Hollywood Hunter

Last night, I was tossed late by some small and smashing noises, and finally I even wondered whether it was my own hallucinations. When I brushed my teeth, I took a picture in the mirror. Fortunately, there are no dark circles under my eyes, otherwise I feel embarrassed.

The time is seven o'clock in the morning.

on Saturday.

The weather in Park City in January is still cold, but the house is warm as spring.

Leaving the bedroom, guiltily slowed down and glanced at another door not far away, he must have not got up this time.

Going downstairs to the living room, he was taken aback.

Simon was already sitting on the solo sofa by the fireplace and was talking on the phone. Janet was curled up in his arms like a kitten, squinting, wearing only a long pale pink woolen sweater, and two dazzling white legs protruding out of the hem of the clothes unscrupulously, looking like a spring.

I stood at the top of the stairs blankly for a few seconds, until the man nodded at her, did not react, and walked over casually and sat down on the next sofa.

But my heart is sour.

After he kissed her neck in the car that day, although there was no other close contact, she naturally thought that the two people had been involved in some way.

right now.

Janet could curl up in his arms without scruple.

Jennifer could only sit next to him, with a slight sense of guilt in her heart as if she had stolen other people's things.

Simon and the other side chatted for a while, put down the microphone, and asked Jennifer, "How was your rest last night?"

Some blushing noises appeared in Jennifer's mind again, her eyes moved to one side, and she forced her head to calmly nod: "Very well, you, um, who were you calling just now?"

"Ed McCracken, the CEO of Silicon Graphics," Simon said, and then explained: "Last night I suddenly realized one thing. I didn't need to trust other people to make 3D animation and CG special effects. In terms of company acquisitions. If I want to do this, I can recruit people to form a team by myself, so that the cost is lower, and I can control the development direction of technology more flexibly. Silicon Graphics provides professional graphics to many universities, enterprises and R&D teams The workstations happen to have connections in this area. I just asked McCracken to help me introduce some people."

Jennifer listened to the man absently, but suddenly realized something. He raised his eyes to Simon and said, "You, last night, did you think of this?"

Simon nodded: "Yes, what's the matter?"

Before Jennifer answered, Janet, who was shrinking in Simon's arms, couldn't help laughing.

Simon also realized in a blink of an eye, looking at Jennifer, who was blushing, he had to add: "Actually, I had this idea when I left Pixar headquarters the day before yesterday."

Jennifer felt even more embarrassed, stood up and threw a sentence of ‘I’m going to prepare breakfast’ and fled to the kitchen.

Simon watched the female assistants disappear, and patted Janet, who was still squinting in his arms, and said: "Baby, go to the bedroom and sleep well, be careful of colds."

Janet put her hands around Simon, and said coquettishly: "You hold me over."

Simon picked up Janet and went to the bedroom on the second floor, put her on the big bed, covered the quilt, and said: "Go to sleep, I will call you when breakfast is ready."

Janet shrank under the covers, but she blinked at Simon when she heard the words, "You can come and call me after breakfast with her."

Simon smiled and squeezed the woman's face, helped her close the quilt, and went downstairs again.

While still on the stairs, Simon heard the phone ringing and went to the living room. He happened to see Jennifer coming out of the kitchen, supposed to answer the phone. Seeing Simon, the female assistant immediately drew back, like a frightened deer.

Simon smiled helplessly, walked over to pick up the handset, and the phone was calling from New York. It was already working time on the East Coast.

After Westeros began to reduce its holdings of New World Entertainment stock yesterday, the company’s stock price dropped directly from Thursday’s close of $16.75 back to yesterday’s close of $13.25.

The shareholders and senior executives of New World Entertainment, who were still waiting for Simon’s initiative to contact, couldn’t sit still. Early this morning, New World Entertainment’s major shareholder Larry Coupin personally rushed to visit James Rebold. At this time he was talking to Simon in Rebold's office.

After buying New World Pictures from Roger Coman, the king of B-level movies in 1983, after several years of mergers, expansion, and reorganization, Larry Coupin and his other partner Harry Sloan still hold There are more than 40% shares of New World Entertainment.

