Sandra's residence is located in the Byrd Street community of Beverly Hills, next to Trousdale Estates, where celebrities gather.
The Range Rover drove into the mansion covering an area of about a quarter of an acre. Before Simon got out of the car, Sandra, wearing a white dress with a mesh suspender belt around her waist, trotted out of the villa.
Simon looked at the various cars parked in the yard and the crowds of people moving around the villa, hugged Sandra, took the gift from Neil Bennett and handed it to her, and then asked curiously: "How could this happen?" so many people?"
After Sandra and Simon hugged, she took the man's arm and walked towards the villa with the gift in one hand, saying: "I originally just wanted to celebrate quietly, but people started asking me about this half a month ago. I also asked if Simon Westeros would attend, but I couldn’t say no, that would be too shameful. And then it turned into what it is now.”
Simon smiled and said: "If you tell me earlier, I will lend you the house in Palisades."
Sandra rolled her eyes and refused: "Forget it, I can't afford something like your birthday party."
It was already evening, and when the two of them walked into the villa, many guests who were chatting or pretending to be chatting and laughing immediately looked over.
During this period, Daenerys Pictures has become more and more shining in Hollywood. Not only did its two summer movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Basic Instinct" become huge successes, but it also successfully entered the TV market with "Who Will Be a Millionaire" The ratings of "Mogul" were eye-popping.
As the person who created all of this, Simon naturally became the focus of attention in the circle.
Although there are some controversies in this, everyone knows that in Hollywood, except for box office and ratings, everything else is virtual.
As long as you can make blockbuster movies and hit TV shows, then, in the eyes of studios and TV networks, you are a god.
Similarly, "Pulp Fiction" and "Basic Instinct" once again made a lot of people famous. In the eyes of countless Hollywood actors who are always looking forward to chasing such opportunities, Simon is also the God who can make them reach the sky in one step.
Because Simon was too busy at work, he rarely attended parties during this time, so Sandra's birthday party became a great opportunity for many people to seek contact with him.
As the first actress Simon made famous, there are also various public or private scandals between the two. No one thinks that the relationship between Simon and Sandra is innocent.
Simon was held by Sandra's arm unabashedly and walked around the crowd, socializing like the man of the house for more than half an hour. When he had free time, he and Sandra hid in a rather private living room on the second floor.
This mansion is not large in size, but its location is very good. It happens to be on a gentle slope to the south. From the sunbathing chair on the living room terrace, you can see the lights of downtown Los Angeles that have begun to light up.
Sandra brought a glass of red wine over and sat down on the edge of the lounge chair. She watched Simon leisurely leaning on the lounge chair and flipping through a magazine. She handed the red wine over and asked in a teasing tone: "Why didn't Jenny come with you?"
Simon took the red wine and took a sip, enjoying the delicious fragrance coming from Sandra, and said, "Do you want her to come over?"
Sandra leaned down and simply lay on Simon's chest, saying: "So, do you want to stay tonight?"
As a normal man, Simon does not resist the feeling of being intimate with Sandra. However, being close is close, and if you stay tonight, you will be in a lot of trouble.
Shaking his head regretfully, Simon imitated Janet's tone and said, "You must go home before twelve o'clock."
"The control is so strict," Sandra immediately showed an expression of contempt on her face, grabbed Simon's wrist, took a sip of red wine from the cup in his hand, and said: "So, get rid of her. I'll allow you to go home at two o'clock in the morning."
Simon carefully held the goblet to prevent the wine from spilling, and said with a smile: "Then you are not afraid that I will find someone who will allow me to stay home all night?"
Sandra frowned in distress. This was indeed a big problem. After thinking for a moment, she quickly compromised and said, "It can be discussed."
"I don't like women who have no position."
"Humph, you spineless man, you can go home whenever a woman tells you to."
When it came to a man's dignity, Simon immediately became unwilling: "How is it possible? Of course I can do whatever I want. To prove this, I decided to go back at eleven o'clock."
"hehe."
More guests came over one after another. As the host, Sandra could not stay away for too long. The two of them stayed on the second floor for a while and then quickly went downstairs.
When the guests in the living room saw the two coming down from upstairs together, their faces looked as if nothing had happened, but there was more or less ambiguity in their eyes, and some of the female guests looked a little disappointed.
This is less than half an hour.
As night falls, the lively birthday party officially begins.
This party was naturally not as grand as Simon's birthday party at the beginning of the year, but there were definitely a lot of top Hollywood figures in attendance.
Senior executives from WMA and big bosses from several major film companies rushed over. Although many people only showed up and left again after briefly greeting everyone, this was enough to make many little stars at the party envious.
