Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 356 Keep a piece of sky

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Simon and Jennifer left Melbourne on July 11 and rushed to a forested lake in central west Tasmania, right in the middle of Simon's private estate.

Because the nearest highway is 30 kilometers away, the only way to get there is by helicopter.

The female assistant built three wooden houses out of her own pocket. They were for Simon and the other attendants to live in. They also built a helipad. Just transporting building materials cost a lot of money. Naturally, there is no water and electricity in the forest. It can only rely on generators and natural water sources, and communication can only be done by satellite phones.

It is already a very closed living environment. When the snow covers everything, the surrounding is completely isolated from the world.

Suddenly coming here from his busy work, Simon's first feeling was not comfort, but anxiety, a strong sense of loss of control. Fortunately, Simon has a special experience that is different from anyone in this world, which is equivalent to the accumulation of more than a dozen lifespans, allowing him to quickly adapt to it.

Female assistants can switch freely between strong women in the workplace and little women at home.

When I came here, I only brought a few books and a picture clip.

During the day, Simon taught himself to draw, and he skated on the frozen lake in front of the hut, wearing a very girly white down jacket, as skilled as an elf.

Snuggling together by the fireplace in the evening, reading to Simon in an elegant voice, Proust's "Reminiscence of the Time Is Like Water", a very thick book.

Or Yeats' poetry collection.

*…

*I'm going to get up and go to Innisfree.

* Build a hut out of dirt and sticks.

*I want nine rows of cloud bean racks and a bee nest.

* Listening to the swarms of bees singing in the woods, living alone in a secluded place.

* Then I will have peace.

*…

After reading it, I also suggested whether to give the small lake in front of me a name, or just call it Innisfree Lake.

Simon refused.

In the little resentful expression rarely made by the female assistant, she said that it should be called Jenny Lake.

The female assistant's resentment did not dissipate, and she asked which Jenny was.

Simon firmly said that of course it was Jenny in front of him.

Also brought a Chinese original version of "Dream of Red Mansions".

Janet had never forgotten the joke female assistant at the time, and wanted to know the story of the attack, and asked Simon to tell her personally.

Then I fell in love with listening to the romantic scenes in the Grand View Garden, the joys and sorrows.

Even if a strong curiosity flashed in his eyes occasionally, he never asked Simon why he knew such a difficult and obscure language.

Just keep asking all kinds of questions.

I also tried to learn to recite a poem in the book.

There is no fixed pronunciation, a very standard accent.

* full of absurd words,

* A handful of bitter tears.

* Duyun author is crazy,

*Who understands the taste.

Finally, I couldn't help it, and asked Simon inadvertently, is there really a Sanshengshi?

Simon said no.

just a story.

Obviously dissatisfied with this answer, the corners of his mouth pursed again.

Simon comforted him, and then the small emotions disappeared.

He was very satisfied with the ending of the attack, and threatened to find a good man to marry if Simon didn't like her one day.

When he said this, he looked at Simon with a threat in his eyes.

dare to threaten.

So it was severely 'cleaned up'.

Obedient every time.

I found out something, and complained that Janet told her a lot of dirty little details, which turned out to be nothing.

Simon smiled and said that this can be.

Then.

There really is.

Calm down and continue to read Simon's book "Reminiscence of the Years Like Water".

Simon has been listening patiently, and inadvertently, he also wrote down the sentence he heard in the blank of the book of A Dream of Red Mansions in his hand: Always strive to keep a piece of sky outside of your life.

Smelling the aroma of the food, I opened my eyes lazily.

This is the bedroom, there is naturally no food around, just the smell of the man who came in from the kitchen.

He still couldn't help but snorted his little nose, but he didn't want to move lazily.

It was warm inside, and Simon was only wearing a wool sweater and khaki trousers. Seeing her open his eyes, he leaned in to kiss her.

Turning his head to avoid: "I haven't brushed my teeth yet."

Simon didn't let her go, he kissed on the tender cheeks that had just woken up, and brought them to his fair neck. Not satisfied, he pulled the quilt down a bit and moved closer.

Under the quilt is a perfect carcass enough to drive a man crazy.

Not an inch.

Nephrite jade warm fragrance.

Feeling that Simon bit it greedily, he finally reached out and pushed the man's head weakly, and said with a smile, "It's so itchy."

Simon raised his head, but put his hand in and said, "Get up now, or shall I sleep with you for a while?"

