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Simon narrowed his eyes slightly, and the figure of Michael Ovitz suddenly appeared in his mind.

Sidney Pollack was one of the veteran filmmakers who first joined this talent agency during the development of C. In the 80s, the two films "My Fair Lady" and "Out of Africa" ​​that pushed Sidney Pollack's directorial career to the pinnacle ", are all C packaging projects.

For this reason, Sidney Pollack was Michael Ovitz's most ardent supporter.

Sidney Pollack was one of the few people who publicly expressed his firm support for Ovitz in the media during the "Footmen" incident in which Michael Ovitz clashed with famous screenwriter Joe Ezettehas two years ago One of the Hollywood filmmakers.

This time, Sidney Pollack obviously hopes to use the opportunity of "Sugar Coated Trap" to free Tom Cruise under C's embarrassment of being blocked by Daenerys Entertainment.

Although C terminated the agency contracts with several filmmakers at the beginning, in fact, Michael Ovitz has always maintained very close contact with several people, probably out of compensation and other thoughts, and Simon just turned a blind eye to this.

After "Rain Man", Tom Cruise's two commercial films "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Thunderbolt" in recent years have achieved success at the box office. However, because of the influence of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood The power has been further strengthened, and the major studios will inevitably have a little more scruples in the process of cooperating with Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise.

Barry Levinson, who was supposed to be the favorite for Oscar nominations in 1992, disappeared directly. After Daenerys and Paramount reached a cooperation last year, this major studio that was originally closely related to Cruise also disappeared. Abandoning each other, which caused Cruise to have no movies in 1991.

In fact, Simon hasn't said anything about not letting other studios work with the trio, Dustin Hoffman also starred in "Captain Hawk" last year, after Tom Cruise left Paramount "Ambition for the Earth", a collaboration with Columbia Pictures, will also be released this summer.

On the surface, the careers of these filmmakers are actually quite normal.

Dustin Hoffman participated in "Captain Hawk" last year, and Peter Cooper persuaded Terry Semel to come forward to talk about the project together.

Simon was relieved at the time, but did not change a certain fundamental attitude: Daenerys Entertainment still will not cooperate with the three filmmakers.

Meg Ryan's "lifting the ban" also started with signing a film contract with Daenerys Entertainment, which is probably why Sidney Pollack made the request today.

Michael Ovitz should hope that Tom Cruise and Daenerys Entertainment will reach a cooperation in order to convey to the outside world a signal of a complete reconciliation between Cruise and Daenerys Entertainment, so as to prevent this popular young boy from being involved in the production process. The studio's many scruples led to a decline in career.

Simon didn't show any displeasure at Sidney Pollack's straightforward request, he just shook his head and said, "Sid, if you insist on this, I can only say sorry, I hope we will have the opportunity to cooperate again in the future .”

Sidney Pollack was suddenly a little angry when he saw Simon's attitude, and said, "Simon, it's been a long time since that incident, and I don't understand why you still hold on to it. You are already a big man, you shouldn't be angry with these things. Little matters are preoccupied."

"Sid, I have always believed that those who think that some people are 'big men' should be generous and should take the initiative to forgive is a kind of blackmail, a kind of public opinion blackmailing by the weak against the strong. For those who I don't want to forgive, it is very difficult. Sorry, I don't forgive any of them. Also, I think I've been magnanimous enough that I didn't take them directly, and they've all been doing pretty well up until now, haven't they? So, don't ask me for more many."

After Simon finished speaking, he no longer waited for Sidney Pollack's response, raised his glass to the other party, and walked towards him.

Sarah Michelle Gellar has been by Simon's side, from Madonna at first, to Sydney Pollack, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and many others at the party They were all big men who were out of reach. After more than two hours of party time, the girl seemed to have entered another world.

It's kind of incredible to think about.

Sarah's mother is a poor little actor, because she has not been able to get ahead, she can only pin her hopes on her daughter.Since the age of four, the girl has been participating in various auditions, and her early exposure to the Vanity Fair circle also made Sarah appear more precocious than girls of the same age.

The role of Susan's daughter Julie in "Desperate Housewives" can be regarded as the first relatively important resident role in a TV series that Sarah has obtained in more than ten years. In addition, this project is said to be created by Westeros himself. Both thought this would be a breakthrough for Sarah.

Then, this afternoon, there was a sudden message from the brokerage company that the mother and daughter initially thought was a joke, that Westeros wanted to meet Sarah.

After repeatedly confirming that it was not a joke, Sarah clearly felt the emotion that her mother almost cried.

After Rosellen Gellar had a heart-to-heart talk with her daughter, the WMA made another arrangement, and Sarah was sent to Simon this evening.

Simon left Barbra Streisand's party with Sarah Michelle Gellar just before ten o'clock.

Originally, I felt that "Sugar Coated Trap" did not exactly match the style of Sidney Pollack. In the original time and space, the reason why this project was directed by Sidney Pollack, in Simon's view, was obviously another C. Package the project.

