When Simon heard Marvin Josephson's question, he didn't mean to explain at all, and now he didn't always need to explain his intentions to others: "Marven, I don't want to waste time on this kind of issue, you and Julia can think about it and give me a reply tomorrow morning." So, are there any other questions?"

Courteney Cox waited less than 10 minutes in the break room in a state of anxiety when Simon's office door opened again. Seeing off Marvin Josephson and Julia Roberts, Simon beckons Courteney in.

Turning to his desk and sitting down, Simon opened a budget document for "Scream", and waited for Courtney to sit down across from him before saying: "Curt, I've seen your audition tape, and it's very suitable for you to play the heroine of "Scream", but this movie will not help you develop your acting career, but will label you as a teenage star, and it will be difficult to transform in the future." ”

Courtney naturally took Simon's remarks as a rejection, bit her lip with gloomy eyes, and said softly: "Simon, you still hate me for rejecting you in the first place, right?"

Simon was stunned, looked up at the expression on Courtney's face, shook his head and said, "Curt, I've been through too many things, your rejection has reached the point where I hold a grudge, I'm just talking about things." ”

"So, can I get the heroine of 'Scream'?" Courteney Cox stared at Simon and said, "I don't care about the impact on my acting career, Simon, my acting career is ...... It wasn't as smooth sailing as Sandra Bullock. ”

"Well, Curt, if you insist. However, "Scream" is actually a series, and you need to sign a three-part contract. ”

Courteney Cox didn't hesitate to say, "No problem. ”

Simon put down the pencil he had just picked up, got up and said, "In that case, you can go back first, and I will have someone contact Jonathan." ”

Courteney Cox didn't expect things to go so well, but she wasn't happy at all. Seeing Simon reach out to her across the desk, Courtney paused, but got up and turned to the desk, and stretched out his arms to the man.

Simon felt Courtney stick to him, reached out and patted her on the waist, and said, "Curt, it's time for you to go." ”

Courteney Cox put her arm around Simon and said, "Simon, I, I can go to you tonight." ”

Simon chuckled and said, "You know it's impossible, I don't want to make headlines tomorrow." ”

"That," Courteney Cox said, glancing around, her voice lowered, "It's okay here." ”

Simon remembered that Julia Roberts had almost the same hint when she was leaving, grabbed Courteney Cox's hand that was touching his belt, pushed the girl away, and said in an accentuated tone, "Curt, it's time for you to go." ”

Courteney Cox was about to say something, there was a knock on the office door, she returned to the other side of the desk with some reluctance, took out a business card from her satchel and handed it over, and said, "Simon, you can call me at any time." ”

Simon knew that the only people who could knock on the door without Susan's announcement were Amy and Jennifer, took Courtney's business card, and casually answered the door, Jennifer pushed the door with a folder and walked in, seeing Courtney, Jennifer was obviously a little surprised, but still nodded politely to her, and said to Simon: "Boss, I'll come back later." ”

"No, Curt is leaving. ”

Seeing this situation, Courteney Cox had no choice but to take the initiative to leave.

Simon watched Courtney leave, then sat down again and looked at the female assistant: "What's the matter?"

"Dad negotiated the acquisition plan with the digital special effects company in Toronto, and just sent the information," Jennifer handed over the folder, and when Simon opened it, she paused slightly, and said, "Susan didn't go outside again, I heard the guest just leave, and I thought you were the only one." ”

Simon raised his eyes and noticed that the female assistant was peeking at his little expression as he spoke, smiled, and said, "It's a good thing to be ruined by you, do you want to compensate me?"

"No, I don't. ”

Simon flipped through the file and said, "Then don't be weak-minded. ”

Jennifer also felt that something was wrong, women are very sensitive to certain things, and she had just entered the door when she noticed the strangeness between Simon and Courtney.

It's just that.

I really shouldn't be weak-hearted, it's a bad guy who should be weak-hearted: "It's obvious that you did something bad, I, I'll tell Jenny." ”

Simon didn't seem to hear Jennifer's threat, and suddenly looked at the document in front of him with a puzzled expression: "Mistaken, how can it be this company?"

Jennifer didn't doubt him, so she subconsciously leaned over, leaned over and looked at the document slightly, and said, "Alias-Research, it's obviously this one, how can it be mistaken?"

Simon waited for Jennifer to come over, suddenly raised his hand to hook the delicate chin of the female assistant, and unceremoniously kissed her on the lips.

Jennifer felt the man's surprise attack, and her eyes widened suddenly, and it wasn't until Simon sat back in her chair that she reacted, took a step back and threatened again with a blushing face: "You, I'll tell Jenny." ”

Simon continued to ignore Jennifer's completely non-lethal threat, and instead smiled: "Jenny, help me think of a way to bring you home tonight without being discovered by outsiders, I thought of a reward." ”

Jennifer's face suddenly turned red: "I won't go home with you." ”

"Why don't I go to you?"

"Uncle will beat you out. ”

"Alas, I suddenly feel so pitiful for myself. ”

"Flowery guy. ”

After a shallow argument, Simon focused on the document in front of him.

Alias-Research is a digital special effects software development company in Toronto, Canada, founded in 1983, and has developed a film and television post-production special effects software called Alias.

No longer pinning all hopes on the acquisition of Pixar, during this time, through the connections of Silicon Map, Simon has already taken a fancy to two companies, and another acquisition called Avefront-Technologies has also been completed.

Both companies use silicon graphics workstations as their hardware platforms, with Alias-Research's Alias software primarily used for post-production of live-action films, and avefront-Technologies' focus on 3D animation. The results that can be achieved by the software of the two companies are still crude in Simon's opinion, but they are not much worse than Pixar's, and in fact, Pixar's current technology is also very crude.

