Chapter 925 (1/2)

Beverly Hills, Century City Intercontinental Hotel.

Simon walked out of the elevator and was welcomed by Shirley Lansing, who was already waiting. She personally led him through the corridor to a busy banquet hall. Some people who got the news were waiting at the door of the hall.

”Simon, let me introduce you,” Shirley Lansing volunteered. ”This is Bernd Eisinger, chairman of Constantine pictures.”

”In fact, we know each other,” Simon said. Without waiting for Lansing to continue, he reached out his hand to the middle-aged man with a simple and honest face in front of him. ”Bourne, we meet again.”

Bernd Eisinger shook hands with Simon with a smile: ”yes, Simon, I'm glad we can work together this time.”

Simon's earliest contact with Constantine film can be traced back to the recovery of the copyright of the magic four.

Later, Simon went to Germany once and had dinner with Bernd Eisinger.

Besides, there is not much intersection.

When it comes to Constantine pictures, the first thing people think of later is biochemical crisis. In fact, the German film company has produced many box office projects, and its business focuses on distribution. It is one of the largest film distribution companies in Europe.

Moreover, in the original time and space, Constantine pictures also had a close relationship with another Hollywood film company, because Bernd Eisinger was also its founder and major shareholder.

The company is called Pinnacle entertainment.

In this foreign cooperation plan, Constantine film will represent a group of German capital to participate in MGM's five packaging projects, accounting for 20%. According to the preliminary estimate of the total investment amount of the five films of 350 million US dollars, Constantine film will contribute 70 million US dollars, and will be responsible for part of the European distribution work.

Therefore, Constantine is one of Simon's most successful cases in guiding overseas capital.

Without this guidance, Bernd Eisinger will bet Pinnacle entertainment to enter the Hollywood production business in the next few years, and from the late 1990s, he will continue to participate in the production of a series of blockbuster films such as ”Mrs. peron”, ”two big smokers” and ”American Pie”, and even reach the real ”pinnacle” with his later ”Twilight” series.

Now, because of danielis Entertainment's strong position in Hollywood, other major studios are having a hard time, not to mention the second - and third tier small film companies. Simon introduced these capital into MGM's packaging cooperation project at this time, further eliminating the possibility of similar capital crashing into Hollywood and even becoming bigger by accident.

Shirley Lansing was smiling and waiting for a friendly exchange before introducing others: ”Simon, this is Mr. Lawrence bournbaum, chairman of forge investment fund in Germany This is Mr. Christian stern, President of German leader pictures And this one... ”

Starting from Bernd Eisinger, he introduced six people in a row, four of whom are from Germany, which is also the main financing target of this package project.

Another one is from England and the other one is from Spain.

Simon has looked at the information again on the plane. The capital represented by these people behind the scenes respectively invested in the lowest 5% and the highest 20% of the project shares, accounting for 70% of the total investment of 350 million US dollars. MGM and Denise entertainment each accounted for half of the remaining 30%.

At the end, Shirley Lansing whispered in Simon's ear, ”Mr. President's good friend.” then she said, ”Simon, this is Mr. Frank justra. He's from Canada. He's mainly in the mining business, but he's very interested in Hollywood.”

Without Shirley Lansing's introduction, with so many memories of Hollywood in his mind, Simon has recognized this short, smart middle-aged man with gray hair and a good look.

Frank justra, founder of Lion Gate.

Unlike all kinds of speculative capital in Hollywood, which has been shot on the beach one after another, Lion Gate film was once the most powerful new film company to hit the quota of another big Hollywood studio. It not only produced the super popular ”hunger game” series, but also merged the peak entertainment of ”Twilight”, even in the field of TV series, there was ”Guangming” It's a masterpiece like ”tell the madman.”.

If it wasn't for the fixed pattern of Hollywood entertainment industry after the new century, it would be difficult for a single film production company to compete with the studios backed by large media groups. Lion Gate might have been promoted to the seventh largest film company in Hollywood at that time.

Although introduced by Clinton, Simon greets each other with a smile on the surface, but his heart is slightly hostile.

This is a troublemaker.

Because Frank justra is obviously not on the list of investors in this package project, the other party just came to Hollywood to get some contacts in the name of Clinton's good friends to prepare for the next step in the film industry.

According to the memory of previous lives, Simon also knows about the relationship between justra and Clinton.

In fact, the Canadian businessman succeeded in getting to the top of the American political pyramid by coordinating donations for Clinton. According to the law, foreigners are not allowed to make political donations to American politicians, but there are too many loopholes. For example, although Clinton has not yet established the Clinton Foundation, which later became famous or infamous, it still operates a ”Clinton legal defense foundation”, which nominally provides legal aid to vulnerable groups. This foundation can accept overseas donations.In addition, even justra's own fortune making process is very typical.

In the 1980s, justra initially worked as a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch Securities. Later, he accumulated enough contacts and established a financial company focusing on mining financing. Through capital operation, he accumulated the first bucket of gold. Then, in the 1990s, through Clinton's introduction, it successfully entered Hollywood, established Lion Gate film, and gradually reached its peak.

In fact, justra has never given up his business.

