The Pacific-Palisades area is a wealthy area in Los Angeles, close to the beautiful West Coast of the United States. It is not very large, and most of the people who live here are Hollywood's top celebrities.
Spielberg's villa in Pacific-Palisades is quite luxurious. Compared with it, the Yanjing Ziyun Villa villa that Li Mu bought from Wei Lan is really not good enough. On the one hand, the area and scale are not comparable to this place. On the other hand, there is really no choice in the scenery here. The mountain view, sea view, and city view are all very good. In contrast, the only scenery in Ziyun Villa is the artificial lake next to Li Mu Villa.
Most Hollywood celebrities know how to enjoy it, and Spielberg is no exception. This villa covers a large area. The garage alone can easily accommodate eight cars, and there are enough parking spaces for twenty or thirty cars on both sides of the yard. Not a problem.
After the motorcade stopped in the courtyard, Spielberg's butler, who had been waiting for a long time, opened the door of the limousine.
Since the dinner started at seven o'clock in the evening, many celebrities in Los Angeles had already arrived and were gathering in the villa. The butler told Spielberg, "Mr. DiCaprio, Mr. Maguire , and Miss Winslet has arrived."
Spielberg nodded slightly, smiled and said to Li Mu: "A friend has already arrived first, let's go in."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Okay, I have always liked Mr. DiCaprio, and this time I finally have the opportunity to meet him in person."
Spielberg smiled like a gentleman, and then said to Elon Musk: "Mr. Musk, please come in."
Elon Musk nodded, followed Li Mu and Spielberg, and the three of them walked into Spielberg's luxurious villa side by side.
Spielberg's charity dinner was held in the banquet hall of his villa. This banquet hall on the first floor covers an area of about three to four hundred square meters. It is decorated in a particularly European style, luxurious yet solemn.
Since it has not yet reached the media opening time, the banquet hall is not noisy at the moment. Jazz music is playing on the speakers and a bunch of waiters are busy. In front of the bar inside, a few people who are very familiar to Li Mu are sitting or Sit or stand together to drink wine and chat.
There were four people chatting. Among them, Li Mu recognized Leonardo DiCaprio at a glance. DiCaprio is now less than thirty years old. He is very young to begin with. In addition, the celebrity's maintenance and temperament are very good. Very good, so he looks surprisingly handsome.
Then Li Mu recognized the slightly plump young woman next to him. She was Kate Winslet, the actress who first filmed "Titanic" with Leonardo.
Kate herself is not beautiful. I can only say that her temperament and feeling make her look very comfortable.
Next to Leonardo, stood a man with a slightly baby fat face. However, he was not as handsome as Leonardo and looked a little more ordinary. Li Mu looked carefully and recognized that he was "Spider-Man" Actor, but Li Mu couldn't remember the specific name of this guy for a while.
With these three people, there was a middle-aged woman with good temperament, but Li Mu could not recognize her.
Spielberg accompanied Li Mu and Elon Musk in. When the four people who were chatting and joking saw the three people entering the door, they hurriedly turned their attention and watched the three people approaching with a smile.
When they arrived in front of the four of them, Spielberg introduced to Li Mu and Elon Musk: "This is Leonardo DiCaprio, the leading actor in Hollywood. He is very good."
Li Mu and Elon Musk both smiled and nodded to Leonardo, and Leonardo took the initiative to stand up from the bar stool, stretched out his hand to Li Mu with a particularly serious expression, and said: "Hello Mr. Li, I I saw your speech at Harvard, it was so wonderful and impressive!"
Li Mu felt a little excited. He shook hands with Leonardo and said humbly: "Hello Mr. DiCaprio, thank you for your compliment. I am your fan and I like your movies very much."
Leonardo said seriously: "You are my fan, and I am your fan!"
Spielberg smiled and said to Li Mu: "Leonardo has always been full of praise for you. When he knew that you were going to attend this charity dinner, he kept telling me that he must get to know you."
Leonardo nodded and said with a smile: "By the way, I am not only your fan, but also your user. Now I can't live without YY online."
Kate Winslet smiled at this time: "Leonardo and I often use YY video chat. Not only that, we also have a group of old friends who often chat together. To be honest, this product is really useful." It’s so great!”
After speaking, Kate Winslet stretched out her hand to Li Mu and introduced herself: "Hello Mr. Li, my name is Kate Winslet."
Li Mu shook hands with Kate gently and said with a smile: "Miss Kate is even more beautiful in person than in the movie."
Kate smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment!"
At this time, Leonardo took the initiative to pull over the man next to him who was about the same age as him, and introduced to Li Mu: "This is Tobey, Tobey Maguire. Mr. Li should have seen the "Spider-Man" starring him. ?”
