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"Danny, if Handicraft Pictures intends to invest in "When Harry Met Sally", my request is that the budget of 1500 million US dollars, and both parties will bear half of it, which is 750 million US dollars respectively. However, the future distribution of benefits, as the leading The producer of the entire project, after deducting budgetary costs, Daenerys Films needs to take 60% of the net profit of the project, and the remaining 40% belongs to Handicraft Films.”

Dennis O'Brien shook his head immediately when he heard this, and said, "Simon, it's too high."

Simon insisted: "It's not high at all, Danny, you have to understand that this is on the premise that the project is profitable. Daenerys Films undertakes all the production work, but in fact only requires 20% of the net profit share As a commission, it's fair."

Dennis O'Brien hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Simon, what about the future income settlement process? If we participate in the investment, when can we get back the money?"

"You can discuss the details with Amy next. However, Daenerys Films intends to continue in Hollywood for a long time, and we will never deliberately default on the accounts of our partners. In order to show sincerity, we have reached a cooperation Afterwards, Handicraft Pictures can send an accountant to follow up on the whole project."

Dennis O'Brien thought for a while, and finally said: "Simon, I still need to discuss this matter with George, and maybe I will give you an answer next Monday."

Simon nodded and said: "Of course there is no problem. However, Handicraft Films is not the only one that has contacted us for this project. Daenerys Films provides everyone with the same cooperation conditions, and we will never bargain. So, if tomorrow, even Someone gave an answer tonight, so we can only say sorry."

Having said that, seeing Dennis O'Brien stand up, Simon and Amy also stood up.

After sending O'Brien away, Simon and Amy returned to the company office building.

Simon returned to her office, and Amy followed her in. Seeing Simon turn to sit comfortably on the leather chair behind the desk, she walked to the reception area to pack up the pile of documents just now, and said, "Simon, you You shouldn’t have promised O’Brien to send an accountant just now.”

Simon took the "Forrest Gump", turned to the bookmark, leaned on the leather chair with the book in his hand, and said, "Amy, I was very sincere just now. I hope Daenerys Pictures can go well." Far away, there is no need to play tricks on these details."

Amy picked up a stack of documents and put them back in the filing cabinet by the wall, and continued: "Many film company founders have actually thought about this, but, Simon, the reality often does not allow us to use some tricks."

Simon smiled, and said, "In this case, it's up to you to discuss with them about repentance."

Amy rolled her eyes lightly, closed the cabinet door, turned around and sat down across Simon's desk again, looked at the young man opposite, and said, "Ron, Wes and I are going to New York tomorrow. The scouting for "Death Comes" has been completed. We are going to go through all the scenes and discuss some co-production issues with the Queens Borough Government and JFK Airport. Speaking of which, you won this project from Fox, Now it seems that you don't care at all."

Tomorrow is Saturday.

However, the federal 40-hour working week system is actually only to protect the bottom working class.

There are special provisions in the "U.S. Labor and Employment Law" that manage corporate executives with more than two people, and are not protected by the 40-hour working hours of the labor law.These people work overtime, and the boss does not need to pay overtime pay.

In Simon's view, this is actually telling people a very simple truth. If you want to be a good person, don't expect to work only eight hours a day.

Listening to Amy's half-truth and half-fake complaints, Simon turned a page in the book in his hand and said, "I'm the boss, and getting the sharing terms from Fox is what I need to do. As for the rest, this project doesn't It's not worth my follow-up."

After completing the script and finalizing the director Wes Craven, coupled with the assistance of Amy and others, Simon is very relieved about this project.

"The Butterfly Effect" was another big success, and now no one thinks that "Death Comes" will fail to cross the $2000 million guarantee threshold. Such a purely entertaining teen horror film, Simon really doesn't need to spend too much thought.

After chatting for a few more words, Simon glanced at his watch, closed the book, and asked Amy, "I'm leaving get off work soon, do you have any plans for the evening?"

Amy raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "I have an appointment for dinner with my boyfriend."

