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It's no wonder he's considered a lunatic by Noah Scott.

but.

Danger and opportunity have always coexisted.

Although many Wall Street analysts now judge that the stock market has lost its momentum and may turn to a sharp drop at any time, this is indeed the case.However, Simon clearly remembers that the current S&P 270 index of around 500 points is the lowest point in the next four months.

Compared with the repeated sharp rises and falls in the previous four months, the S&P 500 index will completely show a very stable rise in the next four months, basically without too large fluctuations.

Therefore, Simon probably doesn't need to use that just in case loan, but the remaining 1500 million US dollars in available funds in the Westeros company account are enough to withstand the slight fluctuations in the overall upward trend of the market.

at this time.

Looking at Janet, who was trying to make a worried expression with wide eyes in her arms, Simon couldn't help but lowered his head and pecked the woman's lips, and said with a smile: "You don't think that I will lose everything, do you? When the time comes, Wei Stroll will have to pay off the debt with himself."

Janet raised her little hand and pushed Simon's head away. The original worried expression was swept away in a blink of an eye, and she showed a smiling face. She chased after him and touched the man's cheek, saying, "I will definitely treat you well, little boy." Simon."

Sure enough.

Simon sighed in his heart, and suddenly stretched out his hand to shake Janet's protruding arm, feeling the woman in his arms instantly, and said, "Look, recognize the reality."

Janet stared at Simon with watery eyes, and murmured softly: "."

Simon smiled and hugged Janet, who was about to slip off his body after losing strength, into his arms. Listening to her completely harmless rebuke, he inadvertently noticed a pair of burgundy nail polish exposed during the woman's movements. Beautiful feet, suddenly moved.

Holding up the woman's fair face with one hand and looking at it for a moment, Simon suddenly felt a feeling of nowhere to be found.

Janet belongs to the type who likes to be bare-faced, and the well-maintained appearance of a woman is enough for her to appear in front of people without makeup at all.

but.

Just put on bright red lipstick and adjust the way of speaking, then, coquettish, charming, with an accent and even the danger and madness suppressed below the surface, this is exactly the taxi driver Simon needs.

Lowering his head and pecking her lips again, Simon said, "Honey, there is still a character missing in my movie, how about you play it?"

Janet, who recovered a little bit, twisted her body, and asked softly, "Which one?"

Simon said: "Esmeralda Villalobos."

Janet blinked her eyelashes a few times and said, "Okay, but I don't know how to act."

"It's okay, I'm a director. Mr. Director likes to direct actresses himself the most."

"Hehe," Janet smiled and pinched Simon lightly, and said again: "By the way, how is the cartoon you mentioned last time? I'm looking forward to it."

Although they hadn't met before, Simon asked Neil to forward the manuscript to Janet the next day after the phone call that night, and the two talked about it more than once on the phone during this period.

Upon hearing this, Simon shook his head regretfully and said, "Disney only wants to buy the script, and is not willing to produce it for us."

Janet tilted her head: "Then what should I do?"

Simon thought of an animation company that was still located in a corner of San Francisco, and said, "That's fine. Maybe we can try to make this movie in another style."

Janet wondered: "Huh?"

Simon didn't hide anything, and said, "What do you think, make this animated movie into 3D?"

Janet blinked her eyes again, apparently a little unfamiliar with the concept of 3D animation movies.This is not surprising, so far, 3D animation is still in its infancy, and Pixar has only produced a "Naughty Jumping Light" that is only a little over two minutes.

Simon patiently explained: "Do you still remember the opening title of "Run Lola Run"?"

Janet paused, and said, "I remembered, Pixar."

Actually, Janet thought of more.

such as.

Pixar's name was clearly marked on a page clipping I saw in Simon's study.

Humph.

Must have had this idea long ago.

He also used the excuse of giving gifts to deceive himself.

Hum hum.

However, a smart woman will definitely not expose these.

Then it won't be broken.

Simon didn't know Janet's thoughts. Looking at the delicate appearance of the woman in his arms, although he instinctively felt that Janet was moving some small thoughts in this state, he also didn't ask, nodded and said: "It's Pixar, If possible, we'll buy it then and make a 3D animated version of The Lion King."

