Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1692

In Los Angeles, as the center of Hollywood moves westward, more and more film and television entertainment celebrities tend to settle in the affluent Brentwood area closer to Malibu, rather than the once-hot Beverly Hills.

Annika Settle, who has quickly gained a foothold in Hollywood in recent years with her connections of good friends, recently bought a villa of her own in Brentwood.

Although it is not the most golden highland area, but in just a few years, she can build her own property, and Annika is only satisfied with herself.

It's October 25th.

Wednesday.

As soon as the morning light came on, Annika had already woken up, mainly because Lena Kane, who was staying here last night, started to get up first, which made Annika, who wanted to sleep late, have to sit up.

Even if the relationship between the two sides is very close, subconsciously, they are not willing to lose too much to Lena.

After the two got dressed and washed, they left the bedroom. In the villa, the maid of the Wei family who was in charge of their daily life was already busy earlier.

Ignoring daily trivialities such as breakfast, the two women went to the gym together, and after a brief warm-up, stepped on the treadmill.

Pressing the jog button, Annika noticed that Lena next to her had unfolded a manga that had been turned over many times before on the treadmill console, and began to do two things. "This "Watchmen", the first comic book that won the Hugo Award that year, has enough connotations. However, I always feel that Zac's choice of this project is a bit unwise."

The famous "Watchmen", this is a story produced by D Comics in 1986. It is independent of the mainstream D superhero universe. It roughly tells the story of a group of retired superheroes who can't enjoy a peaceful life in the background of the alternate Cold War and the storm resurfaces.

The comic explores a very heavy and timeless topic: how to stop war?

The story offers several answers.

The final one is to establish a common and powerful enemy for all the people of the earth, so that the world is always under threat and forced to unite and stop fighting each other.

However, in order to teach human beings a profound lesson, doing such a game has a price.

Then again.

Humans, will they really learn their lessons?

While jogging, Lena Kane flipped through the comics in front of her with two minds, and without turning her head when she heard the voice of her best friend, she said, "This is a work that many comic fans are looking forward to putting on the big screen, and The halo of the Hugo Awards that year, in addition, with the success of "Resident Evil" and "Spartan 300", Zach also accumulated enough experience, all these are favorable conditions. As for whether it can be successful in the end, the film is a gamble , who can guarantee success?"

Annika couldn't refute, she paused and asked, "Simon's side, what to do?"

This time, D obviously cannot transfer the copyright of "Watchmen" to Daenerys Entertainment, even if it is impossible to make it together. Therefore, after working on two projects with Daenerys Entertainment, or after being popularized by Daenerys, Zack Snyder wanted to make this project and could only cooperate with Warner.

In a way, this is downright betrayal.

You know, Daenerys has a contract for three Schneider movies, and only two have been completed before. Therefore, Schneider simply can't get past Daenerys' deal to work with other studios if there's no resignation there.

Lina still nodded without turning her head: "Simon has agreed."

Annika surprised: "When?"

The two girls said that they were inseparable, but they knew each other quite well because of the intimate relationship that a certain man deliberately kneaded.

So, a certain man agreed to this matter, how could she not know?

Lina finally glanced over and looked back, but she could see some smiles from the side of her face: "Last night when you were taking a shower, I sent him an email, but I didn't expect to get an immediate response, and we chatted online for a while."

Annika opened her mouth, and then her face that was not sweating turned a little more red.

Last night, after taking a bath, she was quite proactive.

All I remember was that Lena put aside the laptop on her lap, and then, of course, didn't have time to talk about it.

After a while, Annika finally spoke again, with a half-truth and jealousy: "Hmph, you're flirting with other men while I'm taking a shower."

Lina turned the page of the cartoon in front of her, and said with a smile, "This sentence is strange, it can't be said to be 'other men', because you are not a man, and the two of us, if we really want to You can only be a woman if you make a difference."

"Hmm, you're a man, okay?" Annika accelerated the treadmill and sighed deliberately: "Oh my God, Simon Westero actually likes men, this is really a big gossip. "

Lina smiled, but did not continue to talk nonsense with Annika, but said: "Simon also said that he is looking forward to this project. I am not surprised at all. How could my man not have such a heart."

"Yeah, my man's man."

Lina still didn't mind Annika's embarrassment and mischief, and said in a serious tone: "Anyway, there is no problem with Daenerys, Annie, do you want to try being a screenwriter?"

Speaking of business, Annika also restrained her expression, and had carefully read the "Watchmen" comics in advance, and shook her head at this time: "I think the story of this comic itself has a high degree of completion, and it is directly used as a template. It can be made into film and television, there is no room for screenwriters to play, and, while I am writing "Death Video", I have to take into account the new project of the Farrelly brothers, where is there time?"

Under the strategy finalized by Simon, the development of the sequels for the projects that Lena and the two were responsible for, whether it was "Blair Witch" or "Resident Evil", were temporarily put on hold.

So consider opening a new IP.

At the beginning, Simon gave Lena several pseudo-documentary ideas in her memory. After the two women discussed it, they chose "Death Video", which combines pseudo-documentary and zombie elements. The original version is a Spanish movie. The reason for this choice is because I found that this story is also very suitable for developing into a horror game.

The success of previous "Resident Evil" games is obvious to all.

Therefore, Annika started the construction of this series after the end of the summer season, and also referred to the "Resident Evil" series. Although the whole story starts from an apartment, the context related to this story, whether it is the timeline , or various details, are intended to fill up.

The two women plan to set up a game studio to develop the game independently while Settle Entertainment and Daenerys are working together to develop the film.

Of course, I didn't plan to go solo.

Whether it's a movie or a game, the production money is going to come from Daenerys, they just want to get more money out of it.

