Hollywood Hunter

Daenerys Pictures headquarters.

Jennifer Rebold tapped gently on the door of the editing room. After receiving the response, he opened the door and said to Simon, who was busy in front of the editing desk, "Boss, it is four o'clock."

Simon just nodded slightly, his gaze was still on the monitor screen of the editing table, and his hands kept moving, saying: "Wait a moment, it will be fine soon."

Jennifer said nothing more, walked in lightly, closed the door of the editing room from behind, and watched Simon work quietly with a slight click of the equipment."Pulp Fiction" has a sufficient budget, and Simon does not need to be personally involved.Prior to the film's rough cut was done by a professional editor, but at the fine cut stage, Simon decided to do it himself.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon spent most of these days in the company's editing room.

After a while, Simon archived the video and began to organize the tape notes and other items on the editing table.Jennifer also stepped forward and skillfully helped Simon put everything into the safe in the corner of the editing room.

In this way, he quietly spent a quiet time with him. After leaving the editing room, Jennifer talked about today's work: "I have collected information from some North American mainstream record companies and second and third line labels, and it has been put on your office table. Mr. Steve Jobs’s secretary gave a response in the morning, and the other party said that Jobs did not intend to sell Pixar; Silicon Map CEO Ed McLaken invited you to visit Silicon Map Corporation’s headquarters in San Francisco recently; Bill. Mr. Gates’s assistant called and Gates was going to Los Angeles next Monday, hoping to have lunch with you; and, um, an invitation to speak at Stanford University."

Simon took Jennifer through the corridor, took a look at the invitation letter from Stanford University, and handed it back, saying: "If there is such an invitation, just push it away. I will give them a speech to spread the negative. Energy: Look, that guy is the same age as us, God is really unfair."

Jennifer chuckled, put the invitation in the folder, hugged his chest, looked up, and asked, "What about Mr. McCracken and Mr. Gates' invitation?"

"I will definitely go there once in San Francisco, but recently I have no time and need to push back. As for Gates, you book a restaurant, we are the hosts and we always have to be warm. In addition, I suddenly thought of one today In fact, since all the stocks have been exposed, I already have the right to ask these companies for board seats according to the proportion of Westeros. You ask your dad if he is interested in serving as a director for these companies. I don’t have that much time myself. So, my idea is that George is in charge of these companies on the west coast, and your dad is in charge of the east coast."

Westero's 4.9% shareholding in 26 technology companies can basically squeeze Simon into the ranks of major shareholders of these companies.

If these holdings are not exposed, Simon also intends to be a silent individual shareholder, hiding in secret and watching the development of these companies.Now that these shares are well known, Simon decided to claim his rights as a shareholder.

Theoretically, the board of directors is usually the most direct organization for shareholders of a listed company to exercise their power. In most cases, the company's management is also the board of directors voted for appointment.As long as Simon gets the board seat of the corresponding company, it is enough to exert his own influence on the future development of these companies.

Jennifer followed Simon and wrote down her restaurant memo in her memo while walking.When she heard Simon's last words, her expression was a little surprised, and some inexplicably shy.Just to say something, the two had already arrived in a meeting room of the company, and Jennifer had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​questioning and followed Simon to sit down at the conference table.

It is difficult to calm down in my heart.

The most direct manifestation of the power of the US consortium is to control hundreds of board seats in large global corporate giants.

Simon’s wealth now cannot be compared with any of the top ten US consortiums.

If Simon really let his father and uncle come forward as directors of these companies, with the identity of Simon Westeros huge wealth spokesperson and the influence represented by these company board seats, the Rebold family and the Norman family can immediately The formerly well-known lawyer's house stepped into the country's most influential class.

After all, billions of dollars of wealth is definitely not just a series of simple numbers on the surface.

Simon and Jennifer sat down at the conference table. There were actually only four people in the room. The other two were Amy and her assistant named Vanessa Linde. When she just dug Amy, Danny Lisi Films also once caused Amy to pay Vanessa's salary in person due to lack of funds.

This embarrassment will naturally not appear again.

However, the conference room with only four people still shows the essence of Daenerys Pictures is still a small workshop.Under normal circumstances, including a few people from Simon, the fixed staff responsible for all tasks such as finance, sending and receiving, and logistics in the two-story office building of Daenerys Pictures is actually only 15 people.As for the film production, it is entirely by the boss Simon and Amy Pascal.

Today is already December 16, Wednesday.

The three movie projects planned by Daenerys Pictures in 1987, "The Grim Reaper" is coming to an end.

From the opening of the painting on October 23 to the present, in seven and a half weeks, the cumulative box office of "The Grim Reaper" has reached US$67.53 million.Since the news that Simon suddenly became a billionaire in November inevitably played a role in boosting the box office of the film, the box office performance of "Death Is Coming" easily exceeded the expected 60 million US dollars.