However, even Sandra herself understood that these people were mainly here for Simon.
As Terry Semel intends to do in the afternoon, Hollywood is aware that Daenerys Films is currently looking for new film projects.
The two projects "Pulp Fiction" and "Basic Instinct" have made Orion and Fox, which cooperated with Daenerys Pictures, a lot of money. "Pulp Fiction" has directly supported Orion's performance this year. Take these into account Naturally, the Hollywood filmmakers in their eyes are trying every possible means to establish relations with Daenerys Pictures.
"Nancy is a trader in the Chicago commodity futures market, but her performance is mediocre and she is even about to face layoffs. By chance, she meets the devil Naik, who has the power of prophecy and can clearly foresee the future. . Desperate to succeed, Nancy made a deal with Naik. She exchanged her soul for futures rise and fall information from Naik... "
On the lawn in the backyard of the mansion, Simon patiently listened to the script introduced by George Crane, a producer recommended by Jonathan, and said with a smile: "George, this is a very interesting idea. However, the futures trader's design It’s a little far away from ordinary people.”
George Crane suddenly became enlightened and immediately said: "This is indeed a problem, Simon, if necessary, we can change to a stock trader."
Simon doesn't intend to be too perfunctory with the other party. It is difficult to create new tricks in this setting of making a deal with the devil. The final result is nothing more than the heroine repenting, giving up the devil's conditions or passing the devil's test, and then having a lover. Finally got married.
"Okay, George, you can have someone send a script to Daenerys Films tomorrow. After I read it, if I think it's good, I'll contact you."
When George Crane heard what Simon said, he naturally understood that there was not much hope in the matter. He continued to chat with Simon for a few words and then walked away wisely.
Jonathan looked at George Crane's leaving figure and said to Simon: "I really like this script. Simon, do you think it won't work?"
Simon shook his head calmly and said: "The story is too cliche, and I didn't see anything eye-catching."
"Actually, Hollywood has never lacked creative scripts, but everyone has always been more inclined to add a little something based on proven successful ideas, which often involve investments of tens of millions of dollars. This is safer. "Jonathan talked about his experience, glanced at Sandra next to Simon, and said: "Speaking of which, the movie "A Fish Named Wanda" you introduced to Sandy was really surprising. It was expected to be just It will earn more than 60 million US dollars at the box office in North America. Sandra signed a 10% omni-channel profit sharing contract, which is enough to make her the highest-paid actress in Hollywood this year."
Simon shrugged and said, "I was a little surprised too. At first I just thought the script was very interesting."
Jonathan had a smile on his face, but deep down in his heart, he instinctively believed that this was not an accident.
Having just heard an idea of making a deal with the devil in exchange for predicting the future, Jonathan even felt that everything Simon had shown since his debut, whether it was what he did in Hollywood or his operation that made more than a billion dollars in the stock index futures market last year, It's almost like making a deal with the devil.
Thinking this in his heart, Jonathan naturally would not say it out loud. Although he was not an atheist, he also felt that his thoughts were somewhat nonsense.
Sandra waited for Jonathan to go away, but she didn't hide her thoughts. She hugged Simon's arm and touched it. She leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Hey, did you also make a deal with the devil?"
Simon nodded with a mysterious expression, and deliberately looked around and said, "It's actually an angel. I met him two years ago when I was in a mental hospital."
An exaggerated expression of surprise appeared on Sandra's face: "Introduce her to me."
Simon regretted: "What a pity, she has returned to God."
The two were chatting in low voices, and a tall girl in a black evening dress came over, but it was Nicole Kidman.
"Simon, Sandy, what are you talking about?"
Sandra said carelessly: "Simon said he had seen God."
Nicole was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "This, um, is very interesting."
Simon was helpless. He was living well, how could he have seen God? He simply ignored Sandra's words and asked Nicole: "How are you preparing for George's "Crossing the Horizon"?"
Although Nicole still had two film contracts, Daenerys Pictures did not have a suitable project for her at the time, so Simon agreed that Nicole should first film George Miller's "Over the Horizon".
For similar reasons, the same goes for Samuel L. Jackson and Meg Ryan, who signed option contracts with Daenerys Pictures.
"It's too cold in Australia now, so we probably won't be able to start filming until September," Nicole said, looking at Simon with wandering eyes, and said, "I heard that you plan to shoot "Batman" in Australia."
"Yes," Simon said without denying it, "It's also due to the season. It will be just right to shoot there early next year."
Nicole didn't hide it and said: "Speaking of which, Simon, is there really no role suitable for me? Even a small supporting role is fine?"
