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Westeros is just a one-time game, creating two fast-rising supermodels.

With the young man's formidable influence in Hollywood and the fashion world, it would be very easy to assemble a team of supermodels to walk the runway for Victoria's Secret.

This point cannot be achieved by LTD at this stage.

Victoria's Secret in the original time and space, the underwear show first started in 1995.

However, unlike the ever-increasing momentum after the new century, the initial catwalk could only invite one or two quasi-first-line supermodels as the main show. It was not until ten years later that the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show finally reached the peak state of gathering gods.

Chapter 483 Spider-Man (2) (Repair)

After a brief bargain, Simon and Leslie Wexner agreed that the copyright of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will be jointly held by Daenerys Entertainment and LTD, and the two parties will share the budget and investment of the show. Daenerys Entertainment will Daxiu film and television promotion can also get routine distribution fees.

In addition, Simon also agreed to personally serve as the producer of the Victoria's Secret show.

The riots in Los Angeles lasted for four days, and the chaos was not suppressed until thousands of officers and soldiers of the National Guard and Marine Corps entered the City of Angels.

After spending the first weekend in early May in Columbus, Simon returned to Los Angeles on May 5th.

Unlike the mess in the south-central part of the city, the frontline of the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles was basically unaffected.

The incident subsided, and Hollywood quickly returned to its former prosperity.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4," which was released on Thanksgiving on April 17, has been in theaters for two and a half weeks.

In its second week of release, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" dropped 41%, as expected, to another $2231 million.

5月1日到5月3日的上映第三周周末，影片的跌幅缩小到27%，三天时间继续进账1139万美元，累计票房达到7108万美元。

In two and a half weeks, the cumulative box office was 7108 million US dollars, and the weekly box office remained above 2 million US dollars, which means that the total North American box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1.1" is expected to hit a high of 1.2 million to [-] million US dollars.

Although it is still slightly lower than the first one, it also exceeds Simon's initial expectations.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" was successfully put on the production schedule.

In order to avoid too fast pace, the third part is still scheduled two years later, that is, in 1994.

However, these days, what attracts Simon the most is no longer "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2", but the Marvel 2D animated film "Spider-Man", which is also released directly through the video tape channel during Easter.

Spider-Man hits store shelves on April 4, the week before Easter.

With a total production and distribution budget of $1500 million, the 2D animated film needs to sell 100 million boxes to break even.

Daenerys Entertainment's distribution arm is forecasting sales of 200 million to 300 million Spider-Man videotapes.

When this figure is reached, Marvel’s animation department can continue to produce 2D animation movies of other superheroes. If the sales bottom line of 200 million boxes is not reached, even if it still makes a decent profit, Simon does not intend to let 2D animation Movies consume the popularity of Marvel superheroes.

However, with limited resources for production and publicity, the first batch of 30 videotapes of "Spider-Man" were quickly sold out within the first three days of its release.

Daenerys Home Entertainment, a subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, is mainly responsible for the distribution of video tapes and TV channels, while quickly replenishing goods, while investigating the cause of the incident.And it was soon discovered that it turned out that a group of Marvel fans set off an activity to support the "Spider-Man" animation and promote Daenerys Entertainment to produce a live-action movie on an online forum that has just emerged in the past two years.

Spiderman, born 30 years ago, is no less popular than superheroes such as DC's Batman and Superman, so it has a very wide fan base.

The Internet forum activity is just the beginning, and initially it's not very visible.

However, this activity spread to offline before the release of "Spider-Man" under the word-of-mouth of the vast number of comic fans, and finally created a "grand occasion" in which the first batch of 30 video tapes of this animated film were sold out quickly.

The Daenerys Home Entertainment team didn't initially anticipate the impact of the event.

However, the distribution team then made good use of this opportunity to promote how difficult it was for the Marvel team to produce this 2D animated film in the shadow of the DC movie universe through a hype on the media platform. Daenerys Entertainment In order to protect the interests of the DC movie universe, how the high-level deliberately suppressed Marvel, and even allowed "Spider-Man" to make a 3D version under the condition of controlling the budget as much as possible. effect.

Although it only has a budget of 1200 million US dollars, the word-of-mouth of the 2D animation film of "Spider-Man" has indeed been widely recognized by the media under the meticulous production of the Marvel team, and the comprehensive film review score reached 8.3 points, which is It has also become the most solid foundation for the success of this 2D animation film.

Driven by various factors, the sales volume of the 2D animated film "Spider-Man" finally reached 109 million boxes in the first week.During the week of Easter, videotape sales of the film increased again, reaching 123 million boxes.

In just two weeks, the total sales volume of 232 million boxes has reached Daenerys Entertainment's initial sales expectations for this 2D animation film.

Moreover, 232 million boxes were sold within two weeks of being on the shelves, and the final overall sales volume of "Spider-Man" is expected to exceed 1000 million boxes.

According to the average selling price of videotapes of around US$30, 1000 million boxes means sales of US$3 million.

And that's just in North America.

Although the DC movie universe has been successfully promoted overseas, as an American superhero, the 2D animated film of Spider-Man has no plans for theatrical distribution. Daenerys Entertainment does not have much expectation for overseas.

