"Yes, he's missing, and the private investigators we hired haven't found him." "He doesn't use a credit card, he doesn't have any contact with family or friends, and I think it's important to raise your security level in a situation like this," Cesare said from the other end of the computer screen. ”

"He's not going to take a risk, is he?" Jenny said, giving an inquiring glance at Woody, who was in front of her computer for a multi-person video conference.

After hearing Jenny's question, Woody shook his head, but did not give an absolutely negative answer, "Judging by his profile, Sheff. Cohen wasn't too harmful, but not entirely impossible, he went to the police twice as a teenager for participating in a crowd fight, and his wife accused him of domestic violence in divorce lawsuits, but in any case, he was not arrested for criminal cases as an adult, but was often involved in privacy lawsuits. ”

"I already have three bodyguards," Jenny hesitated, "Woody, they're doing a good job, is it necessary to add more?" After all, in half a month, I will be leaving London, and it should be difficult for Sheff to reach me in the meantime, even if he wants to. ”

"The company can cover the extra expenses for you," Cesare insisted on as if reading her thoughts, "until Sheff escapes abroad, or you leave the country, and a few more bodyguards will be necessary." ”

Although Cesare should be clear about her financial situation, it is impossible for him not to understand what Jenny minds about money for - but Cesare still a little surprised when Cesare sees through her stinginess: she has been in Hollywood for seven years, the company is getting bigger and bigger, and she has won one award after another, but her economy never seems to be particularly rich.

Of course, this is mainly because she transferred a large part of her advantages to Big Dream to share, such as "Avatar" and "Iron Man", Disney will share half of the investment income, and Jenny can only take 25% - this is also the price of borrowing Disney's power. Correspondingly, after she has an investment, Jenny's salary will not be very high, such as "Iron Man" and "Monroe", "Michael. Clayton", she took the money and was simply worthy of the title of the 20 million club.

After being so complicated that she couldn't understand the tax avoidance methods (Jenny hired an accounting firm to take charge of Xiaomeng's studio, and cooperated with Jin to handle her tax returns, so that she could let go of this piece of mutual checks and balances), aside from Dameng's dividends and salaries paid to Mary and others, Jenny's remaining salary last year was millions, and after moving into Chris's house before, she saved some expenses, but even so, the annual million-dollar bodyguard fee, which cannot be saved after the Stalker incident, There are also some charitable expenditures, and she can only be regarded as flat in and out of the salary alone, with a balance of one or two million left in her hand at most. This is because she maintains her own exercise habits, has a strong work and rest, and her appearance has always been very good, she doesn't need to go to the beauty salon to 'return to the factory for processing' regularly, and she doesn't have the bad habit of going to nightclubs to sprinkle gold, otherwise, just talking about the salary, maybe you will lose a lot of money in a year. -- That's why Lindsay. Although Luo Han has a high degree of attention and no shortage of sponsorship funds, he has repeatedly revealed the reasons for the poor economic situation, if the coffee position does not go up, but only the attention goes up, in order to ensure his minimum privacy, personal safety, and maintain the face of the star, in the absence of external financial resources, the salary is indeed very insufficient.

However, fortunately, Jenny's financial habits are very exemplary among celebrities, and even conservative like an 80-year-old man, after she hired a team of bodyguards, she sold the car in her hand, without any extravagant hobbies, now in addition to food and maintenance fees, almost everything in life is sponsored, and the money left every year is generally used to buy some principal-guaranteed financial products, refusing to diversify investments and making money with money, mainly because she has no time to pay attention to this piece, afraid that she will be blackmailed for money, became a model for stupid stars, also because she knew that the financial turmoil in the United States would sweep the world in the past few years, and since she didn't know the details, the best way was to save her money. So although I haven't been paid much in the past few years, the savings over the years are counted together, although 70 million is still far away, there are also 20 or 30 million savings, and in the foreseeable future, Big Dream will also grab cash from movies such as "Iron Man", "Marley and Me", "Twilight", "Avatar", etc., even if you want to give Disney nearly half of the dividends, it will not be too difficult to make up for 70 million, it can be said that despite the twists and turns of the road, the future is indeed bright. ――Until the Stalker invasion.

Before that, even if the rent was due, Jenny would take out two or three million to buy a property, or rent a house, which would not be a big problem for her, but the Stalker invasion was a complete wake-up call, and Jenny found that what she needed now was a big house similar to Chris Malibu Manor, preferably like him, with the bay to herself, facing the mountains and the sea, so that she could maintain privacy and security. But the rent for such a house is usually very expensive, and the security system is just as expensive - rather than renting it for a few years and then spending a lot of money to set up the security system, it is better to buy the house directly after the financial crisis broke out last year and the housing prices in the United States fell.