Hold down the man's strange hand: "I want to get up, you go out first."

"I'll help you get dressed."

"No, I'll wear it myself."

"This can't be done, we must help."

As she spoke, she moved with the female assistant's charming laughter, and finally the two of them re-dressed together.

clothes all over.

Breakfast also had to be redone.

The original is already cool.

After eating, it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

The time was July 17, and I stayed here for a full week. Although only Janet would occasionally make one or two harassing calls, it was hard to justify staying.

Very sunny day.

After packing up the luggage and standing outside the house, the female assistant showed obvious reluctance and worried that her cabin would be destroyed and occupied by outsiders. Only when Simon promised to arrange special caregivers did he feel relieved.

Taking advantage of the sunshine at noon, I boarded the helicopter parked nearby.

The helicopter roared into the sky, and the small lake became smaller and smaller in the field of vision, like a long-term memory that gradually faded away in the depths of everyone's heart.

The rented Bell helicopter had insufficient battery life, and could only return to Melbourne by boat on the northern coast of Tasmania, and returned to the villa on the outskirts of Melbourne. It was more than four in the afternoon.

I called some people close to me. I planned to take another night off and start work tomorrow. Anthony Johnston called and asked Simon to go to the party at the mansion. It turned out that today happened to be Norman Johnston's birthday. , the family will be there.

After living abroad with Jennifer for a week, Simon didn't believe that the Johnston family would not know, and he was a little guilty and did not refuse.

The more guilty female assistant did not dare to go there together.

Came to the mansion in the evening.

The party invited a lot of people and it was very lively.

Apart from Patrick Johnston winking at Simon, no one reacted too specifically to Simon's whereabouts over the past week.

The entertainment continued until late at night. When all the guests left, Simon wanted to say goodbye, but the old man stayed behind. Although the meaning of the words was that the house was not a place without you, Simon understood that the old man still treated him. The actions of the previous week are debatable.

Nature can only stay.

When I got back to Melbourne, I couldn't sleep in, and woke up at seven o'clock the next day.

Leaving the bedroom, walking through the corridor and heading towards the stairs, passing a room, Veronica Johnston just opened the door and walked out. Seeing Simon, her figure immediately froze, and she raised her hand subconsciously, but it was very Put it down.

Simon also stopped, and frowned when he saw Veronica's subconscious defensive movements.

Seeing Simon frowning, Veronica raised her hand a little uneasily, as if to explain, but she just spit out the word "I..." and couldn't go on.

Simon saw that she didn't speak anymore, didn't speak, and continued to walk towards the stairs.

Veronica stared blankly at Simon's figure disappearing at the entrance of the stairs, and then walked out of the room.

After breakfast, Simon and Anthony Johnston rushed to the headquarters of Johnston Holdings in downtown Melbourne.

After the operation for the Japanese market last year, although the headquarters of Cersei Capital moved to New York, a team was still retained here. In order to reduce the penetration of the details of the operation of Cersei Capital from the outside world in the operation of the crude oil market, Melbourne Bian's team is also involved.

In fact, because Cersei Capital has established a very large and complex crude oil futures portfolio through different accounts in various crude oil futures markets such as New York and London, it has recently begun to directly participate in spot trading, except for a few people such as Janet and Simon, even if Inside Cersei Capital, few people know the company's specific position data.

Cersei Capital began to establish long positions in late June, when the international crude oil price was still above $14.

In less than a month recently, the international crude oil price has fallen to $13, which is also the lowest international crude oil price in Simon's memory.

If you don’t count the shorts of two-way positions, and only count the recent longs, in less than a month, Cersei Capital’s book losses have exceeded 1.6 billion US dollars.

Moreover, because Cersei Capital continues to increase the scale of long positions and reduce short positions, if the international crude oil price does not rebound as expected, but instead falls to $10 a barrel as predicted by many institutions, Cersei Capital this time not only in the previous period All profits made by the shorts will be spit out, and even the principal may be lost.

In Simon's memory, international crude oil prices rose after talks between Iraq and Kuwait over oil production control broke down in late July, and doubled directly after the war broke out on August 2.

Now, the negotiations between Iraq and Kuwait are still going on. According to the news from the Middle East, the first phase of the negotiations will not appear until next week. Either Kuwait will compromise and reduce crude oil production, or the negotiations will break down and things will into unpredictable situations.

