Hollywood Hunter

Simon did not return to the Woodside Mountain Villa that night, but went to her apartment in Atherton with the housekeeper Alice Ferguson after the Tim Berners Lee reception.

In fact, there are some small considerations.

The previous afternoon, I couldn't resist going to bed with another female assistant. I realized that Celia was as ambitious as Sofia. Simon didn't want to give women too much fantasy space, so he deliberately left out.

Early the next morning, I specially called Zoe Parks, who had a little ambiguity with the housekeeper, to prepare breakfast, and Girl A naturally followed.

So there was a man and three women on the breakfast table.

During the meal, looking at the ruddy face but the female housekeeper looking at the laptop screen at hand while eating salad, Simon said to the baby-faced girl: "Zoo, don't go back with me this weekend, take Alice to Hawaii to play two God, uh, remember not to tan."

Simon's intimacy with the housekeeper was caught by Simon, and apparently has been tagged by the boss.

However, since the housekeeper entered Igerett, Zoe had not had much contact with Alice. At this time, the baby-faced girl looked at her boss pitifully and looked at Alice.

It's nothing to go to Hawaii for the weekend.

It's just that if you are accompanied by a workaholic who is still processing emails at breakfast, what's the point?

Just like the last time Simon was forced to rest, Alice heard the news and looked up at a guy who bullied himself last night, subconsciously: "I still have a job."

Simon also said the same as at the beginning of the year, "None now."

Alice's bright eyes stared at a guy, confronted for a moment, realized that her resistance was doomed, and simply turned her attention back to the laptop screen.

If you go to Hawaii, just go to Hawaii.

Anyway, he couldn't stare at himself all the time, but just changed his work place.

Unexpectedly, the man seemed to feel her thoughts, and added: "I will let someone pick you up in the afternoon, remember to only change clothes, and laptops are not allowed on the plane. I lent you to my villa in Hawaii, remember to do a cleaning on the weekend ."

Alice raised her head subconsciously and bargained: "Tomorrow morning."

"This afternoon," Simon said, adding: "Also, every weekend I will let Zoe come with you."

After confronting again for a while, the female housekeeper still retreated and had to default.

As a boss, Simon certainly wants his employees to work tirelessly like cattle.

As a man, Simon did not want his woman to only know about work all day, which caused her face to be haggard and even exhausted.

Compared with the three daughters who have left B, C, and D, the housekeeper and Simon have actually maintained a small initial contract.This mansion in the Lindenwood community of Atherton was purchased by Simon as a housekeeper. Claire did not have this kind of treatment. After leaving, she needed to be self-reliant.

After breakfast, everyone left the housekeeper’s mansion together. Simon’s destination was C Girl’s Tincobir Company, but he sent the housekeeper to Igreat’s headquarters.

Arriving at the Tinkerbair office building, Girl C has already started a meeting, and Simon has temporarily borrowed Claire's office to start a day's work.

Today is May 20, Friday.

Another box office week in Hollywood begins.

In the week just passed, from May 13 to May 19, "Bay of Stars" directed by Michael Bay won the first place in the single-week box office list without suspense, and received $ 36.61 million in seven days in the first week.

Although there will be big production films to be released in the next few weeks, with the box office receipt of US$36.61 million in the first week, as long as the box office decline is not too ruthless the next week, there will not be much suspense in the total box office of Star Gate.Judging from the film's word of mouth and popularity, the expected drop in Stargate will not exceed 30% next week, that is,

In comparison, the other two new films, another romantic film starring Meg Ryan, "When Men Fall in Love with Women," only had $11.29 million at the box office seven days in the first week.

In order to save budget, Disney invited Andy Garcia as the actor. The Hollywood actor relied on the performance of "The Godfather 3" a few years ago to get an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, a little famous, but the box office appeal There is not much. In this "Be a Man in Love with a Woman", Andy Garcia failed to produce Meg Ryan like the hero and heroine in "Night in Sleep in Seattle" and "When Harry Meets Sally" Such a strong spark.

