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Etc., etc.

Someone's personal net worth of US$1 trillion exceeds China's GDP output value of US$1995 billion in 7300.

A truly rich and adversary country.

When the truth was fully revealed, Jiang Yuanchi no longer had any grievances about being forced into this job.

This is working for Simon Westeros.

Chen Qing and his party came to the capital again, and it was already April 4th.

Entering the mansion in Maoer Hutong, Nanluogu Lane, Chen Qing keenly noticed the change of a certain girl's attitude. The journey was full of dust and dust, and she chose to take a bath first, and asked the Jiang sisters to help her put the bath water. After soaking in the big bathtub, she did not let them Leaving, he touched Jiang Yuanchi's chin who was called in front of him with his hand: "Have you figured it out?"

Jiang Yuan Chi knelt on the edge of the large marble bathtub, lifted his chin following Chen Qing's strength, and showed a flattering smile: "Sister Chen, are those... all true?"

"what?"

"That's... A, B, C, D?"

Chen Qing withdrew her hand and nodded with a smile: "Of course it's true. They were all just maids beside Mr. Westeros at first, just like you. So, trust me now, to get this job, you are equivalent to I have achieved a super high starting point that no one else can strive for in ten lifetimes."

Jiang Yuanchi leaned forward slightly, lying on the edge of the bathtub quite charmingly, looked at Chen Qing with beautiful eyes and said: "It feels so amazing, unimaginable."

Jiang Shanwu, who had been told by her sister about her discovery, also knelt at the end of the bathtub, her eyes lit up when she heard this, and she quietly pricked up her ears to listen.

At first, I blamed myself for dragging my sister, but during this time, especially after realizing the identity of their clients, my mind changed completely.

My sister should thank herself.

When meeting Chen Qing for the first time and hearing her say those words in French, Jiang Shanwu's reaction was actually a bit deliberate.

I just wanted to attract some attention, but I didn't expect it to be almost self-defeating.

Fortunately, it turned out well.

After all, that's Simon Westeros.

For such a big person, helping her go abroad is absolutely a piece of cake.

Since she was very young, because of some experiences around her, Jiangshan Dance has longed to go abroad.

That's why I applied for Xi'an University of Foreign Languages ​​later.

When I first applied for this job, I was also preparing for going abroad, because the main employer shown in the recruitment materials was a foreign company. There are many ways to go abroad in this era, and entering a foreign company is also the most important channel.

In any case, I didn't expect that the object of my service turned out to be Simon Westeros.

It doesn't even matter if you go abroad or not.

After all, the current life is probably the standard of living of those foreigners.

Then think of the four girls A, B, C, and D around Simon Westero that my sister just mentioned, with a net worth of tens of billions of dollars, even if it is completely incomparable with Simon Westero's personal assets. Jaw-dropping enough.

They are also waitresses, the two of them... even 100 billion RMB will do.

10 billion is enough.

Chen Qing in the bathtub noticed the light in the eyes of the two sisters, and felt like meeting the same kind.

Ah.

They were supposed to be of the same kind.

The pair of sisters are weak and delicate in appearance, but they are not much different from her in their bones.

If it was in the past, Chen Qing would have tried every means to suppress the other party when she discovered this, but now, she has no such thoughts.

Because the stage around a certain man is big enough.

Since they are of the same kind, they are both smart enough and have similar personalities, and her current status is enough to suppress the two women, and she can be used completely.After a little calculation, she suddenly missed her boss, glanced at the two girls beside her, Chen Qing raised her chin slightly: "Come in, wash with me."

……

When Chen Qing arrived in Beijing and started making final preparations for Simon's trip to China, the two-week North American Easter schedule on the American side ended on April 4.

The most watched is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

影片在两周的复活节档期内分别斩获887万美元和941万美元票房，复活节当周还再次实现了6%的小幅逆跌。上映16周，《蝙蝠侠大战超人：正义黎明》的累计票房顺利突破6.5亿美元，达到6亿5053万美元。

The box office has accumulated so far, and there is not much suspense about hitting the 7 million threshold in China.

Overseas, Super Bat Wars already has phenomenal attributes, coupled with the blessing of Oscar awards, the cumulative box office of the latest statistics has also exceeded 9.6 million US dollars, and there is only a small gap from 10 billion. The industry expects the film's The total overseas box office will probably be around 12 billion US dollars.

With 7 million in North America and 12 billion overseas, the global box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" will eventually reach 19 billion US dollars.

