Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 187 Disagreement (Repair)

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Sandra lives in the Bird Street neighborhood of Beverly Hills, next to the star-studded Trousdale estate.

The Range Rover drove into the mansion, which covers an area of ​​about a quarter of an acre. Before Simon got out of the car, Sandra trotted out of the villa in a white dress with a mesh suspender at the waist.

Simon looked at all kinds of cars parked in the yard and the silhouettes of people in the villa, hugged Sandra, took a gift from Neil Bennett and handed it to her, only to wonder: "How come so many people?"

After Sandra and Simon hugged, she took the opportunity to hold the man's arm, and walked towards the villa with the gift in one hand, saying, "I originally just wanted to celebrate quietly, but people started asking me about this half a month ago. I also asked if Simon Westeros would be there, and I couldn’t say no, it would be a shame. Then it became like this.”

Simon smiled and said: "You said earlier, I lent you that house in Palisades."

Sandra rolled her eyes and refused: "Forget it, I can't afford the expenses like your birthday party."

It was already evening, the two walked into the villa, and many guests who were talking or pretending to be talking and laughing looked over instantly.

During this time, Daenerys Pictures has become more and more shining in Hollywood. Not only did the two summer movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Instinct" all become great successes, but also successfully entered the TV market, "Who Will Become a Millionaire" The ratings of "The Rich Man" were simply eye-popping.

As the person who created all this, Simon naturally became the focus of attention in the circle.

Although there are some controversies among them, everyone knows that in Hollywood, except for box office and ratings, everything else is false.

As long as you can make a blockbuster movie, and you can make a hit TV show, you're a god among studios and TV networks.

Similarly, "Pulp Fiction" and "Instinct" once again made a lot of people popular. In the eyes of countless Hollywood actors who are always looking forward to chasing this opportunity, Simon is also the God who can make them go to the sky.

Because of his busy work, Simon rarely attended parties during this time, and Sandra's birthday party became a great opportunity for many people to seek contact with him.

As the first actress to become popular with Simon, there are also various public or private scandals between the two, and no one thinks that there is innocence between Simon and Sandra.

Simon was walked through the crowd with Sandra's arms unabashedly, socializing like the host for more than half an hour. When he was free, he and Sandra hid in a rather private living room on the second floor.

This mansion is small in size, but the location is very good. The south is just a gentle slope. Leaning on the sun loungers on the living room terrace, you can see the city of Los Angeles that has begun to light up.

Sandra brought a glass of red wine over, sat down on the edge of the chaise longue, watched Simon leisurely leaning on the chaise longue and flipping through a magazine, handed over the red wine, and asked sarcastically, "Why didn't Jenny come together?"

Simon took the red wine and took a sip, enjoying the good smell of Sandra's body, and said, "Do you want her to come?"

Sandra leaned down, lying on Simon's chest, and said, "So, do you want to stay tonight?"

As a normal man, Simon didn't resist the feeling of being intimate with Sandra. However, being close and close, if you stay tonight, it will be a bit of a problem.

Shaking his head regretfully, Simon imitated Janet's tone and said, "You must go home before twelve o'clock."

"It's so strict," Sandra immediately showed a look of contempt on her face, grabbed Simon's wrist, took a small sip of red wine from the cup in his hand, and said, "So, let her go, I can allow you to come home again at two in the morning."

Simon carefully held the goblet to keep the wine from spilling, and said with a smile: "Then you are not afraid that I will find another one who will allow me to stay home all night?"

Sandra frowned in distress. This is indeed a big problem. After thinking for a while, she quickly compromised: "It can be negotiated."

"I don't like women who have no position."

"Hmph, spineless man, go home whenever a woman asks you to."

Concerning the dignity of a man, Simon was immediately reluctant: "How is it possible, of course, I can do whatever I want. In order to prove this, I decided to go back at eleven o'clock."

"Ha ha."

There were more guests coming one after another. As the host, Sandra could not leave for too long. The two stayed on the second floor for a while and then went downstairs quickly.

When the guests in the living room saw the two coming downstairs together, their faces were as if nothing had happened, but there was some ambiguity in their eyes, and some female guests were a little disappointed.

It's just under half an hour.

As night fell, the lively birthday party officially began.

This party is naturally not as grand as Simon's birthday party at the beginning of the year, but there are definitely a lot of Hollywood bigwigs in attendance.

The executives of wma and several big film companies rushed over. Although many people only showed up for a while, they simply left after chatting with everyone, but this was enough to make many small stars at the party envious.

