After lunch with Terry Semel, Simon returns to Daenerys Entertainment headquarters to resume the afternoon.

These days, Simon and Amy, among other executives, have been revisiting the plans for the new company's film and television productions and distributions. Originally, he planned to work overtime for two days on the previous weekend to complete these things before his trip to Australia, but because of the release of the Forbes rich list, Simon has been entangled in various things on the weekend and has to delay until the working day.

With the exception of several reality shows that Daenerys Pictures has already prepared and TV series that have been renewed on New World Entertainment, the company has no plans to develop new projects this year. As a result, this aspect of the business was quickly straightened out in the television business.

In terms of films, it is mainly production and distribution.

Following the completion of the merger, the issuance of the new company will begin next month.

In addition to the 7 films released in the first half of the year, New World Entertainment has another 6 films of various genres waiting to be released.

After reviewing and discussing the films, New World Entertainment finally decided that there will be a total of three films that will be released in theaters, namely "Avila's Horror", "Sid Sisters" and "Ghost Chase 2", and the other three will be directly released on videotape.

"Avella's Horror" is a horror film brand that actress Kassandra Peterson has been focusing on creating over the years, and it generally belongs to the horror comedy style. It's just that the biggest selling point of the film is probably the pair of half-covered big breasts under the heroine's black clothes.

Simon had a low opinion of this B-grade film, and did not see any potential for blockbusters, so he wanted to lose it to the videotape market as well. However, New World Entertainment has previously carried out some pre-promotion, and even asked Marvel to develop a set of comics specifically for this movie.

Considering that the company has no other theatrical release plans in September, Simon reluctantly agreed to re-edit the film and send it to theaters, but limited the number of screens to 500.

"The Sid Sisters" is a low-budget solo film starring Winona Ryder, actress who just made her mark in Tim Burton's "Beatle Juice" in the first half of the year, and the story explores the disappointment and confusion of teenagers in life through a series of school murders.

After seeing the sample film, Simon decisively decided to let the film participate in next year's Sundance Film Festival with Daenerys Films' previous investment in "Sisters" and "Metropolitan".

Because the box office potential of the film is too low, the schedule will be determined in February and March next year.

The last "Ghost Hunt 2" is a horror film series developed by New World Entertainment in imitation of the new line "Ghost Street", the first part of the film received more than $14 million at the box office with a production cost of $1 million, although it cannot be compared with the "Ghost Street" series, but it is also a big profit.

The production cost of this sequel has increased to $3 million, and with the word-of-mouth accumulation of the first part, the profitability seems to be very guaranteed.

New World Entertainment originally planned to schedule the film for Christmas at the end of the year.

This would have been a good choice before the merger, but now that the new company's distribution team has to focus on the release of several of Daenerys Films' scheduled films, the release schedule of Hellraiser 2 has been postponed until Easter next year.

In addition to MGM's "Rain Man" scheduled for December 16, the schedules of the three films produced by Daenerys Pictures and released on their own, "Scream", "Steel Magnolia" and "Dead Poets Society", were also completely finalized in this discussion.

The release date of "Scream" is October 28.

The release date of "Steel Magnolia" is November 18.

The release date of "Dead Poets Society" is December 23.

Michael Hoffman's "Sisters", Whit Stilton's "Metropolitans" and Catherine's "Thunderbolt Blue Angels" are also in the advanced stage, and the specific schedule has not yet been determined, but they are expected to enter theaters in the first half of next year.

Filmmaking.

Of the several projects that New World Entertainment was originally brewing, Simon finally only kept "Angel God" originally scheduled to star Brooke Smalls, and all the others were canceled.

Among the projects that have been axed are "Revenge" starring Kevin Costner and "The Punisher" starring Doff Runger in the Marvel Comics adaptation.

"Revenge" tells the story of a retired Navy officer who seduces his friend's wife for revenge, and was originally scheduled to be directed by Tony Scott, the director is Ridley Scott's younger brother, who has previously directed well-known films such as "Beverly Detective" and is also a Hollywood A-list director.

