Hollywood Hunter

After the countdown to the lively New Year, the New Year's Eve party began to end.

At more than one in the morning, Simon sent away the James Rebold family of three and returned to the villa. The empty living room was only left with the waiters cleaning up the mess. There should be some guests in the backyard, but Simon himself was not needed. Send.

Walking up the stairs to the second floor, still outside a living room, Simon heard Janet's chuckle.

After entering the door, four women, Janet, Catherine, Amy, and Nancy Brill, were snuggling on the sofa in different poses and talking about something. The women were holding the goblet in their hands, obviously all drunk, Jane The extremely white face had turned red at this time.

Walking to Janet’s sofa and sitting down on the armrests, Simon gently took the red wine in the woman’s hand to prevent her from drinking, and looked at Amy, and said, “Ladies, it’s already late. Do you want to continue?”

Amy raised her wrist and looked at her watch, only to show a surprised expression: "It's 1:25, Simon, have you seen Cliff?"

Cliff is Amy's new boyfriend. He is introduced as the owner of a French restaurant in Brentwood.

Simon thought for a while and said, "He should be on the backyard lawn."

"Then, I should go," Amy put the goblet in her hand on the coffee table in front of her, stood up on the armrest of the sofa, shook her head slightly, and said to Simon with a smile: "Boss, I will go to the company tomorrow night. , The reason should be very legitimate, right?"

Simon smiled and nodded: "Of course."

The tomorrow that Amy said is actually today, and Simon naturally would not be true to such small details.

New Year's Day was supposed to be a legal holiday in the United States. However, Simon will fly to Australia tomorrow. There are still many things to be arranged before leaving. At least a group of senior Daenerys Entertainment needs to continue to appear in the company tomorrow.

As Amy got up, the other three women also stood up.

Simon hugged and stood up and dangled Janet, who was soft on his body. He noticed Nancy Brill inadvertently and couldn't help saying, "It's so short."

It turned out that Nancy Brill, who had just curled herself up on the solo sofa, took off her high heels.

I hadn’t noticed that when the woman was standing barefoot on the carpet at this time, Simon discovered that Nancy Brill’s height should be less than one meter six, not to mention Catherine, even Janet and Ai, who are about one meter seven. Mi two women are obviously shorter in front of them. However, the maturity of a woman's curvy and mature charm combined with her height, but also a very attractive style.

Simon said so, and all three of Janet who suddenly discovered this also showed unexpected expressions.

Nancy Brill was watched by a few people, but sat down again nonchalantly, and found her from the side with 10cm high-heeled shoes on her feet. She glanced at Catherine carelessly, her tone seemed a little more defensive , Said: "Boss, are you discrimination?"

"Of course not," Simon denied with a smile, watching Nancy Brill quickly get up again, the pair of Heng Tian Gao was hidden under the hem of the rose-colored dress, and his head obviously jumped up a lot, and said: " In fact, always wearing such high shoes does not seem very good."

Nancy Brill obviously didn't want to continue this topic, but said indifferently: "If you don't wear it, the result will be worse."

Since Nancy didn't like to discuss her height, Simon stopped. But I couldn't help but wonder whether this woman cared about her height because she was too strong, or because she became so strong because of her height. A little over one and a half meters tall is indeed a bit short among Western women.

Everyone went downstairs together, Amy found her boyfriend in the last group of guests in the backyard, watching the driver drive away the two, Simon noticed that Nancy Brill was still alone.

The parker drove a black Mercedes-Benz car over. Simon watched Nancy say goodbye to everyone and got into the driver's seat. He stepped forward and held the door that the woman wanted to close, and asked, "You? "

Nancy sat in the driver's seat, took off her high heels again and put them aside, looking at Simon: "Boss, is there a problem?"

Simon opened the car door a little to let him aside: "Sit in the back and let the driver take you back."

Nancy shook her head: "No need."

Simon looked at the woman persistently: "Get out of the car."

Nancy stared at Simon for a while, and finally said: "I'm not used to strangers sending me home."