Michael Ovitz often uses diversity as an excuse to allow directors accustomed to one style to direct where the other has never set foot.

Many directors have their own style, so it seems a bit messy to Simon to do so.

Moreover, what Michael Ovitz forcibly put together is often a big-budget movie with a high budget, which inevitably leads to the failure of some blockbusters.

Daenerys Entertainment is a strong exception to the project-packaging mechanism that is still popular in Hollywood because it saves studios a lot of effort.

Unless Simon thinks it is really suitable, neither C, nor WMA or ICM can force a packaged project of an entire team into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment.

Since Sidney Pollack failed to negotiate, Simon decisively decided to choose another director.

Simon, who had been thinking about something on the way back to Cape Dume Manor, didn't realize what happened to the girl beside him.

Despite her young age, Sarah Michelle Gellar obviously knew what was about to happen. Not only did the girl not show much stage fright, she even tried clumsily to tease the man next to her.

Chapter 480 Quarterly Financial Report (Revised)

The car stopped in front of the Shell Villa in Cape Dumei Manor. Simon didn't intend to get off the car immediately, but said to Sarah beside him, "I'll have someone take you back."

Sarah Michelle Gellar froze for a moment, looking at Simon with some doubts and disappointment.

Simon gave instructions to the driver in the front row. Seeing that the girl quickly turned into a pitiful expression, he stretched out his hand and squeezed her little chin, and said with a smile, "It's not very convenient tonight. If you have time, I will take you to Europe to play." .”

Sarah still didn't quite understand, but she grabbed Simon's big hand that she wanted to take back and shook it, and said with her face up, "So, Simon, we've made a deal."

Simon nodded with a smile: "Of course."

The driver opened the car door outside. Seeing that Simon was about to get out of the car, the girl leaned closer: "But, Simon, how can I contact you?"

"I will contact you."

After Simon finished speaking, he got out of the car, gave another instruction to the driver, and walked towards the villa.

Sarah Michelle Gellar really wanted to muster up the courage to chase after her, but before she could move, the driver closed the car door. She had to sit down again and watched Simon walk towards the building that often appeared on the pages of newspapers and magazines through the car window. Shell Villas on.

Sarah's daze was interrupted by the polite inquiry of the driver in the front seat.

The girl responded quickly, and when the car started, she couldn't see the man, and looked longingly at the manor that was destined to be only glimpsed in the night.

Simon knows very well that there are countless eyes staring at him all the time. This is California, but Sarah Michelle Gellar is only 15 years old. Some turmoil came out.

There is no shortage of women around, so there is no need to plant such an indefinite time bomb.

In fact, he was too busy recently, otherwise he could have taken the girl to other states tonight as usual.The laws of each state in the United States are different. In many areas such as Utah or Washington State, girls can marry at the age of 12.

The three girls A, B, and D are taking care of Janet on the east coast. On Cape Dumey, the baby-faced Zoe Parks and the bust-like Isabel Dunn are responsible for Simon's daily routine.

Simon entered the villa, and Isabel greeted him.

After saying hello, Isabel took Simon's suit and folded it in front of her chest. Isabel said, "Boss, Alice is back."

Although she is still working as the housekeeper of the Westeros family, Alice Ferguson spends more of her free time in San Francisco because of the Amazon online store.

Zoe and Isabel were recently arranged to take care of Simon's daily life at Cape Dume Manor. In fact, the housekeeper was training her successor after receiving acquiescence.

The Westeros family has more than 30 maids on the North American side alone.

However, after several adjustments, many girls were directly arranged to stay in the city where the properties under Simon's name were located, and those who were able to approach the Simons were still the first group.

Taking a look at Isabel's appearance of squeezing her suit on her chest, Simon asked with a smile, "Where is it?"

Under Simon's gaze, Isabel straightened her waist slightly, but her expression seemed unaware. She pointed in one direction and said, "Over there in the living room."

There is an activity area specially arranged for the maids in the Shell Villa. Generally, the bedrooms are on the second floor, and there are also exclusive rooms for them such as kitchen, cloakroom, gym and living room on the first floor.

Of course, this kind of treatment is limited to a few girls who can stay with the Simons, such as ABCD and the housekeeper, and most of the others can only live outside the manor even in Los Angeles.

Today is April 4th, and some operating data of Eaglet in the first quarter of 9 should have been released.

Thinking about this, Simon walked straight to a living room on the east side of the villa hall that Isabel pointed to.

Seeing Simon's movement, Isabel was slightly taken aback, and quickly followed.

Simon rarely took the initiative to go to their rooms in the past.

As soon as he came to the door of the living room, Simon heard a soft laugh with coquettishness.

Standing at the door and looking in, Alice Ferguson was sitting on the sofa with a laptop in her hands, and Zoe Parks was snuggling beside her, with her arms around the housekeeper's waist, her chin resting on her shoulder, and a smile on her lips Said something in a low voice.

