In the week that followed, the North American media discussed Michael Ovitz and the 'Infantry Warriors' affair. Fastest updates

The embarrassed Ovitz had to quickly issue a public reply, firmly denying that he had threatened Joe Ezerthas in the dispute, saying that Ezerthas could leave at any time, and the CAA would never stop him.

Joe Ezerthas did not buy Ovitz's account, and in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, he again accused Ovitz of verbal violence against him, and claimed that he had suffered severe psychological trauma and had completely lost his sense of security because Ovitz threatened to ruin his career, and Ezerthas also said that he had to sell the property he had just purchased with his family to avoid accidents.

Immediately afterwards, I don't know if it was Ovitz's promotion, many CAA's customers began to publicly support Ovitz, Sean Connery, Sidney Polak and other big names expressed their disbelief that Ovitz, who has always been polite and rarely gaffes, would say that to Joe Ezerthas, and also suggested that Ezerthas may have deliberately added fuel to the fire in order to win sympathy.

This is certainly a possibility.

However, Joe Zeet Haas did not argue for himself, and cleverly continued to play the pathos card, suggesting that the voices of the big names were Ovitz pressuring him to shut up.

The media, which is not a big deal to watch the excitement, also continued to fan the flames.

In the midst of such excitement, on August 23, Japan's Sony suddenly interrupted the media's heated discussion about the 'infantry soldier' incident and announced that it had reached an agreement with Columbia Pictures to acquire Columbia Pictures at a price of $3.4 billion in cash, while taking on the debt of $1.6 billion of the old film company.

On August 25, the Colombian board of directors voted to approve Sony's acquisition proposal.

So far, after a year-long tug-of-war, Sony has officially acquired Columbia Pictures, one of Hollywood's seven major studios.

The $5 billion deal brings Sony's Columbia Pictures assets to Columbia Pictures including Columbia and Samsung, a vast library of more than 4,000 film and television program rights, an 820-screen Loes cinema chain, and some TV station assets.

At the end of the 80s, the TV sector in the United States was not yet open to foreign investors, so Sony also said in the announcement of the agreement that it would divest Columbia Pictures' TV assets after the deal was completed.

And then, Monday, August 28th.

Sony has not yet finalized the head of Columbia Pictures, but it and Daenerys Entertainment jointly held the fourth press conference in recent times, announcing the fourth of Daenerys Entertainment's 10 film plans, "The Pink Alliance".

Like "Sleeping with the Enemy", "Shaking the Rocking Hand" and "The Outlaw", "Pink League" is also a newcomer screenplay, based on real events during World War II in the United States, about an outdated baseball star who tries to build a women's baseball team after the men rush to the battlefield.

This North American sports-themed film is not obvious internationally, but it is also a top 10 box office work in Simon's memory of the annual list.

After "Pink Alliance", on August 30, at the fifth press conference, Universal Pictures and Daenerys Entertainment jointly announced the fifth of the 10-film program, based on Stephen King's "Ten Days of Danger". "Ten Days of Danger" tells the story of a crazy book fan who accidentally rescues his favorite writer, finds that the other party has written his favorite character to death, kidnaps and imprisons him, and forces him to rewrite the plot.

After Stephen King became famous, because of his high production, his film adaptations were very frequent, and his works were brought to the big screen every year over the years. Daenerys Entertainment has the copyright to Stephen King's "Cornfield Kids", and the Easter schedule in the first half of the year also has an adaptation of Stephen King's "Pet Graveyard" of the same name.

However, except for "Pet Graveyard", which was released at Easter this year, which received more than $57 million at the box office, most of Stephen King's other film adaptations only grossed one or two million, and the producers will not lose too much and not make too much.

"Ten Days of Danger", which has no supernatural elements, was not originally optimistic, until Simon took a fancy to Universal Pictures, which had settled the copyright in advance, took it seriously

Five projects in a row, five press conferences, also Simon intentional. He hopes that the 10-film project will form an impact similar to 'brand effect'. Judging from the media response, the effect has been achieved, and these films will not lack the attention of the media on various platforms from casting, shooting, post-production to release, just this is enough to offset millions of dollars in publicity and distribution costs.

Five projects were announced, and Hollywood stars were even more spoiled.

Century City.

More than a week has passed, and the media's critical and mocking attacks on Michael Ovitz have not stopped, and Ovitz sometimes even wonders if someone is deliberately targeting him. However, the fundamental reason for this incident is that Ovitz was too low-key before, and the media was full of curiosity but lacked understanding of him.

