Near noon, the black Mercedes-Benz sedan entered the movie theater plot purchased by Daenerys Entertainment along the widened mountain road. Although it was Saturday, there were still people busy in the mountain col that had become a construction site, and the surrounding area was no longer as bushy as it was originally.
The car stopped at the edge of the construction site, Nancy Brill opened the door and got out, and Amy Pascal came over.
Nancy looked at the surrounding terrain surrounded by ridges on both sides and close to the cliff, and said to Amy who was walking over: "Judging from the selection of this land, our little boss must be a guy who lacks security in his bones."
Amy smiled and asked: "Why do you say that?"
Nancy raised her hand and gestured around, then made a hug gesture, and said: "How obvious, a defensive choice of terrain full of autistic mentality. Therefore, it is no wonder that he likes women older than himself. "
Amy was a little helpless at Nancy's outspokenness and reminded: "I'm going to have lunch with Jenny later, so don't talk nonsense."
"Of course not, I'm not a fool. Moreover, the Oedipus complex is not an embarrassing thing. Many people have this mentality. Based on our little boss's growth experience since childhood, it is more normal to have this mentality."
Amy is even more helpless. After yesterday's incident, the gap between her and Nancy has been reduced a lot, and the two of them can also talk about some topics outside of work: "If you say these words again, be careful that I secretly complain to Simon. Throw you out of the company."
Nancy felt Amy's defense of Simon, so she wisely ended the topic and asked, "Did he reply to what happened yesterday?"
"Simon agreed, but he asked you to make a more detailed plan and warned you that you must communicate with Blockbuster to prevent things like yesterday from happening again," Amy said, looking at her watch and saying : "It's almost time, let's go to Dumei Cape."
Nancy didn't expect Simon to agree so easily, so she was a little happy and said, "I'll take your car and we'll talk on the way."
With that said, Nancy returned to her black Mercedes-Benz, took out her satchel and a thick folder from the car, and got into Amy's passenger seat. This is a construction site owned by Daenerys Entertainment, and she doesn't worry about anything wrong with leaving her car here. She can just drive along the way when she comes back.
Because of the 18-hour time difference, it was already early Sunday morning in Australia, but it was still noon on Saturday here.
Amy waited for Nancy to sit down and was about to start the car when her mobile phone rang. After making a gesture to Nancy, the two naturally switched places, with Nancy driving, and Amy sat in the passenger seat and answered the phone.
Nancy started the car and drove up the U-shaped mountain road, then turned onto the coastal highway. After Amy finished answering the phone, she asked, "What about Meg Ryan?"
Amy nodded, frowning slightly as she thought about what just happened.
After the stalemate between Daenerys Entertainment and CAA, even though they are bound by the option contract, the company cannot force Meg Ryan to not accept other movies. This does not violate the contract between the two parties at all, but it will make Dan Nelis Entertainment has fallen into a great passive position in the industry.
Refrigeration is a thing of the past in the era of big studios.
Daenerys Entertainment is now taking such measures against an A-list actress, which will definitely cause dissatisfaction and fear among other Hollywood stars.
Amy then adopted a strategy of attrition, constantly wasting Meg Ryan's time with various projects that were destined to not be used by the other party. The two parties discussed "Pretty Woman" for a month last month. CAA may have gotten some inside information and took the initiative to request a change of the script.
Then, the topic of this month for both parties turned to "The Love between Humans and Ghosts".
Seeing that more than half a month has passed, CAA probably fully understands Daenerys Entertainment’s intentions.
Meg Ryan's agent Josh Lieberman just called and claimed that if the two parties cannot finalize Meg Ryan's next film contract within a week, he hopes Daenerys Entertainment can release his client Go and act in other movies.
Otherwise, CAA will file a lawsuit against Kirstie Alley to prevent her from starring in Daenerys' "One Flew Over the Child" collaboration with Warner Bros.
Kirstie Alley is the actress who replaced Meg Ryan as the heroine of "Up and Over" some time ago, and is also the original heroine of "Up". Moreover, Kirstie Alley was originally a client of CAA. Before taking on the role of "One Flew Over the Child", WMA poached her from CAA.