At present, "The Grim Reaper" is temporarily ranked 7th in the North American box office annual ranking at the box office of $67.43 million, immediately following "Iron Faces Selfless" starring Sean Connery.The film had previously harvested a total of 1.06 million US dollars at the box office from December 11 to December 13 at the weekend. In the next few weeks, the total box office of the movie before the next gear was enough to easily break the 70 million US dollar mark.

Simond intended to pay attention to the two major films at the end of the year.

According to the information in the memory, the Thanksgiving and Christmas files also have "Three Babies and a Baby" that has been released on November 25, as well as the "Moonlight" on December 18, and "Early" on December 25. "An Vietnam" is expected to squeeze into the top ten of the annual list, and the rest are not enough to pose a threat to "The Grim Reaper".

As a result, "The Grim Reaper" unexpectedly stepped into the top 10 from the originally expected top 15 box office in North America. If there are no other box office dark horses next, this movie will happen to rank in North America's annual box office. Ranked 10th.

Counting firmly on the 1st place, "Raola Run" and the temporarily ranked 4th "Butterfly Effect", all three movies related to Simon in 1987, all squeezed into the North American box office ranking list. 10 people.

Even if Simon’s madly earning more than one billion dollars in the financial market shocked the whole world, in recent weeks, with "The Grim Reaper" has continuously surpassed the strength of films such as "East Town Witch", "Fatal Weapon" and "Developed Road" Winning the seventh place in the annual list, Simon's personal three films a year all squeezed into the top ten of the annual box office list. The initiative still makes the entire Hollywood side.

Therefore, although "Pulp Fiction" and "When Harry Meets Sally" are still in the post-production stage, the capital market is finally blessed by the aura of more than one billion US dollars of personal wealth and the top ten films of the three consecutive annual box office lists. The door was completely opened to Simon.

Simon actually agrees with the principle of not using his own money to invest in movies.

In this world, no matter in any industry, using other people's money to make your own profits is absolutely king.However, even before the wealth was exposed in November, Simon had not yet reached the point where others would pay for it.

right now.

Daenerys Pictures, like the top two film companies such as the Seventh Congress and Orion Pictures, finally got the qualification to obtain loans from banks through brand guarantees.

Obviously, the brand guarantee of Daenerys Pictures is Simon himself.

Conference room.

Amy Pascal waited for Simon and Jennifer to sit down and handed over a folder and said, "Simon, it has been negotiated. This is a draft contract. Wells Fargo is willing to provide 100 million for Daenerys A US dollar loan with a term of 5 years and an annual interest rate of 6.5%."

Simon took the file open and couldn't help saying: "6.5%, it's still a bit high."

"If it was before the stock market crash, we might be able to get 5%," Amy looked at Simon and explained: "Banks are generally tightening their loans now. 6.5% is still the result of my long talks with Wells Fargo. You also know Yes, Paul Olsen’s initial annual interest rate was 8%. In addition, the $10 million loan from Instinct is not included in the money, and it is still mortgaged through the "Death Comes" share contract. The interest rate is 5% and the term is 3 years."

Paul Olson was the senior vice president of Wells Fargo who contacted Simon when he obtained the $20 million loan last time. He had the connection with the previous loan. This cooperation can be said to be the result of a snap after the two sides contacted each other. .

Simon nodded with a smile, and continued to look at the draft contract.UU reading www.uukanshu.com

Less than an hour before leaving work, Amy didn’t wait for Simon to watch all of them, and then went on: “Simon, I’ve talked to Wes Craven and he’s happy to continue working with us on the next movie. But , He also hopes to see the script first."

"The Grim Reaper" is squeezed into the top ten box office in North America. Although everyone knows that this is largely due to Simon's personal script and popularity, as a director, it is like Brian de Palma returning to the peak of his career. Similarly, Wes Craven was also promoted to the first-line director.

"I already have a good idea, probably a campus thriller. In the past two days I will take time to write a summary of the story. However, now I don’t have much time to perfect the script. Then you can discuss it with Weiss. , Hire other screenwriters to write it."

Amy listened to Simon's words and subconsciously said, "What about the signature?"

Simon smiled and said, "This year's three movies are enough. Amy, do you think there will be seven or eight films written by Simon Westero in Hollywood every year, how much interest can the audience maintain?"

Amy caught another meaning in Simon's words, her arms on the conference table gently raised her hands and gestured: "Simon, do you mean that we will make seven or eight movies next year?"

"Of course, not just movies, but TV shows," Simon bounced off the draft contract in front of him, saying: "Otherwise, where do we need so much money. So, next, you can continue to hire people, we Next year will not only get involved in the field of TV programming, but also try to release the film alone."

Although already anticipating, Amy couldn't help feeling that Simon was too eager.However, considering the series of miracles created by the young man in front of him this year, Amy nodded quickly.