Soon he liked the beautiful and delicate little man in his arms, and with a certain strange stubbornness and boldness, let the child call his father, and talked with great interest until the early hours of the morning, the little one was finally sleepy, and the little hand that grabbed Simon's shirt was tighter, and he wanted to sleep together, and he wanted his mother to be together.

Simon smiled and agreed, picked up the little girl whose eyes were already sleepy and still wrapped around him like a little koala, and looked at Shulshikina, the woman understood, got up and led the way, and came to the bedroom on the third floor, the person in his arms had already followed, however, Simon had just put the little guy down, and immediately woke up again, not crying or making trouble, but just grabbed Simon again and asked where Dad was going.

Simon patiently explained that he had to brush his teeth before going to bed and would be back soon.

The little man didn't want to part even this time, saying that he was very good at brushing his teeth and could help, and then climbed on Simon again.

When she came to the bathroom, Shulshikina found a brand new spare toothbrush from the locker, and the little guy really helped Simon brush his teeth, and was helped by Simon to stand on the washstand, very serious, very serious, up and down for seven or eight minutes, and finally did not forget to bring a glass of water for Simon to rinse his mouth.

In fact, I still want to take a shower, but this time it is definitely not appropriate.

After brushing his teeth, the little one immediately wrapped himself around Simon again, and had to return to the outer bed, and after Shulshikina washed, she also came out, and lay on the other side under the command of the little one, and then showed a very satisfied little expression, and offered to listen to the song. Shulsikina was worried that Simon would be impatient with her daughter's pestering and was about to take over the job, but Simon had already agreed.

Think of a children's song at random and start humming it.

The little guy is still very picky, saying that it doesn't sound good and wants to change, Simon patiently changed it a few times, until the song "Good Cat" was satisfied.

The bedroom lights are dimmed.

On the big bed, it looks like a family of three.

There is also a soft male voice.

* Good cat, warm cat.

* Small plush balls.

* Happy cats, sleepy cats.

* Meow meow meow.

The next day still got up early, I wanted to leave before the little guy got up, but I didn't expect that there was just a movement, and the little man next to him also woke up, and thought that it would be forgotten after a night, the child's memory is always not very popular, the little girl just said good morning to Simon very politely, and still called her father affectionately, and said that she wanted to eat chocolate cake in the morning, and her mother always did not allow it before.

Simon didn't allow it either.

bargained and gave up very obediently.

Shulsikina also woke up at the same time, both eyes were red, and she didn't want to be seen by Simon and the child, so she took the initiative to hide in the bathroom.

The child was a little lethargic after all, and it was confirmed that Simon would wake her up at breakfast, and soon closed her eyes and fell back to sleep until eight o'clock. After breakfast together, Simon is leaving, and the child is going to kindergarten.

I thought there would be the situation last night, but the little guy didn't pester Simon anymore, looking like a little adult, and asked Simon when he would come to see her next time, Simon said that he would be free, and if he didn't have time, he would pick up the baby, so he was very satisfied and personally sent Simon to the door.

When I got into the car, I looked back and saw that the mother and daughter were still standing inside the door.

Seeing Simon looking back, the villain waved his hand at Simon again, but there was obviously a strong reluctance in his eyes, and then he looked at Shulshikina, the same.

That's what I understand.

Probably what kind of mother, what kind of children are taught.

The little girl who is more than three years old, probably instilled by her mother, instinctively feels that it is a matter of course for her father to be absent for a long time.

Until leaving, Simon didn't express his attitude towards the little guy calling him father, which was actually a kind of acquiescence, but Simon was not a man with fatherly love in his bones, and he also knew that it was actually the best choice for the child to continue to stay by Shulshikina's side.

After returning to his home on Kensington Garden Street and packing up briefly, Simon rushed to Heathrow Airport with his entourage and set off for North America.

Because of the time difference, the 10-hour flight from London to Los Angeles arrived at the destination, and the West Coast of the United States was still on the morning of May 4.

A lot of business has accumulated during this time, and when he arrives in Los Angeles, Simon goes straight to work.

During Simon's absence in Los Angeles, after personally finalizing Stallone as the leading actor in the "Jumanji" series, the two parties officially signed a contract for the trilogy.

Unlike Schwarzenegger's $15 million cap salary, Stallone, whose popularity has declined significantly in recent years, only gets a base salary of $10 million.

However, the share of the next two films is the same as Schwarzenegger, 10% and 20% of the global box office gross profit respectively, that is, Daenerys and Warner Bros. recover the global box office share minus the production and publicity budget stipulated in the contract, which is one notch lower than the box office account without deducting costs, and the project must be profitable for Stallone to have a chance to get a share.

