After the lively New Year's countdown, tonight's party is coming to an end.

At one o'clock in the morning, Simon sent off James Raybould's family of three and returned to the villa, where only the waiters who were cleaning up the mess were left in the empty living room, and there should be some guests in the backyard, but Simon didn't need to see them off in person.

So he walked up the stairs to the second floor, and outside a living room, Simon heard Janet's chuckle.

After entering the door, Janet, Catherine, Amy, and Nancy Brill were chatting on the sofa in different postures, and the women were obviously drunk with goblets in their hands, and Janet's fair face had become red at this time.

Walking to Janet's sofa and sitting down on the armrest, Simon gently took the red wine from the woman's hand and didn't let her drink it anymore, and looked at Amy and said, "Ladies, it's late, do you want to continue?"

Amy raised her wrist and looked at her watch, and then showed a surprised expression: "It's 1:25, Simon, do you see Cliff?"

Cliff is Amy's new boyfriend and introduces him as the owner of a French restaurant in the Brentwood area.

Simon thought for a moment and said, "He should be on the backyard lawn." ”

"Then, it's time for me to go," Amy put the goblet in her hand on the coffee table in front of her, stood up with the armrest of the sofa, shook her head slightly, and said to Simon with a smile: "Boss, I'll go to the company later tomorrow, the reason should be very legitimate, right?"

Simon smiled and nodded, "Of course." ”

The tomorrow in Amy's mouth is actually today, and Simon naturally won't be serious about such small details.

New Year's Day was supposed to be a legal holiday in the United States, but Simon is flying to Australia tomorrow, and there are still many things to arrange before leaving, at least Daenerys Entertainment's executives need to continue to appear in the company tomorrow.

As Amy got up, the other three women also stood up.

Simon hugged Janet, who was soft on him after standing up, and inadvertently noticed Nancy Brill, and couldn't help but say, "It's so short." ”

It turned out that Nancy Brill, who had just curled herself up on the single sofa, had taken off her high heels.

I didn't notice that the woman was standing barefoot on the carpet at this time, and Simon found out that Nancy Brill's height should not even be 1.6 meters, not to mention Catherine, even if she was obviously shorter in front of Janet and Amy, who were around 1.7 meters. However, the woman's curvy mature charm is combined with her height, but it has a very wonderful style.

Simon said this, and the three Janet trio, who had obviously just discovered this, also showed surprised expressions.

Nancy Brill was watched by several people, but she sat down again as if nothing happened, found her 10CM high heels on her feet, and glanced at Catherine casually, her tone seemed to be a little more defensive, and said, "Boss, are you discriminating?"

"Of course not," Simon denied with a smile, watching Nancy Brill quickly get up again, the sky-high pair was hidden under the skirt of the rose-colored dress, and the size was obviously a big step up, "Actually, it doesn't seem good to always wear shoes that are so high." ”

Nancy Brill obviously didn't want to continue the topic, but said lightly: "If you don't wear it, the result will be even worse." ”

Since Nancy doesn't like to discuss her height, Simon stops. But I couldn't help but think in my heart, this woman cares about her height because she is too strong, or because she is so strong. The small figure of more than one meter and five is indeed a little short among Western women.

Everyone went downstairs together, Amy found her boyfriend in the last group of guests in the backyard, and watched the substitute driver drive the two away, only to notice that Nancy Brill was still alone.

The parking attendant drove a black Mercedes sedan over, Simon watched Nancy say goodbye to everyone and got into the driver's seat by himself, stepped forward and pressed the door that the woman wanted to pull on, and said, "Yourself?"

Nancy sat in the driver's seat, took off the high heels on her feet and put them next to her, looked at Simon and said, "Boss, is there a problem?"

Simon pulled the door open a little and stepped aside: "Sit in the back, let the substitute driver take you back." ”

Nancy shook her head: "No. ”

Simon looked at the woman insistingly: "Get out of the car." ”

Nancy stared at Simon for a moment, and finally said, "I'm not used to strangers taking me home. ”

Simon looked up to Neil Bennett, gestured to him, looked back at Nancy, and said, "I'll have my driver take you back." ”

Nancy hesitated for a moment, but got out of the car and turned to the back seat.