"Oh, forget it," Simon shrugged, and explained: "It's actually Jonathan. You know, Robert De Niro has never had an agent. Some time ago, he lost the fight for the leading actor in Fox's "Flying Through the Future" After that, I started to think about finding an agency for myself. Jonathan wanted to bring De Niro to WMA, and he held a special party tonight, and I hope I can go there too."

Speaking of which, Simon's accelerated collection of some copyrights was also affected by many recently discovered projects.

For example, "Flying into the Future".

In the original time and space, this movie not only achieved a good score of over [-] million at the North American box office, but also brought Tom Hanks his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor.

Simon also learned that Robert De Niro had also fought for the project when he chatted with Jonathan Friedman in private.In addition, among the projects that Fox has identified is "Die Hard", which is also a box office hit series.

Apart from Fox, there are many other hot-selling projects that exist in Simon's memory, and he can't get involved now.

Moreover, there are some projects, and Simon is also hesitating whether to intervene.

Just like "Rain Man", which is the North American box office champion of the original time and space next year, the current script is still in a state of nowhere.

However, "Run Lola Run" has basically confirmed this year's North American box office champion.If next year, the year after, or even the next year's North American box office champion is related to Simon, it's not just conspicuous, it's a question of letting others live.

If others can't live.

Tsk!

Out of this consideration, Simon has planned to consciously mix in some projects that will not be popular in memory in the next process of collecting copyrights, and will actually put them into production when the funds are sufficient.

Opposite the desk.

Amy heard Simon's explanation, but said: "Even if De Niro finds an agency, it should be more likely to go to CAA. By the way, you asked Susan to put that, um, Nicole Kidman's What's the matter with passing the information to Jonathan to let them poach people?"

Simon recalled the meeting with Michael Ovitz on Monday, shrugged his shoulders, and said: "It's nothing, I just think that CAA is too strong now, and we should use less CAA customers in the future."

Chapter 102 You are so old-fashioned

"Simon, you must be flattering me on purpose. In "Once Upon a Time in America", the most impressive female character should be Deborah when she was a girl."

"That's definitely not a compliment, Ms. Fluger. I don't know why, but I'm often drawn to the offhand words of women in movies. Maybe it's a particularly accented 'sorry', or a 'beg for mercy' .Then, I felt that they were so charming at that moment."

Coldwater Canyon community on the western edge of Beverly Hills.

At the party at Jonathan Friedman’s house, in order to impress Robert De Niro, the manager obviously put a lot of effort into the details of the party, and specially invited some stars under the WMA who had worked with De Niro to attend .

What Simon is talking about at this time is the Hollywood actress Darlanne Flueger who plays De Niro's girlfriend Eve in "Once Upon a Time in America".

Dalanne Fluegel is about 30 years old, with blonde hair and blue eyes, a typical German girl appearance, but with a bit of Naomi Watts in appearance and temperament.

At this moment, hearing what Simon said, Dalanne Fluegel looked at him with great interest, and said, "What about me, Simon, which line of mine attracted you?"

Simon made a fool of himself and said, "Guess."

Dalanne Fluegel didn't have many roles in "Once Upon a Time in America". After thinking for a while, she still shook her head: "I don't know."

Simon listened to the woman's answer, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he said, "That's the sentence, 'I don't know'. At the beginning of the movie, some thugs broke into Eve's house and asked about the whereabouts of the noodles. Eve said, I don't know, saying Twice. Ever since I first watched "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​and heard these two lines of "I don't know", I have always firmly believed that Eve is the most attractive woman in this movie."

"Oh, Simon, you are really careful, and you are very good at talking," Dalanie Fluger said with her beautiful blue eyes twinkling, "Then, do you think I can try Mia in "Pulp Fiction"?" A role? I handed in my resume, but unfortunately it was rejected.”

Westerners don't pay attention to subtlety. Simon heard a woman take the opportunity to recommend herself, but shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's a pity, Mia's role needs to be about 180cm tall."

Dalanne Fluegel felt a little weird about Simon's measuring height in metric system, but she didn't give up easily, saying, "Isn't it all right to wear high heels?"

