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Catherine said: "The concepts expressed in the two films are different. I hope Louise and Selma are alive."

Simon thought for a while and said, "In this case, some plots need to be revised."

Catherine said firmly, "I have time."

Simon said again: "Also, the box office shouldn't be too good."

Janet said: "Where do you need more money?"

"I don't think it's too much."

"I'll hit you."

Simon smiled and dodged Janet's protruding little paw, and reluctantly made a compromise: "Well, at least, with this arrangement, maybe another sequel can be made."

Chapter 341 The Second Westeros (Revised)

After lunch, Simon rushed to Santa Monica to start his afternoon work.

After sending the man away, Catherine and Janet came to a living room on the second floor of the villa.

A girl named Claire brought juice, and Catherine thanked her softly. After she left, she asked Janet, who was leaning on the sofa and holding a thick folder, "Why do you put such a girl at home?"

Janet hummed and stretched out her hand. After Catherine reluctantly delivered the juice to her hand, she bit the straw and asked, "What's wrong?"

Knowing that this girl was asking the question knowingly, Catherine still said bluntly: "Aren't you afraid that Simon will mess around?"

"I really hope this kind of thing happens," Janet said, looking at the downcast eyes flashing at the documents spread out on her knees, as if a little frustrated: "Alison and the others are young, beautiful, obedient, how many Okay. Too bad it’s just ABCD in his eyes.”

Catherine felt that she might have heard it wrong: "Huh?"

Janet restrained her emotions, raised her head and made a face at Catherine, smiled and shrugged, "It's nothing."

"You..." Catherine paused, and asked tentatively, "Is there any problem?"

"Of course not," Janet shook her head, and said, "As you can see, he will come back to have lunch with me and spend more time with me than before. This is the state of marriage I want. Moreover, I am now The second Westeros in the world, Janet Westeros, are you envious?"

Catherine didn't answer, but still looked at Janet.

During the noon meal, Catherine could clearly feel the natural intimacy between Simon and Janet that had clearly integrated into their married life.

Although she has never experienced marriage, Catherine also understands that this is a very benign state of getting along, which is much better than many couples who are glued to each other and then quickly become indifferent or even part ways.

However, Catherine still noticed some inexplicable strangeness from it.

This strangeness comes from both Simon and Janet.

Moreover, the two anomalies seemed to be somewhat different, but Catherine couldn't tell exactly what was going on.

After a brief confrontation, Janet slumped her small shoulders, put aside the juice in her hand and the documents on her lap, sat cross-legged on the sofa and said distressedly: "Hey, Kate, do you think he, um, likes to be older than him?" woman, is there a problem?"

Catherine froze for a moment, thinking of herself, blushed slightly and said, "You are also older than him."

"I'm not referring to you," Janet raised her hand and stretched out an index finger to gesticulate in front of her face a few times, and said, "Yes, yes, um, you say, um, what can I do to make Simon like young and beautiful girls?" ?”

Catherine looked at Janet for a moment, then suddenly leaned on the back of the sofa, took a sip of the juice, and said, "I suddenly feel that you should solve these problems yourself, don't ask me."

Janet puffed her cheeks in dissatisfaction, and said, "Obviously you asked first."

Just as she was talking, Alison, who had just left, came in again and said softly to Janet, "Ms. Westeros, the people from Holland's office have arrived."

Janet nodded, pulled Catherine up and said, "Kate, you can help me with the renovation of the villa next door."

Santa Monica, Daenerys Entertainment headquarters.

Starting at two o'clock in the afternoon, Simon spent three hours personally hosting the final round of auditions for several important supporting roles in "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Most of the protagonists of the "Batman" series have been determined. Prior to this, the core supporting roles of the second sequel have also been cast, leaving only some supporting roles that generally do not have many roles.

However, because of the success of the first film, even some small roles in the sequel, which only played for two or three minutes, were fiercely contested.

Simon does not intend to make all the sequels of "Batman" in the 90s into a hodgepodge of stars like Warner did in the original space-time. There are all kinds of abrupt characters that obviously don't fit the plot.

As you can imagine, the box office is not as good as one.

For casting, Simon's core concept is to only choose the right one.

Although some human elements are not rejected, if someone chooses inappropriate actors because of this, or even wants to create a character out of thin air for some people, it is absolutely impossible to pass the level of Simon.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the audition ended, Simon and the team held a short meeting, and then returned to his office.

It was past five o'clock, and it was far from get off work time for Simon.

