Sophia, who was chatting with a guest, felt a big hand wrapping her waist, looking at the man beside her, and teasing: "I thought I wouldn't see you tonight."

Simon nodded to the guest opposite and said to Sophia: "It's time for us to go back."

"OK."

Sofia agreed with a smile, and the two of them greeted some necessary guests and walked out of the auction house together.

After getting in the car, Sofia was very clever and did not mention a woman at the cocktail party, but said: "Agnelli just asked me about some details of the investment of the Westeros system in China. It seems that he does not intend to give up entering China."

In the auction house lounge, Simon and Jani Agnelli's conversations were also attended by Sofia.

Simon said: "This is certain, but whether it can succeed is another matter."

"I think he still hopes to work with us."

"The key is the issue of control. If Fiat enters China, Agnelli will not give up control of the project and cannot win the initiative, I will not participate, so I cannot reach an agreement at all."

Sophia looked at the little man beside her, with a bit of love and admiration in her tone: "If it were me, I would definitely be willing to take a step back. This is a collaboration with Simon Westeros."

“If everyone could make rational and correct choices, it was hard to imagine how wonderful the world would be.”

"Anyway, with you here, my world is the best."

Simon reached out to catch the woman's face and kissed her, and suddenly turned serious: "It's useless to please me anymore. I'm very tired in the afternoon and do nothing tonight."

Sofia gave someone a blank look, came over again, and the two kissed each other again.

I set off again early the next morning.

At Milan Malpensa International Airport, Simon said goodbye to Sofia, who was coming to see her farewell, climbed the gangway, and just entered the Boeing 767 cabin. A crescent-eyed woman who had just met at the cocktail party last night came over.

"Oh, Simon, it feels like a dream. I'm probably crazy. We just met last night and today we're going to the United States with you, and it's my first time in the United States, and I'm not very good at English."

Alessandra Martinis said this in Italian, but he naturally held Simon's arm and couldn't help but look around.

This was also the first time she took a private plane. Unexpectedly, it was just such a luxurious Boeing 767, and the men around her made Martinis feel like a dream.

Simon Westeros.

No matter what the next result is, this is a past event that will be enough to write down in your memoirs in the future. If there is a memoir, it will be a memoir.

This is why the man asked for an invitation last night, and she agreed without thinking about it.

Alessandra Martinis, 33 years old, has been married to a descendant of a French nobleman with a wealthy family. However, compared with Simon Westeros, her husband's family that could only be considered barely maintained, had no advantage at all.

The reason why she married her husband in the past few years was that Martinis hoped that her husband, who had something to do with the French film and television industry, could help her develop her career, but unfortunately, she miscalculated. Until now, she is a star who is barely in the third tier of France.

So, I met Simon last night, and when the man expressed interest in her, he was decisive and desperate.

After all, once you miss it, such opportunities may never be available again.

All in all, this is an elopement.

He brought the woman to the living room in the middle of the cabin. Simon signaled the other party to sit down on the leather chair near the porthole and sat next to him. A Wei family maid came to help Alexandra wear a seat belt.

Simon himself skillfully put on his seat belt and said to the confused woman around him: "It may be a bit bumpy when taking off, and we can only move freely after it is stable."

Alessandra nodded quickly.

She didn't know this, and she thought there was no need for any restrictions on private jets. Fortunately, she didn't ask randomly just now and caused a fool of herself.

After the waitress buckled her seat belt and left, Simon looked at the cautious look of the woman beside her and asked with a smile: "Yali, have you had breakfast?"

Alessandra subconsciously wanted to nod her head, but said honestly: "Not yet."

I didn't sleep all night last night.

After dawn, I was busy dressing up again. When the car sent by Simon came to pick her up, I rushed over immediately, and didn't even think about having to eat.

Simon said: "It's not OK to not eat breakfast. I'll let them prepare later."

"Thank you, Simon, you're so considerate."

A girl came over at this time, holding a stack of information in her hand, handed several of the newspapers to Simon, and sat down opposite her.

Simon took the newspaper and saw that Alessandra was slightly embarrassed because of the coldness of a girl, and helped introduce: "This is a, my assistant."

Alessandra took the initiative to reach out and changed into an obviously unskilled English: "Hello, a, I am Alessandra Martinis, you can call me Alice."

A girl did not give someone face in person and shook hands with Alessandra.

The waitress who had just helped wear her seat belt came over again, confirmed with Simon, and notified the crew to prepare to take off.

Simon chatted casually with Alessandra, while picking up the newspaper handed over by Ahn. This is a French newspaper called "West" and the largest national daily in France. Ahn has marked it. This newspaper is not important but also quite conspicuous. The current political page is a comment on the Rwandan government's announcement yesterday that it discovered new evidence of the French army's participation in the Holocaust.

The position is put very positively.

The article severely criticized the Rwandan government's allegations were completely unreasonable slander, and it was a deliberate slander under the manipulation of some anti-French forces.

The newspaper did not specify which party the so-called "anti-French forces" is.

A note was posted next to this report, explaining that although the Western newspaper claimed to be neutral, it was actually the mouthpiece of the French government. Simon immediately understood that it was probably like a super newspaper in China.

Then there was a French left-wing "Humanitarian".

Compared with the articles on related incidents deliberately placed the articles on the secondary pages of the newspaper Humanitarianism, which directly put the headlines on the front page, briefly reviewing the Rwandan massacre that shocked the world two years ago, the article strongly demanded that the French government set up a special investigation team to investigate French military members who might have involved the massacre that year.

The article also criticized the current President Chirac for a series of military policies, especially the nuclear test program that has been restarted since taking office last year.

