I talked about something with Girl A, and after a while, New World Pictures president Danny Morris arrived.

The Easter schedule starts this Friday, and Danny Morris arrives. In addition to discussing the development progress of "Anti-Wissing Stars 2" in the Easter schedule and a series of projects being promoted by New World Pictures, there is another thing, about completely destroying the already shaky New Line Pictures.

Daenerys Entertainment has successively taken away the top-notch projects such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and has been strongly competed by New World Entertainment in the field of horror films. New Line Film, which has risen with the rise of the "Ghost Street" series, has been deteriorating in recent years.

Not only that, at the beginning of the year, Simon also used some means to dispel Time Warner's idea of ​​acquiring Xinyi Film and cut off the most important life of Xinyi.

You should know that the new line was acquired by Time Warner in 1993 and had a steady stream of funds and media resources, which led to a series of successes such as "Rush Hour", "Ace Spy", and "The Lord of the Rings" from the late 1990s to the beginning of the new century. Miramax also became the boss of the art film field by being affiliated with Disney.

In comparison, those second- and third-tier film companies that want to remain independent for a long time lack the support of the entire industrial chain of large media groups, and their risk resistance is very low, which is basically a flash in the pan.

The success of the "Ghost Street" series in the 1980s made the new line an envy of many other second- and third-tier film companies, and their lives have really nourished for a while. However, with the economic situation in recent years, the new line was blindly eager to expand under Simon's intentional or unintentional sniper, and has never been born, so it quickly declined.

"Ghost Street", which was produced in 1984, took a big sale, and transformed Xinyi from a small workshop that could only release low-cost B-level films into a second-tier film company with its own production and distribution capabilities.

As the company declined, the head of Xinyi Film once again put his bet on "The Strong Ghost Street".

This time, the new line invited Wes Craven, the director of the first "Ghost Street" series, to invest $12 million to create the seventh "Ghost Street" movie since 1984, and to invest $5 million in a promotional budget. The schedule was selected on April 9, Easter week, the same period as "Anti-Will Star 2".

The total investment of $17 million is not worth mentioning for Daenerys Entertainment, but it is Xinyi Film's last move.

As long as the local box office of "New Ghost Street" reaches US$50 million, through local box office revenue and subsequent other revenues, the new line can repay this year's due debts, and its own financial pressure will also be alleviated, so as to continue to survive in Hollywood.

Before New World Pictures was acquired by Daenerys Entertainment, it was actually the most direct competitor of New Line.

Both companies are involved in the horror film field, and New World Pictures also followed the trend of "Ghost Street" to create its own "Ghost Chasing the Soul" series.

However, New World Pictures was unable to create a relatively popular hit like "Ghost Street", and it was eventually acquired by Daenerys Entertainment.

Danny Morris was once a senior executive of New World Entertainment, so he was not surprised that Simon suppressed New Line Film.

Hollywood plates are limited after all.

Erased the Xinyi Film Industry, which is good at knowing each other's field, even if the market is small, it can still allow the New World Pictures brand to gain more room for maneuvering, while avoiding the company from suddenly creating a hot series to compete with New World Pictures.

The teacher must always be famous.

Inexplicably targeting Xinyi Film will definitely cause criticism from its peers.

Just so happens, in order to promote "New Ghost Street", the management of Xinyi also brought "Scream" in the past period.

The same series directed by Wes Craven, the popularity of the three "Scream of Scream" is much higher than the "Scream of Scream" series. Not only does the new line print the suggestive words such as "Scream of Scream, Give You a Scream Easter" on some advertising posters, Wes Craven directly stated that "Scream of Scream" combines the thriller elements of the two major series "Scream of Scream" and "Scream of Scream".

At this time, if the new line publicly protests deliberately to take advantage of the popularity of "Scream" promotional strategy, it will only encourage the promotion of "New Ghost Street".

However, rumors spread in the circle that Daenerys Entertainment was very dissatisfied with the new line promotion strategy.

