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An open-air restaurant on the hillside of Beverly Hills.

In the rising sun, Barry Diller and Michael Eisner are sitting on the terrace overlooking Los Angeles.

After ordering, Michael Eisner said to Barry Diller, "you haven't seen last week's box office report, have you? 13.88 million US dollars, 53.85 million in three weeks. Goldberg will not be so embarrassed this year. "

Today is May 1st, Friday.

Michael Eisner didn't mention the name of the movie, but Barry Diller knows that the only movie that can make a box office break of $10 million a week in the current period is fox's "Butterfly Effect".

Barry Diller really didn't pay much attention to the film business because he focused on the operation of Fox TV network. He asked, "what about Lola Run?"

Michael Eisner's expression became more emotional. He shook his head slightly and said: "7.59 million dollars, 175.6 million in total. Orion may make more than 80 million from the box office. Plus "field platoon," Orion's stock price has tripled since February, and its market value is now close to $1 billion. It's said that both Samuel Redstone and John Kruger are planning to take control of Orion

Barry Diller also felt a little incredible. Thinking of a young man who was talking about all over the world during this period, he couldn't help saying, "it's a miracle little guy. Maybe I should meet him sometime."

Michael Eisner said with a smile, "if you want to see him, you can come to Burbank with me later."

Barry Diller gave a puzzled look.

The waiter brought up their breakfast. The conversation stopped for a moment. When the waiter left, Michael Eisner picked up the tableware and ate breakfast. Then he said, "that little guy started a production company. Did you hear that?"

Barry Diller nodded with a smile and said, "of course, Denise pictures has poached a vice president of production from fox."

Michael Eisner showed a schadenfreude smile, then said: "Denise pictures is looking for a film distribution cooperation, Disney should be one of their choices. In addition, Simon westero also handed us an animation script and wanted to entrust Disney to produce it. I have an appointment with Amy Pascal to have a formal talk today. I'll have someone call later and ask westero to come with me

Barry Diller nodded, paused, and shook his head slightly.

They were colleagues at ABC, and Michael Eisner knew Barry Diller very well. Noticing his little movements, he realized that the shaking of his head behind him was actually aimed at Ronald Goldberg.

Simon westero has worked with Fox pictures on two films. Death may have yet to be proved, but butterfly effect has been a great success. In this case, fox should have been the best partner of Daniels pictures.

Now, it is clear that Ronald Goldberg has given up another chance.

Michael Eisner doesn't think much of Ronald Goldberg either. However, he also understood the deep friendship between Ronald Goldberg and Barry Diller, so he said: "it's not really Ronald's fault. The film, the director and the screenwriter are not vistrow himself, and the script is more anti mainstream. Denise pictures is not only willing to give up the film's local cinema distribution rights, but also wants next year's Easter schedule

Barry Diller listened in silence and asked, "where's your side?"

"Next Easter, we were going to re show Bambi deer, and there was no pressure to release a live action movie. Moreover, you should have seen "Lola Run". Although there are many accidental factors in the success of this film, westero's film skills are absolutely impeccable, and I intend to take the opportunity to sign some of his film contracts. " Michael Eisner said with a smile, "so, Barry, are you going to meet that little guy?"

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When Barry Diller and Michael Eisner had breakfast together, Simon woke up in his century mansion apartment earlier.

The place is the study.

Sighing that the bachelor's life is really miserable, Simon packed up a pile of financial books by the sofa, got up and went to the writing board embedded in the wall of his study.

On the broad writing board, there are two general trends of the Dow Jones index and the S & P 500 index in the next few months, as well as all kinds of text labels in Chinese, French, Spanish, Hebrew and other languages.

It's not easy to collect these information from more than ten memories in my mind. Sometimes it's just a flash of thought. So it took Simon a week to get it.

Just in case, Simon doesn't use English to mark, and all the other languages are suggestive words that only he can understand. Except for the two index charts, it's probably impossible to understand others even if they are found.

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After a while, he carefully wiped out the two charts which had been drawn many times and had been completely engraved in his mind, leaving only a variety of scattered text marks before Simon left his study.In the morning, the audition for the supporting role of vulgar novel was originally arranged. Simon got a call from Amy when he had breakfast. Michael Eisner wanted him to participate in today's meeting in person, so he had to change the schedule temporarily.

