Hollywood Hunter

Chen Qing didn't delay her boss's enjoyment of life. After having lunch together and talking about the things that should be discussed, she set off again in the afternoon and flew back to China first.

Simon spent another night doing scientific research at the San Lucas manor, and returned to Los Angeles the next day.

It was a very satisfying weekend, so I decided to follow Chen Qing's suggestion and pick some women who came this time to raise them as confinement. Anyway, not bad money. What's more, considering the state of the Korean entertainment industry, Simon doesn't want to think of a certain woman next time, but he has already been transferred several times after calling her over.

So during breakfast time, I had to come to the roster to draw at random, and I picked about a third of them. I don’t stick to familiar names, and the most important thing is that I am satisfied.

The time came to March 2.

Entering March is also the beginning of a new week.

As soon as he boarded his private jet at San Lucas Airport, Simon received the news that the global box office of "Titanic" officially exceeded 1 billion US dollars in the past weekend.

Among them, North America has earned $15.99 million at the box office in the past three days, and the cumulative box office has reached $496.94 million. It is expected that the entire box office week from February 27 to March 5 will definitely exceed $500 million.

Overseas, with more and more ticket warehouses gradually starting to be released, the box office trend of "Titanic" is still quite fierce. Only in the past three days, the overall overseas revenue has been around 49 million US dollars. Rough statistics show that the total overseas box office discount The contract is more than 513 million US dollars.

According to the current trend, "Titanic" still has a box office potential of at least US$100 million in China, and even more overseas. Even if the total overseas box office has exceeded 500 million, considering that there are still some major box office boxes such as France and China that have not It is more than enough to more than double the box office volume once the film starts.

Therefore, the global box office of this super blockbuster can at least reach the previous global level of 1.8 billion, and it may even be higher.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon went directly to Daenerys Studios and started an intensive work schedule.

As usual, there are many things going on in March.

On the Hollywood side, the most important thing is the Oscars ceremony on March 23, because this time the Oscars are also very important when it comes to whether "Titanic" can continue to conquer cities around the world.

In China, a certain conference related to China's political and economic trends for many years to come is also within the scope of Simon's attention. The conference will open on March 5th.

In addition, there will be Tinkobel's 1998 spring new product launch conference on the 28th of the month. In addition to the routine update, Tinkobel will release a very important product this time, the iberry-10 mobile phone, which is A product made by Tinkobel after acquiring the Canadian Ri company under Simon's instructions last year was actually the former Blackberry mobile phone. In order to comply with Tinkobel's product naming rules, it was changed from blackberry to iberry.

In addition to these big events, a little smaller, there is the upcoming release of "StarCraft" by Daenerys Games on March 25.

Simon's expectation for this game is no less than that of "Counter-Strike OL", which became popular at the end of last year. Moreover, the brand-new "StarCraft" will also attach great importance to networking attributes. Daenerys will provide the same "Counter-Strike OL" Online battle platform.

Daenerys Studios.

Arrived at the company at about nine o'clock in the morning. First, there was a weekly high-level meeting of Daenerys Entertainment, and then a video conference with James Raybould in New York. The latter is about the next reduction plan.

The early recovery of the new technology industry is very obvious.

However, it didn't live up to Simon's expectations, so something must have been done.

One of the most simple and effective options is to reduce holdings.

Simon plans to reduce his holdings of a number of technology stocks in a big way again this year, and at the same time cash out more funds, he will take a look at the rebound of the Nasdaq index in Asia, so as to buy more time for the Westeros system to buy bottoms in the new technology field.

If you want to suppress a stock market, you must insist that the scale cannot be too small, at least starting with tens of billions of dollars.

Speaking of which, even if Simon continues to make global investments and invest a large amount of money in the 3G plan, the cash held by the Westeros system is still very large. It is estimated that the total scale of cash and short-term convertible equivalents hoarded by the Westeros system will reach the level of hundreds of billions of dollars for the profits earned by the enterprise.

Simon talked about this incident with James in the video conference, and he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Too tired to spend money.

Physical work.

At noon, I had dinner with Celia Miller who came from New York, and the topic was still about money.

In the executive restaurant of Daenerys Studios, after the waiter who delivered lunch left, Celia picked up the tableware and began to talk about business: "Russia's economy has deteriorated since the outbreak of the Asian financial turmoil in the second half of last year. Let alone the general public, even some government departments have been unable to pay salaries. Yeltsin’s relationship with the current Prime Minister Chernomyrdin has become more and more tense recently. Yeltsin wants Gazprom to pay a sum of money. But Chernomyrdin and his consortium behind the scenes disagree, so Yeltsin has already planned to fire Chernomyrdin, reorganize the cabinet, and choose a new prime minister."

The matter of a short middle-aged man was quite confidential, and Simon didn't even tell Celia. Hearing this, he just asked, "What does this have to do with me?"

"That's why I came to Los Angeles," Celia said. "I just came back from Eastern Europe. Before returning home, I was approached by Yeltsin's daughter, Tatiana. The other party conveyed Yeltsin's invitation and hoped that you could come to Moscow as a guest."

Simon shook his head directly: "Not interested, Moscow is too cold."

Celia was not surprised, but continued: "In addition, Tatyana also talked to me about some things about the candidate for Russia's new prime minister."

Simon remained silent.

Celia picked up the red wine next to her and took a sip, then said: "Yeltsin intends to nominate the current Minister of Energy, Sergei Kiriyenko. I have investigated in advance. This is a very young Moscow executive, born in 1962. This year Only 36 years old. However, Kiriyenko is very capable. After entering the energy sector, he has solved several crises in related fields in Russia. In addition, Kiriyenko is also very low-key and pragmatic, and he is a non-partisan person. No obvious political leanings. It is clear that Yeltsin is picking his successor."

