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I feel sorry for those actresses who have racked their brains to get this project recently.

In the original American version of "Midnight Ring", the heroine is Nicole's best friend Naomi Watts. The actress does not know where she is now. It happened that Simon decided to let Nicole be the spokesperson of Van Cleef & Arpels. This project, which is expected to be a blockbuster, is handed over to the other party.

"Midnight Ring" is a movie with a female protagonist. Although it is a horror movie, as long as it sells enough, it will definitely help Nicole Kidman improve her reputation and stabilize her status.

After continuing to discuss some details, the topic of the two turned to other projects of New World Pictures.

An hour later, Danny Morris left, and Ella Deutschmann rushed over.

"Thelma and Louise" directed by Catherine has accumulated a box office of 2541 million U.S. dollars in four and a half weeks as of last weekend.

Because of the film's excellent reputation and continued weak decline, the film's weekly box office remains at around $400 million, and it is expected to break through $4000 million before it is released, which is enough to recover all the production and publicity costs of the film.

Now that he has decided to give up the competition for next year's Oscar, Simon has made "Thelma & Louise" the focus of the next Oscar declaration, mainly to accumulate an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Catherine.

Awards are not expected.

Barbra Streisand's "The Waves of Time" is scheduled for the end of the year, and it will also be the Oscar hit next year.

Therefore, next year's Oscar is very hopeful that there will be two female Oscar nominees for best director at one time.As long as it works a little bit and hypes up the topic, with Hollywood's politically correct attributes, the first female Oscar for Best Director is about to come out.

Catherine is definitely not comparable to Streisand, who has a wide range of contacts in Hollywood.

If you fight forcibly, it is not impossible.

However, Simon has no intention of fighting for Catherine. On the one hand, it is the established strategy of Daenerys Entertainment. On the other hand, it is not unfavorable for Catherine to miss this Oscar.After all, the accumulation of women is insufficient, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future.

After talking about the Oscars, Simon and Ella Deutschman discussed several key projects of High Gate Films next year.

Most of them are also hand-picked by Simon himself.

One is the copyright obtained after the acquisition of Universal, called "Scent of a Woman".

This is a remake of the Italian film "Scent of a Woman" in 1974. The original version in my memory is starring Al Pacino, and there is also a tango dance that has been talked about by movie fans for many years.

Simon does not intend to change the lineup of "Scent of a Woman", which will be the main feature of Gaomen Films' 1992 year-end schedule.

Another work is somewhat 'alternative', called "The Crying Game".

This Neil Jordan-directed film tells a very tortuous and complex love story involving war, politics, love and transvestism.

The "Crying Game" in my memory triggered a movie-watching boom in North America because of its bizarre reversal, and finally won a box office of more than 300 million US dollars with a production cost of about 6000 million US dollars. Therefore, it is also the North American publisher of Miramax. One of the turning works.

It was the film's success that Miramax caught the attention of Disney, and eventually became a part of it.

Now, Miramax is basically unsustainable, and Simon will not give the Weinstein brothers any chance to turn around.

Neil Jordan, the director of "The Crying Game", has been preparing for this project for several years. After Gaomen Pictures took over, the specifications of the film have not been improved, and the budget cost is still 300 million US dollars.

However, because it was Daenerys Entertainment's favorite, the project negotiation process naturally attracted the attention of other studios.

In order to finalize the project, Daenerys Entertainment also agreed to Neil Jordan's 10% North American box office net profit share and the same proportion of subsequent video and TV broadcast revenue.

If "The Crying Game" can get the North American box office of 6000 million US dollars in the original time and space, according to the agreement, Neil Jordan can get a total of at least 500 million US dollars in follow-up revenue, which is already the salary level of first-line directors.

Of course, if the box office is unsatisfactory, dividends will naturally be out of the question.

Simon also agreed to this plan.

500 million US dollars, although it is not a small amount of expenses, but it is still nothing compared to the expected income of Daenerys Entertainment.Moreover, this relatively generous sharing plan can also attract more filmmakers to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment.

As the entire Westeros system becomes larger and larger, Simon is also more and more inclined to recruit talents through benefit sharing.

Money can never be earned, and through benefit sharing, more people can be tied into the Westeros system to form a community of interests.

After Ella Deutschmann left, the female assistant knocked on the door and walked in, holding a stack of cards similar to bank cards, she came to the reception area and handed it to Simon: "This is just delivered from San Francisco. of."

Simon took the card, took the little hand of the female assistant and sat down beside him, and then looked at the things in his hand.

It took more than half a year to develop and prepare. The card in hand is actually the consumer point card that Eaglet will launch in the near future. The point card only has two denominations of 10 US dollars and 50 US dollars.