"Mia is barefoot most of the time in the movie," Simon continued to explain, and added: "However, I think we definitely have a chance to cooperate. Perhaps, you can leave me a contact information."

Dalanne Fluegel looked at the big boy with a harmless smile in front of her, but her expression was slightly hesitant.

After a moment of silence, the woman was about to speak when another 30-year-old white man trotted over from the villa.When he got closer, the man put his arms around Dalanie Fluger's waist, looked at Simon with some uncertainty, and asked the woman beside him, "Honey, what are you talking about?"

Dalanne Flueger felt the change in Simon's eyes, forced a smile, raised her hand and introduced to the two: "Simon, this is my husband, Michael Small. Mike, this is Simon, Simon Weiss Tello."

With the success of two consecutive films, Simon already has a very big reputation.However, he himself is not the kind of character who likes to show his face, so it is not surprising that Michael Small failed to recognize him for a while.

After hearing his wife's introduction, Michael Small showed a dazed expression, and extended his hand to Simon very warmly to say hello.

After chatting for a few more words, Michael Small turned and left with Dalanie Fluegel.

Simon raised the cup in his hand to his mouth and took a sip of the cocktail, then walked towards Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves who had been standing nearby chatting just now.

Seeing Simon approaching, Keanu Reeves just said hello, then turned and left.

Simon looked suspiciously at Keanu's figure who was obviously suppressing some emotions and hurried away, then glanced at Sandra in front of him, saw a half-smile expression on her face, and said, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Sandra shook her head, but the smile on her face grew stronger, and she couldn't help saying, "I, just, I just heard a very impressive line."

Simon made a helpless expression and said, "I didn't expect you to have the hobby of eavesdropping on other people's conversations."

Sandra gave Simon a white look, and retorted: "I was standing here with Keanu before you stopped the woman from chatting up, okay? I'm not deaf."

"Okay," Simon shrugged, "My fault."

Sandra made an expression of 'it was your fault', the smile on her face still did not dissipate, she looked at Simon and said, "Don't you guess which line impressed me the most?"

Simon asked back: "Is there a reward for guessing right?"

Sandra asked carelessly, "What reward do you want?"

Simon didn't answer, but deliberately narrowed his eyes and looked Sandra up and down.

The theme of today's party is more relaxed, and no formal attire is required.

Sandra was wearing a black close-fitting woolen sweater and white slacks at this time. The high-necked woolen sweater also exposed two rounded shoulders, which made her look a little more sexy for no reason.

Noticing that Simon was looking at her shoulder, Sandra suddenly felt a little guilty, hurriedly suppressed her smile, and deliberately stared at Simon with a fierce look: "What are you looking at?"

After saying that, Sandra felt a little regretful.

It's so unladylike.

"It's just that I suddenly thought of a joke," Simon pointed to Sandra's off-the-shoulder sweater, and said, "Then there was an urge to sew your shoulders together."

sewn up?

Sandra was puzzled for a moment, raised her hand and drew a box in front of her, and said, "You are so old-fashioned."

Simon looked at Sandra's movements and said with a smile, "Have you read the script of "Pulp Fiction"?"

Sandra's gesture just now happened to be the gesture Mia made in "Pulp Fiction" when she laughed at Vincent who refused to go to the Bunny Restaurant.In old-fashioned cartoons, characters would often mock someone for being stuffy by drawing a box.

"Yeah," Sandra nodded, with a little resentment in her eyes, and said, "Although you didn't invite me, I still want to see if there is a suitable role for me in the script."

"I originally wanted to give you the role of the little rabbit. However, if you think about it carefully, this role will not be of any benefit to your future career development. Instead, it will destroy the screen image you have established from "Run Lola Run", so Forget it." Simon was also a little regretful, and said again: "By the way, I heard that the project of "Back to the Future 2" has also been suspended. How did your audition for the female lead go?"

Sandra actually thought of the role of the little rabbit.

She doesn't care about the repercussions if she gets to be in Simon's new movie.

