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After get off work, everyone chatted and laughed and left the audition room.

After the others left, Don Johnson, who stayed at the end, said to Simon: "One more thing, Simon, May and I plan to hold a christening ceremony for Dakota on the 16th of next month. I don't know if you are free to attend, little You named the guy."

At the Lethal Weapon 2 box-office success party a few months ago, Simon casually named the Johnsons' soon-to-be daughter the 'original' Dakota Johnson for fun, something he nearly forgot about later. thing.

The baby was born in October, but the Johnsons really used the name, and spread the news that Simon had named it himself.

A newborn little girl has attracted a lot of media attention. After "Vanity Fair" magazine set a high price tag, a group photo of Johnson's family of three finally appeared on the cover of "Vanity Fair" in November. Mention the matter of naming Simon.

Simon's interpretation of Dakota's name 'Eternal Smile' has even sparked controversy among some linguists.

"The 16th of next month," Simon thought for a while, and said, "Don, I'm not sure if I will be in Los Angeles by then. If I am, I will definitely attend."

《蝙蝠侠》上映时间是12月22日，华纳兄弟确定的《蝙蝠侠》洛杉矶首映礼在12月20日，西蒙并不打算过多参与影片具体的宣传事务，因此在12月20日之前很可能不会回来。

Don Johnson didn't know about Simon's arrangement. After hearing his promise that he would definitely attend as long as he was in Los Angeles, he happily reached out and said, "Then it's settled."

Simon and Don Johnson shook hands and said with a smile, "Of course."

The main creator of "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" is basically finalized, and only "League of Pink" is left among the 10 films planned to be released next year.

Now that the ban on C has been lifted, the crew has also officially issued an invitation to Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks has been firmly in the ranks of first-line male stars after "Flying Through the Future". However, he has not yet shown the strong box office appeal of many veteran male stars, so the salary quotation he gave is also a moderate 500 million US dollars. Simon And no haggling.

Sony, which had just won Columbia Pictures, was at the stage of being ambitious and spending money, but Simon limited the budget of "The League of Pink" to 2500 million US dollars.

Tom Hanks took $500 million, Geena Davis paid $200 million, and the original director Penny Marshall was promoted to the first line after cooperating with Hanks in "Flying Over the Future". The director's salary is also 500 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

The three main creators took 1200 million US dollars, and then ensured 1000 million US dollars in shooting costs, leaving little salary for other supporting actors.Madonna, who was soy sauced in the original version, will definitely not be hired again, and many supporting roles can only get low weekly salaries.

However, for projects led by Simon himself, Hollywood will never lack actors even if it is reversed, so the tight budget will not affect the quality of actors.

In addition to the projects that have officially started production, Simon has also been looking for the rest of the 10-film plan.

The next day is Thursday, April 11th.

"Flying Beyond Childhood" starts painting tomorrow, and the premiere of the film will be held in the evening at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

The lively premiere ceremony started at 5 p.m., and Simon attended alone. After a brief stop on the red carpet to take pictures, he went directly into the theater. At 8 o'clock, the premiere ceremony ended, and most of the invited guests went to a nearby hotel to attend the after-party.

Simon originally planned to leave early, but was stopped by Terry Semel.

In the banquet hall of the hotel, after some entertainment, Semel and Simon came to a corner together: "That's right, Simon, Time Inc. has already confirmed the Person of the Year for next month's magazine. "

Seeing Semel's congratulatory expression, why did Simon still not understand, and said, "Me?"

"Of course, besides you, who else has this qualification?" Terry Semel said with a smile: "Speaking of which, you already had this qualification in the first two years, so you can make arrangements recently to shoot a group A blockbuster cover, of course, you can't shirk this interview."

Time magazine's Person of the Year.

Simon sighed in his heart, of course he knew what this meant.

As a weekly current affairs magazine with great influence all over the world, the characters on the cover of each issue have attracted much attention.Some even went so far as to forge their own fake Time magazine cover in order to gain fame.

"Time" weekly man of the year is the top priority of "Time" weekly cover person every year.

Therefore, the cover of such a magazine is definitely not so easy to get on.

Last year, some media predicted that Simon would be Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1988, but in the end, Time Inc. would rather give the spot to 'Endangered Earth' than Simon.

In the face of doubts from the outside world, "Time" magazine explained that Simon was still too young and did not meet the criteria to become the man of the year.

