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"That idiot Norwell of the No. 650 Fund, I asked him to close the bank stock short option portfolio as soon as possible in the morning. He delayed it for an hour wisely, and the profit shrank by [-] million. Hmph, if there is another time , I'll fire him."

During the recent period, rumors of the Bank of Japan raising interest rates have intensified, and the Japanese stock market has been turbulent as a result.

Many investors believe that the rate hike by the Bank of Japan will become an important inflection point for the crazy Japanese stock market. Recently, various transactions in the Japanese financial market have become more active, and bank stocks that are directly affected by rate hikes have become more frequent. .

When Simon operated Cersei Capital, his style was conservative. Compared with many hedge funds, the trading frequency can be said to be very low. Sometimes the trading teams of the five sub-funds may not necessarily conduct a transaction throughout the day.

After Janet took over, the little madness in the woman's bones was fully revealed. Cersei Capital was directly converted into a high-frequency trading hedge fund. Moreover, Janet also liked to use risky ultra-high leverage. The woman even took Simon's established The long position in Nikkei 225 index futures was reduced to $50 billion to free up more funds to operate other financial products.

Investors participating in Cersei Capital can only see the fund's net asset value report once a week, because the profit figures continue to increase, so they are very relieved of Janet's operations.

If those people knew Janet's specific operation methods, they would definitely have trouble sleeping and eating.Janet lost 3600 million US dollars in just two hours in a foreign exchange hedging at the beginning of the month, but this loss was quickly made up in the afternoon trading session.

Another task for Simon now is to suppress many of Janet's crazy thoughts and prevent her from blindly pursuing excitement and completely losing control.

According to the latest statistics, the net asset value of Cersei Capital has risen to 18.5 billion U.S. dollars, with a profit of 2.8 million U.S. dollars.Compared with the initial principal of US$15.7 billion, the profit rate reached 17.8%, which has exceeded the one-year return rate of many hedge funds.

As long as this profitable situation can continue, Simon believes that Cersei Capital will definitely be able to more than double before the Japanese stock market turns around.

The three left the headquarters building of Johnston Holdings and found a decent restaurant nearby.

Under the adjustment of Janet, the atmosphere of the lunch did not appear too cold.

Because of Veronica's icy character, the woman's indifferent reaction at the dinner table "as usual" did not reveal any flaws.In order not to bother Simon, Janet doesn't like to discuss too much about the operation of Cersei Capital in private. Everyone just talks about some daily trivialities in a few words, and there is a strange harmony between getting along.

Chapter 249 Oscar Ceremony (Repair)

Los Angeles.

The date is Monday, March 3.

In the past Easter weekend, Daenerys Entertainment's new film "Haunted Ghost 2" officially opened in North America with a scale of 1117 screens.

Amy Pascal got the opening weekend box office numbers for "Hell & Ghost 2" early in the morning.

After three days of filming, this follow-up to the new line "A Nightmare on Elm Street" created a series sequel of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" that earned $461 million. The box office performance is comparable to that of the first part of "A Nightmare on Elm Street", because it is a fast-food commercial horror film. It is difficult to get out of the long-term, and the total box office in North America is expected to still be around 1500 million US dollars.

《猛鬼追魂2》的制作成本只有300万美元，这已经是首部曲100万美元制作成本的3倍，公司投入的宣发预算同样是300万美元。1500万美元的北美票房预期，意味着丹妮莉丝娱乐只是在本土院线发行上就能实现不错的盈利。

The box office data came out, and at the meeting with the management of New World Pictures in the morning, Ghostbusters 3 was logically included in the development plan.

The 61st Academy Awards will be held on March 3.

After the meeting with the management of New World Films, Amy organized another meeting in the same conference room back to back to discuss the preparations for the Oscars with the team in charge of Ira Deutschman.

The reason why the Oscars ceremony can become a big business with an annual output value of hundreds of millions of dollars is that all parties involved in this event can benefit from it.

For Daenerys Entertainment, in addition to popular nominated films such as "Rain Man", in order to increase the exposure of the company's upcoming films such as "Bodyguard" and "The Sixth Sense" this year, the main creator of these films, Kevin Stars such as Costner and Robert De Niro will also attend the awards ceremony, and even Valerie Golino was sent back from Australia by Simon.

Valerie is not only the heroine of "Rain Man", which is the hottest award season, but also the heroine of "Batman", which will be released at the end of the year. No matter which aspect, her attendance at this awards ceremony is very necessary.