In the phone call, Larry Coupin said that they are very clear about Simon's intentions, and said that they are happy with the deal and hope that the two parties can officially start the acquisition negotiations.

Even at the stock price of US$13.25 at the close yesterday, New World Entertainment’s market value is still more than US$330 million, which is still not something Westeros can afford.

What's more, once the two parties officially start negotiations, New World Entertainment's share price will certainly rebound again.

The main dilemma currently facing New World Entertainment is lack of funds. If Simon agrees to start negotiations for the acquisition of New World Entertainment, Wall Street Capital, which is trying to kill Westeros, will certainly not allow this company to run into problems.

At that time, it will definitely be much easier for New World Entertainment to get working capital to get out of trouble.

Therefore, Larry Coupin's mind is also very obvious.

As long as it can keep in touch with Simon, the big benefactor, no matter whether the final transaction is reached or not, New World Entertainment is very promising to overcome the current difficulties. Simon naturally couldn't marry someone. He simply played each other over the phone and left the matter to James to deal with.

After having breakfast, Simon took Janet and Jennifer to the city at nine o’clock to participate in the premiere of a movie called "Dream Country". Robert Redford also studied in this Sundance Acted as an executive producer in the film funded.

Simon had a few words with Michael Hoffman, director of "Dream State" at the Redford's party last year. Because it is the first feature film directed by a person, Michael Hoffman's narrative techniques are not proficient enough. However, Simon really likes the discussion of the disillusionment of ideals and the confused reality under the cold lens of the film.

The premiere of "Dream State" ended, Simon, Robert Redford and others left the Egyptian theater and were planning to eat at a nearby restaurant.

The crowd was surrounded by a group of reporters as soon as they left the house.

Simon hadn't paid too much attention to it. After hearing the reporters' questions, he realized that the goal of these people was himself.

It turned out that this morning, WGA announced the new nomination for the American Screenwriter Guild Awards. Simon's three films last year, "Lola Run", "Butterfly Effect" and "Reaper Is Coming", were all ignored and no nomination was received.

Of the three films, although the plot concept of "Butterfly Effect" is very novel, the film's critics last year was very low, and it is only natural that it was ignored by awards. As for "Reaper Is Coming", this plasma thriller is even more impossible. Nominated.

Therefore, "Lola Run" can be said to be the main force of Simon's awards season this year.

Prior to this, due to age factors, the media generally predicted that Simon's most important award in the most important Oscar of the awards season was the most important award for best screenwriter. All three films written by Simon last year made it into the top ten of the annual box office charts, and he deserves this award.

The main voting members of the Oscar Screenwriting Awards are concentrated in the American Screenwriters Guild.

Now, WGA completely ignores "Lola Run", the next Oscar, Simon can no longer win screenwriting awards, and even nominations are hard to expect.

Returning to the resort apartment in the afternoon, Simon also obtained more detailed information from Los Angeles.

At the nomination press conference, facing the press of the media, the WGA Western Conference Chairman George Cogo explained that "Rola Run" was too focused on form and lacked content, so it failed to meet the award nomination criteria.

Simon just laughed at this, and he didn't expect that because he refused to join the WGA, the other party's "killing stick" would be so obvious.

However, after a brief discussion, Simon only asked Pat Kingsley to express some clichés respecting WGA's choice.

Simon himself doesn't care about awards, but it is impossible for him not to consider the films produced by Daenerys Pictures.

In the final analysis, the entire award season is a game. Everyone is in the game. If you want to get rewards, you must follow the rules.

Therefore, although some media with keen sense of smell noticed the fact that Simon is not a WGA member and questioned the fairness of the WGA nomination based on this, Simon did not respond to this.

The end of the noisy day.

In the evening, by the fireplace in the resort apartment, Simon, Janet, and Jennifer sat on the sofa together, each holding a script.

Robert Redford sent two full boxes of scripts today. Simon plans to return to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon and will participate in the premiere of another movie tomorrow morning, so he can only look at these scripts in the evening. .

After the premiere of "Dream State", Simon has agreed to invest in another Michael Hoffman film called "Sisters", which tells about what happened in a weird family when a college student rushed to Canada to visit his girlfriend. Kind of fun.

Janet was holding the script at this time, leaning on Simon to read it with gusto.

