It was so late last night that Kate Beckinsale and Rachel Weisz did not get up until about nine o'clock, and were led by the waitress to the downstairs dining room for breakfast, and again found an open living room upstairs that connected to the large terrace of the main villa, where Simon was sitting on the sofa and reading a script.

Simon wasn't alone in the living room.

Fernanda Lima occupies the couch next to her, leaning on it and flipping through magazines, while the girl named Angela Lindwo is curled up on the single sofa opposite Simon, also holding a copy of "VOGUE" in her hand.

Because of the open layout, you can see the back courtyard directly from this living room.

On the tennis court on the west side, it was obvious that there were four other big goblins, who were playing four-person doubles at this time, and occasionally there were coquettish voices.

At first glance, it looks like a very laid-back weekend.

It's just that......

Well, there are a little more women.

At a time when many people are just starting their day, Simon has already seen off his breakfast guests and spent an hour dealing with today's work.

Regarding the Chinese side's desire for Bezos to speak at the launch ceremony of the Shanghai data center, hearing a certain name revealed by Chen Qing, Simon decisively agreed and called Bezos personally.

On the European side, Celia and the French side have basically reached a tacit understanding, and things have been in trouble for a week, and it will end soon if nothing else.

There are also all sorts of other trivialities.

After dealing with these, there are no other arrangements for today.

After all, it was Sunday, and I used to be at home with women and children, but this weekend I was kicked out and not allowed to go home.

So I plan to spend it here.

Actually, it's only one morning.

After lunch, I will fly to New York, and next week I will discuss with several teams in New York about the bond issuance plan of the core companies of the Westeros system, according to the adjusted plan, Verizon Telecom's IPO is scheduled to be listed in August, but the bond issuance plan will be implemented in July in the second half of the year.

In short, it is to stock up on as much cash as possible to buy the bottom.

After all, next year is 1997.

Even if the new technology bubble that has already flooded ahead of time can survive, the global economic shock triggered by the brewing Asian financial crisis will bring a wave of troughs suitable for dipping.

The U.S. 87 stock market crash created a circuit breaker.

The first U.S. stock circuit breaker in Simon's memory occurred in 1997.

The 1997 circuit breaker in the original time and space was only affected by the Asian financial crisis, and it was finally in danger. This time, things could be very different, because the new tech bubble has risen to a very dangerous high ahead of history, and it is likely to burst as soon as it is poked.

Noticing that Kate and the two came in, Simon opened his mouth to greet him and patted him on the leg.

Kate understood, walked over generously, sat directly on the man's lap, leaned on his arms and asked, "Simon, what are you looking at?"

Simon showed Kate the script in his hand, and the cover reads "Disco Doomsday": "You two are just in time, I think this script is very suitable for the two of you to star together." ”

Rachel isn't as bold as Kate, let alone has no place. Fernanda on the couch in the middle saw her coming, and took the initiative to get up and give way to the corner of the sofa, Rachel walked over and sat down, heard Simon say that the script in his hand was suitable for them, looked at it curiously, and also noticed the name on the cover.

Kate put her arms around Simon's neck and glanced at it: "Disco Doomsday, what are you talking about?"

Simon sums it up: "The ordinary story of a group of young men and women in Manhattan during the disco boom of the seventies. ”

Kate said, "That sounds boring." ”

Simon explained with a smile: "This is a literary film, the director and screenwriter are Whit Stillman, this is an author-type director with a unique personal style, "Disco Doomsday" is the last part of the Wright Metropolitans trilogy, his first two films have a good reputation, and this finale is very good just the script." ”

Kate held Simon's big hand and pulled some of it over to look at the content of the script, and asked, "Then what role do you want me to play?"

Simon said: "This is a two-heroine movie, Charlotte and Alice are both the most junior assistant screenwriters of a Manhattan publishing house, the salary is not high, the life is poor, and they are troubled by the fact that they can't afford to rent a better apartment. However, because the two became friends with executives at a popular discotheque, they were able to enter the dance hall often without queuing, meeting all sorts of people along the way. You're going to play Charlotte, mean, aggressive, and feminist on the surface, but on the inside she has low self-esteem and fragility, secretly jealous of her friend Alice's excellence, and faints and goes to the hospital because her boyfriend proposes to break up. ”

Kate shook her head after hearing Simon's words: "It sounds very unpleasant, or I'll play the jealous Alice and let Rachel play Charlotte." ”

Simon said: "This temperament is too mismatched, Alice's character image is more introverted and quiet, and Rachel is more suitable." ”

Kate was unconvinced: "I can also be restrained and quiet." ”

"The point is, if you play Alice, Rachel probably won't be able to hold up the role of Charlotte, as you just heard, this is a character with a somewhat complex personality. ”

This time, it was Rachel's turn to listen quietly, and she was a little unconvinced. However, she only opened her mouth slightly, and did not refute it in the end.