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "I am a standard Marvel fan. This movie adaptation is very successful and I like it very much."
After saying that, Li Mu reached out to shake hands with Tobey Maguire and asked him: "I wonder when the filming of the second part of "Spider-Man" will start?"
Tobey Maguire said: "When the first part of "Spider-Man" started filming, the second and third parts were already in preparation. According to the plan, the second part will start shooting in the second half of next year or the end of the year, and the year after that. Released.”
Li Mu said: "Doesn't that mean we have to wait for a year and a half?"
"Absolutely." Tobey Maguire nodded and said: "This is the arrangement of the investors, but I have already signed a contract with them, and I will star in the second part."
Li Mu nodded and said with a smile: "I will definitely go to the cinema to support you then."
Spielberg interjected at this time: "If you are still in the United States next month, you can go to the cinema to watch my new film this year. Leonardo's performance is very outstanding and he should have a chance to win the Best Actor Oscar next year. Nominated for Leading Role.”
Li Mu asked him: "Is it the "Cat and Mouse Game" you mentioned on the road?"
"That's right." Spielberg said: "This film is adapted from real people's experiences. It is a very legendary story."
Li Muxin said that I had seen this movie a long time ago, but I just don’t remember what award Leonardo won for this movie, but what is certain is that it was definitely not the Oscar for Best Actor.
Li Mu is very familiar with Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar journey. Although his acting skills are good and he is handsome, he seems to have missed the Oscar. He was nominated four times and finally won the Oscar for the last time. He was worried that he missed out on the Oscar. I don’t know how many of the news I have read, so with this historical memory in my mind, Li Mu is sure that Leonardo will not win the Oscar next year.
If he wanted to win an Oscar, he would have to wait at least another fourteen years. It was only in 2016 that he finally succeeded. From this point of view, there is still at least ten years to go.
After chatting with Leonardo for a while, Spielberg took the initiative to introduce him to the woman who had previously chatted with the three people, saying: "Li Mu, this is my wife, Kate."
Li Mu then suddenly realized that the middle-aged and elderly woman with bad temperament was actually Spielberg's wife. He hurriedly reached out to her and said at the same time: "Hello Mrs. Spielberg, I am Li Mu."
After saying hello, Li Mu already knew the four people, and then started chatting with them. Spielberg was particularly polite to Li Mu and invited Li Mu to stay at his home for the night. At the same time, he saw that Li Mu himself was Leonardo DiCaprio. There were many movie fans, so they said to Li Mu: "If you are not in a hurry to leave, I can arrange a movie viewing for you tomorrow. Then you can see "Cat and Mouse Game" in advance, and you don't have to wait until Christmas."
Li Mu smiled and said: "Thank you Mr. Spielberg, but I think I won't cause any trouble to you. I will go to the cinema to watch the movie after it is officially released, so that I can contribute to your film." box office."
Spielberg smiled and said: "I'm afraid you won't have time by then. People as busy as you should rarely have the opportunity to go to the cinema to watch a movie, right?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "Although I am a bit busy, I will definitely go to the cinema to support this work."
With that said, Li Mu took the initiative to give a big gift, saying: "Currently, YY will push an entertainment news message for all users every week in North America. I can use YY to help you promote this movie. I believe it will bring in box office revenue." Come to a certain level of improvement.”
When Spielberg heard this, even a well-known Hollywood director like him who had experienced great storms was so surprised because of Li Mu's words!
Before this, although he knew that Li Mu's YY had a very large number of users and very powerful information delivery capabilities, he had also thought about advertising new films on YY, but Li Mu's YY currently did not accept any paid advertising, so After hearing about the situation, Pierberg gave up the idea.
But he never dreamed that Li Mu would actually offer to help him promote his upcoming new film. This was definitely a huge surprise, and a very valuable surprise!
"Cat and Mouse" is a movie produced by DreamWorks, and Spielberg himself is one of the founders and bosses of DreamWorks. Therefore, the box office of "Cat and Mouse" is closely related to the interests of DreamWorks and Spielberg. .
Spielberg knows that Li Mu's YY is currently extremely popular in the United States and has become a must-have software for almost all Internet users. It can be seen that YY's information delivery capabilities are definitely the best in the current U.S. Internet industry. If it can provide " If "Cat and Mouse Game" is recommended in a round, it might bring millions or even tens of millions of dollars in box office growth!
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PS: I am running around in the heavy rain in the Imperial Capital today and I have a bit of a cold. I will try to catch up on the updates I owe over the weekend. I am extremely sorry!
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