Simon explained a few words to Neil Bennett, watched him drive Nancy away, and then turned around, Janet was looking at him with a smile, with a little teasing: "Nancy obviously wants your boss to send her back, you are really not interesting." ”

Neil Bennett was supposed to send Simon and the others back to Malibu, but now he had to wait a little longer.

Simon ignored Janet's teasing and asked Catherine next to her, "Wait for us to go back to Malibu together?"

"Very well," Catherine nodded to Simon's surprise, but then added, "I have just recently rented a house on the other side of Paradise Cove, not far from Cape Dumay, just on the way. ”

After the three of them were together, Catherine never gave Simon another ridiculous chance.

Seeing Simon's depressed expression, Janet stepped forward with a smile and grabbed Catherine's arm and walked towards the villa, saying, "Little bastard will go to Australia the day after tomorrow, Kate, you will come and live with me then." ”

Catherine glanced at Simon, who fell beside the two, and said with some surprise, "Aren't you going with him?"

"Our house in Dumains Point Park is about to start working," Janet shook her head, "and besides, Daenerys Entertainment has a financial audit going on in the next month or so, and I can stay in Los Angeles to help him keep an eye on it, well, when he celebrates his birthday in February, we went over to visit the class together." ”

Neil Bennett returned home after sending Nancy Brill home, and it was another toss, and it was already past two o'clock in the morning when he went to sleep.

Wake up the next day and the new year officially begins.

The high-level meeting was held at 10 a.m. and continued until 1 p.m., and the main topic was the company's main work schedule during Simon's departure from Los Angeles.

In the coming months, Daenerys Entertainment's efforts will focus on establishing overseas distribution channels and promoting the overseas distribution of several films such as "Scream" at the end of last year.

In this era, the overseas distribution of Hollywood films is still rarely able to achieve the same period as North America, and it is very common for the release to be delayed by two or three months. Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment did not distract itself from overseas releases at the end of last year, and focused all its energy on local distribution.

Now, several films such as "Scream" have all been successful at the box office, which has created a very good prerequisite for Daenerys Entertainment to expand its overseas distribution channels. With these blockbuster films as bargaining chips, Daenerys Entertainment can easily establish contact with overseas cinema chains.

Outside of the film's release, the next most important task is the financial audit of the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Because it is not a public company, Daenerys Entertainment is not required to announce its annual financial results. However, due to the rapid expansion of the company, even Simon himself is not too clear about the detailed financial revenue data of Daenerys Entertainment, including its subsidiaries, and it is not clear whether there are potential problems in this, which requires a very detailed financial audit of Daenerys Entertainment.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the financial report, Simon also specifically authorized Janet to oversee the audit at today's meeting.

Finally, there is the strategy of Daenerys Entertainment to produce several films in the coming months.

Simon's attitude towards Oscars and other awards has never been too enthusiastic, although he has established Gaomen Pictures, which specializes in literary films and requires a large number of major film awards, but in his concept, Oscars and other awards should always be 'icing on the cake' and the like, and should not become the fundamental goal of a film.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after a simple lunch, Simon, Amy and other senior executives met with Wayne Hueyzanga, chairman of Blockbuster, to discuss Daenerys Entertainment's specific plan to invest in Blockbuster.

After several hours of negotiations, the two parties reached a preliminary agreement, Daenerys Entertainment invested $120 million to acquire a 35% stake in BesTV, and at the same time, Daenerys Entertainment promised not to interfere in the management of BesTV in the next three years, and correspondingly, Baenerys Entertainment also guaranteed that Daenerys Entertainment's shares would not be diluted in the next three years.

Nancy Brill was also identified as a member of the Blockbuster Board of Directors after this meeting.