On the original timeline, in 2005, justra was once involved in a big uranium trading scandal led by Clinton, involving more than $30 million in donations to the Clinton Foundation.

In Simon's view, this man is very similar to another professional broker, who wanders between capital and power.

That's right.

Jeffrey Epstein.

The same small broker background, the same through the capital operation of the rise of the first bucket of gold, the same rely on the relationship with the powerful people gradually made a fortune.

Later, Western media constantly emphasized that Epstein was a pimp. It's hard to say whether it was deliberately done in order to cover up another identity of the other party. After all, Lori express is just a personal hobby. By the way, it's a strange thing that you can earn hundreds of millions of dollars by pimping some ”noble” guests.

Further to the depth of reasoning, in fact, is a tangled all over the sky network.

Not much.

If justra doesn't plan to stir up Hollywood, Simon is very interested in cultivating him as a dark son like Epstein.

Without chatting with justra, Simon rejoined all the gold owners of MGM's packaging project and turned to other guests at the reception. As long as the creators of the three identified projects of ”alien 2”, ”Independence Day” and ”beyond time and space contact” are in Los Angeles, they are basically present.

The first person to come to Simon is Natasha henstretch, who is working on alien 2.

Alien 2 was filmed in the Los Angeles area. We have a weekend off, so we can attend the reception.

I haven't seen you for a long time, and this girl is a little worried about whether someone remembers herself.

On the original plane, henstretch signed a one-year agreement. Originally, he could be free after one year. However, after becoming someone's lover, not to mention the luxury house that has been recorded in his name, but also the superiority of being treated carefully by all kinds of people around him. He can easily get various roles and endorsements, enjoy all kinds of benefits as his woman, and enter the pure coffee of her It's hard for a female star to reach the social circle, and even some festivals can receive valuable gifts.

And so on.

When she got used to this kind of life, Natasha henstretch even doubted whether she could survive if she lost all of them one day.

Besides, she was only 19 when she was with him.

Now 22.

So young, where need to worry?

So more than two years have passed unconsciously.

The only problem is that in the past two years, she has seen a man with one hand.

If it wasn't for a pair of Wai's maids, they all doubted whether they had been dumped. One servant and one guard, which is the standard configuration of Simon's lover, is a combination of monitoring and serving. If you want to cut off the relationship, you just need to send them away, and someone doesn't demand it at all.

Seeing Natasha approaching, Simon naturally raised his hand and hugged the girl. He praised, ”Natasha, you are so beautiful tonight.”

Feeling the unimpeded nature of the man's voice in front of her, Natasha relaxed and boldly offered to kiss him back: ”thank you, Simon.”

Then he went to his side and took each other's arm.

I'm not going to let it go tonight.

As the most powerful person in Hollywood, we have been used to the flowing women around Simon westero, and there is no difference in this. Some of the actresses who had seen westero appear and their eyes shine even envied Natasha henschucci.

Next, say hello to the crew of independence day.

As the first blockbuster after ”Batman vs Superman: Dawn of justice” and the first project beyond DC movie universe, Roland Emmerich is very aware that this movie means whether he can get rid of the label of DC movie universe director, so he attaches great importance to it.

After several parties' negotiations, Emmerich finally took away $90 million of budget, which is equivalent to ”beyond time and space contact” and $15 million more than the original.

In addition, the total investment of the first three projects reached US $220 million.

The last two projects only have a share of US $130 million, with an average of US $65 million. Although they also reach the level of blockbuster, their volume is obviously behind.

Simon personally intervened in the selection of the creators of independence day, basically following the original version, including bill Pullman, Jeff goblin, Will Smith, who has become famous for his ”steel bone” role, and Sherra ward, who plays the perfect housewife Bree vandikan in the new version of desperate housewives, who plays Jeff goblin's ex-wife who works in the White House.The overall production line-up is very cost-effective, with three male owners totaling only US $10 million. However, their influence is no less than that of Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford, who pay more than US $10 million. After the success of this project, the situation of Hollywood superstars who have been hit by DC movie universe and other blockbusters will further decline.

It's also a long time no see. Shira ward is still as intellectual and elegant as before, with a bit of sharpness that people dare not easily approach.

Simon, of course, is the one who dares to approach.

And the woman gently hugged, released, looked up and down, praised: ”still so beautiful, by the way, are you married?”

”I'm married,” said Sheila ward. She could not help thinking of the scenes she had been with the little man several times, and the 100 sets of clothes and gifts that she remembered deeply. She glanced at a vase beside the man. ”I'm not a little girl. Of course I want to get married. The baby is one year old.”

Simon nodded approvingly: ”in fact, I prefer to be married.”

Shira ward gave him a glance, more and more amorous feelings: ”look at the battle like China, you think it's a big man, or you like to mess.”

”Don't you know that the higher you stand, the more people like to mess around?”

”Now I know.”

Chatting and joking, although he noticed the flaw in women's emotion, Simon didn't take advantage of it and took Natasha to other places.

”Beyond time and space contact” will not start shooting until the end of the year. Except for the director Robert zemagis, Simon, the leading actor and heroine, plans to change.

The heroine has been given to Sandra Bullock.