Hollywood Hunter

Los Angeles, Daenerys Studios.

This is Sunday afternoon on January 23, and the evening is the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Simon is still here today to deal with the work accumulated in the recent period.

The afternoon began with a production meeting about a fairy-tale book-altering live-action project called The Grinch Stole Christmas.

That's right, the Grinch.

Historically, The Grinch was the domestic box office champion of the United States in 2000, starring Jim Carrey, and got a domestic box office of 260 million US dollars that year. The global popularity also appears to be very low, mainly due to regional reasons, and it is just a festive popcorn.

The reason why it was able to win the annual crown with 260 million US dollars undoubtedly shows that the year 2000 fell into a low box office year.

The millennium is supposed to be a big year in theory, which is kind of fun to say.

The original comic book was published in 1966. However, the original author, Dr. Seuss, refused to make a film and television version of the story until his death a few years ago.

On Daenerys' side, after a few contacts, Dr. Seuss' family members gave very positive feedback. After all, the Grinch's stealing of Christmas is not considered the top IP. Before he won the annual box office champion, Few people have much expectation for this project.

So take it easy.

At present, the script has been completed, and the director has also been confirmed. The former original director, Ron Howard, mainly discussed the issue of actors in the afternoon.

It is undoubtedly the safest thing to continue to fully refer to the original version, but because of the discord at the beginning, even if Simon did not kill Jim Carrey, he has already blacklisted Jim Carrey, and he will definitely not use him.

The candidate for initial discussion was Ben Stiller.

Now that The Hangover 2 has been completed, the schedule is this summer, and Ben Stiller happens to be in the vacant period. Moreover, compared to Adam Sandler, who has a simple and honest temperament, Ben Stiller has that kind of funny temperament, even if The image itself is also very suitable for the role of Grinch.

Moreover, this will not be a series, and there is no need to consider the long-term issue. After all, there is already a hangover, and Simon does not want to praise Stiller too much, so that the follow-up Wonderful Night at the Museum will not be available.

As long as the film appointment with Ben Stiller is settled recently, the filming of this project can start after Easter, because it will mainly use old-fashioned model special effects, and the production cycle will not be too long. The schedule is initially positioned at the end of the year, Thanksgiving or Christmas. The specific production rhythm is to be determined.

Then it's a movie.

Next month, there's a comedy on Valentine's Day, Lena Kane and Annika Settle's Crazy About Mary.

Compared with before, not only the schedule, but the director and screenwriter are still the Farrelly brothers, and the other main actors and creators have changed. At first, Lena and Lina considered inviting Adam Sandler, but it was too expensive, so they didn't talk about it. In the end, It is determined that Jennifer Aniston, the American sweet girl in Friends, is the core, and several male stars are mainly selected from Saturday Night Live. In the film circle, they are basically the novice kind.

Therefore, after the completion of the production, the brand-new version of I'm Crazy for Mary only used a budget of 16 million US dollars. This figure also shows the fineness of the two girls.

As for the finished film, Simon personally feels that it is not worse than before. Whether the audience will buy it next, Simon is not sure. However, again, the current Daenerys Entertainment has a sufficient fault tolerance rate, and it doesn't matter if a few projects fail.

The film's schedule has been confirmed as February 11th, less than 3 weeks from now, and it is impossible to modify it. Simon has already seen some samples in advance. There is not much room for modification, everything only depends on the market feedback at the time.

After watching this project, I went to pay attention to the Spartan 300 Warriors who continued to be in charge of Zack Snyder, who was represented by Lena Kane after the Resident Evil last year. Determined as this year's summer file.

Compared with the small film I'm Crazy for Mary, the two girls obviously pay more attention to the 300 Spartan Warriors. After all, this time the budget reached 60 million US dollars, which is also a blockbuster level. Simon also gave the popular summer schedule. If If they can't get good grades, it's different from me being crazy about Mary. They can only continue to mix in the low-budget field in the future. Even Lena knew that her future Hollywood plans might be affected by this.

Unknowingly, I was busy until after 7 o'clock in the evening.

On the other side, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony officially started at 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

After finishing the day's work, Simon took the two girls directly to the mountainside mansion in the nearby Palisades, where Daenerys Entertainment's Golden Globe after-party was still held tonight.