The former "Lion King" had a cumulative global box office of more than 9 million US dollars, and it has maintained the throne of the highest-grossing animated film for more than ten years before being surpassed by "Toy Story 3" and "Frozen".

just now.

Unless they are willing to give up the script, it is unlikely that Disney's original team will 'contract' "The Lion King" for them.Michael Eisner was right when he said that outside of Disney, it is basically impossible for Simon to find another excellent 2D animation film team.

then.

These days, Simon gradually has another bold idea.

Create a 3D animated version of The Lion King.

Although it is not easy to achieve the smooth effect of 3D animation based on Simon's understanding of the current 2D animation technology, Simon is not in a hurry, at worst it will be delayed for a few years.

Technical problems, as long as they can be solved, are not a problem.

Too many excellent animated films later are enough to prove that Pixar definitely has enough technical strength to solve this problem.

As for whether the 3D version of "The Lion King" can achieve its box office miracle in the future, Simon is not too worried.

Movies are the riskiest business in the world.

But at the same time.

Movies are the purest business in the world. As long as a movie is of good quality, audiences are willing to buy tickets to enter the cinema.

therefore.

Whether in 2D or 3D, The Lion King is The Lion King.

Even if Simon perfectly reproduces the original 2D version of "The Lion King", there are still too many variables whether it can achieve the previous box office results.In comparison, the 3D version of "The Lion King" can add some selling points to the movie.

After chatting about "The Lion King" for a while, Simon and Janet left the study.

Janet ran to change and wash, and Simon went downstairs to prepare breakfast.

At around 08:30, the two left the Palisades mansion, Simon rushed to the headquarters of Daenerys Films in Santa Monica, and Janet's destination was her studio in Venice Beach.

A month after the two broke up, they suddenly got back together, which inevitably caused the paparazzi to chase them again.

However, after getting used to this state, neither of them was too affected.

It's already mid-May.

The next day, the film "Ishtar" produced by Columbia Pictures was officially released with an opening scale of 1139 screens, heralding the official arrival of the 1987 summer vacation.

"Ista," starring Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and French actress Isabelle Adjani, cost $5500 million.When Simon saw the budget of the movie in the newspaper, he was left with only emotion in his heart.

Half of the top 1000 North American-grossing films last year cost less than $[-] million to make.

just now.

It seems that all of a sudden, Hollywood has entered the age of blockbusters.

Catherine's first theatrical feature film "Blood Corpse Night", which Simon just watched yesterday, is also scheduled for the next June 6.Although Simon, the 'director's assistant', was a gimmick and barely squeezed into the summer slot, De Laurentiis Entertainment only won 19 yuan for the film's opening screen.

In this regard, Simon also raised doubts to Martha Schumacher, president of De Laurentiis Entertainment yesterday.

Simon didn't mind that Catherine's movie used his own name for some publicity.However, it is obviously better to postpone the film to August or September. The competition for unpopular schedules is not fierce, and at least it can win more than 1000 yuan for the opening screen.

Martha Schumacher told Simon that "Blood Corpse Night" should be the last movie released by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group before going bankrupt, and they couldn't wait for a few more months.

In this regard, Simon can only be helpless.

Instructing Noah Scott to buy the last long contract, Simon also temporarily let go of this matter and devoted all his energy to the production of the three films under Daenerys Pictures.

Chapter 111 Watershed

In Simon's view, the summer of 1987 was quite a 'watershed' in Hollywood's film production and distribution model.

From mid-May, "Ista" starring Dustin Hoffman, "Beverly Cop 5" starring Eddie Murphy, "Predator" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Films such as "The Witches of East Town" starring Jack Nicholson were released in turn.

Among them, "Ishtar" and "Beverly Cop 2" are the most typical representatives of this watershed.

The budget cost of "Ista" was as high as 5500 million U.S. dollars, and the box office of 570 million U.S. dollars in the first week, doomed the producer Columbia Pictures to lose all their money.Still, the movie heralds the official arrival of the big-budget era in Hollywood.

As the sequel to the North American box office champion in 1984, the production cost of "Beverly Cop 2" was also as high as 2800 million US dollars.However, what is more representative of this movie is that its opening screen size is as many as 2326 blocks.

The 2326 opening screens are not too much for blockbuster films that cost 4000 yuan and 1000 yuan, but in this era when most films can only get about 2 yuan for the opening screen, "Beverly Detective [-]" The scale of the opening is absolutely unprecedented.

