Simon is in a duplex on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side.

After tossing and turning, and last night until late at night, Simon still got up at 6 o'clock in the morning here in New York and began to prepare breakfast for the two of them himself.

Today is Friday, October 6th.

Planned to stay on the set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for another day, Simon and Janet are leaving again. Daenerys Entertainment has a lot of things to deal with with Simon recently, and Janet is going back to the Melbourne headquarters to take charge of the operation herself. And, now that it is confirmed that the crisis in the US junk bond market is about to erupt, it is easy to be associated with staying in New York, which is not a good thing.

The next reunion is in early November, when the Boeing 767 ordered from Boeing happens to be delivered, and some of the most pressing things in the hands of the two should be over.

After breakfast, Janet rushed to Westeros in Midtown, Simon and Jennifer rounded, first sent the female assistant to the Daenerys Entertainment New York branch building in Greenwich Village, listened to some work reports by the way, and then rushed to Brooklyn, Brooklyn in eastern Manhattan, where "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" was filmed.

It's still 6 a.m. in Los Angeles, but the box office data for the previous week has already been released.

From September 29 to October 5, the 14th week of release, Daenerys Entertainment's "The Sixth Sense" collected another $5.09 million, and the cumulative box office has reached $275.06 million.

"Uncle Buck", which was released on August 11, also entered its eighth week, with a single weekly box office of $3.26 million, and a cumulative box office of $57.02 million, with this film probably still having a box office potential of about $10 million, "Uncle Buck" is expected to become John Hughes's second-highest box office film in recent years after "Spring Is Not a Reading Day".

The earliest "Bodyguard" released in the summer season has seen a small rebound in recent weeks due to the recent dispute between Daenerys Entertainment and Alista Records, and the box office data that has begun to end has rebounded slightly in recent weeks, with another $510,000 at the box office last week, and a cumulative box office of $118.31 million.

"Bodyguard" currently has only 286 screens left, and it is expected that the local box office will be expected to break through the $120 million mark before the next stage.

In addition, in September, Gaomen Film launched "Sweet Sister" and "Woman on the Roof", which were bought from the Cannes Film Festival, and the two films were released on September 8 and September 22 respectively.

Through the release of films such as "Metropolitans", "Sisters" and "The Sisters of Sid" in the first half of the year, Ella Deutchman has explored a set of effective radial distribution models, that is, the strategy of gradually spreading to other cities after small-scale opening in central cities such as New York and Los Angeles to test the market response.

Jane Campion's "Sweet Sister" was marketed in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and after the test screening was recognized by the media, Doychman decisively invested $300,000 in advertising in the three cities. "Sweet Sister" opened on Sept. 8 on 26 screens, earning more than $19,000 in its first week and $510,000 in seven days.

Considering the film's audience, Gordoor's distribution team predicts that "Sweet Sister" is expected to grossed around $5 million in North America.

Gaomen Pictures only spent $500,000 in advance to buy "Sweet Sister", and the overall publicity and distribution costs after the increase can be controlled within $1 million, although it will have to pay the producer 50% of the box office net profit share in the future, but counting the sales revenue of videotapes and TV broadcasts in the later stage, this project is also a small success.

As for "Woman on the Roof," Gorgate Pictures did not seek media approval, but hyped up the film's lesbian elements and glamorous scenes, and Deutchman also arranged for the film's two heroines to be featured in a local men's magazine in New York.

In response to the audience's habit of not liking to read subtitles, Gaomen Pictures specially produced a dubbed version of this Swedish film.

Heighton Pictures invested a total of $300,000 in film acquisition, dubbing and publicity, and opened in New York on September 22 on 11 screens, recovering $230,000 at the box office in seven days. According to the $100,000 publicity investment in New York, this has recovered the cost, and the box office of more than $20,000 in a single museum is also better than "Sweet Sister".

However, in the second week of filming, while the screen size remained the same, the box office of "Woman on the Roof", which was still limited to New York, fell by 36% from September 29 to October 5, and the curve is far less strong than "Sweet Sister", and it is expected that after a few months of long-term reflection, the North American box office forecast should reach about $3 million.

Speaking of which, these two small businesses of Gaomen Pictures are simply not worth mentioning in front of blockbuster films such as Daenerys Entertainment's "The Sixth Sense" and "The Bodyguard", but Simon does not despise it at all, he has always only treated the $500,000 business and the $50 million business as one.

After all, a big tree is destined to die if it only has its main trunk and lacks branches and leaves, and these 'small businesses' are actually the branches and leaves of Daenerys Entertainment. What's more, no one is sure if these inconspicuous branches and leaves suddenly became another towering tree one day.

In addition to the local box office data, some overseas box office data of "Bodyguard" also appeared in this week's report.

In this era, the overseas release of Hollywood movies is generally delayed by more than three months compared with the local market, and Daenerys Entertainment is also very cautious about the overseas hairstyle of "The Sixth Sense", so of the three movies in the summer file, only "Bodyguard" has landed in the overseas market in September for the time being.

