After the lively New Year's countdown, the New Year's Eve party begins to end.

At around 1 a.m., Simon saw James Rebelde away his family of three and returned to the villa. There were only waiters cleaning up the mess in the empty living room. There should be some guests in the backyard, but Simon didn't need to send them to him personally.

Following the stairs to the second floor, still outside a living room, Simon heard Janet's chuckle.

After entering the door, four women, Janet, Catherine, Amy and Nancy Brill, snuggled on the sofa in different postures and were chatting about something. The women were holding goblets in their hands, and they were obviously drunk. Janet's fair face had turned red at this time.

Walking to Janet's sofa and sitting down on the armrest, Simon gently took the red wine from the woman's hand and refused to let her drink it. He looked at Amy and the others and said, "Ladies, it's too late, do you still have to continue?"

Amy raised her wrist and looked at her watch, then she showed a surprised expression: "It's already 1:25, Simon, have you seen Cliff?"

Cliff is Amy's new boyfriend and is introduced as the owner of a French restaurant in Brentwood.

Simon thought for a while and said, "He should be on the backyard lawn."

"Then, it's time for me to leave," Amy put the goblet in front of her on the coffee table, stood up with the armrest of the sofa, shook her head slightly, and smiled at Simon, "Boss, I'll go to the company later tomorrow, right?"

Simon nodded with a smile: "Of course."

The tomorrow that Amy said was actually today, so Simon naturally would not be serious about such small details.

New Year's Day should have been a legal holiday in the United States, but Simon will fly to Australia tomorrow. There are still many things to arrange before leaving. At least Daenerys Entertainment's senior executives need to continue to appear in the company tomorrow.

As Amy stood up, the other three women also stood up.

Simon hugged Janet, who was shaking softly on him after standing up, and his eyes were accidentally noticed Nancy Brill, and he couldn't help but say, "So short."

It turned out that Nancy Brill, who had just curled himself on the single sofa, took off his high heels.

I didn't notice in the past that the woman was standing barefoot on the carpet at this time. Simon discovered that Nancy Brill's height should be less than 1.6 meters tall. Not to mention Catherine, even though she was obviously shorter in front of the two women Janet and Amy, who were about 1.7 meters away. However, the woman's curvy mature charm combined with her height also brought a very attractive style.

Simon said this, and Janet and the other two who suddenly discovered this also showed unexpected expressions.

Nancy Brill was stared at by several people, but sat down again as if nothing had happened. She found her from the side with at least 10CM high heels on her feet. She glanced at Catherine casually, and seemed to have a little more guarded look in her tone, saying, "Boss, are you discriminating?"

"Of course not," Simon smiled and denied, watching Nancy Brill get up again soon, the pair of hatred hatred was hidden under the hem of the rose-colored dress, and his head was obviously slid up, saying: "In fact, it doesn't seem good to always wear shoes that high."

Nancy Brill obviously didn't want to continue the topic, and just said lightly: "If you don't wear it, the result will be worse."

Since Nancy didn't like to discuss her height, Simon stopped. But she couldn't help thinking in her heart whether this woman cares about her height because she is too strong, or because of her height. She is a little shorter than 1.5 meters tall among Western women.

Everyone went downstairs together, Amy found her boyfriend in the last group of guests in the backyard. Seeing the driver driving away the two, Simon noticed that Nancy Brill was still the same person.

The parking clerk drove a black Mercedes-Benz sedan. Simon looked at Nancy and said goodbye to everyone and got into the driver's seat. He stepped forward and pressed the door that the woman wanted to pull up, and asked, "You yourself?"

Nancy sat in the driver's seat, took off the high heels on her feet and placed them beside her, looking at Simon and said, "Boss, are you having any problems?"

Simon pulled the car door a little and let it beside him: "Sit down in the back and let the driver take you back."

Nancy shook her head, "No need."

Simon insisted on looking at the woman: "Get out."

Nancy's eyes confronted Simon for a moment, and finally said, "I'm not used to strangers sending me home."

