Before leaving for the Melisandre party, Girl A had already compiled the list of results for this year's Oscars.

Relying on all 29 nominations, Daenerys Entertainment has won a total of 10 statuettes at this Oscar, including 7 out of 12 in "Schindler's List", 2 out of 6 in "The Lion King", and the last one is the best foreign language film in "The Wedding Banquet".

In addition to Daenerys Entertainment's direct distribution of films, the related awards include Best Actor for "The Philadelphia Story" creator Tom Hanks and Best Visual Effects for "Superman" last summer.

Taken together, of the 24 awards directly related to movies in the non-honorary achievement category of the Oscars this year, Daenerys Entertainment directly took half of them. Among the four core awards of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress, there is only one Best Actress corner.

Arriving at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, the car was about to turn directly into the hotel parking lot, but Simon noticed that there seemed to be some commotion at the door of the hotel.

He didn't let the driver stop until he entered the Melisandre party on the top floor of the hotel that Simon asked Angela Arentz, who greeted him, "What's going on outside?"

Sofia Faisy did not come to the United States this time, and this year's party was run by Angela Aarentz, who has been promoted to CEO of Gucci.

Hearing Simon's inquiry, Angela said: "Several media outlets under the Hearst Group are not satisfied with our sudden disqualification from interviewing. ”

The media that pay attention to Melisandre's party can be divided into three levels, the most can only be photographed on the street outside the hotel, these are basically just tabloids that do not enter the stream; the next level can enter the hotel, take pictures in front of the official photo wall and interact with the stars, several important fashion media under the Hearst Group were originally included in this part of the invitation; the top level can interview the stars of the party scene, there are only two cooperative media in this part, the Westeros system of the Igret portal and the Condé Nast Group's " Vanity Fair magazine.

The list of media invitations was originally agreed many days in advance.

Simon suddenly issued an order to start a war with the Hearst Group in the morning, and the high-level members of the Hearst family must have received the news, but their media probably did not expect to be rejected by the Melisandre party immediately, and suddenly reduced to the treatment of third-rate tabloids, so they were naturally dissatisfied with this.

Knowing the reason for the matter, Simon instructed Angela to go down and deal with it herself, so as not to spoil everyone's interest, and took Catherine to join the party.

Most of the people who were invited to Melisandre's party were top celebrities who have shined in the entertainment and fashion industries in recent years, as well as a small number of celebrities in politics and business.

Girl A had already made a list in advance, and personally led Simon to entertain in the crowd for more than half an hour, and everyone who should have said hello had said hello.

In fact, this is the case with many parties in the West.

If you find an opportunity to cooperate in the chat, you will make the next contact.

Simon wasn't a hospitable person at heart, and he didn't like to interact with people, but since he was in his current position, he definitely had to do what he had to do.

It's okay to do whatever he wants, and now no one can force him to do anything.

It's just that if you really close your eyes and listen, it will be very unfavorable for Simon to control the Westeros system, and it is even quite dangerous, and it is not impossible to become a puppet in the end. Howard Hughes's bleak evening scene back then was largely due to his isolated personality state, which led to his personal life being completely controlled by those around him.

Catherine has been patiently accompanying Simon as a female companion, listening to the little man and Spielberg's obvious estrangement but talking happily, listening to him eat a few Victoria's Secret Angels' little tofu in a skillful tone, listening to his friendly tone of encouragement to the backstreet boy group that will release their first album this Friday, listening to him unceremoniously rejecting the request of "Wonder Woman" actor Famick Jensen to play the lead role in a pirate film......

After knowing each other for so many years, it seems that except for the time when he fainted in a hospital bed in a fight, the little man has always been at ease with everything.

I really don't know how he grew up to be the person he is today.

"Yes, Roland, I've seen your idea of an alien invasion of Earth, and the name of "Day of Independence" is also very good, and it can be made into a blockbuster of more than 50 million dollars. But it's a pity, you know, next summer there is "Jurassic Park 2", and at the end of the year, there is "Batman v Superman" directed by you, so we'd better put this project in the summer of 1996. ”

Regarding the crossover of the DC Cinematic Universe, Simon chose Roland Emmerich, who is good at multi-line storytelling, as the director of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" to be released at the end of next year after considering between Jane de Bonte, Roland Emmerich and Martin Campbell, the three core directors of DC.

Roland Emmerich wrote and produced "Stargate" with rookie director Michael Bay has been completed, and the film is even better than Simon remembers, so it has obtained a schedule on May 13, which is basically a summer file, and there are still three weeks of box office room for the supergiant "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" on June 3, which is better than the Easter schedule originally considered.

