Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 800.

Simon wasn't in the mood to do anything, not just this time, but even last night when he was resting at another nearby villa, causing a certain woman to still think he had lost interest in her and was very apprehensive about it.

Mostly because of the sudden addition of a couple of little ones to the women's bellies lately.

Even if that was Simon's own plan, things were still more or less overwhelming when it came down to it, and he couldn't help but think about a lot of things, and even his work was slacking off a lot, and he was still unavoidably tired.

It's nothing more than worrying about the future.

Simon has never been an idealist, and it's simply not possible to get so many little ones to grow up and cuddle up together in the future. As a father, and a very realistic one at that, in the future these little ones will just have to keep their heads out of each other's throats.

Also, what will the world, when the time comes, think of these pure-blooded straight 'Westerosians', and, will the little ones be able to cope, and how should they cope?

It's a mess.

Grace snuggled into Simon's arms and watched TV with the man for a while, sensing his silence, looked up to gauge the man's expression and asked carefully, "Are you sorry?"

Simon lowered his head and pecked the woman on the lips, shaking his head, "Of course not, just thinking about the future."

Grace locked eyes with Simon to make sure he wasn't being comforting, and said, "Find it troublesome?"

"Yeah," Simon nodded, his large hand still caressing the woman's belly, and said, "Actually, you're not the only one lately."

Grace responded, curling her lips, "I know, the one at the Randall's."

Simon was slightly surprised, "You knew that so quickly?"

"Of course, you were with her the other day, and there was so much movement, how could I not know," Grace said, a smile already on her face, and went on, "What about the Jews, they may bother you even more in the future."

Simon gently picked up the woman who had been slumped against him and placed her in his lap, also smiling, and asked, "You have a problem with Jews?"

Grace shrugged, "No, but there are some things that you must know better than I do."

Simon, of course, knew and didn't say much, remembering something and asking, "By the way, what race are you?"

"Both of my grandparents are from Norway and immigrated to the U.S. during World War II, and 'Krapp' is a typical Scandinavian surname, so my father is purely Norwegian. However, one of my grandparents was from England and one from Greece, and further up I'm not sure, so I guess my mother is a mix of English and Greek, and then I ......" Grace snapped her fingers like a little girl, and then looked at Simon, "You said I'm Which race?"

Simon also rationalized, and finally said indifferently, "Anyway, our kids will be pretty, and the hybrids are all pretty."

Grace nodded, still looking at Simon with some curiosity, but just didn't ask after all.

Simon also pretended not to know.

After a little more conversation, Grace, who knew she shouldn't be too greedy, volunteered to get up and say she was heading back downtown, and Simon followed, it wasn't the weekend after all, and having spent the last few days with Irene, some work was definitely needed to be taken care of.

The two returned to Manhattan by helicopter, and Simon personally drove Grace first to Elite's headquarters on Fifth Avenue in Midtown.

Arriving outside the Elite building at the intersection of 28th Street, Grace was clearly reluctant to part again, and came over for some more warmth, and couldn't help but say, "Wanna come up for a ride, I've recently signed some more girls, and I'm calling out to show you?"

"No, it's too much to handle," Simon joked, not forgetting to explain, "And Elite is on the right track now, at least until the baby is born, don't let yourself get too tired, overtime is forbidden, I'll have someone watch you, remember? "

"I know, the baby comes first for me now, even if Elite is gone."

Simonton pretended to be jealous, "Looks like I'm in second place?"

Grace chuckled softly and stuck close again.

Simon kissed the woman on the neck on the way down and began to drive her away, "OK, that's it, get out of here, get out of here, women are so horrible at coaxing men, it almost made me fall in love with you."

Grace heard the last sentence and crossed her eyes at the man, but got out of the car.

Simon watched Grace enter the building with a pair of female Westerosi guards coming down from the car behind her, before ordering the driver to drive to his own office at the Westeros headquarters in Midtown.

