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

The Easter schedule opens this Friday, and Danny Morris arrives, in addition to discussing the Easter schedule of "Fight for Outwit 2" and the development progress of a series of projects that New World Pictures is advancing, there is another thing, about completely destroying the already crumbling New Line Pictures.

Daenerys Entertainment has successively taken away blockbuster projects such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and has been strongly competing by New World Entertainment in the field of horror films.

Not only that, at the beginning of the year, Simon also used some means to dispel Time Warner's idea of acquiring New Line Pictures, cutting off the most important way for New Line to survive.

You must know that the former new line, after being acquired by Time Warner in 1993, has a steady stream of financial and media resources support, which has won a series of successes from the late nineties to the beginning of the new century, such as "Rush Hour", "Ace Spy", "The Lord of the Rings" and so on. Miramax also became the leader of art films 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 whole industry chain of large media groups, and their ability to resist risks is very low, which is basically a flash in the pan.

The success of the "Ghost Street" series in the 80s made New Line the envy of many other second- and third-tier film companies, and the small days really nourished for a while. However, as the economic situation has taken a sharp turn in recent years, the new line has been blindly rushed to expand under Simon's sniping, intentionally or unintentionally, and no new blockbuster series has been born, so it has rapidly declined.

In 1984, the $1.8 million production of "Ghost Street" was a big hit, and the new line evolved from a small studio that could only distribute low-budget B-grade films to a second-tier film company with independent production and distribution capabilities.

With the decline of the company, the head of New Line Pictures once again put his bet on "Ghost Street".

This time, the new line invited back Wes Craven, the director of the first "Ghost Street" series, to invest $12 million to create the seventh ghost street movie "New Ghost Street" since 1984, and invested $5 million in publicity and distribution, and the schedule was selected on April 9, the week of Easter, at the same time as "Fighting Wisdom 2".

The total investment of $17 million is not worth mentioning for Daenerys Entertainment, but it is the last ditch effort of New Line Pictures.

As long as the local box office of "New Ghost Street" reaches the level of 50 million US dollars, through the local box office revenue and other subsequent income, New Line will be able to repay its debts due this year, 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 horror films, and New World Pictures has also followed the lead of "Ghost Street" to create its own "Ghost Chase" series.

It's just that the original New World Pictures failed to create a relatively blockbuster hit like "Ghost Street" after all, and could only be acquired by Daenerys Entertainment in the end.

Danny Morris used to be a senior executive at New World Entertainment, so it is not surprising that Simon cracked down on New Line Pictures.

Hollywood's plate is limited after all.

Erasing the acquaintance of New World Pictures, even if the market vacated by the other party is small, it can still give the New World Pictures label more room to maneuver, and at the same time prevent the company from suddenly creating a blockbuster series to compete with New World Pictures in the market.

Teachers must always be famous.

inexplicably targeting New Line Pictures will definitely cause criticism from peers.

Coincidentally, in order to promote "New Fierce Ghost Street", the management of the new line also pulled "Scream" in during this time.

is also a series directed by Wes Craven, and the popularity of the three "Scream" is much higher than that of the "Ghost Street" series. The new line not only printed suggestive words such as 'New Ghost Street, give you a scream Easter' on some advertising posters, but Wes Craven directly said in an interview with "The Tonight Show" that "New Ghost Street" combines the thriller elements of the two series of "Ghost Street" and "Scream".

At this time, if you publicly protest against the publicity strategy of New Line deliberately rubbing the popularity of "Scream", it will only fuel the publicity of "New Ghost Street".

However, rumors quickly spread in the circle that Daenerys Entertainment was very dissatisfied with the new line's publicity strategy.

With an excuse, it's logical to make some moves.

The new line originally hoped to win more than 2,000 opening screens for "New Ghost Street", but under the operation of Daenerys Entertainment, it only won more than 1,300 in the end.

In terms of publicity and marketing, "New Ghost Street" cannot be compared with "Fighting Wisdom 2", because Daenerys Entertainment has a distribution budget of $5 million, and the publicity effect is even worse.

Now, the film has not yet been released, and many people in Hollywood have already smelled the imminent failure of "New Ghost Street".

Unless the film can get a word-of-mouth in the media that exceeds expectations.

It's just that under the shroud of the media network that Daenerys Entertainment has vigorously developed in recent years, this point is obviously not too likely.

In the office, after listening to some of Danny Morris's arrangements, Simon thought for a while and said: "The traditional paper media can say hello a little, and the Igrete portal should not deliberately publish negative articles, so that "New Ghost Street" can just disappear from the Igrete portal, and try not to do any reporting as much as possible." ”

Deliberately using one's own media platform to target a movie is too obvious.

Simon is still more interested in the credibility of the Igrat portal.

Danny Morris nodded, and continued: "Also, Simon, the new line has accumulated some good movie rights over the years, do we need to make a move?"

Simon shook his head and said, "Let's wait for the release of "New Ghost Street", before a movie is released, no one can be sure what its box office will be." Also, what we need to do is to avoid the new line finding another way out after New Ghost Street. ”

As a second-tier film company on its own, New Line's previous source of funding was mainly based on loans, but now the company's debt is large enough that it is impossible to obtain funds from bank channels, so there are not many ways out for New Line, and the best one is to sell itself to other major Hollywood studios and become each other's sub-labels.

