Last night, I was tossed late by some small and broken sounds, and finally I even wondered if it was my hallucination, and I looked in the mirror when I brushed my teeth, but fortunately there were no dark circles under my eyes, otherwise it would be bigger.

The time was seven o'clock in the morning.

Saturday.

It's still cold in January in Park City, but it's warm in the house.

Leaving the bedroom, he slowed down and glanced at another door not far away, he must not have gotten up this time.

I went downstairs to the living room, but I was taken aback.

Simon was already sitting on the single couch by the fireplace and was on the phone. Janet curled up in his arms like a kitten, squinting, wearing only a long pale pink cardigan, and two dazzling white long legs poking out the hem of the dress unscrupulously, looking infinitely spring.

She stood at the top of the stairs for a few seconds, until the man nodded at her, then reacted, and walked over to sit down on the couch next to her.

But my heart is sour.

After he kissed her on the neck in the car that day, although there was no other intimate contact after that, she naturally thought that the two had been implicated in some way.

Right now.

Janet could curl up in his arms without hesitation.

Jennifer could only sit next to him, with a faint sense of guilt for stealing someone else's things.

Simon chatted with the other side for a while, put down the microphone, and asked Jennifer, "How was your rest last night?"

Something blushing sounded in Jennifer's mind again, her eyes flickered to the side, and she forced her head to calm down, "Very good, you, well, who were you just calling?"

"Ed McCracken, CEO of Silicon Map," Simon said, explains, "It dawned on me last night that I didn't need to pin my 3D animation and CG effects on acquisitions of other companies. To do this, I can hire my own team, which is cheaper and gives me more flexibility to control the direction of the technology. Silicon Diagram supplies professional graphics workstations to many universities, enterprises, and R&D teams, and I happen to have connections in this area, and I just asked McCracken to help me introduce some people. ”

Jennifer listened to the man absentmindedly, but suddenly realized something, raised her eyes to Simon, and said, "You, last night, thought of this?"

Simon nodded, "yes, what's wrong?"

Before Jennifer could answer, Janet who was huddled in Simon's arms couldn't help but laugh.

Simon also figured it out in a blink of an eye, looked at Jennifer who was blushing, and had to add: "Actually, when I left the Pixar headquarters the day before yesterday, I already had this thought. ”

Jennifer felt even more embarrassed, stood up and dropped the phrase 'I'm going to prepare breakfast' and fled to the kitchen.

Simon watched the little hasty figure of the female assistant disappear, patted Janet who was still squinting in his arms, and said, "Baby, is it okay to go to the bedroom to sleep, be careful of catching a cold." ”

Janet put her hands around Simon and said coquettishly, "You carry me over." ”

Simon picked up Janet and came to the bedroom on the second floor, put her on the big bed, covered her with the quilt, and said, "Sleep, I'll call you when breakfast is ready." ”

Janet shrunk into the quilt, but she winked at Simon when she heard this: "You can call me after breakfast with her." ”

Simon smiled and pinched the woman's face, helped her gather the quilt, and went downstairs again.

While he was still on the stairs, Simon heard the phone ringing, came to the living room, and happened to see Jennifer coming out of the kitchen, presumably to answer the phone. Seeing Simon, the female assistant immediately shrank back, like a frightened fawn.

Simon smiled helplessly, walked over and picked up the microphone, the call was coming from New York, and it was already work time on the East Coast.

Westeros' shares fell straight from $16.75 at Thursday's close to $13.25 yesterday after the company began reducing its holdings in New World Entertainment yesterday.

The shareholders and senior management of New World Entertainment, who were still waiting for Simon to take the initiative to contact him, suddenly couldn't sit still, and early this morning, Larry Kupin, the major shareholder of New World Entertainment, personally rushed to visit James Raybould, and he was talking to Simon in Raybould's office at this time.

After buying New World Pictures from Roger Corman, the king of B-movies in 1983, after several years of mergers, expansion, and reorganization, Larry Coupin and his other partner, Harry Sloan, still hold more than 40% of the shares of New World Entertainment.

