Hollywood Hunter

San Francisco.

Palo Alto, where tech companies from the southern Bay Area gather.

When I came to the United States in January, relying on Silicon Valley's rich scientific and technological human resources and Westero's financial support, Tim Berners Lee quickly built the basic framework of Igriat.

The headquarters of Igret is located in a small three-story white building on Thurman Street, east of Stanford University.

Returning from Europe, Simon has been in close contact with Tim Berners-Lee by phone, and just happened to have time today, so he flew to San Francisco to take a look at this technology company, which is crucial in his own layout.

Tim Berners-Lee personally greeted Simon to the headquarters of Igret, and the two entered the lobby on the ground floor of the office building and stopped.

The hall has a horizontal rectangular pattern, and the area is not large.

Outside the reception desk, the most striking thing is the phrase on the wall behind the reception desk inlaid with different colored letters on the wall: You know nothing.

Stopping for a moment with satisfaction, Simon noticed that Tim Berners-Lee beside him looked at the phrase on the wall as if he was going to say something, and quickly stopped: "Tim, don’t say anything, you can’t do it anyway. Interpret the true meaning of this sentence."

Tim Berners-Lee nodded slightly, but still said: "I just think that this sentence is a bit of a warning to the world. No matter how hard we try, our understanding of this world is still shallow."

Simon almost laughed, thinking that he couldn't bully the honest man too much, and forced to hold back, patting on Li's shoulder: "Yes, so, let's go in."

Tim Berners-Lee noticed the strangeness in Simon's expression, but did not delve into it.

The two came to the office area on the first floor. Li introduced Simon to the newly hired staff and explained his work results this month.

"I have sorted out the most basic technical framework of the World Wide Web, and submitted patent applications to major countries in North America and Europe. Simon, this is Michael Levy, he is the head of the first floor team, mainly responsible for improving HTML And HTTP and other technical standards."

The Internet () is a broad concept that was formally formed in the 1990s.

The World Wide Web was conceived by Tim Berners-Lee, which is the WWW (World Wide Web) technology. This can be said to be the foundation of the Internet. Many years later, most web pages accessible to ordinary people begin with WWW , This is enough to show the importance of WWW.

After communicating with the employees on the first floor, the two came upstairs.

The area of ​​this three-story building is not too large. Eaglet currently counts Tim Berners-Lee itself, and has a total of 39 employees, so the building is still a bit empty.However, Li plans to expand the number of employees to 100 in the next few months, divided into several teams responsible for the development of browser software, web design software and basic technical agreements.

Simon did not set too strict a timetable for Eaglet.However, according to Li's plan, Igerit only needs six months to complete its two core products, namely browser software for users and web design software for developers.

In fact, software development is indeed not as tall as ordinary people think.

As early as working in Europe, Li has completed a very original web browser software in his spare time, but that software requires the user to set various connection parameters personally, which is not used by ordinary people, nor is it familiar to later people. 'Home','Download','Favorite' and other functions.

The next goal of the company is to develop a'fool-style' graphical interface browser. When Simon and Li met in Geneva, he provided him with the mature design concept of the graphical interface browser.

The two walked between several teams in the three-story building and brought Simon to the office. Tim Berners Lee introduced Simon to the prototype of the website he built recently and the technology he used. It is his accumulation in the past. Although the website in front of him can only display the basic profile information of Igrid recently hired a group of employees, Simon can confirm that this should be the world’s first network using the HTTP protocol and HTML language. Site.

Simon still has a lot of work to do, but he stayed in Palo Alto for one morning and had lunch with several core employees of Igret, and he flew back to Los Angeles.

Daenerys Entertainment’s Falcon business jet landed directly at a private airport in the valley.

When he arrived at the nearby Warner Studios, Simon had just got off at the parking lot and was about to go to the late center. A white car drove in front of him.

Noting the figure of a woman in the cab, Simon wanted to pretend to leave without seeing it, hesitating for a moment, or stopped.The white car chose a parking space and stopped. Today, Renee Russell, wearing a black wide-shoulder dress, walked out of the car and turned to look at Simon.

Seeing that the little man did not go, Renee Russell closed the door and came over with a brown satchel.

However, when she came near, the woman hesitated a little, not knowing whether to shake hands with him or hug, hesitating, but with a smile on her face, he greeted: "Simon, good afternoon."

Simon nodded and turned to walk outside the parking lot.

Renee Russell kept up with it naturally, and was somewhat indifferent to the little man's inexplicable indifference, but dared not express it.

After a moment of silence, Simon asked: "What are you doing here?"

"The script reading session of "Good Guy" is on the side of the administrative building."

"Oh."

Simon responded, thinking about it.

Martin Scorsese's new film "Good Guy" was invested by Warner, which is why Simon can easily put Renee Russell into the film crew.Warner was initially dissatisfied with Scorsese's decision to use Ray Liotta to play with De Niro and Joe Percy, thinking that Ray Liota's reputation was too low.

As the first heroine of "Good Guy", if it is not recommended by Simon, with Renee Russell having only one film work performance qualification, it will certainly not be able to get this role.

Robert De Niro is still busy with the promotion of "Sixth Sense of Soul", and "Good Guy" is scheduled to start in July.However, today is June 21st, and it is indeed time for the actors to formally rehearse.

The two got off at the parking lot at the north gate, because it was a weekday and there were many people in the studio.

Renee Russell has always been around Simon, listening to the fact that almost all pedestrians greeted him voluntarily along the way, and his bodyguards also blocked several men and women who wanted to get together and talk to him, inexplicably feeling some pride. .As a vase beside him, she could clearly feel the envy of those passing girls.

