The party in the villa ended at 11:00 in the middle of the night, and the guests basically left at half past 11:00.

Simon personally 'bombed' Madonna who wanted to stay here after being drunk and returned to the living room of the villa. The waiter team of the party company was cleaning up, and the Wei family maid led by Naomi also joined in.

When the girl A saw Simon, she came over and asked, "Boss, will Miss Coschna stay tonight?"

"Send her back, contact her agent tomorrow, and collect another information for me." Simon ordered, walked straight to the stairs, signaling Alison to follow, and asked in a low voice: "How is the matter with that script?"

Alison followed Simon and whispered: "Many people probably saw it."

Simon nodded and said, "The room below will be cleaned carefully tomorrow, and throw away what should be thrown away; tomorrow morning, Ella will come to have breakfast with me, remember to send a car to pick it up, the transportation here is inconvenient; the media feedback from "Four Weddings and One Funeral" will let Los Angeles organize and pass it over before noon tomorrow..."

While thinking and explaining some things, the two of them came to the third floor. After Alison finished writing the memo, Simon finally said, "Also, let Nata come up."

Alison agreed, and saw Simon turn to the corridor, subconsciously follow him: "Boss, do you want me to prepare your bath water for you?"

Simon stopped hearing this and turned to look at the girl behind him.

Alison felt a little regretful when he said that. When he noticed the gaze of his boss, he lowered his head guiltily, and his white fingers were holding the small memo uneasy.

Just a moment, the man's voice in his ear: "This is the first time, don't be greedy, I usually don't like to give people a third chance."

Girl A whispered like a little girl who made a mistake: "Boss, I was wrong."

Simon said: "Go down and have a break early."

Looking at the man in front of him, Alison looked up and suddenly said, "Boss, if you make a mistake, you have to be punished."

Simon stopped again, turned his head and looked at the girl in a black OL suit with elegant temperament and graceful figure, and asked, "Are you afraid of pain?"

Girl A's eyelashes are low: "You can remember things if they hurt."

Simon nodded: "Come."

As he said that, he turned around and walked towards the master bedroom.

Alison lowered his head and followed with a small step. He heard a slight cracking sound in front of him. This was the sound of the men's belt being pulled out. He suddenly felt that all the strength seemed to be instantly drained.

The 10th Sundance Film Festival ended successfully the next day. Gaomen Pictures was shortlisted for the main competition unit, "Fighting Monkey" and "Barcelona". Only "Fighting Monkey" won a relatively marginal audience award, and other core awards had nothing to do with Daenerys Entertainment.

This result is not disappointing.

Regarding Sundance, what Simon values ​​most is the ability of this platform to cultivate new film talents. The film talents, excellent scripts and finished films that Daenerys Entertainment has discovered in recent years have brought far more than the meaning of simple awards.

Gaomen Pictures's desolation in awards this year is also due to Simon's deliberate restrictions.

Even if she already has the strongest public relations team and connections in Hollywood, Simon definitely does not want major film festivals to become a private place for Daenerys Entertainment, as doing so is harmful and useless.

Of course, there are certainly exceptions in the face of absolute strength.

For example, this year's Oscars and next year.

On Monday, January 31, the second day after Sundance ended, the American Academy of Film Arts and Sciences officially announced the list of nominated films for the 66th Academy Awards.

"Schindler's List", which tells the history of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II, has become the biggest hit at this year's Oscars without any suspense, and has won 12 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, etc.

Not only that, Daenerys Entertainment also set another record.

Pixar's 3D animated film "The Lion King" has been nominated for Best Picture in the Music Comedy category after winning the Golden Globe Awards, and has become the first animated film in Hollywood history to be nominated for Best Picture, and has also won 6 nominations for Best Picture, Best Screenwriter, Best Soundtrack and Three Best Original Songs.

Among them, the best screenwriter also represents another Oscar nomination for Simon.

In history, the first animated film shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Picture was Disney's 1992 "Beauty and the Beast". Due to the appearance of Simon, this animated film project abandoned by Disney has fallen into the hands of the Pixar team under Daenerys Entertainment, and will be produced into a 3D animation version like "The Lion King".

This year's "The Lion King" is actually more worthy than "Beauty and the Beast".

