The party in the villa began at 11 o'clock in the evening, and at 11:30 the guests mostly left.

Simon personally took Madonna, who was obviously a little drunk and wanted to stay overnight, and returned to the living room of the villa, where the waiter team of the party company was quickly clearing the party scene, and the team of waiters of the Wei family led by Naomi also joined in.

Girl A walked over and asked, "Boss, is Miss Koschner going to stay tonight?"

"Send her back, contact her agent tomorrow, and collect another copy of the information for me. Simon commanded, went straight up the stairs, motioned for Allison to follow, and asked in a low voice, "What about that script?"

Alison followed Simon and whispered, "A lot of people should have seen it." ”

Simon nodded, and said: "The room below will be carefully cleaned again tomorrow, and the ones that should be thrown away will be discarded; Ella will come over to have breakfast with me tomorrow morning, remember to send a car to pick it up, the traffic here is not convenient, and the media feedback on "Four Weddings and a Funeral" will be sorted out and passed ......over by noon tomorrow in Los Angeles."

After explaining some things, the two went to the third floor, and when Alison finished writing the memo, Simon finally said, "Also, let Nata come up." ”

Alison agreed, and seeing Simon turn to the corridor, she subconsciously took a step forward: "Boss, do you want me to help you put the bath water?"

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

Alison was a little regretful when she spoke, and when she noticed her boss's gaze, she lowered her head even more weakly, and soon heard the man's undoubted voice in her ears: "This is the first time, don't be greedy, I usually don't like to give people a third chance." ”

Girl A was like a little girl who had made a mistake, and said softly, "Boss, I was wrong." ”

Simon nodded and said, "Go down and rest early." ”

Seeing that the man in front of him turned around again, Allison glanced up, and said again: "Boss, you will be punished for making mistakes." ”

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

Girl A's eyelashes were lowered: "It hurts to remember things." ”

Simon nodded: "Come on." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and walked to the master bedroom of the villa.

Alison still hung her head and walked along, and heard a slight clicking sound in front of her, which was the sound of a man's belt being pulled out, and suddenly felt as if the strength in her body had been drained in an instant.

The 10th Sundance Film Festival ended successfully on the second day, and the two films "Monkey Fighting" and "Barcelona" of Gordoor Pictures were shortlisted for the main competition unit, only "Monkey Fighting" won a marginal audience award, and the other core awards have nothing to do with Daenerys Entertainment.

This result did not disappoint.

For Sundance, Simon values the platform's ability to nurture new filmmakers, and Daenerys Entertainment has tapped film talents, excellent scripts and finished films from Sundance in recent years, bringing far more than the meaning of mere awards.

Gaomen Pictures is cold in awards this year, and there are results that Simon can limit.

Even with Hollywood's most powerful PR capabilities and connections, Simon definitely doesn't want major film festivals to become Daenerys' own place for entertainment, which is harmful.

Of course, in the face of absolute strength, there must be exceptions.

Like this year, and next year.

On Monday, January 31, the day after Sundance's finale, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially announced the list of films nominated for the 66th Academy Awards, which will be held on March 3.

Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List", which tells the history of the Holocaust during World War II, has become the biggest favorite of this year's Oscars, with a total of 12 nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Not only that, but Daenerys Entertainment also set another record.

Pixar's 3D animated film "The Lion King" has become the first animated film in Hollywood history to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture after winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category, with a total of 6 nominations for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Score and three Best Original Songs.

Among them, Best Screenplay means another Oscar nomination for Simon.

Once upon a time, the first animated film to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture was Beauty and the Beast, and because of Simon's appearance, the animated film project abandoned by Disney has fallen into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment's Pixar team, and will also be made into a 3D animated version.

This time, "The Lion King" is actually more deservedly than "Beauty and the Beast".

As of the last box office week on January 27, the cumulative box office of "The Lion King", which is exactly 10 weeks old, has reached $286.55 million in North America, and it only takes three weeks at most to break the $300 million box office mark.

Before the new century, the Oscars were still very interested in the commercial performance of films.

As Hollywood's first animated film expected to break the $300 million mark at the domestic box office, if such a phenomenal box office performance can't get a single Oscar nomination for Best Picture, then not many Hollywood films have such qualifications.

With the announcement of the Oscar nominations, in the week from January 28 to February 3, "The Lion King", which once again attracted public attention, fell by only 13% in a single week, collecting another $6.75 million, with a cumulative box office of $293.3 million. If Daenerys Entertainment is willing to spend some money to buy the box office, it will be able to exceed 300 million in the following week.

Of course, the film has already received enough accolades that there is no need for it at this time.

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

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

Only this time, Daenerys Entertainment already has two Best Picture nominations through "Schindler's List" and "The Lion King", and it is impossible to ask for more, and the Best Picture nomination application for "In the Name of the Father" can only be abandoned.

Coupled with the sporadic nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in Tina Turner's biopic "What to Do with Love" and the Best Foreign Language Film nomination for "The Wedding Banquet", the total number of nominations for films directly produced and distributed by Daenerys Entertainment in 1994 reached 29, not counting Disney's "Sleepless in Seattle" and various other nominations for films such as "Superman" distributed by Warner Bros.

In addition, "The Philadelphia Story", which was originally transferred by Simon to MGM, also successfully won 5 nominations, including Tom Hanks for Best Actor.

Considering that it is almost a certain result of the awards, it is not an exaggeration to say that Daenerys Entertainment has a monopoly on this Oscar.

