Hollywood Hunter

Simon did not return to Woodside's mountain villa that night. Instead, after Tim Berners Lee's reception, he went to her apartment in Atherton with the housekeeper Alice Ferguson for the night.

In fact, there are some small considerations.

The day before, I couldn't help but slept with another female assistant, and realized that Celia was as ambitious as Sophia at the time, and Simon didn't want to give women too much room for fantasy, so she deliberately ignored her.

In the early morning of the next day, Zoe Parks, who had been ambiguous with the housekeeper, was specifically called to prepare breakfast, and Lady A naturally followed.

So there were a man and three women at the breakfast table.

During the meal, looking at the housekeeper whose ruddy face was eating salad at will and looking at the laptop screen at hand, Simon said to the baby-faced girl: "Zoe, you don't need to go back with me on weekends. Take Ellie to Hawaii for some fun. God, um, remember not to get tanned."

The intimacy with the housekeeper was caught by Simon, and depending on the situation, his boss has already labeled Lace.

However, since the housekeeper entered Igreat, Zoe has not had much contact with Alice. At this time, the baby-faced girl looked at her boss a little pitifully, and then at Alice.

Going to Hawaii for the weekend is nothing, I look forward to it.

But, if you accompany a workaholic who is still dealing with emails at breakfast, what's the point?

Just like the last time Simon was forced to take a break, Alice looked up at someone who bullied herself last night, and subconsciously said, "I still have a job."

Simon also said, just like the time at the beginning of the year, "No more now."

Alice stared at a certain guy with a pair of clear blue eyes, confronted for a moment, realized that her resistance was destined to be invalid, and simply turned her attention to the laptop again.

Go to Hawaii, just Hawaii.

Anyway, he couldn't keep staring at himself, but just changed his work place.

Unexpectedly, the man seemed to be aware of her thoughts, and added: "I will leave in the afternoon. I can only bring a change of clothes. I can't get on the plane with my laptop. In addition, I lent you my villa in Hawaii. Remember to do a cleaning on the weekend."

Alice immediately raised her head again and bargained, "Tomorrow morning."

"This afternoon," Simon insisted, and added: "Also, every weekend from now on, I will let Zoe come with you."

After confronting again for a while, the housekeeper still retreated and had to default.

As a boss, Simon certainly hopes that his employees can always work tirelessly like cattle.

As a man, Simon didn't want his woman to only know about work all day long, which would cause her face to be haggard and even exhaust her body.

Compared with the three women B, C, and D who have left, the housekeeper and Simon have actually maintained an initial contract. This mansion in the Lindenwood community of Atherton was purchased by Simon and given to the housekeeper. Claires do not have this treatment and will need to be self-reliant after leaving.

After breakfast, everyone left the housekeeper’s mansion together. Simon’s destination was Lady C’s Tinkobair Company. He sent the housekeeper to the headquarters of Igreat.

Arriving at the office building of Tinkerbair Company, Girl C has already started a meeting, and Simon temporarily borrows Claire's office to start a day's work.

Today is May 20th, Friday.

The beginning of another box office week in Hollywood.

In the past week, from May 13th to May 19th, Michael Bay’s "Stargate" has unsurprisingly won the first place in the box office of the week, with a total of 36.61 million US dollars in seven days in the first week.

Although there will be major productions in the next few weeks, with the box office of 36.61 million US dollars in the first week, as long as the box office decline in the next week is not too severe, the local box office of "Stargate" will not be too suspenseful.

In comparison, the other two new films, another romance film "When a Man Loves a Woman" starring Meg Ryan, had a box office of only $11.29 million in the first week and seven days.

In order to save budget, Disney invited Andy Garcia, who is not too famous, as the leading actor. The biggest achievement of this actor who has been in Hollywood for many years is that he relied on the performance in "The Godfather 3" to get a few years ago. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, with little appeal at the box office, this "When a Man Loves a Woman", Andy Garcia failed to produce with Meg Ryan like "Night Sleep in Seattle" and "When Harry" Encounter the strong sparks of the hero and heroine in Sally.

As a result, the final budget of "When a Man Loves a Woman" was US$25 million, which is indeed very economical compared to Meg Ryan’s high salary of US$7 million after last year’s "Night Sleep in Seattle". Only the box office of 11.29 million US dollars in the first week, and considering the mediocre reputation of the film and the subsequent series of blockbusters, the total North American box office of this romance movie may be only about 30 million US dollars.

