Hollywood Hunter

"The problem is that Filanda doesn't look like a woman in this world."

"She grew up in a gloomy city a thousand kilometers from the sea. In the dark night of ghostly wandering, she could hear the governor's four-wheeled carriage rolling through the cobblestone streets."

"Every day at 6 o'clock in the evening, the thirty-two bell towers of this city will ring bleak bells. The manor house is built of tombstone-like slabs, and the sun never shines in it. Cypress trees in the courtyard, garden The dripping tuberose vault and the faded window curtains in the bedroom exude a deadly breath."

San Francisco, a mountain mansion in Woodside.

The female assistant has been sleepy recently, and she always rests for a few hours in the afternoon.

Simon came here and took on another task, responsible for prenatal education for the little guy in the belly of the female assistant.

The female assistant’s prenatal education method is very special, choosing various world famous books to read to the little guy in the stomach.

Simon is reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and it is the original Spanish version of Marquez. Yesterday, he read a paragraph of "War and Peace" in Russian original. The female assistant felt that Simon's stubborn Russian might be a bad lesson. My child, just changed today's book.

A large lounge chair is placed under the eaves of the manor house's backyard.

Accompanied by the man's reading, the female assistant cuddled beside Simon, her head resting on the man's chest, her eyes squinted in enjoyment.

In front of them is the garden that the female assistant has personally taken care of recently. They are all very common flowers, but they are pleasing to the eye. The air is still filled with the refreshing fragrance of flowers. A little further away, the fence wall is covered with blooming wisteria. , Outside the courtyard is a green tree barrier intertwined with tall redwoods and low heathers, and the mountain mansion is isolated, far-reaching and quiet.

The gentle sound of reading continued for more than two hours. The sun began to sway westward and was further fragmented by the surrounding tree shadows. The female assistant didn't mean to wake up. She still squinted her eyes like a cat, and Simon continued to read softly.

Unconsciously, I was immersed in the bizarre world described in "A Hundred Years of Solitude".

Deliberately light footsteps sounded, and the girl in a white shirt and black slim trousers came over, said carefully, and exchanged a new pot of tea on the short table next to Simon.

Simon glanced at the girl named Doris Fecher, frowned slightly, and said, "Bring a blanket here."

The girl answered, poured a cup of tea for Simon, raised her eyes and paused for a moment. Seeing that the man had no other orders, she turned and left.

The female assistant in her arms moved dissatisfiedly, and Simon quickly continued to read.

Until the sun was completely blocked by the western ridge, the female assistant said, "You will cook something for us tonight."

Simon smiled and nodded: "Okay."

After being bored in the man's arms for a while, the female assistant finally sat up, still leaning beside the man, and touched her raised belly: "I think the baby kicked me."

More than four months of pregnancy, fetal movement has begun.

Simon reached out and put his big hand on the female assistant's little hand and felt it for a moment, and said, "Maybe I don't like the story today. I will change it tomorrow."

Jennifer nodded in agreement, "Yes."

After continuing to talk for a while, Simon helped the female assistant to get up, and the two entered the villa and began to prepare dinner together.

In addition to Simon and Jennifer, there are two other people in the villa. Doris Fecher, who appeared in front of Simon not long ago, is a member of the team of housekeepers and is transferred to take care of the female assistants. There is also a 30-year-old female bodyguard named Sarah Hunterson. This is Simon directly poached from the Federal Secret Service. When the other party was in the Secret Service, she served as a security job for the White House female family. It is more accurate. Is actually a security assistant, because Sarah Hunterson is also responsible for an eight-person security team around the female assistant.

Jennifer's mother, Carol Rebold, is also in San Francisco.

After Simon came over, the other party did not come to disturb the two-person world of the two.

The Rebolds are both very enterprising people. Carol Rebold can't always stay by Jennifer's side in weekdays, so Simon arranged her to serve as the legal counsel of Igreat.

When preparing dinner, Simon gave Doris Fecher, who always appeared next to them intentionally or unintentionally, a holiday, and ordered the other party to come back tomorrow morning. The maids of Westeros were treated very well. This villa There is another residence besides.

The female assistant allowed Simon to arrange the trivial matters around her, but she was slightly confused about the man sending Doris away, but she didn't ask much.

The two had a simple dinner, and cuddled together in the home theater to watch "Superman" which is currently being released.

Because of pregnancy, female assistants basically do not go out during this time.

So until ten o'clock in the evening, he carefully made a warm kiss and took a shower. The woman beside him had already fallen asleep. Simon heard a slight knock on the door and got up and got out of bed silently.

Outside the bedroom door is Sara Hunterson, who is clearly still working in a lady's suit.

When Simon pulled the door to the room, Sarah said, "Mr. Bennett just called. Doris is in a park at Emirod Mountain at about 9:30 and..."