Daenerys Entertainment and Alista Records on the "Bodyguard" soundtrack album have been in a turmoil during this time, and Alista Sing, under Daenerys Entertainment's uncompromising and strong attitude, had to undergo a financial audit by Daenerys Entertainment last week, and it is now coming to an end.

On the other hand, the complete suspension of sales of the original soundtrack album of "Bodyguard" did not hit the box office as many people imagined, and this turmoil not only stimulated a small rebound at the local box office, but also aroused the strong curiosity of overseas audiences about the movie "Bodyguard" because of its strong topicality.

The major overseas box office warehouses began to be released in the United Kingdom on September 8 at the earliest, and in the last month or so, the film has accumulated more than 86 million US dollars in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy and other box office countries that have been opened, and this is still in the case that Japan, France and other large box office countries have not been released.

In my memory, the box office distribution of "Bodyguard" is that overseas accounts for the majority, and the North American box office of the film only exceeded 100 million, but the total overseas revenue was close to 300 million US dollars. Now it seems that the film will still reproduce the box office distribution rules of the original version.

The overseas box office was not affected, and Daenerys Entertainment naturally took more initiative in the dispute with Alista Records.

Because of this initiative, Simon returned to Los Angeles over the weekend, and Alista Records completed the audit and transferred a total of $38.25 million in cash into Daenerys Entertainment's account, of which $7.53 million was paid by Alista Records to Daenerys Entertainment.

Daenerys Entertainment also took the initiative to make some 'compromises', and did not announce the specific amount of the settlement reached between the two parties, which can be regarded as saving some face for Alista Records.

However, the circle probably knows about this matter, and Daenerys Entertainment's strong statement through the "Bodyguard" soundtrack album also gave a strong warning to all other studios that have cooperation projects with Daenerys Entertainment: If you want to engulf the interests of Daenerys Entertainment in the cooperation, Daenerys Entertainment will never choose to compromise even if it loses both.

Los Angeles.

Fox Studios in Century City.

In the two weeks since Simon left, Fox Film has quickly completed preparations for the first of 10 projects, "Sleeping with the Enemy", which is expected to be released in prime time in June next year, so all parties have the green light to start shooting later this month.

Compared with the other three movies to be released next year, "Shaking the Hand of the Rocking Basket" is expected to be released at the end of July and early August next year, and the competition at the end of the summer file will not be so fierce, which is just suitable for long-term word-of-mouth thriller genre films to play, and at the same time, it can also avoid competition with "Sleeping with the Enemy", which is also a thriller.

The schedule of "Ten Days of Danger" is preliminarily confirmed to be Halloween at the end of October next year, and after this year's "Scream 2", the third part of this series will be suspended for a year, so there will be no internal friction at that time.

"Red Pink Alliance" is expected to be scheduled for Thanksgiving in November next year, so as to avoid "Home Alone" in December.

The other 6 of the remaining 10 movies will probably be scattered in 1991 and 1992 before they can be released one after another, and Simon also admitted to many people that the first four movies are not the focus, and the real 'blockbuster' must be behind.

After a morning of "Sleeping with the Enemy" production meeting and dinner together, Simon was about to return to Santa Monica when he was stopped by Joe Ross and returned to Joe Ross's president's office in the studio.

The two sat down, Ross handed over a document, and said: "Simon, I have already talked to Hermdale, the copyright holder of "The Terminator", and they are willing to sell the copyright of the film, the initial offer is $3 million plus 5% of the film's omni-channel net profit share, we talked with Hermdale for a month, the $3 million copyright fee has not changed, and the share ratio has been changed to 5% of the film's box office net profit. ”

Simon picked up the apparently signed copyright transfer agreement and flipped through it.

The $3 million copyright transfer price is not as high as the sky-high price that Simon had previously secretly purchased when he bought the Tor King series, but it is also very high. With this money, Hermdale probably no longer asks for too much of a share, so it will agree to exchange 5% of the net profit of all channels for 5% of the net profit of the box office.

After all, these are two completely different concepts, and anyone who knows a little about Hollywood's accounting rules understands that Hollywood movies usually don't generate a profit on their books, let alone simply box office profits.

Putting down the agreement, Simon asked Rose, "What about Cameron?"

Joe Ross shook his head: "Cameron insists on directing himself, Simon, I think we can completely throw him off and do it ourselves." ”

Simon asked, "So, have you seen the script for Cameron's sequel?"

Joe Ross nodded: "I've seen it, it's not bad." ”

Simon shrugged and said, "I've seen it too." ”

The two looked at each other for a moment, and together they smiled wryly.

Now that I've read Cameron's sequel script, unless I completely abandon the idea of that liquid robot, if you want to get rid of Cameron, you will wait to be sued in the future. Joe Ross said it was pretty good, but he obviously wasn't unaware of the liquid robot's finishing touch.

Therefore, it is not ordinarily difficult to completely leave Cameron behind.