However, when she heard that Simon had thought of a place with her and gave up the idea for her sake, the little resentment in Sandra's heart immediately dissipated.

Hearing Simon's last question, Sandra nodded and said: "Universal is in a hurry and has provided several production proposals, but Robert Zemeckis found himself in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Back to the Future" 2" was simply too busy. Therefore, this matter can only be postponed until next year. However, Universal has already offered to sign me a lead actress contract. They plan to shoot two sequels at once, and Jonathan is still negotiating with them pay issue."

After hearing Sandra finish speaking, Simon smiled and said, "Then congratulations."

After "Run Lola Run", if you add two "Back to the Future" series that are destined to hit the market, Sandra's position in Hollywood will be completely consolidated.In the future, as long as there are no continuous mistakes in film selection, it will not be a problem to maintain her position as a first-line actress for ten or twenty years.

Sandra obviously understands the joints involved, and also smiled happily, but suddenly remembered what happened just now, stared at Simon dissatisfied, and said: "I was almost bypassed by you, the line just now, guess what?" ?”

Simon said helplessly: "'This is my husband', are you satisfied?"

Looking at Simon's depressed expression, and recalling the situation just now, Sandra couldn't help laughing again, covered her mouth for a while, and squeezed out tears.

After a while, Sandra asked Simon gloatingly, "How do you feel now?"

Simon reached out from the pocket of his trousers and took out a business card, shook it in front of Sandra, and said with a smile: "It's not good, someone secretly stuffed a business card over, I'm still hesitant."

Sandra stared at the business card in Simon's hand for two seconds, then suddenly stretched out her hand.

Simon easily avoided Sandra's little hand, slowly stuffed the card back into his pocket, and said, "I can't give this to you. If a woman steals a woman, we men will lose face."

Sandra followed the business card into Simon's pocket and said, "You won't really call, will you?"

"Didn't you hear it just now? If there is a suitable movie, I still hope to cooperate with 'Eve', a very serious one."

Listening to Simon's awe-inspiring tone, Sandra said with contempt: "Do you think I will believe it?"

"So, there is no need to explain this kind of thing to you women, anyway, I don't believe it," Simon smiled, noticing that Jonathan and De Niro came out of the villa together, looking at himself, and said to San Della said: "I'll go chat with them for a while, by the way, do you want me to take you home later?"

Simon said, and pointed to the wine glass in Sandra's hand.

Sandra wanted to say no, her assistant Gina was at the party and would take her back later.

However, after a pause, Sandra still said, "Okay."

"That's it."

Simon didn't think much, nodded, and greeted Jonathan and the two who had already walked over.

Chapter 103 You are not as famous as I am

The three of them approached, and Simon and the two greeted each other, looking at the expressions of Jonathan and De Niro without any trace.

Jonathan is still gentle and modest in his usual appearance, but De Niro's expression is obviously a bit hesitant.

Seeing this, Simon realized that Jonathan should have a very good talk with De Niro.

Still, Robert De Niro clearly hasn't made up his mind yet.

After several changes in the past year, WMA, which has a rigid operating mechanism and fierce internal struggles, has clearly begun to turn from prosperity to decline.On the other hand, CAA's packaging strategy continues to strive for higher and higher salaries for Hollywood stars. Robert De Niro wants to choose an agency, which side he prefers is completely self-evident.

However, Simon was very unwilling to see this happen.

With the transformation of his identity from screenwriter and director to producer and investor, Simon realized that if CAA once again becomes as dominant as the original time and space, Hollywood film companies will definitely become more and more passive.

To break this situation, the method couldn't be simpler, try to maintain the evenly matched competition among Hollywood's major brokerage companies.

Daenerys Films is still just a small yellow croaker that has just stirred up a few waves in Hollywood. It is definitely impossible to change this industry trend on its own.However, Simon will not give up this effort easily.

Therefore, after chatting for a few words, Simon said bluntly: "Bob, in my opinion, joining WMA is a better choice for you."

From the first meeting, Robert De Niro's impression of Simon was very good.