1995年，世界范围内的全球票房总额才176亿美元，预计1996年度大概在180亿美元到190亿美元之间。

Now, just one movie "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" accounts for 10% of the total global box office, which shows the strength of the DC movie universe series.

There are many reasons why Super Bat Wars has achieved such outstanding results, including the accumulation of popularity of DC superhero comics worldwide for more than half a century, the continuous preparation of the DC movie universe in the past 7 years, and the quality of the film itself is excellent enough.

However, the global 19 billion still exceeds everyone's expectations.

At first, many people thought that to break the box office record of Super Bat Wars, only the "Justice League" with further gathering of superheroes in the future may be the only one. As the film's global box office figures continue to break through, more and more people think that even "Justice League" , it is very likely that such amazing results will not be achieved again.

As for other types of films, it is even more difficult to reach the height of Super Bat Wars.

On the other hand, the super-editing war has finally entered the late stage of release, so it did not have much impact on the new Easter film.Not only that, the success of "Rush Hour" in the Valentine's Day schedule even has factors that stimulated the movie market due to the Super Bat War.

Super Bat Wars successfully activated the film market, but did not stop the development of other films. Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment's two new films in this Easter schedule, "Aeroplane 2" and "The Haunting of the Mortuary 2" have achieved expectations. Amongst box office successes.

Chapter 911 Peter Jackson

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

The time is July 4th.

This is already the 12th day since Peter Jackson arrived in Los Angeles. Yesterday, he was notified that Simon Westeros would meet with him to discuss the film he was preparing for "Spirit of Terror" and another submission about "Lord of the Rings" " series production plan, so I didn't have a good rest all night, repeatedly weighing how to deal with meeting a young Hollywood tycoon.

The agreed time was 4:30 p.m., and Jackson arrived at Daenerys Studios an hour earlier.

Arriving too early is as unpleasant as being late. Peter Jackson, who is actually very smooth, did not ignore these details. After parking the car in the administrative area of ​​Daenerys Studios, he did not rush directly to Office No. [-] Instead, they sat down at a cafe inside a film studio in the administrative district, bought a copy of The Hollywood Reporter, and drank coffee while reading recent events in Hollywood to pass the waiting time.

The North American Easter schedule ended yesterday, and this issue of "The Hollywood Reporter" is mainly a summary of the Easter schedule.

In addition to "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," which broke through $6.5 million at the domestic box office, there are two new films "Aeroplane 2" and "Haunting of the Mortuary 2" produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

Jim Carrey's new film "Aeroplane 3," which started drawing on March 29, earned $2 million in the first week, and dropped by 4551% in the second week to another $40 million.Two weeks after the filming started, this sequel to "Aero Detective", which made Jim Carrey famous in one fell swoop, was released on Easter two years ago, with a cumulative box office of 2727 million US dollars.

According to the rules of step-by-step accounting, Daenerys Entertainment easily recovered all 5000 million US dollars of production and publicity costs and achieved profitability within two weeks.

Then comes "The Haunting of the Mortuary 4" on April 5.

4月5日到4月11日的开画首周，这部招魂电影宇宙系列第四部电影的票房表现得更加出色，与《神探飞机头2》同样的制作和宣发规模，七天进账达到5169万美元。

Another member of the [-] million box office club that is certain.

Daenerys Entertainment has focused on creating the Conjuring Movie Universe series in recent years. Although the commercial volume is far from being comparable to the DC Movie Universe series, counting the previous "The Conjuring", "The Haunting of the Mortuary" and "The Conjuring 2" , the entire series of four consecutive films can achieve more than [-] million, this achievement is not a small miracle in Hollywood.

What's more, the cost of this series is low enough.

Even if the global box office of the first three films is in the range of 2 million to 3 million US dollars, it may not be as good as the local box office of the DC movie universe blockbuster, but on the other hand, the production cost of this series, take "The Haunting of the Mortuary 2" as an example , and only 3000 million US dollars, which is also only a fraction of the production cost of Super Bat Wars.

Daenerys Entertainment's production cost control of the DC movie universe series is quite good. The production budget of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" still reached 1.35 million US dollars, which is comparable to "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" two years ago. .

Watching the news on "Hollywood Reporter", Peter Jackson, who has no shortage of ambitions in this circle, only feels his heart fluctuate.

It has been eight years since I went to Melbourne and was accidentally hired as the director assistant of "Batman: Beginning of War". position, Peter Jackson has not stopped his footsteps over the years.

Whether it's the vicious "Crazy Fat Treasure Show" or the recent pseudo-documentary "Forgotten Movies", they have all achieved a certain response in the industry. Two years ago, "Angel of Sin" also won the Venice Silver Lion Award.

