Hollywood Hunter

With the addition of three little guys, the breakfast time at Shell Villa is full of energy.

This is Monday, May 16.

A family of seven in the restaurant, Simon and his wife sat together as usual, Veronica was next to Melbourne, the female assistant brought Nick, and Janet grabbed Seattle by her side, and eagerly taught the unusually precocious little girl to set the table. The food and utensils on the table read the past one by one, and occasionally rewards a certain kind of food for sucking a certain kind of food, and sees the little Nick on the special baby seat opposite to drool. The two young ones are only six months old, and they are completely joining in the fun. They can't eat anything except milk.

Seattle Xiaoxiao tasted the pitaya pellets, and spit it into the spoon obediently. Janet smiled and praised him. He noticed that the younger son on the other side opened his eyes wide and looked at him, leaning over the spoon across the dining table, tempting him. Said: "Little guy, call me mother, and I will give you food if you call me."

Little Nick obviously couldn't scream, just babbling open his mouth, his small face full of expectation.

Then, Janet decisively returned the spoon to her mouth, enjoying it. The little guy who was tricked by his own mother finally couldn't help but cried out.

The female assistant gave Janet a white look, took Little Nick out of the baby seat and gently coaxed her, lifted the skirt of her clothes to feed the baby, and then stopped crying.

Janet took a few glances at the female assistant who nursed her child, then glanced at her man, and finally turned to Seattle, like a wolf grandmother: "Do you want to take milk?"

Seattle nodded his head, his voice was still very soft, but he pronounced clearly: "Yeah."

Janet immediately showed a triumphant expression and shook her head with regret: "Nothing, it's eaten up by your father."

Janet spoke out, and felt that even her eldest son was looking at her strangely, and Simon could only pretend that nothing had happened.

Unexpectedly, Janet was still messing around, so she whispered something in Seattle's ear, then took the little guy to the spacious dining table and said with a big smile: "Go."

The female assistant looked at her daughter who was lying on the table and said helplessly: "Jenny, stop making trouble, I can't feed the two children."

Janet smiled slyly, and gently pushed the obviously hesitant little girl again. The child's beautiful eyes glanced at both sides of the table, and then crawled towards Veronica.

Seeing her aunt's face changed from surprised to ruddy, Janet suddenly laughed out of smirk and patted the table lightly.

Now that it has been revealed, the matter about Simon’s life experience is no longer concealed from the female assistant. Seeing her daughter walking towards Veronica, worried about her embarrassment, the female assistant wanted to hold the child first, but there was still a call in her arms. The small dog who ate a lot of food did not get up for a while.

Fortunately, before Seattle arrived at the ‘destination’, Simon stood up and grabbed his daughter and handed it to Janet, who was overjoyed.

Janet took the child, but didn't encourage her to go to Veronica, smilingly hugging the little girl and complimenting: "Syl is really smart, but there is really no one today. Mom will feed you by herself tomorrow."

The female assistant noticed the slightly weird atmosphere in the restaurant, took the initiative to find a more formal topic, and asked Simon: "Hillary came to our house at noon. Are you really going to come out in person?"

Hillary, of course, is Hillary Clinton.

The President's wife is here as a lobbyist this time, for the Hearst Group.

Washington may be indifferent to the Hearst Group, which is now being pushed by everyone, but it is impossible to ignore the more than 20,000 employees of the Hearst Group and the union forces behind them. After all, these all mean a lot of votes. Last Friday, several major paper media unions jointly submitted a petition to the White House requesting to intervene in the Hearst Group chaos. After a brief communication between the White House and Los Angeles, Clinton sent Hillary Clinton to rush to the matter today.

Simon never let go of the Hearst family's plan.

Regarding the $1 settlement terms, Simon was on the one hand to take away any capital that might make the Hurst family resurrect, and on the other hand, to avoid the Hurst family's desperate choice. After all, the rabbit would bite when he was anxious.

People are always like this, as long as they have some hope, or think they have room for a turnaround, they often won't go to extremes again.

The Hearst family's hesitation after Simon's offer fell completely within his expectations.

Seeing the female assistant asked about it, Simon also understood her thoughts and agreed: "Since it is the Mrs. President who is here, and it happens that you are hosting, I will not join in the fun."

Both of the White House are smart people.

If Simon doesn't come out in person, the other party should understand his mind and won't be entangled anymore.

The relationship between the Westeros system and the Clintons is far from reaching the level of advancing and retreating together. In their respective positions, it is impossible to be close to that degree. The two sides are basically a relationship of mutual benefit, and Simon will not Fully support Clinton 100%, and the White House will not follow the Westeros system.

