"It's just some small favors and small favors from the past. Although Ali Emmanuel's tone was very relaxed, Sid knew that it was not easy to talk about moving someone like Old Man Clint.

"Okay, okay, then I'll accept your affection. Sid shrugged and accepted without any burden.

"Who let those bastards at Disney, the hype of "Pearl Harbor" was so popular some time ago, do we have any big-name stars in "Harry Potter" to support the scene, the only one who can be regarded as a star is you, a big director. That's when Ali Emmanuel revealed what he was really doing it for.

Although "Harry Potter" is indeed the first A-grade production of Fire Lion Pictures, in the face of a behemoth like Disney to launch "Pearl Harbor", especially the crazy $100 million in promotional expenses.

Because this not only means that Disney's promotional investment will be all-round TV, posters, and the Internet, but it also means that the total investment of the bundled retailers who cooperate with "Pearl Harbor" will only be more "crazy".

According to the estimation of relevant institutions, the various retailers tied to "Pearl Harbor" have invested at least 2~3 times more than Disney's publicity cost in the linkage promotion of the movie. That is to say, there is still 2~300 million US dollars in publicity expenses, which are pervasive from various channels and penetrate into North America and even global audiences.

Therefore, even though the Fire Lion used the killer feature of the global book club linkage to "Harry Potter" early, it was still "overwhelmed" by "Pearl Harbor" for a while.

After many searches for countermeasures, Ali Emmanuel and Jon Philheimer came up with this ingenious way to "exploit" Sid's fame.

After all, just by virtue of the hype that Sid announced his identity as the author of "The Da Vinci Code" and the director of "Ghost Shadow", the revenue of both works soared.

"Besides, Sid, you're not without benefits, okay. Ali, who was on the other side of the phone, joked with a smile.

"What's good, why didn't I see anything?" asked Sid deliberately.

"Don't you know who Clint is?" said Ali quippedly, "that's the best known playboy in the United States." ”

"Of course I know that he's an old cowboy who has never been a fuel-efficient lamp when it comes to women. Sid smiled and rubbed his brow, "But what's my business?" Sid asked deliberately.

"Hey, don't you know what I mean? Ali said deliberately teasingly.

Sid certainly knows what Ali means, but in fact, the North American public's judgment of Hollywood is very peculiar.

On the one hand, some celebrities will be blamed for cheating, such as the historical Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher, and the "later" Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

But on the other hand, the affairs of celebrities with unique charm or special status will become anecdotes that the public and the media talk about.

Historically, the most famous example of this is of course the prototype of Iron Man, oil, aviation and film mogul Howard Hughes.

He not only had a love history with the legendary actress Katharine Hepburn, but also had love history entanglements with countless well-known actresses in his life. His private mansions all over Southern California, dedicated to raising mistresses, are probably more than the mansions owned by the current home-buying maniac Larry Ellison.

But among the living figures, the most representative example is the old man Clint Eastwood!

He was married twice, during which time he also had six children with five lovers. At the same time, during his marriage, he had an affair with another female star, and he had a big fight with the suitor of that female star (the director of his own movie), which was talked about by the mass media.

It can be said that Clint Eastwood is one of the most openly accepted playboys.

So, Ali and what they let Old Man Clint pass on to Sid is not only a symbol of the western spirit, but also the aura of a playboy that is accepted by the public?

"Hey, you're underestimating me. Sid chuckled faintly.

"I won't give up on Nini or Lindsay, isn't this nonsense? Moreover, I'm not a simple director, if I dare to express any opinion on the 'confidantes' and 'female companions' that Bill Gates has made public. They're the ones who have the guts to come and chirp about me. ”

Sid is talking about several anecdotes before and after Bill Gates's marriage, as we all know, his wife is also his long-time wife, that is, Melinda, but before getting married, he asked his prospective wife Melinda to vacation with his "confidante" Wymbride every year in the future.

And Melinda finally agreed, this is the price of marrying into a wealthy family.

But this is not the most interesting, what is really interesting is that later, Bill Gates, who has become the richest man in the world, also played the routine of raising a lover that big people love as a matter of course.

It's just that he just happened to encounter the worst time, in 1999, when the Microsoft monopoly case was in full swing by the Justice Department of the Clinton administration. On the other hand, the NASDAQ Internet bubble is also in full swing, burning the whole United States and even the world.

As a representative company of Internet stocks, although Microsoft is on the cusp of the monopoly case, it is still rising, and its market value has risen again and again. Although the whole of North America and even the world, the new economy of the Internet is in full swing.

But for some on Wall Street, the bursting of the dot-com bubble is obvious, whether it's Tiger Fund's constant shorting or George Soros's never entering the market.

They were all "a breath of fresh air" in the Nasdaq Internet bubble, but how did the Nasdaq Internet bubble burst after that?

Bill Gates' other lover, Stephanie, accused Microsoft of violating its monopoly by paying "reverse bounties" (i.e., bribes paid to midstream software vendors to beat competitors).

It is precisely because of this evidence in court that Wall Street brokers have sold Microsoft stocks, that is, starting from Microsoft, the Nasdaq Internet bubble has completely exploded.

According to later statistics, the losses caused by the stock market crash bubble reached 5 trillion US dollars, you must know that finance is a zero-sum game, and at the same time as a large amount of funds evaporate, which Wall Street ASP bigwigs are manipulating all this behind their backs, taking the opportunity to short, and even the new richest man in the world dares to pit?

And Bill Gates also lost more than $8 billion in this stock market crash due to the fall in Microsoft's stock price, which was jokingly called "the most expensive breakup fee in history" by some media.

Even the book "Microsoft Dossier" contains a correspondence between Bill Gates and Stephanie who cheated him, and Sid is sometimes drunk as a valuable legacy of Microsoft. 210