Jennifer walked into the office with a thick stack of documents, and Simon was looking down at the next development plan of Eaglet Company sent from San Francisco.

Right now, Igret has completed all the necessary preparatory work for the construction of the World Wide Web: a graphical interface browser that has undergone multiple tests, a complete hypertext transfer protocol solution, and a network connection mode built with other technologies.

Therefore, the World Wide Web can only be regarded as a part of the Internet. In the entire Internet world, in addition to the World Wide Web, there are various application modes such as instant messaging, e-mail, Internet telephony, online games, and file sharing.Because most of the other applications later were integrated into the Internet based on World Wide Web technology, it is easy for people to confuse the concept between the two.

In fact, many other technologies actually predate the World Wide Web.

For example, instant messaging, the Bloomberg terminal that has gradually become popular on Wall Street, appeared in 1981, and instant messaging technology was used in it, which was many years before the appearance of the World Wide Web.

Another example is online games.

The predecessor of AOL was an "online game" operator. In 1983, several partners of the predecessor of AOL cooperated with Time Warner to transplant some Atari video games to the network server, and then Then use a customized router to connect to the customer terminal, and operate in the form of payment.

However, the online game company named CVC collapsed due to the chain reaction of Atari's collapse after less than a year of operation.

During a private chat with Steve Case, now the CEO of America Online, Simon accidentally learned that the initial idea of ​​several CVC partners was not online games, but a more advanced online music sharing .

The idea at the time was to cooperate with Warner Records to port Warner Music's music to the Internet in a specific format, and users paid to download music from the Internet according to their own needs.

It's a pity that this kind of too advanced business concept was directly rejected by Time Warner, and a group of people just "retire to the next best thing".

Before Westeros took a stake in AOL, the predecessor of AOL, Quantum Link, was still mainly engaged in very rough online games, and of course, it also covered basic network access services.

Because online content resources in the early days of the Internet were extremely scarce, this is why AOL had to do so.

Otherwise, AOL would not be able to operate if users connected to the network but did not know what to do.

Simon very much hopes that America Online can focus on the basic ISP (Internet Service Provider) business in the next few years, and then Eaglet will play the role of Internet content provider, and there will be Westeros system companies such as SUN and Cisco Provides the basic equipment for the Internet.

However, because of the above reasons, it is actually very difficult to realize this pure idea of ​​each performing its own duties.

In the early stage of Internet development, Internet service providers must provide users with sufficient content in order to retain users.

Considering this, Simon also decided to organize the teams of several companies to re-discuss the next development plan. The Westeros system has already taken a great advantage in the Internet field. Simon does not want this advantage because it is not clear enough Business strategy is wasted away in vain.

After making up his mind, Simon raised his head. On the opposite side of the desk, the female assistant was quietly helping him tidy up the desk with a few folders at hand.

A faint fragrance came, and Simon couldn't help but smiled and clapped his hands at the female assistant, saying, "Come on."

Jennifer gave the man opposite her a blank look: "No."

"Seriously, come here, let's talk."

The female assistant looked at Simon suspiciously, hesitated for a while, and walked around the desk, and then was hugged by Simon's waist.

Standing upright against the man, the female assistant said softly, "You're lying."

Simon put his face in front of the female assistant and smelled the scent of the woman, until the woman in his arms gradually softened and sat on his lap carefully, before asking, "How are you doing?"

"what you mean how?"

"I mean, Jenny and I weren't around this time?"

Jennifer put her little hand on the man's chest to support her body, and said as if nothing had happened, "Very well, uncle is planning to introduce a boyfriend to me."

Simon said viciously: "It seems that I have to consider changing to a private lawyer."

"You are really domineering."

Simon immediately compromised: "Okay, then I won't change it."

The female assistant bent her mouth, raised her hand to gently caress the man's cheek, moved her eyelashes trembling, kissed Simon on the lips, stood up, and said, "I still have to work."

Simon let go of the female assistant and let her turn back across the desk, saying: "I plan to go to San Francisco recently, and have a good talk with the teams of Eaglet and other companies about the World Wide Web. You can arrange it."

"Ah."

"Also," Simon looked at the female assistant opposite, and said, "When the time comes, you go with me, and we can have a few days alone."

This time, the female assistant did not respond immediately.

After handing over the few documents that had just been delivered to Simon, Jennifer raised her eyes and said softly, "You know, I really miss the feeling we had in the cabin in Park City."

"Park City?"