Sarah Hunterson had to introduce the details, but Simon stopped him and said, "You can stay here."

Hunterson nodded and said no more.

When he arrived in the front yard, there was already a black car waiting. Simon got in the car, and the driver in the front row started the car without explaining.

Winding along the road between the Woodside Mountains to the north, came to the Emerald Hills area bordering the Woodside area, and finally drove into a secluded park at the foot of the mountain.

There were no street lights all around, and the car lights were also turned off after entering the park, but the light from the city was enough for Simon to see his surroundings clearly.

After a while, the car stopped.

Right in front of the field of vision, beside a highway leading to the western mountains, a conspicuous white car was parked there, and there were five or six figures guarding nearby.

Simon got out of the car and walked over. Neil Bennett greeted him, and the others took the initiative to scatter.

When he came to the white car, Simon looked in through the open window. There was a man and a woman in the front cab. On the passenger side was his maid, Doris Fitch. Simon, a white middle-aged man in his forties, also knew in advance that his name was Rod McKenna, a paparazzi who used to work for the Los Angeles Herald.

The Los Angeles Herald is a newspaper under the Hearst Group, but it went bankrupt last year due to poor management. Although it has the name "Pioneer", the Los Angeles Herald is actually a gossip tabloid.

There was still some anesthetic smell in the compartment, Simon did not look much, and quickly retracted his gaze.

Neil Bennett waited for Simon to withdraw his gaze from the compartment and pointed to some objects placed on the hood.

When Simon walked over, the first thing he could see was an open suitcase with piles of banknotes densely placed inside. Neil Bennett whispered: "One million dollars."

Simon just hummed, and turned to the expected pile of camera and wiretapping equipment beside the suitcase, including a pile of developed photos.

Seeing Simon fiddling with interest, Neil Bennett took the initiative to explain: "It's all here, including the two backup copies hidden by Doris. Make sure nothing else is missing."

Simon finally nodded.

One million dollars is indeed a lot of money. It's no wonder that maids who are already well paid by themselves will be tempted. Although Simon thought it was too stupid to do so, the human heart probably has always been greedy and lacking, and perhaps he felt lucky enough to not be discovered.

Without thinking too much about the mental journey of his maid, Simon glanced at the two people in the car who were in a coma, and told Neil Bennett: "Let Martin Dinham and their two teams go to New York, I Give them a week, and don’t have to come back if they don’t find enough."

"Ok."

Neil Bennett agreed succinctly, without talking nonsense.

As for what to check, of course it's the same way.

In this world, the higher the top of the pyramid, the more privacy that is not enough for outsiders.

Picking up the stack of money in the box, Simon thought for a while and added: "Let Frank Blaze's group pass by, and send the found items directly to the Hirst family mansion."

Neil Bennett paused this time, then nodded again.

Frank Blaze and others are the abandoned KGB sons collected by the Westeros family two years ago. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, they carefully confirmed that this team of overseas operations has completely become rootless duckweed, and there are corresponding containment methods. So it was taken under his command.

Even so, such a team cannot be used lightly in the eyes of the Simons.

Neil Bennett also understands the implications. If a team of former KGB agents are discovered, things will be very troublesome. Since his own boss has used this team, it shows that his heart is definitely not calm on the surface.

You know, this team is actually going to do dirty work at critical moments.

The one that kills people.

The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and Neil Bennett motioned to the two people in the carriage and asked softly: "Where are they?"

Simon glanced faintly, remembering the "One Hundred Years of Solitude" he had read in the afternoon. The female assistant also said that she would like to visit Latin America in the future, saying: "Latin America's southernmost point, should it be Tierra del Fuego?"

Neil Bennett thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "It seems to be."

Simon said, "Throw them to Tierra del Fuego."

Neil Bennett nodded again: "Okay."

Simon looked at the white Toyota sedan in front of him, stretched out his hand and patted it on the hood, and said, "Leave this car over."

Neil Bennett was stunned and said: "In this case, you need to go by sea. It may take a week."

"A week is just right, and Dinham is also a week," Simon glanced at the two people in the carriage again: "Let them sleep for a week, and wake up wherever they are. Also, remember to keep Hirst III's Call, let them pick up people."

Throwing people to Tierra del Fuego, thousands of miles away, was just a warning. Simon had no intention of killing people because of this, and it was not worth it.

After a brief instruction, Simon walked to the car when he came, and Neil Bennett followed and helped Simon drive the door himself.

Immediately before stepping into the carriage, Simon looked at Neil Bennett again, his gaze finally became a bit colder and sharp: "If anyone dares to look at this side, I will leave their whole family to Huo Didao."

Watching my boss leave by car, several people scattered around reunited.

Neil Bennett began to arrange what Simon had just ordered.