Moreover, the reason why Simon selected these two companies from the information provided by Silicon Map Company is also because he happens to remember that the software of these two companies, especially Alias of Alias-Research, participated in the production of a series of special effects blockbusters in the 90s such as "Terminator 2", "Jurassic Park", and "Solo Day".

In the late '90s, the two companies were acquired, and their software was combined to develop into what would become a popular software in the 3D animation, CG special effects, and video game industries: Maya.

Now that these two companies have been won, Simon's next step is to promote the development of Maya software in advance.

In fact, although today's computers are still very backward compared to the computing power of later generations, it is enough to realize many blockbuster CG special effects on these hardware platforms.

The main reason why film and television special effects began to rise in the nineties is the limitation of funds, and many special effects software and special effects companies are constantly improved in one project after another. Simon is not short of funding right now, and Daenerys Films can also provide enough projects to advance the special effects industry.

So, in both cases, it wasn't a problem for Simon.

It's still work time on the West Coast, but it's already twilight on the East Coast.

Today is March 11th, Friday, and "When Harry Meets Sally" opens on screening.

After a busy day of house renovation, Janet called Catherine in the evening, and the two made an appointment to go to the movies together tonight. "Thunderbolt Blue Angel" has also begun preparations, and the film will be shot in New York, and Catherine happens to be in Manhattan at this time.

At seven o'clock, the two women had dinner in a restaurant and rushed to a pre-booked "When Harry Met Sally" theater.

When I arrived at the theater, there were only five minutes left before the screening.

A large part of the people who will watch this screening tonight are media people from all walks of life, and Janet and Catherine walked into the screening room, and the hall of more than 200 people was almost full, so they could only find two empty seats on the side.

"Simon has always loved the script and was involved in the soundtrack, but unfortunately I didn't get to see the finished film in advance when I was in Los Angeles. Holding a bucket of popcorn, Janet glanced at the crowd around her, and said, "It looks like the attendance is pretty good." ”

Catherine looked at the trailers of other movie commercials playing on the screen and said, "The attendance rate of the screening must be very high, and the key is after the large-scale opening of the film." ”

chatting casually, the broadcast of the feature film has begun unconsciously.

The first thing that appears in the picture is an interview with an elderly couple, and almost all the audience at the scene is stunned, and some even wonder if they have gone to the wrong show, or that the film projectionist has taken the wrong copy.

Even Janet and Catherine looked at each other in disdain.

However, everyone also knows that it is impossible for theaters to take the wrong copy, and they have just played the label titles of Disney Pictures and Daenerys Pictures.

After the alternative start, the hero and heroine soon appeared in the camera.

On the campus of the University of Chicago, Harry, who had just graduated from college, was saying goodbye to his girlfriend, and Sally showed up in a car, and the two made an appointment to carpool together to New York. Although it is only a short set of shots, accompanied by old-fashioned jazz music, the personality of the hero and heroine is quickly highlighted.

The journey to New York was arguably Harry and Sally's first meeting, but it wasn't a pleasant one. Harry is a pessimist, while Sally is a somewhat goofy and sweet optimist, with the occasional very cute confused expression.

The second meeting was also a journey.

Harry almost forgot about Sally, both of their lives had changed, Harry was about to get married, and Sally was also in love with her boyfriend, but because it was only a brief encounter, this meeting did not impress the two too much.

After another interview with an elderly couple, another five years passed.

Harry is divorced, and his wife cheats early. Sally also happened to break up with her boyfriend, because her boyfriend refused to get married, and the relationship between the two became weaker.

This encounter is already a couple of men and women who have gone through the world and decided to try to be friends, and the boyfriend and girlfriend relationship does not involve certain things at all. This friendship between the opposite sex developed very smoothly, and since both refused to move closer to love, they decided to introduce each other's best friends to each other.

As a result, the two sworn friends quickly sparked during the dinner, and staged a plot with the opposite sex and inhumanity, after the dinner, a pair of men and women directly left Harry and Sally away, leaving two figures on the road with a pouting and a confused figure.

The relationship between Jesse and Mary, the best friend of the two, progressed very quickly, and soon entered the stage of talking about marriage.

In the process, Harry and Sally's lives also change. While choosing a wedding gift for Jesse and Mary, Harry meets his ex-wife and his ex-wife's husband, and Harry, who thought he would never care about this, suddenly explodes. Subsequently, Sally also found out that her boyfriend, who broke up with her, was not unwilling to get married, but just unwilling to marry her.

Because of these changes, Harry and Sally went to bed as a matter of course.

originally agreed to always be a pure boyfriend and girlfriend, but suddenly broke through this limitation, and neither of them was ready, so the estrangement unconsciously reappeared.

After meeting again, both men said it was just a mistake and that they wanted to go back to the way things were.

However, this is obviously impossible.

After a short bumpy time, another Chinese New Year's Eve, Harry finally realized his feelings and found Sally, who had left the party in a lost place, and officially confessed to her.

So, after 12 years of getting along, a man and a woman finally came together before entering middle age.

......

Harry, who didn't care about any of this, suddenly exploded. Subsequently, Sally also found out that her boyfriend, who broke up with her, was not unwilling to get married, but just unwilling to marry her.

Because of these changes, Harry and Sally went to bed as a matter of course.

originally agreed to always be a pure boyfriend and girlfriend, but suddenly broke through this limitation, and neither of them was ready, so the estrangement unconsciously reappeared.

After meeting again, both men said it was just a mistake and that they wanted to go back to the way things were.

However, this is obviously impossible.

After a short bumpy time, another Chinese New Year's Eve, Harry finally realized his feelings and found Sally, who had left the party in a lost place, and officially confessed to her.

So, after 12 years of getting along, a man and a woman finally came together before entering middle age.