Beverly Hills.

In a café near the MA headquarters on Camino Street, seeing off the other two, Simon and Jonathan sat down again.

Flipping through the book in front of him called "Dances with Wolves", which had just negotiated the adaptation rights, Simon glanced at the paparazzi swaying outside the glass window, and said to Jonathan: "ICM must be nervous, you just signed Robert De Niro, and you are going to attack their stars." ”

ICM (Innovation International Management Company) is a talent agency in Hollywood after MA and CAA, with big-name stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Eddie Murphy, and its strength should not be underestimated.

The two people who left just now are Michael Blake, the author of "Dances with Wolves" in Simon's hands, and Kevin Costner.

In the era before Simon's rebirth, most people's impression of Kevin Costner may only be the role of Superman's adoptive father Jonathan Kent in "Superman: Man of Steel". But in fact, with blockbuster works such as "Dances with Wolves" and "The Bodyguard", Kevin Costner can be said to be one of the hottest big-name male stars in Hollywood in the 90s.

Kevin Costner is now an ICM client, and although he is not as big as he was later, he is also a little famous.

Jonathan Friedman had successfully signed with Robert De Niro last week, and when he heard Simon say this, he shook his head and smiled: "Kevin and Bob are both that kind of actors with a more restrained style, I'm not as greedy as CAA, signing one is enough." Speaking of which, Simon, counting "Dances with Wolves", you have already bought the rights to eight films during this time, do you want to continue?"

Simon felt the dissuasion in Jonathan's tone, but said, "If there is something optimistic, of course I will continue." ”

Having said that, Simon felt a little helpless.

Among the eight various, remake or original script copyrights that have been obtained, Simon actually only has a fancy to two, "Dances with Wolves" and "Forrest Gump", and the others are just randomly collected to make smoke bombs.

Due to technical limitations, "Forrest Gump", which once won the Oscar for Best Special Effects, will definitely not be able to start filming in the short term.

"Forrest Gump" was just published last year, and the author, Winston Groom, is also a little famous in the industry. However, compared to several other works by this author, the sales of "Forrest Gump" can only be described as a failure.

From last year to now, "Forrest Gump" has sold less than 10,000 copies in total.

After Jonathan made contact with the other party, Winston Groom initially put forward various provisos. But when Simon raised the price to $200,000, Westeros won the rights to the film and television adaptation for 10 years.

As for Dances with Wolves.

In the original time and space, the film not only achieved a global box office of more than $400 million with a production cost of $22 million, but also won a series of heavyweight awards such as the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director.

There is no technical threshold for "Forrest Gump" in this movie.

However, Simon also couldn't rush the project.

Daenerys Films simply doesn't have the capacity to sustain a $400 million global blockbuster, and Simon is unlikely to transfer the project's distribution rights to other studios.

During this time, Jonathan was mainly negotiating the copyright term with Michael Blake, the author of "Dances with Wolves".

Michael Blake was encouraged by his friend Kevin Costner to write this book, and for this reason, the other party insisted that Kevin Costner play the leading role, and even emphasized that this clause should be written in the contract.

In addition, if the rights are sold to Westeros, Michael Blake and Kevin Costner naturally hope that "Dances with Wolves" can start filming as soon as possible.

This is not something Simon can agree to.

After weeks of negotiations, the two sides reluctantly agreed that Daenerys Pictures would buy the rights to adapt "Dances with Wolves" for three years for $100,000. In terms of copyright prices, Michael Blake didn't have a lion's mouth. However, if within three years, Daenerys Films is unable to start the project under the terms of the contract between the two parties, Daenerys Films will need to pay Michael Blake $500,000.

In addition to "Forrest Gump" and "Dances with Wolves", many other film copyrights in Simon's memory either can't be obtained or can't be found.

Moreover, Simon can't do too much fanfare about this, so he can only eat slowly and secretly.

In fact, the eight copyrights only cost Simon more than a million dollars, Jonathan's mind flashed the tens of millions of dollars that the young man in front of him had accumulated at this time, and saw that he did not listen to his own dissuasion, so he didn't say anything anymore, and said: "Simon, I'm thinking, since 'Sally' can't give Shaun, can I let her try the role of Sally's friend Mary?"

The Sean in Jonathan's mouth is obviously the 'Rachel' Sean Young in "Blade Runner".

Some time ago, Simon had just decided to make "When Harry Met Sally", and Jonathan recommended Sean Young to him.

