Chapter 145

Last night, I was tossed very late by some small sounds. Finally, I even doubted whether it was my own illusion. When I brushed my teeth, I took a look in the mirror. Fortunately, there was no black eye, otherwise I would be embarrassed.

It's seven o'clock in the morning.

Saturday.

It's still cold in January in Park City, but the house is warm as spring.

Leaving the bedroom, he slowed down and glanced at another door not far away. He must not get up this time.

I came down to the living room, but I was startled.

Simon was already sitting on the couch by the fireplace, talking on the phone. Janet curled up in his arms like a kitten, squinting. She was wearing only a long light pink sweater, and her two dazzling white long legs barefaced out of the hem of her clothes, which made her spring look boundless.

He stood at the stairs for a few seconds until the man nodded to her. Then he came over and sat down on the sofa beside him as if nothing had happened.

The heart is sour.

After kissing himself on the neck in the car that day, although there was no other intimate contact, she naturally thought that they had been involved.

Now.

Janet can curl up in his arms without scruple.

But she could only sit next to him, with a faint sense of guilt like stealing other people's things in her heart.

Simon chatted with the opposite party for a while, put down the receiver and asked Jennifer, "how was your rest last night?"

Once again, some blushing sound came to her mind. Her eyes shook aside and she said with a strong calm, "good. Who were you, um, calling?"

"Ed McCracken, CEO of Silicon Graphics," Simon said, explaining, "I suddenly realized last night that I didn't have to rely on the acquisition of other companies to make 3D animation and CG effects. If I want to do this, I can recruit my own people to form a team, which is cheaper and more flexible to control the development direction of technology. Silicon graphics company supplies professional graphics workstations to many universities, enterprises and R & D teams. It happens that it has contacts in this field. I just asked mclarken to introduce some people to me. "

Listening to the man absently, Jennifer suddenly realized something. She looked up at Simon and said, "you, last night, thought of this?"

Simon nodded: "yes, what's the matter?"

Before Jennifer could answer, Janet, who was in Simon's arms, couldn't help laughing.

Simon also wanted to understand in a twinkling of an eye. Looking at the blushing Jennifer, he had to add: "actually, I had this idea when I left Pixar headquarters the day before yesterday."

But she felt even more embarrassed. She stood up and left behind the words "I'm going to prepare breakfast" and fled to the kitchen.

Simon watched the female assistant's hasty figure disappear, patted Janet, who was still squinting in her arms, and said, "honey, go to the bedroom and sleep well. Be careful of catching a cold."

Janet put her hands around Simon's body and said, "you take me."

Simon picked up Janet, went to the second floor bedroom, put her on the big bed, covered her up, and said, "sleep. I'll call you when breakfast is ready."

Janet was huddled in bed, but she winked at Simon: "you can have breakfast with her and call me again."

Simon grinned, pinched the woman's face, helped her get the quilt together, and went downstairs again.

While still on the stairs, Simon heard the phone ring and came to the living room. He happened to see Jennifer coming out of the kitchen to answer the phone. Seeing Simon, the assistant immediately drew back, like a frightened fawn.

Simon smiles helplessly. He goes to pick up the phone. The phone is calling from New York. It's working time on the east coast.

Westero's share price fell from $16.75 at the close of Thursday to $13.25 at the close of yesterday after it began to reduce its stake in New World Entertainment yesterday.

New World Entertainment shareholders and executives who were waiting for Simon to take the initiative to contact them could not sit still. Early this morning, New World Entertainment major shareholder Larry kupin personally went to visit James Leibold. At this time, he was talking with Simon in Leibold's office.

After buying new world pictures from Roger Koman, the king of B-class films in 1983, after several years of merger, expansion and reorganization, Larry kupin and his other partner, Harry Sloan, still hold more than 40% of the shares of new world entertainment.

On the phone, Larry kupin said that they are very clear about Simon's intention, and that they are happy to see the deal come true, hoping that the two sides can officially open the acquisition negotiations.

Even at yesterday's close of $13.25, the market value of new world entertainment is still more than $330 million, which is still beyond the affordability of westero.

What's more, once the two sides officially start negotiations, the share price of New World Entertainment will definitely rebound again.

The main dilemma of new world entertainment is the lack of funds. If Simon agrees to start negotiations on the acquisition of new world entertainment, the Wall Street capital that wants to kill westero will certainly not allow the company's operation to go wrong.At that time, it will definitely be too easy for new world entertainment to obtain working capital and get out of trouble.

So Larry kupin's mind is very obvious.

As long as we can keep in touch with Simon, no matter whether the final deal is reached or not, New World Entertainment has a good chance to overcome the difficulties. Simon naturally can not be married, simply perfunctory each other on the phone, will be left to James to deal with the matter.

After breakfast, Simon takes Janet and Jennifer to the city at nine o'clock to attend the premiere of a movie called "land of dreams". Robert Redford is also the executive producer of the film funded by the Sundance Institute.

Simon also had a chat with Michael Hoffman, director of dreamland, at a Redford party last year. Because it is the first feature film directed by himself, Michael Hoffman's narrative technique is not mature enough. However, Simon likes the discussion of disillusionment and confused reality in the film.

At the end of the premiere of dream land, Simon, Robert Redford and others leave the Egyptian theater and are planning to eat in a nearby restaurant.

As soon as they went out, they were surrounded by a group of reporters.

Simon didn't care too much. After hearing the reporters' questions, he realized that the goal of these people was himself.

It turns out that this morning, WGA announced the nomination for the new American Writers Union award. Simon's three films last year, "Lola Run", "Butterfly Effect" and "death is coming" were all ignored, and none of them were nominated.