Simon looked up and found Neil Bennett's figure, gestured at him, looked at Nancy again, and said, "I'll ask my driver to take you back."

Nancy hesitated for a moment, but got out of the car and turned to the back seat.

Simon explained a few words to Neil Bennett, and then turned around as he drove Nancy away. Janet was looking at him with a smile, teasing a little: "Nancy obviously wants you, the boss, to take her back in person, you are really ignorant."

Neil Bennett originally wanted to send Simon and the others back to Malibu, but now he can only wait for a while.

Simon ignored Janet's teasing and asked Catherine next to him, "Let's go back to Malibu together?"

"Okay," Catherine nodded unexpectedly, but then added: "I just rented a house in Paradise Bay recently, not far from Dumei Point, just along the way."

After the three of them were together that time, Catherine never gave Simon a ridiculous opportunity.

Seeing Simon's depressed expression, Janet smiled and walked towards the villa with a smile, "Little bastard goes to Australia the day after tomorrow, Kate, you come to live with me."

Catherine glanced at Simon, who was falling beside the two of them, and asked, "Aren't you going with him?"

"Our house in Dumei Point Park is about to start," Janet shook his head and said, "and, Daenerys Entertainment will have a financial audit for the next month. I will stay in Los Angeles to help him stare. Well, on his birthday in February, we will visit the set together."

Neil Bennett sent Nancy Brill home and came back. He had another toss and things happened. It was already past two in the morning when he went to bed.

Wake up the next day and the new year officially begins.

The senior meeting was held at 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. The main topic was Simon's work arrangements during the period when he left Los Angeles.

In the coming months, Daenerys Entertainment's work focuses on establishing overseas distribution channels and promoting the overseas release of several films such as "Scream" at the end of last year.

In this era, it is rare to have Hollywood movies overseas distributions at the same time as those in North America, and delayed release for two or three months. Therefore, Daenerys Entertainment simply did not distract from overseas at the end of last year and focused all its energy on local distribution.

Now, several films such as "Scream" have all been successful in the box office, which has also created very good conditions for the expansion of Daenerys Entertainment's overseas distribution channels. Using these big-selling films as bargaining chips, Daenerys Entertainment can easily establish contact with overseas theater vendors.

In addition to the release of the movie, the most important task next is to audit the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Because it is not a listed company, Daenerys Entertainment does not need to publish its annual financial report to the public.

However, due to the company's expansion too quickly, even Simon herself is not very clear about the revenue data of Daenerys Entertainment, including its subsidiaries, and is even less clear about whether there are potential problems. This requires a very detailed financial review of Daenerys Entertainment.

In order to ensure the accuracy of financial reports, Simon also specially authorized Janet to supervise the audit throughout the entire process at today's meeting.

Finally, there are several films produced by Daenerys Entertainment to make award-winning strategies for award-winning seasons in the coming months.

Simon has never been too enthusiastic about Oscars and other awards. Although it is established to establish Gaomen Film, which specializes in the business of art films, in his concept, Oscars and other awards should always be "icing on the cake" and should not become the fundamental goal of a movie.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, after a simple lunch, Simon and Amy and several other senior executives met with Wayne Hueyzanga, chairman of Blockbuster, to discuss the specific plan for Daenerys Entertainment to acquire stake in Blockbuster.

After several hours of negotiations, the two sides reached a preliminary agreement.

Daenerys Entertainment invested US$120 million to acquire 35% of Blockbuster's shares. At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment promised not to interfere in Blockbuster's management within the next three years. Correspondingly, Blockbuster also guarantees that Daenerys Entertainment's shares will not be diluted in the next three years. If Blockbuster needs to continue financing, Daenerys Entertainment can give priority to the investment share to ensure the company's shareholding ratio.

Nancy Brill was also identified as a member of the Board of Directors after this meeting.

That night, Simon invited the Rebels' family to have a meal in Malibu again. During this period, he discussed some things about Westeros with James Rebels in private. Simon completed the arrangements before leaving.

