Chapter 522

In recent years, Robert De Niro has been at the peak of his career from sixth sense to corner of terror. Al Pacino's original low popularity has been rapidly revived through his "smell and know women" at the end of last year. In addition, they are the four old Hollywood stars, and it's not easy to get together.

Danielis entertainment has already had contact with De Niro, the other side did not immediately agree to come down.

So Simon had to come out in person.

The two talked for a while at the party. Simon made a detailed analysis of "stealing the wire" and promised that it would become a classic of police and bandit films in the 1990s. De Niro finally let go.

After the cooperation of smell and know women, Al Pacino has agreed to steal the line of fire in advance.

This time, De Niro has been finished, and there are basically not too many obstacles to the project.

Many people at the party have been paying close attention to Simon's movements. Seeing that he has finally finished talking with De Niro, they come forward to say hello one after another.

For most of the filmmakers who are only in the second and third tier, or even have no coffee seats, it's a very rare opportunity to meet Simon westero. If you can leave some special impression, you can at least spend ten or twenty years in Hollywood.

Over the years, danelis entertainment has not only made westrow brilliant, but also spared no effort in training new and cutting-edge filmmakers.

Simon's greeting to the people around him was not cold. He was patiently socializing. If he was interested, he would talk for a while, but he would not give any promise immediately.

So it wasn't until more than ten o'clock that Simon and his wife left the party and returned to their residence in the mountains southeast of the town.

The next day, I slept until more than eight o'clock.

When I wake up, I don't leave my bed. January is the coldest season in park city. Recently, there is no snow, but the weather is getting colder and drier. The outdoor temperature is below minus 10 degrees.

The wooden house on a hill is naturally warm as spring.

There is no schedule today. After waking up, Janet is still clinging to the man like an octopus, rubbing, rubbing and rubbing, and then she naturally loves him.

At ten o'clock, I went to the bathroom with a lazy and soft woman. I took a hot bath and went downstairs after washing. It was past eleven o'clock in the morning.

This time, abd and aliya are following.

After going downstairs, lunch is ready and you go straight into the restaurant.

Although it is a wooden structure house, the architectural design is full of fashion. The dining room is facing the south, and a whole face of sealed floor glass is installed, mainly for the sake of keeping warm. The sunshine at noon seems to have no temperature, but with the heating in the house, it gives people a very comfortable feeling.

Sitting next to Simon at the dinner table, Janet, still with a faint blush on her face, nibbled at the food in front of her for a while, then leaned over the man and asked, "what do we do in the afternoon?"

Simon said with a smile, "do nothing, bask in the sun."

Janet's beautiful eyes flashed a few times, nodded, and her mouth curved and said, "well."

Since I'm here for the film festival, the best activity is watching movies.

However, Simon's appearance at any film screening site will probably cause some riots. In addition, there is no special interest in the film, simply stay at home.

Not to mention skiing.

The main thing is that Janet can't ski.

It's already noon, and the outdoor temperature in park city is still below zero. Of course, it's impossible to bask in the sun outside.

After lunch, I went to another living room with floor to ceiling windows and bright light. After making coffee and preparing some fruits, I hugged myself on the sofa. There was a black-and-white movie "Casablanca" on TV.

This is from the blockbuster chain in park city.

In fact, there is a private projection room in the cabin, but the couple prefer to watch TV in the warm and bright living room at this time.

Simon had drawn up a plan to release old classic films through blockbuster channel to imitate Disney's mode of re screening animated films.

Blockbuster has been doing it all the time, and it has been quite successful.

The most recent recommendation is Casablanca.

In fact, the film is produced by Warner Bros. however, since the scheme is successful, blockbuster will not just put the pattern in MGM.

It seems like a long time ago, when Simon was talking on the phone one night, he joked with the two protagonists of "Casablanca" and Janet. Women still remember it clearly, so they can't help thinking away in the process of watching the film, and then they blame someone for destroying their mood for a classic film again.

Simon was just joking, but he still enjoyed the movie.

Compared with today's black-and-white films decades ago, there are no complicated techniques, rich colors, and complicated plots, but it does not prevent it from becoming a classic that is still talked about by people half a century later.This is probably the whole charm of the movie.

On the big screen, when Rick and Sheriff Renault plan to "once again" and wander around the world, Janet blinks her eyes, giggles, and then turns her head to Simon's shoulder again.

Simon picked up a strawberry from Janet's fruit plate and said with a smile, "I was joking. They're really pure men."

Janet is not big, but she opens her mouth to a man.

Simon had to put the strawberry he had just picked up into the woman's mouth, but he was bitten by his fingers and gnawed it a few times.

Playing for a while, Janet also sent a strawberry to Simon's mouth and said, "speaking of spies, we have a team of about 100 people now. Do you want to do something bad?"

We have to talk about it in the autumn of the previous year.

Finding himself surrounded by many forces, Simon began to become exclusive to the intelligence team of the Westeros.

It happened that the merger of East and West Germany and the subsequent drastic changes in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union led to many changes in the world pattern. In particular, the huge intelligence network constructed by the eastern forces became fragmented in this turmoil, which was just convenient for the Westeros system to search for relevant talents.

However, because Simon is too busy, Janet has always been in charge of this matter. Women only occasionally talk to simonty about what has developed a team of people, what interesting things have been discovered, and what kind of guys have been found who are "interested" in the Westeros.

After a long time, Simon didn't pay much attention to it unconsciously.

I didn't expect that a team of more than 100 people suddenly emerged.

Turning to the woman beside him, Simon asked, "to be specific, how many people?"

"136," Janet said

Simon heard the number and couldn't help saying, "you don't want all kinds of people, do you?"

