producer of "The Flash", Warner expressed great doubts and dissatisfaction with Simon's behavior of not visiting the set in Melbourne once during the filming of the film.

Simon did not refute this, and he really didn't have time. However, Simon actually bet a lot of energy on this film, enough for him to get the pay for the producer contract.

For several working days, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semer takes time to review sample photos with Simon every day.

Terry Semer was relieved until he confirmed that the sample of the video was not very problematic and Simon personally presided over the finalization of the film's post-production plan.

Time comes Friday, May 24th.

The summer season in 1991 officially started.

But this week, a total of six new films above the scale were released. Except for the Antarctic documentary "Ice and Snow World" released by Gaomen Pictures and the comedy "The Troublemaker" that Xinyi Films joined in the summer, the screen size of the other four films has reached more than 1,000 yuan.

The four films are the fire-type crime action film "Backfire" which is temporarily released by Universal Pictures, starring two male stars William Baldwin and Kurt Russell, with a screen size of 2,036 yuan.

The funny action film "Ultimate Condor" released by Columbia Pictures' Samsung label has a screen size of 1,621 yuan.

Chris Columbus' new romantic comedy film "Men's Big Marriage", which was promoted to the front line last year with directing "Home Imperials", opened with a screen size of 1,561 yuan.

And finally, Disney produced a real-life adaptation of the horse trainer-themed movie "Horse Prancing Horse", with a screen size of 1,521 yuan...

The opening screen sizes of "Ice and Snow World" and "The Troublemaker" are 687 yuan and 821 yuan respectively.

Perhaps because of the fierce competition, or because the six new films have no potential to sell well, from May 24 to May 30, no film in North American theaters had a single-week box office of more than $20 million.

Universal Pictures' "Backfire" finally won the single-week box office championship, with a box office of only $19.21 million in the first seven days.

Then, the second place on the list was Disney's old film "Genius is Crazy", which tells the series of jokes made by the male protagonist starring Bill Murray due to a series of insecurities about the world.

"Genius Crazy" started painting last week and was released in the second week. Due to the ferment of reputation, it actually achieved a 5% box office decline under the attack of a number of old films, earning $13.53 million.

The new film "Flying Tiger Condor" starring Bruce Willis ranked third, but the box office fell directly to $8.64 million.

The production cost of "Flying Tiger Condor" is as high as $65 million.

The reputation of bad reviews was 8.64 million US dollars, and according to the commercial action movie, it may reach a 50% drop in the next week, the total box office of the film in North America may be less than 20 million US dollars. Columbia Pictures is destined to lose all its money. Sony, the big boss behind the scenes, once again paid an expensive 'tuition fee' to Hollywood.

Chris Columbus' new film "Men's Marriage" ranked fourth, earning $7.73 million.

Based on the production cost of the video of $20 million, it was also a failure.

Immediately afterwards, the fifth place was not Disney's "The Horse Hero" or the new line "The Troublemaker Forree", but the "Ice and Snow World" that brought a refreshing and refreshing summer.

In the first week of the painting, "Ice and Snow World" opened the screen with 687 yuan, which exceeded many people's expectations and won a box office of 6.97 million US dollars.

If you think about it carefully, "Ice and Snow World" has become the only film in the first week of the summer season that has barely exceeded 10,000 yuan in box office.

As we all know, only if a new film that has opened a large-scale painting can exceed 10,000 yuan in the first week of the museum, it can be considered to be a big seller.

From the original fashion documentary "Gucci Imprint", to the Madonna music documentary "Real and Brave" during this Easter period, to the Antarctic scenery documentary "Ice and Snow World", Hollywood was helpless to find that its studio has been following Daenerys Entertainment as much as possible, launching fashion documentaries and brewing music documentaries, and now, another landscape documentary has emerged.

What's even more disastrous is that the documentary is said to have a budget of only $3 million, just a birthday gift from the Westeros to a little girl.

The box office of $6.97 million in the first week was considered to be a direct recovery of production costs.

According to such opening data, we will strengthen publicity, take a little bit of reputation and popularity, and appropriately expand the screening scale. This documentary can easily accumulate a box office of 30 million US dollars.

Although the box office of $30 million is still far from Simon's memory of "The Emperor Penguin Diary", this is already a rare success in the eyes of other Hollywood studios.

Compared with the budget cost of $3 million, the North American box office rate is 10 times!

The Hollywood studios that were originally following the trend and trying to support the success of "Gucci Imprint" and "Reality and Brave", after the box office of "Ice and Snow World", they all turned their attention to various scenic holy places on the earth.

Some producers have also begun to take the opportunity to sell adventures such as the Antarctic and Arctic Amazon jungle Sahara Desert to studios, and even a documentary exploring the African savanna appeared on Simon's desk.

However, in this series of films, Simon is more concerned about "The Troublemaker".

Or it is Xinyi Film, the production company of "The Troublemaker".

New Line Film, the original Time and Space, made its fortune by relying on the "Ghost Street" series. After the box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" exceeded 100 million, it was eventually acquired by Time Warner and created a series of popular films such as "Lord of the Rings" and "Rush Hour".

Now, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has been intercepted by Daenerys Entertainment.

The "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series, which lost a movie enough to support a second-tier studio for several years, has basically exhausted the potential of the "Teen Street" series. In addition, the new line has blindly expanded the production and distribution scale in previous years. The summer season "Troublemaker Forrey" is one of the last attempts before the decline of New Line Film.

"The Troublemaker" is starring two actresses, Kelly Fisher and Phoebe Cates. According to the information obtained by Simon, the film budget is about 6.7 million US dollars. It is not difficult to see the precision of the new line from this number.

Although after so many years of accumulation of distribution resources, the new line forced this fantasy comedy film to the summer season, but the box office at the beginning was not ideal, with only US$4.39 million, basically no hope of breaking through the 10 million mark.

However, considering the promotional cost, the total budget invested by "The Troublemaker Forrey" is about $10 million.

Obviously, this is a failed project.

For Daenerys Entertainment, the failure of the $10 million project is irrelevant.

Xinyi Film, which is in the end, cannot withstand several similar losses.

Simon has checked the new film list for 1991, and the theater distribution plan is as many as 11 movies.

Except for one of the movies "Ghost Street 6: The Last Nightmare", Simon did not find any of them with the potential to sell in the rest of the films.

A film company that barely squeezes into the second-tier tier, and has torn up 11 movies a year, basically is equivalent to spending all the money accumulated over the years. If Simon's secret sniping is included, the film company will only become a bleak business situation again.

Speaking of which, another company that Simon has been secretly staring at, Miramax Film, of the Weinstein brothers, has now fallen into a completely small-scale workshop-style business because of missing out on the comeback videos such as "Sex, Lies and Video Tapes" and "Paradise Cinema".

Because they have no production ability at all, the two brothers can only fool some copyrights from Europe to North America in the past two years.

In the final analysis, just like the total number of moviegoers in the American film market is relatively fixed every year, Hollywood's luck is also fixed.

Daenerys Entertainment's rapid development for several consecutive years not only captured a large number of hit films that originally belonged to other studios, but also divided a large part of Hollywood's other resources.

Even several other major studios feel pressured in front of Daenerys Entertainment, not to mention those second- and third-tier film companies that cannot form economies of scale and risk resistance.

In recent years, Daenerys Entertainment has been continuously devouring Hollywood's best scripts, the best filmmakers, the most popular movie schedules, the most popular public opinion attention, and the best promotional resources...
Chapter completed!