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"The next lot is provided by Mr. Matthew Horner!"

The charity dinner has come to the final auction session, a middle-aged auctioneer stood on the auction table, waiting for the staff to put a display shelf up, looked at the European-style saber on the display shelf, and said, "This is the sword used by Mr. Matthew Horner during the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", Will Turner once used this sword to fight Captain Jack Sparrow one-on-one with the pirates of the Black Pearl, which is very memorable. ”

As he spoke, videographers from various media outlets gathered in front of the auction table, their cameras focused on the saber, and kept pressing the camera shutter, as if the prop saber was a work of art.

"Isn't it just a prop sword? ”

At a table near the auction table, Meghan Ellison looked at the chic saber and muttered, "I'm embarrassed to put it up for auction, Matthew Horner is really stingy." ”

David Ellison looked at her and said, "Megan, believe it or not, this sword can sell for at least $100,000 if it is auctioned publicly." ”

"Don't believe me!" Megan Ellison snorted and said, "Why?"

"It was Matthew who used it to shoot Pirates of the Caribbean. Although David Ellison is also a newcomer to Hollywood, he has been in this circle for two years and sees it much clearer than Meghan Ellison, who has just entered Hollywood, "This saber is worth up to five hundred dollars in the prop market, but after Matthew's hand touched it, it gave it a huge added value!"

The auctioneer's voice came at this time, "Now the auction of Will Turner's saber will begin, there is no reserve price, and each increase must not be less than a hundred dollars." ”

Without even thinking about it, Megan Ellison was the first to hold up the sign, "One hundred dollars!"

Hearing the offer of a hundred dollars, Keira Knightley looked for a voice and looked at it, and said to herself, what does that girl want?

She grabbed the sign and was ready to hold it up, and by the time the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy was over, the saber could sell for $100,000.

But before Keira Knightley could lift the sign, Johnny Depp next to her shouted, "Ten thousand dollars!"

Meghan Ellison looked at Johnny Depp across the two tables, she didn't mean to raise the card again, she wasn't crazy, there was something wrong with spending $10,000 to buy such a broken sword, right?

"Fifty thousand dollars!"

A crisp and sweet woman's voice rang out, right at the table next to Megan Ellison.

Megan Ellison turned her head to look over and saw that the person who was shouting was supermodel Cindy Crawford, and her daughter Kaia Jamber was grinning and holding up the sign.

"One hundred thousand dollars!"

Keira Knightley hurriedly held up the sign, as if someone else would snatch it.

Megan Ellison shook her head, these stars have a problem with their heads......

"A million dollars!"

As soon as such a thought jumped out, the voice of his brother David Ellison shouting the price came from his side, and Megan Ellison couldn't wait to cover her face, and she regretted sitting with David Ellison very much, it was ...... It's a shame.

There was an instant silence in the ballroom, no new offers came up, and David Ellison easily got his hands on Will Turner's sabre.

"Are you crazy?" Megan Ellison couldn't help but whisper, "A million dollars for a broken prop sword?

David Ellison appeared calm and reminded, "Do you think Matthew Horner is worth a million dollars?"

Megan Ellison was stunned, remembering that Matthew Horner's latest film was paid as much as $20 million!

"This million dollars will further strengthen the relationship between me and Matthew. David Ellison looks like he's spending a lot of money, but he spends his big money for his own purposes, "If the same investment or invitation opportunity presents itself, Matthew may prioritize me." ”

Megan Ellison is a true goddess of heaven, with a hint of disdain in her tone, "Matthew Horner is just a Hollywood star." ”

David Ellison solemnly reminded, "But a Hollywood star who can easily bring in hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars!"

He pointed to the prop saber that was being pushed away, "This sword, Matthew used it from beginning to end during filming, if Matthew becomes a superstar and "Pirates of the Caribbean" continues to be popular, it may not be worth less than a million dollars." ”

Megan Ellison didn't say anything more because she felt David Ellison had a lot of point, and Matthew Horner's value, even she couldn't deny it.

Next, a Tiffany emerald necklace appeared on the auction table, compared to the mess of movie props or Britney's first autograph album, Meghan Ellison is more researched about jewelry, just a cursory look at it, and estimated that the necklace from Matthew Horner will be worth no less than two million dollars.

Again, this is an auction with no reserve price.

"This necklace is worth a lot, isn't it?"