A baby-faced girl, Xiao Niaoyiren, was beside a cool-looking short-haired beauty.

This picture is, um, beautiful.

just.

Simon couldn't help but feel like he was being pried into a corner.

This is a little vase that I work hard every day to earn money to support!

Isabel Dunn followed behind Simon, and she also heard Zoe's chuckle. She carefully passed Simon and glanced at the living room. Seeing the host's reaction, she immediately felt a little bit of a misfortune. .

Let you always look indifferent to us!

hum.

However, in order to avoid too embarrassing the progress of the plot, Isabel took the initiative to cough lightly as a reminder.

The living room was brightly lit, but there were only yellow wall lamps in the corridor, so the two housekeepers did not notice Simon's arrival immediately.

Hearing a voice suddenly, the two women looked over together.

Seeing that it was Simon, Zoe Parks, who was still entangled with the housekeeper, was the first to react. She jumped off the sofa and stood up like a frightened kitten. Her eyes flashed left and right in a panic before she forced herself to greet him calmly: " Good evening, boss."

The housekeeper looked very calm, and got up to say hello, and sent Zoe, who was "guilty", to prepare coffee for Simon.

Watching the baby-faced girl run out of the room, Simon walked into the living room, sat down on the single sofa next to the housekeeper, crossed his legs, and looked at the cold beauty in front of him, without saying a word, with an expression of "tell yourself" The appearance of the evil boss.

Isabel actually wanted to come in and join in the fun.

However, seeing Simon's appearance, the girl just stepped into the door a few steps before quietly backing out.

The housekeeper sat down on the sofa again, picked up the laptop again with a calm expression, tapped it a few times, then handed the laptop to Simon, and said, "Boss, the basic revenue data for the first quarter of the online mall has been preliminarily calculated. Done, do you want to take a look?"

Simon took the laptop handed over by the housekeeper and put it on his lap, looked at the files on the screen, and said, "Aren't you going to explain it?"

The housekeeper's tone was still calm: "Boss, you never said that romance in the office is not allowed."

Simon frowned slightly and seemed to try to remember, before he said: "Well, it should be, I really didn't say it."

Seeing that Simon's attention was on the laptop screen, the housekeeper quickly and seriously looked at the expression of the man in front of him, and then she was relieved.

My boss obviously doesn't really care about this.

After working for Simon for so long, Alice can roughly tell when this young man who always seems to be calm and calm is really angry.

However, I suddenly realized that for such a long time, this man who was indifferent in his bones had gotten angry so many times that he couldn't count it all with one hand.

It seems that there are not many things worthy of his attention in this world.

Indeed, at the age of 24, most people in this world have already reached the peak that most people in the world may not necessarily reach in ten lifetimes. It is too easy to get everything they want, so naturally it is hard to care about it.

Can't help but think, what if it's me?

After having this idea, the housekeeper suddenly realized that maybe her idea just now was not accurate.

It's not that he has too much and doesn't care.

More likely, this man's nature is like this.

Geniuses are often lonely and indifferent.

The man in front of him couldn't even be described as a simple genius.

Totally a miracle.

A miracle that easily makes people have a strong desire to find out: what kind of person is he, how did he achieve everything now, and where is the limit in the future?

"Ellie, do you know? When a woman has a strong curiosity about a man, she often falls in love with him unknowingly."

Suddenly there was a voice next to her ear, and the housekeeper woke up, and suddenly realized that she had been staring at her boss for an unknown amount of time.

There were two cups of hot coffee on the coffee table in front of him.

Apparently, Zooey had brought coffee in and left quietly.

A little flustered, she withdrew her gaze, subconsciously retorted: "I won't fall in love with you."

Immediately regret it.

This sentence is simply the standard response of a soap opera heroine when she is duplicity.

Simon smiled and continued to look at the financial report data on the laptop.

The Amazon online store opened on January 1 at the beginning of the year. In the first quarter, it only ran for about 23 days.

After the outbreak of orders on the first day due to early adopters psychology and extensive publicity and marketing, the subsequent sales of online shopping malls began to drop rapidly.

Compared with the astonishing 132 million book orders on the first day, the average daily order volume of the online mall after the smooth operation is only between 5 and 10.

This sharp drop in sales figures was actually expected.

In the shopping carnivals such as Double Eleven in Simon's memory, the order volume in a single day can often reach more than ten times that of normal days.

On the first day of Amazon's online shopping mall, under the spare no efforts of the Westeros system, it is equivalent to a small shopping carnival.

Subsequent orders have shrunk sharply, which is the normal state in the early stages of e-commerce development.

Even so, throughout the first quarter, the cumulative number of orders on Amazon's online store reached 503 million, and 619 million books were sold, with sales reaching 1 million US dollars.

In Simon's memory, Amazon was established in 1995, and it was not until 3, three years later, that it achieved annual sales of 1998 million US dollars.