With excuses, it would be natural to do some actions.

Xinshi originally hoped to win more than 2,000 yuan in opening screens for "New Ghost Street", but with the operation of Daenerys Entertainment, it only earned more than 1,300 yuan.

In terms of publicity and marketing, "New Ghost Street" cannot be compared with "Anti-Witness Star 2", because Daenerys Entertainment targeted the $5 million distribution budget, and the publicity effect was even more unsatisfactory.

Now that the film has not been released yet, many people in Hollywood have already smelled the aura of "New Ghost Street" that is about to fail.

Unless the film can achieve a reputation in the media that exceeds expectations.

However, under the cover of the media network that Daenerys Entertainment has vigorously developed in recent years, this is obviously not very likely.

In the office, after listening to some arrangements from Danny Morris, Simon thought for a while and said, "Traditional paper media can say hello, so don't deliberately publish negative articles on the Igrit portal. In this way, just let "New Ghost Street" disappear in the Igrit portal, and do not make any reports as much as possible."

It is too obvious to deliberately use its own media platform to target a movie.

Simon is more interested in the credibility of the Igrit Portal.

Danny Morris nodded and continued, "Also, Simon, the new line has accumulated some good movie copyrights over the years. Do we need to take action?"

Simon shook his head and said, "It's better to wait for "New Ghost Street" to be released. Before a movie is released, no one can be sure what the box office will be. In addition, what we need to do is to avoid finding other ways out after "New Ghost Street".

As a single second-tier film company, Xinyi's previous source of funds mainly relied on loans. At present, the company's debt scale is huge enough and it is impossible to obtain funds from bank channels. Therefore, Xinyi's way out is actually not many. The best one is to sell it to other major Hollywood studios and become the other's sub-label.

Time Warner's channel was extinguished by Simon, but Hollywood is not without other studios that may initiate acquisitions from Xinyi.

What Daenerys Entertainment has to do is to stop this possibility and let the new line truly move towards bankruptcy liquidation.

After finishing his day's work, Simon returned to Dumei Point Manor at around six o'clock.

Before he knew it, Aliya, an Indian girl who became a member of the Westeros maid, came up and said a few words, and Simon came to a living room near the sea of ​​the villa.

In the living room, Janet was lying lazily on the sofa, having a video call with Melbourne. The projected screen on the wall showed the picture across the ocean.

Calculate the time, it should be noon in Australia.

Veronica in the picture is also feeding Melbourne. The little guy is very dishonest and always wants to grab things with his hands. When Simon entered the door, he happened to see the little guy almost crawling onto the dining table.

Seeing Simon coming, Janet immediately intimidated: "Mer, Dad is back, have a good meal, don't let Dad slap you in the butt."

Simon smiled and squeezed Janet to sit down, slapped a random shot on the woman's buttocks, and nodded to the big screen.

The camera is on the projection screen, with a distance and a wide viewing angle.

Veronica happened to see Simon hitting Janet's ass, and nodded to Simon with an unnaturally expression. She helped the little guy who wanted to crawl on the dining table wipe the corner of his mouth and asked softly: "How is today?"

Since she started taking care of Melbourne, Veronica has been much more relaxed and normal in front of Simon, and even the cold personality that Janet once called "Iceberg" has changed a lot.

Simon can actually understand the reason.

Holding Janet's small hand lying on his back from behind, Simon said, "It's great, where are you?"

Veronica was actually obviously not used to this kind of greeting. She said huh, and seemed to feel inappropriate. She added: "Mer learned another word today." She said that, looking down at the child in her arms, guiding the little guy to speak.

The child, who is only over one year old, obviously has no idea about video communication, so he ignored Veronica's guidance at all. After some hard work, he finally climbed onto the dining table, got his wish, and naturally put it in his mouth.

Janet, who was lying on Simon, smiled so hard that she encouraged him: "Aunt, don't stop him, let him suffer a little and be at peace."

