Chapter 143

Linda Fiorentino denied: "I don't want to be in trouble, Mr. westero. I'm just fighting for my rights."

Simon's tone was ironic: "have you ever thought that you overestimated your importance?"

Linda Fiorentino didn't show any diffidence under Simon's eyes. She raised her chin slightly and said, "you have to try."

The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly calmed down. Brian De Palma looked very interested. Jonathan also kept watching. Only Linda Fiorentino, the agent, looked dejected. He was worried that Simon westrow would suddenly let himself get out with this stupid woman.

Looking at Linda Fiorentino across the conference table for a moment, Simon simply put down his pencil, leaned back on his office chair and said, "tell me, what do you want?"

"Cut the share of nudity," Linda Fiorentino said. "I just said that."

Simon said, "I just said that if you insist on that, you can leave now."

Linda Fiorentino pauses and says, "at least, that exposed shot has to be deleted."

Simon declined: "this is a very important plot point. It can't be deleted, but I can guarantee that in the future, even if someone plays it frame by frame, they won't see anything."

Linda Fiorentino put the cigarette back to her mouth, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I don't want to be labeled as a pornographic actress. After this movie, Denise pictures must allow me to choose another role from your production list."

Simon said: "I've seen your performance in Scorsese's after work. It's pretty good. It's impossible for you to choose, but I can arrange it for you. "

Linda Fiorentino's face flashed a bit of surprise at Simon's straightforward promise, but she quickly added, "it has to be the heroine, and it doesn't need to be showy."

Simon nodded: "no problem."

Although Simon westero seemed to be a little too talkative, Linda Fiorentino quickly went on: "besides, the $10 pay is too low. I want $300000."

Simon nodded again: "yes."

Linda Fiorentino looked at Simon and said, "it has to be written in the contract."

Simon agreed, "of course, are there any other requirements?"

Linda Fiorentino thought, shook her head and said, "no more."

"Well, I'll tell you what I want," Simon said emphatically as he sat up straight again, staring sharply at the woman. "Put out the cigarette!"

Linda Fiorentino shook her right hand slightly with the cigarette. After a moment of stalemate, she put it out in an ashtray handed by Jennie.

Simon and other women pressed out the cigarette and said, "your performance just now is very consistent with the personality of the heroine Catherine Trammell, which is open, sharp and strong. So I forgive you for your impoliteness this time, but only once. Next time I see you smoking in a work meeting, I'll have you thrown out

Linda Fiorentino, listening to Simon's merciless rebuke, subconsciously straightened up.

But, thinking of the terms she had just negotiated, Linda Fiorentino could not help but suppress the idea of attack. 300000 dollars, which is 100 times what she got when she first played in a role three years ago. As soon as she offered the price, she thought it would be very good to add it to 150000 dollars.

With these thoughts in her mind, Linda Fiorentino suddenly realized something and looked at Simon again.

This man is really a devil who likes to manipulate people.

If it's only $100000, she won't feel too sorry even if the talks collapse. She is not interested in the role with a lot of naked scenes. But, 300000 dollars, it's hard for her to easily refuse.

Although she has always felt that she doesn't value money very much, growing up in an Italian immigrant family with eight children, she hasn't seen $300000 in her life.

Such a sum of money is enough to ensure her livelihood in the next few years.

What's more.

There are also two leading actresses. Many actresses may not be able to get such an opportunity in their lifetime.

Simon didn't care if Linda Fiorentino guessed her intention, and continued: "now that you have what you want, you have to devote yourself to the film. I don't want to hear any more opinions about the role you need to play. I can tell you very clearly that if this film is successful, you will definitely become one of the most famous female stars in Hollywood, and I promise that your next role will also take your acting career to the next level. But if you mess up, and it's because of you, I can guarantee that Hollywood won't have any more places for you. "

Linda Fiorentino was provoked again and asked, "Mr. westero, are you threatening me?"

"Yes," Simon nodded. "But you can still exit now. The door is there. Besides, never say that other people have no other choice. The most important thing Hollywood needs is actors. "Linda Fiorentino felt the man's eyes and grabbed her handbag. After all, she didn't get up. She just kept her face away.

Simon saw that women were completely soft, so he turned to others: "the meeting continues."

The discussion continued for more than half an hour, and the matter was finalized. Simon and Jonathan discussed the two scripts to Robert De Niro, and then left the wma headquarters.

Inside the car.

Simon looked at the information of the plane casually and asked, "what's next?"

Jennifer looked at her memo and said, "it's four o'clock, Dave Stevens, author of rocket expert."

Simon thinks of this science fiction cartoon set for the 1930s and 1940s in the United States. He really doesn't want to spend too much time on the "sand" that was mixed in at the beginning. Make up your mind to go on perfunctorily after the next meeting. It's better to drag the project away naturally.

With that in mind, Simon asked, "is the schedule ready for next week?"

Jennifer turned the memo over to one page and said, "Monday is the audition for the supporting role of instinct, while Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are in San Francisco. Besides checking the location of instinct, I've arranged for you to visit silicon pictures and Pixar studio. I'm going to park city on Friday for the opening ceremony of this year's Sundance Film Festival. "

In the 1990s, many CG special effects, including Jurassic Park, independence day and so on, were designed with the professional graphics workstation of silicon graphics company. Now the scale of silicon graphics company is still very small. Simon has already got in touch with each other before, hoping to promote the development of CG special effects in advance.

