"Have you read the script for this recent project between May, Daenerys and Disney?"

"Of course, 'Sleepless in Seattle,'" Melanie Griffith nodded, then disappointed, "However, I asked Joe, and he said that the heroine Simon has already been decided, and we don't have much chance." ”

"Oh, that's a pity, I think the heroine is quite suitable for you. ”

Beverly Hills.

Jonathan Friedman is inside his mansion in the Coldwater Canyon neighborhood, a very ordinary one among the countless parties of awards season.

Melanie Griffiths also showed a regretful expression when she heard Joanna Cassidy in front of her say this.

After giving birth to Dakota Johnson, she only took a short break for less than a year, and Melanie Griffith started to take on films again, but several projects she starred in in the past two years have been tepid, and only the box office performance of "Working Girl" in the year before Dakota was born was better.

In comparison, her husband Don Johnson, who was originally just a mixed TV drama circle, began to rise in his career after "Ten Days of Danger", and the original state of 'women are high and men are low' is obviously reversing.

Probably because of the birth of a young man, Melanie Griffiths, who was born in a film family, can feel the obvious changes in Hollywood in recent years, which also makes her have a strong sense of crisis. If she can't get one or two blockbuster projects to support her popularity, she will soon fall back to the second line.

Hollywood is a personal circle, but many times it is also the most impersonal.

If you are not popular, it will be even more difficult to get high-quality projects.

And then it's a vicious circle all the way down.

A couple came over to say hello to Hollywood actress Alan Barking and her husband Gabriel Byrne. The reason why I say this is mainly because this is also a 'high female and low male' matching.

Of course, even if women are high and men are low, Alan Barking is only a second-tier.

Melanie Griffith and Joanna Cassidy stopped the conversation and politely responded to the couple's pleasantries.

The two were not qualified for such a party.

However, Gorgate Pictures recently happened to take a fancy to Gabriel Byrne's copyright to a memoir "Proven Not Guilty".

Bourne bought the copyright of this itself a few years ago, and originally planned to play the leading role himself, making it into a solo film with a budget cost of two or three million, hoping to hit some awards.

After Goron Pictures expressed interest in "Proven Innocence", after several communications, Bourne gave up the copyright and only served as the nominal executive producer. The project has also recently been finalized and is titled In the Name of the Father, and Gorgate Pictures intends to star Daniel Day Lewis in the project after the completion of The Last Mohican.

The second-tier couple also attracted the attention of the circle after this transaction.

The two sides were not familiar with each other, and they only needed to nod their heads.

However, after chatting for a few words, Melanie Griffith suddenly became enthusiastic about Alan Barkin, and lowered her voice slightly: "Alan, your lip liner is so beautiful, you just did it recently?"

Gabriel Byrne, who was next to Alan Barkin, noticed that Melanie had started a conversation between women, smiled and gathered the cocktails in his hands, and walked away.

Although I don't understand why Griffith suddenly became enthusiastic about himself, and even had some faint vigilance in his heart, if he can make friends with the other party, it will definitely not hurt him.

Hollywood has nothing to shy about plastic surgery, this circle, from first-line superstars to young actors who have just debuted, in order to make their image better, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on plastic surgery every year.

Carefully brushing his plump lips, Alan Barking said, "I did it at a clinic in Orange County, May, and if you're interested, I can leave you a call." ”

"Of course, give it to me now. Melanie Griffith seemed to be eager to pull out a pen and paper directly from her handbag, and added: "I happened to have a lip augmentation recently, but I contacted a few doctors, and I was not satisfied." ”

Joanna Cassidy smiled as she listened to the conversation between the two women, and finally saw Alan Barking look at her, as if to ask if she was interested, but she just shook her head with an unchanged smile.

Waiting for Alan Barking to leave a little abruptly, Joanna Cassidy said, "May, you are so bad that you even encouraged her to do it again." ”

In the past two years, many Hollywood actresses have gradually realized a rule: Westeros doesn't like lip augmentation.

The news was first inadvertently revealed by Simon's royal casting director, Linda Vargas.

This young man, who is becoming more and more powerful in Hollywood, has more than once directly removed those actresses who have undergone lip augmentation surgery in the casting process, and it is said that Westeros's exact words are: Lip augmentation looks deformed, completely destroying the natural beauty of women's lips.

For this reason, the lip augmentation trend, which has been popular in Hollywood for many years, is rapidly fading.