Emmerich came up with the idea of "Day of Alone" in the process of overseeing "Stargate", because the two sides have been working together very happily, and the script outline was directly bought by Daenerys Entertainment as soon as it came out.

Emmerich also has no problem with Simon delaying the film by a year.

In next year's summer file, "Jurassic Park 2" has been locked in June, and there is also a big production "Apollo 13" in July.

Moreover, Roland Emmerich has another idea: "Simon, after the Super Bat War, I want to direct this project myself. ”

Simon was a little surprised, and then quickly nodded: "No problem, this project is your idea." ”

Originally, Simon wanted Michael Bay to try this project. However, Simon also understood why Roland Emmerich would suddenly make such a request.

On the one hand, Emmerich probably wants to break free from the shackles of the DC Cinematic Universe series, and on the other hand, he probably has some wariness of Michael Bay.

Because after Michael Bay completed "Stargate", he recently signed another super project, "Jurassic Park 2". So while Simon hasn't revealed his intention to let Bay direct "Day of Arms" after "Jurassic Park 2", Emmerich has guessed it himself based on many indications.

After Spielberg decided to withdraw from the "Jurassic Park" series, a sequel has been quietly brewing, not only the script, but also the complete storyboard script of the second part and the simple animation of many special effects shots have been completed, and the project is ready to start shooting.

Simon originally wanted Joe Johnston, the director of "Jurassic Park 3" in his memory, to direct the sequel to the new version, and Johnston is also a very veteran filmmaker in Hollywood, who served as the special effects director of the "Star Wars" series and is very good at making special effects movies.

Not only "Jurassic Park 3", "Jumanji's Game" and "Captain America" in Simon's memory, but before that, Joe Johnston had already directed Disney's very blockbuster "Honey, I Make My Child Small".

However, because Johnston was born in George Lucas's family, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's friendship is well known, and after Daenerys Entertainment sent an invitation, Johnston chose to decline.

Johnston was reluctant to join, and Simon also considered Martin Campbell, the director of the new Wonder Woman series.

Although the sequel was not launched immediately after the first part of "Wonder Woman", because of the success of the "Wonder Woman" series, Martin Campbell has no shortage of projects in his hands. In last year's "Life and Death", because the original director Jane de Bont was going to shoot Batman's third "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", Simon transferred the project to Martin Campbell.

Then, Campbell recently signed a directing contract with Paramount Pictures, which had already won "Cut Throat Island."

is no longer the husband and wife duo of Renny Haring and Gina Davis, and with Paramount, one of the seven, participating, it's hard to say what the future holds for the new "Cut Throat Island".

Simon didn't stop Campbell from taking over the project.

Anyway, the contract for the "Wonder Woman" series has been signed, and as long as Daenerys Entertainment needs it, the other party must complete it.

Moreover, after the continuous "Wonder Woman" and the upcoming "Speed of Life and Death" released this summer, if "Cut Throat Island" succeeds again, it can only be regarded as the icing on the cake for Martin Campbell, and once it fails, it can also make the director more 'at ease' to return to Daenerys Entertainment work.

So, for "Jurassic Park 2", Simon finally decided to use Michael Bay after watching the finished film of "Stargate".

This decision seemed quite risky to many.

Simon, however, was not worried.

The biggest difficulty in the "Jurassic Park" series is the special effects, and the first two director choices, Simon also prefers to be controlled by directors with a resume in shooting special effects films.

However, for Daenerys Entertainment, this is not a problem.

Because Daenerys Entertainment's direct special effects team is very familiar with this series, not to mention that the project's script, storyboards and even the animation effects of many sequel special effects shots have been completed, so it only needs to promote an excellent special effects supervisor from Daenerys Special Effects to cooperate with Michael Bay.

Moreover, the most fundamental reason is that Simon has enough confidence in Michael Bay's directing talent.

The former Bang Bei switched from a MV director to Hollywood, except for a "Escape from Clone Island" with very complex reasons for failure, the others have never missed at all.

For studios, the annual film schedule is limited.

For filmmakers, whether they are directors, actors or producers, Hollywood's film resources are also limited.

Roland Emmerich was clearly not complacent because of the success of last year's "Superman", and felt the threat of Michael Bay and instinctively began to fight for it.

To a large extent, the types of films that the two are good at are indeed not similar.

Promising Emmerich to direct "Alone Day" will not affect the speed of the DC Cinematic Universe.