After the contract was finalized, the first draft of the script that was re-tailored for Stallone was also completed, and there were some videos of Stallone auditioning.

Hollywood A-list stars, at the level of Stallone, usually rarely audition. In the original "Godfather" series, Marlon Brando was asked by the studio to audition before filming, thinking that he had been insulted, and when the film became popular, he resolutely refused to participate in the second part anyway.

Of course, the legendary actor's unruliness also led to his now bleak and depressed old age.

Simon was very satisfied with Stallone's attitude and made up his mind that in addition to this project, there would be opportunities to cooperate in the future.

In fact, the cooperation is now two projects, "Jumanji" will start filming at the end of the year, while preparing for this film, Stallone will also participate in James Mangold's "Police Empire" with a symbolic base salary, as a film that is planned to be placed in next year's awards season, in addition to Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel will participate together with the basic salary stipulated by the union, so the film budget is only $10 million.

On the other hand, Daenerys missed out on "Jumanji" with Warner Bros., and Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed another Warner Bros. project, "Evaporation Order".

Terry Semel also made a point of calling Simon about this.

Simon didn't deliberately put pressure on the project to turn it off.

The "Evaporation Secret Order" in memory is Arnold's last big hit project in the 90s, and then, the actor's coffee position only exists in the "Terminator" series that has been repeatedly restarted and failed. For this project, Warner Bros. still wants to get rid of the impact on the DC Cinematic Universe.

Speaking of which, because "Terminator 2" is a collaboration between Daenerys and Fox, the copyright of the "Terminator" series is now jointly held by the two companies, and there have been people interested in continuing the series in recent years, but Simon does not plan to let the follow-up of the "Terminator" series appear.

There is no need to waste market resources repeatedly.

Of course, if someone spends a lot of money to buy half of the rights in Daenerys's hands, as he remembers, and shouts up to $60 million, even if it is only half of it, Simon will agree. After all, this is more expensive than Simon spending tens of millions of dollars to buy out the rights to the Thor King series like he did in the first place.

The three cooperation projects are scheduled for next summer's "The Mummy", and after the hero and heroine are finalized, the progress during this period is also smooth.

In the end, there was only one "Breaking Baby" left.

Simon has already drafted a Kate Beckinsale, and two other roles, in fact, Simon's royal casting head Linda Vargas has been following up, although he is not in Los Angeles during this time, Simon still watched a lot of audition tapes.

The other two angel candidates were basically finalized.

Kate Beckinsale belongs to the glamorous type.

According to Simon's setting, a glamorous femme fatale is also needed, and after several deliberations, Meichen Amick with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks" was finalized.

Simon met each other at a party during his visit to "This Man is from Earth" in Toronto at the end of last year, and gave a few words of advice at the time, hoping that the other party would make up for his acting skills, the actress obviously did not take Simon's words as a deaf ear, and the audition effect was significantly improved compared to the performance in the femme fatale film "Femme Fatale Lover" last year.

has enough experience, good acting skills, dancing skills, and is willing to sign a long-term contract, which finally prompted the other party to get the role.

The last candidate, Simon, would have wanted to be politically correct.

I really couldn't convince myself.

In the 90s, Hollywood's political correctness was not yet to that extent, just like the phenomenal American drama "Sex and the City" series, the four heroines are all white and still popular, and "The Black Road Family" did not shoehorn in one or two conspicuous black people.

So, the last role fell to Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The famous Hollywood old man killer has developed well in recent years, including Simon's quiet promotion, such as the heroine of Michael Bay's "Stargate" directed by Michael Bay last year, and a little further on, the heroine of a British adaptation of the film "The Sea of Algae" by Gorgate Pictures, and even the heroine of "Earth Ambition" who had a scandal with Tom Cruise.

Therefore, among the three heroines of "Breaking Bad", Catherine Zeta-Jones is relatively the highest-ranking one, and the other two actresses have acting experience, but they have not yet participated in blockbusters such as "Stargate".

In addition, Catherine Zeta-Jones also belongs to the glamorous type, but this glamorous belongs to a passionate and unrestrained style, rather than Meichen Amic's femme fatale positioning.

All in all, Simon will maintain a certain unity of the three angels through details such as clothing styling, so as to give the audience the impression that the three belong to the same whole. However, the three will also have a variety of strong personal styles and different character skills, forming obvious differences.

Like "Game of the Brave", "Breaking Bad" also started filming at the end of the year, and the three protagonists were finalized, and they will basically work hard for their roles in the second half of the year. Simon also invited professional martial arts instructors from across the ocean according to the version in his memory, and formulated a three-month professional physical training plan for the three of them.