This year it's suddenly 'par'.

This is of course not accidental, more like a matter of course.

After a little thought, you can understand that this is the result of Warner's efforts. Time Inc. and Warner Bros. have got rid of Paramount's entanglement and have formally reached a merger agreement.

Simon became the richest man in the Federation at the age of 21 this year, and he has enough qualifications. In addition, in order to create momentum for "Batman" to be released next month, it is naturally impossible for this year's "Time" magazine's Person of the Year to fall on someone else.

There has never been a media in this world that can truly maintain absolute impartiality and neutrality. Since "Time" magazine is already under the brand-new Time Warner Corporation, it is natural to favor the interests of the company.

Simon clearly remembers that after the release of "Wonder Woman" in the original time and space, as the treasure of Warner Bros., all the main creators of the "Wonder Woman" project have been "carefully cared for" by Time Warner's media, so meticulous that they have no qualifications at all. Patty Jenkins, the director of "Wonder Woman", was shortlisted for the "Time" magazine's annual man of the year, on the grounds that it was so far-fetched that "Patty Jenkins redefined how the world should view women" .

Thinking of this, Simon didn't refuse, but said, "However, Terry, I'm going to Europe this weekend."

"That's not a problem. As long as you cooperate, someone will be sent to Europe to take pictures and interview you. The time will be around the end of the month."

"Let them contact my assistant at that time." Simon nodded. He has received enough attention in recent years, but he didn't feel too excited. It's really ruthless that Adams Productions is suing Sony for $10 billion."

Sony has confirmed that Peter Cooper and Jon Peters, two veteran Hollywood producers, will be in charge of Columbia Pictures. For this reason, they have not only offered high salary terms, but also acquired the production of the two for $2 million in cash. company.

However, Cooper-Peters Productions was originally affiliated with Warner Bros. Pictures. Sony had just completed the acquisition of this production company. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

Terry Semel heard Simon mention this, and said with a smile: "You know Steve, he is very displeased with the Japanese putting their hands into Hollywood, this is our territory."

Knowing that Warner finally knocked out 6 million US dollars from the Japanese and became the first "tuition fee" Sony paid in Hollywood, Simon admired Steve Rose's methods in his heart, and secretly reminded himself not to make similar mistakes.

After the premiere, on the second day, "Flying Beyond Childhood" officially opened in North America on a large scale with 2206 screens.

Universal Pictures produced the 1985 annual box office champion "Back to the Future" sequel "Back to the Future 2" is scheduled for Wednesday, November 11nd.

为了避开《回到未来2》的锋芒，11月17日这天一共有6部新片上映，其中丹妮莉丝与华纳兄弟合作的《飞越童真》、派拉蒙出品的《哈林夜总会》和猎户座影业的《幻海童真》上映银幕数都在2000块上下。

Daenerys' collaboration with Warner Bros. on One Flew is certainly not to be underestimated, but other studios seem to think it's better to 'get along' with it.

As for next week, in addition to the Gucci fashion documentary officially named "Gucci Mark" released by Daenerys Entertainment's Gaomen Films, "Back to the Future 2" can be said to dominate the Thanksgiving Week schedule.

Ella Deutschman was also quite puzzled about Simon's decision to insist on confronting "Back to the Future 2" with "Gucci Mark", but Simon didn't explain too much to him.

In memory, compared to the first annual box office champion with a domestic box office of more than 2 million US dollars, the box office of the sequel of "Back to the Future 2" has shrunk by half.Universal has invested all available resources in this sequel film, but the production budget is as high as 4000 million US dollars. Although the box office of "Back to the Future 2" still exceeds [-] million, it is far from meeting the expectations of the producers. It is no exaggeration to describe it.

"Back to the Future 2" is not as strong as the outside world imagined, and "Gucci Mark" will naturally not be affected too seriously.

On the other hand, because a lot of preparatory work has been done in advance, Nancy held another meeting on the acquisition of EA on Friday after obtaining Simon's permission. James Raybould even flew over from the east coast to participate this time.

It is impossible for Cersei Capital's funds to be transferred back to China in the short term. Nancy plans to formally contact EA this weekend, and it is likely that the money will not be used.However, after summarizing all aspects of revenue in the second half of the year, even if Daenerys Entertainment does not rely on the funds in the hands of Cersei Capital, it is not a big problem to win EA within a budget of 3.5 million US dollars.

