Hollywood Hunter

Simon and Jennifer left Melbourne on July 11 and rushed to a forested lake in the midwest of Tasmania, which happened to be in the center of Simon's private property.

Because the nearest road is 30 kilometers away, you can only get there by helicopter.

The female assistant fully paid her own pocket and built a wooden house, a total of three houses for Simon, the two of them and other entourages to live in, and also repaired the helipad. Just transporting building materials cost a lot. Naturally there is no water and electricity in the forest. It can only rely on generators and natural water sources, and communication can only use satellite phones.

It was already a very closed living environment. When the snow covered everything, the surroundings were completely isolated from the world.

Suddenly leaving his busy work here, Simon's first feeling is not comfort, but anxiety, a strong sense of loss of control. Fortunately, Simon has a special experience different from anyone in this world, which is equivalent to the accumulation of more than a dozen years of life, so he can adapt quickly.

Female assistants can switch freely between strong women in the workplace and young women at home.

When I came here, I only brought a few books and a picture clip.

During the day, Simon taught himself to paint, and he was still skating on the frozen lake in front of the hut, dressed in a girlish white down jacket, skillfully like an elf.

Snuggling by the fireplace in the evening, reading to Simon in an elegant voice, Proust's "Reminiscence of the Waters" is a very thick book.

Or Yeats' poems.

*……

*I am going to get up and go to Innisfree Island.

* Use soil and branches to build a small house.

*I want to have nine rows of cloud bean racks and a bee nest.

*Listen to the bees singing in the forest and live alone in a secluded place.

*So I will have peace.

*……

After reading it, I also suggested whether to name the small lake in front of me, or just Lake Innisfree.

Simon refused.

In the little grieving expression that the female assistant made rare, she said it should be called Jenny Lake.

The female assistant's grievance did not dissipate, and she asked which Jenny.

Simon firmly said that of course it was Jenny in front of him.

I also brought a Chinese version of "A Dream of Red Mansions".

The joke female assistant Janet had never forgotten, she wanted to know the story about Raiders and asked Simon to tell her personally.

Then I fell in love with listening to the joys and sorrows in the Grand View Garden.

Even if intense curiosity flashes in his eyes occasionally, he never asks why Simon understands such a difficult and obscure language.

Just keep asking all kinds of questions.

I also tried to learn to recite a poem in the book.

There is no fixed pronunciation, very standard accent.

* Paper full of absurd words,

* A handful of bitter tears.

*Duyun author is crazy,

*Who understands it?

Finally couldn't help it, and asked Simon casually, is there really a three-life stone?

Simon said no.

Just a story.

Obviously dissatisfied with this answer, the corners of his mouth pursed again.

Simon gave some comfort, and the little emotions disappeared.

Satisfied with the ending of Xiren, he threatened to find a good man to marry him if Simon disliked her one day.

When he said this, his eyes looked at Simon with threat.

Dare to threaten.

So he was ruthlessly'cleaned up'.

Very submissive every time.

Some things were discovered, and many of the dirty little details that Janet told her were not there.

Simon smiled and said this can be done.

then.

There really is.

Calm down and continue to read the book "Reminiscence of the Waters" to Simon.

Simon has been listening patiently, and inadvertently, he wrote down the words he heard in the blank of the page of the Dream of Red Mansions in his hand: Always try to keep a piece of sky outside of your life.

Smelling the scent of food, I lazily opened my eyes.

This is the bedroom, naturally there is no food around, just the sticky breath of the man who came in from the kitchen.

I still couldn't help but sniffed, but he didn't want to move lazily.

The room was very warm. Simon was only wearing a woolen sweater and khaki trousers. Seeing her opened his eyes, he leaned in to kiss.

Turning his head to avoid: "I haven't brushed my teeth yet."

Simon didn't let her go, and kissed the beautiful cheek that had just awakened, and then moved to the white neck. Not satisfied, he pulled down the quilt a little and moved closer.

Under the quilt is a perfect carcass enough to drive a man crazy.

Without a trace.

Nephrite has a warm fragrance.

Feeling that Simon bit on it greedily, and finally reached out weakly to push the man's head, and said with a smile: "It's itchy."

Simon raised his head, but reached in with his hand, and said, "Now get up, or should I sleep with you for a while?"

Hold the man's weird hand: "I want to get up, you go out first."

"I will dress you up."

"No, I can wear it myself."