Kate pondered for a few more seconds, and finally nodded: "Since you let us act together, let's act." ”

Rachel finally spoke and reminded: "Simon, I still have to shoot "Titanic". ”

"It doesn't matter, this project will start filming next year, maybe in the second half of next year, you just need to set aside a schedule at that time. ”

When Rachel heard this, she had no objections.

Instead, Kate blinked again and asked, "Simon, this should be a low-budget production, right?"

"Formal preparations haven't started yet, but the budget for such a film will not exceed $10 million. ”

"However, when "Breaking Bad" will be released again at the end of the year, and Rachel's "The Mummy" that has already been released, when the time comes, the two of us will ...... Well, the salary is very expensive. ”

Simon Mo held the slender waist of the girl in his arms and said: "To make this kind of movie, no matter how big-name the actor is, the usual practice is to take the initiative to reduce his salary, Stallone only took $60,000 for filming "Police Empire" last year, you don't want the full salary, right?"

Kate's eyes widened: "Can't we only have $60,000, right?"

"Even if you add a point, it won't be too much," Simon looked at the girl in his arms and said seriously: "Kate, this is actually the rule of Hollywood, if you want to get rid of the label of a commercial vase, you need to properly participate in various solo literary films to increase the style, and at the same time impact the awards." Especially in the past two years, the two of you have just become popular with commercial blockbusters, and you need to take a break. ”

"Actually, I understand, otherwise I wouldn't have taken "Soul Catcher", Kate shook her body slightly, but said: "However, I think that such a movie, with an investment of 10 million, is likely to lose money, after all, according to you, I haven't found any highlights in this story, why do you want to make such a movie?"

"The main thing is that I love the story, and, if you two are involved, you don't necessarily lose money. ”

Filmed next year, the schedule of "Disco Doomsday" will be the year after.

Not to mention "Breaking Bad" at the end of this year, next year, after "The Mummy", Rachel will still have a "Titanic" released, and at that time, as long as things don't happen too much, both women should be the hottest new actresses in Hollywood.

When the time comes, a literary film that the two partner will have, at least within the scope of omni-channel, and it will not be too much of a problem to achieve profitability.

On the other hand, the reason for investing in "Disco Doomsday" on a deeper level is, in the final analysis, to increase the diversity of Hollywood.

If Simon is just a film businessman, a Hollywood speculator, of course, how to make money and how to come, completely ignore the long-term things. Now that Simon has made Hollywood his own turf, and that's pretty much it, he needs to take a longer-term view.

One of them is to curb the boring situation in which Hollywood bombshells once reigned in history.

In my memory, Hollywood seems to be still prosperous ten or twenty years later, but in fact, there is a hidden worry that the audience on the big screen is shrinking due to the popularity of blockbusters and even comic movies.

Not audiences of all ages like blockbuster or manga movies, and if the big screen is flooded with these genres, some children or middle-aged and elderly people who are too young will gradually stop entering the theater.

Compared with the past when movies from across the ocean were mainly concentrated in the young market, the North American film market has developed for nearly 100 years, and up to now, the composition of audiences of different ages is still very balanced, from 6 to 60 years old, and there is obviously no obvious difference.

In addition, in recent years, Hollywood movies have been released frequently, and the number of moviegoers every year has also risen steadily, from about 1 billion in the 80s to more than 1.3 billion in the past year, and the peak in memory is 1.5 billion.

Then it began to fall back.

A large part of the reason is that the diversification of theatrical films has decreased, and blockbuster comic films and other genres occupy too many resources, resulting in many people no longer entering the theater. Simon's job is to ensure as much diversity as possible in Hollywood, and to avoid a recurrence of the phenomenon of losing audiences as much as possible.

"Disco Doomsday" is the small detail of this big plan.

Rachel saw that she couldn't interject the conversation between the two, her eyes fell on the side of the sofa, and when she saw another script, she picked it up and motioned to Simon, and when she saw the man nodding, she opened it.

The name of this script is "54 Club".

After a rough glance at the synopsis of the opening story, I found that this should be similar to the theme of "Disco Doomsday" in Simon's hands, which is about the story of a Manhattan discotheque.

Kate, who was in Simon's arms, saw Rachel pick up another script, and asked curiously, "What is this?"

Simon explained: "'54 Club', two plays with the same theme, 'Disco Doom' belongs to the gentle petty bourgeois style, and '54 Club' is more explicit and intense, completely according to the script, and it is not impossible to be rated NC-17 in the future." I'm planning to make these two films together next year, which happens to be synergistic in promotion. ”

Kate heard Simon say that "Club 54" might reach the NC-17 level, and she was even more interested, and reached out to ask Rachel for the script, Rachel subconsciously handed it over, and saw that the script was snatched away, so she reacted, and immediately looked at Simon with some grievances.

