Chapter 225

After the busy countdown to the new year, tonight's party begins to end.

At more than one o'clock in the morning, Simon saw off the three members of James Leibold's family and returned to the villa. In the empty living room, there were only waiters who were cleaning up the mess. There should be some guests in the backyard, but Simon didn't need to see them off in person.

So he went down the stairs to the second floor, still outside a living room, and Simon heard Janet's chuckles.

After entering the door, Janet, Catherine, Amy and Nancy Brill are all nestling on the sofa, chatting. The women are holding goblets in their hands, obviously drunk. Janet's white face has become red at this time.

After walking to Janet's sofa and sitting down on the armrest, Simon gently took the red wine from the woman's hand and said, "ladies, it's too late. Do you want to continue?"

Amy raised her wrist and looked at her watch. Then she was surprised. "It's already 1:25, Simon. Do you see cliff?"

Cliff, Amy's new boyfriend, is the owner of a French restaurant in Brentwood.

Simon thought for a moment and said, "he should be on the backyard lawn."

"Well, it's time for me to go," Amy put her goblet on the coffee table in front of her, stood up on the armrest of the sofa, shook her head slightly, and said to Simon with a smile, "boss, I'm going to the company later tomorrow. Is that a good reason?"

Simon nodded with a smile: "of course."

Amy's talk about tomorrow is already today. Simon naturally won't be more serious about such small details.

New year's Day is supposed to be a legal holiday in the United States. However, Simon will fly to Australia tomorrow. There are still many things to be arranged before he leaves. At least a group of senior executives of danilisi entertainment will continue to appear in the company tomorrow.

As Amy got up, the other three women also got up.

Simon put his arms around Janet, who stood up and swayed on him. His eyes inadvertently noticed Nancy Brill, and he couldn't help saying, "how short."

It turned out that Nancy Brill, who had just curled herself up on the single sofa, took off her high heels.

Before I didn't notice that the woman was standing barefoot on the carpet, Simon found that Nancy Brill's height should be less than 1.6 meters, not to mention Catherine, even in front of Janet and Amy, who were about 1.7 meters tall. However, a woman's curvy mature charm and her height blend together, but with a very wonderful style.

Simon said so, and it was obvious that Janet, who had just discovered this, also showed unexpected expressions.

Nancy Brill was watched by several people, but she sat down again as if nothing had happened. She found her at least 10cm high-heeled shoes on her feet. She glanced at Katherine carelessly. Her tone seemed to be a little more defensive and said, "boss, are you discriminating?"

"Of course not," Simon denied with a smile, watching Nancy Brill get up again soon. The pair of hentiangao, who was covered under the rose dress skirt, obviously jumped up a lot and said, "in fact, it doesn't seem good to wear such high shoes all the time."

Nancy Brill obviously didn't want to continue this topic, but said faintly, "if you don't wear it, the result will be worse."

Since Nancy didn't like to talk about her height, Simon stopped. In my heart, I can't help thinking, is this woman too strong to care about her height, or is she too strong because of her height. The small size of one meter five is really short among Western women.

Amy finds her boyfriend in the last group of guests in the backyard. After seeing them off, Simon notices that Nancy Brill is still alone.

The parking attendant drove a black Mercedes Benz. Simon looked at Nancy and said goodbye to everyone. Then he got into the driver's seat, pressed the door that the woman wanted to pull, and said, "yourself?"

Nancy sat in the driver's seat, took off her high heels again and put them aside. She looked at Simon and said, "boss, is there a problem?"

Simon opened the door a little and said, "sit in the back and let the valet take you back."

Nancy shook her head: "no need."

Simon looked at the woman persistently: "get out of the car."

Nancy looked at Simon for a moment and finally said, "I'm not used to strangers taking me home."

Simon looked up to find Neil Bennett, gestured to him, looked back at Nancy and said, "I'll let my driver take you back."

Nancy hesitated for a moment, but got out of the car and turned to the back seat.

Simon told Neil Bennett a few words, and watched him drive Nancy away before turning back. Janet was looking at him with a smile, and said, "Nancy obviously wants your boss to take her back. You're really not funny."

Neil Bennett was supposed to send Simon back to Malibu, but now he can only wait a little longer.

Simon ignored Janet's banter and asked Katherine next to him, "let's go back to Malibu later?""Well," Katherine nodded to Simon in surprise, and then added, "I've just rented a house in Paradise Bay, not far from Cape dumey. It's on my way."

After that time together, Katherine never gave Simon another chance to be ridiculous.

Seeing Simon's depressed expression, Janet came forward with a smile, took Katherine's arm and walked to the villa, saying, "little bastard, you'll go to Australia the day after tomorrow. Kate, you'll come and live with me then."

Katherine glanced at Simon, who was beside them. She was surprised and said, "won't you go with him?"

"Our house in domay Point Park is about to start," Janet said, shaking her head. "Besides, Denise entertainment is going to have a financial audit for more than a month. I'll stay in Los Angeles and help him keep an eye on it. Well, on his birthday in February, we'll visit together."

Neil Bennett brought Nancy Brill home and went to bed at two o'clock in the morning.

Wake up the next day and the new year begins.

The high-level meeting was held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the main topic was the main work arrangement of the company during Simon's departure from Los Angeles.

In the next few months, Denise entertainment will focus on establishing overseas distribution channels and promoting the overseas distribution of several films such as scream at the end of last year.

