Hollywood Hunter

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After dinner, Simon took Janet directly back to Palisades.

Inside the Chevrolet SUV, Neil Bennett, the driver, drove the car very smoothly. Simon leaned against the window, thinking seriously about his meeting with Mike Medova tonight.

Mike Medova's reaction to Pulp Fiction has been more negative than Simon expected, which worries him a bit.

The reason why "Pulp Fiction" once gained such a great reputation is that, in addition to its own quality, the Weinstein Brothers spared no effort in public relations operation is also a very critical and decisive factor.

From this year's 18 Oscar nominations, it can be seen that Orion's strength in award public relations is no less than that of Miramax, but if Orion's executives express a bad view of "Pulp Fiction", they want them to be like Wayne. It's obviously not realistic for the Stan brothers to run the awards for this film as much as possible.

What's more, Simon's age is still the biggest variable limiting the recognition of "Pulp Fiction"

In any case, he is not yet 20 years old.

Speaking of which, Simon is not short of other options. But based on his previous contract with Orion, this second movie wasn't worth his idea.

In order to promote the release of "Lola Run", in the contract Simon signed with Orion, the basic salary of his director and screenwriter together was only $500,000.

Although Simon retains the right to renegotiate the sharing terms, in any case, this new film is unlikely to allow him to get too much revenue, and the best result may be just a sharing clause similar to "Death Comes".

But compared to "Death is Coming", Simon needs to put more energy into the film he directed.

Since he couldn't get enough revenue, Simon decided to choose a film that he was more interested in, and at the same time to consolidate his popularity as a stylized director.

The specific sharing contract of "Pulp Fiction" will naturally be discussed with Orion by Jonathan, but then, the negotiation of the sale of the distribution rights of "Lola Run" is also a chore that requires a lot of time.

also.

Whether it's "The Butterfly Effect," "Death Is Coming," or "Pulp Fiction" or "When Harry Met Sally," all of these projects have a lot of work to do as soon as possible.

Even, considering the schedules of "Death Comes", "Pulp Fiction" and "When Harry Met Sally", Simon found that this year's end of the year and next year's Easter are obviously suitable for at least inserting A movie goes in.

Time is money.

But Simon is either short of money or time.

and.

These are all just movie related things.

The US stock market crashed in the second half of the year, and Simon remembered the date very well, October 19, Black Monday. In order to obtain sufficient benefits from this financial turmoil, in addition to raising a large amount of capital in advance, there must be a lot of other preparations, which also require time and energy.

Simon frowned and pondered all the way, and Janet leaned quietly beside him without interrupting.

Back at the Palisades mansion, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

Simon entered the villa and saw the phone message prompt light in the living room flashing, so he walked over and pressed play.

Janet followed suit.

The call is from Amy Pascal.

In the message, Amy expressed her concern about the outcome of Simon's afternoon meeting with Wells Fargo executives, and then she talked about another thing: a vice president of Mattel contacted her today, hoping to discuss "Lola Run". 》Toy peripheral development issues.

Mattel is one of the world's largest toy designers, manufacturers and sellers, and its main products are Barbie dolls of all types.

After Simon heard Amy's message, he immediately regained his spirits.

around.

A movie peripheral that is almost certain to be the annual box office champion in North America.

This is definitely another big gain.

Simon personally designed the small props such as wall clocks and rings in "Lola Run", in fact, he had this idea in mind. Since most of the props and even Lola's own image are original, according to the rule of copyright law, the copyright of these props and characters belongs to Daenerys Pictures.

There are so many things going on these days, Simon simply doesn't have the energy to think about them.

Now.

Someone else came to the door.

Of course, it can't be missed any more, and it also needs to be well planned.

Standing next to the phone and doing a quick calculation, Simon turned around and was about to go to the study, but found Janet standing beside him. Because Simon turned around suddenly without warning, the woman was obviously startled, her eyes widened.

Seeing Janet's appearance, Simon smiled apologetically, reached out and kissed the woman's delicate face, and said, "Baby, go take a shower first, I still have some things to do."

All day today, or all these days, Janet has been thinking about something while watching Simon's feet so busy.

at this time.

Watching Simon's footsteps hurried upstairs, Janet followed suit.

When she came to the bedroom, Janet took off her evening dress and took a shower absentmindedly, but instead of wearing the silk bathrobe she liked on weekdays, she put on a slightly ol-style blouse and white trousers.

Standing in front of the fitting mirror and looking at it, Janet came to Simon's study.

Different from the large study downstairs where Paul Olson, senior vice president of Wells Fargo, met in the afternoon, this is another small study in the mansion, located next to the bedroom on the second floor, which is very private.

Janet rarely comes here on weekdays.

Because she always felt that many of Simon's secrets might be hidden in this study. Although he was very curious about everything about his boyfriend, he didn't tell himself, and Janet never deliberately explored it.

The study door was not closed.

Janet knocked on the door panel and walked in.

Simon was standing beside the wall with a whole white writing board in the study, holding a water-based pen in one hand and a microphone in the other, talking to the other side.