Simon smiled and handed over the script of "Disco Doomsday": "You look at this first, besides, Rachel, I have already talked to Cameron, "Titanic" will start filming in July at the latest, and there will be no more changes this time, I mean, when you go to Australia, it may take a few months, do you want me to help you with two assistants?"

Rachel was looking at the script in her hand and was stunned.

Two assistants?

immediately thought of the two beside Kate, and subconsciously shook his head: "No, I'...... Not anymore. ”

"Why not, of course," Kate of course understood Simon's subtext, and immediately continued: "I heard that the environment in Australia is very poor, and there are many snakes, it must be much more convenient to have someone take care of you during the filming." ”

"Then it's decided," Simon directly finalized, seeing what Rachel was going to say, he stopped again: "Don't refuse, when you don't feel the need in the future, just send them away." ”

The two of them sang and harmonized in front of them, and in addition, their hearts were actually not so firm, so Rachel agreed in a daze.

Something is tacitly acquiesced.

The other Fernanda Lima and Angela Lindwo in the room listened silently, in fact, they were a little envious, after Fernanda was favored by Simon last year, there was also some kind of assistant role around him, but there was only one, and Rachel was two, and the difference was obvious.

As for Angela, this is the first time she has been in contact with Simon.

Moreover, the girl was still a little disappointed, because last night, Fernanda and the six of them were two of the eight women, and Simon Wei alone never touched her.

obviously liked it very much, and gave her the nickname 'little fox'.

Now, what's going on?

Actually, I thought a little.

She's only 17 years old now, and under California law, she's not that compliant.

It's just that Angela herself doesn't think it's a problem, and she doesn't have any thoughts of pinching the man opposite. Who would be crazy to pinch a big man like Simon Westeros like this.

Therefore, I also feel that the other party should not think that this is a problem.

So, why?

Is it because she's not pretty enough, or she's too young?

In short, it's apprehension.

Angela is very worried that there will be no more after this time, thinking about the scenery of the girls in the fashion circle who can have a relationship with Westeros, how can she be willing?

And so on until noon.

After lunch, Simon quickly set off, and the six goblins also returned to New York with him, and asked Kate that because she would not have a role in the scene next Wednesday, she decided to stay in Los Angeles for two more days, and Simon did not force it.

Boeing 767 on a private jet.

Probably thinking that it might be the last chance, when the plane took off, a certain little fox became more and more active.

In the small screening room of the cabin, Simon, who was planning to take advantage of the flight to watch a movie sample to be released in the second half of the year, saw a certain Nizi take the initiative to come over, smiled and motioned to the girl to come to watch the movie together, and said: "This time the time is a little tight, if you have time, I will take you to Canada or Mexico next time." ”

Angela Lindwo is now 180CM tall, but because of her slender figure, she doesn't look big at all when she leans next to Simon, and the girl is also very smart, so she immediately understood when she heard this, and boldly poked her head and kissed Simon on the cheek, and suggested: "Simon, in fact, you can be anywhere, I will never ...... Well. ”

The girl didn't explain, but Simon also understood, and said with a smile: "Of course I believe you, but many times, when something happens, some people are completely out of their own hands, so I won't show obvious unnecessary flaws to others." ”

Think of the Paula Jones case that is plaguing Clinton, and the Lewinsky 'zippergate' that may be involved next.

In fact, neither of the parties involved in this process wanted to be involved.

It's just that in order to crack down on Clinton, the Republican Party has done everything it can to force the parties to attack Clinton through almost rogue means such as investigating relatives and repeatedly checking taxes, and in order to avoid implication and imprisonment for the people around them, both Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky have to passively act as tools for political dumping.

Simon has always been careful not to show flaws in some unnecessary details, not because he is worried about the parties, it is just a big deal to lose some money, the last thing he lacks now is money.

The key is to worry about being taken advantage of by someone with a heart.

Whether it is business competition or political struggle, many times it is done at all extremes.

Like Jeffrey Epstein, who just met again this morning.

In the original time and space, Epstein finally 'committed suicide', and the root cause was not those bad things on the side of men and women, but in the end, he was involved in political turmoil.

The Democratic Party wanted to use him as a tool to suppress a certain golden retriever, so they reopened the case that had been settled ten years ago. I just wanted to put some plaster on the president's face, but when the lid was lifted, whether it was the Democratic Party and the Communist Party, or various other members of the royal family, the super-rich, university professors, and movie stars, pulled out the radish and brought out the mud, and a group of people were all involved.

And each of them can't be touched.

So I had to hurry up and let Epstein commit suicide.

As for the bigwigs who were brought out, it was business as usual as Epstein shut up forever and shook the dust that had accidentally splashed on his body. Maybe there was some reputational trouble, but it was only a matter of time, no one was really punished for it, and everyone was still glamorous.