After dinner, Simon took Janet directly back to Palisades.
In the Chevrolet SUV compartment, Neil Bennett, the driver, drove the car very smoothly. Simon leaned against the window, thinking about the meeting with Mike Medova tonight.
Mike Medova's reaction to "Pulp Fiction" was even more negative than Simon expected, which worried him.
The former "Pulp Fiction" was so famous that in addition to its own quality, the Weinstein brothers spared no effort in the operation of public relations is also a very critical decisive factor.
From this year's 18 Oscar nominations, it can be seen that Orion's strength in awards and public relations is no less than that of Miramax later, but if Orion's senior executives expressed their dislike of "Pulp Fiction", I want them to be like Wayne. It is obviously unrealistic for the Stan brothers to conduct awards for this film as much as possible.
What's more, Simon's age is still the biggest variable that limits the recognition of "Pulp Fiction" awards.
In any case, he is not yet 20 years old.
Speaking of which, Simon does not lack other options. But according to the previous contract with Orion, this second movie is not worthy of some ideas.
In order to promote the release of "Lola Run", Simon and Orion signed a contract, and his director and screenwriter's basic salary combined was only $500,000.
Although Simon retains the right to re-negotiate the sharing clauses, in any case, this new film will not allow him to get too much profit, and the next best result may be just a sharing clause similar to "Death is Coming".
But compared to "Reaper Is Coming", Simon needs to devote more energy to the film he personally directed.
Since he couldn't get enough income, Simon decided to choose a film he was more interested in, and at the same time, he could consolidate the popularity of his stylized director.
Jonathan will naturally discuss the specific sharing contract of "Pulp Fiction" with Orion, but then, the negotiation of selling the distribution rights of "Lola Run" is also a chore that takes a lot of time.
In addition.
Whether it is "Butterfly Effect", "Reaper Is Coming" or "Pulp Fiction" or "When Harry Meets Sally", all these projects still have a lot of work to be promoted as soon as possible.
Even considering the schedule of the three films "Reaper is Here", "Pulp Fiction" and "When Harry Meets Sally", Simon found that the end of this year and Easter next year are obviously also suitable for at least insertion A movie goes in.
Time is money.
But Simon is either short of money or time.
and.
These are all things related to movies.
The U.S. stock market crashed in the second half of the year. Simon remembered the date very clearly, October 19, Black Monday. In order to obtain sufficient benefits from this financial turmoil, in addition to raising large sums of funds in advance, many other preparations must be done, which also require time and energy.
Simon was contemplating her eyebrows all the way, and Janet quietly leaned beside him without interrupting.
Back to the Palisades mansion, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.
Simon entered the villa, saw the phone message indicator in the living room flashing, and walked over to press play.
Janet followed in steadily.
The call is from Amy Pascal.
In her message, Amy expressed her concern about the results of Simon's afternoon meeting with Wells Fargo executives, and then she talked about another thing: a Vice President of Mattel contacted her today, hoping to discuss "Lola Run "The problem of toy peripheral development.
Mattel is one of the world's largest toy design, production and sales companies, and its main product is various types of Barbie dolls.
After hearing Amy's message, Simon immediately regained his spirit.
The surrounding area.
Around a movie that is almost certain to be the annual box office champion in North America.
This is definitely another big gain.
Simon himself designed the wall clocks, ring and other small props in "Lola Run" in the first place, but he actually had this idea. Since most of the props and even the image of Lola are original, the copyright of these props and characters belongs to Daenerys Pictures according to the creation-get-get-you-get rule of the copyright law.
During the recent period of time, there are so many things that Simon has no energy to take care of.
right now.
Someone came to the door.
Naturally, you can't miss it anymore, and you need to plan carefully.
Standing next to the telephone, making quick calculations, Simon turned around and was about to go to the study, only to find Janet standing beside him. Because Simon suddenly turned around without warning, the woman was obviously taken aback, her eyes widened.
Seeing Janet's appearance, Simon smiled apologetically, reached out his hand to hold the woman's delicate face and kissed him, and said, "Baby, you go take a bath first, I have something to do."
All day today, or all these recent days, as Simon was so busy with her own eyes, Janet had been thinking about things.
at this time.
Seeing Simon's footsteps hurrying upstairs, Janet followed upstairs.
When she came to the bedroom, Janet took off her evening gown and took a bath absently, but instead of wearing the silk bathrobe she liked very much on weekdays, she changed into a slightly OL-style blouse and white trousers.
Standing in front of the dressing mirror and looking around, Janet went to Simon's study.
Unlike the large study room downstairs where I met with Paul Olsen, Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo, this is another small study room in the mansion. It is located next to the bedroom on the second floor and looks very private.
Janet rarely comes here on weekdays.
Because she always felt that many of Simon's secrets might be hidden in this study. Although he was very curious about everything about her boyfriend, he did not take the initiative to tell herself, and Janet never deliberately explored.
The study door is not closed.
Janet knocked on the door panel and walked in.
Simon was standing by the wall in the study with a whole white writing board, holding a water-based pen in one hand and a microphone in the other hand, talking to the opposite.
