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Simon wanted to joke that the crew would reimburse you for medical expenses, but this kind of remark is too easy to teach others. He didn't want an actress to jump out many years later and say that Simon Westeros knew that there was danger. Insisting on letting him shoot some shots to leave sequelae, so he just waved his hand, picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Everyone, get ready to start shooting."

The order was issued, and the sparse traffic flow that had been arranged in advance began to move. Simon also got into another convertible and drove to the front of the tractor.

The photographer on the tractor put down the slate, and the driver started the car and began to accelerate. The helicopter that was already circling in the sky not far away also hung the Bat fighter to enter the trajectory it needed.

More than ten seconds later, the bat motorcycle reached the high-speed forward state planned by Simon, and continued to drive for about two kilometers under the drag of the tractor. Simon shouted 'CUT' to the walkie-talkie.

Everything went well for the first shoot, and everyone relaxed.

After Simon played back the footage, the trajectory of the Bat fighter was a bit off, so he started shooting the second pass, and then the third pass.

It is very cumbersome to arrange such a big scene shot, and Simon also plans to accumulate enough material at one time to ensure that there will be no reshoots.This was repeated six times in total, but something went wrong in the end. This time, the filming team had just accelerated to [-] kilometers per hour when the Batmobile began to shake, and then rolled over on the road.

An alarm sounded from the walkie-talkie, and Simon immediately called a timeout and notified the medical team to step forward.

Simon's convertible stopped, and he got out of the car and rushed to the scene of the accident. The Batbike fell in the middle of the road, and the front wheel had been separated from the body.Simon didn't care about the prop car at all, and quickly walked to Valerie Golino who was lying motionless on the road.

He knelt down and patted Valerie lightly, but the girl didn't move at all. Simon felt a bad feeling, so he didn't dare to turn her over rashly, and could only wait for the doctor to come and deal with it.

I also feel a little regretful in my heart, I would have used a substitute if I knew it earlier.

At the moment of the accident, the helicopter flew away with the Bat fighter in time, and the rest of the crew gathered around.

The two doctors checked Valerie Golino cautiously and confirmed that there was no trauma, and they were instructing the nurses to carefully lift her onto a stretcher and plan to send her to the hospital for further examination, but the girl woke up leisurely, raised her hand He took off the red catwoman glasses that were still in front of his eyes, lay on the stretcher as if he had just woken up, and glanced at the surrounding people, and finally his eyes fell on Simon.

Simon waved two fingers in front of her and asked, "Riley, how much is this?"

Valerie Golino stared blankly at Simon's fingers, still in a daze, and switched back to her native Italian, saying, "Director, I'm hungry."

Neither doctor understood Italian and could only look at Simon.

Simon said patiently in Italian: "You can eat right away, Riley, tell me first, what do you feel uncomfortable?"

Valerie Golino rolled her eyes, raised her hand to touch her nose, then reached down and rubbed her tight chest under the catwoman uniform: "It hurts a little here."

Seeing Valerie's movements, Simon was generally relieved. The girl's nose was just dusty and not collapsed. As for the breasts, they were thick and the uniform was not worn out, so the possibility of internal injuries was not high.Turning his head and changing his English, he said to the middle-aged doctor who looked at the girl rubbing her chest in a daze, "There is nothing serious about it, but let's send it for a checkup. It may have fallen to the head, or it may be a slight concussion or something."

"I don't have a concussion," Valerie Golino heard what Simon said, sat up on a stretcher, and switched back to English, saying: "I'm just a little dizzy, and I can continue after a short rest."

"The material just now is enough," Simon shook his head persistently, and said, "I will ask the double to take two more backups, and that's the end of your work for tonight."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Valerie's opinion, waved to the doctor to carry her away, and then summoned the crew to replace a new Batmobile and a stuntman to continue filming.

At two o'clock in the morning, the crew finished work on time again, and Simon returned to the hotel where he was staying. The doctor came to report that Valerie Golino had been checked and she was fine.However, she was left in the medical center where Simon was hospitalized last night for observation.

Thinking of Valerie's brain-stretched reaction after the accident, Simon ordered the observation period to be extended to three days. Anyway, her roles are not many, and most of them can be completed by doubles.The medical center was sponsored by the Johnston family, and it had been specially arranged before, and Simon was not worried that there would be news that would be unfavorable to the crew, such as actors being injured.