Time Warner's channel was snuffed out by Simon, but Hollywood is not without other studios that may launch acquisitions of the new line.

What Daenerys Entertainment has to do is to prevent this possibility and let the new line really go into bankruptcy and liquidation.

At the end of the day, Simon returned to Cape Doume's estate at six o'clock.

Unwittingly, Aria, an Indian girl who had become a member of the Westeros family from Janet's yoga instructor, greeted her and said a few words, and Simon came to a living room on the seaside of the villa.

In the living room, Janet is lazily lying on the sofa, on a video call with Melbourne, and the projection screen on the wall shows the image of the other side of the ocean.

Calculating the time, Australia should be noon.

Veronica in the picture is also feeding Melbourne, the little guy is very dishonest and always wants to grab things with his hands, and when Simon enters the door, he happens to see the little guy almost crawling onto the table.

Seeing Simon coming, Janet immediately threatened: "Mel, Dad is back, eat obediently, don't let Dad spank you." ”

Simon smiled and squeezed Janet to sit down next to her, slapped the woman's buttocks casually, and nodded at the big screen.

The camera is on top of the projection screen, and the distance is far, and the angle of view is wide.

Veronica happened to see Simon's small action of spanking Janet's ass, nodded at Simon with an unnatural expression, helped the little guy who wanted to climb on the dining table wipe the corners of his mouth, and asked softly, "How is today?"

Since she started taking care of Melbourne, Veronica has behaved much more relaxed 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 a small hand of Janet lying on his back from behind, Simon said, "Very good, what about you?"

Veronica was obviously not used to this kind of greeting, and with a sneer, she seemed to feel that it was inappropriate, and added, "Mel learned another word today. As he spoke, he looked down at the child in his arms and guided the little one to speak.

The one-year-old child, who was obviously not very aware of video communication, ignored Veronica's guidance at all, and finally climbed onto the table after some effort, grabbed a cruet as he wished, and naturally sent it to his mouth.

Janet, who was lying on Simon's body, couldn't stop laughing, and encouraged: "Auntie, don't stop him, let him suffer a little and settle down." ”

Veronica apparently didn't follow Janet's advice, got up and picked up Melbourne, and didn't forcibly take the cruet away from the child's hand, but gently blocked it to prevent the little guy from sprinkling salt in her mouth.

Janet was suddenly a little disappointed and complained: "Auntie, you really spoil Mel so much." ”

Veronica sat down at the table again with the little one in her arms, and let the child throw out the vise, which had quickly lost interest, and made a few ding-dong noises outside the screen view, chuckling: "Mel is still young, of course she is naughty." ”

After chatting like this, and continuing to toss for more than ten minutes, the little guy finally finished eating.

Veronica said she wanted to take the kids out for a walk, and the little one liked to be outside, so she hung up the video call.

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

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

"However, my aunt likes Melo very much, what will my aunt do if she takes the child back?"

Simon paused, and said casually, "You can come together." ”

Then the ears were bitten.

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

Janet used a little force, then let Simon go, and continued to stick to his back and said: "Actually, I also thought about asking my aunt to come over to help, on the east coast, only Raybould doesn't look very good, you know, my aunt used to be in charge of the company's finances, just right." I can also bring Melore back for a while. ”

Saying this, Janet poked her head over to look at Simon's expression, snorted a few more times, and said, "However, I won't let you succeed." ”

Simon was smart not to answer the conversation, and kissed Janet on the cheek, saying, "What do you want for dinner, I'll tell them?"

"I've already arranged it. ”

The man changed the topic, and Janet did not chase after her, so she said, and said: "Ygritt's financing negotiations with Goldman Sachs and Morgan are not going well." ”

"The initiative is on our side, I really don't want to, this batch of shares can be given to Solomon or Bear Stearns, and First Boston is also very interested. ”

"However, it will be much less useful. ”

"That's not possible, I've actually backed down many times over the years, our family is already so deep, there's no need to keep retreating. ”

In the original "Lola Run", although Simon made a fortune because of this, most of the profits were taken by Orion.

Later, he took the initiative to cooperate with other studios in Hollywood, carefully avoided conflicts in the financial markets, and even gave up such a great opportunity as the pound crisis altogether last year.

Janet accompanied Simon all the way, and knew all about the man's arrangements, and once again pasted it on the man's face, saying: "Those who think you are taking the initiative to back down are fools, if you really keep losing, how can you become the world's first billionaire." ”

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

Hollywood's initial impression of Simon as a movie genius who could bring in big profits for everyone was inevitably a little bit of a slur.

So, it seems that all of a sudden, Daenerys Entertainment has developed into an unstoppable behemoth that leads the traditional Hollywood studios.

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

There is no fierce conflict between traditional interest groups and a reshuffle, so development can be described as smooth sailing.

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

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

Simon's holdings in Cisco and AOL, have basically reached the safety line, for the Igrete destined to become a behemoth in the Internet field, Simon will also make 'concessions', not only this initiative financing, Simon has even planned a future split plan in advance.

It's just that Simon will choose to share some of the benefits that should be ceded. Simon who doesn't intend to give up, Simon will never let go.