"This can't work, I must help."

As he said that, they started to move in the voice of the female assistant's sweet laugh, and finally the two of them put on the clothes again together.

The breakfast had to be redone.

The original one was already cool.

After eating, it is already ten in the morning.

It was July 17th. I stayed here for a full week, although occasionally only Janet would make one or two harassing calls, but it is hard to justify staying.

It's a sunny day.

Packed the luggage and stood outside the house, the female assistant was obviously reluctant, and worried that her cabin would be destroyed and occupied by outsiders. It was not until Simon promised to arrange a special caregiver, and she was a little relieved.

Taking advantage of the midday sun, I boarded a helicopter parked nearby.

The helicopter roared up into the sky, and the small lake became smaller and smaller in the field of vision, as if everyone’s deep innermost memory gradually faded away.

The chartered Bell helicopter had insufficient battery life, and could only take a boat to return to Melbourne on the northern shore of Tasmania and return to the villa on the outskirts of Melbourne. It was already more than four in the afternoon.

I made some phone calls to people close to me. I originally planned to take another night off and start work tomorrow. Anthony Johnston called and asked Simon to go to the mansion for a party. It turned out that today happened to be Norman Johnston’s birthday. , The family will be there.

After staying with Jennifer for a week, Simon didn't believe that the Johnston family would not know. He was a little guilty and did not refuse.

The more guilty female assistants even dare not go there together.

Came to the mansion in the evening.

The party invited a lot of people and it was very lively.

Except for Patrick Johnston winking at Simon, no one has reacted too specifically to Simon's whereabouts in the past week.

The entertainment lasted until late at night. When all the guests left, Simon originally wanted to say goodbye, but was left behind by the old man. Although the words meant that the house was not a place where you lived, Simon understood that the old man still treated him. There are opinions on the previous week's actions.

Nature can only stay.

I couldn't sleep late when I got back to Melbourne and woke up on time at seven o'clock the next day.

Leaving the bedroom, walking through the corridor to the stairway, and passing a room, Veronica Johnston just opened the door and walked out. Seeing Simon, her figure immediately froze, and she subconsciously raised her hand, but she was very Put it down quickly.

Simon also stopped and frowned when she saw Veronica's defensive action subconsciously.

Seeing Simon frown, Veronica raised her hand again a little uneasy, as if she wanted to explain, but she just spit out the word ‘I...’ and couldn’t continue.

Simon saw that she was no longer speaking or speaking, and continued to walk up the stairs.

Veronica stared at Simon's figure disappearing at the top of the stairs before leaving the room.

After breakfast, Simon and Anthony Johnston rushed to the Johnston Holdings headquarters in Melbourne city.

After the operation for the Japanese market last year, although Cersei Capital’s headquarters moved to New York, there was still a team here. This time the operation of the crude oil market, in order to reduce the external penetration of Cersei Capital’s operation details, Melbourne’s Bian's team also participated.

In fact, because Cersei Capital has established a very large and complex crude oil futures portfolio through different accounts in various crude oil futures markets such as New York and London, it has recently begun to directly participate in spot transactions, except for a few people such as Janet and Simon. Within Cersei Capital, few people know the company's specific position data.

Cersei Capital began to establish long positions in late June, when the international crude oil price was still above US$14.

Recently, in less than a month, the international crude oil price has fallen to 13 US dollars, which is also the lowest international crude oil price in Simon's memory.

If you don't count the short position of the two-way position, only the recent long position is counted. In less than one month, Cersei Capital's book loss has exceeded $1.6 billion.

Moreover, because Cersei Capital continues to increase the scale of long positions and reduce short positions at the same time, if the international crude oil price does not rebound as expected in the future, instead, it will fall to $10 a barrel as predicted by many institutions. Cersei Capital will not stop at the previous period this time. All profits earned by short positions will be spit out, and even the principal may be lost.

In Simon's memory, international crude oil prices began to rise after the breakup of negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait on oil production control at the end of July, and directly doubled after the outbreak of the war on August 2.

At present, the negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait are still continuing. According to the news from the Middle East, the first phase of the negotiations will not appear until next week. Either Kuwait will compromise and reduce crude oil production, or the negotiations will break down. Towards an unpredictable situation.

Simon doesn't think that war can be avoided just because of his presence.