At eight o'clock, Simon meets Amy first, and then goes to the headquarters of Disney Company in Burbank.

The secretary takes them to a conference room. After Simon enters, he finds that besides Michael Eisner, another middle-aged man is also sitting at the conference table. Moreover, he immediately recognized each other's identity, Barry Diller, chairman and CEO of 20th century fox.

As they greet each other, Simon and Michael Eisner shake hands, reach out to Barry Diller, smile and say, "nice to meet you, Mr. Diller. Your high concept film model has benefited all of us."

Barry Diller shook hands with Simon. After hearing what he said, he pointed to the script when Harry Met Sally that he was just browsing. He asked with a little bit of consideration, "but Simon, I find that several projects related to you are not high concept movies?"

Simon noticed that Amy and Eisner were looking at themselves with great interest, waiting for his reply. He said with a relaxed smile: "Denise pictures is just a child. Children can be more creative. When you grow up, you'll be in line with the rules. "

Barry Diller, seeing Simon's answer without hesitation, which was both appropriate and ambitious, raised his eyebrows and said, "I'm looking forward to seeing Denise grow up."

With that, everyone sat down at the conference table. Simon saw that Michael Eisner didn't mean to talk about business immediately. He also understood that the two big men called him here today, just to see themselves.

In this case, Simon did not miss the opportunity to continue to say to Barry Diller: "Mr. Diller, I heard that you are helping Mr. Murdoch improve the Fox TV network. Maybe we can cooperate next year."

Barry Diller looked at the young man sitting opposite him and asked, "why not this year? Simon, this month is the promotion season. If you have a good idea, you can go to New York recently. "

Every May, North American TV network determines the new year's TV programs. Therefore, every year this month, program producers from North America and even all over the world will gather in New York to promote their TV programs to the TV network through various promotion meetings.

Simon shook his head and said, "danielis film has no chance this year. Our strength is still too weak. But not next year. "

Barry Diller said, "Simon, do you mean it only takes a year for Daniels to grow up?"

"Of course not," Simon said, shaking his head. "I mean, the WGA may have a strike next year. In time, Denise might be able to get some opportunities. "

Now, if danielis film wants to cooperate with the TV network, even if it has a good idea, the best result is that it will be bought creativity, and then commissioned by the TV network to produce. The most important copyright must belong to the television network.

Simon's expectation is that, like Warner, universal and other powerful program producers, they will only sell the first round of broadcasting rights to TV networks, and other channels will still be in their hands. Only in this way can Denise pictures get the most profit.

However, in order to achieve this goal in the short term, Denise pictures will have to seize the opportunity that the major TV networks will not be able to produce enough TV programs due to the writers' strike next year.

Barry Diller heard the young man's explanation, but said: "Simon, you should also be a member of the writers' Union, right? If WGA announces a strike next year, don't you plan to participate? "

Simon shook his head and said, "Barry, I'm not a member of WGA, and I have no intention of joining WGA."

Barry Diller looked at Simon again for a moment, then with a smile, took out a business card from his suit pocket and handed it to him, saying, "I'm really glad to meet you, Simon. You can call me if you have anything

"Of course."

Simon agreed to take Barry Diller's business card, and also took a business card and handed it to him.

Barry Diller put Simon's card away and got up to say goodbye.

Seeing Barry Diller off, the three returned to the conference room and sat down.

Michael Eisner opened the memo in front of him. Almost subconsciously, he didn't pay attention to Amy Pascal, who had been in contact with him for several times. He said directly to Simon, "when Harry meets Sally, Simon, Disney can give you an Easter file and a minimum of 1000 screens. However, our request is that you need to sign two director contracts with Disney. You can write the script yourself or Disney can provide it. The remuneration depends on the specific circumstances of the project. As for the lion king, Disney's animation department will not work for others. So, we hope to buy the script for 300000 dollars. What do you think? "

Before this meeting, Michael Eisner had intended to bite the above conditions.However, the conversation between Simon and Barry Diller lingers in his mind. Looking back on the deeds of the young man in front of him in the past year, Michael Eisner almost instinctively thinks that Disney should talk about this cooperation, so he has the last word to discuss.

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