Through overseas and subsequent releases, Disney was able to recover the cost, but it was basically a waste of effort, and once again wasted a summer start period.

The black director Spike Lee's new film "Race Love" is even more average, with only 3.91 million US dollars in the first week of the painting.

With the success of the last "Kuroshio", Spike Lee received US$15 million in investment from Columbia, starting with US$3.91 million, and the local box office was roughly US$10 million. The overseas market for black racial films is very narrow, and Colombia is tantamount to another slump.

Speaking of, Spike Lee has been working closely with Universal Pictures in the past few years. Three consecutive works were produced by Universal Investment. It was only after Daenerys Entertainment completed the acquisition of MCA. Due to the turbulence during the integration of the two companies, This kind of partnership did not continue to Daenerys Entertainment, which is a pity.

As one of Hollywood’s best black directors, although Spike Lee’s personal works are limited to audiences, the box office is usually not too high, but because the production budget is often relatively low, they can usually achieve good profits, even if they lose money. Too much, so it is definitely a director similar to Woody Allen that is worthy of being attracted.

After reading last week’s box office report, Simon sent an e-mail to Ella Deutschman, asking him to take the time to chat with Spike Lee, and take advantage of the opportunity that the other party had just experienced a failure to try to win him. In fact, it does not matter whether a movie is ultimately profit or loss. Doing so can further increase the diversity of Daenerys Entertainment's movies, which is of great benefit to the building of the corporate brand.

In the new week, the North American theaters once again have two new heavyweight films released, namely "Life and Death" produced by MGM and "Gambling Horse Huali" produced by Warner Bros.

"Life and Death" was previously directed by Martin Campbell, who successfully produced "Wonder Woman", and starred two popular Hollywood stars, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.

In the past, the original version of "Life and Death", the three main creators Jane de Bont, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock were not too popular, but the film cost 30 million US dollars to produce Achieved an outstanding performance of over 100 million at the North American box office.

This time, under the influence of Simon’s “Big Butterfly”, the three main creators are hot in Hollywood, and the production budget has increased from 30 million US dollars in the original time and space to 45 million US dollars, basically reaching the level of a blockbuster. .

In order to compete for time with "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" on June 3, MGM also gave it a go this time and prepared 2,869 screens for "Life and Death", and the announcement budget reached 20 million US dollars.

Today, the large-scale painting was officially opened, and the media reputation of "Life and Death Speed" was also released at the same time. The comprehensive media score of preliminary statistics reached 9.4 points, which directly surpassed the 8.2 points of "Stargate" last week and reached a classic level.

Another "Gambler Mavali" is a complete super blockbuster.

The film is adapted from a Western TV series of the same name in the 1950s in the United States. Richard Donner and Mel Gibson, directors of the "Deadly Weapon" series, collaborated again, and invited Oscar actress Judy Foster Join. The lineup of the three main creators even surpassed "Speed ​​of Life".

Relying on the successful bottoming of the "Lethal Weapon" series, the budget cost of "Gambling Mavali" is as high as 75 million U.S. dollars, Warner Bros. has also invested 30 million U.S. dollars in the publicity budget, and the number of film screens has reached 2,537.

Because Daenerys Entertainment is not optimistic about it, Daenerys Entertainment basically doesn't touch the subject of Western movies, but Warner is a big Western movie player.

For "The Gambler Mavali", Simon is very optimistic about this project. Even if the North American box office of "The Gambler Mavali" in his memory has achieved more than 100 million yuan, Warner is basically unlikely to get much profit from this project. A classic case of working for a Hollywood superstar.

For the entire project, Mel Gibson directly took the high salary of 15 million US dollars, and Richard Downer also received 8 million US dollars from first-line directors, even Judy Foster paid 5 million US dollars. .

The three main creators can be said to have returned with satisfaction.

However, with the huge cost of "The Gambler Mavali", Warner Bros. needs a global box office of about 250 million U.S. dollars to achieve breakeven. In the past, the global box office of "The Gambler Mavali" was only 1.8. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

Not only that, this time, because there was "Stargate" before, "Life and Death" in the same period, and two weeks later, there will be the super heavy "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises". The word-of-mouth is just barely passing "Gambling Man Mahuali". It is difficult to get the box office share of the original time and space. The local people want to exceed 100 million, unless there is a miracle.

The more likely result is that Warner will plant a big somersault on this project, and then further increase its dependence on the DC movie universe.

Celia Miller did not see her boss again until she returned to Los Angeles in the evening.

