The Spice Girls group is very simple, Daenerys Entertainment has been discovering teen pop singers all these years, and it is easy to replicate it, even if it fails, it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

It's the "Harry Potter" series, such a super big IP, if it is butterfly dropped, it will be a pity.

Boeing 767 in the front cabin of the study.

Simon was thinking about these things intently when Girl A knocked on the door and came in with a document that had just been put together: "Boss, this is from Chris Lee." ”

At the cocktail party at Jonathan's house two days ago, Simon met Chris Lee, president of Sony's Columbia Pictures, and chatted a few words, and the next day he sent a message to Chris Lee, asking Chris Lee to sort out a list of all the projects that Sony Pictures is incubating for himself.

Actually, it's some kind of temptation.

Sony has been in Hollywood for so many years, if it was before, foreign capital survived in Hollywood, it was actually in line with Simon's plan, the times are changing, and since Daenerys Entertainment no longer intends to retain its strength and seek coexistence, it should be the driver who swept the Japanese out of Hollywood.

In the past, with blockbuster series such as "Men in Black" and "Spider-Man", Sony successfully survived the difficult period around 2000 and gained a firm foothold in Hollywood for a long time. Now, since he wants to get the Japanese out, Simon needs to control as much as possible the recurrence of Sony's sudden appearance of a blockbuster film.

Chris Lee is one of Simon's pawns that he has tentatively landed.

Now that Chris Lee has told the information, it is obvious that the Hollywood executive not only understood Simon's intentions, but also decisively sent the letter of submission requested by Simon.

Simon took the document handed over by Girl A and flipped through it, and found that the information given by Chris Lee was more detailed than he requested, including Sony's film list this year, as well as the internal evaluation tendency of various incubation projects, etc.

After several years of continuous losses, the two major labels controlled by Sony, Columbia and Samsung, are expected to produce only 11 films this year, including 7 in Columbia and 4 in Samsung Pictures.

In addition to "Walking with the Devil", which was released on the Easter holiday, the key films in 1997, as well as "Python Disaster" and "Absolute Power", which are scheduled for the summer, and "Perfect" and "Star Troopers" at the end of the year, the others are all small films with a budget of less than $30 million.

This is very different from Simon's memory of Sony's 1997 film list.

Sort out the information in your mind a little, in the past, 1997 can be described as a year of Sony's great resurgence, and in the previous life of the annual box office list, Sony occupied 4 films, namely "Men in Black", "Air Force One", "Perfect", "My Best Friend's Wedding".

Officially, because of the big sales of four movies in one year, Sony at that time survived the most difficult period, and waited until the millennium to rely on the "Spider-Man" series to completely gain a foothold.

This time, it's clear that things have changed a lot.

First of all, under the strong impact of Daenerys Entertainment, and Sony's continuous losses due to it, the Japanese electronics giant, like several other studios in Hollywood, has to take the initiative to reduce film production. The 11 movies on its two labels are not too few, and Fox has less than 10 films this year.

However, compared with a series of large-scale projects such as "Men in Black", "Air Force One", "Walking with the Devil", "Starship Troopers", and "The Fifth Element" in 1997, this time, there are only four blockbusters with a budget of $50 million: "Walking with the Devil", "Absolute Power", "Perfection" and "Starship Troopers".

On closer analysis, the four-part main film in the summer and at the end of the year is also very interesting.

"Absolute Power" is a crime drama film directed and starred by Clint Eastwood again, the old cowboy has no longer hung on the Warner tree since Steve Ross died, and the box office has always been very secure, quite popular with major studios, this time it was wooed by Sony and spent $50 million to shoot this new film.

"Anaconda Disaster", a typical Hollywood monster adventure film, once starred Jennifer Lopez, and it was a typical big bad movie, but the box office was not bad, coupled with the hot sales of the videotape market, a series of sequels were produced in the follow-up, some of which were directly put into the videotape and DVD market like the follow-up of "Xenomorph".

This time, because Jennifer Lopez was busy with the judges of "American Idol", the heroine was replaced by Demi Moore.

Obviously, it's Simon's influence from the big butterfly.

