Last night I was disturbed very late by some tiny noises, and in the end I even wondered if it was my hallucination. When I was brushing my teeth, I looked in the mirror. Fortunately, there were no dark circles under my eyes, otherwise I would have been really embarrassed.

The time is seven o'clock in the morning.

Saturday.

The weather in Park City is still very cold in January, but the house is as warm as spring.

Leaving the bedroom, he guiltily slowed down and glanced at another door not far away. He must not have gotten up yet this time.

When I went downstairs to the living room, I was shocked.

Simon was already sitting on the single sofa next to the fireplace and was on the phone. Janet was curled up in his arms like a kitten, squinting her eyes. She was only wearing a long pale pink woolen sweater and two dazzling skirts.

Her fair and long legs poked out from the hem of her clothes unbridled, looking full of youthfulness.

She stood blankly at the stairs for a few seconds. It wasn't until the man nodded to her that she realized what she was doing. She walked over and sat down on the sofa next to her as if nothing had happened.

But my heart was sour.

After he kissed her neck in the car that day, although there was no other intimate contact after that, she naturally thought that the two people had some kind of involvement.

Now.

Janet could curl up in his arms without any worries.

But Jennifer could only sit next to him, still feeling a faint sense of guilt as if she had stolen something from someone else.

Simon chatted with the other person for a while, then put down the phone and asked Jennifer: "How was your rest last night?"

Some blushing sounds appeared in Jennifer's mind again, her eyes moved to the side, and she nodded calmly: "Very good, you, um, who were you calling just now?"

"Ed McCracken, CEO of Silicon Graphics," Simon said, and then explained: "I suddenly realized something last night. There is no need for me to rely on others to produce 3D animation and CG special effects.

On the acquisition of the company. If I want to do this, I can recruit people and form a team myself, which is cheaper and can more flexibly control the development direction of technology. Silicon Graphics Company supplies professional graphics to many universities, enterprises and R&D teams.

The workstation happens to have connections in this field, and I just asked McCracken to help me introduce some people."

Jennifer listened to the man's words absentmindedly, but suddenly realized something, raised her eyes and looked at Simon, and said: "Did you think of this last night?"

Simon nodded: "Yes, what's wrong?"

Before Jennifer could answer, Janet, who was shrinking in Simon's arms, couldn't help laughing.

Simon also thought about it in the blink of an eye. Looking at Jennifer who was blushing, he had to add: "Actually, I had already had this idea when I left Pixar headquarters the day before yesterday."

Jennifer felt even more embarrassed. She stood up and said, "I'm going to prepare breakfast" and fled to the kitchen.

Simon watched the female assistant disappear in a hurry, patted Janet, who was still squinting in her arms, and said: "Baby, would you like to go to the bedroom to sleep, be careful of catching a cold."

Janet put her arms around Simon and said coquettishly: "Hold me over."

Simon carried Janet to the bedroom on the second floor, put her on the big bed, covered her with a quilt, and said, "Go to sleep. I'll call you when breakfast is ready."

Janet huddled under the quilt, but when she heard this, she blinked at Simon: "You can finish breakfast with her and then call me."

Simon smiled and pinched the woman's cheek, helped her gather the quilt, and then went downstairs again.

While still on the stairs, Simon heard the phone ringing and came to the living room. He happened to see Jennifer coming out of the kitchen, probably to answer the phone. Seeing Simon, the female assistant immediately shrank back, like a frightened deer.

Simon smiled helplessly, walked over and picked up the phone. The call came from New York, and it was already working hours on the East Coast.

After Westeros Corporation began to reduce its holdings of New World Entertainment shares yesterday, the company's stock price fell directly from $16.75 at Thursday's closing price to $13.25 at yesterday's closing price.

New World Entertainment's shareholders and executives, who were still secretly waiting for Simon's initiative to contact them, couldn't sit still. Early this morning, New World Entertainment's major shareholder Larry Copping rushed to visit James Raybould in person.

At this time, he was talking to Simon in Raybould's office.

After buying New World Pictures from B-movie king Roger Corman in 1983, after several years of mergers, expansions, and reorganizations, Larry Copping and his other partner Harry Sloan still maintained

Has more than 40% stake in New World Entertainment.

During the phone call, Larry Coupin said that they were well aware of Simon's intentions and expressed that they were happy to see the deal come to fruition and hoped that the two parties could formally start acquisition negotiations.

Even based on yesterday's closing price of US$13.25, New World Entertainment's market value still exceeds US$330 million, which is still not something Westeros can afford.

What's more, once the two parties officially start negotiations, New World Entertainment's stock price will definitely rebound again.

The main dilemma currently facing New World Entertainment is the lack of funds. If Simon agrees to start acquisition negotiations for New World Entertainment, those Wall Street capital who want to kill the Westeros company will definitely not allow the operation of this company to have problems.

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By then, it will definitely be much easier for New World Entertainment to obtain working capital to get out of trouble.

