King of Hollywood

No matter how envious and jealous Hollywood's major film companies are, they can't stop "Titanic" from continuing to stay in the top 15 of the North American box office list and breaking its own record one step further.

Adrian didn't put too much energy on it, but told the following to continue to maintain a moderate amount of publicity, at least to let the big ship survive the Christmas-New Year period.

"As long as this period of time passes, we can make this miracle even more difficult to surpass," he said.

Although "Titanic" has already made enough box office, and has won the crown of the highest-grossing film in film history, and there are many fans who have watched ten shows in a row, they want to continue to make a lot of money or even repeat it at the end of the year. Returning to the top ten is impossible. Adrian also knew this. He made such an arrangement just to make the miracle even more miraculous in his own hands. You know, even the original record has not yet been reached.

Of course, we still can’t see the result of this matter, and we have to survive the current schedule first, so he pays more attention to other things, such as the schedule of the three upcoming movies, of which only "The End of the World" It is most suitable for the whole family to watch. "A Time to Kill" is a feature film, while "LA Confidential" belongs to the nostalgic crowd. If the release time cannot be arranged reasonably, it may have the opposite effect.

As for the first part of "The Matrix", if you pay a lot of overtime pay, you should be able to complete all the later stages in mid-December, but the time for publicity may not be enough. After thinking for a long time, Adrian still gave up. plans to release. This also reminded him that with the release of the big ship, there will be more and more films featuring special effects in the future, and the production cycle, especially the post-production period, will become longer and longer, so he will direct such films in the future. In the case of movies, this situation must be taken into account.

In addition, he also has to take care of the preparation and production of several new films. After selling the film adaptation rights, people began to prepare for that giant production. For more than a year, Adrian has not lost Talk to the person in charge, although the progress is not very fast, don't forget that next year is still a year away. The movie prepared for Monica has also been put on the agenda, and it will be launched next summer without any accidents. Adrian has also made full preparations to let some people understand what implicit temptation is. Of course, the double is still To be prepared.

"Operation Swordfish", which was originally planned to recruit Wolverine, has also been officially approved. This movie is still good in terms of production, but unfortunately, it was unlucky and encountered a very bad schedule. There should be no problem with the box office recovering the cost. As for the actor, I haven't contacted Jackman yet, and I have to wait for Ovitz to sign him first. Sean Penn has already agreed to it after reading the script. As for Halle Berry, Adrian will draw him himself. Time to talk to her.

In addition, the script of "The Expendables" has been officially completed, fully complying with the rules of Hollywood commercial films. In the beginning of the credits, there is an introduction to the team members, and then the task is handed in to collect the money. The fish that slipped through the net wanted revenge and then kidnapped the captain Stallone's daughter. On the way to rescue, discover unknown secrets and expose them. It doesn't need too much brains, the main thing to watch is the tough guys showing their muscles.

"I look forward to cooperating with them." Schwarzenegger finally agreed, and the remuneration is also easy to talk about. As for the reason for being so generous, it goes without saying.

But this is just the beginning, there are still more players to be confirmed, if not all of the action actors on the list, at least more than half of them will be enough.

These have all been prepared, but "Spider-Man" has been postponed a little bit, and Adrian has scheduled it to start at the end of next year. Although Sam Raimi is looking for a transformation, he has no schedule because there are still films to be directed and produced. Since he did a good job in the original version, why can't he still be in charge? And the pre-appointed heroine Kirsten also has a new movie to finish: "Pretty Girl Cheerleaders"!

Thanks to his habit of flipping through the scripts of various film companies, Adrian discovered the script of this movie from New Line last year, and then took it into his own hands, planning to cast a young girl. However, since Kirsten doesn't want to spend this embarrassing age group too plainly, it doesn't matter if she is the heroine. She will know that the transformation of the vase is not so easy.

Of course, this series should be handed over to the new line. Yes, that’s right, this can be made into a series. In various competitions in the United States, the cheerleading team is a unique landscape, and the captain of the cheerleading team in the school is usually the best. popular girl. Therefore, the positioning of this film is the youth market with a medium investment target, and it is perfect for promoting those newcomers.

As for "Spider-Man", the copyright is in hand, so why care about when it will be released, isn't it?

But these things can't be done right away, and it will take a lot of time, so the most urgent thing for Adrian right now is...

"This, it's not delicious," the little guy shook his head like a rattle, and then stretched out his little finger to point to the fruit salad on the other side of the dining table, "That, yes."

"Lily." Adrian put down the knife and fork in his hand, and called in a low voice in a reminding tone.

"It's okay, as long as she likes it." Martha laughed, waved away the servant who wanted to come up to help, and personally put a small plate of fruit salad for Lily and placed it in front of her.