However, even Sandra herself actually understood that these people were mainly coming for Simon.

Like PM Terry Semel's intentions, Hollywood knows

Daenerys Pictures is currently looking for new film projects.

The two projects "Pulp Fiction" and "Instinct" made Orion and Fox, who cooperated with Daenerys Pictures, earn a lot of money, and "Pulp Fiction" directly supported Orion's performance this year. The Hollywood filmmakers in their eyes are naturally doing everything possible to get in touch with Daenerys Pictures.

"Nancy is a trader in the Chicago commodity futures market, but her performance is lackluster, and she is even about to face the dilemma of layoffs. By chance, she met the devil Naik, who has the ability to predict and can clearly foresee the future. Desperate for success, Nancy made a deal with Naik. She exchanged her soul for Naik's information on the ups and downs of futures..."

On the lawn in the backyard of the mansion, Simon patiently listened to the script introduced by George Crane, a producer recommended by Jonathan, and said with a smile, "George, this is a very interesting idea. It’s a little bit farther from ordinary people.”

George Crane was suddenly enlightened, and immediately said: "This is indeed a problem, Simon, if necessary, we can change into a stock trader."

Simon does not intend to be too perfunctory with the other party. This kind of setting of making deals with the devil is difficult to make new tricks. The final result is nothing more than the heroine repenting, giving up the devil's conditions or passing the devil's test, and then having a lover Families eventually.

"Well, George, you can have someone send a script to Daenerys Pictures tomorrow, and I'll contact you if I think it's good after reading it."

When George Crane heard Simon say this, he naturally understood that there was not much hope in the matter, and continued to chat with Simon for a few words before walking away with interest.

Jonathan looked at the figure of George Crane leaving, and said to Simon, "I like this script quite a bit, Simon, do you think it won't work?"

Simon shook his head calmly and said, "The story is too old-fashioned, and I haven't seen anything that catches the eye."

"Actually, Hollywood has never been short of creative scripts, but everyone has always been more inclined to add a little something to the basis of the ideas that have proved successful, involving tens of millions of dollars of investment, so it is safer. Jonathan said his experience, glanced at Sandra next to Simon, and said: "Speaking of which, the "A Fish Named Wanda" you introduced to Sandy was really surprising. That's more than $60 million in North America. Sandra signed a 10% omni-channel profit-sharing contract, which is enough to make her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood this year."

Simon shrugged: "I was also a little surprised. I just thought this script was very interesting at first."

Jonathan had a smile on his face, but in his heart, he instinctively thought it wasn't an accident.

I just heard about an idea of ​​making a deal with the devil in exchange for predicting the future. Jonathan even felt that everything Simon has shown since his debut, whether it's what Hollywood did or the operation that made more than one billion dollars in the stock index futures market last year, It's almost like making a deal with the devil.

With this in mind, Jonathan naturally won't say it. Although he is not an atheist, he also feels that his thoughts are a bit ridiculous.

Sandra waited for Jonathan to walk away, but she didn't hide her thoughts. She hugged Simon's arm and touched it. She lowered her voice and asked, "Hey, did you also make a deal with the devil?"

Simon nodded mysteriously, looked around deliberately, and said, "Actually, it's an angel. I met him in a mental hospital two years ago."

An exaggerated expression of surprise appeared on Sandra's face: "Introduce me to you."

Simon regretted: "What a pity, she has returned to God."

The two whispered nonsense, and a tall girl in a black evening dress came over, but it was Nicole Kidman.

"Simon, Sandy, what are you talking about?"

Sandra said carelessly: "Simon said he had seen God."

Nicole was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "This, um, is very interesting."

Simon was very helpless. He was alive and well. How could he have seen God? He simply ignored Sandra's words and asked Nicole, "How is the preparation for George's Voyage Over the Horizon?"

Although she still holds Nicole's two film contracts, Daenerys Pictures did not have a suitable project for her for a while, and Simon agreed to Nicole to shoot George Miller's "Across the Horizon" first.

For similar reasons, the same goes for Samuel L. Jackson and Meg Ryan, who signed options contracts with Daenerys Pictures.

"Australia is too cold now, and filming probably won't start until September," Nicole said, looking at Simon with her eyes wandering, "I heard that you plan to shoot "Batman" in Australia."

"Yeah," Simon didn't deny it, he said, "It's also because of the season. It's just right to shoot there early next year."

Nicole didn't hide it and said, "Speaking of which, Simon, is there really no role for me, even a small supporting role?"

Simon shook his head regretfully and said, "I'm not willing to waste your film contract on a small supporting role."