Jennifer was a little absent-minded, nothing happened last night, and everyone rested soon after they came back from the party. But tonight, in this strange town in the mountains, surrounded by ice, snow and cold, quiet resort cottages, one man and two women.

This atmosphere is really weird.

The strangest thing is that the other two guys are completely unaware.

I don’t know how long it took, the phone rang suddenly, and finally broke the atmosphere that made Jennifer a little uncomfortable. She raised her head. Simon had already picked up the microphone, and simply said a few words to the other side, and then hung up again. phone.

Janet was a little dissatisfied that the quiet atmosphere was broken, squeezed on Simon, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Simon picked up the script just now and said with a smile: "The Lord of the Rings is ours."

Janet curled her lips: "10 million U.S. dollars. If Zanz refuses, it will be abnormal."

Jennifer didn't know the communication between Simon and Saul Zanz last night. He was a little unbelievable after hearing the words: "US$10 million, buy the copyright of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy?"

"Yeah, you know it, don't say anything."

Jennifer still had surprise in her expression, but just nodded.

Janet smiled and stretched out her little hand and grabbed it on Simon, and said, "This sheep is fat, Jenny, do you want to touch it too."

Jennifer flushed, pretending not to hear Janet.

Janet rolled her eyes, stood up and walked over, pulling Jennifer, who had not yet reacted, got up and returned, pressing her in the position she had just now, and the woman ran to the other side of the sofa and squeezed Simon towards the middle. , Sit down again.

This is the couch facing the fireplace, not too big, and the three people sitting on it suddenly seem a bit crowded.

I don't know if it was because of the fire in the fireplace, Jennifer felt the breath of the man next to him, and suddenly felt a little hot on her face. She didn't know what she was feeling in her heart. After hesitating for a while, she still didn't run away. She cautiously stood next to the man, pretending to be calm and focused on the script again.

Simon was still thinking about the next move to take the copyright of the Silmarillion. He didn't expect Janet to do so suddenly, but he just smiled and said, "There are only two, a little bit less."

"Little bastard, how many more do you want?"

"Of course the more the better...Ah, don't pinch."

"Jenny, you pinch him too."

Jennifer raised her arm eagerly. Seeing Simon happened to look over, she shyly shrank back. After the two of them had fun for a while, she randomly found a topic and asked Simon: "Did you pick any script? "

Simon shook the script in his hand and said, "This is not bad."

Jennifer looked down curiously and found a string of numbers, 3000 on the cover of the script.

"3000", what does this mean?

Simon felt her curiosity and proactively explained: "This is a black drama, about a street girl in Los Angeles, Vivienne, who promised to accompany a rich man for a week for $3,000. However, I plan to change her into one. A romance film."

Jennifer frowned slightly when she heard the term ‘Street Girl’, and quickly said: "Romance, like, um, "La Traviata"?"

Simon nodded and said, "That's right."

Janet also said at this time: "In this case, it must be a tragedy. If it is Dumas's work, some people may be interested. In modern times, who would be interested in a love tragedy of a street girl?"

"I didn't say to change it into a tragedy. Of course, the prince and princess live happily together," Simon shook his head, glanced at the script in his hand, and smiled: "I also thought of another story for this story. Name, "Beautiful Lady in Wind and Moon"."

The "Pretty Girl in Wind and Moon" in my memory happened to be adapted from a black drama film called "3000".

Simon didn't expect that he would see this story in the script recommended by Redford. Whether it is the screenwriter's name J·F·Lawton or the content of the story, it fits perfectly with "Pretty Woman in Wind and Moon". But think about it, the Sundance Institute happens to provide a platform for training and development for new directors and screenwriters. The "3000" script of the black plot type also echoes the style of the Sundance Film Festival. After straightening out these, it is not too coincidental to get this script at this time.

After "Lola Run", if "Pretty Pretty Lady" comes from Sundance, Park City will definitely be more lively in the future.

On the sofa in front of the fireplace, Simon felt the two women next to him, thinking that the good things of getting "The Lord of the Rings" and "Pretty Woman in Wind and Moon" would be doubled tonight.

perhaps.

Park City is really its own blessed land.