"Then what?"

Celia stopped her hands and looked at Simon: "This is the problem. I don't understand why Tatyana told me about this. This should be a core secret of Russia. You know, boss. If it is leaked in advance, the opposition in Russia, as well as the current Prime Minister Chernomyrdin, will try to obstruct it."

Celia looked puzzled, but Simon understood that this was another signal from the Yeltsin family to him.

The 36-year-old candidate for the new prime minister is low-key, pragmatic, and non-partisan. These characteristics are very similar to another middle-aged man who is only 45 years old this year and is also in the prime of life and has almost the same label.

Simon didn't know how the Russian political scene was going. At this time, Yeltsin asked his daughter to convey the news to him, which was actually a statement. He valued a certain candidate given by Simon, but he was still full of doubts. Will choose a similar newcomer to try.

In addition, it is clear that Russia’s finances are currently in dire straits. In addition to this invitation, Yeltsin obviously hoped that Simon would express his opinion even if there was no investment. The outside world can have a little more confidence in Russia's economy.

Confidence seems to be very ethereal, but when it comes to Simon, it is absolutely real.

Moreover, the reason why the Russian economy continues to deteriorate is not only the chain effect brought about by the Asian financial turmoil, but also the lack of confidence of overseas investors in the recovery of the Russian economy. Among them, Soros actually contributed a lot. Quantum Fund’s large-scale withdrawal from Russia last year under Simon’s lobbying will inevitably lead to capital flight.

All in all, it's all for nothing.

Celia on the other side of the table waited for a while, then whispered: "Boss?"

Simon shook his head: "Tell the other party that I don't have time recently, let's see what happens next."

Celia was still full of doubts, and nodded upon hearing the words, her gaze still full of inquiry.

Simon felt her gaze and explained with a smile: "Maybe you think about it, so just pretend you don't know anything."

My boss has said so, and Celia can only agree.

It's actually still a mess.

Since his boss did not agree, obviously, it was not Kiriyenko who was about to be promoted by Yeltsin, so who was it?

After Simon finished speaking, he took the initiative to talk about other things and changed the subject, but he was also thinking about this matter in his heart. In general, Simon still hopes that history will go to the same track to a certain extent. However, Yeltsin's side, this incident obviously put a lot of pressure on the other party, and they obviously have a lot of concerns.

This accident.

If Simon was in that position, whether it was because of worries about the future of his family, or, as a Russian, hesitation about the future of his country in his bones, he would not be able to make a decision easily. Therefore, for this matter, if Simon does not give enough statements, it will be difficult to have results. And if the statement is too positive, it will make Yeltsin even more hesitant.

In any case, the next Russian execution will definitely not escape.

After lunch, Celia still left with obvious question marks, leaving a personal file of Kirienko.

Simon flipped through the afternoon schedule before starting, and found that although Yeltsin had made a mess of Russia, he did not lack the ability to recognize and employ people. Although only 36 years old, Kiriyenko is definitely a talent similar to a certain emperor.

Looking back at the memory carefully, I roughly remembered that this person happened to be one of the several prime ministers who Yeltsin successively changed and accepted his fate. The reason why he failed to become the successor in the end was also due to bad luck. 36 years old, after all, a little young, the foundation is too shallow, which is what Yeltsin needs, but also because the foundation is too shallow, it cannot withstand any storms at all.

Coincidentally, 1998 was also a year of turmoil for Russia. This year, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Russian economy once again slipped into the abyss.

Naturally, someone has to take the blame.

Obviously, Kiriyenko will inevitably become the scapegoat for another collapse of the Russian economy.

In the future, in the past, someone as Yeltsin's successor took the position at the last juncture. In addition to being stronger than Kiriyenko, he also had a bit of luck. Because the Russian economy was already at its lowest point at that time, there was not much room for decline, and then it naturally rebounded.

Times create heroes, and heroes need times.

Both are indispensable.

After reading Kiriyenko's information, Simon put this matter aside for the time being, and can roughly confirm that the time for him to go to Russia is probably in the second half of this year, when the Russian economy collapsed again and Kiriyenko was forced to step down . In addition, Simon can roughly guess that since Yeltsin gave himself

Such a signal, with the next cabinet reorganization, someone will probably go further.

Anyway, with Simon's current vision, he only hopes that this vision will not become too early, at least until the 3g plan is implemented to the point where Mars can actually be immigrated, just don't destroy it.

Others, follow fate.

Afternoon is a series of production or distribution meetings.

It involves several films such as "Resident Evil", "Godzilla", and "Public Enemy".

What Simon valued more was "Resident Evil". In the first meeting in the afternoon, the game development team and film production team of "Resident Evil" participated together, and Simon personally presided over it.

As the project continued to advance, Simon also discovered that "Resident Evil" can completely create a mini movie universe.

You must know that the previous "Resident Evil" series had a very large world view and timeline. This time, the two lines of games and movies are launched at the same time, and a complete world view background can also be built in advance. If the two series of games and movies can achieve the same results as before, the comprehensive income will far exceed the two blockbuster projects "Godzilla" and "Public Enemy" discussed at the same time in the afternoon.

On the other hand, this production meeting on "Resident Evil" also finalized the heroine.

Simon ended up going with the original Milla Jovovich.

At first, he considered Natasha Henstridge, but after thinking about it, Simon still felt that Alice should have more wild and powerful aura. Natasha is strong enough in the "Alien" series, but she is not considered strong. On the contrary, her temperament has always been weak. After transformation, it can give people a contrast, but it is not appropriate to use it directly in "Resident Evil".

As for Milla Jovovich, this girl has been active in Hollywood as a small role these years. Although she failed to catch up with Luc Besson as she once did, with the rise of the Internet, it is very easy for Simon to find her. Just find a reason and pull it over.

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