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Before I knew it, it was another sleepless night.

At around four o'clock in the morning, the phone rang, and Levin sat up directly on the big bed and picked up the receiver.

Ignoring his wife's dissatisfied murmurs, Levin said a few words to the other side, then got out of bed and went to the study, turned on the computer, and logged in to the Ygritte portal.

The bold headlines on the website are very eye-catching, even a little harsh.

"Jurassic Park broke Spielberg's box office record with $2176 million in its first day."

Without clicking on the detailed news page, Gerald Levine only felt a bit bitter in his mouth.

The first day was 2176 million U.S. dollars, so the three-day box office in the first weekend should be around 6000 million U.S. dollars, and the first seven days, 9000 million U.S. dollars.

$9000 million.

Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3" three years ago had a box office of just over $4600 million in its first week.

The box office of "Jurassic Park" reached 9000 million US dollars in the first week, which has fully reached the big-selling level of DC movie universe projects.

At the meeting on Wednesday, Levine proposed to renegotiate with Daenerys Entertainment, because Daenerys Entertainment is also very dependent on the DC movie universe, and it is impossible to turn over easily.

Now, a "Jurassic Park" has directly overturned his argument.

More importantly, unlike the DC movie universe shared by both parties, "Jurassic Park" is entirely Daenerys Entertainment's own project, and all profits belong to the other party.In other words, a "Jurassic Park" with a box office volume comparable to that of the DC movie universe, the income brought to Daenerys Entertainment is actually equivalent to two DC movie universe projects.

Gerald Levin also knew that from the very beginning, Daenerys Entertainment's plan for "Jurassic Park" was a trilogy.

If we talk about dependence, Daenerys Entertainment, which has been occupying a large number of places on the annual box office list in recent years, is not as dependent on the DC movie universe as the Time Warner Group.

At this time, there is "Jurassic Park", so the next question is probably whether Daenerys Entertainment wants to renegotiate in order to share more benefits from the DC movie universe plan.

Sitting in front of the computer in a daze for a while, Gerald Levin finally picked up the phone and asked his assistant to arrange a call between himself and Simon Westeros.

The Simons are in Melbourne, but they have been paying attention to the 'lively' scene in North America in recent days.

After Gerald Levin's remarks in an internal meeting were exposed, Simon quickly received a call from Terry Semel, who said earnestly during the call that as long as he can continue to be in charge of Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films There will be no accidents in the universe plan.

Later, when the box office of "Jurassic Park" was released on the first day, Levin also called.

Simon's attitude towards this is more of a cold-eyed bystander.

As a human being in two lives, how could he not see through the twists and turns.

Although, if he uses his existing influence, it is indeed very hopeful that Gerald Levin's plan to succeed Ross will be disrupted, but Simon can't think of any reason to do so.

Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group are, after all, competitors in the same media industry.

As long as you have a little brains, you should understand that it is definitely better to let competitors maintain an unstable internal fighting state for a long time than an enemy who is united and united.

Therefore, although Daenerys Entertainment is very strong in the media and has no intention of giving in at all, in private, Simon's instructions to Amy Pascal are very simple: just watch the fun.

Things were buzzing until Sunday, December 12, when another piece of news arrived.

Steve Ross died at the age of 12 at his East Hampton estate on the evening of December 20.This media tycoon, who was a contemporary of Rupert Murdoch and Sam Redstone, was largely lost to time.

For a while, the North American media was full of news about Rose's death, and a large number of Hollywood filmmakers also expressed their condolences.

Simon did not return to North America to see Ross for the last time before his death. Although the relationship between the two parties is good, it has not yet reached that level.However, Simon also accepted the invitation of Rose's family and plans to attend the other party's funeral on December 12 a week later.

For this reason, the time to return to North America can only be advanced, and it is impossible to spend the New Year in Melbourne.

While the Time Warner Group expressed its condolences to Ross' death, it did not immediately announce Ross's successor.

Obviously, the internal power game is still going on.

The year-end schedule in North America will not be greatly affected by the death of a media tycoon.