The meeting on the acquisition of EA ended, Simon sent the others away, and formally discussed the plan to acquire MCA with Amy and James.

After facilitating the deal between Sony and Columbia, Michael Ovitz should have been pushing Panasonic to acquire MCA, the parent company of Universal, but this deal, like Sony’s acquisition of Columbia, will also drag on for a long time, and Simon has many opportunities to cut Hu.

Simon's plans to acquire MCA had only been revealed a little to the female assistant before, and both Amy and James were very surprised, followed by excitement.

If it can win the MCA, Daenerys Entertainment will become the largest studio in Hollywood, and the company's previous shortcomings in records, TV, content and theme parks will be immediately made up for.

Of course, this is not without problems.

The current market value of MCA is close to US$40 billion. Both Amy and James believe that if Daenerys Entertainment wants to win this company, it may need to prepare US$80 billion.

It's no secret that MCA chairman Lou Vassalman made an $80 billion offer to Sony last year.

Because he is familiar with the economic trend of North America in the next year, Simon is more optimistic than Amy and James, knowing that it will not take so much money to complete this acquisition.Even at $80 billion, though, that figure shouldn't be too much of a problem for Simon.

The operation of the U.S. junk bond market ended years ago, and Cersei Capital’s capital volume is sufficient to reach 80 billion US dollars.Next, the oil price turmoil caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War was enough for Simon to continue to rake in big money.

Entering the 90s, the prices of major Hollywood film companies will only get higher and higher, and the sooner they win Universal, the better it will be for Daenerys Entertainment.

Of course, this matter cannot be accomplished overnight.

This time, Simon just informed Amy and James of their plans first, and asked them to start some related preparations now.Compared with EA, which has a market value of less than 2 million US dollars, if you want to win a company like MCA, which is already considered a giant in this era, it will be at least next year to make a formal move.

At the same time, Simon did not intend to take a hostile takeover this time, so he did not allow James to start absorbing MCA shares in advance.Although doing so can save some money in future acquisitions, it can easily cause misunderstandings by the MCA management, making Lou Wassalman and others think that Simon is going to launch a hostile takeover.

In order to save one or two billion dollars, the hostility of MCA management is actually not worth the gain for a multi-billion dollar business.

Janet will arrive in Los Angeles around two o'clock in the afternoon. After finishing the meeting with the two, everyone has lunch together, and Simon rushes to Los Angeles International Airport to pick them up.

Chapter 306 Everyone is a civilized person

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Perhaps because of jet lag confusion, Janet woke up before Simon.

The faint morning light broke into the bedroom through the cracks in the curtains, it was still early.

Feeling the breath of the man beside her, Janet quickly climbed onto Simon's body, enjoying the feeling of skin-to-skin contact. She leaned forward and kissed the man's face, then retracted to his chest again, and narrowed her eyes again. Eye.

A pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist, and the two of them stuck closer together.

Knowing that Simon was also awake, Janet rubbed her face against his chest, and greeted him in a rustling voice, "Morning."

"Um……"

Hearing the man's feeble answer, Janet giggled a few times, opened her mouth and bit the man, and said, "I was going to be tossed to death by you last night."

Simon just hummed again.

Janet said this, but there was no accusation in her words, but a sense of happiness.He can toss himself like a little tiger that has been hungry for many days, which shows that a person must rarely mess with flowers when he is in Los Angeles.

Although she doesn't mind him stealing food outside, she will of course be very happy if he can restrain himself like this.

After getting tired for a while and feeling sleepy, Janet got up and started dressing, and said she would prepare breakfast herself.

Simon followed suit.

Today is Saturday, September 11th.

Leaving the bedroom, the time is only a quarter past six.

There are no work arrangements on weekends, and everything can be done slowly.

The two played tennis on the tennis court for half an hour, Janet went to prepare breakfast, and Simon sat at the dining table and read today's newspaper.

Unrest in Eastern Europe is starting to intensify these days.

The Berlin Wall fell on November 11, and the reunification of Germany was inevitable.

Out of the instinctive fear of a unified Germany, in order to prevent this from happening, countries such as Britain, France and Italy, which were allies just now, all turned their faces in a blink of an eye. , Britain, France and Italy will form an alliance with the Soviet Union for military intervention.