Veronica obviously did not follow Janet's advice, got up and picked up Melbourne, nor did she force the seasoning bottle away from the child's hand, but just gently blocked the little one from sprinkling salt into her mouth.

Janet was suddenly disappointed and complained: "Auntie, you really spoil Mel."

Veronica held the little guy and sat down at the dining table again, allowing the child to throw out the seasoning bottle that he had lost interest soon, and made a few ding-dong sounds out of the screen's field of view, chuckling: "Mer is still young, of course he is a little naughty."

While chatting like this, I continued to toss and struggled for more than ten minutes, and the little guy finally finished eating.

Veronica said she wanted to take the kids out for a walk. The little guy liked to stay outside, so she hung up the video call.

Turning off the call screen, Janet still leaned on Simon, intimate with the man for a moment, and said, "I originally wanted to take Mel back to take care of him for a while."

Simon felt the smoothness of Janet's delicate face and said, "Yes."

"But, my aunt likes Mel very much. What if I take the child back, what should I do?"

Simon paused and said as if nothing had happened: "Can you come here together."

Then the ears were bitten.

Feeling the threatening meshing of two rows of small teeth, Simon immediately surrendered: "When I didn't say it."

Janet used some force, then let Simon go and continued to stick it on his back and said, "Actually, I thought about asking my aunt to come and help. On the East Coast, only Rebelde looks like it is not good. You know, my aunt used to be responsible for the finance of the company at home, which happened to be appropriate. I can also take Mel back and take it for a while."

As he said this, Janet leaned over and looked at Simon's expression, and hummed a few more times, saying, "But I won't let you succeed."

Simon was very clever and did not take the conversation. He turned his head and kissed Janet on the face, saying, "What do you want to eat for dinner? I'll tell them?"

"I've arranged it."

The man changed the topic, and Janet did not pursue it. After saying this, he also said: "This financing negotiation between Egret and Goldman Sachs and Morgan is not going well."

"Our initiative is with us. I really don't want to give this group of shares to Solomon or Bear Stearns, and the first Boston is also very interested."

"But, this will be much less effective."

"It's impossible to compromise on the initiative. I've actually given up many times over the years. Our family is already so deep, so there's no need to retreat."

In the original "Running Rolla", although Simon made a fortune, most of the profits were taken away by Orion.

Then, he took the initiative to cooperate with other studios in Hollywood to carefully avoid conflicts in the financial market. Last year, he even gave up a great opportunity like the pound crisis. It can be said that Simon's voluntary retreat over the years is really uncountable.

Janet accompanied Simon all the way, knowing all the men's arrangements well, and once again put on the man's face, saying, "Those who think you are taking the initiative to give in are fools. If you are really suffering losses, how can you become the first billionaire in the world?"

Simon also smiled and said, "I still want others to feel that it is easy to take advantage of me. However, if Westeros wants to expand next, the difficulty will definitely increase because it will touch the interests of many people."

Hollywood's initial impression of Simon was a film genius who emerged from nowhere and could bring you huge profits, so it was inevitable that you would relax your guard.

So, it seemed like suddenly that Daenerys Entertainment developed into a behemoth leading the traditional Hollywood studios, unstoppable.

In the new technology field, this is a completely new market.

There is no fierce conflict between the traditional interest class and the reshuffle, so the development can be said to be smooth sailing.

Next, this smooth state will inevitably change as the Westeros system continues to expand.

Not only are traditional media such as Hurst Group becoming increasingly afraid of new Internet media platforms, but seeing the huge benefits contained in the Internet industry, traditional capital will inevitably continue to increase its efforts to enter the market and grab food.

Simon's holdings in Cisco and American Online have basically reached the security line. Simon will also make a "concession" for Igrit, who is destined to become a behemoth in the Internet field. Not only is it an active financing this time, Simon has even planned a future split plan in advance.

However, Simon will choose to share some of the benefits that should be given up. Simon will never let go if he does not intend to give up.
Chapter completed!