"Thank you, grandma." The little guy yelled in a childish voice, then slipped down from the seat, and then ran to the top of the long table shaking with the plate, and pushed the fruit salad in front of the old man.

"Is this...for me?" Anderson looked at the little guy in surprise.

"En!" The little guy nodded vigorously, looking at him with bright eyes without blinking, full of hope.

"...Why... give it to me?" The uncle, who had been stern since Adrian entered the door, couldn't help but slow down his tone when facing the well-behaved Lily.

"Grandpa has no expression on his face, it's not good." The little guy tilted his head and thought for a while before seriously answering, "Grandpa has never eaten this, this is delicious, and he will be happy after eating it."

"So you came here with a plate for me, didn't you?" The old man's face became softer, and he stretched out his hand to stroke the little guy's head, and then said softly: "Thank you for your gift, you really are Little lady, may I kiss you if you don't mind?"

Although Lily didn't quite understand what Grandpa meant, she roughly understood what Grandpa meant. She hesitated for a while, then shrunk her neck, but then straightened her chest, closed her eyes, and looked deathly.

"What... what is this?" Anderson looked at her curiously, and then at his wife, Adrian and Kate at the dinner table. They also looked puzzled.

Even so, Anderson bent down and touched the little girl's face lightly, and then the little girl giggled.

"It's very different." Lily scratched the place on her face where Grandpa had kissed, and looked at him curiously with her crooked eyes.

"Oh? What's the difference?" Anderson asked quickly.

"It's soft and itchy, not like the other grandpa, who was very hard." The little girl pointed to the beard around Anderson's chin.

Anderson gave a rare chuckle, and touched her head again: "I'm glad you like it, Lily, go back to your place."

After a pause, he looked at Adrian: "Give your father a fruit salad, too."

Unexpectedly, Lily shook her head very resolutely: "No, Dad doesn't need it!"

"Oh?"

"Daddy is a badass!"

Compared with the pronunciation of some previous sentences, which were still a bit vague, this sentence is quite clear and fluent, obviously it has been said many times. Anderson froze for a moment, then broke out into a burst of laughter, shaking his head as if he hadn't been so happy for a long time. The hearty laughter quickly infected other people in the room, not only Aunt and Kate laughed, but even The servants serving beside him were also giggling.

The only one who didn't smile was Adrian. He looked depressedly at his daughter who didn't know what everyone was laughing at but followed him, and stuffed a large piece of thinly sliced ​​Thanksgiving turkey into his mouth: "Okay Well, I'm a badass."

After the Thanksgiving dinner, Anderson naturally had to call Adrian away from the study, leaving Kate with her daughter and Aunt Martha chatting in another room.

"You are not married, are you?" Anderson asked unceremoniously after entering the room, and the expression on his face returned to the old-fashioned.

"Yes." Adrian replied calmly.

"Then Lily is an illegitimate child?" The old man asked further.

"If you follow the traditional literal meaning, then yes." Adrian smiled slightly.

Anderson snorted heavily, how could he fail to understand the meaning of his words, walked around the study room twice before the old man sighed: "Before you said she was two years old, do you intend to stay like this forever? "

Then he muttered in a low voice: "I actually knew about it later than that old fellow Benedict."

Hearing this sentence, Adrian almost burst out laughing. I really didn't expect that the ruthless uncle would have such a side, but this also shows that Lily is welcome wherever she goes. Kate was a little worried when he decided to bring his daughter to New York before. She had been here a few times and knew Anderson's temper, but Adrian didn't take it to heart. The phenomenon of intergenerational parenting is very common. Even if the uncle has dissatisfaction, it will only come to him.

Now, the performance of aunt and uncle have proved his judgment is correct.

"Almost." Adrian shrugged, still maintaining his honesty. Ever since he decided to bring Lily to his uncle's house, he knew that these things could not be avoided.

"You can really say it?" Anderson sneered, "It is the first time in the Kewell family to say such a thing openly. Well, even if you don't think about your... lover, you will always You have to think about your children?! It’s a coward’s act not to take on the responsibilities of the family! It also violates our traditions!”

"It's not that I don't dare, it's just that I don't want to." Adrian replied lazily, "I won't give up the whole forest for one tree, uncle."

Anderson frowned suddenly, showing obvious dissatisfaction, but Adrian immediately raised his hand and shook: "I know what you want to say, uncle, if you take it literally, I agree very much, but the question It's about how many people have really achieved this? There is more than one person who still has a lover after marriage, even... my father once had it."

At this point, he laughed lightly, while Anderson coughed dryly, frowning and did not answer.