If you send them directly to Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost point of Latin America, it is actually very simple. It can be done within 24 hours by using a private jet. Just add a Toyota sedan and things will be more troublesome.

Of course, as long as the money is enough, all troubles are not troubles.

Imagine that two hapless men in the carriage woke up and appeared at the southernmost point of Latin America tens of thousands of kilometers away, and they were still sitting in the car when they were in a coma. Neil Bennett felt that the creepy feeling was probably not more direct. How much is the difference between being put into sacks and thrown into the sea.

However, Neil Bennett has no objection to the absoluteness of his own boss.

Even if Simon told him to throw people directly into the sea, it didn't matter.

Born in the Johnston family, Neil Bennett has personally participated in a lot of disputes with powerhouses ten times darker than this one.

Behind the wealth has always represented the power and power, either explicit or implicit. Without these, even if it is obtained for a short period of time, huge wealth will be lost quickly. This is a world where the weak and the strong eat the strong, and there is no living environment in which a child who is holding a gold nugget and has no ability to protect himself can wander freely.

Before Simon left San Francisco the next day, he called D girl Deborah Lipman to replace Doris Fitch.

A, B, C, and D can be said to be the four most reliable maids of the Westeros family, but it is a pity that Claire has left and Alison has become Simon’s assistant. Betsy recently submitted a business plan to the Vase Fund team. Janet was very interested. In the end, only Deborah remained, and probably wouldn't stay in this position for long.

In the past two years, the girls who have had problems have become the group of girls with the housekeeper Alice. Compared with ABCD, the selection and training of this group of people is indeed not strict.

It seems that it is time to retrain a group of waitresses.

This time, some more professional vases should also be needed, and they should not be put out casually.

Leaving San Francisco, Simon joined Janet in Los Angeles, and the couple flew to Melbourne, Australia.

In North America, another box office turnaround from June 11th to June 17th has passed.

After setting a new box office record in the first week, the box office drop of "Superman" in the week following its release finally reached 46%, and it continued to earn $60.82 million.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of this superhero blockbuster reached 173.43 million U.S. dollars. After the Easter period of "Anti-Wild Stars 2", it easily reached the top of the annual box office. It is expected that the box office will exceed 200 million U.S. dollars next week. .

The 46% drop, in the eyes of the media, is more of the result of "Superman" overstimulating the film's box office potential in the first week.

Because of the four new films that opened on June 11, the box office performance was not outstanding.

"The Values ​​of the Adams Family", which Paramount Pictures has high hopes for, opened at 2,577 screens, and the box office in the first week was only $19.58 million, which is far lower than Paramount’s $35 million in the first week’s box office expectations and an average of more than $7,600. There is also a big gap between the $10,000 standard.

The first week of the game failed, and the reputation was not satisfactory. The total North American box office of "The Values ​​of the Adams Family" is likely to be only 40 million to 50 million US dollars.

However, this sequel to the "Adams Family" series only cost as much as 37 million US dollars to produce. Although it will not lose money after overseas issuance and subsequent channel operations, compared with Paramount's expectations, this project can only be described as a failure.

The box office of "The Values ​​of the Adams Family" is actually not the most bleak. Last week, the second-largest screen-scale Fox animation "Once in the Forest" opened its screen at 1,487 yuan. The box office in the first week was only a pitiful $3.52 million. Will be taken down by the theaters, the total box office is difficult to exceed 5 million US dollars.

"Ultimate Target" produced by MGM has a seven-day box office of $13.49 million. It does not show a dark horse trend, nor does it disappoint MGM. It is quite satisfactory.

In the first week, 13.49 million US dollars, the total box office in North America is expected to be around 30 million US dollars.

The production budget of "Ultimate Target" is 15 million U.S. dollars, and the domestic box office of 30 million U.S. dollars is expected. Only the North American revenue is enough to recover the production budget. A little operation overseas can enter the profitable stage of this project.

Moreover, the biggest role of "Ultimate Target" is probably to make John Wu, an Asian director, attract the attention of Hollywood.

Under Simon's instruction, the box office of "Ultimate Target" had just been released for the first three days of the weekend, and MGM had already begun to negotiate with Wu Baige to continue cooperation, and the response from the other party was also very positive.

Gaomen Pictures' literary film "Orlando", which opened at 367 screens, had a box office of $5.53 million for the first seven days of the week, which was $3 million higher than "Once Upon a Time in the Forest".

Taking into account the release levels of the two films, "Orlando", which has both reached US$15,000, appears to be even more successful. According to the long-term trend of literary films, the total box office of the film in North America is expected to hit the 20 million mark in the first week of US$5.53 million.

As a work with a US$3 million buyout of North American omni-channel copyright, compared to the total investment of US$5 million after the announcement, only US$20 million at the local box office will double the revenue for Gaomen Pictures. The video tape channel and TV broadcasting platform will also contribute more profits.