She soon fell in love with the beautiful, delicate little person in her arms who also had some kind of weird stubbornness and boldness. She let the child call her daddy and chatted with interest until the early morning. The little guy finally got sleepy and grabbed Simon. The little hands on the skirt of the clothes are tighter, wanting to sleep together, and mommy.
Simon agreed with a smile, picked up the little girl whose eyes were too sleepy to open and was still clinging to him like a little koala. He glanced at Shulshkina. The woman understood, got up and led the way to the bedroom on the third floor. The people inside were already asleep. However, as soon as Simon put the little guy down, he immediately woke up again. He didn't cry or make a fuss. He just grabbed Simon again and asked where his father was going.
Simon patiently explained that he should brush his teeth before going to bed and would be back soon.
But the little man didn't want to be separated for even this moment, saying that he was good at brushing his teeth and could help, and then crawled on Simon again.
When she came to the bathroom, Shulshkina found a brand new spare toothbrush from the locker. As expected, the little guy helped Simon brush his teeth. He was supported by Simon and stood on the washbasin. He was very serious and serious, moving up and down, horizontally and vertically. After struggling for seven or eight minutes, I finally didn't forget to get a glass of water for Simon to rinse his mouth.
In fact, I still want to take a bath, but this time it is definitely not suitable.
After brushing her teeth, the little guy immediately clung to Simon again and had to be carried back to the big bed outside. After Shulshkina washed up, she also walked out and lay down on the other side under the little guy's command. Then she looked very satisfied. With a little expression on his face, he asked to listen to music again. Shulshkina was worried that Simon would be impatient with her daughter's pestering, and was about to take over the job, but Simon had already agreed.
I randomly thought of a children's song and started humming it.
The little guy was still very picky and said it didn't sound good and wanted to change it. Simon patiently changed it several times until he was satisfied with the song "Good Cat".
The bedroom lights dim.
On the big bed, there seemed to be a family of three, and there was a soft male voice.
*Good cat, warm cat.
*Tiny plush balls.
*Happy cat, sleepy cat.
*Meow meow meow.
I woke up very early the next day. I wanted to leave before the little one got up. Unexpectedly, there was some movement and the little one next to me also woke up. I thought that he would be forgotten after one night. Children's memories are always unreliable. Spectrum. However, the little girl just said good morning to Simon politely, still called her daddy affectionately, and said she wanted to eat chocolate cake in the morning, which her mother had never allowed in the past.
Simon doesn't allow it either.
After some haggling, I gave up voluntarily and obediently.
Shulshkina also woke up at the same time, her eyes were red. She didn't want to be seen by Simon and the child, so she took the initiative to hide in the bathroom.
After all, the child was a little sleepy, and after confirming that Simon would wake her up during breakfast, she quickly closed her eyes and went back to sleep until eight o'clock. After having breakfast together, Simon was leaving and the child was going to kindergarten.
I thought that the situation last night would happen, but the little one stopped pestering Simon. He acted like a little adult and asked Simon when he would visit her next time. Simon said that he would do it when he had time. If he didn't have time, he would pick up the baby. , so he was very satisfied and sent Simon to the door in person.
When I got in the car, I looked back and saw that the mother and daughter were still standing inside the door.
Seeing Simon looking back, the little man waved his hand towards Simon again, but his eyes were obviously full of reluctance. When he looked at Shulshkina again, it was exactly the same.
Only then did I understand.
Probably what kind of mother will teach what kind of children.
The little girl over three years old, perhaps indoctrinated by her mother, instinctively felt that it was a matter of course that her father would not be around for a long time.
Until he left, Simon did not express his attitude to Shulshkina about the little guy calling him daddy. In fact, it was considered a kind of acquiescence. However, Simon was not a man full of fatherly love in his heart, and he also knew that letting the child continue Staying with Shulshkina is actually the best choice.
After returning to his residence on Kensington Garden Street, Simon simply packed up and rushed to Heathrow Airport with his entourage.
Set sail back to North America.
Due to the time difference, after a 10-hour flight from London to Los Angeles, it was still the morning of May 4th to arrive at the destination on the West Coast of the United States.
During this time, he accumulated a lot of business. After arriving in Los Angeles, Simon went straight to work.
While Simon was away in Los Angeles, he personally decided on Stallone as the leading actor in the "Jumanji" series, and the two parties officially signed a trilogy contract.
Unlike Schwarzenegger's request for a maximum salary of US$15 million, Stallone, whose popularity has declined in recent years, only received a base salary of US$10 million.
However, the share of the subsequent two films is the same as Schwarzenegger's, which is 10% and 20% of the global box office gross profit. That is, Daenerys and Warner Bros. will recover the global box office share minus the production and promotion stipulated in the contract. A budget is issued, which is one level lower than the box office split without deducting costs.
The project must be profitable for Stallone to have a chance to get a cut.