A long list of nouns has accumulated on the tablet.

Soundtracks, posters, video games, character figures, butterfly clocks, t-shirts, rings, magazines, image licensing...

These are obviously all developable peripheral options for "Lola Run".

Below the slightly scattered nouns, there are several names and some contact numbers.

Janet saw that Simon was busy discussing with the other side, she just nodded at her and made a random movement, so she walked to the bookshelf on the other side, and looked at the whole row of folders, casually. Take a blue folder and open it.

This is a stack of newspaper clippings.

Each page of hand-bound 16-karat draft paper is affixed with tofu-sized newspaper news.

The news on the first page came from the Los Angeles Times with the headline 'New World Pictures Acquires Marvel Entertainment'.

Curiously read the content.

"New World Pictures formally entered into an acquisition agreement with Marvel Entertainment on Thursday, a spokesperson said, in a move aimed at expanding the company's comic book publishing and TV animation businesses."

"Marvel Entertainment is one of the largest comics production companies in North America, with assets including Marvel Comics in New York, Marvel Comics and Marvel Productions in the United Kingdom, and an animation studio in California's San Fernando Valley, which owns Spider-Man , Hulk, X-Men and other superhero characters that are very popular among fans."

"In 1985, Marvel Entertainment's annual turnover was $72 million and profit was $5.1 million."

"Previously, Candace Industrial Holdings Group, the parent company of Marvel Entertainment Group, officially entered the bankruptcy liquidation process. The two parties did not disclose the detailed terms of the transaction, but according to industry rumors, the price of Marvel Entertainment Group was roughly $40 million to $50 million. between."

"The transaction is expected to be fully completed by the end of the year."

After knowing each other for more than half a year, Janet has never seen Simon reading comics, and she doesn't know why the little man is interested in such news.

Turning his head to the side, he carefully read the news again, but still had no clue. In the margins of the page there is nothing but a string of handwritten date marks of 'November 21, 1986'.

So had to turn back.

Most of the pages that follow are still just simple news with simple dates and few comments.

After more than half of this turn, another newspaper clipping caught Janet's attention.

This is the list of the 59th Oscar-nominated films announced in late December last year.

It's just that only a small part of the newspaper clippings was kept. The three nominations for the best animated short film, the red oily pen drew a circle on one of the short films called "Naughty Jumping Lights", next to the routine '1986 'December 20, 2010', with a word attached: pixar.

Pixar.

Janet remembered this time that an animation in the title of "Lola Run" was made by this animation studio, which seemed to be a rare 3D animation studio.

Marvel Comics, 3d animation.

Ah.

Is the little boy interested in cartoons?

Thinking to herself, Janet flipped the clipping one more page.

This time, it is professional news that a software company named 'Microsoft' is conducting an internal test of a new version of the operating system. At the end, there is also an assessment of Microsoft's recent stock price. Due to the continued hot North American stock market, Microsoft's market value has officially exceeded 1 billion. Dollar.

After reading the news carefully again, I still have no clue.

All these clippings seem to be poking around, with absolutely no center of gravity. Janet even thought about it for a while, but still couldn't catch any connection.

Seriously had to put the folder back in its original location, Janet turned around and walked back to the man.

Another phone call from Simon was also coming to an end, and he was listening to the narration on the opposite side and writing down a name and a string of phone numbers on the writing board.

"Then, thank you for your help, Peter, I'm so sorry to bother you so late... Haha, of course, we'll have dinner together when you have time," Simon pressed on the hang-up button of the landline next to him. Janet, who swayed beside her for a while, looked up and down at the woman and said, "It's very late, why did you suddenly change into this suit?"

Janet spread her arms and turned around in front of Simon, "How is it?"

Although Janet is not as tall as Catherine, she definitely belongs to the kind of figure that looks very good with or without clothes on.

When Simon heard the words, he nodded without hesitation, and said with a smile: "It's very flavorful. I'll put on high heels later. By the way, is this suit expensive?"

Janet immediately understood some of the subtext in Simon's words, and immediately gave the man a stern look.

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Reaching out to take the microphone in Simon's hand and putting it aside, Janet pushed the man to sit on the sofa in the study, and sat down opposite herself, seriously: "Simon, I said before, I will help you. So , Next, about the follow-up release negotiations of "Lola Run", I will talk to them. And these peripherals, you can also hand them over to me, you just need to do what you want. "

Simon still had a smile on his face. Hearing Janet's words without any joking words, he put away the smile on his face and said, "Jenny, this will be very tiring."

Janet shook her head and said firmly, "I've decided."

Simon and Janet looked at each other for a moment, and finally nodded, "Okay. But if you ever feel like you don't want to do it, let me know."

Janet's lazy appearance on weekdays really left a deep impression on Simon. After all, she was a little macho in her bones. Simon didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so she didn't have any intention of Janet's plan to help her work. Too much expectation.

Perhaps the expectations were too low, and in the days that followed, Simon was really surprised. At the same time, I also realized what the level of the top student at Columbia University who can run Buffett to a speechless level that Kathleen once unintentionally mentioned.

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