According to the DC Cinematic Universe plan, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will be released at the end of next year, and this superhero masterpiece will bring the DC series epic 'Superman's death' event. This means that Superman will not be able to launch a sequel until he is resurrected in Justice League.

Simon also does not plan to start "Justice League" immediately, but plans to launch "Wonder Woman 2", "Flash 2" and "Suicide Squad 2" respectively as a foreshadowing, although it seems to be a personal superhero series, these three sequels will have a greater degree of superhero character crossover, Catwoman, Cyborg and even a series of villains in the "Suicide Squad" will join it, just like the second and third parts of Marvel's "Captain America".

As for "Cyborg", although the first global box office was less than $600 million, setting the lowest box office for a DC Cinematic Universe series, Warner still hopes to launch a sequel as soon as possible, but it is pressed by Simon like the previous "Flash" series.

If it is completely in line with the minds of some of Warner's top executives, there are not enough two films in the DC Cinematic Universe a year, and there will be other superheroes joining in.

Simon has always been very strong about this.

If Warner doesn't follow its own plan, then, everyone will break up, and then Daenerys Entertainment can happily launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe series. The copyrights of Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman DC are all in Simon's hands, not to mention Daenerys Entertainment and the super spare tire of the Marvel series, Warner basically has not won any initiative.

After continuing to talk to Emmerich for a while, the two separated.

Hugh Grant, who made a name for himself in Hollywood with "Four Weddings and a Funeral", brought his girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley over.

Simon smiled and shook hands with the two of them, and introduced Catherine beside him.

Catherine politely shook hands with the two, only to hear Elizabeth Hurley, who had a young and delicate face on the other side, more eagerly invited Simon to sit on the terrace outside the bar for a while than her boyfriend, and couldn't help but frown slightly.

Is!

These are the first goblins tonight.

What's even more annoying is that the little man even agreed.

I really wanted to find a reason to go away, just now he actually said that if you don't like socializing, you can chat with acquaintances like Ang Lee for a while, but she hasn't done it.

Right now.

Forget it, walking away now with this obvious taste reaction might make him lose face.

What's more, in her subconscious, which she would never admit, she didn't want to party these goblins to succeed.

The four of them came to the terrace outside the bar on the top floor of the Sunset Tower Hotel, and there were also guests here, there were no vacant seats, and when they saw Simon appear, everyone got up to greet them.

Simon patiently greeted everyone for a while, and then chose a sofa near the railing that a few guests had given up to sit down, the tables and chairs were distributed in a rectangular 'hui' shape, with a long table in the middle, facing the railing was a pair of four-person couches, and on both sides were single sofas.

When he sat down, Simon voluntarily chose the position of leaning on the armrest, and Catherine sat next to him.

In addition, the seats were filled with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Raven Phoenix, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Fincher and other young filmmakers.

Elizabeth Hurley, who offered to come to the terrace, was not forgotten, but sat next to Catherine, with Hugh Grant on the other side. Looking at the people around her, Elizabeth Hurley, who had been expecting to meet Westerodo, realized that the outcome must be the same as the party at the Sundance Film Festival at the end of January.

Simon sat down and asked, "What are you talking about?"

Sandra sat directly across from Simon and said, "Just now Moore was talking about the supernatural events she encountered during the filming of "The Conjuring". ”

With that, Sandra looked at Simon teasingly.

It is rumored that Simon Westeros is a psychic, which is very marketable in Hollywood, and even Sandra privately asked Simon if he could see ghosts, and Simon's answer was of course yes, otherwise how could he be so talented, and Sandra's response was white eyes.

After securing the copyright of the paranormal investigators Warren and his wife last year, the "Conjuring" universe project was quietly launched.

Simon originally planned to use "Morgue Haunting", which can only be regarded as a derivative series, as the first part, but since the copyright has been successfully obtained, it still starts with "The Conjuring", and the film has been completed at this time, and it is scheduled for June 17, two weeks after "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises". Another spin-off series, "Mortuary Haunting", is scheduled for October 28 as the main theme of this year's Halloween.

Among them, the Warrens of the main "The Conjuring" series, Simon personally determined Matthew Mordine and Julian Moore.

Needless to say, Julian Moore said.

The 35-year-old Matthew Modien has been tepid in Hollywood before, and many times he can only be regarded as a familiar actor to the audience but unable to name him. However, the actor actually won the Venice actor in 1983 when he was just 22 years old with a Vietnam War-themed movie "Northern Lights", and his situation is very similar to Valerie Golino who played Catwoman.