The conference room of the Daenerys Entertainment Division in Burbank.

Near noon, Amy looked at her memo again, looked up at Deutschman and said, "The last thing, Ella, regarding Simon's nomination for the best soundtrack, how sure are you of winning the award?"

"I have tried my best, but the possibility of Simon winning is very low," said Ella Deutschman, shaking her head. John Williams of "The Accidental Tourist", George Fenton of "Dangerous Liaisons" and Maurice Weir of "The Mist" all have at least 3 Oscars in the music category Nominations, of which David Grusin, who already has 5 nominations, and George Fenton, who has been nominated 4 times, have not yet won an award."

Amy took a look at the list of nominations for the best soundtrack awards handed over by Deutschman, and found that the other four were all very old soundtrack masters, and only Simon was a newcomer, and he was nominated for the first time.

Although "Rain Man" is very popular, Amy also feels that it is unlikely that Simon will win the award with such a nomination.Putting down the information in his hand, Amy thought for a while, and said, "I told Simon about it, and he just let me deal with it according to the situation. Presumably, he doesn't have any expectations for winning the prize. But anyway, we still have to prepare of."

Ella Deutschman said: "Usually, other people in the same crew help to accept the award. In the "Rain Man" crew, probably only Valerie Golino is suitable."

"Then Valerie," Amy made a decision directly, and said, "You take the time to chat with her, and at least prepare an acceptance speech."

After talking about this matter, Amy re-checked her memo, confirmed that there was nothing missing, and announced the end of the morning meeting.

In the afternoon, Santa Monica arranged a supporting role audition for "Pretty Woman", and the filming of this film will start in early May at the latest.Amy also had a lunch appointment with Angela Ahrendts, president of Gucci's US branch, at noon, so she didn't plan to stop in Burbank.

As soon as Amy left the conference room with her assistant, Ella Deutschman chased them out and went downstairs with them, saying, "I heard that the leading actor of "Pretty Woman" hasn't been finalized yet?"

"Yes," Amy knew that Deutschman must be recommended by someone, and said with a smile: "Several candidates have already reported to Simon. If you plan to recommend, you must be good enough."

Ella Deutschman was also polite, and said, "We just watched the sample of "My Left Foot" last week, Daniel Day Lewis, what do you think?"

Amy thought of Lewis' impeccable performance in "My Left Foot", and the other party's acting skills were obviously fine.Before "My Left Foot", Lewis starred in basically love movies, such as "A Room with a View" released by Deutschman when he was in New Film Company and last year's adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel. The Love in Prague.

However, after thinking about it for a moment, Amy shook her head: "Ella, the leading actor in "Pretty Woman" is a businessman, but Daniel's temperament is more of an artist, he is not suitable for this role."

Deutschman did not give up easily, and said: "Danny happens to be in Los Angeles recently, Amy, if possible, how about giving him an audition?"

Amy was still very impressed by Daniel Day Lewis' performance in "My Left Foot". After hesitating for a while, she said, "Santa Monica just happens to be performing a supporting role in "Pretty Woman" in the afternoon. The audition, Ella, at four o'clock in the afternoon, I can only give Daniel two and ten minutes. Besides, it is Simon's decision in the end."

After hearing Amy's agreement, Ella Deutschman said, "Thank you, Amy, I will let Danny go there on time."

Amy smiled and said, "On your side, has Robert Altman finished the script of Raymond Carver's novel?"

Ella Deutschman shook her head and said: "Altman has already come up with a story outline, and the name of the movie will definitely be "Intersection of Life". However, this year is definitely out of play."

After ending the awards season PR, Deutschman completed the release of last year's "Sisters of Sid", and the rest of this year's work is mainly "My Left Foot", "Driving for Miss Daisy" and the Gucci documentary For the three projects, if possible, look for opportunities to buy some other literary and artistic film copyrights from channels such as the Cannes Film Festival for distribution.

However, Daenerys Entertainment is still closely watched by other Hollywood film companies, and the plan to buy copyright is not very feasible.That's not going to be easy, at least while keeping the price reasonable.

Leaving the Burbank branch, Amy's assistant, Vanessa, was in charge of driving, and she sat in the back seat and flipped through a script.

