Hollywood Hunter

Under the strong operation of the Westeros system, in less than a week, another version of the story appeared in the media about the attack a few years ago that was closer to the truth.

The lawyers personally formed by Janet also quickly initiated a civil lawsuit against six people including Matthew Broderick for malicious defamation of the reputation of others, and demanded compensation ranging from 10 million to 50 million US dollars. 10 million dollars, Matthew Broderick is 50 million dollars.

Careful media found that 10 million US dollars is clearly a bottom line, and Matthew Broderick’s 50 million US dollars compensation is exactly 10 times the other party’s current net worth.

Moreover, the lions of Matthew Broderick and others open their mouths. Even if they can really win and get a full claim, the amount of compensation is actually far within Simon's tolerance.

In contrast, if Simon wins this lawsuit, it will mean that the six Matthew Broderick will not only pay for all their existing assets, but the remaining debt also means that they will be very difficult for the rest of their lives. Turn over again. Not only that, after the six people lose the lawsuit, they are likely to face jail.

In addition to counterattacks in the media, Simon's lawyers also filed an application with the Los Angeles Santa Monica Police Department to re-investigate the attack in the summer of 1986 in order to prove the innocence of the parties and give the public the truth. When the "Los Angeles Times" exposed the news, Simon immediately took the initiative in public opinion.

If Simon Westero does not have enough confidence, he will not take the initiative to ask the local police department to restart the investigation.

Under the close supervision of the media in such a highly anticipated event, even if Westero's influence is greater, the local police station did not dare to do any favoritism.

Although no detailed case file was left, because there are many people involved, even if it has been four years, it is not difficult to investigate the ins and outs of the matter.

Therefore, when the Los Angeles Santa Monica Police Department held a press conference to publicly announce that it officially restarted the investigation of the original attack, the six people who were very active in front of the media appeared to be at a loss for a while, and Mark Stein, who put on dentures again In an interview, he fiercely attacked the Santa Monica Police Department. It is impossible to investigate the real truth. It will only be the truth that Simon Westero wants.

Facing reporters’ questioning, Mark Stein’s logic was that Simon Westero had a huge amount of net worth and powerful influence, enough to manipulate the results of the investigation. Simon’s lawyers have not responded yet, but such an attack clearly angered the Santa Monica Police Department, which quickly attracted an official refutation.

Immediately afterwards, the Santa Monica Police Department publicly announced a major breakthrough in the case.

Baseball bat.

Although the case was not formally filed at the time, the baseball bat on the night of the attack was retained, but it has been left in the corner of the police evidence room for several years.

The attack left a deep impression on the policemen who were out of the police and the doctors who rushed to the rescue. Especially the baseball bat that the teenager was holding tightly at the time. Many people clearly remember that they had spent a lot of thought before reluctantly taking the teenager. Take off the baseball bat held tightly in your hand.

At the public press conference, the Santa Monica Police Department chief personally temporarily removed the baseball bat with large amounts of DNA traces of Simon Westero and five other teenagers. Although no more information was added, the media immediately made a corresponding interpretation.

The branded baseball bat made of high-quality oak had a market price of $200 that year. Not only that, but the baseball bat also has the signatures of two baseball stars.

According to Simon Westero's identity as a temporary store clerk in the supermarket, even if he can barely afford the price of a $200 baseball bat itself, it is impossible to get a star signature.

Therefore, the baseball bat cannot belong to Westeros.

Since the baseball bat does not belong to Simon Westeros, it is difficult for Matthew Broderick and others to say that Simon Westeros attacked the six of them with a baseball bat.

However, Mark Stein, one of the six youths, once again spoke out loudly to the media, resolutely not admitting that the baseball bat was his own, and accused Simon that he might not be able to pay for the baseball bat, but he probably stole it.

Just after Mark Stein’s remarks, several old acquaintances from the other side came forward to testify that the baseball bat was Mark Stein’s own. It was a personal item that Stein liked very much because he owned two at the same time. A baseball star’s signature, he often shows it off in front of everyone.

Immediately, Mark Stein changed his words again, admitting that the baseball bat was indeed his own, but Simon Westeros took the initiative to initiate the attack, and he was taken away by the opponent in self-defense with the baseball bat.