If you really enter this industry, you can understand that the total number of films produced every year in the world is thousands of, most of which have not even made a splash.

Therefore, no matter from which aspect, as long as your film can attract attention, it is a kind of success.

Moreover, Peter Jackson can clearly feel that he has been in the attention of Daenerys Entertainment or, to be precise, Simon Westeros, from the original "Crazy Fat Treasure Show" "to last year's "Forgotten Movies", and "The Corpses" and "Angel of Sin" in the middle, eight years, four movies, every time Daenerys Entertainment is very active in contacting him and cooperating Things, this makes the most difficult threshold for many filmmakers to cross the threshold of funding projects to go smoothly on his side.

That's clearly true of a recent play, "Scary Ghosts," as well as his proposal for the "Lord of the Rings" series.

This time it's clearer.

Simon Westero wanted to interview him, and obviously, the other party hadn't forgotten the director assistant on the set of "Batman: Beginning of War".

Keeping an eye on the time, at 4:25, Jackson arrived on time at the office of Simon Westero, Office Building [-], Administrative District.

Just waiting for a while in the waiting room, a young man whose appearance has hardly changed over the years appeared quickly, which made Jackson slightly surprised by the other party's punctuality.The circle of Hollywood, consciously has a status, whether it is the executives of many studios or the big stars, it is almost the norm to be unpunctual, and many people obviously do this on purpose in order to control their posture.

However, Peter Jackson quickly understood.Simon Westero doesn't need such a low-level trick at all. Compared with him, he is still able to do this in his current position, which makes people even more admirable.

Thinking of this, Jackson stood up quickly, smiled and reached out to Simon who was walking over: "Hello, Mr. Westeros."

Simon and Jackson shook hands and said with a smile, "You can just call me Simon, just like on the Batman set. By the way, how are you doing?"

Peter Jackson also smiled: "Not bad."

Instead, he didn't ask the other party a question in accordance with the usual practice. It was mainly because of a certain instinctive restraint when he saw a superior, and how is Simon Westeros doing? Needless to say?

Simon didn't deliberately greet Jackson too much. After the greeting, the two entered the office and sat down together in the reception area.

Girl A who followed in put two documents in front of Simon and Jackson respectively, and another female assistant brought coffee to them, and then they both left quickly.

Simon opened the information in his hand, and said straight to the point: "Let's talk about "Ghostbusters" first, Peter, I have read your production meeting memo about this project last week, everyone's positioning of the film is another "Ghostbusters" Expendables, this direction is very good. However, I found a problem, that is, the scale between horror and comedy is very critical. Just like "Ghostbusters", although it is a "ghostbuster", its positioning is a fantasy comedy, It’s not scary, and the overall feeling of the audience watching this film is very joyful. And “Ghost of Horror” is positioned as a horror comedy, and you also depicted a lot of scary scenes in the script. If you don’t pay attention, there may be neither scary nor scary An embarrassing situation that is not a comedy, have you thought about this problem?"

Peter Jackson didn't expect Simon to be so direct, and almost didn't keep up with the train of thought, but he quickly cheered up and said, "Of course, Simon, I've been discussing this issue with the team recently, and it's been confirmed that the film will tend to be a comedy style." , That is, comedy trumps horror. Moreover, we have also paid attention to your question just now, and everyone feels that the key is to determine a suitable actor, and these days we are all choosing actors."

In the original version of "Spooky", the actor is Michael Fox, the star of the "Back to the Future" series.

The film ended in failure. Although there are many reasons, the failure of the actor's casting is indeed a factor.Although the big-selling "Back to the Future" series also has comedy elements, Michael Fox's positioning is more inclined to be a teenage idol star, and in the mid-90s, he is an outdated idol star who does not have the qualities of a comedy actor. potential.

The main reason why they chose each other was that the producer of "Ghost of Horror" was Robert Zemeckis, and Zemeckis was the director of the "Back to the Future" series, and there were obviously human factors in it.

More than Fox, "Spooky" needs a real comedic star.

Simon pondered over the information and asked, "Are there any suitable candidates?"

Peter Jackson nodded and explained: "What I need is a hero who is about 30 years old and has the temperament of a loser. These days, we have considered Dana Vicar, Rob Lowe, Michael Fox, Frank Wayne." Lee waits for an actor, and has done some auditions. So far, Dana Vicar's performance is better."

Dana Vicar is another hero in the series of "Fighting Wits" alongside Mike Myers, but he was suppressed from the limelight because of Myers' core creative identity.