That night, Simon invited the Raybould family to dinner in Malibu again, during which he and James Raybould privately discussed some Westeros matters, and Simon was able to complete the arrangements he had made before leaving.

While there were some apprehensions about letting go of the steering wheel of Daenerys Entertainment's fast-moving 'sports car', Simon also knew he had to. If a company leaves and someone can't continue to operate, the company is doomed to not grow.

On January 2, Simon officially flew to Melbourne, Australia with a retinue in the morning.

The pre-production for the "Batman" project has been completed, and after arriving in Melbourne, Simon only needs to spend a few days to familiarize himself with the environment, and the film will officially start filming on January 9, with a planned shooting period of 13 weeks and 91 days. If all goes well, the film will be completed in early April and will last three months.

Simon immediately Los Angeles, but Hollywood's operations did not stop at all.

Daenerys Entertainment's public relations work for this year's awards was handed over by Simon to Ella Deutchman, the head of Highgate Pictures, and after Simon, Ella Deutchman began to work on the Golden Globe public relations for "Dead Poets Society", and at the same time began to prepare for Oscar nominations for a series of films under Daenerys Entertainment.

With the unexpected box office explosion of "Rain Man", Hollywood has also paid great attention to the film's Oscar public relations strategy.

Daenerys Entertainment has completely given up this year's Golden Globe Awards on "Rain Man", and many people speculate that due to the conflict with several creators of "Rain Man", if Simon Westeros is teenager enough, Daenerys Entertainment is likely to continue to give up the Oscar for this film.

"Rain Man" has become a phenomenon in its entirety, and if this film joins the Oscar team, there will be basically not much chance for other films this year.

Therefore, the whole of Hollywood is expecting Simon Westeros to be a teenager.

However, "Rain Man" gave up the Golden Globe Award, just Simon is paving the way for "Dead Poets Society", he is still the same point of view as before, and he will not do such a stupid thing as smashing his own pot when he is angry with others. "Rain Man" will apply for all possible awards as scheduled.

However, Ira Deutchman also got a very difficult job as a result.

Among the nominations for "Rain Man", Best Director and Best Actor were obviously easy to get, and in the original time, these two nominations also managed to win Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman.

But this time, Simon's task for Ella Deutschman is to make Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman only get nominations and not win awards, just like Daenerys Entertainment will continue to send invitations to CAA artists for role auditions during this time, but will not hire each other.

Reverse public relations is a thing that often happens between competitors, but it is still very difficult to make your film unable to win awards.

It's also one of Simon's tests for Ella Deutchman.

In addition to "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment will continue to focus on public relations for "Dead Poets Society", and the company's goal is to win "Rain Man" for Best Picture and "Dead Poets Society" for Best Director.

The major Hollywood film companies have obviously shown a tendency to suppress Daenerys Entertainment, at this time, the original Oscar jury has many difficult to influence the 'shortcomings' instead of 'advantages', the Oscar jury team of more than 3000 people, as long as Daenerys Entertainment does not hesitate to invest, and it has excellent quality films, it is still very likely to get nominations and awards.

Simon also privately gave Ella Deutchman a face-to-face lecture to teach him the public relations tricks of the Weinstein brothers in his memory.

Before you know it, the New Year's Eve week passed again.

The films scheduled at the end of last year are still reaping the box office, but relative to the box office explosion of Christmas week, in the week from December 30 to January 5, the North American single-week box office market shrank to $91.56 million compared with last week's $122.36 million, and most of the films have declined.

Except for "Rain Man".

Due to the unexpected rise in the box office in the second week of release, in the third week, Daenerys Entertainment redeployed 262 screens after urgent negotiations with theaters, increasing the number of screens released in "Rain Man" from 1,136 to 1,398.

Coupled with the phenomenal word-of-mouth that "Rain Man" continues to spread, in the third week of its release, this film became the only film to reverse the decline in the market this week, with a box office increase of 7%, another $17.91 million, and a cumulative box office of $46.23 million, and also easily surpassed "Dead Poets Society", becoming the first on the box office list of the week in the third week of the film's release.