After earning US$2176 million on the first day, "Jurassic Park" continued to gain momentum, with a three-day box office of US$6031 million in the first weekend.

In the end, when the first week of screenings ended, the cumulative box office of this prehistoric monster movie that brought strong visual shock to the audience had reached an astonishing $9138 million in seven days.

Even though Daenerys Entertainment has been a little accustomed to the box office miracles created by Daenerys Entertainment in recent years, most of the media are still amazed at the box office of "Jurassic Park" in the first week.

At the same time, Gerald Levine's remarks at Warner's internal meeting were once again hyped up by some media with ulterior motives.

The first week of 9138 million US dollars almost ensured that "Jurassic Park" started at the domestic box office of 3 million US dollars in North America.

With the theme of this dinosaur movie, the overseas box office will not be too bad.

In addition, as the box office of "Jurassic Park" exploded, the sales of peripheral products of the film also exploded rapidly.Regarding the peripheral product development of "Jurassic Park", this is directly shown in the peripheral store shots in the film.Moreover, a large number of dinosaur characters appearing in the film are also very suitable for developing peripherals.

Although there is no official data from Daenerys Entertainment, many media have confirmed that the project "Jurassic Park" is expected to bring Daenerys Entertainment no less income than a DC movie universe blockbuster.

To be more accurate, because the DC movie universe project is often a collaboration between Daenerys and Time Warner, which needs to share profits, the income of "Jurassic Park", for Daenerys Entertainment, may even be equivalent to two DC movies Cosmos Films revenue.

In this case, Daenerys Entertainment seems to be more inclined to the development of "Jurassic Park", even if it is to suppress the DC movie universe for this, it is completely worthwhile.

Not only that, when the box office of "Jurassic Park" was released in the first weekend, Daenerys Entertainment executives had already revealed the sequel development plan.

This phenomenal dinosaur movie was planned as a trilogy from the beginning.

In an interview with the "Hollywood Reporter", the heroine of the film, Renee Russell, also proved that she signed the trilogy contract at the beginning, and revealed some inside stories that are more interesting to fans. If the DC movie universe is the same, Simon · Westeros planned the plot of the trilogy from the beginning.

Although Steven Spielberg later stated in the media that the focus of his next work is to try his best to complete the "Schindler's List" project, he does not seem to be so interested in directing the sequel to "Jurassic Park". However, with Simon Westero himself behind the scenes, no one doubts that the "Jurassic Park" series would be unsustainable without Spielberg.

Some media even criticized "Jurassic Park" as not being so perfect, the plot of the film is too routine, and relying on a little girl's scream to advance the plot seems too blunt.If Spielberg had given up directing, the sequel would have been of higher quality with Simon Westero at the helm himself.

For a major traditional Hollywood film company, a big-selling trilogy is often enough to last ten years.Like Paramount's "Indiana Jones" series in the 80s, Universal's "Back to the Future" series, and Columbia Pictures' "Ghostbusters" series.

"Jurassic Park", a big-selling project with a local box office of 3 million yuan, not to mention three, even just this one, through the entire operation of global box office, video tape sales, TV broadcast and peripheral development, is enough for a big movie The company lasted for five years.

Relying on such a blockbuster as a base, coupled with the fact that Daenerys Entertainment has occupied a large number of places on the box office charts in recent years, the question now is whether Daenerys should re-target with Time Warner. The distribution of interests in the DC movie universe was negotiated.

Chapter 515 Warner Changes (Revised)

Affected by "Jurassic Park", the box office performance of other films in North American theaters in the first week of Christmas was not satisfactory.

Normally, as the holiday season rolls around, most of the two movies around Christmas will see a reversal, but this time it didn't happen, even the most festively themed "Home Alone 2", which runs from December 12th to December In the week of the 18th, box office data showed a drop of up to 12%.

In its fifth week of release, "Home Alone 2" earned $1029 million at the box office, bringing its cumulative box office to $1 million.

For this reason, the distribution team of Daenerys Entertainment had to lower the local box office expectation of "Home Alone 2". $2 million or so on the timeline.