But in this way, if she doesn't want to take out a loan, her cash will bottom out immediately, even if you don't consider Disney's equity (the realization of this preferential rights option seems to be far away in a few years), Jenny still feels bitterly that it is not worth paying a few more bodyguards: she hired a bodyguard company that specializes in protecting celebrities, and the basic equipment of a bodyguard team is 1 driver who is good at getting rid of the paparazzi, 1 SUV, three bodyguards, 1000 US dollars a day for one person, and 4000 US dollars without discounts, Work up to four days a week, work up to eight hours a day, increase the price for overtime work, increase the price for overseas work in addition to food and accommodation, and calculate working hours according to 24 hours a day, if you upgrade the security level, you have to increase the price, and the team sent more has a minimum monthly minimum guaranteed price, even if you only come for one day, you have to charge so much money - security is of course safety, but this security is also very expensive, so Jenny didn't bring the American team at all when she first came to the UK, and didn't let them come until before the official start of filming, In order to save the bodyguard fee these days......

But in any case, letting Big Dream pay is still an arrangement she is unwilling to accept, after all, the absolute amount of her equity is not much.

"Aren't you too nervous, Chesa," Jenny was embarrassed to admit in front of Woody that she was stingy, trying to convince Cesare to give up the idea, "With Woody here, Sheff can't get close to me, and besides, even if he has a basic conscience, he shouldn't come to me, why did he come to me?" Retaliate against me for calling the police? ”

Cesare smirked and said dryly, "Jefferson, Woody has been a bodyguard for more than a decade. ”

Woody also laughed behind his computer - of course, he didn't follow Cesare to tease his boss, but analyzed in an objective tone, "Shef. Cohen had been with the Mirror for almost 20 years, and had been running politics until four years ago, so he should be well aware of the efficiency of Scotland Yard and the political backstage of the Mirror—"

So of course, he also knew very well that without the pressure of public opinion exerted by American newspapers and websites, including the help of the two powerful private detectives hired by Big Dream, it would have been difficult for Scotland Yard to locate the suspect on him, so that he would face 5 or 6 years in prison. Even if some editors choose to ridicule the British media industry as a selling point, it is impossible to form a momentum, of course, without the puppeteer's hype marketing on the Internet, Scotland Yard may not feel so much pressure that it is forced to accept the 'help in the snow' style on the side of Big Dream, as for whether their superiors have asked about it, it is difficult to say: Disney does not have any connections in the UK, but Warner is different. The Potter series has allowed them to offer tens of thousands of jobs in the UK, while Michael. According to Cesare, after hearing about the anger of Jenny's team, several executives hinted in a meal with him that they had made a few phone calls to 'British friends', and perhaps Sheff's bad luck had something to do with them.

Jenny hated Sheff very much, but it was the team's decision to put him to death, in addition to being angry for Jenny, the team also had the intention of killing chickens and monkeys, the bigger the trouble, the worse Shav's fate became, and the more worried the paparazzi would be when they spied on her privacy in the future. For this kind of industry with a strong background, mastering the mouthpiece of public opinion, and being able to disgust you anytime and anywhere, whether you take care of it or not, they win it, the best way to protect your legal privacy is to beat them up, don't think that you can pick yourself up by sending someone to sneak in, I, Jennifer. Jefferson has a way of sending you in for five or ten years -- I can do it in England, but in America? If you want to go to jail, you can come to eavesdrop and hack, the news you send out may not be able to harm me, but I will definitely be able to send you to prison and shake out every penny you earn.

Of course, after Hollywood has reached this point, some services are also readily available to Jeanne and Cesare, and for a fair price, some agents can even guarantee that prisoners will not come out alive after they are imprisoned - or at least not out in good health, and these services are even available in England, but at a little more expensive. However, at present, the team has not crossed the bottom line, after all, Da Meng is a serious film company, and Jenny does not want to have anything to do with these latent forces.

However, for Shef, while it must be Jenny's team who is urging him to send him to prison, he may not believe that the team's revenge will stop there, an old paparazzi who has been running for 20 years will never believe that celebrities and magnates are all law-abiding innocent citizens (they are indeed not counted), if you want to drill the horns of the bull, no one knows how many illusions will be generated, so Shaff may indeed go to the extreme and want to attack Jenny and make a fuss. -- If he secretly used his savings after he left, or contacted some of his secret friends in order to get a new identity and settle down again in London, then it is entirely fair to assume that he just did not want to go to prison, and it was precisely because he had not heard from him since he left, and seemed to have no claim for a new identity, that it was likely that his motive was more than just absconding.