That's all, though, and the expected return to Daenerys Entertainment of this 2D animated version of Spider-Man will be far greater than originally envisioned.

The retail price of videotapes is US$30, and the wholesale price of the studio is usually around US$15. After excluding the cost of material transportation of videotapes, the gross profit margin is more than 40%.

Therefore, based on the total sales of 1000 million boxes in North America, this 2D animation film can at least bring Daenerys Entertainment $1 million in net profit.Even if the film's subsequent overseas distribution and TV platform revenue is not much, it must be very considerable in the context of the popularity driven by the hot sales of video tapes.

It is expected that the final net income will be at least 1500 times the initial budget investment of 10 million US dollars.

Hollywood's film projects that can bring a net profit of US$1.5 million to the studio every year on the omni-channel platform can often be counted on one hand. Therefore, it can be seen that the 2D animated film "Spider-Man" is definitely another horse that attracts other producers. The super dark horse that the factory envies.

Even if there are some accidental factors in the success of this project, Simon has to pay more attention to the profit here.

The first is to extinguish the fire with public opinion.

In order to promote the big sales of "Spider-Man", the distribution team created a lot of "black material" that was very unfavorable to Daenerys Entertainment's executives.

To take advantage of all favorable factors to release a film as much as possible is the philosophy that Simon has been adhering to since the founding of Daenerys. "Spider-Man" is so successful, of course, the previous operation of the distribution team has been positively affirmed.

However, it cannot allow Daenerys Entertainment to spread the wind of public opinion to suppress Marvel for DC at will.

Anyone who is a little bit more sensible should be able to easily understand that even if he has the copyright of the DC Big Three, DC superheroes cannot be the "sons" of Daenerys Entertainment after all, and they are completely entertained by Daenerys [-]% Marvel is the holding company.

Even from the perspective of pure interests, Daenerys and Time Warner jointly created the DC movie universe. After careful calculation, in the entire movie universe, Warner can not only share the profits of the Big Three, but also independently hold the superheroes such as Flash and Cyborg. Therefore, Warner's overall income should be more lucrative.

If Daenerys develops the Marvel Cinematic Universe, her interests will be entirely her own.

So there's absolutely no reason for Daenerys Entertainment to deliberately snub Marvel, as long as it's feasible.

Since there is no real-life movie project for Marvel superheroes, Daenerys Entertainment executives must have their own considerations.

Later, as the CEO of Daenerys Entertainment, Amy Pascal personally explained the reason why Daenerys Entertainment does not develop Marvel superhero live-action movies in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

Compared with DC, Marvel's superhero movies often require more complex special effects technology support, and the special effects technology at this stage is not yet satisfactory. For example, Spider-Man wants to realize Peter Parker's shuttle in the urban forest of New York Communication is very difficult.

Daenerys Entertainment is therefore suspending the development of Marvel superheroes.

Choosing to cooperate with DC Comics under Time Warner is also to lay the foundation for the future Marvel superhero movie universe in advance.

Amy Pascal's explanation has been affirmed by most fans, coupled with other private operations of Daenerys' public relations department, the public opinion noise created by the "Spider-Man" distribution team quickly disappeared.

Although, there were some not-so-good results.

Because of Amy Pascal's 'reveal', the current DC movie universe project is entirely to prepare for Daenerys Entertainment's future development of Marvel, which casts a faint haze over the prospects of the DC movie universe .

In the future, perhaps one day, in order to launch the "big-born" Marvel Cinematic Universe, Daenerys Entertainment, which holds the copyright of the DC Big Three, will deliberately suppress Cold Storage, a direct competitor.

After similar worries appeared in the media, it directly caused Time Warner's share price to fall for several days.

Therefore, it is inevitable that it will be a mess.

After completing the fire extinguishing of public opinion, the next step is the follow-up animation film development plan.

Although it will take some years for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to start, Simon actually has a rough plan for it because of the memory of his previous life.

The sales of the "Spider-Man" videotape are so good that the animated film will definitely continue to be produced, and it will also be produced as a long-term crossover series.However, it is impossible for Simon to allow animated movies to affect live-action movies.To put it simply, it is not possible to allow too much overlap in plot between the animated movie universe and the planned live-action movie universe.

Otherwise, the audience will take a trip to the Marvel Cinematic Universe on the animated film. If the storyline of the live-action film universe is similar to that of the animated film, even if they still look forward to it, there will probably be more people who do not want to see a simple plot copy.

Fortunately, as a comic company that has been established for more than half a century, Marvel has accumulated enough material that can be mined over the years.

In the roughly agreed plan, the animated movie universe will draw as much as possible from the accumulation of stories from Marvel comics before 1990.

At the same time, in order to pave the way for the future live-action Marvel movie universe, Marvel will restart a series of major event plans this year.These major events basically revolve around the main line of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Simon's memory, including the superhero civil war, the Crewe invasion, etc., and some superheroes will also be restarted.

Speaking of which, the comics industry in North America has become increasingly sluggish in recent years. As people have more and more types of entertainment, the sales of comics have continued to decline.

