Nb! 0P _ c 3lQ n | 7 Y =ZPx= m K @o^ uIu Owitz thought that MA's poaching of Kirsti Alley was Daenerys Entertainment's counterattack to CAA because of the Rain Man incident, but this was not the case. For the enemy, Simon is more accustomed to moving on, throwing the other person far away, to the extent that they can only look up.

It's like Simon's entanglement with Matthew Broderick.

When it first happened, the general view in Hollywood was that a big star wanted to clean up a small screenwriter, and although the result was a mess, a small person like Simon was more of an after-dinner conversation for many people.

But now, with the rise of Daenerys Entertainment, although Simon has not talked about the original incident in public or private, the executives of various Hollywood film companies can't help but have a thought, if they cooperate with Matthew Broderick, will it cause Simon Westeros's displeasure, and then cause targeting, or cause the two sides to lose possible cooperation opportunities?

There are actually a lot of popular niches with good box office appeal in Hollywood, Michael Fox, Matt Dillon and others can replace Matthew Broderick's position. In comparison, Simon Westeros has only one.

As a result, after last year's Easter Universal's "GI Genius", as Simon soared in Hollywood, mainstream studios became cautious about whether to work with Matthew Broderick.

In the second half of 1988, Matthew Broderick only starred in a literary and gay comedy "Same-Sex Three-Sex Parent" by New Line Pictures, with a production cost of $8 million, and the total box office in North America after the release of the film was less than $5 million.

It is conceivable that even if Hollywood studios continue to cooperate with Matthew Broderick in the future, it is impossible to hand over the company's key high-quality projects to the other party in consideration of Simon's factor.

lacks excellent scripts and loses high-quality schedules, and the box office is naturally impossible. Without the support of box office performance, the original Hollywood first-line students will soon be reduced to second- and third-tier actors, and then completely disappear from the public eye.

This kind of strong crushing that does not require hands-on action is what Simon is pursuing.

As for Kirsti Aley, the reason why Daenerys Entertainment used the other party is actually because the actress is the original heroine of "Flying Over Innocence". Since CAA has put obstacles in the way of Meg Ryan's appearance in "Flying Over Innocence", while using the original heroine, MA's digging is just a good deal.

Michael Ovitz was on the verge of a great enemy, and the weekend after returning to Los Angeles was unrestful, but Daenerys Entertainment was not affected in the slightest.

Monday, January 9th.

Because of the time difference, Simon, who was far away in Melbourne, had finished the first day of filming of "Batman", and Amy arrived at the office at 8 o'clock in the morning Western time.

At the end of the hour-long conference call with the New York television department, at nine o'clock, Amy Hecklin, the director of "Flying Over Innocence", the actor Mel Gibson, and the newly signed heroine Kirstie Avery and several other main creators rushed to Santa Monica, followed by another hour-long production meeting.

As the CEO of Daenerys Entertainment, Amy is now mainly in charge of the operation of Daenerys Films and the day-to-day administration of the company, although Robert Rehm, Robert Iger, Nancy Brill, Ella Deutchman and other directors perform their own duties and share most of the company's business, Amy herself needs to juggle the work that still makes her busy for more than ten hours a day.

The heroine has been finalized, and "Flying Over Innocence" will begin to carry out supporting role selection and pre-scene inspection, and filming is expected to start in early March.

At ten o'clock, seeing off Amy Hecklin and the others, Amy's assistant Vanessa reminds her that Gensler's team is already waiting in the conference room.

Gensler is a long-established architectural design firm based in San Francisco with a very wide international reputation.

Daenerys Entertainment has begun bidding for the design of its Malibu Studios campus, a 50-hectare mixed-use office park that is one of many top architectural firms.

Before Simon left Los Angeles, he sketched out a rough sketch of Daenerys Studios in Malibu to his liking, and the bidding architectural firm only had to refine Simon's sketch and make it practical.