Simon shook his head regretfully and said, "I'm not willing to waste your film contract on a small supporting role."
"Then it's not included in the contract," Nicole said happily and flatteringly: "After all, who would refuse Simon Westeros's invitation?"
While socializing like this, the lively party time flew by quickly.
After ten o'clock, guests continued to leave one after another. As eleven o'clock approached, the entire mansion was basically empty.
Although there were many guests tonight, Sandra did not hire a party company.
Simon and Sandra saw off the last wave of guests together, and saw Sandra's assistant Gina Kolos cleaning up the mess alone in the living room, so he said, "Should you call someone to clean it up?"
"Let's talk tomorrow," Sandra said, sending Gina to rest, pulling Simon to sit down on the sofa in the living room, curling up and leaning in the man's arms, saying: "You really don't plan to stay tonight ?”
Simon put his fingers through the mesh at the waist of Sandra's dress and scratched it lightly, then said: "You don't want to be on the gossip headlines when you get up early tomorrow morning, do you?"
Sandra smiled and opened Simon's mischievous fingers and said, "I wouldn't mind if Simon Westeros could be snatched away."
Simon smiled softly and leaned forward to kiss the woman on the forehead before leaving, but Sandra hugged her neck and kissed her on the lips.
The two of them huddled on the sofa for a while, then Simon got up and left. Even if he and Sandra didn't care about gossip, they had to take Janet's feelings into consideration.
The next day is Wednesday.
Although Simon did not stay overnight at Sandra's house, his attendance at the girl's birthday party last night was still exaggerated by the gossip tabloids, but it did not cause much waves. He has just turned twenty and has fame and wealth that is unmatched by others. Many people think that it is normal for such a guy who attracts so much attention to constantly have various scandals with women.
Simon didn't want to care about this. He needed to deal with the thorny issues about "Rain Man".
Before last year's "Good Morning Vietnam", Barry Levinson, who started his career in TV series, could only be regarded as a second-tier director like Robin Williams. "Good Morning Vietnam" ended up with a box office of US$123 million in North America, surpassing the combined box office results of all previous films directed by Barry Levinson.
In this era, any director who can produce a film with a box office of over 100 million in North America will be sought after by the entire Hollywood.
As Barry Levinson's popularity rises, his temper and thoughts will naturally rise as well. In the process of directing "Rain Man", just like the two male protagonists, they took various risks. The film's budget was stretched, and Barry Levinson also made a lot of contributions.
To prevent the project from spiraling out of control, Simon personally followed the entire filming process. When the post-production work began, he also gave Barry Levinson a seventeen-page memorandum accumulated from watching the shooting samples every week, hoping that the other party would refer to his opinions for editing.
So here comes the thing.
During this time, Simon has been able to hear Barry Levinson complaining publicly on various occasions about Simon's excessive interference in the "Rain Man" project. If Daenerys Films had not suppressed a press release, these rumors would have been has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter.
In the original contract, Michael Ovitz bought Barry Levinson a month of post-editing time.
Naturally, Simon could not predict the current situation. Considering the original team, he agreed, but now he regrets his original decision.
Fortunately, a month has finally passed.
Simon didn't back down and asked to see the rough cut.
The viewing room at Daenerys Film Headquarters.
Simon only watched the three-and-a-half-hour rough cut for less than an hour before he turned off the projector himself, looked at Barry Levinson next to him and said, "Barry, in just this hour, I discovered at least five things." I need an explanation for the details I mentioned in the memo that didn't appear in the film."
Barry Levinson said in a nonchalant tone: "Simon, I think it's a good cut. I don't think it's necessary to keep the details you mentioned."
Simon continued to stare at Barry Levinson and said, "Or, Barry, you did it on purpose, right?"
Not to be outdone, Barry Levinson said: "Simon, I really don't like others to interfere with my work."
"But you have to understand," Simon's tone turned cold and said, "I gave you this job of yours. You spent 25 million U.S. dollars on me, or more than 25 million U.S. dollars, so you are obligated to spend some money on it." A result that satisfies me.”
After hearing Simon's words, Barry Levinson's temper also jumped up and said: "Westeros, I am a director, not your slave. I will only maximize this project based on my own ideas." Well, if you can't accept that, you shouldn't have hired me in the first place. Do you know how many studios in Hollywood would pay me $25 million to make a movie?"
"It seems we have nothing more to say," Simon said, not intending to waste any more time with Barry Levinson. He stood up and said, "Daenerys Pictures will completely take back the post-production rights for this project. In addition, I need to remind you You, Barry, are contractually obligated to uphold the reputation of this film. So it would be in both our interests that I do not want to hear you discuss Rain Man in public again."