Chapter 277
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The cause of the incident comes from the script of "The Sixth Sense of the Spirit".
On July 22, a gossip newspaper in Los Angeles suddenly broke out that the script of "The Sixth Sense" was not written by Simon Westero himself. The real screenwriter of the film was actually "Scream". Screenwriter Bruce Joy Robin.
Newspaper articles attacking Simon is actually stealing the creative achievements of others. Since Westeros is not the author of the script of "The Sixth Sense", the recently hotly debated "he can see people" is naturally nonsense.
Simon admits that he did steal other people's creative work, but the original author of the script doesn't know where. The newspaper's report completely violated the established facts of this time and space, and it took Simon and the "Sixth Sense" script completely, and all of them were credited to Bruce Joy, who was just ghostwriting according to the outline given by Simon. On Robin.
"The Sixth Sense" box office was close to $120 million in three weeks, and the films were overwhelmed during the same period, and other Hollywood studios were eager for some negative news for the film. As a result, the newspaper article suddenly became a fuse.
Pushed by some people, the media immediately began to seize on the matter.
Bruce Joy Robin was naturally the first target of inquiry by the media.
Originally, as long as Bruce Joy Robin firmly denied this matter, it could probably be resolved. It's just that Bruce Joy Robin didn't do it the first time.
As for the reason, in the final analysis, it is still for profit.
According to the current box office momentum, the total North American box office of "The Sixth Sense" is generally predicted to be between 250 million and 300 million US dollars, and the global box office is likely to double to 600 million US dollars. The $600 million global box office means that the film's later revenue, such as videotape and TV rights, will be huge.
If Bruce Joy Robin signed the contract with Daenerys Entertainment under the Writers Guild of America's "Basic Agreement", he could easily get millions of dollars in follow-up earnings in the future only according to the "Basic Agreement" sharing terms .
However, among the three film contracts that Bruce Joy Robin signed with Daenerys Entertainment, only his original "Ghost Story" was signed in accordance with the wga "Basic Agreement", and the other "Sounds of War" was signed. The first two scripts of "Scream" and "The Sixth Sense", he signed a long-term employment contract, as a full-time screenwriter of Daenerys Entertainment to write scripts for the company, with a weekly salary of 2,000 US dollars.
Both "Scream" and "The Sixth Sense" took Bruce Joy Robin roughly 10 weeks and were paid $20,000 each.
According to the contract signed by the two parties, as a full-time screenwriter, Bruce Joy Robin does not enjoy sharing rights. This is actually a common practice in Hollywood in order to avoid the wga "Basic Agreement" in order to save the budget. Hollywood studios generally have Their own full-time screenwriters, these people usually create scripts based on the creativity of studio executives or other parties, even members of the screenwriters union, often cannot get the later share stipulated in the "Basic Agreement".
Does wga care?
Although the wga is a powerful industry association with the most frequent strikes in Hollywood, as long as it is your own will and no member files a complaint, it will basically not intervene.
In fact, not only the WGA, but also the Hollywood Actors Guild and Directors Guild have a common phenomenon.
Steven Spielberg has been publicly complained by actors that he is very stingy in terms of remuneration. In order to compress the actor's remuneration and the later share stipulated in the basic agreement of the Screen Actors Guild, actors who participate in his films are often required to sign to avoid actors. The contractual deed of the basic agreement of the association.
However, Hollywood also has another common phenomenon.
As long as a film sells unexpectedly at the box office, it is bound to be followed by various disputes for the sake of profit, or uneven distribution of interests between producers and distributors, or someone jumping out to accuse plagiarism, claiming compensation, or profit Affiliates think that studios are hiding profits, and so on and so forth.
A series of phenomenal films over the years, from "Jaws" and "Star Wars" in the 1970s to "Top Gun" and "Rain Man" in recent years, all failed to escape this "curse".
For "The Sixth Sense", Bruce Joy Robin may be able to take it calmly even if the film sells $100 million at the box office in North America. After the first song of "Scream", he was successfully promoted to the first-line screenwriter, although He did not accept the creation of the sequel because of the high-paying invitations from other studios, but he did not dispute the original payment.
However, a super blockbuster with a global box office potential of 600 million makes it difficult for him to maintain a psychological balance.
This imbalance probably began to accumulate since the release of "Scream" last year.
So, when the gossip newspaper article came to light, Bruce Joy Robin not only did not deny it publicly as requested by Daenerys Entertainment, but instead made a request to Daenerys Entertainment while negotiating with the media. , I hope that as the creator of the two movie scripts of "Scream" and "The Sixth Sense", he can get a certain amount of compensation from the huge profits of the film, and unceremoniously ask for a one-time price of 5 million US dollars.
Simon was furious about this.
Another guy who is unwilling to abide by the contract and even threatens.
Simon is someone who values contracts very much, like last year's Pulp Fiction, Orion from over $300 million worldwide.
The box office recovered at least $100 million in net profit, but he could only get more than $15 million in box office revenue. However, since the original contract was like this, Simon did not regret it.
There is also the film contract owed to Disney. According to the original agreement, Simon only needs to pay a liquidated damage of millions of dollars to get rid of it. Compared with the scale of his net profit of hundreds of millions of dollars for a movie, this is completely worth it. But Simon didn't plan to do that either.
Although Simon sticks to the contract, what Daenerys Entertainment encounters, it goes back and forth again and again.
Simon didn't intend to compromise, everyone's contract was written in black and white, and many details of the original were also available for investigation. Even if it went to court, Daenerys Entertainment was not afraid at all.
