Chapter 089 Adjustment

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Since the two are already living together, Janet is fully aware of the release schedule of "Lola Run". So the woman took over everything the next day with almost no trouble.

Simon originally wanted to accompany her to help her transition for a few days, but was directly rejected.

Janet's reasons are also very strong. With Simon by her side, she is prone to soft-hearted and unable to exert her strength.

Simon didn't know how Janet worked. But on the following Thursday afternoon, after completing the first formal contact on the issue of the follow-up distribution rights, Mike Medova hurriedly called, even accusing Janet with a bit of grievance that she was really ignorant. I hope Simon can continue to come forward in person and not let a woman fool around.

Although he has some doubts, Simon will not rashly listen to Mike Medova's words.

However, after get off work that day, before Simon had time to ask Jenny about the negotiation process in the morning, the woman had already brought back another contract: Mattel bought out the dolls of a series of characters from "Lola Run" for $2.3 million. distribution rights.

Even if the box office is hot, the peripheral copyright of "Lola Run" is definitely far from being comparable to super ip like "Star Wars".

Moreover, as a toy company that mainly produces Barbie dolls, Mattel must have only Lola as the character image that Mattel takes a fancy to. Characters such as Manny are obviously not popular with consumers. So Janet sold the rights to a mere Lola doll for $2.3 million, far beyond Simon's expectations.

According to some information in the industry, Simon's previous high expectations for the business were only about $1.5 million.

In this case, Simon will naturally no longer doubt Janet's ability, and he will leave everything to her with great confidence.

In addition, Simon then made appropriate adjustments to the two companies in his hands.

After some left-handed operation, the revenue from the box office share, sales revenue, and peripheral revenue related to "Lola Run" will be transferred from Daenerys Pictures to Westeros.

This divestiture is to adapt to Amy's contract. The two parties have reached an agreement on this before signing the contract. Amy's 5% of the company's net profit share does not include the relevant income of "Lola Run".

Then, also in order to avoid the financial situation between Janet and Janet becoming more and more entangled, Simon drew up a formal supplementary contract in the name of Westeros Company: as an investor accounting for 61.5% of the shares, Janet The revenue share from "Lola Run" only needs to be settled before December 31 this year.

This supplemental contract means that until the payment is settled, Westeros is completely free to operate the funds for reinvestment, and the additional profits generated do not need to be shared with Janet.

Simon also plans to carry out stock index futures operations in the name of Westeros in the second half of the year, and even follow-up more investment actions.

After these two aspects were settled, some potential entanglements of interests hidden by Simon's side after the sudden success of "Lola Run" was completely straightened out.

Deep down, Simon is still an insecure person after all.

If he didn't get this done, he even worried that he would encounter a situation described by the hero in "When Harry Met Sally": two people fell in love one day, turned against each other, and then ordered an $8 dinner plate Who should go to, hysterically wasting $1,000 in phone bills and arguing endlessly.

Janet obviously saw this in Simon's character, so she took the trouble to write out IOUs for him to fingerprint. When a woman knows that she does this, Simon will not only not resist, but will feel very relaxed.

While Simon was making adjustments to the two companies, many other things started to move faster and more efficiently, as Janet shared the distribution of Lola Run.

Mattel is very eager to launch the Lola doll as soon as possible, which is actually very understandable.

Therefore, after completing the signing, the other party put $2.3 million into the Westeros company account within three days. Simon then injected $1 million into Daenerys Pictures in the name of a loan, and Amy Pascal finally no longer had to pay for assistants out of her own pocket, and the company began to officially recruit more people.

With the money, Amy quickly negotiated the script for "When Harry Met Sally". The final price was $150,000, not cheap, but definitely not expensive for Simon.

However, in order to win the script, Daenerys Films also promised Nora Ephron that the company will start the project within a year, and the production budget will not be less than 10 million US dollars.

In the event of a breach of contract, the copyright of the script will automatically return to the other party.

As for Pulp Fiction, Simon produced the first draft of the script the following week because he no longer had to juggle the release of "Lola Run."

Although Orion Films is very optimistic about the project, Jonathan Friedman helped Simon negotiate a sharing contract equivalent to "Death Is Coming".