Of course, both sides are also aware of their respective importance, even if it is impossible to fully advance and retreat, but no one will easily give up such a powerful ally.

Since the murder of Doris Fitch came to light, it is impossible for the Hearst Group to get away easily.

Simon's attitude is indeed the key to the whole thing.

The one-sided public crusade triggered by the murder of Doris Fecher is ultimately time-sensitive, just like the eavesdropping scandal of News Corp. in Simon’s memory. Things have been turbulent for a period of time, but the Murdoch family has not broken their nerves and is still the world. One of the most powerful media family in China. Without the intervention of the Westeros system, the Hearst Group would end in the same way in this turmoil. After all, the other party's instigation to assassinate the president aroused public outrage, and only closed a newspaper.

The current situation is that on the basis of the murder of Doris Fitch, the Hearst Group is also facing a complete blockade and litigation bombing of the Westeros system. The combination of the two is the most deadly. The individual murder case only served as a catalyst, accelerating the collapse of the Hearst Group.

If Simon can abandon the complete blockade of the Hearst Group and agree to a quick settlement of the several huge claims lawsuits, the Hearst Group will be able to take a sigh of relief and deal with the series of disturbances caused by the murder case much easier.

From the beginning of March to the present, the Westeros system has actually been tossed for more than two months. All this stems from the secret manipulation of the Hearst family to expose the London girl incident, and the Hearst Group’s confrontation with Simon after the two sides tore their faces. The blatant attack.

Only because the current Westeros system is strong enough and the gossip exposed by the Hearst Group is far from the murderous nature of the murders, this did not cause too serious a substantial impact on the Westeros system.

However, Simon is still struggling to cope in the past two months.

Many of the originally planned schedules had to be cancelled.

The "Suicide Squad" on the Australian side was completed in April. As usual, for the DC Cinematic Universe project, Simon usually followed up personally for at least a week, but this time he couldn't spare any time to go to Australia.

From the initial little discord to the deep entanglement now, all stemmed from the endless entanglement of the Hirst family.

With an absolute advantage, if Simon had to take the initiative to let go of the opponent, he would not be able to forgive himself.

This time, even if the Hearst family, which has a deep heritage, cannot be reduced to a pauper, Simon will completely remove the Hearst family from the media industry and lose the huge media empire that supports its own hidden power. If we can retain some of the family heritage, we will completely lose our influence in this country.

Wealth and power have always been complementary.

Without power, it will only be easier to continue to deprive a family of the remaining wealth.

What Simon seemed to say to Lydia Hirst when he was entertaining Mother and Daughter last week was not a joke at all.

After breakfast, Veronica set off for New York. Janet would have passed by. Black Rock Asset Management's acquisition of State Street Asset Management is at a critical juncture. Because of the visit of the President's wife, the woman postponed the itinerary until tomorrow. After all, it is impossible to only let the female assistants who are not properly named come forward to entertain. Simon doesn't care, but it will inevitably make Hillary feel contemptuous and offended.

Simon rushed to Daenerys Studios to start a day's work.

In order to avoid the edge of the super blockbuster "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" on June 3, the summer file of 1994 was officially opened last Friday.

A total of three new films entered the North American theaters on May 13th, Daenerys Entertainment produced Michael Bay’s "Stargate" and Columbia Pictures produced the famous black director Spike Lee’s new work "Racial Passion". "And Disney produced "When a Man Loves a Woman" starring Meg Ryan.

One of the most concerned is undoubtedly "Stargate".

Since being announced as the director of "Jurassic Park 2" in early April, and was picked to participate in directing the first Victoria's Secret show, Michael Bay’s movie Virgo has become the focus of many media discussions.

After several internal trial screenings, Daenerys Entertainment also decisively invested a $20 million publicity budget.

Counting the production cost of the film of 30 million US dollars, the total investment of "Stargate" reached 50 million US dollars, which is already a blockbuster level.

The new "Stargate" is indeed better than the original version.

Michael Bay made full use of the action-adventure style he was good at later within the budget, and the plot was no longer procrastinated, and it was done in one go.

The film also did not focus on shaping the eccentric alien image of Jay Davidson who was once a male and female, but simply and neatly told a high-concept story of humans leading aliens to fight against evil aliens and gain freedom.

Although it is a high-concept movie at its core, the film’s operation of wormhole theory is still very new in the genre of Hollywood science fiction movies, which has therefore become a selling point of the film.

In terms of casting, whether it was James Spade, whose style was more suitable for literary and artistic films, or Jay Davidson, who became famous with "The Crying Game", Simon did not start again. The casting basically followed the routine of American commercial movies, and the protagonist was honest. A playful male partner, plus a seductive vase.