Therefore, Larry Copping's thoughts are also very obvious.

As long as we can keep in touch with Simon, a big financial backer, New World Entertainment has a good chance of overcoming the current difficulties regardless of whether the final deal is reached. Naturally, Simon cannot marry someone, and he can simply deal with the other person on the phone and hand over the matter.

Leave it to James to deal with.

After breakfast, Simon rushed to the city with Janet and Jennifer at nine o'clock to attend the premiere of a movie called "The State of Dreams", which Robert Redford also studied at Sundance.

Served as executive producer on films funded by the company.

Simon also had a few words with Michael Hoffman, the director of "The State of Dreams" at a party at Redford's house last year. Since it was the first feature film he directed, Michael Hoffman's narrative techniques were not yet mature enough.

. However, Simon really liked the film's cold lens that explores disillusionment with ideals and confused reality.

The premiere of "The State of Dreams" ended. Simon, Robert Redford and others left the Egyptian Theater and were planning to go to a nearby restaurant for dinner.

As soon as everyone went out, they were surrounded by a group of reporters.

Simon didn't pay too much attention at first. After hearing the reporters' questions, he realized that these people were targeting him.

It turns out that this morning, the WGA announced the nominations for the new Writers Guild of America Awards. Simon's three films last year, "Run Lola Run", "The Butterfly Effect" and "The Deathly Hallows" were all ignored, and not a single nomination was received.

did not receive.

Among the three movies, although the plot concept of "The Butterfly Effect" is very novel, the film received a very low reputation from film critics last year, so it is natural that it was ignored by the awards. As for "Death", this plasma thriller is even less likely.

Get nominated.

Therefore, "Run Lola Run" can be said to be Simon's main contender for awards during this year's awards season.

Prior to this, due to his age, the media generally predicted that the most important award Simon would easily win at the most important Oscars during the awards season would be Best Screenplay. All three films Simon wrote last year hit the annual box office.

Top ten on the list, he deserves this award.

The main voting members for the Oscar Screenwriting Awards are concentrated in the Writers Guild of America.

Now that the WGA has completely ignored "Run Lola Run", it is impossible for Simon to win any more screenwriting awards at the next Oscars, and it is difficult to even expect to be nominated.

Returning to the resort apartment in the afternoon, Simon also received more detailed information from Los Angeles.

When asked by the media at the nomination press conference, George Cogo, chairman of the WGA Western Chapter, explained that "Lola Run" focused too much on form and lacked content, so it failed to meet the award nomination standards.

Simon just laughed it off. He didn't expect that because he refused to join the WGA, the opponent's "killing stick" would be so obvious.

However, after a brief discussion, Simon just asked Pat Kingsley to make some cliche remarks about respecting the WGA's decision.

Simon himself doesn't care about awards, but it's impossible for him not to consider films produced by Daenerys Pictures.

In the final analysis, the entire awards season is a game. Everyone is in the game. If you want to get rewards, you must abide by the rules.

Therefore, although some sensitive media noticed the fact that Simon was not a WGA member and questioned the fairness of the WGA nomination, Simon did not respond to this.

The hustle and bustle of the day is over.

In the evening, Simon, Janet and Jennifer sat on the sofa together by the fireplace in the resort apartment, each holding a script in their hands.

Robert Redford sent two large boxes of scripts today. Simon plans to return to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon and will attend the premiere of another movie tomorrow morning, so he can only use his spare time in the evening to read through these scripts.

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After the premiere of "The State of Dreams," Simon has agreed to invest in another film by Michael Hoffman called "Sisters," about a college student who travels to Canada to visit his girlfriend in a bizarre family.

Kind of interesting thing.

Janet was holding the script at this time, leaning on Simon and reading with gusto.

Jennifer was a little absent-minded. There was nothing much last night. Everyone came back from the party and rested quickly. But tonight, in this strange town among the mountains, surrounded by ice, snow and cold, in a quiet resort cabin, a man and two women

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This atmosphere is really weird.

The weirdest thing is that the other two guys looked completely unaware.

I don’t know how long it took, but the phone rang suddenly, finally breaking the atmosphere that made Jennifer feel uncomfortable. She raised her head and saw that Simon had already picked up the phone, said a few words to the other party, and then hung up again.

Telephone.

Janet was a little dissatisfied with the quiet atmosphere being broken. She squeezed Simon and asked, "What's going on?"

Simon picked up the script again and said with a smile: "The Lord of the Rings is ours."

Janet curled her lips: "It's 10 million US dollars. It would be abnormal for Zaenz to refuse."

Jennifer was still unaware of the communication between Simon and Saul Zaenz last night. She was a little disbelieving when she heard the words: "$10 million to buy the rights to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy?"

"Yeah, it's okay if you know, but don't tell anyone."

Jennifer's expression still showed surprise, but she just nodded.

Janet smiled and stretched out her little hand to scratch Simon and said, "This sheep is very fat. Janet, would you like to touch it too?"
To be continued...