In addition to the three collaborative projects, Cameron's "Titanic", Tim Burton's "Guillotine Valley" and other projects are also going well.

In addition to Hollywood, in Silicon Valley, after more than a month of operation, Egrett officially completed a large-scale employee stock ownership plan.

In order to ensure that the IPO stock issue price is within $50, the Igrett team also directly carried out the stock split operation during the stock ownership plan.

When the plan is completed, the new tech giant's total share capital will reach 3.795 billion shares.

As the largest shareholder, Westeros holds a total of 2.561 billion shares, representing 67.5%.

Although in recent years there has been a growing call for the abolition of the company's multi-ownership structure, this time, Igrete has adopted a dual-class share structure. The 2.561 billion shares held by Westeros are all Class B shares with voting rights equivalent to 10 times that of ordinary shares, which are only held by Westeros, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which participated in the investment in the first two years, still hold ordinary Class A shares.

As a result, even though the shareholding ratio is significantly reduced, Westeros still owns more than 90% of the voting rights of Igret.

Immediately afterwards, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley both reduced their stakes to 3.75%, with 142 million shares.

The Big Four of Igret, Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Butz, each received 4% of the shares, with 151 million shares, and Alice Ferguson received 2%, with 76 million shares. However, the four of them are still in the next employment contract period, and they want to cash out another 1% of the shares of Egrett in total.

In addition to the major shareholders, all other employees of Eaglerite share the remaining 7% of the company's shares, totaling 265 million shares.

The company employs more than 25,000 people.

Compared with the large number of shares obtained by several cores, 25,000 employees enjoy 265 million shares, which seems to be very little, but in fact, according to the preliminary determination of the issue price of $30, the total value of these shares has reached $7.95 billion, which is equivalent to an average reward of $310,000 per employee.

The actual distribution will certainly not be so even.

For example, Ralph Goodall, chief engineer of the cloud computing team, who successfully realized the cloud computing plan of Eagle, and Michael Novalek, the head of the 58List team, and other key department executives second only to the Big Four, also received millions of shares, of which the total number of executives who received more than 3 million shares through rewards and subscriptions reached 19.

According to the issue price of $30, it basically means that this IPO will directly promote 19 people to the ranks of billionaires.

In addition, the total number of employees who received between 300,000 and 3 million shares also reached 163, which means 163 multimillionaires. Finally, there is a group of employees between 30,000 and 300,000 shares, and the number also reaches 532, that is, 732 millionaires.

It's just that these less than 1,000 cores actually took away about 200 million shares of 265 million shares.

The remaining 60 million shares only fell into the hands of the remaining employees, and most of them could only get one or two thousand shares, of course, which is already worth tens of thousands of dollars.

This strong uneven distribution actually caused a lot of dissatisfaction, but Simon did not compromise in the slightest.

What Igrete wants to lock down is actually only the core 1,000 employees.

Others, if they are willing to give up this reward, Simon does not refuse the other party to jump ship.

This period is also the last period for other peers in the industry to poach from Igrete in the short term, as everyone will sign new contracts and related non-compete agreements afterwards. Because they feel that the distribution of Igret's equity is not fair enough, there are many people who choose to give up the rewards they deserve and jump ship.

In this case, the Igrett team will try their best to keep it, and will not make it difficult to let the other party leave after no result.

The ESOP was completed, and according to the original plan, a prospectus should have been formally filed with the SEC.

However, after internal discussions, it was unanimously decided to postpone the process.

Mainly to wait for the passage of the capital gains tax reform bill in May.

Because, after the completion of the employee stock ownership plan, of the total 714 million shares planned to be publicly issued, only 531 million new shares will be used to raise funds, and the other 183 million shares, with a total value of $5.49 billion according to the issue price, belong to Goldman Sachs and Morgan and some executives plan to cash out the shares.

Even if the capital gains tax reform bill is passed, and the executives who have just acquired their shares choose to cash out, they will not be able to enjoy the minimum tax rate, so most of them are from Goldman Sachs and Morgan. The two companies have held shares in Egrete for more than one year and will be able to enjoy a minimum tax rate of 15% at that time.

It is conceivable that if the matter is exposed in advance, under the pressure of public opinion, the capital gains tax reform bill that is about to be voted on is likely to change.

That's hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue.

And it will ruin the good things of a lot of people.

Now Igret, because of the continuous rapid growth of all aspects of the business, as long as it can ensure that it dares to dare to dare before the bursting of the Internet bubble, in fact, the later the market will bene, so everyone is not in a hurry, and finally plans to wait for the capital gains tax reform bill to vote before submitting a prospectus to the SEC.

At that time, even if public opinion is still turbulent, it is absolutely impossible to change things that are still finalized in a short period of time.