This paradoxical sophistry that is almost nonsense has changed the attitude of a large part of the media and the public who were still on the side of the group of six.

Amid the harassment of the attack, the news that Daenerys Entertainment has reached a settlement with the three major unions does not seem to be so attractive.

However, the circle is still paying close attention to this matter.

Before the settlement of the lawsuit, it was first accompanied by the resignation of George Cogo, the chairman of the West Section of the American Screenwriters Guild. Then, Daenerys Entertainment publicly stated that it would temporarily abandon its plan to build a film and television production base in Toronto. In the end, the three major unions signed an almost unconditional settlement agreement with Daenerys Entertainment, and the lawsuit was dropped.

When this may obstruct Daenerys Entertainment's settlement of the MCA acquisition lawsuit, everyone's eyes were suddenly drawn to the East Coast of the United States.

Entering December, Christmas is approaching, Simon Westero and his wife Janet Westero attended the annual grand banquet of the White House used to entertain members of Congress, media reporters and social elites.

On the second day of the banquet, Simon Westero also accepted the President’s invitation to openly held a 30-minute meeting with President George Bush in the Oval Office of the White House, mainly discussing the current economic problems facing the United States and how to resolve them. Tao.

This is naturally a show. Bush hopes to reverse his negative image of not caring about US internal affairs. Simon got approval from the Department of Justice for Westeros' acquisition of Bell Atlantic.

A week before Christmas, after reaching a partial restriction agreement on Nokia and other matters with the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Communications Commission, the two major government agencies successively approved Westeros’ acquisition of Bell Atlantic.

On December 20, after completing the year-end settlement quietly and interest-free, Westeros officially transferred its overseas funds from Cersei Fund Management Company back to China, and paid a huge tax of up to 2.29 billion US dollars in one lump sum.

The “New York Post” of the East Coast and the “Los Angeles Times” of the West Coast also exposed an oversized check of up to $2.29 billion used by Westeros to pay taxes. They also ridiculed this tax check, which is enough Was included in the Guinness World Records.

Westeros has not let go of this opportunity to shape its public image. It focuses on media rendering that most of the money is earned from overseas. Simon Westeros almost does not use any tax avoidance methods to pay taxes. It is a manifestation of a strong sense of social responsibility.

On the second day after the two major paper media platforms exposed Westeros company's tax check, on December 21, the last working day of the week before Christmas, Westeros officially signed an acquisition agreement with Bell Atlantic.

At the press conference that day, Westeros President James Leibald, who participated in the signing ceremony, also announced that, in view of the current economic situation in the United States, as a socially responsible company, Westeros publicly assured that, In the next year, Bell Atlantic will not make any layoffs.

Not only that, as Bell Atlantic strengthens its investment in the two major business areas of mobile communications and the Internet, Bell Atlantic is expected to create at least 1,000 additional jobs in the next few years.

Such public promises once again won Westeros a lot of goodwill in the media and the public.

After the agreement is signed, Westeros is expected to gradually complete the cash settlement of Bell Atlantic shareholders within two weeks after Christmas.

In Hollywood, after "League of Pink Fans" was released on November 23, as of December 20, the box office quickly reached 70.33 million U.S. dollars. In the week from December 14 to December 20, the box office of "League of Pink Fans" was 10.92 million U.S. dollars. Although the box office may fall to less than 10 million U.S. dollars starting next week, this women’s baseball movie has already Dingding can squeeze into a club with a box office of 100 million yuan.

At the end of the seventh week, "Dancing with Wolves" has a cumulative box office of 49.56 million US dollars.

Although far less than "League of Pink Fans", the box office curve of this film, which has already won six important nominations at the Golden Globe Awards, is very stable.

Robert Altman's Venice Golden Lion Award work "Intersection of Life", released on December 7, has 613 screens.

Relying on the good reputation and the excellent publicity of the Gaomen Films team, the box office won 7.38 million US dollars in the first week and seven days.

In the second week of the opening of the painting, the number of screens of "Intersection of Life" increased to 823, and the box office also experienced a reverse decline, reaching 8.63 million US dollars.