After the contract was finalized, the first draft of the script customized for Stallone was also completed, as well as some tapes of Stallone's audition.
Hollywood A-list stars, when they reach Stallone's level, usually rarely audition for roles. In the original "The Godfather" series, Marlon Brando felt insulted because he was asked by the studio to audition before filming. When the film became a hit, he refused to participate in the second part no matter what.
The legendary actor's unruly attitude also led to his current miserable and desolate old age.
Simon was very satisfied with Stallone's attitude and made up his mind that besides this project, he would cooperate again if there is an opportunity in the future.
In fact, we are currently working on two projects. "Jumanji" will not start filming until the end of the year. While preparing for this film, Stallone will also participate in James Mangold's "Police Empire" with a symbolic base salary of US$60,000. As an award-winning film planned to be released during next year's awards season, in addition to Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel will all star in the film at the minimum salary stipulated by the union, so the film's budget is only 1,000. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
On the other hand, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed another Warner Bros. project, "The Vapor", after missing Daenerys' collaboration with Warner Bros. in "Jumanji."
Terry Semel even called Simon specifically for this purpose.
Simon did not deliberately pressure the project into obscurity.
The "Evaporation Order" in my memory can be regarded as Arnold's last big-selling project in the 1990s. After that, the actor's popularity only existed in the "Terminator" series, which was repeatedly restarted and failed repeatedly. For the "Vapor Order" project, Warner Bros. still seems to want to get rid of its impact on the DC movie universe.
Speaking of which, because "Terminator 2" is a collaboration between Daenerys and Fox, the copyright of the "Terminator" series is now jointly held by the two companies. In recent years, some people have been interested in restarting this series, but Simon has not I plan to let the follow-up of the "Terminator" series appear again.
There is no need to waste market resources repeatedly.
Of course, if someone is willing to spend huge sums of money to buy half of Daenerys' copyright, as in memory, up to 60 million US dollars, even if it is only half of it, Simon will agree. After all, this is more expensive than the tens of millions of dollars Simon spent to buy out the rights to Tolkien's novel series, as he did when he was taken advantage of.
The three collaborative projects, "The Mummy", are scheduled to be released next summer. After the male and female protagonists have been finalized, all progress during this period has gone smoothly.
In the end, there was only one "Charlie's Angels" left.
Simon has already selected Kate Beckinsale, and there are two more roles. In fact, Simon’s regular casting director Linda Vargas has been following up. Although he was not in Los Angeles during this period, Simon still watched a lot Audition tape.
The other two Angel candidates have basically been finalized.
Kate Beckinsale is the cool type.
According to Simon's setting, he also needed a glamorous femme fatale. After some deliberation, he chose Merchen Amick, who had made a name for herself in Hollywood with David Lynch's "Twin Peaks."
Simon met her at a party at the end of last year when she was on a tour of "The Man from Earth" in Toronto. She gave her a few pointers at the time, hoping that she could improve her acting skills. The actress obviously did not turn a deaf ear to Simon's words. The audition was effective. The performance in last year's femme fatale film "Female Lover" is obviously improved a lot.
He had enough experience, up-to-date acting skills, dance skills, and was willing to sign a long-term contract, which ultimately led to the other party getting the role.
As for the last choice, Simon originally wanted to be politically correct.
I really couldn't convince myself.
In the 1990s, Hollywood's political correctness had not yet reached that level. Just like the phenomenal American TV series "Sex and the City", the four heroines were all white, and they were still popular. There was also "The Sopranos", which was not shoehorned in. One or two conspicuous black men.
So, the last role fell on Catherine Zeta-Jones.
This famous old man killer in Hollywood has developed well in recent years, and Simon has quietly promoted it, such as the heroine of Michael Bay's "Stargate" last year, and further back, Gaomen Pictures' British film The heroine of the novel-adapted movie "The Sea of Algae", and even the heroine of "Ambition" with whom Tom Cruise was rumored to have an affair.
Therefore, among the three heroines of "Charlie's Angels", Catherine Zeta-Jones is relatively the one with the highest status. The other two actresses also have rich acting experience, but they have not yet participated in such films as "Stargate" blockbuster movie.
Catherine Zeta-Jones also belongs to the glamorous type, but this kind of glamor belongs to the passionate and unrestrained style, rather than the femme fatale positioning of Messing Amick.
All in all, Simon will maintain a certain unity of the three angels through details such as costume styling, so as to give the audience the impression that the three of them belong to the same whole. However, the three will also have their own strong personal styles and different role skills, forming obvious differences.
Like "Jumanji", "Charlie's Angels" also starts filming at the end of the year. The three protagonists have been finalized and will basically work hard for their roles in the second half of the year. Based on the information in his memory, Simon also invited professional martial arts instructors from across the ocean to develop a three-month professional physical training plan for the three of them.
In addition to the three cooperation projects, Cameron's "Titanic" and Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow" and other films are also progressing smoothly.