During the call, Larry Coupin said they were well aware of Simon's intentions and said they were happy to see the deal come to fruition, hoping that the two sides would be able to officially start acquisition talks.

Even at yesterday's closing price of $13.25, New World Entertainment's market capitalization is still more than $330 million, which is still not something Westeros can afford.

What's more, once the two sides officially start negotiations, New World Entertainment's share price will definitely rebound again.

The main dilemma that New World Entertainment is currently facing is a lack of funding. If Simon agrees to initiate negotiations to buy New World Entertainment, Wall Street capital, which is trying to slaughter Westeros, will certainly not allow the company's operations to go wrong.

When the time comes, it will definitely be much easier for New World Entertainment to get working capital out of the predicament.

Therefore, Larry Coupin's mind is also very obvious.

As long as it can keep in touch with Simon, the big money owner, whether the final deal is completed or not, New World Entertainment has a good chance of overcoming the current difficulties. Simon naturally couldn't marry someone, so he simply gave the other party a perfunctory call and handed over the matter to James to deal with.

After breakfast, Simon took Janet and Jennifer to town at nine o'clock for the premiere of a film called "The Dream State," which Robert Redford also served as executive producer on the Sundance Institute-funded film.

Simon also had a few words with Michael Hoffman, the director of "Dream State," at a party at Redford's house last year. As it was his first feature film, Michael Hoffman's storytelling was not yet proficient. However, Simon is very fond of the film's discussion of disillusionment and confused reality under the cold lens.

After the premiere of "Dream State", Simon and Robert Redford and others left the Egyptian Theater to go to a nearby restaurant for dinner.

As soon as they went out, they were surrounded by a group of reporters.

Simon didn't pay much attention to it at first, but after hearing the reporters' questions, he realized that the goal of these people was him.

It turned out that this morning, GA announced the nominations for the new Writers Guild of America Awards. Simon's three films last year, "Lola Run," "The Butterfly Effect," and "Here Comes the Grim Reaper," were all ignored and didn't get a single nomination.

Of the three films, although the plot concept of "The Butterfly Effect" is very novel, the film's critics received a very low reputation last year, and it is natural that it was ignored by the awards.

Therefore, "Lola Run" can be said to be Simon's main force in this year's awards season.

Prior to this, due to his age, the media generally predicted that Simon's most important award at the most important Oscars of the awards season would be Best Screenplay. All three of Simon's screenplay films last year made it into the top 10 of the year's box office charts, and he deserves to win this award.

The main voting members of the Oscars for screenwriters are concentrated in the Writers Guild of America.

Now, GA has completely ignored "Lola Run", and in the next Oscars, Simon will not be able to win the screenwriting award again.

Back at the resort in the afternoon, Simon also got more detailed information from Los Angeles.

At the nomination press conference, in the face of questions from the media, George Corgo, chairman of the GA West Chapter, explained that "Lola Run" focused too much on form and lacked connotation, so it failed to meet the nomination criteria for the award.

Simon just laughed at this, and he didn't expect that because he refused to join GA, the other party's 'killing stick' would be so obvious.

However, after a brief discussion, Simon only asked Pat Kingsley to make a cliché that respected GA's choice.

Simon himself doesn't care about awards, but it's impossible for him not to think about films produced by Daenerys Films.

At the end of the day, the awards season is a game, everyone is in the game, and if you want to get rewarded, you have to play by the rules.

Therefore, although some media with a keen sense of smell have noticed the fact that Simon is not a member of GA, and the fairness of the GA nomination has been used as one, Simon has not responded to this.

The hustle and bustle of the day is over.

In the evening, by the fireplace in the resort apartment, Simon, Janet and Jennifer sat together on the couch, each holding a script in their hands.

Robert Redford had two whole boxes of scripts delivered today, and Simon was scheduled to return to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon to attend the premiere of another movie tomorrow morning, so he had to take the time to read the scripts in the evening.

After the premiere of "Dream State," Simon has agreed to invest in another Michael Hoffman film, "Sisters," about a college student who travels to Canada to visit his girlfriend in a weird family.

Janet was holding the script at this time and leaning on Simon to read it with relish.