"If you want to do it, then you must do it. I am also confident that I can do it, but the problem is that I don't want to do it. I still want to experience a more colorful life. Why do I have to do it now?" Adri Ann spread out her hands, always maintaining that calm look, "No matter what, Lily is my daughter and Kate, no one can deny it, and no one can separate us."

After a while of silence, Anderson sighed again, and looked at him with a complicated expression: "You don't look like your father at all, even though when your father and I were young...you are very much like your grandfather."

Adrian raised his eyebrows involuntarily. He never knew anything about his grandfather, but when he read the diary left by his father, he vaguely knew that he was still romantic until middle age, and his relationship with grandma was not very good. Well, there is probably a reason for the wealthy marriage, but I still care about the two children.

If he is still alive, there may be a lot of common language between us. Adrian couldn't help but think so. Judging from his uncle's tone, grandpa was probably much more than that back then. It just so happened that there was a very reasonable explanation for what he did.

"How are you chatting?" Kate asked after returning to the bedroom after coaxing her daughter to sleep with Adrian.

"It's nothing. Although uncle is rigid, he is not a man who knows how to be flexible." Adrian shrugged, took off his coat and threw it aside.

"Really?" Kate's tone was light, but there was something faint about it.

"But he wants me to marry you." Adrian said with a smile suddenly, sat down beside her, wrapped his arms around her waist, put his head on her shoulder and sniffed the fragrance, "What do you think I should do? "

"Do you think this is funny?" Kate glanced at him and snorted softly, then turned to herself in the vanity mirror, sighed and said again: "I thought about it when I was pregnant, but ... I know, I know very well, you will never agree, I knew what kind of person you are when you refused to lie to me back then. "

"Oh? Then what kind of person am I?" Adrian blew softly in her ear.

Kate suddenly turned half of her body, and glared at him annoyedly, then stared at herself and Adrian in the vanity mirror for a moment, her eyes became confused: "I don't know, or it's indescribable... probably right now It is because of this that I easily fall into your carefully woven trap."

"Remember what I said, Kate?" Adrian laughed, "You actually understand, why do you have to use other excuses to deny it?"

"...Maybe I'm still a little bit unwilling." Kate murmured in a daze.

"So, there is a party tomorrow on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, would you like to accompany me?" Adrian asked suddenly.

"Party? What kind of party?" Kate was also happy to change the subject.

"What else is there? The upper-class people gather together, talk about each other's recent situation, and communicate with each other. Maybe they can seize some good opportunities." Adrian lay on his back and said depressedly, "God, I really hope Crowe is here."

Adrian does not reject this kind of gathering. Many times, many things are initially finalized in this kind of place, and his contacts are also expanded here, but his business ability is not very good after all. It might make him shy. When encountering such a topic, it is usually Claude who asks him to add from the side, but if Claude is not there...

"So what do you think, Ed, about the impact of the Thai baht crisis." The old man asked with a smile. He has a square face, half-century hair neatly combed, a little fat but 5 feet 11 inches His height makes him look very strong, with a kind smile, wearing a pair of simple glasses, suits and leather shoes, gentle and gentle, just like a university professor.

"There is no doubt that expansion in the Asian financial crisis is a sure thing," Adrian shrugged. "The countries from East Asia to Southeast Asia are hardly different from the Thai model."

"You seem to have missed a country, Ed." The old man reminded.

"Yes, I know, but if international hot money provokes them, they may suffer a small loss." Adrian said relaxedly, "After all, that country is different from ours, and they are very good at concentrating their efforts No matter how huge the international hot money is, it cannot admit a blow from an undisturbed sovereign country."

"I have to admit that your words have a lot of reference," the old man nodded with a smile after thinking for a moment, "You seem to know China very well, Ed."

"There are some, not too many, but among Americans, they are relatively familiar." Adrian smiled, "I can also speak Chinese well."

"Ha, that's good news. If you didn't have your own company, we might be able to hire you as a consultant on China issues." The old man laughed.

"Well, if one day I no longer serve as the chairman of the media, and Goldman Sachs still needs it, I will be happy to serve you, Mr. Warren." Adrian bowed slightly.

"You are really outstanding, Ed, and my eyes rarely miss it," the old man continued to smile, and then patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, I have other things to do, so I won't chat with you .”

Adrian immediately made an excuse gesture, watched the other party walk into the crowd, and then let out a long and thorough breath. If we continue to talk, the food in our stomach will be drained, which is why although we have met this old man a few times before, we seldom talked for a long time. It’s not that he doesn’t want to, Buffett does have the temperament of a scholar, but it doesn’t mean he is really a scholar, just like he is generous in charity, but the nature of a businessman will not change.

Quick thinking and has a very high insight. This is Adrian's evaluation of him, but fortunately he has finally left now. \u003c/p\u003e