Simon looked up to find Neil Bennett, gestured at him, looked at Nancy again, and said, "I will ask my driver to take you back."

Nancy hesitated for a moment, but got out of the car and turned to the back seat.

Simon confessed a few words to Neil Bennett, and turned around after watching him drive Nancy away. Janet was looking at him with a smile, with a little teasing: "Nancy obviously wants your boss to take her back personally, you are really uninterested."

Neil Bennett was supposed to send Simon and the two back to Malibu, but now he can only wait a little longer.

Simon ignored Janet's teasing and asked Catherine next to him: "Wait, let's go back to Malibu together?"

"Okay," Catherine made Simon nod unexpectedly, but then added: "I recently rented a house on Paradise Bay, not far from Cape Du Mui, just on the way."

After the three were together, Catherine never gave Simon another ridiculous opportunity.

Seeing Simon's depressed expression, Janet smiled forward and took Catherine's arm and walked towards the villa, saying: "Little **** will go to Australia the day after tomorrow, Kate, then you will come and live with me."

Catherine glanced at Simon who fell beside them and asked, "Aren't you going with him?"

"Our house in Cape Dumey Park will start soon," Janet shook her head and said, "Furthermore, Daenerys Entertainment will conduct a financial audit in the next month or so. I will stay in Los Angeles to help him. Now, um, on his birthday in February, we will visit the class together."

Neil Bennett sent Nancy Brill home and returned. It was another toss, and it was already more than two o'clock in the morning when he fell asleep.

I woke up the next day and the new year officially began.

The high-level meeting was held at ten o'clock in the morning and lasted until one o'clock in the afternoon. The main topic was the work arrangement of the company during Simon's departure from Los Angeles.

In the next few months, Daenerys Entertainment will focus on establishing overseas distribution channels and promoting the overseas distribution of several films such as "Scream" at the end of last year.

In this era, the overseas distribution of Hollywood films has rarely been able to achieve the same period as North America, and it is very common to delay the release of two or three months. Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment did not distract overseas at the end of last year and focused all its energy on local distribution.

Now, several films such as "Scream and Scream" have all achieved great success at the box office, which has also created very good conditions for the expansion of Daenerys Entertainment's overseas distribution channels. With these big-selling movies as a bargaining chip, Daenerys Entertainment can easily establish contacts with overseas cinema operators.

Outside of the film release, the next most important task is the financial audit of the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Because it is not a listed company, Daenerys Entertainment does not need to announce its annual financial report.

However, due to the rapid expansion of the company, even Simon himself is not too clear about the revenue data of Daenerys Entertainment including its subsidiaries, and it is even less clear whether there are potential problems in this. A very detailed financial review of Daenerys Entertainment is required.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the financial report, Simon also specially authorized Janet to supervise the audit during today's meeting.

Finally, there are several films produced by Daenerys Entertainment's award-winning strategy for the award season in the coming months.

Simon's attitude towards Oscars and other awards has not been too enthusiastic. Although Gomen Films has been established to specialize in literary films and rely heavily on major film awards, in his opinion, Oscars and other awards should always be'icing on the cake'. Such existence should not become the fundamental goal pursued by a film against the object.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after having a simple lunch, Simon and Amy and other senior executives met with Blockbuster Chairman Wayne Huizanga to discuss the specific plan of Daenerys Entertainment's investment in Blockbuster. .

After several hours of negotiation, the two sides reached a preliminary agreement.

Daenerys Entertainment invested US$120 million to acquire a 35% stake in Blockbuster. At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment promised not to interfere in the management of Blockbuster within the next three years. Correspondingly, Blockbuster also guarantees that Daenerys Entertainment's shares will not be diluted in the next three years. If Blockbuster needs to continue to raise funds, Daenerys Entertainment can give priority to the capital injection to ensure the company's shareholding ratio.

Nancy Brill was also confirmed as a member of Blockbuster's board of directors after this meeting.