As for Pixar, it's for 3D animation.

"Besides, well," Simon thought of another thing, and was about to open his mouth. Then he said, "I'll do it myself."

Since I'm going to San Francisco, I'm sure I'm going to visit Dr. Henry Chapman. There's no need for Jennifer to arrange this. I just want to make a phone call in advance.

However, after combing the itinerary of next week, Simon finds that he can't concentrate on the later stage of vulgar novel for another week. Fortunately, the later stage of the film is drawing to an end, and the schedule is set for June 3. Even if he planned to participate in Cannes Film Festival before, it's only January now, so he can't delay it.

Working overtime on weekends is for sure.

As the SUV enters the downtown area of Santa Monica, near the headquarters of Denise pictures, Jennifer looks at Simon beside her and suddenly says, "I didn't expect you to be so strict with a beautiful lady."

Simon glanced at the female assistant and said, "if you don't obey me, I will be very strict."

She dodged the man's eyes and said, "if you ask too much, I won't listen. And I'm not going to give in for 300000 dollars. "

"I never think that money can make a person give in, unless it's a lot of money. It's just that everyone has his own weakness, and it's OK to find it. As a third line actress, she is not in a good economic condition and eager to become famous. Her weakness is money and opportunity. I can give her these, and I can take them easily. So she had to give in to me. "

Jennifer hesitated and said, "well, what about me?"

Simon shook his head. "I don't know."

But all of a sudden, Jennifer said, "you must know."

Simon said with a smile, "maybe, but try."

After a moment's hesitation, Jennifer boldly looked at Simon and said, "well, you try."

"Really?"

"Really."

Simon put aside the folder on his knee, reached over and gently pushed away Jennifer's beautiful blonde hair.

The moment a man's fingers touch her hair, Jennifer feels like a squirrel that has met a natural enemy, completely frozen.

Oh, my God.

He.

I really scratched my hair.

But, this, this is in the car.

How can this work.

Feeling the breath of a man getting closer and closer, she wanted to escape, but found that even the tip of her finger could not move.

Magic?

Yeah.

He's a wizard.

It wasn't until the man pulled away her blonde hair, gave her a kiss on her white neck and sat back that she found herself softening again.

Then there was a voice that seemed very proud of him: "look, I found it. I'll tie up my hair. I like it."

She hung her head and fiddled with her bag.

I really want to accuse him of cheating or something.

However.

I don't know how long later, the car should have stopped in the parking lot. It seems that she probably remembers that she gave a "um" sound.

After the weekend.

Monday, January 11.Many people thought it was a very quiet week. With a piece of news from New York, Hollywood once again turned its attention to a 20-year-old next month.

On the first trading day of this week, westero suddenly wanted to file a filing with the SEC, saying that it already owned 5% of new world entertainment. After the filing documents were submitted, westero did not stop, and continued to absorb the shares of new world entertainment.

After the close of the day, the stock price of new world entertainment, which was originally hovering at a low of $7.50, has easily exceeded $8.

But this is just the beginning.

Early the next morning, just after the New York Stock Exchange opened, the share price of New World Entertainment broke through the high of $9. During the whole trading day, the share price was close to $10.

The company has just obtained a huge amount of funds by reducing its holdings of Motorola shares. If westero continues to increase its holdings of technology shares, it may not cause too much market reaction.

But it's not.

When Simon westero turns his target to a comprehensive media and entertainment company with film, television, comic books and other businesses, the intention is too obvious.

During this period of time, danielis pictures not only invested a lot of money in the purchase of copyright, but also successively invested in instinct, rain man, death poetry club, scream and many other projects. In order to ensure the production and distribution of these films, Simon westero is sure to further expand his company scale.

With sufficient funds, expansion through acquisition is undoubtedly the fastest way.

Simon westero's wealth is not enough to buy any of the seven major film companies. New world entertainment, a second-line media company, seems to be unable to verify.

It's just that.

The subsequent development of the matter was somewhat unexpected.

At the end of last year, after Simon's operation in the stock index futures market was exposed, he has always been the focus of Wall Street. Over the past few months, many investment institutions are still following the operation of windwestero, firmly supporting the technology stock market.

Westero suddenly showed interest in a brand new company, and many investors almost subconsciously began to follow suit.

After all, new world entertainment is just a small company with a total share capital of only 25 million, and the stock market value is less than 200 million US dollars before westero company reported. With the continuous brewing of westero company's shareholding report and the influx of more and more investors, the share price of New World Entertainment has reached 15 US dollars when it closed on Wednesday. Compared with last week, the share price has completely doubled, and the market value is relatively low Initially, it also surged to $3.75.

Simon and James had previously set a premium limit of 50% for the acquisition of new world entertainment. Although they had expected that the share price of new world entertainment would rise sharply after the news was announced, they did not expect that so many people would "join in" and directly doubled the share price of the company, which has basically recovered to the level before the stock disaster.

Now.

As a result of the public announcement that Motorola shares will not be reduced in the shortest period of one year, when the share price of New World Entertainment doubled, Simon could not afford to pay so much money even if he wanted to buy it. What's more, he could not be the big wrongdoer.

James's advice to Simon was to sell all his stocks immediately.

Before the share price of New World Entertainment rose to $10, westero absorbed 1.75 million shares, accounting for 7%. Since there is no hope of acquisition, westero can still make a small profit by reducing its holdings now.