Also guaranteed at $20 million.

With over $20 million at the box office, Simon gets 10% of the North American box office and 5% of the North American videotape sales.

Although there are too many coincidences in the box office success of "Lola Run", it is after all the film that has almost been determined to be the number one in the North American box office this year. Therefore, it is more than enough for Simon to get a first-line director's salary.

Orion signed Simon's next film contract with a basic salary of $500,000, but since the sharing terms were not finalized, at this time

It can only give a share agreement equivalent to Simon's worth.

Of course, this contract is also very different from "Death is Coming". The sales share of video tapes that Simon can get is limited to North America. Because Orion doesn't have global distribution capabilities like Fox Pictures.

In addition, Orion also requires that the project budget must be controlled within 8 million US dollars.

If it exceeds, for every $1 million in the budget, Simon’s two-way share will be reduced by 1% and 0.5% respectively, and the calculation mode will be rounded up directly. However, Orion also promised to provide certain sharing terms for big-name stars who are willing to drop their salaries.

The final "Death is Coming", the project progressed the most smoothly.

The company quickly selected a director candidate. It was Wes Craven, who helped New Line Cinema film "Nightmare Street" a few years ago. The other party's personal style is also very suitable for "Death is Coming".

Moreover, Wes Craven is also a client of wma. Although he has the success of "Nightmare Street", Wes Craven's "The Girl Next Door" directed for Warner last year was tepid, and the box office only Just hit the cost line.

Under the recommendation of the agents of both parties, Simon and Wes Craven had a meal together and talked about the entire project in detail, and the matter was settled.

Speaking of which, Simon also clearly remembers that Wes Craven was also the director of the famous "Scream" series in the 1990s.

Simon didn't come up with "Scream" right away, for similar reasons that he chose "Pulp Fiction" as his second film. Projects with higher box office potential should naturally be reserved for themselves as much as possible. In recent years, in the absence of funds and channels, Simon can only cooperate with other film companies temporarily, and the bulk of the profits must also belong to these companies.

On Janet's side, the first peripheral sale contract was finalized, and the woman then negotiated the licensing of peripheral products such as the original soundtrack of "Lola Run", video games, etc., bringing more than 8 million to Westeros again. U.S. dollars in.

On April 6, Orion Pictures finally made a compromise, buying the North American video and television distribution rights of "Lola Run" for $35 million. On April 9, the overseas rights to the film were also bought by Warner Bros. for the same $35 million.

Although it will take a month for the two sell-off payments to arrive one after another, the total revenue of $70 million is a full $10 million higher than Simon's original expectations.

Coupled with the $20 million loan Wells Fargo has put into Simon's personal account, and the expected $30 million box office share of "Lola Run" when it drops in North American theaters in a few months, even if some necessary expenses are excluded, Simon can still pay for it. Stock index futures operations in October raised more than $120 million.

During the busy time when Simon and Janet were divided, the 59th Academy Awards ceremony ended successfully.

"Field Platoon" produced by Orion Pictures won the best picture, best director and other awards without any suspense.

Meanwhile, after the seven-day box office of $23.36 million in the sixth week, "Lola Run" took in another $21.22 million and $16.34 million in the seventh and eighth weeks, respectively. As of April 9, the North American box office of "Lola Run" has reached 146.79 million US dollars.

Although the weekly decline has begun to expand, there is almost no suspense that the total box office of "Lola Run" has exceeded 200 million. What everyone is curious about is just how far the film's final cumulative box office can reach.

And so on until April 10th.

In the first week of the Easter schedule, Simon's second film "The Butterfly Effect" after returning to this era was finally officially released.

Although the previous internal preview film critics have always had a bad reputation, considering the popularity brought by "Lola Run", Fox Pictures still arranged 1263 opening screens for "Butterfly Effect".

As a fairly popular schedule, "Butterfly Effect" is naturally impossible to monopolize.

Released in the same period, there is also "Road to Development" starring "Back to the Future" actor Michael Fox. This comedy film produced by Universal Pictures has 1,336 screens and a production cost of $12 million. It is slightly better than "Butterfly Effect" in every aspect.

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