Today, the Gensler team is presenting Amy with their design proposal and project quote.

Arriving at the conference room, Amy was surprised to find Janet already sitting at her desk, chatting enthusiastically with several members of the Gensler staff. Seeing Amy come in, everyone got up to greet Amy and introduce each other, Janet also got up and stood next to her with a smile, and waited for everyone to finish the introduction, before saying to Amy: "I'm just listening, you are free." ”

In the days Simon left Los Angeles, Janet was basically showing up at the company on time to participate in Daenerys Entertainment's annual financial audit.

However, Janet still gave full play to her eldest lady's temperament accustomed to 'working on the above', and directly transferred three accountants from the Johnston Group to participate in this work.

Speaking of which, the company's financial data is not suitable for disclosure to outsiders. It's just that everyone knows that Janet is playing the role of a supervisor in this audit. Since Simon didn't object to Janet's approach, Amy and the others couldn't object.

50 hectares is really a lot of area, Century City's Fox Studios is only 500 meters long from north to south, and Daenerys Entertainment bought the plot of land, although it is triangular in shape, but it is more than 1.5 kilometers deep from the entrance to the highest point, and even with the unusable slopes removed, the remaining building land is more than any other major studio in Los Angeles outside of Universal Studios.

Therefore, although there are plans to move Daenerys Entertainment's subsidiaries including Daenerys Special Effects, Pixar Animation and Marvel Entertainment into the studio, this plot still seems more than enough. Daenerys Entertainment also directly asked the design company to plan according to the size of the 2,500 permanent employees.

It took more than an hour for Gensler's team to introduce their design proposal, and it was already noon after the two sides discussed the quotation.

Robert Rehm and Ella Deutchman, who saw off Gensler, also arrived from Burbank to have lunch with Amy and discuss the work for the new week. Since Janet was there, Amy invited her to join her.

As everyone sat down in a restaurant near the company's headquarters, Robert Rehm smiled and asked Janet, "Jenny, how is the audit going, I'm very curious about how much money the company has made this year?"

"There must be a lot of them," Janet said with a smile, flipping through the menu, and suddenly added, seemingly nonchalantly, "but there are plenty of questions." ”

Ella Deutchman didn't feel the change in Janet's tone, and said easily: "Our company has only been established for more than two years, and there will definitely be some problems. ”

Amy and Rem were keenly aware of Janet's strange tone, and they couldn't help but look at her.

Janet put down the menu in her hand, her beautiful eyes, which are always very attention-grabbing, narrowed slightly, and she was originally harmless to humans and animals, but at this time, she looked like a cat about to pounce on her prey, glanced at the three of them lightly, and said: "I found out that someone spent $16,000 to have a party at his home, but the bill was recorded as the entertainment expenses of the film project, and he also took the company's plane in the name of a business trip, but in fact it was to send his son to college." ”

Amy and Deutchman watched Robert Rehm together, and he was probably the only one of the four in the room who could have a son who went to college.

Robert Rem shrugged his shoulders calmly and said, "Jenny, I haven't done that. ”

"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here to eat with you," Janet's expression seemed to slow down a bit, and she directly revealed the mystery: "It's actually Ron Macmillan." ”

When Amy and the others heard this, they were both surprised and not surprised.

When Simon was working on Lola Run, Ron Macmillan was his producer.

After the success of "Lola Run", Ron Macmillan also became a contract producer under Daenerys Pictures. In the past two years, he has also completed two projects in a row, "Death is Coming" and "Scream", and both have achieved very bright box office results.

Ron Macmillan has thus become one of Hollywood's hottest producers.

Because of these origins, everyone was a little surprised that Janet would suddenly point her head at the company's veteran producer. However, after following Simon's career, Ron Macmillan's reputation in the industry in the past two years is really not very good, so it is not surprising that he has these unclean little hands and feet.