Daenerys is also happy to see this, and it is not treated specially because of the relationship between the two women and their boss.

Or something that Simon understood very early on.

Complete self-production and self-marketing will eventually only lead to rigidity within the enterprise. Just like the TV industry, a certain degree of 'separation of production and broadcasting' is adopted, and sufficient initiative is retained internally, and fresh blood is continuously introduced externally, and at the same time, competition is stimulated. To make a company more sustainable for a long time.

Therefore, Simon encourages collaboration with third parties, whether it is film, TV or gaming.

Of course, the premise is that the absolute initiative and the largest share of benefits must be on the side of the Westeros system.

Simon doesn't work for others.

Another Farrelly Brothers project is another collaboration between the two parties after "I'm Crazy for Mary".

Still comedy.

However, unlike "I'm Crazy for Mary", which reappeared tenaciously against the butterfly effect, this time it is a brand new project called "The Troubles of Genius", which is different from "I'm Crazy for Mary". Love, this time taking the line of youth comedy, is closer to the kind of "American Pie", but it is still characterized by the joke-like spoof of "Saturday Night Live".

The project is already in the process of filming, and it is initially planned to be released next year's Easter schedule.

The two projects have already occupied most of Annika's time. She has no energy to take on the task of writing "Watchmen". Work out on a whole new type.

Lina didn't force herself to hear what Annika said.

In fact, I am also troubled by the adaptation of "Watchmen".

This story, now that it can receive a Hugo Award, has proven its excellence.

If "Watchmen" is a super-long comic, it can be trimmed and trimmed, but it is a story that can basically be told in one movie. Therefore, there is really not much room for screenwriters to play.

However, if certain changes cannot be made to the story and it is scripted, in the future, will the audience feel that this is just a visual repetition?

Until the end of the exercise, Lena couldn't make up her mind.

It can only be discussed with Warner and Zach Snyder. In fact, she has no decision-making power and can only give certain suggestions. Of course, because of a certain status and previous success, neither of the other two parties will ignore her advice.

The two women had breakfast and started their day's work.

Annika is going to the production of "Genius Trouble", the project is filming in Santa Monica, and will be there all day today.

Lina has more things to do. After all, she is still an agent now, and she has more than 20 clients under her name, all kinds of trivial things, if not for the training of several assistants at the same time, and the fact that W is unsuccessful, but It has only been promoting similar economic system reforms, and it may be too busy.

Arriving at the W headquarters in Century City, the first thing I paid attention to was the "Terror Cruise" that was being released.

Because the story structure is too complicated, even if Beckinsale is the heroine, New World Pictures is still not optimistic about the performance of "Terror Cruise" in the theater market. Announcement expenses, and, using the characteristics of the film itself, launched a small-scale viral marketing on the Internet platform with a modest marketing cost. The core is 'Who is the murderer? ! ’

To tell the truth, this marketing is not as successful as the original "Blair Witch". After all, if you want to start a public discussion, you must reveal enough information, but this movie reveals too much, especially a final secret, and you lose it. The biggest suspense in the film.

It still got some attention after all.

With the release of the film, the marketing continues, the special story structure, and the final truth, have sparked more discussions than before the opening of the painting.

The result now is that 14 million or so in the first week is definitely no problem.

However, compared to the local box office forecast of 30 million by various parties, Lina is more optimistic. Perhaps, this project has the hope of hitting the local 40 million US dollars. When it reaches 40 million, the total cost of production and publicity will be recovered, and the follow-up will be all about making money. Moreover, as long as the reputation is big enough, this project, with greater potential, is obviously still in the follow-up home entertainment channel.

Therefore, after having a general understanding of the latest box office data and market feedback, Lina contacted New World Pictures, hoping that there will be more publicity expenses to make this project more popular.

It is certain that this project will make money, and New World Pictures is also very generous, and plans to add another 3 million US dollars to collect 10 million publicity investment.

However, Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, who discussed with Lena on the phone in person, was unavoidable to joke that more investment in the announcement and extension of the return period would definitely affect the sharing time of this project.

Considering conflicts of interest, brokers cannot get involved in film and television production.

However, the rules were destroyed by the packaging strategy as early as the 1980s. Although she did not directly hold the company shares of Settle Entertainment, which her best friend temporarily held, Lina was still able to learn from the various projects that the two sides cooperated with. Get a share of the income.

Lina was not in a hurry.

After all, everyone has a consensus that the majority of the revenue of this project must be in the surrounding channels. What's more, the world's largest video rental chain is owned by Daenerys Entertainment.

After getting this thing done and dealing with some other daily routines, Lena drove to Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank on the other side of the Santa Monica Mountains near noon.

Noon was a dinner with Alan Horn, president of Warner Bros. Pictures. Zach Snyder also attended. After getting the approval of a certain man, this noon was officially finalized for everyone's cooperation on "Watchmen".

The meal lasted an hour.

Things are basically settled.

It is a pity that this project was not packaged again, but it is only a pity, after all, such a super blockbuster that is expected to invest hundreds of millions of dollars, not to mention it is a superhero comic movie that Warner is very fond of, it is impossible. Let the small workshop of Settle Entertainment take it alone.

Another satisfaction is that Warner gave Schneider $10 million for the director's salary, plus 10% of the global box office gross profit.

This double ten agreement, for a director who only made two films, even if both films are very successful, is actually quite generous. After all, even if calculated according to the total investment of 150 million in production and publicity, as long as the global box office can reach 500 million, it is expected that the director will get at least another $5 million in share, which is equivalent to the industry's maximum salary of $15 million.

If it exceeds 500 million, it is as successful as D's other comic book movies, and the total revenue of 20 to 30 million US dollars is not a problem.

The income level of a single project of 20 to 30 million US dollars is already the treatment of super first-line directors.

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