After explaining the matter, Simon returned to his hotel suite, and Janet had already fallen asleep.

These days, Janet has been staying with Simon at the Kendall Hotel.

Originally, Simon was fine by himself, but both of them were like that. Raymond Johnston had some opinions, worried that outsiders would say that the Johnston family was not good to his daughter and prospective son-in-law.The old man is a very face-saving person.

Janet was still angry with her father because of the coma incident last time, and she had no intention of going home at all.

Simon didn't want to bother, but he didn't want to give outsiders any bad guesses. During this time, he often took Janet back to Johnston's mansion for dinner, and basically stayed there on weekends.

In the bedroom, Simon lay down on the big bed after taking a shower, and Janet habitually entangled him.

Simon kissed the woman's forehead, hugged her and fell asleep quickly.

Get up at nine o'clock the next day, an hour later than usual. This is the work and rest schedule that Janet forced to customize for Simon, requiring him to sleep at least six hours a day.

When she woke up, Janet was no longer by her side. After taking over Cersei Capital, the woman had to wake up earlier than Simon these days, and usually started meetings with Cersei Capital's trading team at six o'clock in the morning.

Due to the time difference, the Singapore International Monetary Exchange and the Singapore Stock Exchange start trading at seven o'clock in Melbourne time, and the two major stock exchanges in Tokyo and Osaka open at eight o'clock in the morning in Melbourne time.

In addition, there are other mainstream exchanges in different time zones in Asia. Janet will occasionally turn her target to Europe and North America. It can be said that the trading team of Cersei Capital is now in a state of trading all day.

Simon would spend three hours a day on the operation of Cersei Capital. After Janet took over, he now only needs to set aside one hour a day to get a general understanding of Cersei Capital's transaction information, and he no longer has to rack his brains like before.

The Australian funders who invested in Cersei Capital also generally understood this change. However, seeing Cersei Capital's net asset value that has continued to grow rapidly this month, those people did not express any objection.

Raymond Johnston revealed privately that because of Janet's education, those people thought that the operation of the S&P 87 index futures in the 500 stock market crash was the result of the cooperation between Janet and Simon. Capital is very reassuring.

Simon also understands that his greatest role to Cersei Capital is to ensure that the funds can be withdrawn at the right time.

This is actually very important.

Many well-known hedge funds have suffered from not knowing when to close their hands.

Just like the Quantum Fund in the original time and space, Soros made a big splash in the Southeast Asian economic crisis, but he stumbled when he finally moved to Russia, and suffered a huge loss of 30 billion U.S. dollars.Tiger Fund, which is as famous as Quantum Fund, was also liquidated because it failed to close in time in the technology stock bubble.

Although Simon's judgment on the Japanese stock market is not accurate because he is a big butterfly, it is still more secure than most investors who can't see the situation clearly.

After all, hedge fund giants such as Soros began betting on the imminent collapse of the Japanese stock market two years ago.Two years later, the Japanese stock market is still advancing. Except for Simon who can see some hazy future, no one can judge the specific direction of the Japanese stock market.

Chapter 248 Encounter (Revised)

"The cause of the accident last night was probably caused by a loose screw on the front wheel. I have fired the mechanic responsible for the maintenance of the Batmobile. The props team will conduct an inspection of all Batmobiles and Batcycles today."

Inside the Kendall Hotel restaurant.

While eating breakfast, "Batman" producer Joe Silver reported to Simon the cause of the Batmobile accident last night.Although the accident did not cause serious consequences, the situation where the front wheel of the bat motorcycle fell off last night was abnormal, and Simon did not intend to let it go.

Nodding his head, Simon asked again: "What about the media?"

If news of such an accident spreads, it will inevitably cause some troubles.

Simon, the local Australian media, is not worried. The Murdoch family and the Fairfax family are both investors of Cersei Capital, but the media outside of Australia are not within Simon’s sphere of influence. .

"A paparazzi took some blurry photos from a long distance. I communicated with the Los Angeles side and arranged some interview opportunities to exchange the negatives," Joe Silver said: "In addition, the media called to ask , have been blocked, I will arrange for Miss Gao Linuo to make a public appearance in the afternoon, so that the outside world's speculation can be completely eliminated."