This is the sequel to a horror movie in the original New World Entertainment copyright library, based on Stephen King's horror novel "Kids in the Cornfield".The first film was released in 1984. The production cost was only 80 US dollars, but it achieved a North American box office of nearly 1500 million US dollars. The market performance is comparable to that of the "Hunting Ghost" series.

New World Pictures president Danny Morris came up with the project during the recent release of Ghostbusters 2.

"Children in the Cornfield" originally did not have the basis for developing a sequel. If you want to do this, the story probably has to be restarted, unlike horror film series such as "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Horror Ghost" that have such horror films as Nightmare or Inherent elements such as Hell's Box.

In Hollywood, however, none of these issues are clearly a problem as long as a movie is profitable.

As a film adaptation of Stephen King's novel, and the first film has achieved very good box office results relative to the cost, it is inevitable to develop a sequel.

Concentrating on reading the script, and annotating a few sentences with a pen from time to time, before he knew it, the car had already parked outside a restaurant in Santa Monica not far from Daenerys Entertainment headquarters.

Amy took Vanessa out of the car, Angela Ahrendts had arrived early, and Valerie Golino also unexpectedly appeared in the restaurant.

Noticing Amy's doubts, Angela Ahrendts explained: "I accompanied Valerie in the Gucci store in the morning to try on clothes, so I came here together."

Amy doesn't mind being alone with Valerie. In fact, even if she didn't have this time, she would take time to have dinner with Valerie Golino, and talk about the filming of "Batman" in Australia by the way.

After the four women sat down in the restaurant and ordered food, Amy asked Ahrendts, "How is your side?"

Since joining the job at the beginning of the month, Angela Ahrendts has been living the life of a trapeze all over North America.These days, she has visited most of the Gucci stores in major cities on the east coast, but it will take at least one or two months to sort out all the Gucci stores in North America.

This time, he suddenly interrupted his work and came to Los Angeles, but it was because of the promotion of Gucci.

The Oscar Awards Ceremony has always been an important promotional platform for many big names. In the past, Gucci did not pay much attention to the promotion of this aspect, and at the same time, it lacked channels to enter the Hollywood circle.Now, since everyone has a boss, Gucci will naturally not let go of such an opportunity.

"Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Melanie Griffith, Michelle Pfeiffer, Madonna, Valerie, oh, and Bruce Willis' wife Demi Moore, a total of 7 actresses will wear Gucci dresses at this awards ceremony," Angela counted excitedly, and said: "In addition, Iger also communicated with ABC, we can get a lot of live broadcasts Close-up."

Amy was about to nod, when she suddenly remembered, she said, "Isn't there Nicole Kidman, she is the best art direction award presenter this time?"

"No, I talked to Mr. Friedman of the WMA, and he said that Miss Kidman had made an appointment with Dior in advance to wear her dress. Mr. Friedman also introduced me to some other actresses, but , you know, those actresses are a little low, so there are only these seven."

Of course, Amy doesn't think that 7 actresses wearing Gucci dresses to attend the Oscars are too few. In fact, this number is already a lot. Except for Bruce Willis's little-known wife, all other actresses are in a state of popularity.

Speaking of which, Bruce Willis's wife, um, Demi Moore, is still on the shortlist for the lead actress in The Ghost.The other party did this this time, obviously with the intention of actively showing favor.

If it weren't for Bruce Willis, who had just started to become popular with "Die Hard", few people would have noticed his model wife.

As for "Ghost Story", Amy secretly prefers Michelle Pfeiffer or Julia Roberts.

Of course, Julia has already pre-determined "Pretty Woman", so she will definitely not be able to keep up with "Ghostly Love".If it wasn't for the fact that the two parties have fallen out, Meg Ryan is also a good choice, and perhaps Nicole Kidman, who rose to prominence with the heroine of "Pulp Fiction".It's just that this woman seems to have a lot of thoughts.

All in all, Michelle Pfeiffer is the first choice.

As for that Demi Moore, Amy will not look at him differently just because of the other party's kindness.As Angela Ahrendts just revealed in her words, many actresses with lower status and honored to attend the Oscars are also looking forward to wearing Gucci dresses.Apparently, Daenerys Entertainment has no shortage of such overtures.

"Just 7, I suggest you don't add more. It is not a good thing for a brand to appear too frequently."

"I think so too," Angela Ahrendts nodded, and said, "Recently, I've been thinking about taking back as many Gucci counter authorizations as possible. If a luxury brand is everywhere, it's not a luxury brand." .”