A long list of nouns has accumulated on the writing board.
Soundtrack, poster album, video game, character doll, butterfly wall clock, T-shirt, ring, magazine, image authorization...
These are obviously the developable peripheral options of "Lola Run".
Below the slightly scattered nouns, there are several names and contact numbers.
Seeing that Simon was busy discussing with the other person, Janet just nodded at her and made a random gesture, so she walked to the bookshelf on the other side and looked around the entire row of folders, casually Take a blue folder and open it.
This is a stack of newspaper clippings.
Each page of the hand-bound 16-volume draft paper is pasted with newspaper news the size of a tofu block.
The first page of news comes from the Los Angeles Times, with the headline "New World Pictures Acquires Marvel Entertainment".
Read the content curiously.
"New World Pictures officially reached an acquisition agreement with Marvel Entertainment on Thursday. The spokesperson announced that the move is aimed at expanding the company's comic publishing and TV animation business."
"Marvel Entertainment is one of the largest comic production companies in North America. Its assets include Marvel Comics in New York, Marvel Comics and Marvel Productions in the United Kingdom, and an animation studio in San Fernando Valley, California, which owns Spider-Man. Superheroes such as, Hulk and X-Men are popular among comic fans."
"In 1985, Marvel Entertainment had an annual turnover of 72 million US dollars and a profit of 5.1 million US dollars."
"Previously, Marvel Entertainment Group's parent company Candice Industrial Holdings Group officially entered the bankruptcy liquidation process. The two parties did not disclose the detailed terms of the transaction, but industry rumors suggest that Marvel Entertainment Group's price is roughly 40 million to 50 million US dollars. between."
"The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the year."
After knowing it for more than half a year, Janet has never seen Simon read a comic. I wonder why the little man would be interested in such a news.
He turned his head and read the news carefully again, but still had no clue. Apart from the handwritten date of "November 21, 1986" in the blank space of the page, there is nothing else.
So I had to turn back.
Most of the next pages are still simple news with simple dates, and there are few comments.
After flipping most of it like this, another newspaper clipping attracted Janet's attention.
This is the 59th Oscar-nominated film list announced in late December last year.
However, the newspaper clippings only retained a small piece, nominated for the three best animated short films, and the red oil-based pen drew a circle on one of the short films called "Naughty Jumping Lights", except for the routine '1986 "December 20th, 2012" marked with a word: Pixar.
Pixar.
Janet remembers this time that an animation in the opening of "Lola Run" was made by this animation studio, which seems to be a rare 3D animation studio.
Marvel comics, 3D animation.
Ah.
Is the little boy interested in cartoons?
Thinking in her heart, Janet turned the newspaper clippings another page.
This time it is professional news that a software company named'Microsoft' is conducting internal testing of a new version of the operating system. Finally, there is an assessment of Microsoft's recent stock price. Due to the continued boom in the North American stock market, Microsoft's market value officially exceeded 1 billion. Dollar.
After reading this news carefully again, there is still no clue.
All of these newspaper clippings are like things that do not have any constitutional focus at all. Janet even thought about it a little bit, but still couldn't catch any connection.
Seriously had to put the folder back in its original position, and Janet turned and walked back to the man again.
Another phone call from Simon was also coming to an end, and he was listening to the narration opposite, writing a name and a series of phone numbers on the writing board.
"Then, thank you for your help, Peter, I'm so sorry to disturb you so late... Haha, of course, I have time to eat together," After finishing speaking, Simon casually pressed the on-hook button on the next landline before turning to Janet, who swayed by her side for a long time, looked at the woman up and down, and said, "It's already late, why did you suddenly change into this suit?"
Janet spread her arms around in front of Simon, and said, "How about?"
Although Janet is not as tall as Catherine, she definitely belongs to the kind of body that looks very good with or without clothes.
Simon heard the words, nodded without hesitation, and smiled: "It's very flavorful, and I will put on high heels later. By the way, is this suit expensive?"
Janet immediately understood some of the subtext in Simon's words, and immediately gave the man a sharp look.
Reaching out to take the microphone in Simon's hand, Janet pushed the man to sit on the sofa in the study, and sat down on the opposite side, and said seriously: "Simon, I said before, I will help you. So. Next, I will talk to them about the follow-up release negotiations of "Lola Run". You can also leave these peripherals to me. You just need to do what you want."
Simon originally had a smile on her face. Hearing Janet's non-joking words, she put away her smile and said, "Jenny, this will be very tiring."
Janet shook her head and said firmly: "I have already decided."
Simon and Janet looked at each other for a moment, and finally nodded, "Okay. But if you don't want to do it anytime, please let me know."
Janet's lazy appearance on weekdays really left a deep impression on Simon. After all, there was some machismo in her bones. Simon didn't think this was wrong, so she didn't have any idea that Janet planned to help her work. Expect too much.
Perhaps the expectation was too low. In the days that followed, Simon was really surprised. At the same time, I also realized what Catherine had inadvertently mentioned that he could run Buffett to the speechless top student of Columbia University.