As a result, the final budget of "When Men Fall in Love with Women" is $25 million, which is indeed very cost-effective compared to Meg Ryan's high pay of $7 million after last night's "Sleepless in Seattle."Only at the box office of $11.29 million in the first week, and considering the mediocre reputation of the film and the subsequent series of blockbuster snipers, the total box office of this love movie in North America may only be about $30 million.

Through overseas and subsequent issuance, Disney was able to recover the cost, but it was basically equivalent to a busy schedule, and again wasted a summer start period.

Black director Spike Lee's new film "Deep Race" is more mediocre at the box office, with only $3.91 million in the first week of opening.

With the success of the last "Kuroshio", Li's new film received an investment of 15 million US dollars from Colombia, starting with 3.91 million US dollars, and it is difficult for the local box office to exceed 10 million US dollars.There is not much market for black ethnicity movies overseas, and Colombia is playing again.

Speaking of which, Spike Lee has been working with Universal Pictures in previous years. The three consecutive works have been produced by Universal Investment, only after the acquisition of MCA by Daenerys Entertainment, due to the turbulence during the integration of the two companies, It is a pity that this cooperative relationship has not been extended to Daenerys Entertainment.

Spike Lee is definitely one of Hollywood's best black directors.

Limited to the audience, although Spike Lee’s personal works are usually not too high at the box office, but because the production budget is often relatively low, they can usually achieve a good profit, even if the loss will not be too much, so it is definitely similar to Wu The director of Di Allen is very worthwhile.

After reading last week’s box office report, Simon specially sent an email to Ella Doichman, letting him take the time to chat with Spike Li, taking advantage of the chance that the other party had just experienced a failure, and tried to win him. The next movie.Even profit or loss does not matter. Increasing the diversity of Daenerys Entertainment’s films is of great benefit to corporate branding.

After the start of the summer season last week, in the new week, the North American theater has once again released two heavyweight new films, "The Speed ​​of Life and Death" produced by MGM and "The Gambler Ma Huali" produced by Warner Bros.

"Speed ​​of Life and Death" was led by Martin Campbell, who had successfully produced "Wonder Woman", and starred by two popular Hollywood stars Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.In the original history, the original "Speed ​​of Life and Death", the three main creators of Jane de Bonte, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock are not too popular, but the film is at a cost of $30 million. Achieved an outstanding score of 100 million at the North American box office.

This time, under the influence of Simon's big butterfly, the three main creators are all hot in Hollywood, and the production budget has therefore increased from the original 30 million US dollars to 45 million US dollars, which has reached the level of blockbuster.In order to grab time with "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" on June 3, MGM also let go this time and prepared 2869 open screens for "Speed ​​of Life and Death".

Today officially opened a large-scale painting, and the media reputation of "Life and Death Speed" was also released. The preliminary comprehensive media score reached 9.4 points, which directly exceeded the 8.2 points of "Stargate" last week, reaching a classic level.

Another "Gambler Ma Huali" is a thorough super bombshell.

The film was adapted from a Western-style TV series of the same name in the 1960s in the United States. It was again collaborated by Richard Donner and Mel Gibson, directors of the "Fatal Weapon" series, and invited Oscar-winning Judy Foster. Join.The lineup of the three main creators even surpassed "Speed ​​of Life and Death".

Because of the success of the "Fatal Weapon" series, the budget cost of "Gambler Ma Huali" is as high as 75 million US dollars, and Warner Bros. has also invested 30 million US dollars in the announced budget.

Warner is one of the major western filmmakers.

However, Simon is not very optimistic about this project. Even if the North American box office of "Gambling Horsepower" in the memory has exceeded 100 million, it is basically impossible for Warner to get too much profit from this project. It is a job for Hollywood superstars. 'Classic case.

Mel Gibson received $15 million in film rewards from this project, and Richard Downer also received $8 million from the first-line director, even if Judy Foster also received $5 million.

The three main creators can all be described as full return.

However, with the huge cost of "Gambler Ma Huali", Warner Bros. has probably won about 250 million US dollars at the box office worldwide to achieve a break-even.In the original time and space, the global box office of "Gambling Ma Huali" was only 180 million US dollars.

