Chapter 144 (1/2)
Richmond, northeast of San Francisco Bay.
Pixar's office at this time is located in a humble office building in the city.
Simon arrived at Pixar headquarters at two o'clock in the afternoon. Jobs didn't show up. He was received by Pixar president ed catmoore. This middle-aged man with glasses and whiskers is the main developer of Pixar Animation software and rendering tools.
Before arriving in San Francisco, Simon had actually heard that due to financial constraints, jobs had just laid off Pixar after the new year. At this time, there were less than 20 Pixar employees living in this office building.
Simon didn't mind the fact that the owner didn't show up. He spent the whole afternoon seriously visiting a series of Pixar's technological achievements, including John lassett's just started brewing ”tin soldier”. This 3D animation short film not only won the Oscar for best animation short film, but also was the inspiration of later ”Toy Story”.
In this way, it was not until after work time, when he was about to leave, that Simon said to ED catmoore, ”ed, I proposed to jobs to buy this company last year. This offer is still valid. You can tell him that if he wants to sell Pixar at any time, you can contact me.”
In the afternoon, he got along very happily. Ed catmoore also felt that Simon was really interested in Pixar's technology and said, ”Simon, do you have to buy our company? If it's just a stake, Steve would be very happy, and we can help convince him
”It's about control,” Simon said, shaking his head. ”I don't think jobs wants to repeat his experience at Apple any more. I personally do the same. Ed, you should realize that I'm interested in using Pixar's technology to make 3D animation and develop CG special effects technology related to movies. Jobs's goal is to produce professional computers for animation production. Our business concepts are completely in conflict. ”
After a few words of conversation, Simon shakes hands with ED catmoore and others one by one again and leaves Pixar headquarters with Jennifer.
The main shooting of instinct will be in San Francisco. On Tuesday, I came here with several creators of instinct and spent two days to confirm the location of the film. Brian De Palma and others have returned to Los Angeles.
Simon visited Silicon Graphics headquarters in Silicon Valley in the morning, visited Pixar in the afternoon, and will fly to park city, Utah tomorrow to attend the opening ceremony of this year's Sundance Film Festival.
”Lola Run” only made a big hit at the Sundance Film Festival last year with the strong support of Robert Redford. Redford even said hello to him a few days ago. Simon can't fail to join in either promotion or personal friendship.
The Hilton Hotel in downtown San Francisco.
Jennifer returns to the living room with a pot of coffee, and Neil Bennett has checked the suite for eavesdropping.
He enthusiastically helped Neil Bennett put all kinds of instruments in the box. When the other party left, Jennifer poured Simon a cup of coffee, sat down on the sofa beside him and said, ”it's like obsessive-compulsive disorder.”
”Obsessive compulsive disorder is better than being bugged. I feel uncomfortable when I think of those little things in the plaza hotel suite,” Simon said, putting down his papers, patting his female assistant and saying, ”come on.”
”No, I'm not a kitten,” she said, turning slightly red. Besides, it's time you called my dad. ”
Simon, not reluctant, picked up the phone with a smile and dialed the number of the leibulde family.
It's more than eight o'clock in the evening in New York. The phone is soon connected. Simon and James talk about entertainment in the new world.
New World Entertainment's share price rose again today compared with yesterday's high of $15, which was fixed at $16.75 in the afternoon, with a total market value of more than $400 million. Simon can't afford to buy any more now. After discussing with James on the phone, Simon made a decisive decision to clear all the New World Entertainment stocks held by Westeros.
Simon's acquisition of New World Entertainment's fundamental purpose is marvel, the company's film and television entertainment assets are also second.
Now that a group of people have come together to kill the fat sheep, Simon's wisest choice now is to get out at once. If we keep holding the 7% shares of new world entertainment, the share price of the company will only keep firm, and may even make new world entertainment survive the most difficult period in the future.
Once that happens, it's more difficult for Simon to get marvel.
The New World Entertainment shares held by westero are all non restricted circulating shares. Therefore, although the proportion of shares held by westero exceeds 5%, it is not subject to the SEC's share reduction restrictions.
Early the next morning.
Westero began to sell its shares immediately after it publicly announced the reduction of its holdings in accordance with SEC regulations.
Simon arrived in park city around 11:00 a.m. Utah local time. Janet has also arrived and rented an apartment at the last resort. The woman has been busy with the renovation of Fifth Avenue apartment in New York for some time. At this time, she will return to the west coast to participate in the 45th Golden Globe Awards Ceremony to be held next Saturday with Simon .The opening ceremony of Sundance Film Festival still starts at 1 pm.
After Simon arrived in Park City, he simply settled in and rushed to the Egyptian theater in park city where the opening ceremony was held.
Because ”Lola Run” was a great success starting from the Sundance Film Festival last year, Park City has become a lot more lively this year. If Robert Redford hadn't arranged in advance, Simon might not even be able to squeeze into the packed Egyptian theater.
In some early chats, Simon also learned from Redford that compared with last year, the number of registered films at the Sundance Film Festival has doubled this year.
Thanks to the generosity of the sponsors, the number of screening halls used for participating films in the next 10 days has increased to 10 instead of 3 last year. There are not so many projection halls in park city. Many of them are temporary reconstruction. It is said that some films that failed to be shortlisted also set up their own screening halls, hoping to attract the attention of the media and film dealers in the process of the film festival.
After the opening ceremony, the opening film also has a lot of weight.
Milan Kundera's novel the unbearable lightness of life and Daniel Day Lewis and Juliet Binoche's love in Prague. Because sol zaenz, the producer of love in Prague, owns the copyright of the Lord of the rings, Simon noticed the film some time ago.
Love in Prague is set to be released on February 5 by Orion.
In order to promote the film, Saul zaenz and other creators also came to park city.
After the opening ceremony of the festival, everyone went to the headquarters of the Sundance Institute at the foot of the ski resort to attend the official opening party of the festival. Simon met Saul zaenz with the introduction of Robert Redford.
Saul zaenz, who is in his sixties, has a bushy white beard and habitually purses his mouth.
The famous Hollywood producer started his career as a record company in his early years. In 1975, his first film ”flying over the madhouse” won many awards, such as best picture, best director and best actor. In 1984, ”Mozart biography” attracted Hollywood's attention again with its excellent performance of 11-8.
For Hollywood filmmakers, to be able to produce two best Oscars in their career is absolutely a lifetime honor to show off.