In this era, the overseas distribution of Hollywood films is rarely able to achieve the same period as that in North America, but it is very common to delay the release for two or three months. Therefore, at the end of last year, danielis entertainment was not distracted from its overseas release at all, and put all its energy on its local release.

Now, "scream" and other films are all successful at the box office, which creates a very good prerequisite for the expansion of overseas distribution channels of Denise entertainment. With these blockbuster films as chips, danelis entertainment can easily establish contact with overseas cinema operators.

Besides film distribution, the next most important work is the financial audit of the entire Denise entertainment group.

Because it's not a listed company, daenerys entertainment doesn't need to publish its annual results. However, due to the rapid expansion of the company, even Simon himself is not very clear about the detailed financial revenue data of danielis entertainment, including its subsidiaries, let alone whether there are potential problems, which requires a very detailed financial audit of danielis entertainment.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the financial report, Simon specially authorized Janet to supervise the whole audit at today's meeting.

Finally, there are the strategies of danielis entertainment to produce several films in the award season in the coming months.

Simon's attitude towards Oscars and other awards has not been too keen. Although he has set up gaomen film industry, which specializes in artistic films and needs a large number of major film awards, in his view, Oscars and other awards should always be "icing on the cake", rather than becoming the fundamental goal of a film.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after a simple lunch, Simon, Amy and other senior executives met with the chairman of blockbuster, Wayne hueizanga, to discuss the specific plan for danilisi entertainment to take a stake in blockbuster.

After several hours of negotiation, the two sides reached a preliminary agreement. Danielis entertainment invested $120 million to obtain 35% of the shares of blockbuster. Meanwhile, danielis entertainment promised not to interfere in the management of blockbuster in the next three years. Accordingly, blockbuster also guaranteed that the shares of danielis entertainment would not be diluted in the next three years.

Nancy Brill was also identified as a board member of blockbuster after the meeting.

That evening, Simon invited the rebolds to have dinner in Malibu again. During the dinner, he and James rebolds discussed some things about Westeros company in private. Simon finished the arrangement before he left.

Although he still has some concerns about letting go of the steering wheel of Denise entertainment, a fast-moving sports car, Simon knows that he has to do so. If a company leaves with someone, it can't continue to operate, and the company is doomed to fail to grow.

On January 2, Simon flew to Melbourne, Australia with a group of entourage in the morning.

After arriving in Melbourne, Simon only needs to spend a few days to familiarize himself with the environment, and the film will officially start shooting on January 9, with a planned shooting cycle of 13 weeks and 91 days. If all goes well, the film will be released in early April and last for three months.

Simon immediately went to Los Angeles, but Hollywood didn't stop at all.

Danielis Entertainment's award-winning PR work this year was handed over by Simon to Ella doechman, the director of gaomen film. Immediately after Simon, Ella doechman began to work for the Golden Globe Award PR of death poetry society, and began to prepare for the Oscar nominations of danielis Entertainment's series of films.

With the unexpected box office explosion of rain man, Hollywood is also paying special attention to the Oscar public relations strategy of the film.

Danielis entertainment has given up this year's Golden Globe Award on the rain man before. Many people speculate that if Simon westero is young enough, danielis entertainment is likely to continue to give up the Oscar of the film due to the conflict with several creators of the rain man."Rain Man" has become a phenomenal film. If this film joins the Oscar campaign, there will be few opportunities for other films this year.

As a result, Hollywood is looking forward to Simon westero's youthful spirit.

However, "Rain Man" gives up the Golden Globe Award, only Simon is paving the way for "death Poetry Society". He is still the view he used to hold. He will not do such stupid things as being angry with others and smashing his own pot. Rain Man will declare all possible awards as scheduled.

However, Ella doichman also got a very difficult job.

Among the nominations for rain man, the best director and best actor are obviously easy to get. In the original time and space, the two nominations also successfully won the awards for Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman.

But this time, Simon's task for Ella doechman is to make Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman only get nominations but not awards, just like Denise entertainment will continue to send role auditions to CAA artists, but will not hire each other.

Reverse PR often happens among competitors, but it's very difficult for them to make their films fail to win awards.

It's also one of Simon's tests of Ella doechman.

In addition to rain man, danielis entertainment will continue to focus on public relations for death poetry society. The company's goal is to get the best film for Rain Man and the best director for death poetry society.

Hollywood's major film companies have obviously shown a tendency to suppress danielis entertainment. At this time, the many "shortcomings" of the original Oscar judges have turned into "advantages". There are more than 3000 members in the Oscar jury team. As long as danielis entertainment is not reluctant to invest, it has excellent quality films and wants to get nominations and awards The possibility is still great.

In private, Simon specially gave Ella doechman face-to-face advice and taught him the public relations skills of the Weinstein brothers in his memory.

Unconsciously, the new year's week passed again.

At the end of last year, the box office of the films in the schedule continued to reap. However, compared with the box office outbreak of Christmas week, the box office of North America in a single week from December 30 to January 5 shrank to 91.56 million US dollars compared with 122.36 million US dollars last week, and most of the films fell.

Except for rain man.

Due to the unexpected rise in the box office in the second week of release, in the third week, after urgent consultation with the cinema, Denise entertainment reallocated 262 screens, which increased the number of screens of Rain Man from 1136 to 1398.

In addition to the phenomenal word-of-mouth spread of rain man, in the third week of its release, the film became the only film to reverse the decline in the market this week, with a box office increase of 7%, and a further $17.91 million, with a cumulative box office of $46.23 million. At the same time, it easily surpassed the death poetry society, and ranked first in the box office of this week in the third week of its release.