"So the team really should be careful with the news." "But as the good thing goes, we're leaving London, and he's unlikely to use his ID to get out of the country if he's breaching bail – he probably doesn't have the means of funding, and in my estimation, Sheff might give up on the idea after a while, and even if he doesn't, we don't need to worry too much about him until the next time he stays in the UK, and if it's just for a short stay, it's hard for him to find an opportunity to do it in a hotel." ”

Jenny was reluctant to consult Maggie by video, mainly because she was worried about her computer, and her own video environment was still very safe, but even so, Woody, Cesare and she carefully chose the words and words, leaving no clues, and even until Cesare broke it, Jenny didn't mean to tell the truth to Woody, and pretended to be innocent in front of him, so after finding out that Woody might have known about it for a long time, she naturally couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, and she also felt that she had lost the initiative, In addition, Woody and Cesare's analysis does make sense, and she also approved the proposal to upgrade the security, "Then just ask for a little longer, the premiere in Sydney will definitely need manpower, and this money will be paid by Xiaomeng." ”

Cesare nodded, "Are you sure we don't have to communicate with Marvel anymore?" In fact, it is also a good choice to hold the premiere in London. ”

"Forget it." Jenny was also a little helpless, "You know Kevin's style, since he doesn't want to accept our kindness, let's do the premiere in Sydney - it won't affect anything." ”

Although Jenny invested in "Iron Man", she had little say in the marketing and distribution of the film. Marvel Studios under the helm of Faggie can indeed not be said to be a very orthodox film company, usually speaking, hundreds of millions of big productions will premiere in box office cities - the traditional best choice is Los Angeles, but there are also in New York and London, but Marvel chose the relatively unpopular Sydney, and the distribution was also unexpectedly scheduled before the overseas release time in North America.

Since Iron Man itself does not have global popularity, this is indeed not comparable to Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and other first-line heroes, such an arrangement is actually a bit risky, if overseas film reviews are very bad, it is equivalent to losing the opportunity to 'deceive' North American audiences into the cinema, without this wave of box office, the possibility of loss will be greatly increased, after all, as far as the box office is concerned, it is still North America to make money: the distribution fee is low, the market is large, but, this also shows that Marvel is quite confident in "Iron Man", Or they are simply playing high - "Iron Man" can only make a lot of money in order to make Marvel call out a high price of capital in the acquisition, even if it is just a small profit, it will reduce Paramount's enthusiasm for acquisition, and if the capital is guaranteed, the idea of the Marvel Universe will not be played at all. So Kevin. Fei Ji simply thought that "Iron Man" would definitely be a big hit, and used it as a benchmark for distribution and marketing layout, of course, he was particularly capricious, saying that the premiere in Sydney would premiere in Sydney, even if Big Dream was willing to provide convenience, premiere in Los Angeles, and promised to bring at least ten or more CAA artists to cheer, Marvel did not nod.

"OK, Sydney." Cesare ticked off the paperwork in his hand, "Woody, you can contact the company." As for Jenny, I was contacted by the Cannes organisers and they wanted to know if you could come up with the finished product at the festival. ”

According to the original schedule of "Monroe", it is not impossible to finish filming in February and come up with a special cut in May, but this is Jenny's first production and Salvi's first feature film director, and they are either accidental or unexpected...... It's been delayed, and it's already mid-March, but there are still a few days of work before the movie is completely completed. Even if Cannes looks at Jenny's signboard, just watching a few pieces of shooting material and inviting the crew of "Monroe" to participate in the screening and viewing unit - just looking at the material will definitely not be selected for the main competition unit, as for the screening and observation without awards, of course, the more the merrier, if the much-anticipated film "Monroe" is scheduled to be screened for the first time in Cannes, it will also be of great help to the influence of the film festival.

"I guess it's too late." Jenny reluctantly said, "I think we should give up on Cannes, the first appearance of "Monroe" must be flawless - if I can't make a splash as soon as I appear, I don't even expect Venice, I'd rather stay at the London Film Festival, at least guarantee an award." ”

In Michael. Clayton has already won two awards, and it is certain that "Monroe", which has a very obvious "Jennifer color", will not continue to win awards in Venice, so she is not so enthusiastic about participating in the Venice Film Festival.