Some guests who did not attend the award ceremony had already arrived in advance. After Simon, Jonathan Friedman, Robert De Niro and other guests greeted them, they were entangled by a little goblin again. It was Scarlett Johansson, mainly tonight Vanessa Johnson, as the heroine of the talented Ripley, attended the Golden Globe Awards ceremony. The goblin did not have this honor, but she was able to come here.

So he took the three women, big and small, to a restaurant upstairs, and watched the continuous awards ceremony on the TV screen while eating.

After the waitresses delivered the dinner, they just picked up the cutlery, and it happened to be announced that the best actor in a TV drama series, or he should play himself, the two most popular candidates, one is James Gandolfini from The Sopranos, and the other is playing cards The Kevin Spacey of the house is all out of the current limelight

More and more Sheng dho.

In the end, as expected, Kevin Spacey came out on top.

"Looking at it this way," Lena ordered a bottle of mineral water like Simon at the dining table, took a sip, and said, "Next, House of Cards should be the best drama series this time."

"Sure, I like this TV series so much," Annika answered, and then glanced at a man next to her: "Simon, it is said that this is also your idea, is it true?"

Simon just nodded slightly.

"Actually, I was thinking," Lena also glanced over, "Simon, do you think Annie and I can also do TV dramas?"

Simon said: "As long as you get a good enough idea, I'm of course fine. However, if it's not good enough, I won't give you the green light."

Next to her, Scarlett Johansson interjected innocently: "Simon, isn't Lena an agent? An agent doesn't seem to be able to participate in the production of film and television dramas. This is illegal, right?"

Simon nodded again with a smile: "Yes."

The girl looked at the other two girls, she didn't look nervous at all, she was still eating dinner by herself, feeling that a small fist hit the empty space, so she could only change the subject, and said directly: "Simon, I Can I stay tonight?"

Simon was very interested: "What are you doing here?"

The girl was not shy at all, and boldly said: "I will do whatever you ask me to do."

Simon glanced at the precocious bulge on the girl's chest, only to realize that this girl deliberately wore a beige cotton long dress with a very girlish or even loli style today, with a small waist but tied up, which was a little seductive.

Seeing the man's eyes, the girl straightened her waist immediately, and then made Lina beside her chuckle.

A certain girl was too disruptive, and Scarlett immediately glared at her angrily: "What are you laughing at?"

Lina was still dressed as she was at work during the day, but she took off her windbreaker indoors and wore a high-necked black close-fitting woolen sweater. When the girl asked her, Lina didn't answer her, and she just straightened her curves to be hotter than the girl. Too much upper body. On the other side, Annika, who was in a similar attire, made fun of it and followed suit, making the little girl both envious and wronged, and could only look at Simon.

With a smile, Simon saw the girl looking over, and comforted him: "You are still young, don't be in a hurry."

Scarlett could only be depressed.

The award ceremony on the TV screen is still going on.

Not surprisingly, in the end it was House of Cards that won the best TV series award in the drama category.

Hollywood doesn't like politics, but if there is a project that can strip away all kinds of political hypocrisy without causing too much criticism from the Washington authorities, it will certainly not hesitate to give enough praise.

From the perspective of interests, to put it bluntly, Hollywood also seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages.

Then, most of the second half of the awards are the heavy film nominations.

Again no surprises.

Or, to Simon's surprise, this time a double yolk egg, the two leading actresses in Chicago, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna won the Best Actress in a Musical Comedy category together, and then, Chicago's seven Nominated, and finally won five major awards including the best film in the musical comedy category, the best director, etc., and became undoubtedly the most watched film in the film category tonight.

In contrast, Daenerys received two nominations for the best film in the drama category of Genius Ripley and The Matrix. The award finally fell to an original film that had never been seen before. It was produced by Paramount and released in September last year. , the local box office is only more than 20 million.

Obviously, the tendency of the Golden Globes to divide pork is too obvious.

But, Simon can understand.

If there is no distinction between pork, but the quality of the movie is judged completely impartially, most of the awards will be taken away by the Daenerys family. After a long time, only the Daenerys family will be left, and the others will accompany you Play?

Not anymore.

At that time, the award has become a self-entertainment for Daenerys entertainment, and the Golden Globe Award will no longer be necessary.

In any case, even if there is no award, no one can deny the popularity of Daenerys's series of word-of-mouth and box office double harvest films in the past year. When the awards ceremony ended, compared with other parties, hundreds of guests came to Palisades one after another, which is enough to prove Daenerys Entertainment's current dominance in Hollywood.