Hollywood Hunter

Simon explained to Robert Rem, sent the other party to preside over the announcement of "Steel Magnolia", and found a small meeting room for the discussion over there and several senior executives to discuss things.

As soon as he sat down at the conference table, Simon was flipping through a piece of media feedback material from "Steel Magnolia." The door was knocked. A tall girl came in, but it was Julia Roberts.

After being bored in the reception room, Julia went to the bathroom and put on her makeup. When she came out, she just noticed that Simon and Rem were standing in the corridor talking.When the two separated, she followed Simon quietly to this side.

Simon didn't care why Julia knew he was here, but just smiled at her, looking at the girl still with long hair, laughing: "Hair grows so fast?"

In "Steel Magnolia", Shelby played by Julia cut her hair later in the film due to kidney disease.Simon has always felt that Julia's short hair looks better than her long hair.

Julia immediately understood what Simon was talking about and explained: "It was wearing a wig. It would be very troublesome if the hair was really cut, and it would take a long time to grow."

With that said, Julia pushed the door and walked in.

But, closing the door and turning to look at the man at the conference table, Julia couldn't help being restrained and didn't know what to do for a while.

This is Simon Westero.

Simon noticed the woman's hesitation and smiled again, pointing to himself: "Come, sit here."

Julia came over and sat down on the chair next to Simon, squinting at the file in Simon's hands, and said, "Simon, what are you looking at?"

"Media feedback from "Steel Magnolia", many film critics say you are doing well."

Simon replied at random, the two were very close, and he also looked at the big-mouthed beauty who was at the peak of Yan value at a close distance.Julia is wearing a black turtleneck cardigan and white casual trousers, sitting sideways, the natural style and the long straight legs are quite attractive.

Feeling Simon's eyes, Julia gently adjusted her lower position and said, "Everyone is doing great, Simon, do you think this movie can get a $100 million box office?"

Simon said: "I'm not sure, it depends on whether the audience will buy it."

The original "Steel Magnolia" is a standard box office dark horse. Not many people look forward to this film, but it exploded inexplicably.Although it failed to break through 100 million, the local box office of more than 80 million US dollars is enough to make many movies look up in this era.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment has invested far more energy into the movie than Samsung’s film industry. The word-of-mouth of the film has also been confirmed with yesterday’s screening. At the end of the year, which lacks competitors, Simon’s box office I am still very confident.

""When Harry meets Sally", "Pulp Fiction", "Instinct", and most recently "Scream", Julia counted her fingers and said, "This is already four consecutive , It would be a pity if it was broken on "Steel Magnolia Flower"."

"It's no pity, always give someone some way to live," Simon said, remembering Julia's intention today, and said: "The meeting over there is about to start, don't you go?"

"The agent will just listen and help me. Anyway, Daenerys Entertainment will do whatever I want."

Simon smiled: "I really can speak.

Julia noticed that Simon's left hand was slightly raised when he talked, and with his eyes, she realized that the man just wanted to reach out and pick his chin or something.The frivolous kind of action, if someone else Julia will be angry, but she feels a little regret that the man did not take action at this time.

Leaning slightly towards the man, Julia continued: "Simon, I have four film appointments with Daenerys Entertainment. Can you write a script for me in the next movie?"

Simon said: "Your next movie has been set, but the script is still being revised, and preparations will probably begin early next year, and the schedule is Valentine's Day the year after."

Julia was immediately curious: "What story can I read the script first?"

"A love movie similar to La Traviata," Simon explained casually: "After the script is completed, it will be handed over to you, don't worry."

Julia nodded and suddenly found another thing.

Preparations will start in the first half of next year, and it is estimated that at least the middle of the year will start shooting.Don't you want to have no film released all year next year?

Looking at the man who seemed to be unaware of this, Julia raised her hand and gestured in the air, saying, "Simon, can I take another movie before that movie starts?"

Simon turned his eyes back to the file in his hand and said at random: "If there is a suitable one, I will arrange it for you."

Julia tentatively said: "If, Simon, if there is no suitable one, can I pick up scripts from other film companies?"

Simon shook his head: "No."

Prior to Meg Ryan and Nicole Kidman, Daenerys Entertainment had two priority film appointments.Because the company did not have a suitable project for the time being, Simon generously let the two girls go to other movies.However, this kind of generosity does not seem to have the desired effect.

For example, in this "Flying Over Childhood", the CAA directly reported a high price of US$5 million for the heroine of Meg Ryan, which was twice the company's expected budget for the heroine's remuneration. It was completely with Mel. Gibson is quite.

Equal pay for Hollywood male and female stars has always been a joke.

Just like Julia in the original space and time, after the world-selling romance film "Wind Moon Beauty", Julia starred in "Captain Hawk", Spielberg, Dustin Hoffman and Robin ·The three main creators of Williams will take a total of 40% of the net profit share of the film on the basis of a high base salary, but Julia's role as the little elf Tincobal is only $2.5 million.

Now, since the CAA lion has a big opening, Daenerys Entertainment has directly pressed Meg Ryan’s remuneration to $2 million, and both parties are still deadlocked.

Because of these lessons, Simon did not plan to do anything more.

Feeling Simon's irreconcilable tone, Julia narrowed her neck subconsciously.However, she did not intend to give up. A small hand protruded boldly, and her index finger sketched a few times on the man’s arm, saying, "Simon, maybe we can find time to talk in private, how about tonight?"

Simon shook his head and smiled at the corner of his mouth, saying: "Will not work tonight, it is worse than now."

"what?"

Julia was surprised this time. She looked around and looked at the door of the room again. It seemed that she had forgotten to lock.

