Hollywood New Century

As the largest port in France, Marseille is also the third largest city in France. It not only has beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, but also has a developed economy as the third largest metropolitan area in France.

The 2,500-year-old city of Marseille certainly has many attractions worth visiting. Simon held a Christmas yacht party for several days in the port of Marseille, and it was also a party to welcome the new year.

Not far from the old port of Marseille, the Fortress of Saint John, as a famous attraction in Marseilles, Simon, led by Eva Green, took Maria Waward to visit the castle complex built in the 14th century.

"There are so many black people here!" Simon was completely uninterested in this kind of castle with no bright spots and beauty, and there were almost all black people in the city.

"Blacks, French blacks are a lot, a quarter of the people in Marseille are of North African ancestry, mainly Algerians and TNS people," Eva Green explained with a smile.

"There are a lot of them in Paris," Maria Valward also interjected. After all, as a Spanish movie star, she still knows a lot about the bordering France.

"Go back," Simon said, and put his arms around the two European female stars who were going to go back to the Saint John's Castle Hotel.

In a large suite of the hotel, there are three guest rooms, a living room, a study, a conference room, etc. The layout is complete.

Although there are three rooms, it is mainly Eva Green and Maria Waward who have one room each. But Simon always sleeps with the two of them these days, or casually enters a girl's room to rest at night.

For Eva Green, Maria Waward is equivalent to Simon's new love. With competitors, it is necessary to be more active.

After all, I don't know when, Simon is not interested anymore, isn't it.

In the evening, the three of them took a bath together in the large bath of the hotel bathroom. After all, the temperature outside Marseilles in winter is a bit low.

The hot water in the bathtub made Simon feel extremely comfortable, and he said, "It's almost done, it's time to return to China."

"Back to America?" Maria Waward seemed very reluctant. After all, she saw many big names in the European entertainment industry at the yacht party these days.

Simon nodded, and with the euro depreciating against the dollar, the plan to raise money from Europe could also come to an end. After all, Europe, which has just experienced the financial tsunami, also needs capital to recover itself.

"The French movie "Untouchable" invested by Venus Pictures seems to be released in the summer, remember?" Eva Green came to Simon and asked.

"I know, based on the personal biography "Second Breath", it should have a good box office in France!" Of course Simon knew, after all, this was his own involvement, and many things were also handed over to Sophie Marceau Come to coordinate, the summer release has been set.

Simon stayed in Marseille for more than ten days before leaving to return to Los Angeles. The "Polaris" was also parked in the Port of Marseille as a yacht for a future vacation in the Mediterranean.

After all, doesn't Simon himself have a yacht in Miami!

Throughout 2009, it was not bad for Hollywood, and the total box office of North American films broke through the grand view of 10 billion US dollars, an increase of 10% compared with 9 billion US dollars in 2008! This is also the first time that Hollywood's North American box office has surpassed the $10 billion mark.

The previous highest was $9.6 billion in 2007.

Xinghai Pictures' market in 2009 was extremely strong. After perfecting the channels of Pinnacle Entertainment, the number of more than ten movies surpassed the five major film companies in one fell swoop.

With the second North American market share, it is second only to Warner Bros., which ranks first, and even Paramount can only rank third.

The year-end results of Xinghai Entertainment not only surprised myself, but also made the whole Hollywood exclaim.

"Hollywood, the Big Seven is back!"

_The Hollywood Observer

"The emergence of Xinghai Entertainment has perfectly replaced the dying MGM, and Hollywood has revived the golden age!"

_ The San Francisco Chronicle

"Simon Pike, Hollywood's new crown recipient!"

_ The Los Angeles Times

It is not only the traditional six major Hollywood studios who are shocked, but also new investment companies such as Relativity Entertainment, Legendary Pictures, or independent studios, Weinstein Pictures, Lionsgate, etc. It is even more surprising.

Harvey Weinstein, who has experienced complaints and disputes from female filmmakers for more than half a year, is now even worse.

The Weinstein Films originally had a $500 million line of credit from Goldman Sachs funds, but the scandal broke out due to co-founder Harvey Weinstein.

Investors are pessimistic about Weinstein Pictures' prospects, and at the same time because of the conflict between Harvey Weinstein and Simon Pike.

Now the Weinstein Films is not as good as it used to be, and the leader of the company has become Bob Weinstein.

And Bob Weinstein was very angry with his lustful brother Harvey Weinstein, and focused on Dimen Pictures, mainly investing in B-level films, and making money as the first purpose.

"You stupid pig, "Nine" has been released for a month and a half, and the North American box office is only 15 million US dollars. How much investment? 90 million US dollars, musical films have long been out of market. Another one?" In the office of Weinstein Pictures, Bob Weinstein almost roared, Rob Marshall directed musical, bringing together Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson and other Oscar winners.

"You still invited Nicole Kidman to make a cameo. Did they take care of you? Now Nicole Kidman has Simon Pike as his backer. Do you know the box office and reputation of "Weakness"?"

Bob Weinstein's attitude towards money is very profound, and Harvey Weinstein used the movie to play with female stars, leading to the current situation, which is very passive.

Weinstein Pictures has lost so much to the Harvey Weinstein scandal that many investors and filmmakers have drawn the line.

Some are not optimistic, and some do not want to offend Simon Pike. In short, the current Weinstein Films cannot tolerate Harvey Weinstein, otherwise the resistance will be too great.

"Bob, aren't I doing some work behind the scenes right now?" Harvey Weinstein also argued, and all used a pseudonym to participate in the behind-the-scenes work of the movie.

In fact, Harvey Weinstein's situation is much better now than in the future. First of all, feminism is not as domineering as it will be in the next ten years. Second, this guy also has a lot of Hollywood connections as a billionaire. Jail is normal.

"No, now Simon wants to acquire NBC Universal, and his focus is back on Hollywood. Weinstein Pictures needs to immerse for a while, and then I will let Dimen Pictures develop some works," Bob said. Weinstein didn't want to be implicated by this dead fat man anymore. He still remembers what he said to Simon in a bar in New York back then!

With that, Bob Weinstein slammed the door and left.