Among the three films, the plot of butterfly effect is very novel, but the number of critics of the film last year is very low, so it's natural that it was ignored by awards. As for death is coming, this plasma thriller can't be nominated.

Therefore, "Lola Run" can be said to be Simon's main force in this year's award season.

Before that, due to the age factor, the media generally predicted that Simon's most important Oscar Award in the award season was the best screenwriter. Simon's three films all made it to the top ten box office last year, and he deserves the award.

The main voting members of the Oscars are all concentrated in the American Writers Union.

Now, WGA has completely ignored "Lola Run", and Simon can't win any more screenwriting awards in the following Oscars.

Back at the Resort Apartment in the afternoon, Simon got more detailed information from Los Angeles.

At the nomination press conference, in the face of media questioning, George COGO, chairman of WGA Western Branch, explained that "Lola Run" was too focused on form and lack of connotation, so it failed to meet the award nomination standard.

Simon just laughed it off, and he didn't expect that because he refused to join WGA, the other party's "killing wand" would be so obvious.

However, after a brief discussion, Simon just asked pat Kingsley to make a statement respecting WGA's choice.

Simon himself doesn't care about the awards, but he can't think about the films produced by Denise pictures.

In the final analysis, the whole award season is a game. Everyone is in the game. If you want to get the award, you must obey the rules.

Therefore, although some sensitive media have noticed the fact that Simon is not a member of WGA, and this is one of the fairness of WGA nomination, Simon has not made any response to this.

The end of a noisy day.

In the evening, by the fireplace of the Resort Apartment, Simon, Janet and Jennifer sit together on the sofa, each holding a script.

Robert Redford had two boxes of scripts delivered today. Simon planned to return to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon and attend the premiere of another film tomorrow morning, so he had to take a break in the evening to read these scripts.

After the premiere of dream land, Simon has agreed to invest in another Michael Hoffman film, sisters, about a college student's funny stories in a strange family when he goes to Canada to visit his girlfriend.

Janet was reading the play with relish, leaning on Simon.

But Jennifer was a little absent-minded. It wasn't much last night. We'll have a rest soon after we get back from the party. But tonight, in this strange town among the mountains, surrounded by ice and cold, a quiet resort cottage, a man and two women.

This atmosphere is really weird.

The weirdest thing is that the other two guys are totally unaware of each other.

I don't know how long it took for the phone to ring suddenly, which finally broke the atmosphere that made Jennifer feel a little uncomfortable. She looked up. Simon had picked up the phone, simply said a few words to the opposite person, and then hung up again.

But Janet was a little dissatisfied. The atmosphere had just been broken. She squeezed on Simon and asked, "what's the matter?"

Simon picked up the script again and said with a smile, "the Lord of the rings is ours."

Janet said, "ten million dollars. It's not normal for zaenz to refuse."Jennifer didn't know about Simon's communication with sol zaenz last night. She said in disbelief: "ten million dollars, buy the copyright of the Lord of the rings trilogy?"

"Yes, but if you know it, don't say it."

There was still surprise in her expression, but she nodded.

Jeanette smiles, reaches out her little hand and grabs Simon. She says, "this sheep is very fat. Jenny, do you want to touch it too?"

Jennifer blushed and pretended not to hear Janet.

Janet turns her eyes, gets up and walks over. She pulls the unresponsive Jennifer up and back, and holds her in her position. The woman runs to the other side of the sofa, pushes Simon towards the middle and sits down again.

This is the sofa facing the fireplace. It's not big. The three people sitting down suddenly seem a little crowded.

I don't know if it's because of the fire in the fireplace. When she felt the smell of the man beside her, she felt a little hot in her face. I don't know what I feel in my heart. After hesitating for a long time, she still didn't run away. She was close to the man carefully, pretending to be calm and focused on the script again.

Simon also thought about winning the copyright of "fairy diamond" in one go. He didn't expect Janet to do so suddenly, but he just laughed and said: "only two, a little less."

"Little bastard, how many more do you want?"

"Of course, the more the better Oh, don't pinch. "

"Jennie, give him a pinch, too."

Jennifer raised her arm eagerly. Seeing that Simon was just looking good, she shrunk back in shame. After they had been playing for a while, she found a topic and asked Simon, "did you pick any script?"

Simon shook his script and said, "this is good."

Jennifer looks over curiously and finds a string of numbers, 3000, on the cover of the play.

Well, 3000. What does that mean?

Simon felt her curiosity and took the initiative to explain: "this is a black drama about Vivian, a street girl in Los Angeles, who promised to accompany a rich man for a week for $3000. But I'm going to turn her into a love movie. "

When Jennifer heard the term "street girl", she frowned slightly and quickly said, "love movies, like, um, the camellia girl?"

Simon nodded and said, "that's right."

Janet said at this time: "in this case, it must be a tragedy. If it's Dumas' work, maybe some people will be interested. In modern times, who would be interested in the love tragedy of a street girl

"I didn't say that it would be a tragedy. Of course, the ending is that the prince and the princess live happily together," Simon said with a smile, shaking his head, glancing at the script in his hand

In my memory, pretty girl happened to be adapted from a black feature film called 3000.

Simon didn't expect to see the story in the script recommended by Redford. Both the name of the screenwriter J.F. Lawton and the content of the story fit well with "pretty girl". But if you think about it carefully, the Sundance Institute just happens to provide a training and development platform for new directors and screenwriters. The black plot script "3000" also adheres to the style of the Sundance Film Festival. It's not a coincidence to get this script at this time.

After "Lola Run", if "pretty girl" comes from Sundance again, park city will definitely be more lively in the future.

On the sofa in front of the fireplace, Simon felt the two women beside him, thinking that the good things of getting "the Lord of the rings" and "pretty girl" in succession tonight were in pairs.

Maybe.

Park City is a great place for you.