Jennifer was a little absent-minded, it was nothing last night, and everyone rested quickly after returning from the party. But tonight, in this strange town in the mountains, surrounded by snow and cold, a man and two women are in a quiet resort cottage.

This kind of atmosphere is really weird.

The weirdest thing is that the other two guys look completely unaware.

I don't know how long it took, the phone rang suddenly, finally breaking the atmosphere that made Jennifer a little uncomfortable, she looked up, Simon had already picked up the microphone, briefly said a few words to the other side, and hung up the phone again.

Janet was a little dissatisfied with the atmosphere just now being broken, squeezed Simon, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Simon picked up the script again and said with a smile: "The Lord of the Rings is ours." ”

Janet pouted: "$10 million, Zaynz would be abnormal if he refused." ”

Jennifer didn't know about Simon's communication with Saul Zaynz last night, and she said in disbelief: "$10 million to buy the rights to the Lord of the Rings trilogy?"

"yes, but you know it, don't say it. ”

Jennifer still had surprise in her expression and just nodded.

Janet smiled and stretched out her little hand to grab Simon's body, and said, "This sheep is very fat, Jenny, do you want to touch it too." ”

Jennifer's face was slightly red, pretending not to hear Janet's words.

Janet rolled her eyes, stood up and walked over, pulled Jennifer, who had not yet reacted, to get up and return, pressed her to her position, and the woman ran to the other side of the sofa, squeezed Simon in the middle, and sat down again.

It was a couch facing the fireplace, and it wasn't too big, and the three of them suddenly looked a little crowded.

I don't know if it's because of the fire in the fireplace, Jennifer felt the breath of the man next to her, and suddenly felt that her face was a little hot. I didn't know what she felt in her heart, and after hesitating for a while, she still didn't run away, carefully next to the man, pretending to be calm and focusing on the script again.

Simon was still thinking about the next thing to win the copyright of "Elf Diamond", but he didn't expect Janet to do it suddenly, but he just smiled and said, "It's only two, it's a little little." ”

"Little bastard, how many more do you want?"

"Of course, the more the merrier...... Ah, don't pinch. ”

"Jenny, pinch him too. ”

Jennifer raised her arm a little eagerly, and when she saw Simon just looking over, she shrank back coquettishly, and waited for the two of them to frolic for a while, before they found a topic and asked Simon, "Did you pick any script?"

Simon shook the script in his hand and said, "This is good." ”

Jennifer looked sideways curiously and found a string of numbers written on the cover of the script, 3000.

Well, "3000", what does that mean?

Simon sensed her curiosity and took the initiative to explain: "This is a noir drama about Vivian, a street girl in Los Angeles, who promised to accompany a rich man for a week for $3,000. I'm going to turn her into a romance movie, though. ”

Jennifer frowned slightly when she heard the term 'street girl', and quickly said, "Romance films, like, well, like "La Traviata"?"

Simon nodded, "That's right." ”

Janet also said at this time: "In this case, it must be a tragedy." If it was Dumas's work, some people might still be interested. In modern times, who would be interested in a love tragedy of a street girl?"

"I didn't say that it was going to be changed to a tragedy, of course the ending is that the prince and princess live happily together," Simon shook his head, glanced at the script in his hand, and said with a smile: "I also thought of another name for this story, "Pretty Woman". ”

The "Pretty Woman" in my memory happens to be adapted from a black drama called "3000".

Simon didn't expect to see this story in the script recommended by Redford, whether it was the screenwriter's name, J· F. Lawton is still the content of the story, which is very consistent with "Pretty Woman". But if you think about it, the Sundance Institute happens to provide a training and development platform for new directors and screenwriters, and the script of "3000" in the black drama genre also echoes the style of the Sundance Film Festival.

After "Lola Run", if "Pretty Woman" comes from Sundance again, Park City will definitely be more lively in the future.

On the couch in front of the fireplace, Simon felt the two women beside him, thinking about the good things that would come together tonight with "The Lord of the Rings" and "Pretty Woman".

Maybe.

Park City is truly a blessed place for itself.