Not only that, this time, because there was "Star Gate" before, "Life and Death Speed" at the same time, and then there is the super blockbuster "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight". Today, after the official large-scale painting, the media has a comprehensive reputation. The 6.6-point "Gambling Ma Huali", which barely passed, can no longer obtain the box office space in the history. It wants to break through 100 million unless there is a miracle.

The more likely result is that Warner will grow a lot in this project, and then further increase its dependence on the DC movie universe.

Celia Miller didn't see her boss again until she boarded the plane and returned to Los Angeles in the evening.

The woman did not show the grievances that had been left overnight by a little man just after the Spring Festival. While taking a short time to return to Los Angeles, she continued to discuss with Simon the various matters of the Westeros system in the military field.

During the previous business trip around the earth, Celia was able to participate in the secret negotiations between the Westero mercenary and the French government. The French government finally exchanged the mercenary detained in Westeros for $25 million. All members of the former Rwandan government military advisory team, including a part of the body.

The price of $25 million was offered by Celia after learning the general situation.

It’s not that the French government can’t come up with more, but because if it is higher, it will exceed the tolerance limit of the French government’s secret small vaults, and it has to raise funds through official government financial channels. Certainly exposed.

This is the benefit of having a person who once worked in the federal defense system and has close ties with the military.

Previously, neither Simon nor Westero’s mercenary commander William McRaney wanted to speak to the French government lion. If they did, the two sides might have to tear their faces.

After traveling continuously for half a month, Celia also completed the penetration of the Rwandan government and met privately with the current Ukrainian prime minister and next presidential candidate Leon Kuchma, not only persuading the Ukrainian government who has been hesitant to agree The Westeros system established a private military company in Ukraine and was also personally responsible for forming the logistics team of Ukrainian mercenaries in Ukraine.

"On the US side, I think our company should recruit low- and medium-level retired officers in the short term, and cooperate with about 300 former special forces to provide military training services to the outside world," Celia in the front cabin living room of Boeing 767 I glanced at the little man on the sofa next to him and saw that he had no objections. He continued: "The lessons of the French government's arrangement of a military advisory group in Rwanda. I think other countries will learn from it in the future and provide similar services in disguise through private military companies. The possible casualties of the official soldiers and the possibility of interference in the internal affairs of other countries that may be encountered if things are revealed, we have a lot of business space in this regard."

Simon is looking at a plan for the formation of a private military company over Australia. He just nodded and told Celia to continue.

Celia looked at Simon again, thought about it, and temporarily turned to the topic, said: "Simon, North America, about the name of the "Military Consulting and Security Services Company", do you really plan to change it?"

Military Consulting and Security Services, which is the name of a private military company in Westeros in North America.

Australia and Ukraine, respectively, did not directly name the XX branch, but a similar new name. The former is Perth Military Advisors and Security Assurance Company, because the headquarters is located in Perth, Western Australia, and the latter is the Ukrainian military frontline service company. , Headquartered in Kiev.

The three names, the biggest feature is ordinary, and slightly longer.

Simon heard Celia suddenly ask this, and laughed: "If you call a name similar to Daenerys Entertainment, do you think that will happen?"

"That's better," Celia said: "It's easy to remember."

Simon smiled unchanged, saying: "Entertainment technology companies, of course, the easier the name is to be remembered for appointment, but for private military companies, do you think it is a good thing to be remembered in the heart?"

Celia paused and responded quickly, saying, "Of course not."

In the past history, Blackwater International, established in 1997, has become a "fame" in the industry in just a few years. When it comes to mercenaries, many people think of Blackwater for the first time, because the name sounds very hard nuclear.

As a result, because of staring at people for a long time, as a result, after the big black water became bigger, it was troublesome, and various scandals were frequently exposed, so a large order was lost.

In the end, Blackwater finally began to reflect that he was not the largest private mercenary company in the United States at all. In the United States, the military professional resource integration company is, and, globally, it cannot even enter the top five. Why would it Trouble constantly?

Oh, it turned out to be a matter of name.

The name Heishui is really too conspicuous and too windy.

So one day, Blackwater quietly changed his name to Xe.

What does Xe mean?

who knows?

I don’t know.

Drawing on the lessons of Blackwater, Simon confirmed from the outset that the name of the private military company in the Westeros system is as common as possible, and the more memorable the better.