The Robin Williams fantasy comedy "Toys", which was drawn at the same time as "Jurassic Park", hit the street directly, with a box office of only 531 million US dollars in the first seven days.

In the same week, on Monday, December 12, the nominations for the 21th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards were officially announced.

Daenerys Entertainment's "The Crying Game" won three nominations for Best Drama, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay, and "Scent of a Woman", which was the focus of the 1993 awards season, won Best Drama Six nominations for Best Actor, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay for Film and Drama.

With the announcement of the nominations, the two films once again received media and public attention.

9月25日开画的《哭泣游戏》，截止12月24日，累计上映13周时间，北美总票房已经达到5163万美元，单周票房也滑落到400万美元以内，12月18日到12月24日七天票房进账只有313万美元。

Gaomen Films has already focused on "Scent of a Woman" for publicity and distribution. Therefore, taking advantage of the east wind of the awards season and appropriately re-expanding the screening scale, "The Crying Game" will probably earn another 1500 yuan. Around $6500 million to $7000 million at the local box office in North America.

Compared to the film's $300 million production cost, this is already a miracle.

"Scent of a Woman", which started painting on November 11, was screened for two weeks, and officially opened on November 13.

As of December 12, within four weeks of its large-scale release, the cumulative box office of "Scent of a Woman" reached 24 million US dollars.

Considering the awards season in the next few months, "Scent of a Woman" will become the focus of Daenerys Entertainment's awards public relations. The Crying Game is pretty good.

On December 12, the second week of the Christmas season, three new films will continue to be released in North American theaters.

Warner Bros. Pictures' "The End of the World", starring Mel Gibson, opened 1710 screens.

In Simon's memory, the heroine of the original film was Jamie Lee Curtis, but this time, the heroine was replaced by Meg Ryan.

Obviously it was the influence of Simon, the big butterfly.

However, Simon didn't personally interfere. He hoped that the heroine of the film would still be Jamie Lee Curtis. He just thought that Curtis, who was full of masculinity, would not be able to have any sparks with Mel Gibson. It's not a Daenerys-entertaining film, but of course the worse the better.

Of course, even if the heroine is replaced by the more lovable Meg Ryan, "The End of the World" is destined to be crushed by "Jurassic Park" this year's end of the year.

Two other new films.

Paramount Pictures' "Miracles From Heaven," starring Steve Martin and telling the story of a con man who travels the country performing shows, opened 1554 screens.

Fox's Hoffa, the biographical crime drama starring Jack Nicholson, is clearly targeting awards season with a 1066-screen opening.

New York, Long Island.

Inside a synagogue in East Hampton.

The time is July 12th.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Steve Ross' funeral was held here.

The Jewish pastor introduced Rose's life, and then relatives, friends, and colleagues made speeches on stage one after another. The funeral lasted until noon, and everyone returned to the Ross family's estate in East Hampton for dinner.

Lunch is in a buffet mode, and the atmosphere is somewhat solemn.

"Simon, I've been thinking about something recently. I hope to dedicate "Schindler's List" to Steve at the same time."

In the hall of the manor house, the Simons once again expressed their condolences to Rose's widow, Courteney Rose, and Steven Spielberg next to him suddenly said so.

The "Schindler's List" in my memory is a work of Universal Pictures, but the words "for Steve Ross" are also specially marked at the end of the film.

Simon naturally didn't mind at this time, nodded and said: "Of course it's no problem, Steven, "Schindler's List" is completely up to you."

Spielberg originally wanted to explain his specific thoughts, but seeing Simon say this, he didn't say much, but his eyes were a little more grateful.

Courteney Rose also had a moved expression: "Oh, Steven, and Simon, thank you so much."

"That's what we should do, Ms. Ross."

"So," Courteney Rose looked at Simon and said, "Simon, next month, I plan to organize a commemorative ceremony for Steve, can you spare time to attend?"

Simon paused, then nodded to Courteney Rose's earnest gaze: "Okay, just let me know when the time comes."

Janet, who was quietly standing next to Simon with a dinner plate, curled her lips imperceptibly when she heard the conversation.