"Then it's not included in the contract," Nicole said cheerfully and complimented: "After all, who would refuse Simon Westero's invitation."

So entertaining, the lively party time passed quickly.

After ten o'clock, guests continued to leave one after another. Near eleven o'clock, the entire mansion was basically empty.

Although there were a lot of guests tonight, Sandra didn't hire a party company.

Simon and Sandra sent off the last wave of guests together, and saw Sandra's assistant Gina Klos in the living room cleaning up the mess by herself, so they said, "Would you like to call someone to clean up?"

"Let's talk about it tomorrow," Sandra said, sending Gina to rest, pulling Simon to sit down on the sofa in the living room, curling herself up against the man's arms, and saying, "You really don't plan to stay tonight. ?"

Simon poked his fingers through the mesh at the waist of Sandra's long skirt and scratched lightly, "You don't want to get up early tomorrow and be on the headlines of gossip, right?"

Sandra smiled and opened Simon's mischievous finger, and said, "I don't mind if I can snatch Simon Westeros over."

Simon smiled at Yaoyao's head, leaned over to kiss the woman's forehead and then said goodbye, but Sandra hugged her neck and kissed her on the lips.

The two were tired of curling up on the sofa for a while, but Simon got up and left. Even if he and Sandra don't care about gossip, Janet's feelings have to be taken into account.

The next day is Wednesday.

Although Simon didn't stay at Sandra's house, his attendance at the girl's birthday party last night was exaggerated by the gossip tabloids, but it didn't cause much disturbance. Just turning 20 years old, he has fame and wealth that no one else can match. It is normal for such a highly anticipated guy to constantly spread all kinds of scandals with women.

Simon is even more indifferent to these, he needs to deal with the difficult problems of "Rain Man".

Before last year's "Good Morning Vietnam", Barry Levinson, who started his life on TV, was like Robin Williams and could only be regarded as a second-tier director. "Good Morning Vietnam" ultimately grossed $123 million in North America, surpassing the combined box office of all previous films directed by Barry Levinson.

In this era, any director who can produce a film with a box office exceeding 100 million in North America will be sought after by the entire Hollywood.

As Barry Levinson rose, his temper and mind naturally rose. In the process of directing "Rain Man", like the two male protagonists, the film's budget was stretched, and Barry Levinson also contributed a lot.

To keep the project from getting completely out of hand, Simon has been personally following up the entire shooting process. At the beginning of the post-production work, he also handed over a seventeen-page memo accumulated by watching the shooting samples every week before to Barry Levinson, hoping that the other party could refer to his own opinions for editing.

So here comes the thing.

During this time, Simon has been able to hear Barry Levinson's constant public complaints on various occasions about Simon's excessive interference with the "Rain Man" project. If it hadn't been for Daenerys Pictures to suppress a press release, these rumors It has appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.

In the original contract, Michael Ovitz secured a month of post-editing time for Barry Levinson.

Simon naturally did not expect the current situation. Considering the reason of the original team, he agreed to it, but now he regrets the original decision.

Fortunately, a month has finally passed.

Simon also asked to see the rough cut sample without giving in at all.

The viewing room at Daenerys Studios headquarters.

Three and a half hours of rough cut samples, Simon just watched less than an hour, he turned off the projector, looked at Barry Levinson next to him and said, "Barry, in just this hour, I found at least five I need an explanation for the details I mentioned in the memo that didn't appear in the film."

Barry Levinson said indifferently: "Simon, I think this cut is very good. I don't think it is necessary to keep the details you mentioned."

Simon continued to stare at Barry Levinson and said, "Or, Barry, you did it on purpose, right?"

Not to be outdone, Barry Levinson said, "Simon, I don't like others to interfere with my work."

"But, you have to understand," Simon's tone turned cold, and said, "I gave you this job, and you spent $25 million, or more than $25 million, so you are obliged to give out a I am satisfied with the results.”

Hearing Simon's words, Barry Levinson's temper also rushed up and said: "Westeros, I am a director, not your slave. I will only make this project the best according to my own ideas. Well, if you can't take it, you shouldn't have hired me in the first place. Do you know how many studios in Hollywood are willing to pay $25 million for me to make a film?"

"Looks like we don't have much more to say," Simon stood up, not wanting to waste any more words with Barry Levinson. "Daenerys Pictures will completely take back the post-production rights of this project. Also, I need to remind You, Barry, are contractually obligated to uphold the reputation of this film. So, I don't want to hear you talk about Rain Man in public anymore, it's good for both of us."

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