CAA has been losing customers lately because of the recent negative press, or the ban on Daenerys Entertainment and the announcement of five of the 10 films in the project.

After Kurt Trassell and Godihan, Gina Davis, who just won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress last year, was also poached by MA, who also poached a writer client named Michael Clayton, who Ovits remembered was not a well-known blockbuster, but a very interesting idea of a dinosaur that he had discussed the other day.

I don't care about that now.

If neither of these two is too important, MA reaching out to Tom Hanks, who has become popular in the last two years, makes it difficult for Ovitz to keep his composure.

Tom Hanks's "Flying Over the Future" last year not only exceeded 100 million at the North American box office, but also won the Best Actor nomination, and this summer's "Lucky Star and Lucky General" also had a very good local box office, and now it is firmly in the first line. The departure of veteran players like Goldihan and Kurt Trassell, who have already begun to decline, would be a serious blow to CAA's reputation if Tom Hanks, a star on the rise, leaves.

As customers continue to churn, it's hard to guarantee that other customers won't have the illusion that CAA has begun to decline and is not worth staying any longer.

Once the domino effect is formed, the results can be catastrophic.

And, when Columbia Pictures abruptly announced on August 31 that Gina Davis, who had just jumped from CAA, would be the heroine of the 10-film project "Pink League," Michael Ovitz knew he had to make some kind of decision as soon as possible.

Friday, September 1.

In the new week, only a low-budget B-grade thriller from New Line Pictures was quietly released, indicating the complete end of this year's summer file.

Judging from the available data, this summer file, there are six confirmed films with a box office of more than 100 million yuan, "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3", "Ghostbusters 2", "Honey, I Made My Child Small", "Lethal Weapon 2", "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense", of which Daenerys Entertainment accounts for two.

Considering that at the end of the year, Daenerys Entertainment and Warner's "Batman" and "Flying Over Innocence" will be released, as well as Universal Pictures' "Back to the Future 2" will be released, if one or two more dark horses can appear, it is still very likely that there will be more than 10 films with a box office of more than 100 million yuan this year.

In recent years, ticket prices in North America have not increased significantly, from the previous years when Hollywood only had four or five or even fewer films that broke 100 million at the box office every year to the current 10 films, Hollywood's rapid rise after a silence in the seventies and eighties can be called unstoppable.

In my memory, in 1990, the emergence of a series of blockbusters such as "Home Alone", "Pretty Woman" and "Ghost Love", as well as the further expansion of the global film market, heralded the re-emergence of Hollywood, and then the annual box office films of 100 million yuan will basically fill the top ten on the list.

In this time and space, later people combed the development trajectory of Hollywood, probably in advance in 1988, Hollywood for the first time appeared more than 10 billion yuan grossing films a year.

The appearance of Simon, the big butterfly, can be said to have advanced Hollywood's recovery by two years.

Around eight o'clock in the evening.

At the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Sony's latecomer is entertaining the Hollywood Devils.

Simon is followed by Famick Jensen and is chatting with Jeff Goldblum, who is a couple, and Gina Davis, both of whom are currently in the quasi-first-tier category.

"Batman" is nearing completion, as long as the box office at the end of the year meets expectations, "Wonder Woman" will probably start the early planning, and Simon has also accelerated the speed of making Famick Jensen 'familiar'.

For more than a year, Famick has played several small roles in some film and television dramas, and Simon arranged for her to play two roles in Robert Ultraman's group drama "The Intersection of Life" and the company's cooperation with Columbia Pictures "Pink Alliance", both of which will have more attention, and Famick Jensen's figure and appearance are enough for her to attract the attention of the audience.

Everyone was chatting about "The Pink Alliance" when Michael Ovitz appeared nearby, found Simon, and walked straight over.

The people who were able to appear in the banquet hall tonight were all well-informed people, and when they saw Ovitz walking towards Simon Westeros, they all looked over curiously, and did not forget to whisper a few words.

Michael Ovitz came to Simon, and he didn't hide it, and said straight to the point: "Simon, can you talk alone?"

Simon said briskly, "Okay." ”

Nodding to Gina Davis, Simon and Ovitz walked together to sit down on a couch in the corner of the hall, and Farmik Jensen was very amusemented not to follow.

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