Many people have the impression that Daenerys Entertainment still knows how to be restrained in terms of awards, so Hollywood generally believes that after this year, next year's Oscars will be a stage for other studios to play, but they don't know that this summer, there is another phenomenal "Forrest Gump" ready to go.

On the other hand, after Simon used the "Cut Throat" script to dig a trap at a Sundance party, the project really caught the attention of Hollywood in the following days.

Whether it is the executives of major studios or the management of several talent agencies, they all got copies of the script of "Cut Throat Island" as soon as possible, and many filmmakers also began to inquire about the news of this project, and even called Simon directly.

Do a full set of plays.

At Simon's behest, Amy Pascal personally held a meeting with the president of Carroch Films.

Of course, the parties did not reach an agreement.

The conditions given by Daenerys Entertainment are actually not harsh, and it is a practice of foreign cooperation films, and the two parties jointly bear 50% of the investment, but this time it must be Daenerys Entertainment who is responsible for discovering that the distribution commission ratio proposed by Amy is not high, referring to the 12.5% of the DC Cinematic Universe project.

According to Amy's feedback, there are clearly disagreements within Carlock Films.

Hollywood is not lacking in shrewd people, with Daenerys Entertainment's momentum in Hollywood at this time, there are many people in the executive team of Carlock Films who can see at a glance that for such a super blockbuster with an initial budget estimate of $70 million, cooperating with Daenerys Entertainment is undoubtedly the most secure choice.

However, the most important thing in this world is the lack of people's hearts.

Now that Simon Westeros is already optimistic about this project, some people naturally think that Carlock Films does not need to give up so much. After all, Carlock Films' main business model is to raise funds on its own, and the company is also an important platform for many overseas capital to invest in Hollywood, so there is no shortage of money.

After a week of probing with each other, a certain trend soon became clear.

Paramount Pictures is clearly more sincere.

The Seagram Group bought Paramount Communications last year and successfully entered Hollywood, just like Sony, it also hopes to make a name for itself through one or two blockbusters.

Paramount's "Mission Impossible" with Daenerys is still in theaters, and the development of a sequel has already begun.

Edgar Bronfman, CEO of Seagram Group, also understands that Daenerys Entertainment is in its heyday and the two sides are still cooperating, so he also called Simon in advance to communicate, and Simon directly said on the phone that he had personally vetoed the project, because he was not optimistic about the prospects of the pirate theme, so Paramount could do as he pleased.

Simon was telling the truth that couldn't be true, and Bronfman apparently didn't believe it, and soon began further negotiations with Carlock Films.

Carlock Pictures obviously wants more competitors to join, and quietly released the terms of the negotiation between the two sides, roughly Paramount Pictures is willing to take over "Cut Throat Island" with a 30% budget ratio and 10% of the distribution commission, and at the same time give the best quality schedule for next summer.

All things considered, Paramount has about 40% of the interest.

However, if this project becomes a blockbuster blockbuster in the future, Paramount's revenue will still be very considerable. Even, if "Cut Throat Island" is developed into a series in the future, due to various changes or trap terms of agreement, the independent studio will often be squeezed out of the sequel production of some blockbuster projects, and eventually the project will become the exclusive monopoly of the big studio.

Simon's memory of the Fast and Furious series was like that.

There have been more than one failure of projects that other Hollywood studios have snatched from Daenerys Entertainment, such as projects such as "Rocket Expert" a few years ago and Redford's new film "Behind the Scenes," which Disney snatched from Daenerys Entertainment last year.

Although there is no evidence that these are all traps thrown by Simon Westeros, Hollywood has inevitably gradually formed a concept that Daenerys Entertainment has a fancy project, and other studios may not be able to do a good job.

Edgar Bronfman, as an outsider, and more importantly, a layman who wants to step into Hollywood's Vanity Fair with pure 'blood', obviously doesn't quite understand this.

Robert Rehm, who used to work at Daenerys Entertainment and is now president of Paramount Pictures, doesn't have a real decision, even if he knows it.

As a result, the situation soon became clear.

Although "Cut Throat Island" has attracted a lot of attention, while other studios are still waiting for Daenerys Entertainment to react further, Paramount has already offered very generous conditions. Unless Daenerys Entertainment makes a last-minute cutoff and triggers a bidding war, the project is almost certain to fall to Paramount.

Daenerys Entertainment certainly won't cut it off.

Even MGM CEO Shirley Lansing was rejected when he tried to see if Simon could take on the project.

Hollywood's Big Seven, in fact, only MGM can offer more favorable conditions than Paramount, because its own vitality has not yet recovered, MGM can avoid blockbuster projects at this stage can not participate in investment at all, only seek distribution rights, which happens to be 100% in line with the expectations of Cullock Films.

In the past, "Cut Throat Island" was published by MGM.

It's just that under Simon's control, MGM has no shortage of high-quality film projects, so Simon does not allow this film company to waste schedules. Even if "Cut Throat" can be rejuvenated this time with everyone's attention, MGM might as well focus on developing one or two medium-budget films of its own if it only receives distribution commissions.

Compared with "Cut Throat Island", Simon has been paying the most attention to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" recently.

After the premiere of the Sundance Film Festival, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" received very good media reviews, because most of the people invited to watch the film were Daenerys Entertainment's good friends, and in the following days, more than 20 mainstream media outlets gave the film a staggering 9.5 points.

Entering February, after more than a week of intensive marketing and publicity in combination with the film's media reputation, "Four Weddings and One Funeral" officially landed in North American theaters on February 11, with 1,672 screens. 8)