It's just that Simon can't understand the concept that "Revenge" wants to convey at all. Although the film was co-invested with an affiliated company owned by Columbia Pictures, the production budget of $20 million still exceeded Simon's expectations, so he chose to give up.

As for The Punisher.

Simon read the script and found that except for the name, the story is completely out of Marvel's classic comic book setting, and it is purely a B-grade shootout film that imitates the style of Stallone's "First Blood", and there is naturally no need to keep it.

Bruce Joy Robin had already completed the scripts for the other two "The Sixth Sense" and "The Ghost Is Not Finished" that Simon had originally ordered with him during the strike.

Simon temporarily shelved "The Love of People and Ghosts", and instead set up a project on "The Sixth Sense".

Robert De Niro had signed a contract for the two packages of "Dead Poets Society" and "The Sixth Sense", and "The Dead Poets Society" had been completed, and it happened to take over "The Sixth Sense" at this time.

In addition, with the end of the Hollywood screenwriters' strike, Daenerys Entertainment also began to intensively accept the promotion of various projects during this time, and Simon chose several very good scripts from them.

One of them is called "The Bodyguard".

That's right, it's the one starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston in the original plane.

The film's screenwriter, Lawrence Carsdan, is a well-known name in Hollywood, having written the Star Wars series and the Raiders of the Lost Ark series.

It's just that the script for "The Bodyguard" has been given a cold shoulder since it was written in the mid-70s, and it is said that before Simon took over, the film had been rejected by more than 60 producers in a row, and most studios thought that the plot of the film was too old-fashioned, and the mansion scene of the female singer Rachel in the film was too expensive.

Therefore, despite the high position of Laurence Kasdan, Daenerys Entertainment bought the script for only $300,000.

Another script includes Hollywood female writer and director Amy Hecklin's "One Flight Over Innocence", which features a comedy that allows babies to learn to think and speak like adults. In the original time and space, "Flying Over Innocence" starred John Travolta, and the voice of the little baby was Bruce Willis, and successfully squeezed into the top ten of the annual box office list that year.

Previously, this script was also not favored, so it was snatched up by Daenerys Entertainment.

In fact, it is not surprising that Hollywood's generally favored projects have basically fallen into the hands of major film companies several years in advance.

It's just that because of her participation in violent movies like "Vulgar", Travolta is no longer suitable to star in a warm comedy like "Flying Over Innocence", and Daenerys Entertainment can only re-select the leading actor.

Eventually, "The Sixth Sense", "Batman", "The Bodyguard" and "Flying Over Innocence" will be Daenerys Entertainment's main projects next year.

"The Sixth Sense", which has achieved a global box office of more than $600 million, and "The Bodyguard", which is relatively inferior, are preliminarily confirmed to be in next summer, and "Flying Over Innocence" and "Batman" are scheduled for next year's Thanksgiving Day and Christmas respectively.

But.

To put it more seriously, this is really just Simon's thoughts.

Because these four projects basically do not belong to the popular genre of Hollywood, scripts like "Bodyguard" have been coldly received by Hollywood for more than ten years. Simon wasn't going to explain too much to anyone else, he just needed Amy and the others to do their job.

And.

According to preliminary statistics, Daenerys Entertainment will already have 10 films to be released next year, including "Sid Sisters", "Sisters", "Metropolitans", "Thunderbolt Blue Angel", "The Sixth Sense", "Bodyguard", "Rampage Pretty Baby", "Flying Over Innocence", and "Batman". The number of films that the company is still brewing and the number of films that the buying department plans to buy will not be lower than this number. This means that Daenerys Entertainment's production and distribution plans next year will directly reach the level of the seven major studios, so surrounded by this piece of 'sand', the four films "The Sixth Sense" are mixed in, even if they can achieve the same box office as in the original time and space, they will not be as conspicuous as this year.