Alexandra D'Addario, who was sitting next to Matthew, whispered, "It's rare to find such a pure emerald." ”

Matthew nodded lightly and said, "Amanda bought it for two and a half million dollars. ”

Because it is a charity auction, it is a no-reserve auction, and Matthew is not worried about being bought at a low price, but he buys it himself, and the money flows into his charity foundation anyway.

According to his and Amanda's discussions, at least 50% of the funds raised by the two charitable foundations will be used to maintain the operation of the two charitable foundations and staff expenses.

As the founder, of course, he has a clear position in the charitable foundation, which also facilitates his expenses to go from the books of the charitable foundation in the future.

After the auction began, Harvey Weinstein watched Britney Spears take the emerald necklace for $5 million, his head kept turning, and calculated that the funds raised by Matthew Horner's two charitable foundations tonight had exceeded $20 million!

$20 million isn't much, and it's not even worth the profits of any film starring Matthew Horner.

Weinstein Pictures works hard every year to plan for the Oscars, and even in the best year to get Best Picture, he and Bob Weinstein don't make $20 million a year.

Think of the studios that relied on Matthew Horner to make a lot of money, and even Harvey Weinstein couldn't help but be jealous.

But Matthew Horner turned down his outstretched hand of friendship several times in a row!

At the same time as this charity dinner was held, a large number of Hollywood industry insiders were also gathering in a clubhouse in North Hollywood.

Unlike Matthew's charity dinner, most of the people who attended the party were black-skinned, and some of the white-skinned people were all people in Hollywood who recognized and firmly supported black political correctness.

Among them are some of the most famous and famous people.

For example, the Will Smiths, the Denzel Washingtons, the first black actress at the Oscars, Halle Berry, and the famous leftist actress Meryl Streep.

These famous people form a circle of their own, and it is difficult for people with large differences in reputation and status to enter at all.

Francis Lawrence and Paula Barton sat at a table, dealing with the two black actors who had just come to say hello, looking at that circle with envy, but knowing that they couldn't say much to the people in that circle except to say hello.

Since voluntarily quitting the crew of "I Am Legend", Francis Lawrence's career seems to have entered a bottleneck period, because Will Smith signed with CAA, and did not get such a good opportunity as imagined, due to the failure of the competition for the actor of "I Am Legend", Will Smith basically ignored him, and CAA is the first entertainment agency in the industry, but it has many customers, and it is impossible to put too many resources on an unknown director like him.

During this time, Francis Lawrence already had some regrets about joining the CAA.

"Hi Francis. ”

The voice of greeting sounded, and Francis Lawrence looked up, only to see a middle-aged black man with eyes walking over, and the other party sat across from him, and asked, "What's wrong, I see you're depressed?"

Francis Lawrence knew him, and Spike Lee was the best of black directors.

"Hello, Spike. Francis Lawrence shrugged his shoulders and said casually, "It's nothing, it's just that work hasn't been going well lately." ”

Spike Lee pointed at Paula Barton and said, "I heard Paula say that you were treated unfairly, bullied by Matthew Horner, and left the crew. ”

It's no secret either, Francis Lawrence nodded, "Matthew Horner has tried his best to exclude black actors, and in order to help us fight for the rights we deserve, I can only resign as a director to express my dissatisfaction and anger." ”

"And this kind of thing?" Spike Lee said, holding out a finger and pushing his eyes upward, "There is still a crew that openly discriminates against black actors? ”

The pitch-black night sky envelops the entire Los Angeles area, as if black is the dominant color in the city.

The charity dinner ended successfully, and the Mercedes-Benz SUV carrying Matthew made its way through the dark curtain to Beverly Hills, and soon arrived in front of Horner Manor.

Due to the large number of people needed for the charity dinner tonight, especially the security personnel, except for the two guards and a maid who were left on duty at the gate of the manor, everyone else was mobilized to help at the dinner site, and Matthew did not let them come back immediately, telling these people to come to work on time tomorrow.

The iron gate of Horner Manor slowly opened, and the Mercedes SUV drove through the straight road and soon stopped in front of the villa.

Matthew entered the villa, handed the dress jacket to the maid who stayed behind, went directly to the second floor, pushed open the door of the master bedroom on the second floor, and was just about to take a shower, but found that his bedroom was a mess, obviously with traces of being turned over, and the window facing the side of the cliff was also open.

Was it a thief? That was his first reaction.