The A-girls had stayed in Manhattan yesterday and had arrived here early.

When Simon arrived, Alison immediately delivered the various documents that had recently accumulated.

The first was that on Tuesday of this week Tinkerbell's takeover of Apple had successfully passed through the boards of directors of both companies, as well as the major authorities and regulators, and the merger was officially underway.

Not that there were no objections during the period.

Especially Microsoft.

Simon was interested in Apple's core patents for its graphical interface operating system, and Microsoft knew more about the advantages it would bring to Tinkerbell and the entire Westeros system, so it lobbied Washington to block the deal and even created momentum in the media.

But they were unsuccessful.

Microsoft's monopoly on the GUI operating system was already obvious, and it was not clean, so if it went too far, it would burn itself down.

In addition, there were rumors that some other capital was interested in intercepting it, but eventually nothing happened.

These years tossed down, Apple is a mess, if unable to form a strong complement to their own business, purely to take down the company, will only be to get a hot potato destined to lose money.

Tinkerbell side, since the acquisition has been reached, also began to announce some of the acquisition of Apple after the plan.

The main one is to cooperate with Ygritte, integrate the operating system technology accumulated by Apple over the years, and launch a new personal computer based on the Linux system.

Simon also had a number of discussions with top executives from both Ygritte and Tinkerbell on this matter.

The core issue is whether to transfer the operating system development division of Ygritte or the main PC operating system development team to Tinkerbell.

If Ygritte retains the system R&D team and Tinkerbayer only exchanges patents and system licenses with Ygritte, and does not need to participate in the development of the operating system, then Ygritte has a good chance to be like Google once was, and even if it can't do too much in the PC era, it can still gain a leading edge in the mobile Internet era.

The disadvantage is that the system and hardware are developed separately, which inevitably creates a gap and makes it difficult to operate as desired.

If the team is handed over to Tinkerbell, Tinkerbell's hardware and software will be integrated, and Tinkerbell will become another Apple in the future. The downside is that in the future, in the mobile internet era, if Tinkerbell can't make the right trade-offs in terms of systems, it could lead to the rise of another operating system such as the one that used to be Android, or even make Microsoft's mobile operating system a success.

Simon eventually chose to separate hardware and software.

However, for a long time to come, Tinkerbell will be the sole licensor of Ignite's PC operating system, and it won't be free, in order to protect its interests as a Microsoft shareholder.

In addition, although the operating system is based on Linux, Ignite will choose a more closed development and operation strategy, even if it is widely licensed in the future, the absolute control of the system will be in the hands of Ignite, in order to avoid the maximum fragmentation of the operating system.

A large part of the reason why Android continues to have a poor reputation even after it has matured is due to the severe fragmentation caused by the fact that the major handset makers are developing further versions of Android on their own.

In addition to announcing a Linux version of the PC, Tinkerbell will be developing and deploying public terminals around the world for uploading and downloading iCam, iRec, and other devices, as well as for uploading and downloading pictures, music, and videos from anywhere in the pre-mobile Internet era, as Simon had originally proposed to C-girl. and even video sharing.

Again, there's the development plan for the iBook, an e-book device.

This plan has been privately research and development for several years, the prototype has been quite mature, this time in combination with Apple's Newton tablet related to hardware and software technology, is expected next fall, will launch the iBook-10.

Of course, e-book devices can only be regarded as an overkill for the Tinkerbell Mobile Internet Project, which has yet to be publicly announced, and still requires a wired connection for early data transmission.

These are all public initiatives to stimulate the market.

In private, Tinkerbell will first of all Apple's original business will be drastically streamlined, including servers, printers and many other product lines will be directly cut, the existing Macintosh computer will also be temporarily discontinued, pending next year's Linux version of the new personal computer plus Intel processors.

In the office, Simon read the information coming in from San Francisco and felt as if he had overlooked something.

It took some thinking to get to it.

ARM.