Because she still has one year left in her contract with CAA, during the process of changing jobs, Kirstie Alley reached an agreement with CAA that the commission from film contracts obtained in the next year will still belong to CAA. This is often used by many stars when they change agencies. strategy.
Unless the conflict between the two parties is too deep, Hollywood agencies will generally accept this popular breakup plan.
Seeing Amy nodding, Nancy thought for a while and said, "I recently saw in the Hollywood Reporter that Paramount has signed a contract with Tom Cruise for the leading role in "The Rocketeer". The article also said Paramount intends to cast Meg Ryan as the heroine. Amy, if I guess correctly, the two scripts of "The Rocketeer" and "Firebirds" should have been leaked by Simon, right?"
Amy looked at Nancy with an expression of surprise, and then nodded.
Nancy did not ask for the inside story, but just suggested: "In this case, just let Meg Ryan go, let her pay a lot of money, and then star in a bad movie that is likely to not be successful. This is much better than forcibly dragging the other party. There are too many people in Hollywood who want to cause trouble for us, so there is no need to actively give out such easy-to-attack information."
Amy rubbed the mobile phone still in her hand, nodded after a moment and said: "I'll discuss it with Simon."
"If it were me, I wouldn't discuss such a trivial matter with him."
Amy smiled and said: "You are really coveting my position."
"Of course, I even covet the position of our boss. Unfortunately, I don't have as weird a talent as him. Amy, I even have some doubts that the original Simon Westeros is dead, and now this one , is actually a vampire, the kind that lives for hundreds of years. Otherwise, how else to explain that he is only twenty years old but knows so many things?"
"Next time you see Simon, you can ask him if he is a vampire."
"I don't want to be silenced," Nancy smiled and shrank her neck. She casually glanced at Amy next to her. She noticed the mobile phone in her hand that was much more sophisticated than the old-fashioned mobile phone. She suddenly became interested and raised her chin. Said: "This is that brand of mobile phone. I have always wanted to buy a mobile phone, but unfortunately those things are too bulky."
Amy showed Nancy the black mobile phone that was only about the size of a palm and comparable to later mobile phones, and said, "I only got the Micro-TAC that Motorola just released in the past few days."
Nancy looked at it for a few times and decided to buy one in the afternoon. Suddenly she remembered something and said with a smile: "I think this mobile phone will definitely be very popular. Motorola, it seems that a certain guy is going to regret reducing his holdings of Motorola stocks last year." . And recently, I think it’s not very smart for him to reduce his holdings of Apple’s shares. Apple still has great growth potential.”
Both of them are elite working women. Although they are not involved in the electronic field, they do not lack vision.
Westeros caused quite a stir last year when it reduced its holdings in Motorola shares. This year, Motorola released a mobile communications product that may eliminate all other bulky mobile phones. Next, once Motorola's stock price rises sharply, Westeros will inevitably be ridiculed.
"Simon must have his own considerations," Amy still said to her little boss, then patted the folder Nancy handed to her when the two of them changed seats on her lap, and said: "This is what you gave to Simon. birthday gift?”
"In my bag, I picked a pen," Nancy shook her head and explained: "This is the planning plan for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and some setting samples made by the studio. I plan to let Jenny took it to Melbourne for Simon to take a look at.”
Amy opened the folder and looked at it. In addition to a thick stack of various documents, there were also several computer floppy disks, which should be the game samples Nancy mentioned: "Simon is so busy now, and you still give him so many things." , It’s just squeezing the boss.”
Nancy nodded and admitted shamelessly, "Of course, no one stipulates that employees cannot exploit the boss. What's more, he is a man and is meant to be exploited."
Amy paused, pursed her lips and smiled: "I didn't expect you to tell dirty jokes."
"Dirty joke?" Nancy turned to look at Amy with a puzzled look on her face. She understood in a flash, glared at her and said, "I didn't expect you to be so vulgar."
Amy's smile continued: "Okay, I'm vulgar."
The two were chatting and passing by the Dume Point Manor, which had also been turned into a private property and was being fenced off for construction. They unexpectedly saw Janet and Catherine walking out of the manor, and Nancy stopped the car.