After all, this is Westeros.

In recent weeks, when almost everyone thought that Daenerys Entertainment’s "Bodyguard" would have lost at the box office, the soundtrack album of the film created a miracle of selling millions of copies in two consecutive weeks.Moreover, at the box office, just over the third week of the past weekend, "Bodyguard" fell only 11% compared to last week. In two and a half weeks, the cumulative box office has exceeded 56 million US dollars.

Because there was only a slight drop of more than 10% for two consecutive weeks, Renee Russell remembered that the previous article in "The Hollywood Reporter" on Monday showed that the North American box office estimate for "Bodyguard" had reached $120 million.

In comparison, the first week’s box office started with “Ghostbusters 2” that was almost twice the number of “Bodyguard”, but the box office fell by 55% in the three days of the next weekend. 2" North America's total box office forecast is only $100 million.

Renee Russell remembers a commentary on "Bodyguard" in "The Hollywood Reporter".

The gold screenwriter Laurence Kasdan, who once wrote "Raiders" and "Star Wars", has been rejected for more than sixty years in the 1970s after completing the "Bodyguard" script. Almost all movie companies in Hollywood have Not optimistic about this project.

However, the script fell into the hands of Simon Westeros. When everyone still didn’t like the movie until the film was released, "Bodyguard" unexpectedly created a miraculous soundtrack sales, which has been strong for several weeks. The box office figures also exceeded all expectations.

The reporter from The Hollywood Reporter commented with awe-inspiring tone that the film was mostly credited to Simon Westero. This young man seems to have a natural talent for creating miracles.

At this time, she could walk with him under the envy of many other women.

Although he was very indifferent to herself, she understood that following him out of this small road, the news spread that her future development in Hollywood will be a little smoother.

Hollywood is actually superstitious.

The budget for "Good Guy" is 25 million US dollars, which is not a bottom in Hollywood.It is said that if De Niro did not agree to participate, Warner would never approve the project, even if the director of the film was Martin Scorsese.Now, because of Simon Westero's attention, Warner and everyone seem to have more confidence in the project.

In the last few meetings, both Martin Scorsese, the director of "Good Guy", and Aven Winkler, the producer of the film, intentionally or unintentionally asked her about Simon Westero's "Good "Guy" view of the script.She is a woman with no roots in Hollywood. During this time, she did not encounter some encounters with many unknown actresses among the big coffee. They all took her for granted as Simon Westero. lover.

I was originally worried that others would despise myself because of this identity, but then I gradually realized that most people who know this matter are just envious.

In some chat rooms in the circle, she also learned that compared with many Hollywood big coffee, the private life of the young man who is famous next to him is actually very restrained, and there are few women who can come to him.So it can be seen how lucky she is.

Are you lucky?

Perhaps, she is not a naive woman when she was born again. In fact, she will not refuse in the face of this reliance on her career path.After 35 years of life, she has long lost the idealism of young girls. She is even more aware of how rare it is to encounter such opportunities in this circle.

just.

Most people may not know that she and he have only seen him twice in the past few months.

Ok.

Count today, three times.

The administrative area of ​​the film city is in the southeast corner, but the late center arrived quickly.

Looking at him, he wanted to walk directly into the late center, and the grudge in her heart was stronger, but she could only take the initiative: "Simon, you, um, have dinner together at night?"

Simon stopped and looked at the woman beside him, still shaking his head: "I'm a little tired today, I'll talk about it next time."

Watching him walk into the late center, there was even a faint urge to drop a few tears.

Endure soon.

But there are several people around who are looking at themselves, how can they get sick.It's more likely to be a gadgetless man who is so small for himself.

It's too good.

So he took a deep breath, and smiled at the man and the woman who were looking at her, put the shoulder bag on their shoulders, and turned to walk to the administrative building casually.

I spent an afternoon inadvertently.

In the evening, when Simon left the studio, he did not meet Renee Russell again. Instead, Scorsese came to his studio to say hello.

Arriving at the Daenerys Entertainment Burbank branch, the female assistant is already waiting for him, reporting on some things that need his attention today.

After Columbia Pictures announced that "sex, lies and video tapes" will be scheduled on July 7, Universal Pictures also announced today that the "Paradise Cinema" that won the Cannes Golden Palm Awards will be released on July 28.

Many things have changed.

"Sex, Lies and Video" failed to get Golden Palm, and the marketing measures taken by Colombia did not seem to Simon to be as effective as Miramax in space and time. It is difficult to say how the movie's box office has progressed.As for "Paradise Cinema", choosing the schedule at the end of July is even more a mistake for Simon.

The original "Paradise Cinema" was re-edited when it was released in North America. Now, in just two months, Simon doesn’t think Universal can carefully re-edit the movie carefully, if it still follows the 2.5-hour version When it's released, it's even harder for you to end.

What's more, Miramax had also released the film in the era of the award season, largely relying on the marketing company of the award season, which won a good box office.Universal Pictures clearly did not anticipate this.

These thoughts just flashed through his mind, and Simon left behind.

After get off work, always leaving Burbank, traveling through the streets of Los Angeles.

Suddenly remembered Janet's advice when leaving Melbourne.

Girls like surprises.

Moreover, after leaving Melbourne for so long, it is indeed necessary to go back to see women.

So he didn't hesitate anymore, he didn't even plan to go back to his residence again, he just ordered Neil Bennett in the front row to fly continuously, and he planned to fly directly to Australia at night.