Although she was still worried about letting go of the steering wheel of Daenerys Entertainment, a fast-moving "sports car", Simon also understood that she had to do so. If a company left someone, it would not be able to continue operating, and the company was destined to be unable to grow and grow.

On January 2, Simon officially flew to Melbourne, Australia with a group of entourage in the morning.

The preliminary preparations for the "Batman" project have been completed. After arriving in Melbourne, Simon only needs to spend a few days familiarizing himself with the environment. The film will officially start shooting on January 9, with a planned shooting cycle of 13 weeks and 91 days. If everything goes well, the film will be completed in early April and lasts for three months.

Simon left Los Angeles and everything in Hollywood was not affected much.

Daenerys Entertainment's public relations work this year was handed over by Simon to Ella Deutschman, the head of Gaomen Pictures. After Simon left, Ella Deutschman began to make efforts in the Golden Globes public relations of "Death Poetry Club", and also prepared for the Oscar nomination application for related films under Daenerys Entertainment.

With the unexpected box office success of "Rain Man", Hollywood also became extremely concerned about the film's Oscar PR strategy.

Daenerys Entertainment has completely abandoned this year's Golden Globe Awards on "Rain Man". Many people speculated that due to conflicts with several main creators of "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment is likely to continue to give up the Oscars for this film.

"Rain Man" has become a phenomenal movie. If this movie joins the Oscars, there will basically be few opportunities for other movies this year.

Therefore, the whole Hollywood is looking forward to Simon Westeros being so excited.

However, "Rain Man" gave up the Golden Globe Award, but Simon was paving the way for "Death Poetry Society". He still had the same view as before. He would not do such a stupid thing as being angry with others and smashing his own family. "Rain Man" will declare all possible awards as scheduled.

However, Ella Deutchman also got a very difficult job.

Among the nominations for "Rain Man", the Best Director and Best Actor can obviously be easily obtained. In the original time and space, these two nominations also successfully won the Little Golden Man by Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman.

But this time, Simon assigned Ella Deutchman the task of making Barry Levinson and Dustin Hoffman only get nominations but not awards, just like Daenerys Entertainment has been continuing to invite role auditions to CAA artists for a while, but will not hire each other.

Reverse PR often happens between competitors, but it is still very difficult to make your own video not win awards.

This is also one of Simon's tests on Ella Deutchman.

In addition to "Rain Man", Daenerys Entertainment will continue to focus on "Death Poetry Club". The company's goal is to win the best film in "Rain Man" and best director in "Death Poetry Club".

Major Hollywood film companies have clearly shown a tendency to jointly suppress Daenerys Entertainment. At this time, the "defaults" that were originally difficult to influence by Oscar judges have become "advantages".

The Oscar jury team has more than 3,000 people. As long as Daenerys Entertainment is willing to invest, it has excellent quality videos, and it is still very likely that it will be possible to win nominations and awards.

Simon privately gave Ella Deutchman a face-to-face message and taught the Weinstein brothers' public relations methods in memory to the other party.

Unconsciously, the New Year's Eve week passed again.

The films at the end of last year were still harvesting box offices, but compared with the box office explosion in Christmas week, from December 30 to January 5, the North American single-week box office market shrank again to $91.56 million compared with the $122.36 million last week, and most of the films fell.

Except for "Rain Man".

Due to the unexpected rise in box office against the trend in the second week of release, Daenerys Entertainment urgently negotiated with theaters and re-allocated 262 screens, which increased the number of screens of "Rain Man" this week from 1,136 to 1,398. In addition to the phenomenon of "Rain Man"'s continued to spread, the film became the only film on the market this week to achieve a box office decline, with a box office increase of 7%, and an additional $17.91 million, with a cumulative box office of 46.23 million.

At the same time, "Rain Man" also surpassed "Death Poetry Club" and made a counterattack, successfully winning the single-week box office championship in the third week of its release.
Chapter completed!