Simon recalled Dana Vika's performance in the series "Fighting Wits" and shook his head: "If you talk about loser temperament, Vika is really fine. However, the protagonist of this script is a fraudster who relies on his psychic ability. It needs some low-level shrewdness, and in this respect, Dana Vicar is too dull."

Rejecting Jackson's tendency, Simon didn't discuss with the other party any more. After a little consideration, he said: "The comedy style of "Scary Ghost" tends to be black, so the actor's performance should not be too extroverted, and needs a kind of restraint and contrast. In this way, I give You have two candidates, one is Ben Stiller, and the other is Adam Sandler, um...Adam seems to be a little dazed, so let's stiller," Simon said quickly on the document in front of him Write out a name, tear off a corner and hand it to Peter Jackson: "I don't know his current specific situation, you can contact him yourself, I believe it should meet your needs."

Peter Jackson took it over and said seriously: "I will do it as soon as possible."

Any director hopes to gain the dominance of his own work, but Peter Jackson puts himself in a good position. He knows that he has no room to bargain with Simon.What's more, the film talent of the young man in front of him is definitely not comparable to those studio executives who are lawyers and accountants.

Simon handed the note to Jackson, remembered something, wrote a line on the document again, tore it off and handed it to Jackson, saying: "Also, I recommend you another movie, this is a Hong Kong movie called "Mr. Zombie ", the standard horror comedy style, and it was also the box office champion of Hong Kong films in 1985. I suggest you watch it a few times, it can bring a lot of inspiration. By the way, there is also the heroine. According to the setting of the script, I suggest you Find an actress who has the air of a goddess."

Peter Jackson took two notes in a row and carefully put them in his hands. He was almost overwhelmed and asked subconsciously, "Goddess temperament?"

Simon said: "It's the kind that makes people look a little unattainable at first glance, the Cindy Crawford kind."

"Simon, you mean let me pick a supermodel?"

"Of course not. The heroine in this story is not a flower vase. She still needs acting skills. At the same time, she must be stunning and eye-catching. In the end, the heroine and heroine walk together. The counterattack of the loser can bring a sense of satisfaction to the audience."

Peter Jackson is not one of those filmmakers who presumptuously. Hearing Simon say this, he felt a sense of enlightenment: "So, Simon, what do you think, um, what about Miss Nicole Kidman?"

"Nicole is too tall and has a cold temperament, which is not suitable for comedy." Simon said, thinking for a while, and said: "Mia Sarah, yes, that's the kind."

Peter Jackson recalled and remembered who Mia Sara was. The most famous movie of this actress is called "Spring is Not a Day for Studying". It was one of the best-selling movies in 1986. He also watched it in New Zealand. .Moreover, the actor of this movie is named Matthew Broderick.

Jackson still knew something about Simon Westeros.

Just as he didn't know how to respond, Simon also thought of this. It wasn't about the grievances with Matthew Broderick. A starlet who had completely disappeared in Hollywood was not qualified for him to remember until now, but " Spring is not a day for studying" is already a movie 10 years ago.

The Mia Sara in the movie back then was really amazing, but now I don’t know what it looks like, because the other party has no movies that Simon remembers after "Spring is not a school day".

Casually pressed the button on the landline next to the sofa, and girl A pushed the door in. Simon ordered: "Mia Sara, the heroine of "Spring Is Not a Study Day", I want her latest photo."

Girl A nodded, turned and left.

Simon turned to Jackson again: "Let's continue, Peter, I think you should be able to feel Daenerys' support for you these years, and these are all arranged by me personally."

Sure enough.

Even though he had already guessed in his heart, Peter Jackson still showed a surprised and happy expression, and with gratitude, he got up slightly and said, "Thank you, Simon."

Simon waved his hand to signal Jackson to sit down again, and said, "Of course, I must also tell you that you are just one of them. Before you, such as Michael Bay, Brett Ratner and others, they all belonged to this category, and There are also losers.”

"The reason why I like you is first of all that you are very pragmatic, which is very important in Hollywood, because many filmmakers, as literary creators, do not lack talent, but they are often too lofty and stubborn, and it is difficult to cooperate well with Hollywood .”

"A film is never a job that can be completed by a single person. If a filmmaker cannot coordinate the whole team to complete the project pragmatically, no matter how talented he is, he will not be able to display it. Secondly, on a pragmatic basis, you do not lack talent. , Whether it was the original "Crazy Fat Treasure Show" or "Sinful Angel", which won the Venice Silver Lion Award, have proved this point. Therefore, I hope that "Ghost of Horror" can be a start for you to break into Hollywood. "