As of January 27, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King", which was released in the 10th week, has reached US$286.55 million in North America, and it only takes three weeks to break through the US$300 million box office mark.

Before the new century, Oscars still looked at the commercial performance of the movies very much.

As Hollywood's first animated film with a local box office of $300 million, if such a phenomenal box office performance cannot be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, Hollywood will not have many movies with such qualifications.

With the announcement of the Oscar nomination, the box office of the Lion King, which once again attracted widespread public attention, fell by only 13% in a single week, and then collected 6.75 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of US$293.3 million. If Daenerys Entertainment is willing to spend some money to buy the box office, it will exceed 300 million in the next week.

"The Lion King" has received enough glory, and it is a foregone conclusion that it has exceeded 300 million. Naturally, there is no need to buy a box office to give it a hand.

In addition to the two most popular Oscar nominated films, Daenerys Entertainment's other art film "In the Name of Father" starring Daniel Day Lewis has also won 6 nominations, including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay.

"In the Name of Father" was nominated for Best Picture.

This time, Daenerys Entertainment has already occupied two best film nominations through "Schindler's List" and "The Lion King". It is impossible to ask for more. The best film nomination for "In the Name of Father" can only be abandoned.

In addition, the nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in Tina Turner's biopic "What to Do with Love" and the nominations for Best Foreign Language Film for "Welcome Banquet" were scattered. At the 66th Oscar in 1994, Daenerys Entertainment received a total of 29 nominations directly produced and released by films such as Daenerys Entertainment, which is not counted as the distribution rights of Disney's "Sleeping in the Night in Seattle" and various other nominations for films such as "Superman" released by Warner Bros.

In addition, "Philadelphia Story", which was transferred by Simon to MGM, also successfully won five nominations including Tom Hanks for Best Actor.

Considering that it is almost an inevitable award result, it is no exaggeration to say that Daenerys Entertainment monopolized this year's Oscar.

Many people think that Daenerys Entertainment is quite aware of constraining in terms of awards, so Hollywood generally believes that after this year, next year's Oscars will be the stage for other studios to perform. But they don't know that this summer, there is another phenomenal "Forrest Gump" ready to go.

On the other hand, Simon used the pit dug by the "Cutting the Throat Island" script at the Sundance party, and it really played a role in the following days.

When the news spread, both the executives of major studios and the management of talent agency companies received the script of "Cutting the Throat Island" as soon as possible. Many filmmakers also began to inquire about the news about the project. Warner's Terry Semer even called Simon directly to test the news.

Do a full set of acting.

At Simon's instruction, Amy Pascal personally held a talk with the management of Carlok Pictures.

Of course, the two sides did not reach an agreement.

The conditions given by Daenerys Entertainment are actually not harsh, and it is always a practice for foreign cooperation films. Both parties jointly undertake 50% of the investment, but this time Daenerys Entertainment must be responsible for the distribution. Amy's release commission ratio is also not high, referring to 12.5% ​​of the DC Film Universe project.

According to Amy's feedback, there are obvious differences within Carlock Pictures.

What Hollywood lacks the most is smart people. With Daenerys Entertainment's momentum in Hollywood at this time, there are many people in the management of Carloch Pictures that can see at a glance that for a super bombshell like "Cutting the Throat Island" with a rough budget of $70 million, cooperation with Daenerys Entertainment is undoubtedly the most guaranteed choice. This studio has proved this on too many projects.

However, the world is also the most inseparable person.

Since Simon Westeros is very optimistic about this project, some people naturally think that Carlock Pictures does not need to give up so much. After all, Carlock Pictures, which relies on overseas capital, is not short of money. Cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment is considered an investment and issuance income, which is at least equivalent to giving up 60% of the income.

After a week of contact with each other, the situation quickly became clear.

Projects that other Hollywood studios have stolen from Daenerys Entertainment have failed more than once, such as "The Rocket Expert" a few years ago and the new Redford film "Behind the Scenes" that Disney snatched from Daenerys Entertainment last year from Daenerys Entertainment.

Although there is no evidence that the failed films were traps deliberately thrown by Simon Westeros, Hollywood has gradually formed a concept that other studios can snatch the projects that Daenerys Entertainment is interested in and can't be done well.

Therefore, before the last moment, other studios were in a wait-and-see state, except Paramount Pictures.