Everyone chatted for a while, and Amy and Angela started talking about business again.

Something about Daenerys Entertainment's official celebratory party after the Oscars.

Last year, because it didn't get many nominations, although Simon unexpectedly won a best editing award, there was no special celebration.

This year is different.

Based on the box office results of Daenerys Entertainment's series of hit films last year, even if nothing is won at the next Oscars ceremony, the company is still necessary to hold a grand celebration party to reward Daenerys Entertainment for participating in last year The main creators of a series of blockbuster films, and at the same time build a good relationship for further cooperation in the future.

Prior to this, Amy had communicated with Sophia several times. Daenerys Entertainment's Oscar afterparty this year will be named 'Gucci Night'. At that time, not only will a large number of stars attend, but the media will also be invited to cooperate with the publicity .

Although Angela Ahrendts just said that luxury goods should control themselves and not be too flooded, Gucci has been silent for several years, and its original reputation in North America has also been suppressed by Dior, LV and other brands. This time it happens to be a stand out Chance.

Gucci's recent operation idea is to spread the popularity as much as possible first, and then operate the brand image of this classic luxury brand in a more refined manner.

After the intense work of the last two days, the 61st Academy Awards finally arrived on time on March 3.

5pm.

With the opening of the red carpet ceremony, a large number of stars gathered from all over Los Angeles to the Holy Citizen Auditorium, where this year's Oscars are held.

Chapter 250 The Second Statue (Revision)

Outside the Holy Citizen Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles.

Valerie Golino, who was wearing a black Gucci evening dress, got out of the concierge car, and when she heard the cheers coming from both sides of the red carpet, she couldn't restrain her excitement.

Although she is the youngest queen of the Venice Film Festival, the biggest role of the award she won in 1986 probably just helped her knock on the door of Hollywood.The "Love Story", which also won the Jury's Special Award, has left almost no traces in the history of film, and it is even difficult to find, because there are too many films of the same name called "Love Story".

Now, everything is different.

Although the two male protagonists of "Rain Man" Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise occupy most of the film's light, as the heroine, she still gained a very wide popularity.What's more, she is now the heroine of Simon Westero's new film "Batman", the actress who plays Catwoman.

Stepping on the red carpet, because I was so excited, I kept walking forward foolishly.

She knew many big names around her, but not many knew her.She also doesn't have a male partner, and her original boyfriend broke up when she came to Hollywood to develop.Speaking of which, when I got the role of Catwoman and went to Melbourne to shoot, I thought I could have something to do with that young talented director, but unfortunately he was not very interested in me.

No wonder.

How could it be her turn that the man that the whole of Hollywood is coveting.

Thoughts were wandering, and it wasn't until agent Illian Borman stepped forward to grab her that she realized that she was about to pass through the media area.

Was told to stop and take pictures.

Not only to increase the exposure, but also for the publicity needs of this suit, the magazine layout has been arranged in advance.

Hastily backed away and took a good pose.

But I excused myself in my heart, it must be the sequelae of the fall last time.

Ok.

Certainly so.

When I found a reason, I relaxed and my smile became more natural.

Listening to the group of reporters asking me some details about the shooting of "Batman" loudly, I wanted to answer a few words, but I could only keep silent.Westeros is already exhausted because of the confidentiality work of the crew, and if he talks nonsense, he will definitely be scolded to death.

Thinking of this, I inexplicably want to say a few words.

of course.

just think about it.

After taking the photo and moving on, Illian quickly came up to remind him that there was also an interview on the TV station.

Hate it, I didn't forget it this time.

Walking to the live broadcast site and waiting for a while, Bruce Willis and his wife, who were originally being interviewed, left. The manager gestured to her, and quickly picked up the hem of her skirt and stepped onto the interview platform.

A very enthusiastic hostess complimented each other, chatted a few words about her Gucci dress, and was asked about "Batman" as usual.Can you disclose some inside information?If you can't, you will be scolded to death.Oh, is Westeros very fierce in the crew?

Oops, wrong word.

Thinking of Yilian behind him, if he decisively dumped the blame, he would be scolded to death by his manager.

Sorry buddy, no one knows who you are anyway.The cameraman moves the camera away and sweeps behind her.

Well, now someone knows who you are.

After the interview, he stepped down, but he was not scolded, and was even praised for his quick response.

That is!