If it weren't for the rise of Daenerys Entertainment, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore would have been very nourishing in the nineties.

Even if there is no masterpiece after "The Ghost Love", Demi Moore still relied on the large amount of hot money that poured into Hollywood in the 90s to take over big-budget films such as "Devil's Female Soldier" and "****".

Of course, because his character was too ruthless, until 2003's "Breaking Bads 2", Demi Moore, who played the villain, was only paid $2 million.

Now, under the strength of Daenerys Entertainment, it is not easy for other big studios to live, and the amount of hot money is not stupid, the amount of inflow into Hollywood has been greatly reduced, and some of it has been actively absorbed by Simon, and the most direct result is that the opportunity for celebrities to eat hot money dividends has also been greatly reduced. Another result is that the good era of 20 million remuneration of Hollywood first-line celebrities has not come, and the current salary ceiling has been successfully stuck at the upper limit of 15 million by Simon.

On a smaller scale, the butterfly influence is that the life of the couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore is far from being as good as it once was.

In any case, Demi Moore still got the role of Sony's "Anaconda" this time, compared to Jennifer Lopez, who has just crossed the circle for a short time, although Demi Moore's coffee position is higher after all, the budget of the film is still only $45 million, less than the bombshell threshold of $50 million.

As for how the box office will be this time, according to the inside information given by Chris Lee, the effect of "Anaconda Calamity" is not good, and the prospects are not too optimistic.

Then there is the "Perfect" at the end of the year.

This is a feature film cooperated by James Brooks, a well-known Hollywood filmmaker who has produced blockbuster films such as "Mother and Daughter Love" and "Flying Over the Future", and the big actor Jack Nicholson, or it can be regarded as a romance film.

The last "Galaxy Troopers", needless to say, is another box office fiasco compared to the cost of breaking 100 million.

Overall, "Walking with the Devil" has already failed, and the next four main films are "Absolute Power", "Anaconda Disaster", "Perfection" and "Starship Troopers", even if "Perfect" can be as popular as it was in the original time and space, it will be difficult to reverse the overall decline of Sony Pictures.

As long as there are no big accidents, Sony Pictures will still end up losing money in 1997.

After reading Sony's 1997 film list, Simon once again wrote "My Best Friend's Wedding" on scratch paper at hand, and then scribbled it out.

This former top ten box office film was obviously a tailor-made project for Julia Roberts back then, so it was natural that it was butterfly dropped. Since I thought about it, I must do it, and the effort is a 100 million yuan film, so why not.

Immediately, Simon did not forget "Air Force One" and added another stroke.

This is also a top 10 film.

Even if the budget is a little high and the cost performance is relatively low, it will be no problem to give it to MGM or other studios in the future.

After getting these done, I continued to flip through, and soon found that "Air Force One" was still in Sony's incubation list, however, because Harrison Ford's "Walking with the Devil" had a very bad cooperation experience, Sony's senior management launched the production progress of this project, and now, "Walking with the Devil" was a complete box office fiasco, if nothing else, at least Sony will definitely not make this film again.

Seeing this, Simon didn't need to do this anymore, and casually annotated the information.

Now that Chris Lee has given a vote, Simon will of course return the favor. This project can be quietly suppressed by the other party, and when the Japanese get out, they can take it out again, and it will also become a qualification.

Then, Simon soon saw another project, Godzilla.

Sony is in contact with Japan's Toho for copyright, but it has not yet been negotiated.

Simon immediately targeted him for sniping.

In 1998, Roland Emmerich's version of "Godzilla" was made into a Tyrannosaurus Rex and caused a bad review, but because of the fame of this world-class IP, coupled with the very shocking special effects after all, the global box office of nearly $400 million was actually not a failure, and Sony basically recovered the cost and achieved profitability.

This time, Roland Emmerich is still under Daenerys Entertainment, and if Sony negotiates the copyright, it will probably not be easy to do worse than Emmerich once did.

With Godzilla's global fame, the box office is quite guaranteed, and if you don't pay attention to it, you may even explode.

Simon doesn't want to see any more hits from Sony Pictures in the future.