Film shooting, especially this kind of big-budget film shooting, is actually a process of constantly encountering and solving problems, and it is rarely smooth sailing.

Therefore, since the filming of "Batman", Simon has increasingly realized the benefits of choosing Melbourne as the filming location.Compared with North America, Australia's relaxed shooting environment and the strong influence of Johnston's family gave him too much convenience during this period.

After breakfast, Joe Silver left to get busy with the crew, and Simon also returned to his hotel suite to start his day's work.

Today is March 3, Tuesday.It's still Monday in Los Angeles.

This past weekend, another new film "Sisters" under Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Films was released. This "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​star Jennifer Connelly starred in the film that was positioned as a youth sex comedy. The scale is 617 yuan, and the box office was 325 million U.S. dollars in the first three days of the weekend. The box office in the first week is about 500 million U.S. dollars.

After "Metropolitan", compared to the production budget of "Sisters" of 300 million US dollars and the same 300 million US dollars of publicity and distribution costs, this result is very good.

Simon added another point for Ira Deutschmann.

However, after the new year, "Blue Angel", "Metropolitan" and "Sisters" all have "mediocre results". Recently, there have been some arguments in the media that Daenerys Entertainment is beginning to move towards mediocrity, although anyone with a discerning eye can see that Making these three movies isn't the main focus of Daenerys Entertainment, but Simon is also more than happy to have more people in Hollywood with this mentality.

Daenerys Entertainment's strong box office performance last year really put a lot of pressure on too many people, and it's hard to be sure what will happen without a buffer.

After the three films, Daenerys Entertainment will continue to launch "Ghost Hunt 2" left over from the original New World Entertainment and "Sisters of Sid" starring Winona Ryder. There is also not much showmanship, which is enough for Hollywood to buffer it severely.

In the study, Simon turned on the speakerphone to discuss the company's latest affairs with Amy, while reading various documents from Los Angeles.

After talking about the business, Simon said when he heard Amy talk about Meg Ryan's compensation plan for getting rid of the option contract: "250 million is 250 million, a very good number, this kind of thing Don't ask me any more."

C originally offered a sky-high salary of 500 million U.S. dollars on the grounds that "Oneshot of Childhood" was the heroine's film and Meg Ryan was super popular after "When Harry Met Sally". The two parties fell out, and Daenerys Entertainment is also seeking $500 million in damages from Meg Ryan.

This possibility is not great.

Although she has already made it to the first line, Meg Ryan's salary for acting as a heroine in a general commercial movie is about 300 to 250 million US dollars.If income tax factors are included, the figure is significantly lower. $[-] million is enough to squeeze out Meg Ryan's next two films.

Moreover, the other party also participated in "Rocket Expert" as expected.

Compared with the high production and publicity budget of the "Rocketman" in memory, the box office results can only be regarded as mediocre. This time, Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan have changed the starring roles. It is still difficult to say what the future box office prospects will be. .

And, by any measure, Simon isn't bullish on the prospect of Meg Ryan being in the movie.

With the continuous success of "Top Gun" and "Rain Man" and other films, Tom Cruise is now in full swing. Into the control of a 'Tom Cruise movie'.

In a movie starring Cruise, unless it is a big name like Dustin Hoffman, it is difficult for other actors to have much room to play.

In my memory, under the influence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Universal was ambitious to create a "Universal Dark Universe", and a "New Mummy" directly made Universal's ambition fly away.

A wonderful script with the mummy princess and the hero villain in equal parts, with the changes that Cruise forced to add drama and drama to himself, the 'Mummy Movie' became another 'Tom Cruise' Movie'.

This is talent.

Moreover, this approach is actually in the interests of Cruise himself to the greatest extent. As for the commercial success or failure of the film, if the price of success is that the supporting role overwhelms the light of the protagonist, then it doesn't matter if it fails.

The "Rocket Expert", which will start filming next month, seems to Simon to have this kind of fate.

With the popularity foundation of "When Harry Met Sally", Meg Ryan may be able to get a good salary, but it is unlikely that she will find her own sense of existence in this film.

Near noon, Simon and Amy finished talking about things, and closed the latest movie data database development plan sent by Nancy Brill. Seeing Jing Jing walked up to Jennifer who started to help him tidy up his desk, one thing came to mind, Asked: "This Sunday is Easter, do you plan to go back to the United States to spend with your family?"