However, under Amy's persuasion, in order to prevent this incident from affecting the "Sixth Sense of Spirituality", which has a good box office situation, Simon reluctantly agreed to the proposal of private reconciliation. Bruce Joy Robin probably also knew that if his request was put on the table, it would be difficult to get a favorable result. Daenerys Entertainment negotiated with the other party's lawyer several times, and soon confirmed the settlement of 2 million US dollars. amount.
It's just that the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop.
Daenerys Entertainment almost reached a settlement with Bruce Joy Robin, and the Writers Guild of America, which was already at odds with Daenerys Entertainment, suddenly jumped out and announced that it would publicly investigate the signing of Daenerys Entertainment and wga members Acts that violate the agreement and harm the interests of members of the association.
In Hollywood, not to mention the bottom-level screenwriters, even the top gold-medal screenwriters often take some private jobs, spend a few weeks working as a 'script doctor' for some projects, receive a one-time generous remuneration, do not participate in the signature, and do not ask for a share , of course, is not responsible for the commercial success or failure of the film.
There are not a few people who have completed the entire script without a signature. The famous "Dumb and Dumber" by Jim Carrey in the original time and space, the real screenwriter is not the Ferrari brothers. Hand of S.
Things are always like this, if you don't take things seriously, everything is fine, but if you take things seriously, it's troublesome.
The grievances between the two sides were too deep in last year's screenwriters strike, and there may be some push from other forces. The Screenwriters Guild of America is obviously very happy to have a real fight with Daenerys Entertainment, and also forced Daenerys Entertainment to actively cooperate with the investigation, otherwise Daenerys Entertainment will be put on a union blacklist, prohibiting union members from continuing to work for Daenerys Entertainment.
The serious consequences of the Writers Guild of America's strike last year are still vivid in my mind. The statement of wga, which threatened to carry out a "strike" against Daenerys Entertainment alone, naturally does not allow Simon to ignore it.
If the worst happens, and unprepared, many of Daenerys Entertainment's ongoing projects could come to a standstill. This year's TV fall season is approaching. If some episodes of the TV department cannot be delivered on time due to a lack of writers, it will not only have a serious impact on Daenerys Entertainment's TV business, but also pay a large amount of liquidated damages to the TV network.
Since this matter is destined to be hidden no longer, Daenerys Entertainment immediately gave up the plan to reconcile with Bruce Joy Robin privately, and in addition to cooperating with the so-called investigation of WGA, it also made a public statement about the whole incident. The inside story of the incident was published in the media.
Whether it was "Scream" or "The Sixth Sense", Simon personally completed a meticulous story outline, and privately discussed more script details with Bruce Joy Robin, Bruce Joy Robin injected very little personal thought into the two scripts, and his work was limited to expanding Simon's idea into a full script of around two hours.
Not just the synopsis, but several of Simon's meetings with Bruce Joy Robin are available in minutes.
All these exposures, the right and wrong, can probably be figured out by normal people.
Santa Monica.
The time is Friday, July 28th.
Simon was no longer busy with the later stages of "Batman" this morning, and came to his office at the company headquarters early in the morning.
When Amy walked in, Simon was flipping through the box-office report for the past week.
Previously, on July 21, only one low-cost comedy "UHF" from Orion Pictures was released in North American theaters, telling a story that happened on a TV station, somewhat similar to Fox's two years ago by William Hurt and Holly Hunter starred in double box office award-winning "Broadcast News."
However, "Ultra High Frequency" did not have the good luck of "Broadcast News", with a screen size of 1,295 yuan, and only $3.52 million in the box office in the first week, which did not pose any threat to the still-strong "Sixth Sense", and even did not. Might as well receive $5.07 million in "Bodyguard" in its eighth week of release.
On this week's box office list, "The Sixth Sense of Spirituality", which has entered its fourth week of release, has finally begun to decline at the box office, reaching 19%. It collected another 31.06 million US dollars in seven days, and the cumulative box office was 150.02 million US dollars. Various data Still riding the dust.
Warner Bros.' "Lethal Weapon 2" and Disney's "Honey, I'm Smaller" took the second and third spots, respectively.
"007: License to Kill", which was released on July 14, set a new low at the North American box office since the spy war film appeared, taking into account the inflation factor. The first week of the film was only 13.03 million US dollars, and the box office was big again this week. It fell 39% to only $7.83 million. The two-week box office of $20.86 million is only half of the box office of "The Sixth Sense" in the fourth week of its release.
Although the box office of the 007 series has always been dominated by overseas, and it has not lost money so far, this sequel is expected to only have more than 30 million US dollars in domestic sales in North America.
The box office figures fell far short of the producers' expectations.
Simon remembers that due to the failure of this sequel and the entanglement of some copyright lawsuits, the original time and space have been steadily maintaining the 007 series with one sequel for two or three years. After "007 License to Kill", it was not until 1995 that another series was launched. A new work, in which the time interval is as long as 6 years, and the actor is also replaced by Pierce Brosnan.
Amy sat down opposite Simon, waited patiently for a moment, noticed that he raised his head, and then said: "wga just sent someone over to take some files of "Scream" and "The Sixth Sense." Regarding "Rain Man", MGM had already given up the idea of filing a formal lawsuit, and just called from there, and the attitude has become stronger, perhaps this lawsuit is inevitable."
Simon still pressed the box office report in his hand and asked Amy, "What do you think is going on this time?"
Amy shook her head: "It's hard to say, someone must be targeting us, but maybe it's not just a company, those people should just follow the trend. After all, this time we took the initiative to expose the flaws. Well, Michael May is completely messing around."
Simon picked up a pencil in his hand and looked back at the box office report in front of him. He was actually thinking about it just now. And, he came to roughly the same conclusions as Amy.
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