In fact, the internal causes of this war are much more complicated than most people think. It involves not only the interests of European and American oil groups, but also the still turbulent situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

However, just in case, Cersei Capital’s operation is still relatively conservative. As of mid-July, the size of long positions established was less than US$15 billion, and sufficient funds were reserved for Cersei. The leverage ratio of capital is maintained within 5 times.

In the plan, after closing all short positions next week, although Cersei Capital will hold more than US$5 billion in principal, the total size of long positions will still be cautiously maintained within US$25 billion.

After spending a day at the Johnston Holdings headquarters discussing the next move of Cersei Capital, Simon's energy turned to movies again.

The shooting of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is still going well, and Simon does not need to worry too much.

North America over there.

More than three weeks have passed since Simon left on June 24th.

In the North American summer archives, many new films such as "Die Hard 2", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Thunder" have been released in the past few weeks.

Going forward, "Human Ghost Love Is Still", released on June 1, still maintains a strong box office curve under the pressure of many new films.

As of July 19, within seven weeks of its release, the cumulative box office of "Human Ghosts Are Not Ended" had reached $115.06 million.

Moreover, in the seventh week of the release of this tear-jerking romance movie, the box office per week remained above 10 million U.S. dollars, reaching 11.07 million U.S. dollars. The total box office in North America is expected to break the 200 million U.S. dollar mark and become the first film in 1990. Movies with a gross box office of over 200 million in North America.

In comparison, the total box office of "Total Memories" released in the same period reached US$106.41 million in North America in the seventh week of its release, successfully breaking the 100 million mark, but the box office in a single week has fallen to US$4.77 million. The box office potential of about ten thousand dollars.

The first film of Daenerys Entertainment's 10 film plans that Simon pays more attention to, "Sleep with the Enemy", after the box office of 27.62 million US dollars in the first week, the box office fell 33% in the next week and received another 18.53 million US dollars.

The drop exceeded 30%, which is a little disappointing.

Fortunately, in the following three weeks, "Sleep with the Enemy" fell within 30%, 21%, 17% and 23% respectively, and received another 14.61 million US dollars, 12.13 million US dollars and 9.37 million US dollars.

In five weeks, the cumulative box office of "Sleep with the Enemy" has reached 82.26 million US dollars.

Although the box office in a single week fell to less than 10 million U.S. dollars, there is no suspense for the film's North American box office to exceed 100 million.

In addition, the "Teenage Ninja Turtles" released on July 6, the production budget increased to 20 million U.S. dollars compared with the 8 million U.S. dollars B-level film level of the original time and space, and the quality is better than the original version. Coupled with the golden period of the summer and Daenerys Entertainment’s tireless investment in publicity, the box office reached 39.78 million U.S. dollars in the first week of the film’s opening, far surpassing the firsts of "Human and Ghost" and "Sleep with the Enemy". Weekly data.

Only from July 6th to July 12th, in accordance with the step-by-step accounting rules signed by Daenerys Entertainment and the theater, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has recovered all the production and publicity costs.

However, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is still largely dependent on the popularity of animations and games in recent years. The quality of the film itself is far from phenomenal. A high start in the first week inevitably means The box office dropped sharply the following week.

July 13th to July 19th.

In the second week of its release, the box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" dropped by 43% and received another $22.67 million.

It earned $62.45 million in two weeks. This box office curve is actually similar to "Total Memories" which started at the same time as "Human Ghosts".

Of course, the difference is that the production cost of "Teenage Ninja Turtles" is less than one-third of that of "Total Recall" starring Schwarzenegger. The North American box office of "Total Recall" can barely recover the production cost. "Mysterious Turtles" has been released in the second week and has already begun to generate huge profits.

Because of the outstanding market performance of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Daenerys Entertainment soon announced the establishment of a sequel.

The box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in the original time and space is not as good as one, because in addition to its own IP popularity, this series is actually difficult to maintain too high appeal to the audience. The audience enters to watch the first film. To a large extent it is because of the accumulated popularity of series animation and games.

However, Simon did not prevent the establishment of a sequel like the "Flying by Childhood" series this time.

Mainly because of cost.

Compared with the two top-grossing series "Flying by the Innocence" and "Lethal Weapon", even if the sequel of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is developed, the production cost will not exceed that of the first one, and there will be no such a big one as Mel Gibson. Coffee requires high project profit sharing.

The first film can break 100 million, and as long as the sequel does not mess up, it is easy to recover the cost and achieve profitability.