The recession is almost irreversible. Whether it is Marvel or DC, in the basic comics business, they have been eating their laurels for the past two years, increasing revenue by hyping comic collections and releasing classic reissues.

Simon also hopes that this large-scale restart of Marvel superheroes will give a little boost to the declining sales of comics.

The time has entered May, and the 5 summer vacation in North America is also approaching.

The heaviest film project of this year's summer vacation will undoubtedly be "Wonder Woman", which will be released on June 6.

In recent months, under the relentless promotion of Daenerys Entertainment, "Wonder Woman" has become the most anticipated movie of this summer.

With only one month left until the release, the main creators of "Wonder Woman" have started a non-stop promotional schedule, and Daenerys Entertainment has also placed more intensive publicity materials on various media platforms.

In order to avoid the edge of "Wonder Woman", many studios have advanced the key projects of this summer file to May.

Mel Gibson's new film "Lethal Weapon 3" chose the May 5 schedule.

Columbia Pictures' "Ambition to Earth," starring Tom Cruise, is also scheduled for May 5, the week before "Wonder Woman."

There is also Disney's "Crazy Nuns" starring Whoopi Goldberg, which is scheduled for May 5.

As a black comedy, "Crazy Nuns" cost $3100 million, far more than Disney's original estimate of $2000 million.

None of Disney's top executives has the prophetic advantage like Simon. It is impossible to know that "The Nun is Crazy" will become a box office dark horse, so they are quite worried about the film's box office prospects. It is said that Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Carson Berg also had a big fight because of this, trying to shirk responsibility from each other.

As Disney continued to recover, the rift between the two Disney executives who had cooperated seamlessly became more and more obvious.

Of course, the secrets in this kind of circle will definitely not be known to outsiders.

The three movies are at the forefront, and "Wonder Woman" completely occupies the one-week schedule starting on June 6. Even in the following week of June 5, there are no heavyweight movies released.

Under the raging summer movie promotion, after Cersei Capital finalized the acquisition of LTD, another news soon spread in the circle.

Daenerys Entertainment will cooperate with LTD Company to create a large-scale underwear fashion show.

It is said that Simon Westeros will personally act as a producer, and the fashion show will also be broadcast on the TV network.

Subsequently, all kinds of news were confirmed one by one.

The thing is true.

Apparently, in order to promote LTD's Victoria's Secret lingerie brand, Simon Westero intends to go into battle himself.

It is obviously impossible for people in this era to imagine what the Victoria's Secret show in Simon's memory looked like.

In the stereotyped impression of most of the public, a group of models walk up and down the runway, how much can this be worth seeing?

However, because of the confirmation of the news, more media began to pay attention to Cersei Capital’s just-completed LTD acquisition, and the Victoria’s Secret brand has also gained fame because it has been mentioned many times.

Leslie Wexner was originally a businessman who was very good at marketing. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he quickly launched a new round of brand promotion.

As for Hollywood and the fashion industry, even if you still wonder what kind of tricks a fashion show can play, it does not prevent major modeling agencies from contacting Daenerys Entertainment one after another, trying to get their models to match Simon West Luo this towering tree.

Chapter 484 Start (Modify)

The sudden exposure of the Victoria's Secret show plan made the fashion circle very lively.

For Simon, this can only be a small hobby after work.

On May 5, after three and a half months of filming, "Jurassic Park" was officially wrapped.

Although the film was directed by the original Spielberg, Simon rushed to Hawaii again to follow up for a few days in the week before the finale.

After the shooting was completed, the project team returned to Los Angeles and quickly entered into the intense post-production.

In addition to "Jurassic Park", two other key projects at the end of 1992, "Midnight Ring" in the Halloween schedule and "Home Alone 2" in the Thanksgiving schedule, are also in the post-production stage.

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

It's Wednesday, May 5th.

Simon spent the morning discussing the later stage of "Jurassic Park" with Spielberg, had lunch together, and started three consecutive production meetings at one o'clock in the afternoon, namely "Forrest Gump", "Night in Seattle" Sleep" and "Superman".

The preparation progress of the three films varies.

For Forrest Gump, both Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks have just agreed to take part in the project, and the company is still discussing compensation with the two.

In addition to Meg Ryan, "Sleepless in Seattle" will also feature Tom Hanks, and Hanks' schedule has become a key coordination issue for the two project teams.

The final Superman is already in place.

After the Oscars in March, Daenerys Entertainment officially announced the main creators of the two major projects of "Superman" and "Steel Bone".

The director of "Superman", Roland Emmerich, was confirmed by Simon very early on, and the actor was Brad Pitt. As for the heroine, Louise Lane, after several requests from Courteney Cox, Simon finally gave the heroine to the other party.

Participating in superhero series can gain high popularity, but at the same time it will greatly limit the future development of actors.

Simon doesn't care if the careers of Brad Pitt or Will Smith change as a result.

As an old friend I met in the early days of entering Hollywood, even though I didn't accumulate much affection at the beginning, Simon still hopes that Courteney can have a better development. At the beginning, I specifically mentioned her for this reason. She has an agent like Jonathan and "" With the popularity accumulated in the Scream series, Courteney does not lack further resources and contacts.