In addition to things in Hollywood, in Silicon Valley, after more than a month of operation, Yigret Company has completed a large-scale employee stock ownership plan.
In order to ensure that the IPO stock issuance price is within 50 US dollars, in order to stimulate the market's enthusiasm for purchasing this stock, the Yigrit team also directly conducted a stock split during the shareholding plan.
When the plan is completed, the new technology giant's total share capital will reach 3.795 billion shares.
As the largest shareholder, Westeros Company holds a total of 2.561 billion shares, with a shareholding ratio of 67.5%.
Although calls for the abolition of corporate multiple shareholding structures have become increasingly louder in recent years, this time, Igret still adopted a dual-shareholding structure.
The 2.561 billion shares held by Westeros are all Class B shares with voting rights equivalent to 10 times that of ordinary shares. Only Westeros controls this type of shares. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley participated in the investment in the past two years. Danli, the stocks he holds are still just ordinary Class A shares.
Therefore, even if the shareholding ratio is significantly reduced, the voting rights of Igrit owned by Westeros Company are still as high as more than 90%.
Immediately afterwards, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley both dropped their shareholding ratio to 3.75%, with the number of shares held being 142 million shares.
The Big Four of Igret, Tim Berners-Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz each received 4% of the shares, holding 151 million shares, and Alice Ferguson obtained 2% of the shares and held 76 million shares. However, the four of them are still in the next employment contract period and are entitled to a total of more than 1% of Igret shares that will be cashed in one after another.
In addition to the main shareholders, all other employees of Yigret share the remaining 7% of the company's shares, totaling 265 million shares.
The total number of employees of Yigret Company has exceeded 25,000.
Compared with the large number of shares obtained by a few core members, 25,000 employees enjoy 265 million shares, which seems very small. In fact, based on the preliminary issuance price of US$30, the total value of this batch of shares has reached US$7.95 billion, which is equivalent to Each employee received an average reward of US$310,000.
The actual distribution is of course not so even.
Some key department executives second only to the Big Four, such as Ralph Goodell, chief engineer of the cloud computing team who successfully implemented the Ygriet cloud computing plan, and Michael Novarek, leader of the 58List team, also received Awards range from millions to tens of millions of shares, and the total number of executives who have received more than 3 million shares through awards and subscriptions has reached 19.
According to the issue price of US$30, it basically means that 19 people will be promoted to billionaires in this IPO.
In addition, the total number of employees who obtained shares between 300,000 and 3 million shares reached 163, which means 163 multi-millionaires. Finally, there is a group of employees with between 30,000 and 300,000 shares. The number is more 532 people, which is 732 millionaires.
However, these less than 1,000 core members actually took away about 200 million shares out of 265 million shares.
The remaining 60 million shares fell into the hands of other employees. Most people could only get one or two thousand shares. Of course, this was already worth tens of thousands of dollars.
This strong uneven distribution actually caused a lot of dissatisfaction, but Simon did not compromise at all.
What Yigret needs to lock firmly is actually only the core 1,000 employees.
If others are willing to give up this reward, Simon will not refuse them to change jobs.
This period is also the last period for other peers to recruit from Ygritte in the short term. Afterwards, everyone will sign a new contract and related non-competition agreement. Because they feel that the equity distribution of Yigrit is not fair enough, many people choose to give up their deserved rewards and change jobs.
In this case, the Yigrit team will try their best to retain the person, and will not make things difficult for them if no results are achieved and will let the other person leave.
The employee stock ownership plan was completed, and according to the original plan, the prospectus should have been formally submitted to the SEC.
However, after internal discussions, everyone unanimously decided to postpone the process.
Mainly waiting for the passage of the capital gains tax reform bill in May.
Because, after the employee stock ownership plan is completed, of the total 714 million shares planned to be publicly issued this time, only 531 million new shares will be used to raise funds, and the other 183 million shares will have a total value of US$5.49 billion based on the issue price. The shares are among those Goldman Sachs and Morgan and some executives are looking to cash out.
Even if the capital gains tax reform bill is passed, a group of executives who have just received their shares will not be able to enjoy the lowest tax rate if they choose to cash out. Therefore, most of them come from Goldman Sachs and Morgan. These two companies have held shares in Igret for more than a year, and will be able to enjoy the lowest tax rate of 15% by then.
It is conceivable that if the matter is exposed in advance and under the pressure of public opinion, the capital gains tax reform bill that is about to be finally voted on is likely to undergo changes.
At that point, that could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in additional taxes.
And it will ruin the good things of many people.
Now, due to the continuous rapid growth of all aspects of the business of Igret, as long as it can ensure that it is listed before the Internet bubble bursts, the later it is listed, the more beneficial it is to shareholders. Therefore, no one is in a hurry. The final plan is to wait for the capital gains tax reform. After the bill is voted on, the prospectus will be submitted to the SEC.
By then, even if public opinion is still raging, it is absolutely impossible to change what has been finalized in a short period of time.