After taking office in June 1995, the French government suddenly announced the restart of nuclear tests. From September 1995 to January 1996, in less than half a year, the French army conducted six consecutive nuclear tests in the French New Coridonia Islands in the South Pacific. The Humanitarian Journal criticized Chirac for provoking a new round of nuclear arms race and bringing the entire human race into an unknown dangerous situation.

Looking at the other newspapers, their attitudes and positions are basically half to half.

Without one side, you can actually imagine the public opinion pressure faced by the French government at this time. After all, the crime of participating in the Holocaust is like Germany. Once it is labeled, it will not be able to get rid of the stain for dozens or hundreds of years, and it will even become an original sin.

Because of Chirac, a right-wing politician, the already disharmonious relationship between the United States and France has become tense again.

Although Simon's attack on France was due to personal grudges, it was actually inconsistent with the general trend. This matter would not be just an article in the New York Times that was announced yesterday, but until the French government gave Simon a private explanation.

Or, there may be no explanation, but they will break up and fight against each other.

Simon was not afraid of this either.

At that time, the Westeros system will lose at most some business in France, and it will be difficult to determine what France loses.

After a quick look at several newspapers, the Boeing 767 also went smoothly and stabilized at high altitudes.

Simon called a waitress and asked her to take Alessandra to have breakfast, and could visit everywhere in the cabin. She probably understood that Simon was going to discuss work with her assistant, so Alessandra followed the waitress and left obediently.

Only Simon and the other two were left, and then a girl reported some things that Simon needed to know.

Today is mainly about the movies.

"The news came from Los Angeles that Jiahe rejected our cooperation plan for "Police Story 4" and switched to Disney. Disney offered a 28% North American box office share plan, which was 5 points more than the share plan we gave, and was willing to make concessions in both promotional and subsequent channels. Danny's last attempt to retain was invalid yesterday, so he could only send a restriction letter to Jiahe, requiring that the movie should not use the script ideas that both parties had discussed over the past period of time, and would not imitate the "Pulse Hour" series."

The "Police Story" series needs no more.

According to common sense, after the success of the "Rush Hour" series, Jack Cheng should focus his work on Hollywood. However, "Police Story 4" was a cooperation project that he had agreed to his old boss before the filming of "Rush Hour". With the relationship between Jack Cheng and Jiahe, of course, he cannot break his promise.

After the North American outbreak of "Rush Hour", Jiahe, who has been trying to enter Hollywood for so many years, will certainly not miss this opportunity and revise the script that has been completed, intending to make "Police Story 4" an international film that will once again impact Hollywood.

Simply put, it is to add overseas characters and related storylines and shoot overseas.

Similar to "Red Fan District".

The project replanning is of course the first thing to do is to select Hollywood partners. The New World Pictures team under Daenerys Entertainment, which has worked happily in the past few times, is naturally the first choice, and New World Pictures also responded positively.

However, because of the success of "Rush Hour", Jiahe, who has increased confidence, has begun to try to gain more benefits, especially recently, negative examples like "Black Man" have happened, and Jiahe has performed more resolutely.

At least this time, it is impossible to sell the copyright out of no matter what.

After the project was re-planned, the New World Pictures team's box office expectations for "Police Story 4" were relatively optimistic, and it was only about $50 million. After all, this project itself has some flaws that cannot be fully integrated into Hollywood. The $50 million is based on the popularity of "Rush Hour".

In short, New World Pictures could not give outliers conditions. So it was snatched away by other studios eyeing Hollywood and eventually won Disneyland.

When overseas films are distributed in North America, if the producers require a share of the money, they usually only have a dozen points, and fewer than 20%. Because of the nature of the movie itself, most of the distributors will receive a share of the money from theaters below the standard 55%, and the distribution share of the money collected is generally higher than the Hollywood average.

Although the project "Police Story 4" is a bit special, Jiahe does not intend to let outsiders intervene in investment. New World Pictures only conducts distribution and promises to offer a pure share of 23% with full promotion and distribution. After all, this is a movie with a clear Hong Kong film gene, and the risk is quite high.

Moreover, without sufficient benefits, why should New World Pictures give you resources? Isn’t it better to release your own films? After all, the movie schedule and movie resources are limited every year.

The share ratio given by Disney seems to be only 5 points higher than New World Pictures, but it has made concessions in promotional and subsequent channels, even according to the optimistic box office expectations of $50 million, there is basically no profit unless the film is as successful as "Pulse Hour".

But this probability cannot be said to be absolute, but it is not much higher than the possibility of a certain country's men's football team entering the World Cup.

After the female assistant finished speaking, she looked at Simon.

Simon just nodded to show his awareness.

Disney, controlled by Vivendi, is in a similar state to Sony at the time. They are eager to create a situation and launch some high-quality projects, so they are not so concerned about interests.

The outcome is actually conceivable.

Seeing that the boss had no intention of fighting for another reason, A girl continued: "In China, after we sent an invitation, several Chinese directors gave positive responses. This was a plan proposed by Zhang, Chen and other directors."

After the launch of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", with the recent success of "Black Man", in order to promote Jet Lee, Simon plans to create several other costume Chinese films, including martial arts, war, and fantasy. So he invited some famous Chinese directors, with the core of showing Chinese culture and taking care of the tastes of Western audiences.

Moreover, the planned investment of US$15 million to US$30 million is only medium in Hollywood, and the risk is controllable, but in China, this era is an absolute sky-high investment. Just like the "Opium War" produced by Director Xie, the investment of 100 million is less than US$15 million, which has been the focus of the whole country.

Of course, Simon is not for doing good things. Investing in these projects can be said to have multiple purposes.

First of all, it is to make money, and secondly, it can further narrow the relationship with China's official government. Then, these large-scale films can activate the Chinese film market on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also alleviate the rebound of the Chinese film industry's invasion of Hollywood films.

On the other hand, it was Simon's selfishness.
To be continued...