After purchasing Dume Point Park, Simon's replica of the 'Iron Man Mansion' has recently begun construction.
Janet was going to Australia to celebrate Simon's birthday, but Catherine did not intend to go with her, so Janet recruited her to serve as the overseer of the Dume Point Manor.
The four women all knew each other. After chatting warmly, they went to a nearby restaurant for lunch. Amy's purpose of coming here was the same as Nancy's, and she also wanted to help deliver the gifts that some other company executives wanted to give to Simon.
After lunch, Amy and Nancy left, and Janet, with the help of Catherine, began to pack a lot of luggage for Australia this time in her and Simon's villa on the west side of Dume Point Manor.
The next day, Janet boarded a private plane to Australia at eight o'clock in the morning.
After a 16-hour flight, when we arrived in Melbourne, it was already past six o'clock in the afternoon on Monday in Australia.
Janet did not follow the driver who came to pick her up from the Johnston family back to the suburban mansion. After arranging the location of her luggage, she rushed directly to the "Batman" studio in the city center.
Today's filming was a scene between Batman and Catwoman, which took place in an alley in the Futs Cray area in the west of Melbourne. When Janet arrived, it was already seven o'clock, the alley had been closed by the crew, and the sky was basically dark.
When I saw Simon, he was narrating a play for the three Catwomen. Yes, three actors in standard Catwoman uniforms.
Although Daenerys Entertainment arranged sufficient physical training for Adam Baldwin and Valerie Golino in the early stage, many scenes in the film still required the use of stand-ins. Because Catwoman has higher requirements in physical skills and fighting, this character uses a double more frequently.
In fact, during this filming process, there were a total of seven Catwoman stand-ins. Some were used to help Valerie Golino complete some potentially dangerous scenes, and some were used to replace her in completing relatively complex professional physical movements.
Hollywood's current action scenes are still at the level of drunkards fighting each other on the streets.
Therefore, before filming began, Simon spent as much energy on several stuntmen who needed to complete complex movements as the actors themselves.
Because Catwoman was originally a gymnast, two of Valerie Golino's stand-ins were professional gymnasts who had participated in the Olympics. Although they did not win medals, their abilities should not be underestimated.
Simon completely set the action scenes of "Batman" according to the mature action movies of Hollywood many years later. In order to avoid the team he trained to marry, Daenerys Entertainment also signed long-term contracts with all the action actors participating this time. about.
Coming closer, Janet didn't care about other people's eyes at all. She leaned on Simon for a while before letting him go.
"I also said that I would go to the mansion after finishing work tonight." The woman just bit Simon's lips lightly a few times, raised his hand to wipe it, and said: "You didn't come directly from the airport, did you?"
Janet nodded: "Yeah."
"Then it's over. Your parents will definitely blame me again."
"I've already said hello to my parents in advance," Janet rubbed against Simon again, then turned away from him and said, "You can start working, don't worry about me."
"Then be my assistant," Simon said casually, and then introduced Janet: "You must know Adam and Valerie. This is Anna, and Michelle. They were all great in the past. Gymnast. Oh, this is Peter, my assistant director, he's from New Zealand..."
Janet greeted everyone one by one and quickly became familiar with everyone.
When the sky darkened completely, the shooting officially began.
Janet also helped Simon with some trivial film matters during the filming of "Run Lola Run", and also had the experience of participating in "Pulp Fiction". She is certainly no stranger to movies. Jennifer did not accompany Simon to participate in the filming, and Janet naturally became Simon's assistant on this night.
The exciting fights on the screen are completed in one go, but in actual shooting, they need to be broken down and shot one by one. This job is also not that exciting and requires repeated attempts.
When you are immersed in work, time always flies by.
Unknowingly, it was already two o'clock in the morning. After finishing work, Simon asked Janet whether to go back to the Johnstons' mansion or the Kendall Hotel. Janet went to neither place, claiming that she had an apartment in the city where they could live together, and then asked Neil Bennett to drive her and Simon to a high-rise apartment on the banks of the Yarra River in the city center.