Instead of picking a traditional Friday release date, Paramount has settled on Wednesday, May 5.

Through the intensive publicity campaign in the early stage, "Beverly Cop 2" earned a box office of 761 million U.S. dollars in just two days of Wednesday and Thursday, which directly made "Ista" which only earned 570 million U.S. dollars in the whole week. Kicked to the No.2 position in the single-week box office list.

In the following week, "Beverly Detective 2" received another US$4003 million, and the cumulative box office reached US$9 million in 4764 days.

Before 1987, such a strong box office momentum could only be matched by the national-level "Star Wars" series.

In comparison, the 1986 box office champion "Top Gun" had a box office of only US$1221 million in its first week, and the 1985 box office champion "Back to the Future" had a cumulative box office of only US$9 million in 2202 days on the same Wednesday schedule.

At the same time, after raking in a box office of 4764 million US dollars, the box office data of "Beverly Cop 2" fell sharply by 40% in the following week, far exceeding the long-term trend of 10% to 20% of popular movies.

Even so, "Beverly Cop 2" is destined to be another super-best-selling work.

While many film companies are studying the distribution strategy of Paramount Pictures, Simon understands that outside of the big-budget era, Hollywood films gain popularity through large-scale promotion in the early stage, and then roll out thousands of screens at once to recover in a short period of time. The era of full release at the box office also arrived.

On Simon's side, the layout of stock index futures has been completed, and Daenerys Films is responsible for the production of "Reaper" which was officially launched on May 5.

The main filming location of "Death Comes" is in Queens, New York. After the filming started, Simon flew to New York and stayed with the crew for three days before returning to Los Angeles.

In the following time, Simon was basically busy with the casting, scenography and cast rehearsal of "Pulp Fiction".

《死神来了》的拍摄周期为8周，一切顺利的话，影片将在7月10日左右杀青。《低俗小说》的开拍便被安排在7月13日，初定方案中的拍摄周期为10周。

at the same time.

Due to the release of a series of new films in the summer, the box office trends of "Run Lola Run" and "The Butterfly Effect" have been significantly impacted.

However, on June 6, the 15th week of its release, "Run Lola Run" earned $18 million in box office over the three days of the weekend, and its cumulative box office officially broke through the $136 million mark, reaching $2 million.

Followed by.

6月19日到6月25日，《蝴蝶效应》上映第12周，票房再收182万美元，累计票房同样突破一亿美元大关，达到1亿零87万美元。

Although everyone knows the box office potential of "Run Lola Run" and "Butterfly Effect", when the two films really broke through the expected box office figures, the entire North American media still boiled again.

For a while, countless news about Simon spread again in various newspapers and media.

Catherine's Night of the Blood happens to be in theaters on June 6th.

Due to Simon's previous participation, "Blood Corpse Night" became the most direct beneficiary under the influence of this media enthusiasm.

The film opened with 513 screens in the first week. Under the hot discussion of the media, "Blood Corpse Night" earned a box office of 786 million US dollars in just three days of the first weekend, with an average of more than 15000 US dollars in a single theater, completely reaching the level of a blockbuster. .

Simon and Janet originally planned to hold some parties in March and April to thank those who helped Simon this year.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two also brought up this matter again.

Saturday, April 6.

In the mansion in Palisades, a grand party was officially held on this day.

It's a bad day, I really don't want to stop the update, and post a short chapter.

Chapter 112 Is there any way to survive?

Feeling the speed of the car slow down, Courteney Cox looked forward through the car window. Outside the door of the mansion not far from the mountain road, a black Mercedes looked a little confused because it was surrounded by paparazzi.

After a while, the Mercedes-Benz finally drove into the mansion, and the driver in the front seat also stepped on the brakes, but just parked the car on the side of the road.The invitation letter specifically reminded that the party was too large to provide enough parking spaces, so Courteney made an appointment for a luxury car to pick it up.

When the paparazzi on the side of the road saw the Cadillac stop, they all raised their cameras and approached again.

A strong uneasiness suddenly arose in my heart.

There was even an urge to tell the driver to drive away.

Due to the little chaos just now, two waiters in the mansion took the initiative to come out to maintain the situation, and the driver in the front row also got out of the car.