In the previous "Stargate", the heroine is an unfamiliar newcomer, but this time Simon personally appointed the famous Hollywood stunner actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who has accumulated a lot of fame in recent years. The slightly darker complexion of the British actress fits the style of the alien girl in the film.

After "Stargate" opened with 2,296 screens last Friday, the final media score reached 8.2 points.

Since the official announcement of the "Jurassic Park 2" project, the media and the public have been observing Michael Bay with a magnifying glass, so it is inevitable that they are naturally harsh. In this case, "Stargate" can also get an excellent media rating of 8.2 points, and Michael Bay's first feature film is equivalent to a perfect answer.

The box office of the film is even more satisfying.

From May 13th to May 15th, the first weekend of May 15th, the box office of "Stargate" was as high as 25.63 million U.S. dollars in three days. It only took three days to achieve a high-sale level of over 10,000 in the museum. It is expected that the box office of the first week The drop will be around 36 million US dollars. This kind of box office results far surpassed the other two blockbuster movies "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Detective Plane" that Daenerys Entertainment has launched in 1994. It is almost certain that the box office exceeded 100 million.

As long as the local box office breaks 100 million yuan, "Stargate" can recover all costs only by the North American cinema chain, and subsequent channels will directly enter the profit cycle.

On the other hand, as of May 12, the cumulative box office of "Four Weddings and One Funeral", which was released for 13 weeks, reached 104.55 million U.S. dollars, becoming Daenerys Entertainment's first domestic box office to exceed 100 million in 1994. the film.

In the past weekend, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" received another 680,000 U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 105.23 million U.S. dollars. The box office is expected to be around 1 million U.S. dollars for the entire week.

This literary love comedy still maintains a screening scale of 563 screens until now. Although the box office is about to fall below 1 million US dollars in a single week, with the film’s strong reputation and long-term trend, it is not a big problem to continue to receive 5 million US dollars. , The final local box office will reach 110 million US dollars.

Not only that, the overseas box office of "Four Weddings and One Funeral" is even better. As of last week, the cumulative overseas box office of this movie has reached 153 million U.S. dollars. It is expected to exceed the 200 million U.S. dollar mark, and the global total box office may reach 300 million. Dollar.

With a production cost of US$5 million and a box office return of US$300 million, "Four Weddings and a Funeral" almost locked in the movie with the highest box office return in 1994.

Another Kim Carey comedy "The Detective Airplane Head", as of May 12, has a cumulative box office of 77.26 million U.S. dollars in five weeks.

However, this past weekend, under the impact of three new films such as "Stargate", the box office of "Detective Plane" fell by 31%, and only received $4.13 million in three days. It is expected that the box office for the entire week will be around 6 million.

With the official opening of the summer season, due to its popcorn-like vulgar comedy theme, "Detective Airplane Head" will definitely continue to deepen its box office decline in the face of the pressure of many new films. This movie has a cumulative box office of 81.39 million US dollars as of last weekend. It's not a big problem for a blockbuster comedy that the total domestic box office exceeds 90 million US dollars. If you want to break 100 million, the possibility is very small.

Moreover, due to the vulgar comedy style of local American culture, the overseas box office of "Detective Aircraft Head" is not very good. As of last week, only 33 million US dollars have been received at the box office. It is estimated that the total overseas box office is about 50 million US dollars.

The global box office forecast of 140 million U.S. dollars, compared to the total investment of 25 million U.S. dollars in the film, is of course a big profit, but Simon knows that Kim Carey’s box office appeal has not been fully stimulated, and can only look forward to the end of the year. Box office performance.

As for the local failure to break 100 million, Simon is actually not a pity.

With a total box office of more than 90 million U.S. dollars and entering a club with a billion yuan, it is more of a symbolic meaning, and it has a greater meaning for actors, especially those who have just become popular like Kim Carrey.

Moreover, because Kim Carey immediately tried to modify the uneasy distribution of the original contract after he suddenly became famous, the box office of "Detective Plane Head" stopped at more than 90 million US dollars, which is just right. Simon is not a stingy person. If Kim Kerian scores well, and after the continuous sales of "Detective Plane" and "Ghost in Disguise", he will definitely take the initiative to give the other party a big red envelope.

Now, the comedian has just started to make a fuss, unfortunately, Simon will only give nothing.

"Ghosts in Disguise" produced back-to-back with "Detective Plane" has been completed. If Kim Carrey continues to be ignorant of good or bad, Simon doesn't mind keeping the other side cold for a few years. Several other studios in Hollywood may accommodate a star who can bring big-selling movies. Daenerys Entertainment has too many good projects to develop, and no one is indispensable.