"Yeah, the first year we met, and the second year we went to Park City for the Sundance Film Festival. You, me, and Jenny, the three of us sitting on the couch by the fireplace, looking out the window It was full of wind and snow, and it seemed like there were only three of us in the whole world."

Simon remembered that this should be the second time the three of them came to Park City.

The first year has passed, and I just met her for the first time. The female assistant also brought her best friend Lisa Collins.

Recalling this, Simon thought for a while and said: "Finland is still very cold now. After I got the Nokia, I bought a piece of land near Espoo to build a manor. It has probably been completed. Maybe we can find time to go there together. Just the two of us?"

"No," the female assistant shook her head, lowered her eyes, and said, "You, you and Jenny just recently..."

"Well, wait a few more months, maybe July and August, when it's high summer in the northern hemisphere and deep winter in the southern hemisphere. Let's go to Tasmania, you know, and I'm a big landowner there now. Tasmanian winter falls Snow is also very fierce."

This time, the female assistant didn't object anymore, and nodded, but the neck exposed between the hanging heads was already slightly pink.

After hesitating for a while, he said again: "Yes, you can take Jenny with you."

Simon said: "Don't take her, just the two of us. There also happens to be a cabin over there, so let's choose a snowy day to go there."

Hearing what Simon said, Jennifer hummed unobtrusively, and unconsciously rearranged a few things on Simon's desk with her little hands, and then realized something, and said, "I, you should do your work first, I'm here Outside. Well, here are last week's movie box office figures and some bios for The Flash's potential cast members."

"It's nothing, you can leave work first, and I will go back soon."

"Ok."

Responding softly, the female assistant turned and left the meeting room.

Simon knew that Jennifer would definitely not leave early, so he didn't say anything more. Watching her walk out of his office, he opened the documents in front of him.

The Easter session starts this Friday.

In the previous March, Daenerys Entertainment released only one movie, Peter Jackson's "Crazy Fat Baby Variety Show".However, this film was only screened in small-scale theaters in New Zealand and Australia. Because the scale was too large, it was directly rated as NC 17 in the North American rating stage.

Considering the impact the film might have on Jackson, Simon Gan asked the New World Pictures team responsible for distribution to give up theatrical screenings and release the video tape directly.

In addition to this film, several films such as Daenerys Entertainment's "Pretty Woman" at the end of last year and the Valentine's Day schedule are still the focus of recent theaters.

Chapter 342 The Silence of the Lambs (Revised)

Daenerys Entertainment Division in Burbank.

After two weeks of tug-of-war negotiations, Danny Morris, president of New World Pictures, finally got the copyright of a thriller novel called "The Silence of the Lambs".

The Silence of the Lambs, published two years ago, is a sequel by writer and screenwriter Thomas Harris based on his other novel, The Red Dragon.

"Red Dragon" was published in 1981, and was put on the big screen in 1986 under the name "Night to Kill".

It's just that "Night to Kill" invested a budget of 1500 million U.S. dollars at the beginning, but only recovered more than 800 million U.S. dollars at the box office, which can be described as an extreme failure.Therefore, although the novel "The Silence of the Lambs" is very popular, Hollywood is not very enthusiastic about its film and television adaptation. In the past two years, the project has been transferred among some filmmakers, but none of them have successfully started shooting.

Until Daenerys Entertainment expressed interest.

Prior to this, only Orion Films, which had just received a US$2 million capital injection from Canada's Seagram Group and survived the bankruptcy crisis, was in intermittent contact with this project.

As the news spread, various Hollywood studios immediately expressed their concern and made tentative bids one after another.

When Daenerys Entertainment did not retreat decisively due to the competition of the crowd as before, a bidding war broke out.

According to Daenerys Entertainment's practice of purchasing copyrights in the past two years, when a project is looted, the company will not participate in the bidding war.

However, "The Silence of the Lambs" is an exception.

Because Simon said that the copyright must be negotiated.

Then we talked.

The final transaction price is US$100 million plus 5% of the global box office net profit share.

Just the basic copyright transaction price of US$100 million far exceeds the original quotation for the adaptation rights of "The Silence of the Lambs".

According to Hollywood accounting standards, net profit sharing usually does not exist.

However, Thomas Harris' agent is not an outsider, and the cost figure of the project is limited to 3000 million US dollars in the contract.In other words, no matter how much Daenerys Entertainment invests in this project in the future, it will only be calculated according to the fixed cost of 3000 million US dollars.