Because of the turbulent nature of this war, James Raybould suggested more than once that Simon at least hold off on the acquisition of Nokia's mobile communications equipment division.After all, once a war breaks out, Finland, which directly borders the Soviet Union, is likely to be affected, and hundreds of millions of dollars in funds will be wasted.

Simon knew very well that there would be no war this time, and did not follow James' advice.

Now is the best time to take over Nokia. Once the situation in Eastern Europe stabilizes, it will definitely not be so easy to buy Nokia's entire mobile communication equipment department for [-] million US dollars.

While flipping through several newspapers discussing the situation in Europe, Simon also discovered another interesting piece of news: The Bush administration suddenly stopped a loan of 23 billion dollars for Iraq yesterday, on the grounds that it suspected that the money might be stolen. Saddam used it to manufacture weapons of mass destruction.

It turns out that the meme of "weapons of mass destruction" was born so early.

Since the "US-Iraq Business Forum" in the middle of the year, Simon has been paying attention to the situation in the Middle East.

The news in front of us means that after trying to seize Iraqi oil sovereignty to no avail, the Bush administration officially began to attack Saddam Hussein.

Picking up a pen to mark the news that will be collected as clippings, Simon was about to read the reviews of several new films released yesterday, when Janet walked into the dining room with two breakfasts.

Temporarily put a stack of newspapers aside, Simon took the food, Janet still habitually sat down next to Simon, poked her head and glanced at the news he had just marked, then curled her lips and said: "Crap excuse."

Simon smiled and said, "Everyone is a civilized person, so we still need to find an excuse."

In fact, Janet is also concerned about this matter. The focus of Cersei Capital's operations next year will be on oil.

However, she was not interested in talking about work at this time, so she responded and changed the subject: "I have already asked Sophia to help us prepare the schedule, we will go to Europe tomorrow, live in each city where we have real estate for a week, and eat delicious food Things, go to interesting places, and you can choose more houses in other cities by yourself. By the way, there may be wars.”

Simon glanced at the woman's ruddy face with a little excitement, and said, "You really want to fight?"

"Well, it's exciting to watch human beings step by step towards self-destruction."

Simon is a pessimist who firmly believes that human beings will eventually self-destruct.In this regard, Janet was in the same category as him, but this woman's thoughts were even crazier, and she even wanted to destroy the world by herself.

At this moment, Simon just smiled and said, "Aren't you afraid that it will affect yourself?"

"Don't be afraid, if the situation is not right, we will immediately hide in Australia."

If World War III happened, Australia in the southern hemisphere would probably be the safest place in the world.

The Tasmania island chosen by Simon is almost the southernmost point in the world outside the Antarctic continent, so it is also safer.

Thinking of this, Simon half-truthfully said: "Maybe we can build another doomsday shelter in Tasmania, so we won't be afraid even if a nuclear war breaks out."

Doomsday shelters are not actually original to the Fallout games.In the decades-long Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, because of concerns about the outbreak of nuclear war, there are actually many shelters built to avoid nuclear wars across the United States.

"Good idea, we can ask someone to come up with a plan in the next few days," Janet nodded in agreement, and then said: "By the way, my aunt is helping us negotiate another piece of forest land, in Tas In the central and western part of Mania, the land this time is very large, covering more than 6000 square kilometers. The Tasmanian government originally planned to circle a state nature reserve. With an extra income, it shouldn't be a big problem to win the land."

Simon already owns about 15 acres of land in Tasmania, the largest of which is more than 500 square kilometers of forest land on the Arthur River in northwestern Tasmania. The land cost 700 million US dollars.

Based on the standard calculation that 1 square kilometer equals 247 acres, more than 6000 square kilometers of forest land is about 150 million acres, which directly expands the area of ​​private land owned by Simon by ten times.At the same time, the total area of ​​Tasmania is 6.8 square kilometers. Taking this piece of woodland, Simon is equivalent to owning nearly one-tenth of the land in Tasmania.

Thinking about this, Simon asked, "How much will it cost?"

Janet said: "It is still under discussion, but as long as we take over according to the specifications of the state nature reserve and do not seek economic benefits, the price quoted by the Tasmanian government should not exceed 1 million US dollars, and the price after negotiation will definitely be lower. I I brought the information and will show it to you after breakfast."

After chatting like this, the two had breakfast, and Janet found out the information about the land that Veronica was negotiating for Simon.