Hollywood Hunter

With the apparently weak summer box office performance in 1987 coming to an end, two movies related to Simon also ended.

On August 6, after a 17-week screening, "Butterfly Effect" was officially downgraded across North America, and the box office figure was finally fixed at $11.69 million.

Immediately afterwards, in order to free up more screen resources for the new film "Spy of the Navy", "Lola Run" was also downgraded across the board on August 13.From February 13th until August 13th, "Roller Run" happened on the North American theater for half a year, and the cumulative box office reached US$ 223.77 million.

As of August, there were only three films in North America that achieved a local box office of over 100 million this year. Two of them were from a young man who had just debuted for a year. This has to be a miracle.Just as the two films broke through the 100 million yuan mark in June, when the two films went down in order, the news about Simon in the media once again ushered in a small peak period.

However, Simon was unable to take account of these discussions about himself.

Simultaneously with the filming of "Vulgar", Simon also had to take care of the late stage of "The Grim Reaper" and the preparation for "When Harry Meets Sally".At the same time, the operation of the stock index futures market also touched him too much.

In the tense August, most of the past unconsciously in this busy.

Robert De Niro's drama was defeated in early August. The guest scenes of Robert Redford and Nicole Kidman also ended in succession. Originally, everything was going to be so smooth. In the last week of August, Simon finally Still encountered the most difficult bite after the shooting, Madonna.

At the beginning of August 7th, Madonna starred in the second film "Who Is That Girl" just released in North America.

If Madonna is still trying to perform seriously in Last Year’s "Magic Marvel", the Queen Mai in "Who Is That Girl" has completely given up treatment, and various pretentious performances have almost locked her next year's golden acid plum girl The main character award.

Turning to "Vulgar", the grandfather of the Queen obviously hasn't completely subsided, so the original shooting was scheduled for only three days, and it dragged on for five days.

Prior to Janet, Nicole and several other female characters, Simon was very satisfied. He didn't want to lower the requirements for the role of "Bunny" that would appear at the beginning of the film.Therefore, Simon has also been completely on the bar with the Queen in recent days.

Don’t mess with you if you don’t tune well.

Today is already Friday, August 28th.

In a fast food restaurant in the south of Santa Monica.

During these five days, some of the crew members who have been involved in the production of Simon's film since "Rola Run" finally met the director's "manic" side.However, this manicness has nothing to do with the filming of the film, but the director is personally shooting one lens after another to help Madonna demonstrate how to play the little rabbit.

The tall and handsome man can be called the dream lover of all the female employees of the crew. The director personally reversed the actress and was a manic female robber. I can imagine how unbearable the picture will be.

Beside the counter in the fast food restaurant.

At this point, the crew was all around, waiting patiently for Simon to speak to Madonna personally, and even Sean Pandu stood beside with interest, noting that Simon was attentively handing a bottle of pure water to his wife’s Small details, not jealous.After reading the script carefully, he is very clear about Simon's intention to do this, but he is a little bit lamented that a guy is really useless in order to shoot the final scene.

After a moment.

In recent days, everyone has been talking about the scene again.

Simon even finished speaking to Madonna in a row, took the prop revolver in her hand, jumped on the counter three or two times, and shouted at the air where no actors were buried. Let him go, you let him go, let him go, otherwise I will kill you, let him go..."

After this performance, Simon still stood on the counter in a posture,

After a serious demonstration, Simon jumped off the counter.

Madonna was a little bit dissatisfied with this crazy woman-like character at the beginning. However, Simon completely demonstrated her personally regardless of the image. She was secretly born to the young director who had created a box office miracle before she was 20 years old. Admire it and let it go completely in recent days.

After all, it's just a role.

What's more, it's not that no one is calling yourself crazy woman, then crazy is good.

When Simon came down from the counter, Madonna took the revolver that he handed over, a little bit of emotion brewed, and also jumped on the counter: "You let him go, you let him go, let him go, otherwise I will kill you Yes, let him go!"

"Legs, trembling... It's too obvious, take some... Ok, come down first," Simon said, waiting for Madonna to come down from the counter, taking the revolver from the woman's hand again and re-demonstrating it.

After tossing this many times, Simon saw the effect was similar, and handed a bottle of pure water to Madonna again without trace: "Come on, Maggie, drink some more water, and then we start shooting."

Madonna took the water bottle and gave Simon a slanted look, with a ridicule in her eyes: "Little fellow, is this how you pay attention to the woman, I have to say, it's so stupid."

Having said that, Madonna still looked up happily and drank a small half of pure water in one go.

Simon then carried out a trick again to carry a bottle of water, but instead of rushing to Madonna, he ordered Sean Pan, Samuel Jackson, and a group of live performances to start burying.

As long as the scene can be successfully completed today, the footage about the Queen will also end smoothly.

With this expectation, everyone in the crew cheered up.

After several consecutive attempts, he still failed to meet Simon's requirements, during which Madonna was once again filled with a bottle of water by Simon.

Half an hour later, he jumped off the counter again, and Madonna was about to walk towards the toilet, but was stopped by Simon.

"Hey, little guy, I'm going to the toilet. Are you going to go with me?" So joking, Madonna suddenly understood and stared at Simon, saying: "You deliberately?"

Simon neither admits nor denies, saying: "Maggie, insist on filming this scene, and invite you to drink Sean for dinner at night, how?"

Madonna covered her belly, and her eyes began to turn: "I'm in a hurry, little boy, do you want to see me ugly?"

"Okay," Simon surrendered directly: "Conditions you open."