This can be seen from the cautiousness of Eaglet's management team.

Online payment has just begun to be promoted, and security is definitely the first priority.

If a user is new to online payment and encounters something bad like account theft, it will definitely leave a bad impression.

As a brand-new payment method, this kind of thing is also easy to be over-interpreted by traditional media.

According to the plan, this consumer point card will be sold through Internet cafe channels and Blockbuster chain stores that gradually spread across the country. Although America Online has sold the Internet cafe business, the Westeros system still maintains a strong influence on it. Blockbuster belongs to Daenerys Entertainment's own channel, and the current chain store scale is close to 3000, spread all over North America, it is definitely a perfect retail distribution network.

In fact, it is not just a consumption point card. With the opening of the Eaglet app store, the Eaglet online payment tool Ypay will also be launched at the same time. Users of the Eaglet portal can use Bank of America and Citibank. The bank that signed the agreement with the company handles a special online consumer credit card.

Jennifer sat quietly next to Simon, and waited for the man to play with the consumption point card in his hand for a while, before saying: "The official product release will take place next Monday, and then the Igret app store will also be officially opened.

Simon nodded.

In private, he has actually experienced the beta version of the online application store.

In the early stage, the app store mainly focused on video games, and there were not many application software.Jeff Bezos has been in contact with Bill Gates. Microsoft's operating system is definitely not good, but he hopes to sell the Office series of application software on the app store, but he is rejected by his classmates.

However, Simon is very optimistic about the prospects of the application store.

In the computer field, developing an operating system is not as difficult as imagined. The real difficulty lies in creating a software ecosystem that matches the operating system.Otherwise, no matter how good and smooth your operating system is, without application software, everything is useless.

On the other hand, the technical talents who can develop software in the industry can actually be described as ignorant. In the past, what limited the enthusiasm of these people was mainly the developed software, which was difficult to promote and sell.

Distributing through physical sales is definitely a very expensive thing.

Now, Igret provides a platform, a platform that can bring profits to developers, which will naturally increase the enthusiasm of developers.

In the longer term, Eaglet's online application store can be implemented, and it can even affect the popularity of an operating system to a large extent.

In fact, from this time on, Eaglet's online application store will only be open to users of two types of operating systems, one is Microsoft's Windows, and the other is Apple's Macintosh.

As for the old DOS system or other non-mainstream operating systems on the market, the Igret app store will not support it.

As the Internet becomes more and more popular, the choice of Igret Portal is bound to affect the user's tendency.

Users who purchase computers, considering choosing other non-mainstream systems, may not be able to get the support of Igret Portal, so they will naturally turn to Windows and Macintosh.

even.

If one day, the Eaglet application store closes Apple's Macintosh version...

Of course, this is just an idea.

Even if he is already a major shareholder of Microsoft, Simon will not do this easily, or it is precisely because he is a major shareholder of Microsoft that Simon cannot do so.

Apple's market capitalization has continued to climb this year, reaching a recent peak of nearly $80 billion.

However, this will also be the 'peak' of Apple's 90s, and the company will only go downhill from here on out.

It is actually beneficial to keep Apple and avoid all kinds of troubles caused by Microsoft's complete monopoly of the market.In Yuanshikong, Zhongdamen students chose to inject capital into Apple at the end of the 90s, and it was also out of this consideration.This is the reason for Intel's later support of AMD, either explicitly or implicitly.

Putting down the consumption point card in his hand, Simon said to the female assistant beside him: "You can make arrangements, and we will go to the new product launch event together next Monday."

Jennifer blinked her eyes a few times, then hummed a little.

Monday passed, and I will definitely be back that day.

That is, not overnight.

Simon smiled, knowing that the female assistant actually wanted to go there on the weekend, he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek, and said, "You know, Jenny has been in a bad mood for more than seven months, and she has been in a bad mood recently. I don't plan to leave Los Angeles for a long time in the next few months."

There was nothing unusual about Janet in the early stages of her pregnancy, and she was looking forward to it, making many preparations for the arrival of the little one with great interest.

However, as the little guy's birth date is approaching day by day, the woman will inevitably feel anxious during this time, and even have the idea of ​​driving the little guy out of her stomach in advance.

Simon understands that Janet is naturally unrestrained and likes to be free and easy. At the beginning, she was looking forward to pregnancy and having a baby. A large part of the reason was because of Simon, and some of them were influenced by traditional ideas. After all, women grew up in a very traditional world. And in a conservative Western family.

After all, Janet has a vague repulsion in her bones for a little guy who may change her previous life.

Upon hearing this, Jennifer nodded in understanding and said nothing more.