It is worth mentioning that in the past, Matthew Mordien was also the actor of "Cut Throat Island".

It's a pity that the actor has been up for more than ten years since he won the Venice actor and finally got a super blockbuster actor, no one expected the film to fail so miserably, resulting in Matthew Modien, who could still play the leading role once or twice occasionally, completely fell after "Cut Throat Island" and did not encounter any chance to turn over.

Matthew Modien and Julian Moore both signed five-part contracts for the series.

Now, the male protagonist of the "Conjuring" series will inevitably miss "Cut Throat Island" again, and Matthew Mordien's situation can be regarded as a complete change. The same is true of Julian Moore, who was already 33 years old at this time. One is a former Venice actor, and the other has been honing on Broadway for many years, both of them have excellent acting skills, and what they have been lacking is just opportunities.

Although it is difficult for a horror film to make the starring actor popular, in the same way, it is very easy to transform into a horror film.

Both of them had just sat here, just to make way for Simon and the others to get up and go elsewhere.

Talking and laughing about the supernatural events on the set of "The Conjuring", Simon did not shy away from the stalk of his psychic man, and also made a cameo appearance as a soothsayer, pretending to calculate a hexagram for Sandra, and the result was that Sandra would inevitably suffer a 'blood and light disaster' in the next month.

Everyone didn't understand this relatively obscure yellow joke for a while, until Elizabeth Hurley, who was next to Catherine, burst out laughing, and everyone had an epiphany, and Sandra didn't shy away from rushing over and pinching Simon.

After a moment of frolicking, Simon turned to David Fincher and asked about the director's plans for the next director, who became a hit last year with "The Seven Deadly Sins."

Last year's Halloween "Seven Deadly Sins", relying on the quality of the film itself and the strong distribution of Daenerys Entertainment's new Internet channels, finally reached a cumulative box office of $135 million in North America. The film's overseas distribution continues, but it has recently reached $193 million, and some subsequent overseas box office warehouses will probably be able to earn $30 million to $50 million at the box office.

It is expected that the overseas distribution will be completed, and the global box office of "Seven Deadly Sins" will reach about $370 million.

With a production budget of $30 million and a global box office of $370 million, this alone has propelled David Fincher into the ranks of Hollywood's first-line directors.

However, David Fincher has never been a prolific director.

After "The Seven Deadly Sins", the Hollywood rising star has not decided on his next film plan, and Daenerys Entertainment has also taken the initiative to recommend several scripts, which Finch has not liked.

David Fincher listened to Simon's question and said: "I recently received a very good script, the idea comes from a group puzzle game in the 80s, about a billionaire who has lost interest in life because of the ups and downs of life, and his life has been stuck in formality and fantasy since then......"

Finch roughly explained the plot of the story, and Simon remembered that this was another work of the other party, "Mind Game", starring veteran Hollywood actor Michael Douglas, with a production budget of $50 million, but it was not very successful at the box office.

Many Hollywood scripts are often written for many years, and Simon once paid great attention to this problem, and the initial scripts he chose were only taken out when he judged that he would not crash based on the information in his memory.

"Mind Games" is clearly another script that has been completed for many years.

It's not surprising that it fell into the hands of Fincher like in the original time and space, because this involves a very small side of Hollywood, and many filmmakers often have their own fixed circles, in this circle, there will be no intersection, there will never be an intersection, and what can be encountered, even if it encounters Simon's super butterfly, it will still meet.

David Fincher is yet another member of Daenerys Entertainment's retained list.

Even if "Mind Games" doesn't do as well as expected at the box office, the director definitely deserves a long-term collaboration. Therefore, if the other party insists on shooting, Simon will also agree to come down.

After Fincher's introduction, Simon said that he could send the script to himself.

Party time flies by in a non-stop social process.

It was close to eleven o'clock, and for many night owls, the nightlife of the City of Angels had just begun, but Simon was planning to leave.

I have to work tomorrow.

Catherine leaves the party with Simon, and after getting in the car, she casually asks Simon to take her home home.

Simon also casually instructed the driver to go directly to the Dumei Point Manor.

The woman stared at each other.

Simon coaxed the little girl to say that the family had just raised a group of beautiful goldfish, and she could take Catherine back to see it together.

Catherine reluctantly agreed.

Of course, there are no goldfish, and there are also in the sea under the cliffs of Cape Dume. Now that you have been tricked home, it is useless to get angry, and no one will pay attention to shouting at your throat.