However, the spread of the news was not rapid.

The competition in Hollywood is very fierce, and stars who know the inside story will not take the initiative to disclose the news to other competitors. Even, of course, there is no shortage of Melanie Griffith who actively encourages others to 'self-destruct their image'.

Melanie Griffiths just saw that the couple was not pleasing to the eye just now, and casually played a prank, and of course, it also meant to push Alan Barkin, an actress of the same age and similar to her, a little further.

As for the other party's reaction after knowing that she was misled, she didn't care at all.

Ignoring Joanna Cassidy's teasing, she glanced at her husband Don Johnson, who was talking and laughing with Brian de Palma not far away, and suddenly said, "I don't know if Simon will come over tonight." ”

Joanna Cassidy looked in the direction of the entrance to the villa leading to the backyard, after taking over the role of Queen Hippolyta in "Wonder Woman", although the film will not be released until the summer, she has gradually fallen into the career of mixing TV circles to rejuvenate, and there are two films in her hands that have not yet started.

In contrast, the last few candidates who competed together for this role, she remembered one, the most threatening Sanda Bergman, who had participated in "Jazz Spring and Autumn", and Schwarzenegger's early "Conan the Barbarian", etc., was one of the most promising actresses to get the role of Queen Hippolyta, and the two used to have similar coffee positions, and they deliberately seduced a young man during the audition.

However, after missing Queen Hippolyta, the other party can only mix in some low-budget thriller romance films in the near future.

Too often, life circumstances will go in the opposite direction because of one or two opportunities.

After "Instinct", Hollywood thrillers and erotic films have become very popular in recent years, and although it is difficult to enter theaters, the cable TV and video tape markets are very fond of this theme. If it sells well, it will naturally be flocked to it.

Speaking of which, these were provoked by a young man.

Thinking so, Joanna Cassidy said: "Isn't he in Japan, about Universal Studios Japan, I read in the newspaper yesterday that he went to Japan to trigger the 'Westeros effect', which is really interesting." ”

In the turmoil of the Japanese stock market two years ago, because the financial market sensed Simon's involvement, the Japanese stock market was directly implicated because of many of Simon's actions, and even after Simon rushed to Australia, there was a sharp fall.

At the beginning, some media ridiculed that Simon Westeros wanted to go to Japan, and he was likely to be denied a visa.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, Simon rushed to Japan for the matter of Universal Studios Osaka this time, and the Tokyo stock market fell by nearly 3% on the day he arrived, which scared many people.

The 'Westeros Effect' was brought up again.

Melanie Griffith also knew about it, and after a few laughs, she added, "I heard that he has returned, yesterday. ”

Today is Saturday, February 15th.

Simon traveled to Osaka on Monday and was only there for five days.

Joanna Cassidy didn't know much about this, but it would be best if Westeros could come over, so she couldn't help but look in the direction of the entrance again.

And then I actually saw a certain guy.

Melanie Griffith also caught Simon's figure for the first time, not because of her sharp eyes, but because of the guests in the backyard who were originally gathering in groups to chat, and when Simon Westeros appeared, they couldn't help but turn their attention away.

It's just that Westeros was chatting with Jonathan Friedman, and everyone didn't get too rude to come over together.

"This time, we only signed an intent contract for 100 acres of land, and the Osaka City Government did not want cash, but wanted to invest in the land. ”

In the eyes of everyone, Simon, who had just arrived, took a cocktail from the waiter's hand and stood casually in the courtyard chatting with Jonathan Friedman about the results of his recent trip to Japan.

Jonathan Friedman also held a cocktail and analyzed with a smile: "Land prices in Japan have fallen a lot, and the Osaka City Government should promote the entire city's economy with Universal Studios next year, and the price will not be too high, right?"

"It's about 10 percent," Simon said, "but maybe a month or two later, there's going to be a bit of a turnaround, you know, Disneyland Paris opens in April." ”

Jonathan keenly grasped the subtext of Simon's words: "You are not optimistic about Disneyland Paris?"

"It's hard to say, at least the costs of Disneyland Paris are badly out of control, and the clash of cultures is very obvious. Unlike Japan's identification with American culture, France is very anti-American. ”

Jonathan also understands the joint, if Disneyland Paris does not operate as expected, coupled with the Japanese economy is in a downturn, the Osaka city government is likely to give up the shareholding requirement and choose cash directly due to risk considerations. After all, if you insist on holding shares, once the theme park loses in the future, this part of the equity will not only fail to receive profit dividends, but will continue to depreciate itself.