As an interlocking and wonderful group drama, this film shows the life of ordinary people in Los Angeles, Ukiyo-e. Because there are no big-name stars, many actors who participated in the performance also only get basic pay, so the final budget is only 8 million. Dollar.

In two weeks, the film’s total North American box office of $16.01 million has allowed the film to recover all its production costs.

Simon originally didn't expect much at the box office of "Intersection of Life". The initial expected North American box office was only about 20 million US dollars. However, judging from the box office curve of the first two weeks, the total North American box office of the film is likely to hit the 50 million dollar mark.

However, although the box office of "Cross Point of Life" exceeded expectations, Daenerys Entertainment did not intend to adjust its PR strategy during the awards season.

"Dancing with Wolves" will still be the focus of this year's Oscar public relations.

Even so, "Intersection of Life" was successfully nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globe Awards. Moreover, the Golden Globe Committee also plans to set up a special ‘special group drama award’ to commend the film’s brilliant performance in group drama.

After Robert Altman's brief appearance at the end of the 1970s, he was almost forgotten in the early 1980s because of the failure of several consecutive films.

With the success of "Life Intersection", the veteran director once again entered the mainstream Hollywood field of vision, and his career began to take off again.

Faced with the olive branch thrown by other studios, Robert Altman was unmoved. Although he did not sign a contract at the beginning, he still publicly expressed his expectation to continue to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment for the next film.

On December 21st, with the festive atmosphere, Daenerys Entertainment's most important year-end "Home Alone" was officially released.

With Simon's personal arrangement, the number of opening screens of this film reached 2,676, becoming the highest number of opening screens at the end of 1990. The offensive of the film's publicity is also far greater than that of other holiday mood movies in the same period. Before the painting, only the investment in advertising and distribution, the budget has exceeded 12 million US dollars, and the overall publicity budget reached 15 million US dollars.

Obviously, as long as the film’s box office meets expectations, the post-production budget can easily exceed the film’s final production cost of $18 million.

However, the competition in this Christmas stall is also quite fierce.

In addition to "Home Alone", there are three other new films with more than 1,000 opening screens. After Arnold Schwarzenegger withdrew, he chose another tough guy actor Shangge Yunton to star in Universal. The new film "Kindergarten Special Police", Brian de Palma's new film "Bonfire of Vanity" and the comedy film "Like an Angel" starring Paul Hogan in the hit film "Crocodile Dundee" series in the 1980s.

MGM produced the Cold War spy film "Russian House" starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, with a screen size of more than 700 yuan.

Finally, there are four other small-scale new films released on the opening screen, ranging from a few yuan to two or three hundred yuan.

Taken together, in the week of December 21, the number of new films registered on the North American theater line reached nine. .

After successfully winning Bell Atlantic, Simon still spent Christmas week with Janet in the Greenwich Manor on the east coast.

Because it was Christmas, Sophia Fesci also rushed over, planning to take a one-week holiday.

Probably because she has been looking forward to having a baby, Janet is very fond of Sofia's pair of children, and everyone deliberately ate lunch together on Christmas Day.

For the acquisition of MCA, the biggest obstacle of the three major union lawsuits was resolved, and Daenerys Entertainment resumed contact with MCA management.

The United Nations has issued an ultimatum to Iraq, requiring the Iraqi army to withdraw from Kuwait before January 15 next year.

Simon knew that this was also the last time Daenerys Entertainment could easily win the MCA. Once the war ends in a devastating form and the U.S. stock market rebounds quickly, this event will have another setback.

However, on the surface, Daenerys Entertainment's team is still following the steps, and did not show any eagerness.

After all, Simon, who knows well the future economic trends, hopes to be able to finalize the acquisition before the outbreak of the war, and the same is true for MCA.

Almost all of the wars that the United States has encountered after the two world wars have had a negative impact on the domestic economy. Therefore, domestic experts and media generally predict that once a war in the Middle East breaks out, it will definitely mean that the US stock market will fall again. If the war in the Middle East falls into a long-term stalemate like the Vietnam War in the past, the US economy will suffer further.

Therefore, both Daenerys Entertainment and MCA shareholders actually expect the acquisition to be finalized before January 15 next year.