Jennifer looked up at Simon, shook her head and said, "It's too far away, I've already called Mom and Dad, so I won't go back this time."

After the female assistant finished speaking, she didn't look back, she still looked at him brightly.

Simon resisted the urge to touch his nose, and secretly sighed that the innocent and shy female assistant had also started to have a dark belly.

It's very difficult.

As an important holiday in the West, Easter is also a day for family reunion. Simon will definitely accompany Janet back to Johnston's mansion on Sunday.Although the relationship between him and Jennifer has been acquiesced by Janet, and the rest of the Johnston family have turned a blind eye to it, but if he brings the female assistant with him, it will be very lively.

What a provocation.

Considering Raymond Johnston's face-saving character, getting kicked out is the lightest thing.

"So, um, how about having dinner on Saturday night?"

After hearing what Simon said, Jennifer finally looked away, continued to tidy up the desk, and said, "Everyone has already discussed, we will go to New Zealand together on the weekend."

"Uh, why didn't I know?"

"Can you go together?"

"let me consider it."

Jennifer gave Simon a blank look, sorted out the documents, and left the study without saying hello.

The female assistant disappeared, and Simon finally lost his scruples. He raised his hand and touched his nose, smiled wryly and got up to leave the suite.

The driver is already waiting downstairs.

Simon has to rush to the headquarters building of Johnston Holdings to have lunch with Janet who is in charge of Cersei Capital there, and then spend another hour learning about the transaction information of Cersei Capital, and come back in the afternoon to start a new day of work on "Batman".

The headquarters building of Johnston Holdings is located on Elizabeth Street on the north bank of the Yarra River in the city center.

The car drove into the underground parking lot of the building, and Simon got off and walked towards the elevator.The driver did not go upstairs with him and would pick him up after 01:30pm.

Entering the special elevator for management, Simon pressed the button for the 22nd floor, standing in the middle of the elevator and feeling the feeling of slowly going up.

However, the light blinks to floor 8 and stops abruptly.

The elevator door opened, and Simon saw Veronica Johnston standing outside, wearing a black OL suit, with blonde hair rolled up, holding a stack of documents in her hand.The woman originally carried a cold aura that strangers should not get close to, but the moment she saw Simon, she instantly melted into panic.

The atmosphere was a little stagnant.

After a moment of confrontation, Simon took the initiative to step aside. Veronica noticed Simon's movement, and walked into the elevator mechanically as if she had received an order.

The elevator doors closed automatically, and a familiar fragrance came.

Simon looked at the elevator that continued to go up to the 22nd floor, and didn't ask Veronica which floor she was going to, and the woman obviously forgot about it.

The elevator door reopened, and Veronica found herself on the top floor. She turned her head and took a quick look at Simon, waiting for him to leave before going down by herself.

Simon didn't move, and asked, "It's time for lunch, do you want to come together?"

Veronica froze for a moment, then said slowly: "I, um."

When Simon heard Veronica's response, he didn't say much, and walked straight out of the elevator. Veronica hesitated for a moment, but followed.

Inside the offices of Cersei Capital.

When Simon entered the door, Janet was obviously losing her temper while holding the phone, and several staff members around her looked trembling.

Seeing Simon, Janet smiled at him, and then reprimanded him unceremoniously into the microphone before hanging up the phone.He walked over and was about to hug Simon, when he found Veronica who followed him into the door, immediately forgot about her boyfriend, walked around him and ran to her aunt: "Bingshan, why are you willing to come to see me today, um, help me first." You are warm."

Simon saw Janet hugging Veronica and coquettishly, some black lines could not help but float across his forehead.

Veronica gently pushed Janet away, and said in a calm voice, "I met Simon in the elevator, and I just want everyone to have lunch together."

"Well, of course we want to be together," Janet said without doubting him, she took her aunt's arm and said, "Simon frightened you last time, and I just asked him to apologize to you, oh, shall we go out to eat?"

Veronica glanced at Simon.

In the past, they ate directly in the restaurant of the building. However, Simon was also worried that someone would see a flaw, so he nodded and said, "Let's go eat outside."

Saying this, Janet leaned over and took Simon's arm again, and the three of them walked out together.

Entering the elevator just now, Simon found a topic and asked, "What happened just now?"