Seagram Group bought Paramount Communications last year and successfully entered Hollywood. Just like Sony at the time, Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman hopes to gain the reputation of his company through one or two blockbuster movies as soon as possible.

Considering that the first song of Mission: Impossible, which was jointly co-authored by both parties is still being released and the development of the sequel has been put on the agenda, Edgar Bronfman knew that it was not appropriate to offend Simon at this time, so he called Simon to communicate.

The fish had bitten the hook, and Simon decisively changed a strategy and directly stated on the phone that Daenerys Entertainment had given up the "Cutting the Throat Island" project because he was not optimistic about the prospects of the Pirates film, and at the same time, he half-truely persuaded Bronfman not to mess with the project.

Simon's attitude this time was very real, but Bronfman obviously did not believe it and soon started further negotiations with Carlock Pictures.

Immediately, news that Daenerys Entertainment gave up the "Cutting Throat Island" project spread quickly, and Simon personally expressed his statement on the script.

Hollywood suddenly became confused again.

Many people have seen the script of "Cutting the Throat Island" in the villa in Westlo Park City. Daenerys Entertainment has also discussed cooperation with Carlock Pictures, which is enough to prove that Daenerys Entertainment is interested in participating in this project.

Simon's sudden statement suddenly felt a little overwhelming.

Obviously.

This is to want everyone else to withdraw because of concern, Daenerys Entertainment is waiting for another opportunity to take action.

Can you believe such a clumsy routine?

So the negotiations continued.

In order to attract more competitors, Carlock Pictures also quietly leaked the cooperation terms offered by Paramount, which is roughly because Paramount Pictures is willing to join the "Cut Throat Island" project with a budget ratio of 30% and a distribution commission of 10%, and at the same time gives the best schedule for next summer, and ensures a screen size of more than 2,500 yuan.

After conversion, Carlock Pictures can retain about 60% of its revenue.

Moreover, the conditions given by Daenerys Entertainment do not include schedule and screen guarantee terms. As long as you have a little understanding of Hollywood, you will know the importance of schedule and screen. For the same film, the box office performance of popular summer and unpopular spring seasons is definitely different. The scale of opening 1,000 screens and the scale of opening 2,000 screens is definitely very different.

One of the most important gaps between Hollywood's solo filmmakers and large studios is that the seven major film companies basically monopolize the high-quality screen and marketing resources of Hollywood's most popular periods. Without these resources, it is difficult for second- and third-tier independent filmmakers to join the ranks of first-tier film companies.

Now, unless you are willing to take on the distribution work completely, several other Hollywood studios cannot come up with better cooperation conditions than Paramount. If you cannot predict the effect of a film, you will give a popular schedule and a large number of screens. This condition is really a bit risky.

Moreover, several other studios are still waiting for further reactions from Daenerys Entertainment.

Unless Daenerys Entertainment takes action to intercept the bell at the last moment and then triggers a bidding war, in its current state, the project almost came to an end.

Of course, Daenerys Entertainment will not intercept the fool.

Even MGM CEO Shirley Lansing tested whether Simon could take on the project.

Speaking of which, only MGM can offer more ‘than-thick’ conditions than Paramount, because its vitality has not recovered yet, at this stage, MGM, which is trying to avoid blockbuster projects, can not participate in investment at all, but only seek the issuance rights and draw commissions, which is exactly 100% in line with Carlock Pictures’ expectations.

The former "Cutting the Throat Island" was released by MGM.

However, under Simon's control, MGM is not short of high-quality film projects now, and Simon does not allow this film company to waste time. Even if "Cutting the Throat Island" can be completely renewed this time with the strong attention of the film company and the creative team, if MGM only receives the distribution commission, it is better to focus on developing one or two medium-budget films that belong entirely to its own.

After the incident was provoked, Simon's attention quickly shifted to other aspects. His most recent focus was "Four Weddings and One Funeral".

After the premiere of Sundance Film Festival, "Four Weddings and One Funeral" received excellent media reviews because the media invited to watch the premiere were basically intimate with Daenerys Entertainment. In the following days, more than 20 mainstream newspapers and magazines scored an astonishing 9.5 points in the comprehensive score of "Four Weddings and One Funeral".

As February begins, the Valentine's Day schedule is coming soon.
Chapter completed!