Simon gave Jonathan a special talk to Sean Young once, and caused a scandal for this. It's just that Simon already had his own plans, and Sean Young's impression on Simon was really not good, so the matter was over.

Hearing this, Simon said, "Joe, didn't she join the crew of Oliver Stone's "Wall Street"?"

Oliver Stone won the Oscar for Best Director in March for "Field Platoon," and last month he started filming another of his new films, the Fox Films-backed business war film "Wall Street."

Jonathan nodded with a wry smile and said, "Sean plays Michael Douglas's wife in the movie." However, Oliver and Michael don't like her very much, and it was originally just a small role of less than ten minutes, and the scenes in the future film are expected to be shortened. ”

"Sean is too beautiful to fit the role of Mary. And, Joe, you don't think she'll get along well with everyone on the crew of "When Harry Meets Sally", do you?" Simon could only shake his head and refuse, thought about it and said, "Actually, Sandra, Liz and Nicole are all very potential." Joe, Sean's mean and perverse personality doesn't fit into this circle at all, and you don't need to put too much thought into her. ”

Seeing that Simon didn't mention Courtney Cox, whom he first knew, Jonathan couldn't help but feel a little emotional, but explained: "Sean's father, Donald Young, was a TV producer, and I was good friends with him when I was still working in New York, and Donald helped me more than once. ”

People are tired to death.

Simon thought so in his heart, but he couldn't let go rashly and put in a character that might make the whole crew uneasy.

After continuing to chat for a while, Simon said goodbye to Jonathan and rushed to DeLaurentiis Entertainment's headquarters, also in downtown Beverly.

Today is Wednesday, May 13th.

After more than a month of intense late production, "Blood Night" officially completed the final cut, and Catherine called yesterday to invite Simon to see the finished film.

Speaking of which, Simon originally wanted to do something for Catherine as much as possible in the later stages of "Blood Night". However, after he broke up with Janet, the woman also seemed to have done something wrong, and she refused Simon to come to help during this time, and only occasionally contacted him by phone for some problems.

Thereupon.

Simon never saw each other again during this time and the two women he knew most well after returning to this era.

Less than five minutes after driving from Camino Street, Neil Bennett parked his Chevrolet SUV under a three-story office building on nearby Alden Street.

Before Simon could get out of the car, he noticed another burgundy Range Rover parked in front of his car.

Compared with its own Chevrolet SUV, the Range Rover, which is known as the special vehicle for the British royal family's field activities, is definitely several notches higher, and the bright burgundy body is likely to be customized.

The most important.

After being together for so long, Simon would be a failure if he couldn't even find Janet's preference for burgundy.

Really.

After getting out of the car, Simon took a few steps forward and found Ken Dixon, who was sitting leisurely in the cab reading the newspaper, the bodyguard who stayed with the woman after Simon and Janet 'divided the property' for three months.

Noticing Simon, Ken Dixon hurriedly pushed the door and got out of the car and greeted, "Mr. Westeros." ”

Simon nodded at the other party and asked directly, "What about Jenny?"

Ken Dixon pointed to the office building on the side of the road and said, "Miss has gone in." ”

At this time, the paparazzi, who had obviously discovered the 'major situation', had already gathered around and slapped Simon who was talking to Ken Dixon, Neil Bennett stepped forward to separate the paparazzi who wanted to come over to ask questions, and Ken Dixon was equally skilled in blocking Simon's other side.

Ignoring the messy problems of a group of paparazzi, Simon walked into the office building of De Laurentiis Entertainment, but he couldn't help but think in his heart, he wouldn't be able to get rid of these guys forever, right?

Simon enters the office building on the side of the road, and is greeted by Edward Feldman, the producer of "Night of the Bloody Corpse," and another tall blonde woman in her thirties. After being introduced, Simon learns that the blonde woman is Martha Schumacher, president of De Laurentiis Entertainment.

After a brief greeting, Edward Feldman noticed Simon's inquiring eyes and took the initiative to explain, "Catherine was there just now, but she was pulled in by Miss Johnston, Simon, let's go upstairs." ”

Simon nodded, and followed the two upstairs.

In a spacious office on the third floor, Janet and Catherine were sitting on the sofa in the reception area whispering something, and when they saw Simon walk in, the two women immediately stood up.

Edward Feldman smiled and said that he was going to prepare for the dailies, and left with Marsha Schumacher, and Catherine smiled and hugged Simon, and left with the same excuse.