After a moment of silence, Amy raised her hand to stop the waiter who wanted to come over, and asked Janet in a low voice, "Jenny, have you told Simon about this?"

"Well, he told me to do it," Jenny nodded and asked rhetorically, "Amy, what do you think we should do?"

Amy was a little unsure, so she could only remind: "Jenny, "Scream 2" has begun preparations. ”

In the past week, "Scream" collected another $5.61 million, and in the 10th week of its release, this youth horror film officially broke through the 100 million yuan mark, with a cumulative box office of $100.397 million.

Simon originally gave a trilogy outline, and the heroine Courtney Cox signed a trilogy contract, and the film was so successful that preparations for the sequel were naturally on the agenda, and this year's Halloween was also set again.

Ron Macmillan, as the producer of "Scream", now withdraws the other party, which will undoubtedly affect the development schedule of the project.

Janet listened to Amy's hesitant tone and said, "Actually, Ron and I are also very familiar with each other, when we helped Simon shoot "Lola Run" together. However, he has crossed the line too much, I don't really care about the he has in the circle, if he can work for Simon wholeheartedly, Daenerys Entertainment will do its best to protect him. But he shouldn't use these careful thoughts on Daenerys entertainment, Simon has paid him enough, and promoted him from an obscure small producer to his current position, he shouldn't take anything that doesn't belong to him, let alone deceive Simon. So, Amy, called him in the afternoon and he was fired. ”

Amy was stunned and said, "Jenny, don't you need to discuss this matter with Simon?"

"No," Janet said in a firm tone, staring at Amy, "Simon is actually a very soft-hearted guy, and he doesn't like to care about such trivial things. But, Amy, I'm not, I'm just a little woman, and as long as I think someone is no longer trustworthy and might even endanger my boyfriend, I won't hesitate to remove him from Simon. ”

Amy was stared at by Janet, silent for a moment, but still nodded, and said, "I'll call Ron in the afternoon, but what about Scream?"

"That's not something I need to care about," Janet was satisfied with Amy's answer, but shook her hands even more, and after speaking, she glanced at Rem and Doichman, as if joking, and said, "This year's financial report is not a big problem." However, I'll help Simon keep an eye on it next year. Simon has paid you generously, so don't take anything that isn't your own unless you can make sure you don't get caught by me. ”

After saying this, Janet didn't wait for the three of them to respond, she picked up the menu slowly, and as if nothing had happened just now, she and Amy were giggling again.

So, after eating the meal, Janet obviously enjoyed it very much, but Amy and the three of them were like eating fish bones. Even, looking at Janet's smiling face, the three of them had a creepy feeling in their hearts.

After lunch, Janet did not stay in the company in the afternoon.

Amy also sent Rem and Deutchman away, as they will fly to the UK together because of the overseas distribution of several films such as "Scream" and the matter of Gorgate Pictures.

Rem and Deutchman rushed to Santa Monica Airport in downtown Santa Monica, Nancy Brill had just returned from the East Coast on a private jet owned by Daenerys Entertainment, and the woman flew to New York yesterday to discuss with several banks in New York the morning about loans for the funds needed to take a stake in Blockbuster.

Although Daenerys Entertainment has a lot of money on its books this year, Simon has decided to transfer all the excess funds to Westeros' corporate account. He didn't explain the reason for this to Amy and the others, but when he took a stake in Blockbuster, he had to choose to take out a loan again.

Counting the previous $200 million purchase price, Simon's total debt is now only $650 million, so adding $100 million in debt, it is still not beyond Simon's tolerance.

When Nancy returned to the office, she went straight to Amy's office to discuss the outcome of her trip to New York.

Amy had just put down the phone with Ron Macmillan, and she still didn't notify Ron Macmillan on the phone that Ron Macmillan had been fired, as Janet had explained, but made an appointment for dinner tonight. Compared with Janet, Amy still hopes to have a good time with Ron Macmillan, which is not bad for Daenerys entertainment.