"Let's not talk about that, Simon, Meg is here tonight, do you want to talk to her about Sleepless in Seattle?"

Jonathan said this, and without waiting for Simon to respond, he glanced at Meg Ryan, who was not far away.

Although transferred to MA, Meg Ryan is not represented by Jonathan himself. However, MA has been trying to transition to a CAA model in recent years, with a strong emphasis on internal collaboration, and Jonathan naturally wants to 'lead by example'.

"Good evening, Simon. ”

After a series of previous encounters, Meg Ryan was like a well-behaved little quail in front of Simon.

Simon looked at Meg Ryan, who was wearing a black suspender dress tonight, and some satisfaction flashed in his eyes, and said: "Hanks is very interested in the script, the actor is almost certain to be him, you can talk to him about the script in private." ”

Meg Ryan nodded to note it, and when the man raised his glass and took a sip of his wine, she walked away in amusement.

Jonathan, who was next to him, was also helpless when he saw this scene.

Simon always seems to have little interest in this Hollywood sweet sister who is regarded as the dream lover of countless fans.

After sending Meg Ryan away, Melanie Griffith, who had been watching from the sidelines, pulled her husband over, followed by Joanna Cassidy, who was alone.

Everyone chatted for a few words, and Melanie Griffith also made a point to talk about Dakota's recent situation.

Because of Simon's personal name, under the continuous spread of Hollywood, Dakota Johnson has become Simon Westeros's goddaughter in many people's impressions. I don't know if the Johnsons did it deliberately, and Simon didn't care about these details.

Tonight, I'm here to talk to Brian de Palma about the new project he's working on, Dawn of Lovers.

After chatting and laughing with the Johnsons for a while, Simon hid back to the villa with Parma and Jonathan.

Now Simon, if he doesn't want to socialize, most people will only take it for granted.

This is another biographical gangster film, and Universal Pictures bought the script two years ago and began to work on it slowly.

In Simon's memory, the box office of this film is barely okay, and because of Brian De Palma, the project is directly included in Daenerys Entertainment's film list next year.

However, Al Pacino, the actor that Brian De Palma fancies, still has a "" to be filmed, and "The Dawn of Lovers" can only wait until the second half of the year to start. The schedule will be determined depending on the specific effect of the next film.

Simon, Parma and Jonathan chatted for more than ten minutes on the terrace on the second floor of Jonathan's mansion, and more details were basically confirmed.

Knowing that many people at the party tonight were still looking forward to meeting Simondo, Brian de Palma didn't want to be hated, so after talking about some trivial matters, he took the initiative to get up and say hello to the others.

"Simon, the Bournes, who bought the rights to Proven Not Guilty, are here tonight, would you like to have a chat with them?"

Simon shook his head, looked down from the balcony, and was surprised to find a woman, it was Chrissy Jenner.

The woman had probably been paying attention to this side, and when she saw Simon looking over, she looked up and smiled politely at the man.

Jonathan noticed this, and also took the initiative to get up and said, "Okay, I'll go downstairs first." ”

Simon just nodded.

Chrissy Jenner also came upstairs at Simon's beckoning.

For some reason, seeing this woman who claimed to be 'very familiar' with him at the beginning, Simon couldn't help but have some sadistic thoughts.

The terrace is enclosed and opens inwards into a living room.

Noticing that Chrissy Jenner had locked her hand when she entered the living room, Simon couldn't help but smile a little, this woman was interesting, or maybe she didn't want others to come up and disturb her.

"Hi Simon. ”

Chrissy Jenner, who had wanted to explain why she was here tonight, walked into the terrace, and just after saying hello, she saw the young man in front of her slowly and methodically vacate a plate of candy on the round table in front of her, put it on the floor at her feet, and then poured some wine into it.

I immediately remembered the experience I had on the plane.

Although a long time has passed, in the face of this man who is becoming more and more powerful in Hollywood, thinking about everything she has gained from the "New York Wife" series for most of the past six months, Chrissy Jenner can't resist at all.

Looking at the plate with the drink at the man's feet, this kind of play has also been played.

Therefore, after only hesitating for a few seconds, looking left and right to make sure that no one would be able to see this side, the woman showed a flattering smile and slowly softened down.