ARM, a British company, was actually first invested by Apple to provide microprocessor architecture technical support for Apple's Newton tablet, and now Apple is still a major shareholder of ARM.

Simon had been concerned about this for a long time.

Since there is a chance to eat the whole ARM in advance, the most important processor architecture of the mobile Internet era is completely in the hands, of course, can not miss.

With this in mind, Simon directly dialed the phone number of C-girl's office in San Francisco, talked in detail for more than 10 minutes, and explained this matter down.

Outside of this matter, there was news from China again.

After getting the "American Idol" license, the Chinese version of the singing reality show is also by the Jinshu Media's Jinshu TV production company project, under Simon's suggestion, named "Supergirl", different from the American side of the mix of men and women, the Chinese side of the first will be mainly girls.

As long as everything goes well, it will naturally be followed by Super Male Voice.

Because the Chinese side of the cable TV is not yet universal, in addition to CCTV, most of the regional TV stations are still regional, Jinshu Media initially tried to cooperate with CCTV to no avail, first to determine the Jiangsu TV, and recently pulled together three other, a total of four provincial TV stations to work together.

There's no such thing as a TV slot over there in China, so there's no need to consider that, and preparations are now underway to start landing four TV stations early next year.

Simon's attitude towards China's media and entertainment industry is to sow seeds and ignite, never thought of making money, so he is just an observer, let the other side to implement, he only grasped a major style of pulse, that is, Jinshu Department of all the production of film and television programs, and even other projects, are based on pure entertainment, not to mention what the red line, even if the Chinese side of the popular reaction to various current affairs or reflect on history of the film and television, all do not touch.

It's all about entertainment.

And then, there are the recent ratings and box office figures of Daenerys Entertainment's movies and TV shows.

This year's still major TV shows such as "American Idol", "ER Story", "Song Fei Zheng Ren" and "Old Friends" need not be mentioned, they are still remaining quite popular at the moment.

Mostly movies.

Firstly, last week's release of a Goldman Pictures solo film, "Unruly Night", a Paul Thomas Anderson directed and actor from the former Mark Wahlberg for Ben Affleck, opened in 1,218 theaters across the United States last week, received praise from critics, with a composite score of 8.1.

The film has been praised by many critics, and it can even be said to be a masterpiece in both narrative and cinematography, with no trace of the youthfulness of a freshman director who has just made a feature film.

Paul Thomas Anderson, who made his debut two years ago, has made a name for himself this time.

Coupled with the film's gimmick of telling the story of the rise and fall of the adult industry in the 1970s and 1980s, the film was a box office success, grossing $9.39 million in its first week of release, a remarkable result for an arthouse film.

Considering that this is a film ideally suited for the long haul, "Unruly Night" is expected to reach over $30 million at the local box office.

With a production cost of $15 million, a promotional investment of $5 million and over $30 million locally, the film's global theatrical release is enough to turn a profit. And based on the subject matter assessment, the film's potential around the video is actually even higher.

All in all, not only does this project add a classic to the Daenerys Entertainment library, but it's also quite profitable.

And then there's the new Annabelle, the new film from the Trickster Cinematic Universe that officially opened today.

At the same $15 million production cost as Unchained Night, this Halloween horror movie was announced, but at the same $15 million, with a total investment of $30 million. Moreover, as a new installment of the already-announced Soul Revealing Cinematic Universe series, the film itself has enough buzz to generate tens of millions of dollars in publicity.

Compared to the original first film, which was rather poorly received due to its lack of attention, Simon has adopted the story structure of the second Annabelle film from his memory, with a few additions, and this new series opener retains the overall style of the Vertigo Cinematic Universe, but also has its own character, which has been quite well received in internal previews.

Opening today on a massive 2,739 screens, Annabelle's word-of-mouth has lifted with it, with a combined score of 7.8 from various media outlets, which is a pretty enticing score for a horror film to buy tickets into.