Speaking of it, Courteney Rose is the third wife of Steve Ross, who is more than 20 years younger than Ross, a standard old couple and young wife.Compared with Steve Ross's high emotional intelligence in dealing with people, Courteney Ross is not very pleasing in this circle.

Like the invitation just now.

Given that Simon and Rose didn't have a deep friendship, it was already a matter of face to be able to rush back from Australia to attend the funeral.

Rose's commemoration ceremony should have been originally invited in private. If Simon had time to attend, it would be best. If he didn't have time, it wouldn't hurt to refuse quietly.At this point in front of the others at the post-funeral lunch, Simon had to say yes to avoid obvious embarrassment.

Moreover, in front of Spielberg, who almost has a father-son relationship with Ross, Courteney Ross is also too enthusiastic about Simon, which will inevitably appear a bit snobbish.

Courteney Rose apparently didn't realize this.

This woman may only see that with Simon's current wealth and status, if she can attend Rose's commemoration ceremony, it will definitely add a bit of glory to the event.As for Spielberg next to her, she probably felt that even if she didn't mention it, the other party would naturally want to attend the Ross Memorial Ceremony.

Moments later, Robert Daly and Terry Semel, two Ross cronies, came over to say hello.

We talked softly for a few words, and Spielberg walked away tactfully.

Janet glanced at Courteney Rose, who was still standing still, and could only step forward and said, "Curt, can you introduce everyone?"

Courtney Rose heard Janet who was still a little cold just now took the initiative to talk to her, she nodded and smiled quickly: "Oh, of course."

After the two women also walked away, Robert Daly said first: "Simon, I have read some information on Fashion TV. Speaking of which, the cable TV industry really lacks a professional fashion TV station. This plan should be very promising. Warner will definitely try its best to cooperate and let this TV station go online as soon as possible."

As Rose's two deputies, Terry Semel is mainly in charge of the film business, and Robert Daly is in charge of Warner's cable TV operator business, mainly Warner Cable.As for HBO, a cable TV station, it actually belongs to the Time Corporation system.

If Daenerys Entertainment wants to launch Fashion TV, it will definitely need the cooperation of cable operators.

Of course, Simon understood what Robert Daly meant to show his favor through Fashion TV, and said with a smile: "Actually, Fashion TV is mainly to promote Gucci and other brands. I have no confidence in whether it can be done well. By the way, your side recently How are the days?"

The two looked at each other, and Terry Semel said: "The board of directors plans to hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders on January 1, and the company's management will be determined at that time."

Today is December 12th, and there is still more than a week before January 27th.

Simon calculated in his mind, and then said: "Actually, Steve talked to me about this matter in the first half of the year, and he should have informed you of it. I don't want Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group to have an existing Therefore, I will support the two of you as co-CEOs of Time Warner as much as possible, and if you need any help, you can contact me at any time."

Steve Ross's successor, Gerald Levin, is a little disgraced these days because of the leaked speech at the last internal meeting. Daenerys Entertainment's renegotiated Gerald Levine appears more passive.

Coupled with the recent sharp drop in Time Warner's stock price caused by a series of incidents such as high-level infighting and Ross' death, Warner's board of directors and major shareholders have criticized Gerald Levin.

If Simon can spare no effort to support Robert Daly and Terry Semel at this time, it is not impossible for them to take full control of Time Warner.

Moreover, the method is also very simple.

Just put pressure on Time Warner's board and shareholders with Daenerys Entertainment's partnership with Time Warner on the DC Cinematic Universe.

Since Time Warner's merger, the company's most eye-catching project in recent years is the DC movie universe. This plan has not only represented huge benefits, but has even affected the market's confidence in Time Warner to a large extent. .

Once there is a change in the DC movie universe plan, Time Warner's stock price will definitely continue to fall sharply.

For Daenerys Entertainment, not to mention the pending development of Marvel, just the recently released "Jurassic Park" is enough to show that Daenerys Entertainment is far less dependent on the DC movie universe Because of Time Warner, Daenerys Entertainment has a lot of initiative in front of Time Warner.