Seeing the quiet and docile appearance of the female assistant, Simon was also a little moved, and reached out to hug her.

Jennifer shrank her neck subconsciously when Simon hugged her.

I'm not always used to being intimate in the office.

What's more, it's still working time.

However, the female assistant soon softened her body, raised her chin slightly, let the man kiss her fair neck, and whispered softly: "Ms. Brill... will be here soon."

Chapter 444 The problem of charging prizes (repair)

new week.

After breakfast, Simon and Janet hurried to the airport after saying goodbye.

Today is the day when Igret’s two important products, Ypay and Ystore, are released. Simon promised to attend today’s press conference last week.

Arriving at Los Angeles International Airport, the private jet has already parked on the runway.

Simon entered the cabin with his entourage, and there were already people waiting inside. They were Sandra Bullock and the female assistant Jennifer. The female assistant was going to accompany Simon to San Francisco. To attend this press conference, I specially said hello to the plane on the weekend.

Since getting married last year, Simon and Sandra have completely turned into friends.However, the relationship is also closer than ordinary boyfriend and girlfriend.

After hugging and greetings, everyone came to a living room in the middle cabin, and the plane took off quickly.

After the flight of the Boeing 767 was stable, Sandra unbuckled her seat belt and got up from the fixed seat to come to Simon's side: "Simon, can the matter of "The Silence of the Lambs" really not impact this year's Oscars?"

Simon sat down on the sofa casually, took the newspaper handed over by the female assistant and opened it, and said with a smile, "Jonathan asked you to ask?"

Sandra nodded, and said, "Yes, but according to the word-of-mouth of "The Silence of the Lambs", I also think it can hit the Oscars."

The main creators of "The Silence of the Lambs", Robert Duvall's series of nominations and awards, have already achieved fame, and Sandra's background is still insufficient. This time, the goal is to nominate a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. In the end, only The rest is Jonathan Demme, a middle-aged director who made his debut in the early 70s and has been in Hollywood for 20 years. This summer, he finally made it to the front line with "The Silence of the Lambs".

There are probably not many filmmakers in Hollywood who do not want to win an Oscar.

"The Silence of the Lambs" is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for Jonathan Demme to win an award.Simon knew better that this was Jonathan Demme's only nomination and chance to win.

However, it is impossible for Daenerys Entertainment to easily change the company's established strategy for someone.

What's more, even if you want to change, because Daenerys Entertainment has won a series of important Oscar awards in the past two years, horror movies are not favored by Oscar after all.

Therefore, even if the strategy is changed, it is unlikely to win awards such as best picture and best director this time like the original time and space, at most it will be a series of nominations.

Simon did not hide these details from Sandra, and explained it seriously, saying: "So, this time, I can only say regret."

Sandra is not completely ignorant of these hidden rules within Hollywood, and even more so at this time.

For the Oscars, whether a film can win an award depends on its own quality, and there are too many external factors involved.

Since there is no hope of winning the prize, Sandra stopped mentioning it and changed the subject: "Jenny will be full term next month, why haven't I heard that she is holding a baby party, or is she planning to invite me? "

Westerners will hold a party to welcome the birth of the little one before the baby is born.

A few months ago, Janet would have been excited to fuck these things, but now, women are not in the mood.

"I probably didn't remember it. I'll go back and remind her."

Sandra leaned on the sofa and looked sideways at Simon, and reached out and ticked down the newspaper in front of him, and asked tentatively, "Depressed?"

Simon shook his head and said, "Of course not. But, probably, there is indeed some anxiety."

"Think about how I would feel overwhelmed if a little guy was about to be born in my stomach." Sandra nodded understandingly, then looked at Simon and said, "What about you?"

"What's wrong with me?"

"Your son is due soon, and you're only, um, 23?"

"A lot of people become parents at the age of 16."

"That's someone else, you are different."

Simon said helplessly, "You want me to be depressed?"

Sandra had a gloating expression on her face, still staring at Simon, and said with a smile: "It seems that you are not as relaxed as you seem."

Simon changed the subject: "What about you, have you found a girlfriend?"

Jennifer, who was quietly sitting beside her, froze for a moment, and looked over curiously.

As expected, Sandra was distracted, raised her hand and slapped Simon: "Why don't you find a boyfriend, my sexual orientation is normal."

"Okay, so..."

Sandra gave Simon a blank look, and said, "I found it, when will you meet, boss, give me a chance."

Simon shook his head immediately: "Don't, don't let me see it, I'm afraid I can't help but suppress it, and make him feel ashamed and leave you on his own initiative."

"So, man," Sandra sighed, and looked at Jennifer for resonance: "Are you right, Jenny."