Santa Monica Airport.
Compared with some other small jets at the airport, the Boeing 767-200ER is completely behemoth.
Simon patiently read the script of "Home Alone" before rushing over.
Janet's hand-picked crew was still waiting patiently for him. There were eight people in total, divided into two groups. Each group consisted of two pilots and two flight attendants. All of them were Australians and all of them were women. This was also the result of Simon's special instructions. This private jet is like one of Simon's residences, and he doesn't like having someone of the same sex control it.
The four female pilots are all around 40 years old. They were full-time pilots for some Australian airlines before, and they also had service experience in the Air Force. All of them have at least ten years of flying experience.
Simon paid a very expensive price to recruit these four people. In addition to the high annual salary, the family members of the four people can enjoy the benefits provided by the Westeros Company. They only need to work in this position for ten years. Early retirement is possible.
The other four stewardesses are just pure flower vases.
After everyone introduced each other, Simon climbed up the gangway and entered the cabin. Four stewardesses followed him in and took the initiative to help Simon introduce various facilities in the cabin.
With a renovation cost of US$15 million, every detail in the cabin is perfect.
Decorated in a simple style with black and white tones like piano keys, every arrangement exudes a sophisticated and expensive atmosphere. Living rooms, restaurants, study rooms, bars, bedrooms, conference rooms, etc. are all available. There are always areas for passengers to move inside. With an area of more than 300 square meters, the front cabin is also a very private two-story duplex suite, giving people the feeling of being in a real apartment.
However, after all, it is only a medium-sized passenger plane, and overall it is not as spacious as Simon imagined.
Although the crew had just experienced a 16-hour long flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles, after Simon visited, he still had the feeling of being impatient after getting a toy, so he asked the crew to take off again, making a round trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Cersei Capital's operations on the U.S. junk bond market were still continuing, and Janet did not come to Los Angeles with her.
Simon also has a lot of things to deal with recently. The two agreed to meet again after mid-November. At that time, they will probably fly to Finland first to completely win over Nokia's mobile communications equipment department.
The next day is Friday, November 3rd.
Simon was rarely woken up by the ringing of the phone, and it was just after five o'clock in the morning.
James Raybould called. Photos of the Boeing 767 that Simon had just received yesterday had appeared in several newspapers on the East Coast. James then sent some faxes. In order to maintain a low profile, the Boeing 767 did not have any Simon-related markings on it, and its appearance looked the same as a commercial airliner.
However, the only Boeing 767 parked on the Santa Monica Airport runway in the photo is obviously Simon's car, because all the scenes of Simon's meeting with the crew and subsequent boarding of the plane yesterday afternoon were secretly filmed.
Several articles generally introduced this matter in a gossipy tone, but some people inevitably criticized Simon's extravagant behavior.
Private jets are very common in the West, but there are not many medium-sized passenger planes like the Boeing 767, which can carry two to three hundred people, as private vehicles. The famous Air Force One is completely a state machine, and the head of state of the Middle East oil country relies on it as a car. It is also supported by the state.
Immediately, reports about Simon's private jet appeared in newspapers after dawn on the West Coast.
Santa Monica Airport is really not big, and the confidentiality is not very good. After hearing the news, more media rushed over to take more photos of the Westeros flying car. Simon quickly ordered the crew to take the A Boeing 767 took off and temporarily flew to San Francisco and parked at the San Jose Airport.
Additionally, Santa Monica Airport is apparently no longer a suitable location for aircraft storage.
After thinking about it, Simon asked someone to contact Los Angeles International Airport and planned to rent a hangar there to store his aircraft.
Compared with Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles International Airport has hundreds of large and small aircrafts of all types docked at any time. It is hidden in the public, and there is nothing special about the extra Boeing 767.
Simon hid his Boeing 767 out of a deep-rooted instinct to hide his wealth. The discussion in the media became more lively, and the voices criticizing Simon's extravagance and waste unknowingly became more numerous. In the end, the Westeros Company and Daenerys Entertainment’s public relations department had to start putting out the fire.
Amidst such excitement, the second week of the North American Halloween season has quietly come to an end.
From November 3 to November 9, after the box office of US$31.77 million in the first full week, the box office of "Scream 2" dropped by 33% in the second week, collecting another US$21.29 million, with a total box office of 53.06 million in two weeks. Dollar.
Compared to the first film, although this sequel suffered a deeper decline in the second week, the box office data of more than 50 million US dollars in two weeks exceeded many people's expectations.
The two-week cumulative box office of films such as "Alien" released at the same time is generally less than that of "Scream 2" in one week.
On November 10, "Scream 2" was still in theaters, and another new film "My Left Foot" from Daenerys Entertainment's High Gate Pictures was quietly released.
"My Left Foot" only won one Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in the first half of the year, but it still attracted a lot of attention. Ella Deutschman, under Simon's instructions, was very concerned about this film. I have always attached great importance to it and chose the November 10th date for the upcoming awards season.
As a literary film that is destined to adopt a long-term word-of-mouth screening strategy, the opening scale of "My Left Foot" is far from comparable to that of "Scream 2". There were only 112 screens in the first week, which is still based on the high-end Under the film industry's radial distribution model, the first batch of screens were only concentrated in major core cities in North America.
Speaking of which, "My Left Foot" is actually not Daenerys Entertainment's public relations focus for this year's Oscars.
Driving Miss Daisy is scheduled to be released in early December. Therefore, by choosing to be released in November, "My Left Foot" will mainly rely on the film's nominations to accumulate box office.
As for "Driving Miss Daisy," Simon has seen the finished film and it's the same quality as the original.
Moreover, the biggest advantage of "Driving Miss Daisy" is that the two leading actors in the film are both old people, and it tells the story of two old people. It also touches on very politically correct racial topics, which is definitely in line with the Oscars. The preferences of older judges.
In addition to movies, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" video game released by Blizzard Studios under Daenerys Entertainment has gradually attracted the attention of the media.