After a moment's thought, Simon turned to the computer on his desk and sent an email directly to Amy Pascal, asking her to try to contact the Japanese and cut off the project.

At the end of the paperwork, Simon managed to find a big hole.

Kevin Costner is lobbying for a project called "2013 The Ultimate Messenger," a sci-fi adaptation of a post-apocalyptic wanderer who, after the outbreak of nuclear war, accidentally acquires a postman's outfit and begins to pretend to be a postman wandering between various gathering places, unexpectedly becoming a spiritual leader among the post-apocalyptic inhabitants.

Obviously, Kevin Costner is not willing to accept the failure of "Future Water World", which is the momentum of the post-apocalyptic film.

However, because it was also a bombshell that failed miserably, Simon also remembers it very well.

In the past, "2013 Ultimate Divine Mission" was invested by Warner and released at the end of this year. Now, because everyone's life is not easy, Costner has not attracted investment until now, Sony is only one of the negotiation partners, and the information given by Chris Lee is obviously not too cold.

Now the question is how to get Sony to catch a cold.

In fact, the method is also simple, as long as Daenerys Entertainment expresses interest, just like the script of "Bad Things" that was just snatched away some time ago, this trick is also tried and tested in Hollywood.

And, of course, avoid being self-defeating.

Simon thought about it carefully, and in the end he still didn't choose to repeat the old trick, but planned to let Chris Lee run it himself, even if Sony's senior management was very stuck with the Sony Pictures team, it was impossible for there to be no room for operation here.

As for how to do it?

Simon is confident in Hollywood's ability to fool investors.

This is another test.

After combing through these, Simon quickly typed out a memo on the computer and forwarded it to Girl A's mailbox, asking her to send someone to print it out and forward it to Chris Lee.

It is also reminded not to use email.

After all, this kind of thing is not suitable for leaving evidence after all.

With this done, Simon continued to be busy until the Boeing 767 landed at London Heathrow, which was about 9 p.m. local time on April 10.

Rushing to the mansion in downtown London on Kensington Garden Street, it was already late at night.

Simon just entered the door, but a small figure pounced first, smiled and bent down with open arms to catch, the little girl who was already more than five years old was like a little koala and put her hands and feet on Simon's body, shouted 'Daddy', and then put her little head on Simon's shoulder, and there was no movement in a blink of an eye.

Apparently asleep.

Yulia Shulshikina walked forward with three women, Ivana Antonenko and Natalia Banshikova, and saw the woman Nina being held in the arms of the man, quite considerate and spoiled, Shulshitina couldn't help but feel a little warm in her heart, but she stretched out her hand and said: "Sir, I'll come." ”

Simon shook his head: "No, where is the bedroom, I'll send the little guy up." ”

Saying this, Simon couldn't help but think of six women who were pregnant at the same time.

It's all confirmed, it's all boys.

Six boys.

Simon was so stressed that he didn't have a single padded jacket.

This in his arms, although he doesn't see much on weekdays, can be regarded as giving Simon a feeling of a little padded jacket.

Shulshikina heard Simon say this, and hurriedly led the way in front. Ivana Antonenko subconsciously wanted to keep up, and she regretted that she didn't let her daughter Vera wait with her, if she could make a man so pampered, her status would be much higher. However, Natalia Banshikova did not keep up with the fun, but greeted Girl A and Carmen Kaits, and helped arrange the luggage and accommodation of Simon's entourage.

Coming to an upstairs bedroom, Simon was about to put the little guy who was already asleep on the bed, but Nina immediately woke up and pestered Simon again to hug him.

Simon had to hug him for a while, and when the little girl fell asleep again, tried again, and woke up again.

Shulshikina had to step forward and whispered: "Baby, Dad also has to rest, and he can see him tomorrow, don't pester anyone." ”

The little guy still wrapped his hands and feet around Simon's body, and said, "Then, I sleep with my father and mother." ”

Shulsikina blushed and immediately shook her head: "No." ”

"Why?"

“......”

Simon saw Shulshikina speechless, and said with a smile: "Because Nina is already a big girl, of course she can't sleep with her parents." ”