In the evening, Simon once again invited the Rebald family to have a meal in Malibu, during which they discussed some Westeros affairs privately with James Rebald, and Simon had completed the arrangements before he left.

Although there are some concerns about letting go of the steering wheel of Daenerys Entertainment's fast-moving ‘sports car’, Simon also understands that he must do so. If a company leaves someone and cannot continue to operate, the company is destined to fail to grow.

On January 2, Simon officially flew to Melbourne, Australia with a team of entourage in the morning.

The preliminary preparations for the "Batman" project have been completed. After arriving in Melbourne, Simon only needs to spend a few days to get acquainted with the environment, and the film will officially start shooting on January 9. The planned filming cycle is 13 weeks and 91 days. If all goes well, the movie will be finalized in early April and will last three months.

Simon left Los Angeles and everything in Hollywood was not affected much.

Daenerys Entertainment’s public relations work this year was handed over to Ella Deutschman, the head of Gaomen Films, by Simon. After Simon left, Ella Deutschman began to work for "Death Poetry Club." At the same time, it is preparing for the Oscar nomination application for related films of Daenerys Entertainment.

With the unexpected box office sales of "Rain Man", Hollywood is also very concerned about the film’s Oscar public relations strategy.

Daenerys Entertainment previously completely abandoned this year’s Golden Globe Award on "Rain Man". Many people have speculated that Daenerys Entertainment is likely to continue to abandon this due to conflicts with the main creators of "Rain Man". Oscars for this film.

"Rain Man" has completely become a phenomenal film. If this film joins the Oscars, there will be little chance for other films this year.

Therefore, the whole Hollywood is looking forward to Simon Westero's youthful spirit.

However, "Rain Man" gave up the Golden Globe Award, but Simon was paving the way for "Death Poetry Society". He still has the same view that he would not do such a stupid thing as mad at others and smash his own home. "Rain Man" will declare all possible awards as scheduled.

However, Ella Deutschman also got a very difficult job.

Among the nominations declared for "Rain Man", the best director and best actor can obviously be easily obtained. In original time and space, these two nominations also succeeded in getting Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman to win the statuette.

But this time, Simon gave Ella Deutschman the task to make Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman only get nominations and cannot win awards, just like Daenerys Entertainment. Time has been continuing to invite CAA artists for role auditions, but will not hire each other.

Reverse public relations often happen between competitors, but it is still very difficult for one's own films to fail to win awards.

This is also one of Simon's tests of Ella Deutschman.

In addition to "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment will continue to focus on public relations for "Death Poetry Club". The company's goal is to get the best film for "Rain Man" and the best director for "Death Poetry Club".

The major Hollywood film companies have clearly shown a tendency to join forces to suppress Daenerys Entertainment. At this time, the many difficult-to-influence "shortcomings" of the original Oscar judges have turned into "advantages."

The Oscar jury team has more than 3,000 people. As long as Daenerys Entertainment does not hesitate to invest and has high-quality films, it is still very likely to get nominations and awards.

In private, Simon also gave Ella Deutschman a face-to-face opportunity to teach him the public relations methods of the Weinstein brothers in his memory.

Unknowingly like this, the New Year's Eve week passed again.

Films scheduled at the end of last year are still reaping the box office, but compared to the Christmas week box office outbreak, from December 30 to January 5, the North American single-week box office market compared to last week’s $122.36 million. It has shrunk again to US$91.56 million, and most films have fallen.

Except "Rain Man".

Due to the unexpected rise in the box office in the second week of the show, Daenerys Entertainment urgently negotiated with the theaters and re-allocated 262 screens, which increased the number of screens for "Rain Man" this week from 1,136 to 1,398. Coupled with the phenomenon-level word-of-mouth popularity of "Rain Man" continued to spread, in the third week of its release, this movie became the only film on the market to achieve a box office decline this week, with a box office increase of 7% and another $17.91 million. The cumulative box office totaled 46.23 million US dollars.

At the same time, "Rain Man" also surpassed "Death Poetry Society" and counterattacked all the way, winning the single-week box office champion in the third week of its release.