However, the woman did not show the slightest bit of resentment that she was left overnight by a little man after she was just happy. She took advantage of the short time she returned to Los Angeles and continued to discuss with Simon the various layouts of the Westeros system in the military field.

During a business trip around the earth, Celia was able to participate in secret negotiations between the Westeros mercenaries and the French government. The French authorities eventually paid 25 million US dollars in compensation for the seizure of the employment in Westeros. All members of the former Rwandan government's military French army advisory group in the hands of the army, including all corpses.

Celia offered the price of 25 million U.S. dollars after learning the general situation.

It’s not that the French government can’t provide more, but because if the claim is too high, it will exceed the limit of the French government’s secret small vault. Then it will have to raise funds through official government financial channels. If so, the French military adviser The regiment must be revealed.

This is a result that neither side wants to see.

Allowing Celia to participate in this negotiation can be regarded as a small test for Simon, mainly to test the credibility of the former female official of the Ministry of Defense. The result surpassed Simon's expectations, and it also showed him the benefits of having a man who had worked in the federal defense system and was familiar with the unspoken rules of various authorities.

Prior to this, both Simon and the commander of the Westeros mercenary, William McRaney, wanted to speak to the French government lion. If they do, the two sides will probably tear their faces.

After traveling for half a month, Celia also completed the personnel infiltration layout of the Rwandan government, and had a private meeting with the current prime minister and next presidential candidate Leon Kuchma of Ukraine, not only to persuade Ukraine, who has been hesitant. The government agreed to the Westeros system to establish a private military company in Ukraine, and Celia was personally responsible for the formation of a Ukrainian mercenary support team in Kiev.

"In the United States, I think our company should mainly recruit middle and low-level retired officers in the short term, and cooperate with about 300 former special forces, mainly to provide military training services," Celia watched in the front cabin of the Boeing 767. Looking at the little man on the sofa next to him, seeing that he had no objection, he continued: "The lesson learned by the French government in arranging a military advisory group in Rwanda. Although the news has not been made public, I think other countries will learn from it in the future. It provides similar information through private military companies in disguise. Service can not only reduce the possible casualties of official soldiers, but also avoid accusations of interfering in other countries’ internal affairs once things are revealed. We have a lot of business space in this area."

Simon was reviewing a plan for the formation of a private military company in Australia, and nodded when he heard that, and signaled Celia to continue.

Celia took another look at Simon, thought about it, and turned to the topic for the time being, and said: "Simon, North America, about the name of the'Military Consulting and Security Service Company', you really don't plan to think about it again. ?"

Military consulting & security service company (Military consulting & amp security service, referred to as MCSS), this is the name of the private military company of the Westeros system in North America.

Australia and Ukraine did not directly name the XX branch, but a similar new name. The former is the Perth Military Advisor and Security Company, because the headquarters is located in Perth, Western Australia, and the latter is the Ukrainian frontline military. Service company, headquartered in Kiev.

The biggest feature of the three names is that they are common and slightly longer.

Simon heard Celia ask about this, raised his head and asked, "If you had a name similar to Daenerys Entertainment, do you think it would be?"

"I think this is better," Celia said, "It's very special and easy to be remembered."

Simon shook his head and said: "Entertainment technology companies, of course, the easier the name is to be remembered, the better. However, for private military companies, do you think it is a good thing to be remembered all the time?"

Celia paused and reacted quickly, shook her head and said, "It seems, no."

Simon shrugged: "So, that's right."

In the past history, Heishui International, founded in 1997, has become'famous' in the industry in just a few years. Whether it is in the United States or overseas, when it comes to mercenaries, many people can think of Heishui in the first place, because This name just sounds **** and domineering.

Because of its reputation and too many eyes staring at this company, Heishui began to have troubles after he grew bigger, and various scandals were frequently exposed, thus losing large and large orders.

Finally, the Blackwater Company finally began to reflect that it is not the largest private mercenary company in the United States. If the United States, the Military Professional Resources Corporation (MPRI) is the largest one, it is even the top five in the world. If you can't get in, why are there constant troubles? Why don't the media look for those big troubles?

Finally understand.

Oh, it turned out to be a problem with the name!

The name Heishui is too conspicuous and so popular.

So one day, Heishui quietly changed his name to Xe service company.

What does Xe mean?

who knows?

I don’t know!

Learning from the lessons of Blackwater, Simon confirmed from the beginning that the name of the private military company of the Westeros system must be as common as possible, and the more unrememberable the better.