Madonna raised two fingers directly: "Add two more songs."

"I'm just a movie director, Maggie," Simon said bitterly. "Besides, the song also needs inspiration. How could it be possible to say just a few."

"I can play "The Flying Bee" so much, and the great soundtrack in "Laura Run", I am very confident of you," Madonna said, seeing Simon did not agree, rushed forward : "Then I went to the toilet."

Simon quickly stopped: "There are two songs in total, and there will be no more."

"The deal," Madonna nodded briskly, and said: "But you have to hurry up, I only insist on half an hour at most."

Simon shook the pure water in his hand and said, "I can't take it anymore, but I need you to stay in this state throughout the afternoon, and maybe work overtime."

Madonna immediately became unwilling: "Three songs."

Simon insisted: "There are only two, but I guarantee you satisfaction."

Madonna rolled her eyes and said, "The next time I go to my concert, you come and play guitar for me."

"How can this be?"

"As long as it's a show, it's also a cameo. Just rehearse a little bit later. And, little guy, I'll pay you the salary," Madonna said more and more excited, and finally squeezed forward again when Simon didn't let up. "Then I went to the toilet."

Simon nodded: "Well, only one game."

Madonna rolled her eyes again and continued: "That, it's uncomfortable to hold it all the time..."

Simon directly let go: "You go to the toilet."

Madonna did not go, very reluctantly said: "Forget it, really a stingy man."

People are often very fragile when they are forced to endure not going to the toilet.So, in the following performance, although only a few people noticed that Madonna had been drinking water, most people felt that in the last few shots, Madonna completely showed the emotional performance of a female robber who was screaming after the robbery was missed. .

Although it was inevitable to add another one-hour shift, but in a week, the restaurant scene of Madonna and Sean Pan came out successfully.

After finishing work, Simon was once again instructed to help himself complete the agreed song as soon as possible, and Madonna and Sean Pan left together.

Tomorrow is the weekend.

Simon returned to the Palisades mansion at seven o'clock in the evening.

Janet prepared the dinner very considerately. During the meal, the woman told him that Noah Scott had made three consecutive calls since five o'clock in the afternoon.

Simon only remembered that the highest point of the S&P 5 index before the big crash exceeded 330 points, but the specific amount was not too impressive.

Therefore, on August 19 last week, when the S&P 5 index reached 325 points, Simon again began to liquidate 10,000 long contracts in Westeros's account.On August 25, this Tuesday, the S&P 5 index exceeded 330 points, and Simon also asked Noah Scott to speed up clearance.

According to the agreed sales progress, the 10,000 long contracts in Westeros account should be cleared today.

but.

Simon this time did not rush to let Noah Scott establish a short position.

After dinner, Simon came to the study, and Janet followed.After more than three months of operation, although basically knowing, women are still very curious about how much money their men have made.

When he took the initiative to call, Simon felt that Noah Scott seemed extremely enthusiastic today.

The two chatted a few words on the phone, and over there faxed a series of transaction reports and accounting data after clearing 10,000 long contracts.

Today's close, the S&P 5 index has reached 337 points.

Due to the acceleration of the S&P 5 index gains in July and August, it is difficult for Simon to establish a position in the lower index range. The average position of 10,000 contracts this time is 316 points, and the average selling point is about 332 points.

Comprehensively calculated, the average increase of each contract is only 16 points, and has not reached the average profit level of the previous two.But even so, the total profit after the clearance of 10,000 contracts reached $800,000.

In the end, after deducting various handling fees, Westeros now has $27.56 million in the account.

Although failed to reach the 300 million US dollars that Simon expected.However, in three and a half months, from 750,000 US dollars to 27.856 million US dollars, close to 3% of the profit, even the top elite on Wall Street, can not easily achieve this kind of huge profits.

When Simon and Noah Scott talked, Chicago in central America was already over ten o'clock in the evening.

However, in a villa in the rich area of ​​Naperville on the outskirts of Chicago, Noah Scott deliberately sent his cohabiting girlfriend tonight. At this time, only Noah Scott himself and two other five Middle-aged man in his tens.

Two middle-aged people, one is Nelson Scott, Noah Scott's father as vice president of American Express, and the other red-faced middle-aged man is James Robinson, CEO of American Express at this time.

After listening quietly to Noah Scott and the Los Angeles phone, and waiting for his son to put down the microphone, Nelson Scott asked, "How is it?"

Noah Scott shook his head and said, "Let me wait for instructions."

"It's a cautious little guy," James Robinson still holds a thick document in his hand. It is Simon's detailed transaction records in recent months. At this time, he looked through and said: "However, since I can It’s true that he has earned 200 million US dollars in more than three months. Noah, what do you think he will do next?”

Noah Scott thought for a while and said, "It will be another delivery month immediately, and the next index fluctuation will definitely be very intense. Moreover, Westeros did not let me sell this time while continuing to open positions, then, He will either close his hand directly. Or, he should choose to go short. After all, most people now think that the market has reached the top."

James Robinson shook his head and said, "Since June, many people feel that the market has peaked. Everyone is building a short position, but the result is that a little guy who is less than 20 years old earns in a blink of an eye. It’s $200 million. Hey, $200 million. And his performance in Hollywood. Those two movies, I have watched it a few days ago. It’s really good, and the box office surprised everyone. I don’t know. Where did that little guy come out?"

"I heard that I lived in a psychiatric hospital in San Francisco for half a year, and then it became like this," Noah Scott made a joke, watching both elders smile, and then said: "So, Mr. Robinson , What shall we do next?"