Cesare did not accuse Jenny of not controlling the shooting cycle as a producer, but said approvingly, "If it is just a screening unit, Cannes really doesn't make much sense, your film doesn't need too much publicity, it is already very popular...... By the way, the distribution department has drawn up the marketing plan, as well as the finalization and analysis of this year's Oscars, which I need you to read carefully and discuss with me, especially about marketing, you have to communicate with Salvi, because we expect him to be a part of marketing. ”

"I'll read the mail," Jenny ticked off on the computer's agenda, "Is there anything else I should know?" How is the filming of Twilight going? ”

"It's almost over, everything is going well, and maybe millions of dollars can be saved on the budget." Cesare told her, "'Marley & Me' is going well and when you get back to Los Angeles from Sydney, we can set the schedule for both films together and, of course, set a marketing budget." ”

He flipped through the papers, "The company is still well funded, and if you don't have a new idea in the short term, paying the issuance fee is not a problem." ”

Jenny was noncommittal about Cesare's spying: after filming "Monroe", she only had "Nine" on her schedule, on the one hand, she wanted to return to Los Angeles to rest for a while, busy with buying a house and renovating, but on the other hand, she was not sure that she knew that a promising film was preparing to recruit actors, and was determined to step in, or which series was destined to sell so that Big Dream could develop.

"No matter what, money is never enough." She said in a tone of resignation, "It seems that this is the case for both my money and the company's money, so we still try not to follow the example of Sony and Warner, and throw a lot of money on distribution - or try to do some precision marketing and spend more on online marketing." ”

"Negotiations have begun for the second round of television rights to Sally," Cesare said with relief, "and the next few years will be the project payment period, and the company's funding will not be too much of a problem."

"However, I really don't recommend that we allocate too much distribution money to these two films, because I heard an inside word that Warner Independent Productions is about to be cut, and Warner is not going to have all of its films in its own library, and they may sell some of the rights to the films to offset the debts of the independent films, and I think this may be an opportunity for us." ”

Movies are a circle where the return on money is not very fast, and it generally takes 2 years for a film to recover its costs from investment, and the entire profit is realized through a long period of 5, 10 or even 15 years. This is also the reason why the industry attaches importance to the box office, although it is said that the profits brought by the box office now only account for one-third of the entire project, and the remaining profits are divided by DVD sales, TV broadcast rights, peripheral development and other projects, but there is no doubt that the money can only be slowly realized one by one, so 05 "The Fifth Sally" is still making money, and the amount is not low, but because of this, many large companies are looking good in their financial reports and not being dragged down in their cash chains. will also choose to sell some projects that still have potential to be mined, such as Warner Independence, which does not lose money, but because it has not made any achievements, or even just the failure of the parent company's internal struggle (Warner has always had rumors of fierce internal friction), so it was laid off, so in order to make up for the benign debt on the books, Warner is likely to sell some old films with little profit margin, or they think that there is not much money to make and new films that are not worth making for Warner's parent company, of course, they will also sell some bad films, This kind of fire sale is like a flea market, and it can be very profitable for small companies that know how to shop. Especially for a company like Big Dream that rises quickly and has a relatively empty film library, this is a very good opportunity, and it is reasonable for Cesare to want to 'buy, buy, buy', but this also means that Big Dream's finances are still stretched at present, and it is estimated that it will not be able to slow down until the box office of "Michael" begins to settle - as for "Iron Man", its return money will also get in the fourth quarter at the earliest.

In fact, for Jenny, there is no shortage of blockbuster films for Big Dream at least in the next few years, she feels that what they lack is a strong and stable distribution and operation ability, however, without revealing why she can prophet, she can't explain why she is so confident, and Cesare has always been very supportive of her decision-making, working hard to do the logistics of Big Dream, and even saying that the projects that Big Dream is running now are 'hand-picked' by Jenny, so she just hesitated for a moment and nodded. "Of course, we can't miss this opportunity, I don't think the box office of "Iron Man" will disappoint us, and cash flow will certainly not be a problem......"

The two of them went on to discuss the details, and finally went through the many things that had been going on in the recent past, and when Jeanne had begun to stretch, Cesare told her in a relaxed tone, "By the way, we have received a very interesting invitation -- I don't know why yet, but Beijing seems to want to invite you to the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco -- the Los Angeles consulate called my office this afternoon." ”

His tone speaks volumes about Cesare's view of the matter: there is no doubt that he had no intention of agreeing to it, and even felt that Beijing's invitation to do so was simply unjustifiable, almost to the point of ridiculousness......

Jenny's movement of stretching her waist stiffened slightly: this invitation really surprised her, she guessed that it should be related to Director Zhang, but - Director Zhang has her email address, why not contact her directly?

Moreover, she never told Cesare about Director Zhang's invitation to watch the Olympics and her ability to speak Chinese. To use an inappropriate analogy, when she heard Cesare talk about Beijing's invitation to participate in the Olympic torch relay, she felt as if her raised illegitimate child had been exposed, she was weak, nervous, and more importantly, as a 'negative man', she really didn't know how to explain to Cesare, or how she could advance her ideas while advancing her ideas on the line of passing the flame, attending the Olympics and even laying out the mainland, while hiding her true secret in front of Cesare and even Marie......