Soon only Simon and Janet were left in the office.

After everyone left, Simon looked at Janet, who was still standing in place, the woman had big wavy curly hair, a long pair of bangs on her forehead, a long-hemped blue shirt and white slacks, and high-heeled sandals on her feet.

After being looked at by Simon for a while, Janet finally couldn't stand it, took two steps forward, raised her chin slightly and stretched out her hand to Simon, and said, "Hello." ”

Simon glanced at the beautiful little hand that reached out, and raised his hand to take it, but it was directly held on Janet's fair wrist.

Suddenly, Simon didn't catch his wrist, although he didn't use any force, a feeling that was almost carved into the depths of the bone marrow suddenly came to her heart, Janet couldn't hold it up anymore, she felt that her body was a little soft, her face became crimson unconsciously, her watery eyes stared at Simon without any lethality, and her voice was soft and glutinous: "Little bastard, you bully me." ”

Simon felt that the woman's body was obviously about to go limp, and hurriedly stepped forward, and Janet immediately wrapped around it like a koala, and snapped the sandals on her feet to the ground.

Simon held Janet's soft body, felt the woman's delicate face buried in his neck and rubbed it, with a thick obsession, and finally gnawed on his neck a few times, as if to confirm something.

So he said softly: "Are you still breaking up?"

Janet didn't answer the question, her voice still soft, and she murmured, "Little bastard." ”

Simon walked to the couch with the woman in his arms, trying to put her down, but Janet's hands and feet wrapped around Simon immediately tightened, and she didn't intend to part with Simon at all. Simon had no choice but to turn around, sit on the sofa by himself, put his hands around her waist, tried the feel, and said with a smile: "Fat, it seems that you don't want me at all during this time." ”

Janet changed her posture and stuck to Simon, with a little dissatisfaction: "Don't think about you little bastard who does bad things all day long." ”

Simon argued, "Nothing was done, really." ”

Janet's little head drilled into Simon's neck, and she said with a small poisonous tongue, "Well, it's useless." ”

Simon just smiled, smelled the nice scent of the woman, and said, "Go to me tonight?"

Janet twisted her body slightly before she said, "Palisades." ”

Simon nodded, "Okay." ”

After embracing each other so quietly for a moment, Janet took the initiative to find a topic: "What do you think of Noah?"

Simon shook his head honestly: "Not familiar." Where's him?"

Janet said, "When you met last week, he called me and said you were very difficult to get along with. ”

Simon turned his head and pasted it on Janet's side face, and said, "I don't know what's going on, anyway, I just don't feel like I can get along with him." ”

Janet paused, suddenly laughed, scratched Simon's body with her little hand, and said, "Lion." ”

Simon was puzzled: "Huh?"

Janet raised her face from Simon's neck, her eyes were shining at the man in front of her, with a thick smile on her face, but her voice was still soft, and said: "Lion, an adult male lion can accept that there are many females around him, but he will never tolerate the appearance of another male in his territory. ”

Simon said helplessly: "Okay, that sounds pretty reasonable. ”

Janet was still smiling, burying her face back in Simon Perkins, enjoying the feeling of grinding her ears and temples, and said, "Noah called me again in the morning, little bastard, have you really bought 3,700 S&P 500 positions?"

Simon nodded, "yes." ”

Janet said, "Noah said you were crazy." ”

Since last week, the S&P has largely remained between 270 and 275 during this period, and Simon has been instructing Noah Scott to continue buying long contracts for S&P 500 futures in September in recent days.

Now, with a total of 3,700 contracts, Simon has consumed more than $50 million at a margin of about $13,600 per contract. Excluding the $20 million loan set aside as a backup, Westeros' equity index futures account is now 67 percent open.

The stock index futures contracts are divided into March, June, September and December, and Simon did not buy the nearest June contract, but the September contract four months later, just to do long-term.

Noah Scott apparently saw this, too.

Most stock index futures speculators tend to cautiously keep their long-term positions within 30%, and it is not surprising that Simon directly increased his position to 67%, which is considered crazy.

With such a high proportion of holdings, it is definitely easy to lose all your money.

Gently patting Janet, Simon said, "Then do you think I'm crazy?"

Jenny nodded, "yes." ”

"Well, it looks like I'm really crazy. ”

"Hehe," Janet chuckled, wrapping her arms tightly around Simon, with undisguised determination, "You're my boyfriend." Janet Johnston's boyfriend, how could it be normal. ”