Simon didn't think the war could be avoided just because of his presence.

In fact, the internal causes of this war are much more complicated than most people imagine. It involves not only the interests of European and American oil groups, but also the still turbulent situation in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

However, just in case, the operation of Cersei Capital is relatively conservative. As of mid-July, the size of the established long position was less than 15 billion US dollars, and sufficient funds were reserved to put Cersei The leverage ratio of capital is maintained within 5 times.

In the plan, after all short positions are closed next week, although the principal held by Cersei Capital will exceed 5 billion US dollars, the total size of long positions will still be cautiously maintained within 25 billion US dollars.

After spending a day at the Johnston Holdings headquarters discussing what's next for Cersei Capital, Simon's energies turned back to the movies.

Filming on Batman: The Dark Knight was still going well, and Simon didn't need to worry too much.

North America.

More than three weeks have passed since Simon left on June 24.

In the North American summer season, many new films such as "Die Hard 2", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Thunder Ambition" have been released in a row in the past few weeks.

Going forward, "The Ghost Story", which was released on June 1, still maintained a strong box office curve under the pressure of a number of new films.

As of July 19, within seven weeks of its release, "Ghosts" has reached a cumulative box office of 115.06 million US dollars.

Moreover, in the seventh week of the release of this tear-jerking love movie, the single-week box office still maintained at more than 10 million US dollars, reaching 11.07 million US dollars. Movies with a total box office of over 200 million in North America.

In comparison, "Total Recall" released in the same period, although the total North American box office in the seventh week of its release reached 106.41 million US dollars, successfully breaking through 100 million, but the single-week box office has fallen to 4.77 million US dollars, and it is expected that there will be only 1,000 left. $10,000 box office potential.

Simon is more concerned about Daenerys Entertainment's first film "Sleeping with the Enemy" in the 10-film plan. After the first week's box office of 27.62 million US dollars, the second week's box office fell by 33%, and received another 18.53 million US dollars.

The drop of more than 30% is slightly disappointing.

Fortunately, in the next three weeks, "Sleeping with the Enemy" fell within 30%, 21%, 17% and 23% respectively, and received another $14.61 million, $12.13 million and $9.37 million in a row.

In five weeks, "Sleeping with the Enemy" has grossed $82.26 million.

Although the single-week box office fell below 10 million US dollars, there is no suspense that the film's North American box office exceeded 100 million US dollars.

In addition, the production budget of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", which was released on July 6, has increased to $20 million compared to the $8 million B-level film in the original time and space, and the quality is better than the original. Coupled with the golden period such as the summer season and Daenerys Entertainment's unremitting investment in publicity and distribution, the film's box office reached 39.78 million US dollars in the first week of filming, far exceeding the first "Ghost Love" and "Sleeping with the Enemy". Weekly data.

Just one week from July 6 to July 12, according to the step-by-step accounting rules signed by Daenerys Entertainment and the theater, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has recovered all the production and distribution costs.

However, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" still largely relies on the popularity brought by animation and games in recent years. The quality of the film itself is far from phenomenal. The high start of the first week inevitably means that The box office fell sharply the following week.

July 13 to July 19.

In its second week of release, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fell 43 percent to an additional $22.67 million.

It made $62.45 million in two weeks. This box office curve is actually similar to "Total Recall", which started at the same time as "Ghost Love".

Of course, the difference is that the production cost of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is less than one-third of that of "Total Recall" starring Schwarzenegger, and the North American box office of "Total Recall" can only barely recover the production cost. The Turtles has already begun to generate huge profits by its second week of release.

Because of the excellent market performance of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", Daenerys Entertainment quickly announced the establishment of the sequel.

The box office of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in the original time and space is not as good as one, because in addition to its own IP popularity, it is actually difficult for this series to remain too attractive to the audience. The audience came in to watch the first part, To a large extent, it is because of the popularity accumulated by the series of animations and games.

However, Simon did not stop the sequel project this time as he did in the "Flying Innocent" series.

Mainly because of cost.

Compared with the two best-selling series "Flying Over Innocent" and "Lethal Weapon", even if "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" develops a sequel, the production cost will not be much higher than that of the first film, and it will not be as big as Mel Gibson. Coffee requires high project profit sharing.

The first film can break 100 million yuan, and as long as the sequel does not mess up, it will be easy to recover the cost and achieve profitability.

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