Simon didn't seem to care about her hesitation at all, and even seemed to forget what he had just said for a moment, and the old god was looking at the document in his hand again.

After a moment of hesitation, Julia finally made up her mind and got up and walked to the door to lock the door and come back again.Then, standing beside Simon, his eyes began to flicker, looked at the table, looked at the chair, and looked at the ground.

Finally fell on the man.

Hateful man.

There was a complaint in my heart. Julia took off the sweater and took off her clothes. The conference room door rang.

Simon was indifferent, but Julia was taken aback, and the courage she had just summed up suddenly blew out.

The door rang a few times before Simon made a gesture to open the door to Julia, who was on the spot. Julia opened the door in a complicated mood, but it was Simon's habitual ponytail female assistant. Stand outside.

With a little dodge in her eyes, Jennifer greeted casually with a thick stack of documents: "Hello, Miss Roberts, is the boss there?"

Julia hadn’t recovered from the shock, she didn’t notice Jennifer’s eyes, she let the female assistant sideways, and thought about it, she said goodbye: “So, Simon, I’ll go to the meeting first. Yes. You, um, can call me at any time."

Julia finished, and left.

Jennifer didn't seem to hear Julia's words at all. He came to the conference table with his back to Simon. He silently put a pencil on the table and spread out several documents one by one.Move as slowly as possible, with general anger, and don't plan to turn around and face a guy.

Then a voice rang behind her: "Overheard outside?"

Jennifer paused.

There seems to be something wrong?

Why does a guy want to do bad things every time he wants to do something bad?

Just now that the meeting was over, she came here with some documents that Simon had ordered and happened to see Julia Roberts sneaking into this conference room sneakily.Originally wanting to leave first, but still could not help coming over, standing outside the door and'waiting' for a moment, vaguely heard a guy's abominable words, so he could not resist knocking on the door to destroy his good deeds.

Without intending to respond to his question, he was not guilty, so he planned to leave without a word.

But my heart is sour.

Won't he really let him leave?

Just took a step, one hand came over from behind, she earned a little lightly, and no longer resisted, but still carrying him, her head turned quickly, her expression should be a little cold, or angry, Or condemn him first?

After Saturday's meeting, under Simon's personal supervision, Daenerys Entertainment began to adjust quickly.

Simon has always wanted to be a cashier, but he also understands that at least he can let Daenerys enter into a specific corporate culture style before he can let go as much as possible.At that time, this company will be like the same machine that has completed the run-in, even without his operator, he can operate according to the established rules.

In the new week, one of the most watched things in the whole country is undoubtedly the official vote of the presidential election that will be opened on Tuesday.After six months of intense election battles, the two presidential candidates George Bush and Michael Ducakis will have a final duel.

Most things have not changed much because of Simon's appearance, so he can basically determine the outcome of this presidential election.

On the Hollywood side, although the presidential election has attracted a lot of attention, the box office data just this past week has attracted much attention.

From November 4th to November 6th, "Scream", which entered the second week, still firmly locked the single-week box office champion. At the next weekend, the box office received another 12.62 million US dollars, and the film was released for ten days. The cumulative box office has reached 33.37 million US dollars.

Compared to this, Universal Pictures’ new film “Extreme Space” released this week, although ranked second, has only $4.63 million at the box office for three days.

Only the second place has been far away from "Scream", and most of the other films on the list are even more worth mentioning.

Of course, except "Steel Magnolia".

This new film opened with only 22 screens across North America. Because of Daenerys’s unrelenting publicity offensive and the unanimous praise of the media, it received a box office of $1.31 million in the first three days of the first weekend, although it can only be listed The 11th in the weekly box office rankings, but it is obvious that no one can ignore that this movie has only 22 screens.

Moreover, three days, the average of more than 51,000 US dollars per library, also surprised many people.

Hollywood film companies have begun to study the highlights of this film, trying to tap the same type of theme to follow suit, but as a result, most people do not understand why a female film such as "Steel Magnolia" is popular.Finally, the circle can only attribute credit to Daenerys Entertainment's marketing offensive at all costs.

In the initial discussion of the announcement plan, everyone first thought that the theme of women's movies would greatly limit the box office performance of "Magnolia Flower".

But in the end, after repeated discussions by the team, Daenerys Entertainment finally determined to put aside the characteristics of the female movie "Steel Magnolia" as much as possible, and market this film as a family carnival film suitable for the whole family during the festival.

Although Thanksgiving and Easter have not yet arrived, the box office data for the first weekend also allowed the company to confirm the correctness of this distribution strategy.

Tuesday, November 8.

The 41st U.S. presidential election was officially opened, and voting was very new to Simon.Then he simply did not go to vote and spent the whole day at work as usual.

The North American media, who had always been very concerned about Simon Westero’s personal political tendencies, began to chase him down early in the morning. As a result, more than a dozen reporters stayed outside the Daenerys Entertainment headquarters for a whole day and found nothing. Simon has signs of going out to vote.CNN specifically mentioned this in the live broadcast of the day, and also specially invited current political experts to analyze it with care and then came to the conclusion that Simon Westero is a person who does not care about politics.

Subsequently, although the voting results of many states are still being counted, in the afternoon, the live broadcast of major North American television networks announced that George Bush had received more than half of all 538 chapters of the electoral votes in the United States, and became the next one. President of the United States.

The next day, the general election was completely settled. George Bush finally obtained 428 electoral votes, showing an overwhelming advantage. In comparison, Michael Ducakis only got 111 electoral votes. .

Since George Bush won the election, many things in Simon's memory are destined to happen, so he began to make more preparations for the future in private.