Janet blinked her eyes and shook her head. "Of course not. They're all the best. For example, the KGB team that we first discovered was actually found out by us because they deliberately revealed their flaws. There was a very powerful couple behind them. They had a premonition of the end of the Soviet Union and were looking for a way out from the beginning. "

Simon vaguely remembered the family Janet had mentioned before.

The couple worked as teachers at an unknown University in London, England, and a daughter, who studied in South University.

Simon was struggling with the acquisition of MCA and Bell Atlantic at that time, and he didn't have much energy to pay attention to it, and Janet rarely mentioned it later.

But there are more than 100 people.

Although we can afford to support them at home, and there is no lack of useful space, we may have trouble if we don't pay attention to so many spies.

Janet looked at Simon's face, then suddenly laughed and said, "don't worry, I'm the only one who knows the specific information of these people. They are all scattered teams, and there are only eight people in the largest group. Even if some people are found, it is impossible to pull out the whole network. "

Simon did not relax and asked, "will it involve us?"

Janet thought about it and said, "some people, such as those we recruited from Australia, don't go too far. Even if they are found, it doesn't matter, and there won't be any direct evidence against us. Other people, who are more sensitive to their identity, will not. I always keep in touch with them indirectly. "

Simon thought of another question: "loyalty, how to guarantee?"

Janet shrugged: "I try to make sure it's done, but it's impossible to be 100% sure. You know, the human heart is the most complex thing in the world. No one dares to guarantee anything except one person. "

Simon nodded slightly, thought of another thing, and said, "I remember that the treatment for Martin dinam's two groups was very generous, only the one-time retirement reward was $5 million. These more than 100 people, wouldn't they all be like this?"

At the beginning, he asked the old man to help find 11 people. Simon and his wife offered a huge reward for almost buying out their life. 20 years of work, an annual salary of $200000, a one-time home settlement fee of $1 million, a retirement award of $5 million in the future, and an equally generous pension thereafter.

Both sides know that this is almost life.

In the past one or two years, Simon has never seen another bug like eavesdropping around him, and many small moves aimed at Simon and his wife have been discovered ahead of time, which also proves that Martin dinam and his team are worth the money.

Janet shook her head and said, "Martin, they're in direct line. Most of the others, of course, have money only after working. We're not the big losers."

Even if the more than 100 people are treated exactly according to Martin dinam's treatment and Simon's present and future wealth, they can still afford it. However, it involves the question of whether it is worth it or not.

Simon has now reached the point where he has too much money to spend, and he will be even more so in the future. However, he never likes to be regarded as a fat sheep.Hearing Janet say so, Simon assured: "for a net, on the premise of ensuring that it has the ability to catch fish, of course, if you can use less, you'd better not do useless work."

Janet understood Simon's meaning. She nodded her head, but then she came back and said with a smile, "but I just want to do something bad."

Simon pinched the woman's smooth face and said, "if you really want to do something bad, you still have to do it."

Feeling the undisguised connivance in the man's tone, Janet chuckled a few times, rubbed her face on the man's palm, and leaned closer, saying, "I want to do other bad things."

The whole weekend was like a houseboy and housegirl in the mountain cabin of Park City, and time passed quickly.

In the new week, Simon returns to Los Angeles and Janet flies to New York as usual.

Not only cersei capital, now a lot of work in Westeros and Verizon Telecom are in the charge of Janet to a large extent. In addition to the inside and outside of the westrow family, women usually need to take care of many things.

However, compared with many micro management that Simon has to take part in in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, Janet has always been a macro manager who is good at "working hard for the superior", so she actually has a lot less to do than Simon.

Malibu, daenerys studios.

It's January 19, Tuesday.

During lunch time, Simon has dinner with Nancy Brill in the restaurant of loft area on the second floor of the studio.

The two had just discussed a new development plan for blockbuster, which Nancy Brill is in charge of, about blockbuster's plan to directly involve in the field of film production and distribution.

The financial data of blockbuster in 1992 are still under review, but the preliminary data have been released.

In the four quarters of 1992, blockbuster's total revenue was about $3.36 billion.

The core video business has a revenue scale of US $2.51 billion, including US $130 million in online platform revenue. Although the proportion is still very low, the development in this area is far beyond the expectation of the industry.

In addition, the sales scale of movie peripheral products in chain stores was US $730 million. Among this part of revenue, the peripheral sales directly related to danilisi entertainment accounted for 69%, reaching US $510 million. This is also the largest part of danilisi entertainment peripheral sales in all retail channels such as Wal Mart and Toys R US.

Finally, there are about 120 million dollars in store advertising and other revenue.

In the past few years, Nancy Brill has been making all kinds of adjustments to blockbuster in order to keep the growing video chain in a healthy "long-distance runner" state, instead of blindly pursuing scale and finally becoming a slow-moving "obese patient".

Only last year, when the late fee, which has been criticized by users, was abolished, blockbuster decisively cut down the corner businesses such as game card rental, further simplified the retail business of non video tapes, and thoroughly established the two core businesses of video tape rental and peripheral product sales.

In terms of store expansion, blockbuster has also maintained restraint.

This business strategy ensures the overall efficient operation of blockbuster, but also limits the rapid growth of blockbuster's revenue to a great extent.

However, the profit margin of blockbuster has increased greatly due to the streamlining of bloated business and the improvement of efficiency. Even if it still maintains the expansion of online platform, blockbuster's annual net profit margin is expected to be about 15%, and the net profit in 1992 will be about US $500 million.

That's more than the net profit of some big Hollywood studios.

With the spread of the news, although the annual financial report will not be officially announced until next month, during this period, the share price of blockbuster has continued to rise.

With a lot of cash in hand, expansion is necessary.

As a result, there is a plan to directly set foot in the film production and distribution, which is actually a supplement to the overall expansion of daenerys entertainment in Hollywood.