Chapter 956 (1/2)

Kate Beckinsale and Rachel Vichy didn't get up until more than nine o'clock last night. They were led to the dining room downstairs for breakfast by the waitress. They found an open living room upstairs that connected with the terrace of the main villa. Simon was sitting on the sofa reading a play.

Simon is not the only one in the living room.

Fernanda Lima alone occupied the side of the sofa, lying on top of reading magazines, Simon opposite the single sofa is also curled up in the name of Angela lindworth girl, also holding a ”vogue”.

Because of the open layout, standing in this living room, you can directly see the back courtyard.

On the West tennis court, it is obvious that there are four other goblins. At this time, they are playing doubles with four players, and occasionally there are calls for Jiao.

At first glance, it's a very leisurely picture of weekend time.

It's just

Well, there are a lot of women.

At the beginning of a day for many people, Simon had already sent away the breakfast guests and spent an hour on today's work.

On the Chinese side's wish for Bezos to speak at the launching ceremony of Shanghai data center, when hearing a name disclosed by Chen Qing, Simon resolutely agreed and personally called Bezos.

On the other side of Europe, Celia has basically reached a tacit agreement with France. It's going to be a noisy week, and it's going to be over soon.

And there are all sorts of other trivia.

After dealing with these, there is no other arrangement today.

After all, it's Sunday. In the past, I must be at home with women and children. But this weekend, I was forced out and not allowed to go home.

So I plan to spend time here.

It's only one morning.

After lunch, he will fly to New York. Next week, he will discuss with several teams in New York about the bond issuance plan of a number of core enterprises in the westero system. According to the adjusted plan, Verizon Telecom's IPO is scheduled for August, but the bond issuance plan will start in July of the second half of the year.

In short, it is to hoard as much cash as possible to wait for the bottom.

After all, next year will be 1997.

even if the new technology bubble that has already flooded ahead can be sustained, the global economic shock triggered by the brewing Asian financial turmoil will bring a wave of low price for the bottom.

After the U.S. 87 stock market disaster, the circuit breaker mechanism was created.

Simon's memory of the first U.S. stock market meltdown occurred in 1997.

In the original time and space, the 1997 circuit breaker was only affected by the Asian financial crisis. This time, things may be quite different, because the new technology bubble has risen to a highly dangerous level earlier than before.

Noting that Kate and Simon came in, Simon said hello and patted himself on the leg.

Kate came over, sat down on the man's lap, leaned against him and asked, ”Simon, what are you looking at?”

Simon showed Kate the script in his hand. On the cover, it read ”the end of Disco”: ”you two are just in time. I think this script is very suitable for you two to play together.”

Rachel is not as bold as Kate, and she has no place. Fernanda on the middle couch sees her coming and takes the initiative to get up and give up a corner of the sofa. Rachel goes to sit down and hears Simon say that the script is suitable for them. She looks at it curiously and notices the name on the cover.

Kate put her arms around Simon's neck and took a look: ”what's the end of Disco about?”

Simon summed up: ”the common story of a group of young men and women in Manhattan during the disco boom of the 1970s.”

”It sounds boring,” Kate said

Simon explained with a smile: ”this is an art oriented film. The director and screenwriter are whit Stillman. This is an author type director with a unique personal style.” disco doomsday ”is the last of whit's Metropolitan trilogy. The reputation of his first two films is very good, and this is just a good script at the end of the film.”

Kate took Simon's big hand and looked at the script. She asked, ”what role do you want me to play?”

Simon said: ”it's a double female film. Charlotte and Alice are both junior assistant screenwriters of a Manhattan publishing house. They don't have a high salary, they are in financial difficulties, and they are distressed because they can't afford a better apartment on weekdays. However, because they became friends with the executives of a popular disco, they could often enter the disco without waiting in line. In the process, they met all kinds of people. You're going to play Charlotte. She's mean on the surface, aggressive and feminist, but she has low self-esteem and weak heart. She's secretly jealous of her good friend Alice, and she faints and goes to the hospital because her boyfriend breaks up. ”

Kate heard Simon say, shaking her head: ”sounds very unpleasant, or I'd better play the envied Alice, let Rachel play Charlotte.”

Simon said: ”this temperament is too unmatched, Alice's character image is more introverted and quiet, Rachel is more suitable.”Kate refused: ”I can be quiet.”

”The point is that if you play Alice, Rachel may not be able to hold up the role of Charlotte. As you just heard, this is a character with some complicated personalities.”

Now it's Rachel's turn to listen quietly. However, she only slightly opened her mouth, and did not refute.

Kate pondered for a few seconds, and finally nodded: ”since you want us to play together, then play.”

Rachel finally said, ”Simon, I'm going to film Titanic.”

”It doesn't matter. The project will start shooting next year, maybe in the second half of next year. You just need to set aside a schedule at that time.”

When Rachel heard that, she had no objection.

Instead, Kate blinked again and asked, ”Simon, is this a low-cost production?”

”We haven't started formal preparations yet, but the budget for such a movie won't exceed $10 million.”

”But when” baby thunderbolt ”comes out at the end of the year, and Rachel's” Mummy ”, we will Well, it's expensive. ”

Simon rubbed the slender waist of the girl in his arms and said, ”in making this kind of movie, no matter how famous the actors are, they usually take the initiative to cut their salaries. Stallone only got $60000 for making” police Empire ”last year. Don't you want the full pay?”

Kate's eyes widened. ”No, we only have $60000, right?”

”Even if you add a little, it won't be too much,” Simon said seriously, looking at the girl in his arms. ”Kate, this is actually the rule of Hollywood. If you want to get rid of the label of commercial vase, you need to properly participate in all kinds of independent art films, increase the style, and at the same time impact the awards. Especially in the past two years, you two have just become popular with commercial blockbusters, so you need to slow down. ”

”In fact, I understand, otherwise I would not take” the catcher of the soul. ”Kate gently shook her body, but then said:” however, I think such a movie, with an investment of 10 million, is likely to lose money. After all, according to you, I have not found any bright spot in this story. Why should I cast such a movie? ”

”The main reason is that I like the story, and if you two take part in it, you don't have to lose money.”

Next year's filming of ”the end of Disco” will be the year after next.

Not to mention ”baby thunderbolt” at the end of this year, next year, after ”Mummy”, Rachel will still have a ”Titanic” on. At that time, as long as things don't happen too much accident, both of them should be the hottest new stars in Hollywood.

At that time, a literary and artistic film, at least in the omni channel range, will not have a big profit problem.

On the other hand, the reason for the deeper investment in making ”the end of Disco” is, in the final analysis, to increase the diversity of Hollywood.